Chenliu, located in the northeast of Xuchang, east of the Tiger Pass, in the late autumn of November, the flag is waved here, two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses are stationed here, since the establishment of the small city of Chenliu, there has never been so many soldiers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Cao Cao raised troops from Chenliu, commanded the world, and made a document to reach the counties.

The text said: "Cao and others would like to announce to the world with great righteousness: Dong Zhuo deceived the heavens and the earth, destroyed the country and killed the king; Messing with the palace ban and mutilating living beings; Wolves are unkind, and sins are accumulated! Today, under the secret edict of the Son of Heaven, a large number of volunteers were gathered, vowing to sweep away China and kill the murderers. Wangxing righteous teachers, venting public anger; Support the royal family and save the people. When the text arrives, it can be pursued quickly! ”

After the text was released to the princes, it was immediately responded to by the princes, and a total of seventeen towns and princes gathered in an alliance: the first town, and the later general Nanyang Taishou Yuan Shu. The second town, Jizhou Thorn Shi Han Fu. The third town, Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kongling. The fourth town, Yanzhou Thorn Shi Liu Dai. The fifth town, Hanoi County Taishou Wang Kuang. In the sixth town, Chen Liutai guarded Zhang Miao. The seventh town, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao. The eighth town, Shanyang is too guarded by Yuan. The ninth town, Jibei Xiang Baoxin. The tenth town, Beihai Taishou Kongrong. The eleventh town, Guangling is too guarded by Zhang Chao. The twelfth town, Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian. The thirteenth town, Xiliang is too shou Ma Teng. The fourteenth town, Beiping Taishou Gongsun Zhan. The fifteenth town, the party is too guarded by Zhang Yang. The sixteenth town, Wucheng Hou Changsha guarded Sun Jian. The seventeenth town, Hou Bohai of Qi Township, guarded Yuan Shao.

There are 30,000 military horses on all roads, and there are 120,000 people, and the civil officials and military generals of each road gather to stay in Chen.

The princes elected Yuan Shao, the fourth and third dukes, as the leader of the alliance, stayed in Chenliu for half a month, rectified the soldiers and horses, and Yuan Shao's half-brother Yuan Shu was the governor of grain and grass, and they marched to Luoyang together.

After the princes' army defeated Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's army in ZM County, they marched all the way west, invincible, and arrived in Xingyang in a few days, only a hundred miles away from the Tiger Prison Pass.

On this day, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao learned that Dong Zhuo had changed the guard, and there was Dong Zhuo's new son Lu Bu in charge of the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Tiger Prison Pass was guarded by the Kansai Menghan and Dong Zhuo's old department, Huaxiong, so they gathered the princes under the tent to discuss how to deal with it.

"I heard that this Huaxiong is nine feet long, and he is the first fierce man in Kansai, and when Dong Zhuowei shook the West Liang in the early years, it was this person who made the first contribution." The speaker, with a slender face, covered in iron armor and heavy armor, sat in his seat, also a head taller, his eyes shone with wisdom, glanced at Gongsun Zhan, who was sitting on the side, and then stopped speaking.

"According to Shoucheng, who is better between Huaxiong and you?" Yuan Shao sat up straight.

Cao Cao arched his hand and said: "Who doesn't know that General Ma Teng is a hero of Xiliang, is this Huaxiong even better than Taishou?" ”

Ma Teng pondered for a while and said, "Although I haven't fought before, I think I'm inferior to him." ”

When he said this, everyone started to talk about it, and Ma Teng sneered at the strong man in the rotten silver armor on the other side, and said: "Brother Shoucheng, don't be prestigious, I see that under the account of the alliance leader, all the generals can defeat him!" ”

"How so?" A slightly immature voice sounded beside Ma Teng, and everyone looked at it, but it turned out to be Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, who was more than ten years old, but had grown to the mature appearance of an ordinary person at the age of eighteen, with a height of nearly seven feet, and the appearance of a white-faced scholar was full of youth and frivolity.

