Chapter 711: Noble and famous family!
How can there be no deaths in war?
Yuan Yao died, and Cao Hong also died.
So what if you have a noble status?
Everything is fair when it comes to life and death.
Cao Chun's eyes were filled with tears. He wept over Cao Hong's corpse and said, "Zi Lian, you saved my life. From now on, your parents are my parents, and your son is my son. If I break this oath, let the Su Wang Shang Huang and Her Majesty the Goddess of Luo River sentence me to death."
Cao Cao stood there, personally placed Cao Hong's body on the cart beside him, covered it with a white cloth, and sighed softly, "Send Zilian back to Qiao County for burial, and send Zilian's son to my house.
When I return, I will adopt you as my son."
Xiahou Dun and others stepped forward to comfort him, saying, "My lord, Zi Lian died a worthy death, and he had no regrets in his heart."
Cao Chun, wearing armor, knelt before Cao Cao with difficulty but determination, and cried, "My lord, Zi Lian died to protect me and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
I am willing to be the vanguard in the attack on Yuan Shu. If I cannot avenge Zi Lian, I will not be at peace in my life. I hope the lord will help me."
Cao Cao put his hand on Cao Chun's shoulder and asked calmly, "Zihe, are you angry with Yuan Shu?"
Cao Chun opened his red eyes and said hatefully: "I wish I could eat his flesh and drink his blood."
Cao Cao shook his head and said earnestly: "Zihe, your eyes are full of bloodshot, and your mind is blinded by hatred.
You are a cavalry commander, not a vengeful swordsman.
The king should not march out in anger.
Can a general attack in anger?
I will hand over the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to you, but you must maintain your hatred towards Yuan Shu, but you must not let the hatred cloud your mind.
Otherwise, not only will you fail to avenge Zi Lian, but even if he tries his best to save you, you will still be killed in the end.
If I lose two of my generals to Yuan Shu, it would be a loss.
You are all my brothers and nephews. I want you to share my wealth and honor, rather than being separated from you one day.
Do you understand? "
Cao Chun's eyes were red as he kowtowed heavily, choking with sobs, "My Lord, I understand."
All the generals of the Cao and Xiahou clans clasped their fists and bowed. After experiencing this incident, the clan generals became more united.
Cao Cao rode on his horse, looking at his advisers, and said in a deep voice: "You are all talented and wise men. Now our army and Yuan Shu will fight to the death.
I would like to ask you to teach me how to defeat Yuan Shu as quickly and safely as possible.
As long as it does not violate the terms of the Zhaocheng agreement, I can accept any method. "
Cao Cao originally wanted to pretend to be a benevolent and righteous army, but facing an opponent like Yuan Shu who had no bottom line, it would be difficult to do so without using some tricks.
Although he advised Cao Chun not to be anxious, he himself became anxious. It was difficult for him to accept the death of Cao Hong, a mere Yuan Shu.
When fighting with Liu Bei that day, no clan generals died in the battle, but Yuan Shu alone ended up causing him to lose many soldiers and generals.
He spent the whole day hunting geese, but ended up getting his eyes pecked by a goose. How could he accept this?
Xun Yu frowned upon hearing this, knowing that Cao Cao's old problem had come back again.
This was not what he wanted, so he immediately clasped his fists and bowed, saying, "My lord.
Our army is the royal army of the imperial court, and Yuan Shu is a rebellious person. As long as our army acts in a benevolent and righteous manner, Yuan Shu will naturally surrender.
How could you violate the agreement in Zhaocheng?"
Xun Yu seemed to be talking nonsense, but in fact it was not nonsense, but an indirect reminder to Cao Cao.
Don't think about those weird things every day.
If you want to achieve great things, you must follow the right path.
Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu helplessly. Xun Yu was good in every way: capable, handsome, and of good character, but he acted too openly.
But Xun Yu pretended not to see it. He had to keep an eye on Cao Cao and not let his bad habits ruin things.
Xun You understood his uncle, so he chimed in, "My lord, if a mere Yuan Shu can still use his extraordinary strategy, it would be a great honor for him.
My lord, don't worry. As long as our army is careful and cautious, it will not be difficult to defeat Yuan Shu."
Xun You first calmed Cao Cao's anxious heart and told him that Cao Hong's death was just an accident and Yuan Shu was still the same waste and we could deal with him with a little tricks.
Then he winked at Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia, both of whom were planners recommended by Xun Yu to Cao Cao, and who specialized in designing brilliant strategies.
This requires us to say that there are many talented people among the scholars in Yingchuan.
These people all have at least one attribute above 90. They are either Xun Yu’s good friends, or Xun Yu’s in-laws or family acquaintances.
It is no wonder that Cao Cao was occasionally wary of Xun Yu. The power of the Yingchuan people was indeed huge. Even Cheng Yu from Yanzhou was pulled into the Yingchuan camp.
The scholars in Yanzhou are not even a little bit inferior to those in Yingchuan.
Only Chen Gong can be used. Although he is not good at quick wits, once he is prepared, he can be one of the strongest people in the world.
Cao Cao and Chen Gong still had an old friendship, and he had high hopes for Chen Gong.
