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"To my brother, I specially invited Meng De to talk alone today. I hope my brother can put the great cause of fighting the thief first, temporarily put aside his personal grievances and ignore past grudges, and help him defeat Li Thief with me! I wonder what my brother wants?" After saying that, Yuan Shao looked at Cao Cao with a smile, and a hint of sincerity appeared in his eyes.

"What the leader said is very true."

Cao Cao nodded slightly, lowered his head, and responded in a low voice: "Since he is the one who came to the alliance for the initiative, how can Cao not know the general and ignore the overall situation? Everything depends on the leader of the alliance, and Cao has no objection!"

Yuan Shao was overjoyed when he heard this and laughed happily, "Okay, that's great! Meng Dezhen is a person who knows the general situation and takes into account the overall situation. He really did not misunderstand you for your brother. Hahaha???"

"The leader is too good." Seeing Yuan Shao laughing loudly, Cao Cao nodded and responded, grinning his lips twice, and laughed in agreement. But he smiled very reluctantly, with an indelible bitterness and shame in his smile, which was obviously a forced smile. All of these were taken in Yuan Shao's eyes, but he pretended to be unaware of it and turned a blind eye. The smile on his face became happier and brighter, and the laughter became louder and longer.

While laughing apologized, Cao Cao keenly felt another meaning in Yuan Shao's laughter, which made him feel very shameful and indignant. However, the situation was stronger than others. Now Yuan Shao is strong and his prestige is growing day by day, and he is at the top of his head, while Cao Cao is on the verge of despair.

In contrast, Yuan Shao is of course qualified and capable of laughing, laughing at all the people and things he thinks are ridiculous; while Cao Cao knew that Yuan Shao was mocking him, but he still had to smile and dare not speak out. He was rude to the snake. What he had to do now is to lie on firewood and taste gall, and wait for an opportunity to seize all opportunities for development and growth, so as to restore his strength as soon as possible. At that time, whoever can laugh to the end is the real winner.

There are very few people and things in the world who have smooth sailing. Anyone who achieves great things will inevitably encounter failures and setbacks. Therefore, those who can bend and stretch, persevere, and become braver as they get setbacks are truly those who can accomplish things. The brightest smile is the last smile, and the final winner is the big winner. Win all power and reputation; but the loser falls under the back of the winner, completely lost in the torrent of history, and becomes dry bones and dirt in the changing fields.

"I wonder how the leader of the alliance is going to treat the princes of the ninth town?" Cao Cao asked softly while Yuan Shao was smiling.

Obedient and listen to the sound. After Yuan Shao heard the sound, his smile quickly drank, and he raised his wine bottle to invite Cao Cao to drink with him. The moment he brushed his sleeves and covered his face with drinking, a bright light flashed in his eyes and his mind quickly turned. He noticed that Cao Cao's understatement used the word "treat", which contained a strong sense of comparison and comparison; meaning that there were princes coming to join the alliance, and they also had a deep rift with me, Cao Cao. How are you, Yuan Shao, planning to arrange the new ninth town princes?

This simple sentence contains multiple profound meanings. One is the depth of friendship between the two parties, which is close and who is close; the other is to remind Yuan Shao not to favor one and the other, so as not to make people feel upset. In addition, Cao Cao's voice is also a bit of provocation and disagreement; a mat and foot seller in the past has now become a prince. His wings are getting richer, and if it is not curbed, he may be in danger of raising a tiger and will be endless.

With a sudden turn, Yuan Shao couldn't help but remember his original intention of joining the alliance of princes from all parties. The original intention of the alliance of princes was to join forces to defeat Li Li of Xiliang, which was the unquestionable first goal. In addition, Yuan Shao also had another intention, that is, to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of the princes in various towns and clear obstacles for him to dominate the Central Plains. This was the key to providing a large amount of food, grass and supplies for the Allied Army at all costs. Therefore, this alliance of princes seemed to be spending money to make a name for himself, but in fact, it was a real trick of killing two birds with one stone and gaining fame and fortune.

Because there was only one final winner in the alliance, which was Yuan Shao and Yuan Benchu. The princes of the various towns of the alliance were just snobs lured by him with food and supplies, and became scapegoats to defeat the Western Liang army under Li Li. The reason why he was able to do this was because Jizhou was rich and had enough money and food. This prompted him to have the capital and courage to spend it, exchange money and food for the dual purpose of attacking the powerful enemy Li Li, weakening the strength of the princes of the various towns, and then achieving his ultimate goal of dominating the Central Plains.

This is the true intention that has been buried deep in Yuan Shao's heart. He has never revealed a few words to others before. Even in front of his son, he kept his mouth shut and did not leave any words. Once upon a time, Yuan Shao thought he could hide it from everyone, and he was often complacent about it. He admired himself very much. Unexpectedly, there is never a shortage of smart people in this world, and smart people often gather together; therefore, any seamless strategy can be hidden from outsiders, but it can't be hidden from people around him, especially his close friends who have been with him for decades.

