Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 375 New 3 Kingdoms 15

"My lord, please withdraw your troops!" Xun Yu stepped forward and advised.

If this continues, someone will definitely die.

"Xun Yu, Xun Wenruo, what do you mean? We are now at the gates of Shouchun City, and Yuan Shu is on his last breath, but you say you want to withdraw our troops? What's wrong with you? Ah!" Cao Cao shouted.

"Brother..., everyone heard what you and Wang Hu said in the big tent just now!" Cao Ren said with his head down.

"I heard...I heard it! What do you mean?"

Cao Cao suddenly woke up and noticed that everyone was looking at him like a wolf looking at its prey.

"You seem to hate me, Cao Cao? But what's the use of hating me! You might as well put your hatred on Yuan Shu. All you have to do is listen to me and capture Shouchun, and you will have food and drink!" Cao Cao said with great courage to give himself courage.

"Brother, stop talking!" Cao Ren was so anxious seeing him seeking death that his underwear was soaked with sweat.

"Haha, Cao Ren, don't be afraid, believe me! In troubled times, only those who are strong enough to do whatever it takes can defeat their opponents and achieve great things. I believe you can understand this, and my generals and advisers can understand it. It doesn't matter to them, they can recruit others after they die." Cao Cao stepped forward, patted Cao Ren on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"Think about the princes' campaign against Dong Zhuo. My army was completely wiped out and I was defeated by Xu Rong, but I recovered in less than two years. The year before last, my army was almost completely wiped out in Xuzhou, and only three counties were left in Yanzhou. But in more than a year, I recovered again and not only reoccupied Yanzhou, but also Qingzhou and part of Sili Xiaoweizhou. Now I have even reached Yuan Shu's lair."

The junior officers and soldiers all looked at Cao Cao in silence, watching him perform a clumsy show like a clown. This man could kill Wang Hu today, and he could also kill himself tomorrow for some dishonorable crime because of other things.

What the fuck is this Cao Cao!

After comforting Cao Ren, Cao Cao turned his attention to the junior officers and soldiers, smiled slightly, jumped onto a rock confidently, and shouted with his teeth and claws bared.

"It is your honor to follow me, Cao Cao, and build a career! If you were at home, you might starve to death, die from forced labor, die of illness, or even die of cold. I, Cao Cao, recruited you to be soldiers and gave you a chance to prove yourselves as men. You should thank me and listen to me and charge forward, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a loud bang sounded above everyone's head, making everyone's ears buzz. Cao Cao's carefully crafted luxurious carriage was turned into charcoal by lightning.

The generals and counselors were frightened to the point of being pale. They were behaving recklessly and talking nonsense to the point that even God could not stand it. If they continued to do so, people would die. Because only God could make everyone dream and hear Cao Cao's plan to kill Wang Hu and plot against the army.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!"

The soldiers didn't know who started this, and except for the senior generals and counselors, everyone else shouted in unison to withdraw.

Cao Cao suddenly felt very lonely. No one could understand him. Building a great cause is the highest ideal of every man (excluding the author, who only wants to win the first prize in the Double Color Ball to achieve financial freedom and then live a life of idleness and wait for death).

However, he encountered a lot of people who were hindering him along the way (in his own opinion). Every military action or plan he was determined to succeed either failed or was leaked in the end. Who was really against him?

None of this is important now. We have fought for so long and paid such a high price to come to Shouchun. We are only one step away from completing our mission. We must act decisively. Thinking of this, Cao Cao raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet. Everyone thought that they could always withdraw their troops, but who knew that the bastard's next words would be even more infuriating.

"Pass on my military order. Behead those who are afraid of fighting to calm the morale of the army. After the execution, immediately attack Shouchun and don't return until you win!" Cao Cao drew out the Yitian sword and hit it on a stone and shouted.

(Don’t ask where the soldiers who carried out the execution came from when the entire military camp mutinied. Later, when Sima Yi succeeded Cao Zhen, he issued such an order. The gist of it was that if they couldn’t defeat Zhuge Liang in a few days, the entire army would be killed. What the hell!)

