In the Wei army camp on the other side of the Han River, Cao Cao was holding a Yuan Ri banquet on a high platform.

Today is the first day of the first month of the 25th year of Jian'an.

The first day of the first month of the summer calendar is also known as "New Year's Day." ”

Because today is the beginning of the year, the beginning of the four o'clock, and the beginning of the month, it is also called the "three yuan." ”

Yuan Ri can be said to be the most important festival of the Chinese nation since the Han Dynasty.

At this time of the year, various forms of celebrations are held from the royal family to the common people.

And because of the particularity of the Yuan Day, the rulers of successive dynasties also gave this day a special political significance.

The central court held a large banquet every day on the first day, and at the large banquet, the king gathered his ministers and rejoiced together.

The holding of a grand Yuan Day banquet can not only help the king show his kindness and stabilize people's hearts, but also a way to reflect the prosperity of his talents and national strength.

If it is said that when Cao Cao did not open the state and founded the state, he may not be interested in holding such a banquet.

But since he established the Wei State, he has been regarded as a king, and he is deeply aware that this kind of large-scale banquet with his ministers can sometimes play a role no worse than tens of thousands of troops.

So although Cao Cao is still in the army, when the ministers asked whether to hold a banquet on the first day, Cao Cao replied with the word "can".

In order to organize this banquet, all the Wei ministers in the Wei army began to prepare intensively under the organization of Cao Cao's close minister Dong Zhao.

Dong Zhao followed Cao Cao's intention to set up a banquet platform several zhang high on the bank of the Han River.

Although the scale of this banquet platform cannot be compared with the Tongque platform in Yecheng.

The degree of extravagance is even more humble compared with Tongquetai.

However, it is not easy to quickly build this high platform in a short period of time.

After building this high platform, Cao Cao inspected it under Xu Chu's escort.

Although in order to complete it quickly, except for the important part of the stone foundation, most of the other parts of the platform are made of wood, which is not grand enough.

But he was very satisfied with Dong Zhao's ability to build such an extraordinary platform in a short time.

He personally ordered this high platform to be "Ling Han Tai." ”

Ling has the meaning of being taller.

Cao Cao named this high platform where the Yuan Day banquet was held Ling Hantai, which has two meanings.

One is this high platform, which is seen on the foundation next to the Han River, so it is Ling Han.

Ling also has the meaning of violating and passing.

On the other side of the 100,000 Wei army, Cao Cao's henchmen were in great trouble with tens of thousands of Han troops.

Therefore, Cao Cao named Gaotai Ling Han, and also expressed his desire to cross the Han River and defeat the Han army on the other side.

Under the intense preparation of the ministers of the Wei State, all the preparations were finally made the day before the arrival of the Yuan Day.

On this day, hundreds of seats had already been placed in two columns on the left and right according to the official positions of the ministers.

Soon after, the special drum band of the Wei royal court on the high platform played music.

Under this melodious music, many Cao Wei ministers began to come to the high platform one after another under the leadership of hundreds of ceremonial officials.

Saying.. Edition. 】

And after ascending to the high platform, these hundreds of Wei courtiers began to take their seats according to the seats that had been arranged.

When all the courtiers were seated, the music on the high platform changed from melodious to majestic.

Under the majestic drum music, Cao Cao, who was wearing a crown and wearing the uniform of the Xuanxi princes, began to slowly step onto the high platform under the escort of the pro-troops on the left and right.

Cao Cao's pro-army is a tiger and leopard horseman, and all of them are strong people.

Cao Cao, who was under their escort, although he was not as tall as them, Cao Cao pressed the king's sword in his hand, his posture was raised, and his eagle-like eyes exuded all kinds of fierceness.

After decades of fighting and defeating countless strong enemies, Cao Cao's surroundings exuded a domineering and intimidating momentum.

Under the flickering of the crown in front of him, Cao Cao stepped firmly step by step, which represented the high platform of supreme authority.

Every time Cao Cao stepped on the steps, the courtiers on both sides of the steps bowed down one after another.

As Cao Cao got closer to the throne made of gold and jade, which represented supreme power, the more Wei Chen bowed down on both sides of the steps on the platform.

When Cao Cao finally stood in front of the throne, the entire high platform, all the Wei ministers, had already bowed to Cao Cao's feet at this moment.

