Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 367

Along the canyon trail, the group of people walked for more than forty miles, and turned around a cliff, only to feel a bright light in front of them, it turned out that they had drilled out of the mountain.

Everyone looked far and wide, and saw the sky high and the earth wide, the setting sun like fire, and the vast plain dotted with beautiful hills.Ten miles away, a large stream of water flows from south to north, glowing with golden light, as bright as a bright glow, as magnificent as a brocade.

Not far away, another water system merged into it, forming an upside-down "Ya" character.

Just at the confluence of the two rivers, there is a small castle, and the shore is full of ships of all sizes.

Seeing such a beautiful scenery, everyone couldn't help but smile, but Xu Guanzhong was taken aback, his body trembled slightly, and he cried out: "Ah! This water, this water flows, why is it going north?"

Cao Cao had never seen him lose his composure like this before, he was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said: "Brother, don't panic, just speak slowly, but what went wrong?"

Xu Guanzhong showed remorse, pointed to the fort in the distance and said: "My little brother heard from the Huining mansion earlier that after passing through Mulingwo Jiling and going east for more than ten li, it is the confluence of Mudan River and Hailang River. Here, the castle here is called Little Pearl Castle. The Lord of the Kingdom of Jin sent a Mou Ke to be the castle master and led more than Bohai soldiers to station here. All the pearls picked by the pearl households must be delivered in this castle. , and then sold by officials to merchants.”

Cao Cao looked at the fort, nodded and said, "So what?"

Xu Guanzhong gave a wry smile, shook his head and said: "His castle is afraid of the resistance of the Zhu households and wants to suppress smuggling, so it has a good warship. I want to take his warship. If not, I will try to buy it from the merchants. This is a big boat, so we will go down the river, turn into the gurgling water, and then enter the Tuomen River, and then enter the sea, who knows..."

Before Cao Cao heard the clue, Li Jun and Zhang Shun were startled, and said in unison: "Down the river?"

When the two of them shouted, Lao Cao finally understood, and said in a low voice: "Could it be reversed?"

Xu Guanzhong nodded bitterly: "My little brother believes in people's words. He only knows that the river flows from north to south. Who knows that it's completely the opposite when he looks at it now! If there is such a mistake, it is a big mistake for brother."

Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, it's not your fault. It's just hearsay. The person who talked to you may not have been to the Mudan River himself. It is inevitable that it is not full... I don't think the water flow In a hurry, even if we go against the current, there is nothing wrong with it."

Li Jundao: "Brother, Brother Guanzhong, just don't worry, let my younger brother and Zhang Shun stay here, it's nothing to go against the trend."

Xu Guanzhong sighed: "Although it is not impossible to go against the current, but in this way, the boat will inevitably travel slowly, which will inevitably delay time. If Aguda finds out that I have been to the Qiganling Racecourse, it will not be difficult to guess where we are. Arresting us along the way, didn't it add a lot of trouble?"

Zhang Shundao: "Don't be afraid of him, when we reach the water, it will be me and Li Jun. Even if the Jurchens are good at fighting, how dare they come to catch me in the river and sea?"

Cao Cao patted Zhang Shun appreciatively, and said with a smile: "Forget it, this is the end of the matter, Guan Zhong, you don't have to think too much. It's getting dark, so I'll take a rest for a while, and hide in the fort when it's completely dark. Among them, it is to seize his warship. In the future, the two brothers Li Jun and Zhang Shun can rely on them."

Xu Guanzhong nodded slowly: "Brother doesn't blame younger brother for being negligent, but younger brother himself can't let it go. Today's attack on the city, younger brother will be the vanguard, and I will try my best to seize the warship and make it worthless." , in a pair of apricot eyes, the gaze is like a prairie wildfire, extremely fierce, not as casual as usual.

Cao Cao frowned when he saw Xu Guanzhong, suddenly took Xu Guanzhong's hands, shook them slightly, raised his head and looked into his eyes, and said gently: "Guan Zhong, we are human beings, who can do nothing wrong? The moment of loss. Besides, from my brother’s point of view, this matter can’t be blamed. If you want to be a pioneer, then you can let me go, but you have to keep in mind that you and I are brothers, so you must be more careful. Do you understand?"

