At the moment when the dagger was about to pierce the back of Tao Qian's neck, a hand stopped horizontally in front of the dagger at an almost impossible speed.

In the darkness, there was a "poof", and the dagger sank into the palm.

Cao Cao frowned, didn't think about it, pulled out the dagger, and prepared to stab again.

This time, before Cao Cao had time to make the next stabbing action, Cao Cao felt that the back of his neck was slashed, so he rolled his eyes and fell backwards.

Ignoring the injury, the bloody hand grabbed Cao Cao and gently put him on the ground.

And Tao Qian, who was drunk, didn't know anything about it, and still shook his head and played with the dominoes.

It was Ma Xiaoquan who arrived in time who reached out to stop Cao Cao.

It is said that after Ma Xiaoquan sensed Cao Cao's motive for wanting to assassinate Tao Qian, he rushed back non-stop, because he didn't know which inner room Cao Cao entered, Ma Xiaoquan quickly swept it, and it was not until the fifth inner room that Ma Xiaoquan heard movement inside.

Because he was afraid that Cao Cao had already succeeded, Ma Xiaoquan couldn't care so much, and pushed the door directly into the inner room.

Originally, I entered with the mentality of being discovered, but after entering, I found that there was a drunk man lying on the desk, and the man was still holding a pair of bones in his hand, like a card, and behind the man, a black shadow was standing.

Ma Xiaoquan guessed that it was Cao Cao, stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand to stop, who knew that Cao Cao's movements were faster than him, and when Ma Xiaoquan approached him, the dagger had already pierced out.

Ma Xiao stretched out his hand to block the direction of the dagger, and of course, the dagger also pierced straight into his palm

"Hiss~" Ma Xiaoquan endured the pain, pressed the wound on the palm of his right hand with his left hand, and looked at Cao Cao, who had been knocked unconscious by himself, Ma Xiaoquan exhaled a long breath.

At this time, Tao Qian was completely asleep, and judging from his snoring sound, Tao Qian was afraid that he would not wake up for a while.

Ma Xiaoquan set up Cao Cao, and the two slipped out of the side door.

When he arrived at a courtyard, Ma Xiaoquan put Cao Cao down, and then went to the kitchen to steal an egg, regardless of whether it was raw or cooked, he directly pinched it and ate it.

An egg was in the stomach, and the wound on the hand immediately healed at a very fast speed, and after two breaths, there was no wound at all.

Ma Xiaoquan wiped the blood dripping on his body, set up Cao Cao again, and walked out secretly

Gathering point. Cao Ren and Cao Hong waited very anxiously, they thought that Lord Shangxian would go and go back, but they didn't expect that this was all over the place, and they didn't come back, and for a while, the two couldn't help it.

"Zilian, I think, why don't we go and see it too! This lord and the immortal, what if something happens? ”

Cao Hong nodded: "Okay, I think the Immortal Lord and the Lord will be fine."

Cao Hong's words were not as confident as before, and Cao Ren didn't break it, and the two of them pulled up their sabers and were about to go back.

At this moment, the two saw a man carrying another man not far away, approaching them.

"Lord Immortal?" Cao Hong's eyes were sharp, and he could see it at a glance, although it was getting late at the moment, and Ma Xiaoquan's iconic purple hair was no different from black in the dim sky, but in that walking posture, Cao Hong was sure that he was an immortal.

Sure enough, when the two of them approached, Cao Ren also saw clearly that it was really Lord Shangxian, and there was also Lord Shangxian holding the unconscious lord Cao Cao.

Cao Ren hurriedly stepped forward to take Cao Cao, and asked puzzledly: "Lord Shangxian, Lord He"

Ma Xiaoquan wiped the sweat from his forehead, waved his hand and said, "Xiao Cao is fine, but he was knocked unconscious, oops, if I hadn't gone in time, Xiao Cao would have died."

When Cao Ren heard this, he immediately became nervous and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Ma Xiaoquan continued to lie and said: "Xiao Cao went to kill Tao Qian on his own initiative, who knew that Tao Qian was pretending, Xiao Cao was arrested and showed his appearance, not to mention, he almost died in Huangquan, if it wasn't for the timely arrival of this immortal, you wouldn't want to see Xiao Cao in the future."

Ma Xiaoquan made up a story lightly, and when Cao Ren and Cao Hong heard it, they patted their chests and shouted, "It's dangerous, it's dangerous"

In the evening, the four of them did not stay at the hotel, but lit a fire and chose a hidden forest to camp.

Cao Cao has also woken up, after waking up, Cao Ren Cao Hong immediately asked the lord with concern, Cao Cao ignored the second Cao, he looked at Ma Xiaoquan next to him, and saw the blood stains on Ma Xiao's body by the firelight.

Cao Cao was silent.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and sent a chicken leg to Cao Cao, comforting him: "Xiao Cao, don't panic, we are safe now." ”

Cao Cao looked at Ma Xiaoquan thoughtfully, and Ma Xiaoquan snorted lightly twice and said to the three of them: "Shall I tell you a story?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan is a well-known story king in Cao's army, and when he usually has nothing to do, Cao Cao's civil and military generals will find him and pester him to tell stories, after all, in the eyes of everyone, the immortal who has lived for a thousand years should have a lot of stories to tell.

Cao Hong Cao Ren heard that Lord Shangxian was going to tell a story, and hurriedly clapped his hands and said that although Cao Cao rarely listened to Lord Shangxian tell stories, but when he saw the two two goods with stars in their eyes, Cao Cao was embarrassed to sweep people's Yaxing.