Among the Wei ministers, there are Cao Ren and Zhang Liao, who are famous all over the world, and there are great Confucian Huaxin and Wang Lang who have protégés all over the world.

But no matter how famous they are in the world, they are willing to submit to King Cao Cao at this moment.

Even though there is a defeat in Hanzhong, he is still the one who holds the sixth in Kyushu, and he can look down on Cao Mengde, the king of Wei.

When Cao Cao sat on the throne, tens of thousands of Wei troops under the high platform shouted the word "King of Wei" in unison.

In the army, Cao Cao's prestige is unmatched.

In the case of tens of thousands of Wei soldiers shouting hard, the word "King of Wei" was deafening, and it was clearly transmitted to the camp of the Han army on the other side.

Listening to the deafening cheers, Cao Cao's face showed a slight smile.

He specially chose to hold the Yuan Day banquet next to the Han River, in order to let the Han army on the other side see the prestige of his Great Wei.

The higher the power, the more it can intimidate the enemy's military morale.

Ling Hantai was built facing the Han River, and when Cao Cao sat on the throne, he could just watch all the scenes of the Han army camp opposite from the high platform.

Sure enough, when the deafening cheers of the Wei army reached the Han army camp on the other bank, countless fires suddenly flashed in the Han army camp.

It seems to be alarmed, as if to be watching.

For this scene, Cao Cao was very satisfied.

Guan Yu and others in the Han army camp came to the shore one after another to look at the other side after hearing the cheers of the powerful "King of Wei".

When they saw that the opposite side was brightly lit and the ceremonial music was playing, they knew that it was Cao Cao who was holding a New Year's Day banquet.

Then Guan Yu and other generals immediately understood Cao Cao's intention to hold a New Year's Day banquet on the other side of the river outside Chi Qi.

Guan Yu saw that because of the tens of thousands of cheers of the Wei army, his soldiers began to panic, and he immediately came up with a solution.

Since Meng De wants to attack the heart, then he will accompany him to the end.

Guan Yu immediately ordered someone to summon the high-voiced soldiers in the barracks......

After the Wei army cheered, the entire Yuan Day banquet kicked off.

The person in charge of receiving the guests led the clan relatives and high-ranking officials of more than 2,000 stone to the foot of Cao Cao, the king of Wei, to bow down one by one.

After kneeling, these high-ranking officials of Cao Wei offered Cao Cao a birthday wine.

When offering wine, the minister who offered the wine first knelt down to the servant of the king of Wei, and then the servant knelt in front of the throne.

Cao Cao, the king of Wei, could choose to drink these longevity wines, or he could choose not to drink them, depending on the status of the minister who offered the wine in his mind.

For the wine offered by those clan relatives, Cao Cao drank it all with a smile on his face.

But the minister who offers wine must drink his own cup.

After the offering of wine, it was supposed to be a gift-giving session.

However, Cao Cao advocated frugality, and he had previously abandoned this link in order to avoid corruption caused by courtiers comparing themselves with each other.

After the gift session, the confessor on the high platform knelt down and played: "The minister and others will bow again, the king will be ten thousand years!" ”

As soon as the confessor finished saying this, all the ministers on the high platform also came out to kneel and play this sentence, and when the ministers knelt down and played this sentence, the high platform performed great music.

From then on, the formal banquet began.

When Cao Cao, the king of Wei, began to eat, the ministers who knelt on the ground dared to enter the table and start eating.

And many singers and dancers also began to perform for the monarchs and ministers of Wei under the leadership of the confessor.

On the Ling Han platform, the monarchs and ministers of the Wei State not only had the entrance of fine wine and food, but also appreciated the graceful dancing, and their faces were full of intoxication.

While Cao Cao was intoxicated, he often observed the Han army camp opposite.

Today, in front of tens of thousands of enemy troops, he threw a banquet and drank and sang loudly, which was an expression of his contempt for those tens of thousands of enemy troops.

He just wanted to use tonight's New Year's Day banquet to tell Guan Yu on the other side, to tell the world, don't think that you can sit back and relax after a few small victories.

The one who really has spare strength is Cao Mengde.

And this is also Cao Cao's plan to lure the enemy for Guan Yu.

If Guan Yu thought that he would let his guard down tonight because of the banquet and wanted to attack at night, then it would be exactly his wish.

