Chapter 562 Cao Cao's Recruitment

But then I thought about it, even if Zhuge Liang was not in his camp, as long as he could help him make plans, it would only be a matter of time before he could conquer the Han Dynasty.

And since he is with him, judging from his own abilities, it will only be a matter of time before he wants to conquer Zhuge Liang.

"No problem, then Mr. Ge is welcome to join!"

Zhuge Liang smiled, then opened a big man's map and placed it in front of Cao Cao.

"Prime Minister, please see, you currently occupy Yizhou, and Sun Jian has occupied Yangzhou and part of Jiaozhou. We can send troops from Yizhou, Hanzhong County, and Sun Jian to send troops from Wu County to Xuzhou. At the same time, both of you send troops to suppress Liu Bei and stay in Jiaozhou. This will definitely make Liu Bei unable to take care of both ends."

Seeing that what Zhuge Liang said was correct, Cao Cao on the side couldn't help but interrupt: "Mr. Zhuge, our goal is Liangzhou."

"Liangzhou? It seems that the Prime Minister has something to do with the Parthian Empire."

"Yes, Mr. Zhuge is not an outsider. I just said it directly. I supported the Parthian Empire. Of course, I am just using them. When I achieve my goal, I will take action to destroy the Parthian Empire, a foreign state. You dare to compete with us for territory.”

Looking at Cao Cao's appearance, Zhuge Liang thought for a moment, and then took out a map again, which showed the partial layout of the West and the situation of the Western Regions.

"Since An'i belongs to you, Prime Minister, I will rearrange the layout soon."

After Zhuge Liang thought for a while, he looked at Cao Cao and said, "Prime Minister, your goal is Liu Bei's Liangzhou."

Upon hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Cao Cao's eyes lit up and he nodded hurriedly.

He didn't expect that Zhuge Liang would understand his plan so quickly.

Because he not only deployed 300,000 in Liangzhou, but also deployed 300,000 on the border of Rome. When he started a war with Liu Bei, he was also at war with Rome. The purpose was to prevent Liu Bei from seeing his original intentions. His intention was to prevent Liu Bei from guessing about him. After all, Liu Bei's spy was really terrifying.

But Zhuge Liang simply looked at the map, and after adding the situation during this period, he accurately stated his purpose. This shows how powerful Zhuge Liang, the legendary counselor, is.

"Prime Minister, Liang can only say that your goal is wrong. Look, geographically speaking, your Parthian Empire is sandwiched in the middle. If there is a war on two fronts, the situation will not be good for you, and I Before I came out, I heard that Rome had approached Liu Bei and seemed to want to form an alliance. "

"Rome, have you found Liu Bei?"

Cao Cao really didn't know this.

Sili's confidentiality measures are very good. Generally speaking, if something can be spread, Cao Cao will naturally not know about it.

"Yes, once Rome attacks from the west and Liu Bei attacks from the east, Prime Minister, how will you deal with the attack from both sides? If I read correctly, the current Parthian Empire does not have the ability to fight on two fronts."

Cao Cao nodded. Although he secretly supported An'an, after all, the An'an Empire's capabilities were limited, and it was not of the same mind as Cao Cao and did not obey Cao Cao at all. Therefore, Cao Cao's control over it was still limited. Now everyone's interests are the same. , The Parthian Empire will naturally not say anything, but if the interests are inconsistent and a two-front war occurs, the people of the Parthian Empire will abandon themselves without hesitation.

"What does Mr. Zhuge mean?"

"Swallow Rome, destroy Liu Bei, and bring peace to the Central Plains!"

As soon as the nine words came out, Cao Cao instantly became vigilant. Half of the trust he had just built up in Zhuge Liang disappeared in an instant. Cao Cao even wondered whether Zhuge Liang's departure and his search for Zhuge Liang were all caused by Liu Bei. My own play.

"Mr. Zhuge, my purpose in supporting Anxi is to take action against Liu Bei."

"Prime Minister, of course I know, but we don't have the ability to fight on two fronts. We may not even be able to defeat Liu Bei. What we can do is very limited, which is to eat Rome and consolidate our own strength. With Anxi and Rome, in Coupled with the power of Yizhou and Sun Jian, wouldn't it be easy to destroy Liu Bei? "

After hearing this, Cao Cao looked at the map. After Zhuge Liang's explanation, Cao Cao also felt that it would be much easier to capture Rome than to capture Liu Bei.

"Then won't Liu Bei stop us? After all, we are allies with Rome."

"Then it depends on my operation. Don't worry, Prime Minister, as long as I am here, Liu Bei will not have the opportunity to interfere in our affairs."

Hearing this, Cao Cao looked at Zhuge Liang and then nodded.

Now, he can't completely believe that Zhuge Liang is really on his side, but at least, he can't see any problems now, and it's still acceptable.

Soon, under the command of Zhuge Liang, the Parthian army on Liangzhou's defense line had retreated and defended the city, leaving only one hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and as for the famous generals, four were left behind.

When Gu Rubing saw this situation, although he didn't know what happened, he still wanted to test it out.

Pound took 50,000 soldiers to test it out.

But no matter how much Pang De yelled and cursed outside the city, the people in the city didn't seem to hear him, they just didn't come out, or even responded.

In the end, Pound had no choice but to return to the city.

"Did the people of the Parthian Empire change their attack route? Are they going to attack Rome?"

Gu Rubing looked at the map. Without Zhuge Liang's help, Gu Rubing could only rely on himself.

But faced with such a chaotic battlefield and separated from the history he knew, Gu Rubing's little methods seemed to be somewhat inadequate.

Just when Gu Rubing was thinking about it, a battle report appeared in Gu Rubing's hand.

The Xiahou brothers of Yizhou led 50,000 soldiers and horses and appeared around Yulin County, while Sun Jian led 100,000 soldiers and horses and also appeared around Yulin County. The battle between the two sides seemed to be about to break out.

"I need to go back. I'll leave the affairs here to General Huang."

After Gu Rubing gave Huang Zhong instructions, he was ready to leave.

However, at this moment, Gu Rubing saw Zhuge Liang's feather fan before leaving and snorted coldly.

Gu Rubing was also quite unhappy with Zhuge Liang's behavior of leaving at the drop of a hat.

Soon, Cao Cao received the information. Gu Rubing handed over all matters in Liangzhou to the veteran Huang Zhong. Liangzhou only left one hundred thousand soldiers and horses. Gu Rubing took Zhao Yun and all the rest. He left and rushed to Jiaozhou.

"Mr. Zhuge, as you said, Liu Bei left."

"Prime Minister, since I said that I can suppress Liu Bei, I will definitely be able to do it. Don't underestimate my ability."

Hearing what Zhuge Liang said, Cao Cao also nodded.

Soon, Zhuge Liang looked at the map in his hand.

This time Zhuge Liang's goal was on Rome.

"Prime Minister, according to the information you provided, there are nine important cities in Rome, including the royal capital. One of them, Milan, is located near our forehead, so this time we are going to Take it down Milan."

Cao Cao nodded. Since he had decided to capture Rome, he would naturally do his best and start from the most important place.

"According to our intelligence, the special arms of the Roman Empire are three hundred Spartan warriors. These three hundred people have the ability of first-class generals. There are also Macedonian warriors. The Macedonian side formed by them The formation is also extremely troublesome. Although there are only a thousand people and the overall strength is only that of a second-rate general, with that square formation, everyone can display the strength of a first-rate general. "

Hearing Cao Cao say this, it is obvious that Cao Cao has suffered losses in these two special units.

And the strength of this Rome really surprised Zhuge Liang.

It is not that Gu Rubing doesn't have this special type of troops, and there are many of them.

But there are not many, they are all composed of first-class generals. From this, we can see how many wars this Rome has gone through to train such a group of elite troops.

Even Zhuge Liang had to be careful when fighting against such an army of hundreds of battles.

"Prime Minister, the opponent's combat power should be much stronger than ours, so we need to give the opponent a little sweetness so that we can eat them in one bite when they relax their vigilance."

"Mr. Zhuge, please tell me, what are you going to do?"

"It's simple, give up the Caucasus."

"Caucasus?"

Hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Cao Cao's eyes widened.

This Caucasus is not an ordinary city. Although this Caucasus is also on the border, this city extends in all directions, and its role is no less than that of Jingzhou in the Han Dynasty. If it is abandoned like this, then they will have a transit station. By then, I will still be there. I don’t know how much trouble there is.

