When Lao Cao was in Fusang, he broadened his horizons a lot, and he knew the theory of "martial arts" in China, and he was deeply believed by the samurai of other countries.

In the eyes of the Fuso samurai, life and death on the battlefield are all about personal martial luck, such as when defeating an opponent respected by one's own family, they often sigh: It's a pity that their martial luck is not good.

In Lao Cao's view, Wang De and Yao Pingzhong, their martial arts are so high, and the official army has a big advantage, and they can still be captured in such a situation, which can probably be called a model of poor martial arts.

But the two Li Ling Zhi were dizzy, and they didn't take the escape road, and they were bound to make meritorious service to save their respect, so that they were captured for the second time, Wang De was violently beaten by Lu Zhishen, and he was beaten to his knees directly, Yao Pingzhong dragged the gun in the black whirlwind, and cried in shame-

The so-called failure to save dignity is also humiliated.

Lao Cao originally wanted to persuade him to surrender, but seeing these two so sad, he pondered the other party's state of mind, swallowed the words of persuasion back, and waited for him to calm down before taking care of it, so he sent Liu Tang to personally guard these two people, so as not to escape, and not to let Yao Pingzhong find a chance to break it off by himself.

The remaining more than 1,000 captives were undressed and unarmoured, and twenty people were tied up in a string, each of them was guarded separately, and then disposed of after retiring Tong Guan.

Quickly stopped, took everyone back, first placed a group of seriously injured people as before, entrusted An Daoquan to be treated well, and then went to the main cave, and asked the queen of Yongle Dynasty, Mrs. Shao, to come forward and preside over the current situation.

After hearing this, Mrs. Shao shed two tears, shook her head again and again, and said: "The current situation is like this, what else do you say about the emperor and queen?" No jokes. Besides, people are panicking at the moment, how can an uninformed woman's family calm the scene? I only accompany Jin Zhi and her father, and the rest of the things are up to the virtuous nephew. ”

Although Lao Cao kept calling Mount Tai and calling his mother-in-law, after all, he didn't really worship Fang Jinzhi, did Mrs. Shao call him son-in-law? Therefore, for the time being, he is called a virtuous nephew.

When Cao Cao heard this, he also shook his head and said: "Mother-in-law's words are wrong, after all, I am an outsider, how can I do it on my behalf?" I still have to ask my mother-in-law to come forward, so that it can be justified. ”

Mrs. Shao said sadly: "My son is determined, my body has suffered an accident, my husband Fang La, life and death are unknown, the old body has long been in turmoil, and these affairs have never been asked, if you do it in a hurry, I am afraid that it will affect everyone." ”

Choked for a moment, the lady looked at Deng Yuanjue, Shi Bao and the others: "Everyone, you are all brothers that my husband can trust, and now you have a plan, and you are going to decide——"

said and pointed at Lao Cao: "Now that the situation is declining, if you are not a great talent, how can you turn the tide?" Therefore, the old body means to let Wu Zhi take care of the current affairs! One of his reputations, no less than my husband, is naturally extraordinary; Second, he brought many heroes thousands of miles to help, and his righteousness was really not shallow; Three ...... After all, he and Jin Zhi had an early affection, Jin Zhi thought that he would not marry, and the old body was just this one daughter, wouldn't he fulfill her wish? Therefore, it is not inappropriate to regard him as the son-in-law of our family, and the son-in-law should take care of the affairs of his father-in-law, which is also within his part, just depending on what your brother wants. ”

Fang La's subordinates, if they talk about knowledge, they will first push the left and right light envoys, the left and right prime ministers, and now the two envoys are not in front of them, and the left prime minister Lou Minzhong has been killed by Tong Guan, and only one ancestor is far away, so Deng Yuanjue and others listened to Mrs. Shao's words, and subconsciously looked at him.

Zu Shiyuan was a bamboo in his chest, and immediately said: "Tong Guan waved more than 100,000 troops to fight, Zu went to Wulongling for help, and he was worried that Brother Wu was afraid of him, but when Brother Wu heard about it, he didn't hesitate to come together." Brothers, if it weren't for the martial brothers fighting to the death, there would be no living people in the cave now! If it is said that Brother Wu is in charge of the overall situation, Zu is the first to agree. ”

As soon as he said this, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi and other heroes all smiled.

