In this way, Zhang Liao ordered his men and horses to relax the siege of Xiaopei's West Gate, and at the same time sent people to sneak into the city, explaining Gao Yi's meaning, Liu Bei was naturally overjoyed, so he protected his family members out of Xiaopei under Zhang Liao's arrangement, and went to Xu Capital for help in the starry night, Cao Cao had already gotten the news, and also sent a large army to welcome Liu Bei into Xu Du, and in the name of the Son of Heaven to plead Lu Bu's crime, it happened that Lu Bu was dissuaded by the father and son of Chen Si Chen Deng of the Xuzhou clan, interrupted the marriage with Yuan Yao, and expressed his willingness to reconcile with Liu Bei, Cao Cao subsidized Liu Bei's soldiers and horses to re-station Xiaopei.

Gao Yi and Yin Feng helped Liu Bei to resettle in Xiaopei, and then rode back to Xudu in the starry night, and just arrived at the city gate, he saw a group of people and horses gathering, Gao Yi said strangely: "Who is Cao Cao going to fight?" ”

Yin Feng shook his head: "I don't know, could it be that Cao Cao has changed his plan and is going to attack Lu Bu now?" ”

Gao Yi shook his head and said, "Impossible, I don't think so!" ”

"You don't have to guess!" As the two were talking, Cao Cao's voice came from afar, Yin Feng looked, and saw that Cao Cao was already in military uniform, riding a war horse and a few generals out of the city quickly, looking at Yin Feng and Gao Yi Dao, "It just so happens that you are back, I am going to attack Zhang Xiu!" ”

"Zhang Xiu?" Hearing this name, Gao Yi was stunned for a moment, he hadn't paid attention to this person for a long time, Zhao Yun wrote a few days ago saying that in fact, everyone had misunderstood this person, and he wanted Yin Feng to stop having prejudices against him.

Yin Feng said: "Wasn't he a young general under Dong Zhuo before?" Why is it worth making such a big fuss? ”

Xiahoudun coughed and said: "Since Zhang Ji led troops from Guanzhong to attack Fancheng and was killed by a stray arrow, Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu led the original subordinates and joined Liu Biao. ”

"I see!" Gao Yi pretended to be suddenly enlightened, "The troubled times are really impermanent, a small person can be so ambitious!" ”

Cao Cao laughed and said: "So we have to be fast, if we let the little people become big people, we will be troubled!" Speaking of which, this Zhang Xiu was also ordered by Dong Zhuo to kill me many times without success, and he didn't expect that he would become an enemy on the battlefield now! ”

"Zhang Xiu is not worried!" As he spoke, he saw Guo Jia riding a horse from a distance, and when he arrived in front of Cao Cao, he arched his hand and said, "My lord, I just got the information, Zhang Xiu's adviser is Jia Xu!" ”

"Jia Xu?" Everyone was slightly surprised, Cao Cao seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and smiled secretly for a while, "Sure enough, it's him!" ”

"Is Jia Xu very powerful?" Dian Wei looked at everyone puzzled and said.

"I can only say that it is very powerful!" Xun Yu came out of nowhere and suddenly said, "Our hometown was ravaged by Dong Zhuoyu's party, or is it thanks to him!" ”

"Liu Biao killed Zhang Ji, but he was able to become an offensive and defensive alliance with Zhang Xiu, needless to say, this is naturally Jia Xu's credit!" Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu with a smile and said, "Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu, and Liu Biao are combined, you must guard against it!" ”

Guo Jia said in a deep voice: "What the lord said is true, although Liu Biao has no ambition in all directions, but he has the entire Jingzhou to rely on, plus Zhang Xiuwu's bravery, Jia Xu has no last resort, if he is left alone, he will really become the lord's henchman!" ”

Yin Feng interjected: "Then the question is, what should I do if Lu Bu attacks here when General Cao and you attack Zhang Xiu to the west?" Or when Lu Bu attacked Liu Bei, there was not enough strength here to go to the rescue! ”

Cao Cao Zhengse said: "What Feng Xiao said is not wrong, although Lu Bu is a fierce tiger, but I don't want to have a hidden arrow pointing at me behind my back when I fight the tiger!" Can Mingyang be affected, I will leave a few generals to garrison Xudu with you, if Lu Bu really attacks Liu Bei, Mingyang is enough to resolve this crisis! ”

