Chapter 10: This Killer Is a Little Cowardly
In the morning, there was a disturbance about Cao Hongjie, and at noon, he was stunned by the information that Chen Deng suddenly broke the news, and it was not until the evening that his mood calmed down, and Wang Hou found that there was a head full of fear and horror on the street at the gate of Lu Mansion, which was the Tsing Yi servant of Lu Mansion who led him to the inner house last night.
No wonder Chen Deng congratulated him at noon, it turned out that this Lu Mansion was inadvertently hiding a murderous machine.
Fortunately, Cao Xiaojie came to "sacrifice himself to feed the tiger" last night, otherwise the head hanging here today may be him Wang Hou, thinking of this, while going to the banquet with the servant, Wang Hou couldn't help but look back happily.
However, it is estimated that he is still angry with him, and the little lady of the Cao family, dressed as a tiger and leopard ride, rolled her eyes at him with a little brain.
Everything is as expected, although at the dinner party, Wang Hou still looked like the leader of the group and desperately sang praises to the society Brother Lu, but I don't know if because the marriage is imminent, or because of the incident that happened last night, Brother Lu obviously did not have the enthusiasm of the past few days, and he seemed a lot colder, sitting on the top guard and drinking without saying a word.
Chen Gong's side, it is estimated that he had an unpleasant quarrel with Lu Bu because of the matter of the servant in Tsing Yi, and his face was also black, and his expression was rigid as if someone else owed him two thousand four hundred taels, but it was also because the marriage with Yuan Shu was imminent, and he was unwilling to make branches outside the festival, and he didn't pick any thorns this night, just dealt with the past with a black face.
In this case, Wang Hou also proposed to resign and return to the dynasty with "knowledge", and also made a blank check before leaving, to protect Lu Bu as the left general in front of the emperor, Xuzhou Assassin History, this big brother Lu finally squeezed out a smile, politely said two sentences, but it was only polite, not even a farewell gift, I really don't understand the "rules" of officialdom at all.
An tasteless dinner party was dealt with like this, and early the next morning, with more than 300 ox carts borrowed by the Chen family, pulling heavy grain, Wang Hou began his journey with a full load.
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Even if there is an ox cart to travel, the journey back is fuller, I have to complain about the dirt road of this era, a pit on the left and a ditch on the right, when Wang Hou was a child, he sat on his second uncle's walk-behind tractor, at that time he thought that this broken thing was the first in the world, and now he can be regarded as the opponent of this thing, the two-wheeled broken car does not even have a soft tire, it is completely two wooden wheels, and Wang Hou's stomach is going to vomit out when he is swaying up and down.
If you have the life to go back, you won't do anything else, you have to get the tires done first! An old face turned green, and Wang Hou was ruthless.
However, as an official, he is still a little privileged, he can also sit in the back of the grain cart and sway, Cao Hongjie and another tiger and leopard ride is not so idle, a specially selected rough stone in one person's hand, facing Wang Hou with a cheeky face from Chen Deng's precious crystal salsa polishing, this era lacks effective means of processing hard stones, so it can only rely on this method to grind.
After grinding for more than an hour, the wrists were tired and thick for half a circle, and the crystal had no skin, and threw this thing into the food basket in a hurry.
"What the hell is this thing for? You said! Did you mean to do the whole thing? ”
It really meant to frustrate her temperament, but of course she couldn't tell the truth, the old gourd face was a board, Wang Hou was pretending to give a thumbs up to the south, and he didn't explain it coldly.
The handle was in the hands of the goods, and he loosened the collar of Wang Hou's coat with sorrow, and Cao Hongjie had to pick up the half-ground crystal again, and rubbed his little hands up and down with a crying face.
glanced at her proudly, and Wang Hou immediately aimed his eyes at the back of the convoy again.
On the hillside about two or three hundred meters away, a few cavalrymen followed the convoy slowly as if no one was around, and while letting the horses trot, they seemed to be chattering and talking about something, it seemed that Chen Gong's vigilance was really not ordinarily strong, and since they left Xiapi City in the morning, these guys have been following.
snorted coldly, his eyes moved away from these tails with contempt, and in the next second, Wang Hou moved his old face to the side coldly, and spit out all over the ground with an elegant wow.
In this era, people are superficial, even the tail spies are not professional, and they camp on the edge of Surabaya all night, and they have not left the Xiapi territory at night, and the next morning these cavalry sent by the Chen Palace to monitor do not know where to desert.
However, Wang Hou did not relax his vigilance, and let the convoy march westward for half a day, and sent cavalry to search the vicinity to make sure that no one was watching anymore, and then Wang Hou gathered the tiger and leopard cavalry given by Cao Cao.
Except for the three who went back to report the news, there were a total of forty-seven heavy cavalry and ninety-nine war horses, as for Cao Hongjie, who wore an iron shackle, erected the basin collar, and tried to show his might with his chest up, he was directly filtered out by Wang Hou.
It is no wonder that this army can be ranked among the top ten famous armies of the Three Kingdoms, and it does have its own uniqueness, there is no such ostentatiousness as the white horse righteousness, more than forty heavily armored cavalry neatly lead the horses in three columns, and the faces under the heavy iron helmets are all indifferent and rigid.
