Xiaoqi

Speaking of this, Yuan Shao paused, took a breath, and said frankly: "To be honest, I thought at the time that after the suppression of Youzhou, I would attack Yanzhou occupied by Meng De. Only the four prefectures of You, Qing, Ji, and Yan , I have the strength to start a decisive battle with Xiliang Li Li, otherwise I will not be strong enough, and I am afraid that I will not be Li Li's enemy." After a pause, Yuan Shao smiled apologetically at Cao Cao, although his smile at the moment is uglier than crying, but he Cao Cao understands the look and intention in his eyes.

Immediately Cao Cao nodded and said that he could understand and didn't mind.But he didn't interrupt, because he didn't want to interrupt Yuan Shao's train of thought, or he couldn't bear it.No matter how he and Yuan Shao fought openly and covertly before, how swordsmen faced each other and fought fiercely.But at this moment, Cao Cao was saddened to see that Yuan Shao was dying of illness and time was running out. He couldn't help but think back to the good times when he was young and spent time with Yuan Shao. The eyes made him feel a lot of emotions and mixed feelings.

Just as Cao Cao thought, after a short pause, Yuan Shao continued: "Originally, everything was planned, and I made sufficient preparations for this. All the planning and preparations went to waste in an instant, and everything was disrupted. When I learned that Liu Xie had passed away, I couldn't accept this fact. I couldn't believe that all this was true, and I immediately vomited blood and fainted.

That time, I was in a coma for two days and three nights, and I almost couldn't wake up again.After waking up, I realized that the beautiful dreams I had woven had come to naught, and all my hard work and dedication were gone with Liu Xie's sudden death.Since then, I have fallen into the root of the disease, and hurried back to Yecheng before my old illness recovered. I had just finished handling Liu Xie's funeral, and then ushered in a large-scale crusade by the Yuan League.In the past two years, Jizhou has been surrounded by more than 20 troops at all times, and it is difficult to survive.And I can't sleep at night, I have nightmares again and again, and I have to face war reports from all directions every day. I can't relax for a moment, and I am always tense and dare not relax.Over time, it is now like this, afraid of seeing light, not fond of noise, not drinking water and rice, living with ginseng soup every day, lingering until now, life is better than death. "

At the end of the day, Yuan Shao asked in a low voice with melancholy eyes: "Meng De, do you believe that I ordered Liu Xie to kill him?"

Cao Cao shook his head when he heard the sound, and said very firmly: "My foolish brother absolutely doesn't believe it. If Brother Benchu ​​wants to poison Liu Xie, why should he take him to Jizhou? Isn't it superfluous? Because of Liu Xie's death, all the princes in the world will There are suspicions, and this includes me, Cao Cao. However, none of us and other princes have the opportunity to get close to Liu Xie. Only his elder brother and Li Li can get close to him, so Li Wenchang is the most suspected." Obviously, although Cao Cao's words are frank, they are He still had some reservations, and did not reveal his conjectures.

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Chapter 029

Although Cao Cao's words were frank, he still had some reservations, and he did not tell Yuan Shao what was in his heart.

Even so, Yuan Shao was still relieved when he heard it, as if he had let go of a heartache, he let out a breath of relief, a few streaks of blood appeared on his stiff and pale cheeks, and his complexion improved obviously.

Obviously, the death of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was like a big stone weighing on Yuan Shao's heart, making him unable to breathe and turn over.Like a thorn in his throat and a thorn in his back, he was tortured so much that he kept it in his heart, and he never forgot it for a moment.

Now Cao Cao finally said something fair and stood by his side.This made Yuan Shao feel relieved, and also removed a big stone that was pressing on his heart, and his tense mind was relieved a little, and he became much more relaxed.

"For more than two years, Meng De is the first person who believes in me, Yuan Shao. Although many people have said the same thing in front of me, I don't believe them, but I believe Meng De's words!" The expression improved slightly. Yuan Shao's voice was obviously louder at this time, and his tone was aggravated.

After Cao Cao heard the words, instead of getting better, his mood became more and more heavy. He was secretly ashamed and even a little remorseful.Because he did not tell the truth to Yuan Shao, what he just said was reserved.He was worried that if today's words were spread and fell into Li Li's ears, it would be very detrimental to him, and even cause Li Lixing's teacher to question him, or openly punish him.It is precisely because of this concern that Cao Cao deliberately concealed it, but it can be regarded as an expression of his own attitude, and the overall meaning is still expressed.

