Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 641 Wolf Smoke Sweeps Tongguan West ()
Qiao Daoqing didn't shy away from it, so he took out a talisman paper from his sleeve, begged for a pen and paper, and hurriedly wrote two lines, which read:

Brother, use your troops and come to Luoyang quickly.

After writing, I blew the ink dry, took out a strand of hair and wrapped it in the talisman paper, folded a butterfly in my hand, muttered in my mouth, suddenly pointed at the butterfly, and shouted: "Hey!"

Then I saw the butterfly flapping its wings, flying up, and flying straight out of the house, missing.

Cao Cao looked at it strangely and said: "I once saw Fan Rui perform the method of 'Lingyan Chuanshu', but what he folded was a swallow."

Qiao Daoqing said proudly: "Swallows are too ordinary, like a butterfly like me, how elegant."

Gongsun Sheng refused to accept it and said: "I knew you would give me that man's beard, and I'll make a dragon, you see, that would be magnificent."

Qiao Daoqing said in surprise: "But don't talk nonsense! How can you fold the little talisman paper to form a dragon? I don't believe it. Show me the fold."

Gongsun Sheng immediately took out the talisman paper, and the two hugged each other, squatting on one side to stack the dragon.

Cao Cao originally knew which family they were comparing was superior in spells, only now did he realize that they were comparing the ability of origami, he couldn't help but smiled, and laughed with everyone: "It's rare for people outside the square to have a pure heart. Forget it, let them fold dragons , let’s divide our troops here, everyone has important tasks..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Laoqi's eyebrows all over his face, impetuous, and Cao Cao wondered: "Seventh Prince, do you want to go out with me?"

Zhao Laoqi hurriedly waved his hands: "I, I won't go, I mean, brother, I want to see Taoist priests fold dragons..."

Cao Cao laughed: "Go, go."

Zhao Laoqi was overjoyed, walked quickly, and squatted beside Gongsun Sheng, looking brightly, Zhao Laowu and Zhao Laoliu looked at each other, and slipped away quietly.

The Three Worthy King Zhao Kai said angrily: "Brother Huang entrusted me to wait for the military counselor, are you just kidding me? After listening to my elder brother, I will ask the Taoist priest to demonstrate how to fold a dragon, isn't that okay?"

Liu Yanqing watched coldly, and thought to himself: This prince has such a big heart!My Great Song Dynasty has not yet perished, and it is really a strange talk in the world.

Naturally, Lao Cao didn't make things difficult for these fun-loving princes. He shook his head and smiled, pointing to the map and said: "Our soldiers should be divided into three routes! The first route is to go out of Tongguan and go on an expedition to Xingqing Mansion. Absolute sacrifice, to show the prestige of the country!"

In a word, everyone felt numb all over their bodies and their hair stood on end.

Cao Cao said again: "The second road is the partial division. After leaving Tongguan, cross the Hebei River and go straight to Taiyuan. Don't let Wushu merge with Loushi."

Finally, he pointed to Luoyang: "The third route, stay here, if the Lou family arrives, push them outside, and protect the clan. It is the soldiers and horses of the three routes. What do you all think, but it doesn't matter."

Liu Yanqing got up emotionally: "The use of troops like this is a coincidence, and the strategy is peerless! It is worthy of the 'Wu Mengde' who sweeps Wang Qing, Hirata Hu, Zhen Jurchen, and guards Yanyun!"

Without saying a word, he patted a bunch of horses first, and saw the smile on the corner of Lao Cao's mouth, and then said: "Three ways of using troops, the way is the key! If you lose one way, you will be defeated. From Liu's perspective, the first way It is the career of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, who will go forward without hesitation, but kill you!"

When he said what he said, everyone couldn't help nodding, agreeing with him.This line of soldiers, if you go out, you will never return. Once you hit it with all your strength, it will be famous forever.

"The second route is the career of Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan. One is to defend Taiyuan without losing it, and the other is to echo the First Route Army. The rules must be followed, and the attack must be decisive. The combination of yin and yang is only in one mind."

Everyone nodded again, thinking that they are indeed old war fighters. Leaving aside the war, the level is still quite high.This Taiyuan defender needs to make a decisive decision the most. Among them, the fire is almost bad.

Seeing everyone agreeing, Liu Yanqing was also complacent, shook his head and said: "As for the third route, guarding Luoyang is the career of Zhang Xun and Zhang Suiyang. On the contrary, it is the simplest. There is nothing to think about. I will stick to it alone and die. .”

After finishing speaking, he slapped his breastplate and said loudly: "Liu Yanqing of a certain family fought with his father Yongnian Gong at the age of 15. It has been nearly years so far. To say that he has experienced many battles is still self-deprecating! I only hate my age Gradually growing up, unable to go on expeditions, hating mediocre talents, lacking spiritual wisdom, unable to defend Taiyuan, thinking about it, the only one who can show off is this loyal heart!"

Clenching his fists together, his presbyopic eyes widened, and he looked at Cao Cao: "Wu Jiedu, Liu is the Jiedu Envoy of the Three Cities of Henan Province and the governor of Xuanfudu. Today, I would like to lead the Third Route Army to guard Luoyang. If anything goes wrong, Take my head for crime!"

Shi Bao was dumbfounded, and thought obediently, the generals of the Song Dynasty really knew how to play!
You first analyze the purpose and needs of the three roads, and you are clear and logical, and you show off your qualifications, length, and clear history, so you can make a generous statement. What kind of loyalty is there? I thought I would go to fight with the Xixia people One of them died together, but unexpectedly you changed the subject, you want to stay here and not move!

He is not like Lin Chong and Hua Rong, he has been in the officialdom anyway, he is a little patient, and he is not like Shi Wengong, he also knows some ways of the world when he was a teacher, and he is not like Jiao Ting. Although he has no face, he can't understand what Liu Yanqing said——

He is the great devil of the Ming Cult, and logically speaking, there is a lot of hatred for this Liu.

So he laughed and said, "That's amazing. You really deserve to be a veteran general of the Western Army. Your courage is commendable. But Liu Dajie is brave, but my younger brother is timid. Since you are so loyal and brave, it is better for my younger brother to guard Luoyang. If you go to fight Xixia, wouldn't it complement each other?"

Liu Yanqing was furious.

However, borrowing his guts, he didn't turn his back on Lao Cao's people. He just laughed loudly: "The name of Shi Shuai can frighten the south of the Yangtze River. If the Nanli Sword is timid, how can the world be so bold? It's just that the old man has selfish intentions." Thinking about it, everyone in the Central Plains knows the word Nanli Divine Sword, but the Xixia people may ignore it. If brother Shi is willing to go to Xixia and kill one or two kings, this is the number one magic sword in the world! If it is in Luoyang, but It’s overkill.”

The world's number one magic knife!

Shi Bao's eyes moved, and he laughed loudly: "I'm just kidding you! A certain Shi Bao's knife was originally intended to show off in the middle of the ten-thousand-horse army. He is going to the Xixia Fali City, hahahaha."

Yao Xing sneered and said, "It's fine if you don't live in Xixia."

Ever since Shi Bao saw Yao Xing, his eyebrows were not eyebrows, his eyes were not eyes, but he knew that Lao Cao valued him quite a lot, so he forced himself not to speak, now seeing him provoking, how could he bear it?

When Tong Guan went down to Muzhou, Shi Bao escaped with injuries, he was about to fight out, but was stopped by Yao Xing, it wasn't when the Liangshan hero came, his bones were already ready to beat, now new and old hatreds surged up.

He shouted: "Yao Xing! Don't be self-righteous, you bastard. If Shi was not injured, you would have died a long time ago! You said I was in Xixia? I don't think you even dare to go to Xixia!"

Yao Xing suddenly got up, clasped his fists and said: "'Wu Mengde', the last general will follow Tong Shuai, and he will be defeated in every battle. The world doesn't know my heart. They only know that I, Yao Xing, am also a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. I beg you not to remember the past, Take me to Xixia and let the world see that Yao Xing is a hero!"

Shi Bao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "Brother, take him there, I want to compete with him, who can kill more Xixia dogs."

Liu Yanqing knew that Yao Xing was brave, now that there is no one in front of the tent, he was about to win over him, he became anxious and looked at Cao Cao eagerly.

Cao Cao knew what he meant, but since a brave general like Yao Xing came to vote, how could he give up to others?

Frowning for a moment, he said with a smile: "Just now Liu Jiedu made an analysis, and the whip broke into the inside. If you don't know the army, how can you say that? But defending the city is not easy. I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in Luoyang?"

Liu Yanqing hurriedly said: "I have brought out more than people from Bianliang. The three generals Zhang Jun has more than a thousand Western troops under his command. In addition, I have mobilized troops from the surrounding states and counties in the past few days and got another people. Thousands of people."

Lao Cao shook his head and said: "There are too few ten thousand people. Although Zhengzhou's golden soldiers may not come to fight, but the holy man is here, how can we ignore it? I will have another ten thousand soldiers with you, so that is 2 horses, and then mobilize the young and strong in the city , enough to defend the city."

Zhao Kai was overjoyed, cupped his fists and said, "Brother is really a loyal minister!"

Lin Chong and others laughed secretly, and the 2 soldiers of the Bingzhou Army had not yet completed the training, so it was absolutely impossible to go on an expedition, so they had to defend the city.

Liu Yanqing said anxiously: "Although there are enough soldiers and horses, we must not have brave generals to help us."

Cao Cao looked around the crowd: "General Zhang Jun, how about you help Liu Jiedu guard Xijing?"

Zhang Jun frowned, and said with a wry smile: "To be honest with Wu Jiedu, after hearing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but felt lost."

Cao Cao knew what he was thinking, and breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't need to go on an expedition, and felt lost, he couldn't go on an expedition.

Smiling slightly, Qu Duan was about to speak, but Qu Duan shouted first: "Leave Brother Zhang here! It's just that Qu wants to go to Xixia, Xixia invaded my homeland, I must avenge my revenge, and please Wu Jiedu to take care of me. "

Wang Yan also said: "Brother Zhang is here. If there is any good or bad between Qu Duan and I, you can take care of us. Wu Jiedu, Wang also wants to fight Xixia, so please take care of him."

Lao Cao had listened to Qiao Daoqing's explanation of the Bianliang battle earlier, and knew that these were all well-known generals among the younger generation of the Western Army. Just go."

Liu Yanqing never won Yao Xing as he wished, but if he said it now, he would inevitably hate Zhang Jun, so he could only swallow his anger.

And the next day, Li Zhubing arrived and was stationed in the west of the city. He and Li Huai's uncle and nephew came to see Cao Cao in the city, and they were all very happy.

Speaking of always doing things, Li Zhu sighed: "I wanted to give the gold man a hard time, but unexpectedly Bianliang fell. If you hit the gold man, it would be cheaper for Liaogou. He was at a loss when he received Dao Qingfei's letter. See you soon."

Cao Cao laughed loudly: "Let them bite at once, brother Yu came to you, but there is a big thing..."

Then he told the strategy of destroying Xixia, and Li Zhu listened, blushing: "Brother! You have a good heart and a good method! I, Jishan Cavalry, are about to compete with the iron kite!"

Lao Cao said with a smile: "You have 2 people, which is the basic. In this fight, the soldiers are more expensive than the elite, and the more than elites I brought back are enough to destroy Xixia."

Lin Chong wondered: "Brother, there are more than ten thousand soldiers in the Bingzhou Army, why don't you take them with you?"

Hu Sanniang suddenly interjected: "Your brother must use that army to go to Taiyuan."

Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard that, he put his arms around Sanniang Hu and said, "That's all! My Sanniang has made a lot of progress, and my Wu family will have a female marshal."

On April th, Lao Cao entered the palace, bid farewell to the official brothers, left Liu Yanqing, Zhang Jun, Ling Zhen to guard the city, and Qiao Daoqing to help him, led soldiers and horses, and left the city to the west.

After winding for two days, Tongguan was in sight.

Lao Cao then ordered to stop, and was about to send someone to close the door to negotiate, but when he saw a gap in the closed door, a young warrior, leading twenty or thirty knights, galloped out, stopped an arrow away, and shouted: "You Where are you waiting for, why did you come to Tongguan?"

Lao Cao was about to speak, but Qu Duan shouted in surprise: "Liu Kai! Are you alive?"

The general on the opposite side changed his expression, rubbed his eyes twice, fixed his eyes, and laughed loudly: "Brother Qu, Brother Wang, are you both okay?"

Coming galloping on horseback, Wang Yan pointed and smiled and said, "Wu Jiedu, this man's name is Liu Kai. That day when the old Prime Minister was defeated, I was the four who killed Bianliang. Later, Liang Shicheng ordered me to go out to fight in the field." , He led his troops to surround the enemy's rear, and the Jurchen soldiers suddenly rushed out, killing each other, and I thought he was dead!"

After finishing speaking, he got off his horse and hugged Qu Duan and Liu Kai together.

Liu Kai smiled joyfully and said, "My younger brother was defeated before and had nowhere to go, so he went to the west to vote for Mr. Xiaozhong. Why did the brothers also come to Tongguan?"

Qu Duan sighed: "It's a long story, this is Qingzhou Jiedu envoy Wu Zhi, who brought us into the customs and met Mr. Xiaozhong, so it's not too late to explain."

Liu Kai nodded again and again, but said with a bitter face: "Mr. Xiaozhong has strict military discipline, so many of you..."

Cao Cao answered, "Don't worry, how can I embarrass you?" He stayed outside the pass, only ordered Shi Wengong to accompany him, plus Qu Duan and Wang Yan, a total of four people entered the pass with Liu Kai.

Liu Kai led the four of them straight to meet Mr. Xiaozhong. After a while, they arrived at a stone house and asked the guards to report.

After a while, three people came out of the stone house. Liu Qi introduced: "This is Mr. Xiaozhong Jinglue. This is Wang Wende, the envoy of Jingzhao Hongnong Festival. This is Huang You, Mr. Xiaozhong's beloved general."

At a glance, Lao Cao saw that, except for Huang You, who was about forty, the other two were veterans. The one in the middle was wearing a civilian uniform, probably Xiao Zhong, with gray beard and hair, tired expression, tall body, but skinny. .

Old Cao clasped his fists and said, "I've heard about the great name of Xiaozhong Jinglue for a long time, and I'm lucky to meet you today. Wu Zhi, the envoy of Qingzhou Jiedu, was ordered by the emperor to come out of Tongguan to seek thieves."

"Exit Tongguan?" The veteran in his fifties yelled, his face full of surprise: "Exit Tongguan? Outside Tongguan, there are all summer dogs."

Lao Cao laughed and said, "If there is no summer dog, shall I go sightseeing?"

The veteran said angrily: "Master En, do you think this guy is so rude?"

Shi Wengong said coldly: "It is clear that you are rude. You are as fearful of the enemy as a tiger, and you only think that I am the same? You should be glad that I am the one who came today. When my brother brought Jiao Ting, you were already sleeping on the ground. caught."

The veteran was furious, he stepped forward and wanted to put it right, Mr. Xiaozhong shouted: "Stop!" The veteran retreated angrily.

Mr. Xiaozhong frowned and looked at Lao Cao: "Take care of your generals! Although you are a Jiedu envoy, Lao Wang is also a Jiedu envoy, how dare you be rude to him?"

Cao Cao raised his head and said calmly: "If I remember correctly, Wang Jiedu should have followed the old gentleman all the way, but now he came here. I don't know where the old gentleman is?"

Mr. Xiaozhong looked at him for a while, and then said: "My brother was urgently called by the imperial decree, fell into the tricks of the Liao soldiers, defeated the Yellow River, and suffered many injuries. In the mountains, I heard that the Xixia people divided their troops to attack Taiyuan, and my brother dragged his sick body and led the disabled army to Taiyuan."

Cao Cao sighed slightly after hearing this, and praised: "The old man is worthy of the humerus of the Song Dynasty. At this age, with such injuries, and with such a situation, it is still difficult to face the difficulties."

Mr. Xiaozhong listened to his words, his face softened a little: "You should be loyal to the king's salary. What are you doing in Tongguan, are you looking for your brother, or looking for me?"

Cao Cao frowned and said, "Didn't you just say that? I'm going out to fight Xixia."

Wang Wende sneered.

(End of this chapter)