Cao Cao slept in the tent, his heart was always worried about Niu Gao, and he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he simply put on his clothes, carried a short axe, and patrolled the village at night.

In front of the village, I suddenly saw a fire in the direction of Changzhou, and I knew that there must be a change, so I hurriedly woke up a group of brothers, and ordered: "Changzhou is on fire, it must be Niu Gao's gang that has done something, Brother Ma Ling, you make the magic law go to visit first, Han Wu, Bian Xiang, Shan Shiqi, Tang Bin four brothers, you and others led the cavalry to follow up, and the rest of the brothers followed as brothers, and led the whole army to kill later!" ”

As soon as the military order was given, everyone obeyed it, Ma Ling took out the Hot Wheels first, carried the Divine Method, and flew away.

He can travel thousands of miles a day, just ten miles away, but he can reach it with a stick of incense.

When he got to the bottom of the city, he saw the city gate open from a distance, and Niu Gao and an unknown general got off their horses, waved their swords, and guarded the city gate hole.

Inside and outside the doorway, hundreds of thieves were led by several small army leaders, and they repeatedly attacked like a tide, killing Niu Gao and the two screamed, and they were about to be driven out of the city, and the situation was very critical.

Ma Ling shouted: "Brother Niu Gao is panicking, Ma Ling is here!" ”

What a god horse, he urged the hot wheels, and the two flames rolled up close to the ground, and with a "buzz" sound, they fit into the crowd.

But seeing that the demon eyes on his forehead opened, his light was blazing, as far as his sight went, the arrows avoided themselves, a gold brick was sacrificed, flying around his body, and the thieves were smashed over, and the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand was slashed horizontally and obliquely, killing all directions, and killing straight out of the door hole, as if entering a no-man's land.

Jin Jie was stunned, and exclaimed: "Unexpectedly, among the officers and soldiers, there is such a master!" ”

Niu Gao was also shocked, but his face was not obvious, and he took the opportunity to boast: "Among our army, the fierce generals are like clouds, like my brothers, and the car is full of buckets." ”

Ma Ling knew that he loved to talk nonsense, and he was not angry, so he laughed and said: "Little Niu'er, if your martial arts can be as powerful as your mouth, why do you need me to come to the rescue?" ”

He teased in his mouth, and his hands did not stop, those thieves who came to rob the door were the elite of the thieves, but they were killed by him alone, and there were more than 100 corpses on the ground, and half of Tai's head was broken, all of which were killed by gold bricks.

The rest of them were so frightened that they shouted "the demon is coming, the demon is coming", and fled for their lives.

If you talk about Ma Ling's ability, he is the best at conflict and chaos.

Because he has the demon eye method, the arrows are difficult to hurt, and he has Hot Wheels, which tends to retreat like electricity, and a Fang Tian halberd in his hand is also quite good, and the gold brick method is even more difficult to prevent! If there is no first-class brave general to attack it, or if the Taoist master breaks his technique, he is almost invulnerable, and he can really be called the "king of mowing grass".

At this time, Han Shizhong's four generals led five or six hundred cavalry to kill, and when they saw that the city gate had been taken, they did not wait for the rear army to arrive, and each led more than 100 people and went into the city separately.

The poor thieves in the city were all awakened from their dreams, one by one dizzy, and before they could form a formation, they were rushed by his horse army, and they were suddenly defeated, crying for their fathers and mothers, and scrambled to flee for their lives.

Some of the spirits woke up and opened the other gates and fled, while most of the rest jumped around like ants in a hot pot, and finally died or fell.

When Cao Cao arrived, Changzhou had already fallen into the hands of the Song army, and the brothers reported their own merits, and Niu Gao was also full of color, and led the Golden Festival to meet.

Cao Cao was very happy when he saw that Niu Gao was really fine, and laughed and said, "Brother Niu is really a lucky general!" Win Changzhou today, you should count your first merit! ”

After that, he looked at Jin Jie: "Who is this brother?" ”

Niu Gao hurriedly stepped forward and introduced the origin of Jin Jie, and explained in detail how Jin Jie saved him, how the two of them designed to kill Qian Zhenpeng, and how to rush to defend the door, and then introduced all the brothers to Jin Jie.

