His daughter Cao Xian did not send troops, but let Ma Chao and Wang Shuang sneak attack Zhang Liao's rear, resulting in Zhang Liao's defeat, and the news that the Kwantung Portal Tiger Prison Pass was also lost, made Cao Cao faint for the second time.

There was a civil strife in Jiangdong, and it was precarious, and seeing that the three-legged tripod was about to be missing, Cao Cao fainted for the third time.

After three faints, Cao Cao's body deteriorated and became weaker and weaker.

Cao Cao got up from the bed, his face pale, as if he had aged dozens of years all of a sudden.

"Lingju, you said that I am going to die?"

Lingju stroked the qin, and the sound of the qin slowly came out without fluctuation, and said softly: "People, they will die when they should die, why think so much." ”

"Hehe, hehe." Cao Cao laughed dryly: "Yes, people are going to die in the end, if you are afraid of dying and anxious to die, I am afraid that you will die faster." ”

Cao Cao said twice with a smile, and suddenly sighed, his face showing sadness: "But I don't want to die, I'm really afraid of death."

I, Cao Cao, started as a captain of Xiao Cavalry, fought the Yellow Turban, stabbed Dong Zhuo, sent a letter to the thief, defeated Lu Bu, destroyed Yuan Shu, crisscrossed the Central Plains, and swept Hebei.

At that time, I clearly felt that I should be able to do a great career, and I should become a successful person in history.

However, in the battle of Guanzhong, the defeat was great, and I achieved the rise of Liu Zhang, and then Xuchang and Yingshui were defeated again and again, and this time the Sixth Route Army besieged the Sichuan army, and was defeated, losing more than 200,000 troops.

All lost to Liu Zhang, I, Cao Cao, dominated the world in the first half of my life, how could I die in failure? I'm not reconciled. ”

"Liu Zhang is a hero, and he is a hero in the world with you, but he is domineering and introverted. More principled and purposeful. You can't win him. Lingju stroked the piano and said lightly.

"Even you say that?" Cao Cao looked at Lingju. There was no anger on his face, but countless unwillingness.

"I've only seen him once, and only one night, I say this about him, believe it or not, it's up to you, I know you won't believe it, because your domineering has been released, and you will lose on this basis."

What came to Lingju's mind was that he was taken away by the Huns. The night that he repaid Liu Zhang's kindness.

Because of the impression of that night, Liu Zhang, a king, was seriously ill, but he didn't care too much, but cared more about his own ideals, the continuation of the decree he promulgated, which is not something that many kings can do, at least Cao Cao didn't do it.

In Lingju's heart, Cao Cao is a hero, but he is too aggressive, but he is aggressive. Not so principled.

And Liu Zhang seems to be much more restrained than Cao Cao and has done everything. Give everything, no matter what you face, at least on the surface, the clouds are light and light, and the kind of principle and persistence for the sake of ideals are incomparable to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao also squeezed the clan at the beginning, but there was no intention of suppressing the clan of his cronies and civil and military, as far as Lingju knew, Liu Zhang's brother and children were killed, and the Sichuan army went all the way, no matter when, even if there was a large-scale rebellion of the clan, it never compromised, and never gave up the new policy.

On the other hand, Cao Cao, at the beginning of the suppression of the clan was eclectic and meritocracy, to put it nicely, not only the cronies of the clan were not suppressed, but those who were officials from poor families, including Guo Jia, were excluded.

Even if Cao Cao wanted to reuse the Hanmen in his heart, he was still hindered by the power of the world and turned a blind eye to those suppressions, which was too far from Liu Zhang.

Later, Guanzhong was defeated, and the world clan was fully enabled, although there were many hardships, but Lingju thought about it for a while, if the Sichuan army was defeated, would Liu Zhang change his new policy?

Lingju doesn't care about political affairs, just evaluates people, Liu Zhang is just a passerby for Lingju, but this passerby is very good, if you compare it with Cao Cao next to him, it is indeed better.

Lingju didn't answer Cao Cao, but Cao Cao already knew Lingju's answer, and Cao Cao felt very sad that Lingju didn't believe in him.

"No, it's not the last moment yet, and it's not certain who will win and who will lose."

At this time, Guo Jia walked in from the outside, since the defeat of the Cao army, Cao Cao and Cao Chong's plan failed, the Sichuan army has not been weakened, it is still the biggest threat to the Cao army, the core of the clan and the Cao army must be united, then there is nothing to use Guo Jia.

"My lord, the army has been reorganized, and it has not encountered too many obstacles." Guo Jia said to Cao Cao.

The last time the Cao army was defeated, the Yuyang Turquoise cavalry was almost wiped out, and the 450,000 army lost half, and now the strength of the Cao army has become less than 400,000 again, and the difference with the Sichuan army is even greater.

The Sichuan army marched into the Central Plains, and Cao Cao planned to let Yanzhou withdraw across the Yellow River, but the Sichuan army did not enter Yanzhou, and after looting in Yanzhou, retreated to Hujiao Pass and Yingshui.

Cao Cao nodded slightly, this defeat, the strength of Cao's army was weakened again, but it was not without benefits.

Most of the 450,000 troops were clan troops, and the system was almost completely broken up and had to be reorganized, and Cao Cao took the opportunity to let the core generals replace the vacancy.

Because the Sichuan army is now strong, the clan does not dare to split with Cao Cao, so they can only obey, and the Cao army is proud to reorganize the clan army, and now most of those new armies are in the hands of Cao Cao's henchmen and generals.

Coupled with the original army of more than 100,000 descendants, Cao Cao finally regained power.

With these 400,000 troops under control, Cao Cao finally felt that he had a little capital.

Guo Jia said again: "But my lord, the clan did not resist, I'm afraid it's just because of the Sichuan army, they must be resentful in their hearts, and we need to take precautions." ”

The family poured out all the wealth, and each family was evacuated, creating more than 400,000 troops, losing half of them in the first war, and then being reorganized by the Cao army's cronies and generals, it is strange that they are not resentful.

Now the Hebei clan in the Central Plains, all the property and people are given to Cao Cao for free.

"Prevention is certain, but I don't believe that when the Sichuan army is strong, what will they dare to do, unless they want to burn the jade, if the Sichuan army dominates the world, my Cao Cao is dead, and they all have to be buried with the whole clan." Cao Cao said hatefully, in fact, Cao Cao had endured those children of the clan for a long time in his heart.

It was only because he had to rely on it that he kept compromising, and sometimes Cao Cao saw those officials and generals of the world who were obviously for personal gain and pretended to be righteous and awe-inspiring, and they were eager to order to be killed.

"Liu Zhang led 100,000 troops to conquer Xiahetao, where is it now?" Cao Cao frowned, and said, "Fengxiao, do you say that Cao Zhang can stop the Sichuan army?" ”

Guo Jiayu said: "The Sichuan army has reached the west of Luoyang, is marching to the north, along the way, whether it is a general or a family, have abandoned the city and fled, Hanoi to Pingyang, everywhere are migrating people of the world, because most of the strong men joined the army, leaving the old and weak women and children, and a large number of people of the world died halfway.

In addition to the 100,000 expeditionary army, Liu Zhang left Fan Lixiang, the commander of the Shenwei Army, to lead the army to cooperate with the civilian officials to take over the city. ”

"The people don't run away, the people don't run away, the people don't become refugees, and the people die in the mountains, which is also an eternal anecdote." Cao Cao said casually, but after saying this, Cao Cao suddenly felt something.

Cao Cao himself could understand why this situation occurred, coupled with the fact that he had always been tied up by the world clan and knew the harm of the world clan, Cao Cao suddenly felt in his heart that what Liu Zhang did was really right.

If Liu Zhang did the right thing, then what did he do?

Cao Cao remembered the Jiangzhou massacre, when the news came, he laughed again and again, and all the civil and military officers felt that Liu Zhang was killing himself.

But now that I think back to my mentality at that time, it was just because I felt that the people in power should compromise, should make concessions to them, and should turn a blind eye to their monopoly on officialdom and suppression of cold land annexation.

A person who fears the powerful and laughs at the one who resists the powerful is ridiculous enough.

What's even more ridiculous is that now the one who resists the powerful has risen, while the one who fears the powerful has been defeated after so many years of being tied up by the world, isn't it a great irony?

Thinking of the process of the massacre from Jiangzhou to Jingyi Erzhou, every time I felt that Liu Zhang was naïve, and the other clans were both resentful and equally felt that Liu Zhang had brought about his own death.

And when it came to the Xuchang massacre, whether it was Cao Jun or the world clan, they only trembled, but in fact, this massacre was no different from the previous massacre.

"If Liu Zhang is right, then am I wrong? If the land order of the four imperial examinations is right, is it wrong to confront the Sichuan army by yourself? Is that hindering the development of Dahan? ”

Cao Cao had never thought about this problem before, but after this defeat, Cao Cao's body and mood have changed.

This is not a struggle for hegemony among princes, but a person who stands at the forefront of history, and the war generated by the stubborn forces that hinder the development of history is the same as the war when the Qin Dynasty swept Liuhe and promoted the new policy of the Shang Dynasty to the world, which was the transition from slavery to feudalism.

And Cao Cao sadly found that he had become the stubborn force that hindered the development of history.

"No, no one can say who is right until the outcome is decided." Cao Cao shook his head suddenly, trying not to let himself fall into it, trying to tell himself to regain his fighting spirit.

This battle of the Lower Hetao is a new beginning.

Guo Jia continued: "Lord, this battle of Xiahetao is very important, I have already guessed the purpose of the Sichuan army to send troops to Xiahetao, Liu Zhang is paving the way for the unification of the world, and the battle of Xiahetao is over, and the Sichuan army will launch a war to unify the world."

The Xiahetao is close to the annexation of the state, and the annexation of the state has no danger to defend the direction of the Xiahetao, and the capture of the Xiahetao by the Sichuan army is equivalent to the capture of the annexation of the state, so that the Sichuan army not only avoids the trouble of crossing the Yellow River.

Moreover, stationed in Taihang Mountain, it can be attacked and retreated, and it can be defended, directly threatening our capital Yecheng, which is the strategy of Liu Zhang and Huang Yueying to conquer the world in one fell swoop, which can be described as the key point and extremely powerful.

Therefore, in this battle, we can only win, not lose, as long as we defeat the Sichuan army, at least the pace of the Sichuan army's domination of the world can be postponed for five years, and the Sichuan army has to cross the Yellow River from Yanzhou, so that our buffer time will be longer. (To be continued......)