Chapter 356: Humiliation
Cao Cao temporarily took Liu Bei down, but he didn't have time to care about Liu Bei, because Cao Cao and Wancheng's Zhang Xiu were fighting, and they were all a little annoyed. The pikemen under his command were even more courageous. So at the beginning, Zhang Xiu beat Cao Cao to a mess.
However, Cao Cao's biggest characteristic is that he is not afraid of failure, and is good at summarizing, since Zhang Xiu's pikemen he trained are so powerful, then Cao Cao will use his own strengths and defeat the enemy's shortcomings, he just doesn't fight with you in close combat, Cao Cao directly ordered someone to take out all the things made by Liu Ye, what a crossbow catapult, he wants to play long-distance attack with Zhang Xiu.
Cao Cao's skilled craftsman Liu Ye is also a strange person, if you talk about the manufacturing level of the craft, he and the horses in the Three Kingdoms should belong to the same kind. And Liu Ye is also older than Ma Jun, so he is more mature in some things.
Even in this era, because of Cao Xing's arrival, because of Cao Xing's foresight, Cao Xing made many things first, but Liu Ye was not discouraged, since Cao Xing made it, then he just imitated it, with Liu Ye's level, maybe he only needs to grab a bow and arrow, a crossbow machine, and he will not take a few months to imitate a batch of exactly the same for you.
Even if it is something like the fire gun that has just come out, maybe give Liu Ye a little time, and Liu Ye can also make it.
So it can be said that Cao Cao basically has the advanced equipment that Cao Xuan has.
Now that he has advanced equipment, it is much easier for Cao Cao to fight, and his series of things, it is said that Zhang Xiu was beaten with heavy casualties and exhaustion.
Seeing Zhang Xiu deflated, Cao Cao's heart actually had a sense of pride, although he Cao Cao was already an old-timer according to his age, but then again, he, an old-timer, was actually beaten by Zhang Xiu at the beginning, but now that the situation is reversed, Cao Cao's heart really has a trace of pleasure, especially not long after, Zhang Xiu saw that he really couldn't beat Cao Cao, and finally bowed to Cao Cao, and even expressed his willingness to surrender to Cao Cao.
When Cao Cao heard the news, he only felt a burst of refreshment in his heart, after all, in the early days of this war, he was really repaired by Zhang Xiu, this kid. But Zhang Xiu, this kid, has finally understood it now, he is too tender after all, and he wants to fight Cao Cao, but he doesn't have any doors.
However, in order to show his generosity, and in order not to let his subordinates make any more senseless sacrifices, Cao Cao agreed to Zhang Xiu's surrender in one breath.
Now that Cao Cao has agreed, the next thing is to go and personally participate in Zhang Xiu's surrender ceremony, after all, everything needs to be done with a ceremony.
However, Cao Cao's strategist Xun You stood up, and he said to Cao Cao, let Cao Cao not agree so quickly, he was afraid that there would be fraud in it, but Cao Cao, who was proud of the spring breeze, waved his hand absently, saying that how could he, a King of Wei, deal with such a junior? Since Zhang Xiuzhi can improve his mistakes now, why can't he be a little more generous, and at this moment he is still suspicious, doesn't he seem to be a little stingy.
Xun You wanted to say something, but he couldn't say the words when the words came to his mouth, he just felt that Zhang Xiu's avatar was a little weird, but there was no conclusive evidence, so he couldn't convince Cao Cao at all, seeing that this matter was settled, Xun You finally sighed helplessly and said.
"If Zhicai is here, he will definitely be able to dissuade the main attack, I hope my worries are superfluous!"
Immediately afterwards, Cao Cao rode his tall horse and entered Zhang Xiu's military camp with his own soldiers and horses, but what he didn't expect was that Zhang Xiu greeted him with his well-trained pikemen.
Before Zhang Xiu claimed to the outside world that the pikemen he trained had suffered heavy casualties, and he was killed and injured a lot by Cao Cao's magic weapons, all of which were just a cover played by Zhang Xiu, and it was not his pikemen who died at all, Zhang Xiu saw that the momentum of the war was not good, so he directly sent some ordinary soldiers to come forward, and he hid all his elite troops, and now it is time for his elite troops to come in handy again.