Cao Cao now wonders if Zhuge Liang is a traitor sent by Rome.

But Cao Cao just thought about it. If even legendary counselors can be sent out to be traitors, then Liu Bei is too bad at employing people. This is simply a waste of resources.

Seeing that Cao Cao was hesitant, Zhuge Liang smiled and immediately began to explain.

"Prime Minister, I know that the existence of the Caucasus is very important to the Parthian Empire, just like Jingzhou is very important to the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, how could the Prime Minister join forces with Sun Jian to attack Jingzhou many times? But similarly, do you think you Even if we capture Jingzhou, will you feel at ease?"

Cao Cao shook his head.

Jingzhou is connected in all directions, it can be said that it is very convenient to go anywhere, and it is extremely rich, but it is because of this that even if you take Jingzhou by yourself, you will definitely need a large number of people to do it. After all, this is the place of the Four Wars, no matter what A place that everyone plans to take down.

Jingzhou is a prosperous place, but it is also a huge trouble.

"Actually, Prime Minister, the Caucasus is the same as Jingzhou. Even if it is in your hands, it will not play any role. Why don't we let it go? There are our places and our people everywhere around the Caucasus. We are very It’s easy to encircle the Caucasus, and it won’t still be ours by then, but the Milan we won will be different.”

"It is one of the important cities in Rome, and we have several small cities that can directly touch Milan. Even if we take Milan by then, we don't have to worry about being surrounded like the Caucasus."

After hearing this, Cao Cao looked at the map and felt it made sense, so he carried out Zhuge Liang's plan.

Soon Zhuge Liang saw the entire lineup of the Parthian Empire.

But when Zhuge Liang understood their strength, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

The Parthian Empire, which seems to be relatively weak, actually has nine famous generals in it. It is said that the king is also a famous general, which means that there are ten famous generals. The number is actually more than what Gu Rubing has in his hands, but it is different. Yes, there are no legendary generals.

And according to what Cao Cao said, there were even more famous generals in Rome than them.

So relatively speaking, Rome's territory is also larger.

Among these famous generals, Zhuge Liang's favorite is a famous general named Surena.

For some reason, Zhuge Liang actually saw some of his own shadow in this person.

When Surena learned that the target of the battle was to be Rome, he was very excited.

He had long wanted to attack Rome. Compared with his greed for the Han Dynasty, he still wanted to take revenge on Rome. When he fought with Rome, he was just careless and lost nearly 50,000 people. His reputation in the Parthian Kingdom also declined a lot.

"Prime Minister, if you attack Rome, I hope to be the vanguard."

"Of course there is no problem."

Soon Cao Cao arranged it, Surena led 100,000 people to attack Milan.

But before that, Cao Cao deliberately left a gap in the front line.

After Caesar knew about it, he did not rush to take action, but looked at Sun Jian on the side.

Because of the truce period mentioned by several people in the meeting, Sun Jian set his target on Rome, and this time he arrived here in person.

The discovery of the Roman Empire was completely accidental.

At the beginning, Sun Jian just wanted to see if he couldn't beat Gu Rubing head-on, so he wanted to sneak attack Gu Rubing by water. As a result, he found that the places reached by water were all small cities, which had no great significance at all. In the end, Sun Jian also set his sights on the Western Regions.

The Yangzhou fleet headed towards the Western Regions, wanting to dock at the nearest place, and then open up a second battlefield in the Western Regions to clamp down on Gu Rubing.

But unexpectedly, the fleet went astray, and by accident, it actually ran to the territory of Rome.

After seeing the power of Rome, Sun Jian had the idea of ​​forming an alliance.

But at first it was an alliance. With the support of Sun Jian, Rome expanded more and more, and in the end it expanded to be comparable to the Han Dynasty, which made Sun Jian feel that he had to suppress the other party.

So, Sun Jian slapped Sun Ce over.

In front of a legendary general like Sun Ce, all the territory and means are unnecessary. After seeing Sun Ce kill more than 2,000 people with one shot, Caesar finally became obedient and completely surrendered to Sun Jian.

The Roman Empire was officially owned by Caesar, but in fact it belonged to Sun Jian. Sun Jian did much better than Cao Cao in this regard. (End of this chapter)