Chapter 66: Thorn Cao
"Milky boy, let's show off proudly!"
"If you want to trap me, you are not enough!"
"I just don't know what tricks this kid Ma Hong will play?"
After Jia Xu finished the second sentence, the oil lamp burned out, and the room fell into darkness.
It was late at night when Zhang Quan returned to Wancheng, and when he knocked on Zhang Xiu's door, Zhang Xiu had not slept but was sitting quietly with an eyebrowless gun.
"Quan'er, it's late, is there something wrong?" Zhang Xiu asked.
Zhang Quan calmly told Zhang Xiu everything that happened today and what he saw.
After listening to this, Zhang Xiu said to Zhang Quan with a serious face: "Quan'er, my father asked you, how many soldiers and horses do we have?" ”
Zhang Quan replied: "Less than eight thousand." ”
Zhang Xiu nodded and said, "Quan'er, there are not many people in this world who believe in Jia Xu, and I am one of them." I've known Jia Xu for fifteen years, do you know why he took refuge in me? Because he believes in me, we are friends, and I saved his life, and he will not harm me. ”
"Then why did he have a private connection with Cao Cao?" Zhang Quan asked.
Zhang Xiu took the spear into his arms and said: "Good birds choose trees to rest, good ministers choose the lord and do things, people like me, Jia Xu follows me and is unyielding, he has a reason to find a master." ”
"Then why didn't he go to Cao Cao himself, but persuade his father to join Cao Cao?" Zhang Quan asked again.
Zhang Xiu sighed and said, "Jia Xu is sure that after he leaves me, I won't be able to defend Wancheng." Maybe he was afraid that after leaving me and defecting to Cao Cao, Cao Cao would ask him how to get rid of me. So when he finds a place for himself, he will also find a place for me. ”
The day before Cao Cao entered Wancheng, a large number of people around Wancheng fled south, Zhang Xiu ordered the city gate to be closed and the people were not allowed to leave the city, which aroused the people's anger for a time, and Zhang Xiu led the troops to suppress it.
On the first day of Cao Cao's entry into Wancheng, Zhang Xiu's confidant Hu Che'er saw Zhang Xiu with a hundred gold, saying that Cao Cao sent him money. Zhang Xiu was uneasy, and asked Jia Xu to discuss countermeasures, Jia Xu persuaded Zhang Xiu Cao Cao to like fierce generals very much, and also told Zhang Xiu about Cao Cao's account of the fierce general Dian Wei, Zhang Xiu settled down.
At noon on the second day of Cao Cao's entry into Wancheng, Zhang Quan came to see Zhang Xiu in a hurry, and Zhang Xiu learned that Cao Cao had taken the widow of his uncle Zhang Ji as a concubine. Zhang Xiu beckoned Jia Xu to see him and asked him if he could bear it or not.
Jia Xu said to prepare for war.
In the courtyard of the house in the north of Wancheng, Ma Hong took the child's hand and said with a smile: "Do you want to go out?" ”
The boy cried and said, "Go out, I'm going home to my mother." ”
Ma Hong smiled and took a plate of fried fish to the child, and coaxed: "Xiao Window, if you eat another fish, I will take you to meet your mother." ”
"Really?" The boy took the fried fish and devoured it with great gusto.
"It's like a kitten, and now you should sleep like a kitten." Ma Hong said with a smile.
"No! Nope! I'm looking for my mother. The boy lay on the ground and cried.
Ma Hong covered his ears and ignored the child, who cried for a while and then fell asleep on the ground.
Zhuge Liang on the side took the cotton ball from his ear at this time, and said to Ma Hong: "Give him such a dose of drug, it should be fine." ”
"If something happens, you'll kill a child." Ma Hong picked up the child and placed him on the wooden bed.
"You came up with the idea." Zhuge Liang took the bamboo pole and knocked on the sleeping child's buttocks.
"Whether this kid can go out of the window depends on how Hu Che'er should go? If he wants to jump off the cliff, his child can only see the abyss. But then again, Hu Che'er is a rough man, and the name given to the child rhymes with his own, the car window, hehe. ”
Ma Hong stretched out his hand and stroked the child's face, the corners of his mouth tilted up slightly, bringing out a sneer: "Cao Cao, this guy went to sleep with Zhang Xiu's aunt, Zhang Xiu do it quickly." ”
The fifteenth moon and sixteenth round, no matter what era it is in, this should be eternal. In the moonlight, three thousand spears trembled in the night, and the night was about to be pierced. The soldiers walked quietly, and only a command from the general was needed, and their spears would pierce the throat of the enemy.
Silence is the prelude to an outbreak, and death is the note played by the steel spear.
"Brothers, rush!" Hu Che'er shouted, took the lead in rushing towards Cao Ying, and threw the mace in his hand, when the mace hit the head of the guard, he had already rushed up and grabbed the mace that fell to the ground with one hand, and grabbed the neck of the other guard with the other, and shook it hard, and he was covered with blood.
Blood is a crazy thing, and once it is contaminated, the spirit is extremely high. Three thousand spears poured towards Cao Ying, and the unsuspecting Cao army was powerless in front of the Xiliang soldiers who pounced like wolves.
Cao Cao was awakened from a deep sleep, dressed in a panic, and after many years of fighting habits, he had become accustomed to not retreating his armor at night, but today there was a beauty lying on his bed.
"Father, Zhang Xiu suddenly led his troops to attack, and General Dian was in front of him." Cao Ang didn't care about anything, opened Cao Cao's tent, pulled Cao Cao up and left.
Cao Cao panicked and mounted his horse, and Cao Ang led a group of guards to escort Cao Cao's retreat.
Seeing that Hu Che'er was about to lead the spearmen to break into the gate of Cao Ying, at this time, he suddenly heard an angry shout, and Dian Wei held a double halberd with a hundred people to resist the front door. [This is not a romance.] The hundred-man guards were Cao Cao's personal guards, the elite of the elite, and Dian Wei was a man of infinite strength, and every time the double halberd in his hand waved, the soldiers who rushed up would fall a few.
"Kill them all, up!"
Hu Che'er shouted and rushed to Dian Wei's hand with the mace and smashed towards Dian Wei, Dian Wei didn't dodge, the right halberd picked up the corpse of a soldier to block Hu Che'er's full force, and then the left halberd slashed towards Hu Che'er's hand, extremely fast.
The mace in Hu Che'er's hand weighs about seventy pounds, if he pulls the stick back at this time, he must not be able to avoid this halberd, Hu Che'er is battle-hardened, and immediately let go and retreated. It's just that the soldiers who rushed up were all behind him, and he took two steps back, and the soldiers pushed him forward again. Dian Wei's halberd slashed Hu Che'er's fingers, and in an instant, the four fingers of Hu Che'er's left hand were cut off in half. Hu Che'er screamed bitterly, and with his right hand, he pulled out the saber on his waist and smashed it towards Dian Wei with the scabbard.
The personal guards led by Dian Wei all held iron shields in their left hands and axes in their right hands, each carrying three battle axes, two on their backs and one in their hands, and the battle axes on their backs could be thrown as flying axes.
"Open."
Hu Che'er shouted, the soldiers behind him withdrew to both sides, Hu Che'er retreated with a knife, with his many years of experience in battle, it can be seen that the weapons used by Cao Bing's personal guards are axes that are good at hand-to-hand combat, and the Xiliang soldiers are all spears with ring knives. Because it was a night raid, Zhang Xiu didn't even bring archers. As soon as Hu Che'er retreated, he ordered the spearmen to line up in a row and hold their guns horizontally towards the top of the Cao Ying gate.
Dian Wei retreated, commanding the shield men to form two rows, and the axe and shield men in the rear threw axes at the enemy soldiers, throwing axes at such a close distance that any pikemen who were hit were either seriously injured or killed. One spearman fell, and the other made up, and in the face of Cao Cao's elite soldiers, the Xiliang pikemen had fallen nearly a hundred people in a row, but they still failed to break through the camp gate.
Hu Che'er asked the pikemen in the back row to throw their spears towards the camp gate, and for a while there was a sound of flying axes colliding with spears in the air, broken bones, and screams. The piercing of the spear far exceeds that of the bow and arrow, and even the guards in elite armor can break their armor like tissue paper under the rain of guns.
More than half of the guards led by Dian Wei were killed and wounded in an instant, Dian Wei shouted, pulled out the spear that pierced his arm, and the two halberds picked up two corpses as shields and headed towards the spearmen. Dian Wei was infinitely powerful, and with the strength of one person, he pushed two rows of spearmen in a row. Then he threw away the carcass, and the halberd reaped towards the enemy, just as he had harvested wheat in the field with a sickle, and the more he cut, the more excited he became. Dian Wei, who didn't know why the pain felt, couldn't have a painful expression on his face, so he liked to see the expression of being slashed, and the expression was so attractive.
Hu Che'er was stunned, fear and shock filled his head, he had never seen such a deadly fight, Na Dian Wei was like a demon crawling out of hell, covered in blood, his arms were wrapped around his intestines, his stomach was pierced with several holes, and his intestines were about to flow out, he didn't seem to feel it, he still kept waving his halberd. The guards behind Dian Wei fell one by one, but he was still standing there, as steady as Mount Tai, the corpses that fell at his feet were piled up in a pile, he stepped on the corpses and waved his halberds, blood and water swaying in the light of the fire. It actually drove the enemy to a standstill, and no one dared to take a step forward.
Hu Che'er held the knife in his right hand, and he didn't dare to move forward, because he knew that if he went up, his life would definitely be lost, and it was the first time he had such a strong fear. Is he still human? Nearly 100 people were killed in foot combat, and it was Zhang Xiu who wielded the most elite soldiers.