"Brother Benchu ​​is serious. After Liu Xie's sudden death, many princes knew that he could never be killed by brother Benchu. And poisoning is even more nonsense. It was purely someone trying to confuse the public. Taking the opportunity to frame Benchu First brother, in order to achieve his ulterior purpose. And the person who is most likely to do this is Li Li from Xiliang." Perhaps because he felt ashamed in his heart, Cao Cao said all that was in his heart at this moment.

Seeing Yuan Shao listening attentively.Cao Cao paused, and then said: "In fact, it is easy to see the flaws in this matter. Although Li Li concealed it very well, he still couldn't conceal the truth of the matter. Just imagine, before Brother Benchu ​​greeted him, Liu Xie and Baiguan They have always been in Li Li's hands, and the scouts and secret agents of the Xiliang Army are almost pervasive. The ability to block news and the speed of inquiring into the military situation are above all the princes in the world, and they are actually the leader of the pack. Coupled with Li Li's strength It is strong and has many soldiers and horses. Especially Xiliang iron cavalry can travel three hundred miles a day and two hundred miles at night.

Since then, Li Li has not only meticulous work all over the world, but also a first-class scout team in his hands.There is also the Xiliang iron cavalry that marches rapidly.Under such a tight blockade.How could Liu Xie and the officials escape from Chang'an and return to Luoyang without any danger?

However, the fact is that Liu Xie and all the officials have escaped.what does that mean?Undoubtedly, all of this shows that the reason why Liu Xiehe and Baiguan successfully escaped from Chang'an and returned to Luoyang was that Li Li deliberately let them back, or that all of this was a huge conspiracy that Li Li had planned long ago. Various forces came to compete and jumped into the game on their own initiative.

If it is said that this was just speculation before.So now everything is clear.The fact before us is that no matter which way the princes grab the emperor and all the officials.As a result, he will be cast aside by the world, condemned by all husbands, and unanimously criticized like Brother Benchu ​​is now, and will eventually end up being infamous for being unfaithful, filial, benevolent, and unrighteous through the ages.The most important thing is that now those who knew the inside story have all died one after another, and there is no proof of death, so that this matter will never be clarified, the truth has been completely buried, and it will never be revealed to the world.

So hey!Li Li has always been meticulous in his actions, and everything he does is impeccable, with vicious methods and no hidden dangers at all. Before he finished speaking, Cao Cao sighed and sighed, with a rather helpless expression, as if he wanted to help Yuan Shao get rid of the crime of regicide and treason, but there was nothing he could do. He could only lament in vain, that's all.

It has to be said that Cao Cao is indeed a man with a deep mind, quick thinking, and great wisdom.A lot of speculation he said is almost the same as the "truth". The only deviation is that not all princes are qualified to rob Liu Xiehe Baiguan. The only princes who are really qualified to compete are Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.Otherwise, Li Li would never sit idly by, let alone watch his plan fail.

Therefore, to a certain extent, Yuan Shao acted as a scapegoat for Cao Cao.Otherwise, maybe it is not Yuan Shao who is in danger at this moment, but Cao Mengde.

In addition, Cao Cao knew that there were many doubts about Liu Xie's death, but he joined the Yuan Yuan Alliance at the first time and tried his best to attack Qingzhou. Now he has already snatched Qingzhou into his hands and took it as his own.Grabbing Yuan Shao's territory without mercy, he is still brazenly speaking in front of Yuan Shaoming, provoking wantonly.Cao Cao's intentions are indeed worthy of deliberation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has ulterior motives.

Perhaps, this has something to do with Li Lili's army going south.

Since the beginning of winter, the war in the north has been forced to cease. However, Li Li did not stop. Instead, he led his army to march south to attack Yuan Shu in Huainan.What's more important is that after Li Li's southern expedition, he attacked the city and pulled out the village all the way, and now he has besieged Yuan Shu in Shouchun City, and he will be done soon.

Once Yuan Shu is defeated, a large area of ​​Huainan will fall into Li Li's hands, making his strength even stronger.This is not good news for Cao Cao, because the stronger Li Li is, the more dangerous he is for Cao Cao.

How could Cao Cao not understand the truth of dead lips and cold teeth?

Because of this, when he received Yuan Shao's private letter, he readily agreed without even thinking about it.Immediately he deliberately concealed his whereabouts, avoiding the secret eyeliner placed by the princes of various towns in the plains, disguised himself and brought only a hundred of his own soldiers, and rushed to Ganling Station to have a secret talk with Yuan Shao face to face.

This secret meeting is different from the past and is of great significance.Not only did Cao Cao attach great importance to it, but Yuan Shao in Jizhou also showed great sincerity, so after the two met, there was almost no pleasantries, and they treated each other openly and honestly.

At present, Yuan Shao's physical condition is undoubtedly a closely guarded secret that needs to be kept secret.But in front of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao didn't hide anything, and told Cao Cao almost unreservedly, and in detail, telling Cao Cao the whole story.This meant that Yuan Shao attached great importance to this secret talk, with great sincerity, and at the same time he was worthy of that "good brother".And Cao Cao also needed to show full sincerity to reply Yuan Shao, so he confided all his speculations. Although he was cautious at first, after weighing the pros and cons, he finally told the truth, so as to win Yuan Shao's trust.

In fact, the inferences or conjectures mentioned by Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, as the party concerned, is the biggest direct victim, how could he not know?In other words, Yuan Shao was more attentive than anyone else in the investigation of Liu Xie's sudden death, eager to know the truth of the matter and to clear his innocence.But as Cao Cao said, it was of no avail when the truth surfaced, because those who knew the inside story and participated in it all died one after another, and the insiders who didn't die were all under Li Li's account, and they were important ministers under Li Liyi's arm.So this is a case without a head, a dark case, the truth is completely buried in the ground, and it will never be revealed to the world.

However, for Yuan Shao, who has four generations and three princes, the crime of regicide and treason is too great.Even if he could afford it himself, the Yuan clan and the loyal ancestors of the Yuan family couldn't bear such a huge crime.If he really did this thing, then there is nothing to say, the problem is that this thing has nothing to do with him, but it will make him bear the eternal infamy, and he will be hunted down by the princes of the towns, cast aside by the world, and criticized.

Today, some rumors are widely circulated in the world: "The 400 years of the Han Dynasty were all destroyed by him, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao is a sinner of the Han Dynasty." Chaotic country, great rebellious and immoral people." Such rumors are too numerous to enumerate, and they insist on belittling Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. There is not a single good person among the thousands of clansmen up and down. They are all rebellious officials and thieves who commit chaos and bring disaster to the country and the people.

As the saying goes, geese leave their voices, and people leave their names.

Now, Yuan Shao is in his dying years, terminally ill, and is still under siege by the armies of princes, in danger.For Yuan Shao at this time, any dominance, any struggle for world hegemony, any fame and great achievements, are just fleeting thoughts and insignificant.What he is most worried about right now is that the reputation of the Yuan family for many generations of loyalty and the future of the children in his knees is irrelevant to his own end, but he can't drag the Yuan family and the children of the knees to follow him and walk on the road together. no return.

However, looking at the world, among the princes of the towns, there are only a handful of princes who dare to contact him at this time. Most of the princes are too afraid to hide from him. Who dares to have anything to do with him, let alone communicate in private up.After counting and counting, Yuan Shao pondered over and over again, and finally decided to place the biggest bet in his life on Cao Cao for the last time.Only he can entrust the funeral, besides that, there is no one else.

After a brief silence, Yuan Shao said quietly: "Meng De must have heard about the Huainan War. Not long ago, Gonglu (Yuan Shu) sent someone to send a letter, which said that the Zhong Dynasty is the foundation of my Yuan family. They can’t fall into the hands of people with foreign surnames, so he wants to give me the throne of the Zhong family. I promised him that when the city of Shouchun is broken and the road returns to heaven, I, Yuan Shao, will accept the order of heaven and become the emperor. Mend."

"Ah!" Cao Cao was shocked when he heard this, and stared at Yuan Shao with wide eyes, his face was full of horror.He was evidently frightened, and quite frightened.At this moment, even though Cao Cao was as wise as the sea and shrewd, he couldn't figure out what Yuan Shao wanted to do, and what he wanted him to do.

The night is getting darker, the cold wind sweeps across the mountains and rivers, and the scream of "swish" ravages the sky

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Chapter 030 Self-defeating

The ice and snow in the north are picturesque, and the plum blossoms in Huainan are waiting to bud.

In the north of Shouchun City, the tents on the top of the mountain behind the allied army camp were quietly withdrawn, leaving behind a bare hill, with grass buds hidden deep in the soil looking forward to the arrival of the spring breeze.