Yin Feng nodded and said, "This is naturally not a problem!" ”

"There's no need to worry about that!" Xun Yu said on the side, "Lu Bu has no plans, he will be happy when he sees the benefits, Cao Gong can send an envoy to Xuzhou to reward Lu Bu with officials, and ostensibly persuade him to make peace with Liu Bei, if he can succeed, Lu Bu will naturally not have a long-term plan!" ”

Gao Yi said disapprovingly: "This is not entirely true, although Lu Bu is a scheming person, there is no shortage of scheming people around him, such as Chen Gong, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others to advise, once Lu Bu listens, he will personally lead the army to come!" How about Wen Ruodang? ”

Xun Yu seemed to have expected Gao Yi to say this, and replied with a smile: "What the lord said is very true, but after all, Lu Bu is the lord of a state, but I expect that he will not come to Xudu, first, he will report carefully, now Xuzhou is very rich, but there is not enough grain and grass, and the surrounding Yuan Shao and Yuan Yao's jurisdiction have also been in drought for many years, so the current Lu Bu is rich but can't exchange for food; Both, Lu Bu rejected Yuan Yao's proposal the previous time, Yuan Yao must be annoyed with him, if he sends troops, Yuan Shu will inevitably detour to Guangling to attack Xuzhou, although Yuan Tan's foothold in Qingzhou is not stable, but it is not ruled out that Yuan Shao will increase troops in Qingzhou to take Xuzhou; The three, and the most important, if Lu Bu comes, he will naturally bear the charge of disrespecting the Han family, although Lu Bu himself has changed hands many times, but now that he is the lord, he naturally understands that he can no longer do things by his own temperament! ”

Cao Cao nodded approvingly: "Wen Ruo is really thoughtful, although I have thought of all of these, I have not analyzed them together, so that we can attack Zhang Xiu and do everything without worry!" ”

"Not necessarily!" Guo Jia suddenly shook his head and said, "Wen Ruo, you yourself are a gentleman, but don't imagine everyone as a gentleman, Sun Ziyun is a soldier, it is not a lie, there is no grain in Xuzhou, Lu Bu can come with a light army and plunder the rations of the people of Yanzhou, let me ask if we have the time and energy to keep the wall clear?" Moreover, since there is no grain in Xuzhou, and Huainan, Qingzhou and Jizhou are also short of grain and grass, then why did Yuan Yao and Yuan Shao attack Xuzhou? Do they have enough troops and food to maintain their garrison after the attack? Moreover, the charge of disrespecting the Han family is not only borne by Lu Bu, as early as when His Majesty was displaced in the Jingzhao area, the princes of the Quartet had already regarded the Son of Heaven as nothing, on the contrary, Lu Bu once killed the traitor Dong Zhuo, which has always been the pride of his respect for the Han family, and until now, His Majesty still has a seemingly inseparable friendship with Lu Bu, which I am afraid even the lord does not know, right? ”

Cao Cao suddenly heard Guo Jia say this long paragraph, and recalled the happy expression on Liu Xie's face when he heard that Lu Bu took possession of Xuzhou, and sighed in his heart: This Liu Xie has always behaved so obediently, could it be that he plans to borrow his own hand to come out of Luoyang, and then have a good relationship with Lu Bu?

The scene was suddenly a little embarrassing, Xun Yu didn't expect Guo Jia to say such a thing, he stared at Guo Jia and said slowly: "Fengxiao is really powerful, where did you hear all this news?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Brother Wen Ruo, didn't you invite me out of the mountain just to assist Cao Gong and Gao Fujun to rule the world together?" Why is the tone so strange now? ”

"This is indeed true, but there is a premise, and this premise is also known to the lord and the prince Cao!" Xun Yu said calmly, looking at Gao Yi and Cao Cao.

