"My lord, the last general and others have searched all the places within a radius of twenty miles where people can hide, but they still haven't found any trace of the Son of Heaven and the Empress!"

According to their confessions, the big-eared thieves did not return to the Chaishan camp when they retreated, but only sent someone up the mountain to give an order, and ordered Sun Qianjian Yong, who stayed in the camp, to immediately set fire to the camp, and led the soldiers and horses in the camp down the mountain, and the two of them did not know where they went. May I ask the lord, did you personally interrogate these two people? ”

"Report ——! After the light cavalry of our army caught up with the thief army led by Sun Qian and Jian Yong, the thief army was easily defeated, but it was already dark at that time, and most of the thieves ran into the woods after the breakdown, and fled in all directions under the cover of the night and the woods. The three generals wanted to set fire to the forest and force the thief army to show up, but they were afraid that the fire would endanger the Son of Heaven, so they didn't dare to act without permission, and only sent villains to ask the lord for instructions, how to act? ”

Tao Ying looked up at the sky and saw that today's night was really the same as his usual luck - it was dark for thousands of miles, not to mention the moon, even the stars could not be seen. With a wry smile and a sigh, his luck was simply 108,000 miles away from Yang Hong, and Tao Ying could only helplessly instruct the herald: "Go and tell Tao Ji that he did the right thing, although Sun Qian and Jian Yong's team is likely to be just an outcast to attract the attention of our army, and it is unlikely that the Son of Heaven will be in their team, but in order to prevent such a thing as setting fire to the forest and endangering the Son of Heaven, it is absolutely impossible to do it." Don't spend the effort to search carefully for the Son of Heaven on the battlefield he is in charge of, focus my attention on Jian Yong and Sun Gan, they must know the whereabouts of the big-eared thief, at least know that the big-eared thief is going to take the Son of Heaven hostage there, as long as you catch one of them, things will be easy. ”

The heralds sent by Tao Ji led the order, and Tao Ying instructed the heralds sent by several other generals of the Gentleman's Army: "Go and tell your generals to expand the search area to thirty miles, and then carefully find the whereabouts of the Son of Heaven and Queen Fu. But you must be careful when searching, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are unstoppable, and they must search as a team, and they must pay attention to protecting each other. The heralds sent by Gao Chong, Nian Bin, Chen Ning and other generals of the Gentleman's Army sang a promise together, and Pegasus went out to deliver the order.

Our Deputy Director Tao's luck on the battlefield has always been bad, this time it seems to be more back, leading the Junzi Army to meet Yang Hong and Jia Xu After learning about the situation ahead, Deputy Director Tao didn't even have time to contact the long-loved Jia Lao Poison, and immediately led the Junzi Army to the battlefield to rescue him. However, what made Tao Ying desperate was that the battlefield chosen by Emperor Liu and Emperor Xian of Han was in a large dense forest, and the surrounding terrain was still mountainous and forested.

To attack the enemy's strength with his own shortness, although the Junzi Army has never relaxed the training of hand-to-hand combat, but after all, the real hand-to-hand combat is pitifully few, and under the lack of experience, even the rabble under the command of Uncle Liu is quite difficult, not only the casualties have reached more than 50 people, but the progress of the war is relatively slow, and then it is not easy to rely on Xu Chu's strength to kill Uncle Liu's team, but the three brothers of Peach have already disappeared without a trace under the cover of dense forests and hills, and Emperor Han Xian, who is also missing, Dong Cheng and Empress Fu. And the more than 70 soldiers in Emperor Han Xian's team have also been killed by Uncle Liu Huang to only six people, and the famous general Xu Huang was separated from Emperor Han Xian in the melee, and was injured and defeated by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and was forced to break through and flee for his life - but fortunately, this person definitely had a breath when he was a famous general and a gentleman army outside of Deputy Director Tao's plan, but he was seriously injured and fell into a coma, but he didn't know if he could be saved.

