Chapter 559 The Weird Cao Cao

Colonel You Nu handed a military report and a letter from Zhuge Liang into Gu Rubing's hands.

After opening the military information, I found that the Parthian Empire actually sent 200,000 troops to the border of Liangzhou after annexing the Western Region. At the same time, three famous generals appeared on the battlefield.

Gu Rubing did not expect that the Parthian Empire had taken so much territory that it did not have time to digest and started to cause trouble for him.

Then I opened Zhuge Liang's letter and found that it was an envoy from the Roman Empire who arrived in Sili.

Moreover, this envoy wanted to see him by name. Obviously, he chose him after understanding the situation of the big man. He was currently staying at the Prime Minister's Mansion, that is, Zhuge Liang's place, waiting for him to return.

Gu Rubing placed the two letters on the table and looked at the map.

Liangzhou has 100,000 troops from Tai Shici, and he has 300,000 in his own hands. Sili stays behind with 100,000, and the other 100,000 are left in Hanzhong County and Xuzhou to guard against Sun Jian and Cao Cao in case of war in Liangzhou. , except for Sili's men, he didn't have any extra people to send out.

After hesitating for a moment, Gu Rubing immediately shouted: "Ask Pang De and Zhang Ren to come see me."

In half a day, the two of them rushed from Yulin County to Guangxin City.

"Lord, we are here."

After seeing the two people coming, Gu Rubing started giving instructions directly to them.

"Pang De is the commander-in-chief. You two go to Sili and ask the Prime Minister for 50,000 people. Rush to Liangzhou to support Taishi Ci. Remember, before there is news from me, try not to take action. Defense is the priority. Once the opponent takes action, You’re welcome, just fight however you want.”

"Xiliang? My lord, is there a small country causing trouble?"

Pang De himself is in Liangzhou, so he naturally knows something about the situation in Liangzhou.

"Yes, one is called Rome and the other is called Anthia, but they are not small foreign countries. You should be careful."

"Take orders."

After the two of them finished speaking, they turned and left.

Looking at the backs of the two of them, Gu Rubing didn't know why, but always had a bad feeling.

Early the next morning.

Gu Rubing saw Cao Cao with three legendary generals in his hands, Sun Jian with Sun Ce, and Liu Zhang and Shi Xie following behind them. It seemed that they had no human rights at all, and they were just here to listen.

Gu Rubing arranged several people to their seats, but as for the legendary generals, they stood directly.

"Guys, if you propose to meet this time, it must be because of something, right? If you have anything, you might as well just say it."

"Before you say that, Liu Bei, please tell me first, what do you mean? We are in the armistice period. First we robbed my county, then killed nearly 10,000 of my people, and took advantage of my general Xu Sheng. This kind of thing , we can’t just pretend it didn’t happen, right?”

"Oh? Sun Zhoumu, is this wrong? I have already apologized to you for Huang Zhong's fault. As for this county seat, I only use it for your meetings. As for your general Xu Sheng, that is Zhou Yu only attacked them because they wanted to surrender to me. I couldn’t stand people like this who only seek glory, so that’s why I attacked them. Is that okay?”

"What about my camp?"

"This is a complete misunderstanding. I originally wanted to tell Zhou Yu that there was a traitor around him, but who knew that as soon as I passed by, your Sun Ce rushed out. In the end, I couldn't control it, and the two sides started fighting. I had no choice. Really You have lost more than 10,000 people, and I have also lost many people. We are all the same."

"you……"

Sun Jian clenched his fists and didn't say a word in the end.

When Cao Cao saw this, he stood up and patted Sun Jian on the shoulder.

"Okay, isn't this a misunderstanding? Why should we care about it? There are more important things to come to King Lie this time. There is no need for us to hurt the harmony over this trivial matter, right?"

Sun Jian saw that Cao Cao was talking, so of course he couldn't say anything.

"King Lie, we came to you this time simply because we have been fighting for such a long time, and both of us have spent a lot of money. Do you think it's time for a truce? Everyone should take good care of themselves, let's The people in the territory have been suffering from war for a long time, right?"

Of course, Gu Rubing had no objection to the truce. He now wanted to cease the war and focus on the Parthian Empire and the Roman Empire.

"Of course there is no problem with the truce, but I have a question. Where are my 600,000 gold and the equipment I want?"

"It's right outside. I've already sent it over and put it outside the city. King Lie will be able to see it then."

