Chapter 195
The reason why Youzhou was able to obtain such detailed information about this matter was thanks to this secret spy in Youzhou! Now that this secret spy in Youzhou has entered Cao Cao's power, the secrets within Cao Cao's power have been opened to Youzhou since then! For Youzhou, there is no secret within Cao Cao! The Cao Cao's power has never discovered that the person promoted by Cao Cao would be an undercover agent in Youzhou! Until Youzhou unified the entire world, the people within Cao Cao knew the final identity of this person. Although the talkers hated this person with gritted teeth, they were really helpless! Of course, these are all later stories!
After hearing Cao Hao's words, Cao Cao said indignantly: "Don't worry, Father! Tao Qian will kill my relatives! If the child had not followed the advice of his subordinates and sent someone to pick him up, even his father would have an unexpected accident! This hatred is irreconcilable! You must revenge! I immediately ordered all my troops to slaughter Xuzhou! Only then can I wash away the hatred in my heart!" Cao Cao originally planned to attack Tao Qian's Xuzhou first! Xuzhou is located on a strategic road, and it is rich and fulfilling, which is really a trend.
The best base for power rise! In addition, Tao Qian is in Xuzhou and has a strong military place like Danyang, but he has not made good use of it, which has caused Xuzhou's military deterioration. Moreover, Tao Qian is old and stupid. The last time Cao Cao ordered the princes to come to Beijing to meet the young emperor, Tao Qian did not come! Cao Cao was already determined to use Tao Qian to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys. Attacking Xuzhou can not only make the princes in the world fear their majesty, but also occupy Xuzhou's granary and military source, and can also kill multiple kills in one fell swoop!
However, Zhou Yu went to Beijing to discuss with Cao Cao. He promised to help Cao Cao lead Yuan Shu's troops, make Yuan Shu's hinterland empty, and bring opportunities to Cao Cao's attack on Yuan Shu! Compared with Yuan Shu, Cao Cao was more inclined to attack Yuan Shu! Because the places occupied by Yuan Shu were not only richer, but also had a dense population. He occupied Yuan Shu's territory, and his territory could not only be expanded, but also formed a pincer attack on Xuzhou and Yangzhou. Even Jingzhou was under his own eyes and had a strategic position.
More prominent! Moreover, Yuan Shu is still Cao Cao's enemy, and the threat to Cao Cao is much greater than Tao Qian's! Of course, Cao Cao wanted to defeat Yuan Shu when Yuan Shu was the most empty, so as not to continue to grow bigger, threaten himself, and stop him from unifying the world! Another thing is that Cao Cao believes that only by defeating Yuan Shu first and occupying Yuan Shu's territory can he have the strength to fight against Liu Bin from Youzhou! If he defeated Yuan Shu, he could avoid being attacked by Liu Bin and Yuan Shu from the north and south!
Cao Cao was fully prepared for this, the army was ready to attack, and Yuan Shu's army was also transferred to other places. It was his most empty time, but now this happened suddenly, Tao Qian actually dared to send someone to kill his family. Cao Cao was a hero in the world, how could he tolerate such things? If this revenge was not avenged, he would not only not face his relatives, but also face the princes of the world! So Cao Cao was determined to defeat Tao Qian first, the country's hatred family
The hatred was reported together! So Cao Cao ordered the army that was preparing to attack Yuan Shu to return to the aid and to attack Xuzhou! Although some of Cao Cao's subordinates felt that they were ready to attack Yuan Shu, they might have to give up this best time to attack Yuan Shu when Yuan Shu was weakest. Moreover, frequent mobilization of the army is also unfavorable to the morale of the army! But seeing Cao Cao and a group of generals from the Cao family of Xiahou, these people wisely shut up! They did not go to dissuade Cao Cao!
Cao Cao asked Cheng Yu and Xi Zhicai to lead a 100,000 army to Yanzhou and other places, and he led the remaining army to Xuzhou, hoping that Xuzhou would not be kept! He asked Xiahou Dun and Yu Jin as the vanguard general to set out first! For this reason, Cao Cao also specially ordered that all the occupied cities should be killed, and no one should be kept, and to avenge the dead family to avenge their revenge!