Ma Teng shouted: "Adults talk about things, what are children messing around?!" Get me out! ”

Ma Chao was not annoyed, and arched his hand: "Yes, the child will go out, but I want to persuade this general, don't underestimate Hua Xiong, and that Lu Bu, although their reputation is not loud outside the gate, but in Xiliang, when they talk about their names, the children can't stop crying!" Then he turned and walked out of the tent.

Yuan Shao saw Ma Teng scolding his son, and said with a smile: "What the child said is the truth, Brother Shoucheng, your son, you are so good!" ”

Ma Teng blushed, didn't dare to look at him, and said: "Xiao'er is ignorant, and he still hopes for the alliance leader Haihan, but what Xiao'er said is indeed what Ma Teng wants to say, Brother Wentai can't be careless!" ”

The caution of Ma Teng's father and son had already annoyed Sun Wentai, and he got up and didn't speak to Ma Teng anymore, and said to Yuan Shao: "Sun Wentai wants to see and understand!" Alliance leader, please send me as a pioneer to test the strength of this Huaxiong first! I don't want you to send troops and horses to me, I will only lead my own troops and horses! ”

Everyone knew that Sun Jian was a strong master, and when they heard that he wanted to fight for merit, they all held the meaning of watching the fire from the other side, so they didn't speak, Yuan Shao saw that everyone was speechless, and looked at Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu listened to Sun Jian leading the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, and nodded with a smile, Yuan Shao said: "Okay, just Yiwentai!" Please go now, if you can kill Hua Xiong, the first credit will be yours! ”

Sun Wentai arched his hand and said: "I just hope that the alliance leader can allocate grain and grass in time, I don't have to worry about the future!" ”

Yuan Shu narrowed his eyes, touched his beard and said, "Don't worry, the grain and grass will be allocated on time and in quantity!" ”

Sun Wentai glanced at everyone, saw Ma Teng staring at the ground, sneered, turned around and went out, and the four generals behind him also immediately got up and followed out.

"Report!"

The sergeant outside the tent entered and said, "General, there has been an accident in the barracks recently, and many sergeants have died inexplicably overnight!" Here's the roster! ”

Yuan Shao glanced at everyone, and saw that everyone didn't know why, so he took the roster, opened it and glanced at it, and immediately closed it: "How can two thousand soldiers die in three days, why don't you report me early?" ”

The sergeant said: "These soldiers were not soldiers on duty, and, moreover, they all died in the wilderness outside the city, stripped of their clothes, and their whole bodies festered, green, purple, or black...... So I found out last night, and after I waited all night for an inventory, the numbers were counted. ”

"Could it be poisoned?" Cao Cao's eyes flashed, and he glanced at the princes suspiciously, and when he saw that they were all discussing, he secretly groaned in his heart, could it be that someone poisoned him? Or is there a Huaxiong spy sneaking in? Still is......? In an instant, he had already turned countless thoughts, came back to his senses, and saw that Yuan Shao's eyes were just directed at him, so he said: "This matter must not be publicized, it can only be investigated secretly, and the morale of the army must not be disturbed because of this matter, I guess it is Hua Xiong's treacherous plan!" ”

Yuan Shao stroked his beard and said, "Then this matter will be handed over to Brother Meng De." Ladies and gentlemen, now Sun Wentai has set off, tomorrow the army will be drawn out, and the north and south will march towards the Tiger Pass, please be sure to focus on the overall situation and jointly capture the Tiger Pass. In addition, Brother Zhang Chao, the Taishou of Guangling, please build a ship immediately, and together with the Beihai Taishou Kong Rong, march from Bishui to the Tiger Prison Pass, three days later, meet under the Tiger Prison Pass, and all Dong Zhuojun encountered along the way will be wiped out, and there is no need to report again. ”

Yuan Shao assigned some specific matters, and everyone stood up from their seats, surrendered their hands together, and withdrew from the tent.

Outside Xingyang City, the dead sergeant was pushed down to dig a large soil pit to fill in, this night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, several soldiers buried the last person, and were about to seal the soil, but saw the lights flickering in the distance, a large group of people and horses came, and they got closer, only to see that it was Cao Cao.