Contempt for life and death, keep silent and dead at all times, nothing seems to be able to affect their emotions, even if the sky collapses, they can maintain a heavy and calm, this is the old spicy warrior who has been on the battlefield for a long time, looking at them, Wang Hou even felt that he didn't need to say anything to boost morale, and he could directly lead them up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire.
But some preparations still have to be had, after all, this time his own life is also put in it to gamble, the cloth given by Chen Deng was turned out to be the strongest one, and the crisp cutting sound of the knife was cut into strips of cloth, and each person sent two, according to Wang Hou's appearance, everyone also tied a cloth stirrup under the saddle.
It was very novel to step on the stirrup and tease it twice, Cao Hongjie even let go of the horse's reins, opened his arms and moved his hands and feet, and then exclaimed in surprise: "No wonder you have ridden the horse so well in two days, this trick is really convenient." ”
Ignoring her, he pretended to pull out the iron sword from Lu Bu with a bang, pointed at it and waved it under the sun, and in the surprised eyes of the servants of the Chen Mansion who were transporting the grain carts, the heavy cavalry group trampled on the loess in the sky, and rushed majestically south in the direction pointed by Wang Houjian.
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"Forehead ......"
Thanks to the vast and sparsely populated land in this era, Pengcheng after the war was even more unseen for hundreds of miles, and Wang Hou seemed to be very experienced in sending people to take off his armor to explore the road in front, and some people's villages were avoided, and there was no trace of exposure on the road.
Cao Hongjie's grinding crystal came in handy, two pieces of round and natural, delicate crystal was half grinded, ground into two thin convex lenses, rolled up by Wang Hou with a paper tube, and one of the most primitive telescopes was also pounded out by him.
It's just that standing on Huguang Mountain on the edge of Hongsi, Wang Hou, who was ambitious and looking down, was instantly dumbfounded.
"This! This is the Yuan Shu Mission!! ”
Under the magnifying effect of the convex mirror like the goldfish eye, the dense crowd is getting down from the canopy and the small boat, the front of the guard is holding a three-meter-high guard of honor lance, and the flag is lined up in four columns, the year after tomorrow, a full five two-wheeled carriages were unloaded from the big board boat in turn, pushed onto the shore from Hongze Lake, the only good news, the cavalry is more precious in this year, and because it is necessary to cross Hongze Lake, the two-wheeled carriage pulled by oxen takes up too much space, and the cavalry also comes six, but it can be dressed in light and heavy armor, More than 500 infantrymen armed with halberds and spears and bows and arrows on their backs came.
On various forums in later generations, groups of great gods gritted their teeth and pointed to the determination of heaven and earth, on the plains, cavalry fought infantry, one can fight ten! But looking at the bottom of the mountain, those selected Yuan Shujun's envoys to ask for relatives, and then looking at the small pinch of tigers and leopards under his command, Wang Hou is still weak-hearted.
Two pieces of good quality crystals plus Wang Hou's own good eyesight, about a thousand meters out, he is here to see endlessly, but Cao Hongjie is not so far to see, this is still the morning by Hongze Lake, the water vapor is extraordinarily large, looking down, you can also see the ant-sized crowd, followed Wang Hou around the foot to jump hard, for a long time did not understand anything, and finally she was impatient to urge there.
"What else are you looking at? Now that you have found the envoy of the Yuan thief, rush down and kill him! ”
However, Wang Hou also played coldly, ignored her at all, and followed Yuan Yin's envoy team from disembarkation to tidying up the formation and walking on the official road, he was as motionless as this statue, and finally, until he disappeared, he put down the paper tube binoculars and rubbed his eyes uncomfortably.
"Don't you do it yet? After a while, everyone ran away! ”
I really don't know what kind of educational environment this Cao Hongjie was when he was a child, the little girl dances with knives and guns more crazy than men, this girl chirps in her ears endlessly, Wang Hou's head is bigger when he listens, and he simply rolls his eyes.
"You're going to die yourself! Pass my orders! People should not be within 800 steps of Han Yin's mission, keep up!"
Seeing that Wang Hou inserted the sword back again, he actually kicked the horseback and went down the mountain slowly, and on the other hand, the envoy who begged for relatives was also going farther and farther, Cao Hongjie couldn't help but blush, pointing at Wang Hou's back as he went down the mountain, gritting his teeth and puffing with disdain.
"I'm afraid of death! Coward! ”
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Although the tiger and leopard cavalry from Cao Hongjie to the bottom were quite dissatisfied with Wang Hou's decision, but in the end, they were well-trained, Wang Hou did not order an attack, and they could only endure it, hanging far behind the Yuan Shu mission, but to Cao Hongjie's surprise, this torment was extraordinarily long, and in the autumn and summer weather of September, a group of cavalry followed Yuan Yin's ass for two and a half days without attacking.
"Will instigate a nest!"
Every day, I looked at Wang Hou mysteriously holding a paper tube, but he didn't give the order to attack, Cao Hongjie was so anxious that his aunt came in advance, and he followed him every day grinding his teeth behind his back.