"Cao Gong Mengde personally revealed:

Lan has to worship the monarch outside the gate, and the day after tomorrow is on one side, and it is too late to serve. Xiang, respected his father Cao Hou, but because Zhang Min was unkind, he was killed, and it was not Tao Gongzu's crime.

However, Cao Gong committed other states with a family feud, Kong Wenju and Tian Qingzhou repeatedly prayed for Cao Gong to stop fighting, but Cao Gong was alone, Xuzhou was in danger for several months, and Cao Gong had the potential to level Xuzhou, non-Tao Gongzu had no strength to fight, and he really did not want to meet Cao Gong's soldiers, but although he retreated step by step, he could not redeem Cao Gong's hatred, and first ordered the "slaughter of the city", so that the people of "Guangwei" floated for thousands of miles, and they were miserable. And a few months ago, tens of thousands of elites in Tian Qingzhou were killed, which was trivial and miserable.

Lan came to the people of Xuzhou before, and the people of the world pleaded: now the Xianbei alien race, the Qianghu rebellion, disturbing the outside; The remnants of the Yellow Turban and Dong Zhuoyu's party are entrenched. May the Duke of Ming be the first urgent need of the court, and then personal enmity; Withdraw the troops of Xuzhou to save the country, then Xuzhou is very lucky, and the world is very lucky!

With Cao Gong's army, there is no enemy in the world, but Xuzhou is not down for ten months, this is all people's hearts to the back, Tao Gong is in Xu, the people are rich and the soldiers are also good, but did not engage in war with Cao Gong, it is really Tao Gong's urgency to the court, and wants to exterminate the Dong thief remnant party, so he does not want to fight with Cao Gong, if Cao Gong is stubborn, at that time Tao Gongzu knew that there was no end to the nest, and Cao Gong would fight with Cao Gong for the people's families. ”

Why didn't Cao Gong think about it at night? At present, the plan is only to be decided by Cao Gong, and it is hoped that Cao Gong will return to Yanzhou on the same day, and Tao Gongzu will repair the armor to wait for Cao Gong's text, and then raise the princes' volunteers to go to the gate to fight with the remnants of Dong Thief. At that time, the army will work together to solve the urgent needs of the imperial court. In this way, Cao Gong will climb the smoke and enjoy a hundred years. Whether it is respected or scolded by the world, it is only in Cao Gong's thoughts.

Lan with sincerity. On behalf of the people of Xuzhou and the people of the world, I implore Cao Gong to 'worry about the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world, and Tao Gongzu temporarily turn enemies into friends and fight thieves together, then the people are very fortunate and the world is very lucky.

Lan heard that Xu Shao of Runan said to Cao Gong: A capable minister who rules the world, and he expected that Cao Gong would definitely bow down to it, where to go. Please check it out. Although the center of gravity is in danger, Shilan is concerned about the court, please bow again, and hope that Cao Gong will be clear. This heart and ambition are also expected to be found out by Cao Gong.

Brother Liu Lan

In March of the fourth year of the first peace of the emperor.

Cao Cao finished reading the letter, his face was expressionless, and he said, "Let's take a look." ”

said that he passed the book to everyone, and said: "It is said that Liu Deran and I have been friends for many years, and when I asked Dong in the past, he had a life-saving grace for me. I know this person very well, this person has always been honest and righteous, if it is really as the book says, I am afraid that Xuzhou City will be difficult. ”

The crowd finished watching. Fu returned the letter to Cao Cao, only to hear Guo Jia say: "Fengxiao and Liu Lan also knew each other in their early years. After speaking, he turned to the crowd and said, "Just what I saw." He is lustful and narrow-minded, greedy for money and cherishes his life. What is said in the letter is not to be believed. ”

"It seems that Bonghyo doesn't know this person."

Cao Cao shook his head unnoticed, obviously Guo Jia's evaluation of Liu Lan was too biased. Instead, it is more like a rhetoric mixed with personal prejudices, explaining: "I have a deep friendship with him, he is a hero in the world, and there are Xionghu generals Guan and Zhang Tian as minions, the reason why the battle of Jizhou was defeated at the beginning can be seen, and today if it is not for the help of Yu Xiang, how can Wen be defeated?" There was some uncertainty in his heart, and he continued after a while: "So don't underestimate this person." ”

"The lord is going to ......"

Guo Jia's expression changed in a row, this was the first time he had seen the lord so jealous of a person, but he was only halfway through his words, but he was interrupted by Cao Cao waving his hand, cleared his throat, and said: "Fengxiao, I know what you want to say, I understand, but you don't really take Liu Lan for a fool, and Liu Lan will never come to fool me, but he still wrote such a letter in the end, does she really treat me as a three-year-old child?" Go to gather the princes again to crusade against Dong Zhuo's remnants? How could it be possible, but have you ever thought about it, since it can't be done, why did he mention it? Isn't there a deeper reason for this? Unless, he suddenly snorted coldly and said: "He has a good calculation, on the one hand, he presses me with the righteousness of the world, and on the other hand, he lets the people of the world know that he Liu Lan is famous, if I really quit the army because of the righteousness of the world, not only will my father's revenge not be avenged, but the world will think that it is me Cao Cao who is afraid of him Liu Lan and was scared away by a letter from him." ”

"The lord has insight, and Jia is not as good as it."

