【Chapter 698】 The first bullet of the fall of the princes

Prior to this, after ten days of truce and rectification, the princes of each town finally calmed down the morale of the army, so that the officers and men of the whole army gradually calmed down, so that they could stay in the camp to rest and recuperate.

Unexpectedly, Feiyundu once again pushed the Allies into an unknown danger, making the rest and recuperation strategy that the Allies had already determined become complicated, making this war that temporarily entered a state of truce suddenly change and became unpredictable.

However, the princes of the towns, including Yuan Shao, would not have thought that the accident in the Feiyundu grain and grass camp was expected by Cao Cao.

As early as when he returned from the defeat of Feiyundu, when his 20,000 horses were arranged to be stationed near the Feiyundu cliff in the left rear of the camp, in order to protect himself, he tried every means to instigate Yuan Shao to put the grain and grass camp in Feiyundu. Because only in this way can he ensure that the only 20,000 soldiers and horses under his Cao Cao account are foolproof, and they will definitely not be attacked by Xu Rong's troops in Xingyang.

That's right, it's foolproof, just like he once persuaded Yuan Shao to set up the grain and grass camp in Feiyundu, absolutely foolproof, but it's a pity that he didn't tell Yuan Shao the truth. Otherwise, Yuan Shao would have known that what Cao Cao said about foolproof did not refer to the grain and grass camp, but specifically to the few remaining Cao troops.

Perhaps Yuan Shao still didn't realize that Cao Cao's whole person had changed since the fiasco of Feiyundu. In the past, Cao Cao was indeed very attentive to the allies, put himself in the shoes of the allies, and tried every possible way to kill Li Li, avenge the two Xiahoudun brothers, and clear the way for himself to fight the Central Plains in the future. For this reason, he was willing to go to the danger in person, and personally led the army to sneak into Feiyundu to set up an ambush. tried to seize Hangu Pass in one fell swoop, became famous in a battle, and personally got rid of Li Li and Li Wenchang, the first prince in the world.

It's a pity that the plan never catches up with the changes. Especially abrupt or upheaval.

The scene of Feiyundu meeting on the narrow road made Cao Cao's plan to attack Hangu Pass stillborn, and almost all the 60,000 Qingzhou soldiers were wiped out, and even almost took their own lives. Fortunately, the heavens had mercy on him, allowing him to slip through Ma Chao's fingers, and then left him to die and lurked in Feiyundu for eight days, until the allied army crossed the river and the Xiliang army all shrank its forces into the pass. He was able to escape and survive.

Cao Cao, who had died nine times all his life, thought that Yuan Shao would be happy that he had escaped death, and even went out of the camp to greet him with joy. And it will definitely help him regroup and restore his strength to the best of his ability. However, when he returned to the Allied camp, except for Cao Ren, Le Jin and others, who were waiting at the gate of the Yuan. The princes of the towns turned a deaf ear. And Yuan Shao never showed up from beginning to end, and didn't even send anyone to greet him. In the three days after he returned to the camp, none of the princes of the towns came to visit, and he did not even say a word of false comfort, but faced each other coldly, and his words and demeanors were full of ridicule and ridicule.

The world is so hot and cold, and human nature is as cold as this, which is undoubtedly a blow to Cao Cao. It makes his heart as cold as ice, and his heart is completely cold!

However. He didn't believe that this qiē was real, and still had a glimmer of hope for his long-time ally, Yuan Shao. Therefore, the first thing he did when he returned to the camp was to go to Yuan Shao's tent, wanting to see with his own eyes whether Yuan Shao was really so ruthless, without thinking about the brotherhood of the past, and not caring about the friendship of his previous allies.

As a result, Yuan Shao ruthlessly taught Cao Cao a vivid lesson, making him completely pinch off the only trace of extravagant fantasy in his heart, and truly experience the cruelty of the princes' struggle for hegemony and the ruthless ugly faces of the allied princes.

From that moment on, Cao Cao completely woke up. Through my own personal experience, I finally understood a truth. That is, the enemy is not terrible, because if he wants to kill you, he must draw his sword in the open; Truly terrifying enemies often lurk around you, appearing behind you by surprise, and when you are at your weakest and most helpless, they will fall into the well and deliver you a fatal blow.

Because of this, when Cao Cao and Cheng Yu discussed the way out in the future, he suddenly had a hint of enlightenment, feeling that Xiliang Li Li was not as hateful as he had imagined before, but more real than Yuan Shao and other princes. At least Li Li keeps his promise and acts above board; Secretly forming an alliance or reaching a cooperative relationship with such a person is often more reliable than Yuan Shao and others.

It is true that in Cao Cao's eyes, Li Li is a great villain who has a deep enmity with the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and he is also a powerful and domineering prince. He is the most formidable enemy faced by the princes of the Central Plains, and he is also recognized as the number one enemy by all the princes in the world, and everyone wants to get rid of him as soon as possible. However, it is this Xiliang overlord who can make all the princes grit their teeth with hatred, not only has the side that makes the princes fearful like a tiger, but also has the side that makes people respect and admire.

The princes of the world want to kill Li Li because he is too powerful, strong enough to endanger the lives of the princes, and if he does not kill him, he will be killed sooner or later. But it is precisely because he is strong enough that the princes are very in awe of him, and the world respects the strong, and the princes are naturally no exception, and even their reverence for the strong is far more than ordinary people; Because they know that it is not easy to survive in troubled times, and it is even more difficult to become truly powerful, since Li Li, the overlord of Xiliang, can be as strong as this, it must be far from the extraordinary ability that they do not have.

Isn't such a strong man worthy of respect?

