Before this, after ten days of truce and rectification, the princes of each town finally calmed down the morale of the army, which made the soldiers of the entire army gradually calm down and stayed in the camp to rest.

Unexpectedly, a fire in Feiyundu once again pushed the Allies into an unknown danger, causing the rest and rest strategies that the Allies had determined were complicated, making this war that temporarily entered a state of truce suddenly change and became unpredictable.

However, the princes in various towns, including Yuan Shao, would not have thought that something happened to the Feiyundu Grain and Grass Camp was as expected by Cao Cao.

As early as when he was defeated by Feiyundu, when his 20,000 troops were arranged to station near the Feiyundu cliff in the left rear of the camp, in order to protect himself, he tried every means to instigate Yuan Shao to place the food camp in Feiyundu. Because only in this way can he ensure that the only 20,000 troops under Cao Cao's tent were foolproof and would never be attacked by the troops of Xu Rong in Xingyang.

That's right, it's foolproof. Just as he once persuaded Yuan Shao to set up a large grain camp in Feiyundu, it's absolutely foolproof. Unfortunately, he didn't tell the truth to Yuan Shao. Otherwise, Yuan Shao would know that what Cao Cao said was foolproof did not refer to the large grain camp, but specifically the few remaining 20,000 Cao troops.

Perhaps Yuan Shao still did not realize that Cao Cao had changed since Feiyundu's defeat. In the past, Cao Cao was indeed very attentive to the Allies, put himself in his shoes and planned for the Allies, trying every means to kill Li Li, avenge the Xiahou Dun brothers, and clear obstacles for his future competition in the Central Plains. For this reason, he was willing to go to the danger himself, personally led a large army to sneak into Feiyundu to set up an ambush, try to seize Hangu Pass in one fell swoop, become famous in one battle, and personally eliminated the world's number one prince Li Li Wenchang.

Unfortunately, plans can never keep up with changes, especially mutations or huge changes.

The scene of Feiyundu meeting on a narrow road caused Cao Cao's plan to attack Hangu Pass to die in his womb. Sixty thousand Qingzhou soldiers were almost wiped out, and he almost even took his own life. Fortunately, the heavens were merciful and allowed him to slip away from Ma Chao's fingers. He then hid in Feiyundu for eight days. It was not until the Allies crossed the river and the Xiliang army all reduced their troops into the pass that he was able to escape at the tiger's mouth and survived.

Cao Cao, who had been dead for death, was happy that Yuan Shao would definitely escape from death, and even went out of the camp to greet him, and would definitely help him regain his strength as soon as possible. However, when he returned to the Allied camp, except Cao Ren, Le Jin and others waited at the gate, the princes of the towns ignored him, and Yuan Shao never showed up from beginning to end, and did not even send anyone to greet him. After that, no one of the princes of the towns came to visit him for three days after he returned to the camp, and there was no false comfort. Instead, he faced a cold face, and his words and deeds were full of ridicule.

The world is so cold and cold, and human nature is so cold that it undoubtedly gave Cao Cao a blow, making him feel as cold as ice. He was completely cold!

However, he did not believe that all this was true, and he still had a slight expectation for his ally, Yuan Shao, who had worked with for many years. Therefore, the first thing he did when he returned to the camp was to go to the Yuan Shao's tent, wanting to see with his own eyes whether Yuan Shao was really so heartless, without even thinking about his former brotherhood, and without caring about his previous allies.

As a result, Yuan Shao ruthlessly taught Cao Cao a vivid lesson, allowing him to completely cut off the only trace of extravagance and fantasy in his heart, and truly appreciate the cruelty of the princes fighting for hegemony and the ruthless ugly faces of the princes of the Allied Army.

From that moment on, Cao Cao completely realized. Through his own personal experience, he finally understood a truth. That is: the frontal enemy is not terrible, because if he wants to kill you, he must draw his sword openly; the truly terrible enemy often hides beside you and appears behind you unexpectedly. When you are the weakest and most helpless, you will take advantage of the attack and give you a fatal blow.

Because of this, when Cao Cao and Cheng Yu discussed the future, he suddenly had a glimmer of enlightenment. He felt that Li Li of Xiliang was not as hateful as he had imagined before, but was more real than Yuan Shao and other princes. At least Li Li kept his promises and was open and upright; secretly forming alliances with such people or reaching cooperative relationships is often more reliable than Yuan Shao and others.

Indeed, in Cao Cao's eyes, Li Li was a villain with a deep feud with the Cao family and Xiahou family, and was also a powerful and domineering overlord of the princes. He was the strongest enemy faced by the princes of the Central Plains, and was also the number one enemy recognized by all the princes in the world. Everyone wanted to get rid of him quickly. However, it was this overlord of the Western Liang that could make all the princes gritted their teeth, which had both a side that made the princes fear like tigers and a side that made people respect and admire.

The princes in the world wanted to kill Li Li because he was too powerful and strong enough to endanger the lives of the princes. Therefore, not killing him means he would be killed sooner or later. But it is precisely because he is strong enough that the princes invisibly respect him very much. People in the world respect the strong, and the princes are naturally no exception. They even respect the strong more than ordinary people. Because they know that survival in troubled times is not easy, it is even more difficult to become truly powerful. Since the overlord of Xiliang Li can be so powerful, it must be far from the extraordinary ability they do not have.

Isn’t such a strong person worthy of respect?

