The Conquest of the Three Kingdoms

Xuchang City Prime Minister's Mansion.

Countless bad news instantly defeated this talented prime minister - Cao Cao.

One after another, like the first snow in Xuchang in November, one after another, they hit the prime minister's mansion, hitting the short Cao Cao.

Countless bloody coughs resounded through Cao Cao's hall, and the servants were busy entering and leaving the hall.

The anxious medical officers discussed Cao Cao's strange disease in the side hall, and the anxiety was not only these medical officers, but also the generals who met outside the hall.

Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xu Huang and other generals were melancholy, hesitant and helpless facing the majestic palace.

They didn't know anything about the prime minister's condition except that they inquired about the condition of some prime ministers from the servants who came in and out, and those servants who came and went in a hurry didn't talk much, they just saluted the generals according to the laws of the Han Dynasty. leave in a hurry.

Half an hour later, a group of civil servants who were no longer polite also arrived. Instead of being calm and steady, they walked in a hurry, and the underwear inside the coat was floating.

Among the ministers was Xun Yu, the number one counselor under Cao Cao's tent. When Cao Ren saw the prime minister's ovary coming, he was still holding a red caltrop in his hand. Cao Ren and other generals also went up to greet him.

Xun Yu changed his usual slowness and asked hastily, "Where is the Prime Minister?"

Cao Ren just replied helplessly: "The prime minister has been ill for several days, and now we have stood here for several hours without seeing the prime minister."

Xun Yu held Cao Ren back and insisted on going to meet Cao Cao together. Cao Cao's usual domineering and fierceness welled up in Cao Ren's mind, but Cao Ren's footsteps were so heavy, as if Xun Yu couldn't move at all. After Xun Yu didn't even pull, he turned around and said sharply, "General Cao Ren, what time is it now, do you still care about your own life?"

Under the urging of Xun Yu, Cao Ren also made the determination to die generously. Under the leadership of the two of them, a group of civil and military officials rushed to the hall one after another.

And the sound of Cao Cao's cough became louder and louder with the sound of everyone's footsteps, forming a harmonious timbre between the two.

Respectful soldiers and guards still blocked these civil and military ministers who barged in and directly admonished them.

The noise between them completely disturbed Cao Cao who was coughing up blood.

Cao Cao shouted angrily, "Tell them to come in."

With Cao Cao's permission, those ministers who could express their loyalty rushed in like a flood, but when they just entered the lobby and forced their way into the inner room, suddenly a cold long knife blocked them Everyone looked up, and it turned out to be Xu Chu, the tiger idiot next to Cao Cao.

Xu Chu's gloomy face immediately had a dark cloud that could not be seen to dissipate. He slowly raised the dagger in his hand and said with a full voice: "The prime minister has an order, who is passing it on, and who is entering the hall."

Those ministers who wanted to express their loyalty and patriotism originally wanted to show their righteousness and arrogance, but seeing the long knives in the hands of murderous figures, those ministers didn't even have the courage to express their justice and arrogance.

"Prime Minister, my lords Xun Yu and Cheng Yu and generals Cao Ren and Cao Hong are invited to have an audience."

All the scholar-bureaucrats saw that Cao Cao still believed in their Cao family's noble generals and Cao's counselors at the critical moment.

Under Xu Chu's welcome, the four of them slowly entered the hall and the inner room, and the chill on their bodies was instantly blown away by the warm air in the inner room.

They shifted their eyes to Cao Cao on the sick bed, and saw two maids next to him constantly catching the dirt from Cao Cao's mouth with handkerchiefs. They all saw that the red fuel seeped out of the white handkerchief in an instant. Then it was gently put into the copper washbasin supported by the stool, and then another face plate was brought up, and the face plate was constantly replaced as Cao Cao's cough ceased.

Cao Cao coughed and asked, "What's the matter, what's the matter with you all."

Cao Ren watched, after the prime minister returned from the Huainan War, his body changed day by day with the development of the war. When he heard that the last [-] elites of the Cao camp were killed two days ago, Cao Cao was completely ill, and he became ill again. I couldn't get up until I coughed up blood.

Although Cao Ren couldn't bear to report worse news than yesterday,

But Xun Yu is a straightforward person, he doesn't have so many scruples, I only know that if you don't tell the prime minister now, then when the prime minister knows, that's when their heads will fall.

Xun Yu reported eagerly: "Prime Minister, there is a military report from Guandu that our army of [-] troops has been completely surrounded and wiped out, Guo Jia who joined the army was shot to death by random arrows, and Brother Xiahou returned from defeat, and the whereabouts of the rest of the generals are unknown... "

The cough just now was suddenly pierced by a sentence of words like a knife. A sentence represents a surge of the volcano. When the inside of the volcano was suppressed to the point where it could no longer be suppressed, a stream of blood spurted directly from Cao Cao's angry mouth. ...

