Chapter 414 Cao Cao's Real Purpose, Investigating Spies

The Six-Jead Bodhisattva was knocked back by Xiahou Dun's move, and then he glared at Xiahou Dun with resentment on his face.

"Okay, okay, I've written down your actions, Prime Minister, and I will tell them to our king intact. Prepare for war! Welcome the wrath of revenge from the Western Regions!"

There was a small wound on Liuzhu Bodhisattva's face. It was the scar left by Xiahoudun's knife when she had just fought with Xiahoudun. Not only on her face, but also on her chest, there was a larger scar.

"Oh, when did a small Western Region become worthy of anger?"

Xiahou Dun was even more disdainful and ignored what the Six-Jead Bodhisattva said.

Just then, a voice sounded.

"What is this? Stop it, stop it."

The two followed the sound and saw Cao Cao appearing at their door.

"Prime Minister, is what Xiahou Dun said just now also your thoughts?"

Liuzhu Bodhisattva said with a slight anger. She also knew that with her own level, she could not talk to Cao Cao on an equal footing, let alone sit on an equal footing. Therefore, she still did not dare to call out Cao Cao's name in front of Cao Cao, and still called out. Prime Minister, Cao Cao pretended to shake his head.

"What did Yuan Rang say just now? I didn't hear it clearly. Could you please say it again, Bodhisattva?"

Liuzhu Bodhisattva was about to speak, but suddenly realized that Xiahou Dun never mentioned the matter of not giving them Yizhou, nor did he say a word about dissolving their alliance. It was as if she had come up with it herself, which made him There was nothing to say for a moment.

"Sorry, Prime Minister, I was rude. I came to you this time to ask you when you plan to fulfill our contract."

"Contract, what contract?"

Cao Cao asked with some confusion. Liuzhu Bodhisattva was not angry this time. She had completely understood that they were just muddying the waters and pretending to be confused. So Liuzhu Bodhisattva no longer gave any subtle hints, but spoke directly. .

"As for your promise to let us take over Jingzhou, have you fulfilled it?"

"oh?"

After hearing this, Cao Cao turned to look at Xiahou Dun.

"Yuan Rang, did you say that at that time? That's not what you told me."

"Return to my lord! That's not what I said at the time. The agreement between the general and the kings of the Western Regions was to wait until the prime minister became the common master of the world, and then hand over Yizhou to them and let them take over."

Xiahou Dun said with cupped fists. After hearing this, Cao Cao turned his head and looked at the Six-Jead Bodhisattva on the side. The confusion on his face could easily tell what Cao Cao wanted to say.

"Bodhisattva, do you have any questions?"

Cao Cao looked at Liuzhu Bodhisattva and said, the expression on his face should be as sincere as possible. Liuzhu Bodhisattva wanted to speak, but he didn't know where to start. Liuzhu Bodhisattva was speechless by Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun. It's obvious that I'm the one who got cheated, but why do I always feel like I'm the one who made the mistake?

Without giving Liuzhu Bodhisattva a chance to continue, Cao Cao walked towards the door. Just when he was about to cross the threshold, Cao Cao suddenly turned his head again and said suddenly.

"By the way, there are not enough troops to deal with the next war. Bodhisattva, please see if you can send more soldiers. This time there won't be too many. Maybe you only need a hundred or eighty thousand." After defeating Liu Bei, in addition to Yizhou, I can also give you half of Jingzhou, how about it?"

Cao Cao's face was still full of sincerity. That expression even made Liuzhu Bodhisattva really think that Cao Cao would give Yizhou and Jingzhou to them. But now the facts are very clear. Cao Cao is just prostitution for free and let them use twenty The lives of 20,000 monk soldiers and slave soldiers were used to kill Liu Bei's troops.

"Prime Minister, you must have thought that I was too stupid. Why do you think that we will continue to give you more troops and let you use our soldiers as cannon fodder?"

Hearing this, Cao Cao showed a joking expression on his face.

"Oh? So you think you're smart?"

Cao Cao did not continue to enter the house, but stood under the corridor, and the expression on his face changed from a hint of joking to naked ridicule.

"Okay, now let's guess why, in this battle, Liu Zhang of Yizhou only surrounded Nanjun County but did not attack?"

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao looked at the thinking Six-Jead Bodhisattva and simply moved to Xiahou Dun's original position. He just looked at the Six-Jead Bodhisattva with a faint smile on his lips.

