"The pottery thief wants to let me go? Is this possible?"

The defeat was decided and the death date was not far away. I discovered my conscience temporarily and sent someone to send a command to let the surrounded accomplices and lackeys to surrender, and stop making unnecessary resistance. In the end, the enemy's commander's conscience was not lost, so I decided to give it to myself.

A chance to survive. If such a good thing was exposed to others, you might have been so happy that you would have been so grateful. Unfortunately, Boss Cao and Deputy Director Tao are both of the same type of people, who are treacherous and cruel and suspicious, and never believe that pie falls from the sky.

It was a good thing, so after listening to the guard's report on the situation, Boss Cao not only did not feel any surprise, but also immediately blinked his treacherous triangle eyes and began to calculate the conspiracy and secretly tell the mechanism.

It is not entirely accused of being suspicious. The key is that Deputy Director Tao has a bad reputation in playing tricks. Therefore, Cao Jun advisers who are familiar with Deputy Director Tao are also frowning and dare not speak easily to analyze Deputy Director Tao's intentions.

If you say the wrong thing, there is still a chance to make up for it. If you say the wrong thing and mislead Boss Cao, then you will be doomed immediately.

"Prime Minister, there is another thing that villain must report. In fact, the Tao thief did not want to negotiate with our army at the beginning. It was Xuzhou military advisor Jia Xu who tried his best to persuade..."

The guards sent to negotiate with Deputy Director Tao in person were more dedicated and introduced the story of Jia Lao's poisonous substances to persuade Deputy Director Tao. Although the guards did not understand many of them, they heard the ears of Boss Cao and the Cao army's advisers.

But they all lit up their eyes, Mao Jie simply rushed to say, "Prime Minister, the purpose of the Tao thief's negotiation is already very clear. He also needs our army to restrain Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and Ma Teng, but he doesn't want to

Let these people choose the advantage after he destroyed our army for nothing, so he followed Jia Xu's advice. Since this is the case, the Prime Minister might as well consider accepting the negotiation requirements of the pottery thieves."

Only Mao Jie is so impatient. Although Cao Lao Da, Xun Yu's uncle and nephew, Guo Jia and others also think it is reasonable, they still dare not make a judgment easily. After all, Jia Lao's poisonous substance is definitely not in Deputy Director Tao.

Next. After thinking, the Xuzhou army outside the city temporarily stopped encircling and suppressing the remnants of Cao's army, but surrounded the Cao army soldiers who refused to surrender, and designated the remnants of Cao's army to spontaneously organize the circular formation, neither giving the remnants of Cao's army to the remnants of Cao's army to the remnants of Cao's army.

The opportunity to break through is also ready to launch an attack at any time and wipe out the remnants of Cao's army, which had less than a thousand people.

The battlefield under the city, which was still a shocking sound, gradually became quiet. The soldiers of the two armies who knew that Deputy Director Tao asked for negotiation were waiting, waiting for Boss Cao to accept the negotiations proposed by Deputy Director Tao, with different thoughts. The focus of the battlefield

. It also moved to the city tower at the north gate of Xuchang. With so many eyes, Boss Cao, who was hesitant in his heart, felt the great pressure that he had to bear as a master. At this moment, Boss Cao only needs to do it

If you make a mistake in your decision, you will immediately bring about hundreds of deaths and even the misfortune of the entire army.

"Prime Minister, we don't have much time." Xun Yu reminded softly: "The Taoist thief only gives us a quarter of an hour to consider. This thief has always focused on doing what he said."

Boss Cao's eyes flashed and soon became dim again. He just stood up silently, walked to the battleground of the city wall, looked at the battlefield of the two armies in the distance, and looked down from a high place. Xuzhou troops in apricot and yellow uniforms were in groups, as if

A yellow ocean, boundless, Cao's army, which had less than a thousand people, was like a black lonely boat, surrounded by this yellow ocean, and could be overturned and destroyed by the storm on the sea at any time. Boss Cao was complicated.

, After a long time, he asked hoarsely: "If this is the trick of the pottery thief, what is his most likely purpose?"

