Chapter 209: Guilty of Petitioning
"Hahaha! I really want to see with my own eyes, when Tao Ying, the little thief, hears the news that Kong Wenju has surrendered to our army in advance, what kind of wonderful expression will he have on his ugly face? Is it like our lord was angry with him a few times ago, and he lifted all the books? ”
From leading the troops to the arrival of the camp in the muddy water to rest, General Cao Ren, who hated Deputy Director Tao so much, always had a happy smile on his face, and he was always smiling and saying similar things, and he was very proud of his wise decision, and adopted the strategy of extracting teeth from the tiger's mouth jointly contributed by Cheng Yu and Uncle Liu Huang. There was a big breath of evil, and it was also a big breath of evil for his cousin Boss Cao.
It's not that General Cao Ren is frivolous and lacks the city government, and he gets carried away by winning a handful, the key is that Deputy Director Tao owes too much blood debt to Cao Boss and Cao Boss's team, and Runan Shi single-handedly killed the tiger and leopard ride built by Cao Boss with countless money and food, and snatched most of the money and food that should have belonged to Cao Boss; Yanzhou openly supported Lu Bu and Cao Boss to embarrass him, and killed countless loyal and brave Cao soldiers by the hands of Lu Wenhou, and at the end he suddenly hugged the thick thighs of Yuan Sangong, and turned into the victor of the Yanzhou battlefield, snatching countless elite and brave Lu Bu soldiers from Cao Boss! There are also Si Li's welcome to the Son of Heaven, Hanoi to seize the holy car, Jingzhou to grab allies, Nanyang mixed with sand, and Qingzhou to be cannon fodder, these things are all sprinkled with the blood and tears of Cao Jun's soldiers, and there are also the insidious shadows of Deputy Director Tao everywhere! If Cao Ren, who is loyal to Boss Cao, does not hate Deputy Director Tao, if he does not want to avenge Boss Cao, then General Cao Ren is not worthy of being a cousin of Boss Cao's clan.
At the same time, Deputy Director Tao is too slippery, too deceitful, too difficult to retaliate, basically from Deputy Director Tao in Xuzhou City gag and pretending to be a clown to escape a dog's life, Cao Boss has never taken advantage of Deputy Director Tao, every time the design of Deputy Director Tao is basically self-defeating, stealing chickens and rice, and finally getting Deputy Director Tao into Qingzhou to be cannon fodder for Yuan Sangong, Deputy Director Tao also saw that Cao Boss also pulled into the water, but also because of the distance, route and time of sending troops, As a result, Cao Boss's team has become the biggest cannon fodder, and even more so that the 30,000 troops brought to Qingzhou by General Cao Ren are now less than half left, and they don't know how to go back to Cao Boss.
But it doesn't matter now, General Cao Ren believes that as long as he successfully takes over the city of Xixian and gets the mountains of money and grain in the city of Xixian County, so that the Tao Ying annihilation thief cannot fulfill the promise of 100,000 Hu military rations to Da Yuan Sangong, then he can also return to Xuchang with his head held high to explain to Cao Laoda. And if he can take this opportunity to promote the breakdown of Tao Yuan's alliance and cause Tao Yuan's two families to turn against each other, then General Cao Ren can not only lose half of the army, but also lose all 30,000 troops, and General Cao Ren can also return to Xuchang with his head held high, and go to show his merit to Boss Cao and ask for reward!
Mei Zizi thought so, when the night air was filled with the fragrance of sorghum rice, the hungry Cao Ren finally returned to the real world from the beautiful fantasy, and it was also at this time that General Cao Ren found that Uncle Liu Huang, who had been riding with him before, was missing, and when he asked Cheng Yu the reason, Cheng Yu replied with a smile: "I went to the ferry, our army only took two pontoon bridges to cross the river, Uncle Liu Huang was worried that the number was not enough to cross the river slowly, so he personally went to the ferry to check the situation, and said that if it didn't work, He then personally supervised the auxiliaries to build a few more pontoon bridges. ”
"Uncle Liu really hates Tao Ying and the thief more than us!" Cao Ren laughed happily.
Cheng Yu smiled and said: "There is another good news that must be reported to the general, according to the people, the night before yesterday it rained heavily in the east of the mountain, and yesterday at noon there was a burst of rain, although it caused the water level of the turbid water and the water to rise sharply, increasing the difficulty of our river crossing, but it is certain that the person who suffered the most from these two rain pits will only be Tao Ying's thief, at least, it is not so easy for his main force to rush to the drama city." ”
"Good! Good! God hates it! God hates it! General Cao Ren applauded even more happily, and said repeatedly: "Tao Ying annihilated the thief and did a lot of evil, and he did all the things he lacked morality, and finally even Dongyue Da** couldn't stand it, so it rained so many bursts of rain, so he didn't even have the slightest chance to win the drama city!" ”
At this time, Uncle Liu Huang also led Guan Yu and Zhang Fei back to General Cao Ren, first sat down cross-legged by the bonfire, and then said with a smile: "Bei is still worried that the pontoon bridge is not enough, but I didn't expect that General Niu Jin was already rushing to build the bridge, so Bei Bai ran away." ”
"Let the imperial uncle bother." General Cao Ren, who was in a good mood, thanked Uncle Liu, and asked with a smile: "Dare to ask Uncle Huang, I don't know that Uncle Huang now wants the pottery thief to attack the drama city?" Or do you hope that the pottery thieves will be afraid of the banner of our army and dare not attack the drama city? ”
Uncle Liu Huang was silent as usual, and only after thinking carefully did he speak, and said: "I hope that the pottery thief would better not attack the drama city, as soon as the war starts, the lives will be ruined, and the people will be displaced by the war, which is really pitiful, so I hope that the pottery thief will better not play tricks this time, and honestly admit that the drama city is owned by our army." Moreover, the pottery thief is the son-in-law of Yuan Gong, and Yuan Gong likes to protect his shortcomings, and if there is a conflict between our army and the pottery thief, he is only afraid of ............. ”
Speaking of which, Uncle Liu Huang was very smart and did not continue, but this was enough, Cao Ren and Cheng Yu had already guessed what Uncle Liu Huang had not finished. After nodding slightly in agreement with Uncle Liu's opinion, Cheng Yu sighed: "Uncle Huang is reasonable, if our army clashes with the pottery thief, it is unlikely that Yuan Shao will be on our side." ”
"It's okay, as long as we get to the theater city in time, it's enough." Cao Ren was not very worried about this, and said arrogantly: "Kong Wen is determined to surrender to the Han and not to the Tao, even if the pottery thief plays tricks, as long as our army arrives before the city is broken, the money and grain in the city will still be ours, plus Yuan Tan is also on our side, and Yuan Shaopif has no chance to favor even if he wants to." ”
"What the general said is very true." Uncle Liu Huang nodded, and said worriedly: "I hope the situation is the best, what Bei is most worried about now is that if there is an accident during this period, it will be bad, Bei always has a bad premonition, this time our army sent troops to take over the drama city, I am afraid it will not be as easy as imagined." ”
"Our army has already arrived in the turbid water, and it is less than sixty miles away from the drama city, why did Uncle Huang say such an unlucky word?" Cao Ren asked unhappily.
Uncle Liu Huang shook his head and said with a worried expression: "Don't blame the general, if you don't have to make bad remarks, our army has never had any good results when it encounters something related to pottery thieves." This time....... ”
"Report ————!"
Uncle Liu's crow's mouth was fulfilled, and at this moment, a herald suddenly rushed to the direction of the ferry, rushed to Cao Ren's front and knelt down on one knee, clasped his hands into fists and said: "General, the forward sentry of our army found a group of routs, coming from east to west to the turbid water ferry, and the middle-aged scribe at the head claimed to be surnamed Kong Mingrong, and the official residence was too guarded in Beihai, and there was an urgent matter to face the general!" General Niu, may I ask the general, will you meet him immediately? ”
"Bang!" General Cao Ren, who was eating, slammed the rice bowl in his hand, stunned, Cheng Yu opened his mouth, our Uncle Liu Huang was stunned, and after being demented together for a long time, General Cao Ren, Cheng Yu's strategist and Uncle Liu Huang also jumped up together, and scolded frantically, "Tao Ying destroys the thief!" I'm fucking your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor! ”
After scolding, Uncle Liu Huang shouted quickly: "General Zixiao, Mr. Zhongde, this matter is not over yet!" Our army must immediately unite with Yuan Tan Gongzi and go to Yuan Gong to complain to Tao Ying for the injustice of the thieves attacking the allied city, and strive to let Yuan Gong send Yuan Tan Gongzi to raise troops to ask for the crime, in this case, it may be a good thing that the money and food in the drama city are lost! ”
"What Xuande Gong said is extremely true, you can't just let Tao Ying destroy the thief!" Cheng Yu first nodded, and then scolded angrily, "Kong Wenju grew up eating dry rice? How could you lose the drama city so quickly? In the first battle of the drama city, how did Kong Wenju fight this waste?! ”
……………… I can't blame Mr. Cheng Yu for insulting Kong Rangli so much, in the first battle of Drama County, Kong Rangli really lost the face of the ancestor Kong Sage, and he was transferred to the south gate by Wei Yan's bluff plan, not to mention, after the Xuzhou army launched an attack on the north gate of Drama County, the forward death squad used only thirty flying ladders to attack the city wall with a charge, almost killing the defenders like chopping melons and vegetables, cutting the lock and opening the city gate, and the brigade swarmed in and killed into the city of Drama County. As a result, Kong Rangli not only did not organize the army to fight to the death with the Xuzhou Army Alley, but also took the lead in fleeing to the west gate with his wife and children, which led to the complete collapse of the defenders, and the doors were scattered and collapsed, so that the Xuzhou army easily took the important town of the drama city, and the more than 200,000 grains in the city also fell into the hands of the Xuzhou army.
