Xiaoqi

After a long silence, Xun Chen raised his eyes to look at the ground formation under the night sky, and said quietly: "I hope Yuan Hao will be auspicious and the heavens will be good. Every disaster will be turned into good luck. Otherwise, Xun will never join Guo Tu's villain, and he will avenge Yuan Hao someday! "

"Ah!" Xu You was startled when he heard the sound, his eyes flickered, and he advised in a low voice: "Brother Wen Ruo, be careful, if someone else hears it, something will happen."

Xun Chen turned his head and stared at Xu You, and said softly: "Ming people don't speak dark words. Just now Ziyuan seemed to be very disappointed with the lord. When Jizhou is in danger in the future, Ziyuan must have prepared for himself. retreat?"

Xu You's face changed when he heard that, and he looked at Xun Chen suspiciously.Suspiciously asked: "Brother Wen Ruo, why did you say that? Could it be that you overheard me just now?"

"Don't be alarmed when you are far away. Now Jizhou is at a critical moment of survival. You and I should do our best to help the Lord, and we will definitely not have two ambitions. However, if the situation takes a turn for the worse, we may have to find another way out." I don't know if Ziyuan thinks so?" Xun Chen directly stated his position and said bluntly.

Xu You looked at Xun Chen suspiciously, but saw that his expression was calm and his eyes were firm, which did not seem to be fake or speculative.Immediately, he turned his head to look at the many soldiers behind him, nodded slightly to Xun Chen without any trace, and said in a low voice: "Since ancient times, good birds choose trees to live in, and good ministers choose masters to do things. If things can't be done, we should do something else." To find a way out, do we still have to be buried with some self-righteous people?"

Xun Chen nodded approvingly and said: "I also have the same intention. I hope this day will never come, otherwise I will be infamous."

Xu You nodded in agreement, but stopped talking, then looked up at the sky, and saw that the sky was already white, and it would not be long before dawn

"Report to my lord, the figure of Xiliang war cavalry was found in front of me. General Cao Ren ordered the last general to come to ask my lord, how should our army respond?" In the sound of the urgent report, a general in school captain's armor rushed to the horse. In front of Cao Cao, he immediately got off his horse and bowed respectfully.

"Hoo!" Cao Cao reined in his horse when he heard the sound, frowned slightly and muttered, "How can there be Xiliang cavalry at the foot of Zuoyi Mountain? How many soldiers and horses are there in the enemy army, and who is the leading general?"

"This..." the school lieutenant was taken aback when he heard the words, and he lowered his head and replied, "Please forgive me, my lord. The sky is too dark now, and the enemy army didn't light the torches. I didn't see what the generals looked like. However, judging from the defensive formation of the enemy troops, there are not many Xiliang war cavalry, ranging from two to 3000 to as few as five to six hundred. Moreover, these Xiliang war cavalry The cavalry was heavily guarded. When the last general led hundreds of scouts to investigate, he was spotted by the enemy cavalry before he got close to a hundred steps, and then he fired random arrows. Therefore, the final general dares to say that this Xiliang warrior cavalry They are quite powerful, and if we want to wipe them out in a short period of time, our army will need to mobilize at least 600 or even [-] troops to accomplish the task."

"Well, you have tried your best, get up." Cao Cao nodded slightly, and waved his hand to signal the captain to stand up and answer.

Frowning while thinking about it, Cao Cao inadvertently saw that the sky had become white, and his expression changed slightly, and he immediately made a decision: "Quickly send an order to Cao Ren not to fight, just leave [-] soldiers in charge of guarding. The whole army speeds up the march , be sure to evacuate the battlefield before dawn and rush to the banks of the Yellow River to regroup. There must be no mistakes!"

"Promise!" The captain didn't say anything, and immediately got on his horse after receiving the order, and quickly went to the front army to deliver the order.

When it was getting light, Cao Ren, who was in charge of the rear of the palace, led 3000 troops to catch up with the front army. He rode his horse and walked behind Cao Cao dejectedly, but he did not salute Cao Cao. He looked completely absent-minded.

"Why does Zixiao look like this? Could it be that Xiliang cavalry attacked our army?"

Cao Ren shook his head when he heard the sound, and looked up at Cao Cao with remorse on his face: "My lord, do you know who the leader general of the Xiliang war cavalry who passed us just now is?"

