Chapter Eighty-Four: Murder and Punishment
Cao Cao fainted directly from Tao Ying's letter, and when Cao Cao woke up from bed, it was already night. Cao Ren and other generals were all there, and everyone read the letter written by Tao Ying. Seeing that Cao Cao woke up, they all knelt on the ground and begged to lead the troops to fight Tao Ying.
Cao Cao's face was weak, and even his hair turned gray in an instant, as if he had grown old in an afternoon. If you kill someone than punish your heart, you won't really let him die, only if you are afraid, that is, you are really afraid. Tao Ying wanted to completely break Cao Cao's heart, so that he would never dare to fight with him again.
He didn't want to kill Cao Cao, first, he didn't have the ability to kill Cao Cao. The reason is that Cao Cao has too many generals, and even if he finishes all his generals, he can only lose with Cao Cao.
Second, it doesn't do him much good if he kills Cao Cao, if Cao Cao dies, he will no longer be able to budget for this world. Now that Huainan Yuan Shu is rising rapidly, and there is a powerful Yuan Shao in the north, Cao Cao is dead, and he will directly face these two heroes, is he sure that he will defeat them?
And if he finishes injuring the soldiers and horses, not to mention that Liu Bei will come to annex him, if Yuan Shu comes, he will definitely be defeated, and then Pengcheng, Xiapi and Guangling, which he has been running for so long, will be reduced to other people's land.
And now the most powerful person in the world is not Cao Cao, but Yuan Shao in the north and Yuan Shu in the south, and even Wenhou Lu Bu who came over in the middle, he can't deal with it. Therefore, at the end of this heroic and powerful Han Dynasty, he could only unite with Cao Cao, the most potential small force, in order to keep Xuzhou in the next storm, so as to plot the world.
And what Cao Cao was afraid of was not just that Lu Bu had attacked his camp, but that he recognized Tao Ying's strength. Tao Ying's strength is not his strength, but he seems to know everything about himself, and before he can untie his belt, Tao Ying knows that he is going to.
In the future, if he was a neighbor with such an unpredictable person, how could he live comfortably? That person's budget for the future is as if he has just experienced it, and now that he has just received the news, he already knows it in advance of himself, how can he have a chance of winning in the face of such an opponent?
Cao Cao was listless and wanted to sit up from the bed, but as soon as he got up, he suddenly felt that his body had no strength at all, and he fell on the bed with a pop.
"Is it true that you want to kill me Cao Cao? I don't believe it, I don't believe it, I don't believe he can count anything! ”
Cao Cao kept waving his hands and struggled, and the generals next to him knelt beside the bed and looked at Cao Cao distressedly. Next to Cao Cao, the great strategist Xi Zhicai, after repeatedly looking at Tao Ying's letter, he suddenly said to Cao Cao: "No, my lord, the sky will not die, my Yanzhou also!" ”
The generals turned their heads and glared at Xi Zhicai, at this time, this sick person still had the heart to gossip. Xi Zhicai hurriedly came to Cao Cao's side and said, "Lord, since the second prince is so expected, why do you still write this letter to the lord?" ”
"He, he just wants to humiliate me, humiliate me for breaking my promise with him last time!"
Cao Cao coughed and replied, he also began to hold a grudge against Tao Ying, this person who made himself hold a grudge so much!
Xi Zhicai shook his head and said: "No, I don't think the second son wants to rule the lord to death!" ”
Cao Ren next to him thought about it after hearing it and said: "Yes, lord, if he wants to kill the lord, he will definitely send a large army to pursue us and drag us all the time, and when the time comes, we will be defeated, but why should he tell us?" He told us that there must be something else! ”
In Tiger Ben City, a rainy day is coming. The originally somewhat sunny sky suddenly blew a dark cloud, the dark clouds quickly gathered to cover the sky, even the strong wind also hung up, and Xuzhou, which had been in the sky for a long time, finally began to rain heavy summer rain.
Cao Cao lay on the bed and listened to the sound of wind and rain outside, and carefully recalled Xi Zhicai's words in his heart: "Lord, he doesn't want to cure the lord to death......
Cao Cao took out the letter written by Tao Ying and looked at it, read it and looked at it, and he really didn't know what Tao Ying wanted to do, but when he saw the sentence "Can you obey me today?" At the beginning, Cao Cao suddenly realized, he began by calling himself a person who did not believe in his words, and at the end he wrote that he was angered by his words and untrustworthiness, is his purpose in writing this letter really to make himself admit defeat?
The rainy days have been non-stop, the situation in Yanzhou is getting more and more tense, if you don't go back, Lu Bu stays in Yanzhou for one more day, Yanzhou will gradually settle down, and then Yanzhou will not be your own Yanzhou!
Xu Sheng's soldiers and horses, who had originally planned to arrive at Lanling as soon as possible, had to slow down their march because of the arrival of the rainy season. Here, Yu Ban also led more than 20,000 troops to come towards Huben, and although it rained, the soldiers did not stop. Because Tao Ying knew that if he had to stop in the wind and rain, then Cao Cao would definitely take advantage of the rainy season to escape.
Looking at the arrival of the heavy rain, Liu Bei, who was originally ready to attack, had to lead the troops back to Tan County to garrison, taking advantage of the wind and rain, Liu Bei asked the soldiers to keep building the city wall, many soldiers had a fever because of the rain, because there were not enough medicinal materials, and more and more soldiers died.
The scouts received news from Xiapi and Wu Yuan that Tao Ying had entered the East China Sea with 50,000 troops. Tao Ying never reported to Tan County, and everyone in Tan County was in danger, they thought that Tao Ying was going to report the hatred of Zhang Fei who broke his promise last time!
Tao Ying kindly rescued Tan County, and he followed Liu Bei's suggestion and led 5,000 troops to be stationed outside the city, forming a rivalry with Liu Bei. But he didn't want to, the enemy attacked Tan County, he risked his life to save it, the enemy took the opportunity to surround him, Zhang Fei actually watched the excitement in the city, and his whole army was destroyed.
When he heard the news again, the second prince had already placed 50,000 soldiers on the border line.
So in this July, the three forces in Xuzhou are all different, which makes Tao Ying feel very difficult. He wanted to fight Cao Cao to the death with all his might, but he was afraid that Liu Bei would take advantage of his war to lead his troops to attack Xiapi, after all, Xiapi was originally his sphere of influence, and there were still so many families who were still worried about the treasures they had looted!
But if you don't fight Cao Cao, you will miss this opportunity again, and I'm afraid there will never be another chance.
Just as Tao Ying was hesitating on the march, suddenly a letter was sent from Hu Ben in front of him, the letter was written on the brocade, Cao Cao had no paper in his hand, and put the brocade into a bamboo tube to avoid being wet by the rain.
Tao Ying took shelter from the rain in a village, and the soldiers escorted the messenger to a broken thatched house where Tao Ying lived, the windows of the thatched house were gone, but fortunately, the roof was not leaking, there was a big crack on the side of the earthen wall, and the wind was blowing at the door of the house, which was a little cold.
There was a fire in the house, and the messenger was escorted to Tao Ying, who pointed to the stool next to him and said, "Sit down!" The messenger was a little surprised that Tao Ying was not a little tall when he first met, but so approachable, like a young friend.