The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Liang Kui didn't understand Li Xiang's meaning, and asked, "Xiaowei, what do you mean by that? What kind of wealth?"

As he spoke, he couldn't help sighing, and said, "I wanted to follow the captain to join the Duke of Cao's tent, or I could change the way of living. I would no longer be a **** like before, and I could not control my life and death, but I really didn't think that Cao Cao would live and die. A man with such a mighty grandfather has been defeated one after another in Zhendong! Up to now, Dongjun can't keep it, so he has to go to Jizhou to defect to Duke Yuan. How can life be better if he is under the guard of others? I'm afraid even Duke Cao will not survive It's better, what about you and me? What about great wealth! But it's a blessing to be able to save your life."

Li Xiang's eyes were bright, and under the candlelight, he had just caught the rain and snow on his thick beard outside, and the glittering light seemed to be attached, which made his whole face glow. He said in a deep voice: "Let me ask you again, do you want to be rich?"

Liang Kui became curious, stopped his chopsticks, and said, "Xiaowei, don't sell your shit, what kind of wealth?"

"This great wealth is, do you dare to join me and capture Duke Cao?"

With a "pat", it was Liang Kui who was so frightened that he dropped the chopsticks in his hand. He subconsciously turned his head and looked out.

The night was dark, and the sound of rain and snow was removed, and it was silent.

When the cold wind blew into the room, Liang Kui trembled for a while. He turned his eyes back and landed on Li Xiang's face. He said in a startled voice, "What?"

"Exactly!"

Liang Kui was dumbfounded, pointed at Li Xiang, and said, "You... Captain, are you crazy?"

"I'm not crazy."

Liang Kui said, "If you are not crazy, why would you suddenly say 'Capture Duke Cao'?"

"What I said was 'capture Duke Cao', not 'capture Duke Cao'."

Liang Kui said, "What's the difference?"

"It makes no difference."

Probably infected by Li Xiang's calm performance, Liang Kui's panic gradually subsided. He calmed down and said, "Xiaowei, I don't understand what you mean. What do you mean by 'capture Duke Cao'?"

"Think about it, if you and I can capture Duke Cao and give it to Zhendong, will you and I get a great deal of wealth?"

Liang Kui said: "Dedicated to Zhendong? ... Commander, aren't you wishful thinking? How can you capture Duke Cao just by you and me? In terms of retreat, you have captured Duke Cao, how can you and I bring you? Take Duke Cao out of the city and dedicate him to Zhendong? You are right, if this is done, you and I will indeed get a great wealth, but this, Captain, it can't be done at all! "

"not necessarily."

Liang Kui said: "What? The captain thinks it can be done?"

"That's all for the discussion tonight. When I was about to leave the court, Mr. Cao specifically called him to stop, and told me privately that I would report to him the results of the gold touching every other day. This matter is kept secret by Mr. Cao. In the past, every time I reported to Mr. Cao, he would see me alone. So in my report these days, he will definitely do the same, and he will still meet with me alone. ...this is the chance to capture him!"

Liang Kui thought for a while, what Li Xiang said made sense.

Cao Cao is short and Li Xiang is tall and strong. If two people are one-on-one, Cao Cao will definitely not be Li Xiang's opponent, and it will not be difficult to capture him.

But the question is, it is not difficult to capture, how to take him out of the city and dedicate it to Xun Zhen? It's so hard.

Liang Kui said: "But even if you can capture Duke Cao, how can you and I take him out of the city?"

"You and I can take him as a hostage, hold him hostage, and leave the city!"

Liang Kui shook his head again and again and said, "This is impossible! There are currently four or five thousand troops stationed at home and abroad. Once Duke Cao is kidnapped by you and me, the entire army will surely be alarmed. How can you and I leave the city safely?"

"If I can't take it as a hostage, I still have a last resort."

Liang Kui asked, "What's the next step?"

"In the tent, I killed Duke Cao! Take his head. You watch the horse outside the house, wait for me, as soon as I come out, we will ride out of the city! When they find that Duke Cao has been killed, the first By the time they react, you and I will have already left the city!"

Liang Kui frowned and thought.

