Xiaoguangong

Chapter 92 I Am Guan Ping

Cao Jun's march in Wulin was still very slow.

In order to pass through the mud, Cao Cao asked Cheng Yu and others to drive the seriously ill soldiers into the mud holding straw.In the cold weather, these soldiers who were already sick were struggling to move forward, crying and begging. Cheng Yu sent a team of supervisors to beat the soldiers with whips, and they could only move forward in pain. Open the way for the whole army.

"Hurry up! God damned thieves!" Cao Jundu's team waved their whips and kept roaring, showing no mercy to these comrades who had joined the army together.

Those soldiers who paved the road accidentally fell into the mud immediately. The soldiers of the supervisory team walked over yelling and cursing. Just as they were about to whip someone, they suddenly felt a sharp pain in their legs. Before he could scream out, they saw A glint of light flashed, and a huge monster rushed over from nowhere, and threw the man to the ground!
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Cao Jun was shocked, and they went to the camel beast to grab their knives and guns to meet the enemy.

But soon they discovered that the enemy was not Sun Liu's ambush, but a huge colorful tiger.

The tiger held the Cao soldier in its mouth, and its sharp teeth pierced through the man's neck. The strong man who had been shouting five times just now had no power to fight back in the tiger's mouth, only his wrists were still shaking slightly.

The tiger glanced contemptuously at the people in front of it, and before the soldiers of Cao Jun could react, it quickly turned around and jumped, sweeping across with its long tail like a steel whip, scaring everyone to hide aside.

Tigers understand human nature.

If Cao Jun's army marched boldly, it would definitely restrain its sharpness and dare not show up, but now Cao Jun's morale was low, and even abused his comrades, this tiger immediately exposed its terrifying minions, and immediately took the life of one person.

"Animals dare to be rampant!"

When Cheng Yu saw a tiger attacking his own army, he became furious. He immediately waved his hand and asked people to shoot the tiger, but he heard a heart-piercing scream from the rear.

"Ahhh!" The voice was extremely shrill, and the wailing, screaming, and begging for mercy of Cao Jun soldiers were everywhere in the dark night sky. Calling, the endless Cao Jun army was immersed in an atmosphere of despair, and Cao Cao couldn't help but stand on end.

I have long heard that Jingchu is a land of barbarians, but Cao Cao never thought that it would be so barbaric.

There will be wolves for a while and tigers for a while, and I can't imagine what will happen next.Cao Cao made a prompt decision:
"Go forward immediately, and kill anyone who hesitates!"

Cao Jun's generals obeyed, and the tiger and leopard cavalry galloped first, trampling all the soldiers who paved the road into the mud!

Not only that, the soldiers who were exhausted before were also thrown into the mud pit by the soldiers under Cao Ren's command. Escape is important, who cares about the life and death of these people.

The horses galloped wildly, and the grain carts moved forward. These soldiers who were thrown on the ground to pave the road were quickly trampled to death. Their bones were trampled and combined with the soil. The soldiers of Cao Jun behind them stepped on their corpses. , everyone was silent, and there was a strange smell in the army.

Cao Cao has always firmly followed the word ruthless throughout his life, and he has long been used to such small scenes, but this time he finally felt a little unhappiness in his heart.

After massacring so many of his own people, I am afraid that there will be a lot of resentment in the hearts of others.

At the beginning, he had the idea of ​​retreating to Jiangling to maintain the front line and continue to fight, but looking at it now, he might not be able to hold Jiangling.

Abominable, abominable.

It's all these sergeants who don't want to pay attention, and it's all Cai Mao who fled the battle, otherwise I wouldn't be able to fight like this.

Amidst the depression, Cao Cao finally began to reflect deeply, and began to share the blame for the problems of this battle.

Since going south, Cao Jun has been obsessed with a great sense of superiority. Even if he was attacked by Guan Ping again and again, and even Cao Ren was defeated, Cao Jun's senior officials always believed that this was just a disease of ringworm. Going all the way and going all out to attack, at most the loss will be bigger, and the fight will be a little ugly, but it is still not a problem to eliminate Sun Liu.

Some soldiers of the Northern Army even gloated and thought that this would just consume those barbarians greatly, which was actually a good thing.

In such an optimistic atmosphere, Cao Jun stayed from late autumn to late winter, and Sun Liu could only do some harassing activities, which changed everyone's mentality a little.

Cai Hao was submissive to Cao Cao before, waiting for Cao Jun to conquer the world, honestly, as Cao Cao's old classmate, to be in a position similar to Zang Ba, but seeing that Cao Cao had to rely on himself, he simply revealed the ferocity of the head of the Cai family. Arrogant, has seized much greater autonomy from Cao Cao than Zang Ba.

