When Gan Ning came to harass her for the fifth time, a lucky sailor finally brought back information to Guo Jia. The ships in front of the enemy were all covered with straw men. Guo Jia knew it immediately. This was too sinister, but he didn't know whether other naval warships from Jiangdong were hidden behind these straw boats. Guo Jia reported the news to Cao Cao and asked Cao Cao if he needed to fight.

Cao Cao asked his naval commander Mao Jie and Yu Jin. Both of them said they were not sure that they could deal with the Jiangdong naval army. Well, when Guo Jia heard the reply from them, he knew that he could not attack, but he could not waste arrows in vain. Once the enemy stopped shooting, he would shoot arrows, so the morale in the army would be hit. If the archery was fired, the logistical pressure would be too great, and the arrows would not be missing in the later stage of the decisive battle.

"Lord, let's first reduce the number of archers, and then let the enemy ships on the river mistakenly think that we don't know the details yet. First reduce the loss of some arrows." Guo Jia said.

After hearing this, Cao Ren said, "We just ignore it, it's a lie anyway."

Cao Cao immediately cursed: "Think about it with his brain. If we stop shooting arrows, the people in Jiangdong will shoot arrows, and then our navy will be shot and will affect our morale at that time."

Cao Ren said: "Lord, then wouldn't it be better for us to retreat beyond the range?"

Cao Cao cursed: "If you retreat, people will not move forward. If they are allowed to rush to the gate of our water village, then our morale will not be even lower."

Cao Ren replied: "Lord, then we will also tie a straw man in front of us. Our soldiers hide behind the straw man and occasionally shoot a few arrows on the river. We can also collect the arrows shot by the enemy, so we will not suffer any loss."

When Cao Cao heard this, he thought this was feasible. Guo Jia also gave Cao Ren a thumbs up and immediately arranged it. Next time, he would not be afraid of the harassment of the Jiangdong Navy and used the straw man to the straw man.

Gan Ning was drinking tea on the boat, and suddenly someone outside reported: "General, the enemy's arrows seem to have fewer." Gan Ning felt something was wrong after hearing this, but he didn't understand it. After returning to the water camp, he found Zhou Yu and reported to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu held a military opportunity meeting to discuss the matter. After hearing this, everyone's first reaction was that Cao's army had discovered the truth of this matter. But everyone also decided to continue to borrow arrows from the boat.

Gan Ning has been running through the world and has been a pirate, so in his opinion, he cannot suffer any losses first. After a few rounds of shooting, he found that Cao's army no longer fired arrows, so he asked the soldiers to stop shooting arrows, and after a while, Cao's army just didn't respond. However, after Gan Ning arrived at the place where the ships were stopped every day, he did not dare to get closer. If he was too close, he would easily be surrounded by Cao's army, which was also very dangerous. So after a few rounds of harassment, he came back when he saw that Cao's army had no reaction.

When Gan Ning came again later, Cao's army still didn't respond. Gan Ning was strange. Could it be that Cao's army had a way to prevent the arrows we shot? At least they had to shoot at each other. But there was not a single arrow, so he arranged a small boat, pulled it with a rope, and approached Cao's water camp to investigate the situation. Finally, he knew that Cao's army had also used straw men to block the arrows, so he went back to report to Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu had to stop borrowing arrows from this meaningless straw boat.

After hearing Zhou Yu's report, Sun Quan was not disappointed and asked, "Gongjin, Cao Cao and Guo Jia are all very intelligent old foxes. It's good how many times we can deceive them. How many arrows have we borrowed from Cao Cao?"

Zhou Yu said happily when he said this: "My lord, I did make a profit this time. We made about 500,000 arrows, which is enough for us to use this battle."

Sun Quan was also very happy and said, "So much, so we have to write a letter to thank Cao Cao."

Zhou Yu also smiled and said, "How do you want to write it?"

"Wait until I write it." As he said that, Sun Quan picked up the pen and wrote it on the paper. After writing it, he handed it to Zhou Yu. After reading it, Zhou Yu said, "Lord, will Cao Cao be crazy like this? But this letter is too..." Sun Quan ignored it and said, "Okay, it's good to arrange someone to send it to Cao Cao, it's good to be angry with Cao Cao."

At noon, the archers shot the letter on the pillar of Cao Jun’s water camp, and then the letter was naturally sent to Cao Cao. After all, this was a letter written by Sun Quan to Cao Cao himself, and no one else dared to read it first. If he was charged with a collusion with the enemy, it would be over. So the letter was delivered to Cao Cao’s desk. When Cao Cao saw that it was written by Sun Quan, it also stated on the envelope that it was written by Sun Quan to Cao Cao. He was curious about what Sun Quan was going to say, so he opened the letter and read it.

This made Cao Cao angry, and the letter read:

Hello, old black fat man!

My name is at least better than Liu Bei and the others, and it is more vivid and appropriate. You sent me a million arrows a while ago. I am so grateful. I wanted to make some wine and food to thank you, but I was afraid that you would not dare to eat it. Forget it, you old black fat man, I heard that your ancestors were eunuchs. What I wonder is that eunuchs don’t have that? Why are you, your descendant? Have you ever looked for your true ancestor? Maybe your ancestors don’t have Cao at all. No wonder Yuan Shao looked down on you. No one in the aristocratic family can really look down on you.

Old black fat man, I heard that you have a hobby, that is, you like to sleep with other people's wives. I really don't understand you. Can't that thing beneath you? I'll ask curiously, "Mrs. Bian, who was your wife?" I heard that you killed your son Cao Ang and his beloved general Dian Wei by Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu because of this in Wancheng. You are really so energetic. You didn't even kill these two people to avenge your son and beloved general.

Finally, I will tell you about your good friend Guo Jia. I guess the diseased person who coughs every day is almost out of reach. Xu Du is still not sent to him back. It would be a pity to die in Chibi. Just die as an old black fat man. Why do you need a slutty Guo Jia to be buried with you? I will give you good news for free. Your youngest son Cao Chong is so smart. I guess Cao Pi will kill him sooner or later. Do you think you are happy? Anyway, I am quite happy recently.

Cao Cao was very angry as he looked at it. This letter did make him lose some of his rationality. Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu wanted to kill him, but if he killed him, he was afraid of affecting his recruitment. Others would say that he was narrow-minded, so how could he fight for the world? As for the others, Cao Cao didn't care anymore, and Cao Cao had no choice but to Guo Jia's body. His son Cao Pi and Cao Cao also knew, but he thought Cao Pi would not attack his brothers.

However, from this time, Cao Cao began to strengthen his security protection against Cao Chong. Sun Quan did not expect that he would save Cao Chong's life in a flash and then add a strong opponent in the north.

Cao Cao was very calm after reading it, but when he lit the letter on the candle and burned it, he could see from his eyes that his heart was very uneasy.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!