Chapter 114: The Bamboo Basket Draws Water for Nothing
In the Three Kingdoms era, Deputy Director Tao, who was hated by people, was dead or alive, and it is estimated that his friends did not have much interest - isn't it just a soy sauce role? What is there to care about? Does it matter if there are those big roles? Therefore, just as the demolition clauses generally conform to public opinion, let's temporarily forget about Tao Ying, deputy director of Xiaolongtao of the Demolition and Relocation Office, and look back for the time being to see the situation of Cao Ying, Boss Cao, who is absolutely weighty............ colluded with some of the generals of Yuan Shaojun to ambush the damned Deputy Director Tao, although the specific executor was Uncle Liu Huang, who practiced benevolence and righteousness, but the most nervous person was Boss Cao who made suggestions behind him, as Tao Ying's opponent and confidant from beginning to end, no one knew Tao Ying's danger better than Boss Cao, and no one knew better than Boss Cao how cunning Tao Ying was and how difficult it was to let him fall into the trap, so even if he carefully considered every detail of the plan, he also put himself in the shoes of Tao Ying's every bit of psychology, Boss Cao still doesn't dare to guarantee that his clever plan will definitely succeed, and he will definitely be able to make Tao Ying, an oiled loach, take the bait!
In order to make Tao Ying take the bait, Boss Cao even resorted to a costly plan to die, asking Uncle Liu Huang to deliberately not reveal the purpose of the battle to the soldiers under his command, and also let the three Taozi brothers stage a shocking discovery of Liu Guanyue's chasing Zhang Fei in front of Liu Beijun's soldiers, in order to make Liu Beijun's soldiers also think that they were just sending troops to save Zhang Fei, so as to avoid Liu Beijun's soldiers from revealing their flaws when they lured the enemy after knowing about it, and even being captured by the Xuzhou army to expose the heavenly opportunity!
Even so, after bidding farewell to Uncle Liu Huang, who went south overnight in the night, Boss Cao, who had always been confident and fearless in danger with his military strategy, was also unusual, not only did not return to the tent to rest, but also always stared at the direction where Liu Beijun went, frowning and constantly calculating, and his mood was so nervous that even Boss Cao's two major cronies and strategists, Xun Yu and Cheng Yu, felt that it was a little too much, and Cheng Yu couldn't help but ask Boss Cao: "Lord, you are in the midst of ten thousand armies, and when the arrows and stones were attacking, you have never been moved. It was Liu Bei and Yuan Shao's team that sent troops to take risks to fight, why were they so nervous? β
"What Mr. Zhongmou has seen is extremely true." Xun Yu also said: "Even if this plan fails, our army will not suffer much losses, and there is still a chance to start over, why should the lord be so worried?" Empty of thoughts? β
"I didn't know that this was in vain, but I just couldn't rest assured." Boss Cao sighed and said, "Since Runan and Tao Ying thief met again, I have a hunch that the only person in the world who can be with me for a long time is this Tao Ying thief!" This thief will not die, and I will not be at peace. β
"The lord is reasonable, Tao Ying's thief is not only cunning, but Wen Taowu's strategy is far better than the so-called heroes of the world, but the lord's ability to be with one is indeed the lord's henchman." Xun Yu nodded, and said: "But the lord doesn't have to worry too much, the lord's plan is brilliant and seamless, I expect that the thief will inevitably fall into the trick this time, even if he can't cut off his head, it will definitely hit his vitality!" β
"I hope so." Boss Cao sighed faintly, and said in a dark voice: "There are four extremely important steps in this plan, the first step, Bufu!" The second step is to lure Tao Ying thief to fight! The third step is to lure Tao Ying thief to pursue with all his might! The fourth step is to lure the Tao Ying thief into an ambush circle! You must send more scouts to spy on the situation on the southern front, and as soon as there is news, you must report to me immediately, no matter when and where! β
Xun Yu and Cheng Yu agreed, and after carefully arranging scouts to explore the battle situation on the southern front, they persuaded Boss Cao to go back to his tent to rest, but even if he was lying on the bed, Boss Cao still couldn't sleep, and opened his eyes until dawn. And after the rooster crowed three times, Xun Yu and Cheng Yu hurriedly entered Boss Cao's bedroom, and bowed their hands to Boss Cao together and smiled: "Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord, the two generals, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, according to the arrangement of the lord, have personally led the army in place, arranged the net, and waited for Tao Ying to take the bait!" β
"Is the message accurate? Have you ever alarmed the pottery thief scouts? Boss Cao jumped up from the bed.
