Loudiyuan, the largest relatively flat plain in the southeast of Hanguguan, is backed by Feiyundu, south to the southern foot of Qinling Mountains, north to the Yellow River, and directly opposite Hanguguan.

Nowadays, the vassals' allied troops camped here.

At the door of the Central Army Commander's tent, Cao Cao bowed out of the commander's tent. Before turning around, he did not forget to bow to Yuan Shao, who was in the throne of the leader of the alliance. Yuan Shao pretended to stand up and bow to him, but in fact he didn't even move his butt, and he didn't get up and give him to him like before.

Under the stairs of the commander's tent, Cao Ren paced back and forth anxiously. He saw Cao Cao entering the tent and then turned out again soon and immediately walked up to him.

"Have you ever seen Yuan Shao? Well, it's the leader of the Yuan Dynasty. What did he say? Do you allow me to recruit young and strong people nearby in Henan counties? When will the food, grass and weapons that I promised me to wait for will be distributed?"

As soon as he approached, Cao Ren immediately raised what he wanted to know, and this was the reason why Cao Cao asked to see Yuan Shao as soon as he returned to the military camp.

As early as when he captured Dongyuan City, Yuan Shao privately promised Cao Cao that as long as the Allies could capture Hedong within one month and completely drove the Xiliang army to the south bank of the Yellow River, he secretly helped Cao Cao provide 50,000 stones of grain and grass and 50 vehicles of weapons for Cao Cao to recruit soldiers and expand his strength in various counties in Henan. At the same time, this batch of supplies was also a gift to Cao Cao personally led his army to attack Hangu Pass, or to compensate, to help Cao Cao strengthen his strength.

However, this is not the case.

From Cao Cao personally led his army to smuggle across the Yellow River, nearly a month later, Yuan Shao not only did not fulfill his previous promise, but instead cut the food and supplies that Cao's army should have without authorization. According to the previous practice, all the food and supplies required by the 80,000 Cao army were supplied by Yuan Shao, but Cao Cao led a 60,000 army to cross the river. Yuan Shao immediately deducted Cao's food and supplies, and directly reduced the food and supplies of the 80,000 Cao army to 20,000 people. For this reason, Cao Ren went to Yuan Shao to argue in anger, but Yuan Shao pretended to say, "Meng De was leading the army and could not use so much food and supplies for the time being, and there were many troops and shortage of food and supplies, so he temporarily misappropriated it to solve the urgent problem. After the army crossed the river and met with Cao Cao, he would definitely pay as much money and would never be denied!"

At that time, Yuan Shao spoke with confidence. Cao Renxin thought it was true. Although he was still indignant and doubtful, he could not find a reason to refute it, so he had to give up. He thought that when his lord Cao Cao came back, Yuan Shao would not make excuses anymore. He would definitely give up the food and wages that had been owed for a month and fulfill his previous promises.

Therefore, after Cao Cao finally escaped back to the Allied camp, he took a shower and changed his clothes and immediately went to see Yuan Shao. His purpose was to ask for the food and supplies he deserved, and to use the food and money he asked for from Yuan Shao. He recruited soldiers nearby in various counties in Henan and restored some strength as much as possible. As for the details of the Feiyundu battle and the results, there is no need to say more. The princes from all walks of life had already found out clearly and everyone could understand it. There is no need to uncover Cao Cao's scars in public.

"Hmph!" Cao Cao, who bent out of the handsome tent, bowed humbly and smiled apologized for the first time. After turning around and walking down the steps, he turned his head and looked at the Yuan Shao's handsome tent behind him with great resentment, and snorted coldly with a gloomy face. Then he ignored Cao Ren's inquiry and strode towards his tent without looking back.

Seeing Cao Cao's face looked very ugly and his eyes were filled with extremely murderous aura, Cao Ren's passionate heart, who was eager to know the result, was as if he was immersed in ice, and his heart was instantly cold. In an instant, he pulled out his sword without hesitation and wanted to rush into Yuan Shao's tent to ask what was going on. When he put the sword on Yuan Shao's neck, he saw that he dared to break his promise and be fat, or not?

But this tempting idea can only be thought of by yourself. It is extremely difficult to implement it, and there is almost no possibility of success. If you want to rush into the general's tent to hold Yuan Shao hostage and ask for food and wages, put aside the 1,000 personal soldiers around the general's tent, you must first pass through the two generals Zhang He and Gao Lan who guard the tent, and then defeat the two Yan Liang and Wen Chou who are always inseparable from Yuan Shao, so that you can succeed. These four generals guarding the tent are not mediocre, and each of them has skills and martial arts that are not inferior to Cao Ren; if the two join forces to fight against the enemy, Cao Ren is no match for them at all and will undoubtedly lose.

"Hmph! The leader of the great princes actually betrayed his faith and went against his word. He is a villain who has no faith. Let's see, one day Cao swore to take revenge, and I'll spoil him!" He said anger and said a harsh sentence. Cao Ren put away his sword casually, then quickly caught up with Cao Cao, and returned to his tent in one step and three times.

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He walked into his big tent angrily, and Cao Cao walked directly to the upper ranks. The moment he sat down, he slapped the table heavily, shaking the stack of bamboo slips on the desk, causing an uproar to fall to the ground.