Of course, just like Uncle Liu Huang said, this matter is not over, after all, it is not a trivial matter for the Xuzhou army to attack the city that has been raised with the banner of its allies, and it is a God-given opportunity to sow discord between Tao and Yuan's armies, so after learning about the loss of the drama city from Kong Rangli, who even ran away from his shoes, Cheng Yu returned to Linzi overnight, and hurriedly went to join forces with Yuan Tan Gongzi to sow discord and sue the black. And Yuan Tan Gongzi did not hesitate when he learned of this, and immediately ran to his father, reported his brother-in-law's crime of provoking friendly conflicts to his father, and instigated his father to severely punish his brother-in-law.
Not to mention, before he figured out what had happened, just listening to the words of his eldest son, Yuan Sangong was really provoked a lot of anger, and almost wanted to accept Yuan Tan's plea and send Yuan Tan Xingbing to ask for the guilt. Fortunately, although there are not many strategists brought by the three princes of the Great Yuan on this expedition, there is still one person named Xun Chen who understands that the situation is not right, and immediately stood up when he found that the situation was wrong, and said to the third prince of the Great Yuan: "Don't be angry, Tao Envoy Jun attacked the city that has surrendered to Cao's army to kill people and take food, although it is really wrong, but there is still a suspicious point, and I hope that the lord will investigate it deeply." ”
"What's the doubt?" Da Yuan Sangong asked.
"The timing is not right." Xun Chen analyzed: "The lord should pay attention to the time, the Xuzhou army was successful in attacking the drama city of Chengchi the night before yesterday, since the drama city at that time had already played the banner of the Cao army, then why did General Cao Ren not mention this when he asked the lord for an order to attack the drama city at noon yesterday?" Why didn't you report to the lord that the drama city had surrendered to Cao Jun? ”
"yes, that's a problem!" Da Yuan Sangong suddenly came to his senses, and hurriedly asked Cheng Yu, who Yuan Tan had brought him, "Mr. Zhongde, how do you explain this question?" Since you have already surrendered the drama city, why don't you report to me? ”
"It's ......." Cheng Yu was dumbfounded, and Ai Ai replied for a long time: "Back to Yuan Gong, our army also asked Yuan Gong for the siege order first, and then we learned about the successful surrender of Kong Wen, so I didn't have time to report to Yuan Gong at that time." ”
"Then why didn't you report this to me immediately after you received the news?" Da Yuan Sangong asked sharply again.
"Chen also has an unknown matter, and wants to ask Mr. Zhongde for advice." Xun Chen did not show mercy to his subordinates because the fourth brother Xun Yu and his nephew Xun Yu were working hard for Boss Cao, and asked: "May I ask Mr. Zhongmou, since your army sent an envoy to surrender to Kong Wenju, why didn't you report to the lord of my family as the leader of the alliance?" Also, after your army sent a surrender envoy, why did you deliberately ask my lord for a handwritten warrant to induce my lord to issue an order announcing that those who provoked friendly conflicts would be beheaded? ”
Cheng Yu was speechless, but secretly hated that he was not greedy enough on the first day, and induced the Great Yuan Sangong to issue that order to reveal the flaws, and in desperation, Cheng Yu could only reply stubbornly: "Yuan Gong, our army tried to recruit Beihai Kong Wenju, but we were not sure at all, so I did not show it to Yuan Gong." asked Yuan Gong for a warrant, but also because he was worried that the surrender would fail, and he was forced to attack the drama city by force when he joined Tao Envoy Jun, and the two armies were not in harmony and clashed. ”
"Nothing else?" No matter how confused Da Yuan Sangong was, he knew that this was Cheng Yu's, so he snorted coldly.
