Chapter 917: Bad News
Yanzhou, Xuchang! Inside the Governor's Mansion!
"Hey!" Cao Cao stood at the window, looking into the distance, sighing from time to time, his face full of sadness.
However, he can't help it, there are too many bad things during this time, first the legendary Zhou Fan single-handedly, with the dragon and the Vermilion Bird, directly burned their grain and grass, this time the princes who they finally united fell apart, and they could only return to the state of taking care of each other again.
Immediately after, before he was ready, Zhou Fan did it to them first, just a few days ago, Wei Yan, who was located in Sili, personally led an army of 100,000, and the army was already overwhelming, so he had to quickly send an army of 50,000, with Cao Ren as the commander, relying on the benefits of the checkpoint city, to block Wei Yan from Dong'e.
It's just that this is not good news, because according to the intelligence, it is not only their Yanzhou that is currently being attacked, but at the same time, Zhang Ren and Tian Yu of Youzhou also led 80,000 troops respectively to besiege Qingzhou and Jizhou, where Yuan Shao was located.
Although there has been no news from Yuzhou and Xuzhou, Cao Cao is very clear that there is definitely a war over there, and the battle is very fierce, otherwise Sun Jian and Liu Bei will definitely not even have time to send a message.
For a while, all parts of the Han Dynasty started wars, and the four of them originally planned to wait until the beginning of spring to take the lead in attacking Zhou Fan and catch him off guard, so that no matter how strong Zhou Fan's strength was, it would be impossible to organize any effective counterattack for a while, so they would have more respite to deal with Zhou Fan.
However, now, the situation is completely reversed, Zhou Fan didn't know where to get the news, he knew their plan, but instead he came to strike first, and directly caught them off guard, and now this situation can't be worse.
"Jiaolong, Vermilion Bird, Yuanyang, are you really the one who is destined to return......" Cao Cao muttered to himself, and said with a wry smile.
In the matter of the little emperor before, he had been severely pitted by Zhou Fan once, he was planning to take this opportunity to fight back, how could he have thought that such a thing would happen, he didn't think that the Jiaolong and Vermilion Bird that circulated were fooling, after all, Zhou Fan was a person who turned decay into magic, and it was not surprising that he would have such a skill, but in the face of such a Zhou Fan who was almost like a god, no matter how confident he Cao Cao was in himself, he didn't have much confidence now.
"Lord, it's a big deal, it's a big deal...... it's not good" At this time, Xiahou Chun hurriedly ran in, with a panicked expression on his face.
"What are you panicking ......about" Cao Cao couldn't help but reprimand Xiahou Chun twice, under his hands, the most trusted people are definitely Xiahou Chun and Cao Ren, in terms of ability, maybe Xiahou Chun is stronger than Cao Ren, but his frizzy personality is destined to make him unable to really take charge now, so this time it was Cao Ren who he sent to the front line instead of him Xiahou Chun.
"Big brother, it's really bad this time...... Xiahou Chun said with a wry smile.
"Wen Ruo, Zhicai, you are here too, it seems that this time Yuan Rang really brought back a very bad news!" Cao Cao smiled self-deprecatingly, even Xi Zhicai and Xun Yu came together, obviously this matter is really serious, originally he thought that there was no worse situation than now, but now, it is really not necessarily.
"See the lord's ......" Xi Zhicai and Xun Yu saluted Cao Cao, but the faces of the two of them are somewhat unsightly.
"Come on, let's talk about it, what kind of bad news can make both Zhicai and Wen Ruo change color!" Cao Cao laughed out loud and said calmly, no matter how bad the news is, you have to listen to it, can't you change it, and you can only accept your fate.
"Big brother, Sun Jian directly surrendered to Zhou Fan seven days ago, and then took advantage of Liu Bei's knowledge to introduce Zhou Fan's army into Langya, and now the entire Langya and Xuzhou have fallen and fallen into Zhou Fan's reasoning!" Xiahou Chun said with a crying face, to be honest, he also thought that Sun Jian and Liu Bei would be defeated, but he never expected that they would be defeated so quickly, it has only been a few days, and the whole army has been wiped out, and there are no more rubbish princes than them.
"So, today's Yuzhou and Xuzhou have also fallen into the hands of Yuanyang?" Cao Cao asked with interest.
"Yes, big brother, why aren't you angry at all?" Xiahou Chun asked with a puzzled expression.
"I'm angry, of course I'm angry, but what's the solution!" Cao Cao spread his hands and said helplessly, can he still help Liu Bei take Xuzhou back, let's wash and sleep, even if it is Yanzhou, he may not be able to keep the night now.
"My lord, as we expected, the offensive launched by Zhou Fan in Yanzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou is only to attract our attention with a feint, and the real main force has always been on the Xuzhou side!" Xi Zhicai said with a wry smile.
I have to admit that Zhou Fan is really generous enough this time, Yanqingji has an army of 300,000 on his side, and his main force is 300,000 troops, plus more than 200,000 troops in Yangzhou in Jingzhou, more than 800,000 soldiers and horses have been dispatched.
Nearly a million troops, more than the total number of soldiers and horses of these princes combined, in the face of such a big deal, any strategy is futile, even if Zhou Fan directly tells them that Wei Yanzhang let them cover, then what can they do, they can only watch, Zhou Fan cannibalized Yuzhou and Xuzhou one by one, there is no way, the conspiracy is impossible, and this kind of conspiracy-like tactics is the most incomprehensible.
"yes, we expected that!" Cao Cao sighed and said, when he saw Wei Yan attacking Dong'e again, he had already guessed that Wei Yan was a feint, but he still had to expel Cao Ren, otherwise if he was not careful, maybe they Yanzhou themselves fell first, and then it would be a lot of fun, and it was precisely because of this that he was destined to be unable to give Xuzhou half of the help, and he could only watch the worst happen.
"Big brother, what should we do now!" Xiahou Chun asked a little eagerly, when Zhou Fan settled down Xuzhou and Yuzhou, then the next thing to worry about would be them.