Chapter 141: Good Stuff
Cao Cao held a long sword and shouted loudly below, letting the soldiers behind him quickly climb to the top of the city, although almost all the ten permanent servants ran away at this moment, but the general who defended from the head seemed to be working very hard, constantly organizing soldiers to resist the attacks of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and others.
The general also carried a long sword, and kept shouting and roaring, but soon he couldn't shout, he lowered his head, and saw a long arrow, which had pierced his throat, and it could no longer make a sound, and finally slowly fell to the ground.
The general on the defensive floor fell like this, and the other soldiers were panicked when they saw this, and many of them dropped their weapons and fled directly from the city.
And Cao Cao and Yuan Shao also saw this opportunity, and directly piled up all his troops in one go, and in this way, he captured the walls of the palace in one fell swoop, and soon the soldiers cleaned up the defenses below and opened the gates of the palace.
And at this moment, Cao Xuan also slowly withdrew the bow and arrow in his hand, and rode a horse slowly to the front, Cao Cao found Cao Xing's location at a glance, and just now it was thanks to Cao Xing's arrow that killed the guard, so he was able to break through the city gate in one fell swoop.
"Cao Xing, you came just in time, I estimate that the general has been killed at the moment, and we must enter the palace to protect the emperor." Cao Cao walked over and said to Cao Xing.
And Cao Xuan nodded and didn't say anything, but he saw Yuan Shao's eyes and inadvertently drifted towards him, with a complicated look in his eyes, and then snorted coldly, no longer paying attention to Cao Cao and Cao Xing, and directly waved his hand, and rushed into the palace frantically with his soldiers and horses.
Cao Cao was also about to follow Yuan Shao, but seeing that Cao Xuan had not moved for a long time, he asked with some puzzlement: "Brother Cao Xuan, what are you waiting for here!" ”
"Since the Ten Standing Servants and the others have already gone first, if my guess is correct, even if you go to the palace hall now, you may not be able to find the emperor, since the Ten Standing Servants have already run away, I estimate that they will run with the emperor!"
"What!" Cao Cao showed a surprised expression.
"Forget it, this is just my personal speculation, Brother Meng De, you better go to the palace with Yuan Shao to find it, it is best to find His Majesty the Emperor, if you can't find it, hurry up and look elsewhere, I will go to hunt down the Ten Permanent Servants now!"
Cao Cao felt that Cao Xing's method was good, so he nodded, divided into two ways with Cao Xingbing, and pursued in different directions, just walking, Cao Xing patted his head, and he began to be a little confused.
This palace hall is really too big, he only remembers how to walk from the main gate to the Xuanmen where he was stationed before, and he doesn't know anything else, but since this is the case, Cao Xing has no choice, he can only wave his hand and take his soldiers and horses, and it took two quarters of an hour to arrive at Xuanmen.
Cao Xing wanted to wait until he arrived at Xuanmen to find a way, but he didn't expect that when he just arrived at Xuanmen, he found some traces on the ground, he squatted down and took a closer look, and found that the footprints here were obvious, and it was clear that a large number of people had just passed by.
Cao Xing immediately led people to arrest the two eunuchs and palace maids around, and then interrogated them, the ten permanent servants have been to this place, those eunuchs and palace maids are all nodding solemnly, they did see the ten permanent servants with people passing by, and there seemed to be two children in the crowd.
Needless to say, it must have been the Ten Standing Servants who held the Ten Standing Servants hostage when there was still Chen Liuwang, preparing to flee out of the city, Cao Xing was not much, Yan directly led people to chase along the direction of the footprints, and after a short time, he saw that there were about five or six hundred people in front of him, who were fleeing in a hurry, which should be the last strength of the Ten Standing Servants.
"Where to run!" Cao Xuan directly twisted the bow and arrows, and the three arrows roared out, hitting the backs of the three soldiers, and the three soldiers all screamed miserably and fell directly to the ground, and Zhao Zhong, Zhang Rang and others, who were running in front, saw Cao Xing's pursuit in the rear, and they were all frightened, and they could only run away more desperately.
Cao Xing and the others were shooting and chasing behind, and they chased for about half an hour, and suddenly the ten permanent servants in front passed a corner, and when Cao Xuan caught up again, he found that this corner was clearly a fork, and there were two roads for people to choose, but on these two roads, Cao Xing clearly saw the figure of the ten permanent attendants escaping.
There is only one way to go, where will these ten permanent servants flee? Cao Xing's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and he directly asked Che Wu to pick out a native of Luoyang from the group of soldiers.
Cao Xing asked the soldier, "Which of these two roads leads to Beibi Mountain!" ”
The soldier thought about it for a moment, and then pointed out a road Cao Xing, looking around, you can vaguely see that in the crowd on this road, there is the figure of Zhang Rang, the ten permanent servants, Zhang Rang is the head of the ten permanent servants, and the emperor is the most normal in his hands, Cao Xuan didn't think much about it, and directly patted the horse's back and pursued again.