"Lord, whether Mr. Cheng Yu has ulterior motives can be investigated slowly." Guo Tu hurriedly stood up and said to the Great Yuan Sangong: "But the Xuzhou army ignored the banner of the friendly army, brazenly attacked the city of Juxian County, which had surrendered to the friendly army, and ignored the dignity of the lord's alliance leader. ”
The face of the third prince of the great Yuan was gloomy again, and Xun Chen, who had no friendship with the deputy director of Tao, was worried that the pacification of Qingzhou would be extraneous at the last moment, so he brought his own dry food in Xuzhou, and suggested to the third prince of the great Yuan: "The lord, Mr. Gong is reasonable, this matter can not but give an explanation to the princes of the world, a certain suggestion that the lord immediately send an order to Xuzhou Tao Envoy Jun, so that he immediately led the army to Linzi City, one to assist our army to capture Linzi, and the other to let Tao Envoy Jun explain the drama city in person, if Tao Envoy Jun really offended the dignity of the lord of the alliance, It is not too late for the lord to deal with it severely. ”
"Father, what else do you want Tao Ying to explain?" Yuan Tan was anxious, and hurriedly said: "Tao Ying offended the dignity of his father's alliance leader, he has no king and no father, he should directly send troops to ask for the crime, and the child asked Ling to lead the army to the drama city to raise troops to ask for the crime, and face Tao ...... face." ”
"Fart!" Da Yuan Sangong interrupted Yuan Tan's plea very rudely, and said with a gloomy face: "Our army has surrounded Tian Kai thieves to the ground, what if the troops are divided at this time, and Tian Kai thieves take the opportunity to break through?" According to Mr. Youruo's opinion, he sent a messenger to Tao Ying to give an order, asking him to come to Zi to help fight and ask for guilt! As for you, step back for me! ”
"No." Yuan Tan reluctantly retreated, and Xun Chen suggested again: "Lord, you should give another order to General Cao Ren, and let him also lead the army to withdraw to Linzi, so as to prevent Cao Tao's two armies from meeting on the road and clashing, which is not conducive to our army's capture of Linzi's final battle of Pingding Qingzhou." ”
"Good, Mr. Youruo will order it for me." Da Yuan Sangong nodded, and muttered in his heart: "Tao Ying boy, you'd better find a reasonable excuse for me, otherwise, even if I'm a father-in-law, I won't be able to favor you." ”
……………… Da Yuan Sangong actually didn't need to give an order at all, after Deputy Director Tao, who knew that he had caused a big disaster, arrived in the drama city on the same day, he didn't even dare to enter the city, and immediately set off to the west with 100,000 grains and 20,000 troops, so two days later, 20,000 Xuzhou troops arrived at the outskirts of Linzi, less than ten miles away from the camp of Da Yuan Sangong. And after receiving this news, Yuan Sangong, who was worried about the lack of military food far from the rear, was first overjoyed, and then furious, shouting and saying: "Send 30,000 troops, wait in front of our military camp, and attack the friendly city without authorization, such a big thing, even a messenger was not sent to explain, if Tao Yingxiao'er does not explain the matter clearly, I will not recognize him as a son-in-law!" ”
"No!" Yuan Tan happily agreed, and hurriedly ordered the organization of 30,000 troops out of the camp, lined up in front of his own camp, and put on a posture of fighting with the Xuzhou army, and Yuan Sangong also angrily personally led a cadre of civil and military troops out of the camp, and came to the front of the battle in full armor to greet his son-in-law, Cao Ren, Cheng Yu and Liu Huangshu and others naturally couldn't wait to wait in front of the battle, wanting to see how the deputy director of the Tao should explain this time.
After the formation was completed, after a while, the vanguard of the Xuzhou army had already appeared in the distance of the road, and it was the Tao character handsome banner of Deputy Director Tao at the beginning, and the big Yuan Sangong, who had never seen his son-in-law, also stretched out his head, wanting to see what this filial and angry son-in-law looked like, but after seeing the appearance of his son-in-law from a distance, the anger in the chest of the big Yuan Sangong had already disappeared for the most part, but Cao Ren, Cheng Yu and Uncle Liu Huang were all dumbfounded-but saw that our clear-eyed Deputy Director Tao was naked, with a thorn on his back, The dejected walk walked at the front of the line, and put on a repentant appearance of pleading guilt early, but he just didn't know what was tied with a red cloth on his chest.
By the way, beside Deputy Director Tao, he naturally followed Yuan Sangong's killer wife Yuan Fang to deal with Da Yuan Sangong's family...... "Fang'er!" Fang'er! O my good daughter! Yuan Sangong's biological mother Liu ran out beside him, and ran to Yuan Fang on foot, Yuan Fang also threw down her husband and ran to her mother quickly, the mother and daughter were already crying with rain dozens of steps away, and when they rushed closer, they opened their arms together, hugged each other and cried............ "Little son-in-law Tao Ying, knock on my mother-in-law." In fact, Deputy Director Tao, who was also very worried about Da Yuan Sangong's sudden poisoning, took the opportunity to kneel in front of his mother-in-law, and kowtowed again and again without saying a word.
Seeing such a scene, Da Yuan Sangong is no matter how big the anger is, it has disappeared - in fact, there is not much fire, mainly because the face is not good, and now the son-in-law honestly pleads guilty as soon as they meet, and gives enough face to himself, and the big Yuan Sangong, who likes to protect his shortcomings, is too lazy to continue to intimidate his son-in-law, and personally rode his horse in front of his wife, daughter and son-in-law. And after the big Yuan Sangong arrived in front of him, Deputy Director Tao immediately knelt down on the knees of the big Yuan Sangong, and said with tears in his eyes: "Little son-in-law Tao Ying, meet Lord Yue, the little son-in-law is guilty, the little son-in-law is suspicious and credulous, misheard the forced confession of Kong Wenju's envoy, and misunderstood that Kong Wenju played the banner of Cao Gong to lure the little son-in-law into the city and kill him. Please punish the crime severely! ”
After that, Deputy Director Tao kowtowed to Da Yuan Sangong again and again, and cried loudly and shed sincere tears, Da Yuan Sangong got face and 100,000 Hu military rations, and he couldn't say anything, he could only fake and shout angrily: "Stand up!" As the lord of a state, what are the words of the public crying loudly? Get up and make things clear to me! ”
"Xie Yuezhang." Deputy Director Tao kowtowed again, and then stood up and choked up to explain the reason for the matter to the Great Yuan Sangong - Kong Rangli sent a messenger to send a letter to Cao Ren, because he didn't see the letter from his respected father-in-law, he didn't dare to be gullible, so he asked Kong Rangli's messenger a few more words, never thought that Kong Rangli's messenger was greedy for life and afraid of death, and said that General Cao Ren's letter was forged by Kong Rangli, but in fact, he wanted to lure himself into the city to kill him, and he ordered the army to attack the city in a fit of anger until he received a letter from his respected father-in-law after taking the drama city. Only then did I know that it was just a misunderstanding............ In order to prove that his words were true, Deputy Director Tao naturally had to let people bring Xue Yue, the messenger of Kong Rangli, and show Xue Yue's confession............ Although he knew in his heart that his son-in-law's words were nonsense, after all, his family did not suffer, and when he saw the jade seal of the country sent to him, Da Yuan Sangong naturally chose to accept his son-in-law's explanation, pointing to the unlucky messenger Xue Yue, and said to Cao Ren, Cheng Yu and Kong Rangli next to him: "The truth is out, this is all your messenger's fault, if he doesn't talk nonsense, how could things have become like this?" ”
"Uncle Yue, in fact, this messenger can't be blamed." Deputy Director Tao's conscience found for Xue Yue explained: "If he brought a letter from his father-in-law, or if Lord Yuezhang personally sent a messenger to give instructions to his son-in-law, how could his son-in-law misunderstand?" How could there be a later drama city? ”
Cao Ren, Cheng Yu and the others turned blue and black with anger, but at this moment, a person next to them suddenly pulled off the thorn strip on the back of Deputy Director Tao, and slapped Deputy Director Tao without saying a word.
"Madame, what are you doing here?" Da Yuan Sangong was also stunned and asked Liu.
"Husband, do you say this kid is like a talk?" Liu shouted violently: "Our daughter is three months old, and he dares to bring our daughter to Qingzhou all the way to have a bumpy journey, such an unfilial son-in-law, what else do we want?" ”
"Fang'er has it?" Da Yuan Sangong and Deputy Director Tao asked in surprise at the same time.
"Bastard boy! My daughter has it, and you don't even know it? If the old lady doesn't beat you to death today, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in the heart of the old lady! ”
"Mother, mother, don't blame him, I'm afraid that he won't let me come to Qingzhou to meet you, so I deliberately hid it from him. Mother, don't hit him, he's bleeding. ”
"Hit! Hit hard! It's best to kill this cunning thief! Come on! Countless people present roared in their hearts.
(To be continued)