Chapter 40 Chen Gong was rescued, and Cao resisted
When Chen Gong rushed to Pei Yuanshao's camp, Pei Yuanshao had already gathered more than 1,000 people under his command. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info didn't know how to respond, and when he heard Chen Gongyi say that it was Hou Cheng and Song Xian, Cao Jun was about to enter the city, and Pei Yuanshao was also taken aback.
Chen Gong said, "Now we can't do anything, we still have to break out of the city as soon as possible to see if we can meet the defenders of Tancheng." β
Pei Yuanshao heard it, "Lord Ben is right, but I don't know what the situation in the general's mansion is?" β
Chen Gong hurriedly said: "When I went to the general's mansion, Hou Cheng and Song Xian tied up General Lu Bu out of the mansion, and my guards didn't have time to organize. I don't know what happens to the family in the house. β
Pei Yuanshao heard this, "If this is the case, Hou Cheng and Song Xian should not have time to persecute the family members in the house, I will arrange a man to escort the master of the book out of the city for temporary refuge, and I will go to the house to pick up the young lady." β
When Chen Gong heard this, he also had some truth, and thought: Lu Bu was captured, he had no children under his knees, and only one daughter. If you want to recruit the old department in the future, this young lady Lu Wen is still very important. Not only did he secretly appreciate Pei Yuanshao's vision, but he no longer regarded him as an ordinary general.
In fact, Pei Yuanshao didn't have so many far-reaching considerations, the task given to him by Tian Jing at the beginning was to protect Lu Wen's safety, and other things were not important to him.
Pei Yuanshao had the materials in the treasury burned, and then asked five hundred soldiers to escort Chen Gong out of the northern city. The reason why he chose Beicheng was because the guard general Cao He had a one-sided acquaintance with Pei Yuanshao, and felt that he was a trustworthy person and should not surrender to Cao Cao. After sending Chen Gong away, Pei Yuanshao rushed to Lu Bu's mansion with another five hundred soldiers.
Chen Gong was just about to rush to Beicheng, when he heard Cao Jun shouting along the way, "Those who capture Chen Gong alive will be rewarded." "Xin said, it seems that Cao Cao hates him to the bone, and he will definitely not let him go.
The team hurried for a while, and saw the north gate, only to find that there was a fierce battle going on. Cao Jun's banner has the word "Xiahou" written on it, and it seems that Cao Jun has a great advantage, and I am afraid that this north gate will not be able to get out.
Chen Gong was about to turn around and rush back, when a man rushed out of the oblique stab, and it was Yu Ban under Cao Cao who came to support Xiahoudun. As soon as Yu Ban's more than 1,000 people arrived, they killed the five hundred soldiers beside Chen Gong at once. Chen Gong fled with the rebels, but fortunately, no one in Cao's army knew him.
Chen Gong hid in the alley, changed the clothes of ordinary people, and wanted to get out of the city among the chaotic people.
Who knew that at this time, a team of more than 200 people came to the name of the team, and the first member of the general was a white horse with a silver helmet and silver armor. Chen Gong didn't dare to raise his head, but the general's eyes kept staring at him.
The man suddenly spoke: "The one in front is Mr. Gongtai, Zhao Yun under Liu Yuzhou, and he has been waiting for Mr. here for a long time." β
Chen Gong was recognized, so it was naturally difficult to pretend again, so he said, "Since the general has found Chen, then tie me up and go to Cao Cao to receive the reward, why bother talking." β
Zhao Yun said, "Mr. misunderstood, my father-in-law knew that Mr. was in trouble today, so he specially ordered us to wait to find Mr. and escort him out of the city." β
Chen Gongfa asked, "Liu Bei would be so kind." On that day, I offered Lu Bu to take his Xuzhou, and he wanted to kill me. Help me, you give me a reason. β
"Mr. that day is Lu Bu's staff, and it is natural to plan for Lu Bu, since each is his master, my lord will naturally not blame Mr. My father-in-law has always respected Mr.'s talent, if Mr. does not dislike it, my father-in-law is willing to hire Mr. as a military advisor, and the soldiers and horses under his command are all dispatched by Mr. Zhao Yun said.
Chen Gong laughed, "Liu Bei thinks about a good thing, this time Xuzhou happened, how could Cao Cao let him out, and he will definitely be under house arrest in Beijing." Liu Bei himself is not guaranteed, and he still has the heart to hire a military advisor. Moreover, Cao Cao hates me to the core, and Liu Bei recruits me, so he is not afraid of Cao Cao's guilt. β
Zhao Yun just responded calmly, "My lord will be free to get out of trouble in the future, it doesn't matter if Mr. is willing to serve my lord or not, now that the city is in chaos, Mr. is not safe here, it is better to go out of the city with me first." β
Chen Gong thought to himself, it is also death in this city, it is better to go out with them to have a glimmer of life, after all, no one wants to die in vain. changed into Zhao Yun's soldiers' clothes, and mixed in Zhao Yun's army and went out of the city with him.
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The chaos in the city had already alarmed Lu Wen, and when she ran to the front hall, she saw dead bodies all over the ground, and picked up a soldier who had not breathed his breath and asked, only to know that Lu Bu was kidnapped by Hou Cheng and Song Xian and sent to Cao Cao's army. Now there is chaos in the city, and Cao's army enters the city. What to do now is up to him to decide.
Lu Wen immediately summoned the female soldiers in the city mansion, took her mother Yan and aunt Diao Chan, and quickly left the mansion to evacuate outside the city. Xiao Liu left her a hundred reserve Bai Ma Yi from the outside of the mansion after hearing the news, and they joined forces to kill at the east gate. On the way, he met Pei Yuanshao and his men who came to him, and when he asked about the situation, he knew that Chen Gong had gone out of the north gate. Pei Yuanshao suggested that Lu Wen also go out of the city from the north gate, but Lu Wen was worried that Cao Xing, who received the north gate, would not last, so it was better to go to the east gate to see the situation first.
When they reached the east gate, Wei Xu was ordering his subordinates to abandon their weapons and surrender to Cao Ren, who had just arrived at the east gate. Cao Ren is also a veteran, Wei Xu is down, and he doesn't dare to take it lightly. Just when Wei Xu's people disarmed and stood by, Cao Ren ordered people to keep an eye on Wei Xu's men and horses while receiving the city defense. The hundreds of people of Lu Wen and Pei Yuanshao were killed and went straight to the city gate.
Cao soldiers and horses couldn't cope for a while, and they were killed in chaos. Originally, they couldn't believe Wei Xu's men and horses who had just surrendered, but now there were Lu Bu's soldiers and horses from the city, and they had to fight against the enemy and guard against the soldiers who surrendered behind them to launch a surprise attack, which was naturally very nervous.
Somehow, there was a commotion among the troops, it turned out that Cao Jun was a little nervous, and he always felt that it was difficult to surrender the troops, so the weapons in his hands couldn't help but cut out. This knife was chopped, blood splattered, and a Xuzhou soldier died on the spot. The other soldiers naturally stopped doing it, they were all bloody people, how could they have suffered such a nest after following Lu Bu for many years, and they didn't hide it in their hearts when Wei continued to surrender without a fight. Now that Cao Jun had killed their brothers again, it was clear that he didn't believe them, and some of them were fighting as soon as they made a noise, and some of them were brave and ruthless, and immediately picked up the weapons on the ground that had not been taken away by Cao Jun and fought with Cao Jun.
In this way, the other surrendered soldiers naturally could not wait for death on the spot, and picked up weapons to fight with Cao's army. At this time, the east gate fell into a chaotic situation, and Wei Xu wanted to play the pressure but couldn't suppress it, so he could only show his loyalty to Cao Ren like a flatterer. Cao Ren didn't have time to pay attention to him, so he immediately sent his personal guards, shouting that those who surrendered would not be killed, and those who dared to make trouble would be cut with a thousand knives to stabilize the situation.
This chaos just gave Lu Wen and Pei Yuanshao a chance, and they took advantage of the chaos to go out of the city without many casualties. Out of the city, they immediately turned north, preparing to go north to Tancheng to join the soldiers and horses of Gao Shun and Zhang Liao.
Cao Ren had not had time to stabilize the situation in the city, so naturally he would not send troops to pursue him. Therefore, as soon as Lu Wen and the others left Xiapi City, it was safe to go all the way north. When they had been walking for a long time, they suddenly found a large army of 10,000 men and horses coming from the opposite side.
Lu Wen and Pei Yuanshao immediately ordered people to hide in the forest for a while. When the team approached, they saw clearly that it was Gao Shun and Zhang Liao's banner. Lu Wen and Pei Yuanshao came out to meet them, and they saw that Xiaoliu Lu Qilin was also in the army.
Gao Shun and Zhang Liao heard that Hou Cheng and Song Xian had rebelled and that LΓΌ Bu had been captured, so they wanted to lead troops into the city to rescue them. Lu Wen couldn't persuade them hard, so they had to go south. It's just that if something can't be done, let them retreat immediately, and everyone will think of countermeasures. He camped at the place where they met, waiting for their news.
Gao Shun and Zhang Liao led 10,000 soldiers and horses to Xiapi City, and when they arrived at Xiapi City, it was already evening, but they found that there seemed to be a battle on the city tower.
It turned out that Cao Xing led the troops to guard the north gate, and when Xiahoudun attacked from the city, he didn't know what had happened in the city. As a general defending the city, he naturally had to be loyal to his duties and resolutely resist. He led his troops to kill for an hour, and when he saw that he couldn't resist and was about to retreat, the Cao army outside the city had already surrounded the outside of the north gate, and Cao Xing couldn't leave if he wanted to.
At this time, Cao Jun persuaded him to surrender, saying that Lu Bu was captured, Hou Cheng and Song Xian defected, and Wei Xu surrendered, and now he is the only one who is still resisting. Cao Xing was furious when he heard this, if Lu Bu surrendered, he would naturally follow the lord. But Lu Bu was captured, and life and death in the future were between Cao Cao's words. There are traitors like Hou Cheng and Song Xian, how can he not be annoyed. Cao Xing bent his bow and aimed at Xiahou Dun, the commander of Cao's army.
Cao Xing is known as a divine shooter, with the ability to pierce Yang in 100 steps, Xiahoudun couldn't dodge, so he hurriedly caught it with his hand, but his hand only caught the arrow feather, and the arrow hit the right eye. The arrow hit the eye about an inch, and the eye couldn't be saved, if it wasn't for Xiahoudun grabbing it with his hand, he was afraid that he would be killed on the spot through the head.
Xiahoudun endured the pain in his heart, roared, pulled out the arrow, put the eyeballs on the arrow in his mouth, and swallowed it into his stomach. Then he gave the order that he should not surrender and that he would be killed.
Since Cao Xing shot an arrow at Xiahou and saw that he was injured in his right eye and did not die, he knew that he would not survive today, so he decided to fight to the death with Cao Jun, killing one more is enough, and killing one more will earn one. Therefore, he led his troops to retreat above the city walls, held the staircase, and resisted stubbornly with the arrows and defensive equipment of the city.
At first, Cao Jun did not expect a north gate to be so difficult to attack, and after the situation was already under control everywhere, Cao Jun sent troops to attack the north city from the walls of the east and west cities. However, Cao Xing had already prepared, and ordered people to take the lead in lighting the fire with kerosene to block the path of Cao's army's attack, and then retreated behind the shield and blocked the enemy with arrows.
In this way, Cao Xing led two thousand remnants of the soldiers, and confronted the Cao army for four hours on the north gate, although there were many Cao soldiers killed and injured, but they could not stop the Cao army. And Cao Xing's subordinates now have less than 500 people left, as long as Cao Xing's army launches another attack, it will be a situation where the entire army will be annihilated.
Zhang Liao saw that there was still a Lu Zi banner on the city wall, and knew that there were still friendly troops, so he led 3,000 cavalry to kill them first. Gao Shun led the troops to follow.
The Cao army in the north city thought that there would be Lu Bu's soldiers and horses coming at this time, but the Cao army outside the city was caught off guard for a while, and was defeated by Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses, and fled in all directions. However, the cavalry was only powerful when it charged, and once it entered the city, it was of little effect. can only engage in hand-to-hand combat with Cao Jun. Fortunately, Gao Shun led the rear army to come, and as soon as the more than 10,000 people arrived, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed.