On this day, Cao Cao rejected the early dynasty, and he didn't even want to listen to Chen Liu's news, and the whole person felt irritable.

Xu Chu witnessed Cao Cao personally teach the subordinates who made mistakes in the mansion, and at that moment he even had an urge to stay away.

What no one knew was that a few days ago, Cao Cao suddenly had a palpitation, as if he had lost something very important. Today, it's just a repeat of that day.

"Who is it? Who the hell is it? ”

Cao Cao was very irritable in his heart, but he couldn't talk about it. The gloomy mood made him not have the slightest idea of dealing with official business, and he didn't want to go anywhere, just stayed in the study and walked around restlessly.

Knock knock knock~

The crisp knock on the door woke up Cao Cao, who was caught in his own world, but he got it but he was irritable-

"Damn, the prime minister said don't let anyone bother you, can't you understand?"

The person outside the door seemed to be frightened, paused, and replied: "Prime Minister, it's a minister." ”

The old man's voice was calm and powerful, which made Cao Cao somewhat come to his senses, but at this time he didn't want to see Cheng Yu, not because of anything else, but because he didn't want to pour out his anger on an old man who was willing to be an evil person for him.

Cheng Yu seemed to know what he was thinking, and without waiting for him to speak, he then said: "Prime Minister, the minister has something important to report." ”

"Enter!"

Cao Cao temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart and said coldly.

Cheng Yu didn't care, and pushed the door in.

"Prime Minister, Wu Jun has retired."

"What?" Cao Cao was startled at first, and then waved his hand and said, "Retreat, sooner or later." ”

Indeed, from the time the wing army retreated, Cao Cao, as well as Cheng Yu and others, knew that the retreat of the Wu army was inevitable. It's too late to make it to this day.

"The trouble is that as soon as the Wu army left, Gao Ran led 100,000 troops westward, and now at this time, he may have taken some cities in Peiguo." Cheng Yu said indifferently, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

"Damn it!"

"Bang~"

Cao Cao couldn't help the irritability in his heart, and flicked his sleeves to overturn the table next to him, and the porcelain on it shattered.

After Cheng Yu waited for Cao Cao to vent, after calming down a little, he said very indifferently: "Prime Minister, the minister met a person on the way here, and he asked the minister to hand over a letter to the prime minister. ”

"Letters? Who? Cao Cao's heart shook and asked.

Cheng Yu's face was full of calmness, but if you look closely, you will find that the corners of his eyes are twitching, and the hand that took out the letter couldn't help but tremble.

Cao Cao didn't care why he didn't reply, he came to Cheng Yu in three or two steps and snatched the letter.

After glancing at it, Cao Cao clutched the letter tightly, stared at Cheng Yu and asked, "What about people?" ”

Cheng Yu fell silent.

Cao Cao was furious, grabbed Cheng Yu's collar, and shouted, "What about you?" ”

Cheng Yu simply closed his eyes and slowly spit out two words: "Dead!" ”

After a pause, he explained: "His clothes and armor are messy, and he should rush back day and night." However, he did not die of exhaustion, but committed suicide before he died of exhaustion. ”

After saying that, he closed his mouth tightly again. The atmosphere in the room instantly calmed down. However, what Cao Cao didn't know was that Cheng Yu still had a word-

"Before he died, he heard, 'The general and my brothers are dead, what is the point of my life?' ”

Cheng Yu didn't dare to say it, and he couldn't say it.

"Get out, get out of here!"

Cao Cao suddenly let go of Cheng Yu and roared angrily with his back to him.

Seeing this, Cheng Yu bowed and slowly retreated.

"Get out, get out of here!"

Cao Cao's words made the other person in the room move out as well. It's just that his heart is full of reluctance, but looking at the exposed Cao Cao, he can only move outside the study step by step.

Out of the study, Xu Chu didn't dare to go far, just waited in the courtyard.

Creak~

As the door closed, Cao Cao's two lines of turbid tears fell on the letter in his hand and on the ground.

"Zixiao, why are you so stupid! Even if you really lose in the end, you don't have to die! ”

Cao Cao couldn't stop crying, and his left hand gently rubbed the letter in his hand, as if it was Cao Ren's face.

Cao Cao, who was grief-stricken, suddenly had a palpitation and almost passed out.

No, Zixiao hasn't read the letter to a certain person, how can a certain person faint! Absolutely not!

The cunning but stubborn Cao Cao came to his senses, and his trembling fingers slowly opened the letter in his hand.

"Prime Minister, Ren was taken care of by the Prime Minister when he was young, although he was good at hunting, did not cultivate virtue, and was spurned by the Quartet, but he was safe and sound. Later, the prime minister was unexpected, and Yuan Rang was imprisoned because of it, and Ren Huisi thought about why he was in a foreign land and hated to replace him (referring to the fact that Xiahoudun was imprisoned instead of Cao Cao). Later, in his ignorance, he learned the skills of marching and fighting, but because of his childhood, no one treated him well. If there is no acceptance by the prime minister, Ren Shang does not know where to live now, and he is grateful. ”

"I have been ignorant for decades, fighting in the east and west, fighting in the south and in the north, there are no less than 100 large and small wars, or there are inches of merit, but it is not enough to repay the kindness of the prime minister, and Ren often feels guilty."