At this moment, Liuzhu Bodhisattva's heart can be described as a stormy sea. Obviously, Cao Cao's purpose was not to attack Jingzhou, so he never set foot on the battlefield in Jingzhou from beginning to end. Liu Zhang even led hundreds of thousands of Yizhou troops to surround him. He had been in Nanjun for half a month. During this half-month, Liu Zhang only launched a few symbolic attacks, and probably not many people died in total.

Then their goal was not Jingzhou, and the reason why Liu Zhang did not attack Nanjun was found. After all, for Liu Zhang, Nanjun was not the target, so there was no need to waste his troops. So if Liu Zhang and Cao Cao's goal was not Jingzhou, then where could it be? ?

The southern part of Yizhou is where a group of barbarians live, and they are extremely brave. In addition, Liu Zhang has always had a good relationship with those barbarians over the years, so their target will not be the southern barbarians, and it is even more impossible for Cao Cao. After all, the two of them are here A grasshopper tied to a rope during a war.

The four bordering areas of Yizhou include Cao Cao in the north, Jingzhou in the east, and barbarians in the south. Who is left? No, only the Western Region to the west is left.

Thinking of this, Liuzhu Bodhisattva's expression changed drastically. He looked at Cao Cao suddenly and tightened the rope dart in his hand. Xiahou Dun immediately blocked Cao Cao with his sword.

"So that's it. Hey, it turns out that your and Liu Zhang's purpose from the beginning to the end was just to capture the Western Region, and also to let Liu Bei and Sun Jian kill each other in order to weaken each other's strength. You and Liu Zhang's harvest was quite clean. Put it this way, when you asked Xiahou Dun to take us into Yuzhou, you deliberately bypassed Liu Zhang's Yizhou. Now think about it, you have already started to set up the trap since then, right? "

"Hahahaha, yes, yes, I'm not stupid, I still have some brains, although not much. Let me tell you this, these battles are the first step for me to reach the top of the world, and they can be the stepping stones for this step. , you and the king of your bullshit regime should all come and thank me for leaving a mark in history, hahaha.”

Cao Cao raised his head and laughed wildly. Liu Zhang had just sent news that he had led his army to attack Mount Landa. All the opponent's elite monks and soldiers were given to the Six-Jeweled Bodhisattva, who brought the Eighteen Arhats with golden bodies to the Central Plains to protect the five kings. They are all in Xudu. It can be said that the Western Region is now an open space. No one can stop Liu Zhang's advance. This is why, at that time, Cao Cao sent intelligence to all the generals and asked them to withdraw their troops, but he did not send it to Liuzhu Bodhisattva alone. Because Cao Cao wanted Liuzhu Bodhisattva to waste enough time there just to kill Ma Chao, so that Liu Zhang would have time to go to Landa Mountain and capture the Western Region.

All of this was the alliance plan of Cao Cao and Liu Zhang. Originally, they were worried about how to get Sun Jian and Shi Xie to join the game, but they didn't expect that that day, Sun Jian and Shi Xie took the initiative to show up and let them complete the last step of the plan. , they continued to act out this drama, and then there was this war based on a scam, and this huge plan to hide the truth.

Cao Cao and Liu Zhang were not stupid, and they both realized that their subordinates might have been infiltrated by Liu Bei's people. Therefore, they did not mention this matter to anyone, not even Liu Zhang's biological son, Cao Cao's biological son, Xu Chu, Dian Wei didn't even mention it, only he and Liu Zhang knew.

Facts have also proved that their subordinates have indeed been infiltrated by Liu Bei, because except for the alliance that only the two of them know, all other news, whether it is the formation of troops or the location of their battle lines, has been leaked by Liu Bei. Knowing in advance also resulted in the 220,000-strong army in the Western Regions, which did not cause Liu Bei much loss.

But these are just the icing on the cake for Cao Cao and Liu Zhang. The purpose of their attack on the Western Regions is for the slave soldiers in the Western Regions. Even civilians can be trained as slaves. By then, they will have a huge army. , and an army that can risk life and death. When the time comes, who else in the world can stop them?

Liuzhu Bodhisattva was more than ten feet away from Cao Cao at the moment, just behind the attack range of the rope dart, and Cao Cao was sitting there lazily. Xiahou Dun was not completely in front of Cao Cao because Cao Cao was talking to her. It can be said that , now is her best chance to assassinate Cao Cao. As long as she throws the rope dart, it may directly kill Cao Cao.

But in the end, the Six-Jead Bodhisattva endured it and took back his hands on his waist, no longer holding the rope dart.

