The cellar is exceptionally dark at night.

The torches swayed, and under the leadership of Lu Youjiao, the three beggars walked to the deepest part of the wine cellar, and Lu Youjiao extinguished the torches.

At this moment, the faint moonlight peeked through the gap overhead and fell to the ground like hoarfrost sprinkled on the ground.

Gradually, there was an oil lamp in the hoarfrost, which hung on a wine jar in the deepest part, and under the hazy shadow of the lamp, Guan Lin's shadow floated on the wall, like a giant.

Of course, at this moment, he is not Guan Lin, he is the most mysterious figure in Jiangling City today - "Hong Qigong"!

Because he had his back to the oil lamp and a hat on his head, the three beggars could only see the shadow cast from his back, which was too big and too vague, so that they could not see clearly the mysterious face of the old man "Hong Qigong".

"Seven Princes, everyone has been brought."

The voice of Lu Youjiao came out.

"Knock knock..."

Guan Lin tapped the wine jar twice with his hand, like some kind of pre-agreed code.

Lu Youjiao immediately ordered the three beggars, "You guys are standing here!" Hong Qigong asked you anything, and you answered? ”

"Yes..."

"Yes..."

The three of them hurriedly answered.

But after that, there was a long silence.

Hong Qigong didn't ask, and naturally they couldn't answer!

"Tick... Tick", as if the dew of wine condensed dripping from the beams overhead.

It is worthy of a wine cellar, and the wine is fragrant.

At this moment, "cough cough" Guan Lin cleared his voice and deliberately said in an old and hoarse voice.

"What's it called? Where are the people? ”

Finally heard Hong Qigong's question, and the three of them answered in turn.

The tallest arched his hand and said: "The small one is called Shi Jing, a native of Pengcheng, Xuzhou." ”

The one who is medium in height and has an obvious birthmark on his face also arched his hand and said: "The little one is called You Yong, a native of Yecheng!" ”

The one who was the lowest, slightly obese, finally gave up: "My surname is Zhang, and my single name is a 'Fang', Yanzhou Chen Liuren..."

Obviously, the third Zhang Fang, people are very particular... I think it's a declining family.

Guan Lin couldn't help but pay more attention to him.

Of course, the reason why the three of them were able to attract here was that Lu Youjiao and a few elders had carefully investigated.

They have all been beggars for more than three years, and their identities are pure.

All of them meet the conditions of "having done business", "stirring spirits", and "having a deep hatred with Cao Cao" put forward by "Hong Qigong".

You must know that although there are more than 2,000 people in the beggar gang, there are not many people who meet all these three items, and these three are considered "rare".

"Ahem..."

Guan Lin coughed lightly and continued to ask in an old voice, "I heard Elder Lu say that you have all done business?" And have a grudge against the Cao thief in the north? Is there such a thing? ”

blurted out these words, as if he had opened the conversation box of these three people at once.

"I'll say first..."The call Shi Jing opened his mouth first: "It was still the fourth year of Chuping, Cao Cao went to attack Xuzhou in order to avenge his father, and my father and mother died under the knife of this Cao thief!" ”

Not...

Hearing this, Guan Lin recalled.

It was indeed the fourth year of the first peace, Cao Cao avenged his father, conscripted Tao Qian, attacked more than ten cities, and went to the battle of Pengcheng, Tao Qian was defeated.

In order to vent his hatred, Cao Cao carried out a terrible massacre in Pengcheng.

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records that hundreds of thousands of men and women are killed, and there are no chickens and dogs, and Surabaya does not flow.

Guan Lin subconsciously thought of the words of "Shi Jing" to Cao Cao's name of "the world's first butcher's knife"!