The pikemen were directly wrapped in boundless momentum and killed Cao Cao, Cao Cao's whole person was shocked, what kind of joke, now in Zhang Xiu's military camp, Zhang Xiu closed the camp door, wouldn't it be a dog to close the door, so at this moment Cao Cao finally panicked.
Zhang Xiu was wearing Yinkai silver armor, holding a spear to kill Cao Cao, Cao Cao is in his forties, where is Zhang Xiu's opponent, in a hurry, he can only dodge randomly, Zhang Xiu stabbed the war horse under Cao Cao's crotch with a shot, and the war horse neighed. actually fell to the ground like this, seeing that Cao Cao was about to be killed by Zhang Xiu, but at this moment, a general ran out from the side, directly handed over his war horse to Cao Cao, and asked Cao Cao to run away quickly, Cao Cao in a panic didn't seem to care so much, he rode on the horse and ran faster, but he took one last look at the general's face before Cao Cao ran, so this general was very ugly and had a black beard.
But his spirit made Cao Cao very moved, he is Dian Wei Dian Wei holding his double iron halberd, in the way of arranging the formation against Zhang Xiu's actual combat, with infantry and cavalry, naturally there are some losses, but Dian Wei martial arts are superb, although Zhang Xiu is also a new debut of the Northland Gun King, martial arts are naturally good, but how can it be the battle-hardened Dian Wei opponent, so after a long time without a victory, even see Cao Cao is about to run away, Zhang Xiu is also in a hurry, directly let his pikemen surround together, and stab Dian Wei to death togetherIn this way, after Dian Wei slaughtered dozens of Zhang Xiu's people, he fought on the battlefield like this.
Cao Cao dragged his tired body back to his barracks, Xun You and others regretfully handed over the list of casualties to Cao Cao's hands, looking at the names of these people, Cao Cao's hands were really trembling, and the generals and strategists he brought this time were basically cleaned up by Zhang Xiu.
Among them, he was the most heart-wrenching for Dian Wei, because Dian Wei had been with Cao Cao for a long time, and Cao Cao's loyalty to Dian Wei was clear, but today a person who was the most loyal to him died, and Cao Cao couldn't help crying loudly.
As for the generals who escaped from death this time, they were also seriously injured, anyway, Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu fought this battle, Cao Cao ended in failure, not to mention failure, anyway, he and Zhang Xiu were no longer able to fight, Cao Cao was angry and directly asked people to investigate, what is going on with this Zhang Xiu, obviously a little kid, Cao Cao doesn't believe that he has such a super high plan.
In the end, Xun You came back and told Cao Cao one thing, that is, behind this embroidery, there is really a master to help, and the master's name is Jia Mingxu, who is the poisoner of Chang'an's rebellion.
Hearing this, Cao Cao sighed helplessly, since everyone was crowned king, the relationship between him Cao Cao and the major princes began to become very delicate, there are alliances, there are suppression, there are mutual intrigue, anyway, there are all kinds of things, he openly and secretly set up Cao Xing, support Li Dao, make Li Dao become stronger, and drag Cao Xing's pace.
In the face of this situation, Cao Xing has no reason to swallow his anger, with Cao Xing's character, it is natural to have a tooth for a tooth, it just so happens that Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu in history also have such a period of comradeship, so Cao Xing is naturally willing to fall into the well, he directly sent Jia Xu, a poisonous man, to Yin Cao Cao well.
But maybe even Cao Xu didn't expect that this Jia Xu really brought the level of the poisoner to the extreme, and Jia Xu's hand almost didn't kill a generation of heroes Cao Cao.
And at this moment, Jia Xu is also sitting in Zhang Xiu's military camp, Zhang Xiu is grateful for Jia Xu's plan, and he keeps entering Jia Xu's wine, and Jia Xu is also smiling and greeting, but after a while, Jia Xu left under the pretext of returning to his military tent, Jia Xu looked at the direction of Cao Cao's military camp, pinched his fingers, but sighed.
"Hehe, the old man wanted to change the destiny of heaven, but after all, he underestimated the strength of this destiny, the damned will always die, I can't kill if I want to, such a well-planned plan, but it was interrupted by a small tiger general, it's really providential!"
At night, Jia Xu took advantage of everyone's inattention, directly packed his bags and left quietly, and just walked out of the camp, a brocade guard came to pick up Jia Xu.
Cao Cao has not yet recovered from the grief of Dian Wei's death, and another major event made Cao Cao's heart skip a beat, and without saying a word, he was immediately horseed and galloped out.