"Haha, Fengxiao doesn't need to be too humble."

Cao Cao Lang laughed, but the smile on his face soon disappeared, and he said with a solemn face: "What I'm most worried about now is not the so-called righteousness of the world, because this is not the key at all, but Liu Lan wants to find a proper excuse for him to send troops, this Liu De'an, when did he play these tricks?" ”

This made Cao Cao start to have a headache, in this matter, when the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Lan if he mentioned that Cao Cao killed people in Xuzhou Yingye is untenable, Cao Cao slaughtered Xu, the premise is to avenge his father, and the national policy of filial piety has been four hundred years since the Western Han Dynasty, all literate children, enlightenment literacy is a general, first aid, etc., the first book that can be read, but it is not a Analects, a Book of Poetry but a Book of Filial Piety. Your Tao Xu subordinates killed someone's father, and they were avenging their father, even if they slaughtered the city, what they carried was not notoriety, but the name of filial piety, but because of this, you Tao Qian had the reputation of harming the people of Xuzhou. This kind of thing sounds like a fantasy, where does this put Han Law, but this is the situation at that time, the wind of killing people and humiliating revenge prevailed, typical cases include Xiahou Tang avenging and killing for his teacher, Xu Shu and Dian Wei avenging and killing for their friends, and as for killing for their parents, it is even more numerous, and Cao Cao and Tao Qian are just because of their special status, and the scope of their involvement is wider and greater than before.

Therefore, if Liu Lan directly points out that Cao Cao is an unrighteous soldier or accuses him of slaughtering the people for no reason, it is simply untenable in this era, especially the current people are like mustard grass in the eyes of the clan, cutting a stubble will grow a stubble, no matter how much you kill, no one will be indignant, to accuse Cao Cao of indiscriminately killing innocents is simply a joke, so Liu Lan will say anything about sending troops for the Han family, and this is just to make his division famous, he is not here to defend the mastermind behind the killing, he is for the Han family to persuade Cao Cao to withdraw from the army, Although he was able to find 10,000 remarks to refute Liu Lan's arguments. But Liu Lan found a reason to send troops because of this, so now Cao Cao is really worried about Liu Lan's arrival. If you want to capture Xuzhou again, it will be difficult.

Full Pet also stood up, this person is handsome. Fresh clothes and bright armor, quite a model of Confucian generals, said, "The lord is wrong, Liu Lan, jumping beam clown, his people only rely on Guan and Zhang, otherwise they are already ghosts under the knife, and no one under his account has a splendid belly, and it is even more foolish." Guan and Zhang are reckless husbands, how can they compete with the lord? ”

"Liu Lan is really worried, but he can see some clues from the letter, that is, Xuzhou has no strength to fight." Liu Ye has a goat's beard and an elegant appearance, but there is an occasional flash of cunning in his eyes.

Cao Cao listened to what he said, nodded in agreement, and only heard Guo Jia continue: "At this time, the situation in Xuzhou has been decided, no matter who comes. It's all average, if someone else comes, it just takes a little more time, but Liu Lan comes. On the contrary, it made it easier for the lord to take Xuzhou. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Cao Cao's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked Guo Jiadao.

"Since Liu Lan has written a letter to show goodwill, he wants to persuade the lord to retire. Why don't the lord take the plan and calculate, it is not easy to retreat with the three armies. When he replied slowly, he was so slow that Liu Lan and Xuzhou were hearted; At that time, he thought that the lord would retire. If he believes it is true and relaxes his guard, the lord will be unprepared, so Xuzhou is at his fingertips. ”

Cao Cao Lang laughed: "Fengxiao's plan is very good, very good, it is really a person who wakes up in a dream." The shining eyes only turned like this, and then he thought about it, and said with a smile: "Even if you take this opportunity not to attack Xuzhou City, only to repel the reinforcements of Kong Rong and Tian Kai, and then break the momentum of Xuzhou's horns, so Xuzhou City is not at your fingertips?" ”

However, he said that the messenger returned with Cao Cao's reply, bluntly saying that Liu Lan had the grace of saving his life, and agreed to return to the division on the same day to attack Dong Thief's desire, but because it was not easy for the three armies to be pulled, he allowed to delay the plan for a few days, and Tao Qian was really excited when he saw that Cao Cao was going to retreat.

For so many days, Cao Jun really did not move the troops, and some of the troops left every day, Tao Qian was even more convinced, until more than ten days later, Cao Cao's whole army retreated, and there was no one left, until at this time, Tao Qian's hanging heart was put down, and he was grateful to Liu Lan for retreating to Cao Cao, and set up a banquet to entertain everyone.

However, it was said that Cao Cao ordered the troops to leave every day during the day, and returned quietly at night, and what he did was to steal the day and change the day, and to hide the plan to cross the sea.

