Chapter 107: Prime Minister Cao Cheng
Not long after, a noisy sound of people and horses came into Liu Feng's ears from far and near, this Cao Cao, sure enough, is still here!
At the entrance of Huarong Road, many generals of the Cao Army are riding their horses and moving forward with difficulty, and Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, is also among them at this time! I saw that Cao Cao's face was pale, his hair was a little scattered, and his long beard was already gray, but his eyes were still very sharp.
Cao Cao led the army to Huarong Road, but he was already sleepy and lacking horses, all the warships were destroyed, and the soldiers were very panicked in their hearts, Cao Cao originally fled to the north with tens of thousands of soldiers, and did not want to be killed several times by the ambush set up by Zhou Yu just ashore, and many generals lost contact with Cao Cao.
Escaping the siege and interception of the sergeants under the command of Zhou Yu, he did not want to be ambushed by Guan Yu in Wulin, Cao Cao knew that Guan Yu remembered the favor he received when he was under his command before, and did not fight to the death, but according to Liu Bei's instructions, Cao Cao's troops were attacked for a while, and after Cao Cao continued to flee north, he reined in and returned.
At this time, the army that followed Cao Cao's side was already less than 5,000, and Cao Cao only got out of Jiangling, so he copied the gourd mouth path and marched, not wanting to be touched by Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei naturally would not be as merciful to Cao Cao's subordinates as Guan Yu, and led the army to rush and kill, killing several generals under Cao Cao's command, fortunately Zhang Liao desperately protected Cao Cao and the strategists on his side, which killed a bloody road.
When he got rid of Zhang Fei, Cao Cao counted the sergeants on his side, only more than 2,000 people remained, and half of them were injured, all of which were difficult to fight again, except for a group of advisers, only Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Zhang Liao were left with Cao Cao, and the rest did not know where to lead the troops to kill in the chaos.
Going to Jiangling, not only this Huarong road, but when Cao Cao stood in the fork in the road before, he ignored the dissuasion of all the advisers and tried his best to take Huarong Road and other extremely dangerous places, the reason for this is just to fight wits with Zhuge Liang Zhou Yu, guessing that he will not set up an ambush on this path, but will wait for Cao Cao on the avenue.
After everyone approached Huarong Dao, Cao Cao had a lot of regret in his heart, only to see that the road was all muddy, gravel swamps, and so on, as soon as he entered, many old and weak soldiers were stuck in the quagmire and could not extricate themselves, and they lost hundreds of people in a short time.
Cao Cao had the intention to withdraw, but after thinking about it, such a difficult road, Liu Bei will definitely not set up an ambush here, as long as he passes through this Huarong path and stays in Jiangling, he can escape, and then reorganize the soldiers and horses and recover the lost land in Jingzhou, it is not impossible!
So, Cao Cao shouted, regardless of the soldiers stuck in the mud and couldn't extricate themselves, just urged everyone to work hard, and in a short time, they traveled half the way, but everyone was also sweating and overdrawn, and they were all trying their best to support.
Finally, after another journey, Cao Cao looked far away on the horse, and could already see that the end of Huarong Road was not far ahead, so Cao Cao urged again loudly, and walked forward first, at this time there were no less than three or five hundred soldiers killed here.
Just when Cao Cao was very interested, he secretly thought to himself, fortunately, Zhuge Liang did not set up an ambush here, otherwise most of them would be lost here today, only to hear a loud noise in the craggy place of the boulder in front of him, Liu Feng was dressed in bronze armor, holding two knives, and rode his horse out from behind a boulder, and three hundred elite soldiers followed Liu Feng, full of spirit, and stopped in front of Cao Cao.
Cao Cao because of the urgency, at this time from Liu Feng only less than half an arrow away, if Liu Feng is a bow and arrows, almost on the spot can take Cao Cao's life, Cao Cao at first glance Liu Feng and others, shocked for a while, hurriedly reined in the horses, want to go backwards, but helpless feet are very muddy, had to stop in place, sweating.
Cao Cao behind Cao Ren, Cao Hong and others saw this, hurriedly urged the horses, and only arrived in front of Cao Cao to protect him after a while, and looked at Liu Feng with fierce eyes, Cao Ren whispered to Cao Cao: "This son is Liu Bei's righteous son Liu Feng, this time I am afraid that it will be difficult to be good here, but I see that he only carries three hundred soldiers, and he is a little arrogant. ”
"Haha, General Zixiao doesn't have to cower here, I am Liu Bei's righteous son Liu Feng is also, the first time I saw Prime Minister Cao Cheng was in such a wilderness, it was really a bit rude. If what General Zixiao wants in his heart is to fight to the death with us, then go forward and give it a try! ”
Liu Feng said, looking at the top of the mountain and behind him with a blank look. That Cao Ren Cao Hong's generation is also a battle-hardened person, following Liu Feng's gaze, he saw that the top of the mountain was full of shadows, as if there were people shaking, and the huge rolling stone was ready, as long as Liu Feng gave an order, the rolling stone fell, Cao Cao and others were inconvenient, and the consequences could be imagined.
And at the end of the road, at this time, it was also black, I don't know how many people and horses were ambushed here, even if it was to fight Liu Feng's three hundred soldiers, and then at the end, it was inevitable to die.
"Prime Minister! It's better for us to fight Liu Feng desperately, and the prime minister will ride his horse forward and escape alone! Cao Ren's heart was cold at the moment, this battle was really like an iron bucket, and it was almost a situation where there was no way out.
"There are still thousands of men and horses under my command, don't panic!" Although Cao Cao was still stabilizing the army's heart, he was helpless in his heart, just standing in place and not moving.
At this time, a person behind Cao Cao rode a horse to Cao Cao's body, Cao Cao fixed his eyes and saw that the person who came was Xu Shu who had been following his side, although Xu Shu was a minister, but he was also a ranger in his early years, quite a bit of force, so he rushed all the way back and forth to kill, and there was also Zhang Liao Cao Ren and others to protect him, so he did not leave the team.
Xu Shu is quite familiar with Liu Feng's character, originally saw that Liu Feng had the advantage but did not attack Cao Cao, he had some doubts in his heart, but at this time, when he saw Liu Feng's eyes, he was even more sure that Liu Feng wanted to negotiate with Cao Cao.
"Prime Minister, Liu Feng this person, I am also quite familiar with it when I was in Xinye, although this son is still young, but he is also a decisive person, today he just besieged the prime minister here, but he has not been a killer for a long time, I want to come to this matter There is still a turnaround, it is better for the prime minister to talk to him to know what he thinks, otherwise once he orders to attack, I am afraid that nothing can be done!"
Cao Cao thought for a while, and suddenly felt that Xu Shu's words were very reasonable, so he rode his horse a few steps forward, faced Liu Feng, and shouted: "I am the prime minister of the Han Emperor, and you live in person with the Han family, so you are a courtier, how can you block my way here?" ”