Chapter 068: Fishing in Troubled Waters
"Give me death."
Xu Ding picked up the big knife and flashed cold, and directly beheaded an official of Cao Jun.
In this Cao army of nearly two hundred people, only four or five chief officers were equipped with war horses, which were on par with the two or three horses in Xu Village, but with the entry of nine cavalry from Long Xiang, the battle situation underwent subtle changes.
The war horse not only has the ability to hit, but also has a condescending advantage, Cao Jun originally relied on being well-equipped to gain the upper hand, and at this time the balance of victory quietly fell to Xu Village.
When Cao Jun Quhou found out about the abnormality, he shouted loudly to everyone under his command.
"Privately raising war horses and fighting against officers and soldiers, can this kind of village remain? Kill all these thieves, and let your belongings take for yourself. ”
Cao Junquhou's words were like chicken blood, and Cao Bing, who was originally besieged, immediately ran away.
The only thing left in everyone's eyes is killing and greed, after all, after the slaughter of the village, women and possessions can take their own money.
Follow Cao Cao, don't you want this benefit?
"You are very angry, but I want to see how many catties and taels you have."
Xu Ding held a big knife in his hand and pointed at General Cao outside the crowd to invite battle.
Long Xiang and Xu Ding were at a comparable distance, and said that he had the experience of Qu Hou against Qu Hou, and had the experience of single-handing Zhang Fei and Xiahou Dun, so he should be able to easily win this opponent, so he shouted to Xu Ding:
"Bo'an, give him to the younger brother."
"When I'm what? Still a little brother? Get out of the way. ”
Cao Jiang drank back from the Cao soldiers around him, and took Xu Ding directly with a gun and a horse.
Soldier to soldier to general, he thinks that his opponent should be Xu Ding.
Although Long Xiang also rode a horse, he had been exposed to wind and rain since breaking through, and he looked much more embarrassed than Xu Ding, so even if he was armoured, he was an ordinary cavalry in the eyes of outsiders.
Long Xiang just glanced at it, and he could see that Xu Ding's martial arts were good, and it was estimated that he had the level of Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui, so it was not a problem to deal with a Qu Hou.
Stabbed down a Cao soldier, when Long Xiang looked up and looked again, he saw Xu Ding smile disdainfully, the other party had completed the kill in a moment, and it was really a fierce man with good strength.
Cao Jun Quhou was beheaded, and the morale of the remaining soldiers was greatly damaged, and they began to slowly flee outside the village.
At this time, Tang Yu rushed to the battlefield with his foot soldiers.
Long Xiang knew that if Cao Bing escaped, Xu Village would be destroyed in the future, so he raised his spear and pointed forward, and coldly drank four words:
"None of them will be left."
The regular army joined the battlefield, and the demoralized Cao soldiers no longer had the heart to fight, and in an instant it turned into a unilateral massacre.
After a while, the earth-shattering killing sound stopped.
There were hundreds of corpses at the south entrance of the village, and in addition to the less than 200 Cao soldiers, hundreds of villagers were also killed in the battle.
After deploying the task of cleaning up the battlefield, Long Xiang slowly walked to Xu Ding's side, and apologized with a little self-reproach: "Bo'an, I am the one who has caused you to be burdened..."
"It's none of your business, this is Cao Bing's deliberate fault."
Xu Ding shook his head solemnly, and then added: "If it weren't for my second brother who took Xiangyong to Yuxian County a few days ago, would these pickled people dare to provoke my Xujia Village?" ”
Long Xiang secretly thought that you are too big, if Liu Bei says this, I believe it, after all, what is the existence of Guan Erye? Your second brother probably doesn't have that kind of suppressive power.
"Ahem... Although there is no living mouth, Cao Jun wants to find out, why don't you take the villagers to Huainan to avoid trouble? Long Xiang changed the subject.
"There are thousands of people in my Xu Village, and no one will stay away from their homeland unless they have to, since there is no living mouth, clean up the traces well..."
Before Xu Ding's words were finished, Tang Yu, who was not far away, suddenly beckoned and shouted:
"Yunqi, we found a living mouth..."
"Why don't you go to the first trial?"
