It has been almost a year since Cao Xuan came to Luoyang from Bingzhou, and in this year's time, although there were rough waves sweeping in, Cao Xuan finally had a thrilling time.

Now he stays in the barracks every day step by step to concentrate on training, if he really wants to go out, it is at most the training of cavalry, so that his soldiers and horses go to the endless grassland from time to time to gallop around, so as to help the growth of cavalry.

At the same time, he also asked Che Wu to find out everything around him, just in case, and Che Wu also conducted a thorough investigation of the surroundings, and he came back to tell Cao Xing.

The camp they are stationed in now is very close to Luoyang, and ordinary young people will definitely not dare to mess around here, but on the big mountain in the south, it seems that there are really a few bandits with relatively large forces who are ready to move, often robbing passing caravans.

Cao Xuan asked Che Wu if he had found out the number of the bandits, Che Wu thought for a moment, and then replied that a large part of this group of bandits was actually composed of the Yellow Turban Army. In addition, coupled with some shady forces on the rivers and lakes, the number of people is really quite a lot, basically five or six thousand people.

Hearing this, Cao Xuan thought for a moment, the big mountain in the south, which is only thirty miles away from Luoyang at most, at the foot of the imperial city, there are bandits who can do so big, it is estimated that they have the help of gods behind them. And if that immortal is Yuan Kui Ding Palace, or someone from another family, then that group of bandits and bandits is undoubtedly on the opposite side of Cao Xing.

But Cao Xuan didn't worry too much about this, that group of bandits was just bandits in the final analysis, even if there were a large number of people, but they had not been systematically trained, they were completely scattered, plus there was no sophisticated equipment, it was no different from the rabble, if they dared to provoke Cao Xing, Cao Xing would definitely make them have no return.

Therefore, Cao Xing didn't care too much, just let his soldiers do their own things with peace of mind.

On this day, Cao Xing was in Beijing to approve official business, but a businessman came to Cao Xing in a panic, saying that they were attacked by bandits on that mountain, and now they asked General Cao to send troops to help.

Looking at the panicked appearance of this merchant, Cao Xuan estimated that this merchant should be a businessman, so Cao Xuan took two thousand cavalry, went out of the city and walked slowly to the mountain, the bandits on the mountain seemed to have learned the news of Cao Xing's attack on this side, and they seemed to be more or less afraid of the government, so after robbing the goods of those merchants, they quickly went up the mountain.

Seeing this, Cao Xuan directly ordered the withdrawal of the army, and the merchant was a little surprised when he saw this scene, he stopped Cao Xing and begged Cao Xing, and went up the mountain to grab their goods, but Cao Xing refused.

Cao Xing is just a general, and he is not obliged to save this businessman, if this businessman really wants to ask Cao Xing to send troops to help him, he can go to inform Ma Riyan, and Ma Riyan will send down an approval document, clearly pointing out that let Cao Xing take the soldiers to destroy all the bandits on the mountain, Cao Xing will definitely be duty-bound, if not, Cao Xing will send troops without authorization, and then he will fall into the hands of others.

Cao Xuan brought out 2,000 soldiers and horses this time, which is already the maximum, if Cao Xuan dares to bring out a little more, someone will definitely come to trouble him.

Secondly, Cao Xing took a good look at the mountain below, this is actually a mountain range, how big it is, Cao Xing is still unclear, but Cao Xing looks at this mountain is unusually steep. There are cliffs everywhere, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if Cao Xuan rashly takes people up, he will really be ambushed, so when the enemy situation is unknown, Cao Xuan naturally does not dare to go up.

Of course, for Cao Xing's inconvenience, this businessman will definitely not understand, as soon as Cao Xing said that he would not send troops, the businessman's face immediately pulled down, and even threatened Cao Xing there, saying that he knew some powerful people in Beijing, if Cao Xing refused to help, he would definitely make Cao Xing very uncomfortable.

However, Cao Xing didn't bother to look at the businessman's threat, and directly shouted and told the businessman to get out of here, and the surrounding soldiers were also looking at the businessman, and the businessman was startled, and did not dare to stay here for a long time, so he hurriedly retreated.

In the following days, the activities of the bandit force seemed to be very rampant, anyway, people often came to Cao County to ask Cao Xing to send troops to help, after all, there was only Cao Xing in a radius of ten miles.

Among these people who came to ask Cao Xing, there seemed to be a lot of bureaucrats, but for these people's requests, Cao Xing had to refuse both public and private, and seeing Cao Xing so unreasonable, these people must be so angry that they stomped their feet. Loudly carried out a moral kidnapping of Cao Xing, but Cao Xuan didn't have time to talk to them so much, so he directly sent someone to blast them all out, and Cao Xing was also quite a headache for the harassment of these people.

