"There is no need for me to tell you the details, Mr. Cao." Huang Gai suddenly interrupted him with a loud voice. "Since I have decided to pretend to surrender as a bait to lure Mr. Yan, I am an abandoned son and cannot participate in such a big event. And this

This is a major event, the less people know about it, the more sure it is... As long as Cao Gong says a word, will I be allowed to be a bait, in Yangzhai or Guandu? That's it. As for my false surrender, please don't say more, Cao Gong.

, even to General Sun, there is no need to mention it, so as to save him from distraction."

Cao Cao knew that he was holding on to the other party with the intention of dying, and he wanted to be a dead soldier. He felt sad for a moment, but he could only hold back and said: "I really didn't expect General Huang to be so ambitious and fierce... Please use Yang Yang."

Zhai Shi pretended to surrender to Gongsun Wenqi, so please be sure to remain useful."

Huang Gai didn't say much. He bowed again and hurriedly retreated.

Cao Mengde raised his head in the tent and let out a long sigh, but he finally had nothing to say.

Cao Ang, who was standing at the tent door, came to his senses and didn't know what to say for a moment, but Cao Cao looked at his parent-child posture and reluctantly adjusted his emotions. He laughed for a moment and said, "Zixiu, follow me out for inspection."

Cao Ang naturally did not dare to neglect.

In this way, the father and son walked side by side under the moon and began to patrol around the camp. This is the Chinese army's tent far away from the front line. Naturally, there is no danger of battle, but it cannot be said that there is no atmosphere of war.

On the left and right sides of the Chinese army's tent, there are newly built so-called transfer camps. One of them is the wounded camp, where the wounded who cannot recover quickly after being injured are gathered here and then transported by civilians to the Chenliu area in the rear; there is also another camp.

Naturally, it is the civilian camp. After the civilians have finished transporting food and grass, they need to stop here. After a night's rest, they have to turn around in a hurry. When the war is tense and there is a shortage of soldiers, the strong ones among them will be directly selected into the auxiliary troops... Bai

Ren Jun, who attracted Gongsun Xun's surprise during the day, was the chief officer of this camp.

Cao Cao walked under the moon for a long time, and was depressed by the seriousness and tension in the Chinese army. He was about to leave the Chinese army camp, but he did not dare to go to the wounded barracks on the left. Instead, he took Cao Ang and strolled to the civilian camp on the right.

.

However, at the end of autumn, the cold wind was blowing and the weather turned cool. As Cao Mengde walked along the way, he saw that all the people in the camp were exhausted, sitting silently and lifeless, and some were even shivering due to cold and exhaustion.

It didn't matter. When Cao Cao, Cao Ang and several guards were about to walk past a fire, he was stunned for a moment and stood in the shadow.

It turned out that next to the fire, a gray-haired civilian husband was holding a wooden thorn and pricking the blisters on the feet of a man who was obviously a young man next to him. The young man put his feet in the old man's arms, and his soles were facing the firelight.

, everyone could clearly see that almost the entire sole of his foot was dripping with blood and was in a state of disarray. However, he was sleeping so soundly that he didn't even notice that there were so many blisters on his foot.

Cao Mengde is a sentimental person, and he is a living person who has both personal ambition and a desire to help the world and the people. He has always been moved by the situation... But when he saw such a scene today, he just felt that some Han Dynasty orthodoxy was used to convince him in the past.

, any personal pride and ambition are not worth mentioning.

In an instant, he almost burst into tears after experiencing Xia Houyuan, Cao Chun, Cao Xiu, Xu Chu, Wang Bi, and even Huang Gai's generosity just now.

However, it was precisely because he thought of these people who were dying one after another, or who were determined to die for the so-called overall situation, that he couldn't cry anymore, and even knew what to do... because those people were urging him.

and inspired him, telling him to fight to the end to achieve great things.

He stood withered in the shadow of the moon, his life experiences turning around like a revolving lantern.

The spirit of the captain in the north of Luoyang, the ambition of Dunqiu when he was the commander, the decadence when he was implicated and dismissed from office, the heroic spirit when pacifying the Yellow Turbans, the lament for the people's livelihood after taking office in Jinan, the disappointment with the government, and then the rise during Dong Zhuo's rebellion.

, the ambition to travel across the Central Plains, the excitement of getting the support of Liu Bei and Liu Biao... all kinds of complicated thoughts were stirred repeatedly in the same person's heart, but in the end they were no match for the angry wide-open eyes on Cao Chun's head, and the pair in front of him.

Bloody feet.

But the two are contradictory!

One urges him to move forward with all his strength, and the other reminds him that it is better to give up for the sake of the people's livelihood!

While he was thinking wildly, the gray-haired old man picked out the blisters for the young man who didn't know whether it was his grandson or who he was. Then he threw down the wooden thorn and stood up with all his strength. He seemed to be preparing to go to the well to find some water, but unexpectedly he looked back.

Seeing such a scene, I was immediately frightened.