"Prepare the city of Xuchang without any effort and easily annihilate the last remaining troops of our army in the field." Xun Yu replied: "If the pottery thieves use a trick, this should be the purpose of the pottery thieves."

Boss Cao closed his eyes, sighed first, then opened his eyes, and said coldly: "Tell the Tao thief, I agree to the negotiation, the location is under the North Gate City, I will go out of the city in person to negotiate with him in person. Besides, I will immediately give the emperor a glory.

Please go to Xuchang North Gate City to witness my negotiations with the pottery thieves.”

"Prime Minister, although our army is not unable to agree to the conditions of the Tao thief, if this is the Tao thief's plan, our army will not even have the chance to defend the city." Cheng Yu quickly reminded.

"Our elites have basically been wiped out. Even if we stick to the city, it would be a miracle to be able to hold for ten days and half a month." Cao said with a expressionless face: "Negotiation is death, and not negotiating is death. It is better to die.

Let’s take a bet, bet that the pottery thief keeps his promises as always, and never breaks his promises in public, so that our army can have a glimmer of hope.”

Although he was unwilling to accept that he was even more worried that Deputy Director Tao would suddenly come true in the ten false cases. He resigned and broke his promise for the first time at this deadly moment. However, when the situation was put here, I didn’t know that the unexpected reinforcements were actually less than two hundred from Xuchang.

So the think tanks under Cao's command did not object, but followed the Cao army generals who were also unwilling to accept their promises, and then acted according to the order, sending people to contact the Xuzhou army and agreeing on the details of the negotiations.

Xun Yu and Cao Hong came forward and went into the palace to invite Emperor Xian of Han to come to the city to witness the Cao Tao negotiation, which is also a typical humiliating negotiation of the city alliance.

After a while, the highly anticipated Cao Tao talks finally began under the city of Xuchang. Under the gaze of thousands of soldiers and the current honorary supreme ruler of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Xian of Han, the Xuzhou army retreated as agreed in advance.

Two hundred steps away, then the north gate of Xuchang slowly opened. Boss Cao led ten riders out of the city and stood a hundred steps outside Xuchang City. Then Deputy Director Tao also led ten riders out of the formation and went to Boss Cao.

Strictly hold the horse's head at ten steps.

After standing still, Deputy Director Tao did not rush to talk to Boss Cao, but looked up to see Emperor Xian of Han on the city wall. This was also the first time that Deputy Director Tao met Emperor Xian of Han in his life. Then Deputy Director Tao handed over immediately

Holding your fists and shouting loudly: "Your Majesty, I am Xu Yangzhou Mu Tao Ying, I pay homage to Your Majesty, I am not in full ritual, I hope Your Majesty will forgive you. But please rest assured, now I am already taking all the initiatives and protecting the king.

.It is only a matter of time to rescue Your Majesty in the wolf den and tiger mouth. Please wait patiently, and Jinghou Weichen’s good news."

Of course, it was the first time that the poor Emperor Xian of Han met with Deputy Director Tao. Seeing the honest and handsome appearance of Deputy Director Tao, he heard the respectful and polite voice of Deputy Director Tao, and had been punished for five years in the hands of Boss Cao.

Emperor Xian of Han was extremely excited, but was afraid that Boss Cao would be desperate and jumped over the wall. He suddenly attacked him and did not dare to say anything that would stimulate Boss Cao's fragile nerves. He shouted on the city wall: "Aiqing Tao, please calm down. I already know the matter, you

Let’s negotiate with Cao Aiqing, and I will witness it for you in person.”

"I obey the order, thank Your Majesty." Deputy Director Tao saluted respectfully again. Then he turned to look at Boss Cao who had not even wiped away the blood on his face. He said solemnly: "Meng Degong. Although today's battle is cruel,

I am definitely not fighting you for personal grudges. The emperor is the lord of the world..."

"Shut up!" Boss Cao interrupted Deputy Director Tao and said coldly: "Stop acting, tell me, what's your purpose?"

"What purpose? Of course it is for the purpose of thousands of soldiers of the army not to sacrifice in vain, and for the purpose of revitalizing the rivers and mountains of our Han." Deputy Director Tao still spoke sweetly, and then said: "Meng Degong, things have come to this point, I am still the same sentence

If you leave Xuchang and return the emperor and my brother to me safely, I will let you leave with your army and family, and promise to never chase you."

