Not to mention that Yuan Shao has always pretended to be courteous, but just by looking at the elite soldiers and good generals that Cao Cao has brought with him, it's impossible to treat them in the same manner as you would treat an ordinary subordinate.
So he said politely, "If Meng De has a high opinion, there's no harm in saying so."
"It's just my humble opinion, and I don't think it's worth the word 'high opinion'." Cao Cao said politely, and then cut to the chase: "In the past, my lord and Gongsun Youzhou sent books and wine, and took a blood oath to defend against Lu Bu, the foreign enemy. Now Lu Bu is coming fast and furious, it is hard to stop him, how can you fight alone while he stands idly by?"
Yuan Shao frowned: "Although Bo Gui temporarily made an alliance with us, but in the end for the death of his brother's heart resentment, as Shao as a lifelong enemy. If the situation is not compelling, just a piece of paper can not bind him, and how to persuade him to send troops to reinforce?"
To him, Cao Cao's words were purely knowing.
If Gongsun Zan, that stubborn bull with a bursting temper and a vindictive streak, would have listened to advice, would they have fought alone?
If he could, he would also like to be like Gongsun Zan, playing with the idea of telling the other party to work as hard as they can, wearing down their strength in the fight with Lu Bu, while waiting for their own opportunity, waiting to pick up the slack and stabbing the knife.
However, Yuan Shao was not in a natural position to sit back and watch the tigers fight, or rather, after ignoring Cao Cao's military disaster, his Jizhou was unfortunately adjacent to Yanzhou, which had just been occupied by Lu Bu, and was forced to become a buffer between Gongsun Zan, who was entrenched in Youzhou, and Lu Bu.
Moreover, Gongsun Zan, after solving the big trouble of Liu Yu, the White Horse Guards led by him at the Boundary Bridge were greatly broken by Yuan, he lost the enterprising heart of a lord, and was relieved to be at ease in a corner, but was more eager to persistently find trouble with his brother's murderer enemy.
If not the other side is not so lack of heart to take advantage of his troops to sneak attack, so that the neighbor will be replaced by Lu Bu, the number of their own ferocious absolute courage, the power of the army strong ruthless character, he was afraid that even this short period of peace of mind will not be there.
But I'm afraid that's about it - for Gongsun Zan to also contribute to the attack on Lu Bu would be nothing short of a fool's errand.
Cao Cao, however, as if he could not detect his dissatisfaction, and said: "Lord Gong can still remember, when Lu Bu in the Tiger Prison Pass outside the bully martial arts to show off the fierce, that and he fought dozens of rounds of indistinguishable victory, and even so that he ultimately fell into the wind of the signs, had to return in defeat Zhang Yide, Guan Yunchang and Liu Xuande three people?"
Yuan Shao smiled perfunctorily, "Naturally."
As the ally of the coalition army that called the shots in his time, how could he not remember the wretchedness of Lu Bu, who was unstoppable when he killed and drove them to have to retreat for more than ten miles?
"Those three great heroes who are sworn brothers are now serving in Bo Gui's tent." After Cao Cao finished this sentence, he bowed down with a resounding, "I am not talented, but I am willing to serve as a lobbyist and make a trip to Qingzhou to ask Assassin Tian to send Liu Xuan De and his two younger brothers to help our army, which will also relieve the Lord's concerns."
Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment and stumbled, "So, it's even feasible?"
If it really can be done, come is certainly not only Liu Guan Zhang three brothers, at least must bring ten thousand to soldiers and horses to help.
Cao Cao responded, "It's not good to be full of it, but the chances of this winning, it's seventy percent."
Yuan Shao was so happy in his heart that he was just about to open his mouth to agree, when Tian Feng categorically drank it out, "This is absolutely not possible!"
"What are you yelling about?" Yuan Shao glared in disgust at Tian Feng, who had just taken it upon himself to make a statement on his behalf before the score was settled, "How can you be so rude to Meng De!"
Cao Cao only smiled with excellent poise, "Does Yuan Hao think that there is something wrong with this policy?"
Tian Feng ignored Yuan Shao's angry scolding and only looked at Cao Cao coldly, not the least bit impressed by his good attitude, but rather, word by word, with an extremely unkind tone of voice, split his head and questioned, "Feng does have a number of questions, and I need to trouble Meng De to solve my confusion!"
Cao Cao said in a civilized manner, "Yuanhao, please speak."
"This is very good." Tian Feng did not appreciate, aggressively said: "Now Lu Bu's heavy armored troops are lined up in front of the formation, you are the commander-in-chief of an army, leading 30,000 soldiers and horses, so you are so presumptuous to come and go, it is suspected of running away from the battlefield, in the end, what do you think of the many generals and soldiers?"
The tens of thousands of soldiers that Cao Cao has at his disposal are all elite soldiers who are still loyal after sharing the hardships of displacement with him, and will only follow his orders.
