Cao Cao knew what he was facing.

When the army was in Gangneung, there were rumors of epidemics from time to time, but at that time it was just a sporadic incident, and he didn't take it to heart, after all, the thousands of miles of expeditions were not adapted, and it was too normal for the northern army to get sick.

But this time was different.

After being stationed in Wulin, a large number of soldiers of the Northern Army began to have a serious epidemic reaction, and those who directly lost their combat strength abounded, and it was said in the army that this was the plague god of Jingxiang, and even more said that it was Cao Cao who went south to provoke the Jiangshen, which made the Cao army suffer a catastrophe.

Cao Cao was suspicious, although he was still calm on the surface, but in his heart he was really wary of his old classmate.

The reason why Cai Mao was willing to obey Cao Cao was completely deterred by Cao Cao's powerful forces. Before Cao Ren's defeat, Cai Mao had already felt Cao Cao's weakness, and began to gradually show a frenzy to provoke Cao Cao, and took advantage of Guan Ping's free coming and going in Jiangling, dug up Jingzhou Mu from Cao Cao, and got the power to sit firmly in Jingzhou.

Now, the Cao army is attacked by the plague god, the whole army is panicked, and what is even worse is that the surrounding shipping ships are under Cai Mao's control, this old classmate is still willing to fight, whether he will turn the spearhead to face Cao Cao is another question.

So Cao Cao praised Cai Mao's previous battles, gave Cai Mao greater autonomy, did not allow Cao Ren to interfere with Cai Mao's decision-making, and urged Cheng Yu to march quickly in order to defeat the Sun-Liu coalition army head-on.

It can be said that this is the hardest and most cowardly battle Cao Cao has fought in his life, and he didn't even feel so much pressure when he was in Guandu, but he still believed that he was the final winner.

He had already given Cai Mao everything he wanted in the name of the imperial court, and he believed that Cai Mao would definitely not be at ease about leaving Liu Bei as an enemy in the world.

As long as there is a little hope of eliminating Liu Bei, Cai Mao will do his best, and this hope is ......

"Prime Minister! The long article is coming! Xun You, who had always been steady, quickly opened Cao Cao's military tent and dragged a man who was soaked and dressed as a fisherman into the tent.

Xu Chu followed behind but did not stop him, and Cao Cao immediately knew that good news had come to the door.

"Cover the door!" Cao Cao waved his hand, rushed to the front quickly, grabbed the fisherman's cold neckline, and said in a trembling voice, "What's wrong, what's wrong!" ”

After the Yuan family, Liu Biao died of illness, Cao Cao really thought that the world could be determined, but he never expected that Liu Bei, who had been forced into a desperate situation by himself, would be able to burst out with such amazing strength and involve himself in a desperate situation, Cao Cao has been desperately trying to keep himself calm these days, and when he saw Chen Qun's entourage, he was still unspeakably surprised, and he couldn't wait to seek the long-awaited good news.

The entourage named Chen Gu was a little flustered under Cao Cao's murderous gaze, Xun You put Chen Qun's book in his hand for him and handed it to Cao Cao, Cao Cao subconsciously took a deep breath, spread out the letter, and read the words on it under the flickering firelight, his hands couldn't help shaking.

"Good, good! I can't imagine that there is such a fierce warrior as Yun Tanzhi in the world, with this person, a lonely thing can be accomplished, and the Han family can be prosperous! ”

The identity of Chen Qun's personal entourage has been recognized by Xun You, and this letter is clearly Chen Qun's handwriting, which clearly says the credit of Yunshan, so that Cao Cao couldn't help but praise angrily and passed the letter to Xun You to watch.

Xun You heard Chen Gu say on the road before that Yunshan surrounded Xiakou, and he didn't need reinforcements to gain the upper hand, and he also sighed that there are such characters in this world, it is really my destiny. But when he opened the letter and looked at it carefully, his face suddenly became gloomy.

Chen Qun's words were full of mockery and unwillingness, and there were obviously many secret notes hidden in the penmanship, indicating that the letter was forced to be written.

Xun You couldn't help sweating, rubbed his hand to the ground and lifted Chen Gu's neckline, and said coldly: "Say, what's going on?" ”

Cao Cao was taken aback, and hurriedly snatched the letter, and he also reflected that Chen Qun's words were not at all his usual bearing.

Could it be ...... Could it be that Yunshan has rebelled?

Chen Gu trembled in fright in front of Cao Cao's murderous gaze, Xun You's delicate face was already full of hideousness, and he almost roared at Chen Gu's face:

"What the hell is going on? What's going on! You mean! ”

The roar of anger shook everyone in Cao Jun's camp and subconsciously shrank their heads, although Cao Cao's voice had not yet been heard, everyone knew that the old man was holding back the monstrous anger.

Although Chen Gu had made sufficient preparations before, he was still pale and almost fainted in front of Cao Cao's terrifying eyes, Cao Cao waved his hand, signaled Xun You to calm down, and asked Xu Chu to send wine and food.

He sat on a bed, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Tell me, what's wrong? Thou hast told the truth, and Lone will not be held accountable. ”

Chen Gu came back to his senses at this time, he quickly kowtowed again and again, and wailed:

"Prime Minister, slaves and maids deserve death, please Prime Minister must save my master."