"Lord, please rest assured, the news is true, our army scouts saw the two generals Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang ambush in place." Xun Yu replied: "As for the scouts under the command of the pottery thief, there should be no alarm, at least when the two generals Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang marched and set up an ambush, our army scouts did not find that the pottery thief scout horse was approaching, nor did they find that the pottery thief's scout horse had an alarm action. β
"That's good." Boss Cao breathed a sigh of relief, and his dark and thin face finally showed some lightheartedness, and said with a slight smile: "Okay!" As long as Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang lead the army to arrange it in place, that position is far away from the official road, and away from the Yuan army camp, Tao Ying's thief is no matter how much he annihilates and slips, and he can't imagine that our army will be deployed in the ambush circle on the bank of the Surabaya River that seems to be in a desperate situation for Liu Beijun! β
After laughing lightly, Boss Cao quickly ordered Xun Yu and Cheng Yu to continue to send people to investigate, and then personally went to Changyi City to patrol the city, confirming that the remnants of Lu Bu's army did not break through, and then returned to the Chinese army's big tent and waited patiently for news from the southern front. At noon, two pieces of news came from the southern front, one was that Zhang Fei arrived at Tao Ying to fight, and the other was that after Zhang Fei failed to rush the camp, Tao Ying finally sent Xu Chu and Zhang Fei to fight, and they are currently fighting.
"Good!" Hearing the news, Boss Cao slapped his palm on the table in front of him, the smile on his black face grew, and he said with a smile: "The second level has finally passed, and next, it will be like Liu Xuande's play!" β
"Report ββββ!" After waiting for more than half an hour, finally another dusty Cao Jun rushed into the Chinese army's tent, and shouted before he had time to salute: "Lord Qi, during the period of Zhang Fei and Xu Chu's fight, Tao Ying sent troops to help the battle, Zhang Fei's soldiers could not resist the enemy, and they were defeated on the road, and all the armies in Xuzhou stopped pursuing, but the thief Xu Chu insisted on leading the army to pursue, and then Tao Ying also personally led the army to follow!" β
"There is such a disobedient general under his command, he is reluctant to kill him, and it is not easy to restrain him to stay, so he deserves to be a thief." Boss Cao gloated.
