Guandu, Cao Cao's camp.

"Lord, you can't retreat anymore, Guandu is defeated again, and our army will have no danger to defend!" Cao Hong hurried to Cao Cao's tent and said in a deep voice to Cao Cao.

"Hmm~" Cao Cao nodded and didn't speak, he naturally saw the stakes clearly, but now Yuan Shao was closed step by step, and learned the previous lesson, no longer fighting a local battle with Cao Cao, but gathering superior forces, step by step, uprooting the strongholds of Cao's army one by one, making Cao Cao miserable.

What a headache!

Cao Cao rubbed his temples, although before the war, Cao Cao and a group of strategists degraded Yuan Shao to nothing, but in fact, it was just inspiring, and if you really fought each other, you could find out how powerless you were in the face of Yuan Shao, and the elite soldiers and fierce generals could not resist the number of soldiers and the number of generals, although Cao Cao had a lot of talents, but even if the abilities of these people were fully exerted, Yuan Shao only needed to gather heavy troops to crush him, and Cao Cao had no choice.

The most important thing is that Cao Cao's grain and grass have been exhausted at this time, even if Yuan Shao's grain and grass have been successfully intercepted several times, but those grains and grasses are insignificant to Yuan Shao, not enough to hurt the root cause, but for Cao Cao, it is also a drop in the bucket, especially after the success of the last grain robbery, Yuan Shao is divided into more than a dozen routes to escort the grain and grass from different routes every time, which often costs a lot of money, but the gain is very little.

Yuan Shao, it's not as easy to deal with as he said!

"Report~" In a long voice, a herald came to the tent and said loudly into the tent: "Lord, Guangling is urgent!" ”

"Guangling?" When Cao Cao heard this, his expression moved: "Quick!" ”

Cao Hong nodded, walked outside the tent, took the letterhead from the herald's hand, and handed it to Cao Cao.

Outside the tent, Guo Jia and Cheng Yu came together and bowed to Cao Cao, but saw Cao Cao staring at the bamboo slips with dead eyes and ignored the two.

"What?" Guo Jia leaned over to Cao Hong and wondered.

"There is an urgent report from Guangling." Cao Hong lowered his voice and said in a low voice.

Guangling?

Guo Jia and Cheng Yu were slightly stunned when they heard this, then glanced at each other, did not speak again, and sat at Cao Cao's hand and looked at Cao Cao.

After a long time, Cao Cao sighed and put down the bamboo slip in his hand.

"But Sun Ce was defeated?" Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao and said in a deep voice.

"Hmm." Cao Cao sighed and said with a forced smile: "How did Feng Xiao know? ”

"Although Lu Bu is brave and unstrategic, but since the battle of Xiapi, there is something strange, the lord and recall, the battle of Xiapi, how can Lu Bu find the granary of our army? Where the granary is, even we don't know how to let alone others? If it is a coincidence, then after intercepting and killing Xu Chu, and then Chen Deng Quyang was captured, every time, then Lu Bu seems to be able to easily find the target and make a move calmly, let the minister guess, this time that Sun Lang is probably also killed or seriously injured by Lu Bu after being alone, right? Guo Jia smiled.

Although Cao's army withdrew from Xuzhou, he knew the intelligence of Xuzhou well, if it weren't for Sun Ce's raid on Tanglin Pavilion, Liu Bei's troops Shouchun, and being able to contain Lu Bu, Cao Cao would not dare to set off to the front line in the case of instability in the rear.

"But in this way, without Jiangdong's containment, only Liu Bei is afraid that it will be difficult to contain Lu Bu!" Cao Cao sighed.

Cheng Yu also nodded, Liu Bei is indeed a masterpiece, when Liu Bei was in Xuchang, he also advocated killing Liu Bei, but if it is placed on the battlefield, then it is a different matter, with the rabble that Liu Bei has gathered now, there is really no chance of winning in a decisive battle with Lu Bu.

"If I were Lu Bu, I would only need a small number of elites to contain that Liu Bei, and I would ride straight into Xuchang at this moment." Guo Jia pondered: "Then Sun Ce is in a hurry to break through Guangling, I'm afraid it is also with this idea. ”

"This ......" Cheng Yu heard this, and said in disbelief: "Lu Bu is just a schemist, will he make such a decision?" ”

"No Tricks?" Guo Jia shook his head and sighed: "After the battle of Xiapi, it will not be the same, if it is really a resourceless man, can he regain control of Xuzhou in such a short period of time?" Forgive Jia's vain words, even if our army occupies Xuzhou, it may not be able to govern Xuzhou as it is now, my lord, this matter must be guarded against! ”

Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully and said: "Pass my military order, order Cao Ren not to join our army, but lead the people of the headquarters back to Xuchang to assist Wen Ruo in defense, and then pass the order to Xuchang to strictly prevent Lu Bu from sneak attack." ”

The Son of Heaven, he really can't afford to lose, and even the importance of the Son of Heaven, for Cao Cao, is still on the victory or defeat of this battle, if he loses the Son of Heaven, he will win the battle, but also in vain, Cao Cao is now located in the center of the princes, almost every prince can beat him, the reason why he was able to be safe and sound before is because he holds the Son of Heaven in his hands, and can make the princes attack each other in the name of righteousness, such as making Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu attack each other, making Guanzhong generals contain and merge states, making Zang Ba contain Qingzhou, and making Sun Ce and Liu Bei contain Lu Bu.

But if there is no righteousness of the Son of Heaven in hand, although the princes have made enmity with each other, if it is profitable, there will be no hesitation to fight Cao Cao again.

"Whoa!" When Cao Hong heard this, he agreed, and turned around to arrange for the herald to convey the news, before Yuan Shao had ordered someone to attack Xuchang, Cao Cao sent Cao Ren to intercept it, and now he has won, he should have returned to the camp to resume his life, but now it seems that Cao Ren needs to return to Xuchang.

"Lord, then this battle ......" Cheng Yu looked at Cao Cao, now that the army is running out, I am afraid that this battle will be lost if it continues to be fought, so it is better to make peace for the time being.

Cao Cao hesitated, looked at Guo Jia, but saw Guo Jia shook his head slightly, this battle is also very critical to Cao Cao, if he loses, I am afraid that he will be overwhelmed by Yuan Shao in the next three years, and it is not impossible to be swallowed up by Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao sighed, shook his head, and said, "Wait for now." ”

When Cheng Yu heard this, he stopped talking, and the atmosphere in the tent was silent for a while......