"It's unreasonable. Yuan Shao's concubine son bullies me too much. It's extremely hateful! Yuan, originally, the concubine son is not enough to make plans!"

After roaring with gritted teeth, Cao Cao collapsed with a decadent face and lay weakly on the cushion, his eyes were dull and unconscious, his expression was extremely lonely, and his breathing sounds as heavy as a cow.

Obviously, he was filled with righteous indignation at this moment, and his heart was very painful and tormented, which made him exhausted and his life was worse than death.

Seeing Cao Cao so angry that he was so angry, Cao Ren, who was standing at the stairs, had a lot of words to say, but at this moment he couldn't say a word. It was not that he didn't want to, but that he didn't dare to ask more questions.

As a confidant general who has been with Cao Cao for a long time, Cao Ren knew very well about his temperament and knew when to say something. If Cao Cao was in a very bad mood or was furious, even if it was a matter of 100,000 yuan, he should carefully consider whether to report it immediately; otherwise, a little carelessness would lead to death.

It is true that Cao Cao has always been very cunning, and his joy and anger are not reflected in his expression. His wisdom and wisdom are elusive. However, the more cunning, the more difficult it is to guess. His character and temper are also strange and changeable. If he is happy, he will also kill people because of his anger. Such changing nature has happened to Cao Cao many times. More than ten servants who served him for a long time, and his personal soldiers and maids were killed by him. There was even a very favored concubine who was stabbed to death in the middle of the night for no reason. However, he himself did not know that it was not until dawn that he found that his concubine had been dead for a long time.

Things like this happen from time to time and are not uncommon.

However, Cao Ren and other trusted generals have always been very secretive about these things. When they know about them, they rot in their stomachs and never mention them to others. Even their wives and concubines who share the same bed have never revealed a few words. However, the deeper they are and hidden, the deeper they are, the deeper they are, and they will never forget them.

This is how Cao Ren was. He has always been very awe of Cao Cao, devoted his best and loyalty. He never dared to question any of Cao Cao's decisions and respected him like a god. However, this time Feiyundu's defeat made Cao Ren unable to calmly handle it. In recent days, he has been unable to sleep and eat, and he cannot accept the fact that Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Cao Anmin and others were all captured alive by Li Li's thief. Cao Ang, who is well-known and well-known, has both civil and military power, died tragically at the hands of the barbarian general Hu Cheer, and tens of thousands of Cao army soldiers died on the battlefield.

Therefore, the Feiyundu battle was a nightmare for Cao Ren; it was incredible that many direct members of the Cao family who lived together day and night were all buried in Feiyundu, a mere 17-mile mountain stream!

Previously, when Cao Ren mentioned Li Li's name, he would always grit his teeth and call him "Li Zhe". Now he still calls him that, but he feels inexplicable fear. Every time he mentions "Li Zhe", he feels an indescribable cold air surges from the soles of his feet to his forehead, and he feels extremely guilty.

Just as Cao Ren was standing in absent mind, Cao Cao, who was in the upper ranks, sat upright slowly, and the decadent look on his face gradually dissipated, replaced by his melancholy and depressed emotions.

"Zixiao, how many surviving soldiers have returned to the military camp in the past few days? How many soldiers and horses are there in our army now?"

"Uh!" Cao Ren woke up when he heard the sound, raised his eyes and paid attention to Cao Cao's expression, and replied quietly: "Lord, our army has only been crossing the river for three days. The last general has been guarding the gate of the camp for several days. As of this evening, he has collected a total of three,482 soldiers. When he attacked Anyi City, the last general led his troops to attack the city twice, losing three,400 soldiers in succession. Therefore, now our army is only 20,000 troops."

Cao Cao's expression changed slightly when he heard this, but he was not angry because of this. His expression was still melancholy and deep: "It's just 20,000 people? In other words, it's actually less than 20,000."

With a pause in his tone, Cao Cao smiled bitterly: "Hahaha! When we participated in the alliance, we had an army of 80,000, and our strength was second only to Yuan Shao among all the princes. Although we had lost the foundation of Yanzhou, the princes of all walks of life did not dare to underestimate us and gave in to three points of courtesy at all. However, in the battle of Feiyundu, my more than 60,000 elite troops were almost wiped out, and hundreds of generals died in the battlefield. Zi Lian, Zhen'er and Xiu'er were all captured by Li Zhe. In just ten days, our army's status in the alliance fell sharply, leaving only 20,000 troops, which was only slightly stronger than Sun Ce in Jiangdong. This is really a great irony, it is so angry that I am so angry that I am??????."

Seeing that Cao Cao knew nothing about what happened recently in the Allied Army, Cao Ren couldn't help but interrupt and said, "Master may not know yet. There have been new changes in the Allied Army recently, and the situation is different from before."

"Hmm?" Cao Cao frowned when he heard this, and his eyes became sharp in an instant: "What happened? Zixiao came quickly."

Cao Ren reported in response: "Ten days ago, Yuan Shao ignored Zhang Yan and Lu Bu's opposition and insisted on appointing the prefect of Henoi Zhang Yang to lead the prefect of Hedong, staying in the rear of Hedong, and being responsible for escorting all the food, grass and supplies needed by the Allied Army."

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Chapter completed!