Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 342 Killing Cao Hong

In history, when Zhao Yan was a stranger, he actually did it when he was the prefect of Zhangling and Fufeng.

Because according to the "Three Kingdoms Du Ji Biography", when Du Ji was the governor of Hedong, the court asked the local government to redistribute widows to solve the fertility problem.

But Du Ji cherishes feathers more, so he is looking for real widows, and the number of people who actually hand them in is very small, so he was asked by Cao Pi why he sent so few widows, but Zhao Yan sent so many widows.

Du Ji told Cao Pi that all the widows he sent were real widows, and those sent by Zhao Yan were all strangers who were captured by someone, and most of them were family members of front-line soldiers.

These words made Cao Pi's complexion changed drastically at that time, and he was very embarrassed.

But after Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, Zhao Yan was not demoted, but promoted, and was transferred from the local prefect to the central government as a servant.

From this point of view, it can be seen that what Zhao Yan did was obviously in line with the wishes of Cao Cao and Cao Pi's father and son, and Cao Pi did not blame him for this incident.

Now that history has changed, Zhao Yan did not follow Cao Cao to Guanzhong and became the prefect of Fufeng, but continued to be the prefect of Runan in Henan.

However, when he was in Henan, he also encountered the policy promulgated by Cao Cao in history. The Wei State needed prefects from all over the country to recruit widows and send them to Yecheng to distribute to others to solve the fertility rate.

I don't even know why Cao Cao is so obsessed with widows.

Shen Chen had already investigated, Zhao Yan, even though history changed, his nature did not change.

The frontline soldiers were still fighting against Shen Chen's army, so he recruited their wives from the rear and sent them to Yecheng for business.

of course.

Zhao Yan is not a fool either.

Most of the ones he sent were the wives of Henan soldiers who followed Cao Cao to fight in Xiliang, Guanzhong.

He moved less for the wives of Henan soldiers on the Nanyang front.

After all, Nanyang is too close, and the soldiers often write letters home, which can easily reveal their secrets.

But even so, some rumors had spread in the barracks, and the soldiers vaguely knew about the court's recruitment of widows through family letters.

Many people know that many women have been taken away in various townships and villages, even if they are not their own family members, they have also heard about it.

But after all, it's just hearsay.

The news is not confirmed, and the soldiers do not know the truth, so naturally it will not affect the morale of the army.

But now it's different.

Shen Chen sent people to collect evidence and scattered them in Cao Jun's barracks.

If this news is true, once it spreads to the entire Cao army stationed in Nanyang, it will inevitably cause a sensation.

Although most of the new wives that Zhao Yan sent were the wives of the army in other places, those soldiers who were far away from the sky had no news, and even if they retired from the army and returned to their hometowns in the future, they would be helpless in the end.

But the so-called rabbit dies and the fox is sad, everyone has the same situation.In case they are transferred to other places to fight in the future, what will the wives in their hometown do?
So once the truth of the matter is revealed, it is very likely that the soldiers from Henan in Cao's army will rebel.

Of course Cao Hong couldn't let this happen.

It's just that Shen Chen had already sent Zhang Xiu to Runan, and this move could be said to have killed him, making him tremble all over, and he was at a loss for what to do.

The end of the feeding time is turning into the beginning of the day, the cloud is dark and the sun is hazy, and the rain that has been raining for many days in a row suddenly stops. A few long-lost sunsets shine through the thick dark clouds and reflect on the rain-soaked land.

Shen Chen saw Cao Hong trembling on the watchtower in the distance, grinned and said, "Why, are you scared? I don't believe you don't know what Zhao Yan did. Guess what, when you know that you are fighting on the front line, your wife at home What would happen if the soldiers who had been conscripted knew the truth?"

"I"

Cao Hong was so questioned that he couldn't speak, because he really knew the truth about it.

Cao Jun around also realized that something was wrong, and turned their heads to look at Cao Hong. When they saw Cao Hong's face, they already understood that what Shen Chen said was true.

"A group of idiots. The wives and wives in their own family were taken away by Cao Cao to be other people's wives, and they are still working there for Cao Cao."

Wu Dang, the disciple next to Shen Chen, gave him a knowing blow at the right time.

Cao Jun's soldiers suddenly showed angry expressions, and they unconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands, but turned their faces to aim at Cao Hong.

The surrounding Cao Jun officers kept yelling, but at this time the soldiers obviously couldn't listen and approached step by step.

Cao Jun's soldiers who were a little farther away didn't know the situation here. Seeing that there seemed to be a mutiny over there, some loyal men wanted to stop it.

However, the story of the unborn woman soon spread throughout Cao Jun. The more than 1000 Cao Jun soldiers were at a loss and looked at each other. Some were so angry that they joined the mutiny, and some simply put down their weapons and surrendered directly.

For a while, Cao Jun rebelled directly in front of the battle.

Only a small number of soldiers and officers remained loyal, retreating step by step, and finally the encirclement shrank to the watchtower where Cao Hong was.

