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"In addition, in the name of chasing and killing my Cao Cao, Li Thief sent Xu Rong to lead 40,000 infantry troops into Xingyang, and the Xingyang camp and Luoyang Baguan originally had 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers defending the city. That is to say, Li Thief deployed nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses behind our army long before the Allied army crossed the river, relying on the advantages of the city and the pass, blocking more than 300,000 of our allied troops in front of the Hangu Pass, completely cutting off our army's retreat. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Cao took a deep breath, turned his head and pointed in the direction of Hedong County behind him, his expression was very solemn.

"Does the alliance leader know that as early as when we and the alliance attacked Hedong County, there was an army of no less than 60,000 horses under the command of Li Thief lurking in the territory of Bingzhou behind us?"

"Ahh Is there such a thing? Meng De is true in this statement, why haven't I received any reports before? Yuan Shao grabbed Cao Cao's shoulder in surprise and asked incredulously.

Cao Cao bowed slightly, slowly lowered his arm pointing at Bingzhou, and looked at Hanguguan with palpitations, his eyes full of fear like Yuan Shao.

"For a long time, we have despised Li Thief because of his young age, thinking that it was a coincidence that he was in charge of the Xiliang Army, and took advantage of the infighting between Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and Dong Yue and others to suddenly make a move, so as to pick up a big bargain and steal the Dragon Court and take charge of the world. Regardless of whether Yuan Mengzhu thinks so or not, anyway, Cao did have this idea before, although he knew that the Xiliang Army was strong in combat, he didn't really take Li Thief seriously, and always thought that he was a yellow-mouthed concubine and an opportunist. It can be extinguished by turning the palm.

However, during the battle of Feiyundu, Cao really experienced the power of Li Thief. He also witnessed the strong combat effectiveness of the main battalion under the command of Li Thief. That night, the soldiers and horses besieging Cao by Li Thief were only more than 20,000 people, and most of them were ordinary county soldiers who had not yet been incorporated into the Xiliang Army. However, it was these ordinary county soldiers who were not as good as the eyes of Li Thief who trapped the 60,000 Qingzhou troops under Cao's command in the mountain stream, and they couldn't break through the valley for nearly an hour. In the front valley mouth, the five thousand personal guard war horses under the command of Li Thief alone can fight fiercely with tens of thousands of soldiers of Cao's department. blocked the breakthrough of our army three times; And Li Thief himself was even more courageous, riding alone into my tens of thousands of troops as if he were in a no-man's land, and killing hundreds of soldiers under my command with his own strength. In the end, he escaped unscathed.

Therefore, to this day, all the princes think that the 60,000 troops under Cao Mou were wiped out by the reinforcements that came later under the command of Li Thief, but this is not the case. Cao Mou's army of 60,000 was defeated head-on by more than 20,000 foot cavalry led by Li Thief. The arrival of reinforcements from Hanya was just the icing on the cake. In fact, he did not participate in the battle of the breakout.

The 20,000 Xiliang army faced the 60,000 Qingzhou army head-on, and the two sides met in a hurry, and did not prepare enough arrows and offensive and defensive baggage in advance, which was almost a bloody battle. But the result was that Cao's 60,000 soldiers and horses were defeated, and although the soldiers and horses under the command of Li Thief occupied the advantage of the terrain, the casualties after the war were only more than 10,000, and half of the troops were lost, and the strength still existed. Thus. The combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army under the command of Li Thief is so strong, even if it is an ordinary soldier defending the city. It is also enough to compete with our elite soldiers and horses, fierce and fierce, and the combat effectiveness is amazing! ”

Listening to Cao Cao's narration, Yuan Shao's face changed again and again, sometimes iron-blue, sometimes crimson, and finally pale.

"Are these all what Meng De has seen and heard with his own eyes?"

"Exactly! In the battle of Feiyundu, Cao's soldiers were completely lost, but while fleeing for their lives, they saw with their own eyes the movement of soldiers and horses under the command of Li Thief, and heard the Xiliang soldiers discuss the military situation in private, so as to judge the strength of the Xiliang Army and deduce the real strategic intention of Li Thief. ”

After Yuan Shao heard this, he couldn't help but sigh and sighed: "The so-called: the blessing of misfortune depends." Although the defeat of Feiyundu was a great disaster for Meng De, it also found out a lot of information in Li Thief's army, which is a blessing for my allies! The fly in the ointment is that the price paid for this information is too great, and Mengde's tens of thousands of troops were destroyed in one battle, and all the hard work of several years was wasted. Yuan didn't know about this before, and he blamed Meng De, and when he returned to the camp today, I would cash in all the arrears of grain and grass and allow Meng De to recruit soldiers on his own. If there is a difficulty, although Meng De proposes it, Yuan should try his best to help solve it; If you can't do it, I hope Meng Deduo will understand. ”

"Alliance Leader??? Oh no, thank you for your help, and the foolish brother is grateful! In the future, if the elder brother is sent, the foolish brother will be the liver and brain, so as to thank the elder brother for his help today! Cao Cao got up and knelt down with emotion.

Seeing Cao Cao perform this big gift, Yuan Shao couldn't help but be moved, and immediately got up to help him: "Meng De doesn't need to be polite. As my brother has long said, you and I are brothers, and we should help each other and work together to create a great cause! ”

This is the first time Cao Cao bowed to Yuan Shao, this is not his hypocrisy, but a sincere bow to Yuan Shao.

This kneeling does not mean that he Cao Cao surrendered to Yuan Shao, nor was he moved by Yuan Shao's generosity, but pure gratitude. With the help of this batch of grain and grass, he can quickly stabilize the morale of the army, restore some vitality, and then wait for the opportunity to recruit new soldiers, or directly use the grain and grass as bait to attract a group of soldiers from the allied army to defect.

