On the sixth day of the eighth month, Lao Cao led 18,000 troops and drove out of Luoyang.

Emperor Zhao Huan of the Song Dynasty personally sent it to the city gate, shed tears, held his sleeve and said: "Brother is going, be careful, my hope is all on my brother." ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Your Majesty is relieved, Wu Mou will go here, and he will definitely do his best to get rid of the traitors, revive the Song Dynasty, and return to the old capital-I will not disappoint Your Majesty." ”

looked at Zhao Gou and Zhang Bangchang again: "The Nine Emperors, Prime Minister Zhang, Ben Shuai is here, Xijing is safe, it's all up to the two of you." ”

When I first saw Cao Cao on the bank of the Yellow River, Zhao Gou saw Cao Cao's arrogance, and made a bird to accuse him, and successively ate a few big-eared patches from Jiao Ting, and did not dare to show up from beginning to end.

Cao Cao didn't care about the old things with this young man, praised a few words, left 5,000 soldiers and horses for people to defend the city, and Zhao Huan asked the new prime minister Zhang Bangchang to come forward to assist.

Zhang Bangchang was a Chinese scholar before, because of his persuasion, Bianliang's record of defending the imperial city, and Geng Geng's loyalty to flee back to Luoyang from Zhenjiang Mansion, he won the trust of Zhao Huan and was promoted to the head of civil officials.

Both of them knew that Lao Cao was now powerful and honestly responded, Cao Cao gave a few words of encouragement and led the army to set off.

In addition to Hu Sanniang, Shi Qian, Shi Wengong, Gongsun Sheng, and Dai Zong, he also added Liu Yanqing, Wang Wende, Zhang Jun, Ling Zhen, and Zhang Bangchang, two brothers, Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong, who came in through the back door.

It turned out that Zhang Bangchang fled to Zhenjiang Mansion, was demoted to the city gate, and fled to Xijing angrily.

As for the face of Xijing, Zhang Bangchang did not hesitate, took the credit of Zhang Shuye, and kept saying that he had fought hard in the imperial city for many days, and he had made his own decisions to lead the troops, which made Zhao Huan overjoyed, thinking that he was a great talent in both civil and military affairs.

Zhang Bangchang's cowhide was blown down, for fear that the two would be leaked, and he was looking for a place to send him away, just when Cao Cao returned, he wanted to send troops to fight, and hurriedly found the door, claiming that the two Zhang were loyal and good, and Zhang Zhiyong was about to be recommended to Lao Cao for use in life and death.

As for Luo E, he is confident that he can take it for his own use, so he naturally will not recommend it.

In the past, Lao Cao had also heard of Uncle Zhang's name, and knew that this person was a cadre in the world, so he had a good impression of the two Zhang Gongzi first, and he was too lazy to brush the prime minister's face, so he immediately summoned him to see him, huh! The two brothers were born tall and strong, wrinkling their eyebrows and glaring, and they were as mighty as thunder gods. How does it look like a son of a Wenchen family? Clearly martial arts generals!

The elder brother Zhang Bofen made two red copper melon hammers, and the younger brother Zhang Zhongxiong made a thick-backed and thin-bladed Yanling knife——

This knife Lao Cao looked familiar and thought about it once, but it was similar to the weapon made by the big fat man Zeng Shen in the original Zeng's Five Tigers, although it was a single knife, it was long and big, and it weighed forty or fifty catties.

In fact, Zhang Shuye himself, is not a pure scholarly family, he has been good at talking about the art of war since he was a child, at a young age, he joined the army with his father's shadow as a Lanzhou record, Yuqiang has meritorious service, and has been promoted one after another, and his official fortune is quite prosperous, and he was given the background of Jinshi, if it were not for his younger brother who offended Cai Jing and was angry, I am afraid that he would have entered the center long ago.

As for the two brothers of the Zhang family, they did not inherit their father's literary talent and art of war, and they were full of martial arts, but they were blue.

Cao Cao talked a few words with the two of him, and saw that the two brothers were both naïve and straightforward, and they liked it more and more, so he asked the two of them to follow him and temporarily serve as deputy generals.

