Chapter 170 Mr. Gongxiu is loyal and righteous
"Young Ma Su is so despicable!!"
Zhuge Dan's face was very ugly, and he wished he could kill Ma Di with his sword.
Just now, Xiangyang was easily captured by the Shu army because of his deputy general's cerebral palsy. Then Ma Su sent people to kill people and slander him in public.
In this way, although His Majesty Cao Rui cannot believe the other party's slander, his political opponents may not. It won't be long before someone in the court will talk about this matter and continue to exclude Zhuge Dan.
As expected, Ma Di is despicable and shameless, and no one can compare with him in spreading rumors.
Zhuge Dan was so angry that his liver ached, but there was nothing he could do. He doesn't have many soldiers at hand, and if he goes into battle, he will definitely be killed by Ma Su.
Not daring to fight, Zhuge Dan couldn't relieve his anger and could only endure it. However, after thinking about it for a moment, Zhuge Dan responded and quickly issued an order.
"If you pass the order, a new sign will be hung next to the war-free sign, and it will be engraved with "Shu envoys and dogs are not allowed to enter!" ""
If you can't afford to offend me, can you still afford to hide? I just won't let you Shu envoys come in.
Zhuge Dan thought he was very smart, but Ma Di soon taught him a lesson.
Within three days, Ma Di personally appeared on the south bank of the Han River with his troops. Then they built ships under the eyes of the Wei army and began to cross the river in a swaggering manner, without paying any attention to the Wei army in the north of the Yangtze River.
Even as the commander-in-chief, Ma Di personally led more than a hundred cavalry to Jiangbei and wandered around Fancheng in an extremely arrogant manner.
For a time, all the generals under Zhuge Dan were furious and asked for instructions to go out and kill this arrogant bastard. After all, since Guan Yu's death, when did the Wei Dynasty suffer from this kind of birdiness.
But Zhuge Dan's stability told him that this was a trap and he should not be careless. Especially since he has a friendship with Guo Huai, he clearly remembers what Guo Huai wrote in the letter he wrote to him before.
Both Zhuge Liang and Ma Su in Western Shu had extraordinary talents, and their military tactics were unpredictable and unpredictable. If you are facing him, you can only hold on firmly and don't have any thoughts of going out to fight.
Looking at Guo Huai's comments, I can't wait to write "I'm afraid of him" on his face. You must know that when Guo Huai was in charge of the northwest, he had a bullish attitude of coaxing God to be first and me to be second.
So Zhuge Dan, under tremendous pressure, forcibly suppressed the generals' request to fight.
"Everyone, go back and rest! No one can go to battle without my order!" Zhuge Dan snorted coldly, waved his hand and said to the indignant generals.
"Ma Di can rush into Xiangyang with a thousand men. How can you be sure that he can't rush into Fancheng with a hundred men? This place is the strategic fulcrum of the imperial court's Jingxiang defense line. No one should be careless!"
After Zhuge Dan spoke, the generals could only stay there quietly.
However, although the generals were suppressed from asking for battle, although Ma Di's envoy was prevented from entering the city, it did not mean that Ma Di was dead.
Soon Ma Su discovered that Zhuge Dan was surprisingly stubborn, so he quickly changed his strategy. He pulled out hundreds of cavalry to follow him and appeared again outside Fancheng with a loudspeaker.
"I have always heard that the Langya Zhuge clan is a loyal and righteous minister of the Han Dynasty. When Zhuge Feng, the former Sili school captain, was still alive, he often taught his descendants to support the Han Dynasty as their own responsibility. This is the ancestral motto of the Zhuge family!"
"At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, the Han thief Cao Cao led his troops to massacre Xuzhou. The Zhuge family in Langya hated him so much that they moved their family south to avoid the Cao family."
"It was Lord Zhuge Dan who met with his uncle Zhuge Xuan before leaving and decided to stay. In response, he cried and said that he and his family wanted to pretend to surrender to Cao Cao's thieves in order to prepare for revenge later."
"It was autumn at that time, and the Si River flowed eastwards. Zhuge Dan pointed to the Si River and swore that he would not destroy Cao Cao's thieves..."
While Ma Su was riding a horse leisurely around Fancheng, he started to announce on the loudspeaker.
What is described is that the Zhuge family in Langya are all strong-willed ministers of the Han Dynasty. Didn’t they see that the prime minister of our family has to work hard and die? Later, Zhuge Dan, a great talent from the Zhuge family, was introduced, and his loyalty was widely publicized.
Of course, it is loyalty to the big man.
In his previous life, Ma Su was famous for his provocation. When it came to his ability to tell lies, he didn't believe there was anyone better than him in this era.
Well...except Zhu Ran.
In short, as long as Ma Su thinks that you are in Cao's camp and your heart is in Han, he has a thousand ways to prove that you are indeed in Han.
After Ma Su broadcast a short composition and made up an oath referring to Surabaya, Zhuge Dan couldn't sit still.
When did I swear by Surabaya? Zhuge Xuan and his family didn't even notify me when they moved south!
"Shu Zian dares to insult...slander me!!"
Ma Su's broadcast made Zhuge get angry and wanted to cut Ma Su into pieces with a three-foot sword.
This can be considered difficult for Zhuge Dan. Ma Su didn't insult him in a word, and every word of him expressed that you, Mr. Zhuge Dan, are the most loyal. But there was something wrong with the object of loyalty, and the whole sentence changed instantly.
But even so, after Zhuge Dan smashed the table in anger, he still did not dare to go out of the city to fight. After all, the slander has only affected his career so far, and as long as His Majesty doesn't believe it, it won't have much impact.
Once you lose miserably in a battle, it is no longer a slander, it becomes a real battle report.
"Just slander, as long as you guard Fancheng and wait for reinforcements to arrive, everything will be over..." Zhuge Dan could only comfort himself, lamenting that he was unlucky enough to encounter such a disgusting thing.
This is worse than a toad's bite. After all, you can kick a toad, but you can't kick this one.
At the same time, the Wei army in Shouchun also received news of the inexplicable fall of Xiangyang. For a moment, the entire Huainan Military Region was in panic and hurriedly rushed towards this side for reinforcements.
At the beginning, Guan Qiujian proposed an all-out attack on Wu based on the premise that the Shu army would not pose a threat to Jingxiang. Because Jiangling was in the hands of Soochow, the Shu army did not dare to safely give up its flanks to this second and fifth son and the whole army went north.
This also led to the Shu army moving northward in a small scale at most. In theory, the Jingxiang line was as stable as Mount Tai.
But such a small probability event suddenly occurred, which completely disrupted Cao Wei's strategic deployment.
Originally, the Shouchun Wei army had surrounded Wuchang and was confronting the 100,000-strong army god Sun Quan, but they suddenly received the news. There was a moment of panic, and the whole army hurriedly divided its troops to help Jingxiang.
As for the entire Nanyang defense line, a large number of rear garrison troops began to gather towards the Fancheng area, preparing to join the army to recapture Xiangyang.
In general, the entire Cao Wei Dynasty was very anxious at this time.
Just when Zhuge Dan covered his ears and pretended to be dead and Wei Jun turned his attention to Xiangyang, Ma Di began his next plan.
Although the miraculous victory over Xiangyang was unexpected, Ma Di still did not forget his true purpose.
That is to capture Zhuyang to coordinate Zhao Yun's main force and besiege Xincheng County on both sides.