Chapter 476: The Hero's Ambition is Unfathomable

Cao Cao bowed slightly, and muttered thoughtfully: "Yuan Shu has more than 100,000 soldiers, and his strength should not be underestimated, and it is a matter of time before he occupies Yangzhou." However, Yangzhou is located in a corner, and it is not a place to achieve hegemony. Therefore, he wants to occupy Yangzhou, and no one among the princes of the Central Plains robs him, so let him occupy it, and if he wants to return to the Central Plains in the future, he is afraid that it will not be easy. ”

"Boom, boom!"

Just as Cao Cao was speaking, there was another thunder in his ears, followed by a strong wind, whistling, and raising the battle flag.

Facing the direction of the wind, Cao Cao felt a burst of moisture in the wind, and it was obvious that it was about to rain.

Immediately, Cao Cao raised his hand to signal that Cao Hong and the others didn't need to say much, but the brows that had just been wrinkled were stretched, with a relaxed smile on his face. I saw him smile and said: "The heavens are beautiful, knowing that our army has been fighting for a month and urgently needs to rest, so a timely rain will fall." It's okay to do this, the whole army will take advantage of the rainy day to rest for two days, and after the weather is clear, they will fight to the death with Tao Qian! ”

After a pause, Cao Cao ordered in a deep voice: "Cao Hong, order the Chinese army to slowly withdraw to the camp!" Cao Ren was ordered to withdraw his troops, and he would end here today and fight again another day. The whole army is singing gold and withdrawing troops! ”

"No!" Cao Hong immediately surrendered his order, quickly rushed to the Chinese army, commanded the rear of the army to change into the front team, and withdrew to the camp.

"Ding Ding Ding ———"

A crisp sound of gold suddenly rose, and with the rapid spread of the strong wind, it reached the ears of everyone up and down Tancheng.

Just as Cao Cao turned around and was about to return to the camp with the Chinese army, a fast horse galloped from the direction ———of the camp.

Before he reached the front of him, the sentry horse flew off his horse, and ran to Cao Cao's war horse in three steps and two steps: "My lord, I just received two urgent letters from the Dongjun Left-behind Mansion and Yuan Shao from Jizhou!" ”

As he spoke, the scout took out two brocade bags from his bosom. got up and handed it to Cao Cao.

"Oh?" Cao Cao looked slightly stunned, leaned over to take the brocade bag, and while unraveling the secret letter sent by Yuan Shao, he muttered in a low voice: "Yuan Benchu knew that I was leading the troops to attack Xuzhou, but he still sent the secret letter, there must be something important!" It's just that Yuan Rang, Wen Ruo and others stayed in the county government, what happened this time? ”

"Ahh Cao Cao, who was muttering to himself, had just finished speaking, and before he could close his mouth, he exclaimed, because at this time, the first row of words in Yuan Shaoxin's silk had already come into view: "Brother Meng Dexian is like meeting: Twenty days ago, Xiliang Li Li fled from Jizhou ??????"

After a quick reading of the letter. Cao Cao's brows were tightly locked, his expression was solemn, and his eyes showed great regret. Then he picked up the letter again and read it again from the beginning, but this time he looked at it in detail in earnest. I'm afraid I'll miss a word.

A moment later, Cao Cao rolled up the letter and stuffed it into his arms. Put it away carefully. He sighed in a very regretful tone: "A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it just slipped away in vain!" Yuan Benchu, Yuan Benchu, you can't kill Li Wenchang this time, I'm afraid that you won't have a chance in this life, maybe you will die in his hands in the future! ”

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao seemed to be still angry. He whispered: "Yuan Benchu, you are really an idiot! watched Li Thief kidnap Jia Jufu, the No. 1 businessman in the Central Plains, but he was still kept in the dark! It wasn't until the thieves were gone that you realized it later. Now he is still urging me to fight a quick battle, and the autumn queen will jointly send troops to defeat the Li thief! Hey, don't miss the opportunity, the time will never come again, and you will never find such a good opportunity in the future! ”

As he spoke, the expression on Cao Cao's face was extremely complicated, sometimes angry, sometimes regretful, sometimes gritted teeth, and sometimes lonely and sad.