Unexpectedly, when the two brothers heard about it, they suddenly had a seizure, and the elder brother shouted, "Huh? You generalissimo, you are just short, how can your vision be narrow? Can't you see that my brother is a good pioneer? As a mere adjutant general, aren't you burying talents? ”

The younger brother even pointed to the other generals: "Look at these generals, the old ones, the short ones, the white ones, the thin ones, and the women, the Taoist priests, you don't need me two to be the vanguard, but who are you going to use?" ”

Cao Cao looked at his hand, hey, sure enough, Liu Yanqing and Wang Wende are quite old, Shi Qian is short, Ling Zhenbai, Dai Zongshan is thin, Gongsun Sheng is wearing a Taoist robe, and Hu Sanniang is a girl.

He is the real prime minister, how can he be angry with two simple men? Haha smiled, pointed at Zhang Jun and Shi Wengong and said: "Brother Zhang Jun, the fierce general of the Western Army, the head of the Shi Sect is famous in the rivers and lakes, can't I use them?" ”

The two brothers grinned, pointed at Zhang Jun and said, "You ask him, do you dare to compete with us for the vanguard?" ”

Zhang Jun's face turned red and turned his head.

Lao Cao saw it and knew in his heart that after they came to Xijing, they were afraid that they had competed with Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun thought that he was invincible.

turned his head to look at Shi Wengong, Shi Wengong smiled, took the snow horse, turned over the horse, held the ghost crying gun, and said with a smile: "To be the pioneer in front of my brother's account, win me Shi Wengong first." ”

Zhang Bofen was overjoyed: "Okay, I'll fight with you!" ”

Zhang Zhongxiong pulled his eldest brother: "No! I'll fight him! ”

The two refused to give in to each other and tore each other, Shi Wengong became impatient: "Duh! How can you be rude in front of the manager's tent? Don't be verbose, come together! ”

The brothers of the Zhang family couldn't help but stare at each other, and said, "Brother, what did he say?" Did I hear me wrong? One said: "Brother, I don't know if you heard it wrong, I seem to have heard it wrong anyway." ”

Then they looked at Shi Wengong together: "That's it, you talk slowly and again." ”

Shi Wengong said lightly: "Don't talk nonsense, you two can go together." ”

The Zhang brothers were immediately furious: "This guy dares to underestimate the two of us? ”

Angry, they each got on their mounts, roared, two hammers and a knife, and killed Shi Wengong together.

Shi Wengong watched the two of him shoot, his skills were strict, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, the gun "┗|'O′|┛ roar roar~~" A strange roar swept out of the sky early.

The brothers of the Zhang family were all surprised, and shouted in unison: "Ah! Brother/brother, he screamed with this gun. ”

Don't look at what he is talking about, but his subordinates are not slow, the hammer is like a cloud, the knife is like the wind, and Lao Cao's expression is tight: No wonder Zhang Jun doesn't dare to speak, these two men are stupid, but their martial arts are really powerful!

Shi Wengong is also knowledgeable, and he doesn't dare to slack off at all, a gun is fired, the sound of the ghost roar is breathtaking, and the two brothers are not even a little sharp, shouting and screaming on the one hand, and the knife and hammer are added together, and the two clang, and the fight is extremely fierce.

Hu Sanniang and the others applauded when they saw it, they originally saw that these two people were too naïve, and they also underestimated him, but now they know that they do have real talents and real learning.

But seeing the three horses flying like a marquee, immediately fighting you and me, fighting forty or fifty times, Cao Cao was afraid of a mistake, and couldn't help shouting: "That's it, and stop it!" ”

When Shi Wengong heard this, he made a move to "swim the dragon out to sea", swing the opponent's blade, and jump out of the battle group.

