Chapter 196 (2/2)
Yuan Shang is just a good-looking man. He's an embroidered pillow. Before long, even without even using the tools of torture, LV Qian extracted all the information yuan Shang knew from Yuan Shang's mouth. After a while, a messenger with information from Yuan Shang's mouth and a secret letter rushed out of the capital city of Xindu and headed for the south.
By the time the secret letter came to Dongjun, the news of XiahouDun's defeat had reached Dongjun. Cao Ren was worried about it. Today, although Cao Cao succeeded in rescuing XiahouDun and XiaHouYuan in Shangdang, and Dianwei also killed Li Meng who came to attack the city, Cao Cao's fierce general lejin also died in Xu Rong's hands. Today, although Cao Cao has occupied nearly half of the territory of Bingzhou, he has lost 120000 troops. Facing Xu Rong's army, Cao Cao has lost the capital to continue to attack and occupy Bingzhou.When Cao Ren untied the military information just sent, his face suddenly changed. It can be seen from the confession that Yuan Shao really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Cao Cao leading the army to seize the letter capital. When Cao Cao left, he gave the Jizhou to Cao Ren. Cao Ren would not lose Jizhou in any case.
In this secret letter, LV Qian really put forward Guan Yu's suggestion. To be honest, Cao Ren was really moved. It must be too late to ask Cao Cao for instructions now. This decision must be made by Cao Ren himself.
First of all, Cao Ren, the ten thousand elite soldiers who stayed in Yanzhou, would also be sent out. With 20000 in Xindu, there would be 30000. But how to use these 30000 troops is a problem. If he stayed in Xindu and waited for Yuan Shao to attack, he would not be able to attack Xindu in a short time. But Yuan Shao still has a hundred thousand troops. Even if he can't attack Xindu, he only needs to leave tens of thousands of people to besiege Xindu, and then take the rest of the army to attack other cities and counties in Jizhou, even Yanzhou and Qingzhou. At that time, I'm afraid that even Cao Cao's foundation will not be preserved, and Cao Ren will have to die to thank him for his trust.
According to Guan Yu, is it possible to strike first? If Cao wancao loses in the Bohai Sea, it can be said that all the people can not fight against the Bohai Sea.
What to do? Cao Ren sat in his seat and knocked on the forehead with his hand. Suddenly, Cao Ren thought of a man and slapped his thigh. He called a sergeant in and said to the sergeant, ”you! Go to my house and ask that gentleman to come to the official residence
”Sir?” The sergeant looked at Cao Ren, but Cao Ren said with impatience: ”what do you care about so much! Just let you go. If you come to my house, just say you are looking for Mr
”Here it is Seeing that Cao Ren showed signs of anger, the sergeant did not dare to be wordy and retreated quickly.
After more than half an hour, Cao Ren was impatient to wait. The sergeant finally came back, but he also brought a middle-aged scholar behind him. The scholar was about forty or fifty years old. He had white hair on his temples, but his face was extremely emaciated. His slender eyes flashed cold light from time to time, which made people look as if they were being watched by a poisonous snake.
”Ah! sir! You're here As soon as Cao Ren saw the middle-aged scholar come in, he immediately welcomed him, and his attitude was extremely respectful.
”General!” The middle-aged scholar saluted Cao Ren, but he was soon helped up by Cao Ren. Cao Ren welcomed the middle-aged scholar to the upper seat, and he sat under the scholar.
”It's really a shame to say that he was rashly invited this time, but Cao Ren did not make up his mind about one thing and came to ask him for advice. I hope you will give me your advice!” Cao Ren sat on the seat, straightened up and bowed respectfully to the middle-aged scholar.
The middle-aged scholar stroked his chin beard with a smile and said, ”general, please come here, but for Jizhou?”
Cao Ren was surprised, but then he was relieved. The middle-aged scholar had already brought him a lot of surprise. If Cao Cao had not been in Bingzhou now, he would have recommended him to Cao Cao. Cao Ren immediately told the story again and showed the middle-aged scholar the intelligence sent from Jizhou. Then Cao Ren again made a big ceremony to the middle-aged scholar and said, ”since you already know, please point out a way for Cao Ren!”
The middle-aged scholar scanned the information and then said with a smile, ”in fact, the general should have had an idea in his mind. The general asked me, but it was just for peace of mind, wasn't it?”
Cao Ren was stunned and then said with a bitter smile: ”since Mr. Cao has made it clear, then Cao Ren is no longer hiding. At present, there is only one way to attack the Bohai Sea first according to Guan Yunchang's words, but Yuan Shao has this 100000 army after all. Cao Ren is so entrusted by the Lord that he dare not gamble on the foundation he has worked so hard for years