Chapter 998 Jia Kui's Decision

Seeing Jia Kui's appearance, everyone was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward and asked: "Sir, what's wrong with you?"

"Prime Minister, are you feeling unwell? I'm going to call a doctor right away!"

"No problem, pass the order. You will immediately lead a group of cavalry and go south overnight to investigate the situation of the Yuzhou Army." After saying that, he turned to look at another general and said: "You will immediately send someone to Yu County and Meng County. The garrison generals of , Ningling, Yanxian and Gushu cities sent an order to them to immediately mobilize two thousand soldiers to come to Suiyang. They must arrive at Suiyang before noon tomorrow. Anyone who delays will be killed. "

Under everyone's surprised gazes, Jia Kui quickly walked to his desk, picked up a pen and quickly wrote down a letter. He quickly handed it to another general together with Cao Hong's letter and said: "You Immediately lead ten cavalrymen and set off overnight to Changyi to present these two letters to the lord without any mistakes. "

The generals who had been assigned tasks by him all took the order and left. After they left, Jia Kui sat on a chair, looked at the people in the hall and said, "If the prime minister guessed correctly, the Yuzhou Army should have surrendered. In other words, those who attacked Liang Guo and Qiaojun were the elite Yuzhou Army who had been trained for more than a year, and were far beyond the capabilities of the Yuzhou Army we faced at the beginning. "

When everyone heard this, they were all shocked. When they thought of Jia Kui's order just now, they immediately reacted. Chang Shi asked tentatively: "Do you want to send troops to support Qiao County?"

"Yes, if Chen's army really goes south to join Huang Zhong's army, General Cao Hong's 30,000-strong army probably won't be able to sustain it for long. If Xiangruo of our country can lead the army south, he can still contain some of the opponent's forces." Jia Kui nodded. road;

"No, sir," the generals heard and quickly stopped them: "The Eastern Expeditionary Army has nearly 200,000 troops, and our Liang Kingdom has less than 40,000 troops in total. Even if they are all dispatched, it will not help! "

After hearing this, Jia Kui shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, the Prime Minister is not going to fight to the death with the Eastern Expedition Army, but to send troops to contain it. At the same time, I have also sent people to ask for help from the lord. I believe it will only take a few days to defeat the lord." The army will definitely come to support us.”

In fact, Jia Kui also knew that leading this small number of troops to Qiao County would not help the situation. But you have to take a look at who the leader of Qiao County is? That was Cao Hong, Cao Cao's most trusted kinsman general, the one who could risk his life to save Cao Cao. If Cao Cao knew afterwards that he was sitting back and watching Cao Hong besieged and ignored him, let alone Cao Cao, not even Cao Ren, Xia Houyuan and other kinsman generals would be able to spare him.

Now that he has mobilized 10,000 county soldiers, plus 6,000 Chinese troops and 6,000 county soldiers drawn from Suiyang City, for a total of 22,000 troops, at least self-protection will be no problem. So no matter how his subordinates tried to dissuade him, Jia Kui decided to send troops south.

"Captain Sima, after I leave Suiyang, you will close the city gate tightly. Unless the general arrives in person, or the lord's army arrives in person, the city gate is not allowed to be opened!" Jia Kui looked at Captain Sima Xing and ordered. ;

Sima Xing had no choice but to clasp his fists and accept the order: "I accept the order, sir!"

"The rest of the generals will go down and prepare for the expedition. When the troops from other cities arrive tomorrow, the army will send troops southward!"

"General, take the order!" Seeing that Jia Kui had made up his mind, everyone had no choice but to bow down and take the order together!

More than sixty miles south of Suiyang, there is a large town called Wuqiang Town. It is located on the bank of a small river called Luhe. This is the official road from Suiyang to Qiao County. Ten miles further south of the town is another small river called Xiaohong River. After passing Xiaohong River and going about fifty miles south, you will reach the east bank of Guoshui in the east of Qiao County.

At this time, in Wuqiang Town, except for a few people who were patrolling the town wall, the rest of the people had gone to bed early, and Zhenyu was already very quiet.

In a large house in the town, there were several generals of the Eastern Conquest Army in helmets and armors. The leader was none other than the generals of the Eastern Conquest Army led by Wang Ran. In addition to the chief general Huangfu Li, Guan Hai, Li Feng, and Lu Ling, Zaoping, Dianman and Huangfuli were all present.

"General Wang, do you think Jia Kui will be fooled?" Dianman, who was going into battle for the first time, asked Wang Ran excitedly;

The other two little guys also looked at him with excitement.

Wang Ran couldn't help but smile bitterly and replied: "How do I know, but since both Mr. Ziye and Mr. Gongren think it is more likely, there should be no problem."

"And General Huang also said that Qiao County Guard Cao Hong's status is too special. He is not only Cao Cao's younger brother, but also Cao Cao's savior. With Cao Cao's temperament, he will definitely send troops to rescue him. If Jia Kui is not too stupid, , he should send troops to support, even if it is just a pretense, he must make a gesture of coming to support, otherwise he will not be able to explain to Cao Cao when the time comes. "

"Great!" Dianman hit his fists with his hands and said with a smile; "We can have a big battle then, and neither of you are allowed to argue with me. I will take off Jia Kui's head as the first emperor." This gift is dedicated to the Marquis!"

The other two people did not show weakness, Huangfu said politely: "On the battlefield, everyone depends on their own abilities, there is no reason to give in to each other!"

Zaoping also said: "That's right, everyone depends on their abilities!"

Wang Ran said with a wry smile: "You three little guys, what did the general give you before setting off? If you forgot, would you like me to repeat it to you?"

When the three of them heard this, they all shrank their heads and stopped talking.

"Okay, you all go back and rest. You may have to wait for two days. Why are you in such a hurry?" He drove the three young generals to the inner room to rest. He went back to the room to discuss military affairs with Lu Ling and others. Although they decided to attack Jia Kui's Liang army from the front and back at Xiaohong River south of Wuqiang Town, if they didn't come, the follow-up of his army would have to rush to Qiao County as soon as possible to join the army.

The army began to move south in the early morning of today. Just as Jia Kui guessed, only more than 10,000 troops were dispatched in the second half of the night. Each person had four or five torches and went to Suiyang in an overwhelming manner. Seeing that they were about to reach Suiyang City, the army quickly withdrew and then quietly moved south in the early morning.

They marched all the way and captured Wuqiang Town this afternoon. It was said that they captured it, but in fact it was bloodless. Tens of thousands of troops surrounded the town and said a few words to persuade them to surrender, and the town gate was opened.

Afterwards, Wang Ran led 20,000 soldiers to hide in this town, while Huangfu Li led the remaining troops to continue southward with a banner. The army will arrive at the camp north of Qiao County tomorrow morning. As for the 10,000 cavalry, they hid in a forest ten miles west of the south bank of Xiaohong River. What Cao Zhi saw was just what the Eastern Expedition Army let him see.