Long Xiang and Xu Ding glanced at each other.
Xu Dingtou agreed: "It's okay." ”
The so-called cleaning up the battlefield is to prevent someone from pretending to be dead, Tang Yu took the Cao soldier in his hand, and the other party's eyes were full of panic.
Long Xiang lowered his head and asked coldly:
"Whose part are you waiting for? How dare you massacre civilians in Qian County? ”
The Cao soldiers panicked, looking at Long Xiang, Xu Ding and the others around their heads, and did not answer the question immediately.
Long Xiang saw that the other party was curled up like a quail, so he gave Tang Yu a look.
Tang Yu realized instantly, he clasped his hand around the other party's neck, and then threatened in a deep voice.
"If you don't want your flesh to suffer, you'd better answer the questions truthfully, otherwise..."
"I..."
That Cao Bing looked left and right, with hesitation in his flickering eyes.
"If I can explain honestly, maybe I can save your life, I will do what I say..."
Long Xiang threw out a hope to the other party, and next to Cao Xing and Tang Yu, their eyes widened incredulously, and their hearts said Are you serious?
Probably because of the desire to survive, the injured Cao Bing finally gave up his persistence and explained the ins and outs like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
It turned out that this team was born in Qingzhou, and it was the Tuntian soldiers transferred by the protector Han Hao in Xudu, and the leader of Quhou was Yuan Hao, who was beheaded by Xu Ding.
Xiahoudun was seriously injured by Cao Xing, and Cao Cao was furious.
Ordered all units to search for the enemy on a large scale around the place where the crime occurred, and avenge Xiahoudun.
Cao soldiers from all walks of life took the opportunity to slaughter villages and loot property during the search, and basically did not encounter decent resistance.
After understanding the relevant information, Long Xiang's eyes motioned for Tang Yu to release him.
Cao Bing, who was pretending to be dead, limped around with incredible joy in his eyes.
It's a pity that his smile and life came to an abrupt end the moment he turned around.
Xu Ding calmly made up a knife from the back, and the knife was the ring head knife given by Long Xiang, and then explained as if talking to himself:
"Yunqi promised to let you go, and I didn't intend to spare your life, if you let you continue to slaughter the people, it would be my sin..."
Long Xiang gave Xu Ding a thumbs up and echoed: "These Cao soldiers are the remnants of the Yellow Turban, they belong to the old evils that are difficult to get rid of, and Cao Cao's slaughter of Xuzhou may be their heads." ”
"Hmph, what kind of lord is there above, what kind of soldiers are below, I heard that Cao Cao has a famous saying, 'I'd rather bear people than others', he is not much better than Yuan Shu..."
Cao Xuan finished the inventory at this time, and trotted to report the battle situation.
Cao Jun killed 175 people, Xu Village people were 63 wounded and 84 were killed, and Long Xiang broke three foot soldiers.
"Hey... What a victory..."
Long Xiang sighed, then turned around and asked Xu Ding: "Bo'an, one hundred and seventy-five Cao soldiers disappeared in plain air, can you Xu Village really not be affected?" It would be better to consider carefully what I have just suggested. ”
"To Huainan?"
Xu Dingzhi shook his head, he looked at the rows of Cao Bing's corpses, and said in a deep voice: "Burn these corpses, along with weapons and armor, who can find out?" ”
"Weapons and armor are buried? It's a pity..."
Tang Yu looked regretful, and the implication was that the villagers in Xu Village were not well equipped, so why didn't they keep it for themselves.
Xu Ding frowned and explained: "Although these weapons and armor are good, they leave too much trouble, and there are benefits to burying them." ”
Tang Yu nodded and muttered, "If you really want to leave no traces, unless you take things elsewhere..."
After listening to Tang Yu's words, Long Xiang suddenly thought of a good way to fish in troubled waters.
"Uncle Yu, take off Cao Bing's clothes and armor, and let our people change and wear them."
"Huh?" Tang Yu was surprised.
Long Xiang walked to Xu Ding's side and looked at Tang Yu and smiled mysteriously.
"Bo'an, do you think Uncle Yu doesn't look like Quhou Yuan Hao?"