"Do you promise not to chase after me?" asked Boss Cao.

"The Emperor's Empress! The Emperor's Personal Testimonial!" Deputy Director Tao said loudly: "Xu Yangzhou Mu Tao should hereby promise that if Cao Cao leads his army to withdraw from Xuchang, he will return the emperor, the queen, the Han Dynasty's civil and military officials and my brother Tao Shang, and

Without attacking our army, I will never chase Cao Cao's evacuation team! If I break this promise, the sky will hate it! The earth will hate it! People will hate it!”

After solemnly saying his oath, Deputy Director Tao slowed down and said to Boss Cao: "Meng Degong, you should be very clear about my credit. Let's choose whether to resist stubbornly or take a step back. You should take the initiative to withdraw.

, I will let you live. By the way, there is also land, I am not greedy, as long as the four counties of Yingchuan, Shanyang, Chenliu and Jiyin, as long as you can defend yourself, before you start a war against me again

, I won’t do it.”

The eldest daughter Cao's face was gloomy and she asked after a while: "Where is my son Cao Ang? What should I do?"

"When Duke Meng De has confirmed his foothold, I will send someone to send the Prince Ling back to Duke Meng De," replied Deputy Director Tao.

Boss Cao was still confident in Deputy Director Tao's credit. Hearing Deputy Director Tao's oath in public, he received the promise of Deputy Director Tao to release his eldest son. Boss Cao no longer hesitated and immediately turned his horse's head and looked at the man on the city wall.

Emperor Xian shouted: "You must have heard the words of the Emperor, the Emperor Tao, I believe that I have also heard them. The minister believes in the trust of the Emperor Tao, but the minister does not believe in the character of the Emperor Tao. In order to prevent accidents, the minister dared to go to the Emperor.

Ask for an edict, ask the emperor to issue an edict in public to pardon all the previous sins of the empress, and no longer pursue them, and promise not to issue an edict to let the envoy Tao pursue and attack Yu, and I will agree to the conditions of the envoy Tao!"

When he heard that Boss Cao finally chose to hand over himself, Emperor Xian of Han was of course overjoyed. He quickly nodded and said loudly: "Accurate, accurate, I will issue an edict now. Although Cao Aiqing, you have occasionally made minor mistakes, you have also made great contributions to protecting the emperor. I

I decided to pardon all your previous sins and no longer pursue them! I also promised you that I will never issue an edict to order Tao Aiqing..."

"Your Majesty, wait!" Deputy Director Tao quickly spoke and said loudly: "Your Majesty forgives your crime. I don't believe in Prime Minister Cao's trust or his character! In order to prevent it, I dare to ask Your Majesty to add it.

Previous sentence, as long as Prime Minister Cao's team does not take the initiative to attack our army, your Majesty will agree to never issue an edict to order the Wei minister to attack Prime Minister Cao's team! If Prime Minister Cao breaks his promise and takes the lead in provoking the battle again, Wei minister has the right to fight back immediately,

Immediately send troops to hunt down Prime Minister Cao's team!"

Emperor Xian of Han, who was used to being puppets, did not dare to speak, but just looked at Boss Cao timidly. It was not until he saw Boss Cao nodding that Emperor Xian of Han said happily: "Real report! I agree, as long as Cao Aiqing does not take the lead in attacking Tao Aiqing's team.

I will never issue an edict to order Tao Aiqing to attack Cao Aiqing! If Cao Aiqing does not keep his promise and attack Tao Aiqing's team after leaving the city, Tao Aiqing can send troops to fight back immediately without asking for an order!"

"I obey the order! Long live the emperor!" Deputy Director Tao took the lead in receiving the order.

"I will thank you for your kindness." Boss Cao also gave a tribute expressionless face, then turned to Deputy Director Tao and ordered: "You retreat first and let my army return to the city. I will prepare for one night, tomorrow morning, I will lead me

The army withdrew from Xuchang City and let your team take over Xuchang City."

"No!" Deputy Director Tao refused flatly and said, "I only give you an hour to prepare! After an hour, you withdraw from the west gate of Xuchang, and I enter the city from the east gate to take over Xuchang City."