It was also at this time that our resourceful Deputy Director Tao found out that he had accidentally fallen for Uncle Liu's tricks, and felt that Uncle Liu, who had the most experience in escaping for his life, was likely to have fled the battlefield with Emperor Han Xian hostage, but deliberately did not give the order for the whole army to retreat, leaving thousands of rabble to entangle with the Junzi Army to buy time for Uncle Liu himself. And when Deputy Director Tao realized this problem, it was already too late, the sky was getting dark, and the cunning Uncle Liu Huang also ordered Sun Qian and Jian Yong to abandon the camp and leave, and used Jian Yong and Sun Qian's team as bait to attract the Junzi army led by Tao Ji to pursue the soldiers, and Uncle Liu himself took advantage of the cover of the night and the complex terrain in this area, once again smeared oil on the soles of his feet under Deputy Director Tao's nose, disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, and abducted Emperor Han Xian and Empress Fu by the way, Cut off a handful of the words that our deputy director Tao was already called Hu, and he also added four joys.

"Luck! Lao Tzu's luck really can't even catch up with one ten-thousandth of Yang Hong's sycophancy! ”

When Deputy Director Tao, who was extremely unlucky, was feeling sorry for himself, the soldiers suddenly came to report that Xu Huang had woken up, Tao Ying was overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed to the scene to visit Xu Huang, but saw that Xu Huang was about thirty years old, very burly, but he lost too much blood, his face was very pale, and his spirit was very sluggish. And when he knew that the short-haired little white face in front of him was the famous Tao Ying Tao envoy, Xu Huang was still struggling to get up and salute Tao Ying, Tao Ying hurriedly held him down, and said softly: "General Gongming, don't move, I have checked you with the army, your ribs are broken three, you have twelve injuries on your body, the injuries are very serious, and you can't move, but it doesn't matter, this soldier Langzhong I hired with a lot of money is the proud disciple of Hua Tuohua's divine doctor, he will definitely cure you and let you recover as before." ”

"Thank you for your trouble, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, it's really good." Xu Huang groaned and thanked him, and praised himself for beating himself into such two murderers, and then moaned and pleaded: "The last general is incompetent, and he failed to protect the Son of Heaven until the arrival of the king's reinforcements, so that the Son of Heaven is missing, and there is no whereabouts so far. ”

"Don't blame the general, the difference between strength and weakness is too great, and the general can hold on alive until our army arrives, which is already a blessing to invite heaven." Tao Ying sincerely comforted, and sighed: "If you want to investigate the responsibility for the disappearance of the Son of Heaven, then the biggest responsibility is not someone else, it is me!" If I had arrived half an hour earlier, things would not have turned out like this, and the Son of Heaven would not have been missing, nor would he have known his life or death. ”

"Please rest assured of the safety of the Son of Heaven." Xu Huang replied with difficulty: "When Liu Bei's thief army broke up the last general and the Son of Heaven, the last general clearly heard that Uncle Dong Guo had already shouted out the identity of the Son of Heaven in the chaotic army, and no matter how bold Liu Bei was to destroy the thief, he would not dare to hurt the Son of Heaven and the queen at will." However, I am afraid that Liu Bei will not believe it, and insist on poisoning the Son of Heaven. ”

"No, the surname of the big-eared thief is understood, even if he doesn't immediately believe in the true identity of the Son of Heaven, he will never dare to poison him immediately without asking clearly." Tao Ying shook his head arbitrarily, and was about to comfort Xu Huang again, when another soldier rushed over, grabbed Lang Zhong, who had just finished treating Xu Huang, and shouted in a panic: "Lang Zhong, hurry, hurry, Yang Changshi, Yang Changshi, he suddenly fell ill, he was very sick, Lang Zhong, please go and show him." ”

"Why did Yang Hong get sick suddenly?"