If he were to leave, why would he enter the three-party Qingzhou single-handedly? If he brought some troops with him, wouldn't he weaken Yuan Shao's ability to mobilize his forces?
Yuan Shao's heart fluttered and he looked at Cao Cao without a trace.
Cao Cao didn't hesitate and said firmly: "I have no intention of doing so, but please be careful what you say! Cao Cao is also aware of the shortage of troops, this time it is to persuade Gongsun Bogui to send troops, so I had to go there, how would I put the cart before the horse, and instead of pulling the troops from this place? Just a thousand is more than enough."
This put to rest Yuan Shao's little rising concern.
Tian Feng, however, is not good at fooling around, asking questions one after another, Cao Cao did answer questions, but Cao Cao's several beloved generals, the expression on their faces is very stoic.
Yuan Shao saw the difference and simply announced that the meeting would be adjourned for tomorrow, thinking that he would solve the problem before giving Cao Cao an explanation, so he only left Tian Feng alone.
Yuan Shao sat on the main seat, looked at Tian Feng, who was pestle in front of him with a bratty face, with boredom, and said coldly and hardly: "Yuan Hao is so intent on provoking Shao and Meng De, what exactly are his intentions?"
Tian Feng, a piece of courage and loyalty, but in exchange for this heartbreaking words, although the feeling of disappointment, but also fearlessly retorted: "as a subject, should be in its position and seek its own politics, Cao Cao is harboring a wolf's ambitions, the Lord has failed to see, how can Feng not to remind one or two?"
"Good, good, good." Yuan Shao laughed back in anger: "You are the one who doesn't appreciate Wen Chou's martial arts and thinks that he will be hitting a stone with an egg and giving up his life in vain; you are also the one who opposes Meng De's proposal of asking Gongsun Bogui for Liu Guan and Zhang to fight against him, and even thinks that he has ulterior motives because of this. To that wonderful plan of the best of both worlds in your mouth, Shao is all ears, willing to hear it!"
Tian Feng frankly said, "The best of both worlds has yet to be figured out, but letting Cao Cao into that Qingzhou is really like letting a tiger return to the mountain, and it will be too late to regret."
Yuan Shao snorted disdainfully.
Tian Feng did not care, continued: "Cao Cao this time with the Lord to go on the expedition, has not done his best, but left more than 10,000 people, must be stored in the situation is not good, on the other end of the heart of the army ......"
Yuan Shao impatiently interrupted him, "Though temporarily allied with Bo Gui, there are still thieves in the state of Tianjin spying on us, the fierce generals and elite soldiers have been exhausted, the rear is empty, if there is no Meng De to help, how can we hold on solidly?"
Tian Feng said, "This proves that Cao Cao's plans are not small! Lu Bu is now in Yanzhou, the situation is not yet stabilized and the people are not yet convinced, so he does not have the energy to go north, and he is now being passive in the battle, but he is also trying to retreat, and has no intention of taking advantage of the opportunity to violate Ji's territory. Cao Cao is a man of great ambition and strategy, so how could he be willing to be subordinate for so long? The garrison in Jizhou is a sinister retreat from the Lord's unfavorable results; now he has invited himself to Qingzhou, which shows his desire to establish his own house."
"The eldest son (Yuan Tan) has just been ordered by the Lord to go to the plains of Qingzhou to take up the post of assassin, and has no foundation to speak of; Tian Kai, the assassin appointed by Gongsun Zan, is mediocre and incompetent; Kong Rong, a man of letters, is boastful, pedantic and loyal to the Han Dynasty, and even worse than Tian Kai in the battlefield and a complete waste of time, so that even the Yellow Turbans' old troops were able to bully him into besieging him in the city for three months and forbidding him to go out. Based on these three strengths alone, who is any match for Cao Cao, who has fought in a hundred battles and is invincible?"
"Once he is there, he can pretend that Gongsun Zan is difficult to convince, and logically stay in the territory of Qingzhou, and when the Lord's war with Lu Bu is in a state of anxiety, he can take advantage of Lu Bu's lack of time to look east, steal Qingzhou, and regain a foothold in one side; and retreat to seize Jizhou, and make a counterattack, and take over the magpies' nest."
If Guo Jia and Yan Qing had heard this, they would have praised him a few times, exclaimed that heroes see things the same way, and in the process expressed their admiration for the fact that he was not afraid to deepen his shackles and dislike the Lord's courage to go head-to-head with him.
However, what Tian Feng possessed was not a lord who could take advice with an open mind and make good use of talents.
He paused, did not take care of Yuan Shao's unpredictable gloomy face, impassioned began a long speech: "Lu Bu's might, the world is unrivaled, no one can be defeated. Then he came to take hold of the battle, ignore, closed the door can not, why go to great lengths, to borrow outsiders, just to thwart its sharpness?"