Xu Guanzhong is a man of both culture and martial arts, and he is also good at astrology and arithmetic. He has never been short in tricks in the world, and in the temple. He is also young.If he hadn't been so arrogant, he wouldn't have gotten the nickname "He Chongtian", and he wouldn't have abandoned the official job and ran to Cao Cao.

In his own heart, he has long regarded himself as Cao Cao's mastermind. Although he later saw the demeanor of Wu Yong, Li Zhu, Xiao Jiasui and others, he did not think that he was inferior to others. It's hard for ordinary people to imagine the shame and indignation in my heart.

Fortunately, Cao Cao's wisdom is not inferior to Guanzhong. If it is about arrogance, a person who can say "the hero of the world and me" is also conceivable. Therefore, among the more than ten brothers here, only Cao Cao can really feel it. In Xu Guanzhong's mood, he was afraid that he would be reckless under the agitation, so he quickly grabbed him and said these words with earnestness.

Xu Guanzhong was stared at by Cao Cao's eyes like a deep pool, and felt the nameless fire in his heart gradually dissipate. Cao Cao's earnest voice was deeply engraved in his heart, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath, nodded and smiled: "Don't worry, brother. If the little brother wants to assist the big brother to achieve great things, how can he throw away this body lightly?"

Seeing that he was enlightened, Cao Cao was relieved. The two looked at each other and laughed in relief.

After more than an hour, the sky was dark, Cao Cao waited three miles away from the fort, and let Duan Jingzhu and Wu Lu take care of the horses. The rest of the brothers all changed into fish-scale battle armor, with only two eyes exposed, quietly taking advantage of the night. Hiding under the fort wall, Xu Guanzhong said: "Brother, wait for my younger brother to go up to see his clues, and then make a plan to break it!" After saying that, he jumped up, jumped more than ten feet, lightly tapped on the wall, and jumped up again. Leap, reach out to climb the wall, lightly leap over.

Many brothers seldom see Xu Guanzhong displaying his abilities, and they all shouted at this moment: "Unexpectedly, Guanzhong has such light kung fu!"

Shi Qian said in a low voice: "In the past, my younger brother was working with my elder brother in Tokyo. My elder brother sent me to perform lightness kung fu and write a letter to Gao Taiwei's mansion. The younger brother of Xu's family climbed the wall and crossed the house, and followed him all the time. My younger brother didn't realize it. You How about his skills?"

After Xu Guanzhong climbed up the fort wall, he took a bird's-eye view and saw that the castle is roughly divided into two parts. The north side is neatly organized, which is a military camp, and the area around the wall is a stable.On the south side are high and low houses. According to his previous inquiries, they are business houses, inns, and a few private houses. The tallest one in the middle is the residence of the castle owner.

Along the east side, there is an old pond with several large and small warships in it, and a river channel connecting with the Mudan River outside, but there is a water gate on the river channel, which is tightly closed at the moment.

After taking a closer look, he had an idea in his mind, so he climbed out of the wall and landed lightly. With the help of the moonlight, he drew a terrain on the soil and discussed with Cao Cao: "Look, brother, there are more than three hundred soldiers here. He is from Bohai, but he is not as useless as the Song army. If we fight head-on, we have few brothers, and if anyone misses, we will regret it. In my opinion, it is better to capture the thief first and capture the king!"

Cao Cao said: "How to do it?"

Xu Guanzhong said: "The younger brother used lightness skills to enter the house, attacked and killed the lord of Mouk Castle in one fell swoop, and then set a big fire, and taught several Shezhe brothers to climb in from the northern city. Seeing the fire, they seized the horses in the stable. He took advantage of the chaos to kill and scatter his soldiers so that he could set fire in the barracks; when his navy saw him, he had to open the water gate to escape, and then taught his brothers to lie outside the gate. What do you think brother?"

Cao Cao said: "Since you have a plan, we will act according to it, just be careful."