Tao Ying, who had just had a better impression of Yang Hong, was startled, hurriedly said goodbye to Xu Huang, and led Lang Zhong to hurry to Yang Hong's camp, and when he arrived at the camp, he saw that sure enough, our Yang Changshi was rolling around the bonfire with his stomach and moaning and screaming, looking so painful that he seemed to be about to die immediately, and several soldiers of the Gentleman's Army couldn't hold him. Tao Ying was shocked and hurriedly asked Lang Zhong to check Yang Changshi, but the results of the inspection made Tao Ying almost crooked his nose - "Lord Lord, Lord Changshi, he is fine, he just eats too much and holds on, just let him spit out what he has eaten." ”

Lang Zhong finally used the means of squeezing his throat to make Yang Changshi vomit all the things in his stomach, seeing Yang Changshi's embarrassed appearance of vomiting and vomiting, Deputy Director Tao really didn't know whether to be angry or funny, so he had to complain to Yang Changshi: "I said Mr. Zhongming, you are so old, why don't you even understand the truth that you can't overeat after being hungry for a long time?" Fortunately, the rescue was timely, otherwise, you didn't starve to death on the road, and now you have to die! ”

Yang Changshi, who was scolded first without a reward after making a miraculous achievement, smirked and said embarrassedly: "Don't blame the lord, your subordinates have been hungry for too long, and they have relied on wild vegetable porridge to satisfy their hunger all the way, and when they see dry rice, they eat more." After laughing awkwardly, Yang Changshi suddenly remembered a big event, and hurriedly asked: "Lord, I heard that the Son of Heaven has not been found, so has my student Ah Yi found it?" Is it that the subordinate mentioned to you that student Ah Yi in his letter? ”

"Nope." Tao Ying shook his head and said helplessly: "Except for the seriously injured General Xu Huang, only six people from the team you threw down survived, all of them were our Danyang soldiers from Xuzhou, and there were no students of yours." When it's dawn, you can go to the pile of corpses and look for them, and it's likely that your student is inside. ”

Hearing Deputy Director Tao's words, and remembering the miserable scene of Ah Yi kneeling alone in the pile of corpses of his relatives, Yang Changshi, who had a good conscience and had not been completely eaten by wild dogs, couldn't help but feel a little sentimental, and choked with a sour nose: "Ah Yi, you must live, six of the eight brothers of your Sima family are gone, if you don't have them anymore, it will be too miserable......." ”

"Sima's family? Sima? Ayi? Sima Yi? Tao Ying suddenly shivered, and hurriedly asked Yang Changshi: "Mr. Zhongming, is your student Ah Yi's full name Sima Yi?" He also has an older brother named Sima Lang, who is now serving under Cao Thief? ”

"Huh? Do you know your subordinate this student? Yang Changshi nodded hurriedly and said: "Yes, Ah Yi's full name is Sima Yi, his eldest brother Sima Lang is Boda, and he is currently serving as Yuanyang Ling under Cao Thief, but how do you know?" Do you know the Sima family? ”

Deputy Director Tao was dumbfounded, and looked at Yang Changshi blankly for a long time before he suddenly roared like a pig, "I'm fucking your mother's big-eared thief!" It turns out that you not only cut off Lao Tzu's words and four joys, but also cut off Lao Tzu's words and all dark bars! Torch! Torch! I'm going to get a few more torches, I'm going to check the corpse myself and see if Sima Yi is in the pile of corpses?! ”

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Maybe it's a heart-to-heart or something, our deputy director Tao scolded in Runan County, but our Cao boss has already scolded in Hanoi County, but Deputy Director Tao only scolded Uncle Liu Huang who shamelessly cut off his beard, but Cao Boss scolded Yuan Sangongzi who was unreasonable and arrogant and provoked a war - because Yuan Sangongzi, who was ordered by his father to go south to meet him, has not only been forcing Cao Boss to hand over Emperor Han Xian, but also ignored Cao Boss's repeated forbearance, and repeatedly connived at his own team to attack and rob Cao's search team. He directly pulled the 30,000 Jizhou army outside the Cao military camp, and asked Cao Boss to open the camp gate and let the Jizhou army enter the camp to search for the whereabouts of Emperor Han Xian!