The person in front of Yuan Shao was his former close friend, and now he was both friendly and enemies. But this person had already been able to break his plan, but he kept pretending not to know until he was concerned about his own interests. He spoke very implicitly and stopped until he clicked.

It goes without saying that this person who has already seen through Yuan Shao's intentions is Cao Cao and Mengde who is sitting opposite him at this moment.

He narrowed his eyes and stared at Cao Cao. The smile on Yuan Shao's face disappeared, replaced by a solemn look, and his eyes became deep and cold.

Yuan Shao did not believe this before, thinking that many of the princes boasted about themselves and were not trustworthy. However, at this moment, he believed it without doubt. Because there was a wise man who was not inferior to his strategy and scheming, but he had always regarded this person as his younger brother who had been living behind him in the past and had almost never really valued this younger brother. But now Yuan Shao had to pay attention to this person, or his intelligence shocked him, and he was even very afraid. He couldn't even pay attention to him or not, and he could no longer ignore him like before.

"To be honest, I plan to conceal the whereabouts of the princes in the ninth town for my brother, and not to express it to the princes, and intend to use this group of men as a surprise soldier, and give Li thieves a fatal blow at the critical moment to lay a victory. Therefore, they are temporarily not allowed to cross the river and stay in Hedong County, which is conducive to hiding the traces and avoiding the ears and ears of Xiliang. In addition, they can also assist Zhang Yang in protecting the food route behind our army and guard against the sneak attacks behind Zhou Yu's army. When our allies and the Li thieves' army officially fight, I will secretly recruit them to cross the river, and then unexpectedly attack the Li thieves' army and defeat them in one fell swoop. I wonder what Meng De wants to do this?"

"The leader of the alliance is wise, and such an arrangement can be said to be a two-shot action, and there is nothing wrong with it. But??????" Seeing that Yuan Shao finally stopped hiding from him, Cao Cao flattered him without hesitation, but then he stammered and stopped, as if he had something inconvenient to say bluntly.

"But what? Meng De might as well say bluntly that there is no need to be a taboo between you and my brother!" Yuan Shao's expression changed slightly and he asked anxiously.

"The leader of the alliance is clear. As far as Cao knows, Xuzhou has always been rich, with a lot of treasury and sufficient food and grass. These are the family assets accumulated by the old thief Tao Qian over the years, and now all fall into the hands of Liu Bei. This time, Liu Bei led more than 45,000 infantry and cavalry to come to the alliance to take the initiative, and he must have brought enough food and supplies, and he did not need the leader to provide food and food. What this means is obvious at a glance, and Cao doesn't need to say more. But in this way, how should the leader restrain Liu Bei? Will he be respectful to the leader on the surface, but in private he is slanderous?

Moreover, the leader of the alliance asked Liu Bei to lead his army to Hedong County, and also took care of our alliance's food, grass, supplies and food supply. If he had ulterior motives or was dissatisfied with the alliance leader, the consequences would be unimaginable and directly endangered the life and death of our hundreds of thousands of allies!

Therefore, Cao thought that although the leader of the alliance wanted to use Liu Bei and his tens of thousands of troops, he could not trust him too much. It was related to the life and death of the entire Allied army and the success or failure of the Sili Battle. How could we entrust all our lives and lives to Liu Bei, who was not under the control of the alliance leader? This matter is very important and we must be guarded against it!"

With Cao Cao's in-depth analysis and explanation, the name of the princes of the Ninth Town was finally spoken out of his mouth.

The uninvited princes of the ninth town were Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, who had taken over the six counties of Xuzhou for less than three months.

The reason why Yuan Shao did not say Liu Bei's name directly before was that he took into account Cao Cao's face and did not want to embarrass him; in addition, there were also reasons for keeping it confidentiality for the time being, and worried that the accompanying soldiers would hear a few words and then spread the matter. But now Cao Cao took the initiative to say Liu Bei's name, showing his extraordinary mind and loyalty to the Allies.

"Well, what Meng De said is reasonable." After Cao Cao finished speaking, Yuan Shao frowned and nodded slightly: "I didn't think too much before. Anyway, the more troops and horses the Allied troops, the better. Now, after Meng De said this, the things are really like this. According to the report of the whistle cavalry sent by Zhang Yang, Liu Bei brought nearly 50,000 infantry and cavalry this time, and brought nearly 100,000 stones of food and grass with him. He was equipped with weapons and sufficient money, grain and supplies. It was indeed not necessary for Yuan to fund any food and grass.

I had ignored this section before. Looking back now, there was almost no place where we could control Liu Bei. He could come and go freely without any restraint. Moreover, Xuzhou was far away from Sili, and even if he captured the city and occupied the entire Sili, it had nothing to do with him. Since this is the case, why did he still lead his army to join the alliance?"

"The leader of the alliance is unknown. Liu Bei has always regarded himself as a descendant of the Han royal family, seeking fame and reputation. He has just promoted Xuzhou, so he needed to establish prestige and then shock the geniuses of Xuzhou. In the past, Chenliu Alliance, Liu Bei became famous in battle, and today's Hanoi Alliance is another great opportunity to make a name for himself. How could Liu Bei miss the opportunity?"

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Chapter completed!