Zhang Rang and the others have the desire to survive and urge them to keep running, but the matter has come to this, the general trend has gone, where can they flee to? Under the shooting of Cao Rang's arrows, Zhang Rang fell down one after another of people, and was finally caught up by Cao Sex, Cao Sex directly controlled the war horse, and casually collided, knocking Zhang Rang to the ground, and the people around Zhang Rang also panicked, fleeing in all directions like birds and beasts.
Cao Xuan waved his hand, Che Wu comprehended, and immediately led the soldiers and horses to chase and kill the eunuchs and soldiers who fled in all directions, while Cao Xuan jumped off the horse and slowly walked to the front of Zhang Rang.
Zhang Rang, who was knocked over, directly spewed a mouthful of blood and struggled to stand up, but he found that his body had been seriously injured, and now he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
In the end, Zhang Rang could only look at Cao Xing with his unwilling eyes: "This, can this general spare my life, I still have endless gold and silver treasures at home, as long as you are willing to agree to release me today, my family's things are up to you!" ”
However, Cao Xing could only smile at this, he looked at Zhang Rang a little playfully, and said, "I don't know if you know a guy named Zuo Feng!" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Rang didn't react at first, but just nodded subconsciously.
"What I wrote in the battle report is that Zuo Feng was captured by the Qiang people and killed by the Qiang people, but the fact is that I killed him, do you know why I killed him!"
Zhang Rang was horrified when he heard this, in the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the power of the eunuchs could be described as hands and eyes, but in this period, Cao Xing dared to attack the eunuchs, not to mention that now that Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty is dead, the eunuchs have become a figure that everyone shouts and beats, and Cao Xuan will not let go of these eunuchs.
"Maybe you also have your own hardships, after all, you can't help yourself, but what I want to say is that what you have done is indeed too much, disturbing the world, framing Zhongliang, all kinds of sins are too many to mention, I have to kill you today!"
Zhang Rang closed his eyes in despair when he heard this, and he wanted to say something more, as the last struggle, but at this moment, Che Wu hurriedly ran over, he glanced at Cao Xing, and then arched his hand and reported: "Lord, the people around you were either arrested by us or killed by us, but I didn't see the shadow of His Majesty the Emperor!" ”
As soon as he heard this, Cao Xuan looked at Zhang Rang again, and at this moment, the local soldier in Luoyang, who was called over by Che Wu for questioning at the beginning, walked over with some embarrassment, glanced at Cao Xuan quite fearfully, and then said cautiously: "Cao, General Cao, the villain was in a panic just now, and he knew the wrong direction, this is not the road to Beibi Mountain, the other is the road to Beibi Mountain!" ”
As soon as he heard this, Che Wu kicked the soldier's ass, and the direction was wrong, and the final result was definitely unsatisfactory, and Cao Xing's mentality was also a little explosive at the moment.
I saw a flash of swords in front of him, and Zhang Rang's head fell to the ground.
While seeing that Che Wu was still preparing to continue to fight the soldier, Cao Xing stopped Che Wu's movements, and if he admitted his mistake, he would admit the wrong place, anyway, if Cao Xing is not mistaken, the historical record is that the emperor fled to Beibi Mountain and was finally rescued.
Even if Cao Xing can't go to rescue Cao Cao in time now, Yuan Shao and the others will go, so even if they go the wrong way, it's not a big deal, at most, it's just to make the emperor suffer a little more.
Cao Xuan waved his hand, and was about to leave with the people, rushing in the direction of Beibi Mountain, but at this moment, a soldier was surprised, Cao Xuan couldn't help but look back, only to see many soldiers pointing to a certain place of Zhang Rang's corpse and saying, "What is that thing?" Glittering, is it gold! ”
Maybe these soldiers were just curious for a while, thinking that they had found something good, and Cao Xing didn't care about all this, after all, many soldiers were born poor and had never seen gold in their lives, Cao Xing just glanced at Zhang Rang, but it was this glimpse that suddenly made Cao Xing's nerves tense.
These soldiers may not have seen this kind of thing, but Cao Xing has seen it, not long ago, he also took this thing to Luoyang to take up his post, because this thing is the holy decree, although it is only the tip of the iceberg from Zhang Rang's arms, but Cao Xuan is still eighty percent sure that it is definitely a holy decree.
Che Wu saw Cao Xuan's expression, so he walked up, slowly pulled out the holy decree from Zhang Rang's arms, and then handed it to Cao Xuan. Now that the emperor is dead, he has no backer, and it is better to bring some gold and silver treasures than to bring a holy decree.
However, driven by curiosity, Cao Xuan didn't care so much, took the holy decree, and then opened it quickly, and when he just saw the content clearly, Cao Xing's eyes widened, and he suddenly closed the holy decree again.