Chapter 53: Hostages and Confrontation
As Cao Wu ran, he lifted the quilt that wrapped the woman in his arms, and only lifted a corner, and he saw the face that was overwhelming.
It's over, it's not Sun Shangxiang who kidnapped, it's Xiao Qiao!
Xiao Qiao snorted, his face damp. Red, groggy, apparently infected with the wind chill the day before yesterday, not well.
Zhang Xia's people rolled her up with a quilt and took her away, leaving only a small air vent, which seemed to aggravate her illness.
Ah Da was curious: "What the hell is going on?" ”
Cao Wu pouted: "Sun Shangxiang called you later, aren't you a husband and a girl, go back and stabilize her!" ”
Ah Dabai glanced at him and said: "You are really a person, and you don't know how your brain grows, you can entertain me at any time." ”
As a result, Cao Wu didn't reply, and Sun Shangxiang's shout came from afar.
"Ugly bastard, you leave Big Brother behind, and I'll let Brother Ben let you go!"
Cao Wu heard this, and almost vomited blood, it turned out that the general who squinted his eyes and collected the money just now turned out to be Yuzhang Taishou, the new general Sun Ben Sun Boyang, Sun Quan's cousin, and the current highest-ranking feudal official in the Sun family's clan.
Thinking of Sun Quan, it is not difficult to guess what this Sun Ben is doing with his troops in the middle of the night. Eighty percent came out to hunt again, this is all inherited by the Sun family, and I don't know what I can catch when I go into the mountains at night.
Sure enough, the general shouted: "It turned out to be Zhang Beijia, I couldn't recognize each other just now, I am Yuzhang Taishou Sun Ben." You and I Jiangdong are allies, please come back! ”
How could Cao Wu be obedient and go back, he could only run faster.
Because Cao Wu's identity was an envoy, the cavalry did not release arrows, but just chased them desperately.
Fortunately, their six horses were all carefully selected fast horses, and the horses of ordinary cavalry could not catch up at all.
However, Sun Ben and Sun Shangxiang's horses were not ordinary horses, and the two quickly chased after them, except for Cao Wu and Ah Dana's two divine horses, the other four horses were obviously no match for the second grandson's horse, and they were about to be caught up soon.
Four guards should be able to fight against one Sun Ben without accident, but there are still hundreds of cavalry behind them, and once they are delayed, there will be no way to live.
Cao Wu is not a hero like Cao Cao, they are all brothers who get along day and night, and it is impossible for him to abandon his brothers, so he simply changed direction, gave up the main road, and moved forward from the small road, hoping to pass the small road and delay the cavalry.
However, it didn't take long for the four guards to catch up.
Cao Wu looked back, resolutely reined in the horse, and the little red horse stopped suddenly, and then turned around.
Cao Wu lifted the corner of the quilt that wrapped Xiao Qiao, and said loudly: "General Sun is optimistic!" Zhou Yu Zhou Gongjin's wife Zhou Qiaoshi is here, General Zhou is fighting on the front line, his wife misses him, and asks me to take her to the front line to visit, you don't want to force and block, chill the hearts of the front-line soldiers! ”
Sun Ben was chasing, hearing this, and taking a closer look, what Cao Wu was holding in his arms turned out to be Xiao Qiao.
This went to resist Cao, Zhou Yu was appointed as the governor of the left, and Cheng Pu was appointed as the governor of the right.
Zhou Yu, the governor of the Western Front, had military power in hand and a prominent position, and his wife was held hostage, which made Sun Ben hesitate.
Sun Shangxiang said strangely: "Is it really Sister Xiao Qiao who is going to the front line?" ”
Sun Ben slapped his forehead: "Silly girl, this guy has sharp teeth, the black one is white, if it is really Xiao Qiao who wants to go, how can he ride with him!" Are we fools? ”
The stupid Sun Shangxiang said angrily: "Sister Xiao Qiao has been cold for days and can't sleep, I have something to do today, let her rest in my bed." You took her away! ”
Cao Wu only then knew why he tied up the wrong person, Zhang Xia and other guards went deep into Jianchu, and they had been on a mission, they were not familiar with Sun Shangxiang and Xiao Qiao and others, and they tied up when they saw the person on the bed, who would have thought that it was not Sun Shangxiang who was sleeping on Sun Shangxiang's bed.
I also blamed myself, in a hurry, I didn't check.
Sun Shangxiang is Sun Quan's younger sister, that is, Sun Ben's cousin, after all, the relationship is close, if it is Sun Shangxiang who is tied, there will naturally be more room for negotiation.
Xiao Qiao is different, Sun Quan just made a move to let Zhou Yu go to Poyang alone to inspect Sun Ben's movements, it is impossible to reconcile between a young governor like Zhou Yu and a local feudal official like Sun Ben, and Sun Ben also has a history of abandoning his wife, if Sun Ben really ignores the hostages under the pretext, it will be troublesome.
By now, it's too late to say anything.
Cao Wu stopped, and the other horses also stopped, Zhang Xia silently stood on the right side of Cao Wu, Ah Da was on the left, and the other four guards were on the left and right, but they faintly became a defensive trend.
Ah Da said in a thick voice: "Sister Shangxiang, we are Yizhou envoys, Jiangdong and my Yizhou alliance has been formed, and we are going to conspire with each other, why do you want to detain us?" ”
As soon as she spoke, Sun Shangxiang hesitated.