After another moment, another scout Fei reported to Cao Boss, saying that Liu Bei had personally led the army to meet Tao Ying, Liu Beijun retreated immediately after rescuing Zhang Fei, and the Xuzhou army only hesitated for a short time, and immediately pursued and killed with all his might under the personal leadership of Tao Ying. Hearing the news, Boss Cao's heart, which had been in his throat, was finally put back into his stomach, and he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Tao Ying thief, even if you look like a ghost, you have to drink footwash water this time!" Pursue! Chase it with confidence! Liu Bei is really defeated, not a fraud! β
In the next half an hour or so, for Boss Cao, it was definitely the longest half hour in this life so far, and the scouts who were scattered out continued to rush back to the Cao army camp at any cost, bringing Boss Cao the news that Liu Bei lured the enemy smoothly, but because the news that Tao Ying had fallen into the trap had not been confirmed, Boss Cao's heart was beating faster and faster, for fear that the news that the next scout would report was that Tao Ying found that the situation was not good and turned around and retreated, so nervous that his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
Finally! Finally, another scout rushed into the big tent of the Chinese army, bringing the news that Boss Cao's heart almost stopped beating - the scout hadn't even completely rushed into the big tent, and as soon as he arrived at the door of the big tent, he shouted happily: "Lord Qi, great joy!" Exultation! Tao Ying's thief army pursued Xuande Gong and arrived on the bank of the Surabaya River, I don't know why Yuan Shao's army ambushed on both sides of the road, and joined forces with Xuande Gong to surround Tao Ying's thief army! β
The good news finally came, and Boss Cao, who had been nervous for an unknown amount of time, was relieved, and for a while he was all out of the sky, and he didn't know what words to use to express the joy in his heart, until Xun Yu and Cheng Yu and other henchmen rushed to the front to congratulate, Boss Cao changed to sit and lie down, lying on his back on the seat, his limbs stretched out in a 'big' shape, looking at the top of the tent and laughing wildly, "Hahahahahaha!" Tao Ying thief! You also have today! You've got it today! This time, you are the power of heaven and earth, and you don't have to taste a big defeat! β
"My lord, you should seize the opportunity to expand your victory!" Xun Yu quickly suggested: "In my opinion, the lord should quickly send an elite army to reinforce the battlefield and expand the results of the battle as much as possible!" Then immediately send someone to invite Yan Liangwen to come over to discuss the matter, so that the two of them will not hear the news and go to stop the bad thing! β
"That's right! These two bastards have accepted bribes from Tao Ying's thieves, and they must be prevented from doing bad things! Boss Cao lay down and yelled: "Send someone to invite Yan Liangwen to come over to discuss the matter, under the pretext that you are looking for it!" Then send an order to Cao Ren, let him immediately lead 3,000 elite soldiers out of the camp and rush to the battlefield for reinforcements! Tell the soldiers of the whole army to cut off the head of Tao Ying's thief, reward a thousand gold, and seal Pi Taishou! β
"Report." Xun Yu, Cheng Yu and others had just left, and suddenly another Cao Lao David's scholar came in outside the tent, and said to Cao Laoda: "My lord, Yuan Shaojun sent an envoy to ask for a meeting, saying that he wanted to deliver Yuan Shao's letter to the lord. β
"Yuan Shao's letter? What Epistles? It can't be that his Youzhou battlefield is in an emergency, and he wants to collect his troops and go back, right? Boss Cao sat up straight and snorted coldly: "This is the best, anyway, Lu Bu is already a turtle in the urn, as long as Tao Ying's thief is hit hard, it is better for Yuan Shao to transfer the army back, and save me from robbing Xuzhou." β
After humming, Boss Cao waved his black hand and shouted: "Xuanyuan Shaojun's envoy come in!" β
β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦ Okay, the situation of the big man Cao Boss is almost introduced, now we should go back and take a look at the situation of the small role of playing soy sauce, Deputy Director Tao, as I said earlier, although our Deputy Director Tao is abnormal, in the pursuit process must constantly interrogate the enemy's prisoners, and then decide whether to pursue, but unfortunately this cautious and suspicious good habit, but it just wants the life of Deputy Director Tao, so that Deputy Director Tao fell into the death plan of Cao Boss, and inevitably fell into the trap of Cao Yuan and Liu's three families to join forces and carefully arrange and prepare to destroy Tao............ "It's over! I've finally won the trick this time! I'm going to have to suffer a big defeat! The little face turned pale and shouted this sentence in his heart, Tao Ying, who encountered this situation for the first time, finally came back to his senses, and quickly turned around and shouted, "The whole army turned around, the rear team became the front team, Sun Guan opened the way, Xu Chu Palace, the whole army retreated!" β
"Tao Ying thief, where are you going?" At the same time, Uncle Liu Huang also issued an order for a general attack, "The whole army will charge and cut off Tao Ying's head!" β
"Hahahahaha!!!" At the same time, among the people of Yuan Shao's brigade on the left side of Tao Yingjun, a middle-aged scribe suddenly came out, laughed wildly and said, "Don't panic, my lord, the ambush soldiers are not against you!" Big-eared thief, Xuzhou Yang Hong is here, if you know each other, quickly dismount and surrender, spare you from death! β
"Yang Hong?" Tao Ying and all the generals of the Xuzhou army screamed in disbelief, it turned out that it was none other than Yuan Shaojun's ranks, it was Tao Ying who dug up the corner of the wall from Yuan Sangong, the new governor of Xuzhou, and the number one diplomatic liar under Tao Ying-Yang Hong and Yang Zhongming!