Xu Guanzhong nodded, still performing lightness kung fu, and jumped up the wall.

Cao Cao was finally worried, so he smiled at Shi Qian: "He will follow you that day, and you will follow him today. Brother, you should sneak up on Guan Zhong quietly, and if there is anything wrong, we will help you."

Shi Qian is so light-hearted, he is extremely proud of himself, last time he was followed by Xu Guanzhong, although he didn't say anything, he felt a little bit unhappy, unexpectedly today there is a chance to get back his position, how could he not want to?Immediately said happily: "It's still my elder brother who knows my heart! Let He Chongtian know, and the fleas on the drum are not a vain name."

After finishing speaking, he unfolded the wall-swimming movement technique, and like a big gecko, he clung to the wall and jumped straight up. Like a soundless light smoke, he followed Xu Guanzhong far away.

Cao Cao allocated his staff according to what Xu Guanzhong said: "You wait for a few brothers, go here, you wait for a few brothers, you can go here..."

Xu Guanzhong entered the castle without touching the ground, he only walked quickly in the shadow of the eaves, avoiding the patrolling soldiers all the way, until he arrived at the castle master's mansion, he jumped over the wall lightly, saw the front hall was brightly lit, and there were faint voices, so he quietly She hid herself closer, licked the broken window paper with the tip of her tongue, and looked inside, feeling furious.

In that hall, in the center was a big tiger-skin chair, behind the chair were two young men fanning their fans, and an extremely fat man was sitting carelessly, about fifty or so, shirtless, with a big belly sticking out , with a domineering and savage look on his face, while drinking tea, he pointed at the father and daughter kneeling in front of him and cursed: "Damn you! I am Mouk from the Kingdom of Dajin, the owner of this little Pearl Castle!" Don’t you know that such a noble person as the master is not worthy of your lowly girl? You must know that it is your family’s blessing that your master Nemur likes her. Could it be that if you really eat the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard?"

The father and daughter looked like hard-working people living on the water, especially the father, his arms and legs were covered with dark purple spots, which were caused by the pressure of the water from diving all the year round, his face was wrinkled and his beard and hair were gray. Hearing what Mouk said, he was frightened There were two wars, and he kowtowed continuously: "It's not that the villain dared to contradict the castle master, but the little girl is young and weak, and she really has no luck to serve the adults. I hope the adults will forgive my father and daughter."

A girl kneeling next to her was also trembling with fear.

This girl is only thirteen or fourteen years old, although her skin is dark, her face is quite handsome, if you look closely, it can even be called delicate.It's just that this girl is extremely thin, and she wears weird shorts like Naifu, which seem to be made of fish skin, her wrists and knees are protruding, and she hasn't had a full meal for some time.

With a bang, the fat Mouk smashed the tea bowl into pieces, stood up tremblingly, and roared angrily: "Don't be ashamed, if that's the case, the master will kill you, that girl can't get out of the master's body." mouth to go."

He took two steps forward, kicked the father somersaulting and flew out, and landed a foot away, vomiting blood again and again. He wanted to chase after him, but the woman hugged her legs and screamed: "Please, my lord!" Don't hit my daddy."

Fat Mouk looked down, and on his shiny fat face, there was a sinister silver smile: "Quack, you are called Mingzhuer, aren't you? Hehe, your family is so poor, how can you raise such a bright pearl? Now that you have obeyed the master, you will be regarded as a bright pearl from now on with rich clothes and fine food."

After saying that, he stretched out his hand to pull the girl, the girl screamed in fright, and scrambled to escape, the Mouk laughed loudly, and chased after him with every step, suddenly screamed, but stepped on the ground he smashed. On the teacup.

It's hard for him to jump a few steps on one leg with such a fat body, then sit back on the chair, lift up the sole of his foot with great difficulty and look, there is a small wound, and a few drops of blood are coming out.The fellow cursed angrily: "Where are you? You don't know how to clean and hurt the soles of the master's feet. Isn't it a capital offense for you to wait?"