That's all, nothing else.

Leaning over to help Cao Cao up, Yuan Shao suddenly remembered what he had mentioned before, and asked urgently: "Uh, that's right!" Meng De just said that there was an ambush of tens of thousands of horses arranged by Li Thief in Bingzhou, I don't know where this ambush came from, why didn't there be scouts and detailed reports on this matter before? ”

"Speaking of this ambush army, in fact, the alliance leader has long known that our army scouts and meticulous work have also reported many times. It's just that in the past two months, because we have focused all our attention on Li Thief, and Li Thief has deliberately blocked the news, so that we have gradually forgotten about it and turned a blind eye. This time, Cao encountered a great disaster, and overheard the Xiliang soldiers mention this matter, only to know that this soldier and horse forgotten by us turned out to be a strange soldier that Li Thief had planned for a long time and placed behind us! ”

"Oh?" Yuan Shao was stunned when he heard this, and for a while he really couldn't remember the origin of this long-known soldier: "Since it is a group of men and horses that we have known for a long time, and a strange soldier deliberately arranged by Li Thief?" How could this strange army appear behind us and others, and the Li thief was so treacherous? ”

"Li Thief is not only treacherous, he is simply scheming, cunning as a fox, and extremely vicious!" At the first mention of Li Li, Cao Cao immediately became angry, his face was gloomy, his eyes were scarlet like a fierce beast, and his teeth itched with hatred.

After finally calming down, Cao Cao took a deep breath and immediately told the origin of this strange army.

"Speaking of this strange army, the alliance leader is definitely no stranger. I wonder if the alliance leader still remembers that there was a Northern Expedition army under Li Thief to crusade against the Southern Xiongnu, and the general of the army was Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin, the generals under Li Thief? ”

"Zhou Yu? It turned out to be him? Yuan Shao said in surprise.

"It's Zhou Yu." Cao Cao nodded in response, a thick melancholy appeared on his face, his eyes looked at Hangu Pass with deep eyes, and his tone was low and cold.

"A few months ago, Li Thief coerced the Son of Heaven to swear to the Northern Expedition, claiming to be 100,000 iron cavalry to go to the Southern Barbarians, and it only took two months to defeat Yu Fuluo's army in one fell swoop and win a great victory in the Green Wolf Valley. Just when we were waiting for the alliance to send troops, Zhou Yuxiao led the Northern Expeditionary Army to conquer Gaoliucheng, the king of the Southern Xiongnu, captured the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yuchuquan and all the Xiongnu nobles, and then recovered Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yanmen and Shangjun and other four counties, almost occupying most of the state. Now more than two months have passed, and Zhou Yu'er has already led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to invade Bingzhou, and with the power of a great victory, he must be invincible everywhere he goes.

However, this is where the weirdest thing comes in. Since Zhou Yu's army captured Gaoliu City, our army scouts and fine work have never sent back any news from Zhou Yu's department, and suddenly Zhou Yu's army seems to have disappeared, and there is no news. Since the Allied forces attacked Hedong County, we no longer continued to pay attention to the whereabouts of Zhou Yu's tens of thousands of troops, completely ignored them, and then put all our eyes and thoughts on Li Thief, as if ignoring Zhou Yu's army, turning a deaf ear.

Therefore, whether Zhou Yu's army has completely occupied the state and whether it has been Chen Bing Shangdang County is eyeing behind our allies is all important information related to the success or failure of the entire battle situation, and we are completely unaware of it. Isn't it dangerous that we have been kept in the dark on such a vital matter? ”

As he spoke, he noticed that Yuan Shao's face showed disapproval, Cao Cao immediately shook his head and said: "Don't despise the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Zhou Yu's account, if it is a head-on battle, we and hundreds of thousands of troops will naturally not take him in our eyes, and they can be destroyed with a wave of their hands." However, at present, our allied army has crossed the river to confront the Hangu army under the command of Li Thief, and Hedong County is the lifeblood of our allied army's grain and grass, once our army officially starts a war with Li Thief, and Zhou Yu Xiaoer leads tens of thousands of troops to sneak attack Hedong County or directly attack Hanoi County, it is very likely to cut off our army's grain route in one fell swoop, and then occupy Hedong County, hold the Yellow River crossing, and trap our hundreds of thousands of troops in Hangu Pass to advance and retreat.

If the war really develops to this point, how will our princes' army deal with itself? Hugh said that to break through the Hangu Pass, even the whole army can not evacuate the Hangu Pass, in front of Li Thief personally led more than 100,000 foot cavalry to confront head-on, after Xu Rong led the Xingyang battalion soldiers and horses to cut off the retreat, the Yellow River in the north and Zhou Yu's army to block our army to cross the river, the south is a cliff, thousands of miles of reckless jungle, can be described as a natural barrier.

If this is the case, we and hundreds of thousands of allied troops will become turtles in an urn, in a dilemma. In the end, there are only two, either trapped and killed here, or killed by Li Thief, and there is no place to bury! ”

"Ahh How so? When Cao Cao said the last sentence, Yuan Shao's forehead was covered with cold sweat the size of a bean, and he screamed in horror on his face, and sat down on the rock, looking at the towering Hangu Pass in despair, speechless.

Seeing Yuan Shao's panicked appearance, Cao Cao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: "This is the Yuan Benchu that I Cao Cao knows!" It seems to be wise and powerful, but in fact, it is strong and capable, and when it encounters a tailwind, it will be proud, and when it encounters great changes, it will return to its true colors and be at a loss. ”

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