Cao Cao crosses Wu Dalang

Chapter 662

Shi Wengong listened to Li Xiaozhong's words and knew that it was a friend rather than an enemy, so he withdrew his weapons, returned the captives, and led him and his party to see Cao Cao.

When the two met, Li Xiaozhong came from Chen Laili. Cao Cao said happily: "When I passed through Qinzhou, I heard the name 'Longyou Hero'. It's a pity that I can't see you. I didn't expect to meet here."

Then he told him about the process of destroying the Xingqing Mansion, and took a Xia Ren sword from the treasure house of the Xixia Palace, and presented it to Xiaozhong. , look at the head of old Cao Ma, and follow him to kill the enemy.

Lao Cao was delighted to have a new force from him, and talked about the follow-up actions twice, and only then did Lao Cao guide the battle situation and predict the enemy's strategy.

According to Li Xiaozhong's original thought, the Xingqing Mansion was destroyed and the chaos in Xixia territory was broken. It was a great success, and he could deal with the Xia army slowly. After all, there were less than 2 people on both sides. Knock on the side drums and play with the strength of cooperation.

But I don't know that people like Lao Cao, no matter how many soldiers they have under their command, have never thought about who to cooperate with. They just feel that wherever I am, the main battlefield will be there.It is impossible to talk about slowly dealing with each other. It is the true nature of Lao Cao to use soldiers to turn every battle into a decisive battle.

Therefore, Lao Cao made a plan to let Li Xiaozhong pretend to be the main force to attract the enemy's siege, while he took the opportunity to jump out of the enemy's sight and launch another thousand-mile attack.

It's just that the last time they attacked was Xingqing Mansion, which had few soldiers and few generals. This time, the target was Taiyuan City where the main force of Xixia was located.

Li Xiaozhong was amazed, he obeyed his orders generously, and was willing to give himself up to be a pawn on the surface.

After the two sides negotiated, they immediately rolled up the grain, fodder and supplies in Qingzhou and went straight to Yan'an Mansion.

Why do you want to go to Yan'an Mansion?It's just that this place is an important town on Yongxing Army Road, with a wall of rammed earth and a huge stone on the outside.

At the beginning when Xixia came to attack aggressively, Mr. Xiaozhong led Qin Wang's army and turned back. He was defending this place and intending to counterattack. The Xixia people attacked several times, but they were hard to shake.

Unexpectedly, Kui Xiangyang came suddenly, and asked Mr. Xiaozhong to lead the army to Bianliang. He made a lot of trouble, and killed several generals of the Western Army to stand up, so that the army's morale was shaken, and it was almost about to change. When the Jurchen soldiers came to fight, under internal and external troubles, they fell.

Now there are only more than Xixia people staying in Yan'an Mansion. When they saw the old Cao's army, they sent messengers to ask for help, while closing the city gates, obviously intending to stick to it.

But Lao Cao didn’t attack directly, he just ordered a platform to be built under the city, a wooden frame was erected on the platform, a fire was lit next to the wooden frame, a big cauldron was set on it, and the water was simmering until the water boiled——

This operation made the guards on the city look dumbfounded, wondering what this dwarf is going to do?Could it be that you want to cook in public, eat to your heart's content, and wait for you to die?
While we were discussing, I saw Song Jun push out a young man who was tied up, untied the rope, tore off his clothes, and hung him naked on the wooden frame on the stage. tick.

The guard didn't drool, the fellow stared for a long time, and finally realized why the fair-skinned boy looked so familiar!

His face turned pale at the scene, but he exclaimed as if his parents were dead: "Ah! Damn Song Dog, that hangs so high that it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

The defenders were shocked when they heard the sound. These Song soldiers untied their crown prince and boiled a large pot of water, but what were they going to do?
At this time, Lao Cao stepped onto the stage slowly, with his sleeves rolled up, holding a sharp knife with a cow's ear, and stood beside Li Renai on the stage, shouting loudly: "Hey! The soldiers in the city will listen to the truth! Your country has no way, invade our territory, Han Jia Tianwei, how can you allow me to block you? Now the crown prince of Erguo, Li Ren'ai, has been captured here. If you are sensible, please obediently dedicate the city. If it takes a long time, you will kill your prince alive The pot of 'Xixia Prince Soup' is distributed among the armies to try it out."