Cao Ren was the best offensive general under Cao Cao's command before. His skills in destroying cities and fortresses and judging the situation were quite good, and he won Cao Cao's trust.

But on the boat, Cao Ren was completely unable to command the water battle. Cao Cao was very disappointed with him, but he had to use him at a critical moment—well, Zixiao let me down as expected, isn’t it beyond my expectations? ?
Zhao Yan was best at mediating the relationship between the armies before. Cao Cao thought he could do a good job in commanding an army alone, but this time he couldn't balance the relationship with Le Jin and Xu Huang. It seems that he can only continue to be the leader in the future. Deputy, you can no longer lead the army alone.

Thinking about it this way, the only one who can maintain his true colors is Zilian...

He was greedy before, and he is still greedy now, never forgetting his original intention.

Cao Cao thought of Chang Diao's violent remarks that loyal people often defect to Liu Bei, and felt even more unspeakably depressed.

Fortunately, there is Yunshan...

In all fairness, there are indeed people with high morals under Cao Cao's account, such as Xun Yu, Cui Yan, and Mao Jie.

But it is because these people have high morals that they go further and further away from Cao Cao, and Cao Cao dare not entrust them with big things.But Yunshan is different, this person doesn't have any extraordinary virtues, and he fights entirely with bloody courage and simple gratitude.

This young man once went to Jiangling. At that time, Chen Qun obviously found him extraordinary, but he didn't recommend him to Gu. Hmph, he knew he was breaking the rules when he sent out a few boats of food, but he didn't understand this when he introduced talents. Would like to recommend people without virtue.It was the same when he was at odds with Fengxiao back then...

"If there were filial piety and honesty, I wouldn't be defeated so badly." Cao Cao couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Both Chen Lin and Dong Zhao lowered their heads in shame, not knowing how to answer Cao Cao's words.

After Guo Jia's death, Cao Jun's intelligence network was in a mess, and he couldn't figure it out at all. Cheng Yu mentioned this matter before.

In the prime minister's mind, Yun Shan was already the same as Guo Jia, that's really incredible, and I don't know how this son is doing now.

Cheng Yu heard Cao Cao's distress, smiled wryly and said:

"Prime Minister, don't worry, General Yun has strong martial arts skills and is brave in battle. Even if he is caught in a tight siege, he will always be able to fight out, not to mention that the land of Shiyang is not a dead end. If this son gets the Prime Minister's guidance in the future, he will definitely become a pillar of the great man's arm."

Cao Cao's mood finally improved a little bit, he looked up to the sky and laughed, his hearty smile finally diluted the previous unhappiness:

"When I got back to Xudu, I called Tanzhi over. I can't wait to meet this young hero."

But Cao Cao's joy did not last long, his laughter just stopped, only to hear another exclamation from the rear of the army.

The line was too long, and Cao Cao and others couldn't see clearly what was going on behind them for a while.

"Where are the tigers and leopards? We still have tens of thousands of soldiers, how can we be abused by these animals? Hmph, I personally led the soldiers and horses to slaughter these animals."

As soon as the voice fell, there was another exclamation from behind, and then the army formation began to be in chaos.

Even if Cao Jun was desperate, he would not be beaten like this by the wolves, and Cao Cao knew it was not good.

I saw a group of fast horses approaching quickly from behind, and the knights on the horses exclaimed:

"Prime Minister, hurry up, Guan Ping is here!"

"Ah!" Cao Cao was shocked at first, and then realized that Guan Ping's army should not have many people. He snorted coldly and shouted:
"What are you doing by Gu's side? Zhongde, bring someone to take Guan Ping's head!"

Cheng Yu couldn't bear it long ago, and immediately called out, leading thousands of soldiers to turn around to intercept.In an instant, there were only a few dozens of guards around Cao Cao.

With Cheng Yu and Cao Ren in the rear, Cao Cao finally breathed a sigh of relief. He asked the cavalry:
"How many soldiers and horses does Guan Ping have?"

"About 300 people!" The cavalry said quickly.

"En." Cao Cao nodded, seeing that the cavalryman was still standing not far from his guard of honor, he frowned again and said:

"What are you still doing here? Why don't you quickly turn around and kill the enemy?"

The cavalryman shook his head and said, "Forgive me."

"Why?" Cao Cao was taken aback.

The cavalryman chuckled and raised his head slowly, revealing a young and handsome face full of blood under the firelight.

"Because, someone is Guan Ping!"

(End of this chapter)