And at this moment, a lot of things have happened in Jiangdong, Sun Jian occupied Lujiang and Liu Biao have become neighbors.
However, Liu Biao, the king of the land, obviously has some dislikes for Sun Jian, the tiger, which coincides with some contradictions between his generals Huang Zu and Sun Jian, Sun Jian can't bear this breath, with his Jiangdong tiger's violent temper, he naturally took the soldiers and horses to kill Jiangxia, and directly threatened, either Huang Zu gave him an explanation, or directly went to war, how could Huang Zu wipe his face, in his opinion, Sun Jian is just a junior, and it is a joke to argue with an old-timer like him.
So, a vigorous water battle began, and what Huang Zu didn't expect was that he, an old-timer, couldn't resist the attack of this Jiangdong tiger, Sun Jian personally charged, like a bamboo, and beat Huang Zu's water army to the ground, and even hit the shore.
Maybe it won't be long before Sun Jian, who is advancing all the way, will beat Jiang Xiasheng to capture Huang Zu, Huang Zu was completely panicked when he saw this scene, he asked Liu Biao for help, and Liu Biao also felt the crisis, and without saying a word, he directly sent his army to rescue Huang Zu.
Originally, Sun Jian was also very beautiful, even if he couldn't defeat Jiangxia this time, it was estimated that he could also give Huang Lord Liu Biao a deep shock, that is, he Sun Jian is definitely not easy to mess with, don't come to him Sun Jian for trouble, otherwise the consequences will be very serious.
It's just that the battle is here, and the dramatic scene unfolds again, in a certain war, Sun Jian directly defeated Huang Zu's army, and then personally led the men and horses to charge, but because Sun Jian is a brave general, the killing is too fierce, and unconsciously rushed to the front, and there were not many guards around him, and at this time an ambush came out of the grass, and I don't know which soldier's archery skills are so superb, an arrow actually hit Sun Jian's neck, Sun Jian fell off the horse, When his subordinate Cheng Pu and others arrived, Sun Jian had already fallen in a pool of blood.
Cheng Pu and the others wanted to snatch back the corpse around them, but at this moment, Huang Zu also dared to lead the troops to come in person, and directly killed Cheng Pu and the others, and in the end, Cheng Pu and the others did not even snatch Sun Jian's body back.
This time the matter is completely big, Sun Jian is the spiritual leader of their Jiangdong disciples, and his achievements along the way are very brilliant, but he never expected that he would die so unexplained, and he actually died at the hands of an unknown soldier, which is really emotional.
When the news reached the barracks, it is said that his son Sun Ce fainted several times.
Now Sun Jian's troops are entrenched in the next generation of Jiang, but they are already in a state of leaderlessness, and they have no intention of fighting again, after all, the commander is dead, and they have also lost their spiritual command, as for Sun Jian's subordinates, Cheng Pu Huang Gai and others, none of them can represent the side, so the combat effectiveness of Sun Jian's troops has almost been lost.
In the end, it was Sun Jian's son Sun Ce who wiped away his tears, and the first thing he did when he stood up was to beg for Sun Jian's body like Huang Zu.
Originally, Huang Zu was beaten embarrassed by Sun Jian, but now he directly killed the commander of the enemy army, this scene came too quickly, so he was happy, and he didn't slow down for a while, he directly told Sun Ce that it was okay for him to return Sun Jian's body, but Sun Ce had to take the initiative to admit his mistake and return to Jiangxia.
This time Sun Jian and Huang Zu fought, which side started the war first, this matter is no longer clear, perhaps only Sun Jian and Huang Zu know best in their hearts.
But no matter who admits his mistake first, that kind of party is the one who suffers, after all, in this way, it is nothing more than to show the world that he is not a teacher.
Seeing this Huang Zu so arrogant, Sun Jian's subordinates were all angry, but his son Sun Ce finally endured this breath, walked to Jiangxia in person, apologized to Huang Zu, and finally transported his father's body back to Jiangdong However, the moment he left Jiangxia, Sun Ce turned back suddenly, and the flame of revenge had burned in his tiger eyes.
"Huang Zu, you killed my father, I don't blame you for this, after all, the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, but after he dies, you are still insulting him, just by virtue of this, my Sun Ce will never let you go, this revenge will not be avenged, I am willing to die!"