On the eighteenth day of the first month of the second year of Jian'an, Cao Cao led an army of 20,000 to camp beside the Shushui River in Nanyang, preparing to attack Wanxian.

Zhang Xiu only had 3,000 men and horses, and when he saw Cao Cao's army coming, he hurriedly called the generals to discuss.

And there was only one result of the negotiation: surrender.

Three thousand against twenty thousand, except to surrender, Zhang Xiu had no other way, Liu Biao was in Changsha to quell the rebellion, and he had no energy to help him.

Jia Xu also agreed with Zhang Xiu's surrender to Cao Cao, so as soon as Cao Cao's army was set up, Zhang Xiu sent Jia Xu to Cao Cao's camp to ask for surrender.

Cao Cao was also happy to see it surrender, and without spending a single soldier, he solved the southern worries of Xu Du. and Zhang Xiu have no grudges, so Cao Cao has an extra army of soldiers and horses, and has the land of Nanyang.

After Cao Ang received Li Xian's letter, he was very entangled in his heart.

If Li Xian can predict Zhang Xiu's surrender and rebellion, it is a bit unbelievable to say that his father will accept Zhang Ji's wife and plan to kill Zhang Xiu.

After thinking about it, he decided not to tell Cao Cao first, and then make a decision.

On the 25th, Cao Cao called Zhang Xiu to the camp, and after talking about official affairs in the army, Cao Cao suddenly asked Zhang Xiu: "I heard that your uncle Ji has a wife Zou and is now widowed, can you send her to my camp, and from now on you and I will be married, how about it?" ”

Zhang Xiu secretly scolded the old thief in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, so he reluctantly smiled: "It is a blessing for embroidery to be able to form a marriage with the general, but the uncle of the clan is newly dead, and now he sends his wife, I am afraid that others will criticize him." ”

Cao Cao laughed when he heard this: "You don't have to be afraid of this, no one will say anything, and no one dares to say anything." You just have to send it, don't pay attention to the words of others, whoever dares to say what is wrong, I will kill whomever I want. ”

Zhang Xiu couldn't help it, Cao Cao said so, and if he refused, it would make him angry.

After he returned, he sent someone to send Zhang Ji's wife, Zou, to Cao Cao's camp.

That night, Zhang Xiu felt that he had suffered a great shame and was drinking alone.

At this time, Jia Xu came to ask to see, Jia Xu heard about Zhang Xiu's delivery to his wife, and he knew that Zhang Xiu would definitely be unhappy, so he came to persuade Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu saw that it was Jia Xu and said: "Cao Cao, old thief, deceived me too much, I swear to kill him." ”

Jia Xu said slightly: "Cao Cao's move is indeed against human morality, General Zhang Ji is newly dead, and his bones are not cold, but Cao Cao snatches his wife, which is indeed unbearable." ”

Zhang Xiu knew that Jia Xu had always been resourceful, so she took Jia Xu's hand and said, "Wenhe is resourceful, can you help me draw a plan and let me repay this shame." ”

Jia Xu touched the beard under his chin and thought for a while before saying, "Does the general really want to be ashamed?" Cao Cao's forces are strong, and if we don't succeed, we will be in danger of destruction. ”

"Wen He, although it is said, I have made up my mind."

"Okay, the general can pretend to be afraid of Cao Cao's might and deceive Cao Cao's trust, thinking that the general is incompetent. Then under the pretext of sending wine to the labor army, he led the troops into Cao's camp, hid the blade on the car, and suddenly killed, then Cao Cao could be destroyed. ”

"Wonderful." Zhang Xiu continued to drink, but what he drank was no longer stuffy wine, but strong wine.

When Cao Ang knew that Cao Cao had really accepted Zhang Ji's wife, he was shocked, and it was really as Li Xian expected.

He knew that the matter was a bit serious, so he went to the big tent in the army to ask to see Cao Cao.

Cao Cao led his troops to attack Zhang Xiu this time, which was originally a strong attack on the weak, and he was bound to win. So he brought Cao Ang and Cao Pi, who was only ten years old, and wanted them to also experience in the army.

Cao Ang entered the big tent, and Cao Cao was the only one in the tent, and Dian Wei stood outside the tent door with an axe.

Cao Ang first saluted Cao Cao, and then asked, "I heard that my father accepted Zhang Ji's wife?" ”

Cao Cao was holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, and he was dealing with military affairs, and he didn't raise his head to answer: "Well, yes." ”

"Isn't this father afraid of Zhang Xiu's betrayal?"

Cao Ang has always been loved by Cao Cao, and he doesn't have so many scruples when he speaks, he just says whatever he wants.

Cao Cao listened, put down the bamboo slip in his hand, and looked up at Cao Ang, he wondered how Cao Ang could talk about this today.

"Zhang Xiu has just surrendered, why did he betray? Neither did I do any wrong to him. ”

"Father accepted Zhang Ji's wife, Zhang Xiu is bound to be jealous, and ...... Does his father also have the intention of killing Zhang Xiu? ”

Cao Cao's face sank, and then he said happily: "Zixiu, you have really grown up and know how to look at things with your heart." How did you tell I wanted to kill Zhang Xiu? I'm afraid I can't even see this Fengxiao, you really deserve to be my son. ”

After saying that, he laughed for a while, and he was glad that he had such a smart son.

In his heart, he really wanted to bribe the generals around Zhang Xiu to kill Zhang Xiu, so that he could receive Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses into his hands.

