After Cao Cao returned to the lobby of the mansion from the fishing stream, his excited heart still couldn't calm down, and he couldn't make amends to Fan Li in person now.
"I, Cao Mengde, are thirsty for talent all day long, but I almost miss out on the great sage, sure enough, it is often a thousand miles of horses, Bole is not often who says that only the Eastern Han Dynasty has a large number of talents, and there is no shortage of heroes and heroes in the land of Yan and Wei, but my vision is far less than Liu Wei, and I will have to change my previous thinking about employing people in the future."
In the past two years, Cao Cao was too aggrieved by the Han army, and his son Cao Pi died at the hands of Yuwen Chengdu, and he had to surrender to Liu Wei.
Later, he finally seized the opportunity to claim the emperor and fight against the Eastern Han Dynasty, and with great ambition, he devoted all his strength to the south and led nearly 300,000 troops to the south, trying to take advantage of Liu Wei's expedition to Bashu to defeat Liu Bei, Zhao Kuangyin and other princes.
But he didn't expect to pay a lot of effort, not only did he not gain an inch of land, but he lost Xiahoudun, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Hong and other clan generals, and even lost Xuchang and Chenliu, two rich and prosperous towns.
Whenever in the dead of night, thinking of the deteriorating situation, Cao Cao was upset and irritable, and he had a headache and couldn't sleep.
The news of the victory in the Yin Valley is undoubtedly a good medicine for Cao Cao's headache, which makes Cao Cao's blood and blood full of enthusiasm, and he suddenly has the ambition of "Lao Ji is in the woods, aiming for thousands of miles", and wrote a poem in front of Fan Zeng, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others in the lobby.
"Although the gods and ghosts live long, there is a time.
The beetle snake rides the fog and eventually turns into ash.
Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles.
The martyrs are in their twilight years, and their hearts are strong.
The period of profit and contraction is not only in the sky; The blessing of recuperation can be eternal. ” Under Liu Wei's crazy plagiarism, several of Cao Cao's popular poems have become Liu Wei's works.
If Cao Cao learns the truth, I don't know if he will be grateful to Liu Wei for his grace of not stealing "Lao Ji is determined to be thousands of miles away, that's a good point" Fan Zeng, whose beard was already gray, was full of praise, feeling that Cao Cao's poem was written for him, and Fan Li's advice made him feel even more proud.
Cao Cao sincerely apologized to Fan Zeng: "Fan Qing, although I am the emperor, you are more than ten years older than me, old and strong, and have far-reaching knowledge.
If there are talents like Fan Li in the future, I must recommend them to me more, I will definitely not invest in the pearl secretly, and I must know people well, and the quantity is applicable."
Fan Zeng did not forget to be modest for Fan Li while making a promise: "Hehe, Your Majesty should not praise Fan Li to the sky, although he is very intelligent, but he can gain insight into Wei Yan's plan to attack Yecheng from Yin Valley, and luck still accounts for more than half of it, if he hadn't passed through the road of Yin Valley in advance, and An could have guessed Wei Yan's conspiracy to attack Yecheng" Cao Cao sighed with palpitations: "Fortunately, I sent Fan Li to the plains to assist Miaocai, and I accidentally passed through the road of Yin Valley to see through Wei Yan's tricks, otherwise I am afraid that Wei Yan is likely to follow the Yin Valley soldiers outside the gate of Ye City, resulting in a situation that is becoming more and more unfavorable to my Great Wei."
Guo Jia said with a disdainful face: "Although Wei Yan's plan to attack Yecheng from Yin Valley is bold enough and unexpected enough, in Jia's opinion, it is just a suicide and there is no possibility of success. ” While Guo Jia belittled Wei Yan, he also indirectly weakened Fan Li's military exploits, and Fan Zeng was suddenly a little unhappy: "Feng Xiao's words are a little too arbitrary, although I don't think Fan Li's credit is big enough, but if there is no battle in Yin Valley, there is a great possibility that Wei Yan's troops will be in the capital." ” Guo Jia stood with his hands tied, his eyes were full of disdain: "There is a prince in Yecheng, assisted by Man Chong, Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao and others, and 20,000 soldiers and horses, and then mobilize the disciples and families of various scholars to go to the city for defense, and you can gather 30,000 or 40,000 people casually, with Wei Yan's only 20,000 or 30,000 horses, how much can you raise waves to support Cao Zixiao or Xiahou Miaocai to divide troops to rescue, this Wei delay has long been a situation where the whole army is annihilated." ” "Who said that Wei Yan only had 20,000 or 30,000 Ma Xiahou Miaocai said in the good news that the Battle of Yinggu annihilated a total of more than 42,700 Han troops and captured the main general Wei Yan.
If such a group of soldiers and horses arrived directly outside the gate of Yecheng, it would definitely have a huge impact and cause turmoil in the hearts of our Great Wei army," Fan Zeng took Xiahou Yuan's good news and recited the accurate number of enemies destroyed in the Battle of Yin Valley.
Guo Jia sneered: "More than 42,300 I'm afraid that the amount of water falsely reported here is at least close to 20,000 Leyi and Fan Li bragged, and Xiahou Miaocai blew a little more, and the number of enemies destroyed doubled." ” Cao Cao sighed in his heart: "Alas, Fengxiao is still young, he has been humiliated by Liu Wei's father and son twice in a row, and his personality has become a little cynical."
Seeing through and not saying that breaking is the smart way to deal with the world, don't I know that there is water in the war report to falsely report the war exploits?"
