The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 342 341 Misfortunes never come singly
All night.

Xu Chu, Lu Meng and others slept outside Handan City for one night, and had a good rest for a period of time, allowing their tired bodies to recover.

In the morning of the next day, Xu Chu, Lu Meng and others ate some dry food indiscriminately to fill their stomachs, and then gathered the team and all came to the south gate of Handan City.

Handan City, as the capital of Zhao culture, has a very solid defense. Like Ye City, Handan City also has a moat around it. If the suspension bridge is not put down, the army cannot pass through the wide moat.

Of course, if you can swim, you can easily swim over.However, when the enemy is at hand, can the enemy soldiers on the tower watch you swim to the other side of the moat?
Xu Chu led Lu Meng and a thousand light cavalry to the south gate of Handan City, and stopped fifty steps away from the moat. Within this distance, it was a safe range. The enemy archers standing on the city wall , can't shoot here.

"Everyone in there, listen to me. I am General Huben Xu Chu. I have come to arrest the traitor Cao Cao under the order of the emperor. If you are sensible, hand over Cao Cao to me as soon as possible. I will save you from death! In addition, The regent has an order, and the crime is only on Cao Cao. As long as the rest surrender, they will not be held accountable. You are still loyal ministers and generals of our Han Dynasty. If you dare to help the tyrant, the regent will lead an army of [-] to conquer this city!" Xu Chu He rode his horse forward and shouted loudly at the people in Handan City.

The tower of Handan City was full of soldiers of Cao Jun. One of them was wearing an iron helmet and said to the people around him: "Don't listen to his nonsense, the emperor has just ascended the throne, and he is still young. A one-year-old child is still at the age of breastfeeding. What can he know? All of this is secretly manipulated by Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan is called the regent, but he is actually a thief who steals the country. You must not listen to this reckless man. !"

The person who spoke was none other than Cao Hong who had just been rescued from Ye City by Cao Cao.

After hearing Cao Hong's words, the soldiers on the city wall felt that what Cao Hong said was extremely reasonable.It is well known that Emperor Liu Xie died in the battle between Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan this year. As for who died at the hands, it is said that the public is right and the wife is right, so far there is no conclusion.

There are two versions, one says that Yuan Shao killed it, and the other says that Zhang Yan killed it. There are different opinions for a while, which makes it difficult for many people to guess.

At that time, Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Sun Ce in Jiangdong learned that Liu Xie had died on the battlefield, and they both heard the two different versions of the news, but they did not take any action, but sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.

Among them, Sun Ce did not have the strength to start a war with Zhang Yan. He was under Chen Deng's economic sanctions. Jiangdong's supplies were extremely scarce, and beside Sun Ce's couch, there was a Shanyue who was eyeing him. If he asked Zhang Yan When the war starts, those Shanyue who have been suppressed by him will most likely take advantage of the vacancy and break into his lair.

And Liu Biao's choice was extremely simple, that is, to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. He not only maintained friendship with Zhang Yan, but also secretly supported Yuan Shao. In the decisive battle between the two heroes, no matter which side lost, he would not offend.

Therefore, at the time of the decisive battle between Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao, Liu Biao's moderate approach helped Zhang Yan to a certain extent.If, at that time, Liu Biao responded to Yuan Shao and led an army to attack Zhang Yan, then Zhang Yan's victory would not come so quickly, and he might even be on the verge of perishing under the attack of Yuan Shao and Liu Biao.

Of course, Liu Biao had his reasons for choosing not to send troops.Since Liu Biao appointed Liu Bei as the governor of Jingnan, the four counties in Jingnan have been walking like flying under Liu Bei's jurisdiction. The population and economy have all increased. Even the military strength is better than Zhang Xian who rebelled before.

In addition, Cai Hao kept saying bad things about Liu Bei around Liu Biao, so that Liu Biao gradually began to doubt Liu Bei. Therefore, even though he knew that he and Yuan Shao might destroy Zhang Yan and take control of the Central Plains, he had some concerns in the rear , even if he can aspire to the Central Plains, once the backyard catches fire, if it burns to the Xiangyang area, the loss outweighs the gain.

This is the reason why Liu Biao chose not to send troops, and after that, he began to pay attention to the situation of the four counties in Jingnan all the time, which already meant to slowly weaken Liu Bei.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Liu Biao is a self-defense person. As long as there is no accident on his own one-acre land, he doesn't care about the rest.

After all, Liu Biao is approaching his twilight years, and Fang Gang's blood in his early years has long since disappeared. A few years ago, he tried to participate in the war for the Central Plains, and even killed Sun Jian, the tiger in the east of the Yangtze River. They got down and forced Yuan Shu to the Huainan area.

But as he grew older, he lost the ambition of the past. In the past few years, Liu Biao has devoted himself to the development and construction of Jingzhou, and there have been few wars.

Afterwards, the new emperor Liu Feng ascended the throne, and Zhang Yan continued to be regent as king, and issued an edict to the world.