"Why is Yang Hong ambushed with Yuan Shaojun? Could it be that Yang Hong's alliance failed? Greedy for life and afraid of death, he took refuge in Yuan Shao again? After exclaiming, Deputy Director Tao, who was so cunning and suspicious that he didn't believe anyone except himself, quickly flashed this thought in his mind - but with Yang Changshi's virtue, such a shameless thing can definitely be done.
Fortunately, Yuan Shaojun's ambush did not attack the Xuzhou army, but quickly approached Liu Beijun, from the left and right wings and the three breads behind Liu Beijun, and surrounded Liu Beijun's army on all sides with the Xuzhou army. Seeing this scene, the Xuzhou army, which had been preparing to flee for their lives, was of course so surprised that they suspected that they were dreaming, but poor Uncle Liu Huang was in a state of despair, shouting and shouting: "General Lu Kuang, General Lu Xiang, what are you doing here?" Do? β
"Brother-in-law! We're finally meeting! A new shout came, and a young general of Yuan Shaojun, who was as oily as Deputy Director Tao, rode a white horse, and led a considerable number of Yuan Shaojun generals and soldiers to come out of the battle, and laughed at Tao Ying from a distance and said: "Brother-in-law, the first time we met, Yuan is not polite, the big-eared thief Liu Bei's head is a meeting gift for my brother-in-law, brother-in-law must not refuse!" β
"Yuan Shang? Yuan Shang's brother-in-law?! Tao Ying suddenly came to his senses in a daze, and shouted in surprise in his heart: "Could it be that Yang Hong has already succeeded in asking Yuan Shao for me, and Yuan Shao has already promised to marry his daughter to me?" β
"Yuan Shang? Yuan Shang's brother-in-law?! Uncle Liu Huang also suddenly woke up in a dizziness, and screamed in despair in his heart: "Could it be that Yuan Shaopifu has married his daughter to Tao Ying's thief?" Tao Ying's thief has become Yuan Shaopifu's son-in-law? β
To the surprise of Deputy Director Tao and the despair of Uncle Liu Huang was still behind, in the roar, Yan Liang came out of the battle from the right side of the battlefield, and the soldiers behind him also escorted out the poor Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, the two generals - they were all tied with thick hemp rope and were no different from zongzi, Yan Liang roared angrily: "Okay, you big-eared thief, you dare to buy a traitor to our army!" If it weren't for the fact that the third prince knew that Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang were unreliable, and arrived in time with us, I wouldn't have been able to substitute for the main bus! β
"Big-eared thief, don't you want to run away today!" Wen Chou also appeared in the rear of Liu Beijun, and shouted with a gun: "Big-eared thief, let you die and understand!" Our army has concluded an alliance with the Xuzhou army to join forces to conquer the traitors of the world! Thou shalt dare to bribe the rebel generals under my command, and if you don't behead your head today, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart! β
Finally finished the boring but boring cutscene, the soy sauce should have been played, and the appearance was finished, today's real protagonist, our third son Yuan Shang, raised the steel gun in his hand, pointed at Liu Bei's banner, and shouted proudly: "Beat the drums, general attack!" Chop off the head of the big-eared thief and give it to my brother-in-law as a welcome gift! β
The earth-shattering war drums sounded, Yuan Shaojun covered up on three sides, Tao Ying also did not hesitate to order the whole army to attack, Xu Chu and Sun Guan two generals came out of the crowd, led the army to kill the panicked Liu Beijun, and Yuan Shaojun joined forces to beat the poor peach three brothers, the unlucky Uncle Liu Huang was in pain, but also quickly led Guan Yu Zhang Fei to the north to break through, and wanted to rush back to Changyi to find his only friend Cao Boss for help, Guan Zhang Er General protected Liu Huang Uncle to fight to the death, Xuzhou army and Yuan Shaojun covered up to the fullest, and killed Liu Beijun all over the field. Rivers of blood.
