17 The City of Sacrifice

"It's been weird in the last few days!" Seeing that there was no one around, Li San'er, a sergeant guarding the city gate opposite, came over, put his hand deep into the armor, groped for a long time, took out a few chestnuts, and handed them to Zhang Wu, "Brother, these days, there is no one here!" ”

Zhang Wu put the chestnut in his mouth and bit it lightly, and peeled it with his hands: "Yes, the whole city is like a dead city!" He took off the yellow scarf on his head, wiped his sweat, and said, "This ghost weather, so hot, it's already late autumn, how can it be like dog days!" ”

"You don't want to live! Fast! Li San'er snatched the yellow scarf and asked Zhang Wu to tie it again, "If you are seen by the chief, you will lose your head!" ”

Zhang Wu smiled: "Sir? Where are the people? It seems that this Xuzhou city is just you and me! After eating today, see if it will be delivered tomorrow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Hey, seriously." Li San'er pushed Zhang Wu's abdomen with his elbow, looked around a few times, and whispered: "I heard that a younger brother in charge ......" He rolled his eyes, and immediately looked around vigilantly, "You say, how will the situation change?" ”

"I've heard of this a long time ago, I heard that he died a miserable death, and the official army had a god-like general, with three heads and six arms, and he ...... all at once" Zhang Wu said softly, "You say, this is not an empty city, right?" There wasn't even a bird, so we were left standing here stupidly, and when the officers and soldiers came, they were going to be beheaded all over the house! ”

Li San'er blinked and said, "I guess the situation is wrong, so, I'll sneak in to see the situation, you are guarding here, if someone comes, you will say that I have a stomachache and go to the thatched house!" Zhang Wu thought for a while and said, "It's okay, then you hurry up, no matter what, come back and report a message!" ”

"Don't worry, we're grasshoppers on a rope." Li San'er quickly ran to the house on duty, took off his armor, dressed in a common person's attire, turned a few corners, and disappeared into the streets and alleys.

A strong wind blew on the flat ground, and Zhang Wu couldn't help but shiver.

Half an hour passed, the sky gradually darkened, Li San'er did not return for a long time, Zhang Wu looked from time to time, but there was no one in sight.

It was completely dark, Zhang Wu closed the city gate early, and as usual he wanted to go up to the city tower to inspect a circle, he lit the lamp in the duty room, and walked up to the city tower with the lamp.

Unexpectedly, he found that there were many figures on the city wall shaking, but there was no light, Zhang Wu walked through the city tower, walked to the north of the city wall, only to see a figure slowly coming from the other side of the city wall, he took a closer look, the person drooped his shoulders, tilted his head, no, it should be like a head hanging around his neck, and he walked one high and one low weakly.

Zhang Wu secretly clenched the spear in his hand.

The man walked to a female wall and stopped, leaned over and put his hand in his mouth, then stretched it out and painted something on the wall.

When the lights went on, Zhang Wu found that there were many similar people behind him who were painting on the city wall at a certain distance.

A gust of wind came, and the lights flickered a few times before they went out.

Zhang Wu secretly scolded his mother, approached gently, and by the moonlight, he found that at the end of the north side of the city wall, there were still a bunch of figures slowly moving towards this side.

The nearest man turned around and moved towards the female wall on the other side, and Zhang Wu took the opportunity to touch it to see what was painted on the wall.

A strange circular pattern, the twisted pattern in the circle is like some kind of totem, but he can't see clearly, Zhang Wu felt that his palms were full of sweat, leaned over, and a corrosive smell of blood almost choked him, Zhang Wu hurriedly held his breath and retreated a few steps, but it happened to spray the person behind him.

The man was frightened, the two turned around at the same time, Zhang Wu screamed in shock, the person in front of him was Li San'er who left half an hour ago, but now he was in rags, his jaw had been dislocated, hanging on his face, his face was full of blood, his whole body was covered with knife wounds, his skin was open and fleshy, his eyes were already white, he grabbed it with both hands, and instantly grabbed Zhang Wu's shoulders, and the sharp claws immediately cut into it through the leather armor, Zhang Wu's shoulders were in severe pain, and he kicked Li San'er away, with a bang, Li San'er's broken arms grabbed his shoulders, But his body slammed into the city wall and collapsed.