Seeing this, Cao Cao's uneasiness became more and more intense. Although it was expected, but it really came to an end, and a sense of regret quietly rose in my heart.

"Now the Ming army is coming south, its strength is very great, almost has the momentum of invincible opponents all over the world, Ranren thinks, how can there be an invincible army in the world, the Ming army is just two shoulders and a head, and there is no one more eye or nose than anyone. The Ming army is not a god, not an immortal, not a demon, not a demon, not a ghost, how can it not be an enemy? But there is no mortal heart! ”

"Benevolence and foolishness, but loyalty and righteousness, now there is nothing to do except repay each other with his body. But if there is a little bit of arouse the heart of colleagues and robes to fight, Ren's death is heavier than Mount Tai. ”

"If there is misfortune, Ren is willing to be the vanguard, charge the ground for the prime minister, and establish another dynasty, a dynasty surnamed Cao and not surnamed Liu."

Cao Cao's tears fell irrepressibly, and his heart was full of sorrow: You don't need a dynasty, and I don't want you to be a pioneer!

However, after a while, Cao Cao found that Cao Ren's letter did not seem to be finished, turned to the next page, swept it at a glance, and the tears that had gradually stopped broke the embankment again.

Is it that when you get old, you become sad?

No, it's not, it's just one sentence on this page—

"Big brother, little brother is one step ahead! Cao Ren's masterpiece! ”

"Big brother?"

Cao Cao was blindfolded, and muttered, "How many years have you not heard someone call?" Everything seems to be yesterday, but I have to say goodbye! ”

Coming back to his senses, there was a guy called "Reason" who came to Cao Cao's mind and made his home.

No one knows what Cao Cao thought in the study, only that after Cao Cao left the study, he directly broke into the palace for the first time, dragged Liu Xie, who was playing, up from the dragon couch, and ordered him to posthumously crown Cao Ren as the king of loyalty. With Liu Xie's permission, Cao Cao drove away the Huangmen squire and wrote the edict himself.

Since Zixiao wants to lay a dynasty for Cao underground, then Cao will let you be crowned king in the yang world first.

With such a thought, Cao Cao wrote the edict in a high mood, pushed away the seal official, and personally stamped the jade seal of the country. Then, ignoring the curses of the seal official behind him, he personally left the palace with the holy decree.

The next day, Cao Cao erected a mound for Cao Ren and burned the holy decree in front of the tomb.

When the news reached the ears of Chaozhong, it immediately caused an uproar, and they went into the palace to impeach Cao Cao. It's really a tiger falling into Pingyang and being bullied by dogs! How dare these guys do this to Cao Cao earlier, I'm afraid they are not crazy. Now that Cao Cao was beaten by the Ming army and lost his armor, they suddenly became angry, vivid, and like a ghost.

However, after Cao Cao went straight to the palace and disturbed his beauty, he finally understood that he must not provoke Cao Cao at this time, otherwise more excessive things would not be impossible to do.

So I didn't see these ministers, and directly hung them in the front hall of Jianzhang.

Even, Liu Xie thought about whether someone should disclose the news to Cao Cao, lest Cao Cao find him to settle accounts after the autumn. However, in order not to chill these ministers, in the end, Liu Xie thought about it and forgot it.

Soon after, Cao Cao got the news and personally led his troops to kill the most fierce ministers directly and raided their homes, and the rest were all taken into custody. This made Liu Xie very happy, and even thought about whether to give Cao Cao a throne and let him extinguish the fire.

So, the so-called ancestral system, broken once, is really broken, and there is no way to repair it. Liu Xie doesn't care!

Similarly, after thinking about it, Liu Xie still gave up. In recent days, he has understood that the name of the king of the dead country is bound to fall on his head, and if he doesn't enjoy it in time, he can only be on the ground.

If Gongsun Du knew his thoughts, he would definitely spit and say disdainfully: "Who do you look down on, just like you, can you turn the sky upside down?" I don't have to anything, I can drown you with a single spit! ”

Liu Xie exercised a lot with Empress Fu every day, leaving everything behind, or simply handing it over to Cao Cao. Whether it succeeds or not, it can't be intervened anyway. Pleasure, that's it!

After dealing with the ministers who intended to "rebel", Cao Cao had just returned home when he heard the news of Cheng Yu's visit. Someone invited him to the study, and after Cao Cao freshened up, he hurried over slowly.

Without waiting for Cheng Yu to speak, Cao Cao took the lead and said: "These ministers dare to make trouble at this time, once the Ming army kills, they dare to open the city gate privately and let them enter the city." ”

Cheng Yu nodded, but changed his words and said: "Prime Minister, the Ming army is unstoppable, and half of Chen Liu has been taken." This is still the Ming army's deliberate slowdown, otherwise Chen Liu would have fallen by this time. ”

Cao Cao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, as long as it wasn't because of other things. With a look of approval on his face, he said: "What Zhong Degong said is true, the previous defeat, many people in the army have lost confidence. Defense, it must be impossible to prevent. ”

Cheng Yu retorted: "Otherwise, it is true that the Ming army is strong, but it mostly relies on the benefits of cavalry, and it is difficult to say if you change places." ”

"Somewhere else?" Cao Cao didn't react for a while.

