"The eldest prince has been in the Northland Army all these years?"

The torches at the head of the city were swaying in the evening breeze, and the two people walking side by side walked into the torches and the light stopped, and after Yu Ban asked this question, the eldest prince Cao Ang beside him did not answer, but just nodded.

Yu Ban's eyes stared straight at Cao Ang's side face in the dusk without blinking, and his tone was aggravated: "Then the eldest prince is here to persuade the last general?" ”

"What does General Yu think of outside the city?" Cao Ang didn't look at him, looked at the barracks with the bonfire and whispered, and then turned his head: "I came down all the way down from Taihang Mountain, and what I saw was that the people were displaced, and the family moved south to leave their hometown, the spring sowing season was missed, and there was no harvest in the autumn, how many hungry people will there be, does the general know?" ”

"I don't know how the end will be! But who is responsible for all this? If Gongsun Zhi did not move south, how could the people be displaced? Yu Ban waved his hand fiercely, and his voice was hoarse: "The eldest prince has been in the north for many years, but he has never returned to the Central Plains, is his heart also for that grandson?" ”

A series of questions made Cao Ang's heart heavy, and the complexity was difficult to speak.

He lowered his voice: "Ang is not to anyone, after the return of the Dudu Xizheng, and then look back at the continuous fighting in the south, I feel worthless for the people of the world, but also for the soldiers of my Cao family, they did not die in the honor of expanding the territory, nor did they die to protect their home and country, but they died on their compatriots, it is an unspeakable grievance." ”

"...... many people can't get out of a state and a county in their lifetime, and they have a higher heart for the world, but this world is not only my big man's land, over the mountains, deserts, there are countless countries and nationalities, why let me be a big man, one by one, cannibalism?"

The torch shone on the forbidden face, and after a moment of silence, he said: "What the eldest prince said, the last general has some experience, but not everyone in the world has been to the West, not everyone has seen the scene over there, here...... still has to fight, Gongsun stopped going south, causing thousands of people to suffer, he wants to be the king, he wants to take the Central Plains, this is the highlight of the wolf's ambition, the son is the eldest son of the lord, but he said this, it is really a little undeserved. ”

"General Yu still doesn't understand." Cao Ang raised his head to look at the night sky, and then took a deep breath: "The northern land is not just an irresistible soldier as you thought, there are many things you haven't seen, just Pan Feng's Fengxiang army can abuse this city more than ten times, Zhao Zilong's white wolf ride, Yan Rou's black mountain ride, can fight in the ice and snow, can we?" The Central Plains can be cut off from grain, and the north can also be cut off from ox tendons and war horses, and when the time comes, the soldiers and horses of the governor can be fed by war, and we have no bows and arrows and war horses, so what can we fight with them? Fighting people, he still has 170,000 warriors in his hands, from different ethnic groups in the West and the grassland, and we can be exhausted by changing tricks. ”

The wind blew through the city, and the cloak rolled up. Cao Ang lowered his head and looked at Yu Ban, who was silent, and spoke again.

"..... General Yu, you are my father's general, you have a good command of the army, and you should not be compromised here, Ang also knows that you are loyal in your heart, and I don't want you to fight against the soldiers behind you and the elite of the governor, and then ...... All buried in this city, that makes no sense, if the world can be unified as soon as possible, how many people in the world can live in peace? ”

Speaking of this, he arched his hand heavily: "Please also ask General Yu to give yourself, give the soldiers behind you a way to live, and also reserve more vitality for the Han Dynasty, no matter what happens in the future, there will be a merit for the general in the merit book." ”

Although Yu Ban is a martial artist, he is also a quick-witted person, today, who is stronger in terms of military might, it is naturally the white wolf prince Sun Zhi in the north, and the number of soldiers is also extremely large, if there is enough grain, or get the rich land of Jizhou, it will really have the posture of pushing the world. Now that Cao Ang's words fell, he felt that his shoulders were heavy, as if he could see the moment when the Cao family in the Central Plains was in danger at this moment.

He looked at the military camps in Youzhou and Liaodong outside the city, and let out a difficult low from the silence: "...... Why did you come back, eldest son! ”

"Then does General Yu know how Ang survived from Wancheng?" Cao Ang's voice was low, he turned his gaze to the city wall in front of him, the soldiers patrolled in his line of sight, and the deputy general Zhu Ling also looked over not far away, and after a while, he let out a long breath: "...... I won't go into details, but I came back ..... just because the Cao family would not fall, and the loyal ministers and good generals would not be eliminated! ”

Cao Ang arched his hand again: "General Yu should think about it carefully, and Ang will take the first step." The voice was steady and firm, turned around and strode towards the city, when Zhu Ling hurriedly chased after him, Yu Ban over there raised his head, opened his mouth and then closed his teeth and gritted his teeth, quickly caught up with two steps, arched his hand heavily, and knelt down on one knee: "The last general is willing to go to the soup for the eldest prince, and he will not give up!" ”

"...... for my Han people!" The figure descending the stone steps turned his face and a gentle smile appeared on his face.

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On the second day of the meeting between the two of them, the Liaodong Army and the Youzhou Army besieging the city withdrew, and the entire 100,000 soldiers and horses were advancing towards the south.

In the south, Cao's army gathered a huge military momentum, surging winding between the roads to the north, galloping fast horses, scouts continue to pass information back and forth, or disperse the refugees who stand in the way, since Gongsun Zhidong Road soldiers and horses went south, the exposed soldiers did bring a lot of pressure to Cao Cao, on the way every day came the news of the fall of the city, so that he had a headache unbearable, many years of head wind, but also more and more serious, at present, it can only hold on.

"This time I'm really going to meet Gongsun Bingrong."

"...... you say, how does he compare to Yuan Shao?"

The gray-haired old man rode on a war horse, and the clan generals around him, such as Xiahou Yuan, Cao Chun, Cao Hong, and Xiahou Dun, didn't know how to answer this question, and no one could answer it. Once upon a time, they fought side by side, fought Xuzhou Lu Bu together, killed Yuan Shao's 200,000 army, and embarked on the western expedition together.....

"I don't want to, but the world is impermanent."

He muttered to himself, looking at this brilliant sky, no one knows who will win and who will lose in this big war, and how many people will survive, but no matter what, the land that Cao Cao has worked hard for most of his life to fight down, how can he easily give it away, and if the war resumes, he will still have to kill one after another.

Even if it's an old man.