Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Li Yi laughed and said, "That's right, sir. You're right. Although I didn't participate in Lu Bu's attack in Yanzhou, I know that if I didn't intervene, Lu Bu would definitely not be Cao Cao's opponent. He would be defeated elsewhere, but it will be a matter of time." , and after this, although Yanzhou has endured the flames of war, he is no different, and Cao Cao can attack freely in the future."

"However, this kind of Cao Cao is not what I thought of. Therefore, Cao Cao and Lu Bu can only fight, and absolutely cannot tell the winner."

Li Yi looked down at Cheng Yu, and said, "Sir, you should know about Le Jin's defection, right?"

"Of course he knows."

Cheng Yu responded, his tone was calm, and nothing unusual could be heard, but his brows trembled several times in succession, obviously his mood was no longer as calm as before.

Li Yi smiled and continued, "I thought there must be fraud in this, so I have arranged for my confidants to go to Yanzhou. Once there is a change in Yanzhou, Le Jin will be my pawn to balance Cao Cao and Lu Bu. What do you think the plan is?" ?”

Cheng Yu clenched his fists. He really wanted to tell Li Yi that Le Jin believed that Le Jin had sincerely turned to Lu Bu. However, when Cheng Yu looked up, he found that Li Yi's expression was normal after he said these words. There was no strange expression on the human face, and his heart skipped a beat, knowing that Li Yi probably knew that Le Jin was a false surrender.

"Ugh."

Cheng Yu sighed, his originally straight waist was also a little bent, he cupped his hands at Li Yi, and said, "Xianghou is amazing, Yu Pei admires."

"Hahaha"

Li Yi laughed out loud. Since the first meeting, Cheng Yu had been calm with him, and now he couldn't hold on anymore.

Li Yi looked at Cheng Yu's expression and made him look sad. Thinking about it, Cheng Yu's judgment on Cao Cao's future was only a judgment after all. However, it really pinched Cao Cao's life.

In this case, unless Li Yi and Lu Bu are confused at the same time, Cao Cao really has little hope.

After being satisfied in his heart, Li Yi quickly restrained the smile on his face, and asked Cheng Yu, "So, sir, will you still be willing to serve me in the future?"

Cheng Yu said in a low voice, "Thanks to Marquis Xiang for not giving up, Yu is willing to work hard for Marquis Xiang, but I hope Marquis Xiang will not let Yu go to plot against the old master, Yu thanks again and again."

Compared with the first time Cheng Yu played tricks with Li Yi, this time he directly begged Li Yi not to let him target Cao Cao. It can be seen that Cheng Yu suffered a lot in his heart.

Li Yi nodded and said, "Okay, since sir is willing to help me, I won't be stingy, military advisor."

Kuai Yue turned sideways and asked, "What do you want my lord to do?"

Li Yi ordered, "You write a letter, use me to seal the letter, and send someone to escort Cao Cao's youngest son, Cao Zhi, back to Yanzhou."

If Li Yi had made this decision from the beginning, whether it was Kuai Yue or Xun You, he might have to persuade Li Yi, but Cheng Yu's performance before, among other things, his vision alone is enough to show his extraordinary, then, It is not a bad deal to exchange a child for a virtuous person.

Cheng Yu originally thought that this matter was over, but Li Yi suddenly agreed, he was grateful in his heart, and quickly said, "Thank you, Marquis Xiang!"

Mao Jie on the side also bowed to Li Yi to salute. Although he didn't say anything before, his thoughts were similar to Mao Jie's.

Li Yi gently raised his hand and said, "It's just a few trivial matters, the two of you are exempt."

Cheng Yu and Mao Jie bowed to Li Yi again, and then got up.

Li Yi knew in his heart that they were indeed very important to Cao Cao's heirs, but Li Yi really didn't take it seriously. Cao Zhi is only two years old now, and he is a child. Even if he returns him to Cao Cao, he will be famous for nothing. How much effect, on the contrary, leaving this little kid in Xiangyang, under the conditions of ancient times, might die one day, which is not beautiful, so it is better to return it to Cao Cao. Anyway, Li Yi has absolute confidence, and will wait for him in the future. When he made Cao Zhi a prisoner again, Cao Zhi was still a child, so why not let him go now?

Li Yi said to Cheng Yu, "Please take good care of your wounds now, sir, so that you can entrust him with important responsibilities in the future."

Afterwards, Li Yi turned to Mao Jie, but Mao Jie lowered his head to avoid Li Yi's sight. Li Yi was a little helpless, so he said, "Okay, sir, rest, I won't disturb, if you need anything, just call People come to find me."

After all, Li Yi didn't wait for them to salute and send them off, he turned around and walked back, leaving Cheng Yu and Mao Jie, you and me, me and you, and after a while, Mao Jie said softly, "Zhongde really wants to join Li Yi? "

Cheng Yu shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

After a while, Cheng Yu added, "As early as in Yanzhou, I felt that the lord and Li Yi would have a battle in the future. Changed hands, and later Lu Bu caused chaos in Yanzhou, and Li Yi calculated first, ah, what are the chances of the lord winning?"

Mao Jie remained silent, Cao Cao's situation is really very bad now, otherwise Le Jin's false surrender to Lu Bu would not be believed immediately.

Cheng Yu suddenly asked, "If the lord loses to Li Yi in the future, is Xiaoxian going to be a prisoner of this class all the time?"

Mao Jie's face was tangled. Compared with Cheng Yu, his moral value was much higher. He couldn't do the matter of Xiang Cheng Yu bowing his head to Li Yi so simply. It's just that everyone has ambitions. If it really goes on like this for a lifetime, can Mao Jie accept it?