Yuan Sangongzi deceived people too much to this point, let's not say that Boss Cao's temper was not too good, that is, Boss Cao could swallow this breath, and the fierce generals under Boss Cao didn't do it anymore, all of them were like thunder, and they all rushed to Boss Cao to ask for battle, "Lord!" Can't take it anymore! In the past few days, more than 100 soldiers of our army have been killed by Yuan Shangpifu's arson, and now we are going to search our camp, and bullying people is simply bullying home! The last general and others are willing to go to war, go to fight to the death with that Yuan Shang Pifu, and take revenge on the shame! ”

Boss Cao blushed and didn't speak, if you want to say that Boss Cao didn't tear Yuan Shang apart, it's false, but the consequences of starting a war with Yuan Shao are too serious, not to mention that the overall strength is definitely inferior to Yuan Shao, and the local strength is not dominant at present. Cao Jun was first stabbed in the back by Yang Feng and Han Xian in Gucheng before, and then successively fought with Zhang Yang, Yang Feng, Li Dao, Guo Yan and other armies in turns, although they all won the victory, Zhang Yang was beaten back to Huaixian County and did not dare to show his face, Yang Feng was beaten to flee into the Taihang Mountains alone, and in the Battle of Qingshui, he broke Li Dao Guo Yan in one fell swoop, and drove the two bosses back to the mountains and grass in Bingzhou as in the romance. However, after killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000, after repeated battles, only about 30,000 of the 50,000 Cao troops at the time of the departure of the Western Expedition were left, and the soldiers and generals were exhausted, and their combat effectiveness was sharply reduced.

"My lord! Yuan Shang shouted and scolded outside the camp again, saying that if our army no longer opened the gate of the village and let him enter the camp to search within a pillar of incense, he would order to attack our army's camp! ”

What made Boss Cao completely determined was the further provocation and humiliation of Yuan Sangongzi, and when he couldn't bear it, Boss Cao finally took the case, and shouted with a black face: "The whole army is out of the camp, I personally go to reason with that Yuan Shangpifu, the Son of Heaven is not in my camp, he will believe it if he wants to believe it, and if he doesn't want to believe it, he will fight!" Arrogant junior, don't think that with the support of Yuan Shao's old horseman, he can ride on my head unscrupulously to and pee! The generals of the Cao army, who had been holding back their anger for a long time, suddenly agreed, and hurriedly hugged Boss Cao to lead the army out of the camp, and went to the front of the battle to answer with Yuan Sangongzi.

As a good brother-in-law of Deputy Director Tao, of course our Yuan Sangongzi refuses to believe Boss Cao's nonsense that the Son of Heaven is not in Cao's camp - but this can't blame Yuan Sangongzi for being arrogant and confused, the key is that the Han Dynasty Wenwu Gongqing who disguised himself as a common person and fled to Yuan Sangongzi's army insisted that Emperor Han Xian was determined to go to Jizhou, and said that the Son of Heaven was not robbed by Li Dao Guo Yan, and at the same time, Yang Feng, who was committed to Jizhou, did not protect the Son of Heaven to vote for Yuan Sangongzi, and Yuan Sangongzi naturally suspected that Cao Boss detained the Son of Heaven and refused to hand it over. Therefore, no matter how Boss Cao explained or even swore a curse, the arrogant Yuan Sangongzi refused to withdraw his troops and retreated, insisting on searching the Cao army camp.

Since you can't talk about it, you can only fight, in view of the fact that Yuan Sangongzi first sent the general Zhang He to the front of the battle to fight, and the unbearable Cao Boss could only send the general Zhang Liao out of the battle to meet the battle, the two famous fierce generals in front of the battle Mars touched the earth in more than 50 rounds without winning or losing, Yuan Sangongzi, who couldn't hold his breath, relied on his excellent archery skills, and suddenly imitated his brother-in-law's famous stunt to use a secret arrow when fighting generals, an arrow hit Zhang Liao's shoulder socket, Zhang Liao screamed and fled back to the main formation, Yuan Sangongzi took the opportunity to beat the drum and attack, and 30,000 Yuan troops swarmed up, In a melee with Cao's army, he fought a big battle, and did not return to the village until both sides suffered heavy casualties.