Shen Chen watched this scene with great interest.

After all, it was Cao Wei himself who did the evil, and it was only natural to be backlashed.

"Shen Chen!"

Cao Hong looked at the team with less than 100 people below, and knew that the situation was over, so he roared hysterically: "If you have the courage, fight me to the death!"

Want to go heads-up?
Shen Chen looked around, he had an army of tens of thousands, and you only had more than 100 remnant soldiers, still thinking of making a big difference with a small one?

"it is good!"

But Shen Chen waved his hand without any hesitation and said, "All soldiers of the Cao army surrender where they are, and those who still hold weapons will be shot to death."

"superior."

Not far away, Gan Ning, Wu Dang and others rushed up immediately.

Cao Jun's soldiers did not dare to resist, and dropped their weapons and surrendered. Occasionally, some rioters were quickly killed, and the Nanyang Army began to approach the watchtower.

Cao Hong on the top looked anxious and angry, raised the big knife in his hand and came down, shouting: "Shen Chen, dare to fight me to the death!"

Shen Chen looked at him indifferently, and said softly: "The hundreds of thousands of people who died in Xuzhou, the thousands of villagers in Xiangben who were slaughtered by you, and the blood debt of the Huangmen Pavilion fire, Cao Ren alone is not enough, we have to pay for it." Add Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, and your Cao family. Today, I am here to take your life, and when I kill all the dead soldiers around you, I will fight you hard and kill them!"

With an order, the surrounding Nanyang army rushed forward, and Cao Hong led the remnant soldiers to fight to the death.

But soon the remnant soldiers died and surrendered. In the end, only Cao Hong was resisted by dozens of spears and spears, and he was crushed to the ground. Even so, he still screamed and let Shen Chen come. Singled out with him.

It wasn't until the surrounding Cao Jun were all dealt with that Shen Chen pulled out the gallbladder knife on his waist, passed through the crowd, and walked all the way to the central place where Cao Hong was under control.

"Let him go."

Shen Chen swaggered forward, and the soldiers of the Nanyang Army on both sides gave way one after another.

At this time Cao Hong was still screaming, Gan Ning was covered in blood, wiped the sweat from his brow, got up from the ground, just now he was the first to attack Cao Hong from behind, knocked off his knife, and then pushed him to the ground.

As a bandit, Gan Ning doesn't care whether he is upright or not, as long as things are done well, the means don't matter, what matters is the result.

But after finally capturing Cao Hong alive, Shen Chen let him go, a little unwilling, so he got up and said, "General, if you capture this guy alive, can you force the other Cao troops to surrender? Why do you have to fight him?" ?”

Shen Chen smiled: "If you don't kill him, the rest of Cao's army will surrender. When the unmarried woman incident broke out, the soldiers of Cao's army will just tie up Zhao Yan and hand it over to me. Don't worry about it. If Cao Hong wants to die, let him die." Just understand, I have waited for 20 years to avenge my fellow villagers, and it is time to understand."

When Cao Cao ordered the massacre of Xuzhou, Xiahoudun stayed behind to guard Yanzhou, while Xiahouyuan was transporting grain and grass, followed by Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Le Jin and Yu Jin.

In other words, Cao Cao is the one who gave the order, while Cao Ren, Cao Hongle, Jin Yujin and others are the executors and executioners of Tu Xuzhou.

He also killed Cao Ren and Le Jin before, and Cao Cao and Cao Hong escaped justice.

Now, it's time for revenge.

After the order was given, the surrounding soldiers who pressed Cao Hong with blades, spears, and spears retreated one after another.

Since the battle on this earth mountain has ended, most of the soldiers behind were ordered to escort the prisoners back to the ship, so the earth mountain became empty for a while, leaving only more than 1000 Nanyang soldiers, Shen Chen, Cao Hong, and the enemy all over the place. corpse.

Cao Hong was already emotionally agitated to the extreme. After being let go, he rolled on the spot and touched a sharp blade next to him, and then swung around like a madman, yelling and making a wolf-like sound.

"You look like a wild dog."

Shen Chen waved his hand, signaling the soldiers to stay away, leaving a distance of seven to eight feet, then approached with a tiger knife, and said with a smile: "Wrong, it should be a mad dog."

Cao Hong suddenly turned his head, the helmet on his head had been removed, his hair was disheveled, his body was soaked and stained with dirt, he looked more like a beggar than a general.

His eyes were red, his teeth were bared, and his eyes showed a fierce look. When he saw Shen Chen, he roared angrily, "I want you to die!"

Immediately, he raised the knife in his hand high, and slashed at Shen Chen's position.

boom!
There was a violent weapon collision sound, followed by a harsh metal friction sound.

With his right hand, Shen Chen raised the Tiger Danger Knife, and with his left hand, he supported the back of the knife and stuck it up first, and after sticking it to the surface of Cao Hong's blade, he went down to the side to unload the force to prevent the blade from breaking.

