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With the sound of hurried horses' hooves, Chen Zhi flew off his horse without waiting for the horse to stop.

"Uncle Zhi is back, how are you going, where are the soldiers and horses under the command of the princes who just slipped away from behind me?"

Chen Zhi replied respectfully: "My lord, the last general has already found out. The troops and horses just now were Cao Cao's troops in Yanzhou, and now they have withdrawn from the battlefield and are retreating in the direction of the valley mouth north of Feiyundu! ”

"Oh?" Li Li was stunned when he heard this, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said: "It seems that Cao Cao is preparing to take the opportunity to get rid of the allies, lead the army north 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 ever found out how many men and horses Cao Jun has?" ”

Chen Zhi continued: "My lord, due to the dark sky, the last general and the scout brigade did not see the specific number of Cao's army. However, judging from the size of the formation at the time of its withdrawal and the horseshoe prints left on the ground, Cao's army had no less than 5,000 war cavalry, the infantry army should be about 50,000, and the total number of infantry horses should be 50,000 or 60,000 horses. ”

"Oh, fifty or sixty thousand horses?"

Li Li groaned in astonishment, shook his head helplessly, and said with a dumb smile: "Cao Cao's speed of recruiting troops and horses is indeed very amazing!" In the battle of Feiyundu in the past, the most elite 60,000 Qingzhou soldiers under Cao Cao were all wiped out, and only one of his generals fled back. I don't think about it. It's only been a long time, and it's only been five months, and he has expanded his number of soldiers and horses to 60,000. In the name of the princes' allies, he waited for an opportunity to increase his strength. This ability to recruit and buy horses really makes me unreachable, and I am so envious! Hehehe??????"

Chen Zhi grinned, he could hear the irony in his lord's words, clearly saying that he was envious of Cao Cao, but in fact he despised his treacherous and despicable conduct, which was very shameful.

"What the lord said is very true. According to Scout Detective. At this moment, the more than 50,000 troops under Cao Cao's command were indeed not his descendants, nor were they newly recruited young and strong villagers, but the troops handed over to him by other princes of the allied army. and deserters scattered in decisive battles. Among the nearly 60,000 troops, Cao Cao's headquarters only had 20,000 men and horses, and the remaining 40,000 were all soldiers and horses under the accounts of other princes.

Among them, Jiangdong Sun Ce was ordered to be transferred to Hedong County, leaving behind 13,000 foot soldiers, and more than 20,000 foot soldiers under Hanoi's Zhang Yang tent. The remaining thousands of men and horses were the stragglers that Cao Cao had gathered in this battle. This is the origin of the 60,000 Cao Army. In the final analysis, these soldiers and horses were all soldiers who were snatched from the accounts of other princes, and they were not recruited by themselves at all. ”

Li Li smiled indifferently when he heard this, shook his head slightly and said: "Uncle Zhi must not despise Cao Cao's actions, in fact, daring to rob and being able to rob is also a kind of ability." The most important thing is to seize the moment and find the right goal. If you don't make a move, you will not fail. And this is exactly what Cao Cao is so good at.

Looking at the princes from all walks of life, who is not a bully, a forcible robbery, a robbery of people, money and grain, and a robbery of prefectures and counties, almost all of them are robbed. It's just that the princes from all walks of life are more elegant, and they pay attention to the reason for the cause and the fame of the teacher, so that they can justifiably take the things they have grabbed as their own. Like Cao Cao, who eats relatively ugly robbing methods, it is really a last resort; After all, there was no way to recruit young people within a radius of 100 miles from Loudi, and naturally there was no way to buy war horses, so it was impossible to expand the soldiers and horses.

