The sudden change on the field was obviously unexpected, and Cao Ren was shocked.

In the dark night, he didn't know how many people came from the other party, and he was already frightened by being chased and killed before, so he immediately shouted: "Li Gan, your palace, retreat first!" ”

Shen Chen had already noticed that Zhao Yun had already clenched the short sword at his waist, and immediately shouted, "Uncle Zilong, it's now!" ”

Zhao Yun instantly pulled out the short sword, threw it hard with his left hand, and the short sword shot towards Cao Ren's back like a meteor, the distance between them was not too far, Cao Ren only escaped more than ten zhang, probably more than twenty meters.

Now Cao Ren got on the horse and wanted to escape, but how could the horse speed up so quickly?

The short sword shot fast, running straight towards the back of Cao Ren's neck. It seemed that he sensed the sharp blade behind him, and at the critical moment, Cao Ren actually tilted his head.

"Ahh

The screams rang out, and in the darkness of the night, I didn't know where the short sword had hit, but Cao Ren was still running frantically and continued to escape.

Beside him, Li Gan and others hurriedly organized soldiers to prepare to defend against the enemy.

In fact, when Li Gan rushed over at the beginning, the formation was very scattered, and Li Gan was eager to save Cao Ren, so he only brought more than a dozen cavalry over quickly, which caused the team to be disjointed.

Therefore, although he had a thousand soldiers, the distance between the front and rear was very long, for example, there were less than a hundred people around him, and the rest of the people were like fire dragons behind him.

At this moment, Liu Bei temporarily organized a formation, Liu Bei thought that this was an opportunity to break the enemy, and waved his double-strand sword dao: "Kill!" ”

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were late, their horses were really not good horses, and they couldn't carry them well.

Hearing this, the two of them immediately led the cavalry to kill them.

However, although the two sides fought, in fact, it was Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun who led more than a dozen cavalry followers to fight with the guards of about 100 people led by Li Gan.

Including the Huangmen Pavilion clan, they are all far away.

Because this is in the plains and wilderness, the shouting can be heard far away, and it sounds loud, but it may be a mile or two away, and neither side can reach it immediately in a short time.

Soon Liu Bei and the others fought with Li Gan and others for a while, killing Li Gan and retreating, but Cao Ren had already taken this opportunity to escape to Baizhang.

It must be too late to chase this distance, but Liu Bei and the others still wanted to chase before riding their horses, but Shen Chen's voice sounded behind them: "Xuande Gong, don't chase." ”

Liu Bei stopped his horse, there were many people in front of him, Li Gan's army had already responded, he and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't catch up even if they wanted to, so they shook their heads and said: "It's a pity that he let him run, otherwise it's good to take Cao Ren's head to pay tribute to the soul of Xuzhou." ”

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "It's okay, even if you collect some interest this time." ”

His gaze was on the ground.

Under the moonlight, Zhao Yun's short sword on the ground was stained with blood, and there was an ear cut off by a sharp blade on the side!

"Hahahaha!"

Cao Ren's maniacal laughter came again, echoing in the wilderness from afar: "Liu Bei, if you want to kill me, you are not qualified enough." Shen Chen, let you get away with it this time, next time I will slaughter your entire clan! ”

"Cao Ren, listen to me!"

Shen Chen roared loudly: "I, Shen Chen, and your Cao family, swear not to stand on the other, one day, I will take the heads of Ling and Cao Cao to pay tribute to hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou!" ”

"Go dream."

The sound was getting farther and farther away, and the footsteps and shouts of Li Gan's army were getting closer and closer.

Looking at Cao Ren's back in the distance, Shen Chen's eyes were about to erupt into flames.

"Ugh."

Liu Bei sighed and said, "Let's go." ”

The four of them turned their horses and left in the direction of the Yellow Gate Pavilion.

The mountain fire in the distance continued, and the 200 soldiers brought by Cao Ren had been wiped out, but the villagers in Huangmen Pavilion were also killed and wounded.

The next day, the whole Huangmen Pavilion was in a state of mourning, yesterday counted, there were 37 households in Zhangyang, more than 170 villagers, only more than 40 people survived, and the rest were slaughtered.

There was also the clan Ding Xiangyong, who also killed and wounded more than 100 people in the battle with Cao Ren's army. In this way, more than 1,000 villagers in the entire Huangmen Pavilion died overnight, a quarter less.

Half of them are young village laborers, which is a serious blow to the entire Huangmenting people, and even if they move to the south in the future, they will lack the ability to work.

However, it was not completely without gains, after completely annihilating Cao Ren's soldiers, the weapons and equipment they left behind just made up for the lack of weapons in the clan.

In this way, after a few days of training, the matter of the clan's southward migration will be accelerated a little.