The two waiters looked pale, and trotted, took water and white cloth to bandage his wound, and then fell to the ground by the big ear scraper, but got up without a word, quickly cleaned up the debris on the ground, and cursed again Come out in a hurry.

Xu Guanzhong quickly shrank back and hid behind a bush, but he heard two young servants whispering: "This Han girl is really pitiful. If she falls into the master's hands, she will be killed in a day or two." The other hurriedly Said: "Shut up! The master heard this, are you and I still alive? He came to this city, and he didn't kill dozens of women in a year. Are you coming here pitifully?"

In the hall, the fat Mouke who called himself Nemur pointed at Pearl, a Han girl, and shouted in a deep voice: "If you hadn't dodged, how could the master get hurt? Bitch, come here by yourself, so that you can serve the master, otherwise, first Kill your ignorant father, and then throw you to suffer in the barracks."

Two lines of tears flowed down Mingzhu'er's face, and she said sadly: "My mother, my elder brother and my second elder brother all died in the water in order to pick pearls for you, and my family has never lost pearls, why do you force them to death like this? us?"

Nemur stared at a pair of mouse eyes, and radiated fierce light: "Bitch, people like you have committed sins in the previous life and have come to repay the retribution in this life. This is the fate, so what is there to say? You don't come , I will kill your father first!"

Before she finished speaking, the girl suddenly took out a bright pearl picking knife from her bosom.

Nemur was slightly taken aback, and then he laughed loudly: "Interesting, interesting, sir, I have experienced many battles, and I don't know how many Khitan dogs have killed. Are you afraid of your little knife?"

Speaking of getting up, he took down a big knife from the wall, danced the knife lightly, and laughed wildly: "See? Master, this is called a knife just now!"

Ming Zhu'er suddenly slashed the pearl picking knife across her slender neck, and said with tears: "Our life is bitter, and we couldn't fight you at first, but today the poor girl died here. If you still have a sliver of conscience, you can let her go." My father's life!"

Nemur laughed and said: "You die, you die, if you dare to cut yourself to death, I will let the dog eat your father alive."

Hearing this, Ming Zhuer felt a dilemma between life and death. She turned her head and looked out of the house, only to see the bright moon in the sky, her grief and indignation were uncontrollable, and she cried miserably: "Grandpa, open your eyes, this world really does not allow my father and daughter to live!" Is it?"

Nan Nemur laughed and said: "Of course Grandfather has eyes, otherwise why would my Dajin Kingdom be prosperous? Why can I enjoy all the glory, my lord?"

Just when I was proud, I heard someone yelling loudly: "If this woman thinks that the sky has no eyes, then today is the day when the sky opens its eyes. If you, a fat pig, think that the sky has eyes, then today is the day when the sky closes its eyes!"

Several people in the hall looked at it in astonishment, but saw the window snap open, and a man wearing strange scale armor with only his eyes exposed jumped into the hall, holding a thin iron rod in his hand.

Nemur is worthy of being a veteran general. Although he is fat now, he is not lacking in courage. He was the first to react, looking at the thin iron rod in the hands of the comer, and laughed loudly: "Are you the assassin who came to assassinate the master? You Haven't you heard the bravery of my Nemur? Kill me with a long chopstick?"

Xu Guanzhong said indifferently: "This sword of mine has never been drawn out of its sheath, unless it sees great treachery and evil. Master, your character is worth drawing it out of its sheath once."

As he spoke, he grasped the iron rod with his left hand, and twitched his right hand——his iron rod was no more than the thickness of a little finger, but who knew that there was actually a sword hidden in it!This sword is extremely thin and thin, but extremely sharp and bright. Xu Guanzhong held the sword in his hand and waved it casually. Mingzhu'er felt a brilliance rise in front of her eyes, like a bright moon in the sky, and like a bright pearl born!It's more like the long sky, that eye that opens and closes indefinitely.

There are different teachings: fleas face the drum and there is no sound, and the crane wants to soar to the sky, and the body is lighter.Loyalty and righteousness are full of rewards for the world, and the pearls are always shining and the moon is always bright.

(End of this chapter)