It can be said that everyone in the world now knows that the emperor is a baby less than one year old, still in the stage of crying out for food, major events in the world, all military and political powers are decided by Zhang Yan alone, and the Han Dynasty also exists in name only.

It exists in name only, that is, it has not yet perished. In name, this world is still the world of the big man. No matter where you go, it is the land of the big man. Those who are officials in this land are still under the management of the court. To order the princes, you know that the order issued is not from the emperor himself, but you still have to obey it.

It is precisely because Zhang Yan has this advantage that he can gain a foothold in the Central Plains and be domineering.

At this time, Xu Chu was yelling outside, but the soldiers of the Cao army on the tower ignored Xu Chu.

Therefore, Xu Chu didn't waste his time talking, and then singled out Dian Wei, wanting to compete with Dian Wei.

After Cao Hong heard the news, he immediately sent someone to the city to inform Cao Cao and ask how to deal with it.

Cao Cao is currently staying in the arsenal of Handan City, Dian Wei is guarding Cao Cao, besides, Xun Yu, Xu You, and Xun Chen are all around Cao Cao, inspecting how Wang Lun and others are deploying Thunderbolt Huo Lei's.

In the last war, Cao Cao used the Thunderbolt Fire Thunder to attack the city for the first time. The result made Cao Cao appreciate it very much, and he also tasted the sweetness from the Thunderbolt Fire Thunder.

For this reason, as soon as Cao Cao returned to Handan City, he immediately ordered Wang Lun to speed up the production of Thunderbolt, and sent an additional 1000 people, all of whom were under the command of Wang Lun alone, and were responsible for the production of Thunderbolt.

Cao Cao was leading the crowd to patrol the arsenal when a soldier ran in from the outside and came directly to Cao Cao's side, clasped his fists and said, "My lord, Zhang Yan's vanguard army has arrived at the city of Handan. It was Xu Chu, the great general of Huben, who clamored outside the city to fight to the death with Captain Dian, and even claimed that he would cut off Captain Dian's head as a..."

When he said this, the soldier squinted at Dian Wei who was beside Cao Cao, and saw that Dian Wei's forehead was already frowning, so he stopped talking.

Who knows, Dian Wei really wanted to know what Xu Chu said, so he asked: "What did Xu Chu say, tell the truth, otherwise, I will cut your tongue!"

The soldier turned pale with fright, and immediately said, "Xu Chu said he would cut off Captain Dian's head and use it as a chamber pot..."

"Too much deceit!" When Dian Wei heard this, he was immediately furious, and he slammed his clenched fists directly at the wall, only to hear a dull sound of "bang", and a hole was punched out in the wall. Come, you can see how angry Dian Wei is.

When Cao Cao saw this, he said to Dian Wei: "If you want to fight, you can go. However, I must bring back Xu Chu's head!"

Dian Wei immediately cupped his fists and said, "Here!"

As soon as the words fell, Dian Wei turned around and left, and disappeared in the arsenal in a flash.

Seeing Dian Wei leaving in anger, Xun Yu said to Cao Cao: "My lord, Xu Chu is obviously trying to provoke Dian Wei. There are not many generals available under my lord's account now, and Dian Wei is my lord's servant. If he has a Mistake, who will protect the lord from now on?"

Cao Cao said: "Wen Ruo, don't worry too much. Dian Wei is a master of martial arts. Even Lu Bu can't do anything to him. A mere Xu Chu, why worry about it? Besides, letting Dian Wei fight is also to improve the morale of our army. Once Dian Wei is killed Xu Chu, wouldn't that improve the morale of our army?"

Xun Yu stopped talking and bid farewell to Cao Cao. He was going back to the government office to deal with some matters. When he walked to the door, he saw a scout running over with a letter in his hand, so he took it directly and asked Said: "Where did it come from?"

"Urgent report from Bingzhou!"

After Xun Yu heard this, his heart skipped a beat. He didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately entered the arsenal again, came to Cao Cao's side, and hurriedly handed the letter to Cao Cao, saying: "Bingzhou urgent report!"

Cao Cao took the letter and immediately opened it to read it. After reading it briefly, he frowned and said to himself, "It's true that misfortunes never come singly!"

Xun Yu, Xu You, and Xun Chen were all very curious, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, did something happen in Bingzhou?"

Cao Cao handed the letter to Xun Yu, Xu You, Xun Chen and others, and asked them to circulate it. The three of them got together to read it quickly, and they also looked sad for a while.

The letter was sent by Taiyuan prefect Wang Ling. Tai Shici and Xu Huang divided their troops into two groups, suddenly attacked Shangdang and occupied it. Afterwards, Xu Huang divided his troops and occupied Huguan. , approaching Jinyang.

At this time, Xiahou Dun and Guo Jia led the army to resist the Xianbei people at Yanmen Pass. Most of the army was at Yanmen Pass, and Jinyang's troops were relatively small. They might not be the opponents of Tai Shici and Xu Huang. Only then did Wang Ling send a letter to Cao Cao asking for help. Can send troops to rescue Jinyang.

(End of this chapter)