Jin Jie bowed his head: "Sin General Jin Jie, meet the generals!" ”

Cao Cao hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab him, and laughed: "How can we accept the general's gift? If it weren't for the general's righteous rescue today, my Niu Gao brothers would have been poisoned. You saved my brother's life, and after the general, I should wait for the general! ”

Jin Jie saw that Lao Cao was extremely courteous to his family, and he was grateful and frightened, and said again and again: "Don't dare, don't dare, the Jin family eats Song Cheng, how can you really be a thief?" These days are longing for the eyes to wear, just waiting for the army to go south, so as to set things right, in order to atone for the sin. ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "The general's loyalty and righteousness are really admirable. We are the vanguard soldiers and horses, and we will not stay here for a long time, but only rest for a day tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow we will set off to fight Wuxi and Suzhou. Here in Changzhou, it happens to be guarded by General Jin's army, and the general's merits will be reported to him, and when the army arrives behind, Tong Shumi will be rewarded. ”

Jin Jie was actually a little puzzled - everyone had their names in the process, and it stands to reason that this vanguard army should have been led by Wu Song, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Gaotang Prefecture, Lu Junyi, the defense envoy of Laizhou, and Du Yan, the training envoy of Qingzhou, but these three people stood aside honestly and completely obeyed the deputy general Li Dunzi to call the shots.

Especially after the deputy general talked to him, people found a pen and paper, the pen walked the dragon and snake, and wrote a document to report the victory, and the big one ordered the three main generals to use their own names and seals, and made people send Pegasus to Runzhou, and couldn't help but be more and more shocked-

He is also a deputy general, and he has never heard of a deputy general in the world who can be so decent, thinking that this Li Dunzi can really be described as the light of a deputy general.

However, Jin Jie is the most knowledgeable about current affairs, since it is the deputy general of this dun who is in charge, he only treats him as the commander, and respectfully said: "Thank you General Li for your protection, but the last general still has one thing, and I want the general to be in charge, that is, this General Niu Gao and the last general's wife and sister are engaged to a marriage contract, I don't know if I can take advantage of tomorrow to repair it and let the two of them get married?" ”

Cao Cao listened to Daqi and couldn't help but look at Niu Gao, but when he saw that his face was twisted and his fat body was twisted like a quail, he asked Jin Jie the reason.

Jin Jie told the story of the three people in the family dreaming of the black tiger, and Cao Cao was surprised and amazed when he heard it: "Such a good relationship naturally needs to be fulfilled." ”

So the next day, Cao Cao personally officiated for him to marry, the palace was decorated with lights, used as a new house, and selected a few people who could speak well to be good ministers among the brothers, prepared a few boxes of good gifts, and married Qin Yulian through the door, worshiped heaven and earth, and sent them back to the cave house, achieving two good things.

Because it was a great day, the 5,000 soldiers under his command also shared a pot of wine and a pound of meat with him, and the meat was cooked in large pieces, wrapped in red paper, and distributed to the hands of the army, and immediately thundered with joy.

Another day, the army marched out.

Cao Cao took pity on Niu Gao's newlywed Yan'er, and he was supposed to stay here to help Jin Jie defend the city, but Niu Gao refused to die, and Jin Jie also came to persuade him, so he had to obey his wishes and set off from the army.

After walking for most of the day, I arrived at the boundary of Wuxi County, and the front of the Malay newspaper was explored, and the road was a group of soldiers and horses from the east, waving the blue and white two-color flags, and coming with a drum.

Wu Yong said with a smile: "Needless to say, it must be Qian Zhenpeng who asked for help before, and the reinforcements sent by Fang Xiang's guy, seeing that they didn't even send a horse to explore, they must not know that Changzhou has been lost." ”

Lao Cao also had a general opinion, nodded and said: "What the pedant said is not bad, hehe, God does not take it, but suffers from it, brothers, today is just a big killing, don't let him return." ”

As he spoke, he took a look at the surrounding terrain, pointed and smiled: "I'm waiting for this, this, this." ”

At that moment, Lao Cao personally took Liu Tang, Li Kui, Lu Fang, and Guo Sheng, four generals, led 1,000 troops, stopped in the local area, and the remaining 4,000 soldiers and horses, all made a detour, ready to act according to the plan.

