Chapter 979

His brows gradually furrowed.

"They clearly caught up to the large group of commoners transferred from Luoyangcheng; logically, they should have closed in on Dong Zhuo by now!"

"Why haven't we encountered Dong Zhuo's main force yet?"

"Is this not still a smoke bomb left by Dong Zhuo to distract the commoners?"

Su Li was deeply immersed in it, his thoughts swirling.

It was quite a coincidence.

Just as Su Li was deep in thought, he suddenly saw a large cloud of smoke and dust rising from afar.

This direction was not to the northwest, but to the east.

"That is... the Cao flag!"

Relying on his 30-point explosive martial prowess which gave him ultra-long-range vision, Su Li saw at a glance the huge character 'Cao' written on the flag fluttering in the wind.

Could it be... Cao Cao!

Su Li was not stupid.

The only one who could come from the east was Cao Cao.

Whether in history or in the plot, after Dong Zhuo fled Luoyangcheng, only Cao Cao followed him for a thousand miles.

Although the burning of Luoyangcheng was earlier now due to his influence.

But this part of the plot still did not have much impact.

Soon the two armies converged.

"Brother Gongsun! No wonder I didn't see you in Luoyangcheng! So you came out to chase Dong Zhuo!"

Cao Cao didn't have any accidents when he saw Su Li and his army.

After all, it was Su Li who had sent word that he was going to raid Luoyangcheng last night.

They had initially thought Su Li couldn't succeed, so they came to join in the fun.

They hadn't expected it to develop into the current situation.

Luoyangcheng burned, Dong Zhuo fled.

The warlords each looted Luoyangcheng's assets and took in the fleeing people of Luoyangcheng, with no one left to pursue Dong Zhuo.

Only Cao Cao traveled through the warlords, led his troops west, and chased Dong Zhuo for a thousand miles.

Now seeing that Su Li had also come, Cao Cao immediately felt a sense of comfort.

At least it was no longer his own patent.

"The rebel Dong abducted the Son of Heaven and burned Luoyangcheng; his crimes are unforgivable, and we must execute him."

Su Li wore a look of righteous indignation on his face.

"Those who are good to me, I shall wait to execute them!"

Hurt in his heart by Yuan Shao, that good friend of his, Cao Cao finally revealed a smile.

He suddenly felt that this person, Su Li, was not inferior.

Hmm...

Su Li didn't know why he suddenly felt a chill on his body, as if the way Cao Cao was looking at him was not right.

It couldn't be that besides liking married women, Cao Cao also liked something else...

Thinking it over, Su Li didn't want to say much to Cao Cao and hurriedly said: "Big Brother Mengde, the rebel Dong left behind this large group of commoners and disappeared without a trace. With your insight, how should we pursue them?"

Cao Cao seemed to suddenly realize: "You mean the route Dong Zhuo took to migrate isn't just this one?"

Su Li naturally spread his hands and said: "A crowd of a million, plus court officials, wealthy merchants and their families, court attendants and maids, whether male or female, noble or lowly, close or distant—how could they all be mixed together in one migration? They must have gone their separate ways!"

"The commoner troops heading west right now are very likely just a decoy set up by Dong Zhuo's army. We've wasted our effort in chasing them!!" ### CHAPTER 986