What's more, Cao Cao is in a difficult situation now, the foundation of Yanzhou has been lost, and he suffered a fiasco of Feiyundu, and his position in the allied forces can be said to be declining and plummeting. In such an embarrassment, he is still reluctant to protect himself, how can he have extra money and food to recruit troops? ”

After a pause in his tone, Li Li's words changed sharply: "It is precisely because of this that he will reluctantly send Cheng Yuchun to visit the pass at night, take the initiative to secretly form an alliance with me, and exchange the intelligence of the allies for the lives of Cao Zhen and Cao Xiu, and use this to show goodwill to me, showing that he is unwilling to be the enemy of our Xiliang army." In fact, to this day, Cao Cao and I have long been in a situation where we will not stand on each other, and there is no trust at all. Therefore, Cao Cao's secret alliance with me was only a last resort, and it was purely an expedient measure to protect himself. Because he was isolated and in a dangerous situation among the Allied forces, and many of his generals and clansmen were in my hands, he was compelled to regain as much strength as possible at the cost of betraying the Allied forces, so as to survive in the cracks, and 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 the flag and shout and bluff, and then led his troops to retreat to the left-wing battlefield to passively avoid the battle and wait to see the changes in the battle situation. Until Yuan Shao started to fall into the killing array, he led his men and horses to wait for an opportunity to leave the battlefield and escape. Since then, the soldiers and horses under the account of Sun Ce and Zhang Yang, which Yuan Shao sent to command him, have been bloodlessly incorporated into his command and taken for himself. As long as he can lead his troops to cross the Yellow River north, he can quickly return to Yanzhou, so that the soldiers and horses lost in the Feiyundu fiasco will be replenished back, and his own losses will be minimized.

This is Cao Cao, the capable minister who rules the world, the traitor of the troubled times, Xu Zijiang will become a prophecy! ”

(Note: Xu Shao, Zijiang, a critic in the late Han Dynasty.) It is said that he has to evaluate the celebrities of each county once a month, which is called "Yuedan Commentary". once commented on Cao Cao as "the traitor of Jun Qingping and the hero of troubled times". ）

After listening to Li Li's words, Chen Zhi said thoughtfully: "The last general originally thought that Cao Cao was just an opportunistic and cunning man, but at this moment, listening to what the lord said, he knew that this thief was indeed good. After the battle of Feiyundu, Cao Cao's strength was greatly damaged, and only 20,000 foot cavalry remained of the 80,000 army at the beginning of joining the alliance.

However, in this decisive battle, not only did he not lose his strength, but he waited for the opportunity to grab tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and expanded the number of soldiers and horses to 60,000 in one fell swoop, which was almost the same as the strength when he joined the alliance. The most rare thing is. He was very accurate, neither robbing the soldiers under Yuan Shao and Lu Bu, nor attacking the troops of Zhang Yan and Liu Bei. Instead, he robbed Sun Ce and Zhang Yang, who were in Hedong but left their soldiers and horses in Henan. In this way, even if the matter is revealed in the future, he is not afraid at all; After all, Jiangdong Sun Ce and Hanoi Zhang Yang couldn't help him at all, so they could only suffer a dumb loss and swallow this evil breath raw. ”

"Uncle Zhi's words." Li Li happily bowed his head and said: "Cao Cao, this person is full of wisdom, and the city government is very deep, and he has always planned and then moved. Rare rash and reckless. When the situation was unclear, he definitely didn't dare to offend Yuan Shao head-on, nor did he dare to provoke Lu Bu lightly. Plus. He had a deep grudge with Xuzhou, and once slaughtered the people of the three counties of Xuzhou, because he would not rob the Xuzhou soldiers under Liu Bei's account; Even if he robbed it, it was useless, because Xuzhou Bing would not give him his life at all.

As for the Montenegrin Army. Cao Cao didn't dare to provoke at the moment. After all, there are many soldiers in Montenegro, although there are not a million people, but there are still more than 100,000 soldiers and horses; The Montenegrin army that joined the alliance this time is only half of the soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses are still entrenched in Montenegro. In addition, Montenegro is quite close to Yanzhou, and once the Montenegrin army is provoked, it will be like stabbing a hornet's nest, and it will definitely be in trouble in the future.