"Okay~" Cao Cao responded, and he agreed.

Ma Xiaoquan cleared his throat and told Sancao a little story.

Ma Xiaoquan vaguely remembered this story from a movie, although Ma Xiaoquan couldn't remember many details, but one of the lines, Ma Xiaoquan still hasn't forgotten.

Ma Xiaoquan learned that tone and said: "All things in heaven and earth, I gave you, it is yours; If I don't give it, you can't grab it in this square circle, and you can't mess with the rules in your own position. (Do you remember the movie that exploded~~ru?) After a short silence, the two clapped their hands, saying that Lord Shangxian spoke really well, and learned like Yunyun; Cao Cao, on the other hand, frowned and didn't say a word.

In less than two breaths, Cao Cao was sweating profusely.

Ma Xiaoquan looked at Cao Cao's expression with satisfaction, whether he was real or pretended, Ma Xiaoquan thought that his warning had been effective, and believed that with Cao Cao's ingenuity, it was not a problem to understand that line.

With a "poof", Cao Cao knelt in front of Ma Xiaoquan and kowtowed heavily: "Lord Shangxian, and confess!" ”

Ma Xiaoquan helped Cao Cao up and comforted him: "What is Xiao Cao's crime? ”

Cao Cao blushed, looked at Cao Hong and Cao Ren who were surprised beside him, and lied: "I shouldn't have joined everyone so late. ”

As soon as Cao Cao's words came out, Cao Ren and Cao Hong sighed.

"So that's the case~" Cao Hong laughed, "Lord, didn't Lord Shangxian save you back, Lord Lord, it's really a blessing."

Cao Hong is very good at talking, and a few words immediately alleviated the embarrassing atmosphere of the scene.

Cao Cao took the opportunity to pick up a jar of water and wine, and said: "This wine is from the filial piety of the son, then I will punish myself with an altar to apologize!" ”

Cao Cao said, hold the wine jar and drink.

Cao Ren and Cao Hong, the two generals, did not show weakness, and picked up a jar of water and wine one after another, and drank with Cao Cao.

"Haha" laughter and scolding resounded through the dwarf forest

The next day, after Tao Qian woke up, he found that the domino he was holding in his hand did not know when it fell to the ground, Tao Qian lowered his head to pick it up, but found that there were some blood stains near the domino.

"Huh?" Tao Qian became nervous and immediately called his subordinates to inquire about the situation.

The next person reported: "Tao Gong, a group of thieves has come recently, and they are everywhere, and Mi Fang Sun Qian's house has been robbed several times. ”

Tao Qian raised his eyebrows: "Is there such a thing?" And what about thieves? ”

He said: "Some have already escaped, and a few have been caught, and now they are in the main hall, waiting for Tao Gong to fall." ”

Tao Qian waved his hand: "Take me quickly." ”

In the main hall, Tao Qian used both soft and hard, and got an important news from the thieves who were caught: this group of thieves was sent by Cao Cao.

Tao Qian's subordinates expressed their incomprehension, especially Mi Zhu Mi Fang Sun Qian, who scolded Cao Cao on the spot, but Tao Qian was silent.

After leaving the hall, Tao Qian ran to an inner room without stopping, and took out a scroll box from behind the paintings on the wall.

Opening the box and taking a look, Tao Qian exhaled a long breath.

"It's still there~Great~" Tao Qian covered the box and put it back in its place, but he felt unsafe, Tao Qian took out the box again and looked at it repeatedly

In September of the fourth year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, in the autumn, Cao Cao once again gathered troops to attack Tao Qian.

This time, Cao Cao came under the banner of crusading against the traitor and the traitor's party, the traitor is Que Xuan, who claims to be the Son of Heaven, and the traitor's comrade is Tao Qian.

This time, Tao Qian had no reason not to fight, after all, when Que Xuan raised troops, he did participate, and he got a lot of benefits from it.

When Cao Cao came, he was afraid that the momentum would not be huge enough, so he wrote a special book and invited his childhood friend Yuan Shao to help.

Yuan Shao was also a little humane, and sent Zhu Ling to lead three battalions (only about a hundred people) to help.

Because the soldiers brought last time were not accustomed to the water and soil of Xuzhou, this time, Cao Cao specially brought the newly formed "Qingzhou soldiers" when recovering Yanzhou, these Qingzhou soldiers were originally the Yellow Turban thieves who were driven out of Xuzhou by Tao Qian, so these people are completely adapted to the climate and soil of Xuzhou.

In terms of strategy, Cao Cao first reported his plan to Ma Xiaoquan, the immortal lord, and Ma Xiaoquan checked Cao Cao's plan with the historical data of the data device in his body, and made some corrections before agreeing to Cao Cao's implementation.

At the beginning of October, Cao Jiang conquered Guangwei and traveled along Surabaya to Pengcheng. The vanguard army Cao Ren defeated Tao Qian's general Lü You, and later joined Cao Cao's army.

In mid-to-late October, Cao Cao gathered a large army and started a big battle with Tao Qian in Pengcheng, facing the new and old hatred of Cao Cao, although Tao Qian made a stubborn resistance, but still suffered a crushing defeat and fled to Tancheng.

In mid-November, Cao Cao successively conquered Fei, Hua and Jimo, and Kaiyang, because Tao Qian's general Zang Ba was stubbornly defended, it was not able to break through for a while.

In December, Cao's army successively conquered some areas around Tancheng, and at this point, the entire Tancheng was exposed to Cao's army.