After being taken out of Luoyang City by Cao Ren's cavalry, which had been arranged a long time ago.

Cao Cao led a group of remnants of less than 500 defeated generals and began to march towards Qingzhou.

On the way, Xiahoudun came from another direction to meet Cao Cao, accompanied by a burly man, who was eight feet tall, riding on a horse like an iron tower, and carrying two halberds in the cloth belt on the horse.

This man is none other than Dian Wei.

Seeing the comer, Cao Cao hurriedly stepped forward and said, "How is Zhang Taishou?" ”

At this moment, Dian Wei was full of sadness and said: "Taishou was ambushed by Guo Yan's ambush soldiers and has died on the battlefield. ”

Cao Cao sighed: "Zhang Taishou sacrificed his life for the country, and it is all because Cao Cao did not take it upon himself to invite Zhang Taishou to pursue Dong Zhuo together." ”

Dian Wei shook his head and said: "The loyalty of Cao Gong and Taishou can be learned, looking at the princes of the alliance this time, only Cao Gong is a few people who can sincerely show that they can help the Han family, and a temporary defeat is not enough to annihilate what Cao Gong did for the world and the Han family, and everyone in the world will remember Cao Gong and the two of them." ”

At this time, although Cao Cao's face was sad, his heart was calm.

Sure enough, the benefits of this pursuit of Dong Zhuo were revealed at this moment, and despite the defeat, his reputation was greatly enhanced.

Afterwards, Cao Cao asked Dian Wei: "I don't know what the general wants next?" ”

Hearing this, Dian Wei bowed down and knelt down, and said sincerely: "Dian Wei is willing to serve the lord, please take it in." ”

Li Xiaodao silently watched Cao Cao's play on the side, and did not speak, although in history, Dian Wei also chose to follow Cao Cao because Zhang Miao died in battle, but now it is because Cao Cao has long known that this trip will fail, and he also pulled Zhang Miao in order to pull Dian Wei into his command.

Therefore, Xiahoudun led the troops to rescue Zhang Miao, for the sake of Dian Wei, the general.

Cao Cao saw Dian Wei surrendering to the title of lord, and hurriedly rejoiced, and quickly stepped forward to help Dian Wei, and he finally won this rare fierce general who ranked third in Li Xuanji's martial arts list.

With Dian Wei joining, even if there are less than 1,000 soldiers under his command, he is confident enough to go to Qingzhou to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, and then take them for his own use.

Today's coalition of princes, after Cao Cao and Zhang Miao pursued Dong Zhuo, the rest of the generation, such as Yuan Shao and others, were entrenched under the Tiger Prison Pass for less than a few months, and finally returned to the same place.

This time, the princes fought against Dong, especially Cao Cao, who gained the greatest benefit, although he lost nearly 10,000 soldiers, but in terms of the prestige gained, it was nothing.

In the case that the princes did not move forward and wanted to retain their strength, only Cao Cao and Zhang Miao chose to continue to pursue Dong Zhuo, and now only Cao Cao survived, so among the princes, the name of the most loyal Han family naturally fell to Cao Cao.

With the blessing of this fame and people's hearts, Cao Cao's army went all the way to Qingzhou, and everywhere he passed, he recruited troops and bought horses for everything, especially among the clans of the Han Dynasty, they all repeatedly subsidized money and food.

And just a few months after Cao Cao's defeat and rush to Qingzhou, Dong Zhuo's fate was also killed by Lu Bu as Li Xiaodao said.

The power of the Han family was monopolized by Lu Bu and Situ Wang Yun, and then, after these two occupied the palace, only a few days later, Dong Zhuo's Li Dao and Guo Yan attacked Chang'an City again in the name of avenging Dong Zhuo.

Lü Bu fled Chang'an with only a few thousand foot soldiers, and Wang Yun was hanged in Chang'an City, so far, Emperor Han Xian, who had suffered all his life, fell into the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Cao Cao, who heard the news, was convinced of Li Xiaodao's prediction, and couldn't help but worship: "Xuanji, now I finally believe in the strategists of the whole world, you alone are in the first place, you said that Dong Zhuo would be killed by Lu Bu, and now it is really so, and it is really not as expected by your strategy, Wang Yun used a beauty trick!" ”

In this regard, Li Xiaodao just smiled, in this historical world, he is very clear about the changes in the future situation, and the words "anticipating the enemy's aircraft first" are the best interpretation of him.

