Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 34 Making mistakes early
"Your Majesty!"

When Zhao Feng got off his horse, straightened his clothes and returned to the tent, the two soldiers who had escorted Cao Xiu before were pushing him to the ground with all his strength.Cao Xiu was struggling and yelling: "You gang of thieves will kill you as soon as you want. If I frown, I will not be a descendant of the Cao family!"

"It's very good. The last time Cao Cao slaughtered people in Xuzhou, I asked his nephew to pay his debts today." Seeing that Cao Xiuning was unyielding, Guan Yu had no patience to persuade Cao Xiuning to surrender, so he paused and said, "Come on, Drag it out for me and chop it off!"

"Second General, please calm down for now. Since Cao Xiu is a descendant of the Cao family, it might be useful for him to force Du Yuan to surrender." Liao Hua suggested at this time.But if he had seen the scene on the city wall just now, he probably wouldn't have said that.

"Don't even think about it, a dog thief, my descendants of the Cao family have always had only generals with severed heads, but no one who has bowed their knees!" Cao Xiu was still yelling, the wound on his shoulder was still bleeding.

"Oh, Bo Tao is back, what do you think we should do?" Seeing that Zhao Feng was just getting paid, Guan Yu thought that Cao Xiu was finally captured alive by Zhao Feng, so he asked Zhao Feng for his opinion on how to deal with it.What's more, Zhao Feng has always had fantastic ideas.

"It's better to hold it down first, and wait until the city is broken before beheading. Beheading at this time will only make the people in the city defend the city more desperately, and the casualties will only increase." Zhao Feng walked up to Guan Yu and whispered. Said: "The city will be broken tonight, and it will fall on this person." The voice was very low, only Guan Yu could hear it.

"Huh?" Guan Yu was only slightly taken aback, but then he pretended to be nonchalant and ordered the soldiers to take Cao Xiu down and keep him under strict surveillance. "What idea did Bo Tao think of?" Guan Yu hurriedly asked after seeing Cao Xiu being escorted out of the tent.

"It's not a new idea, it just makes the original strategy of Liu Pi and Gong Du more reliable." Zhao Feng explained with a smile.

Li Yan rolled his eyes and said in his mind, "General Zhao wants Liu Pi and Gong Du to let this guy go, and let him lead the way into Qiao County?"

"Exactly!" Zhao Feng admitted with a nod.

"This method is simple, but I don't know if Cao Xiu will be fooled?" Guan Yu thought for a while and raised his own doubts.

"Cao Xiu is young after all, and now he has almost died after being captured. If someone can save him, his life is the most important thing." Zhao Feng said this, but he kept muttering in his heart: The biggest characteristic of Cao Xiu is that he trusts others too easily, especially those who surrender.He has been a general in history, but he was deceived by Zhou Bing of Soochow who cut off a bunch of hair.Now that you are young and inexperienced, it is easier to cheat.

"Alright, anyway, we were going to cheat the city anyway, so we have more confidence." Guan Yu thought for a while and nodded in agreement.At this time Zhao Feng continued: "Since we are going to play, we have to make it look like it. Let the sergeants pack up a few empty tents and come out later. In the evening, Liu Pi and Gong Du set fire to it, and the soldiers guarding Cao Xiu pretended to go out." Put out the fire, and then they rescued Cao Xiu and escaped from the back door, and then went around to the east gate of Qiaojun and called for the door. I have seen the terrain, there is a small slope on the left side of the east gate, and it can hide more than a thousand people behind. As long as the city gate opens Open it, the two of you will immediately occupy the city gate, and then ambush your troops and rush out, as long as you can fight for a while, our brigade can follow behind and enter Qiaojun."

"That's it! Li Yan, you lead 1000 troops to ambush behind the slope. Just wait for the city gate to open, then go in and cut down the suspension bridge." Guan Yu unexpectedly asked Li Yan to ambush, Liao Hua and Hao Meng were also taken aback, after all Now Li Yan's official position is still the captain of Liang Guo, and his official rank is lower than them. I didn't expect Guan Yu to entrust him with such an important task.

"It is gold that will shine in the end." Zhao Feng said this sentence silently in his heart. Although Guan Yu was crazy, he was not a person without knowledge.Li Yan's talent is far superior to Liao Hua's, and Guan Yu has also seen it through these few days of contact, so he entrusted him with such an important task.

"Yan takes the order!" Li Yan was only slightly taken aback, and then he cupped his fists to accept the order, and his tone was still a little excited.Then Guan Yu continued to make arrangements, how will the rest of the people respond, and who will stay in Dazhai.When all these arrangements were finished, they still ordered people to continue to attack the city.After all, if you suddenly stop attacking the city, it will inevitably make the defenders suspicious, and it would be bad if it was self-defeating.

The Xuzhou army has been attacking the city during the day, and it didn't come to an end until nightfall.Cao Xiu was locked in a separate small tent in the rear army, and his whole body was tied to a wooden frame.Although Cao Xiu was very firm and unyielding when he was captured, he felt a little nervous after being tied up like this for a day.Although there were two guarding soldiers around, Cao Xiu didn't bother to talk to them.In addition, Cao Xiu didn't know whether Guan Yu forgot, or whether he wanted to starve him to death. No one brought him food that day, and now he was starving.

I don't know how long my heart was going up and down like this. Cao Xiuzheng was a little impatient, and suddenly felt that there seemed to be some fire outside the tent, and then someone shouted that there was a fire.And more and more people shouted, and their voices became louder and louder.How thick can this tent be?After a while, even Cao Xiu and the two guarding soldiers could see the flames flickering through the tent.

"No, there is a fire, what should we do?"

"What to do, hurry up and put out the fire!"

"Let's go to fight the fire, what about this kid?"