Cao Cao chuckled disapprovingly and said, "Hehehe! Who else could it be, except Huan Fei, Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and other Xiliang generals? It can't be Li Li, right?"

"It's Thief Li!" Cao Ren gritted his teeth and said emphatically.

"what"

With a cry of alarm, Cao Cao's body turned sideways, and he slipped off the horse in an instant. Fortunately, Cao Ren had quick eyesight and quick hands, and flew off the horse to hold him in time.

"Li Thief,,, it's actually Li Thief! Ah!" Cao Cao, who was leaning in Cao Ren's arms, mumbled to himself in a dazed manner, then put his head in his hands, rolled over in pain, and cried loudly: "Oh, it hurts me! "

Seeing Cao Cao's headache again, Cao Ren panicked immediately, and hurriedly comforted him, "My lord, please calm down! This time I missed a good opportunity. I will have another chance in the future, and I will definitely kill Thief Li!"

"Ah! It hurts me too"

Chapter 777

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Accompanied by the rapid sound of horseshoes galloping towards Li Li, Chen Dao jumped off the horse without waiting for the horse to stop.

"Uncle Zhi is back, how is the investigation going? Who is the army under the command of the princes who just slipped away from behind us?"

Chen Daogong replied: "My lord, the general has already found out. The army and horses just now belonged to Cao Cao in Yanzhou, and now they have withdrawn from the battlefield and are retreating towards the valley entrance to the north of Feiyundu!"

"Oh?" Li Li was astonished when he heard the words, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he nodded and said, "It seems that Cao Cao is planning to take this opportunity to get rid of the allied forces, and lead the army to cross the Yellow River alone, and then return directly to Yanzhou."

After a pause, Li Li seemed to think of something again: "Oh, by the way, has Uncle Zhi found out how many troops Cao Jun has?"

Chen Dao then said: "My lord, due to the gloomy sky, the last general and the scouting brigade did not see the exact number of Cao Jun. However, judging from the size of the formation and the horseshoe prints left on the ground when they evacuated, Cao Jun has many Less than 6 war cavalry, the infantry should be around [-], and the total number of infantry and cavalry should be [-] to [-] horses."

"Oh, fifty or sixty thousand horses?"

Li Li murmured in astonishment, shook his head helplessly, and said with a dumb smile: "Cao Cao's recruiting speed is really amazing! In the battle of Feiyundu in the past, Cao Cao's most elite [-] Qingzhou soldiers were wiped out, and only he was left. A naked general fled back. I don’t want to think about it. How long has it been? It’s only been five months, and he has expanded his army to [-]. He cleverly used the name of the prince’s allies to wait for an opportunity to increase his strength. This The ability to recruit soldiers and buy horses is really beyond my reach, I am so envious! Hehehe"

Chen Dao grinned, he could hear the sarcasm in his lord's words, he clearly said he envied Cao Cao, but in fact he despised his treacherous and despicable character, it was shameless.

"My lord's words are very true. According to scout reports, the [-]-strong army under Cao Cao's command at this moment is indeed not his direct lineage, nor is it the newly recruited young and strong Xiangyong, but the troops entrusted to him by other allied princes for temporary command." Qu. And the deserters scattered in the decisive battle. Among the nearly [-] troops, Cao Cao's headquarters has only [-] troops, and the remaining [-] are all soldiers under the tents of other princes.

Among them, Sun Ce of Jiangdong left [-] infantry when he was ordered to transfer to Hedong County, and more than [-] infantry under Hanoi Zhangyang's tent.The remaining thousands of troops were stragglers gathered by Cao Cao in this battle.This is the origin of the [-] Cao Jun.In the final analysis, these soldiers and horses were all soldiers snatched from the tents of other princes, and they were not recruited by themselves at all. "

Li Li smiled lightly when he heard the words, shook his head slightly and said: "Uncle Zhi, don't underestimate Cao Cao's actions. In fact, daring to rob and know how to rob is also a skill. The most important thing is to seize the opportunity and find the right target. If you don't take action, you will die." , once a shot is made, it will not fail. And this is precisely the strength of Cao Cao.

In today's world, there is a separatist regime. Looking at the princes from all walks of life, there is almost no one who is not bullying, robbing, robbing people, money, food, and states and counties.It's just that the lords of all walks of life are more elegant in their robbing, paying attention to the fact that things happen for a reason and their teachers are famous, so that they can justifiably take what they snatched as their own.It is really a last resort to use the relatively ugly tactics of stealing people like Cao Cao; after all, there is no way to recruit young and strong within a hundred miles of Loudi, and naturally you can't buy war horses, so you can't expand your troops.

What's more, Cao Cao is in a difficult situation nowadays, Yanzhou has lost its foundation, and suffered a disastrous defeat at Feiyundu. His position in the allied forces can be said to be in decline.In such a predicament, he can barely protect himself, so how can he have extra money and food to recruit troops? "

After a pause in his tone, Li Li changed his subject abruptly: "That's why he humbly sent Cheng Yukui to pay a visit to the pass at night, took the initiative to form an alliance with me in secret, exchanged the intelligence of the allied forces for the lives of Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, and used this to express to me It shows that he does not want to be an enemy of our Xiliang army. In fact, to this day, Cao Cao and I have long been in conflict. My act of forming an alliance was nothing more than a last resort. It was purely an expedient measure to protect myself. Because he was isolated and helpless among the allied forces, and he was in a dangerous situation. In addition, many generals and clansmen were left behind by us. In his hands, this forced him to restore some strength to the maximum at the cost of betraying the allies, so as to survive in the cracks, wait for an opportunity to regroup, and try to make a comeback.

In today's battle, Cao Cao's long-awaited opportunity finally came.At the beginning of the war, he pretended to lead his troops to participate in the battle, but in fact he only sent thousands of soldiers and horses under Zhang Yang's tent to wave flags and shout, bluffing, and then led his troops to retreat to the left-wing battlefield to passively avoid the battle and wait and see the changes in the battle situation.Until Yuan Shao activated the ground trap, he led his men and horses to wait for the opportunity to escape from the battlefield and escape.Since then, Sun Ce and Zhang Yang's soldiers and horses under Yuan Shao's command were brought under his command without bloodshed and taken as his own.As long as he can lead his troops across the Yellow River to the north, he can quickly return to Yanzhou. In this way, he can replenish the soldiers and horses lost in Feiyundu's fiasco and minimize his own losses. There is neither gain nor much loss, and the strength still exists.

This is Cao Cao, the capable minister who governs the world, the traitor in troubled times, Xu Zijiang's words will become a prophecy! "

(Note: Xu Shao, courtesy name Zijiang, was a critic at the end of the Han Dynasty. It is said that he would evaluate celebrities from various counties once a month, known as "Yuedan Review". He once evaluated Cao Cao as "a traitor of Jun Qingping, a hero of troubled times" .)

After listening to Li Li's words, Chen Dao thought thoughtfully: "At first I thought Cao Cao was just an opportunistic and cunning man. Now, after listening to what my lord said, I know that this thief is really good. After the battle of Feiyundu , Cao Cao's strength was greatly damaged. The [-] army at the beginning of joining the alliance had only [-] cavalry left. It can be said that the loss was heavy and precarious.

However, in this decisive battle, instead of losing his strength, he seized the opportunity to grab tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and expanded the number of soldiers and horses to [-] in one fell swoop, which was almost the same as the strength when he joined the alliance.The most rare thing is.His strikes were accurate, he neither robbed Yuan Shao and Lu Bu's soldiers, nor did he strike against the movements of Zhang Yan and Liu Bei.Instead, they robbed the trilogy of Sun Ce and Zhang Yang, who were in Hedong but left their soldiers and horses in Henan.In this way, even if things are revealed in the future, he will not be afraid at all; after all, Jiangdong Sun Ce and Hanoi Zhangyang have nothing to do with him, they can only suffer from being dumb and swallow this bad breath. "

"Uncle Zhi's words are right." Li Lixin nodded and said: "Cao Cao is full of wisdom and plans, and the city is extremely deep. He has always planned before acting. It is rare to act rashly and recklessly. When the situation is unclear, he will never dare Offending Yuan Shao directly, he did not dare to provoke Lu Bu lightly. In addition, he had a deep grudge with Xuzhou, and once slaughtered the people of the three counties of Xuzhou, so he would not rob Liu Bei's Xuzhou soldiers; even if he robbed him, it would be useless. Because Xuzhou soldiers would not work for him at all.