finally tore his face with Yuan Shaojun and did a fight, although he didn't suffer too much loss, but the consequences were unbearable for Boss Cao. In order to avoid a full-scale war with Yuan Shaojun, the strategist Xun You suggested that Cao Lao Da send Jizhou to contact Yuan Shao directly, explaining the misunderstanding and asking Yuan Shao to take care of his son, so as to prevent Cao Yuan's war from further expanding and leading to uncontrollable consequences. When Cao Laoda, who was obviously more lucky than Deputy Director Tao, was hesitating whether he could convince Yuan Shao, an absolutely unexpected good news fell from the sky - after crossing the Yellow River, a soldier under Xu Huang was worried that he would starve to death on the road if he could not reach Huainan, so he deserted on the south bank of the Yellow River and luckily escaped the pursuit of his companions, and later because he had no food to eat, he took the initiative to find the whereabouts of Cao Jun's team and betrayed Emperor Xian of Han, in exchange for Cao Jun's take-in!

Finally grasped the accurate news of the whereabouts of Emperor Han Xian, and never dreamed that Emperor Han Xian would voluntarily go to Huainan to defect to Tao Ying, Cao Laoda was stunned, and suddenly danced happily, and hurriedly wrote the confession of this soldier into a confession, together with Fu Wan and Dong Guiren he caught, and sent a special envoy to Jizhou to hand it over to Yuan Shao, so that Yuan Shao knew the true whereabouts of Emperor Han Xian, and also let Yuan Shao know what kind of good son-in-law he recruited! In addition, Cao Laoda, who is also good at sowing discord, has to ask the envoy to bribe Yuan Tan with a lot of money, so that Yuan Tan can stab Yuan Shang and Deputy Director Tao in the back, and strive to make Yuan Tao turn against him, and let Yuan Shao no longer hinder himself from attacking Xuzhou!

The Jishui battlefield is not far from Jizhou, so the messenger sent by Cao Boss quickly sent the news and Fu Wan and others to the Great Yuan Sangong, and learned that the Son of Heaven took the initiative to vote for his son-in-law in desperation, and the Great Yuan Sangong was jealous, but inevitably annoyed, and was very dissatisfied with the Xuzhou envoy first instigated himself to send troops to meet him, and then fished in the water to welcome the Son of Heaven to Xuzhou - is there such a son-in-law in the world?

Seeing that the Great Yuan Sangong was dissatisfied with Tao Yingsheng, Yuan Tan naturally couldn't wait to jump out and fan the flames, and the Great Yuan Sangong did not hesitate under his anger, and immediately sent an envoy to Hanoi to reprimand his beloved son Yuan Shang, and ordered Yuan Shang to immediately withdraw his troops and return to Jizhou, and then immediately sent an envoy to the unworthy son-in-law, severely reprimanding the unworthy son-in-law for the crime of disrespect, and by the way, implying that the son-in-law would send the Son of Heaven to himself - otherwise, all the consequences would be the responsibility of the unworthy son-in-law himself!

The third prince of Yuan made this decision, and Yuan Tan Gongzi, who had been unable to take advantage of his younger brother all these years, naturally raised his eyebrows once, and almost did not hesitate to secretly conclude a verbal alliance with Boss Cao - join forces to provoke Tao Yuan's war, and use Boss Cao's hand to cut off Tao Ying, Yuan Shang's strongest foreign aid! And after Yuan Sangongzi, who rushed south to meet him, took a break and was scolded by his father, he led the army back to Jizhou in a disgraced manner, and naturally he was very dissatisfied with his brother-in-law, and he was not allowed to go to his brother-in-law to accuse and scold!