The two brothers shouted in unison: "It's not enjoyable yet, how can I stop?" ”

Hu Sanniang said with a smile: "They are all their own brothers, and they are not enemies, do you have to separate life and death to enjoy it?" Dismount and speak. ”

The two brothers reluctantly dismounted, looked at Lao Cao, and said, "Marshal, you are really powerful." The other shook his head: "But his horses are also good, and his weapons are strange, otherwise he may not be able to resist my brother's hand." ”

Cao Cao smiled: "The weapons of the two of you, aren't they from famous artists?" Needless to say, your brother's martial arts are really pioneering. This commander will join you with a thousand soldiers and horses to open the way for the army to be the vanguard. ”

The two brothers were overjoyed, they both smiled so much that they couldn't see their eyes, and one said: "Brother, this marshal, but he knows heroes." The other said, "Yes, brother, but you and I have to serve him well." ”

Shi Wengong also shook his head and smiled: "It is surprising that these two brothers have such temperaments and can practice martial arts to such a state. ”

So Lao Cao sent troops, and sure enough, he let his brother lead the army first, and he led the Chinese army to follow.

After crossing Luoshui, one day's hard work, arrived in Yongan County, and saw that the city was beaten with the banner of "Liu".

It turned out that after the main force of the Jin soldiers went, the remaining men and horses were divided into two groups, one was the "Mountain Rear Army" led by Yelu Yanxi, and the other was the "Loyal and Righteous Army" led by Liu Yu.

Liu Yu's nephew Liu Yi, led 5,000 troops to settle here, saw that the vanguard led by Erzhang was only a thousand people, deceived him with few soldiers, and relied on his martial arts to be superior, and opened the city gate to kill.

Pointing and shouting: "I was about to lead the army to fight Luoyang, but you Song dogs, but first came to invade my border, my uncle is the king of Bianliang who was personally sealed by the Dajin Kingdom, you wait for acquaintances, surrender early, otherwise if I go out, you will die without a full corpse." ”

Zhang Bofen coughed and was about to answer, but Zhang Zhongxiong rode his horse and rushed out.

Liu Yi sneered: "Piff, I'll kill you Liwei first!" ”

At the moment, he hit the horse and went out of the battle, dancing with a big knife in his hand, and cut it on the head, Zhang Zhongxiong waved the knife and stabbed it away, Liu Yi only felt a shock from the tiger's mouth, and secretly shouted: What a big force!

He raised the knife with both hands and slashed, and the opponent knocked the knife hard with one hand, obviously far greater than his own strength, and jumped away at the moment, using a set of fine knife techniques, to come to a clever clumsiness.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Ergongzi's knife was really taught by a master, and while his right hand was dancing wildly, his left hand held down the back of the knife from time to time, and the five-foot heavy knife of more than 40 catties made it full of tricks, just like a single knife of four or five catties.

The two of them fought up and down to Shihe, Liu Yi's arms were sore, and he threw a solution and rode his horse away.

Zhang Ergongzi rode a horse and chased closely, the two horses held the horsetail, and directly loaded into the formation of the loyal army, Zhang Ergongzi waved his knife to cut left and right, and suddenly disrupted the formation, and the eldest son Zhang Bo was overjoyed to see it, and he was busy waving the army to kill the general.

Liu Yi had to turn around and fight again, but Zhang Zhongxiong ignored him, one person and one knife, and went straight through the formation and crashed into the city gate.

Liu Yi was shocked, gritted his teeth and shouted: "They are only a thousand people, and they will kill them together." ”

He knew at this moment that Zhang Zhongxiong was brave, and he intended to defeat the Song army brigade first, and then slowly deal with this lone general.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Bofen waved a pair of hammers and rushed forward, and the two hammers seemed to roll up a storm on the ground, and the soldiers and horses in front of him suddenly flew flesh and blood.

Liu Yi was shocked and said: "How can the official family have so many fierce generals? ”

While speaking, Zhang Bofen had already killed in front of him, Liu Yi had to grit his teeth to fight, Bofen raised his left hammer, swung away the opponent's long knife, rushed on the horse, and picked up the right hammer, poof! Liu Yi's head was already beaten into a piece of crumbled tofu.

When Lao Cao arrived, he saw that the city gate was wide open, and more than 4,000 people knelt in front of the gate, but as soon as Liu Yi died, all the sergeants under his command surrendered.

(End of chapter)