Zhang Wu's movement here has already alarmed the others, the quiet city wall immediately became noisy, Zhang Wu didn't care about the pain, only to see countless "dead people" in the distance running towards him, Zhang Wu picked up the spear and stabbed a few, pulled his legs and ran, looked back, Mom, those stabbed down and stood up again.

In the moonlight, he found that these people were the same as him, with yellow scarves tied on their heads, they were all yellow turban soldiers, why did they become like this?

Zhang Wu stumbled down the tower, but saw a few dead people jumping down from the tower, blocking the way, he stabbed a few, but because he stopped for a moment, he was crushed to the ground by the dead people who pounced on him, Zhang Wu just wanted to be lucky, but the dead people had already bitten the flesh exposed outside the armor, and their claws rushed into his abdomen like steel, and pulled out his intestines mercilessly.

More dead people pounced and tore Zhang Wu to pieces.

A hundred miles away from the west of Xuzhou City, a wild hill can be seen fluttering colorful flags from time to time, through the dense woods, the lights are shining through, there are cavalry patrolling back and forth from time to time under the hills, and several sentry posts receive fast horse information from the east.

"Brother Wentai, please take a seat."

Sun Jian stepped into the tent and glanced around without evasion, and found that there was no one in the tent, only a short young man was standing in front of the map, and when he heard the footsteps, he hurriedly turned his head, his eyes flashed, and then he was covered by a smile on his face.

This was the first time Sun Jian had met this person named Cao Cao.

has been an official for many years, and some people only hear his name but have not seen him, which is also very common.

"Long up, long back!" Sun Jian stepped inside, and his true sense had already sensed that he was the only one in Cao Cao's tent, and he really had no defense.

Cao Cao laughed, gave up the seat of the owner, and said, "General Sun, please take a seat." ”

Seeing that he was polite, Sun Jian smiled and said: "Strong guests are not oppressive of weak masters, not to mention that Meng De is famous in the country, how dare Wentai take responsibility?" ”

Cao Cao was also not polite, and said: "According to my wishes, you and I don't want to sit down first, come, Brother Wentai will come and listen to me talk about how to fight tomorrow's battle!" He walked to the topographic map again, and Sun Jian walked to the other side, this topographic map was very simple, basically marking the terrain within a radius of 100 miles, without a single mark.

"It turns out that Meng De is already in his chest!" Sun Jian secretly sighed in his heart, if this person didn't mean to show off, he really had great talent.

Cao Cao pretended not to hear his ridicule, and said seriously: "The terrain of Xuzhou City has been carefully explored, although there are many plains on all sides, but there are also small rivers passing through, the reinforcements currently in HB are too busy to take care of themselves, and they will definitely not come to help, as long as our side will attack it first tomorrow, and then surround it for a few days, Xuzhou soldiers, grain and grass are insufficient, and they will be able to capture it within seven days!" ”

Sun Jian touched the tiger's beard without any expression: "However, this city is based on Zhang Bao, and Meng De seems to underestimate his ability too much." ”

Cao Cao seemed to have been prepared for a long time: "He recently withdrew the city defense and opened the city gate to show weakness, how can this deceive me?" According to my estimates, Zhang Bao sent someone to ask for reinforcements a few days ago, and found that Zhang Liang was dead, so he had to ask his eldest brother for help, he must have arranged a mechanism in the city, trying to lure me and others to go and defeat us, I think we dare not attack easily, he is delaying time, and his intentions have already been seen through by me. ”

What Cao Cao didn't expect was that Sun Jian remained silent and sneered: "What if the information I have is very different from Brother Meng De?" Would Brother Meng De be willing to listen to me? ”

Cao Cao's brows locked, his eyes flashed faintly, and then he laughed: "Please Brother Wentai to come, I was about to ask for advice, Meng De is foolish, I hope Brother Wentai will correct me!" ”

is a good Cao Mengde, he will really give himself a step! Sun Jian sighed secretly, this person is so quick to respond is rare in the world.

Sun Jian sat on the desk with his buttocks, and saw that Cao Cao didn't mind, and said: "Zhang Bao knows witchcraft, Meng De don't laugh, there are also some people in our army who know how to divinate and help Luan, according to their observation, Zhang Bao is arranging a peculiar sacrifice." ”

"Sacrifice? Is he going to sacrifice the three prisons to fight our army? Sun Jian's words somewhat disappointed Cao Cao.

"No, you underestimate Zhang Bao too much." Sun Jian looked solemn and said: "Many years ago, his brother Zhang Jiao became the descendant of the Zhang Taoist family, and then clashed with the Wudou Rice Dao of the descendants of the Taoist family in Hanzhong. ”

After listening to Sun Jian's words, Cao Cao believed it a little, in the early years he had seen Zhang Lu of Hanzhong who entered Beijing, and he was treated by non-ordinary officials at a young age, and his father occasionally mentioned Zhang Lu and Wudou Midao to him. It's just that Zhang Lu and Zhang Jiao, one is a hereditary title, and the other was born out of nowhere, for Zhang Jiao's mantle of Taoism, in fact, Cao Cao can see that Zhang Lu has always taken a disdainful and contemptuous attitude. After Zhang Jiao's rebellion, Zhang Lu's status was immediately promoted and he became the inheritor of the Taoist mantle.

"It seems that the little brother ignored Zhang Bao, I don't know what tricks he is doing?" Cao Cao sincerely asked for advice, Sun Jian glanced at him, looked at the topographic map, and said: "This person is vicious, just now I received a report from Kuaimalai, saying that the gates of Xuzhou City have been opened, and there are faint figures shaking on the paper of the city tower, but the scouts who are close have not returned." ”

Cao Cao pondered for a long time, and Sun Jian continued: "In my opinion, tomorrow we will attack the city as usual, but tentatively, to see what will happen to the people who enter the city, if it is found that Zhang Bao is playing tricks, it is not too late to implement it according to Meng De's strategy." ”

Cao Cao nodded, and as soon as Sun Jian said it, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Does Meng De know about the Divine Beast Weapon?" Sun Jian suddenly changed the topic, and Cao Cao was a little caught off guard, "What divine beast weapon?" ”

Sun Jian narrowed his eyes and said: "I don't know what it is, but I heard that above the court, someone is searching for this unknown foreign object, and this time General He Jin wants to completely exterminate Zhang Jiao, which may also be related to the divine beast." ”

"Mo Fei, Zhang Jiao's hand ......"

"Exactly, of course, this has nothing to do with us, but Meng De, if you and I join forces, we can not only get rid of Zhang Bao, but also hurry up and go north to destroy Zhang Jiao in one fell swoop, maybe you can search for the divine beast weapon, what does this mean, you should know it."

Sun Jian deliberately revealed this news to Cao Cao, which was very important for him to repay, and from the moment he saw him, Sun Jian wanted to take Cao Cao under his banner and use it for his own use.

"Brother Wentai is very loving, Meng De remembers, if Meng De finds this divine beast weapon, the credit should be Brother Wentai's." Cao Cao figured out Sun Jian's stomach and intestines, and pushed the boat down the river.

Sun Jian strode out of the tent and said, "Brother Mengde, you and I are of the same heart, and its benefits are golden." By the way, there is more than one divine beast weapon, and the one in Zhang Jiao's hand may only be one of them. After saying that, he walked away without looking back.

"Divine beasts?" Cao Cao lay down, rested his feet comfortably on the desk, touched his beard, and laughed: "It seems that the day of Zhang Jiao's fall is the time of court disputes. Hehe, hahahahahahaha......"