Chapter 10: Loneliness

Ye Zhao watched with some amusement as these people began to criticize Dong Zhuo's atrocities one by one, talking about the last day, how can Dong Zhuo be said to death? Instead of wasting time on scolding, it is better to do something practical, even if they go back to train their troops, they are better than this, so many troops are gathered here, and the cost of money and food for a day of delay is a terrifying number.

Boredom, Ye Zhao leaned on the bed and calculated the grain and grass consumed by the small 300,000 army plus the millions of people who transported grain and grass back and forth, and calculated it a little, not to mention the ration of his own army, even if it was the cost of maintaining this coalition army in the way of ordinary soldiers, the food consumed by the millions of people on the road alone was enough to make a rich state poor.

I'm afraid this battle won't last long.

In this way, the person who is really using practical actions to crusade against Dong Zhuo is probably a Xihe Taishou and Chen Chu Wang Liu Chong who is working hard.

It's a pity, judging from the progress of these people who can fight for half a day at the moment, these two teams have been killed by Dong Zhuo, and they may not be able to beat this side, which is not a good thing, he wants to use Dong Zhuo, but at the same time, he has to oppress Dong Zhuo, his own people are still in the territory under Dong Zhuo's rule, if Dong Zhuo has nothing to do, his own people will be in danger, and he has to find a way to mobilize Dong Zhuo's enthusiasm.

"But I thought of something!" Ye Zhao was wandering the world, calculating the situation in front of him, and the first to arrive in Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao inexplicably led the topic to Ye Zhao: "Li Taishou returned to Yingchuan, but he was squeezed by Ye Hou's words, and it was said that it was sudden, but how did he meet Dong Thief's people?" Now that Dong Thief's men and horses are all cowering in the Luoyang area, they rarely go out of the customs, but they happened to be ambushed on the road that Li Taishou must pass that day, can Ye Hou explain? ”

"Huh?" Ye Zhao raised his head and looked at Qiao Mao blankly: "How do I know?" What does it mean by this? ”

"I suspect that someone fornicated with Dong Thief, and because of resentment Li Taishou's disrespectful words, he leaked Li Taishou's information and killed Li Taishou!" Qiao Mao looked at Ye Zhao with burning eyes and said, "Otherwise, as soon as Li Taishou arrived near Yingchuan, he met Dong Thief's men, which is too much of a coincidence." ”

"That is, you are suspicious of me?" Ye Zhao looked at Qiao Mao with a smile: "Even if it is, how are you doing?" ”

"You ......" Qiao Mao probably didn't expect Ye Zhao to admit it so bluntly, the thousand words he had thought of were blocked in his stomach by Ye Zhao's words at this moment, and he blushed for a while and pointed at Ye Zhao angrily: "Just because of your own personal grudges, you colluded with national thieves to kill the alliance, what kind of face are you born in the world, your father ......"

"Pay attention when you speak~" Ye Zhao didn't know when he had a small crossbow in his hand, aimed at Qiao Mao and smiled: "Treating the son and degrading the father is not the temperament that Coats should have, and besides, I only said that even if it is, which ear have you heard me admit it?" ”

Qiaomao's voice stopped abruptly like a duck choked by the neck.

Yuan Shao closed his eyes, Sun Jian also rubbed his temples, Ye Zhao's crossbow really never left his body, it seemed that Ye Zhao liked to communicate with people in this way.

Cao Cao looked at the small crossbow in Ye Zhao's hand and said with a wry smile: "Ye Hou's crossbow seems to be a little more refined than before. ”

"Well, this kind of crossbow is easy to carry, and it is easier to load crossbow arrows and send arrows, but there is only one point, that is, it is too easy to be damaged, and the bridge is too guarded to continue, bet on the crossbow in Ben Hou's hand, is it damaged?" Ye Zhao smiled and looked at Qiao Maodao.

"Ye Hou had better think about the consequences." Yuan Shu looked at Ye Zhao and said disdainfully: "There are so many people here, how many can you kill with your crossbow arrows?" ”

"Listening to the original meaning, I can't wait to shoot Hashitamori?" Ye Zhao suddenly pulled his gear, and the three-inch-long crossbow arrow burst out of the air, slashing against Qiao Mao's ear, tearing the tent, and I don't know where it went.

"Puff~"

Qiao Mao's face became pale, her legs were weak, and she slipped directly off the Hu bed, looking ahead with her eyes blankly, a foul smell spread, and everyone around her subconsciously avoided it.

"Missed?" Ye Zhao looked at Qiao Mao, then looked at the small crossbow in his hand, smiled and took out a three-inch crossbow arrow from his arms, and loaded it unhurriedly.

"Ye Hou, it's too much, right!?" Yuan Shao looked at Ye Zhao dissatisfiedly and said angrily.

"I just hope you understand something." Ye Zhao looked at everyone, and finally looked at Qiao Mao and said: "Ben Hou is not a cowardly person, if you and I have a grudge, you target me, I have nothing to say, everyone fights with a clear sword and a gun, life and death have their own destiny, you can also find a helper, no matter how big I am." ”

Ye Zhao's gaze moved away from Qiao Mao, and swept over Liu Dai, Kong Ling, Zhang Miao and others one by one, and his tone turned cold: "But if you are not used to seeing Ben Hou, then if you don't look at it, if you want to come to Ben Hou to find some superiority, then don't blame Ben Hou for ignoring the overall situation, this overall situation is not something that Ben Hou can take care of alone, I led the army to ask for Dong, I came for the righteousness, but I was not prepared to run to accept the idleness of waiting, as for you, if you are not used to seeing Ye, you can hold back." ”

"Ningxiang Hou is not angry, and Yuan Wei is just worried about Li Taishou's death and wants to seek justice for him." Kong Rong came up to play a round and said, among the princes, only this old scholar should do what he should do on weekdays, and he did not treat Ye Zhao because of the words of others, in this big tent, except for Cao Cao and a few other people, only he can talk to Ye Zhao.