"Old man!" Cao Mengde, who had no choice but to hide, stepped forward shyly and held the opponent's hands directly, regardless of the dirt on his body. "Please stay with me for another month, success or failure, I, Cao Mengde, will never let you do it again.

Such hard work!”

As if he had exhausted all his strength, Cao Cao said this seriously, regardless of whether the other party understood or not, he let go and walked back to his main camp.

Cao Ang immediately led his guards to catch up, while the old man was at a loss. Only his white hair trembled in the autumn wind for a moment... He didn't even know who Cao Mengde was?

"Father!" Walking to the fire sand pile between the two camps, Cao Ang finally caught up and asked the doubts in his heart. "What did father mean by his words just now? And what Huang Gong replied to before... Although Xuzhou was defeated

, but is the overall situation really like this? Don’t we still have so many troops?”

"This is exactly what happened." Cao Cao turned around on the sand pile, looked down from a high position, and sighed. "Zixiu, you must understand... soldiers and horses need something to support them, and fighting between two heroes is never the case.

It’s a city-by-city basis!”

"Please give me some advice, father." Cao Ang became more and more anxious. Since that battle, he had become one of the most hard-line in the army. Naturally, he instinctively resisted the words of such a collapse of the situation.

"It's the people's heart." Cao Cao certainly had no reservations about his son. "Gongsun Wenqi already has the advantage. He won the first victory, the second victory, and the third victory again. But we are defeated again and again. Then we can't see victory.

After the hope, the hearts of our Central Plains Alliance will be dispersed. After Xuzhou is over, do you think the people of Wu County next to Guangling will be unstable if Bo Fu is not there? Liu Biao is half-hearted and short-sighted, do you think he will see that the situation is not good?

, in order to seek peace with Gongsun Xun, we suddenly withdrew our troops? The Central Plains is besieged on both sides. Do you think the cities in various places will deliver autumn grain in time? Do you believe it or not, in another month, if we cannot win a big victory, then the various places in the Central Plains will

Rebellions will arise one after another, and officials will change the banner of the entire county? Zixiu and Gongsun Xun may need to clean up the situation in one city and one area to digest the territory, but as the losers, we may not be able to hold on and the whole thing will be shattered!

"

Cao Ang felt sad for a moment, but did not refute... because this kind of thing is easy to understand.

"You have also heard what happened in the back account before. Follow me back and I will write a letter. You set out overnight and deliver it to Bo Fu in person. I will use his ability to fight and dare to fight and Huang Gongfu's false surrender to delay it.

Take advantage of me!" Cao Cao stepped forward and patted his own son on the shoulder, feeling relieved as if he was giving an ordinary order.

Cao Zixiu looked up at his father's calm eyes and a trace of white hair on his temples. Suddenly, the gray hair of his father-in-law and the gaze on his uncle Cao Chun's head flashed before his eyes, and then he focused on it in a daze.

Lower your head.

However, as soon as the father and son descended the sand dunes and entered the Chinese army camp, a soldier hurriedly greeted them, leaned over and reported a piece of news that caught them off guard:

"Reporting to my lord, Zhu Changzhang just committed suicide in the camp! He left a last word, saying that he just woke up at this time, and he actually became the sword of the Yan thief. He regretted it so much that he could only die to pay for his sin and live up to Cao Zidan's courage.

!”

Cao Cao was silent for a long time, and just nodded slowly: "I understand."

After saying this, he took Cao Ang into the camp and wrote a letter.

There are unforeseen circumstances and coincidences. Almost at the same moment, Cao Jun's camp went north, and Gongsun Xun, who was inspecting the wounded camp, also learned a sudden news.

"Your Highness..." Yicong officer Wang Ling, who was found from the Chinese army camp, was sweating profusely. He was so nervous that he couldn't control himself, but he had to give in and tell the truth. "I just checked the casualty list of today's battle. It has been verified repeatedly and confirmed. , the artilleryman of the front camp, Qu Junhou Lu Fu, was killed by the enemy camp's artillery stones at the beginning of the war!"

Gongsun Xun, who was explaining something to the military doctors and wounded in front of him, was silent for a while. After a long time, he slowly nodded: "I understand."

Everyone around was silent, and no one dared to get angry.

But Gongsun Xun firmly held the broken blade at his waist, but suddenly turned around and faced the wounded soldiers in the camp seriously: "Gentlemen, I swear to you today that within one month, someone from my Gongsun will definitely make a decision. Victory or defeat, I will never let you work so hard again! And our army will win this battle!"

————I know the dividing line————

"In mid-September, when the battle became more intense, Prime Minister Lu Fan's eldest son died in the battle. Taizu heard about it and said nothing. The next day, Emperor Shiren was not crowned, and he and his attendants were all working on white horses. For a while, they all entered Guandu, and left and right They were all shocked." - "Jiu Yan Shu". Volume 2. The Chronicles of Emperor Taizu Wu
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