Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 505

When Lao Cao was in Fusang, he broadened his horizons a lot. He knew the theory of "Martial Luck" in China, which was deeply believed by the warriors of that country.

From the point of view of the Fusang warriors, life and death on the battlefield depended entirely on personal martial arts. For example, when they defeated an opponent they respected, they often lamented: It's a pity that their martial arts were not good.

From Lao Cao's point of view, Wang De and Yao Pingzhong, with such high martial arts skills and the superiority of the officers and soldiers, can still be captured in such a situation, which can be regarded as a model of poor martial arts luck.

However, the two men were blinded by their interests, and they refused to take the escape route. They were determined to make meritorious deeds, and were captured for the second time. Wang De was violently beaten by Lu Zhishen, and he was beaten to the ground.

The so-called failure to win respect is to be humiliated instead.

Lao Cao originally wanted to persuade them to surrender, but seeing the two men in such distress, he pondered the other party's state of mind, swallowed back the words of persuading them to surrender, and waited for him to calm down before thinking about it, so he dispatched Liu Tang to personally guard the two men , don't let him escape, and don't let Yao Pingzhong find a chance to end it himself.

For the remaining more than 1000 captives, he asked him to take off all his armor, tie up 20 people in a string, and guard them separately.

Quickly finished cooking, and returned with everyone, first resettled the seriously wounded as before, and entrusted An Daoquan Haosheng to treat them, then went to the main cave, and asked Yongle, the queen, Mrs. Shao, to come forward and preside over the situation at hand.

After hearing this, Mrs. Shao shed tears, shook her head again and again and said: "The current situation is like this, what are you talking about about the emperor and empress? There is no need to make people laugh. Besides, people are panicking at the moment. How can an ignorant woman hold the scene? I just Accompany Jin Zhi and her father, and rely on my nephew to decide the rest of the matter."

Although Lao Cao kept calling Taishan and his mother-in-law, but after all, he didn't really pay homage to Fang Jinzhi. Could it be that Mrs. Shao called him son-in-law?Therefore, it is called a good nephew for the time being.

Cao Cao shook his head when he heard this, and said, "Mother-in-law's words are wrong. After all, I am an outsider. How can I do it for me? It's better to have my mother-in-law come forward."

Mrs. Shao said sadly: "My son is determined by God, something unexpected happened to me, my husband Fang La, his life or death is unknown, and my old body is already in a state of confusion. Besides, I have never asked about these matters. If I act hastily, I'm afraid it will affect everyone."

After sobbing for a moment, the lady looked at Deng Yuanjue, Shi Bao and the others: "Everyone, you are all my husband's trusted brothers. Now I have a plan, and I want you to decide—"

He pointed at Lao Cao: "Now the situation is in decline. If you are not a great talent, how can you turn the tide? Therefore, I am old enough to let Wu Zhi take care of the current affairs! One is that his reputation is not inferior to my husband, and his ability is naturally extraordinary; the other is He brought many heroes from thousands of miles to help, and his loyalty is really strong; three... three, after all, he and Jinzhi fell in love early, and Jinzhi thought it was because he didn't marry, and the old man only had this daughter, so she didn't fulfill her wish? So he was regarded as him. There is nothing wrong with being the son-in-law of our Fang family, and it is also my duty for a son-in-law to take care of his father-in-law's affairs, it just depends on what you brothers want."

Fang La's subordinates, in terms of knowledge, first pushed the left and right envoys and the left and right prime ministers, but now the two envoys are not in sight, the left prime minister Lou Minzhong has been killed by Tong Guan, and only one patriarch is left here, so Deng Yuanjue and others listened to Mrs. Shao Speaking, subconsciously looked at him.

But Zu Shiyuan was confident, and immediately said: "Tong Guan sent more than soldiers to fight. Zumou went to Wulongling to ask for help. He was worried that Brother Wu would be afraid of his power. Unexpectedly, Brother Wu heard about it and came all the way without hesitation. Brothers, if it wasn't for Brother Wu fighting to the death, there would be no living people in the cave now! If Brother Wu is in charge of the overall situation, Zu will be the first to agree."

