Cao Cao was not uncommon for Li Ru to send letters to him. After all, the two sides are allies now, so it is very common for them to communicate information. However, when Cao Cao called Li Ru's envoy to come and unfolded the secret letter from Li Ru.
When he saw that Cao Cao still took a breath.
This Li Ru is too sinister and too cruel. His hands and feet are too neat.
Li Ru's letter read: "Hello Cao Gong'an. We have been signed since our alliance has been signed for dozens of days. Now our troops will join their Yuan Shu and Ma Chao to fight with Liu Ming to Shouyang Mountain. The enemy troops have more than fifty
Ten thousand, the situation is difficult to defeat. Sui'an agreed on that day to damage Yuan Shu's powerful troops to reduce the hindrance of public expansion. In addition, fortunately, he learned that Ma Chao saw that Liu Ming was in great power and wanted to surrender, but he was afraid that his father would be there.
The official was an official, and he was worried about his life. Therefore, Ma Chao wanted to deceive the public to help the public guard Guandu. He deceived his father to meet him with his family. Then, the father and son raided the defenders of Guandu, surrendered to Liu Ming, and took the road to return to Tianshui. Someone was afraid that
Cao Gong did not know the truth, so he was hurt by it. Therefore, he woke up. You and I had a covenant, and the gods could see it. At some point, he would not dare to forget it. He would definitely cut off Ma Chao's food and grass and return to the road to help Cao Gong. However, in order to prevent Ma Chao from escaping,
Become a confidant of Cao Gong. I must ask my general to beg for the preciousness of the alliance and Liu Ming is powerful and should not fight the enemy alone, send troops to destroy Ma Chao's foundation and unify the ten groups of Liangzhou. Please rest assured by Cao Gong. Li Ru paused his head.
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Looking at Cao Cao's surprised look after his thoughts, Cheng Yu asked with concern: "Lord, is there any bad news on Dong Zhuo?" After all, the strategy of joining Dong Zhuo to resist Liu Ming was made by Cheng Yu. Now Dong Zhuo
Cheng Yu couldn't help but care about the letter that way.
Cao Cao shook his head and said, "There is nothing happening to Dong Zhuo and the others. But Liu Ming's strength is unexpectedly strong. In addition to attacking our Sili, he was actually in the head.
Yangshan also had at least 500,000 troops. It successfully blocked Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu, and their coalition forces. Li Ru implemented our three-point strategy to divide the world with the defense of Liu Ming and others.
We consumed Yuan Shu's 100,000 troops. In addition, Li Ru also reminded us that Ma Chao was afraid of Liu Ming's power, and was dissatisfied with his father Ma Teng's name as an official in our place, and he was actually suspected of being a hostage. Therefore,
Ma Chao was preparing to bring troops to our place in the name of helping us defend Guandu together. Then, in the name of his father and son being separated for many days, Ma Teng gathered with him, and then raised an army to attack our Guandu troops, surrendered to Liu Ming and others, and borrowed a way.
Return to Tianshui.”
After saying that, Cao Cao handed Li Ru's secret letter to Cheng Yu to watch. Cheng Yu opened the letter and saw that the content in the letter was roughly the same as Cao Cao said, but Li Ru's methods of helping Cao Cao and dealing with Ma Chao.
Without saying that. After thinking about it for a moment, Cheng Yu understood why Cao Cao didn't mention these things.
But before Cheng Yu could return the letter in his hand to Cao Cao and make suggestions to Cao Cao, he stretched out an arm from Cheng Yu and snatched Li Ru's letter from him.
Cheng Yu was shocked. Who is so bold? The Prime Minister's Mansion dared to be so unscrupulous. Cheng Yu turned his head and saw that it was Xu You who did it. Cheng Yu was not happy.
Cheng Yu bowed to Cao Cao immediately, ready to scold Xu You, but Cheng Yu looked up and saw Cao Cao shaking his head slightly, so Cheng Yu stopped talking.
At this time, Xu You also understood Li Ru's letter. Xu You laughed and said, "Meng De, I advised you not to fight against Liu Ming back then. What do you think today? Then Liu Ming hid more than one million soldiers. We
If he fought hard, he would have been wiped out by Liu Ming and the others long ago."
Cao Cao said calmly: "I have a long vision. We have benefited."
Xu You continued proudly: "Meng De and Li Ru are cunning. He actually wanted to kill people with a knife and use our hands to get rid of Ma Chao. But he ended up being affordable and annexed Ma Chao and their territory. It was just his small trick.
Can't hide it from me."
Cao Cao frowned and asked Xu You, "Ziyuan, since you have seen through Li Ru's plan, how should we deal with it in your opinion?"
Xu You said arrogantly: "This is not simple. Ma Teng is now an official here. Give Ma Teng the letter Li Ru to Ma Teng to watch. Ma Teng will definitely hate Li Ru to the core, and then let Ma Teng write it.
Trust advised Ma Chao to surrender. Ma Chao had no way out and his backbone was cut off. Ma Chao could only use it. Li Ru did nothing but me. And Meng De received tens of thousands of military horses for nothing. Isn’t this beautiful
One thing."
At this time, even Cheng Yu, who had always been strong, could not stand Xu You anymore. The one who advised Cao Cao tolerate Xu You and gained the reputation of being a polite and noble man was Cheng Yu. But now Cheng Yu is a little doubtful if he did something wrong at the beginning.
Who can't tell the strategy of Ru? But is Li Ru's strategy that simple? In addition to telling Cao Cao and framing Ma Chao, Li Ru also reveals threats and implying equivalent exchanges. That's OK
Will Cao Cao not do it according to Li Ru's plan?
Cheng Yu now understands Xu You a little completely. Although Xu You is a little wise, especially his quick intelligence, he is very good. However, Xu You's eyes are too short-sighted. Just considering the upper hand and taking advantage, he doesn't consider the overall situation.
Cheng Yu had no choice but to speak to Cao Cao: "Lord, no. Although Mr. Xu's plan may persuade Fu Ma Chao to surrender, he would consider Ma Teng with Li Ru's letter. The secret of our alliance with Dong Zhuo was not guaranteed.
.Not to say whether it would reveal the secrets, which led to Yuan Shu's resentment. Yuan Shu led his troops to attack us. Just after Ma Chao learned about this, he would understand that we would advise him to send troops that day. It was to use them. Ma Chao also
I won't really surrender to us."
Before Cheng Yu could finish his words, Xu You was disgusted with Cheng Yu's plan to slander him, and immediately interrupted Cheng Yu and said, "Pediagra. I said I would show Li Ru's letter to Ma Teng. Then you must give Li Ru Li
Is it okay to show Ma Teng the original letter? We just need to follow Li Ru's handwriting and pick up again if it is beneficial to us. That's fine. How can this reveal our secrets?
Will Yuan Shu and the others know about it?"
Cheng Yu was even more disappointed. Although it was an impolite act for Xu You to interrupt others' words, these subsections would not have any impact on Cheng Yu. However, the focus of Cheng Yu's words was not this at all. Xu You was like this.
I didn't realize it yet. This disappointed Cheng Yu so much.
Cheng Yu ignored Xu You and continued, "If you don't mention whether the secret will be leaked, how much benefit will Ma Chao surrenders to the main attacker bring to the lord? Ma Chao listened to our lobbying and sent only 50,000 troops in Shouyang Mountain
Yuan Shu lost 100,000 troops. As the main target of Li Ru's murder, Li Ru would never let him go. How many troops can Ma Chao have? At most, just as Mr. Xu said,
There are only tens of thousands of people. We have not many of these troops, but not many of them. Moreover, according to what Li Ru said, Li Ru has cut off Ma Chao's retreat. Then Li Ru must have sent someone to the martial arts world.
Guan is a strong defense. Wuguan is a powerful pass, let alone the little troops of Ma Teng and his son. Even if we help each other, we will not be able to win Wuguan in a short time. Li Ru will definitely take advantage of Ma Chao's absence from his hometown.
, take action to eliminate Ma Chao's foundation. So, in the end we can only obtain the little force Ma Chao carried with us. Apart from that, there will never be any other gains. However, as Mr. Xu said, Ma Teng
, Ma Chao and the others would hate Li Ru for this, so after Ma Teng and Ma Chao and the others surrendered to Li Ru, they would continue to be hostile to Li Ru. If the lord cannot be for Ma Teng, Ma Chao and the others would vent their anger and continue to join forces with Dong Zhuo and the others.
It will make Ma Teng and his son dissatisfied. In this way, there will be a crisis within us. If the lord vents his anger for Ma Teng and his son, it will inevitably destroy the plan we have formulated. If we fight with Dong Zhuo, we will only suffer losses. Let Liu Ming take the opportunity to become bigger. The lord's great career will
It's hard to achieve."
Xu You interrupted again, "Hmph! Ma Teng and his son were thrown into Meng De's door, and life and death are under our control. How can they let them do whatever they want? Let's continue to act according to the plan. Ma Teng and his son feel a word of no word?"
Cheng Yu ignored Xu You and said, "Even if Ma Teng and his son are weak, we don't have to think about it for the time being. But according to Li Ru, Liu Ming's army stationed more than 500,000 troops in Shouyang Mountain, plus Liu Ming's first
More than 500,000 troops attacked our Sili. Liu Ming's troops were more than one million. Liu Ming had many soldiers, but he had been hiding them from the outside. It can be seen that Liu Ming was so ambitious. Liu Ming, who had such ambition and such strength, was so amazing.
We can't fight alone. In the next few years, we must work hard with Dong Zhuo and others to restrain Liu Ming from both sides, so that we can resist Liu Ming's attack with the advantage of the territory. This time, Li Ru has made it clear that they have helped us
The 100,000 soldiers and horses that harmed Yuan Shu, and now Li Ru pointed Ma Chao to us, so let us show it. If we took in Ma Teng and his son, Li Ru would definitely be dissatisfied. Li Ru was dissatisfied and would also affect Dong Zhuo.
Although they will not destroy the alliance with us and allow Liu Ming to expand it, if they are dissatisfied and join forces with Yuan Shu and others, let Yuan Shu replace us, that is not to
Although Yuan Shu lost 100,000 troops, Yuan Shu himself still had more than 200,000 troops. In addition, Zhang Xiu was Dong Zhuo's old minister. Zhang Xiu took advantage of the situation and sent troops to attack us. After all, Zhang Xiu had already helped.
Liu Bei sent troops to attack us once. If he took action again, he would not have any scruples. In this way, we will be in danger."
Cheng Yu said it very clearly, and Xu You also knew the interests of it clearly. So he stopped entangling.
Cao Cao pondered for a moment and decisively sent a decisive order: "Ma Teng and his son rebelled, and killed Ma Teng to sacrifice the flag. Send troops to annihilate Ma Chao!"