He still has tens of thousands of troops, and he is waiting for him at the moment.

Because of the anesthesia of alcohol, Cao Cao's mood was very high at this time.

With the accompaniment of ceremonial music, he persistently banged on the wine glass on the eucalyptus, and began to sing his proud work "Turtle Although Shou Rises".

When Cao Cao's emotional chanting sounded, the singing and dancing music of the audience stopped very interestingly.

Although the turtle is long-lived, there is still a time.

The beetle snake rides the fog and eventually turns into ash.

Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles.

The martyrs are in their twilight years, and their hearts are strong.

The period of profit and contraction is not only in the sky;

The blessing of recuperation can be eternal.

Fortunately, even ya, the song is a song.

As Cao Cao's singing voice floated on the high platform, the ministers on the high platform also began to persistently beat the table and Cao Cao.

This poem "Turtle Although Shou is written after Cao Cao unified Hebei and before the Battle of Chibi.

At that time, although he was already in his fifties, he had basically unified the north, and the unification of the world was in sight.

Because of his feelings about the past and because he looked forward to the future, Cao Cao made this article.

Now that it was another southern expedition, Cao Cao, who was moved, couldn't help but think of this Yuefu poem and sang it.

Cao Cao sang this poem at this time, also to motivate himself, after all, after today, he will be sixty-six years old.

And under Cao Cao's chanting, all the ministers on the high platform also felt something.

Cao Cao is no longer young, and they, the courtiers who have followed Cao Cao for decades, are no longer in their prime.

Originally, tonight's New Year's Day banquet had developed to this point, and every step was expected by Cao Cao, but unfortunately Cao Cao had made a thousand calculations, but he only missed Mi Yang in the south.

Or before, Mi Yang's existence was not in his eyes at all.

Just when the monarchs and ministers on the high platform were happy, an urgent report from Gangneung had been delivered to the bottom of the high platform.

Immediately after the messenger reached the bottom of the high platform, he found his superiors and reported to him an urgent military situation.

And after the officer heard this military situation, his face immediately changed greatly.

He saw that the King of Wei was feasting his ministers on the high platform, and he was a little hesitant to report this urgent military situation.

But thinking of King Wei's strict military law, delaying the military situation is a capital crime!

So, this subordinate official under the King of Wei's sacrificial wine immediately came to the high platform under the leadership of the confessor and found Dong Zhao, the king of Wei's sacrificial wine.

After meeting Dong Zhao, the subordinate reported to Dong Zhao the urgent military situation he had just learned.

Dong Zhao was still intoxicated by Cao Cao's chanting, but after he heard the news, his face had turned from flushed to pale.

He quickly took the information from the subordinate and looked at it carefully.

After reading it, Dong Zhao's face was full of shock and disbelief!

How is this possible!

That Mi Yang is only twenty years old!

At this time, Cao Cao chanted a few times after the turtle was longevity, and the addiction stopped.

Dong Zhao, as Cao Cao's close minister, sat not far from Cao Cao, and the abnormality on his face was quickly noticed by Cao Cao.

Cao Cao, who was already drunk, asked Dong Zhao with a smile, "Gongren, today everyone is celebrating together, what are you worried about?" ”

Cao Cao's question made the eyes of all the ministers on the high platform suddenly gather on Dong Zhao's body.

Faced with Cao Cao's inquiry, Dong Zhao didn't dare to explain a word.

The look of horror still hung on his face for a long time, and it could not be removed.

According to Cao Cao, on this day of celebration between the top and bottom, if he reported the shocking news in his hand, Dong Zhao could not imagine the consequences.

And Dong Zhao knows the real purpose of Cao Cao's New Year's Day banquet today.

Once this news is exposed at this banquet, it will be a slap in the face of Cao Cao!

Although Cao Cao was drunk, he saw Dong Zhao facing him with a smile and a frightened look, and he was already suspicious.

Just when Cao Cao was suspicious and Dong Zhao was trembling, there were bursts of recitations in the Han army camp on the other side.

"Chen Miyang Report: Twenty-four Years of Jian'an ....."

Because the distance was not far, with the sound of the wind, the recitation of tens of thousands of soldiers was very clear and transmitted to the ears of everyone on the high platform.

Obviously, this is a war report.