Deng Yuanjue and a few people listened to this, and they also relaxed, and Shi Bao said: "Outside Hangzhou, if it weren't for Brother Wu's action, Shi would have become a dry bone, he would call the shots, and Shi would be convinced." ”

Deng Yuanjue, Zheng Biao, and Li Tianyan said in unison: "That's right. ”

Pang Wanchun let out a long sigh and said in a low voice: "Junior Brother Rong said something after the fact, if you talk about the ability to fight, you are the Seven Buddhas, and you are not as good as the martial brother. None of them nodded.

Cao Cao saw that he spoke heartily one by one, and nodded secretly: I plan to sell it.

His face was full of sadness and joy, and he hugged him and said: "That's it, since my mother-in-law can see it and my brothers can trust it, Wu has no choice but to take charge of the situation for the time being, and when the Holy Father's injuries heal, he will return the authority as before." ”

After saying that, he saluted again, and when he straightened his waist, his face was already full of solemnity: "There is a way that once the power is in hand, the order will be carried out, since everyone pushes Wu to preside, then my order is coming, everyone should obey it, Shi Dalang and Shi Bao listen to the order!" ”

As far as Lao Cao is concerned, commanding thousands of troops and horses is only ordinary, and at this moment, he has a little bit of his former demeanor, and everyone is in the same place, looking at his momentum, he only feels that it should be a matter of course to obey the orders of this person.

Shi Jin and Shi Bao straightened their waists, and clasped their fists together: "Little brother is here!" ”

Cao Cao made a straight face and said solemnly: "I have ordered the two of you to be military judges, whether it is the Liangshan brothers or the heroes of the Ming Sect, if there is any disrespect for military orders, disobedience to yang and yin, and failure to advance in battle, etc., you two will be dealt with by military law." ”

Shi and Shi glanced at each other and nodded heavily: "Little brother obeys the order!" ”

Shi Bao said, raised his chin and looked at everyone with his nostrils, which means: Shi is staring at you, let me be careful one by one!

In that way, Deng Yuanjue, Zheng Biao and others rolled their eyes.

Cao Cao said again: "Ma Ling, Xiahou Cheng listen to the order!" ”

The two hurriedly stood up straight: "The little brother is here!" ”

Cao Cao said: "Brother Xiahou is familiar with the mountain road, and took Ma Ling to detour from the path, avoiding Tong Guan's army, Ma Ling brother went to meet Fang Qifo, informed all the affairs in the cave, and let Sanruan Sijie temporarily listen to his orders, if Tong Guan came to fight, so and so, so and so...... Then I brought a message to Miss Jin Zhi, telling her that her parents were all right, and that she should not worry about it, and that she would be reunited in a few days. ”

The two of them immediately took the order and left.

Cao Cao also called Li Kui, Yang Chun, Chen Da, Tang Fengshi, Bei Yingkui, Wei Heng six generals, two people in a team, each leading 800 troops, carefully search the cave, looking for Wang Gong Lao Buddha, Chen hoop bucket, Zhu Tong three whereabouts, if you meet the officers and soldiers who are left behind, all of them are taken down and imprisoned, and then those killed corpses, inventory and burial.

As for the defense of the cave entrance, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Qin Ming, and Suo Chao are responsible for it.

The next day, Li Kuiliu was busy all night, and hurriedly came to report that Wang Gong Lao Buddha, Chen Hoop Bucket, and Zhu Tong were all missing, and all the corpses had been identified, and the three were not among them.

Lao Cao couldn't help but wonder, thinking that according to Shi Bao and others, although this Wang Gong Lao Buddha and Chen Hoop Bucket are old, they are rare masters in the rivers and lakes, these two people are familiar with the roads in the cave, and when they saw that things were not good, they fled alone, and most of the officers and soldiers couldn't stop him, but why didn't Zhu Tong have any trace?

and asked Lu Zhishen about the situation of being killed and dispersed at that time, Lu Zhishen and the others couldn't say why, they were all anxious, and went to the cave to search again, Shi Bao and others couldn't help but secretly admire when they saw that their brothers were so affectionate.