Li Xiang looked at him calmly, raised his glass with his right hand, and slowly drank alcohol. With his left hand, he reached up to his belt and touched the short dagger he was carrying with him.

Liang Kui thought for a while and said, "This strategy seems to be okay."

"How? Do you want to do it or not? Do you want it or not?"

Liang Kui blinked and looked at Li Xiang inquiringly. After a while, he said, "I have a question for the captain."

"you say!"

Liang Kui said: "I asked the captain at the beginning, but you want to vote in Zhendong? The captain said that you want to vote for Duke Cao. But why is the captain at this moment, at this very moment, again? To cast the town east?"

"At that time, I answered you the reason why I didn't vote for Zhendong at that time! Under the Zhendong account, there are a lot of civil and military forces, and there are fierce generals. Even if I voted for it, I couldn't be reused, so it's better to vote for Duke Cao. Like you said, how could I have imagined that Duke Cao was so bad, he was defeated by Zhendong, and now even Dongjun can't hold it! Because of that, I changed my mind, thinking to cast Zhendong!"

Liang Kui said: "Duke Cao treats the school captain well. Although Duke Cao will abandon Dongjun and go to Jizhou, even though he will be under the fence of others, I can imagine that the school captain will still be able to have food and clothing. ... school captain, capture and kill. In this matter of Duke Cao, once the incident is defeated, the head will fall to the ground, why did the captain give up food and clothing, and are willing to take such odd risks to do dangerous things?"

"Want me? Haha, haha."

Liang Kui was stunned and said, "Why is the captain laughing?"

"If Duke Cao treated me sincerely, he would not have sent me to dig a grave and dig a tomb! Although I, Li Xiang, have a low profile, I am also a scholar! I have no worries about food and clothing? What about food and clothing? Did I not dig enough graves in Dongjun? Do you still want to dig to Jizhou? The generals in the army, like Cao Ren and Cao Chun, know what I have done. Every time they see me, they look at me with strange eyes! I dig a grave to find gold. , if the story goes out, not only will I be scolded by the world from now on, but my descendants will probably not escape the bad name I left them! A man who died according to what his thousands of husbands pointed out to him, and his ugly descendants, what a vigorous fight! "

Li Xiang and Liang Kui really have the nature of light chivalrous.

When Liang Kui heard Li Xiang's remarks, he completely understood the real reason why Li Xiang wanted to capture Cao Cao and dedicate it to Xun Zhen. He immediately said: "If the captain is not afraid of death, I am willing to accompany him!"

Li Xiang was overjoyed, put down the wine glass, stretched out his left hand, held Liang Kui's hand with both hands, shook it up and down, and said, "Okay! Then you and I will live and die together, and let's do this big thing together!"

On a windy, rainy and snowy night, in the cold room, the two of them touched their heads and discussed in detail under the candlelight.

...

The third day of rain.

Dawn, Lihu County, Lihu County.

Outside the county, barracks.

On this day, Xun Zhen ordered Pan Zhang to send troops.

Two thousand tiger soldiers gathered in an emergency and stood on the school grounds in the rain.

Pan Zhang, clad in armor and pressing his sword, stood on the high platform in the center of the school grounds, with more than a dozen generals and dozens of personal soldiers at his left and right.

Looking around the soldiers in the school field, Pan Zhang said with a sigh: "In the past year, Cao Cao has been defeated twice, and now he is at the end of the road. It is reported that he will abandon Dongjun and move west! Licheng General Zhao's Department We marched out three days ago, and we are attacking Liaocheng, and we are about to conquer! Zhendong ordered our troops to send troops today, fly across the river, attack Weiguo, and capture Cao Cao! ... Zhuqu listen to the order, and set off immediately!"

As soon as the order was given, the soldiers who had heard some wind noise in advance were not surprised, but suddenly burst into cheers.

Pan Zhang watched the boiling school field with satisfaction, and the soldiers with high fighting spirit said to the left and right generals: "Puyang Tianxuan, please be my department's inner responder, and I have made preparations for our department to cross the river in advance; in addition, General Zhao is there. The direction of Liaocheng attracts Cao Cao's attention; and the main force of Changyi led by General Le will arrive later, and now our troops will take Weiguo, explore the bags and get the ears!

The left and right generals responded in unison: "No!"

