"Ming Gong."

Kuai Liang did not leave, as Liu Biao's mastermind, he naturally wanted to stay and discuss with Liu Biao.

Seeing Liu Biao ask him, Kuai Liang arched his hand and said: "I don't think it is appropriate to eliminate Cao Cao at this time, if Cao Cao is destroyed, Yuan Shao is afraid that he will unify the north." ”

"Hmm."

Liu Biao nodded and said, "I think so too, so I rejected Youshuo and didn't send troops to attack Wuyin, but that embroidered it, I don't know what will happen?" ”

Kuai Liang said with a smile: "This Ming Gong, please rest assured, Cao Cao is not incompetent, Zhang Xiu has few soldiers, and without our army's response, he should not be able to attack." ”

"That's fine."

Liu Biao said in a deep voice: "Zirou, what do you think our situation will be in the future?" If Cao Cao or Yuan Shao unify the north, the Son of Heaven ......"

"I'm afraid the Son of Heaven will not be good."

"yes, that's what I'm worried about."

"Ming Gong."

Kuai Liang said: "A few days ago, there was news from Shouchun that Yuan Shu was called the emperor, does the public know at this time? ”

"Nature."

Liu Biao said: "I have sent someone to Shouchun to write a letter to reprimand him, and ordered Huang Zu to arrange river defenses in Jiangxia. ”

Kuai Liang couldn't help but laugh and said: "Duke Ming, when I said that Yuan Shu was called emperor, I didn't mean that he might come to Jingzhou. ”

"That's?"

"Don't you think that over the years, there have been too many people who have been called emperors?"

"What do you mean?"

Liu Biao frowned, this sentence actually made him feel a little uncomfortable.

Two reasons.

First, as a descendant of the Han family, he was naturally dissatisfied when he saw that everyone in the world was going to overthrow the Han family.

The second is that he actually had this kind of thought himself.

A few years later, he will not serve as a tribute, commit many acts of hypocrisy, worship heaven and earth in the suburbs, and plan to reprimand public opinion.

A few years ago, because of these things, Liu Biao impeached Liu Yan in Yizhou for "suspicion of a saint in Xihe", and later it became himself.

It's just that Liu Biao didn't have the courage to be the emperor, and he only dared to do things that the Son of Heaven could do, and he really got down at the threshold of being the emperor.

So to a certain extent, Liu Biao belongs to the kind of person who has a thief's heart but no thief's courage, envy and hatred when he sees others being emperors, and he doesn't dare when he wants to.

Kuai Liang said: "In today's world, the emperor is like a carp crossing the river, Yuan Shu is not the first, and it is by no means the last. Now Cao Cao has won the Son of Heaven, although his strength is not as good as Yuan Shao, but he has won the hearts of the people with his orthodox crusade against non-ministers, and it will inevitably grow stronger in the future. ”

"Then won't I let the tiger go back to the mountain today?"

Liu Biao asked: "In the future, after Cao Cao grows stronger, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to the Son of Heaven." ”

Kuai Liang said: "Whether he will be unfavorable to the Son of Heaven is not known for the time being, but between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, there will be a fierce battle, which should be inevitable." ”

"Well, I think so, too." Liu Biao nodded.

"Yuan Shao has not broken with Cao Cao yet, because Gongsun Chan in the north is still there, and once Gongsun Chan is destroyed, a war between the two is inevitable. Whoever wins at that time will be able to get the whole North. ”

Kuai Liang said: "Ming Gong thinks that if Yuan Shao wins, he will sit on the entire north and raise millions of soldiers, will he leave the Son of Heaven?" ”

Liu Biao frowned and said, "I'm afraid that the Yuan family has already had bad intentions. ”

"Yes."

Kuai Liang said again: "If Cao Cao wins, I'm afraid the Son of Heaven will not be happy, even if he is not deposed, he is still like a puppet at the mercy of Cao Cao, so in front of Ming Gong, there are actually only two ways." ”

Two roads?

Liu Biao hurriedly asked, "Which two?" ”

Kuai Liang said: "One is self-reliance, and the other is to find one of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to be attached. ”

"Self-reliant?"

Liu Biao pondered this sentence, licked his lips with his tongue, and smashed the taste.

"There are too many emperors now, and the authority of the Han family is declining day by day, and Liu Yan of Yizhou has a plan to be called emperor six years ago, which shows that there is no one to serve the Son of Heaven anymore."

Kuai Liang said: "Looking at Cao Cao's intention today, it is just to use the fame of the Son of Heaven to envelop the world, if not, how can he attack Nanyang?" It's guarding against us. In the future, the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao will have to be prepared in advance. ”

"Hmmm......"

Liu Biao nodded thoughtfully, and said, "I know, let me think about it again, think about it again......"

He rubbed his temples, his mind already in a mess.

In fact, Kuai Liang's purpose in persuading him today is also very simple, which is to make him make a decision on the two things of establishing himself as a king and finding someone to take refuge in.

It's not that Kuai Liang was prescient, but the wise people at that time could see that after Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, the talents were attached to the power and strengthened, and Henan and other places were bound to be controlled by him.