Sun Ben squinted his eyes and said, "This is Zhongmou's order, everything will wait for Zhongmou to come back!" ”
Cao Wu said in white: "Zhang is in Chaisang City, I heard that General Zhou has a lot of dislike with you, it turns out that you really don't care about General Zhou's wife!" General Zhou, the governor of the Western Front, has been suspicious because of the nursery rhyme, he endured humiliation, was born and died on the front line, but you attacked someone's wife in the rear, are you worthy of General Sun? ”
He shouted so loudly that the cavalry behind Sun Ben also heard it, and suddenly someone whispered.
Zhou Yu's influence in the Jiangdong Army is too great, except for Cheng Pu and other veterans who are not convinced, Zhou Yu is the god of the army, and when they heard that Sun Ben might really have killed Zhou Yu's wife because of selfishness, the soldiers were in an uproar.
Sun Ben gritted his teeth, shouted several good words, and before he could speak, Cao Wu grabbed the white words again: "Zhang also heard that General Sun's daughter has long been married to Cao Zhang, the son of the Cao thief, is the general going to fall to the Cao thief because of his children's in-laws, and destroy the alliance between my Yizhou and Jiangdong?" ”
Sun Ben's eyes didn't squint anymore, he stared at Cao Wu, unable to speak for a long time.
His youngest daughter did marry Cao Zhang, but it was a complete political marriage.
In the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shu died of illness, Sun Ce became independent, and needed to attack Huang Zu to avenge his father, while Cao Cao confronted Yuan Shao in the north.
For the sake of their respective goals, Sun Cao and the two sides temporarily made peace in a friendly way, did not attack each other, and each stabilized its own rear.
Cao Cao's son, Cao Zhang, who was only ten years old, was later known as Ye Xia Huang Xu'er, married Sun Ben's youngest daughter, who was only two years old, and in exchange, Sun Ce's fourth brother, Sun Kuang, also married Cao Cao's niece.
Then, Cao Cao, who was very scheming, recruited Sun Ce's second brother Sun Quan and third brother Sun Yi to enter the court as officials.
For his family to be able to become a big official, Sun Ce originally supported it, but fortunately, Zhang Zhao and others tried their best to dissuade him, and Sun Ce understood that this was Cao Cao's strategy, and he wanted to turn his two younger brothers into hostages, so he didn't let them enter Beijing.
Otherwise, the heir of the Sun family can only be the fourth brother Sun Kuang, and Sun Kuang has an in-law relationship with Cao Cao, so he is a family.
This kind of scheming is not something that the soldiers behind Sun Ben can understand, but Sun Ben's daughter is Cao Zhang's wife, and everyone knows about it.
Hearing Cao Wuyi's provocation, the soldiers were in an uproar again.
The corners of Sun Ben's forehead jumped, he had never seen such a brazen person, and the kung fu of a few words almost reversed his people.
The most important thing is to really do it, this matter will become his handle and be criticized.
Between Xiao Qiao in the hands of the other party, he hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Zhang Beijia, I still say the same thing, leaving you is the meaning of Zhongmou, these people around you can go, but you can't!" You don't have to provoke, I'm worthy of the Sun family's business, I'm not afraid of what you say! ”
Cao Wudao: "Then you let them go first, and when they are far away, I will go with you!" ”
Sun Ben said: "Yes, but how can I trust you?" ”
Cao Wu laughed and said: "I, Zhang Song, use Zhang Song's head as a guarantee, if my people leave, but I don't go back with you, then Zhang Song's family will die without a place to be buried!" ”
In ancient times, it was believed that there were gods with three feet above their heads, and this kind of poisonous oath was impossible for ordinary people to make, and Cao Wu's oath frightened Sun Shangxiang.
Sun Shangxiang said: "Ugly monsters, don't make such a poisonous oath......"
Sun Ben's face was cloudy, and finally said: "Okay, then it's up to you, let them go first, but if you don't go back with me at that time, Hugh blames the sword for having no eyes, and I can't say it, I have to compensate General Zhou!" ”
Cao Wu saw that his eyes were firm, and he knew that he had made a decision, even if his subordinates doubted him, he did not waver in his decision, even if it would hurt Xiao Qiao.
He thought in his heart that Sun Ben was appointed as an official by Yuan Shu when he was young, but he abandoned his wife and resigned to go to Sun Ce.
This kind of character is really not so easy to deal with.
He looked left and right and motioned for everyone to go first.
Zhang Xia wanted to speak, but was stopped by Cao Wu's eyes. Although Zhang Xia's martial arts are high, it is impossible to beat hundreds of cavalry.
Zhang Xia was obedient to Cao Wu, although he felt uncomfortable, he had to obey orders.
Cao Wu said softly: "You go first, wait until you get out of Chaisang, pass through the Jiangxia area, and arrive at our territory, and then find a way to meet!" ”
Zhang Xia nodded, Ah Da was about to speak, Cao Wudao: "This place is dangerous, obedient!" ”
Ah Da suddenly burst into tears, this was the first time Cao Wu had seen her cry like this.
Ah Da didn't insist anymore, grabbed three iron pipes from under the horse's belly, handed them to Cao Wu, and then arched his hand and said: "Don't drive Zhang, there will be a period later!" ”
So far, she is a woman, and only by going back to inform Cao Cao can she have a chance to save Cao Wu. Therefore, without hesitation, he rode away with Zhang Xia and others.
Cao Wu nodded, he knew the general situation, took the overall situation into account, was not a mother-in-law, and his heart was like a knife, but he could still make the most correct choice, this is Diao Chan.
Now that they are all gone, Cao Wu has no burden.
He hugged Little Joe in his arms and stared at the cavalry who were surrounding.
Next, he has to rely on himself.