But it was said that the group of thieves was indeed sent by Fang Xiang to go to Changzhou for reinforcements, and the main general was Wei Zhong, the commander of the six armies of the thief soldiers, and he led more than ten generals and more than 10,000 soldiers.

This group of thieves was very aggressive, and it was not until they arrived in front of them that they saw Cao Cao and others blocking the way.

The thief general Wei Zhong was a steady person, and he was suddenly shocked: "Ah? How did the officers and soldiers get here? Mo is very lost? If this is the case, it is useless for me to wait, so I will quickly return to Wuxi County to defend it, report to the three kings, and see how he arranges it later. ”

He is not seeking merit, first seeking no fault, it is reasonable to say that it is the most safe, but a tooth general under his command, he has always boasted of being a wise general, seeing such a situation, he couldn't help but make a grand statement, and pulled Wei Zhong and said: "The command is slow, this matter is definitely fraudulent!" ”

Wei Zhongqi said: "How can it be a fraud? ”

The tooth general smiled, pointed at Song Jun and said, "Doesn't the commander see his soldiers and horses, only a thousand soldiers?" If you really go down to Changzhou, and the officials and soldiers come in a big way, how can there be only a thousand people here? ”

Wei Zhong's eyes lit up, thoughtful: "You mean-"

The tooth general said proudly: "It must be his officers and soldiers who surrounded Changzhou, attacked but did not overcome, afraid that our army would send troops to help, so he deliberately divided this small group of men and horses, bluffed on the road, I waited for one not to check, thinking that Changzhou had been placed under him, he counted and sold, and it took a lot of time." ”

Wei Zhong showed a sudden look, the more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt, he immediately slapped his thigh, and said angrily: "Dog officer, dare to lie to me?" Sons, follow me to kill the officers and soldiers! ”

These more than 10,000 people shouted in unison, and they didn't make any formations, so they coaxed and killed the main general, and the fight was a clever idea, deliberately relying on the strength of the crowd to swallow this group of officers and soldiers in one bite.

Cao Cao saw that the thieves were coming with a tsunami, smiled faintly, and ordered the arrows to be released.

It turned out that the 1,000 soldiers left by Cao Cao were all archers, and in an instant, the bows and crossbows were fired together, and the thieves were knocked down early.

This kind of fighting is not enough to win against the Shang Liao army, the Jin army, and even the elite Song army, but although these thieves are numerous, their armor is scarce.

When Fang La first started his army, he only marked his rank with the color of his turban, and there was no armor, bow and arrow in the army, and it was not until he swept the Song army in several states that he captured a lot of ordnance.

However, there were not many garrisons in the south, and the ordnance was also very old, so to this day, less than thirty percent of the people in the army wear armor, and most of them are leather armor, paper armor, cloth armor, as for a few iron armor, only generals can wear it.

Therefore, the bow and crossbow were fired, the damage was great, Cao Cao ordered a thousand people to be divided into three rows before and after, and the arrows were endless, and thousands of thieves rushed to half, and more than 1,000 people had been shot over, and the rest were horrified, and the pace was slow, and they all wanted to let others rush in front, but people were of the same heart, and they actually stopped halfway.

Cao Cao laughed when he saw it, drew his knife and shouted: "The army listens to the order, shoots in three steps, and rolls forward!" ”

These thousand archers are all trained in Qingzhou, hearing the words of Qi Qi forward, to three steps, the first row shoots an arrow, then stops to bend the bow and set up an arrow, the last two rows go straight over, go to three steps, the second row shoots another arrow, the third row crosses the second row, three steps, and then put an arrow, this is the first row to catch up, over the third row forward...... In this way, shooting and advancing, where can the thieves stop? Step by step, some of the thieves panicked, staggered, and became more and more confused.