Another day, tens of thousands of corpses in the cave, a small part of them were buried, most of them were burned, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were rectified, totaling more than 14,000 people, of which 5,000 were brought by Lao Cao from Wulongling, and the rest were killed by Tong Guan.

However, they can survive in these wars, although they have Lao Cao's timely rescue efforts, their own abilities are also extraordinary, and they are the real elite of the Mingjiao people, although most of them are injured now, but over time, reorganized, they will immediately be a powerful elite army.

One day later, Ma Ling reported, Tong Guan really sent troops to fight Lao Cao's army, Fang Qifo had already been instructed by Lao Cao, not to fight, and directly led Sanruan to retreat into Lianjiang, discuss where to hide, and Ma Ling was responsible for conveying information back and forth.

There was also a message from Fang Jinzhi Toma Ling, saying that it was to let Lao Cao comfort her mother a lot, and Lao Cao could only smile bitterly when he heard it-

Fang La is now like a living dead and does not move, Mrs. Shao is dressed in plain clothes and washes her face with tears, looking like a beautiful and undead person, before guarding her husband, her own will in this regard is not very strong, and she is far away from it, where do you have the heart to comfort her?

Especially after experiencing the tragic past of losing three generals in one shot, with the wisdom of Lao Cao, how can he repeat the mistakes of the past? Shook his head at the moment and said: "This Nizi is not sensible, if his father comforts me, there is no trouble that a bottle of wine cannot be solved among men, and he is a woman, should I also carry a pot of wine?" That's it, Tong Guan retired from the army, and it was only for these days or two, so let's wait for her to comfort the old lady herself. ”

Ma Lingqi said: "How did my brother say that Tong Guan was going to retire?" Could it be that my brother has a strategy to break the enemy? ”

When Lu Zhishen and the others heard this, they also surrounded them, looking at Lao Cao hopefully.

Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "How can there be such a good thing, we are away from Wulongling, Yang Keshi, Wang Yuan two soldiers and horses, naturally to rush to meet with Tong Guan, now the other and my troops, I am afraid that the difference is more than ten times, you need to know the way to use the army, but it is just a miracle victory, now the morale of the officers and soldiers is high, I have more than 10,000 people here, most of them are remnants of the defeated generals, it is not easy to hold this hole, how to break the enemy in a hurry." ”

Ma Ling was puzzled: "In this case, why is my brother sure that he will withdraw from the army?" ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Have you forgotten where my Erlang went when you left Xuanzhou?" ”

Ma Ling exclaimed: "I see! ”

Lu Zhishen and the others didn't know why, and were about to ask, when suddenly Zheng Biao ran over in a hurry, and said in a loud voice: "Brother Wu, I taught a group of men and horses to come in from outside the valley, but they were surrounded by Tong Guantuan, if you don't save him, I'm afraid that the whole army will be wiped out." ”

"Shezhou soldiers and horses are here!" Lao Cao frowned and looked at Ma Ling: "I asked the Seven Buddhas to lead the sailors to retreat, one is to avoid Tong Guan's edge, and the other is to let him just face the Shezhou soldiers and horses, could it be that they have never walked from the waterway?" ”

As mentioned above, between the two states, the mountains are like a screen, and the most convenient way to walk is to enter the Xin'an River from the Lianjiang River.

After Lao Cao came to Bangyuan Cave, he listened to Lu Zhishen and others tell about Fang La's arrangements before, and knew that he had transferred Shezhou soldiers and horses to help, and it was expected that he would have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he would take the waterway, so he arranged for Fang Qifo to respond.

Cao Cao's original intention was that the overall situation had been decided, and the two sides would fight again, and it would be useless to kill and injure more, just wait for Tong Guan to withdraw from the army, and he would show his skills and subdue them.