When he said this, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and other heroes all smiled.

Deng Yuanjue and the others relaxed after hearing this, Shi Bao then said: "Outside of Hangzhou, if Brother Wu hadn't made a move, Shi would have become a dead bone, he will make the decision, and Shi will be convinced."

Deng Yuanjue, Zheng Biao, and Li Tianrun said in unison: "Exactly."

Pang Wanchun sighed, and said in a low voice: "Brother Rong is an afterthought, in terms of fighting skills, there are seven Buddha disciples, not as many as Brother Wu, if he decides early, it is impossible to say that Tong Guan has already been defeated." No nodding.

Seeing his sincere words, Cao Cao nodded secretly: I have sold my plan.

His face was neither sad nor happy, he hugged and bowed in circles, and said: "Forget it, since the mother-in-law likes it, and the brothers can trust it, Wu has no choice but to do his part and preside over the situation temporarily. When Sheng Gong recovers from his injuries, he will resume his authority as usual. Return."

After finishing speaking, he bowed again, and when he straightened his waist, his face was already full of sternness: "There is a way that once the power is in hand, the order will be carried out. Since everyone pushes Wu to preside over it, then wherever my order comes, all of you will obey it." Obey, Shi Dalang and Shi Bao obey orders!"

For Lao Cao, commanding thousands of troops is just normal, but at this moment, when he shows a little of his old style, everyone is stunned. Seeing his momentum, he just feels that obeying his orders should be a matter of course.

Shi Jin and Shi Bao straightened their backs and clasped their fists together: "My little brother is here!"

Cao Cao put on a serious face and said solemnly: "I ordered you two to be military judges. Regardless of Liangshan brothers or Mingjiao heroes, any matter of disrespecting military orders, obedience to others, and failure to advance in battle will be dealt with by the two of you according to military law."

Shi and Shi looked at each other and nodded heavily: "Little brother obeys the order!"

After Shi Bao finished speaking, he even raised his chin and looked at everyone with his nostrils, which meant: Shi is staring at you, everyone, be careful!

Deng Yuanjue, Zheng Biao and others all rolled their eyes at that behavior.

Cao Cao said again: "Ma Ling, Xia Houcheng listen to the order!"

The two quickly stood up straight: "Little brother is here!"

Cao Cao quickly said: "Brother Xiahou is familiar with mountain roads, and he took Ma Ling out of the path to avoid Tong Guan's army. Brother Ma Ling went to meet Fang Qifo himself, and told him all about the affairs in the cave, so that the three Ruan Sijies could listen to his orders for the time being. , if Tong Guan comes to fight, so-and-so, so-and-so... Then send a message to Miss Jinzhi, tell her that her parents are all right, and let her not worry about it, and they will be reunited within a few days."

The two immediately took orders and left.

Cao Cao also called Li Kui, Yang Chun, Chen Da, Tang Fengshi, Bei Yingkui, and Wei Heng, six generals, two men in a team, each leading troops, and searched the cave carefully, looking for Wang Gong, Laofo, Chen Kuutong, and Zhu Yuanzhang. The same three whereabouts, if you encounter officers and soldiers who are alone and lagging behind on the way, they will all be captured and imprisoned, and then the bodies that were killed will be counted and buried.

As for the defense of the cave entrance, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Qin Ming, and Suo Chao were responsible for it.

On the next day, Li Kuiliu will be busy all night and report in a hurry, saying that Wang Gong, Laofo, Chen Kuutong, and Zhu Dian are all missing.

Lao Cao couldn't help wondering, thinking that according to Shi Bao and others, although Wang Gong Laofo and Chen Kuutong are old, they are rare masters in the Jianghu. These two people are familiar with the roads in the cave. And fleeing, most of the officers and soldiers couldn't stop him, but why did Zhu Tong disappear?
I also asked Lu Zhishen and others about the circumstances of being killed and scattered. Lu Zhishen and others couldn't tell the reason, they were all anxious, and went to the cave to search again in shifts.

