Chapter 13: "Home"
Cao Xing, who had already heard of Zuo Feng's arrival, calculated that Zuo Feng would come over after he was busy, and took Lei Gong, Wang Xiao, who was familiar with Zuo Feng, and his concubine Shuang'er to wait at the camp gate.
"Haha! Hu Sheng's kid is here. Hearing Hu Jun and Sima shouting from a long distance, Lei Gong raised his voice, laughed, and responded.
Cao Xing and the three stepped forward, and Hu Jun, Sima and Hu Sheng, the four of them hugged each other intimately.
After hugging each other, Hu Sheng regretted a few words when he learned that Cao Yong was not there, and the four of them went together to meet Zuo Feng.
"Ah Xuan, no, I should call you Xiaojun now." Zuo Feng was kind like a generous elder in the family, looked Cao Xing up and down, his tone was easy-going, and he continued with concern: "Well, I have tanned a lot, and I have grown a little taller, how about it, Captain Cao, it is not easy to bring an army of 50,000." ”
Cao Xing's heart was warm, half-joking, and said obediently: "Zuo Gong, don't you know, there are 500 people in a lieutenant, at most 1,000 people, I have 50,000 mouths waiting to be fed, and I can't breathe." ”
"Poof~" A self-disciplined, strict and diligent Cao Xing, and such a childish side, Shuang'er couldn't help laughing.
Zuo Feng looked at Shuang'er, looking up and down, with the eyes of his father-in-law who looked at his daughter-in-law who had not passed the door.
Cao Xing hurriedly introduced that the group was no different from family members.
Entering the simple, spacious and clean camp tent arranged by Cao Xing, Zuo Feng felt like returning home, extremely relaxed and comfortable.
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Zuo Feng's arrival was like the emperor on Dong Zhuo's head, pressing the other party to death.
Dong Zhuo was forced to take the initiative to attack Quyang several times, losing his troops and returning in vain.
That night, under the cover of night, Dong Zhuo took a few cronies and secretly came to visit Cao Xing.
"General Dong, how can I let you come to the door in person? Sexual sins deserve death, sit down quickly. Cao Xing looked flattered, and asked Dong Zhuo to take the main seat: "Come and serve wine and food." ”
Dong Zhuo squeezed out a smile: "Xiaojun, we are comrades-in-arms who are fighting together on the battlefield, so you don't need to be polite." ”
"General Xie Dong is very loving, and he is ashamed." Cao Xing did not have the slightest villain's ambition, and gave Dong Zhuo enough face.
Dong Zhuo sat on the main seat, the wine and meat came up quickly, looking at the usual favorite "immortal" brew on the table, Dong Zhuo couldn't get excited together.
"General Dong, please!"
Cao Xing got up to toast, a cup of "immortal" brewing, and drank it all.
"Ahem!"
Dong Zhuo hurriedly replied, forgetting for a moment that the "immortal" was very strong, and a glass of wine was swallowed, choking his face full of flesh.
"General Dong, is it okay?"
Cao Xing felt funny, but he was concerned on his face.
"No problem, no problem." Dong Zhuo waved his hand to signal that he was okay, and began to cooperate with Cao Xing from birth to career, to the south and the north, and then to how the two cooperated on the battlefield.
In line with the principle of saying a few more nice words without money, Cao Xing catered to Dong Zhuo and chatted about family life, and praised Dong Zhuo in three sentences.
The two chatted happily.
Feeling that the heat was almost over, Dong Zhuo took the initiative to get up and toast, and rushed into the topic: "Brother Xian, my brother is in big trouble this time, you and Zuo Bus are in love for all to see, you have to help your brother." ”
In order to get out of the predicament, Dong Zhuo, who began to be commensurate with his brother, Cao Xing sighed in his heart, he knew today, why didn't he listen to the advice at the beginning, and kept respect: "My brother is in trouble, my younger brother is duty-bound, and my brother can rest assured." ”
After getting Cao Xing's affirmation, Dong Zhuo's nervous heart eased slightly, he was used to running around before and after, and he was not angry at all for the lower section of his body in front of Cao Xing, and the two chatted for a while, and Dong Zhuo, who was busy with other relationships, got up and said goodbye.