Cao Cao glanced at the pit and said, "How many people are buried?" ”

The sergeant hurriedly knelt down and said, "General, fifty-four people died today. ”

"Which princes belong to?"

"The princes of every town have ......"

Cao Cao turned over and dismounted, paced to the edge of the big pit, and the sergeant next to him lit a torch to illuminate it. ”

The sergeant had no choice but to pull one up from the pit.

Cao Cao wiped the soil from the corpse, and was suddenly startled, the dead sergeant in front of him, although he was wearing soldiers' clothes, had long hair hanging down to the ground, and a beauty mole in the corner of his eye, and he was a beauty.

"How can there be a woman?" Cao Cao looked at the sergeant suspiciously, and the two sergeants were shocked, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The little ones, the little ones don't know, the little ones are all dead people, and they didn't screen carefully, so they were buried together." ”

Although this woman's face was colorless and her body was stiff, it still made Cao Cao's heart move, "How can this female corpse not show signs of poisoning?" ”

No one could answer, Cao Cao continued to brush off the dust on her body, but saw that her right hand trembled slightly, and before Cao Cao could react, the female corpse "wow", turned over, and choked Cao Cao's neck with lightning and thunder.

Everyone expected that the female corpse would be resurrected, and they were so shocked that they retreated, but when they saw that Cao Cao was restrained, they didn't dare to disperse in a hurry, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Cao Cao's throat was restrained, and he immediately felt that he couldn't breathe, and he couldn't speak, only to see the female corpse slowly open his eyes, but it was a pair of black eyes, he was shocked, and only then did he remember to draw the sword, so he pulled out the green sword from his waist, and didn't want to cut it at the female corpse's arm.

The female corpse did not dodge, pinching Cao Cao's arm was broken by a sword, Cao Cao was about to be proud, but his throat did not relax in the slightest, and the broken arm tightly choked his throat.

A puff of purple smoke emanated from the severed arm of the female corpse, which gradually connected with the severed arm, and she reached out with a claw with her other hand, purple poisonous gas gushed out from her fingertips, and grabbed Cao Cao's top door with one claw.

I'm dying!

Cao Cao closed his eyes.

After a long time, death did not come, he opened his eyes, but saw that under the moonlight, a blue spear blocked one of the claws of the female corpse, and the severed arm of the female corpse was restored, she let go of Cao Cao's throat, turned around and grabbed it with one claw.

Behind her stood the "corpse" of a soldier, but at this time he held a spear and said, "I finally found you!" ”

The female corpse roared, her whole body smelled of rancidity, and she reached out with both claws and grabbed the man, and the soldier shook his spear, then turned over to dodge, and said "Why are you?" ”

Cao Cao felt that he had heard this voice somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while, as soon as the female corpse retreated, the soldiers also hugged him and guarded him.

The female corpse and the soldier fought in the dark for a while, and a gust of wind blew in front of Cao Cao, and the soldier with a spear said, "Don't go!" ”

Under the firelight, Cao Cao saw clearly that the person turned out to be Zhao Yun who he met on the way to escape a few months ago.

Zhao Yun also recognized him at this time, only slightly arched his hand, and said: "The one who killed the soldier was the woman just now, leave this matter to me, you don't care!" ”

Cao Cao was about to thank Zhao Yun for saving his life, but when he saw Zhao Yun's body shake, he had already stepped on his mount, and the sound of horses' hooves disappeared after a while.

Cao Cao sighed, a little annoyed, and said, "Stab all these dead corpses again!" ”

His heart was agitated, he was responsible for this matter, but Zhao Yun didn't let him take care of it, how could he stand by and watch, if the woman entered the military camp again, and Hua Xiong came to challenge, the military hearts of the princes of the Eighteenth Road would be scattered, maybe he and Yuan Shao also had to worry about their lives.

"Search me all, and imprison all suspicious women!" Cao Cao ordered the sergeant to pour fire oil on the corpse, threw down the torch, burned the corpses all over the pit with a fire, and returned to the city overnight.