Another day later, there were tens of thousands of corpses in the cave, some of them were buried, most of them were burned, and the remaining soldiers and horses were rectified. There were more than people in total, of which were brought by Lao Cao from Wulongling, and the rest were Tong Guan. Kill the rest.

However, those generations can survive in such a big battle. Although Lao Cao rescued them in time, their own abilities are also extraordinary. They can be regarded as the real elites of the Mingjiao. Fan, immediately became a capable elite soldier.

One day later, Ma Ling reported that Tong Guan sent troops to fight Lao Cao's water army. Fang Qifo had already received Lao Cao's order not to fight with him. exchange information.

Fang Jinzhi asked Ma Ling to send a message, saying that he asked Cao Duoduo to comfort her mother. After hearing this, Cao could only smile wryly——

Fang La is as motionless as a living dead now. Mrs. Shao is wearing plain clothes with tears on her face. She looks like a comely widow, guarding her husband. Her own will is not very strong in this regard, and she is far away from her for fear of not being able to. How can she have the heart to comfort her? ?
Especially after experiencing the tragic past of losing three generals in one shot, with the wisdom of Lao Cao, how would he want to repeat the same mistakes?She immediately shook her head and said: "This girl is not sensible. If his father let me comfort him, there is no trouble that a bottle of wine can't solve between a man, and his mother is a woman, why should I also bring a pot of wine? That's all, Tong Guan retreats, It's only a few days, let's wait for her to comfort my mother."

Ma Lingqi said: "How does brother say that Tong Guan is going to retreat? Could it be that brother has a plan to defeat the enemy?"

When Lu Zhishen and others heard this, they also surrounded him, looking at Lao Cao expectantly.

Cao Cao waved his hand and said, "How could such a good thing happen? Since we left Wulong Ridge, Yang Keshi and Wang Yuan's soldiers and horses would naturally rush to join Tongguan. Now we are afraid that the difference in strength between us is ten times. More than that, you must know that the way to use troops is just to win a surprise victory. Now the morale of the officers and soldiers is high. I have more than troops here, most of them are remnants and defeated generals. It is not easy to defend this hole. How to defeat the enemy in a hurry."

Ma Ling was puzzled and said, "If that's the case, why is my brother so sure that he will retreat?"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Did you forget where my Erlang went when you left Xuanzhou?"

"Ah!" Ma Ling exclaimed, "So that's how it is!"

Lu Zhishen and the others didn't know why, and were about to ask questions, suddenly Zheng Biao rushed over in a panic, and said loudly: "Brother Wu, I taught a team to come in from outside the valley, but they were surrounded by Tong Guan. If you don't save them He is afraid that the entire army will be wiped out."

"Shezhou soldiers and horses are coming!" Lao Cao frowned and looked at Ma Ling: "I asked Seven Buddhas to lead the sailors to retreat, one is to avoid Tong Guan's sharp edge, and the other is to let him meet the Shezhou soldiers and horses , Could it be that they never walked by water?"

As mentioned earlier, between the two prefectures of She and Mu, there are mountains like screens. The most convenient way to go is to enter the Xin'an River from the Lianjiang River. Otherwise, you have to climb over the mountains and ridges, which is a lot of trouble.

After Lao Cao came to Bangyuan Cave, he listened to Lu Zhishen and others tell about Fangla's previous arrangements. He knew that he had dispatched soldiers and horses from Shezhou to help him back. Collision.

Cao Cao's original intention was that since the overall situation has been settled, it would be useless for the two sides to fight again, and it would be useless to cause more casualties. He just waited for Tong Guan to retreat and use his skills to subdue them. The soldiers and horses came suddenly, as if they had never met the Seven Buddhas of Fang.

Shi Bao smacked his lips and said, "This guy Wang Yin has always been a bit conceited and likes to play tricks. In my opinion, he probably thinks that everyone can expect to travel by water, so he came over the mountain with soldiers and horses by surprise. .”

Zheng Biao nodded again and again: "You are right, Wang Yin is just like that."

Cao Cao couldn't help but smiled bitterly, crossing mountains and ridges, the exhaustion of soldiers' physical strength was much greater than that of waterways. Originally, the number and combat power were far inferior to those of the Western Army, and then there would be a trade-off.

Everyone also saw that something was wrong with this army, and they looked at Cao Cao to see how he would deal with it.

Cao Cao thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don't care too much. Could it be that he was killed? The defeated soldiers in the cave are temporarily unusable. Let Shi Bao, Monk Deng, and Ma Ling guard the gate for now. The others are uninjured. Fight with me and rescue them from the siege."

Shi Bao and others all sighed in admiration: "My brother is really loyal."

Lao Cao smiled wryly, not to mention loyalty or not, if more than people in Shezhou were killed by Tong Guan, the morale of Bangyuan Cave would definitely drop. I can only choose to break out of the encirclement. Wouldn't the many arrangements be destroyed in one go? I don't know how many of these brothers can be taken away.

There is no need to say more about these words. Immediately, he ordered the 5000 people he brought, personally led the generals, opened the cave door, and saw countless officers and soldiers surrounded by a group of southern soldiers seven or eight miles away. Cao Cao immediately ordered: "Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Li Kui, Yang Chun, Chen Da, and Xia Houcheng lead the infantry to join us, and the rest of the brothers join me in leading the cavalry!"

He had no more than a thousand cavalry, Qin Ming, Suo Chao, Shi Jin, and Cao Cao led the way, and Fan Rui, Zheng Biao, Tang Fengshi, Bei Yingkui, and Wei Heng were in the middle, and they killed them all at once.

According to Tong Guan's thinking, there are few soldiers in Bangyuan Cave, and most of them dare not leave without authorization, but for the sake of safety, they still arranged 5000 people to line up along the road to prevent him from rushing out to respond.

The old boy didn't expect that although Cao Cao's army was small, the number of generals could not be counted. The horse army rushed forward, and all the generals rushed into the formation in an instant. The leader here was Yang Keshi's brother Yang Kesheng, who was in a hurry Command, Qin Ming hit the future head-on, swung the mace and smashed it, Yang Kesheng did his best, and immediately fought with his guns, the two fought for five or six times, and Lao Cao charged diagonally——

Because he was going to fight in a large formation, he didn't use the Dragon Transforming Saber, he specially found an iron spear to go into battle, and he stabbed wildly with the spear, how could Yang Kesheng be the two of them?Swinging the big spear, hooking the blade, and taking the road, the troops were defeated immediately.

Qin Ming still had to chase after him, but Lao Cao shouted, "Don't love to fight, saving people is the most important thing!"

He was the first to charge and led the crowd straight into the siege, but saw a general in the southern army, riding a kicking and jumping horse, dancing with a steel spear that appeared and disappeared, alone, fighting against the western army's fierce general Ma Gong Zhi and Ji Jing seem to be invincible.

Lao Cao looked at it twice, and couldn't help but praise: "What a tiger general!"

Wei Heng followed up from behind, pointing and said: "Brother Wu, the one who wields the gun is Guangming Right Envoy Wang Yin, the official worships Shangshu, he is a man with both civil and military skills!"

Lao Cao nodded and said: "It turns out that this person is Wang Yin. I have heard his name for a long time, and it is well-deserved!"

Immediately, he urged the horse to kill and go forward, shouting: "Wang Youshi, I will help you!"

Wang Yin turned his head and looked, the two looked at each other in blank dismay, both were taken aback.

What Wang Yin thought was: Hey, what's the point of this fellow wearing a colorful mask to go into battle?Could it be that he looks ugly?
What Cao Cao thought was: Hey, why does this Wang Yin look so much like my teacher between his brows and eyes?Isn't it strange?

There are different teachings: the authority belongs to me for a while, and the flags point to the heroes.The bright right envoy saw him in the formation, and Wang Yin's face shocked Lao Cao.

(End of this chapter)