After finishing speaking, he swung his backhand and nailed the sharp knife on Li Ren'ai's shoulder. The prince screamed in pain, and the red blood flowed down half of his body.

Old Cao laughed loudly, and shouted again: "I'm not talented. I once studied in Bianliang, and what I learned was to kill the living. After knives, he will die! Hahahaha, if you don't believe me, And please count for me, if there is one wrong knife, I will pay ten times the punishment and cut him ten times more."

Pointing to the boiling iron cauldron again: "Let's cut a knife and cook a knife, everyone, let's count it!"

After finishing speaking, he rubbed his hands together, happily, and went to draw the knife.

When Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, the overlord of Chu was about to kill Liu Bang's own father. Liu Bang's face remained unchanged, and he smiled and asked for a share of the pie, which has been passed down as a "good story" through the ages.

These Xia soldiers don’t know if they have read this story, but they don’t have Liu Bang’s tolerance. When Cao Cao drew his sword from the crown prince’s shoulder, the guard shouted, “I’ll give you the city, don’t hurt my crown prince!”

Cao Cao laughed, waved his hand and said, "You are such a disappointment! Forget it, Xu Ni, get out of here!"

The guard didn't dare to try to get the prince back, so he immediately raised his men and horses, opened the other side of the city gate, and walked away.

Therefore, Xiongcheng of Yan'an Prefecture returned to the Song Dynasty without bloody soldiers - let's count it as the Song Dynasty!

Li Xiaozhong saw that Lao Cao took this city as a joke, and he admired it, and sighed: "I have also read a few history books, and I have never seen such a change in naming the city."

Lao Cao smiled, shook his head and sighed: "I still have to build a stage, light a fire, boil water, and sing an opera. How can I call it Yi? If it is easy, it is really easy for the Liao people to enter Bianliang."

Li Xiaozhong heard this, and couldn't help sighing: "I heard about this before, but I still find it unbelievable."

Cao Cao sneered and said, "Is there anything incredible? But everyone regards the affairs of the world as private affairs of the family. Just like the guard of Xixia, if he sits and watches me cut the prince, no matter whether the city guards or not It is impossible to escape the word of death, so I had no choice but to push the boat along the way and escape, and in the future when I am held accountable, at least it can be said that I am worried about the prince's noble body."

Li Xiaozhong shook his head and said: "The emperor of his family, since he entrusted the city with the city, his responsibility is to defend the land and resist the enemy, not to protect the crown prince. If it were me, Brother Wu's strategy would definitely not work."

Cao Cao couldn't help but wryly smiled and said: "A character like my brother, who shoulders the burden, is only moral and righteous, and thinks in his heart, only public and chivalrous. If he meets the master of the Ming Dynasty, he should be a hero who shines through the history. If he doesn't meet him, I'm afraid." There is no place for a good brother to be buried when he dies."

Li Xiaozhong looked at Cao Cao and said, "I don't know if Brother Wu can be called the Master of Ming Dynasty?"

Cao Cao smiled frankly: "I don't want to be a wise master, but I hope to be a good brother! Everyone starts with righteousness and ends with righteousness. Among you brothers, if there are those who can do things with a straight heart, let them do it freely, and those who want to use power for personal gain. Let him let go, and enjoy a rich and leisurely life."

Li Xiaozhong asked curiously: "If brother refuses to let go, how could he turn against you?"

Cao Cao spread his hands and said: "He doesn't recognize me as a brother, how can I have the audacity to recognize him as a brother? Naturally, there are good brothers who will fight for me."

Li Xiaozhong laughed, and then solemnly clasped his fists: "Brother entrusted me with the Yan'an Mansion, although I dare not speak nonsense that I am capable of doing things, I will do my best, I am here in the city!"

