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In the summer of the fourth year of Chuping (193), Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, went to Yanzhou from Langya, accompanied by hundreds of servants and more than 100 cars. In order to pay respect, Xuzhou Mu Taoqian sent his commander Zhang Min to escort 200 horsemen. When he arrived at Taishan County, Taishan Taishou Ying Shao, who was asked by Cao Cao, personally led hundreds of soldiers to escort him.

At this time, less than 100 miles away from Langya, there was another county Taishou and a lieutenant who led hundreds of steps to escort him, and the security of this level was safe to the top no matter how you looked at it. But in response to the sentence "day and night, it is difficult to prevent thieves", no matter how strict the security is, it can't stop the thieves.

When this glittering wealth team had just traveled a hundred miles and entered a temple on the outskirts of Fei County, Taishan County, Zhang Min, who had been blinded by the golden light of wealth, had a secret discussion with his two military marquis, and led 200 cavalry to launch a surprise attack on a rainy night. First defeated the hundreds of foot soldiers of Ying Shao's department, and after removing the threat, Cao Song was killed cleanly. Then the gold and silver that were easy to carry were swept away, and the temple was set on fire, destroying the corpses and escaping.

Ying Shao, who was immortal in the catastrophe, was so frightened that the official didn't dare to do it, and he repaired a letter that night to explain the reason, which made people rush to Chen Liu, and his own family also abandoned the official and fled.

The hatred of killing one's father and taking one's wife has been a hatred since ancient times. However, it also depends on whose father is killed and whose wife is taken. If it is a horseman, he can only use his head to fight the ground, and if he is a prince, he will lie in wait for thousands of miles. And Cao Cao, who was the pastor of Yanzhou at the time, was the prince of one side, carrying the prestige of Qingzhou, destroying the Yellow Turban, and breaking the Yuan Shu. The princes of the Quartet are all afraid of three points.

Retaliation, that's for sure. It stands to reason that there is a wrongdoer and a debtor, since Zhang Min is the culprit, it would be good to hunt down and kill the culprit. But Cao Cao decided that this matter was inseparable from Tao Qian, Zhang Min hid in the gutter like a mouse, and it was difficult to search and kill for a while to vent his anger, so he would find you, the boss behind the scenes, to settle the account!

A month after the incident, it was the turn of the summer and autumn of the fourth year of Chuping. Cao Cao exhausted the troops of Yanzhou, plus the three battalions of soldiers and horses sent by his ally Yuan Shao led by Zhu Ling, the cavalry captain, a total of 30,000 cavalry, to crusade against Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, and the battle of Xuzhou officially broke out.

Most of Cao's troops are "Qingzhou Army", which is the Qing and Xu Yellow Turbans that were driven out of Xuzhou by Tao Qian in the past, but they are veritable "homecoming regiments". All of a sudden, report a new revenge. Remembering old hatreds is overwhelming. Cao Cao's army successively conquered more than ten cities, and Cao Jiang conquered Guangwei (east of Pei County) in the ban, along Surabaya to Pengcheng. Forward Cao Ren does not attack Tao Qian's general Lu You. The first battle was broken, and then he joined forces with Cao Cao.

Tao Qian led the army to Pengcheng to face the battle, and there was a big battle in Pengcheng, facing the Cao army whose eyes were about to bleed. Tao Qian's army was defeated, fled from Pengcheng, and retired to the East China Sea Tancheng to defend it. Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to attack Pengcheng. Fu Yang. Chujing, Luo, Sanfu because of the rebellion of Dong Zhuo and Li Dao, the people moved eastward, attached to Tao Qian, mostly in Pengcheng, this time when Cao Jun went, they were all killed. At the time, people said that "the chickens and dogs are also exhausted, there are no pedestrians in the ruins, and there are tens of thousands of dead, and Surabaya does not flow." ”

Subsequently, Cao Cao, who held high the bloodstained butcher's knife, attacked Feixian, Jimo, and Kaiyang in the northeast, and Tao Qian sent farewell to the rescue of the counties besieged by Cao's army in Tancheng, and sent an envoy to tell him to be anxious to assassinate Shi Tiankai in Qingzhou. The reinforcements that rescued the counties were broken by Cao Ren's cavalry, and Kaiyang was spared by the cavalry commander Zangba and Sun Guan who defended the city.

In November, Cao Cao's army marched directly towards Tancheng. After besieging the city for more than a month, because the city was strong, Cao's army was tired from fighting for a long time, and it could not be attacked for a while. At this time, Qingzhou Thorn Shi Tian Kai and Liu Bei led troops to rescue Xuzhou, Tao Qian saw that Liu Bei had few soldiers, and Liu Bei benefited Liu Bei with 4,000 Danyang soldiers, so that he was stationed in Xiangben, which was not far from Yan County.

At that time, Tao Qian guarded Yan County, Liu Bei was stationed in Xiangben, and Tian Kai was stationed in Lanling (100 miles away from Xiangben), and the three troops were lined up, forming a frontal block and flank threat pressure on Cao's army. It was a cold winter, and a cold snap struck, freezing the hot East China Sea battlefield in an instant.

The two armies were frozen as if they were frozen, and in this murderous confrontation, the four years of Chuping finally ended, and the new year, the first year of Xingping, came.

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On the eve of this brewing and fermenting storm, no force noticed that in Guangling County, Xuzhou, the Huaishui estuary of Yuntiguan in Huaipu County, quietly sailed into two building ships and three sill boats.

Ma Han, here it is!

Ma Han's journey can be described as wearing stars and moons, thousands of miles away. At the beginning of November, he went to sea from the west coast of Liaodong Bay, went south along the coastline, bypassed Donglai and entered the East China Sea, sailing for 2,000 miles day and night. With the help of the north wind, the speed was very fast, and it only took a little more than two months to reach the mouth of the Huaishui Sea. This is the best place to enter the Xu circled by Ma Han.

The attachés and equipment of the horse warrior are all excellent, the two fierce generals on the left and right, Zhao Yun and Zhou Cang, two hundred white wolf fierce horses, including fifty heavy horses, fifty light horses, one hundred bow horses, and eagle slaves are also indispensable. In addition, there are more than 200 shipwrights dug from Liaodong Yushi, including more than 100 soldiers, nearly 100 soldiers, and more than 100 shipwrights and miscellaneous servants. The families of these people have been settled in Liaoxi, and they follow their new lord south without fetters.

The two ships that Ma Han rode on were different from the sills that were purely used for transportation, and they were real warships.

The reason why it is called a building ship is because the ship can raise high-rise buildings, and it is a multi-high-rise building, so it has this name. The building ship was the main type of warship in the Han Dynasty, which had appeared in the Qin Dynasty, and by the Han Dynasty, its scale and shape were far superior to those in the Qin Dynasty.

For example, the two building ships on which Ma Han rode had sails at the bow and stern, and a three-story building was built on the deck, which was more than three feet high. The broadside of the lowest deck is equipped with a half-height female wall to protect against enemy arrows, and it is usually equipped with melee pawns, who hold swords and engage the enemy in short-range combat. Within the female wall on the deck, a one-story building is set up, called the Lu, and there is also a female wall on the perimeter of the Lu, which can provide cover for the spear soldiers on the Lu. There is a second layer of building above the house, called the Fei Lu, and there is a shooting port on the female wall, and the crossbowmen are hidden in the Fei Lu. The highest floor is the finch room, which is equivalent to the wheelhouse and command room of a modern ship.

And that's not all, there are cabins below deck for the pawns to paddle. A pawn is a soldier who rocks a slung oar, and generally does not participate in combat. The pawns in the cabin are well protected from enemy attacks. According to the boatmen and soldiers, the outer layers of these women's walls should also be covered with leather to withstand enemy swords, guns, arrows and fire. It's just that due to lack of maintenance, the leather has long been dismantled or sold or decayed.

After Ma Han visited the ship, his mood can only be described as breathtaking.

For the soldiers who defected, Ma Han didn't know what their combat power level was, anyway, they should be equipped with weapons, so they should be given self-defense, and it is estimated that there will be no water war on this trip.

In addition to the crew of more than 500 people, there were still 200 horses, 1,000 stones, grain and grass, various weapons, armor and stirrups. Loaded to the brim. However, in the past two months, thousands of stones of grain and grass, people have eaten and eaten horses, and they have almost eaten up. Fortunately, there was a supplement on the way, when he arrived in Donglai, he made a detour to Jiaozhou Bay and bought 500 stone of grain from Kong Rong, and when he arrived at Guangling, there were less than 300 stones left on the ship.

Guangling is one of the wealthier counties in Xuzhou. At this time, the war did not reach Guangling, and Ma Han planned to replenish supplies here and then march to the East China Sea.

After entering the river, it took a day and a half of driving. Ma Han and his entourage arrived in Guangling County to govern Huaiyin. Standing in the bird room and looking at the city outline three miles away, I saw that there were grass huts all around, and sewage flowed sideways, although it was difficult to see a few figures. But from the smell of cooking smoke in the air, it can be inferred that these straw huts must be full of people.

Ma called out to a guide—he brought three guides with him this time. All of them were exiled to Qingzhou as yellow turban thieves, and finally brought to Xuzhou in western Liaoning. These people are all from Xuzhou, there are businessmen, coachmen, and merchants, all of whom are local people who are very familiar with the geography of Xuzhou, and they are of great help to Ma Han's trip.