Yuan Shao's strategists such as Tian Feng once suggested that Yuan Shao should strike first and kill Cao Cao, otherwise when Cao Cao grows stronger in the future, there will be endless troubles in the future.

It's a pity that Yuan Shaose is very timid and scheming; Doing big things and sparing his life, forgetting his life when he saw small profits, he didn't listen to Tian Feng's advice, and missed the good chicken.

And Yuan Shao's side is waiting to eliminate Gongsun Zhan, as long as Gongsun Chan dies, Yuan Shao captures Youzhou and Qingzhou, plus Bingzhou and Jizhou, after the four northern states are in hand, it is only a matter of time before he goes south to attack Cao Cao.

Not to mention Kuai Liang, even Liu Biao's other drivers Han Song and Liu Xian knew about it, so later they also persuaded Liu Biao to make plans early and let him surrender to Cao Cao.

In the final analysis, it was caused by the instability of the Han dynasty and the decline of the authority of the state to a certain point.

It's just that Liu Biao has always been indecisive, and he couldn't make up his mind on this matter, so he dragged it for many years, until he dragged himself to death, and he didn't give a result.

Neither surrendered to Cao Cao, nor established himself as the king, and when Cao's army went south, the Battle of Chibi caused Liu Biao's forces to collapse in an instant.

In the end, Liu Qi fell ill and died in Jingnan, Liu Cong surrendered to Cao Cao, and Jingzhou was also taken away by Jiangdong.

Procrastination kills people.

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Just when Kuai Liang had already analyzed the current situation for Liu Biao, and Liu Biao continued to delay, far away in Wuyin County, Nanyang, Cao Cao had already gotten the news that Zhang Xiu was coming.

Liu Biao's reason for not attacking him was very simple, if Cao Cao died, his power would collapse immediately, and then Yuan Shao would take advantage of the weakness and seize Henan.

At that time, the entire north will be returned to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao's strength will reach a very terrifying level, and it will not be far to become emperor at that time.

This is a huge threat to a Han clan like Liu Biao, so he will let Cao Cao grow.

But Zhang Xiu doesn't care about this.

Cao Cao his aunt and conspired to murder him, and he also rebelled against Cao Cao, and he didn't share the sky with Cao Cao, so he naturally chose to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

It's a pity that he misestimated his strength and underestimated Cao Cao's ability.

The defeat of Wancheng was not a military defeat, but a fiasco caused by Cao Cao's own personal moral problems, so once the two sides removed those unexpected factors and faced each other head-on, the difference in strength was reflected.

Zhang Xiu currently has more than 8,000 soldiers and horses, and at this time he is carrying a great victory in Wancheng, and his morale is high. Cao Cao's troops had four or five thousand people from the forbidden department, Cao Hong's department and the main camp, totaling more than 15,000 soldiers and horses.

Zhang Xiu must have a disadvantage in terms of the number of troops, but Zhang Xiu felt that he had only defeated Cao Cao a few days ago, and the morale of the soldiers and horses was like a rainbow, and the morale of the Cao army was bound to be low.

Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, he should be able to bully Cao Cao.

In Wuyin County, the news of Cao Ren and Le Jin has not yet arrived, but the news that Zhang Xiu came to attack has already reached Cao Cao's ears.

He was furious and said: "Zhang Xiu'er, you still dare to attack, where is Zilian?" ”

"The end will be."

Cao Hong stood up and said.

"Order all the famous horses, and let you go out of the city to fight."

"Yui."

"Where is Yu Ban?"

"The end will be."

"You go out through the north gate and attack from the flank."

"Yui."

"Han Hao, Shi Lian, Zaoyi, the three of you each lead 500 people to garrison the three gates of the east, west and north, and the rest of you, follow me to the head of the southern city."

"Yui."

Generals of all sizes should be.

Soon Cao Cao personally led the generals to the south gate.

When Cao Cao came to Nanyang, he had 30,000 elites, and Lejin and Cao Ren each led 4,000 or 5,000 men and horses to fight Huyang and Anzhong, but they have not yet returned.

Cao Hong and Yu Ban also led four or five thousand men and horses to garrison outside, so Cao Cao's main battalion was about 10,000 soldiers and horses at that time.

Zhang Xiu attacked the base camp and caused a large number of casualties, and later Ganning reinforcements arrived and killed many Cao troops.

As a result, only four or five thousand of the 10,000 people in Cao's base camp were collected by Cao Hongyu and fled to Wuyin with Cao Cao.

At this time, the morale of Cao's army was actually very low, and normally speaking, it was not appropriate to go out of the city for a decisive battle in this situation.

But Cao Cao needed a victory to boost the morale of his army, so he decided to leave the city.

When everyone came to the gate of Nancheng, they had already seen the dense Xiliang army on the distant horizon from afar.

After about an hour, they finally came to the outside of Wuyin City, and at this time, Cao Hong was also arrayed outside the city.

