Wei Ba rushed to Xiangyang with two hundred personal guards. Li Yan was very surprised. Now that the two sides were fighting, Sima Yi knew that Wei Ba was traveling lightly and simply, he would probably send troops to block Wei Ba at all costs.

"Ziyu, you're too risky to do this." Li Yan couldn't help but lower his face and blamed him: "What if something happens, what should I do?"

Wei Ba knew that Li Yan was so nervous, mostly for his own interests, and a small part was acting, but he didn't expose it and said straight to the point: "General Cavalry, the situation is urgent, I have to take some risks."

"What's so urgent that you can spare your life?"

Li Yan said this, but he roughly understood what Wei Ba was saying in his heart. He waved his hand and asked the guards to retreat, leaving only his nephew Deng Xian.

Wei Ba sat down and briefly explained his actions not long ago. All of these had been passed to Li Yan through the military newspaper. Now I will say it again, just to introduce the following words.

"Our army has a total force of less than 70,000, and the Wei army has a total force of about 60,000 or 70,000. Both sides have equal strength. Because the generals are taking Xiangyang lightly and Ma Changshi's victory in Tuanshui, our army's morale is slightly superior, but it is not enough to win. Now the Wei army is in charge of

If the city does not leave, it is obvious that we should exhaust our army with a strong city and wait for our army to retreat without food."

Li Yan had a slight slight head, and this problem was exactly what he had the most troublesome thing.

"There is only two choices now, or retreat. In this way, all the previous achievements will be lost, and they will be named but not the truth."

Li Yan didn't say a word, staring at Wei Ba's face tightly. It was obvious that he had no interest in this suggestion at all.

"Or join forces with the Wu army and attack the Wei army."

"How to unite the Wu army?" Li Yan asked in response: "Sun Quan stationed troops in Jiangxia and watched the success or failure. Yangzhou heard that he fought very actively, but once Zhang He arrived, they probably had to retreat."

"Yes." Wei Ba nodded: "Today's plan, if Han and Wu cannot fight together, it will inevitably be unfavorable. If they can fight together, our army will win Nanyang and the Wu army will win Jianghuai. The reason why Sun Quan waited and watched was probably not trusting me.

.”

"Then how are you going to crack it?"

"I think, for now, the Prime Minister is probably the only one who can really make Sun Quan feel confident."

Wei Ba focused on the four words "currently" to take care of Li Yan's face, and at the same time reminded him to capture Nanyang's important surname - after capturing Nanyang, you can be on an equal footing with the Prime Minister, and only then can you speak have weight.

Now, it is still slightly inferior. Despite this, Li Yan's face is still a little ugly. However, after pondering for a while, he suppressed the boredom in his heart and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"If the general believes in me, I am willing to negotiate with Sun Quan." Wei Ba said his thoughts and finally said: "Before the victory, the defeat will be considered first. Before this plan, the general needs to be prepared to truly give up Nanyang.

.”

Li Yan's brows frowned, and the two nasolabial folds were as deep as a knife. He stared at Wei Ba tightly, and Wei Ba met his gaze without retreating. He knew that Li Yan was unable to make a move, and besides this plan, he

There is no other way to imagine.

Sure enough, after a long time, Li Yan let out a light breath: "How sure are you?"

"If the general supports it, it will be about 60% or 70%. If the general does not support it, there will be no 10%."

"Okay, now that things have come to this, I have to try it out, hoping that you can convince Sun Quan and the Prime Minister."

"Borrow the general's auspicious words." Wei Ba bowed slightly and greeted: "Thank you for your tolerance."

Li Yan smiled, without a sound, his eyes flashed like an eagle and cold as ice.

After the discussion was decided, Li Yan immediately ordered Feng Jin to lead the navy to the north, leaving some people to monitor Sima Yi in Fancheng, and the main force rushed to Dengsai. At the same time, Ma Su led the army southward to join Feng Jin,

The posture of attacking Dunser.

Sima Yi was very nervous and immediately sent someone to ask Cao Rui for help. Although he had Fancheng, Fancheng could not accommodate 30,000 troops at all, and most of his main forces were stationed outside the city. If Li Yan and Ma Su join forces, they will take Deng first.

If he attacks Fancheng again, he will inevitably suffer a heavy blow.

Just when Sima Yi was extremely nervous, Wei Ba sent someone to Jiangxia to summon Fei Yi to come immediately.

Two days later, Fei Yi rushed to Xiangyang, and Zhang Wen was also with him.

Wei Ba held a banquet to greet them at the old house of Xi’s family in Xianshan.

Most of the Xi family followed Liu Bei into Sichuan, and some people were still in Xiangyang. However, in recent years, there were few people in Xiangyang. In the past, there were only some ruins left in the Xi family courtyard, with old trees and withered vines.

After Li Yan seized Xiangyang, Wei Feng specially sent someone to clean up and found his wife Xi's aunt, the one who married Pang Tong's brother Pang Lin. After Pang Lin surrendered to Wei with Huang Quan, he was granted the title of Marquis of Lie, and now he is a rank of Ju.

Lu Prefect Xi could have followed the official position, but her hometown was hard to leave and she has been in Xiangyang. Because of this relationship, although the Xi family was dilapidated, the original land and houses were still preserved.

Xi knew that although Wei Ba was the illegitimate son of the Wei family, it was the real hope of the Wei family. If the Xi family wanted to develop, they would not neglect the young man. In this regard, her daughter, Mrs. Xi, had long since been from Chengdu.

He wrote a letter from home. Therefore, Xi spent a lot of effort to renovate a yard for Wei Ba to temporarily live in.

Wei Ba sent the martial soldiers to clean up the Xi family again, and especially changed the Xi family's fish pond to water and put some fish in again. When Fei Yi and Zhang Wen arrived, Wei Ba was fishing by the fish pond.