Cao Cao hurriedly let him enter the village and asked the reason, only to hear the herald say: "Lu Bu took advantage of the lord to lead the army to attack Xu, and he and Zhang Miao attacked Yanzhou and entered Puyang. At this time, Yanzhou had three places: Juancheng, Dong'e, and Fanxian, which were designed by Xun Yu and Cheng Yu to defend completely, and the rest were broken. General Cao Ren could not win many battles, so he was hereby ordered by Xun Sima to come to report the emergency. ”

Cao Cao hurriedly read the letter, recognized it as Xun Yu's handwriting, and asked the messenger about the situation in Yanzhou. ”

Guo Jiadao: "What the lord said is very true, Yanzhou is the foundation of the lord, if you continue to entangle in Xu, it is not only to take Xuzhou, but also to buy and return the pearls, and the gains outweigh the losses." Now it is better to be as said the day before yesterday, sell favors and Liu Lan, retire the army to recover Yanzhou, when Yanzhou's situation is stable, and then come to find fault Tao Qian to repay the hatred of Cao Lao's murder. ”

"What Feng Xiao said is exactly what I want." Immediately pulled out the village and retreated, heading towards Yanzhou.

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Tai Shi Ci came to Zhao Yun's tent with some trepidation, at this time it was the middle of the day, and when the sun was poisoning, Zhao Yun saw Tai Shi Ci come to visit and led him into the tent. After the two exchanged pleasantries, Tai Shici said: "Zilong, now that Cao Cao has retreated, I have come to say goodbye to you." ”

"Farewell?"

Zhao Yun felt sorry in his heart, it seemed that Tai Shici really didn't want to stay. said: "Is Ziyi going to go alone like this? Didn't even see the lord? ”

Tai Shi Ci was a little embarrassed: "I don't dare to see it, Deran Gong ...... At that time, it will be difficult to leave, but it will not be easy to leave, so it is better to leave. ”

Zhao Yun said: "The lord knows the virtuous and the virtuous, and he values Ziyi." ”

Tai Shi Ci sighed silently and said, "Ziyi doesn't know, it is precisely for this reason that Ziyi does not dare to go forward and resign." ”

Zhao Yun's expression changed several times before he came up with such an excuse and said, "Then General Guan should also go to see him, right?" If you just go away......"

"Zilong also knows that General Yun Chang ......" Tai Shi Ci's implication was that Guan Yu was arrogant and unapproachable.

Zhao Yun didn't know what Tai Shi Ci meant, after all, Guan Yu was usually a brother and brother with him, and he was approachable, but he didn't know that Guan Yu was arrogant and abnormal to Tai Shi Ci, and said: "General Ziyi doesn't see the lord, there is still room for maneuver in the future, after all, the lord stays in Xuzhou City at this time, but General Guan is close at hand, if Ziyi doesn't go, see you again in the future, wouldn't it be embarrassing, and how to deal with yourself?" ”

"What Zilong said is very true, Ziyi clearly did not take Guan as a friend."

Guan Yu lifted the curtain and entered the tent, Tai Shi Ci showed his skills when he was not there, and later heard Zhang Fei and others say that his martial arts and archery skills are excellent, naturally there is a long and short thought in his heart, but because Liu Lan tried every means to stay, but he insisted on leaving, naturally more and more dissatisfied with him, until the day before yesterday to break the battle of Xiahou Yuan, this was convinced of his martial arts and archery, today I saw him come to the Zilong tent, I wanted to keep with him Xu Kuo for the lord, I didn't want to just arrive at the village but heard the conversation between the two, uninvited, into the account said.

Zhao Yun and Tai Shici were both taken aback, and they both wondered when General Guan came, since he said this, he must have heard the previous words. Zhao Yun was nothing, but Tai Shici was embarrassed and said, "How dare Ziyi not treat General Guan as a friend." ”

"Since they are friends, why do you see Zilong alone and not quit Guan?"

Guan Yu said coldly: "Is this taking Guan as a friend?" ”

"Ziyi is just, it's just ......" Tai Shici's face was red, and he didn't know how to explain it for a while.

Guan Yu complained and said: "Fortunately, Guan came by chance and heard what Ziyi said before, otherwise Ziyi would still be kept in the dark when he left." ”

"Zilong also means this, no matter what, we are all born and died together...... Friends, how can you favor one over the other. He wanted to talk about his brother Paoze, who was in a state of death, but when the words came to his mouth, he should be friends again.

"It's Ziyi's inconsiderate thinking, and I hope General Guan will forgive me."

Tai Shi Ci was said by the two of them, and he was already ashamed of himself, and he only wished that he would know the size of the immortal law, and find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Ziyi, they are all their own brothers, there is no need to be so, Guan Mouping rarely admires people in his life, but only because Ziyi came to ask for help to save Beihai, and then went to Xuzhou to relieve the siege, Ziyi deserves the word 'righteousness'."

After a pause, he looked at Tai Shici and said: "Such a affectionate and righteous person, no wonder the main guild is so retained, so Guan still has a little bit of words in his heart, and he wants to know about Ziyi." (To be continued.) )