Gu Rubing did not expect that Cao Cao would be so happy this time.

This is Cao Cao. How can someone who has fought with him for so long be so easy to talk to?

Looking at Cao Cao with a smile on his face and Sun Jian with a livid face beside him, Gu Rubing always felt that Sun Jian's expression was the right one, and that there was something wrong with Cao Cao. Why did giving money to others feel like it was more valuable than receiving money himself? Be happy.

"I asked you, Prime Minister Cao, are you doing something dirty and you didn't tell me? Otherwise, why would I feel that you are a little too excited?"

"Really? I don't have one?"

Cao Cao smiled and shook his head.

Originally, Gu Rubing was just guessing, but after Cao Cao said this, Gu Rubing confirmed his thoughts.

It's definitely not good for Cao Cao to be so excited.

"Okay, since King Lie agrees with what we said, then even if we have a truce and occupy our Jiaozhou Yulin County, shouldn't it be returned to me?"

"That won't work."

Gu Rubing immediately shook his head.

"Why? Isn't there already a truce?"

"Nonsense, I am the victor and you are the loser. Have you ever seen the victor ceding territory to the loser? Are you my father? Am I spoiling you like this?"

Hearing this, Sun Jian's face instantly turned pale. He actually slashed Gu Rubing with a knife, but in the end he endured it. After all, he was no match.

"Let's do this. You make a condition, as long as you leave Jiaozhou."

This actually made Gu Rubing a little curious, what exactly is there in Jiaozhou that made Sun Jian so persistent and set his own conditions, then the lion would definitely open his mouth.

Gu Rubing did not speak, but sat on the chair.

Jiaozhou originally belonged to Shi Xie, but now it belongs to Sun Jian of Yangzhou. Shi Xie's status in Sun Jian's army was low, and it was impossible for Sun Jian to spend such a large sum of money. Apart from Shi Xie, there was only one person, and that was the Gu clan.

The Gu clan is Sun Jian's trump card, and I'm afraid it's the Gu clan who wants to take over Jiaozhou.

"No, no matter what you say, I won't give it. If you really want it, then send someone to snatch it away. If you can snatch Yulin County away, I think you are capable."

Sun Jian saw that Gu Rubing was not making progress, so he hesitated for a while, but finally gave up.

Gu Rubingcai was right. The reason why Sun Jian was ready for bloodletting and wanted to capture Yulin County was because of Miao Moqing.

Miao Moqing wanted all of Jiaozhou, not just a few counties. When he came out, he had promised Miao Moqing that he would get Jiaozhou back. Now that Gu Rubing refused to give it to him, he had no choice. .

"Okay, since everything has been discussed, it doesn't matter. If there is nothing else, we will go back first."

After speaking, Cao Cao stood up and left.

Gu Rubing looked at Cao Cao's back and felt something was wrong even more. He came in a hurry and left in a hurry. This was really weird.

But the spy he sent out did not report anything about Cao Cao to himself. In other words, Cao Cao had nothing special to do recently.

Seeing Cao Cao leaving, Sun Jian, who only had one legendary general, naturally did not dare to stay longer and quickly left with Sun Ce.

Just when Shi Xie and Liu Zhang were about to leave, Gu Rubing immediately stopped them.

"I mean, you two, don't you reconsider your alliance? Now that Cao Cao has entered Yizhou, that is Liu Zhang's territory. Sun Jian has taken Jiaozhou, and that is your Shi Xie's territory. Your territory has now been transferred to others. Are you so calm in your hands?"

"Haha, I don't worry about it anymore, uncle. We have already made our choice, so naturally we don't think too much about it."

Seeing the two men being so persistent, Gu Rubing couldn't say anything more and could only let the two men leave.

Gu Rubing received the 600,000 gold, various weapons and horses sent by Cao Cao, and found that they were all good things, and none of them were scraps. This made Gu Rubing even more suspicious that Cao Cao had done nothing good.

But just as Gu Rubing expected, Cao Cao did not do anything good.

At this time, Yizhou was in Chengdu.

After Cao Cao returned to Chengdu, he saw a blond man with blue eyes.

This man was wearing simple armor, a white cloth cloak behind him, and a three-foot long sword at his waist.

"Surena, are your Parthian Empire's armies ready?"

"Yes, Prime Minister Cao, according to our original agreement, as long as we capture Liangzhou, you will give Liangzhou to us and give us 100,000 gold as hard work? But is it true?"

