Luoyang, Cai Yong's official residence.

"Daddy, Daddy~~"

In the midst of the cacophony, a coquettish call suddenly sounded, followed by the unbridled silver laughter of a group of soldiers, who still spoke some foul words, and in the glow of the fire, two soldiers walked out of the backyard with a fair girl on their feet.

The girl is really average, far from being called the national color and natural fragrance, but the complexion is fair and petite, and the eyebrows also reveal a pitiful style, which is cute and pitiful, and it should belong to the inner flattery mentioned in the photo book. This kind of woman looks at the general at a glance, then looks at the moving, and then looks at the country and the city, and after a long time, it is like a sweet and unconsciously intoxicated one.

This girl is none other than Cai Yan, the beloved daughter of Cai Yong in the service.

Cai Yan grew up in the home of the eunuch since he was a child, and usually likes to dance and write the ink, and is good at music and rhythm.

That night, Cai Yan was playing the piano in the backyard, and he didn't want Guan Yu, the younger brother of Liu Beiyi, the captain of Sili, to ride a horse outside the wall. The moonlight was quiet, and the lotus color of the pond reflected Cai Yan's skin like mutton fat jade, and Guan Yu was suddenly shocked.

It was the moonlight that night that brought this catastrophe to Cai Yan.

Cai Yong stood upright outside the courtyard gate, and the two soldiers who held up the girl with their fingers were already trembling with anger, and after a long time, this upright literati came to his senses and scolded sharply: "You beasts, beasts! Lang Lang Qiankun and in broad daylight, is it still possible to rob the people's daughters? ”

"Don't worry, old man." A soldier stretched out his hand and slapped Cai Yong lightly on the face, and said with disdain, "Brothers, I just took this girl to the barracks for a few days, and I won't kill her, after a while, I will naturally let her come back, why are you in a hurry?" ”

"Shut up!" The soldier's voice fell, and a thunderous shout suddenly sounded in the courtyard, "Erniu, what are you doing here?" ”

Cai Yong Huoran turned around, and saw that there was already a military general standing in the courtyard with a face like a heavy jujube, who else was Guan Yu, the second brother of Lord Liu Bei, who else was here? Cai Yong suddenly stepped forward to take Guan Yu's hand as if he had seen a savior, and said with excitement on his face: "General Guan Yu, you came just in time, you are commenting on the old man, these beasts are too hateful!" ”

Quietly listening to Cai Yong's narration, Guan Yu's eyes flashed, his eyes showed murderous intent in his eyes, and he said sharply: "How is it different from a robber to do such nonsense?" Come on, drag Erniu down with General Ben~~ Beheaded! The rest of the soldiers who participated in the looting were all fighting with eighty sticks, hum! ”

"Yes."

Earlier, Guan Yu's personal soldiers rushed up, set up Erniu and the soldiers who had just committed the murder and robbery and left, and in less than a moment, there were bursts of screams outside the courtyard, Guan Yu then hugged his fists and apologized to Cai Yong: "Lord Cai, the last general has no way to govern the army, so it is really ashamed to make such a thing." ”

"That's it." Cai Yong shook his hand and muttered, "I only hope that the general will strictly restrain his subordinates in the future." ”

Guan Yu responded continuously, took the opportunity to glance at Cai Yan, who was discolored, and asked, "Lord Cai, this ......?"

"Oh." Cai Yong suddenly said to the girl, "Yan'er, don't hurry up and thank General Guan Yu." ”

Cai Yan stepped forward, coquettishly saluted Guan Yu, and said crisply: "Little girl Cai Yan, thank General Guan for saving her life." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Guan Yu held up Cai Yan with his empty hand and said to Cai Yong, "I didn't expect Lord Cai to have such a beautiful daughter, it's really exciting, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Cai Yong said: "The little girl has already promised to be married to the Wei family in Hedong, and she will get married soon." ”

"Oh." Guan Yu nodded, a hint of coldness suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he quickly hugged Cai Yong's fist and said, "In this case, the last general will leave." ”

Cai Yong hugged his fists and saluted back: "Don't send it." ”

……

Chang'an East City, Liangzhou rebel army camp.

Guo Yan was promoted to the general, and the three drums and all the generals rushed in, separated on both sides, Huo Ran turned his head sideways, and Jian Yong, the special envoy sent by Liu Bei, the captain of Sili, stood on one side, meeting Guo Yan's gaze, Jian Yong nodded lightly. Guo Yan gritted his teeth and was about to announce his decision to defect to Liu Bei to the generals, when suddenly a small colonel walked in from outside the tent.

"General, the military advisor has an urgent matter to see."

"Huh, Strategist?" Guo Yan was stunned, he really couldn't figure out what urgency Li Ru would have when he came to him at this time? Looking back at Jian Yong, Jian Yong also looked suspicious.