"One hour is enough?" Boss Cao said furiously.

"This is your business." Deputy Director Tao sneered: "Let your loyal and brave team return to the city, and give you another night to prepare for the war. Our army wants to break through Xuchang again. Wouldn't it be a waste of sacrifice again?

Many soldiers?"

Boss Cao gritted his teeth and said after a while: "It's half past Shen time, one and a half hours. At the time of Xu time, I'll withdraw from the west gate of Xuchang. You enter the city from the east gate of Xuchang! And let my team enter the city immediately. They also need to bring their families and

Personal property.”

"The deal." Deputy Director Tao didn't even blink his eyelids. He immediately shouted: "Send the order to make clear the way and let Prime Minister Cao's team return to the city."

The fast horse conveyed the order. The Xuzhou army, who were waiting in line, immediately made way. The Cao army soldiers, who were only 800 people, also staggered and supported each other to walk towards the north gate of Xuchang. The Xuzhou army on both sides were closely monitored.

, without giving these Cao army soldiers a chance to cause trouble, Cao Boss guarded the moat and personally welcomed more than 800 Cao army warriors who were loyal to him.

A sudden change occurred. When more than 800 Cao army soldiers walked to the moat, something unexpected happened to both Cao and Deputy Director Tao. A Cao army soldier suddenly left the team and rushed to the scene.

In front of Boss Cao, the guards of the Cao army were so scared that they quickly drew their swords and guns, for fear that the Cao army soldier would be a disguised as an assassin in Xuzhou army. Unexpectedly, the Cao army soldier was close to each other and suddenly knelt down to Boss Cao and took him.

He shouted in a crying voice...

"Prime Minister, you have fallen into a trap! Our reinforcements have arrived, our reinforcements have arrived in Xiangcheng! Our 30,000 reinforcements have arrived in Xiangcheng! It has also severely damaged the partial army of the pottery thieves! We only need to guard for a few more days,

You can block the team of the pottery thieves!”

"Oh no!" Deputy Director Tao and Lao Jia both complained in their hearts, knowing that the soldier must be the messenger sent by Cao's army in Ye County to contact Lao Cao.

"Our reinforcements are coming?" Cao's army was overjoyed, and Boss Cao was so surprised that he couldn't believe his ears, and shouted: "Who are you? The reinforcements we came from?"

"The last general Meng Tan is the commander of General Han Fu, the commander of our army's Ye County garrison!" The messenger replied loudly: "A few days ago, Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou, sent General Cai Mao and Liu Huangshu of Xinye to lead an army of 35,000 troops.

More than a thousand people went north to attack Ye County. After learning that the Tao bandits took advantage of the danger to attack Xuchang, Emperor Liu was indignant and urged General Cai Mao to take charge of Liu Envoy to form an alliance with our army, and to join our Ye County defenders to rescue Xuchang and resist the traitors.

Tao Ying’s invasion!”

"Because the request made by Emperor Liu for Liu's envoy was to return our army to the entire territory of Nanyang and bear military expenses, money and food, and there were less than 3,000 defenders in Ye County. I heard that the war situation in Xuchang was urgent, General Han Fu

He took the risk to agree to the Prime Minister's conditions for the Prime Minister, and gave up the teams of Ye County, Liu Huangshu and General Cai Mao to join forces to help the Prime Minister! Yesterday morning, Uncle Liu used a clever plan to defeat the Taoist thief's side troops and killed the Xuzhou thief general Tui, Tui Yi,

Annihilated countless enemies and forced the Taoist thief to retreat to Fenqiu! In order to make the prime minister feel at ease to defend the city and wait for help, General Han ordered the last general to come to Xuchang to report the news. Unexpectedly, he encountered a great defeat in our army. The last general was unable to enter the city and was still injured.

He was trapped in the formation, so he had no time to deliver the letter to the Prime Minister in time."

As he explained quickly, Meng Tan quickly took out a blood-stained letter from his arms, held it in front of Boss Cao in both hands, and shouted excitedly: "Prime Minister, this is a letter from General Han Fu and you. Please check it out!"
To be continued...