It is that as long as an individual can understand the future situation, then he will inevitably sit firmly in the position of the world's first strategist.

No matter how demonic Zhuge Kongming, Guo Fengxiao, Xun Yu, Pang Tong, Zhou Yu and other generations are, in the face of an open-minded character who knows the general trend of the future, all they can do is to bow down.

Cao Cao already has his own strategic arrangement, and the first task is to expand his territory from Qingzhou, accumulate his family funds, and collect the more than 300,000 Yellow Turban soldiers for his own use, which will take at least two or three years, so the general trend of the world during this period, such as Li Dao and Guo Yan's first-class movements, is just to pay attention to, and no more other arrangements will be made.

Li Xiaodao's customized strategic route for Cao Cao is just like Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, "accumulating grain, building high walls, and slowly becoming king." ”

Waiting for the future emperor to return to Luoyang, and then welcome the Son of Heaven, at that time, Cao Cao, who has the Son of Heaven in hand, can be said to be the general trend, and then the battle of Guandu as recorded in history to unify the Central Plains, and then to pacify the world.

In fact, the protagonist of the first half of the entire Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Cao Cao, who fought Dong Zhuo and suppressed the Yellow Turban from the beginning, and then Yuan Shu called the emperor, punished Yuan Shu, destroyed Liu Bei, leveled Yuan Shao, and fixed Liu Biao, these battles are the content of the first half of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and it is written that Cao Cao swept away the Central Plains.

The protagonist of the second half is Zhuge Liang, who writes about the success of his southern expedition and the failure of his northern expedition.

And what Li Xiaodao has to do is to let Cao Cao eliminate the defeat of the Chibi War after clearing the Central Plains, until he dominates the world, so that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will end in the first half, and there will be no longer a situation where the world is divided into three later.

Now after Cao Cao begged Dong, it was Qingzhou to suppress the yellow scarves, accept 300,000 yellow scarves for his own use, and slowly enter the right track of development and growth.

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But it is said that the general trend of the world is in chaos after the princes discuss Dong.

Although Dong Zhuo is dead, the Son of Heaven is still in the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yan, but no one will go to the Eighteenth Route Princes to crusade again.

At this time, the princes of the world also noticed that the troubled times were coming, and the Han family had really declined, and they all had different hearts, and they all turned back to their old lands, or defended, or expanded, or plotted......

On the territory of the land of China, many forces can be said to have blossomed everywhere, each enclosing territory, entrenched, and establishing its own small kingdom.

At this time, the world is chaotic, but in the eyes of another group of people, the future trend has begun to become clear.

Runan Ling Mountain.

In a grass school.

"And today, whether it is a dragon or a snake, it has already shown its heads, and the true dragon of the future must be among one of the princes, Kong Ming, who do you think it will be?"

The one who spoke was an old man with blue-eyed crane hair, holding a nine-section bamboo cane and stroking his beard under his chin, as if he was questioning.

Standing in front of him was a thin man, dressed in white, with a dusty temperament, especially those eyes, as if there were stars hidden in them, shining and deep and indescribable.

Zhuge Liang looked at the old man in front of him, who called himself Nanhua Old Immortal, who came to Lingshan five years ago, and seemed to be familiar with his teacher Deng Gongjiu, and after living for a few months, he actually began to teach himself, for him, this person can also be regarded as his teacher.

After Zhuge Liang heard Nanhua Laoxian's inquiry, his eyes turned into the distance, and after groaning, he said: "At that time, the curtain was raised in the troubled times, and Liang couldn't be sure. ”

Nanhua's old fairy looked different, but quickly covered it up, and then changed his question, saying, "Then I don't know who you want to go to?" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "The time has not yet come, wait a few more years, and the teacher will know by then." ”

(End of chapter)