A clump of plum blossoms grows in the crevice of the cliff not far from the top of the mountain, with towering branches and budding.Perhaps, when the winter snow comes again, it will bloom in anger and become the most dazzling existence and the most beautiful scenery in this mountain forest.

That evening, Chen Yu encouraged Lu Lingqi to go to bed, but unexpectedly, after dinner, Li Li went down the mountain.

A romantic affair, eventually turned into a deep resentment, a lonely self-admiration.

This greatly disappointed Chen Yu, Xiao Qiao, and Bu Lianshi, who had intended to facilitate good things, and made Lu Lingqi very hurt. The beauty wept until dawn.

Three days later, the four girls returned to the camp together, and the camp on the top of the mountain was dismantled.

At this time, the siege of Shouchun was still in full swing.The allied forces guarding the four gates continued to attack the city, harassing, storming, night attacking, false and real, endlessly attacking the city without interruption for a moment.Since then, the defenders of the city, Yuan Jun, were exhausted and panicked. After a few days, they were exhausted physically and mentally, and they complained incessantly.

After seven days of siege, although Shouchun City was in danger, it was still in Yuan Shu's hands, and the city walls were still towering and standing firm.

On the eighth day, Li Li personally led [-] Xiliang war cavalry, [-] wolf cavalry, and [-] golden guards to the city.The allied camp then moved forward and re-encamped five miles outside the south gate of Shouchun.

The arrival of Li Lili's army made Sun Ce and Jiangdong generals stationed outside the south gate very nervous.For this reason, Sun Ce immediately led his generals to greet him.He also took the initiative to ask Ying to send Jiangdong Army to assist the soldiers of the rear army to build camps.Apparently Sun Ce was always careful and courteous.They have taken care of everything, lest Li Li sneak up on Lujiang, and Shouchun will send his troops to take Lujiang County directly before they can break through.If this is the case, it will be a big disaster for Sun Ce.

In fact, Sun Ce has not completely occupied the entire territory of Lujiang right now, and the remnants led by Lujiang prefect Liu Xun are still resisting tenaciously.And the source of all this is that Yuan Shu is still alive, so Liu Xun still doesn't give up.Unwilling to submit to Sun Ce, he still stubbornly resisted.If Li Li uses this as an excuse to send troops to Lujiang.Even if Sun Ce was unwilling in every possible way, there was nothing he could do.

Relying on the powerful combat power of Li Li's army, Liu Xun was absolutely unable to resist, and even surrendered to Li Li voluntarily.But in this way, all the heavy casualties Sun Ce had paid before were all in vain.Lujiang is lost.He has no place to stay in Jiangbei.In the end, he could only retreat to Jiangdong and defend a corner.This was something Sun Ce absolutely did not want to see, so he had to find ways to dispel Li Li's idea of ​​attacking Lujiang.As a last resort, he even did not hesitate to turn against Li Li, immediately withdrew from Shouchun, and led the troops to retreat to Lujiang.

Fortunately, Li Li didn't seem to have the intention of marching into Lujiang. He led his army this time only to attack Shouchun City, and had no other intentions.This reassured Sun Ce a little.So he had to organize troops to storm the city again. After all, Li Li was sitting behind him watching the battle.He couldn't help but give his best.

This was another extremely tragic siege battle.

At the end of the day, another 2 soldiers and horses under Sun Ce's tent were lost. The distressed Sun Ce trembled and his heart was bleeding.Up to now, he led an army of 5000 people to the League, but lost more than [-] horses in the eight-day siege, so that his current number of soldiers and horses was less than [-]. More than half, the loss was heavy.

So that night, the Chinese army's big tent discussed the matter.Sun Ce bit the bullet and asked Li Li for reinforcements, or to add some soldiers to him, otherwise the Jiangdong Army under his account suffered too much losses and was unable to fight again.

Seeing Sun Ce's proposal to replenish troops and horses, Lu Bu, who was sitting by the side, was immediately moved. He hurriedly got up to agree, and also asked for reinforcements, and openly asked for military supplies, claiming that the weapons were incomplete and the arrows were not enough.

As Sun Ce and Lu Bu complained one after another and asked for the supplies of soldiers and horses in public, the commander's tent of the Chinese army suddenly fell silent.Nearly a hundred generals sitting under the tent sat upright, watching their noses, noses, noses, and hearts, holding their breath, and were silent.