On the second day, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu returned to Hanoi and Luyang respectively, Liu Lan accompanied Cao Cao to bid farewell to a few people and returned to Xingyuan, these days can make him tired, although he has been in the army for many years, living in Xingyuan is a common thing, but what makes him really tired is not the body, but the heart, as if he has not closed his eyes for several days, and he lies down and falls asleep when he returns to Xingyuan.

I slept until the sun rose on the second day, and when I got up, I only asked for some meat and cakes from the Huotou army, and before leaving, I told him not to send any more wine. Liu Lan was already taboo when he was in Liaodong, but he was forced to drink for a few days, and he was drunk for several days, especially when he drank wine for several days, and his alcohol was not great, and he drank for several days now when he thought of the word wine, he felt disgusted.

The food in the barracks was already simple, a mouthful of stewed mutton boiled in Dading, and no greasy vegetables were put in, but after a few bites of hastily eating, it was considered to have used up the morning food.

Liu Lan's big tent is the same as all the main tents of the barracks, divided into the front account and the inner account, the front account is three zhang square, the common account is under the discussion, the back account is larger because he wants to rest, there are five zhang square, in addition to a wide military couch for him to rest, more space in the inner tent is occupied by the article slip, he has always had the habit of reading books at this time did not open the bamboo slip, but found a map.

The map is drawn on the sheepskin, it is not a new practice, it can be divided into ten miles, one hundred miles but Liu Lan pioneered, this era to see the map to see Yu Gong, and the first look at the parchment scroll in his hand is completely the sense of reading the book of heaven, unless he explains from the side, otherwise it is really difficult to study and understand.

At this moment, the parchment that had been opened in his hand was rolled. The terrain that appears is not familiar with other places, and it is the entire territory of Sili.

This map is not all Liu Lan's efforts. After all, he has never been to Chang'an, but some well-known directions are still marked by him. But it is such an unfinished semi-finished product for Liu Lan, but it is the most accurate map of Sili in this era.

The inner tent can be said to be Liu Lan's forbidden land, even Zhang Fei rarely sets foot on weekdays, but today there are a lot of people gathered here, at the moment when Guan Yuliang appeared, Liu Lan pointed to the map of Si Li that was spread out, and his finger followed the direction of Luoyang to first focus on Mengjin in the northwest, then to Guangcheng in the south, and finally pointed to Chenggao in the east.

Everyone swept along the landmarks he pointed to one by one, Meng Jin, Cheng Gao and Guangcheng. This is the forefront of the coalition army's three-way fight against Dong, and it seems that the place of engagement has been chosen, and a big war is about to break out.

Yan Zhi was eager to try: "Lord, are we going to enter the army?" ”

"Yes, yesterday the princes have already discussed it, and the army is today."

"Report ~~~!" Shrill shouts came from outside the tent.

Liu Lan led everyone to the front tent and ordered the herald to come to the account, and the latter entered the account and bowed down to report: "I will ask General Liu if he is ready?" ”

I'm going to march early this morning. Therefore, Liu Lan called a few people over early, briefly talked about the situation of this march, and now that it is complete, he immediately ordered Guan Yu to reorganize the army. And he went to see Cao Cao with Zhang Fei and others first.

The warlock calculated that the auspicious time for today's army was three quarters of the hour, and there was still an hour, and Cao Cao couldn't wait. However, it is good to prepare in advance, in case something happens and you miss the auspicious time, you will have to delay the dispatch of troops for another day.

Liu Lan and Zhang Fei took the lead. Soon I saw a cloud of smoke and dust in the wilderness of the plains in the distance. And with his arrival, the trombone was blown in unison. Magnificent. Getting closer and closer, he can already see the figure of Cao Cao under the banner of Cao Zi, and at this moment he is looking at him with a smile.

The sour jujube is exceptionally beautiful in the early morning, the red sun is in the sky, under the white clouds is the Cao Cao troops who have been assembled and ready to go, the huge three phalanxes are composed of spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and crossbowmen, through the phalanx, Liu Lan and Cao Cao met, and took a look at the large army, but found that at this time there was only one army of Cao Cao, compared with other princes, Liu Lan's 10,000 cavalry was the earliest one.

"Mengde." Liu Lan greeted with his fists in his hands.

"Dean." Cao Cao looked particularly excited, especially after meeting Liu Lan.

He was going to march today, so he got up early in the morning and waited here, because there was something in his heart and time passed very quickly, but the moment he saw Liu Lan, although he was happy, he was not happy at all in his heart. Liu Lan lived in his line, so he was the last to be notified to come to gather troops, but the last one to be notified arrived, but the princes who were notified early in the morning had no news at all, and he was very annoyed in his heart, so he turned around and looked at his cousin Cao Hong, and asked in a low voice what time it was.

"Chenshi."

"It's all time, why haven't these people come yet?" Cao Cao faintly felt that something was wrong, and instructed Cao Hong, "Continue to send people to urge." ”

"Meng De wait patiently, there is still half an hour." Looking at Cao Cao's eagerness, Liu Lan said out loud.

"Let Dean see it." Cao Cao smiled embarrassedly, he was indeed a little anxious, and continued to wait patiently. But as time passed, his face became darker and darker, at this moment he was like a Wangfu stone, looking at the direction of the princes' camp, waiting was boring, especially if he didn't see the slightest movement of the princes of the coalition army, he was even more irritable, anxiously looked up at the sky, the auspicious time was coming soon, he couldn't wait any longer, clenched his fists, and said in a deep voice: "A few of them don't come to see me, I'll go see them now!" ”

Just when Cao Cao was about to 'rejuvenate the teacher and ask for guilt', there was a sound of hooves in the distance, and soon a fast horse galloped over, turned over and dismounted in front of Cao Cao, and handed over a letter.

Of course, Cao Cao recognized who this person was, and took the letter from the messenger sent by the assassin of Yuzhou, Kong Ling, and opened it, and the words on it were impressive: "Meng De, the old man occasionally feels cold today, and he can't lead the army to ask for Dong, and I hereby tell Meng De, thank you for killing thieves on the battlefield and making meritorious contributions, and bless me in the Han world." ”

Piff!!

Cao Cao wanted to be reprimanded in person, but he had to endure it, gritted his teeth, and returned the letter: "Tell the stabbing history to be good and recuperate." ”

The messenger immediately took his leave and mounted his horse and returned.

"Mengde, what's wrong?" Liu Lan asked.

"Kong Pifu excused himself and didn't come." Cao Cao sneered: "I don't think the rest of the princes will come." At this moment, Cao Cao's heart swelled with an impulse, and he said viciously: "I can't wait to slaughter all these old thieves one by one now!" ”

"Meng De must not be impulsive, but also focus on the overall situation of Dong."

Cao Cao said dejectedly: "I can only say this to De'an, you alone, if you change someone here......"

Cao Cao smiled meaningfully, although he was helpless, but his eyes were full of brilliance, at this moment he saw many people clearly, and he also understood a lot of things. What is dedicated to the Han and what is loyal to the country, it is all bullshit, and now the only people who are really gathering troops with him are De'an and him.

"Mengde, what should we do now?"

"It's too demoralizing to quit." Cao Cao instantly became passionate and generous, and said heroically: "De'an, dare to fight for thieves with me!" ”

"Dare not serve your life!"

"Good, good brother!" Cao Cao was overjoyed, with Liu Lan's 10,000 cavalry, this battle would be easy to handle, he shook his spirits, turned around and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "The banner is displayed, the drummers are ready, as soon as the auspicious time comes, the three armies will set off!" Begging for thieves! ”

"Thief!"

"Thief!" (To be continued......)