Cheng Yu nodded and said, "That's right, if you change to the south, it won't be necessarily." ”

As he spoke, Cheng Yu suddenly raised his voice and said: "The south is covered with dense water networks, and there are many mountains and forests, the Ming army will not be able to expand significantly, and the advantage of the cavalry will also be gone. ”

Cao Cao nodded, then shook his head and said, "That's true, but the south is not our place!" ”

"No, it doesn't matter, we can borrow it."

"Borrow?" Cao Cao was puzzled.

Cheng Yu said firmly: "That's right, it's borrowing!" ”

After speaking, Cheng Yu took out the map that had been prepared from his arms, spread it on the table, pointed to one of them, and said, "Jingzhou!" As a descendant of Han Gaozu, King Yi naturally would not be unreasonable, and would definitely agree. Whether it was because the Ming army was strong and invincible, or because the imperial decree did not allow him to refuse, he could only agree. ”

"And with Jingzhou, and then the three of us are combined, it is difficult to say whether the winner will be lost."

Cao Cao couldn't help but be full of black lines, only to say that there was a chance to fight, and in a blink of an eye, it became a great hope of winning.

Then, Cao Cao remembered something again, and said: "That's not right, the Ming army's navy is already the first in the world, even if it goes to Jingzhou, it's useless!" ”

Cheng Yu smiled sinisterly and said: "The Ming army is indeed powerful, but they are mainly powerful in the warship!" And their warships are not as small as the warships of the Jingzhou Navy Army, as long as we fill the river and properly abandon the city in the wide river, what can other places tolerate me? For example, Guiyang, Changsha, Wuling, Lingling and other places. ”

Cao Cao took a look, and he was also happy: Well, yes, it makes sense.

Then, Cao Cao shook his head again: Is it necessary to retreat in such a place? That's impossible!

Just looking at Cheng Yu, who was still full of passion, Cao Cao didn't say the words of refusal directly, but said: "This matter is very important, it is difficult to decide for a while, and Rong Benxiang thinks about it carefully." ”

"Yes, Prime Minister. The minister didn't bother the prime minister and retreated first. ”

"Well, go ahead."

Cheng Yu exited the study and shook his head in disappointment. Before he came, he had thought that he would be rejected, but when it came to the end, he was really disappointed. It's just that there is a sense of pride in the bottom of my heart?

……

At this time, Liu Bei, who entered Nanyang in embarrassment, and was about to embark on the southbound warship, looked back at the north, and there was more confusion in his eyes.

"Cao Mengde was defeated so neatly, is it naïve to kill my big man?"

Thinking about the hardships of the return journey, Liu Bei felt that the road ahead was bleak.

"The king doesn't have to worry, Gaozu was able to seize the world from Hanzhong back then, and now the king has Jingyi, and there is no chance of revival."

Liu Bei nodded, didn't say anything, and turned around and entered the cabin.

Compared with the Wing Army, the return journey of the Wu Army was much smoother. But when he saw that he was about to cross the river and return to his home, he was stopped.

Looking at the warships covered with dense rivers, Sun Ce was full of black lines, and said angrily: "What about our navy? What about warships? Why did the Ming army and navy appear, but Lone didn't get any news, but like a fool, he came to the river in a daze to see how powerful and majestic they were? ”

"The minister is guilty!" Lu Su was also bitter, how did he know why the Ming army appeared so suddenly, and he hadn't been able to get any news? If he knew, he would have defeated the Ming army a long time ago, after all, he knew everything.

"Guilty? You are naturally guilty! The question is now you tell Lonely, how are we going back now, do we want to blow the wind by this river? ”

Not to mention, on this hot day, it's quite cool to blow the wind by the river, not to mention anything else, it's cool! It would be nice if you could swim two laps in the water.

Sun Ce won't tell Lu Su what he really thinks in his heart, hehe!

Suddenly, Lu Su found that the Ming naval warships in the river were not quite right, and they all leaned on the north bank. Although there was still some distance from the shore, Lu Su knew that this was due to the fact that the battleship was too large and the draft was too deep.

What is the Ming Army doing here? Do you really think that your water army is invincible in the world?

Lu Su naturally didn't believe that the Ming army was so arrogant, thought about it, and said: "King, maybe the Ming army has other intentions here!" ”

Sun Ce was stunned when he heard this, and said, "What does he mean? What does it mean? ”

"I don't know."

Lu Su shook his head, and before Sun Ce went berserk, he said, "But we can send someone to ask." ”

"Ask?"

Sun Ce touched his chin and thought about it, and said, "Okay, Zijing, go and come back quickly." ”

"Huh?"

Lu Su opened his mouth wide, but seeing that Sun Ce had gone elsewhere, he could only eat this dumb loss and reluctantly walked towards the river.

Along the way, Wu Jun, who saw his appearance, thought that he was dazzled, and thought that he was going to the execution ground, and he was the one who was executed.