Chapter 551: Domination (1)
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Neat footsteps stepped across the ground, spears shaking, holding them up to the sky light, reflecting the unique cold light of metal. Fifty thousand Xiliang troops slowly advanced in front of ten square formations. The generals of each square formation rode horses in front, with their weapons slanted down, pressing the speed of the entire square formation, echoing the rear team.
Dian Wei rode on the horse with his two halberds on his back, and his tiger eyes stared at the oncoming Cao army without blinking like lightning, along the line between the sky and the earth in the east, surging like a rising tide. The warrior who had avoided slaughtering tigers in the mountains for killing people was already forty-six this year, and his figure was still like an iron tower and his muscles were tangled. Whether facing a tiger in the mountains or a fierce and war-friendly army, he had never retreated for more than half a step in the years of fighting south and north.
Under the white giant wolf flag, Gongsun Zhi raised his hand, the giant nodded understandingly, and issued an order to the nearby messenger. The fast horse galloped up and blew the flags toward the surrounding square formation. Then a famous messenger began to run around, extending to the other side that seemed to have no end.
"The governor has an order to stop it!"
High-pitched sounds intertwined in the sky, and the waving flags swayed among the small formations of the entire huge formation. The generals leading the team in front raised their soldiers and raised them into the sky as soon as they received the order. Behind them, the black crowd stopped together, and then another bang, from the hands of the Xiliang infantry in the front row, smashed into the soil and stood up.
The spear poked out and set out a formation.
Gongsun Zhi's calloused palm spread out a piece of cloth. When he came, he had read the letter sent by Cao Cao on the way. He probably wanted to talk to him in front of the formation. In fact, there was nothing to talk about in this way. After all, over the years, he had dared to fight. Even when facing the huge and arrogant Yuan Shao, he still dared to fight. However, with the wars of the army again and again, the things he faced were different from those of thousands of people and thousands of people in the past. If there were experienced generals in the war, he needed to do more, to play a role in the morale of the army at critical moments and stabilize the morale of the entire army for sustainable combat. These things involved were also very complicated, and logistics supplies were the most critical link.
...The real victory is not just about winning a war.
"Send someone to the Ye Wang, ask Wang Kuang to move some cases and cushions out, and take someone else to the opposite side, tell Cao Cao that the two armies will talk in front of the formation."
Gongsun Zhi whispered to the other side of the city. After hearing this, Li Ke ran towards the other side of the city, holding a mace and pointing straight to the top of the city: "Mr. Kuang, the governor of the Hanoi County Prince, asked you to move a few cases!!"
When the sound echoed loudly on the top of the city, Gongsun Zhi slowly came to the middle of the two armies with Dian Wei and Yi Hundred Guards. The maximum range of arrows was still twenty feet apart. Cao Cao on the opposite side also brought Xu Chu and a hundred tiger guard camps toward this side. Both guards pressed the handles of the knife and bows and crossbows.
"Good goodbye to the Prime Minister?"
The cloak was swept in the wind, two horse heads apart. Gongsun Zhi bowed to Cao Cao who stopped on the opposite side, "...I didn't expect you and I will meet each other so soon."
"Fuck, don't really want to hear the four words 'Don't be okay'." Cao Cao looked at him, raised his hand and bowed, and was silent for a moment: "...Yuan Shao and I are old friends, and they also said this to me last year, and it was like this scene."
At this time, the gate of Yewang City opened, and a carriage and several fast horses left the city to come here. The soldiers of Hanoi quickly placed the two tables in front of both sides, put the cushions and some drinks, and hurriedly drove the car to run back to the city gate. Wang Kuang smiled with a serious smile: "... The Prime Minister and the Governor chatted slowly, and the concubine in the Kuang family gave birth to a child, so he went back first."
When he turned around and was about to leave, two huge bodies blocked the way in his rotational sight, one left and one right. Biaoshan's fat figure carried a tiger-headed sword and pointed to the side: "Go and sit there." On the left, Dian Wei pinched his shoulders, lowered his face slightly, his curly beard shaking, and his voice was rough: "My concubine at home wants to have a baby, so she can give birth later. Come on, the county magistrate would be better off sitting."
With a little press on his arm, Wang Kuang sat directly on the ground with a "ouch".
On the other side of them, Gongsun Zhi got off the horse's back and made a gesture of inviting him, "The Prime Minister is so confident that my Gongsun Zhi will be the next Yuan Shao?" Then he sat down cross-legged. He was so uncomfortable with the posture of kneeling on the chair, not to mention that he had armor on his body.
"Gongsun is so confident, will Cao defeat Cao?" Cao Cao laughed with a heroic voice. He also got off the horse, sat down behind the desk, pouring wine: "... Gongsun's idea was nothing more than to take down Henoi and cut off Sizhou and threaten Yanzhou, but he wanted to take advantage of Cao's strategy to attack Ji and Qingzhou, and his troops were in short supply? You have made a desperate bet, believe it or not, Yanzhou will cut off your retreat in half a month, forcing your army to retreat to Taihang Mountain, and Hedong that you just swallowed may also be spit out."
He said as he raised his title to respect him.
Although Gongsun Zhi was not as good as the other party in terms of human nature, he was also a smart person. Even if Cao Cao didn't say anything, he had already thought about it. The original intention of marching the army south was just to break the deadlock of confrontation. After all, the war between the two fronts of Shanggu County was started, and the money and food consumed by the three armies had reached the maximum limit. If he went to war with Cao Cao again, the situation ahead would be unpredictable.
He is no longer the leader of the horse thief who was desperate to beat and kill, but the wolf king who protected the wolf pack. How could he do anything to do? But in terms of momentum, how could he lose to the other party?
"What the Prime Minister said is also what I am concerned about." Gongsun Zhijue replied: "... But the Prime Minister also knows that I started my business in the grassland and grew up in the Hun horse shed in my early years. I was born and fought with a group of brothers every day to eat. Many people fought for food on the edge of the sword. Those who survived were basically injured. When it was windy and rainy, their bodies felt so painful that they felt even more painful when they were old..."
Cao Cao nodded, "It is indeed not easy for those who survive. Cao Cao has suffered from headaches all over the years, and often has severe pain that is unbearable."
Gongsun Zhi looked at him, drank a sip of wine, and when he put it down, he said, "... Look, more than a hundred people started their own business, fought and killed, from nothing to something, and there were more and more brothers under his command, and they couldn't remember their names. At that time, the brothers who followed me through life and death could not be beaten. I gave them the pastoral countryside, so that they could enjoy their lives at home, and then new brothers joined. What are these people doing? Why should I fight with my Gongsun Zhi? It's just a marriage of wife and children, so that's how many people can get what they deserve?"
"... The Prime Minister was in the Central Plains in the early years and was full of dangers, but earlier, my Gongsun Zhi was facing the tribes such as Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan. They attacked the border and we fought back. Even many burying grasses had never wanted to retreat. Because once retreating, the blood would be reduced by one point. One more Han people on the border would lose their lives. These men who stand tall..."
He tapped his finger on the desk and his tone fell down firmly: "... Should I get the reward?"
"It's right!" Cao Cao didn't hesitate. He knew that the other party was trying to imply his mind, but he still nodded and recognized this truth.
Gongsun Zhi nodded according to the table and said, "But the world is in chaos, they cannot get rewards, and the land in my hands is not enough, so I can only ask for it from other places. The reward they want is this world... peace..."
The wind blew over and rolled up some smoke and dust. Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and looked at him, put down the wine in his hand, and was silent for a moment, word by word.
"But you killed Liu Xie"
Not far away, Wang Kuang, who was kneeling on the ground, shivered and raised his eyes to look at the two of them. The sweat beads suddenly slid across his forehead, and he wanted to leave here with a trembling body, "Kill the emperor? Damn, listen again, something is going to happen... Let's go..."
Chapter completed!