Wei Zhong was shocked, he never expected that these officers and soldiers were so elite, and when they wanted to make their own shooters fight back, those shooters were scattered, either front or back, where were they organized for a while? I had to keep retreating, and the more I retreated, the more chaotic it became.

Wei Zhong was helpless, summoned a few henchmen, and seven or eight horses galloped out, wanting to use their martial arts to disrupt the opponent's array, and then wave the army to cover up.

Cao Cao had already taken precautions, and with a move, Liu Tang, Li Kui, Lu Fang, and Guo Sheng all shouted, and the two horses and two steps went straight up.

Liu Tang and Li Kui are both masters of foot combat, a simple knife, two big axes, cut their people up, cut their horses down, and kill several of the other party's tooth generals in front of each other, Lu Fang and Guo Sheng fought against Wei Zhong, Liu Tang and Li Kui glanced at each other, dragged away the big stride, and rushed straight into the thief array, and immediately killed two bloody alleys.

Seeing this situation, Wei Zhong knew that there was no hope of victory, and when he was in a hurry to leave, Lu Fang and Guo Sheng exerted their strength at the same time, and the two Fang Tian painted halberds to suppress Wei Zhong's five strands of dragging the sky fork to death.

Cao Cao saw it in his eyes and couldn't help but be very pleased.

Lu Fang Guo Sheng followed him very early, and at first everything was accompanied by the two of them, but as Cao Cao's career became bigger and bigger, the enemies he provoked became more and more powerful, and at the same time, the powerful brothers around him were also increasing day by day.

Fortunately, the two of them are also self-aware, so they just calm down and grit their teeth to polish their martial arts. Cao Cao also remembered the old feelings, and did not pay any duties, so that he could focus on practicing martial arts, and now after a few years of hard work, he really entered the realm very much, if he went to Liangshan at this time, although he could not be comparable to those gods, it was enough to compete with some generals.

This Wei Zhong is under the command of Fang La, and his martial arts are really extraordinary, but the two generals Lu and Guo alone, one alone is enough to equalize, at this moment, two fight one, he two cooperate and tacit understanding, Wei Zhong blocked more than ten times, and was resisted by Lu Fang's halberd against the fork, Guo Sheng shouted, and a halberd pierced Wei Zhong's throat.

Seeing that the main general was killed, the thieves all turned around and wanted to flee, but they couldn't run dozens of paces in a hurry, hundreds of cavalry swept in, and two or three thousand foot soldiers scattered behind to cover up.

The thieves saw the uproar, Han Shizhong and others shouted in unison, those who surrendered were exempt from death, some thieves wanted to escape, the cavalry was in groups of three or five, and they were killed fiercely when they caught up, and after killing two or three hundred people in a row, no one dared to run, and they knelt on the ground to ask for surrender.

Wu used a plan to surrender his troops, about 7,000 people, all of whom untied their belts and escorted them to Wuxi County.

At the same time, Du Yan and Bian Xiang led a thousand men, all dressed in thief uniforms, and rushed to the city of Wuxi in a chaotic manner, shouting: "Open the door and open the door, let me wait to enter the city!" ”

A captain's head poked out of the city: "Who are you?" ”

Bian Xiang roared like thunder: "It's all your own robe, turning over and over and interrogating a fart!" We are the three kings sent to aid Changzhou, but still on the road, Changzhou has fallen, I don't know this, on the road by the officers and soldiers ambush, more than 10,000 people and horses only ran out of a few of us, now the enemy ranks and tails chasing, and not quickly let the grandfathers in, everyone must work together to hold this city! ”

When the captain who guarded the gate heard this, he changed his mind for a while, and he really opened the city gate, Bian Xiang laughed strangely, Pegasus rushed in, and with an axe in his hand, he killed the captain first.

Du Yan rushed in with all the troops, let go of the killing, the defenders of Wuxi County were only hundreds, and the ice and snow melted suddenly, and the city was restored.

There are teachings: elm pods and catkins are all over the sky, and Yang Run is often the first to harvest. Bo Xing's spring breeze blows green water, and he complains of sorrow for several years.

(End of chapter)