"The Lord"

"The Lord"

......

As soon as Cao Cao entered the hall, he saw a group of generals walking towards him.

Waving his hand and motioning for everyone to sit down, Cao Cao walked to his main seat and sat down.

"This time, Yuan Shao's army is 700,000, known as one million, are you afraid?"

Everyone didn't expect that instead of saying anything to boost morale at this time, Cao Cao said the topic that everyone deliberately avoided as soon as he came up.

Just when everyone thought they were going to say something about surrendering, they suddenly found Cao Cao's face full of confidence and a hint of playfulness.

Those with a nimble head had already discovered that Cao Cao was not afraid of Yuan Shao, and he did not have the slightest intention of surrendering.

"The last general is not afraid, and is willing to die for the Lord."

Before the generals could speak, a young general of the Cao family took the lead in standing up, and this person was Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry.

The rest of the people also reacted quickly, got up and bowed to Cao Cao and said, "I am willing to die for the Lord." ”

"Okay, this time we want to let the people of the world see the strength of my Cao army, just defeat Yuan Shao, and then who in the world can stop me Cao Mengde."

Saying that, Cao Cao also stood up and said to Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin: "You two lead 70,000 troops and quickly rescue the white horse." ”

"The Last General's Order."

After receiving the order, the two immediately got up and left.

Then Cao Cao looked at the rest of the people, many of whom were descendants of his Cao family and Xiahou family, which made Cao Cao even more determined to defeat Cao Cao.

"The rest of the people quickly returned to the camp, reorganized the soldiers and horses, and set off with me to meet Yuan Shao."

"The Last General's Order."

After all the generals had left, Cao Cao returned to his seat.

"Haha, it seems that the lord has regained his former glory."

With Cao Cao's increasing power, few people will speak to Cao Cao like this now, except for Xiahou Yuan, who has died in battle, even Xiahou Yuan will not speak like this, he has gradually regarded Cao Cao as the lord, not the brother who grew up with him.

"Ahem..."

As soon as the person who came said a sentence began to cough, it was Xi Zhicai who was sent back to the room by Cao Cao before.

"Zhicai is in poor health, let's go back and rest, I'm waiting here."

Xun Yu frowned and looked at Xi Zhicai, the two were colleagues and friends, and they couldn't help but be a little worried when they saw Xi Zhicai's appearance.

"Wen Ruo doesn't need to care about me, and the arrangement behind the lord."

Cao Cao, who had just wanted to say a few words of concern, didn't speak again when he heard this.

After glancing at Xi Zhicai, Cao Cao said to Xun Yu: "This expedition will bother Wen Ruo to garrison Xu Du and plan logistics for us." ”

"I will live up to the trust of my lord."

Xun Yu hurriedly received the order, and then Cao Cao arranged for several people to stay behind to assist Xun Yu.

Then the people who wanted to go out with the army, because they still rushed back to Chang'an, persuaded Qin Hua to send troops, and they were not brought along.

Cao Cao chose Cheng Yu, Dong Zhao, Liu Ye and others.

Seeing that the task was assigned, Xi Zhicai spoke again: "The lord still wants to take me on this trip." ”

Because Jia Xu, Xun You, and Guo Jia were all accepted by Qin Hua in advance, Cao Cao really doesn't have many strategists under him now, and it is naturally a good thing to have one more Xi Zhicai, but looking at Xi Zhicai's haggard face and the appearance of refusing to cough up, Cao Cao really couldn't bear to let him go away with the army.

"Zhicai is sick, let's stay in Xudu to recuperate."

Cao Cao sighed slightly and said.

"My lord, please take me with you on this trip."

Xi Zhicai insisted on it.

"Well, I'll arrange the most comfortable carriage for you."

After saying that, Cao Cao also left the hall.

Xun Yu, who originally wanted to persuade Cao Cao to let Xi Zhicai stay, saw Xi Zhicai shaking his head slightly at him, so he didn't say anything more.

"Zhicai, how can you stand up to traveling with the army like this."