This guide's name is Yu Xin, a businessman, who has been to Huaiyin many times, and when he saw the situation in front of him, his eyes widened in surprise: "This, what's going on?" When did Huaiyin become like this? ”

Ma Han asked, "Wasn't that the case before?" ”

"Of course not." Yu Xin had an incredulous expression on his face, and stretched out his fingers to gesture, "In the past, outside the outline of this city, willow forests were planted all over the city, and flowers and trees were sparse, which was a good place for outings, how could it be like this...... Could it be that it is caused by sword soldiers? ”

Ma Han nodded slowly: "It seems to be good, half of Xuzhou has been ignited by war, in order to escape from the catastrophe of this sword and soldier connection, the other half of Xuzhou, which has not yet been robbed, will also have to bear the incidental 'gift' of the war." ”

Zhao Yun was ordered to stay behind, and Ma Han led Zhou Cang, Yu Xin, Eagle Slave and four heavy horsemen among the white wolf warriors into the city.

Ma Han and his party of eight people, except for Yu Xin and Eagle Slave, are all strong men, and they are naturally subject to the key investigation by the city gate guards. Ma Han had expected this kind of treatment, and everyone had no weapons on them except gold and silver. Anyway, the ship is not far away, and once there is a change, the eagle flapps its wings and can respond to the rescue within seconds. At least in the Central Plains, there is no army with the communication and reaction capabilities that can compare with this white wolf cavalry that has undergone intensive training and continuous actual combat.

After stuffing hundreds of dollars to the guards at the city gate, Ma Han and the others were able to enter the city along the way.

What you see inside the city is still shocking. The city is littered with beggars, ragged pedestrians, women and children who sell their bodies with signs, ruffians and hooligans swaggering through the city, harassing refugees, and the city patrols are powerless to maintain order. When Ma Han and his entourage entered the city, they were immediately targeted by those beggars and ruffians, but seeing that they were all big-shouldered and round-waisted, and their expressions were fierce, people did not dare to approach, which saved them a lot of trouble.

Yu Xin first took Ma Han to a grain store, the door of the shop was closed, and a notice of food run out was posted on the door. Yu Xin asked Ma Han to wait, knocked on the side door with a familiar way, said something to the door of the corresponding door, and then flashed in. After a short time, Yu Xin came out and whispered to Ma Han: "Zhao Taishou in this city prohibits the sale of grain in large quantities, and this grain merchant is only willing to sell us 300 stones. ”

Ma Han groaned for a while and said, "Three hundred stones is less, it's really not good, let's see if we can add it after we get to Xiapi." ”

Yu Xin thought for a while and said, "Please wait a while, I'll go and inquire elsewhere." ”

So Ma Han and his entourage came to a restaurant with a second floor, and waited for news from Yu Xin while eating.

Halfway through the meal, Ma Han suddenly stopped moving, looked down from the window, and on the side of the alley downstairs, there were two sneaky men, followed by a girl in plain clothes. From the perspective of Ma Han, only the back of the girl is seen. The hair comb represents the unmarried double-ring bun, wearing a plain skirt, although it is a cloth skirt, but when worn on the girl, it is difficult to hide the curvy and enchanting demeanor. Well, in the afterlife, this is a natural "clothes rack".

The girl carries a bamboo basket on her arm, a pair of Hao wrists are extremely white, which can be called a frost and snow, and there is a jasper bracelet on her right wrist, which is green and snowy, which is extremely pleasing to the eye. The girl walked in style, and she didn't know that there was a "tail line" behind her. After walking about 100 steps, the girl pushed open the door of a small courtyard by the alley, flashed in, and the door was immediately closed.

The two tailmen winked at each other and turned away.

This occasional scene puzzled Ma Han, what kind of drama is this? Is it a certain son-in-law who is interested in ordering his subordinates to step on the plate, so that they can come to the door to collect it in the future? Or is it a ruffian hooligan who occasionally sees a beautiful woman, and his tail line is stalking, intending to choose an opportunity to rob the sex? Unknown.

Although it was not a good thing in either case, Ma Han could not do anything, and he did not have the time to do it. He is not a chivalrous man, he will always have endless gold and silver, and the price of the whole day is only chivalrous and righteous. He couldn't have left behind a shipwright of people and a battlefield ahead that could change upheavally at any moment, and to take care of a woman he hadn't even met.

At this time, I saw Yu Xin hurriedly ascending the stairs, with a very strange expression, both happy and worried.

Ma Han didn't ask questions, but only beckoned him to sit down and eat.

Yu Xin thanked him, scratched his head, and said, "The little one meets a person, and the other party is willing to provide eight hundred stones of grain and grass......

"Wait." Zhou Cang couldn't help but interrupt, "You mean to provide?" Don't want money? ”

"Yes, no money, but on one condition."

Ma Han drank the remaining wine in the cup, looked immovable, and said lightly: "What conditions?" ”

Yu Xin smiled bitterly: "They asked for a boat." (To be continued......)