Chapter 52: Out of Chaisan City at Night
Under Shiyang City, when the last rays of the setting sun fell into the earth, the invincible Qinglong Yanyue Sword slashed towards Wen Ping's neck.
Hearing only the sound of "dang", a feather arrow shot from a distance of not knowing how far it came, and it actually deflected the Qinglong Yanyue knife by three points, and swept across Wen Ping's back, bringing up a puddle of blood.
Guan Ping shouted on the side: "Father, a boat is coming!" ”
Guan Yu looked back, and a huge building boat appeared from the corner of the city wall, and dozens of clippers surrounded the building boat, and the torches on the building boat were bright.
Shiyang City is surrounded by water on both sides, and the Zhuan Water and the Han River meet here, and the boat in this building is to go down the Han River and turn to the Zhuan Shui.
A white-armored and white-helmeted general stood on top of the building boat with a longbow and shouted: "Dangkou General Zhang Wenyuan is also here, and the thief will be killed!" ”
Reinforcements from Cao's army arrived.
The Seventh Army led by Zhao Yandu, under the harassment of the Jinfan thieves, was also ten battles in ten days.
They set off from Xiangyang, marched east along the Han River, and finally hit the first nail of the trip.
Shiyang City.
Guan Ping looked at the building ship that was taller than the city wall of Shiyang City, and his eyes were red.
Wen Ping also noticed the turnaround, worked hard, rolled on the spot, and tumbled into the water.
Guan Yu didn't care about the civil appointment, and shouted: "Sons, go back to the city!" ”
Several ropes were dropped on the city wall, and Guan Ping hurriedly climbed the city wall with the death squad.
Guan Yu stood on the bamboo raft with a knife, looked at Zhang Liao's figure, and didn't care whether the opponent's arrow could hit him, and shouted to himself: "But Zhang Wenyuan under Lu Bu's tent? ”
At the beginning, Lu Bu was in Xuzhou, and Liu Bei had a lot of contact, and later the two had a stalemate, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao also had enemies, but they still admired each other.
Unexpectedly, time has passed, and against the enemy again, one is still under Liu Bei, and the other has become Cao Ying's fierce general.
Zhang Liao sighed and said loudly: "Shouting Hou, the Son of Heaven is still here, why don't you come to Fengjie?" ”
Guan Yu stood on the bamboo raft with a horizontal knife and reprimanded: "I'm afraid that the thief has taken the Son of Heaven hostage!" It's useless to talk too much, let's talk about it after the battle! ”
As he spoke, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Guan Ping and the others had already climbed back, so he went down to the city with a knife on guard.
Zhang Liao put down the bow and arrow in his hand, but raised a war knife and swung it down.
He has given enough time, benevolence and righteousness have been exhausted, and then each depends on his ability.
So the arrows were like locusts, and they went straight to the head of the city.
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Cao Wulai brought ten guards, all of whom were good at fighting ten by one person.
But in order to pretend and facilitate escape, after forming an alliance with Sun Quan, he let the five people go, saying that he was returning to Yizhou to report the news, but in fact, he went to deliver the news everywhere.
In this way, Cao Wu was left with only Ah Da, Zhang Xia and four guards.
Because there was a big event at night, everyone took turns to go to bed in advance, and they had already recuperated their spirits.
When he arrived, Zhang Xia heard a few sounds of closing the door from Sun Shangxiang's courtyard next door, and estimated that they had already slept.
After waiting for more than an hour, I felt that Sun Shangxiang and the two Yahuan were already asleep, Zhang Xia stuck to the root of the wall, and "poofed" on the wall and turned into Sun Shangxiang's courtyard.
Two of the guards followed suit, and the other two went to the stable to prepare the horses.
Zhang Xia slowly drew the knife with one arm, came to the door of Sun Shangxiang's house, gently inserted the knife into the crack of the door, and slowly lifted it, and the wooden bolt on the door was picked up.
He had only one hand, and could not greet his companions, so he raised his foot and kicked him a few times, and two guards came up and gently pushed the door open and entered the house.
After a while, the two wrapped one in a quilt and carried it out.
After succeeding, the three of them quickly joined Cao Wu and Ah Da and came to the stable to lead the horses.
Cao Wuzheng was about to inspect the kidnapped person, when suddenly a gong sounded, and it turned out that someone was beating on the street outside.
Ah Da said softly: "Now that there is a curfew, will we surprise the guards by riding horses?" ”
Cao Wu nodded, the escape route had already been stepped on, even if he walked, he was not worried.
The group led the horses and smuggled out of Da Qiao's mansion, and it took a long time to bypass the guards and the patrolling city guards, and follow the small roads in the city towards the east gate.