Cao Cao smiled: "Yes, yes, what Wen Ruo said is right, Feng Xiao, I thought that you and Wen Ruo were friends, he had already told you about it, I didn't think that you were still in the dark now!" Hahaha! ”

Guo Jia looked puzzled and said, "What is it?" You're all together to bully me, short-lived ghost! ”

Cao Cao was about to speak, when suddenly Xiahou Yuan's Pegasus came and said, "Lord, the people and horses have been assembled!" Always on standby! ”

"Good!" Cao Cao deliberately stopped talking about what he had just done, but said loudly, "Princess, you assist Wen Ruo to guard Xu Du, Feng Xiao, you go to Juancheng to replace Zixiao, and let him send troops to defend Yuan Shao, in addition, Man Cheng and Wen Qian quickly went to Puyang to help Zi Ke guard Yuan Tan's movements in Qingzhou, and Gongming also stayed, once Lu Bu is coming, with your ability, it is enough to resist me coming!" ”

The generals said in unison: "No! ”

Suddenly, the two horsemen galloped out of the city, and when they arrived in front of Cao Cao, they didn't have time to dismount, so they only made a horse and said: "The two of us will also go out with the army!" ”

Gao Yi looked at it, it turned out to be Cao Ang and Cao Anmin, the two of them were dressed in military uniforms and holding long swords, but they also had a heroic spirit, and couldn't help but stepped forward and quipped: "The two of you are really heroic today, it seems that they have wanted to go on the expedition a long time ago!" ”

Cao Ang looked at Gao Yi and said, "Uncle Gao, don't make fun of the two of us, although you are not a few years older than me, you are not inferior to these generals under your father in the battlefield!" As my father's eldest son, I naturally can't be underestimated by everyone! ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Okay, Zixiu, I have long heard that you have cultivated a skillful skill these days, so let's go together this time!" I hope that the tiger father has no dogs! ”

Seeing that Cao Cao had agreed, Cao Ang was naturally overjoyed in his heart, and said: "Father, rest assured, he will definitely make military achievements!" ”

Cao Cao turned his head to look at Cao Anmin, who was still a little immature, and couldn't help but think of his younger brother Cao De, who died in Xuzhou with his father, and said angrily: "After your father died, there was only this bloodline left of you, so don't go, right?" ”

Cao Anmin was naturally unhappy when he heard this, he dismounted and knelt on the ground and said, "Uncle, what do you mean by this?" My skills are not inferior to those of my brother, and I have always been looking forward to the opportunity to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, this year I have turned thirteen years old, I heard that my uncle was thirteen years old when he was already in battle under a pseudonym to kill the enemy, I received the grace of my uncle's bereavement, I have nothing to repay, only ask my uncle to be fulfilled! ”

"Since you want to come here like that, let's go together!" Cao Cao sighed heavily, and the horsewhip whipped his war horse fiercely, and the horse neighed, and the man stood up, carrying Cao Cao towards the army and galloping, "However, don't die!" ”

No one saw Cao Cao who was silently crying on horseback at this moment, he always thought that he would not shed tears anymore, he would never forget that he was a man, a big man who stood up to the sky, a big man with countless bones under his feet, men don't need to shed tears, what they need is blood to water their own great feats, men don't need to be sad, what they need is an iron fist to achieve their hegemony, men don't need tenderness, what they need is their own ruthlessness to write a long history full of hardships and dreams.

However, he still shed tears, and his mind kept flashing the people who had died in front of him, Le Yin, Wei Kang, Bao Zhong, Bao Xin...... They died in their arms, and there was nothing they could do but flee and flee like lost dogs, leaving the bones of those who died for him to be gone.

Where else can you escape? Now he is different from the past, there are already a large number of civil and military generals, and even the Son of Heaven is under his control, and the extreme of human ministers is nothing more than that, right? But why are you still inexplicably afraid, so afraid of losing? Fear of losing what is and isn't important to you?

No, I am no longer afraid of losing, but afraid of the guilt left in my heart after losing anything, because no matter how small something is, if it is lost, it will be lost forever and will not come back.

Because of the increasing power, do you suffer more from gains and losses?

When did I, Cao Mengde, become so cowardly?

Maybe everyone is so cowardly, right? The strong also have their own weaknesses, although they cover themselves well.

Then, before this weakness is discovered, unify this troubled world as soon as possible, Wen Ruo, don't worry, I won't be the second Dong Zhuo, and my loyalty to the Han family can only be understood by you, right? Gao Yi, you are obviously my worst enemy, but why do I still believe in you like this? And give you such an important Xu to guard?

Cao Cao wiped away his tears and shouted: "Stop me Cao Mengde's tyrant, die!" ”

Who knows that this man, this big man who stands up to the sky, this big man who has countless bones under his feet, has also shed tears, has been sad, and has been tender?