Chapter 21: The Assassin Selector

Seeing Cao Cao's refusal, Mi Zhu didn't care, and smiled slightly, "Why should Cao Gong be angry for a while, there are 100,000 soldiers in Xuzhou, and if you want the head of General Anbei, Cao Gong has to cut off the heads of our 100,000 people first." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žfo”

"Zhang Mengxuan wants to drive us away, but he has to get some benefits." Guo Jia didn't wait for Cao Cao to reply, so he interjected directly, "If I can't satisfy my lord, I will wait for 40,000 warriors to stay in Xuzhou and not leave!" ”

"We have a forbidden text here! What does Cao Gong think? ”

After Mi Zhu finished speaking, seeing that Cao Cao's face did not change, it seemed that it was difficult to impress him with only one or two conditions.

"If Xiahou Yuanrang is added, can Cao Gong be satisfied?"

Guo Jia pursed his lips, "Don't talk nonsense with you, I'm greedy, you put everyone back, plus ten days of military rations, it's best to have wine and meat, and we'll leave." ”

"In this way, I will go back to report to my lord, tell him about Cao Gong's conditions, and come to Cao Gong later to answer!" Mi Zhu was about to turn around and leave after speaking, but suddenly remembered what Zhang Min asked him to bring, and turned back and said: "My lord asked me to bring a message to Cao Gong, 'Be careful of a fire in the backyard!'" ’”

Cao Cao's face darkened, and he was about to order the fat man to be blown up, but he thought that Xiahoudun and Yu Ban were still in Zhang Min's hands, if this fat man lacked arms and legs, the two of them would probably not be happy, so they had to hold their anger in their hearts, although they knew that something happened to Xiahoudun who stayed in Pengcheng, but they didn't expect to be captured alive, with Xiahoudun's force, who in Xuzhou could capture him?

"Lord, order to clean up, Zhang Mengxuan estimates that he will be able to agree soon, it is better for us to leave early." Guo Jia suddenly said: "I'm afraid the family will not be peaceful!" ”

Cao Cao quickly regained his composure and said in surprise: "Wen Ruo and the others are in the rear, what can happen!" Could it be that Zhang Mengxuan still has the strength to stop, so that Pengcheng's men and horses can attack my Yanzhou while we are staying here? ”

"It's not Zhang Mengxuan, he's not a risk-taking person, I drank too much, and I actually forgot that there was still a person sleeping next to us!" Guo Jia's face was full of remorse, patted his thigh and said: "I hope Wen Ruo and Miaocai can defend one or two cities, otherwise we won't even have a place to stand!" ”

"You said Yuan Shao?" Cao Cao hesitated: "Yuan Benchu shouldn't have won Gongsun Zan so quickly, how can he take care of us!" ”

"It's not him, it's someone from the land of Guanzhong!"

"Li Xu, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji or who? These people dare to mess with me! ”

"It's Lu Bu Lu Fengxian!"

When Cao Cao heard that his eyes were dark, why did he forget him!

"Zilian, pack up the people, let's leave tonight!"

Cao Cao shouted outside the tent, if Lu Bu really entered Yanzhou, with the few remaining troops in Yanzhou, wouldn't it be a sheep into the mouth of a tiger! Everyone cleaned up neatly, just waiting for Zhang Min to agree, so that they could go home to prevent wolves!

Mi Zhu returned all the way back to Tancheng, met Zhang Min, and reported Cao Cao's conditions, Guo Jia said that it was the same as Zhang Min.

"Can the ghost genius Guo Fengxiao really see through people's hearts?" Zhang Min speculated, "Do what he says, put everyone back, stay here and waste food, and give Cao Cao all the rice and grain copied from Cao Bao's house, enough for him to have ten days of military rations!" ”

"Yuanlong, Zizhong, you strictly guard Tancheng, and I will personally lead people to follow Cao Cao until he leaves Xuzhou!"

Zhang Min took 3,000 Danyang soldiers and 20,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans under Guan Hai out of Tancheng, and asked Guan Hai to lead people to send Xiahoudun, Yu Ban, and grain and grass, and then hang behind Cao Jun far away.

The journey was uneventful, and six days later, the two armies bypassed Pengcheng one after another. After that, Cao Jun seemed to get some unfavorable news, and suddenly accelerated his pace and threw off the Xuzhou army. Seeing this, Zhang Min had no intention of chasing, and withdrew to Pengcheng with everyone.

"Xuzhou Assassin Shi Anbei General Zhang Mengxuan, tsk!" Lu Lingqi stood on the city tower, watching Zhang Min lead people into the city, and she couldn't help but sigh, "I haven't seen you for half a month, the speed of this official promotion is really fast!" ”…,

"Haha, you're all here!" Zhang Min laughed and threw the soldiers and horses aside, and ran up to the city tower by himself.

"I thought that the general would go and never return, who knew that it would become the history of Xuzhou!" Lu Lingqi grimaced.

"The concubine can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and the general should hold this knife himself." Zhen Luo stepped forward and took the big knife that was placed beside him and put it in Zhang Min's hand.

"I'm here to say thank you first!" Zhang Min took the big knife, "You did an unexpectedly good job, without you, my head might have been taken away by Cao Cao, how can I become the assassin of Xuzhou!" ”

"Zhenxian Cheng, you give me the Taishou seal, in exchange for this!" Zhang Min took out the official seal representing the history of Xuzhou, stuffed it into Mi Zhen's hand, and took the Pengcheng Taishou seal she handed over and received it in his arms.

Zhen Luo and Lu Lingqi looked at Mi Zhen with surprise on their faces and calmly put away the thorn seal, this is a token of the princes of one party, the two of them just jokingly gave one to the other?

"What do you think about using Pengcheng as a place of governance, and everyone will stay in Pengcheng in the future?" Zhang Min looked at Mi Zhen, Xuzhou has Pengcheng, Xiapi, Donghai, Langya, Guangling five counties, of which Pengcheng is the most prosperous, but it is directly connected to Cao Cao's Yanzhou, but it is precisely because of this that Zhang Min decided to stay in Pengcheng, and in the next few years, there are good dramas staged in the north, and in Pengcheng, it is best to act when he sees the opportunity.

"It's up to you." Mi Zhen nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Cao Jun has retreated, and Xuzhou can be peaceful for a while, do you want to recruit all the big and small officials in Xuzhou to Pengcheng to get to know them?" ”

"Okay! You can do these things, and if they are useful to me, just shout! Zhang Min plans to be a hands-off shopkeeper again.

"Cao Cao is exhausted, why don't the generals take advantage of the victory to pursue?" Zhen Luo saw that the two of them finished discussing, and looked at Zhang Min with some doubts.

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" Zhang Min smiled, Lu Lingqi was beside him, he didn't dare to say that Lu Bu was now fighting with Cao Cao in Yanzhou! I casually found a reason, "Tao Thorn has a difficult history, trapped in Tancheng in Xiapi County, as far as our Pengcheng County went to the rescue, the other Donghai, Langya, Guangling three counties have some horses, but none of them came to the rescue, especially the cavalry captain Zang Ba of Kaiyang, there are soldiers and generals but they are looking at it, and their intentions are unknown." ”

"Just take advantage of this rare time to sort out the five counties of Xuzhou and control them all!" The more Zhang Min said, the more he felt that this attention was good, anyway, when Cao Cao and Lu Bu pinched out a result, Xuzhou had already twisted into a ball, and when the time came, he really had 100,000 male soldiers, what could he not do? What don't you dare to do?

"The general is thoughtful." Zhen Luo looked at Zhang Min with a smile.

Zhang Min hurriedly looked away, this woman actually looked a little similar to Guo Jia, and after saying a word or two to her, the whole person seemed to become naked, and her heart was awkward!

"Give the order first, see who comes and who doesn't, and then deal with it!"

After Zhang Min finished speaking, he ran down the city tower with a smoke. Pengcheng now has an army of about 50,000 and needs to be reorganized.

Mi Zhen drafted the first assassination order, requiring all civil officials at and above the county order level in the five counties of Xuzhou, and military generals at and above the rank of lieutenant must go to Pengcheng to meet the new assassin history, and those who violate the order will be severely punished!

A month passed before and after, Zhang Min scattered and reorganized 50,000 soldiers, and in addition to leaving 300 Danyang soldiers as personal guards, the others were added to ordinary soldiers as basic military attachΓ©s such as army commanders, Shi Chang, Dubo, and Ya Keeper Generals.

On this day, Mi Zhen sent someone to invite Zhang Min back to Pengcheng's Assassin's Mansion, saying that all the officials in Xuzhou who could reach had arrived.

Zhang Min took Guan Hai and three hundred personal guards, pulled up Lu Lingqi, who was fighting in the barracks, and hurried back to the Assassin's Mansion.

"There are a lot of acquaintances!" Zhang Min sat on the main seat, holding the list of Xuzhou officials, some surprises, in addition to Chen Deng, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang and others, there are also Chen Qi, Sun Qian, Zang Ba, Zhen Rong, Zhao Yu and other talents who have more or less recorded in the history books. …,

"Meet the Thorn!" When a group of civil and military officers saw Zhang Min in place, they got up together.

"Get up, I'm glad you guys can come!" Zhang Min put down the list and suddenly raised his voice, "Zang Ba stand up!" ”

"Riding Captain Zang Ba has seen General Anbei!" Zang Ba was taken aback, and hurriedly stood up from the queue of generals, he has been here for several days, and he has been dotted in many ways, but it has been ineffective, his heart is hanging, he didn't expect to be the first to shout his name, it seems that the new assassin is going to take his own knife!

"Are Sun Guan, Wu Dun, and Yin Li here?" Zhang Min asked again, these people are all generals under the Tibetan tyrant, and they are more or less third-rate generals, no worse than themselves.

"The last general will wait to meet General Anbei!" Three more people stood up from the team and lined up behind Zang Ba, everyone was shocked, could it be that Lord Assassin Shi is going to kill people today to set an example? Many people's legs are starting to tremble, and some regret coming here, it is better to abandon the official position and run away with their families!

"Sun Qian listens to orders!"

Hearing these four words, even Sun Gan himself was stunned for a moment, and stepped forward with some doubts, he is now just a county order, Cao Jun is besieging the city, he restrains the people, and he has never made a mistake, why was he called out?

"Now the latest appointment is announced, Sun Qian is the new Taishou of Langxie County, Zang Ba is the guerrilla general, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, and Yin Li are the captains, follow the guerrilla general Zang Ba, and guard the Langxie! Let's go! ”

Everyone was stunned, and the first to react was the original county guard of Langxi County, who climbed forward and shouted: "Lord Thorn Shi, what should I do?" "Zhang Min has directly taken their positions!

"Listen up, everyone here now is white, and after I appoint it, the new county guard will select talents to assist." Zhang Min looked at this person's appearance and said sharply: "If you are taken by the county guard, you will follow him, and he will arrange your future, whether as an official or as an official, it depends on your creation!" ”

Without waiting for everyone to react, Zhang Min continued: "I appoint: Chen Deng is the Taishou of Guangling, Mi Fang leads the Fengyi general, and Chen Yuanlong is the main guard of Guangling; Mi Zhu is the county guard of the East China Sea, supplemented by Zhu Rong; Chen Qi is the county guard of Xiapi, and Zhao Yu is the auxiliary. All the mentioned people immediately pick their subordinate officers and take office immediately! ”