The next day, Ma Chao once again signed an alliance with the Cao family with a stroke of his pen.
However, the strange thing is that it stands to reason that Cao Ang's mission is completed and he should return to Xuchang to resume his duties.
But Ma Chao added a clause to the covenant, leaving Cao Ang in Xiangyang.
The reason is naturally that Ma Cao's two previous covenants ended in breach of contract, and he had to be on guard this time.
To put it bluntly, Ma Chao is asking for protons.
This kind of thing is common in the later period of the Three Kingdoms.
After all, in the early period of the Three Kingdoms, there were frequent melees between warlords.
It may be that less than half a month after the alliance between two parties was reached, the other princes may be wiped out.
Therefore, this is quite unreasonable and unnecessary.
However, at this moment, what Ma Chao did seemed very reasonable and necessary.
Although in terms of strength, the Ma family is completely superior to the Cao family.
But in terms of status and relationship, Ma Chao is the King of Yong, but Cao Cao is also the King of Wei.
There is no subordinate relationship between the two at all.
Moreover, the overall situation of the world has become clearer, and it seems that the two families will not be killed by Liu Bei and Sun Ce within ten and a half days.
Therefore, the matter of keeping Cao Ang as hostage was unanimously approved by the Ma family civil and military, and they praised Ma Chao for his wisdom.
The news reached Xuchang, and Cao Cao's reaction seemed to agree.
Cao Cao didn't even respond by accusing Ma Chao of being rude.
Instead, he organized 100,000 Qingzhou troops that day, sent troops from Xuchang, and marched straight towards Lujiang River.
On the same day, Ma Chao also issued an order for Gan Ning, Guo Jia, and Wenpin to postpone the attack on Lujiang, and focused their main work on rumors and public opinion.
On the same day, Ma Cao once again formed an alliance, and panic rumors about the bloodbath in Jiangdong flew to the six counties in Jiangdong like wings.
Sun Ce of Lujiang obviously did not have a big response plan to this kind of rumor offensive.
After Zhou Yu's repeated persuasion failed, he made the most wrong decision for a warrior to deal with rumors.
The specific method of Ma Chao's rumor was to print out the covenants between the Ma and Cao families in large quantities, and add some exaggeration and jealousy to say that this time the Ma and Cao families launched a large-scale attack on Jiangdong.
The Ma family was retaliating against Sun Ce for daring to challenge the Ma family's majesty, and The story of Cao Cao seeing his daughter being mistreated in the Sun family and wanting to launch a massive military campaign.
Although from a political point of view, this reason for raising troops is simply nonsense.
However, ordinary people who only understand the shortcomings of their parents believe in such stories that cannot withstand scrutiny, and after several rounds of dissemination, several versions have been derived.
Even the details of the grandson's mother, Wu, who forced Cao to wash the toilet came out, and the story about the grandson of the North and South was even more uproar.
Lujiang was originally the site of Sun Ce's hatred for the massacre of Lu Kang's family.
When Sun Ce heard that the rumors were getting worse and worse, he was immediately alarmed.
He ordered that all the memoranda found on the front line be collected and burned.
However, after the Ma family's shadows processed and improved the story again and again, they invented a new way of dissemination.
They placed the bamboo-carved message on the upper reaches of the river and let it flow to Jiangdong Daying; they quietly brought the message here through the caravan. ; Convey the message secretly through careful writing Sun Ce had no choice but to issue an order: Anyone who dared to review the message would be killed; anyone who dared to pass it on would be killed; anyone who dared to discuss the message would be killed.
For this reason, he also sent countless spies throughout the country to eavesdrop on the conversations of the people. , setting up interrogation stations on the roads, posting lists to intimidate, and hanging human heads in the city to achieve the purpose of killing chickens and frightening monkeys.
But these measures are like putting out a forest fire with a small spoon of water.
This high-pressure policy will have no effect and will not help at all.
From Chaisang to Lujiang, from Wuxian to Kuaiji, from Jianye to Yuzhang, large and small counties, counties, townships and pavilions, such slogans appeared almost everywhere.
The common people under high pressure spontaneously broadcast and passed on the message.
The more Sun Ce ordered that no one be allowed to see this thing, the more it aroused the curiosity of the people, and the faster this thing spread among the people.
Later, this proclamation sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and its spread was like a raging fire burning the wilderness, setting fire to the prairie everywhere.
It was spread everywhere, word of mouth, and everyone knew it.
In such a short period of less than half a month, when Cao Cao's army was approaching Lujiang City, different voices finally appeared in the entire Jiangdong base.
Sun Quan of Wu County took the lead in rejecting Sun Ce's high-pressure policy and actively sent envoys to Cao Ying. .
As a result, Sun Ce intercepted him on the way and ordered Sun Quan to be relieved of his power in the rear.
But at this time, Sun Ce realized that he had underestimated his second brother.
Sun Quan immediately ordered to cut off Sun Ce's military rations.
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Supporters of Sun Quan surged in Jiangdong, forcing Sun Ce to consider withdrawing his troops and returning to Jiangdong.
But just when the conflict between the two brothers was already boiling over, the Ma family added fuel to the fire again: King Yong, Ma Chao, and King Wei, Cao Cao, jointly declared that the world would only recognize Sun Quan's legal status in Jiangdong.
Such an approach naturally aroused eager opposition from His Majesty Xichuan.
An imperial edict denounced King Yong and King Wei for their treasonous act of ignoring the imperial power and attacking each other wantonly.
It's a pity that such an imperial decree seems so powerless under the oppression of almost 300,000 troops of the Ma family and Cao family.
A wave of political activities emerged decisively in the land of Jiangdong.
Many prominent and wealthy families in Jiangdong stood under Sun Quan's banner.
Sun Ce, who was isolated in Lujiang, was helpless and exhausted.
At this time, the Ma family's 100,000 elites, who had been stationed in Xiangyang for a month, finally began their journey to the east without waiting for Liu Bei's army to take action.
The arrival of such sensational news made the already precarious Sun Ce Group even worse.
With internal and external difficulties, it seems that with just a push from the combined forces of the Ma family and the Cao family, the Sun Ce regime in Lujiang will completely collapse.
Not to mention, there have been countless riots and civil commotions in Lujiang City.
Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worse just before Ma Chao's army marched eastwards.
Just when Ma Chao came out from the governor's mansion to show off his power and lead the army to go on an expedition, a group of people were sitting around a table in front of the window in an inconspicuous restaurant in Xiangyang City.
This group of people seemed a little leisurely and a little worried.
They were sitting at the table talking quietly, as if they were discussing something.
This restaurant is a typical wooden pavilion-style building, with a height of four floors and a square shape.
Each floor is supported by brackets to support the eaves.
Looking out from the restaurant, you can clearly see everything going on in the Sheriff's Mansion and Xiangyang Street. .
Since today is a big day for Ma Jiajun to send troops, many people in Xiangyang ran to the streets to send special gifts to Ma Chao.
These were the only people on the entire third floor.
The boy who had to wait outside the door was very depressed because he could not look at the mighty Ma family army in the distance.
"Guess," one person asked the three people next to him, "where they will set up an ambush.
Everything is ready.
If they want to assassinate, this is the last chance, but we don't know where they will start yet."
"I guess it's the suspension bridge."
One person replied, looking very young, with a sense of excitement and excitement for the first time.
"The suspension bridge is the narrowest section of the journey out of the city and into the camp.
If it is used as an assassination location, It couldn’t be more appropriate.”
After saying this, he was immediately stared at by everyone at the table.
One of them was obviously the leader of this group of people.
There was a smile on his extremely handsome face.
He patted the man on the head and said: "Assassination is a very technical thing.
If you just think about killing the other person, But I don’t want to find a way to escape, so how can I do it?
After killing the enemy, I just wait for those unskilled dead soldiers to be killed.
Do you think Xi Zhi will be as idiotic as you?"
The young man felt embarrassed for a while, but he lowered his head and could not argue.
But the person who had not spoken at this moment suddenly said: "I guess Xi Zhicai will still be doing the same thing.
He will hide in a shop on Xiangyang Street that has been bought out long ago.
The business development in Xiangyang has been good recently.
In the past two years, he has been out of town.
There are many customers, but the management is not as strict as Chang'an.
They can easily get rid of it after starting there. " "It's interesting."
The leader smiled again, but in the end he rejected the guess: "There are so many people watching the ceremony on the street today, so if you attack in a hidden store, you can only use a crossbow, and the opportunity may disappear in a flash.
It’s impossible for someone as cautious as Xi Zhicai to take action in such a chaotic environment.”
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"Brother, where do you think Xi Zhicai will attack you?"
The young man was anxious and simply asked the leader directly.
"I guess Xi Zhicai won't move anywhere.
I can hide my golden cicada's escape plan from others, but I can't hide it from his internal correspondent in Xiangyang."
Ma Chao leisurely took off the bamboo hat on his head and put on his perfect appearance.
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