Fei Yi smiled and said, "Ziyu is so leisurely. General Cavalry is preparing for the Battle of Fancheng, but are you fishing here?"

Zhang Wen also smiled funnyly and said, "I wonder if General Zhennan is fishing or fishing for people?"

"We don't fish or fish for people, but we just borrow a family to save our lives." Wei Ba shook the fishing rod, but did not get up. He pointed to the two stools beside him with his chin, signaling Zhang Wen and Fei Yi to Zhang Wen and Fei Yi.

sit down.

Zhang Wen and Fei Yi looked at each other, feeling that Wei Ba's actions were very rude, so Zhang Wen's face became a little unfair. Fei Yi quickly gave Wei Ba a look: "Zi Yu, Hui Shu is the envoy of the King of Wu..."

"The King of Wu is a fucking ball." Before Fei Yi could finish his words, Wei Ba suddenly became furious and smashed the fishing rod into the water. He stood up and kicked two stools into the water, pointing to

Southeast, roared: "What the hell does Sun Quan mean? He agreed to join forces to attack Wei. As a result, he won Jiangxia and stopped moving. What is this? Do you want to take the alliance and watch the tiger fight in the mountains or

Want to stab us?"

While cursing, Wei Ba took out the plan jointly signed by Zhuge Liang and Li Yan from his arms, and shook it in front of Zhang Wen and Fei Yi. "The words are written clearly. Since he does not care about his credit, this plan

It's meaningless." He said, tore the contract to pieces in a few seconds, raised his hand and threw it into the fish pond. The paper floated and fell on the water surface, soaked quickly and blew into a piece.

Fei Yi and Zhang Wen were stunned. Fei Yi knew that there was something wrong with this plan, but he didn't understand why Wei Ba suddenly tore up the plan, was he trying to destroy the evidence, or was he really going to turn against Sun Quan. Zhang Wen was shocked. Wei Ba did this,

Are you going to take revenge on Wu and declare war on Wu?

"That's right, with our troops, we can't kill Cao Rui now, and it's a dream to take down the entire Nanyang. However, if we want to take Jiangxia, the counties in Changsha will be easy." Wei Ba's face was gloomy and waved his hand like a flies.

"Please ask Zhang Zhi to go back and tell Sun Quan, let him be prepared, and we will fight another fight. Please ask Zhang Zhi to go out."

Two martial soldiers came forward and without saying a word, they pushed Zhang Wen out. Fei Yi was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. Wei Ba hooked up and said, "Fei Wenwei, wait a moment, I have two more words left.

Say the words to you."

Fei Yi was sweating profusely and had to wink Zhang Wen and let him wait outside first. He rushed to Wei Ba, shocked and angry. "Ziyu, what are you doing?"

Wei Ba's eyes rolled: "What do you think I'm doing? Anyway, I'm not going to fall off anyway. The Prime Minister sharpened his sword behind his back and was ready to take action against me. The General of the Cavalry could not capture Nanyang, so he was also ready to use me as a scapegoat. I had no choice but to encourage him.

He fought with Sun Quan and made up for some losses, even if he was to expel bad anger. He was not strong enough to fight Nanyang, but Wuchang was still enough. If he could not destroy Wei, it would be good to destroy Wu first. Although the mosquitoes were small, they were still big.

Meat is not.”

"What are you talking about?" Fei Yi was scared and sweated: "What do Li Yan want to do? What do you want to do?"

"I've made it very clear, right?" Wei Ba said impatiently.

"You... can't withdraw." Fei Yi's tone softened.

"Why can't we withdraw?" Wei Ba's tone was very bad: "Sun Quan did not help, and his troops were insufficient, so Nanyang could not conquer it at all. Wu Yi sent the grain from Hanzhong to Longyou to support the Prime Minister. Are we doing it here with empty stomachs?

?I quit. If I can’t beat the tiger, I will hit the fox. If I can’t beat the eagle, I will hit the mosquito.”

"But..." Fei Yi was really anxious. After hesitating for a long time, he said: "But the Prime Minister has not taken Longyou yet. Once you withdraw, all his previous efforts will be wasted."

"I just want him to waste all his previous efforts." Wei Ba grinned and narrowed his eyes. "This way, the General of the Cavalry might be more balanced, do you think?"

Fei Yi was speechless. He understood what Wei Ba meant. He was giving up and deliberately making trouble for Zhuge Liang. If Li Yan stopped attacking Nanyang and turned to war with Sun Quan, not only Cao Rui could breathe a sigh of relief.

Sun Quan would also transfer the troops from Jianghuai back to Jingzhou. In this way, Wei and Wu would inevitably unite, which would reduce the pressure on Cao Rui even more. Cao Rui could transfer the main force to Longyou, and Zhuge Liang's pressure would inevitably increase greatly. If Zhuge Liang was

Forced to withdraw troops, what qualifications does he have to say about Li Yan's fault?

This was Wei Ba’s self-protection strategy, but it was Zhuge Liang’s plan to attack the Northern Expedition.

"Ziyu, do you think this is OK?" Fei Yi calmed his tone as much as possible: "Don't rush to withdraw. I'll ask the Prime Minister first what he meant, and then discuss with the King of Wu to see if he can

How about not sending troops together?”

Wei Ba looked at Fei Yi with his eyes slanted, pondered for a while, then he barely let go: "Then you have to hurry up, we only have one month's food left. If not, I still want to go back to Xiangguan to celebrate the New Year early.

Woolen cloth."

Fei Yi calculated with his fingers and smiled bitterly with helpless expression: "Okay, I'll do it as soon as possible."

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Chapter completed!