Guo Jia looked a little sickly and pale, and he coughed twice and said, "My lord, I have a question. If you want to kill someone, there are two ways.
One is that you fight with knives, using force to fight, and the winner takes everything.
The other is that you use strategy to bring it into danger and let it destroy itself.
Which one would you choose? "
Cao Cao frowned and then relaxed his brows. He knew that Guo Jia had a brilliant plan, so he asked directly, "What is it? Let Feng Xiaodao come up with it."
Guo Jia covered the lower half of his face with his feather fan and said, "My lord, Yuan Shu has been wantonly trampling on the people and plundering beauties in Runan and other places over the years.
People at that time called it a fierce ghost on the road to ridicule it.
Are there people in this world who are lustful, cruel, and capable of long-term thinking?
Since Yuan Shu dared to do these things, he did not take many rules into consideration. This is our opportunity.
The world today is different from the chaotic times of the past. The difference lies in the alliance that you, my lord, went to Zhaocheng to sign.
This covenant drew a line across the world, confining people to the human category.
To put it bluntly, that covenant is more effective than the emperor's edict.
If we can guide Yuan Shu to actively destroy this alliance.
My lord, you can rely on the power of many people instead of relying solely on yourself to kill Yuan Shu here.
Even if some princes are unwilling to take action, Prince Chu, who is entrenched in Jiangdong, will definitely abide by the terms of the Zhaocheng Alliance and send troops to attack Yuan Shu together.
Zhaocheng will not let Yuan Shu go, and will definitely send brave warriors to safeguard the implementation of the treaty."
Guo Jia's words made Cao Cao's eyes light up. This was something he had not expected.
Before, I just felt that I couldn't violate the terms of the treaty, and I never took advantage of these treaties to do anything.
Xi Zhicai smiled and said, "My lord, what Fengxiao said is absolutely right.
What our army was most worried about before was how to deal with the competition from all sides after defeating Yuan Shu.
Liu Bei can use the name of the imperial court to force them to retreat, and now in Jiangdong where Prince Chu is, he can be directly lured into the game.
We cannot stay out of this now. As for the future, that will all happen after we defeat Yuan Shu."
After Cao Hong’s death, Cao Cao finally felt himself recovering a little, and laughed loudly: “Zhicai, Fengxiao.
Since I have you, why should I worry about not achieving great things?
Why worry about not making Yuan Shu pay the price?
Which taboo do you think Yuan Shu is most likely to have violated?"
Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai looked at each other, and then Guo Jia pondered and said, "Yuan Shu is a man of high rank and noble family, who has never seen the sufferings of the world. Compared with Yuan Shao, he is far inferior.
His biggest problem is that he doesn't know how ordinary people live.
He didn't care about these things. To Yuan Shu, the people were just tools to provide taxes.
He would not randomly slaughter doctors. After all, doctors have a relatively high status, and this one is too obvious.
But he may not care about other terms. Among them, the goal of massacring the city is too big, so he may not dare to do it, but it is not certain.
He is now so crazy that he has almost completely abandoned his own foundation. It is possible that he will go crazy again. We must be on guard.
If he wanted to kill the prisoners, given Yuan Shu's character, he would most likely do it secretly.
Especially since he already has hundreds of thousands of troops, it is impossible for him to keep prisoners to consume food and grass."
According to Guo Jia's analysis, the clauses that Yuan Shu was most likely to have violated were those regarding civilians and prisoners.
As Cao Cao listened, he felt something was wrong. Why did it feel like Guo Jia was not only talking about Yuan Shu, but also about himself?
It's like looking in the mirror.
If Yuan Shu knew what Cao Cao was thinking, he would have laughed wildly and said, "I, Yuan Shu, will not kill prisoners, because I have no intention of taking prisoners. I will kill them all on the spot."
Xun You, Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai and other strategists who were good at planning joined in and plotted against Yuan Shu, trying to see how they could successfully lure Yuan Shu to anger him, make him make a big mistake, and then cause the whole world to rise up and attack him.
Here Cao Cao is preparing to plot against Yuan Shu.
There was jubilation in Yuan Shu's army. They won the first battle and even killed one of Cao Cao's generals.
This is an unprecedented victory since the two sides started fighting.
Yuan Shu completely ignored the so-called rule prohibiting alcohol in the military camp. He was the lord and no one could control him. He drank happily, while scantily clad beauties prostrated themselves at his feet.
This was the beauty he had snatched along the way.
On his way here, he was full of anger, and as a result he saw this beauty. After he possessed this beauty, he killed her entire family, including her parents-in-law, husband, and children.
Perhaps happiness is really built on the pain of others. After doing these things, Yuan Shu actually felt much better.
What excited him most was the gentle service of the beauty in front of him.
Although Yuan Shu killed her entire family, she remained gentle and considerate, just to ask Yuan Shu for some gold, silver and silk.
She complimented Yuan Shu in a gentle voice, and was amazed and admired the greatness of Yuan Shu's four generations of three officials.
Amidst those compliments, Yuan Shu felt that all his worries were disappearing.
It turned out that all the misfortunes in the past were not his fault, but the world's fault.
(End of this chapter)
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