As for the Black Mountain Army?Cao Cao didn't dare to provoke him right now.After all, there are many soldiers in Montenegro. Although there are not a million soldiers, there are still 10,000+ troops; and the Montenegro army that joined the alliance this time is only half of the troops, and the rest are still entrenched in Montenegro.In addition, Black Mountain is quite close to Yanzhou. Once the Black Mountain Army is provoked, it will be like poking a hornet's nest, and there will be endless troubles in the future.

In this way.The only targets Cao Cao could attack were the princes of Jiangdong Sun Ce and Hanoi Zhangyang.Needless to say, Zhang Yang is a generation of snakes and rats at both ends.This time you openly betrayed me, and I vowed to kill this thief after the battle, so Cao Cao has no worries about snatching Zhang Yang's soldiers and horses.And Jiangdong Sun Ce is also a ruthless character who only takes advantage and does not suffer losses. The reason why he is willing to give up part of his troops is because he wants to take the opportunity to get rid of the shackles of the Allied forces, stay out of the matter, and even wants to return to Jiangdong as soon as possible.What's more, the more than [-] soldiers and horses he left in the Allied camp were all recruits recruited from Hanoi and Hedong counties, and even most of them were remnants of the Baibo bandits.Therefore, Sun Ce looked down on such weak soldiers at all, and would not hesitate to abandon them.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses Cao Cao snatched this time are not actually strong in combat, but they can solve Cao Cao's urgent needs, enough to allow him to gain a firm foothold in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, so that he will not be wiped out by Lu Bu or Yuan Shao. "

Chen Dao nodded happily when he heard the words, and then his heart shook, as if thinking of something, he asked anxiously: "Master, Cao Jun sneaked past our army just now, didn't they notice that our army is dormant here waiting?" Logically speaking, it shouldn't! You know, we only have more than 1000 people who survived the catastrophe, and they are all cavalry. Are they all blind? There are more than [-] cavalry standing beside them, can they still turn a blind eye?"

"Hehehe!" Li Li smiled happily after hearing the words, and praised: "Uncle Zhi is really thoughtful, and finally discovered the mystery of this. The reason why I ordered you to inquire about this stock that passed us by. The details of the allied forces are precisely because they behave suspiciously and are extremely strange. You might as well imagine that they have nearly [-] troops, and when they marched from behind us, they were only a hundred steps away from each other. How could they not have spotted us? In other words, since They have discovered that our army is lurking here, but why didn't they attack?

Not only that, they deliberately took a detour, and left 3000 troops behind our army a hundred paces away, putting up a defensive posture, as if they were afraid that we would attack them actively.Little do we know that they are numerous and powerful, how could we attack aggressively without compromising our capabilities?Therefore, when I learned of such a strange whereabouts of the allied forces, I immediately felt a sense of déjà vu.

Sure enough, it turned out that my premonition was accurate. This allied army was actually [-] troops under Cao Cao's command.This Cao Cao is the most suspicious in his life. He has always pursued not to fight uncertain battles. Unless he is forced to, he will not take risks easily.Moreover, right now is the critical moment of this decisive battle, and it is also a turning point that will determine his future and fate, so he only wants to leave the battlefield as soon as possible, and he does not want to cause side issues, let alone take risks.It is precisely based on this mentality that he clearly discovered that we were hiding here, but pretended to turn a blind eye and led the army away without hesitation.It's just that when he found out that he passed me by, how would he react? Would he be so angry that he would have a splitting headache and regret?Hahaha! "

"Da da da capture and kill Yuan Shao, kill!"

Just when Li Li was laughing and Chen Dao was about to speak, he suddenly heard the sound of killing from the direction of the Allied camp. at the foot of the mountain.Moreover, the voice of the person who gave the orders was extremely familiar to Li Li.

"Ugh! This is Zilong's voice! Zilong has finally arrived with his army!" In an instant, Li Li knew who was coming, and he was overjoyed and said anxiously.

"Is the third brother here?" Chen Dao was surprised when he heard the words, and then his heart was shocked, and he said in surprise: "Sure enough, it is the voice of the third brother! He came at the right time. Presumably the allied forces are celebrating the success of the plot at this moment, and their defenses must be lax. Three Brother led the army to rush to kill him by surprise!"