There was silence again, a suffocating silence. Cao Ren no longer cared about anything. He rushed forward and pulled Cao Cao off the stone. Together with Xiahou Yuan, he put him on a simple horse-drawn carriage and drove out of the military camp. When everyone came to their senses, Cao Cao had already run far away.

Not surprisingly, the new booklet "Anecdotes of Cao Cao's Escape from Shouchun" brought a lot of amusement to the warlord circles, and also made many people feel that they were blind before. How could they think that Cao Cao was a capable person?

The uncle and nephew Xu, who created Cao Cao's character, were so ashamed that they wanted to commit suicide to preserve their reputation.

What kind of capable minister in a peaceful era and a treacherous hero in a chaotic era? He is obviously a psychopath who feels good about himself!

After defeating Lu Bu, Cao's army marched straight to Shouchun, but the army quickly collapsed due to food and grass problems, and Cao Cao fled back to Yanzhou to lick his wounds.

Cao Cao was defeated, but the second great melee was not over. When Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao destroyed Gongsun Zan and occupied Hebei, then led his troops westward. When Ma Teng saw that Yuan Shao had taken action, he also hurriedly sent troops to Guanzhong.

Li Cui and Guo Si, who were about to fight, had to shake hands and divide their forces to deal with it. The result was not good. Li Cui took advantage of the geographical advantage and fought back and forth with Yuan Shao. However, Guo Si was stabbed to death by Ma Chao in the first battle. After that, Ma Teng rushed all the way and Chang'an changed hands again.

A mixed blessing and sad event also happened: the whereabouts of the emperor was unknown!

After Chang'an was captured by Ma Teng, Li Cui had no choice but to surrender to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao led his troops to Chang'an without stopping, drove Ma Teng back to Liangzhou, and almost dug up Chang'an three feet deep but still couldn't find the emperor.

Yuan Shao had complicated feelings about the emperor's disappearance, because his side was with Emperor Shao Liu Bian, who was supported by He Jin, although the grass on his grave was now very tall.

When Dong Zhuo was being attacked, the first step was not to purge the court of evil officials, but to have another emperor declare the one in Luoyang illegal. The candidate refused to do so and had no choice but to recognize Liu Xie.

But why do they dislike the current emperor Liu Xie? He is the one who has officially completed the process to ascend the throne, and it is legal. Now that the emperor is gone, the princes of the world have no bottom line to stir up trouble. If they just find a member of the royal family to take the throne, no one else will recognize it. Besides, the emperor is missing, not dead!

What if we establish an emperor today and he comes back to life tomorrow?

It’s all Ma Teng’s fault. Why did a poor place like Xiliang get involved in the war among the princes?

Yuan Shao became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He would curse Ma Teng every day in the military camp at Bashang and have people write articles to curse Ma Teng while looking for the emperor.

But soon everyone stopped paying attention to the emperor’s disappearance because Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor!

Originally, he occupied Nanyang County, the richest prefecture in the Han Dynasty. In recent years, he conquered many more territories and populations, and was the richest person in the area controlled by all the princes. Now, Sun Ce has occupied the six prefectures in Jiangdong, and the whole territory of Yangzhou belongs to him. Zang Ba has seized a county in Jingzhou, and it is only a matter of time before he takes over the whole territory of Jingzhou.

This time, Cao's army almost came out in full force. After defeating Lu Bu, they surrounded Shouchun. Yuan Shu in the city was planning to kill himself, but God intervened and Cao's army collapsed without a fight. Cao Cao fled back to Yanzhou in a panic. Ji Ling, who rushed back from Jingzhou to rescue Shouchun, regained the territory on the northern line.

Yuan Shu, who escaped death, felt that God favored him, so he took action to resolve the siege of Shouchun.

In order not to let down God's help, Yuan Shu felt it necessary to raise his own value and give face to God who cared about him.

As for the way to raise one's own value, it is to be the son of God, or the Son of Heaven for short.