Xiaoqi

Now that Huainan was initially settled, not long after Yuan Shu, the emperor of the Zhong family, died, Yuan Shao in Jizhou rebuilt the Yuan family.As a result, Li Li just killed an emperor, but he didn't expect that the Yuan clan would revive again after a lapse of less than a month, and another emperor would emerge.The most irritating thing is that after Yuan Shao proclaimed himself emperor, he dared to provoke Li Li openly, which instantly opened up a life-and-death battle that determined the final ownership of the Central Plains.

At present, the two armies confronting Hebei are mobilizing their armies intensively, and the battle for the surrounding cities of Jizhou has already begun.

Through Zhou Yu's detailed narration, Li Lifang knew that Zhang Liao's Youzhou Army had already attacked Julu, and that Yanzhou Cao Cao, who was stationed in Pingyuan, had also led his army to attack Qinghe Kingdom.The offensive momentum of the two armies was very rapid, with strong fronts, and they attacked the city continuously within ten days, and gained a lot.Relatively speaking, Cao Cao of Yanzhou led the army to attack the Qinghe Kingdom at a particularly rapid pace, and has captured most of the city of Qinghe Kingdom, while Zhang Liao's troops encountered the most tenacious resistance from Yuan Jun, and the progress was relatively slow.

After learning that Cao Cao had not changed anything, Li Li's face changed slightly, as if he was thinking, while Guo Jia, Gao Shun and others who followed Li Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief.Obviously, they all thought that Cao Cao in Yanzhou and Yuan Shao in Jizhou would join forces again, but they didn't think that Cao Cao had not rebelled against the Yuan Alliance, and still led his army to attack Jizhou.This is undoubtedly good news, and it is extremely beneficial to the campaign against Yuan Shao.

After pondering for a while, Li Li ordered in a low tone: "Feng Xiao drafted an invitation letter and sent it to Cao Cao's camp, asking him to come to Liyang camp within five days to discuss Yuan's plan together. Do it quickly, without any mistakes!"

Chapter 053

It didn't take five days, but on the day of receiving the letter from Feige, Cao Cao led his army through Yanzhou East County, and rushed to Liyang Daying during the starry night.

When Cao Cao led his army to the camp, there was still one day before the five-day deadline mentioned in Li Li's letter.

He actually led the army to arrive ahead of time.

After Li Li heard the news, he immediately led his generals out of the tent to greet him.

Not long after, Li Li and Cao Cao finally met fifty steps in front of the commander-in-chief's tent.

This is the first time the two of them have met and reunited face to face as allies.

Prior to this, Li Li and Cao Cao had met several times, but without exception, they were all on the battlefield hundreds of steps apart, facing each other far away, and had never had close contact, let alone a face-to-face meeting.

However, after a lapse of several years, the two met again, this time it was a real face-to-face dialogue.

"I'm going down to Cao Cao to pay my respects to the general!"

"The last general will wait to see the leader!"

Cao Cao, who led the army into the camp, immediately flew off his horse the moment he saw Li Li, and led the rest of his generals to bow and salute.

"Brother Mengde, why do you need to be so polite, please hurry up!"

The moment Cao Cao knelt down to worship, Li Li stretched out his arms to hold him, and said with a warm smile, "Brother Meng De is old, how dare Wen Chang accept such a big gift from my brother."

After helping Cao Cao, Li Li waved his hand and said with a loud smile, "You generals, please get up!"

"Thank you General (Leader)!"

After seeing Cao Cao get up, all the generals behind him bowed their hands in thanks.Seeing this, Li Li nodded frequently with a smile on his face.Then he pulled Cao Cao and said with a smile: "Meng De and all the generals have been exhausted all the way, please take a rest in the account. For many years, it is rare for us to get together, and today we must drink to our heart's content and never get drunk!"

"That's good, the crusade against Yuan Shao is not something that can be achieved overnight, and the officers and soldiers under Cao's account will thank the general first!" Cao Cao hesitated for a while, obviously thinking that the big battle was imminent, but he saw Li Licheng's invitation.The kindness was hard to turn down, so I bowed to thank you.

"That's it." Li Li nodded and smiled, pulling Cao Cao to walk side by side.While walking, he said: "Nowadays Yuan Benchu ​​has become a turtle in a urn, and it is not a worry to fight a trapped beast. You and I have been friends for a long time, how can we not have a good talk when we meet this time?"

Seeing that Li Li is so enthusiastic.Cao Cao didn't say much either.Walking side by side with Li Li, he always feels half a step behind, and his etiquette is impeccable.

The two lords went first, followed by Li Zhi and Cao Chun, the commanders of their personal guards, and then Guo Jia and Xun Yu, two former friends, walked together, talking in low voices as they walked.Then, Zhou Yu, Gongsun Zan, Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Gao Shun, Ke Bineng and other generals accompanied Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Le Jin and other Cao Jun generals followed behind, and slowly walked into the commander's tent.

Although the generals of the two armies also met for the first time, they are no strangers to each other.in previous battles.They have known each other for a long time, and this time they gathered together as friendly troops.Therefore, they are very polite to each other.There was no hostility, just like old friends meeting each other, and the conversation was very pleasant.

This is the strangest and most common phenomenon nowadays.At the first moment, the feudal lords were fighting each other to the death; at the next moment, perhaps the generals of the two armies would sit together, chat and drink, and respect each other as guests.This seemingly discordant phenomenon occurs frequently and is not uncommon. It really perfectly interprets a truth: there are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.

When there is a conflict of interest between the two parties, they will inevitably fight and fight with their lives. Either you die or I die.However, when the interests of the two parties coincided, they got back together again, gathered together, talked and laughed happily, as if nothing had happened.

Everything is driven by interests, and interests are invincible.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the host and guest are seated.Then the banquet in the handsome tent began, and the maids waiting at the side quickly put out the wine and meat, then bowed and stood by the side, pouring wine from time to time, waiting for orders at any time.

"Brother Meng De led the army to the Daying League without stopping. Li was very moved. This time to attack Yuan Shao, you and I will join hands to defend against the enemy. We will surely succeed in one fell swoop. Please raise your wine bottles, and I will drink like you." This lamp, please!"

When the big tent went up the steps, Li Li stood up and raised his glass to invite him. Nearly a hundred generals of the two armies under the tent raised their glasses and drank together.Afterwards, the generals under Cao Cao paid respects to Li Li and Xiliang generals, which kicked off the prelude to the banquet.

After the commanders of the two armies toasted each other, the military divisions and generals of the two armies toasted to each other, pushing glasses and changing cups, and interlacing toasts, which was very lively.

In the middle of the banquet, sixteen dancers stepped into the big tent, followed by music, drums and lutes.The dancers danced gracefully with their long sleeves fluttering, with graceful figures, graceful postures and graceful dancing postures.

These sixteen dancers are all carefully selected beauties, all of whom are beautiful, exquisite and graceful, with superb dancing skills, they can be called first-class beauties.The most rare thing is that the sixteen dancers have similar bodies and shapes, almost identical, charming and enchanting, and they have thousands of styles in their gestures and gestures.The white and plump body is wrapped in the thin gauze skirt, swaying gently with the sound of the zither, the slender waist seems soft and boneless, and the plump hips and buttocks are gently swinging like a boat on a quiet lake , There are layers of ripples, very provocative.

For a time, singing and dancing, wine and beauties, so that all the generals under the tent were mesmerized and fascinated by it.Not only was General Cao Jun so tempted to move by the beauties in front of him, his Adam's apple wriggled and swallowed, so he had to use alcohol to cover up his gaffe; With dry mouth, he could only drink alcohol to quench his thirst, and tried his best to suppress the fiery and urgent desire in his heart.

At this moment, there are only a handful of people in the big tent who can really turn a blind eye and maintain a normal mind.Li Li, who was sitting in the handsome seat, was one of them, and Cao Cao was one of them, but his eyes still showed greed and covetousness inadvertently, but he concealed it very well, and it was difficult to be discovered unless he paid close attention.Besides the two of them, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Zhou Yu, Gao Shun, Cao Ren, Li Zhi, Cao Chun and others in the tent also had clear eyes, as if they were not disturbed by beauty, and remained calm.

In fact, with Guo Jia's romantic nature, it is very difficult for him to sit still and calm in the face of beauty.However, his mind at the moment was not on the dancing girl in front of him, but deliberately observing the changes in the expressions of Li Li and Cao Cao.Diverting attention is undoubtedly a good way to resist temptation, as is the case with Guo Jia.At the same time, he faintly felt that Li Li's arrangement today had other meanings, as if he deliberately tested General Cao's will.

It is true that this kind of singing and dancing was rare before.In previous celebration banquets, Li Li would occasionally arrange some beauties to dance for fun, but the dancers would not wear such revealing clothes, let alone show a charming and seductive attitude deliberately.Because of this, all the generals of Xiliang are now bewildered by the coquettish beauties, each of them is hungry and thirsty like a hungry wolf, and loses his composure in public.Fortunately, their behavior is also reasonable. If they are not tempted, how can General Cao Jun be so ugly that he can't help it?

After the banquet, the generals of the two armies left the tent one after another.

Remove the banquet and replace it with fragrant tea.There are only a dozen or so people left in the commander's tent, but they are all main figures who can determine the fate of the two armies.

