Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3 Cao Cao Urgently Offers His Sword
After the Yellow Turban Army was put down, the court became even more corrupt.The civil and military ministers are fighting for power and power, harboring evil intentions, restless and kind.He Jin, a foreign relative, brought Dong Zhuo into the capital. Dong Zhuo took the opportunity to indiscriminately kill the ministers of the court, seized power, and became prime minister.

Minister Wang Yun wanted to kill Dong Zhuo, so he secretly organized some loyal people to discuss how to kill Dong Zhuo in the secret room of his house.At this time, a very tall and mighty general stood up and said to everyone: "I am willing to borrow the seven-treasure sword from Mr. Wang's house to kill Dong Zhuo!" Everyone looked carefully and it was Cao Cao, the captain of Xiaojiao who spoke.

Cao Cao, also known as Meng De.His father's original surname was Xiahou, but he changed his surname to Cao because he was the adopted son of Cao Teng, the minister of Zhongchang.

Seeing that Cao Cao was very powerful and decisive, Wang Yun agreed to Cao Cao's request and took out the Seven Treasure Sword to Cao Cao.Cao Cao strode to Dong Zhuo's mansion.Seeing Dong Zhuo lying on the bed with his back turned to him, Cao Cao immediately drew out his sword to kill Dong Zhuo.Unexpectedly, Dong Zhuo saw Cao Cao drawing the knife on the bronze mirror beside the bed. He was taken aback, and turned around and asked Cao Cao, "Cao Mengde, what are you doing with the knife?" In front of him, holding a knife in both hands, he offered it to Dong Zhuo and said, "I have a seven-treasure knife, which is so sharp that it can cut iron like mud. Today, I am here to present it to Prime Minister Dong. Please accept this small gift from me." Dong Zhuo held the knife in his hand , even applauded the knife, and cut it down with the knife, only heard a click, and split the other sword stone on the table into two pieces.Cao Cao knelt on the ground and broke out in a cold sweat.

At this time, Dong Zhuo's godson Lu Bu came in.Lv Bu said to Dong Zhuo: "Father, I just brought a fine horse that can travel thousands of miles a day, and I come here to dedicate it to you." Dong Zhuo said yes.Seeing that Cao Cao was also there, Lu Bu said to Cao Cao, "What is Meng De doing here?" Cao Cao hurriedly said, "I have a seven-treasure sword hidden in my house. It is a precious sword. It cuts iron like mud. For your loyalty, I hurried here to dedicate it to the prime minister." Lu Bu sneered twice and stopped talking.Cao Cao was afraid that if he stayed in Dong Zhuo's house again, he would be killed, so he said to Dong Zhuo, "Please borrow a BMW for a test. I want to see if this horse is a good horse that can travel thousands of miles a day!" Dong Zhuo said: " Alright! Go and ride!" Cao Cao walked out of Dong's mansion quickly, took the fast horse, jumped up, clamped his legs on the horse's belly, whipped his whip, and roared: "Drive! "The horse ran really fast. After a while, it ran out of the capital and headed straight for Zhongmou County.

After Cao Cao left, Lu Bu said to Dong Zhuo, "This Cao Mengde wants to take advantage of the opportunity of offering the sword to murder you!" Dong Zhuo said, "I think it should be so." At this time, Li Ru came, and Dong Zhuo offered Cao Cao the sword The matter told Li Ru.Li Ru was also taken aback. He suggested to Dong Zhuo, "This Cao Mengde must be trying to murder the prime minister. Don't be fooled by him. Cao Mengde's family is not in the capital, and he lives here alone. The prime minister can immediately Order Cao Mengde to be summoned. If he comes, it means that he does not want to murder the prime minister; if he does not come, it means that he wants to murder you. The prime minister must kill this traitor."

Dong Zhuo adopted Li Ru's strategy.He hurriedly ordered to summon Cao Cao.The soldiers guarding the city gate reported to him: "Cao Cao rode a fast horse and ran out of the city for a long time. He also told us that Prime Minister Dong sent him out to do business!" Dong Zhuo was very angry when he heard this, so he ordered to arrest him Cao Cao.

When Cao Cao came to the gate of Zhongmu County, the gatekeepers caught Cao Cao and handed him over to Chen Gong, the county magistrate.Chen Gong asked Cao Cao:

"Is your name Cao Cao?" Cao Cao said, "You made a mistake. I am not Cao Cao, nor is my surname Cao, but my surname is Xiahou!" Chen Gong said with a smile, "How dare you lie to me, you are Cao Cao who assassinated the prime minister. Don't you admit it yet?"

So Cao Cao was imprisoned.In the middle of the night, Chen Gong secretly untied Cao Cao and was willing to follow Cao Cao to attack Dong Zhuo.Cao Cao was very happy, and escaped from the prison with Chen Gong.

They drove for three days and three nights in a row and arrived at a place called Chenggao. At this time, it got dark.Cao Cao said to Chen Gong: "My father has a sworn brother named Lu Boshe. Let's join him and stay overnight at his house, and we will go on our way tomorrow." Chen Gong agreed.

Lu Boshe treated Cao Cao as a guest of honor.He said to Cao Cao: "You have worked hard all the way. I will go to the entrance of the village to buy wine for you and come back to drink. Wait a moment!" Lu Boshe walked out of the house.Cao Cao and Chen Gong were resting at home. At this time, Cao Cao heard someone talking in the backyard: "Tie it up first, and you will be unable to move. Then, if you stab it with a knife, you will definitely die!" Cao Cao was shocked when he heard this. All the swords fell to the ground.He panicked and said to Chen Gong: "Lv Boshe's family is going to murder us to claim credit, let's kill them!" Take a butcher knife.Cao Cao was convinced that they were sharpening their swords to kill him, so he drew out the sword and killed eight members of Lu's family in one go.At this moment, there was the sound of pigs howling in the kitchen. Cao Cao and Chen Gong rushed into the kitchen to take a look, and immediately understood that the Lu family sharpened their knives just now to kill pigs and entertain them.Chen Gong blamed Cao Cao for killing innocent people indiscriminately.Cao Cao didn't dare to stay for long, so he rode away on horseback.At the entrance of the village, I met Lu Boshe who came back from buying wine.

Lu Boshe couldn't keep Cao Cao, so he had to go home by himself.Cao Cao had just walked a few steps when he suddenly reined in his horse and turned around to chase Lu Boshe.When he was about to catch up, Cao Cao yelled: "Lu Boshe, who is coming from behind?" As soon as Lu Boshe turned his head, Cao Cao cut Lu Boshe with a sword, splitting Lu Boshe in two.

Chen Gong was so frightened that he blamed Cao Cao: "Lu Boshe treated us kindly, why did you kill him?" Cao Cao said loudly, "As soon as Lu Boshe came home, he saw me beheading his family of eight. , he will definitely report to the officials, and we will be unable to escape even if we want to escape. It is better to kill him to silence him, so that no one will know!" Chen Gong said, "You are too vicious!" Cao Cao said with a sneer, "Ning taught me Don't let the world down, don't teach the world to blame me!" Chen Gong knew that Cao Cao was a traitor in troubled times, so he left Cao Cao in the middle of the night and went to Dongjun.

Cao Cao woke up the next day and found that Chen Gong had left him, and he was not angry.He didn't dare to stay any longer, and rushed straight to Chen Liu.

Cao Cao found his father and returned to his hometown together.With great fanfare, he recruited troops and bought horses to welcome the good and the talented.In a short period of time, Cao Cao recruited brave generals Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Dun, Xiahouyuan, Li Dian, Le Jin and others.Cao Cao also personally wrote a call to action against Dong Zhuo, sent people to various places, and called on all walks of life to send troops to Beijing to destroy the treacherous minister Dong Zhuo.Soon, the eighteen princes raised troops to respond to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao gathered all the princes in his hometown, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were stationed in Cao Cao's garrison.Cao Cao became famous for a while and became a leader.However, he was very scheming, and humbly let Yuan Shao, the prefect of Bohai, be the commander-in-chief of the allied army, and ordered the princes to attack Dong Zhuo.

(End of this chapter)