Therefore, after Cheng Yu counted many examples of Li Li, Cao Cao had actually accepted Cheng Yu's advice in his heart. It's just that he is very unwilling, and still wants to try harder, wait and see, if the Allies really have no hope of victory, it is not too late for him to make a plan.

At the same time, Cao Cao no longer had any unrealistic extravagant hopes for the princes of the towns, including Yuan Shao, and he no longer entrusted his own safety and the lives of his soldiers to the allies, but put his existing soldiers and horses first and his own interests above the interests of the allies.

After the fiasco of Feiyundu, Yuan Shao placed him and 20,000 Cao troops in the left rear of the camp, with his back to the cliff to the west of Feiyundu, in the outermost part of the entire Allied camp. This made Cao Cao deeply uneasy, fearing that the Xiliang army would attack and rob the camp, and once this fear became a reality, he and his 20,000 soldiers and horses would be the first to bear the brunt of the attack, and it was very likely that they would be completely destroyed. In view of this, he came up with a method of Li Dai Taozhuang. In any case, Yuan Shao must be persuaded to put the Allied granary in Feiyundu, and the place where the Allied grain and grass camp is located will inevitably gather heavy troops to guard it. In this way, it means that he has a long-term defense force on the left and right sides of Cao Cao's camp and behind him. And the front camp has more than 200,000 troops such as Yuan Shao, Lu Bu and Zhang Yan, so Cao Ying is in the middle of a heavy defense, which is really impregnable and foolproof.

As for whether the allied grain and grass camp was safe and whether it would be robbed by the Xiliang army, Cao Cao did not care about this, and was even happy to watch from the wall. Because in the past two months, he has obtained enough grain and grass from Yuan Shao to feed the army for three months. That is, I can eat it until March next year. After all, he only has 20,000 soldiers and horses now, and under reasonable distribution, only 50,000 stone grain and grass is enough to support three months. And he has been pandering to Yuan Shao everywhere recently. From time to time, the picture is grain, grass, baggage and weapons, and now all the materials that can be obtained have been obtained.

Now the life or death of the allies has nothing to do with him Cao Cao. His biggest concern at the moment was how to expand his strength and recruit as many soldiers as possible. Restore some strength. Then, in the ensuing war, he will seek greater benefits for himself, and it is best to recapture Yanzhou in one fell swoop and regain its former glory.

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"Get out of the way, let me get out of the way, otherwise don't blame someone for being ruthless! Kill———"

Staring coldly at the plank road at the valley mouth, Cao Cao wandered out of the world, stunned, and secretly thought about it, but was suddenly awakened by a sudden shout, prompting him to subconsciously concentrate on it.

Glimpse. Cao Cao's eyes suddenly narrowed slightly, and he was shocked. I felt faintly uneasy, and I intuitively felt that the scene in front of me was familiar.

But at the mouth of the valley fifty steps away, a general of the Yuan army wearing the armor of the Jizhou army shouted angrily, and at the same time held a spear and wantonly provoked and killed the Yanzhou soldiers under Zhang Miao's tent who blocked the valley mouth. Under a closer look, I saw that this person was nearly nine feet tall, handsome, outstanding, and the spear in his hand was as fast as lightning, like a coiling dragon lingering, plum blossoms flying as dazzling, and in the flickering cold light, one by one Yanzhou soldiers covered their necks and screamed and fell to the ground. In the midst of the frenzied killing all the way, no one could stop the silver spear in his hand, as if he had entered a no-man's land, rampage, and rushed straight to the official road of Taniguchi.

However, Cao Cao noticed that this indiscriminate general of the Yuan army did not rush out of the valley alone, and there were more than fifty elite armor soldiers closely following behind him, and they were also slashing and killing the Yanzhou soldiers who blocked the way.

What surprised Cao Cao the most was that a bearded strong man behind the spear general looked very familiar, as if he had seen this person somewhere, but he couldn't remember where he had seen the bearded man for a while.

And this familiar scene reminded Cao Cao of the situation when he led his troops out of the valley plank road two months ago, the plank road was blocked by Yanzhou soldiers, and he and Zhang Miao led their troops to wait on the official road outside the valley. The scene I experienced in the past is almost the same as what I saw in front of me.

As soon as he thought of this, Cao Cao was stunned in his heart, and saw that the burly spear general had already led his troops to rush out of the valley and was rushing towards the official road, and that person was killing people unscrupulously, while looking coldly in the direction where he was, intentionally or unintentionally.

All of this made Cao Cao feel bad, and he subconsciously beat his horse and retreated, and grabbed Cao Ren, who was about to step forward to stop the generals of Yuan's army from killing innocent people, and signaled him to protect his safety and not act rashly.

"I am Chen Liu, Zhang Miao, Zhang Mengzhuo, a bold maniac, who dares to wantonly kill my soldiers, you will all stop it for me quickly!"

Seeing that his soldiers fell one by one under the spears of the generals of the Yuan army, Zhang Miao angrily stepped forward and shouted at the generals of the Yuan army who were on a killing spree.

"Zhang Miao? A certain family is worried that they can't find a meeting gift, you came just in time, and you borrowed the head of the item! ”

The spear Yuan Jiang was stunned and groaned, but the spear in his hand did not hesitate at all, and when the words fell, he suddenly jumped, and the silver spear pierced the sky, shaking left and right to shake the weapons of the soldiers beside Zhang Miao, and the gun pushed and stabbed Zhang Miao's throat accurately. Immediately, seeing that the spear turned sharply, Zhang Miao's neck was cut off before he could even scream, and his head flew into the air, and Zhang Miao, who had lost his head, suddenly fell off his horse.

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