It's just that the clan suddenly had such a change, every family was sad and weeping, some families were almost wiped out, and walked along the Huangmen Pavilion range of about ten miles to several townships, the whole village of Zhangyang gathered extinct, and the rest of the townships were also crying constantly, hanging all over the place.

Deng Hong happened to stay in the old mansion of the Deng family yesterday to discuss some matters related to the sale of some land and property with several eldest brothers, and escaped the catastrophe, and at this moment summoned the elders of the Deng and Shen two clans, as well as Shen Chen and some other participants, to discuss the meeting.

In the old house of the Deng family, everyone's faces are not good-looking, there are several families who have died of relatives, and there are tears on their faces, Deng Zhao was also injured yesterday, wrapped in gauze and sat on the seat.

He looked around, saw everyone's sad faces, and sighed and said: "Fortunately, Shen Chen reminded him that he escaped the previous massacre, and this time Cao Jun's revenge was obviously also because Shen Chen reminded the villagers to flee, if it weren't for Ah Chen, all of us would have died." ”

"Yes, Ah Chen, thanks to you this time, the villagers should not have any objections to the matter of moving south."

Elder Deng Mao set the tone for the meeting.

Deng Zhao's words were to first determine Shen Chen's merits, and Deng Mao wanted to completely settle the matter of clan migration.

Don't look at the fact that they escaped the catastrophe before, but the entire Huangmen Pavilion and even some clan elders of the Deng Shen Er clan still can't make up their minds about the relocation, and they have been procrastinating these days, and it is not because they are reluctant to have property.

As the saying goes, people leave their hometowns and their homeland is difficult to leave, and dozens of people in an ordinary village may be intrigued, not to mention hundreds of households and thousands of people in Huangmen Pavilion, and it is normal for them to have different opinions.

It's just that Deng Mao, Deng Zhao and other Deng Shen clan elders are still sensible, and they know that if they don't find a way to leave the war quagmire of the Central Plains, the whole village and even the whole pavilion will die at that time.

That's why he used the authority of the village elders to forcibly suppress a large number of opposing voices.

But yesterday's events are already telling everyone, it is impossible to simply think that Cao Jun will be safe after leaving, Cao Cao is only leaving for a short time, and one day he will come back, if you don't want to die, you have to go.

Now that the facts are in front of us, even if it is difficult to give up the property and land, a decision must be made. If you don't want to leave, you can stay here and fend for yourself, at least the Deng and Shen clans will definitely relocate.

"Alas, in this troubled world, we have to migrate."

"Originally, I wanted to be lucky, but Cao Thief would not give up, he hated Tao Envoy too much."

"Even if Tao Envoy Jun killed his father, why would he implicate me and other villagers? Now the villagers have suffered heavy casualties, and we are forced to move to our homeland, alas, the Cao thief ......."

The heads of the clans and villagers are all depressed, and they will lose a lot of things if they leave their hometowns and go to a strange land to survive.

Sending people under the fence, relying on people to breathe, lingering on their breath, dignity ...... But no matter what, even living in humiliation is better than losing your life.

Seeing everyone's grief, Deng Mao groaned: "Don't worry too much, Nanyang is the ancestral land of my Deng family, although most of the ethnic groups have moved away, but there are still a small number of remaining. ”

When the Deng family moved to their homeland, it was the third year of Emperor Yanguang of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 124 AD, which was exactly 70 years ago. Deng Mao, 57, has not experienced clan migration, but his parents and grandparents did.

After the death of Empress Dowager Deng, the eunuch Jiang Jing and Emperor An of the Han Dynasty, Wang Sheng, the nurse of Emperor An of the Han Dynasty, and Fan Feng, the servant of Zhongchang, framed Deng Hong, the Marquis of Xiping, deposed him as a commoner, and framed the Deng clan, which led to the decline of the Deng clan.

At that time, there were two main branches of the Deng clan, one was the Luoyang Deng clan, who was an official in the capital and had a large number of clans. The other is the hometown Xinye Deng clan, guarding the ancestral land.

After Deng Hong was abolished and the Deng clan was framed, the two clans chose to migrate on a large scale, and now the Xiangben Deng clan is a branch from the Xinye Deng clan, at that time there were more than 100 people who migrated the clan, and after decades of development, the Dingkou doubled.

A big family like them has a family tree.

Deng Mao felt that now that Nanyang was occupied by Liu Biao, after returning to Xinye, he would take out the genealogy to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and he might be able to divide the land and start again.

However, Deng Mao is actually just to comfort everyone, although it is true that they are indeed from the Xinye Deng family, but after all, they have left their hometown and are not in their homeland, and it is still unknown whether people will recognize them.

What's more, in this troubled era, there is already a shortage of materials, and the arrival of these people will crowd out the survival resources of the locals, and if they don't return to their hometowns, they will not accept them.