However, what this Shi Jing tells is somewhat different from what is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

"At that time, Cao Thief brought the newly recruited Qingzhou soldiers to attack Xuzhou, and these Qingzhou soldiers... Only... It's a group of robbers, they were yellow turban thieves before, and they are all evil... At that time, with the protection of Cao Thief, he was even more unscrupulous. ”

The more Shi Jing said, the more angry he became, "These Qingzhou soldiers actually don't have a good record, they can't beat Tao Qian's Danyang soldiers, they lose one after another, but they are new to Cao Cao, they want to make meritorious contributions, and they want to eat food, so they began to go to the village to kill our people, cut off the head and pretend to be Danyang soldiers to receive merit!" Take the food of our house and feed it. ”

"At the beginning, dozens of Qingzhou soldiers did this, and later, other Qingzhou soldiers saw that these 'bitches' were eating meat and making meritorious contributions, and more and more Qingzhou soldiers began to do this... Tens of thousands of Qingzhou soldiers suddenly became tens of thousands of robbers! ”

"In the end, this matter stabbed the ears of the Cao thief, who not only punished these Qingzhou soldiers, but also... also asked them to slaughter Peng Cheng directly, nominally to vent their anger, but in fact... The thief just wants to bury the crime of slaughtering the people and taking the merit for them! ”

This...

Hearing this, Guan Lin only felt shocked.

In the past, what I read from ancient books and documents was often Cao Cao's anger at his father's death, so he slaughtered Xuzhou.

But who would have thought that the truth would be so shocking.

The discipline of the Qingzhou soldiers was sloppy, and Cao Cao at that time... needs to rely on the combat power of this group of Qingzhou soldiers, so they let it go, and even cover it up for them.

From this matter alone, the Qingzhou soldiers are "evil", but Cao Cao's "evil" is especially above them.

"Did these Qingzhou soldiers kill your parents?" Guan Lin's hoarse voice groaned again.

"Yes..."Shi Jing gritted his teeth, "In the fourth year of Chuping, my mother died in the hands of this group of Qingzhou soldiers, and my father and I escaped, I thought that this group of demons was gone, and it was over." But who would have thought that in the third year of Jian'an, Cao Cao crusaded against Lu Bu, and... Slaughtered Pengcheng again! My dad... My brother, my sister, and Weng Weng... and died under his butcher's knife. ”

This...

Slaughtered Xuzhou twice?

Guan Lin thought of only the cold line of words in the history books for a while-September, Gongdong Zhengbu. Winter October, Tu Peng City!

- This is tantamount to two catastrophes!

——The people of Pengcheng are bitter!

"Seven Princes... Qigong, please make the decision for me, for me! ”

With a click, this Shi Jing knelt down directly, kowtowing like pounding garlic.

"I see!" Guan Lin's voice became much heavier.

The second, the one named You Yong, said, "I... I'm about the same as him, I'm a native of Yecheng, Jizhou, nine years of Jian'an, that Cao thief attacked Yecheng, and the judge held on for three months, and finally... It was finally breached. ”

"That Cao thief... Say... Say that those who surround and then descend will not be killed, so... The entire Yecheng was slaughtered by him, and my whole family died in that Yecheng, for three days and three nights, for three days and three nights, I... I escaped from the pile of dead people, and there are many more like me, because there are too many people slaughtered by Cao Thief, and I can't take care of them at all! ”

The "Judge Jun" mentioned by You Yong is the Yecheng Order under Yuan Shao's youngest son Yuan Shang - Trial Matching.

He garrisoned Yecheng, which did cause great trouble to Cao Cao's siege, making Cao's army fight extremely hard, and even in the end, it can be described as a "miserable victory".

Can... If it has already been defeated, why slaughter?

Those who surround and descend will be killed!

Why bother these innocent people?

Aren't these all your Cao Cao's people in the future?

Guan Lin couldn't understand.

In the final analysis, this kind of thing is completely inconsistent with his three views.

It is true that there are many people on the Internet in later generations who whitewash Cao Cao.

What is Cao Cao saying is for sustenance, is to show off his might... What's more, it is said that he is a helpless move to "rather kill by mistake than let one go".

But Guan Lin felt that this couldn't be washed at all!