At that time, Bian Rang and Tao Qian had a good relationship. After knowing that Cao Cao led his army to attack Xuzhou and wanted to keep Xuzhou, he brought five thousand soldiers and horses to rescue Xuzhou! However, his heart was commendable, but he was a little overestimated! Not to mention that Cao Cao led dozens of times the army this time was dozens of times that of him, even if there were as many soldiers and horses on both sides, he was not an opponent of Cao Cao's army! Bian Rang wanted military talents but no military talents, and generals but no generals. She went now
Rescuing Xuzhou is no different from self-destruction! As expected, Cao Cao was furious after knowing that Bian Rang dared to save Xuzhou! Xiahou Dun killed all the five thousand soldiers and horses of Bian Rang halfway! Bian Rang's troops did not stop Cao Cao's army from advancing! But Cao Cao was not happy to destroy Bian Rang's army! Because Cao Cao got a news at this time. After sending his troops, a rumor spread to Xu Du.
Rumors say: Cao Cao had the intention of being unjust, bullying the emperor, suppressing all the ministers, and controlling the government. The whole thing was Dong Zhuo's second. Now the emperor was incompetent. Moreover, Cao Cao also detained the ministers who came to see the emperor and prepared to destroy the loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty who were not obeying Cao Cao's control one by one. Now Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou is Cao Cao's specific action. Cao Cao was nominally trying to avenge his family. In fact, this was Cao Cao's first step in stealing the world.
These rumors all have noses and eyes. They are really meaningful. They are dense and powerful, so they are really a bit of a trend that swept the world in a moment. However, these are not problems. The problem is that these rumors have hit Cao Cao's point of view. These are all good things Cao Cao has done recently. Cao Cao is becoming more and more verbal.
What made Cao Cao particularly angry was that Liu San was said to have jumped into the river and died. Moreover, the family members of Liu San's mansion also spoke. A few days ago, rumors about King Jin Liu Bin were flying everywhere. It was Cao Cao who did it to destroy the reputation of His Highness of King Jin. Fortunately, after luring King Jin to the court, he harmed him openly. The King of Jin, the platinum jade pillar of the Han Dynasty, cut off the King of Jin. After Liu San learned the truth, he was humiliated by the reputation of the old master and failed to argue with Cao Cao, so he jumped into the river to thank the old master. Cao Cao was the one who had been in the front.
The rumors were not very angry, after all, those things were done by himself. But Cao Cao said that Liu San would jump into the river and die in order to thank Liu Bin. Cao Cao was so angry. Cao Cao's intuition was impossible! Just Liu San's shameless villain jumped into the river and felt ashamed? Cao Cao really didn't believe it. Cao Cao was extremely sure that this was definitely a conspiracy against him. The purpose was to make himself anxious to clarify and give up the opportunity to attack Xuzhou, so as not to expand his power. He would never fall into such a superficial trick.
Moreover, Cao Cao did not have the expected effect by creating rumors for Liu Bin by himself. Cao Cao also believed that such rumors against him could not last long. Moreover, even if the rumors were flying all over the world, people in the world thought they were not good, but as long as they were in strength, such rumors could not actually hurt him. Therefore, Cao Cao did not withdraw his troops, but instead stepped up his attack on Xuzhou, intending to return to Xudu after quickly pacifying Xuzhou and quell the rumor. So Cao Cao ordered his army to accelerate his actions!
But at this time, Chen Gong, who was staying in Yanzhou, knew about Cao Cao's army's actions along the way, and he was a little unhappy! Chen Gong was the first person to surrender to Cao Cao. After Cao Cao killed Lu Boshe's family, Chen Gong did not leave Cao Cao as he did, but still followed Cao Cao! Later, when Cao Cao took over Yanzhou, he also tried his best to convince the families of Yanzhou! But after Cao Cao's strength increased greatly, the number of capable people under his command gradually increased, Xi Zhicai, Cheng Yu and others showed their talents under Cao Cao's command! Chen Gong's status under Cao Cao gradually became less important! This made him think he was talented and should be the first.