"If Liu Guan Zhang and the three brothers are not rivals of Lu Bu, it is the Lord's face that will be swept away, not this unsung trio; if they win slightly, it is their honor that will be accomplished, and Gongsun Zan, who has not yet given an inch of his strength, will be cheaper, so what is the Lord's benefit?"
"Winning in the battle of the generals may boost morale, but Lu Bu's greatest dependence is not his courage alone, but the abundance of soldiers and food, and with the strong power of the three states, he can provide a steady stream of assistance ......"
"Wait." Yuan Shao coldly asked, "Tell me again, why did Meng De purposely leave those nearly ten thousand men stationed in Yecheng?"
Tian Feng said without hesitation, "If Lord Cao Cao fails to defeat Lu Bu and returns home in defeat, how can those defeated soldiers with no will to fight defeat Cao Cao's elite soldiers? If the two armies meet, I'm afraid it will be no easier than chasing a dog, and then Jizhou will have to change hands again!"
Yuan Shao's face turned stern, and he rebuked coldly: "What a nonsense, sowing discord Tian Yuanhao! If I listen to your side of the story, unjustified suspicion of Meng De, harsh treatment of him, how the world will think of the Shao, and what scholars dare to come to join?"
"There is a difference between what is desirable, what is forbidden and what must be done. Once a tiger is down, because of the fence, so have to put away the sharp claws and teeth, can not be regarded as harmless young deer? If there is negligence, the consequences are unimaginable." Tian Feng hit the nail on the head when he said: "Even if there is a slight obstacle to the reputation, it is not as powerful as the Lord's forcing Jizhou from the hands of Shangguan Han Fu on that day!"
Being stepped on the sore foot, the infuriated Yuan Shao, the reaction is also very dry and sharp - will speak too hard to hear Tian Feng again back to the prison car to go.
But when Yan Qing heard about this, he felt both amused at these two masters and ministers who were like water and fire, and also felt pity for the history of Tian Feng's mistake of serving a mediocre master and burying his life.
After taking Frustrated Professor captive, Yan Qing had concerns when he learned that Yuan Shao had thus released Tian Feng and once again activated what was really the most loyal and reliable strategist in the camp.
As a result, it now seems that, despite the great changes in the trajectory of history, Tian Feng's upright and rebellious character will not change, and his relationship with Yuan Shao will be destined to be very bad.
"How?" Guo Jia, unaware that Yan Qing was lost in thought, raised his eyebrows and laughed lightly, "Next we will see if the two people who have caught your eye can live up to the expectations."
He had said long ago that Cao Cao intended to be in Qingzhou.
And the sooner Yuan Shao reveals his defeat, the sooner Cao Cao will cross the river and find a way out of this place.
Yan Qing truly praised, "Feng Xiao's talent, Qing is far inferior. In the future, all things in the potential, but also have to bother Fengxiao more to worry about."
He already knows where his strengths and weaknesses lie and has found his secondary position, so he won't feel lost because of it.
The corner of Guo Jia's mouth twitched as he swept around, confirming that the tent was empty with only the two of them, so he lowered his voice and asked slowly, "What has the Lord been busy with?"
Yan Qing replied without thinking, "I don't know."
And with some amusement, "Why are you making this sneaky gesture?"
Guo Jia said incredulously, "How could there be a time when you didn't know the Lord's whereabouts?"
"This is also rare?" Yan Qing laughed a little, but answered, "I really can't hide it from Feng Xiao's pair of sharp eyes."
"Otherwise?" Guo Jia collected the joke expression, mercilessly ridiculed: "If not have Jia to help cover up one or two, you are okay, on the Lord that live like a love sinus, half a point away from your boy attitude, afraid of early let the whole world know."
Author's Note: That said, I indirectly disliked a coworker the other day.
I was working with her at the time, and it was obvious that there were a lot of people and there was a lot of work, but she spent close to 1/2 of the time half-assing it and letting me work my ass off while she focused on her cell phone and chatting with people and whatnot. I can finish the job in 10 minutes, but she can do it while looking at her cell phone, dragging her feet for more than half an hour.
I politely reminded her of this, and she still did what she did. She even got in the way of my work like a pedestrian roadblock. When I asked her to move over, she just moved her ass and proceeded to get in the way.
Seeing that she was repeatedly unruly and was content to put all the work on my head, I had no choice but to call my boss, as I didn't want her to rip into me and argue. Told her off in front of her (both the boss and I speak Cantonese, she doesn't so she couldn't understand), stating that I'd rather go to work alone and be busy than be with her.
Then the owner said, tell her to come over to my place ......
She went off without any knowledge and came back more than half an hour later with a sullen look on her face, instead of playing with her phone and not saying half a word to me.
I was in a good mood, she didn't have the guts to touch the fish again on the line, not chatting I don't care half a bit ah. As a result, the next moment to meet a guest to ask questions, she can not explain, can only turn to me ...... so her unilateral cold war also can not go on.