When the sky was already slightly bright, Cao Cao led the army to the outside of the mountain dock outside Xingyang City.

The terrain of the mountain dock is high all around, the middle is concave, and the high places are covered by wild flowers and weeds, Cao Cao saw this, frowned slightly, and waved his hand to order Cao Jun to stop, no longer to step forward.

Li Dian behind him immediately stepped forward, side by side with Cao Cao, staring at the mountain dock, his expression was also quite solemn.

"What can Man Chengke see in the terrain here?" Cao Cao asked seemingly unintentionally, but his eyes were fixed on Li Dian, as if he wanted to test Li Dian's military ability.

After pondering for a long time, Li Dian replied respectfully: "In the mountain dock, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you set up an ambush here, you will definitely be able to occupy the right time and place." ”

"Hmm. Not bad, go on. Cao Cao's expression did not change, he looked around and asked indifferently.

Hearing this, Li Dian didn't answer for a while, his eyes were full of complicated colors, if he was according to his own thoughts, he would not agree to send troops to Xingyang at all, this was basically sending himself into the tiger's mouth.

Even if Dong Jun is defeated, it is a tiger with broken teeth, and it can still hunt with sharp claws, and now, Dong Jun is a tiger with broken teeth, although it has no teeth, but its claws are not broken, and it is not something that a prince can eat.

Looking at Li Dian's demeanor, Cao Cao didn't know Li Dian's thoughts, and then laughed softly: "Man Cheng, the things of the world, there must be gains, and I know your thoughts, it is nothing more than not supporting this army at all, but if you don't take this opportunity to leave Yuan Shao's control, I'm afraid that one day I will be killed by Xu Zisheng with a knife, do you understand?" ”

Suddenly, Li Dian's heart was shocked, as if he had figured out why Cao Cao did this, taking advance as retreat is not necessarily a bad thing, Li Dian, who instantly stretched his brows, clasped his hands into fists, and replied loudly: "I understand." ”

Cao Cao smiled knowingly, nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his big hand, the little commander behind him understood, and hurriedly took a small team of armor soldiers out and went directly into the mountain dock to explore the way, in case there was an ambush.

After a long time, the little commander returned with the team of armor soldiers, and replied: "Tell the general, no ambush soldiers have been found in the mountain dock. ”

Cao Cao nodded when he heard this, waved his hand to signal the little commander to retreat, and then kept looking straight ahead, and whispered to Li Dian: "There must be ambushes in the mountain dock, but you must enter to get rid of Yuan Shao. ”

"No." Li Dian replied with a gloomy face.

At this time, Li Dian was very unhappy in his heart, his commander was disloyal, but he didn't find out, and he almost died in the hands of his own people for no reason, but after thinking about it, he could use this to find out the traitor, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.

"Let's go!"

Cao Cao gave an order, rode his horse forward, and the army suddenly started again, heading towards the mountain dock.