"Da da da da!!!"

Cao Chun, Cao Ang and Xu Chu led thousands of remaining cavalry to gallop north. He did not dare to stay any longer along the way, and finally arrived outside Puyang City that morning.

Cao Chun looked back at the thousands of people and sighed. They were both depressed and many others were injured.

But those who can come back with him are loyal and righteous people after all. Many people took the initiative to scatter on the road.

"Don't worry. I and Cao Gong will not treat you badly." Cao Chun first comforted the soldiers, then asked Xu Chu to stay in the commander-in-chief, and rode a horse into the city with Cao Ang to meet Cao Cao.

After arriving at Cao's Mansion, Cao Chun became frightened.

He was not afraid of Cao Cao, but was afraid of telling Cao Cao the news. Before going to war, he was full of confidence and Cao Cao was full of energy.

It seemed as if the Liang army could be defeated in one battle.

Now that all the bets on the battle has failed, how will Cao Cao react when he knows the news?

Will it collapse?

Cao Chun was simply unimaginable.

He turned his head and looked at Cao Ang, and his nephew was still confused, as if he had hit an evil person.

"Oh." Cao Chun sighed and asked someone to take Cao Ang down to rest first. Then he mustered up the courage to go to the study to see Cao Cao.

In the study room.

Cao Cao was restless and was communicating according to letters. He probably knew the time of the battle between Cao Chun and Zhang Xiu.

"At this time, I'm afraid the winner has been decided. Should I win or fail? If I fail, what should I do?"

Cao Cao stood up, walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, his face full of nervousness.

There is no way, no way.

The relationship between this war is really too great. To put it bluntly, if he was defeated, then the four hundred years of Han Dynasty would not disappear, but the probability of being able to revive the dead is already extremely small.

Liang Chao was really too powerful.

And its most powerful thing is that the people's hearts have returned to Liang. In places like Guanzhong, Liangzhou, Yizhou, etc., the people have already lived and worked in peace and contentment, and no one missed the Han Dynasty anymore.

Liang advocated that Xiu was a hero at the time and was young. The longer he managed, the more stable the Liang Dynasty would be.

How did the Han Dynasty come back to life?

If you win.

Then Cao Cao will not be sleepy.

It was really a dying and dying person who sat up and returned to life. First attack Xuzhou and Qingzhou, then find a way to join Yuan Shao's old subordinates to seize Hebei.

As long as I can occupy the three prefectures of Hebei and the four prefectures of the Central Plains and let Xun Yu manage it, how can I not compete with Zhang Xiu?

"Is this a win or a loss?" A fine sweat appeared on Cao Cao's forehead, and he was very entangled and very entangled.

"Report to the lord. General Cao Chun is back." A sting official broke in from outside and saluted breathlessly.

With a "boom", the sunny day thunder thunderstormed. Cao Cao's ears were deafening, and then all the entanglement disappeared, and the result came.

Cao Cao took a deep breath and showed a look of faith. He must have won.

"Call him in." Cao Cao sat back calmly and said with his head up.

"No." The little official replied, turned around and walked out.

In Cao Cao's expectant eyes, Cao Chun's face was filled with bitterness and he slowly walked in. Cao Cao's heart suddenly shattered, shattered, shattered.

He knows Cao Chun so well.

Although this clan brother is elegant, he is really a general. After winning a battle, he will of course be like a dragon and a tiger. After losing, he will not be a defeated rooster, but at least he will feel on his face.

"Is this a defeat?" Cao Cao asked cautiously with one-tenth of expectations.

Cao Chun's face became more bitter and his knees softened. He knelt on the ground, and said in shame: "Lord, the last general is incompetent, and was defeated by the Liang army. Only three or five thousand elite cavalrymen came back."

"Ah!" Cao Cao suddenly screamed, his eyes rolled up, and he fainted immediately.

"Lord, lord, Meng De." Cao Chun was shocked and hurriedly went up to check. Then the entire Cao Mansion was alarmed, and there was a storm.

The news spread quickly, and soon all the interested people in the entire Puyang City and Dongjun learned about the news.

Then Cao Cao's power collapsed.

Zhang Xiu protected Guanzhong, preventing the soldiers of the princes from entering Guanzhong, which saved the people of Guanzhong from the disaster of military revolution and made contributions to the people.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yellow Turban Army has repeatedly rampant in the Central Plains. Cao Cao pacified the four prefectures and eliminated the Yellow Turban Army, which has made contributions to the people of the Central Plains.

In addition, Cao Cao was in Yanzhou, and Yuzhou had a foundation and gathered a large number of ministers who were caring about the Han Dynasty. Therefore, he was able to compete with Zhang Xiu in the four states of the Central Plains.

Even after Yuan Shao was defeated, he could still support himself independently.

But with the loss of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, these people's hearts began to shake. Now the war has been going on for several months, with soldiers killed and injured, there is no good news, and bad news is everywhere.

The only 30,000 elite cavalry were defeated, and there were no cavalry in Yanzhou and Yuzhou. Seeing that the building was about to collapse, who had no selfish intentions?

Many people chose to leave Puyang City, a place of trouble, or even Dongjun. There were also many capable clans who chose to communicate with the Liang Dynasty, hoping to find their own place in the Liang Dynasty, at least not be implicated by Cao Cao.

Many county magistrates and even county magistrates betrayed Cao Cao and hung flags with "liang" on the city.

For a time, except for the Xiong City guarded by a few soldiers, there were not many Cao Cao's cities in the entire Yuzhou and Yanzhou.

This is how human hearts are.

When it is smooth sailing, it is completely different from sailing against the current.

Just like Zhuge Liang's first northern expedition in history, the prime minister attacked Liangzhou and planned to plot against the counties of Longyou. As a result, Liangzhou was shocked, and most of the county magistrates surrendered to Zhuge Liang and betrayed Wei Ting.

Faced with the tide of the times, there are few loyal loyal ministers after all.

One day later.

In the bedroom of Cao Mansion.

Cao Cao wrapped this piece of yellow cloth around his head and lay sickly on the bed. The bed was surrounded by important officials such as Guo Jia, Cheng Yu, Xun Yu, Zhong Yao, etc., and everyone's faces were extremely ugly.

"The matter is now. Where should we go?" Cao Cao could no longer think. His brain moved a little, and it felt like he was cut into pieces, causing great pain. He opened his godless eyes, looked at the important officials around him, and asked weakly.

After the important officials looked at each other, Cheng Yu sighed and bowed and said, "Lord. Now it's nothing more than surrender, fight, and abandonment."

Cheng Yu said it bluntly.

A flame rose from Cao Cao's heart.

I am a loyal minister who has been in the Han Dynasty for four hundred years after Cao Shen, so how could I surrender to the Liang Dynasty? Cao Cao wanted to blurt out.

But now he is no longer a teenager and has a lot of thoughts.

Whether it is surrender, war, or abandonment, the general trend of the Han Dynasty has gone. There is no hope for confronting the Liang Dynasty. If it succeeds, of course it will be a lot of money.

If it fails, then the Cao and Xiahou clans may be full of red.

Is it really worth it to do this?

Everyone present was the heroes gathered by Cao Cao. Cheng Yu and Guo Jia were selfish and wanted to support Cao Cao to achieve his hegemony.

But now this is the case, and they are no longer able to make up for the situation.

Only Xun Yu was loyal to the Han Dynasty and hoped to support Cao Cao and support the Han Dynasty. He firmly opposed: "Lord. Now the situation in the Central Plains is gone. Yuzhou and Yanzhou are difficult to protect."

"However, the lord is the Han prime minister Cao Shen. How could he betray the Han Dynasty and become the master of Liang?" As he said that, Xun Yu glanced at Cheng Yu dissatisfiedly, and then said, "It is better to raise tens of thousands of troops to go to Jingzhou."

"Although Jingzhou and Yangzhou are only two states, they have a vast area and a great depth. Jingzhou guards Xiangyang and Jiangling. Yangzhou guards Jianghuai. Besides, the cavalry in the north are strong and the ark ships in the south are long. With the crowd of Wu and Yue, boating in the rivers and lakes can be opposed to the Liang master and plan slowly, and there may not be no chance of making a comeback."

Although Xun Yu's words were sincere, everyone knew that he was thinking about problems from the perspective of the Han Dynasty. In other words, he left Cao Cao's wealth and life behind.

Cheng Yu is a strong man, and he doesn't feel very happy when he hears this. But after thinking about it, he still didn't speak up to refute Xun Yu.

On the one hand, he respects Xun Yu, and on the other hand, what Xun Yu said is right.

The general trend is over in the Central Plains, but in Yangzhou and Jingzhou still have a chance. As he said just now, there are three ways.

Surrender, fight, abandon.

To abandon means to abandon the Central Plains and to rush south to Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

Fighting means dying, and death is vigorous.

Cao Cao looked up at Xun Yu's sincere face. They had been together for many years. He knew Xun Yu, and of course Xun Yu knew him.

Should I surrender or abandon?

Cao Cao had no choice but to think about it, and even his head was buzzing.

"Everyone, let me think about it first." Cao Cao raised his hand weakly and said.

"promise."

Cheng Yu and others didn't say much, and bowed to Cao Cao and left. Xun Yu opened his mouth and hesitated for a long time before he stood up and said to Cao Cao: "Lord. The four hundred years of Han Dynasty are all in the lord's mind."

His expression and tone were extremely sincere.

"Yes." Cao Cao forced a little smile and nodded to Xun Yu.

The crowded bedroom suddenly fell into vain. Cao Cao turned his head and looked at his eldest son Cao Ang who was still kneeling under the bed.
To be continued...