Then when Xiahou Yuan urged him that the Chinese army had withdrawn, Cao Cao suddenly woke up, forcibly calmed his mind, and rode his horse straight to the camp.

Half an hour later, Cao Cao, who had already returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, still did not come back to his senses, and was still immersed in the secret letter sent by Yuan Shao. It wasn't until the wind lanterns were lit in the tent and night had fallen that he calmed down completely.

At this moment there was a loud sound of falling rain outside the tent, and the night was getting darker, and the hour had come to three o'clock.

Seeing that his soldiers had sent dinner, Cao Cao suddenly remembered that there was still a letter in his arms, which was an urgent letter sent by Xiahoudun.

"Ahh The moment he unfolded the letter, Cao Cao exclaimed again, and his body suddenly got up from behind the handsome case, looking surprised Cheng Dù was still above Yuan Shao's letter.

Perhaps Cao Cao himself didn't realize that after receiving these two secret letters, he had already lost his temper twice, and he exclaimed loudly.

This kind of thing was difficult to see in him Cao Cao in the past, and there were few things that could make him so out of shape. Two years ago, Wang Yun and Lu Bu conspired to kill Dong Zhuo, and he was not surprised when he received the news; Later, Li Dao and Guo Yan captured Chang'an and forced Lu Bu to kill Wang Yun, and he was not surprised, because these things had long been expected by him. However, then Li Dao and Guo Yan were merged by Wuwei Li Li, which greatly surprised him and surprised him.

Today's two secret letters, Cao Cao twice lost his voice and exclaimed, both because of Li Li, because the content of these two volumes of letters is related to Li Li.

In the letter, Yuan Shao briefly recounted Li Li's secret infiltration into Jizhou to persuade the Zhongshan Zhen family to relocate, and mentioned that when Li Li fled from the Zhen family, he happened to lead the troops to Zhen's house, and the difference between him and back was less than an hour, but he missed Li Li and did not meet until he learned Li Li's true identity later. As a result, Yuan Shao was worried that after Li Li received the support of the Zhen family consortium, he would have the strength to enter the Central Plains, and it would not be long before the Xiliang Army would make a move.

In addition, Yuan Shao also suspected that Li Li had long had ambitions to plot the Central Plains, and he sneaked into Jizhou to find out the truth in person. In view of this, Yuan Shao planned to strike first and unite the princes of the Central Plains to jointly raise troops to conquer Li Li in Xiliang. And he sent a letter to Cao Cao as soon as possible, because he wanted to pull Cao Cao together to contact the princes of various towns, just like the alliance of princes crusaded against Dong Zhuo back then, and joined forces to deal with Li Li.

The secret letter sent by Xiahoudun, the commander of the Eastern County, was also related to Li Li of Xiliang. There are not many words on the letter, but the content of it made Cao Cao extremely surprised, and he was very worried in his heart, and he was even more worried about Xiahoudun's safety.

Xiahoudun said in the letter that half a month ago, he received a secret report from Yuan Shao's envoy that Li Li of Xiliang was in Hanoi County, and he immediately rushed to Hanoi County overnight with 300 dead soldiers of the Xiahou family. It's a pity that Xiahoudun and his party came one step too late after all, Li Li and the others did stay in Hanoi overnight, but when he arrived with people. Li Li has left Hanoi County and returned to Anyi Camp.

However, Xiahoudun did not give up, he led people to secretly infiltrate Sili, lurked in the territory of Hedong County, kept a close eye on the death, and always paid attention to the movements of the Anyi camp, trying to find an opportunity to get rid of Li Li. Moreover, he also clearly told Cao Cao in the letter that as long as he found Li Li's whereabouts, he would bring someone to follow him. If you don't kill Li Li, you won't stop!

After reading Xiahoudun's secret letter, Cao Cao was happy, angry and worried, which can be described as mixed feelings and mixed feelings. He likes that Xiahoudun is bold. Brave and good at fighting, this time he has the courage to sneak around Anyi. waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Li Li; It is this courage and courage alone. Let Cao Cao be impressed by him. What made Cao Cao angry was that Xiahoudun was the general he stayed in Dongjun to guard the lair, but now Xiahoudun suddenly left Yanzhou and chased Li Li with the dead soldiers of the family, in case the lair was attacked by other princes, wouldn't it be dangerous!

Cao Cao knew why Xiahoudun hated Li Li so much. You have to kill him. Because Xiahoudun's hatred for Li Li has been a long time, in the past three years, he has been thinking about killing Li Li almost all the time to take revenge.

Three years ago, it was also March. Xiahoudun was ordered to lead three thousand troops to Chen Liucheng to aid Zhang Miao to defend the city, and Li Dian was the deputy general and went together. Subsequently, due to incorrect intelligence, Xiahoudun and Li Dian were induced to lead 3,000 soldiers to attack Li Dao's camp, but they fell into the trap set by Li Li in advance, and none of the more than 3,000 soldiers escaped, or were killed or captured alive, and all of them were captured by Li Li. After the war, the deputy general Li Dian was captured and joined Li Li; Nearly 2,000 soldiers were recruited by Li Li, and the others were all killed and thrown into the wilderness.

And Xiahoudun himself fell into the trap, fortunately the war horse was under him, so he did not die on the spot, but he was seriously injured by the soldiers and war horses pressed on his body, and passed out. Later, he mixed with the corpses of more than 1,000 soldiers who were killed in the pit, and was dragged to a mass grave by Xiliang soldiers and abandoned in the wilderness. Fortunately, the Xiliang soldiers did not examine the corpses one by one, so that Xiahoudun survived under his serious injuries, and then took advantage of the night to hurry up and flee back to Dongjun.

Afterwards, Xiahoudun recuperated for four months before his injuries healed. Since then, he has never eaten meat again, and every night he dreams of himself struggling desperately in the pit, with nightmares and nightmares, often waking up in the middle of the night. Therefore, he always kept this hatred in his heart, and he always wanted to seek revenge on Li Li. Up to now, this hatred has been building up in his heart for three years, tormenting him all the time, making him sleepless and nightmares.

Cao Cao had no objection to Xiahou killing Li Li to take revenge, but what he was most worried about was that it was not easy to kill Li Li.

Let's not say that Li Li's fierce generals gathered, just say that Li Li himself is a battle-hardened and murderous character. Judging from the Xiliang intelligence collected by the meticulous work, when Li Li went to Wuwei County to take office, he repeatedly charged forward, killing countless enemies; He has been in danger several times, but each time he relied on his superb martial arts to save the day, and finally became the overlord of Xiliang.

One of the most striking things is that Li Li slashed Cheng Yin with a knife, slashed three hundred knives in half an hour to subdue the leader of the Pegasus thieves, Huan Fei, and beheaded Zhang Xiu in three rounds in the Battle of Chang'an, and so on. This series of achievements shows that Li Li himself is a strong man with extremely high martial arts, and he is an enemy of ten thousand people, and he has the courage of ten thousand people.

Since then, Xiahoudun wanted to assassinate Li Li, but he just succeeded in one blow; If you miss a blow, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Although Cao Cao was convinced of the martial arts of his brother Xiahoudun, he believed that although his martial arts were inferior to Lü Bu, he could be compared with the three brothers Liu Guanzhang and Zhang. However, when Cao Cao thought that Zhang Xiu, the spear king of the Northland, had lost three rounds to Li Li, he would naturally think that Li Li was able to slash three hundred knives in a row in half an hour, such a fierce person was really rare and unheard of. If the information is true, then the courage of Xiliang Li Li is not inferior to Wenhou Lu Bu, although the two have never officially fought each other.

Because of this, Cao Cao was very worried that Xiahoudun would not be able to take revenge, but was beheaded by Li Li. If this is the case, he Cao Cao not only lost a battlefield warrior and a close brother, but also formed a great enmity with Xiliang Li Li, which is on the same footing.

There is another point that also worries Cao Cao, that is, Yanzhou borders on Li Li's subordinates, and once Li Li is angry and sends troops to attack the Central Plains, Yanzhou will bear the brunt, which is tantamount to a catastrophe.