After Cao Cao and the others left, Xun Yu stepped forward to help Xi Zhi find a place to sit down.

Just sat down for a while, Xi Zhicai suddenly hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his arms and coughed at a distance.

After stroking his back for Xi Zhicai and helping him calm down for a while, Xi Zhicai calmed down.

"Can you pour me a cup of hot water?"

Before Xi Zhicai took off the handkerchief, he pleaded to Xun Yu.

"Wait a minute."

With that, Xun Yu got up and went to the table not far away to pour water, and Xi Zhicai took advantage of this time to stuff the blood-soaked handkerchief into his arms.

"Zhicai insisted on joining the army, could it be that he found something?"

Handing a cup of tea to Xi Zhicai, Xun Yu asked.

"Hmm."

After taking a sip of tea, Xi Zhicai's face became gloomy.

"Do you know why the lord is so warlike?"

Hearing Xi Zhicai say this, Xun Yu reacted, he had also heard that after Cao Cao learned that Yuan Shao's army was coming, he often hid in the courtyard and drank, but today he didn't look worried, but Cao Cao looked eager to fight.

At first, he thought that the rumors he had heard before were wrong, but after hearing Xi Zhicai say this, he knew that there might be other things in it.

"Could it be that you went to persuade the lord?"

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Xi Zhicai shook his head with a wry smile.

"Yes and no."

"I wanted to persuade my lord, but I didn't know how to persuade him, but yesterday someone suddenly sent me a letter, do you know who sent it?"

Xun Yu frowned, but he couldn't think of anyone else who could make the current Cao Cao suddenly full of fighting spirit.

"It was sent from the west, and the person who wrote the letter was my friend Guo Jia."

"You mean Guo Jia Guo Fengxiao? Why does he help the lord to motivate his fighting spirit? Could this be what Qin Hua meant? ”

Xun Yu's reaction was also very fast, and Xi Zhicai nodded slightly.

"I guess it should be, Feng Xian and I are each their masters, although he can send me herbal medicines for healing, but he can't do this kind of thing without permission, it is very likely that Qin Hua instructed him."

"During the previous battle of Xuzhou, Guo Jia pretended to take refuge in the lord, and then disappeared mysteriously, and soon General Xiahou's team was attacked by Lu Buqi, which is very likely to be planned by Guo Jia, I heard that Qin Hua took the state and this person also planned it, and now he is writing to you, asking you to stimulate the fighting spirit of the lord, what are you planning?"

"Feng Xiao is a quick thinker and a constant scheming, and I think I am inferior. This time, in order to stimulate the fighting spirit of the lord, I could only do what he said, but I suspected that there must be something else in this, so I insisted on staying with the lord, just in case. ”

"Well, it seems that it really needs Zhicai to stay with the lord. It's just your body, hey..."

"Wen Ruo doesn't need to worry about me, this time the lord is pouring out of the nest, there will definitely be many things, Wen Ruo should deal with it first."

"In that case, I'll take my leave."

Xun Yu didn't postpone it, there are indeed many things waiting for him to do now, as for what Guo Jia is planning here, he still wants to think about it later.

Seeing Xun Yu disappear at the door, Xi Zhicai coughed lightly twice, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth.

"This time Cao Yuan started a war, the combined strength of the two sides is one million, Qin Hua should only have less than 300,000 troops now, and he still needs to divide his troops to garrison the frontier, what is he planning? Wasn't he afraid that Yuan Shao would suddenly turn his head and attack Si Li? ”

After thinking about it for a while, Xi Zhicai still couldn't figure out why Qin Hua wanted Cao Cao to actively respond to the battle, there were too few clues in his hands, even he couldn't figure out anything.

"No matter what you want to do, I won't let you succeed for a day."

Secretly made up his mind, Xi Zhicai also left the hall, about to go on the expedition, he also had a lot of things to deal with, but in Xi Zhicai's heart, he felt that something very important was about to happen, and an unprecedented sense of crisis was enveloping him.