"Ahh Cao Cao woke up from the nightmare, only to find that his body was covered in cold sweat, and his clothes were already half soaked.

"My lord?" The guard asked in front of the tent door, his voice full of nervousness and unease.

As a guard, if something happens to the lord, everyone will be unlucky, but even if you are nervous, you can't rush into the account to visit. acted rashly, not only failed to make meritorious contributions, but was killed by the lord with a sword more than one or two, the lessons of the past are still there, how can you not take it as a warning?

“…… Nothing. After gasping for a while, Cao Cao suppressed the agitation in his heart and calmed down, "What time is it?" ”

"It's just past the hour."

"......" Cao Cao thought about it before digesting the answer and smiled bitterly in the dark. Just after the ...... Didn't he sleep for less than an hour before he woke up from a nightmare? Is this the only way to cultivate qi kung fu that I have practiced for many years? The current situation is obviously very good!

By the way, it is Wang Pengju, this name with terrifying magic, since he first appeared in front of him, he has become the heaviest shackle in his soul.

From the time the world officially entered the era of competition to this day, this name is like a huge shadow, firmly covering itself underneath, no matter how hard you struggle, it is difficult to dispel the clouds and see the light of day.

Not long ago, I thought that the dawn of the shadows had appeared, but the reality was extremely cruel, and it was only less than ten days before this dark cloud fell again.

In fact, long before Wang Yu led the main force to appear at Baichengkou, Cao Cao vaguely noticed that something was wrong.

Cao Cao's attack on Lu Bu was actually a drunkard's intention not to drink, his real intention was to use Lu Bu as a bait to catch the main force of Qingzhou. Yu Ban, who is stationed on the front line of Fengqiu, is a very tricky enemy, this person is not very brilliant in his use of soldiers, but he is very stable, and the stability is outrageous!

After the Yulin Army set up a position under the command of this person, it was like a thick and high wall, and it could not find any flaws. If you want to get to the other side of the wall, you can't climb over it, you can't go around it, you can only fight a war of attrition, and spend a lot of time and experience to consume it.

However, the location of Fengqiu is too critical, it is the hub connecting Yan, Si, Hebei, and Henan, and it is impossible to open a gap here, and the Cao and Sun families have always been separated. It can only cooperate and cooperate, but cannot really form a joint force, nor can it pose a threat to the hinterland of Qingzhou and cause a substantial blow.

Therefore, Cao Cao repeatedly used tricks, the purpose was to confuse the public and make Yu Ban's troublesome nail move. With Yu Ban's ability, he doesn't move, no one can help him, as soon as he moves, opportunities will appear.

For a moment, the Yulin Army was really about to move.

The news came out on the inner line of Puyang, and at the critical moment when Lu Bu attacked without authorization and Gaotang had police, Jia Xu once made the decision to shrink the defense line and retreat to Puyang with the Yulin army, and the Guanping Department was divided into two, one to aid Gaotang, and the other to reinforce Chaoge.

After getting the news, Cao Cao was overjoyed and made an exception to hold a grand banquet in the army. As a result, before the banquet was over, a thunderbolt from the sky came straight without warning, because of Wang Yu's letter, Jia Xu actually gave up his original intention.

Cao Cao is still not very sure what is written in that bag. He only knew that from the time Jia Xu changed his strategy and the believers were preached, the actions of the military horses of the various departments in Qingzhou became very strange.

Yu Ban's Yulin Army seems to have become a thousand-year-old rock, and it is immovable to let the wind and rain blow. Even the news that Cao Cao led the main force to ambush Lü Bu in Hanoi and surround him in Xiao Xiuwu failed to affect the ban, and the Yulin army remained motionless like a sleeping bear.

Jia Xu took over the command of Guan Ping's department, and then his actions suddenly became erratic. The day before, he was haunted near Onozawa, and he also collected a lot of boats, and it looked like he was going to cross the river to reinforce Gaotang. The next day, he suddenly appeared in Yan County, and put on a posture of joining forces with the Yulin Army to attack the Tiger Prison Pass and cut off the back road of the Cao Army.

In order to protect the way back, Cao Cao had to withdraw some of his troops to return to help, so as not to really capsize in the gutter.

Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong's 20,000 soldiers and horses are even more strange, it is said that in order to defend Gaotang, they should take the initiative to attack, contain the combined forces of Sun Ce and Xiahou Yuan, and fortify in Jibei and Dongping to shield the enemy from the south. As a result, the two of them didn't know what to think, so they hid and didn't know where to go, and let the coalition commander drive straight in.

The only ones who behaved most normally were the Gao Tang defenders. Of course, the Gaotang garrison, with the militia as the main force, did not have the ability to attack, and Chen Dao, a defender who had no city to defend, could only deploy along the river in a regular manner.

It is a great pity that Liu Bei failed to say that Chen Dao was moved, but the world is difficult to achieve in the first place, and Liu Bei's counter-plot can at least play a role in shaking the hearts of the Tang people. If this is not the case, the combination of the guards should not be two generals and a boy. Although Qingzhou is elite, it is not impossible to even get a decent military advisor.

The victory in his hand was gone, and the situation was out of Cao Cao's control.

Up to now, there are only two things that Cao Cao can grasp, one is to annihilate Lu Bu's army and cut off Wang Yu's arm, and the other is to pray that Sun Ce and Xiahou Yuan will exert their might and capture Gaotang! If you can't take Gaotang, you must also find an opportunity to attack Qingzhou from Mount Tai and cut off the foundation of the Qingzhou army.

These two things are completely incomparable to the annihilation of the ban, but even if the standard is lowered, the goal is still far away.

Wang Yu came from Bingzhou and made a journey, if Cao Cao hadn't kept an eye on it, maybe he would have been touched by the Qingzhou Jingqi until he was under his nose. Even so, after successively sending Xun You and Xiahou Shang, he was still a little relieved, so that he couldn't sleep well.

Sitting on the couch and pondering for a while, Cao Cao felt that his sleepiness was getting weaker and weaker, and he couldn't fall asleep anymore. He simply got up in his clothes and walked outside.

In the middle of the night, except for the guards on duty, no one should be active outside, but Cao Cao walked through a few tents and bumped into Guo Jia head-on.

"Bonghyo, can't you sleep too?" Cao Cao was both relieved and stunned. Guo Jia's professionalism and loyalty made him happy, but it was because Cao Cao realized that Guo Jia, who was the most intelligent, also felt uneasy, and his worries might really come true.

"My lord." Guo Jia bowed his hand and replied solemnly: "The lord is worried about the minister's labor, the future is dangerous and unpredictable, the lord is still difficult to sleep, and the minister is a military advisor, how can he not do his best?" ”

"Is it dangerous and unpredictable...... Cao Cao sighed and said, "Perhaps, Lone should send more soldiers and horses to Gongxian County for reinforcements." ”

"In the opinion of the minister, there is nothing wrong with the lord's disposition, and in terms of common sense, the two routes of Boren and Gongda can at least block the Qingzhou army for more than five days, causing considerable consumption to it. If there are more soldiers, it will be a bit wasteful. Wang Yu is not a blindly impulsive and reckless person, knowing that he can't do it, he will definitely let it go categorically, instead of being entangled. ”

Cao Cao thought about it and felt that Guo Jia's words were quite meaningful, so he asked, "Fengxiao, do you want to hint at Lonely?" ”

"Don't dare to deceive the lord," Guo Jia arched his hand with a solemn expression: "The minister thinks that the current situation is quite delicate. The longer our army stays in Hanoi, the greater the danger! The iron cable on the river is a dead thing, and it may not be able to seal the Qingzhou naval army, once the most unspeakable situation occurs, our army is in danger of being surrounded on all sides! In the opinion of the ministers, the only way to do this is to retreat to Luoyang and wait for the battle report on the Eastern Front as the best policy! ”

"......" Cao Cao was stunned, he didn't expect the chief strategist to put forward such an opinion at such a time.

"Competing for the top of the world is not an overnight achievement. The opportunity to fight to the death has been lost, and now that the three have become a full force, it is the safest thing to give play to the advantages of joint operations and make preparations for a protracted war. Now Qingzhou seems to be strong, but there are also many internal shortcomings that need to be solved urgently, and now it is just covered up by the fierce war, once the situation eases, there are no variables! ”

"You are the words of the old man who seeks the country." Cao Cao nodded, his expression was stupid, and his interest was obviously not high.

"But it's not unreasonable, staying in one place for a long time, it is true that there are many dreams at night. It's just that Lu Bu has now become meat on the chopping board, and it is really unwillingly not to take it down! Anyway, he told the city that he must try to open the city gate within three days, otherwise, Lone will treat it as if he has no internal response and lead the troops back to Luo. ”