If others guessed that he had this idea, the person who guessed it would also have to die, and if others guessed it, he would be subject to others everywhere, and now fortunately, this person is his son Cao Ang.

Cao Ang is a very honest person, he took out the letter that Li Xian gave him, handed it to Cao Cao and said: "This is not a direct general guessed, he once gave me two letters, but I didn't care about it before, I thought it was just a random guess by the non-straight general." It wasn't until my father really accepted Zhang Ji's wife that I dared to come and talk to my father. ”

Cao Cao took the letter and read it, and his face immediately showed murderous intent.

With a gloomy face, he said, "When was this letter given to you?" ”

"The book that summoned me to Xudu was when we were about to march, saying that Zhang Xiu's rebellion was after we arrived in Nanyang."

"Well, I know, you go out, I'll take precautions."

After Cao Ang went out, Cao Cao neatly folded the two letters and put them in the placket of his clothes.

Li Xian is really terrible, and Yuzhou Mu can't let him be anymore.

As a boss, you are always very afraid of people who are smarter than you, especially the kind of people who can know everything you want.

For example, Yang Xiu died because he was too smart and understood Cao Cao's thoughts too well.

But whether Zhang Xiu will rebel or not, he doesn't have a score in his heart, he wants to give him a try, Cao Cao thought to himself.

On the 28th, Cao Cao held a banquet and invited Zhang Xiu and his generals to drink together.

At the banquet, Cao Cao toasted Zhang Xiu and his generals one by one, and then asked Dian Wei to stand behind Cao Cao with an axe.

Every time Cao Cao toasted in front of someone, Dian Wei would raise his big axe and glare.

Zhang Xiu also followed Jia Xu's plan, and let his generals do it according to the plan.

Therefore, when Dian Wei looked at the tiger, they all looked very frightened and did not dare to look up.

Seeing this, Cao Cao thought that Zhang Xiu and others were afraid of their own prestige and would not dare to rebel.

On the second day, Cao Cao called Zhang Xiu's subordinate Hu Che'er, personally handed over the gold nuggets to him, and said to him: "The general is mighty and brave, I really admire it, and I am not to be surprised." ”

When he paid the money, he deliberately let Zhang Xiu's people see it.

He didn't induce Hu Che'er to kill Zhang Xiu, he knew that it was almost impossible, and he didn't want to do it.

If the generals are so easy to buy, then he may be like Dong Zhuo, he can let Lu Bu kill Ding Yuan, and others can let Lu Bu kill him.

Cao Cao just wanted Zhang Xiu and Hu Che'er to be suspicious of each other, so as to break them down, so that it would be easy to take away his soldiers and horses.

Hu Che'er took the bounty given by Cao Cao, and handed it to Zhang Xiu immediately after he returned, and expressed his loyalty to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu also knew that Hu Che'er was not a betrayer, and he summoned the generals to discuss that he would betray Cao Cao in the near future.

On the fifth day of the second lunar month, Zhang Xiu wanted to send wine and meat to Cao Cao, as well as a lot of food.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, and he didn't doubt it, thinking that Zhang Xiu was just sending wine, meat, and food, and he couldn't do anything.

Zhang Xiu hid the knife on the grain truck, and took 300 people and carried dozens of carts of grain into Cao Cao's camp.

When entering Cao Cao's camp and approaching the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Xiu and others took out knives from the grain truck and attacked Cao Cao's big tent.

Cao Cao's guards were defenseless, and they were suddenly attacked, and they were all killed in a moment.

At this time, Zhang Xiu's generals took the lead and carried out a shouting feint attack on Cao Cao's left and right battalions with a small team of men and horses, attracting the strength of Cao Cao's left and right armies, and then Hu Che'er took the main force to attack Cao Cao's central army camp.

Cao Cao was drinking and chatting with Zou in the big tent when he suddenly heard shouts of killing outside the tent.

He knew that it might really be as Li Xian expected, Zhang Xiu betrayed.

He hurriedly took the knife and was about to walk out of the big tent, when Zhang Xiu's people had already attacked outside the tent and were fighting with Dian Wei.

Dian Wei killed dozens of people, but Zhang Xiu's soldiers outside also attacked, and the more people besieged Dian Wei.

Cao Cao saw that there were too many enemy soldiers outside the tent and did not dare to go out, so he split the tent behind the military tent with a knife and jumped out of the military tent.

When he escaped, Zou asked in surprise: "Does the general ignore me?" ”

Cao Cao replied, "When I'm safe, I'll come back to save you." ”

He ran to the stables, pulled out his Shadow Horse, mounted and fled east.

Not far from escaping, Zhang Xiu's cavalry chased after him, and the arrow hit Cao Cao's right arm, and the shadow horse was also shot with several arrows.

After the Shadow Horse fell, it happened that Cao Ang also fled on horseback. Cao Ang saw that Cao Cao's horse was dead, so he hurriedly dismounted and said to Cao Cao: "Father, please get on the horse and go quickly, Ang will defend you against the enemy." ”

After Cao Cao got on his horse, he said to Cao Ang: "Zixiu, you should also go quickly." ”

After saying that, he saw that the pursuers were coming, slapped his horse violently, and fled forward.

Cao Ang was chased by Zhang Xiu's pursuers, and he was also killed after killing several people.

fled all the way to Wuyin, and Yu Ban and other generals also led the troops to come.

Only then did Cao Cao know that his sons Cao Ang and Dian Wei had been killed in battle, and his nephew Cao Anmin had also been killed.

But fortunately, Cao Pi escaped on horseback.