He is also difficult.

After a while, Mao Jie could only sigh, "I don't know either."

The result of the battle between Li Yi and Xia Houyuan soon spread throughout Xuzhou, and then spread to Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou, and then became known all over the world.

In Xuzhou, after Tao Qian got the news, he was very old, and he was as happy as a child, dancing and dancing, and then he ordered a big banquet for the guests, and the whole city celebrated to congratulate the great victory.

Tao Qian, the Xuzhou Mu, may have various shortcomings and is not a perfect person, but he still has a sense of responsibility as a local official. Cao Cao killed Yingye in Xuzhou, Tao Qian was really heartbroken, not pretending, Now that Cao Cao retreated, Li Yi cut off one of Cao Cao's sharp claws. With Tao Qian coming, under such circumstances, Cao Cao must not be Lu Bu's opponent, and it would be difficult to save his life, so Xuzhou naturally had no worries.

Tao Qian was very grateful to Li Yi, and sent letters one after another to invite Li Yi to return to Tan County to celebrate, but Li Yi declined because of the needs of the war.

Tao Qian only said that Li Yi was serious and responsible, and when he thought about the big baijiu banquet here, he was very ashamed, so he said that Li Yi was the most benevolent and righteous person in the world.

Tao Qian's affection for Li Yi reached its peak, but Xuzhou's officials, aristocratic families, and common people's affection for Li Yi was no less favorable than Tao Qian's.

This time when Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou, although Tao Qian had a headache, the people who were the first to suffer were actually local people.

After several massacres, tens of thousands of people lost their lives. However, more or less of them have relatives, friends, and colleagues in the world. These people are more in number, and each of them hates and fears Cao Cao. They either died generously, or left their homes and fled to him to survive.

Now that Li Yi has defeated Xia Houyuan, he has done what they wanted to do but failed. Naturally, he is very grateful to Li Yi. On the day when the news of the victory came out, many people from all over Xuzhou went out of the city to bow down in the direction of Cheng County. Half of it is to commemorate the relatives who died unfortunately earlier, and the rest is to express gratitude to Li Yi.

After that, countless people paid homage to Li Yilisheng Temple.

For a while, everyone in Xuzhou didn't know Li Yi's name, no one felt Li Yi's kindness, and they really treated him as a hero. However, in other places, especially Yanzhou, Li Yi naturally received another extreme evaluation.

Needless to say, after Cao Cao got the news of Xia Houyuan's defeat, he kicked the banquet directly, drew his sword and scolded Li Yi for being a shameless villain, and even threatened him that he would never die with Li Yi in the future.

However, Cao Cao wished to share life and death with Li Yi immediately. However, after Cao Cao received a letter from Li Yi, he suppressed his anger and wrote a letter of apology to Li Yi.

Li Yi questioned Cao Cao in the letter, asking why Cao Cao asked Xia Houyuan to lead his troops to attack. He had already asked Liu Bei to let Xia Houyuan go, but Xia Houyuan was not grateful, and instead had evil thoughts, and wanted to take the opportunity to kill him. What can't be tolerated, so he can only teach Xia Houyuan a lesson, and then write a letter asking Cao Cao what it means, does he want to start a war with Jingzhou?

When Cao Cao received this letter, he was so angry that he almost tore it up, but after thinking about it, he held back his anger and wrote to Li Yi to apologize, saying that it was Xia Houyuan's personal behavior and had nothing to do with him. And in order to calm Li Yi's anger, Cao Cao said that he would punish Xia Houyuan to the end.

As for the matter of Cao Hong and Cheng Yu, as well as the abducted wife and children, Cao Cao didn't even ask. It wasn't because he was cold-blooded, but because he knew that it was useless to ask questions at this time except to humiliate himself.

Of course, Cao Cao didn't know, and after Li Yi received his apology letter, he would return Cao Zhi to him, but that's for another day.

Li Yi was full of hatred for Cao Cao this time, but on the other side of Yanzhou, that is, Lu Bu, Li Yi did not lose any favor.

At first, Lu Bu was very happy when he learned that Li Yi had defeated Xia Houyuan. After all, this also weakened Cao Cao's strength. .

However, after Lu Bu learned that Li Yi's reputation in Xuzhou was soaring, directly surpassing Xuzhou's old master Tao Qian, and even spread the word that Li Yi is the most benevolent person in the world, Lu Bu felt a little tired and dissatisfied. balanced.

In Lu Bulai, although Li Yi defeated Xia Houyuan, most of the credit was due to him. Without his uprising in Yanzhou and making Cao Cao return to the army, would Li Yi have a chance to defeat Xia Houyuan?

Maybe Li Yi didn't even have the guts to fight Cao Cao head-on.

It turned out to be good now, Li Yi just picked up a victory for nothing by opportunism, but those blind people in Xuzhou even praised Li Yi as Xuzhou's benefactor, and he was the one who helped Xuzhou the most!

Lu Bu was unbalanced and felt that he was at a disadvantage, but Lu Bu also understood that this kind of thing cannot be said clearly, so for several days after that, Lu Bu was sullen and even scolded Gao Shun.

Gao Shun didn't know what happened to Lu Bu, but Chen Gong vaguely guessed some of Lu Bu's thoughts, but Chen Gong was also very helpless, because Li Yi helped Xuzhou, regardless of whether Li Yi fought or not before, he really took it with him. The [-] troops went, Xuzhou knows this, and everyone in the world knows it.