How can anyone be so shameless, while slaughtering the city to make the "first butcher knife of the Three Kingdoms", and at the same time being able to chant "The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crying for thousands of miles." The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. ”

Isn't this both being a bitch and setting up a torii?

And what Guan Lin can remember, there are no less than nine massacres of Cao Cao.

Pengcheng in Xuzhou twice, Yecheng once, Yongqiu in Yanzhou once, Wuhuan Liucheng once, Taiyuan once, Pingding Han Sui, Song Jianshi twice, and... In the future, the bloody Wancheng will flow.

Thinking of this, Guan Lin sighed in his heart.

It is true that under the huge waves of this era, uncle Liu Bei, father Guan Yu and Cao Cao played, which in the game is "one mine fights nine mines", and there is no doubt that he will die in nine lives.

But so many poor people died under Cao Cao's knife?

Will they die in vain?

Shouldn't someone stand up for them and do something for them?

In the past, when he was studying, Guan Lin always couldn't understand Shu Han's so-called "faith", but now, he can understand it somewhat.

The "faith" of these soldiers may not be a dream of changing the world at all, just to live, under the deterrence of the "first butcher's knife", to live bravely!

"Ahem..."Thinking of this, Guan Lin coughed lightly and asked the last one..."What about you?"

Guan Lin remembered that the last person with the lowest height was called Zhang Fang, who was from Yanzhou Chenliu.

I saw that this person was generous, and bowed to Guan Lin's shadow, "Reintroduce yourself to the 'Seven Princes', in the next Zhang Fang, my father Zhang Chao, and Zhang Miao, one of the 'Eight Chefs' of my uncle!" ”

The name blurted out, and Guan Lin suddenly came back to his senses.

This is the third year of Jian'an, Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao colluded with Lu Bu and Chen Gong to take advantage of Cao Cao's crusade against Xuzhou and sneak attack Yanzhou, Cao Cao's base camp.

And as Cao Cao came back from the counterattack, and finally besieged "Yongqiu" for several months, when the city was broken, Cao Cao killed Zhang Chao and Zhang Miao's whole family in addition to killing Zhang Chao and Zhang Miao's whole family, and slaughtered the city here for ten days!

This is another tragic slaughter of the city after the slaughter of Xuzhou...

And Zhang Fang in front of him is no wonder he is generous, and he has the demeanor of a wealthy family.

It turned out to be... Zhang Chao's son, Zhang Miao, one of the "Eight Chefs", is his uncle.

Call...

Guan Lin exhaled lightly, these people are really with Cao Cao... Don't share the sky, deep hatred!

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Retreated, overnight.

Sun Quan's army retreated to Jiangdong.

At this moment, it's as if... On the heavenly dome, the endless haze shrouded the heads of every disgraced Jiangdong armor soldier.

Everyone is depressed, this battle is fought by so many people, but... I just can't beat it.

If it's a "nest"?

Not really!

That's pure can't be beaten.

From the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, the command of the soldiers, the overall planning of the commander, all directions... Defeated, utterly defeated!

It seems that after these two defeats, the anger in my heart was vented all of a sudden, like two conventional guidelines, embedded in the hearts of every Jiangdong soldier.

First, field warfare is to send to death, let alone siege, the next time Wu Hou is mobilizing to siege the city, the dogs don't believe it.

Second, Shanxi people are not easy to mess with, and before this group of Shanxi people die, there is no hope for the Northern Expedition of Eastern Wu.

Call...

At this moment, Sun Quan was standing on the bank of the Yangtze River, and he seemed to feel another kind of sorrow.

The surging river is still rushing eastward.

It's just that those Jiangdong children who are sleeping in Xiaoyaojin can never go home again.

The crows flew around in the sky, howling excitedly, because the corpses of the children of Jiangdong on Xiaoyaojin were about to become their most delicious food.

- "Woo"

- "Woo..."