Zhang Xiu pulled the horse out, pointed a gun at Cao Hong and shouted: "Cao Hong, did Cao Cao send you to die?" ”

Cao Hong said coldly: "You dare to commit such a capricious person? ”

Zhang Xiu said angrily: "Cao thief adulterated my family and plotted to murder me, is this a person?" I really wanted to vote, but if it wasn't for the persecution of the thief, how could I rebel? ”

"Hmph."

Cao Hong sneered: "You are just a barbarian beast in Xiliang, my eldest brother takes Aunt Ru as a concubine, and it should be the lintel of your house, but I didn't expect you to be so ignorant." ”

Shine on my lintel?

Zhang Xiu laughed angrily at the time, co-authoring Cao Cao to force his aunt or look up to him?

Is it because he doesn't know what to do, so he has to make trouble?

It's disgusting to be so brazen, to beat a rake, and to be so high.

Zhang Xiu didn't talk nonsense with him, and shouted angrily: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The Xiliang army erupted in an earth-shattering roar and began to charge.

Zhang Xiu took the lead and rushed to be the first.

His uncle's bones are not cold, and his aunt has been bullied, if he doesn't kill Cao Thief, how will he explain to him in the future?

Over there, Cao Hong indifferently watched the Xiliang army charge, with a contemptuous smile on his face.

He was telling the truth.

Cao Hong never felt that there was anything wrong with his eldest brother messing with other people's aunts.

It's as if he never felt that there was anything wrong with slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou.

How can they be like the people?

What's more, Zhang Xiu's background is even lower, but he is just a barbarian in Xiliang, and he deserves to be compared with them?

So from the beginning, including Cao Hong, no one in the Cao family looked down on Zhang Xiu.

It's as if they never look squarely at the people at the bottom who are as cheap as grass.

If it was Shen Chen, who had just crossed over, I was afraid that he would be shocked by the three views of this world.

But now that he has been adrift for many years, there is only silence left.

Because this world is like this, the hierarchy is strict, and the class is solidified.

All the three moral views of later generations cannot be applied to these people in the late Han Dynasty.

Zhang Fei was born in Haoqiang, so he whipped the soldiers at will, and did not take the dignity of the soldiers seriously.

Gan Ning was born in a local family, so he used living people as targets for archery training, and never took human life seriously.

Cao Cao was born as a gate valve, so he slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Xuzhou and killed 80,000 Yuan Shao's soldiers, "Slaughter 9 million, Fang is the male of the heroes!" ”。

And even if it is a gate valve family like the Cao family, it can only be regarded as a relatively poor existence among the door valves of the family, and even Bian Rang will scold him for "eunuch queen".

Only people like Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, who were born in the fourth world and three dukes, were the top gate valve families at that time.

Yuan Shao is still better, at least there is some humanity.

Yuan Shu directly plundered Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Xuzhou and other places, causing the lives of the people in Huainan and Huaibei to be miserable, and in order to become emperor, even his own army was so hungry that he rebelled, and he didn't care about the life or death of his subordinates.

If a later generation crosses over to Cao Cao, points at his nose and scolds him, saying that he is cruel and has low moral character, forcibly accepts other people's family members, and digs graves.

It is estimated that Cao Cao himself has to be confused, because he is not the only one who does these things, everyone does this, why only scold him?

Yes.

Everybody does that, and it's become the norm.

In the eyes of those high-ranking families, the people are just a herd of cattle and horses, a bunch of means of production.

Even Haoqiang, Shijia, and gate valves are divided into three, six, nine and so on.

After Cao Cao later took power, did he kill fewer famous families?

So as Mr. Lu Xun said.

The world of feudal society is a dark cannibalistic world.

The masses are nothing more than a flock of lambs to be eaten.

In the eyes of the powerful, they are nothing.

Cao Hong looked at the Xiliang army attacking him with contempt, as if he was looking at a group of uncivilized barbarian beasts.

After a moment, he raised the long knife in his hand and roared, "Kill! ”

"Kill!"

The trumpets sounded for a long time, and the drums of war rang out.

Cao Jun and Xiliang Jun, like two torrents, collided together and began to fight fiercely.

Cao Cao stood at the head of the city and looked out, and there were not many defenders outside the city, only 5,000.

But Cao Hong was very methodical, formed a formation on the spot, and did not show any flaws.

After Zhang Xiu entered the formation, he went straight to Cao Hong, and the two sides fought hard together, and in the chaotic army, there was no distinction for the time being.

At this time, Yu Ban led the men and horses of his headquarters and came out of the north gate and approached the frontal battlefield.

After about half an hour, the armies on both sides of Zhang Xiu and Cao Hong were already crowded together, fighting dogs and teeth, and in a short time, it seemed to be blended together.

"Kill."

Yu Ban beat the drum suddenly, and 5,000 Cao troops attacked from the flank.

Cao Cao immediately said at the head of the city: "Send an order, open the city gate, and the whole army will attack." ”

"Yui!"

All the soldiers responded with a bang, opened the city gates and attacked at the same time.

The Xiliang army was caught off guard and was besieged from three sides, and for a time there was chaos, and the sound of clanging gold resounded throughout the battlefield.