Lao Cao waved his hand and said: "Wrong, brother, the one who entrusted you with the foolish brother is not only the Yan'an mansion, but also the matter of the northwest. If the Xixia soldiers and horses come, you only need to guard for ten days, and I will be able to achieve great things. Leave, deal with him slowly, in a word: In the first ten days, the city is more important than life! After ten days, life is more important than anything else."

Li Xiaozhong listened carefully, nodded and said: "My younger brother will remember everything, and I will definitely live up to my brother's heart."

Before dawn the next day, Lao Cao led soldiers and horses from his headquarters, quietly left Yan'an Mansion, bypassed Laoshan and Huanglongshan, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Hedong Road.

Three days after Lao Cao left, Li Cha, the King of Western Xia who was looking for Lao Cao everywhere, got the news that the Song army was outside the Yan'an mansion, taking the prince as a hostage, and forced them to go to the city. Killed to Yan'an Mansion.

Li Xiaozhong led 4000 people from his headquarters to mobilize the people to hold on to the city. During his day and night siege, the defense was as solid as gold.

A few days later, there was no more news of the Song army raging in all directions. Brother Li Cha became more and more convinced that the Song army attacking the Xingqing Mansion was here, so he had no other care, and only concentrated on fighting the city every day, but he didn't know that Cao Cao was at this time. , has been quietly hidden in Qingyuan County——

That is to say, Xu County of Qing Dynasty in later generations is located forty or fifty miles southwest of Taiyuan.

At this time, it was the beginning of July, and it had been more than ten days since Lin Chong and others entered Taiyuan.

When Lao Cao came to Qingyuan, he didn't just come by himself, but brought all the young and strong people from more than ten counties along the way, a total of more than people, all strong and strong.

Since he entered Dehehe Road, he first did two things:
The first thing is to send out Hua Rong, Shi Bao, Yao Xing, and Ma Jin, four strong generals, each leading light cavalry, to support each other, sentry in advance, block the message, and avoid being discovered by the Xixia sentry horse.

The second thing is that along the way, whenever there is a big place to go, the wealthy households in the city are invited to exchange the precious gems and treasures they have seized from the Xixia Palace with them for copper coins and grain and fodder. Tough, wantonly recruiting strong men.

As far as Qingyuan County, I found what Li Kui and Niu Gao said at the beginning——

But when Tianhu was conquered at the beginning, in order to prevent Tianhu from escaping along the Fen River, Lao Cao sent two generals, Li Kui and Niugao, to fight Qingyuan. Unexpectedly, he met Zhang Xiong, a thief general on the way, who coerced the people. A dam was built on the Fen River to force the Fen River to flow backwards and flood the city of Taiyuan. Unexpectedly, it was destined to be defeated by Li Kui and Niugao early on.

Like the weather in July, in the mountains and forests, there is heavy rain from time to time. After thinking about it, Lao Cao still needs to use more than people to defeat more than people, so he still needs to use external forces, so he simply chose the old plan that Chufang Xuedu failed to succeed in the past. , come to build a dam around the mountain, pour back into Taiyuan!

It didn't take long to find the place where Zhang Xiong wanted to build the dam. Lao Cao took a closer look and found that the environment was very suitable. Immediately mobilized tens of thousands of people, and they worked day and night, within three days, to build along the mountain. A dam was formed to stop all the water of the Fen River.

In the next few days, people continued to raise the embankment, cut down countless big bamboos, and built many bamboo rafts, which were placed on high places on both sides of the bank for future use.

Until July th, everything was ready. During this period, it was drenched, and it rained a few times. The river water was visible to the naked eye, and it was much higher.

But Lao Cao still thought it was not enough, so he simply asked Gongsun Sheng to go to the altar to do it, and begged for a heavy rain.

He is a dragon in the clouds, and he has been on an expedition with Lao Cao for a long time, so he has to show his talents. Immediately, he made a dharma altar, counted the time, and went up to the altar with his hair and sword, but it can be seen——

Step up to the stage of the law, enter the clouds and show off your talents.With a thunderbolt, the mountains and rivers move, and watch the heavenly soldiers come up from the water.

(End of this chapter)