But for the current Cao Wei, a big victory is urgently needed to boost morale, and if it does not arouse suspicion, Cao Cao does not even mind that Fan and Le boast about the number of enemies destroyed to 200,000.
It's just that Wei Yan controlled the more than 40,000 soldiers and horses when he had the most troops in his hands, and if he boasted too much, it would make people feel too fake, so more than 40,000 people was just the right number, which would not arouse suspicion and boost morale and morale to the greatest extent "Maybe Le Yi and Fan Li did this, which coincided with my thoughts, not because the two of them were greedy for merit, but just to boost the morale of the army."
When Cao Cao thought of this, he felt a little more fond of Le Yi and Fan Li.
Being able to get two such far-sighted one-writer and one-martial arts assistance, it seems that Cao Wei's national throne has not weakened, as long as he can break through Xuzhou, he can reverse the current decline.
"Okay, stop and be filial," Cao Cao coughed and scolded Guo Jia, "How do you know that Fan and Le are falsely reporting their military exploits, and the Qing family should share the same hatred of the enemy, how can they be suspicious of each other You saw that Cheng Demou didn't say a word, and I hope you will be cautious in your words and deeds in the future." ” Cheng Yu, who is eight feet tall and has a majestic face and white hair, is sixty-three years old, which is a little older than Fan Zeng's, but his physique is very tough.
This also made Cao Cao a little worried about the aging of his team of strategists, and the young Fan Li's outstanding performance naturally made Cao Cao overjoyed.
But what Cao Cao didn't know was that Cheng Yu was old and strong, and lived to be eighty years old in the official history, until Cao Cao, who was fifteen years younger than him, died, and Cao Pi did not die until he ascended the throne as emperor.
Its tough bones are not comparable to Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai and others, Cao Cao is worried that Fan Zeng and Cheng Yu's two masterminds are aging, but it is a little unfounded.
Cheng Yu stood tall and straight, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Your Majesty has praised it, Fengxiao is still young, and it is inevitable that he will be competitive."
"In any case, this is an exciting victory, I must solemnly canonize Leyi and Fan Li, and do not let the pearl be secretly cast and covered with dust."
Cao Cao waved his sleeves and ordered his subordinates to set up a wine feast, and summoned Cao Shen, Han Baohu, Dian Wei, Xu Chu and others to celebrate this exciting victory.
At the time of the waning day, the fish and meat in Cao's mansion were fragrant, and the wine was intoxicating, and all the officials above Cao Wei came to the banquet and raised their glasses to congratulate Cao Cao and celebrate this exciting victory.
Everyone pushed the cup and changed the lamp, and the wine they drank was hot, and at this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves to arrive, but it was a messenger sent by Le Yi from Xiapi, who specially rushed from Xuzhou to Qian County to report to Cao Cao the good news of taking Xiapi.
It turned out that after Le Yi and Fan Li annihilated Wei Yan's soldiers and horses in Yin Valley, in order to maintain the confidentiality of the sneak attack on Xiapi, they did not immediately send an envoy to report to Cao Cao, but planned to wait for the success of the sneak attack on Xiapi to surprise Cao Cao, which was undoubtedly more shocking.
Therefore, while Le Yi and Fan Li were in a hurry to attack Xiapi, they only sent an envoy to report to the main general Xiahou Yuan, and then Xiahou Yuan sent a messenger to report the good news to Cao Cao.
After going back and forth, it was already three or four days after Cao Cao got the news of the Battle of Yin Valley, and at this time, Le Yi and Fan Li had successfully sneaked up on Xiapi and captured all the Xuzhou civil officials in one fell swoop, including Chen Qun, the assassin of Xuzhou.
Such an exciting victory is no better than the battle of Yin Valley, Le Yi and Fan Li will certainly not miss the opportunity to invite merit and reward, and immediately sent an envoy to hurry up and spend a day rushing to Qiaojun, which is more than 300 miles away, to report the news of the capture of Xiapi to the Great Wei Emperor.
It was after such a mistake that Cao Cao received the great victory in the Yin Valley and the capture of Xiapi almost at the same time.
Cao Cao was slightly drunk, and when he heard that the envoy had come to report on the order of Le Yi, he not only glanced at it a little, but asked with a pleasant face: "Where are Le Yi and Fan Li stationed now, how are you going to use the troops in the next step, and slowly come to me, if you say it in detail, there will be a heavy reward."
The envoy couldn't hide the smile on his face, and gasped: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, the villain has come to report the good news on the orders of General Leyi and Lord Fan Li."
"Good news" Cao Cao raised his wine glass and took a sip, and said with a smile, "I already know the news of the battle of Yin Valley and the total annihilation of Wei Yan, and I am thinking about how to reward the two Aiqing, since you are here on the orders of the two, then wait for me to make a decision and bring the good news back to the two of them." ” The envoy said with a smile on his face: "Wrong, wrong, Your Majesty, you misunderstood that the villain did not come to report the victory of Yin Valley, but from Xiapi." ” "From Xiapi" Cao Cao smiled and said suspiciously, "What are you doing by detouring to Xiapi for no reason?"
The envoy looked excited, and replied with great pride: "Your Majesty, after General Leyi and Lord Fan Li annihilated Wei Yan in Yin Valley, Qiao disguised himself as a Han army and marched to attack Xiapi. successfully opened the city gate, captured all the Xuzhou assassin Chen Qun and his staff, and killed the guard Mi Fang, and specially sent villains to report the victory" t1706231537: