Chapter XXXIV: The Death of the Potter

In Tancheng, the potter and Cao Lin saw the fire in Zhang Fei's camp from a distance, and thought that Cao Bao had succeeded, and the two were smiling and chatting about something that was not nutritious.

Suddenly, I saw dozens of horsemen galloping towards me, and at the same time, the leader shouted: "Prince, open the city gate quickly, I have fallen for Zhang Fei's trick."

Cao Lin was shocked when he saw that it was Cao Feng by the light of the fire on the city, and hurriedly ordered the sergeant to open the city gate, and when Cao Feng entered the city, he asked, "Where is the eldest brother?" ”

Cao Feng said with a sad face: "The eldest brother has been picked off by Zhang Fei, and now Zhang Fei is leading his troops to chase after him, and he will quickly send people to guard the city gate."

Hearing this, the potter and Cao Lin were stunned, and it took a long time to react, and Cao Lin hurriedly summoned the remaining people in the city to guard the city. Because Zhang Fei has always been killed from the south gate, so there are only a few hundred people defending the east, west and north gates, because Cao Bao was killed, the elite in the city were transferred to the south gate, and the 200 people who escorted the grain and grass suddenly found Cao Lin under the leadership of the county lieutenant and was willing to help defend the city, and was sent to the north gate by Cao Lin. And one of the county lieutenants is named Xu Sheng.

Not long after, Zhang Fei led his troops to kill violently, and in the darkness he didn't know how many people Zhang Fei had, Zhang Fei ordered his subordinates to pick up Cao Bao's head and shouted: "Cao Bao is dead, do you still have to resist?" Quickly open the city gate, Rao Er will not die"

Seeing Cao Bao's head, the soldiers in the city all showed timidity.

"Don't be fooled by Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei is a butcher, even if Kaicheng surrenders, with his temperament, we have no way to live, everyone stick to the city, Zhang Fei's soldiers will not dare to attack" Cao Lin saw that the morale of the soldiers was completely gone, and he hurriedly spoke.

While he was talking, suddenly the north gate was in flames, and the shouts of killing were endless. Cao Lin chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly ordered Cao Feng to take a thousand people to check out.

Cao Feng had just ordered all the men, and several soldiers came to report that the north gate of Cao Lin had been captured by Zhang Fei. At this time, it is killing here.

It turned out that Xu Sheng led people to the north gate, chatted warmly with the captain of the city, and suddenly became difficult, slashed and killed the captain of the city, and shouted "I am Xu Shengye, the captain of Fenwei under Liu Xuande's account", and at the same time led his subordinates to break up the defenders of the city gate, open the city gate, and receive Zhang Fei's two thousand elites into the city, and the "Zhang Fei" at the south gate is just a sergeant with a similar appearance pretending. It turned out that Gao Ping offered a plan to Liu Bei that day, escorting grain and grass into the East China Sea as the county lieutenant of Xu Sheng Licheng, and then cooperating with Zhang Fei's plan to surrender.

"It's urgent, I'll take the eldest prince to break through from the south gate and go to Cao Cao," Cao Lin looked at the fire at the north gate and knew that the general trend had gone and hurriedly shouted.

"It's better for me to surrender to Liu Bei now, Liu Bei has the name of benevolence, and he won't kill me if he wants to" The potter hesitated.

"Oh!" Cao Lin said in a strange manner: "My eldest brother has died on the battlefield for the eldest prince, we will fight for you, the eldest prince does not want to take revenge but asks me to surrender and kill my brother's enemy?" If the eldest prince wants to surrender, kill me first and wait" Cao Lin knew that if he surrendered Liu Bei was afraid of his reputation, he would definitely not be able to die, but the people of his Cao clan would definitely not end well.

"This"

"The eldest prince doesn't have to hesitate, as long as we break through to Cao Cao's territory, we will be able to recover Xuzhou by Cao Cao's hand in the future," Cao Feng hurriedly persuaded.

"Okay," the potter gritted his teeth and said, "It's up to the two generals."

When Zhang Fei arrived at the south gate, the potter, Cao Feng, Cao Lin and others had already broken through with three thousand elites, and there were only a few hundred suspicious soldiers at the south gate, of course, they couldn't stop the potters and others. Zhang Fei did not send troops to chase after him, cleaned up the remnants of the city, ordered someone to extinguish the fire in the city, and let the queen report to Liu Bei.

The potter and others fled to Fei County overnight, according to Cao Lin's meaning, as long as they passed Fei County, then turned to Teng County, and crossed Wenshui to reach Cao Cao's realm, it would be safe.

At dawn, the potters and others who fled in the middle of the night came to the Niujiaopo thirty miles east of Tengxian County, so the trees on both sides of the land were lush and resembled ox horns, so it was named.

"There is Teng County in front, as long as you pass Teng County, even if you get out of the boundary of Xuzhou, and then cross Wenshui, it will be Cao Cao's Yanzhou, and I will be safe" Cao Lin breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I can't wait, hurry up, and rest in Yanzhou."

"Okay" Tao Shang said: "Command the whole army and quickly rush to Teng County"

Suddenly, a cannon rang out, and a group of men and horses in front blocked the way, and at a glance, there were about 3,000 people.

The first person, with big ears, holds a double-strand sword, and is majestic. The first young scribe on the left, smiling calmly, was Liu Bei and Gao Ping.

"Haha" Gao Ping said: "The eldest son, the journey is tiring, my lord has been waiting here for a long time, the eldest prince is from Xuzhou, but where is this trip going, is it to go to Cao Cao, Cao Cao and my Xuzhou have a big enmity, the eldest prince's move will not make the Xuzhou military and people cold." If you go back to Xuzhou with my lord, give up fighting for power and profit, and be a rich man, my lord will be benevolent and will not harm you. ”

"This" the potter was speechless when asked, and fell into deep thought. Cao Lin and Cao Feng next to him saw that the pottery merchant was a little moved, and hurriedly glanced at him, Cao Lin said sharply: "Liu Xuande, a person of hypocrisy and hypocrisy, plotting to plot my Xuzhou, everyone rushes over with me, as long as I go out of the boundary of Xuzhou, I will be safe." ”

"Kill," Cao Feng also said.

With the shouts of Er Cao, the three thousand elites desperately moved forward, but Liu Bei did not engage in the battle, and slowly retreated, Cao Lin and the others chased for a while, the road ahead became narrower and narrower, and the trees on both sides were luxuriant.

Suddenly, the ambushes on both sides were exhausted, Mi Fang on the left and He Man on the right each led 3,000 people to kill, Liu Bei also commanded the men and horses to turn around and resume the battle, and attacked in three ways, and suddenly Cao Lin and others fell into chaos.

"Don't hurt the life of the eldest prince," Liu Bei shouted. In Liu Bei's heart, he still does not want to be an enemy of Tao Qian's descendants, although the world is changeable, but he always wants to save some blood for Tao Qian.

And He Man rushed to the potters in the chaos, and secretly instructed He Man to kill the potters in the chaos long before Gao Ping made this plan. Because Gao Ping knows that cutting grass does not remove the roots, the spring breeze blows and grows, even if the potter himself has no intention of fighting for power and profit, however, as long as his surname is Tao, then it is a time bomb, and it will inevitably be used by people with intentions.

Suddenly, a pretty figure appeared in Gao Ping's mind again, like a fairy out of the dust, bold words, alas! She is also surnamed Tao, how should I face her in the future? Gao Ping shook his head, let's take one step at a time, for the sake of the lord's great cause, I'm sorry.

At this time, the potters have been surrounded, the soldiers under them are dead, wounded, and fled, and now there are less than two hundred people guarding the potters and others, Cao Feng was hacked and killed by He Man, and then Cao Lin was also beheaded by He Man, He Man carried a big knife, and approached the potter step by step.