Chapter 402

As if he had already foreseen the scene where he, Cao Cao, would inevitably be defeated by him in the future!

“Su Boyuan has good intentions! I, Cao Cao, accept this favor! Haha!”

Cao Cao laughed aloud.

To have such a close friend in life is a blessing of three lifetimes!

“I’ve heard of this long ago too!”

Xun Yu nodded silently and sighed: “Gongda still sends me letters every month, and he doesn’t skimp on describing the changes in Jingzhou over these years!”

“I can only say, the Zou Qian Prince is not like a mortal!”

“Gongda and the others all feel that the Zou Qian Prince is a heavenly being descended to earth;”

“In the past, I didn’t believe it and even scoffed at it! Now, I actually believe it a little!”

“Mortals really can’t do this kind of thing in a short time!”

Su Xuan seems to be wrapped in a mysterious veil.

“Oh?”

Cao Cao raised his eyebrows: “Gongda still sends you letters often? Doesn’t he blame you, get angry at you? Cut off your uncle-nephew relationship?”

“I thought that when you chose me, Wenruo, it made them so disappointed in you that you would never see each other again! Hehe!”

Hearing Cao Cao’s teasing, Xun Yu smiled: “Indeed! I thought it would be like that too, but the facts are not so!”

“The key is that the Zou Qian Prince’s heart is far broader than I imagined, and he didn’t hold these things against me;”

“So, Gongda and the others naturally don’t need to avoid suspicion and break off relations with me!”

“I can only say, I really misjudged him at the beginning!”

“No!”

Cao Cao shook his head: “You didn’t misjudge him, Wenruo! It’s just that your ambitions at the time were different from today!”

“At that time, the Han orthodoxy was still there, and you were dedicated to supporting the Han Dynasty, reviving the Han Dynasty, and making the Han Dynasty great again;”

“At that time, you probably already saw that Su Boyuan had high ambitions and had thoughts of disloyalty, so naturally, you couldn’t choose to serve Su Boyuan!”

“Not directly reporting him was already out of consideration for your in-law relationship!”

“And now the Han orthodoxy no longer exists, and your mindset and goals have undergone huge changes, so naturally, your thoughts are different!”

“I imagine Su Boyuan also understands and understands your mindset, which is why he doesn’t hold it against you, right?”

“In fact, I remember Su Boyuan didn’t even actively recruit you, right?”

Xun Yu was stunned, then nodded in realization: “Indeed!”

“Hehe! Isn’t that it?”

Cao Cao smiled cunningly: “That guy is crafty! He clearly saw through your ideals long ago and knew it was impossible to recruit you, so he never opened his mouth to avoid self-humiliation!”

“Otherwise, with your relationship, plus his attitude of thirsting for talent, there’s no reason not to recruit you!”

I can only say that Su Xuan has the ability to know people and can discern people’s thoughts.

“Hehe!”

Xun Yu smiled bitterly: “No wonder! The Zou Qian Prince is amazing!”

“My Lord, since the Zou Qian Prince has sent troops to Taking Jiaozhou, we should take this opportunity to send troops to Xuzhou and take Xuzhou as soon as possible.”

“Admittedly, we shouldn’t need to worry about the Zou Qian Prince sending troops to attack us at this stage, but currently, at least we really don’t need to worry about the Zou Qian Prince using troops against us!”

“Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Zou Qian Prince sent troops to Taking Jiaozhou, to release a signal to us, indicating that he can’t spare his hands to deal with us at this time?”

Of course, this is a lie.

With the combat power of Su Xuan’s army, how many troops are needed to take a Taking Jiaozhou?

A few tens of thousands should be enough.

For Su Xuan, who has over a hundred thousand troops, it’s a piece of cake!

It’s impossible to lack the troops for a two-front war.

This gives Xun Yu more of a feeling of playing house.

The Zou Qian Prince is clearly playing!

Other warlords in his eyes are probably just tools for his hegemony game.

To turn a proper world hegemony into this is truly the sorrow of the warlords of the world!

This is equivalent to a full-level, full-god-gear King who turned on an invincible cheat in a bronze match.

Cheating!

“There really is this possibility!”

Cao Cao was stunned, then nodded speechlessly: “This is like something Su Boyuan would do!”

“In addition, the relationship between Lu Bu and Liu Bei has deteriorated recently, and friction has begun to increase. Could it be that Su Boyuan has a hand in this too?”

Cao Cao began to become suspicious.

He always felt that every step he took was being manipulated by Su Boyuan behind the scenes.

This feeling is not good at all.

“Uh... no way, right?”

Xun Yu felt a thump in his heart: “The person who provoked the relationship between Zhang Fei and Lu Bu was arranged by me personally;”

“The process was also entirely under my control! Logically speaking, it’s impossible!”

“My Lord, don’t scare yourself, okay?”

If it were really like this, then Su Xuan would be too terrifying!

They should stop playing any hegemony game and just surrender and rot!

If the whole process is under someone else’s manipulation without anyone knowing, then what is the point of this hegemony?

“Is it really just me scaring myself?”

Cao Cao touched his chin doubtfully, and he was a bit uncertain himself!

“Should be, right?”

Xun Yu was also made uncertain by Cao Cao.

“Forget it!”

Cao Cao shook his head irritably, threw these thoughts out of his mind, and waved his hand: “Regardless of whether it is or not, we won’t care! Let’s just follow our own thoughts and plans!”

“We can use troops against Xuzhou tomorrow!”

“Xuchang and my rear area will be left to you, Wenruo!”

“You also need to worry more about logistics!”

“I will quietly set off tomorrow to go to Da Qiao Commandery to meet up with the army. This time, I will definitely take Xuzhou in the shortest possible time!”

Time waits for no one! Only by taking Xuzhou first and obtaining sufficient land and population can he support himself to continue expanding his army and fight Lord Yuan Shao.

“Understood!”

Xun Yu immediately cupped his hands: “Please rest assured, my Lord, I will definitely manage the rear area well for you!”

“Haha! I am naturally at ease leaving it to you!”

Cao Cao laughed aloud.

Early the next morning, Cao Cao quietly left Xuchang with hundreds of personal guards and rushed to Da Qiao Commandery.

Over the past few months, Cao Cao had already used various excuses to break up his more than 100,000 troops into small parts and quietly transferred them to Da Qiao Commandery... and other places in batches.

He was preparing to attack Xuzhou from both Taishan Commandery and Donghai Commandery.

At this time, the troop movements had been arranged, and he hadn’t let Lu Bu and Liu Bei notice.

Meanwhile, in Xiapi City, at Chen Deng’s mansion.

“Tsk tsk!”

Jia Thirteen looked at the latest news from the Secret Guards in Pengcheng and couldn’t help but click his tongue and shake his head: “Cao Cao’s methods are still too rough, and his actions are too eager!”

“If I hadn’t sent people to cover for them and fooled Lu Bu at the same time, their attack plan would have been discovered by Lu Bu and Liu Bei long ago!”

“It’s really not impressive! To actually need us, their future enemy, to help cover for them—it’s too unseemly!”

“After he is defeated by the Lord in the future, I must ask him to return this favor! Hehe!”

Clearly, even Cao Cao and Xun Yu probably don’t know that the reason their troop movements over the past few months have been so smooth is actually because Jia Thirteen, their future enemy, has been silently contributing behind the scenes.

— Author's Notes —

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