Although the tiger gallbladder knife is a straight-edged long knife with thick ridges, it is definitely not so easy to break compared to the Japanese swords of later generations, but no matter how sharp the knife is, the blade is actually the most vulnerable place, and it will create a gap when it collides. Also ugly.

So unloading is the best way.

After holding off Cao Hong's slashing move, Shen Chen stretched his head over, and the two sides faced each other, with a distance of less than a foot, "Can you kill me? You are not only a crazy wild dog, but also an old dog. How many more do you have?" Divide your strength?"

he said sarcastically.

Cao Hong was furious, took a sip of saliva and wanted to spit it out, and took advantage of Shen Chen's unprepared time to sneak attack.

But as soon as he moved his mouth, Shen Chen changed his move. With a turn of his wrist, he lifted and pulled upwards, and he slid away from the right side like a loach. Cao Hong's blade almost rubbed against the tiger's gallbladder blade and chopped down. .

This is a very common move to retreat and release strength. If the strength is not enough, the person who is chopping will fall down due to inertia, and the person who is retreating can quickly push up and launch an offensive.

In the later movie "One Man's Martial Arts", Feng Yuxiu stabbed Hong Ye's shoulder with this move when he competed with the weapon king Hong Ye.

However, Hong Ye didn't think that Feng Yuxiu was here to fight for his life, so he kept his hand until he reached the point, and didn't evacuate in time.

But Cao Hong naturally knew that today either Shen Chen died or he died, so he reacted almost as soon as he was relieved, and rolled towards his right hand, avoiding Shen Chen's back knife.

"Ha ha."

Shen Chen smiled: "The old dog has some experience in changing his tactics on the spur of the moment, but I don't know how long you can last."

As he said that, he bullied him again, swung left and right, and kept slashing.

Cao Hong was already in a state of embarrassment as he was parrying back and forth, not to mention the fact that boxing is afraid of being young, but just talking about martial arts, he is over 50 years old, has been the commander of a party for many years, and has been out of battle for a long time, mostly relying on the experience accumulated in his early years to support him.

On the other hand, Shen Chen is just 30 years old, and he has been practicing martial arts all year round, accumulating daily, even Gan Ning is no match for him, let alone an old man whose martial arts have declined seriously.

After only seven or eight moves, Cao Hong couldn't resist, he was cut with a horizontal knife, and blood spurted out.

That's why Shen Chen kept his hand, he didn't want to take advantage of him so much, otherwise he would have died long ago.

Cao Hong stepped back a few steps, leaning against the watchtower behind him, holding the wooden pillar with his left hand, and holding the knife in his right, trembling all over, panting heavily.

Although he often practices martial arts, it is an indisputable fact that he seldom participates in battles in person and his physical strength declines.

So after these ten tricks, he couldn't hold on anymore.

Shen Chen seemed to have just warmed up, not even a drop of sweat, just looked at him indifferently, and didn't go to make up the knife.

It's boring to bite the prey to death, and torture to death can make the other party feel the pain.

"General, be careful."

At this moment, someone noticed Cao Hong's small movement of sticking his right foot into the soil, and shouted loudly to remind him.

But at this moment, Cao Hong kicked out the sand and shot at Shen Chen.

If you don't hide, sand will get in your eyes.

If you hide, no matter if you cover your face with your back or cover your face with your hands, there will be a vacuum in the field of vision, and Cao Hong can take advantage of the opportunity to attack.

It has to be said that compared to Huang Gai's death in an aboveboard manner, Cao Hong's method was a little bit more sleazy.

However, this in itself is the skill of killing the enemy on the battlefield.

In later generations of martial arts, there are many tricks such as flirting the legs, throwing lime, catching sparrows, monkeys stealing peaches, poking eyes, etc., which were born out of the skills of killing enemies in ancient battlefields.

Therefore, in order to kill the enemy, let alone throwing sand, even urinating and spitting are normal things.
At this moment, the sand and rocks splashed, and the soil flew towards Shen Chen.

At the same time, Cao Hong, who bared his teeth and claws, used his last strength to stab Shen Chen's abdomen.

At this critical moment, the surrounding Nanyang army was too late to save him. Seeing that Shen Chen was about to fall into a trap, he would be resented by Cao Hong's sword.

Only Gan Ning yawned in the distance and remained unmoved.

Back then, as Shen Chen's martial arts got better and better, Gan Ning became more and more unable to fight head-on, so he could only use some rogue tricks.

He taught him tricks like throwing sand and stones, but it was a pity that it had some effect at first. Shen Chen would be confused by sand and stones, but it was useless long ago.

I saw Shen Chen's eyes widen. The moment the sand and stones came, he remembered Cao Hong's position and direction, and then he closed his eyes suddenly, using his eyelids to block the sand and stones. At the same time, he turned around and turned to the right. took a position.

In an instant, Cao Hong stabbed in the air, and was about to turn around and continue the sneak attack, when a sharp thick-ridged straight blade was already slashing towards his neck!

(End of this chapter)