Therefore, after Cheng Yu counted many examples of Li Li, Cao Cao had actually accepted Cheng Yu's suggestion in his heart. However, he was very unwilling to give up and wanted to work harder, wait and see, if the Allies really had no hope of winning, it would not be too late for him to make a decision.

At the same time, Cao Cao no longer had any unrealistic expectations for the princes in various towns, including Yuan Shao. He no longer entrusts his own safety and the lives of his soldiers to the Allied forces, but puts his existing troops first and puts his own interests above the interests of the Allied forces.

After Feiyundu's defeat, Yuan Shao placed him and 20,000 Cao's army on the left rear of the camp, and was on the outermost periphery of the entire Allied camp. This made Cao Cao feel deeply uneasy, fearing that the Xiliang army would attack the camp in a sneak attack. Once this worry became a reality, he and the 20,000 soldiers under his tent would be the first to be destroyed and would be completely destroyed. In view of this, he came up with a method of Li Dai Taozhan, and he would persuade Yuan Shao to place the Allied Grain Silencer in Feiyundu. Where the Allied Grain and Grain Camp was located, he would gather heavy troops to guard the camp. In this way, it would mean that there was a defensive force on the left and right sides of the Cao Cao camp and behind him. There were more than 200,000 troops in the front camp, and the Cao camp was in a heavy defense, which was truly as solid as a fool.

As for whether the Allied Army's food and grass camp is safe and whether it will be robbed by the Xiliang army, Cao Cao was not concerned about this. He was even happy to watch it. Because in the past two months, he had already got enough food and grass from Yuan Shao for three months to eat, that is, he could eat it until March next year. After all, he only had 20,000 troops now, and with reasonable distribution, only 50,000 stones of food and grass would be enough to last for three months. He has catered to Yuan Shao everywhere recently and has been flattering from time to time. The picture is food and supplies and weapons, and now all the supplies he can get have been obtained.

The life and death of the Allied forces now have nothing to do with him. What he is most concerned about now is how to expand his strength, recruit as many soldiers as possible, restore some strength, and then seek greater benefits for himself in the subsequent war, and it is best to regain Yanzhou in one fell swoop and recreate his former glory.

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"Get out of the way, let me go out of the way, otherwise don't blame me for being cruel and ruthless! Kill——"

Staring at the plank road at the entrance of the valley, Cao Cao was wandering in the sky, stunned and lost his mind. While thinking about it, he was suddenly awakened by a sudden violent shout, which prompted him to subconsciously observe.

With a glance, Cao Cao suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly. He was shocked and felt a little uneasy. He felt intuition that the scene in front of him seemed familiar.

But at the entrance of the valley fifty steps away, a general of Yuan army dressed in Jizhou army armor shouted angrily, holding a spear in his hand and wanted to kill the Yanzhou soldiers under Zhang Miao's tent blocking the entrance of the valley. After a closer look, he saw that this man was nearly nine feet tall, handsome and outstanding. The spear in his hand was as fast as lightning, like a dragon lingering, and as beautiful as a plum blossom flying. In the flashing cold light, Yanzhou soldiers covered their necks and screamed and fell to the ground. During the fierce killing, no one could stop the silver spear in his hand, as if he had entered a nobody's land, rushed straight to the official road at the entrance of the valley.

However, Cao Cao noticed that the Yuan army general who killed innocent people did not rush out of the valley alone. More than fifty strong soldiers followed closely behind him, and they were also slashing and slaughtering Yanzhou soldiers who blocked their way.

What surprised Cao Cao the most was that a bearded and strong man behind the spear general looked very familiar, as if he had seen this person somewhere, but he couldn't remember where he had seen the bearded man for a while.

This familiar scene reminded Cao Cao of the situation when he led his troops out of the Gukou Plank Road two months ago. The plank road was blocked by the Yanzhou soldiers. He and Zhang Miao were also on the official road outside the Gukou to line up. The scene he experienced in the past was so similar to what he saw in front of him, almost exactly the same.

As soon as he thought of this, Cao Cao felt at ease in his heart, and saw the burly spear general who had led his troops out of the valley entrance and was rushing towards the official road. The man was killing people unscrupulously, while looking in the direction he was in intentional or unintentional.

All of this made Cao Cao feel bad. He subconsciously slammed the horse and retreated, and grabbed Cao Ren, who was about to step forward to stop the Yuan army general from killing innocent Cao Ren, indicating that he would protect himself from his safety and not act rashly.

"I am Chenliu, Zhang Miao, Zhang Mengzhuo, a bold and crazy man. How dare I kill our soldiers at will? Let's stop me quickly!"

Seeing that the soldiers under his tent fell under the spears of General Yuan's army, Zhang Miao rushed forward in anger and shouted loudly to the general Yuan's army who started the slaughter.

"Zhang Miao? Someone is worried that you can't find a gift. You are here just in time. I'll use your head on your neck!"

The spear Yuan general pondered in shock, but the spear in his hand did not hesitate at all. As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly jumped. The silver spear pierced the sky, shaking left and right, shaking the weapons of the personal soldiers beside Zhang Miao. Then, with a push of the gun, it stabbed into Zhang Miao's throat accurately. Immediately, the spear turned sharply, and Zhang Miao even screamed and his neck was cut off before he could even make a scream. The head flew into the air, and Zhang Miao, who had lost his head, suddenly fell off his horse.

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