Chen Gu told Cao Cao that Yunshan had once surrounded Xiakou to attack, but because Zhao Yan, a native of Yingchuan, refused to help, Sun Quan's reinforcements finally arrived, and defeated Yunshan as if they had broken Cao Ren before, Huang Zhong was captured, and Chen Qun was also captured, and now Yunshan was defeated and could only retreat to Shiyang, and the whole army was left with less than 1,000 people.

"Liu Bei, Liu Bei threatened the master to write a letter to the prime minister to report safety, and the slave maid could only send the letter according to what they said for the sake of the master's life, and asked the prime minister to be lenient."

Yunshan is defeated!

Although he felt inappropriate when he heard that Yunshan was attacking Xiakou before, because the war was going too smoothly, Cao Cao's expectations for Yunshan were getting higher and higher, and this time he forcibly sent troops under the condition of insufficient armaments to open up the connection with Yunshan and defeat Sun Liu in one fell swoop.

But now that Yunshan has been defeated, and even Chen Qun has been captured, this is undoubtedly a major blow to Cao Cao's confidence, and the already uncertain situation is even worse.

Xun You's mind turned quickly, and he whispered in Cao Cao's ear:

"Prime Minister, Liu Bei captured Changwen but didn't want people to know, he must have wanted to make a big fuss about Changwen."

The previous character design of Guan Ping's loyal ministers was relatively successful, and Zhao Yanyi's delay of the fighter plane was conclusive, so that the suspicious Cao Cao and the witty Xun You never thought that it was Yunshan's side that had the problem.

They continued to interrogate Chen Gu, who took out another piece of silk from his arms with a sad face.

Before the slave and maid left, Fu Senjun gave this to the slave and maid, and instructed the slave and maid to hand it over to Cai Mao and Cai Dudu. The slave and maid knew that there was some trick in this, so they didn't dare to obey their fate, and wanted to throw it directly in the river, or ...... Let's show the prime minister. ”

Xun You sneered:

"Gongyi is resourceful, knowing that you are loyal to Changwen, and will definitely not give this book to Cai Mao, but it is in line with his heart."

Cao Cao put the letter on the table for Xun You to read, but saw that although they all knew the words on the letter, they couldn't understand it at all.

Xun You watched for a while, and suddenly reacted that this might be a text written according to the pronunciation of the Chudi barbarian language, so he hurriedly found the Jingzhou soldiers to try to decipher the barbarian language.

But the soldiers of the world are playing a game of chess, and the illiteracy rate of the Jingzhou army is also very high, but there are a few barbarian soldiers, but they don't know how to translate the text into Chinese, and it suddenly becomes a stalemate.

"Or ...... Let's ask Dejun to come! Xun Yu hung his head and said.

Cao Cao's relationship with Cai Mao is very delicate now, of course he is unwilling to bow to Cai Mao, but he judged that there must be very important content in this letter, so he could only nod in desperation:

"Okay, I'll go to the Dejun camp in person!"

"Prime Minister......" Xun You smiled bitterly: "It's going somewhere." ”

"If you go alone, can you still kill me?"

"Prime Minister, forget it, be careful in everything."

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That night, Xun You rushed to Cai Mao's camp with Fu Xun's letter and asked for an answer to the text on the letter.

Cai Mao was very polite, he directly called a few Jingzhou soldiers who were proficient in barbarian, and in order to express that he would not interfere, he also asked these Jingzhou soldiers to follow Xun You back to the Cao army camp and answer the contents of the letter in front of Cao Cao.

Cai Mao's attitude made Cao Cao very happy, but the credible content made him feel like falling into an ice cave, and he was a little dazed for a while.

In the letter, Fu Xun was very desperate to tell Cai Mao that he did not want to follow Liu Bei at all, but as Cai Mao had said before, Cao Cao's high-ranking army had Liu Bei's loyal supporters, which allowed Guan Ping to quickly infiltrate Jiangling and kidnap his entire family.

Originally, Yunshan and Huang Zhong's offensive was very smooth, Fu Xun thought that the day of his escape was not far away, but he didn't expect that Yunshan and Huang Zhong suddenly made mistakes one after another, Huang Zhong and Chen Qun were captured together, only Yunshan escaped in a dead battle, and now he may not be able to leave Shiyang because he can't get support.

Fu Xun also angrily scolded Cai Mao in the letter for being too stupid and loyal to Cao Cao, even if he was not killed by Cao Cao, the people arranged by Liu Bei's side to Cao Cao would have to find a way to get rid of Cai Mao sooner or later.

The soldiers in charge of the translation were already colorless in the end, so frightened that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed again and again and did not dare to say more, Cao Cao was shocked and angry, he forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and said in a trembling voice:

"Go on, go on, what's written in the end?"

Several soldiers trembled incessantly, and finally translated the following content tremblingly under Cao Cao's repeated persecution.

"Those celebrities under Cao Cao don't look down on Cao Cao's origin as an unknown person, and they can't get used to his own family and Xiahou's family.

After he killed Kong Rong, these celebrities were afraid that it would be their turn in the future, so they had already begun to look at Sun Liu Mei, but Cao Cao was still in the dark, and even trusted those people, thinking that they would never rebel. ”

"If De Jue doesn't leave, it will be the end of Yunshan, sooner or later he will be isolated and trapped alive, and now he will flee back to Jiangling, at least there is a chance to make peace with Liu Bei!"