The east gate is facing the hinterland of Jiangdong, and has always been the commercial gate of Chaisang City, and many merchants are waiting outside the city before dawn.
The battlefield in Jiangdong has always been in Jiangxia further west, just like Shiyang City in Jiangxia, Chaisang in Jiangdong is also a rear city without war for a long time. The opening time of the east gate was brought forward to facilitate the merchants.
Zhang Xia looked at the moonlight and said, "It's time to open the city gate, the time is just right!" ”
Cao Wu also looked at the moonlight, the moon is not as easy to recognize the time as the sun, as an otaku who squatted at home all the year round in his previous life, he couldn't understand where the moon went at which hour, and he couldn't help but admire the ancients.
As he pondered, the sound of the winch turning came, and the thousand-pound iron door was slowly lowered.
Cao Wu and the others looked at each other and got on their horses one after another.
Because Cao Wu's little red horse is the best, Sun Shangxiang, who was tied to the quilt, was naturally on Cao Wu's horse and was held in Cao Wu's arms.
The weather was cold, the horses were neighing, and when the city gate was completely lowered, Cao Wu shouted: "Go!" ”
Six horses sprang out of the houses on the edge of the city, and before the guards could react, they had rushed to the gates.
Zhang Xia shouted: "If you don't want to die, stay away!" ”
Immediately, the war knife "brushed" twice, and the two guards were cut to the ground.
The other guards were startled and shouted to retreat, and the gates were clamoring to close the gates, but it was too late!
By the time the gate was recovered, six horses had already jumped out.
Cao Wuyi pulled the reins of the horse, and said with a smile: "Inform General Sun Ben that I am Pang Tong, the military division under General Liu Bei, the left general, and I will go back to Jiangxia today!" ”
So saying, they rode around the city wall, and went round the west gate from outside the city, and then went west.
The city gate will let go of the city gate again, and at the same time order someone to report to Sun Ben.
When I arrived at the city lord's mansion, I couldn't find Sun Ben everywhere, only to know that Sun Ben was not in the city.
On the other side, Cao Wu had only traveled a few dozen miles to the west, and a cavalry team of hundreds of people came over in the distance.
There is only one road, and the two sides will walk in the opposite direction and will meet soon.
"What's going on? How could someone march in the middle of the night! ”
Ah Da asked with a frown.
Cao Wu licked his lips and thought for a while, but didn't come up with a reason.
Now that they have been seen by the other party, they can either flee or they can only try to fool around.
He and Ah Da glanced at each other, and Cao Wudao: "We are envoys, not death row prisoners." We still have hostages here, salute first and then soldiers, and then break through! ”
So the six of them had to ride their horses forward, and when they got closer, they saw that the opposing cavalry was not armored, but as if they were out on an outing.
Nearer, one of the cavalry leaders shouted to them: "Who are you, where are you going before dawn?" ”
Cao Wudao: "We are merchants in Wu County, I heard that Jiangxia has been recovered, let's go and see if there is any business to do." It's not easy for businessmen, and you're in a hurry, so please make it convenient for the general! ”
A set of nonsense was made up casually, Cao Wu's face was not red or breathless, and what he said was serious.
After that, he also asked Ah Da to take out some silver coins and hold them in his hands, and let the guards hand them over.
The general squinted, took the money, and said with a smile: "You are not from Wu County. But it doesn't matter, Jiangxia is a furnace battlefield, you are willing to send you to death, go to yours! ”
Then he looked at the figure that was held in front of the horse by Cao Wu and wrapped in the quilt.
Cao Wuxuan said guiltily: "My family has an epidemic, don't blame the general." ”
When he heard that it was an epidemic, the general immediately beat his horse and retreated.
Cao did not admit the crime, and frequently gave up, and the six horses let go to the side, letting them pass first.
The cavalry team passed by them, and Cao Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
About the end of the line, Cao Wu did not know the direction they came from, and suddenly a few cavalrymen came, shouting as they ran: "General! Yizhou, don't drive Zhang Song away! ”
The general, who was weighing the money, immediately reacted and turned back to his horse.
However, Cao Wu reacted faster, and the six horses galloped again.
Cao Wu scolded while running, what kind of luck is today, I finally got out of the city, why did I meet the cavalry team who went out in the middle of the night.
And it was discovered by the city people so quickly, it was really a water reversal.
He was about to turn around and curse, but he saw from a distance that among the several cavalrymen who were chasing, there was a woman holding a sword and looking at him angrily.
The woman opened her mouth and shouted, "Big brother, where are you going, why don't you take me with you!" ”
He was dumbfounded, almost frozen.
Isn't that Sun Shangxiang?
Sun Shangxiang is there, so who is he tying up?