Shi Bao smacked his lips and said: "Wang Yin, this guy has always been a little conceited, and he likes to make some tricks, in my opinion, he is afraid that everyone can expect to take the waterway, so he has to surprise and come over the mountain with soldiers and horses." ”

Zheng Biao nodded again and again: "What you said is right, Wang Yin is exactly like that." ”

Cao Cao couldn't help but smile bitterly, over the mountains and mountains, the consumption of soldiers' physical strength is much greater than that of waterways, and the number and combat power are far inferior to the Western Army.

Everyone also saw that this army was about to be bad, and looked at Cao Cao one by one to see how he responded.

Cao Cao thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I can't care about it much, do you want to see him killed?" The defeated soldiers in the cave could not be used for the time being, so I let Shi Bao, Monk Deng, and Ma Ling lead the guard, and the others who were not injured all fought with me to save them from the siege. ”

Shi Bao and the others all admired: "My brother is really righteous. ”

Lao Cao smiled bitterly, not to mention whether he was righteous or not, if more than 20,000 people in Shezhou were killed by Tong Guan, the morale of Bangyuandong would inevitably plummet.

There is no need to say more about these words, immediately lit up the five thousand people he brought, personally brought the generals, opened the door of the cave, and sure enough, he saw that seven or eight miles away, countless officers and soldiers surrounded a group of southern soldiers and killed, Cao Cao immediately ordered: "Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Li Kui, Yang Chun, Chen Da, Xiahou Cheng, lead the infantry to respond, and the rest of the brothers, and I lead the cavalry to kill!" ”

His cavalry was only more than 1,000 people, Qin Ming, Suo Chao, Shi Jin, and Cao Cao were the four leaders, and Fan Rui, Zheng Biao, Tang Fengshi, Bei Yingkui, and Wei Heng were in the center, and they killed the past in one go.

According to Tong Guan's idea, most of the soldiers in the Gangyuan Cave did not dare to leave without permission, but in order to be proper, 5,000 people were arranged to line up along the road to prevent him from killing.

Lao Tong didn't expect that Cao Cao was a small soldier, but the generals were outnumbered, the horse army rushed over, the generals were all majestic, and they were filled into the formation in an instant, and the leader here was Yang Kesheng, the brother of Yang Keshi, who was in a hurry to command, Qin Ming collided head-on, waved his mace and smashed, Yang Kesheng was not worthy of him, and immediately fought with a gun, and the two fought five or six together, and Lao Cao rushed into the stabbing -

Because he wanted to rush into the big array, he didn't use the dragon knife, so he specially found an iron lance to go into battle, and he was stabbing at the moment, how could Yang Kesheng be the two of them? Swing the big gun to hook the blade, seize the road and go, and the headquarters will be crushed immediately.

Qin Ming was still waiting to chase, and Lao Cao shouted: "Don't fall in love with war, it's important to save people!" ”

Charge first, lead everyone straight into the encirclement, but see that in the southern army, the leader of a general, riding a good horse that kicks and jumps, dancing a mysterious steel gun, alone, the two fierce generals of the Western Army, Ma Gongzhi and Ji Jing, seem to not fall behind.

Lao Cao glanced at it twice, and couldn't help but praise: "What a tiger general!" ”

Wei Heng followed up from behind and pointed: "Brother Wu, the one who makes the gun is Wang Yin, the right envoy of light, the official worships Shangshu, and he is a figure who is both civil and military!" ”

Lao Cao nodded and said: "It turns out that this person is Wang Yin, I have heard his name for a long time, and it is true!" ”

Immediately urged the horse to step forward, and shouted: "The right envoy of the king, I will help you!" ”

Wang Yin turned his head and looked at each other, both stunned.

Wang Yin thought: Hey, this guy brought a colorful mask to battle, but what does it mean? Isn't it ugly?

What Cao Cao thought was: Hey, between this Wang Yin's eyebrows, why is he so like my teacher? Isn't that weird?

There is a division of teaching: the authority is in my hands for a while, and the banner is the hero. Seeing the right envoy of light, Wang Yin's face was shocked.

(End of chapter)