Chen Gong, the strategist, felt a little uncomfortable! However, due to the vigorous development of Cao Cao's power, Chen Gong didn't say anything! When Cao Cao listened to Xi Zhicai's words, in order to raise food and ease internal conflicts, he still found reasons to massacre the aristocratic families in Yanzhou, which made Chen Gong even more difficult to accept! Chen Gong had a very good relationship with these aristocratic families. When Cao Cao was able to take over Yanzhou, he persuaded these aristocratic families. At that time, Tarkhouse promised that after Cao Cao took over Yanzhou, he would bring generous treatment to these aristocratic families, but unexpectedly, not only did he have nothing, but he also caused these people to die! This made Chen Gong very depressed!
Now, Cao Cao even wants to massacre civilians for his own selfishness, so Chen Gong naturally couldn't stand it! So Chen Gong wrote a letter to Cao Cao! The meaning of the letter was like this. He told Cao Cao that you are avenging your family today on a discounted banner to avenge your family! Then you should go to find the culprits. But along the way, you plan to kill all the people! This is not in line with your past name of benevolence and righteousness! This is not conducive to your future rule! Moreover, Tao Qian is a sincere gentleman, not the kind of person who forgets his righteousness when he sees profit! This time your family is killed
It was all caused by Zhang Jian and others for their own selfishness. This is nothing to do with Tao Qian! Besides, what does those ordinary people have to do with this matter? Killing too many ordinary people is not a good thing! Please think twice before you act! To be fair, Chen Gong's words certainly mean to stop Cao Cao from killing innocent people and not wanting to see the misfortune of life. This also shows that Chen Gong is still a person who cares about the people, but there are also places where Cao Cao surrenders, and he is worried that Cao Cao would lose the people's hearts and be detrimental to his future rule!
Cao Cao had no reason to see what Chen Gong meant! But at this time, Cao Cao was already red-eyed! He attacked Xuzhou, which was not only the reason for getting Xuzhou, expanding his territory, but also the reason for avenging his family! Although Cao Cao usually showed off a kind and righteous face with the people, in fact, this guy Cao Cao would actually kill a ruthless man! When he was young, in order to get freedom, he could deceive his uncle. He grew up and to get Xu Shao's moon.
Dan Ping, you can use a knife to scare Xu Shao! Now, in order to avenge family and to get Xuzhou, killing some people is nothing to him! So after receiving Chen Gong's letter, Cao Cao not only did not obey Chen Gong's words and stopped the massacre, but instead wrote to Chen Gong, scolding Chen Gong fiercely and asking him to do his own thing! Since Tao Qian dared to kill his family, he must take revenge on Tao Qian! He must peel Tao Qian and get cramps to vent his hatred!
After writing a letter to Chen Gong, Cao Cao's army continued to act. Wherever he went, all the people were killed, and even the tombs were dug out, crushing their bones and ashes! Tao Qian, in Xuzhou, knew that Cao Cao sent troops to attack him and killed the people all the way, couldn't help but burst into tears and said, "It's all my fault for this! It's because of me that he brought such a great disaster to the people of Xuzhou!" While crying, he gathered the civil and military ministers in Xuzhou to discuss countermeasures!
After Minister Wu arrived, after hearing Tao Qian's words, Cao Bao, the only general in Xuzhou who was considered a general, said: "Since Cao Cao led his army to attack us, we cannot just surrender! I am willing to help the Lord resist Cao Cao's army!" Although everyone was suspicious of Cao Bao's ability to resist Cao Cao's army, what the idiot said was reasonable. They all had a good relationship with Xuzhou and Tao Qian, and they were all in Xuzhou, and they were not willing to surrender to Cao Cao, so they all supported it!