At this moment, heavy sobs sounded, and Sun Quan noticed that beside him, Ling Tong was kneeling on the bank of the river, beating his chest and sobbing at the same time!

"Dead, all dead..."

"All my 300 brothers are dead! None of them came back. ”

Speaking of which, Ling Tong is too honest.

When the defeat of Xiaoyaojin was decided, in the face of Zhang Liao and his group of Shanxi compatriots, Lu Meng, Jiang Qin, and Gan Ning all symbolically resisted, and then quickly withdrew.

Only Ling Tong was the most realistic, and he was stunned until the last brother fell to the ground.

The more than 300 henchmen and soldiers he had cultivated over the years were all gone.

"People can't be resurrected after death, and the public performance is mourning..."Sun Quan comforted: "At least you are still there, Lone is still there, aren't you just soldiers and horses?" If you die 300 soldiers, you will be given 3,000! ”

Hearing this, Ling Tong couldn't help but look at Sun Quan blankly, he opened his mouth, he wanted to scold, but in the end he swallowed all the words back into his stomach.

Is this a soldier's business?

Recruit 3,000 recruits, and his 300 pro-soldiers selected from the "captains, chiefs, and centurions", and fight together for so many years, can it be compared?

Of course, Sun Quan was not in a good mood.

After comforting Ling Tong, his eyes began to become more confused when he looked at the turbulent river.

first, it was broken by 800 to 100,000;

It's another battle in Xiaoyaojin, and the qi of Soochow has been dispersed!

Don't talk about the Northern Expedition, don't talk about Zhang Liao, even now when the word "North" is mentioned, the word "Zhang" is mentioned, and the soldiers dare not speak loudly.

What's more, if you hear these "words" in your sleep, countless Jiangdong children will wake up at once, and then they will snuggle up to each other, hugging the futon and crying.

In the battle of Hefei, the children of Jiangdong have been broken!

Hehe...

Sun Quan smiled incompetently and bitterly, he sighed with emotion: "If Gu's father and brother are still there, how can they experience such a defeat? How could the three armies be so frightened? ”

Yes, he's only thirty-three years old!

At the age of thirty-three, in the north, he can't move anymore, admit it!

And in the west, because of the Hefei gambling contract, he is about to face the rock-solid Changsha Three Armies, the impregnable Jiangling, and the unparalleled and brave Guan Yunchang...

This is another Shanxi person!

Sun Quan felt that in his life, why couldn't he pass the "Shanxi people" level?

Thinking of this, tears of indisputability are about to flow from the corners of Sun Quan's eyes...

Lu Meng on the side hurriedly comforted: "Lord, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers... The lord doesn't need to blame himself too much. ”

"Why should you blame yourself?" Sun Quan waved his hand, and he was especially self-defeating, "This defeat is also defeated, it's a pity!" ”

"But, because of the Hefei gambling contract, the three counties of Changsha are gone, and Liu Bei's borrowing of Jingzhou is gone, and morality is on his side Liu Xuande, and it will be difficult for Dongwu to expand from now on? Whose fault is this? ”

This...

Lu Meng and Ling Tong, Gan Ning, Jiang Qin and others on his side looked at each other.

Whose fault is it?

Is this unclear?

But if it's a dog who is in charge of the army this time, it won't be so embarrassed, right?

Can... Is that what can be said?

For a moment, everyone was silent...

It's just that this silence didn't seem to calm down the "angry" and "disheartened" lord of Eastern Wu.

He shouted angrily: "Where is Zhuge Ziyu? ”

"Lone just listened to his words, so that the Hefei gambling contract was fueled by the fire, so that now it is difficult to ride a tiger!"

"It's him, it's his envoy this time, who harmed Dongwu and Gu! Hurry, hurry up and bring him to see Lonely! ”

The situation is already like this.

As the lord of Dongwu, the prestige cannot be lost, so... You'll have to find a backer.

Just right, he Zhuge Jin, the size and length are just right!

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(End of chapter)