"Of course, the premise is that you want to capture Liangzhou."

"Okay, Prime Minister Cao hopes you will do what you say."

After saying that, Surena turned around and left.

After the man named Surena left completely, Xiahou Dun hesitated for a moment.

"My lord, do we really want to cooperate with the foreign countries? Liangzhou is the land of our Han Dynasty. How we fight with Liu Bei is our own business. Now these foreign countries also want a share of the pie. Isn't this a bit too..."

Before Xiahou Dun finished speaking, Cao Cao glanced at Xiahou Dun and just smiled without saying anything.

He is professional in causing trouble for Gu Rubing, but no matter what, he will not let Han's land be handed over to Fan Bang. This is for sure, so of course he has his own plan.

Gu Rubing only took Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun with him, as well as 100,000 troops.

The remaining people stayed in Yulin County.

According to Guan Rubing's calculations, with Yu Zhang Pegasus super strong, there shouldn't be any problem against the opponent's four legendary generals. If there is really trouble, give yourself a message, and Zhao Yun should be able to rush to Jiaozhou within a day and a night.

Gu Rubing asked Huang Zhong to lead the army to Liangzhou to join Tai Shici, while he took Zhao Yun back to Sili.

After Zhuge Liang learned that Gu Rubing was back, he personally went outside the city to greet him.

"My lord, you are back. I heard that my lord broke Zhou Yu's plan of suffering flesh and blood. I really didn't expect it."

When Gu Rubing heard this, he felt a little ashamed. If he didn't know better, how could he have recognized this trick immediately? However, the effect this time was not that great. This was him. If it were Zhuge Liang, maybe it would be true. He could think of a way and took the opportunity to eat Zhou Yu.

"Prime Minister, when did you start to flatter me? I believe that if you were the Prime Minister, you would not gain as little as I do."

"Haha, lord, I am not Fengcheng, but lord, Liang has an idea. If you had not attacked Zhou Yu's camp, but dispersed your troops, would you have been able to capture the entire Jiaozhou?"

When Gu Rubing heard this, he reacted instantly.

That's right, I was just thinking about making Zhou Yu suffer, but I didn't think that much at all.

Looking at Zhuge Liang standing in front of him, Gu Rubing suddenly felt a little regretful. If only there were more Zhuge Liang like this, wouldn't he have settled the world long ago?

Looking at Gu Rubing's appearance, Zhuge Liang smiled and said nothing. After all, Gu Rubing was his lord. If his lord could not step down, he would not have a good life.

"Okay, I understand. Let's go see the Roman envoy first."

"Lord, follow me."

Soon, under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, Gu Rubing came to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Prime Minister, Cao Cao's house has been given to you now. Why don't you find some servants for such a big house? I see your yard is deserted."

"Thank you for your concern, my lord, but Liang has always been a person who likes to be clean and doesn't like having too many servants to serve him."

Zhuge Liang only said one thing. He had seen Gu Rubing's eyeliner. Although he believed in Gu Rubing, he was also a little worried that Gu Rubing would take the opportunity to place an eyeliner around him and stare at him.

It is because of this cautious character that he has become a legendary counselor. However, sometimes, this caution can also be a burden.

Gu Rubing didn't think much about it. Under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, he came to the living room.

Looking at the blond and blue-eyed man in front of him, Gu Rubing wondered whether all Fanbang looked the same.

The man stood up and put his left hand in front of Gu Rubing.

"I've seen King Lie."

Gu Rubing didn't expect that he could actually understand what this man said, and he only felt a little unfamiliar. The overall feeling was quite good.

"Messenger, please take a seat."

After speaking, Gu Rubing sat directly on the main seat, while Zhuge Liang sat aside.

"King Lie, this time I am representing our king, Caesar. Please send troops. We will attack Parthia from both sides. You will send troops from the east, and we will send troops from the west. Under our siege, the Parthia Empire will definitely not last long. When Parthia is gone, Yes, we promise to become the Han’s most loyal ally, and we will also divide half of Anxi’s territory to you.”

After the man finished speaking, he deliberately emphasized his voice and reiterated it again.

"It's for you, not for the big guy."

Obviously, this man also understood that now Gu Rubing was Gu Rubing, a big man was a big man, and the person sitting on the throne was a puppet, his Gu Rubing's puppet.