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Chapter 141 Breaking Puyang Plan
Cao Cao asked anxiously, "What's the plan?"

When Xi Zhong was about to speak, his throat suddenly felt itchy, and he couldn't help coughing a few times. Cao Cao hurried forward, patted Xi Zhong on the back, and said, "Zhicai, you are not in good health, you must pay more attention to rest. , if it doesn’t work, just rest for a few days and stop watching the collected information day and night!”

"My lord!" Xi Zhong called out gratefully, turned around, took Cao Cao's hand, and dared not work any longer. These days, when Zhicai checked the news from Xizuo, he had already thought of a plan, but this plan is a strange plan, if the enemy sees it through, it will be useless, if not, then Puyang City will be at your fingertips!"

Cao Cao's face was moved. First, he was moved by Xi Zhong's dedication to his duties. Second, he was moved when he heard that Xi Zhong had a trick to break Puyang. Puyang City has been attacked for two months. The generals in the army No one has a plan, even Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, who Cao Cao relies on the most, can't think of any plan.

"Zhicai, tell me about your strategy. If it succeeds, I will give you a great credit. If it fails, I will never blame you!" Cao Cao said.

After Xi Zhong calmed down a bit, he said slowly: "I took a closer look, the last time the Lord attacked Puyang, he mistakenly believed in Tian's plan to feign surrender, and suffered a big defeat!..."

When Cao Cao heard that Xi Zhong exposed his shortcomings, although he felt a little displeased in his heart, he knew that Xi Zhong must have a reason for mentioning this matter, so he smiled and nodded, signaling Xi Zhong to continue.

"...The Tian clan is the most powerful clan other than the Chen clan in Puyang City. What they want is to allow the family to develop more, but in the same city, they will inevitably disagree with the Chen clan because of their interests. Last time, because Chen Gong intended to develop near his hometown in Dongwuyang, he gave up Puyang City. Of course Tian was happy, so he agreed to the plan of feigning surrender, but now Chen Gong has retreated to Puyang City. The conflict of interests between the surnames will inevitably resume, and looking at the news from the city's emissary before the siege, this can be confirmed!" Xi Zhong said.

Cao Cao nodded lightly, agreeing with Xi Zhong's analysis very much, his eyes gradually became enlightened, and said: "Zhicai, you observe things really carefully, I have personally seen this information, and I can't see it. It’s a matter of fighting and quarreling in the city, so I skipped it at a glance and didn’t think about it carefully. Now after hearing what you said, I realized that there is actually a lot of useful information hidden in it! Quickly continue!”

Xi Zhong smiled slightly, coughed, and said: "If the lord can write a letter with his own hand to forgive Tian's previous betrayal, then this matter can be accomplished!"

"Zhicai! What are you talking about??" Cao Cao was furious, "I wish I could go into the city and kill the entire Tian family with my own hands. How dare you ask me to forgive the Tian family?" One clan!! Nearly ten thousand of my soldiers were killed by the Natian clan!!”

"Cough, cough, cough..." Under the tension, Xi Zhong coughed violently again, so that he bent down and shrank on the ground, looking very painful.

Cao Cao was taken aback, feeling sorry for Xi Zhong, his anger subsided, and he hurriedly shouted: "Come on! Send the military doctor to come!", and a guard in the tent heard the sound and left.

"Zhicai! It's all my fault for getting angry! It caused you to cough again. I have already gone to the military doctor. You must obey my order and cure your cough according to the military doctor's method!" Cao Cao walked over and helped Xi Zhong up.

Xi Zhong's face turned red due to coughing, and after taking a breath, he said, "My lord, it's okay, my throat is the root cause of my disease in the early years, the weather has turned cold these days, and the night is very cold, so I will cough , it’s okay, as long as you take care of it for a few days, you will be cured! Don’t dare to worry the lord!”

"That's good! You can go back to the camp with the military doctor in a while, and let me have a quiet time!" Cao Cao said.

"My lord! Zhicai still has something to say!" Xi Zhong said anxiously when he heard Cao Cao's intention to refuse, but he didn't care too much. He knelt on the ground and walked towards Cao Cao.

"Lord!"

Cao Cao turned his back, flicked his sleeves, and said, "I'm tired, I don't want to hear any more! Go down!"