The next day, Hu Chi'er, the middle of Dong Zhuo's army, led a hundred elite Xiliang veterans, led two hundred Xiliang good horses, and two magnificent Dawan horses came to Cao Xing's army to report.
Looking at one white and one red, without a trace of variegation, tall and sturdy Dawan good horse, Cao Xing's face was obsessed, holding the red one, and stroking it lightly.
After that, I looked at Hu Chi'er, who was short and stout (after the tenth century, white people in the West were generally shorter than Han people in the East, and during the Qin and Han dynasties, the height of Han people generally reached 1.8 meters), with red hair, colored eyes, white skin, and Hu Chi'er, who was over 18 years old.
Cao Xing smiled and asked a question that was not related: "Hu Chi'er, do you know Jia Xiang?" ”
Hu Chi'er stretched out her hand and scratched her head with a pale face: "Report to the general, I have never known each other in my humble position." ”
"Oh." Looking at this honest white strong man, Cao Xing smiled: "You will be my deputy commander of the guard in the future." ”
"No!" Deeply responsible and trusted, Hu Chier happily accepted the order.
With nearly 100 Xiliang veterans, plus 300 Xiliang war horses, he spent a lot of money to buy, and even exchanged wine with the Huns, accumulating 200 Mongolian horses, 300 Central Plains war horses, and 600 inferior pack horses.
The idea of expanding the cavalry in his heart became stronger and stronger.
Just do it, Cao Xing summoned Sima Wang Xiao of the cavalry army alone that night, and after some encouragement, expanded the cavalry battalion to 2,000.
The cavalry battalion is divided into Xiliang Iron Cavalry Qu, Archer Cavalry Qu, Light Cavalry Qu, 600 people, and three regular army battle Qu.
There were 1,400 followers under it, and the whole battalion was 2,000 people.
At the same time, the most elite 100 Xiliang war horse knights were concentrated as tiger riders and 100 Mongolian horse knights as leopard riders, and the tiger and leopard servants who guarded Cao Xing were formed.
The remaining war horses and pack horses were filled with the scout camp and expanded to 2,000 people.
In order to cover Liu Bei's escape to the south, Liu Pi, who was unwilling to surrender after bravely dying, was the Sima of the Tiger and Leopard Righteous Army.
In the history of Shengyuan, there were more than 100,000 yellow turbans in Wancheng, the second marshal, and Han Zhong, who had the ability to be a second-rate commander, was the first fake army Sima of the Tiger and Leopard Yicong.
Shengshan made Meteor Hammer, Flying Knife, Bian Xi, who was flexible, sharp-minded, and quasi-first-class in martial arts, became the second fake army Sima of the Tiger and Leopard Righteousness.
Cao Xuan was busy reorganizing, and Dong Zhuo, who had nothing to do, was imprisoned.
received so many benefits from Dong Zhuo, Cao Xing's investment, Zuo Feng's connections, and the operation of Yuan Feng, the biological father and servant of Dong Zhuo's former master Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, reversed the sentence of "commutation of the death penalty to the first degree", which was reversed into dismissal and investigation, and retrial after the autumn.
escaped the death penalty, Dong Zhuo remembered Yuan Feng, Zuo Feng, Cao Xing and others.
Cao Xing knew that whether it was "commutation of the death penalty by one degree" or dismissal and retrial, after the Yellow Turban was pacified, Emperor Ling of Han would immediately grant amnesty to the world, and Dong Zhuo would still not be able to die at that time.
Otherwise, whether Cao Xuan will contribute money and effort to fight for a controversial person like Dong Zhuo in later generations, it is not certain.
Dong Zhuo couldn't have imagined that from fighting everywhere with Zhang Huan of "Liangzhou Sanming", and then serving as Guangwu Ling of Yanmen County, Bingzhou, Lieutenant of the Northern Governor of Shu County, Yizhou, and Captain of Wuji in the Western Regions, during which he made countless military exploits, and made a lot of contributions and hard work.