Tao Qian had no choice but to leave the army and go out to fight Cao's army! When Cao's army arrived at the city of Xuzhou, the central army played two white chess faces with four blood-red words written on it. The meaning is self-evident! After the two armies lined up the military formation, Cao Cao came out of the central army, dressed in mourning clothes, pointed at Tao Qian and cursed! Tao Qian had no choice but to come from the military formation, and immediately bent down slightly, bowed to Cao Cao, and said with a sad face: "Prime Minister Cao! I originally wanted to make friends with you, so I asked Zhang Kai and others to escort Ling Zun! Who knew that those Yellow Turban Remnants would not change their minds, so this kind of thing would happen! This matter really has nothing to do with me! I also hope that Prime Minister Cao can still feel the same way!"
Cao Cao heard this and cursed: "Tao Qian, you old man, you killed so many of my family, but you still don't want to admit it now! If you want me to let you go, there is no such a cheap thing! Come on! Grab Tao Qian's old man!" Xiahou Dun behind Cao Cao heard this, without saying a word, picked up the steel gun in his hand and rushed towards Tao Qian! Seeing that Cao's army was coming, Tao Qian was so scared that he hurriedly ran into the military formation! Xiahou Dun ran to the Xuzhou army, and Cao Bao, who thought he was the largest general of the Xuzhou army, rushed out and took Xiahou Dun. The two battles started! Xiahou Dun is Cao Cao's clan brother, and he was also the largest general in the Cao army. He has followed Cao Cao since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but he has truly experienced many battles.
Oh! He is also one of the twenty-four generals of the Three Kingdoms in history! But what kind of onion is this Cao Bao? How many people in the world know who Cao Bao is! The two of them are not at the same level at all! At the best, Cao Bao is at Youzhou, he is a leader-level figure! So in a few rounds, Cao Bao couldn't do it. This guy didn't shout at this time. His life was important, so he turned around and ran away! Xiahou Dun chased him closely! The Xuzhou army was rushed into the army formation by Cao Bao, and suddenly became in chaos! The Cao army originally wanted to take this opportunity to attack the Xuzhou army's formation, but at this time, a strong wind suddenly blew, and sand and stones were flying! Both armies were in chaos. In desperation, both sides had to call gold and withdraw their troops!
Tao Qian returned to Xuzhou City and said to the civil and military ministers with a sad face: "The Cao army is too powerful, and it is not something we can fight against at all! I think I'd better tie myself up and let Cao Cao take it at will! This might save the people of Xuzhou from death!" The civil and military ministers of Xuzhou quickly opposed Tao Qian's suggestion when they heard it! What a joke! Although the Cao army is powerful and the Xuzhou army is not an opponent, it does not mean that the Xuzhou army has no hope at all! If Tao Qian doesn't fight a war, then what are the faces of them? Besides, Tao Qian is such a good boss, but it's rare to meet in a century! They are reluctant to let Tao Qian die! Tao Qiansui is Xuzhou in name
The governor, but in fact, Tao Qian is already old and has no ambitions. Xuzhou is the ruler of the aristocratic families of Xuzhou. If Tao Qian dies, if Cao Cao and others come to rule Xuzhou, their interests will be seriously damaged! And Cao Cao said he would kill all the people in Xuzhou! It doesn’t matter if Tao Qian dies. If Cao Cao still doesn’t forgive them and wants to kill them all, what should he do? Their family in Xuzhou is very big and big, and they don’t want to take this risk! Even Cao Bao, who was scared by Xiahou Dun just now, stood up against Tao Qian going out to die! Although he did not dare to clamor for helping Tao Qian and defeating Cao’s army, he was unwilling to let Tao Qian work together!
Tao Qian was a little moved when he heard this. Although he knew that these people were not really reluctant to die, but worried that they would not be able to save their interests, they were still a little moved! But being moved alone was useless! No matter how moved it, it would not solve the problem in front of him! So he asked again: "Since that's the case, how should we deal with the current situation! Cao Cao's attack is very urgent now. If we don't think of a solution quickly, we can't hold on for long! If Cao's army breaks through the city gate, even if I go out to die, they will not agree!" This is what Tao Qian is worried about. To be honest, he doesn't want to die! But isn't there any way? Since everyone opposes him to die, everyone will come up with a solution to the problem so that he can't die without having to die!
Chapter completed!