Two groups of people sat facing each other.On the left are Li Li, Guo Jia, Zhou Yu, Huan Fei, Gao Shun, Xu Chu and Li Zhi, and on the right are Cao Cao, Xun Yu, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, Le Jin and Cao Chun.

Li Li picked up the teacup to signal Cao Cao on the opposite side to drink tea, then took a sip of tea, and said with a smile, "For two years since the Yuan Yuan Alliance was established, it was fortunate that Brother Meng De led the army to contain Yuan Shao, so that Li was able to lead the army to conquer Youzhou. The southern expedition to Yuan Shu is always beneficial. Li is very grateful for this, and has a lot of feelings. If Meng De can join hands with me to pacify the world, it will be as easy as arm and finger, and the result will be twice the result with half the effort. Maybe ten years,,, oh no, maybe Within five years, the world will be clarified, and the people of the world will be restored to a peaceful and prosperous world. I wonder if Brother Meng De thinks so?"

Cao Cao looked slightly surprised, as if he didn't expect that Li Li didn't mention how to defeat Yuan Shao, but instead tried to test him, both inside and outside of his words were intended to solicit.Moreover, Li Li praised Cao Cao very highly, and seemed to value him very much, even to the point of valuing him, as if to persuade him to surrender with the tone of dividing the world equally.

After thinking for a while, Cao Cao respectfully said: "The general is too fond of me, and Cao is ashamed. Now the general has occupied half of the country, and all the princes of the world look forward to the general, and so does Cao. This time, Cao led the army to go forward. I came here to conspire with the general to fight against the rebels, if the general orders me, Cao and the soldiers under my tent will obey me, and I will never shirk my will!" Cao Cao talked about other things, and easily changed the subject. Make a positive answer.However, he stated his position very frankly and resolutely obeyed Li Li's dispatch to show his sincerity in forming an alliance with each other.

Li Li nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "I never doubted the sincerity of Brother Meng De leading the army to form an alliance, but there was a deep grudge between you and me in the past, I think Brother Meng De still hasn't let go of it, right?"

Perhaps it was expected that Li Li would ask this question, Cao Cao's expression changed slightly after hearing the words, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then said calmly: "As the general said, Cao has not forgotten the old relationship between you and me. However, these are all personal affairs, and should not be confused with what you and I are planning now. You and I were in hostile forces that day, and fighting on the battlefield would inevitably cause damage; He will be merciful. In other words, under Fang today, not only are there deep grievances between you and me, but who among the lords has no grudges?

But at this time and at that time, the dead have passed away, and the living have to go on and live well.So this time Cao is willing to let go of the past with the general, unite sincerely, and fight against the rebels together.I don't know what the general wants? "

Li Li stared at Cao Cao with fiery eyes, and Cao Cao did not flinch, and looked straight at Li Li with piercing eyes.After staring at each other for a while, the two laughed loudly: "Hahaha"

Is this the so-called meeting and laughing to obliterate grievances?

Chapter 054 Spear and Shield

Indeed, the old and new hatred between Li Li and Cao Cao has a long history, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the hatred is as deep as the sea.

So far, Cao Cao's favorite generals Li Dian and Yu Jin have defected one after another and served under Li Li's command; his beloved son Cao Ang, nephew Cao Anmin, and brothers Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan of the same clan died in Li Li's hands one after another.

What's more, in the battle of Feiyundu, Cao Cao's [-] army was wiped out, and even he himself almost died.

If Cao Cao can let go of these grievances, then Li Li really needs to reevaluate this troubled hero.Because, if he and Cao Cao switched positions, he would not be able to be so ruthless, let alone let go of his deep hatred.

So Li Li asked the question face to face, he wanted to know how Cao Cao viewed the old hatred between each other, and how he would answer it.And Cao Cao's answer represents the sincerity of his alliance this time, whether it is as sincere as he said just now.

Maybe it was expected that Li Li would ask this question, Cao Cao's expression changed slightly after hearing the words, he frowned and thought for a moment, and then said calmly: "As the general said, Cao has not forgotten the relationship between you and me. The old rift. After all, they are my brothers of Cao Cao, and they are connected in the same vein. How easy is it to forget?

However, these are personal affairs and should not be confused with what you and I are planning now.You and I were in hostile forces that day, and fighting on the battlefield would inevitably cause damage; if you and I were in a different place, Cao would also not show mercy.In other words, in the world today, not only are there deep grievances between you and me, but who has no grievances among the princes?But this time and that time, the dead are gone.Those who are alive have to go on and live well.So this time Cao is willing to clear up his suspicions with the general and unite sincerely.Together against the rebels.I don't know what the general wants? "

Li Li stared at Cao Cao with fiery eyes, and Cao Cao did not flinch, and looked straight at Li Li with piercing eyes.After staring at each other for a while, the two laughed loudly: "Hahaha"