"It's so tightly tied, the boy can't escape. Either we save the fire and come back, or we burn him to death!"

"Alright, you might be burned to death here, let's go out and have a look."

After discussing for a few words, the two soldiers dropped their weapons and went out to check the situation. "Ah!" As soon as they stepped out, Cao Xiu heard their screams.

"Huh?" Cao Xiu was stunned when two big men rushed in from outside the tent, one of them pulled out a sharp knife, and cut all the thick hemp ropes binding Cao Xiu in two or three strokes.

"May I ask who the strong man is?" No matter how stupid Cao Xiu was, he could tell that someone was here to save him. "This is not a place to talk, General Cao, come with us first!" The leader whispered, and then pulled Cao Xiu away from the tent and walked to the rear army.Although Cao Xiu was injured and didn't eat, and was tied up for a long time, his body was unusually strong, and he was still able to barely keep up with those two people.Although he didn't meet anyone along the way, Cao Xiu noticed that the flames were soaring in the west, and everyone must have been busy.

A group of three people came to the wall of the Houzhai courtyard, there were more than a hundred people waiting for them, and they even pried away a piece of the fence.When Cao Xiu and the others arrived, everyone hurried out of the camp, and then ran a long way eastward, only stopping when they were sure that no one was chasing them.

"May I ask the strong man Gao's name, Cao Xiu will be rewarded for such a great kindness." Cao Xiu clasped his fists to the big man who came to rescue him.Along the way, he also noticed that this person should be the leader of this group, and everyone else called him Big Brother Liu.

"General Cao is serious, we are all enemies with Guan Yu, what is the difference between each other." The man said modestly, then took a breath and said: "I am Liu Pi from Runan, and this is my brother Gong Du We used to be kings and hegemons in Runan. Guan Yu's army entered Yuzhou the day before yesterday, and we saw that we were no match, so we led the crowd to surrender. We didn't think that Guan Yu was really insidious. He accepted us on the surface, but broke up tens of thousands of our subordinates and reorganized them. Joining the army. In name, it is to strengthen training, but in fact it is emptying us. We originally had tens of thousands of subordinates, but when we came to him, we only got a military commander. I discussed it with Brother Gong, and I felt that there was no future for Guan Yu. I have heard for a long time that Prime Minister Cao is respectful and virtuous, so I decided to prevent riots, and then take the opportunity to rescue the general so that I can join Prime Minister Cao. It is a pity that only a hundred or so brothers were gathered in a hurry." After Liu Pi finished speaking, he shook his head again and again, very upset regret.

Cao Xiu patiently listened to Liu Pi's words, and immediately said happily: "If you two have this heart, Cao Xiu will recommend you from the present age. This is not a place to talk, so let's go back to Qiao County first. There are [-] strong soldiers in the city, enough to defend the city to the death. , waiting for my uncle's reinforcements. But I don't know how many troops Guan Yu still has?"

Liu Pi raised his head and made some calculations before saying, "Guan Yu led an army of 3 troops into Yuzhou. Excluding the left behind troops and combat consumption, there are definitely less than [-] left now. With [-] horses, no less than [-] troops can attack the strong city where [-] people are stationed. , the chances of winning were not great. But in order to win, Guan Yu has stepped up the attack on the city these days regardless of casualties, and the generals will not listen to their advice."

"Hmph, as soon as the prime minister's reinforcements arrive, the internal and external attack will naturally be awarded the head. Let's go back to Qiao County first, do you know where there are no Xuzhou army horses?" Cao Xiu comforted the two, and began to ask about the most direct way to escape question.

At this time Gong Du interjected: "There is no east gate. The terrain there is undulating and it is difficult to launch an offensive. Therefore, Guan Yu only sent some scouts to patrol there, but there are no troops."

"If that's the case, let's take a detour to the east gate to enter the city!" Cao Xiu said bitterly, and then he detoured to the east gate together with Liu Pi and more than a hundred people, and it took more than an hour to arrive at the east gate of Qiaojun.

"Who is it?" The sentry on the top of the city shouted when they saw this group of people approaching, and at the same time dozens of bows and arrows were aimed at them.

"I am General Cao Xiu, open the city gate quickly!" Cao Xiu shouted.

"General Cao?" Several sentries looked at each other, and one of them hurried to report to the officer.It just so happened that Du Yuan was visiting the east gate at this time, and when he heard the report from his subordinates, he quickly went up to the wall to see what happened.

"It's really General Cao!" Du Yuan used the firelight to see clearly that the first person was Cao Xiu, "Hey, isn't it Brother Liu Pi and Brother Gong Du? Why are you with General Cao?" Du Yuan found that the other two An acquaintance, suddenly even more surprised.

"These two strong men are not tolerated by Guan Yu, so they took the risk to rescue me. Prefect Du, please open the door!" Cao Xiu hastily explained a few words. Seeing that there were two people, Du Yuan subconsciously felt relieved, and immediately ordered open the door.

It's a pity that Du Yuan forgot at the time that Liao Hua and him were also acquaintances.

"Bang!" "Crack!" The suspension bridge was lowered and the city gate opened. Du Yuan personally came down to meet Cao Xiu and Liu Pi. He would wait until the hundreds of people had passed the suspension bridge. Du Yuan was about to talk to Cao Xiu when he heard Liu Pi yelled, "Do it!"

Then, these hundreds of people took out a short knife about a foot long from the armor behind them, and rushed towards Du Yuan and the others who were defenseless, or who were too late to guard.The opening of the city gate is very narrow, and the short knife, which is about one foot long, is very handy to use. At one time, more than ten dead people were lying on the spot.

"There's a fraud!" Just as Du Yuan was about to ask someone to close the city gate, he saw a group of people suddenly rushing towards the open city gate at full speed from behind the small slope a few miles away from the city.

(End of this chapter)