The contents of the war report were very ordinary at first.

But as tens of thousands of Han soldiers read aloud the words "Burning the company camp" and Wu army killing and wounding, all the Wei ministers on the high platform had a look of astonishment on their faces.

When tens of thousands of Han soldiers read aloud the surging fire and skimmed these words for a while, the faces of all Wei Chen on the high platform were already shocked.

With the tens of thousands of neat reading voices, continuing to read Mi Yang's battle report, the shocked look on the faces of hundreds of Wei Chen has become stronger and stronger.

The earth collapsed, there was no life in front of him, the corpses were drifting, and the sentences showing off his martial might were like knives in the hearts of hundreds of Wei Chen.

At this time, the faces of hundreds of Wei Chen were already full of shock.

When "100,000 Wu troops were almost empty, accumulated for several years, and swept away", after these sixteen words were transmitted to the high platform, most of the hundreds of Wei ministers fell in their hands because of the loss of consciousness caused by the shock in their hearts.

Hundreds of voices smashed on the eucalyptus and fell to the ground one after another, just like a sad song sent by Mi Yang to Cao Cao, the king of Wei.

After the recitation of tens of thousands of Han soldiers, the backs of many people on the high platform were already covered with cold sweat.

They behaved like this, but the content of this war report was too appalling.

This battle report was obviously submitted to Guan Yu by the public security guard Mi Yang.

And according to Guan Yu's character, since Guan Yu dared to read it out in public, it was naturally unlikely to be fake.

This is also the reason why many Wei Chen are terrified.

But because the content of this battle report was too unbelievable, there was a strong look of disbelief on the faces of everyone on the high platform.

There is still a glimmer of hope in their hearts, hoping that it will all be fake.

So they looked at Dong Zhao.

Since Guo Jia's death, Dong Zhao has become Cao Cao's sacrificial wine, and the position of sacrificial wine is dedicated to collecting intelligence for Cao Cao.

But at this time, they saw that after Dong Zhao received a piece of information, the look on his face was even more ugly than theirs, and the last glimmer of hope in the hearts of the ministers was gradually annihilating.

Only Cao Cao, he still holds on to the last glimmer of hope.

It's just that the smile on his face is gone, and his face is full of iron blue.

He looked at Dong Zhao with an eagle-like gaze, and he almost squeezed out five words from between his teeth and asked, "Is it true!" ”

Cao Cao's cold-filled question immediately frightened Dong Zhao to his knees.

He bowed to Cao Cao non-stop, his body trembled and said, "Just two days ago, Liu Bei worshiped Mi Yang on the high platform in Jiangling!" ”.

Dong Zhao's simple words made Cao Cao, the king of Wei, stagnate.

Liu Bei can worship Mi Yang with great fanfare, can the battle report still be fake?

Previously, because he didn't pay much attention to the public security, and the public security was besieged from all sides, he couldn't find much information at all, so Dong Zhao did not plant spies outside the public security city.

Therefore, the news that Dong Zhao received was the news that Liu Bei Feng worshiped Mi Yang.

When Dong Zhao confirmed the authenticity of the battle report, all the Wei ministers on the high platform had anger on their faces.

How shocked they were by the contents of that battle report just now, and how angry they were now at Sun Quan.

That's an army of 100,000!

was unexpectedly annihilated by Mi Yang with an army of 10,000.

Why didn't Sun Quan die.

Is this their ally?

But after the endless anger, all the ministers of Wei State felt a deep sense of powerlessness in their hearts.

Sun Quan has been defeated, Liu Bei can concentrate on the north, so is there any hope for them?

Even, what are they celebrating at their New Year's Day banquet tonight?

Is it laughing at the world?

But at this time, the shock, anger, shame, and powerlessness in the hearts of the ministers of Wei were far less deep than those in Cao Cao's heart.

Cao Cao, the king of Wei, struggled to get up from his throne, and he was getting old, and after knowing that Sun Quan's entire army had been annihilated, it was as if all his spirit had been drained.

After Cao Cao got up from the throne, his movements trembled, and Xu Chu beside him subconsciously wanted to help him, but his big hand was thrown away by Cao Cao in anger.

Cao Cao walked under the throne step by step and took the information from Dong Zhao.

He looked at the contents of the report, which also contained a detailed description of Mi Yang.