While the thugs and accomplices were beating the three peach brothers, Tao Ying and Yuan Shang, two handsome young men who cherished their surnames, had a good chance of winning, of course, they refused to join in the excitement, and they all chose to dismount and walk, and rushed to each other, hugging each other tightly on the side of the battlefield, one called his brother-in-law, and the other, despite the fact that he was actually one year older than the other party, still shouted affectionately, "Third brother!" Thank you, third brother! If it weren't for the third brother, the younger brother would have suffered a big loss today. β
"Tao Ying thief! Thief! Correspondingly, it was the desperate and angry shouts of poor Uncle Liu Huang, who fled for his life in the chaos of the army, "Destroy the thief! You are the number one thief in the world! No wonder ......, no wonder you fall for my discord! It turned out that you were already ready to abandon Lu Bu and hug Yuan Benchu's thick thighs! Thief! You are the best thief in the worldββββ! β
.............................. "Tao Ying, Tao thief!" You thief! The world's number one thief! Thief ββββ! β
was also roaring angrily, and the even more pitiful Cao Boss Cao, after reading the handwritten letter of the hardcore covenant and backer Yuan Sangong in disbelief, Boss Cao suddenly went crazy, patted the case in front of him and roared wildly, "No wonder you want to induce Lu Bu to take the initiative to turn his face with you!" No wonder you want to come to Yanzhou to watch the scenery! No wonder you deliberately fell for Liu Bei's stupid pig's discord! No wonder you want to abandon Lu Bu at a critical moment! It turns out that you, a thief, have already started to hug Yuan Benchu's thick thighs! Thief! You're the world's number one cunning thiefββββ! β
"Cao Gong, please calm down, please calm down." The envoy of Yuan Jun, who delivered the letter to Yuan Shang, persuaded Boss Cao to calm down, and said: "Gong Cao, my lord Yuan Gong has hired Tao Ying Tao as the fast son-in-law of the East Bed, please Cao Gong look at my lord's thin face, and don't meet Tao Envoy Jun again." My lord Yuan Gong said again, the death of the old lady Cao was also committed by the rebel general Zhang Min in Xuzhou, please Ming Gong do not anger Tao Qian's father and son, and get along with my lord and son-in-law. The third son of my family came to Yanzhou in person this time, in addition to leading the two generals Yan Liangwen and Chou to assist Cao Gong in his crusade against Lu Bu, and then there was the matter of supervision, mediating the war between Ming Gong and Tao Zhijun. β
"Shut up! The hatred of killing my father is not shared with heaven, how can my lord ....... Xiahoudun next to him roared angrily.
"Shut up!"
Xiahoudun's roar was drunk by Boss Cao in time, Boss Cao was very calm, knowing that the current situation could no longer offend Da Yuan Sangong, Tao Ying had successfully hugged Da Yuan Sangong's thick thighs, and also became Da Yuan Sangong's fast son-in-law, if he insisted on refusing to accept the mediation of Da Yuan Sangong, with Da Yuan Sangong's empty temper, he would turn his face and start a war with himself, at that time, Yuan Shaojun and Xuzhou Army would attack from the north and south, and the internal Lu Bu would also take the opportunity to turn over, At present, he has been greatly injured by Lu Bu, and he will not be able to cry when the time comes.
In desperation, Boss Cao could only pray that Liu Bei and Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang could succeed, and said helplessly: "Okay, let's ask the third prince to mediate." Oh, by the way, when did the third prince arrive in Changyi? Why don't you see him? β
(To be continued)