On this day, Cao Xing was still reviewing the army in his military tent, and Xiao Man was serving on the side, and suddenly Che Wu walked in and said to Cao Xing: "General, I heard that the group of bandits began to rob passing pedestrians again, and this time the target of their robbery is still a large group of people, including business travelers, ordinary people, and officials, do you think we should ......?"

Before I finished speaking, Cao Xuan waved his hand to stop his words, and said impatiently: "Che Wu, didn't I tell you before?" Although those people were robbed by the bandits, they deserve sympathy and pity, but then again, we are not immortals, how can everyone help, if those people are tragically hurt by the bandits, maybe this is also their fate! ”

Cao Xing's words are also very pertinent, and Che Wu also understands very well, he knows that there must be greater forces behind this group of bandits, and more importantly, since Cao Xing is stationed here, this group of bandits has been active frequently, and the actions of this group of bandits are not good, they are aimed at Cao Xing, they want to force Cao Xing to make mistakes, and they want Cao Xing to suffer.

I thought that Che Wu would consciously retreat after hearing these words, but what Cao Qing didn't expect was that Che Wujin was stunned for a long time before saying to Cao Xing.

"Lord, the person who came to report to us, he claims to be the housekeeper in the Cai family's mansion!"

As soon as he heard this, Cao Xing's heart was shocked, although Cao Xuan and Cai Yong seemed to have a heated debate before, but afterwards Cao Xuan also figured it out, it was to guide him and let him come out of Luoyang, so that he could be regarded as saving his life.

What's more, Cao Xing did send Xu Shu to Cai Yong, and Cai Yong also accepted it happily, all kinds of things show that Cai Yong is actually helping Cao Xing intentionally or unintentionally, so Cao Xing owes others a favor more or less.

Cao Xuan was a little puzzled, this Cai Yong didn't stay in the capital, why did he have to come out, and he encountered this incident, after Cao Xuan saw the housekeeper of Cai's mansion, the housekeeper finally told the truth.

"General. You must save my master...... My lord was going back to his hometown to worship his ancestors, so he took the young lady and a group of people on the road, but he didn't expect that a group of bandits suddenly rushed out on the way...... General, you must help us! ”

Listening to the housekeeper almost crying, Cao Xing's head was a little swollen, this housekeeper is indeed Cai Yong's housekeeper, Cai Yong was robbed by thieves, this matter should be true.

And Cao Xuan also heard it from the mouthkeeper of the housekeeper, and it seemed that he came to Cao Xing to find Cai Yong.

In the end, Cao Xing could only wave his hand and say: "That's it, Che Wu, order two thousand soldiers, and go to battle with me!" ”

"Yes!"

Che Wu immediately did as Cao Xuan ordered, and the maximum number of soldiers and horses that Cao Xuan could use now might be two thousand, after all, this matter did not get permission from above.

Then Cao Xing did a series of aftermath work, he asked Xiao Man to stay in the military tent and not go out, and also arranged for the generals who guarded the camp to let them garrison the camp tent well.

Then Cao Xing took two thousand cavalry and slaughtered towards the mountain range in the south.

When Cao Xing arrived at the foot of the mountain, he found that there were indeed thousands of bandits, dressed in various colors and holding weapons in their hands, constantly hitting passers-by.

Cao Xing didn't say a word, he directly ordered the soldiers to charge, two thousand cavalry, directly took the spear in his hand, prepared to stab, said the deepest roar in his heart, and used the most arduous training in ordinary times, and stabbed with the spear, and directly beat these bandits to the back.

In less than a hundred breaths, these bandits encountered Cao Xing's soldiers and horses, and it could be said that they were crushed at the first touch.

The bandits had no power to fight back at all, so now they didn't dare to dangle below, so they could only carry the looted property in their hands and run up the mountain in a panic.

This time, Cao Xing can be said to have solved a battle in an instant, and his soldiers also suffered zero casualties.

Cao Xing asked the soldiers to leave quickly, while he kept running back and forth at the foot of the mountain, trying to find Cai Yong's figure, but Cao Xing didn't find Cai Yong and others after looking for a long time.

This startled Cao Xing, thinking that Cai Yongmo had not been killed before he arrived.

And at this moment, Che Wu also caught a few thieves and came to Cao Xing, Cao Xing didn't say a word, and hit these thieves in the face with a whip, screaming in pain for these bandits, and then Cao Xing directly drove his horse to the front of these bandits and asked them.

"Do you see an old man dressed in a more gorgeous way, and a girl about sixteen or seventeen years old, who came in a carriage, and probably a dozen servants with them!"