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister..."

Amid everyone's shouts, Cao Cao, who was staring straight, pointed forward with both hands, and then fell on the bed without any response.

Two days later, the Prime Minister's Mansion.

A basin of sparkling charcoal fire was brought in again, and several servants kept wiping Cao Cao away from the heat generated by burning vinegar in the room. In the room besides the loyal Xu Chu, there were also Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu and the others.

The medical officer serving beside him also waited quietly, Xun Yu asked softly but eagerly when the Prime Minister would wake up.

The medical officer also prevaricated the generals and advisers next to him, but he also knew that such an excuse could not last long.

Another half an hour later, when the medical officer was arguing with many generals, a voice of vicissitudes, generosity and lack of strength interrupted their dispute.

All eyes turned to the place where the sound came from, the sick bed, Cao Cao.

Cao Cao woke up, looking at the generals and counselors around him, he remembered what happened just before he fell into a coma.

After the maid next to him helped Cao Cao up, she asked, "Guandu was defeated, is Yuan Jun only thirty miles away from us?"

Xun Yu sighed, and Cheng Yu, who was standing next to him, was afraid that Xun Yu would scare the awakened prime minister into a coma again, and said first, "Prime Minister, that happened two days ago, and now the army led by Yuan Shao is only [-] meters away from us." Ten miles away."

After vomiting blood, Cao Cao no longer had a dry cough, and was able to cope with a few words with his exhausted body.Cao Cao ordered everyone how to deal with the current situation.

The Cao brothers expressed the idea that they would not surrender even if they died in battle, but Xun You and Cheng Yu also expressed their opinion of surrender. At this time, Cao Cao was a wise commander, so of course he could accept different opinions.

Cao Cao listened to the determination of all parties to fight to the death and not surrender, and the manly feelings of taking the big righteousness and sacrificing the small righteousness.However, the two sides refused to give in to each other. As the commander-in-chief, Cao Cao couldn't come to a conclusion for a while, but he saw that Xun Yu sitting in the corner didn't say a word, and everyone was caught in an endless debate. The daring faction also draws their swords against each other, and the peace-talking faction also faces death...

Cao Cao finally waved his hands helplessly and told them all to go down, but on the way out of the mansion, he intentionally left Xun Yu behind.

The kings and ministers of the ages always want to leave something behind. Cao Cao and his first counselor finally met again. This time they met so nervous and at the same time so dazed, as if all the words in an instant melted between the two Looking at each other in tears.

Cao Cao first stabilized his concentration, and said, "Speak up, tell me everything you know!"

Cao Cao's words have already been said. For this sake, there is no concealment between the monarch and his ministers. Xun Yu reported the truth of the two final decisive defeats to Cao Cao one by one.

Hearing that he only had about [-] troops left in his hands, and he was facing the attack of two coalition forces, Cao Cao asked again helplessly if there was any room for maneuver.

The final answer was still no, because the time when the two parties were torn apart was when both sides occupied Xuchang City.

With tears in his eyes, Xun Yu finally stated: "Prime Minister, our army now only has [-] troops, and they are all old, weak and remnant soldiers. It is not enough to resist one of the attacks. Fortunately, our generals and advisers are all there. As long as we choose to lie dormant, we will wait for you." When the time is right, we will make a comeback in Dongshan, and we will definitely be able to compete in the world!"

There was a long slam on the ground, and he didn't get up for a long time.

Cao Cao finally asked, how and with whom should we negotiate peace.

Xun Yu did not recommend his former friend Yuan Shao to Cao Cao, but Nie Zefeng, king of Chu.

Cao Cao waved his hand and told Xun Yu to step back.

Cao Cao looked at today's night, it turned out to be so quiet, so long, a sleepless night, just one night, countless black hairs climbed up Cao Cao's forehead.

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The next day, all civil servants and generals made noise again at the gate of the prime minister's mansion. They waited until the gate of the mansion was opened. A civil servant and a military general Xu Chu announced loudly from inside with heavy and steady footsteps. Said: "Prime Minister Order."

All the generals and civil servants knelt down and listened to the prime minister's order. The order was not to order them to fight to the death, or even tell them to guard the city gate, but to order Xun Yu to be the envoy of peace talks, and Xu Chu to go to the Chu army for peace talks as the guard.

With an order, all the generals' arrogance and ambition disappeared in an instant, but everyone's loyalty disappeared with the prime minister's death.

After receiving the edict, Xun Yu and Xu Chu led a team of more than a hundred people to the Chu army for peace talks on Cao Cao's terms, saying that the peace talks were just another way of saying surrender.

The two horses drove through Xuchang Street with steady and dragging steps, and there was no one on the street. They knew that this was definitely not a simple negotiation, but a real deal of fate.