After reading it, Cao Cao, who was standing in the cold wind, threw this information on the ground, and then drew his Wang Sword and slashed it hard.

"Lone has already pinned down the main force of Jingzhou in Hanshui, why is it defeated!"

"Why do you want to lose at this time, obviously Gu has already found a breakthrough!"

"Sun's child! Sun's child! ”

"Damn, shit!"

After Cao Cao scolded Sun Quan, the information on the ground had been sparsely chopped by Cao Cao's sword.

Then Cao Cao, who already felt that his ambition in this life was no longer difficult to realize, raised his sword to the sky because of the sadness in his heart, and asked with grief and indignation in his mouth:

"Why don't you give Lone a chance."

"There was Zhou Yu in Chibi back then, and today the public security has Mi Yang."

"Lone just wants to dominate the world, what's wrong!"

There is no god in the sky, and Cao Cao's question is destined to be unanswered.

At this time, the sky was dark with a bright moon and dark clouds.

It's like Cao Cao's hopeless dream.

Cao Cao, who was so full of ambition just now, was so cold at this time that he knew that Mi Yang had defeated the Wu army.

How happy Ling Hantai was just now, at this time, after knowing that Mi Yang defeated the Wu army, how terrifying the atmosphere was.

Facing the furious Cao Cao, all the Wei ministers on the stage fell to their knees in fright, trembling.

When Cao Cao raised his sword and angrily asked the heavens, he recalled in his mind what those who had died under his hands had said to him.

"Duke Wei is not enough, King Wei is not enough, what more does Duke Ming want?"

"Why should the people be innocent, why should they use butcher knives!"

"Why did you rebel against you? I am a Hanchen, you are a thief, I don't cut you down? ”

"If it doesn't work out today, so does the destiny. However, don't be happy too early, God will always send someone to destroy you. ”

...

A sentence that Cao Cao had never cared about in the past surged into his heart in an instant.

"Lao Ji is in the woods, his ambition is a thousand miles, joke!"

"The twilight of the martyrs, the strong heart, the joke!"

"It's all a joke!"

He's sixty-six this year, how much time do you have?

Cao Cao's self-deprecation spread across the high platform.

After laughing at himself, Cao Cao wanted to drag his tired body back to the throne.

But before he had taken two steps, he suddenly threw Wang Jian to the ground, and then covered his head with both hands, and let out a cry of pain from his mouth.

"It hurts to be alone, it hurts to be alone....."

Cao Cao was already old and frail, and he drank a lot of wine tonight, and he was extremely emotional just now, so at this time, his head stroke was committed again.

As his head became more and more painful, Cao Cao could no longer maintain his body and staggered down.

At the moment when he fell, the crown on his head fell off his head and rolled aside because of the collision between his body and the ground.

This sudden scene was beyond the expectations of everyone on the high platform.

It was Cao Ren, who was closest to Cao Cao, who reacted the fastest, and he rushed to Cao Cao's side as fast as he could, helping him up from the ground.

And when Cao Ren rushed to Cao Cao's side, the rest of the ministers also reacted and came to Cao Cao's side one after another.

At this time, the ministers on the high platform were already in a mess.

Or Cao Ren is the calmest.

He hurriedly ordered someone to summon the medical officer, and then he ordered Zhang Liao and other generals to immediately lead troops to garrison various camps to prevent Guan Yu from attacking at night.

In the end, Cao Ren ordered the tiger and leopard riders to surround the high platform, and no one was allowed to leave casually!

After Cao Ren quickly issued three military orders, everyone's panicked emotions were restrained.

At this time, Cao Cao, who was lying in Cao Ren's arms, remembered the dream of "elk breaking the groove" he had, and he seemed to have figured out everything.

"It was him!

It turned out to be him! ”

Cao Cao tightly grabbed Cao Ren's collar and instructed him: "Tell Zihuan to be careful with Mi Yang, definitely!" ”

After saying this, Cao Cao completely fainted.

The ministers burst into tears.

On the first day of the twenty-fifth year of Han Jian'an, Cao Cao, the king of Wei, broke through 100,000 Wu troops because of the news of Miyang, and his mind was greatly damaged, causing a recurrence of head wind and falling into a coma.

After tonight, who in the world does not know the name of Mi Yang?