After pondering for a moment, Guo Yan said to the junior colonel, "Pass the order, let the military advisor come in." ”

In less than a moment, the two figures had already walked into the hall at a rapid pace.

Walking in front is Li Ru, Li Ru is followed by an iron tower-like man, although this man has a wooden look and dull eyes, but he is wearing heavy iron armor and carrying a cold and shining meteor hammer in his hand, which looks murderous, Guo Yan faintly feels that this person is a little familiar. Thinking about it carefully, Guo Yan's face suddenly changed greatly, isn't this person Xu Chu, the fierce general of the Kwantung region who fought with Lu Bu for fifty times before losing in front of the Tiger Prison Pass?

"Stop him!" Guo Yan deserved to be a veteran on the battlefield, reacted very quickly, kicked down the table in front of him and drew his sword in his hand, and shouted to the more than 20 Xiliang generals standing on both sides: "Stop him, he is Xu Chu, a fierce general in the Kanto region!" Fast~~"

"Whew!"

"Uh~~"

Before Guo Yan's words fell, before the generals in the tent could react, the meteor hammer in Xu Chu's hand had already flown out, and in the terrible sound of breaking the air, a cold light swept through the air, and it penetrated Guo Yan's chest in a flash. Guo Yan's retreating figure slammed suddenly, and he slowly lowered his head with a scream, only to see that his chest had been smashed out of a big blood hole, and the red blood splashed out like a fountain, and there were minced meat pieces mixed with internal organs in the middle~~

"Poof~"

Guo Yan's majestic body shook twice and fell to the ground.

The generals in the tent watched Guo Yan be assassinated, and they were stupid.

"Huh~~" Jian Yong let out a long sigh of relief, only then did he come back to his senses and shouted, "Assassin, catch the assassin!" ”

"But if there are reckless movers, don't kill them!"

Xu Chu took two steps forward, grabbed Jian Yong's throat, and crushed Jian Yong's throat bone with a slight force, Jian Yong snorted softly from his nostrils, his originally bright eyes immediately dimmed, and his limbs twitched violently twice before he was silent. As soon as Xu Chu's hand was released, Jian Yong's body fell down like wood.

"Click!"

Almost at the same time, the four walls of the big tent were also torn apart, forty or fifty soldiers with bows and arrows had surrounded Guo Yan's Chinese army big tent, although there were already many Liangzhou soldiers in the distance who realized that something had happened to the big tent of the Chinese army and were gathering here, but under the rat taboo, no one dared to move.

This time, Li Ru can be said to have come prepared.

Without Guo Yan's military order, although it was difficult to mobilize any Liangzhou rebellious army as Li Ru's military division, no one would stop him from bringing forty or fifty personal soldiers to Guo Yan's Chinese army tent to discuss matters! That's why Li Ru said to Guo Tu that it was easy to kill Guo Yan, but it was not so easy to control the Liangzhou rebellion after killing Guo Yan.

But this time, Li Ru had Guo Tu to help.

In less than a meal, more and more Liangzhou rebels gathered outside the big tent of the Chinese army, and thousands of soldiers surrounded the Chinese army tent of Guo Yan, who was in the third and outer three layers, and more than 20 Liangzhou generals and colonels who were in the tent, as well as Li Ru, Xu Chu, and Li Ru's forty or fifty personal soldiers.

Just when the situation was getting more and more tense and about to lose control, a fast horse rushed into the camp at a gallop, and that terrible long howl resounded almost throughout the entire barracks: "Enemy attack! The enemy army has attacked the city~~"

"Huh?"

"Ahh

"Enemy attack, at this time?"

"It's terrible."

The Liangzhou generals in the tent changed color when they heard this.

The enemy army has attacked the city, but the main general of the Liangzhou rebellion has been assassinated, and all the officers above the lieutenant level are all concentrated in the big tent of the Chinese army, which has been controlled by Li Ru's forty or fifty personal soldiers and Xu Chu, the devil, and the loss of the main general and the generals in these armies, the fate of the Liangzhou rebellion can be imagined.

"Generals." Li Ru finally lost no time in jumping out, "Guo Yan wants to take the army to Kanto to join Liu Bei, but Kanto is the territory of the Kwantung Army, can the brothers still survive if they go to Kwantung?" Guo Yan is going to take the brothers to death! The division committee of this army couldn't bear to see the brothers go to a dead end, so they could only make this decision to kill Guo Yan. ”

A Liangzhou military general asked: "It's just that you killed General Guo Yan, but now you are surrounding everyone, what are you going to do?" ”

"I've wronged you!" Li Ru said coldly, "Please calm down and listen to the words of this army and division." ”

"Don't listen to him, there are a lot of us, and forty or fifty people may not be able to trap us and kill him!"

"Yes, everyone is rushing out together."

Suddenly there was a Liangzhou military general shouting in the crowd.

Li Ru's eyes were full of murderous intent and glanced to the side, Xu Chu stepped forward in two steps and dragged out the Liangzhou military general who was the first to shout just now like a dead dog, and punched him on the back of the neck, only to hear a crisp sound of bone shattering, and the Liangzhou military general was paralyzed like mud.

The rest of the Liangzhou generals suddenly twitched, and Xu Chu stepped forward and shouted: "Who dares to move!?" ”

The military generals of Liangzhou were silent.

Li Ru coughed lightly, stepped forward and said slowly: "Now, we only have one way to go, and that is to defect to General Ma Yue of Pingxi!" If you are willing to follow your division to General Ma, please stand on the left. If you don't want to, you can stay where you are, and when the situation calms down, your army and division will definitely let you go, and you will never be in trouble. ”

Although Li Ru's words are so, the generals of Liangzhou, who are familiar with his surname, have already heard a chilling voice, who really dares to stay where he is, he is afraid that he will immediately end up in a different place! At that moment, no one hesitated, and more than 20 generals all stood on the left.

"Report~~" Li Ru's voice fell, and another fast horse galloped over, and he howled loudly, "The enemy army has entered the city and is coming to the camp." ”

The Liangzhou generals in the big tent and the Liangzhou rebels who were gathering more and more outside were shaking again, and Li Ru hurriedly shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, this army division has agreed with General Pingxi's envoy in advance that as long as the brothers put down their weapons and do not resist, everyone will not have to worry about their lives." ”

……

Outside the city of Chang'an.

Guo Tu pointed to the Liangzhou military flag that was slowly lowering at the head of Chang'an City, and said to Gao Shun beside him: "General Gao Shun, if nothing happens, Chang'an can be determined, and the lord can add 20,000 elite soldiers for hundreds of battles." ”

……

Luoyang, Liu Bei's official residence.

Zhang Feihuo hurriedly entered the study and asked Liu Bei, "Big brother, where is the second brother?" ”

"Yun Chang has gone to Hedong."

"Hedong?" Zhang Fei frowned and said, "Isn't Hedong the territory of Lu Bu's house, what is the second brother going to do there?" ”

Liu Bei shook it and said with a wry smile: "Who knows what Yun Chang is doing in Hedong, but what are you looking for Yun Chang for, third brother?" ”

"It's not a big deal." Zhang Fei said annoyedly, "I just thought of a spear trick and wanted to learn from the second brother." ”

……

Hedong, Anyi.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Hedong Wei family was actually not a big family, just an ordinary merchant family, and their status was not even as good as that of ordinary farmers, and they were not considered scholars at all. Moreover, the Hedong Wei family has nothing to do with Wei Qing, the general of Emperor Wu, and the Wei family of Emperor Wu has been wiped out because of the prince's rebellion.

The Wei family in Hedong was originally a descendant of Wei Gao, a native of Daijun, and the real rise was in the Cao Wei period, because Wei Qi became the Shangshu of the Wei State, and since then the Wei family has been in the ranks of the scholars, and later, the Wei family of Wei has also become the commonplace of the Jin Dynasty, and it was prominent for a while. But now, even Cao Ying is still just a Yanzhou pastor, and of course the Wei family can't make a career.

However, Wei Ning, the second son of the Wei family, is well-known in Hedong and even in Gyeonggi Luoyang.

This is not only because Wei Zhongdao himself is diligent and studious, but also because he worships a good teacher, and this teacher is none other than Cai Yong. Although the Wei family is a family of traders, the family is wealthy, so Wei Zhongdao has the opportunity to do learning, and Wei's father spares no expense to let him worship under the famous Cai Yong.

The Wei family opened a silk shop in the west of Anyi City.

At noon on this day, a nine-foot-tall man with a face like a heavy jujube came to the teahouse on the opposite corner of the street of the Wei family's silk shop.

"Man, this silk shop across the street is doing a good business, do you know who opened it?"

"How can I not know this, the Wei family opened it."

"The Wei family?"

"Yes, the famous Wei family, the rich family."

"Oh, I heard that there is a son of the Wei family who is very famous, right?"

"Guest officer, are you talking about Wei Ning, the second son of the Wei family? Hey, don't say it, the second son of the Wei family is really knowledgeable, and he is also a talent, and he also worshiped Cai Yong, a famous man in Luoyang City, as a teacher, and ah, this teacher will soon become a father-in-law. ”

The big man smashed his mouth and was silent.

The guy said again: "Do you know who Cai Yong is?" The big officials in the court, you don't know if you say it. ”

"Alright, alright." The big man waved his hand impatiently, "Busy with your go." ”

It was night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

A gangster took advantage of the night to touch the Dongwei family in Anyi City, the old two members of the Wei family, the eldest son, the second son, the servant Yahuan, the gangster, the groom, the nurse, and more than 20 people up and down the door were all killed, and none of them were spared! Hedong Taishou Lu Bu ordered Anyi County to investigate for several months without results, and then it became a headless public case.

……

Yanzhou, Taishan County.

Yanzhou Mu Cao Yingzheng led Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Chen Gong and other strategists out of more than 100 miles west of Juping, and went deep into the sphere of influence of the Yellow Turban thieves to inspect the terrain of mountains and rivers.

At that time, the generals of Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Li Dian, and Zangba under Cao Ying's tent were all leading the troops, and only Cao Ren's brother, the junior general Cao Chun, led two hundred cavalry to guard the side. When everyone hurriedly persuaded Cao Ying to avoid leaving, the young general Cao Chun rode out of the column and said quickly: "The matter is urgent, the lord can leave quickly, and he will be cut off." ”

Before he could say anything, the sound of killing in front of him was loud, and the Yellow Turban thieves had already covered up the mountains and fields.

Cao Ying beat his horse and hurried away, and Cao Chun led two hundred cavalry to meet him. The two armies intersected, Cao Chun stabbed the Yellow Turban thief under the horse with a shot, and the two hundred cavalry took advantage of the situation to cover and kill, and the Yellow Turban thief soldiers scattered and collapsed. Cao Chun led the army to chase and kill more than 100 miles, beheaded hundreds of victories and returned, Cao Ying stroked Chun's back and sighed: "Zihe (Cao Chun's words) Zhenwu's Fan is also." ”

……

West.

In the quiet of the night, the princess of Ayule was telling the two young princes about the heroic deeds of their Xianbei ancestors who had trekked through the mountains and rivers to the western grasslands, while the older shaman played the desolate horse-head fiddle in the carriage outside the dome tent.

Hundreds of large tents were scattered around the royal court, as well as thousands of felt bags.

It is already late autumn, and it is about to enter the winter season, the aquatic plants on the west coast have withered, and the nomadic herdsmen who originally gathered in this area have scattered in all directions, and only when the grass grows and warblers fly in the next spring, they will come back again and gather in the Xihai Royal Court again.

At that time, not only cattle, sheep and livestock were busy mating and reproducing offspring, but also the Xianbei people who had lived on the grassland for generations would also seize the time to mate and breed offspring.

Outside the dome tent, dozens of majestic royal court guards stood solemnly in the wind with spears in their hands.

Farther away, bands of rangers roamed around their habitats, vigilantly searching the vast savannah, ready to meet the enemy that might appear.

Everything seemed so quiet and peaceful.

No one realizes that danger is coming.

Just as the dark clouds covered it, the desert was pitch black, and there were no fingers to be seen, and a cavalry came like a ghost stepping on the night, and was quietly advancing on the grassland.

A group of Xianbei cavalry happened to wander by not far away, and the centurion of the leading team rode his horse at the front of the team with a sheep's finger torch, taking the opportunity of yawning to unconsciously scan the surroundings, and suddenly, the majestic body of the centurion slammed into a slam, as if he had discovered something from the inexplicable darkness.

"What~~ What?" The centurion suddenly became alert, handed the torch to his left hand, and his right hand had already drawn his scimitar, and when the Xianbei cavalry behind him rode up, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the thick night in front of him, and asked in a condensed voice, "Look, it's dark in front, what the hell?" ”

"Whew~"

"Whew~"

"Whew~"

The Xianbei centurion's voice fell, and hundreds of bright torches suddenly lit up in the dark night ahead, and the blazing fire suddenly illuminated a large grassland, and the Xianbei centurion and the Xianbei cavalry behind him were horrified to find that a group of ghostly cavalry had appeared on the originally empty grassland.

It was a group of real ghost cavalry, dark iron armor, dark war horses, and even the weapons in their hands were pitch black, without a trace of reflection under the light of the fire! But the most frightening thing is not these, but the faces of the group of ghostly cavalry, which are clearly not human faces, but hideous and terrifying grimaces.

"Ghost, ghost~~"

"Mom, run!"

The Xianbei cavalry behind the centurion was in chaos, and the cowardly had turned around and fled, these Xianbei cavalry could die heroically on the battlefield without flinching, but they could not maintain their composure in the face of this group of hideous and terrifying ghosts. In superstitious antiquity, the fear of ghosts and gods was far greater than the fear of death.

The Xianbei centurion was about to stop his cavalry, and a thumb-thick wolf's tooth arrow had already shot like lightning, passing through the throat of the Xianbei centurion, and the dark and sharp arrow cluster penetrated the back of the neck, taking away a drop of blood and the young life of the Xianbei centurion.

(To be continued)