Of course, the one who smiled more happily than Yuan Tan's eldest prince was Cao Boss, who not only successfully got rid of the biggest crisis of all-out war with Yuan Shao, but also successfully provoked Tao Yuan's discord, which caused a rift between Yuan Sangong and Tao Ying, and laid a solid foundation for further and completely dissociating Tao Yuan's alliance, and Cao Boss was very satisfied that he failed to meet the Son of Heaven. So on the way back to Yanzhou from Hanoi, Boss Cao laughed all the time, especially when crossing the Yellow River and stepping on the land on the south bank of the Yellow River, our Boss Cao even laughed loudly on the ferry wharf, "Hahahaha!" Tao Ying thief, do you think it's a good thing that a son of heaven falls from the sky? With your strength and situation, you dare to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes? The Son of Heaven will let you worship for a few days first, let's wait and see, and see who has the last laugh! Let's see who cries to the end! ”

"What the lord said is very true, Tao Ying's thief is indeed in a dilemma this time." Guo Jia coughed and agreed, and coughed and smiled: "With Yuan Benchu's temper, he must want Tao Ying thief to hand over the Son of Heaven!" Tao Ying's thief is definitely reluctant to hand over the Son of Heaven who can command the world, but if he doesn't hand it over, it will anger Yuan Shao! Even if Tao Ying's thief turned his heart into handing over the Son of Heaven and sent the Son of Heaven as a gift, the saliva of the Han family's relatives, Han court's loyal ministers, the world's scholars and princes could squirt him to death! ”

"If my expectations are correct, Tao Ying's thief will suffer more than that." Xun You also smiled: "Tao Ying's thief is attacking Huainan, once Yuan Shu can't resist the enemy, he will definitely bow his head to Yuan Shao, and beg Yuan Shao to come forward to restrain his son-in-law Tao Ying's thief, Yuan Shao will be dissatisfied with Tao Ying's thief for the sake of the Son of Heaven, and he will definitely force Tao Ying's thief to pull out all the food he has eaten!" ”

"Fengxiao, what Gongda said is extremely true, this is the truth!" Boss Cao laughed proudly again, and couldn't wait to order: "Two gentlemen, please ask me to conspire to see if I can immediately make Yuan Shao tear up the alliance with Tao Ying's thief and give up his protection of Tao Ying's thief?" After I collected my troops and returned to Yanzhou, I would like to take advantage of the situation to send troops to attack the northern line of Tao Ying's thieves. ”

"It's not so easy to get Yuan Shao to immediately give up the protection of the northern line against Tao Ying's thief, but it's not hopeless......." Guo Jia pondered.

"My lord! Exultation! Exultation! The sudden excited shouts interrupted Guo Jia's deep groaning, and Cao Hong, the general who was protecting the ferry for Cao Boss on the periphery, rushed over with a roll, and shouted frantically before he could reach the front: "Lord! Wedding! Wedding! What a happy event! A happy event that the lord can't even think of! ”

"A happy event that I can't even think of?" Boss Cao, who was in a good mood, didn't care about Cao Hong's rudeness, and joked with a smile and his famous money-greedy brother: "What kind of happy event? Can Zilian be excited like this? Was there a cellar found in front of it, which was full of gold and silver jewels? ”

"Hehehehe." Everyone laughed, but Cao Hong didn't care about the good-natured ridicule in everyone's laughter, just shook his head desperately, and shouted excitedly: "It's a hundred times better than this, a thousand times!" Someone brought a gift to the lord, a gift a thousand times more valuable than a cellar full of gold, silver and jewels! ”

"Who gave me a gift?" Boss Cao was a little surprised and asked, "What gift is so valuable?" ”

"Lord, you must hold on to what you hear." Cao Hong smiled even more happily, and deliberately paused, only then did he say loudly under the attention of everyone: "Congratulations to the lord at the end!" Congratulations to my lord! Just now, the Liu Bei brothers sent by the lord to the hinterland of Yuzhou ....... ”

Boss Cao really didn't hold on, and after listening to Cao Hong's words, Boss Cao fainted on the spot! Guo Jia and Xun You, the two big think tanks, also sat on the ground, their faces were three points paler than a dead man! And when the panicked Cao Hong, Dian Wei and others pinched people and rubbed their chests to wake up Boss Cao, Boss Cao's first sentence was to look up to the sky and yell............ "Big eared thief!" You lack virtue————! ”

(To be continued)