"Hey, Cao Cao, if you act like this, aren't you afraid that the people under you will be disheartened by you?"

Liuzhu Bodhisattva spoke, trying to make a last-ditch effort to save Cao Cao, but Cao Cao had no patience to listen to what she was talking about anymore. He waved his hand and interrupted her impatiently.

"Okay, shut up. If you start rushing to the Western Region now, you might be able to save your life by being rescued by King Qin. If you delay further, just wait for your kings to deal with it."

Cao Cao stood up and stopped talking nonsense with Liuzhu Bodhisattva. He walked into the house. Liuzhu Bodhisattva snorted coldly and turned to leave. Xiahou Dun crossed his arms and looked at the scene in front of him with interest. Full of excitement.

Watching the Six-Jead Bodhisattva hurriedly leave, Xiahou Dun turned around and entered Cao Cao's house.

"My lord, you are counting the seconds. Even we didn't notice that your lord actually played such a big game of chess."

Cao Cao didn't answer, but just sat at the table and thought quietly. After a long time, he replied to Xiahou Dun.

"Except for me and Liu Zhang, no one else knows about this plan. I didn't hide it from you on purpose."

Hearing Cao Cao's words, Xiahou Dun felt relieved. If Xu Chu and Dianwei knew about it and he was the only one who didn't know about it, it wouldn't mean that in Cao Cao's heart, he, a member of the same clan, was not as good as Dianwei, Xu Chu and the two outsiders. Well, since only Cao Cao and Liu Zhang know about it, there won't be this problem.

"Why are you hiding it from us? Is it possible that there is something inside us?..."

Xiahou Dun did not continue speaking. After all, that word was a bit sensitive. Cao Cao naturally knew what Xiahou Dun was referring to. He just nodded lightly and confirmed Xiahou Dun's thoughts.

"We must have something detailed internally, and not long after joining the army, we have made great achievements and been promoted to a small person with real power. You must remember not to make it public. You can do this yourself. No need. If other people know about it, find those who meet the conditions I just mentioned, and then see who is the most suspicious."

Cao Cao tapped his fingers lightly on the table, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked down, but from his expression, it can be seen that Cao Cao was thinking.

"My lord, are you sure that there must be spies here?"

Xiahou Dun asked uncertainly. After all, this kind of thing is not a good job. He has to confirm it with Cao Cao first. Cao Cao nodded firmly.

"There must be. The only thing Liu Zhang and I know is the attack on the Western Regions. It has not been leaked. This means that Liu Zhang is fine and can cooperate. In addition to this matter, everything else seems to have been anticipated by Liu Bei. Even the troops he arranged to break through are just right. How can I not doubt it?"

"Yes, my lord! I will check it now!"

Xiahou Dun said, clasped his fists and saluted, and backed out. The door of the room was closed. Cao Cao lit the lamp in a trance, supported his chin with his right hand, and continued to think about the spies. After a while, a knock on the door sounded.

"Come in."

As Cao Cao finished speaking, Xun Yu pushed the door open and entered, then closed it tightly, bowed to Cao Cao, and sat down next to the table, opposite Cao Cao.

In fact, Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun had just lied. In addition to Cao Cao and Liu Zhang, there was another person who knew about the attack on the Western Regions, and that was Xun Yu. He also asked Xun Yu to give them advice, which led to this great victory.

"Wen Ruo, how is the investigation of the spies going?"

Xun Yu shook his head and said in a deep voice.

"From the clues we have, there is no clue at all, and we can't even choose the suspects. Now, we can only follow the lord's method and let General Yuan Rang investigate one by one."

Cao Cao still held his chin with his hand and hummed carelessly. Xun Yu saw what Cao Cao was thinking and gave a proper reminder.

"My lord, what are you thinking about?"

"Hmm."

Looking at Cao Cao's expression, Xun Yu knew that Cao Cao didn't listen at all, and then spoke again.

"My lord, you are thinking, even if the spy got the news, how did he send it out?"

"Hmm..., hm!"

Cao Cao suddenly looked at Xun Yu, and then said with a smile.

"The one who knows me is Wen Ruo, hahahaha, do you have a clue?"

"I have no clue, but I have an idea, I don't know if it's right."

"Tell me about it."

Cao Cao was very interested.

"My lord, you should know that there are many more fine salt shops in Xudu City now, and according to the clues we have, all these fine salts come from Liu Bei's Qingzhou, so do these fine salt shops have something to do with Liu Bei?"