Han Sui was taken down and detained in the prison in Chang'an City. The exact crime would have to wait for Cao Cao's personal order. After all, Yi Xiaotian was just a commoner and had no so-called real power.
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Yi Xiaotian cherishes feathers himself, so naturally he won't do it.
It's just that... Han Sui was taken down, but Ma Teng and others seemed to have a hard time getting away from the shock of the fact.
The emperor wants to kill them.
What is this concept?
No matter what dynasty it is, if the king wants his subjects to die, they will have to die.
What's more, Ma Teng is still a man who respects Han at heart. He helps Cao Cao in the hope that Cao Cao can support this general. Even if Liu Xie becomes a puppet, Ma Teng will not feel too guilty if the Han Dynasty is not destroyed -
The thing that Ma Teng couldn't let go of the most in his life was the title of General Fubo he inherited from his ancestors, right?
Old people are all like this - they regard their ancestors as very important. To put it nicely, Ma Teng attaches great importance to the glory of the family. To put it badly, it's not just that Ma Teng is carrying it, and General Fubo's airs make him uncomfortable.
Are you willing to do things that are disgraceful?
That's why he came to Beijing to serve as an official, and that's why he served Liu Xie well. During this time in Beijing... most of the officials in Xudu were Cao Cao's cronies. In such an environment, Ma Teng thought that he was loyal to Liu Xie
Respond to requests and do so with a clear conscience.
But now you tell him that the emperor he serves with all his heart... the most noble man in the world, actually planned such a series of plans behind his back, and instigated his brother whom he had worshiped for decades just to kill him.
Kill him, even at the risk of plunging the North into chaos again.
This had a huge impact on Ma Teng.
Zhong Yao also seemed to find it difficult to accept that the initiator of putting Chang'an in such trouble was actually the emperor Liu Xie who was far away in Xudu.
So ever since Yi Xiaotian exposed Han Sui's lies, Zhong Yao has been frowning and keeping silent.
It was Yi Xiaotian who finally broke the silence, sighed and said:
"Ever since Zhaoji sent the letter, I have had some doubts... Why did Han Sui, who was thousands of miles away, rebel so quickly and untimely... At least considering that General Ma was still in the capital, Han Sui, as a sworn brother
, no matter what, you should not stab us at this time."
"At that time, I suspected that Han Sui was not planning this - to make a decision, especially a decision that is very likely to affect the world's major events, I don't think a warlord like Han Sui, who has been content with Xiliang for decades, would be so hasty.
make a decision.”
Yi Xiaotian put his hands behind his back, walked slowly, and recounted some of his previous thoughts:
"What finally made me suspect the Emperor was probably the letter Xun Lingjun brought from Xudu... In the letter, he told me that General Ma had already set off for Xiliang, and I realized that no matter what,
The other party’s goal must be General Ma…”
"After rescuing General Ma, I probably realized the weirdness of the time difference -"
Yi Xiaotian pointed to the list he had written on the side. It was a list that Yi Xiaotian quickly compiled in a short time after leaving Wuguan City.
As for identifying Liu Xie, it was probably Yi Xiaotian's intuition - Liu Xie was not an emperor willing to become a puppet during this period.
Especially judging from Liu Xie's determination written in blood, Yi Xiaotian did not underestimate the emperor.
That's why he thought of asking Xu Chu to cooperate with him in a show. As a result, Han Sui fell for such a deception.
"Mr. Yi... then... what should we do..."
Ma Teng was so old that he had lost the ability to make judgments on major matters concerning the emperor.
Now it's reduced to finding Yi Xiaotian to discuss the next plan.
But Yi Xiaotian’s thoughts are obviously not here at the moment——
"Mr. Ma, please don't get yourself into trouble... We have the initiative now... As long as we don't expose it, the Emperor won't do anything to you... On the contrary, the Emperor's expression should be quite exciting now."
Yi Xiaotian smiled and patted Ma Teng on the shoulder, but his thoughts had already drifted to the distance - the Battle of Chibi, the impact of Cao's army's defeat was not limited to Chang'an -
…
The so-called third-line emergency, the fierce attack launched by the Sun-Liu coalition forces on Xiangyang, was actually just to hold back Cao Cao's main force staying in Xiangyang.
The Dongwu soldiers and horses led by Cheng Pu and Sun Quan had already reached Wancheng - their target was Hefei. At this moment, including the general who defended the city, Jiang Ji, they only had 10,000 soldiers and horses -
As the general closest to Hefei before the war and most likely to rush to Hefei's aid, Wenpin was quickly transferred to the vicinity of Wancheng by Yi Xiaotian who was prepared for a rainy day.
But obviously... beyond everyone's expectation, Sun Quan was able to bring out an army of nearly 100,000 people after the Battle of Chibi. This can be regarded as a dimensionality reduction blow to the existing situation.
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This is a hundred thousand soldiers and horses - the war in Wulin Chibi has swallowed up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Zhang Luhan in the northwest has been concentrating his energy for many years and brought out a force of nearly 150,000 soldiers and horses.
In fact, when they actually reached the front of Chang'an City, this improvised team was able to reveal its true colors.
In the entire north, no, maybe in the entire world, the only soldiers and horses that can be called elite soldiers are the Bingzhou Army left behind by Cao Cao and a tiger and leopard cavalry guarding Xudu.
Cao Cao's last legion is now no more than 50,000 troops.
As a result... Sun Quan's "creating something out of nothing" simply killed Cao Cao.
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Even though Cao Cao, who was far away in Xiangyang, was still supervising the battle and blocking the desperate attacks of Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang, he was still worried about the two fronts of the battlefield behind him——
"Damn it...Zhou Yu, son...you are so determined to bring the truth down?"
Looking at the soldiers of Sun and Liu Company who fell in droves under the rain of arrows from Chaiyue Liannu, Cao Cao was filled with hatred and helplessness.
He could only pray that Yi Xiaotian's layout of the two-front battlefield would have the desired effect——
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However, what Cao Cao thought was the key to breaking the situation was Wenpin, whom Yi Xiaotian had mobilized in advance... After all, Cao Cao still trusted Wenpin quite a lot. Although the troops Wenpin retained in Jiangxia were surrendered, they were definitely the same ones back then.
The most capable one under Liu Biao.
However... no matter how many times he comes again, Cao Cao will never think that Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan, who Yi Xiaotian asked Cao Cao to transfer to Hefei before leaving, will eventually become the complacent Sun Quan, and even the nightmare of the entire Soochow for countless years.
