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. ”

Just when Cao Cao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Yuan Shao's next expression surprised him again, and he had to re-examine the Yuan League Lord in front of him.

But seeing Yuan Shao sit on the rock for a moment, the look of horror on his face quickly disappeared, and was replaced by an unfathomable and profound smirk.

Seeing that Yuan Shao could still laugh in a panic, and laughing so weirdly and insidiously, Cao Cao's heart was shocked, and he was afraid that things were not as simple as he imagined, Yuan Shao must still have a backhand, or a killer feature that he didn't know.

So, Cao Cao forced his mind to calm down, and pretended to be ignorant to persuade Yuan Shao to calm his anger.

"Why is Brother Benchu laughing, isn't he laughing angrily? If this is the case, the first brother does not have to be like this, you must know that the anger is very bad, and the battle situation has not developed to the point of no return. As long as we deal with it properly, we still have time, and we can completely prevent problems before they happen, so that the tricks carefully laid out by Li Thief will be completely frustrated, and our efforts will be in vain! ”

"Hehehe!" Turning his head and seeing the concern on Cao Cao's face, Yuan Shao smiled happily and waved his hand to signal Cao Cao to sit down and continue drinking.

"Meng De doesn't have to worry about his brother, I'm fine now, sober, and not angry at all."

While speaking, Yuan Shao poured Cao Cao a glass of wine with his own hands. He raised a lamp and invited Cao Cao to drink together.

After drinking, Yuan Shao quickly restrained his smile, and his face was solemn. sighed lightly: "Well, as Meng De said, Yuan Mou was indeed too underestimated by Li Thief before!"

In Yuan's eyes, he has always regarded Li Li's thief as a weak crown person of the same age as Xianyi, even if he is a very human minister and holds a male soldier, it is just a coincidence, a fluke; In fact, he is a rampant puppet like Dong Zhuo. Even if you can be arrogant for a while, it will not last long after all, just wait for the time to come. With a flip of the palm, it can be wiped out and the nine clans can be wiped out, and there is no fear at all.

However, Mengde's words just now made me feel shocked and awakened. Today. I've always underestimated Li Thief. After looking away, he mistakenly regarded a tiger as a hungry wolf, thus underestimating the strong combat power of the Xiliang army. If what Meng De said is true, then the army of our princes will fall into a place of no return, and all the princes will surely die at the hands of the Li thief, or become a prisoner of the Li thief. ”

After a pause, Yuan Shao took another glass of wine to himself, and then waved his sleeves to wipe away the wine stains on his beard. He sighed thoughtfully: "Li Thief is so calculating! first feigned defeat, and then defeated again and again. Retreat and retreat; In fact, it lured the enemy to go deeper, induced our allied troops to cross the river and fight a decisive battle with them, and then attacked back and forth, surrounded on all sides, in an attempt to annihilate hundreds of thousands of our allied troops in front of Hangu Pass in one fell swoop. The most rare thing is that the entire tactical strategy has no flaws, interlocking, step by step, inducing us to fall into the conspiracy and calculation of the Li thief unknowingly. If it weren't for Meng De's careful observation under the heavy setbacks he encountered, I am afraid that we would have been kept in the dark until now, and it would be impossible to know that the princes of the Seven Roads had fallen into the trap that Li Thief had already dug and were in a desperate situation without noticing. Such a wonderful and elaborate layout, compared with the ten-sided ambush array where Han Xin besieged and killed the overlord Xiang Yu in the past, it was not much better, and even exceeded.

Li Li is really a traitor in the world. We all underestimated this thief before, and mistakenly regarded the traitor as a petty thief, and almost ended up in prison, and my reputation was ruined! ”

"Brother Benchu??? Oh no, what the Alliance Leader said is very true. Hearing Yuan Shao's words, Cao Cao nodded in agreement. It's just that when the words came to his mouth, he keenly noticed that Yuan Shao's words seemed to have another deep meaning, so he immediately changed his tone, still calling Yuan Shao the leader of the alliance, and no longer called him his cousin to show respect.

Cao Cao didn't have to pay attention to these subtle titles before, let alone look at other people's faces everywhere. However, at this moment and then, people have to bow their heads under the eaves. Now the shape is pressing, prompting him to be careful everywhere and be cautious, so as to avoid mistakes, not to annoy people, and then achieve his desired goal.

In a hurry, he noticed the smile looming in the corner of Yuan Shao's eyes, and a trace of surprise flashed in Cao Cao's eyes, and he was eager to know what Yuan Shao was hiding from him, but it was inconvenient to ask directly, so he could only knock on the side and let Yuan Shao say it himself.

"As the alliance leader said, although the alliance of our princes is currently in danger of being besieged by the army of Li Thief on all sides, everything is still brewing, and it is not too late to remedy it. In Cao's humble opinion, the alliance leader should send additional troops and horses to guard Hedong County, and remind Zhang Yang Taishou to be vigilant at all times, and send a detailed work to infiltrate Shangdang County to find out the news, once the whereabouts of Zhou Yu's army are discovered, he will immediately send troops to recruit, and he must not let Zhou Yu's army step into Sili half a step. In this way, the grain routes in the rear of our army were unimpeded, and the threat from the north could be easily resolved. As for the army of Xu Rong behind our army and the army of Li thieves in front, the Xingyang camp where Xu Rong is stationed does not need to be ignored for the time being, just be on guard against him leading the army to sneak attack and rob the camp at all times; At present, our top priority is to attack Hangu Pass, the sooner the better, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to our allies, we must fight quickly, and change later! ”

"Well, what Meng De said is very true." Yuan Shao smiled and looked at Cao Cao with approval: "I have made up my mind, attack Hangu Pass tomorrow and fight with Li Thief!" ”

"That's very good, the alliance leader is wise!" Cao Cao happily agreed.

"It's just??? I don't know who the alliance leader is going to send to lead the troops to reinforce Hedong County? If the alliance leader does not give up, Cao Mou will order the troops to reinforce Zhang Yang Taishou and swear to protect the safety of the rear grain road! ”

"Ugh! Meng De is going to Hedong to garrison the grain road? Yuan Shao was stunned when he heard this, and shook his head without thinking about it: "No, no, no, this move is really inappropriate!" Meng De is wise, long-term, thoughtful, proficient in the art of war, and familiar with the arrangement of troops. A great talent like Meng De, who does not command the war on the front line, but becomes a general who escorts grain and grass, once it spreads, won't the world say that I, Yuan Shao, am jealous of the virtuous and squeezed out the virtuous? This is not possible, never! ”

"Could it be that the leader of the alliance can't trust Cao, and he doesn't want to entrust him with important tasks?"

"Definitely. Meng De must not speak like this, I can't believe who can't trust you? ”

"In that case, why did the alliance leader move? Do you want Cao to lead his troops to attack Hangu Pass? If this is the case, the alliance leader might as well imagine that Cao Mou's hands alone are less than 20,000 horses and horses can capture Hangu Pass? I am afraid that after a siege of the city, the only remaining men and horses under Cao's account will be killed and wounded, and Cao will definitely become a vain prince who has no soldiers like Zhang Miao. If this is the case, Cao would rather kill himself than suffer such humiliation! ”

After saying this, Cao Cao's expression was solemn, his eyes were firm, and he had a resolute posture of preferring to die without compromise.

Meng De said seriously. Meng De had led a large army to fight continuously, and personally led the army to attack Hangu Pass, although the sneak attack failed, but Meng De did a thing for the allies is a fact that is obvious to all. Therefore, in the next siege battle and the decisive battle between the two armies, I don't plan to send Meng De to lead the army, but to let you stay in the camp and beware of Xingyang Xu Rong's sneak attack! ”

"Oh?" Cao Cao's expression changed slightly when he heard this, and he looked up at Yuan Shao with a puzzled face: "What about the reinforcement of Hedong County?" Don't be careless, Hedong County is the only way for my allies to retreat, and there must be no mistakes, otherwise we will all die here! ”

Yuan Shao bowed slightly, and raised his hand with a smile to signal that Cao Cao did not need to be impatient: "Meng De doesn't know anything. This morning, I received a secret report from Hedong that yesterday there were tens of thousands of new reinforcements in Hanoi County, and now there are more than 100,000 horses gathered in Hedong and Hanoi two counties, which is enough to resist Zhou Yu's tens of thousands of Xiliang troops, and even completely wipe out Zhou Yu's army! Hehehe???"

"Tens of thousands of new reinforcements?" Cao Cao's voice changed when he heard this, and he was shocked: "What does the alliance leader mean??? Could it be that the princes will come to the alliance? ”

"Exactly!" Yuan Shao bowed his head happily, and immediately took out a scroll of letter silk from his sleeve and handed it to Cao Cao, with a confident smile on his face.

Quickly unfolded the letter, and in a moment, Cao Cao had finished reading the content on the letter. However, after reading the secret letter, there was no smile on his face, let alone the slightest surprise, but his brows were furrowed, and his expression was extremely strange.

In an instant, Cao Cao's eyes were filled with extremely complicated expressions: stunned, surprised, angry and humiliated, many emotions flashed in his eyes, and the expression on his face also changed, ashamed and angry, and then his face was red, his lips were pursed through gritted teeth, and his face was silent with gloom.

Seeing Cao Cao's unbearable look of shame and anger, Yuan Shao poured Cao Cao a glass of wine again, then gently patted him on the shoulder, and said softly with a pleasant face: "Brother Wei knows that the last person Meng De wants to see is the prince of the Ninth Road mentioned in this letter. In the past few months, Meng De's repeated setbacks have been inseparable from this person, and it can even be said that it was this person who caused Meng De to lose his foundation in Yanzhou and fall step by step to his current step.

To tell the truth, for the brother also hated such opportunistic snobs, when Meng De avenged his father, this is a dignified and upright teacher, famous, twice sent troops to crusade, almost to capture Xuzhou, but because of this people to obstruct it, resulting in two troops failed to complete the success, the success fell short, and also involved Meng De Yanzhou rear was attacked by Lu Bu, lost the foundation. The most infuriating thing is that Tao Qian's old man was extremely stupid, and when he was dying, he did not pass on the inheritance to his two sons, but gave the huge six counties of Xuzhou to this person.

When there are no heroes, there are such opportunistic horsemen and concubines. In the past, a common man who weaved mats and sold shoes turned into a leader of the six counties of Xuzhou, and he was actually the same as me as the princes of the dominant side, and stood in the world. This is truly absurd, hateful and hateful! ”

After mercilessly reprimanding the princes of the ninth town, Yuan Shao's voice changed sharply: "However, now that the wood is in the boat, this person's theft of Xuzhou has become a fact, and it cannot be changed in the short term." Therefore, Brother Wei specially invited Meng De to talk alone today, and hoped that the virtuous brother would focus on the great cause of the thief, temporarily put aside his personal grievances, regardless of his previous suspicions, and assist this person to defeat the thief Li as a brother! I don't know what the virtuous brother thinks? ”

―――――――――――― (To be continued......)