The generals shook their heads.
"If you were Cao Cao, what would you have done after knowing that the Western Liang Army was going to attack me?" Sun Jian sneered.”
The generals looked at each other and exchanged glances.
"If I were Cao Cao, I would naturally sit back and watch the tigers fight, and reap the benefits!"”
The others nodded in agreement.
"Not bad," said Sun Jian with a smile.
"But why didn't Cao Cao do that? Why did he have to tell me?”
Everyone said they didn't know.
"There is only one reason.
"Cao Cao only has 10,000 troops, and he hasn't fought many battles himself.
"He's afraid that he won't be able to eat Dong Zhuo.
"That's why you hypocritically came to discuss with me. You said that you would help the Han Dynasty and fight against the country's thieves.
"Bah!" Sun Jian spat.
"Aren't you here to share our credit?
"What is this?"
The generals had always looked down on Cao Cao, who was born as a eunuch.
Castrated dogs were the most malicious and hateful. What good things could there be?
Now that he heard Sun Jian's analysis, he realized that Cao Cao was up to no good!
Thus, the generals began to verbally engage in reproductive activities with Cao Cao's female family members.
Sun Jian sneered." You're just a fox. How dare you try to steal the skin of a tiger?"
"In this battle, we don't just need to defeat that Dong thief.
"We still need to make use of Cao Cao. While we defeat Thief Dong at the lowest cost, we will cripple Cao Cao!
"Didn't we agree earlier that our army would first feign defeat and Cao Cao would lead his army to attack from the flank?
"Why did Cao Cao lead his army to attack from the flank and take all the benefits?
"We have twenty thousand soldiers now.
"When the time comes, I will lead five thousand people as the vanguard and face the enemy head-on, feigning defeat.
"Gongfu will lead the other five thousand men as the rear army. After our front army feigns defeat, they will hold the front line and support the front army.
"As for the other 10,000 men, Duke Yi will lead 4,000, while Demou and Darong will each lead 3,000.
"When the time comes, our front troops will pretend to be defeated. Before the Xi Liang Army can reach the location agreed upon with Cao Cao, we will let the rear troops take over.
"At that time, the Western Liang army will definitely think that they've been ambushed and won't dare to lead the army deeper.
"Four years ago, when Dong Zhuo and I attacked the Western Qiang, we came into contact with Dong Zhuo's Western Liang Army.
"The Western Liang army is brave and valiant. They are an army that has been through hundreds of battles. They are not something that the 200,000 wild jujube princes can compare to.
"Even if they knew they were ambushed, they wouldn't have been defeated so easily.
"In that case, when our two armies are locked in a stalemate with Dong, we will follow the agreement and blow the trumpet to lure Cao Cao out.
"Cao Cao has been scheming against us. How could he have thought that he would be schemed against by us?
"When Cao Cao and the Western Liang Army are engaged in a chaotic battle and both sides are heavily injured, the three of you will ambush your troops from the flank and attack.
"If that's the case, why should we worry that Dong Wei and Cao Cao won't die?
"You want to reap the benefits?
"This time, I will teach Cao Cao a lesson. A coward like him is not worthy of snatching food from the mouth of a fierce tiger!”
Sun Jian's words made the generals 'blood boil. It was as if victory was right in front of them, and Cao Cao and Thief Dong had already been beaten to the ground.
Suddenly, Huang Gai's eyes turned and he thought of a plan,"
"My lord, I have a plan, but I don't know if I should say it.”
Sun Jian glared at Huang Gai, indicating for him to stop talking nonsense and quickly said.
Huang Gai smiled bitterly and said,
"I think it would be better if we send a trusted death warrior to pretend to defect.
"Let him go to Mushui Pass and tell Thief Dong that our army is short of food, the morale of the army is unstable, and there is even internal strife?
"In that case, Thief Dong will definitely attack me in less than three days.”
All the generals stared at each other.
Sun Jian laughed loudly and said,"It is the true Duke Fu who knows me!
"I also thought of this plan just now.
"Then let's do it this way."
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Chicken Mountain.
Cao Cao, Chen Xuan, Xi Zhicai, and Cao Ren climbed up the mountainside and looked at the smoke rising from Sun Jian's army.
Chen Xuan had just said that Sun Jian was not sincere in cooperating with him.
Instead, he wanted to reap the benefits and let him fight with the Xi Liang Army.
However, he still didn't hesitate. He didn't believe that Sun Jian would be as hypocritical as Chen Xuan had said.
"Sun Wentai and I are old friends of Luoyang. We have known each other for three years.
"Moreover, his performance in the tent just now was also open and generous, forthright and unruly.”
Chen Xuan nodded, not surprised by Cao Cao's question.
He knew what Cao Cao was thinking.
Cao Cao believed that he and Sun Jian were the same kind of people.
Just like how Cao Cao once felt that Liu Bei was the same kind of person as him.
At this stage, when Cao Cao had not encountered so many betrayals, he still had many naive and romantic thoughts about reality.
This was not belittling Cao Cao, nor was it praising him.
However, in a sense, Cao Cao had some naivety and romance.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone deep into the vassals 'crusade against Dong alone and almost died in Xu Rong's hands. This became Cao Hong's famous saying that " the world can live without Hong, but it can't live without justice."
Otherwise, he wouldn't have objected to Yuan Shao's private engraving of the seal and intended to make Liu Yu the emperor, and he would not have shouted out his loyalty,"You all face the north (Liu Yu), I face the west (Liu Xie)."
Otherwise, he would not have left behind so many poems that were passed down through the ages and would not have become the founder of the Jian An Style and the person who carried the cauldron.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so unprepared for Zhang Miao and Chen Gong's betrayal, and he wouldn't have released Guan Yu to complete his eternal feud.
For the first time, Cao Cao didn't choose to sit back and watch, but to work with Sun Jian.
This also proved that Cao Cao wasn't an unscrupulous person.
The current Cao Cao was still naive, or rather, immature in politics.
At this moment, he felt from the bottom of his heart that Sun Jian was the same kind of person as him.
As the saying went,'treat others as you are', so in Cao Cao's opinion, Sun Jian shouldn't and wouldn't choose to sit back and watch.
But now that Chen Xuan had said that Sun Jian had ill intentions, Cao Cao couldn't help but ponder.
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P.S. From the author's point of view, Cao Cao was indeed romantic and belonged to the scholar-bureaucrat class.
His biggest weakness was the common problem of almost all the scholar-bureaucrats in feudal society-they regarded the common people as the cattle, horses, pigs, and dogs of the ruling class.
Even Liu Bei could not escape this.
Before Liu Bei died, he asked Liu Chan to read more Shang Jun Shu.
The main purpose of the Book of Lord Shang was to fool, weaken, tire, and humiliate the people.
Of course, this was not to belittle Liu Bei. This was the limitation of the times.
In the end, the Three Kingdoms was a rotten era. It all depended on who had a higher lower limit.
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