But the others didn't think about it so much, and when they heard Deng Mao's words, they thought that they would survive after going to Jingzhou, and they were all smiling, and the atmosphere was much better.

Everyone began to discuss how to return to the village to persuade the villagers to leave, and at the same time, there was also the matter of centralized sales and sorting of the village's land and property.

Everyone over there was still discussing this matter, but Shen Chen sat on the side without saying a word, silently thinking about something.

He was thinking about something.

Although Cao Ren is hateful, fortunately he didn't hurt his life yesterday.

Because Liu Bei, who is currently in Xuzhou, is not worthy of assistance, his temperament, the city government, and the way of thinking about problems are still too simple, and he has not grown to a certain point.

So he needs to be given time to improve.

According to the historical process, Liu Bei would be attacked by Lü Bu and Yuan Shu in Xuzhou, and finally had to flee Xuzhou and go to Xudu.

Many people thought that he was attached to Cao Cao when he went to Xu, but in fact, Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was already in Xudu at that time, and it was actually Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty who went to Xudu to defect, not Cao Mengde.

At that time, Liu Xie still had a certain amount of real power, because after Liu Xie arrived in Xudu, many famous families and celebrities from all walks of life went to Xudu to defect, and the power of the royalists was very large, and even the palace guards of the Xudu Palace were controlled by Liu Xie.

In the second year of Jian'an, because Cao Cao killed Zhao Yan without authorization, Liu Xie was furious, Cao Cao's face changed dramatically with fright, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and then saw the tiger army standing with knives on the left and right, sweating, and did not dare to return to the court.

This situation continued until Cao Cao broke Yuan's art, conquered Lü Bu in the east, eliminated the princes of Henan, and finally eliminated Yuan Shao's main force in the Battle of Guandu, and his own prestige and power reached its peak.

It was during this period that Liu Xie's power weakened significantly.

The palace guards were also gradually controlled by Cao Cao's men, and many royalists were either eliminated by Cao Cao or defected to Cao Cao.

So the matter of the edict happened.

It was at that time that Liu Bei realized that Cao Cao had completely controlled the Son of Heaven, and in the name of the edict of Yidai, he fled from Xu Du before and after the Battle of Guandu, went to Yuan Shao, and finally left Runan to attach himself to Liu Biao.

It can be said that the experience in Yingchuan Xudu in the past few years has given Liu Bei a lot of growth, and it has also allowed him to sharpen himself in officialdom and eunuchs.

And if Cao Ren is killed at this time, then Liu Bei's group and Cao Cao's group will have a mortal enemy.

Although Liu Xie had a certain amount of real power in the early days, most of the military power was still in the hands of Cao Cao, and he only had the command of the palace guards and the support of the royalists.

After Liu Bei's army was defeated by Lü Bu and Yuan Shu, he went to Xu Capital to attach himself to Liu Xie, even if Liu Xie protected him and used Cao Cao to control the military power, it was very likely that he would forcibly get rid of Liu Bei like he killed Zhao Yan.

So not killing Cao Ren yesterday is a good thing in the future.

Because the two sides did not have a mortal enmity, Liu Bei went to Liu Xie, and Cao Cao had no good reason to kill Liu Bei.

Moreover, Liu Xie was able to hand over the edict to Liu Bei, which means that Liu Bei went to Xu Capital at that time and quickly gained Liu Xie's trust, if there was no reason to kill Liu Bei, Cao Cao was likely to be counterattacked by Liu Xie.

So one thing is certain.

That is, Liu Bei defected to Liu Xie between 196 and 200 AD, as long as Cao Ren did not die, Cao Cao would most likely not kill him, and history would go according to the original process.

So not killing Cao Ren now is regrettable in the short term, but in the long run, it's a good thing.

It's just that........

It's just that......

It's just that the hatred in my heart can't be eliminated!

Shen Chen clenched his fists, his muscles jumping, and the anger in his eyes still burst out like flames.

No matter what, the blood debt of hundreds of relatives gathered in Jinyang will not dissipate.

The life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in Xuzhou, Shen Chen did not experience it personally, and he did not feel much.

But the fathers and elders in my hometown, who were still alive the day before yesterday, have become ghosts who died in vain today.

How could this blood debt calm Shen Chen's mood?

His eyes were red, and he couldn't settle his resentment.

The hatred of exterminating the clan is as deep as the sea.

At this moment.

Shen Chen silently swore in his heart.

As long as he Shen Chen is still there, and there are still people in the Deng Shen clan, the hatred between Cao Ren and their Huangmen Pavilion will never end here.

One day, I, Shen Chen, will dismantle you Cao Ren into eight pieces. Avenging the people of Xuzhou who died, avenging the people of Huangmenting who died, and the blood debt of hundreds of relatives gathered in Zhangyang, you will definitely be repaid by the Cao family!

This hatred is not shared!