"Yes! My lord!" Xi Zhong exited Cao Cao's camp with a lonely expression.

Xi Zhong had already returned to the camp, but Cao Cao stood motionless, and after a long time, he slowly turned around, looking at the direction Xi Zhong left with a sense of loss.

"Am I really wrong?" Cao Cao shook his head slowly, with extremely complicated expressions, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sometimes gnashing his teeth, and sometimes sighing softly!

Over the years, in order to express the anger of being chased and killed by Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao raised his troops angrily, but after one incident happened, Cao Cao not only did not release the anger he had held in his chest back then, but added countless resentments out of thin air! !
If you talk about hatred, Cao Cao has six major hatreds.

At the beginning, he set up Haikou to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but he failed and was listed as a fugitive by Dong Zhuo!This hate one too!
After Luoyang was conquered, the princes of the Eighteenth Route only knew about intrigue, and no one was willing to help. In order to pursue Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao was defeated in an ambush again, and was laughed at by all the princes.

Cao Cao tried his best to support Yuan Shao as the leader of Dong's alliance, but Yuan Shao was suspicious of him and restricted Cao Cao's actions everywhere. If it wasn't for the Black Mountain Army to attack, he might not even be a prefect! !This hate three also!
After repelling the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Cao Cao received a surrender request from the Yellow Turban Army!The Yellow Turban Army said: "If Cao Gong can give a way to survive for the millions of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, Qingzhou Yellow Turbans will never betray Cao Gong, and they will be willing to fight for Cao Gong from generation to generation! Otherwise, the million Yellow Turbans will fight Cao Gong to the death in order to survive. !” Such a good thing, who can refuse?Of course Cao Cao is willing, but only one piece of food for millions of yellow scarves will be difficult for Mrs. Cao!If Yuan Shao can support some food and grass, why bother to slaughter the city to grab food? !As a result, his father was killed!This hate four also!
If you don't go to massacre the city, how can the celebrity Bian Rang openly accuse Cao Cao?If you don't kill Bianrang, how can you hide the public's mouth?If these things did not happen, how could almost everyone in Yanzhou betray Cao Cao?Lost Yanzhou!This hate five also!
Mistakenly believing that Tian's feigned surrender caused Cao Cao to almost die, and tens of thousands of troops were defeated by Lu Bu's thousands of soldiers.
There are countless other hatreds, all of which are deeply remembered by Cao Cao. If possible, he must personally avenge the hatred in order to relieve the resentment in his chest!

"Am I really wrong?" Cao Cao covered his heart and asked himself.

"Don't kill Dong Zhuo? No!!! This thief must be killed!! I'm not wrong!!"

"Don't chase after Dong Zhuo? No!!! Just blame my limited strength, and no one will help me!!"

"Used by Yuan Shao? It's only my fault that I think Yuan Shao too highly, so I must have my own territory! My own great cause! I want to hold my own destiny in my own hands!!"

"Is it wrong to subdue the rebellious thieves and the Yellow Turbans? No! The Yellow Turbans are also human beings. In my eyes, the Yellow Turbans are a hundred times better than famous people like Yuan Shao! They will not betray me, they will not be ungrateful! And this is the only chance!! If I don’t catch it, I, Cao Cao, can only sigh and regret for the rest of my life!! I am not wrong! Besides, I am thinking of the people of the world! Those who achieve great things don’t care about small things!”

"Shouldn't Xuzhou be slaughtered?? No!! I just sacrificed a small number of people who didn't listen to me, and kept the overall situation intact. When the world is settled, the people of the world will know Cao Cao's good intentions!!"

"Shouldn't I kill famous people? No! I'd rather bear the infamy than let others destroy my great cause at this time!! Even if I do something that's wrong to the world, it's just hurting some insignificant people , but the people of the world must not be unfavorable to me, otherwise if I die, the world will be difficult to unify! The people will still live in troubled times, and the number of people who will die at that time will definitely not be the small number in front of them!! Unfortunately, only I, Cao Cao, can see Up to this point, hehehe!"

After thinking about this, Cao Cao was furious, gritted his teeth, and roared in his heart: "I would rather let the world down! Don't let the world down on me!! I'm right!!! That's right!!!..."

After a long time, Cao Cao sighed, calmed down, and shook his head, "No! I was wrong! I was wrong,..."

(End of this chapter)