And so it goes. Cao Cao's targets were only the two princes of Jiangdong, Sun Ce and Hanoi Zhang Yang. Needless to say, Zhang Yang is a generation at both ends of the snake and rat. This time I openly betrayed me, and after the war, I vowed to destroy this thief, and Cao Cao snatched the flamboyant soldiers and horses without any worries. And Jiangdong Sun Ce is also a ruthless character who only takes advantage of the advantages and does not suffer losses, the reason why he is willing to give up some soldiers and horses is because he wants to take the opportunity to get rid of the shackles of the allies, stay out of the matter, and even want to return to Jiangdong as soon as possible. What's more, the more than 10,000 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 after the destruction of the White Wave Thieves. Therefore, Sun Ce couldn't look down on such a soldier with weak combat effectiveness at all, and it was no pity to abandon him.

Therefore, the actual combat effectiveness of these soldiers and horses that Cao Cao grabbed this time is not strong, but it can solve Cao Cao's urgent needs, which is enough for him to gain a firm foothold in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, and will not be destroyed by Lu Bu or Yuan Shao. ”

Chen Zhi nodded happily after hearing this, and then his heart was shocked, as if he thought of something, and asked urgently: "Lord, just now the Cao army sneaked past behind our army, didn't they find that our army was lying dormant here?" It stands to reason that it shouldn't! You must know that we only have more than 1,300 people who survived the catastrophe, and they are all cavalry, so it is impossible for us to hide our tracks. And Cao Jun has tens of thousands of people, are their scouts all blind? More than a thousand cavalry stood beside them, could they still turn a blind eye? ”

"Hehehe!" Li Li smiled happily when he heard this, and said approvingly: "Uncle Zhi is really thoughtful, and finally discovered the mystery in it. The reason why I ordered you to go and find out the details of this Allied force that passed by us is precisely because they are suspicious and extremely strange. You might as well imagine that they had an army of nearly 60,000 men, and when they marched from behind us, they were only a hundred paces away from each other, how could they not have noticed us? In other words, if they had discovered that our army was lurking here, why didn't they attack?

Not only that, but they deliberately made a detour, leaving 3,000 men and horses a hundred paces behind our army, and put on a defensive position, as if they were afraid that we would take the initiative to attack them. As everyone knows, they are outnumbered, so how can we take the initiative to attack without our strength? Therefore, when I learned about the strange whereabouts of this Allied force, I immediately felt a sense of déjà vu.

Sure enough, it turned out that my hunch was very accurate, and this allied army was actually 60,000 troops under Cao Cao. This Cao Cao, who is the most suspicious in his life, has always pursued not to fight uncertain battles, and he will not take risks unless he is forced to do so. Moreover, it was a critical moment in this decisive battle, and it was also a turning point that would determine his future and fate, so he was bent on leaving the battlefield as soon as possible, and he did not want to get involved, let alone take risks. It is based on this psychology that he clearly discovered that we were hiding here, but he pretended to turn a blind eye and hurriedly led his army away. It's just that??? When he learned that he had passed by me, how would he react, would he be so angry that he would have a splitting headache and his intestines would be blue? Hahaha! ”

"Da Da Da??? Capture and kill Yuan Shao, kill! ”

Just as Li Li was laughing, Chen Zhi was about to speak, when he suddenly heard shouts of killing from the direction of the Allied camp, the distance did not seem to be very far, it should be at the foot of the mountain leading to the Allied camp to the north of the pit. Moreover, the voice of the person who gave the order was extremely familiar to Li Li.

"Ugh! This??? This is Zilong's voice! Zilong finally led the army to arrive! In an instant, Li Li knew who was coming, and immediately said with joy.

"Is the third brother here?" Chen Zhi was surprised when he heard this, and his heart was shocked, and he was surprised: "Sure enough, it's the voice of the third brother!" He came at the right time, presumably at this moment the allies are rejoicing that the conspiracy has succeeded, and the defense must be relaxed, and the third brother led the army to arrive just in time to kill him by surprise! ”

Li Li smiled and said happily: "What Uncle Zhi said is extremely true. Zilong led the army to raid the Allied camp at this time, which was indeed the right time, and it was just right to capture the fighter in time! Hehehe??????"

After laughing, Li Li looked up to the east, and through the layers of morning mist, he saw a wisp of gold in the sky, and it was dawn.

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