"Justice? He? When Ye Zhao heard this, he glanced at Qiao Mao with a smile, raised his chin, and teased: "Let's talk about it, then Li Min was really killed by me, what can you do with this look?" He only dared to be rude to himself, he really had this heart, why didn't he go to find Dong Zhuo's trouble? ”

A look of shame flashed on Qiao Mao's face, but when he saw Ye Zhao intentionally or unintentionally aiming the reloaded crossbow at him, his heart twitched, and he turned his head away and didn't dare to look this way again.

"Forget it, since there is no one here to welcome Ben Hou, Ben Hou is busy with military affairs, and I don't want to listen to you count Dong Zhuo's ancestors here, you can continue to scold here, as for the alliance leader, you don't need to find Ben Hou, Ben Hou is not interested, you can decide for yourself." Ye Zhao stood up, stretched his waist, ignored Yuan Shao's ugly face, and walked straight out of the tent, and the surrounding princes avoided it one after another, allowing Ye Zhao to leave.

"Humph!" Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's faces were not very good-looking, Ye Zhao gave up the position of the alliance leader so easily, they should have been happy, but they couldn't be happy at the moment, even if any of them sat on the position of the alliance leader in the end, it felt that Ye Zhao had lost it, and they were just sitting down.

"I heard the name of Ning Xianghou early, and when I saw it today, it was unusual!" Gongsun Chan smiled at everyone.

When the princes heard this, they shook their heads, alliance leader? Everyone who understands knows that even if Ye Zhao sits on, which of these princes will listen to him?

It's just that after Ye Zhao stirred up like this, everyone also felt that it didn't seem to make sense to scold Dong Zhuo there, it was better to say something real.

"Since Meng De is the initiator, Meng De should be the leader of this alliance." Yuan Shao saw that the atmosphere had eased a little, and looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

", how can he be in this position?" Cao Cao hurriedly waved his hand and said, what are you kidding, when there were only four princes at the beginning, it had already given him a headache, and at this moment, the seventeen princes gathered, how could he care? He can see that his background, prestige, and finally the official are the lords, he is not qualified for this, and said with a smile at the moment: "In my opinion, the original and highway are all after the fourth and third dukes, the reputation is heavy, and the scholars return to their hearts, and the choice of the alliance leader should be selected from between the two of them to serve the public." ”

Yuan Shao was very satisfied with Cao Cao's upper path, but he put Yuan Shu side by side with himself, which made Yuan Shao a little unhappy.

After that, there was a debate around the position of the leader of the alliance, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, one is the person Yuan Kui values, and the other is the son-in-law of the Yuan family.

Cao Cao was speechless, and after pushing off the position of alliance leader, he left the big tent and ran to find Ye Zhao, there are some things that he must ask Ye Zhao in person.

"Xiuming, you told me the truth, Li Min's death, was it you who did it?" found Ye Zhao, Cao Cao got straight to the point, in front of everyone, he was called Ye Hou, that was the face of Ye Zhao, but in private, the two were still commensurate with each other.

"Didn't you have a result before?" Ye Zhao looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

"Hey, Hugh is going to hide it from me." Cao Cao sneered: "You have never admitted it before, and you have never denied it, as far as Cao knows, you hide your head and tail like this, I am afraid that it is inseparable from you, you never lie, but you will guide others!" But you didn't admit that you didn't do it, I'm afraid it has nothing to do with you. ”

"You know me so well, aren't you afraid that I will kill people?" Ye Zhao looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

"You're going to kill me?" Cao Cao looked at Ye Zhao without hesitation.

"Why not?" Ye Zhao's crossbow appeared in his hand again, looked at Cao Cao and said, "Meng De wants to gamble?" ”

Cao Cao just sneered, not afraid of Ye Zhao.

"You~" After a long confrontation, Ye Zhao shook his head and withdrew the small crossbow and said: "At this time, you are really not a hero, and it is not a pleasure to kill, when you become a hero, when you and I meet on the battlefield, if there is another opportunity, I will kill you!" ”

"I'm not going to be a hero!" Cao Cao said proudly.

"The world is like chess, you and I are in the game, and many things are involuntarily." Ye Zhao looked at the soldiers who were training in the distance, shook his head and smiled.

"If that's the case, why didn't you kill me at this time?" Cao Cao looked at Ye Zhao and frowned.

"When you become a hero, you will understand." Ye Zhao sighed: "Xiaoxiong is destined to be lonely, it is rare to have a confidant, without you Cao Mengde in this world, it will be much inferior, not to mention ......"

Ye Zhao looked at Cao Cao and smiled: "Don't forget, you are my pawn, I am reluctant to kill you before you still have use value!" ”

After speaking, ignoring Cao Cao, who had a complicated face, Ye Zhao walked straight to his military camp with Zhang Liao and Dian Wei.