As far as the current situation in the world is concerned, Cao Cao does not want to confront the Xiliang army head-on when his strength does not reach a strong enough level, because he has no chance of winning. It is difficult to resist the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under Li Li. In other words, looking at all the princes in the world, Cao Cao was not afraid of anyone, but he was quite jealous of Xiliang Li Li. Therefore, unless he has no choice but to avoid it, he will not provoke Li Li lightly. When his strength is strong enough, whether Li Li wants it or not, he will lead the army to fight the Xiliang army and decide the battle.

After weighing it repeatedly. Cao Cao had already made up his mind in his heart, and made up his mind that it was not appropriate to provoke Xiliang Li Li for the time being. So he summoned Cao Chun and ordered him to quickly return to Dongjun and serve as a guard, so as to defend the old nest in the rear. Subsequently, Cao Cao personally wrote a secret letter to Xiahou Yuan, ordering him to find Xiahou Yuan and his party. Cancel the assassination plan and return to Yanzhou to garrison the city.

Late at night. The rain intensified. The raindrops the size of beans smashed on the tent and thumped.

At the door of the Chinese army's big tent, Cao Cao personally sent Cao Chun and Xiahou Yuan to the door. Before leaving, Cao Cao told the two of them: "Zihe, Miaocai, this time the two of you are burdened with heavy responsibilities, you must not be negligent, you must follow the order!"

Yuan Rang has hated Li Li for a long time. I'm well aware of that, and I'd like to be able to kill Li Li in one fell swoop if I can, but we're at a critical juncture right now, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. So. Please tell Yuan Rang that this revenge will be avenged sooner or later, but not now, let him bear with it for a while, and I will avenge him in the future. At present, Li Li's soldiers in Xiliang are powerful and powerful, and to tell the truth, our Yanzhou Army is not the opponent of the Xiliang Army at present. Therefore, we can only avoid its edge for the time being, and only after the strength is strong, can we be ashamed!

Now that our army is attacking Xuzhou at a critical juncture, the slightest mistake will repeat the mistakes of last year, and the previous achievements will be wasted and the achievements will fall short. Therefore, we can't make any extraneous branches now, and we can't assassinate Li Li, but instead attract Xu Rong's army in Henan, so that the foundation of Yanzhou is in danger! Take my words to heart, and whatever you think in your hearts, focus on the big picture and don't act recklessly.

For my brother, please two good brothers! ”

"No, please rest assured, I will not live up to the trust, otherwise I will come to see my brother!" Seeing his brother Cao Cao so tirelessly repeating the admonitions, Cao Chun and Xiahou Yuan glanced at each other with solemn expressions, and immediately responded in unison.

Cao Cao bowed slightly, squeezed out a smile on his face, waved his hand and said, "You guys go, it's difficult to walk on a rainy night, be more careful on the road." ”

"No!" Cao Chun and Xiahou Yuan bowed, then strode down the steps, turned over their horses, and each went straight to Yuanmen with more than 100 personal soldiers.

Standing at the door of the big tent, Cao Cao watched intently as Cao Chun, Xiahou Yuan and the others rushed out of the gate in the rain until their figures disappeared. After standing for a long time, I only heard him whisper to himself: "The two Xiahou brothers have always been dominated by Xiahou Dun, as long as I show a little bit of tone, they will definitely go all out to rob and kill Li Li." And the more I tell Miaocai to take care of the overall situation, the more Yuan Rang will chase after Li Li, because he knows what the real overall situation is! ”

Looking at the raindrops falling in front of him, Cao Cao whispered: "Li Li, Li Li, although you are an unborn hero, you are young and vigorous after all, and you don't know the severity. As the commander of the Xiliang Army, he personally took risks and sneaked into Jizhou, but my Cao Cao is not the arrogant Yuan Shao. This time, if you can't come out of Sili, as long as you dare to walk out of Sili's realm again, you will die without a place to be buried! ”

While muttering to himself, Cao Cao paced into the inner room of the big tent, and then calmly lay on the couch and looked at the bamboo slips, and fell asleep peacefully after half an hour.

This is the heroic Cao Cao, deceitful and wise, and unique in employing people. In the face of his brothers, he still cheats, even if it is his own son!

A glimpse of the whole leopard, the scheming methods of a generation of heroes, is really elusive.

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