Two thousand Lihu soldiers, according to the number, came out of the camp.

Lihu County is forty miles from the border of Dong County.

Although it was raining and snowing, the advance of Pan Zhang's troops could not be slowed down.

We left camp in the early morning and arrived at the county boundary in the afternoon.

Entering the territory of Dongjun, he encountered two scouts of Cao's army, and they were all chased and killed by Lihu soldiers.

After nightfall, the entire army only took a short rest for half an hour, ate some dry food, and then continued to set off.

In the rainy weather, the stars and the moon had no light, and the rain and snow affected the vision. The ground was slippery. The soldiers set up torches and stringed ropes. The soldiers of each team dragged the ropes forward. If you look down from the sky, this 2,000-strong rushing force is like a fiery snake galloping above the plains of Dongjun under the rain and snow.

Puyang County is about forty miles away from Dongjun and Lihu.

When the march was approaching the third watch, the advance troops and horses returned, and they were approaching Puyang County.

Pan Zhang had already sent someone to Puyang County in advance to contact Tian Xuan.

Not far away, the people sent out came back, along with two other people.

The two men arrived at Pan Zhang's army, and when they saw Pan Zhang, they bowed down and saluted, their mouths full of Puyang accent, obviously from Puyang.

Five miles are different from the wind, and ten miles are different from the customs.

Although the area under the jurisdiction of Dongjun is not large, the dialects and intonations of the counties under the jurisdiction of Dongjun are also different. And it's not just nuanced differences, in some counties, the differences are huge. For example, Puyang and Weiguo counties, from the map, are only separated by the Yellow River, less than a hundred miles away, but the accents of the two counties are very different. Wei has a mountain, and the accent of Wei people, especially the accent of the mountain residents, is not easy to understand, and it is more difficult to understand.

The accent of people in Puyang County is light and fast, which is completely different from it.

Pan Zhang himself is a native of Dongjun, and he is very aware of the differences in accents in the county.

The leader of the two was dressed as a scholar and said, "In Shimoda Zheng, on the order of the chief, welcome the captain!"

"Did the Puyang defenders already know that my unit was coming?"

Tian Zheng replied: "Duke Cao transferred most of the troops on the south bank of the river to the north bank of the river. There are only hundreds of guards in Puyang City. They did know that the captain of the school was coming. What should be done. The clan chief of the inferior clan has already gathered three hundred people of the inferior clan, and they are hiding in the 'li'. If the school captain is attacking the city now, the clan chief of the inferior clan will respond in the city. Also panicked and unable to respond, I want to come and capture Puyang, so it’s not difficult.”

Pan Zhang knew that Cao Cao had transferred many of his troops from the counties on the south bank of the Hehe River to the north bank of the Hehe River.

Hearing what Tian Zheng said at this time, Pan Zhang did not hesitate, ordered on the spot, ordered two generals, each gave them a hundred soldiers, and ordered them to be the vanguard of the siege, leading the main force to follow up.

However, the Puyang guards were in a mess, and they had no determination to defend the city. They did not wait for Pan Zhang's main force to attack. With the cooperation of Tian Xuan, the city gate was opened by the two hundred pioneers. Pan Zhanghui's main force entered the city.

A man in his forties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a beard under his chin, and a dignified appearance, led more than a dozen gentry and more than a hundred strong men to welcome Pan Zhang outside the county temple gate. This person is Tian Xuan.

After seeing the ceremony, Pan Zhang did not enter the county temple, and asked Tian Xuan, saying, "Tian Gong, are you ready to cross the river?"

Tian Xuan replied, "I asked the disciples in the villages of my clan to collect boats. So far, more than ten ferries have been collected."

"How many people can the big one carry? How many people can the small one carry?"

Tian Xuan replied: "The big one can accommodate 30 or 20 people, and the small one can attack four or five people." Without waiting for Pan Zhang to ask questions, he took the initiative to add, and said, "The big one is three ships, and the rest are all the small ones."

Pan Zhang was contemplating how long it would take to use these boats to cross the river with all the 2,000 troops he brought, when he heard Tian Xuan say, "Two days ago, Cao Ren led his troops to the north bank of the river and held it. All the ports on the other side."

"I already know about this."

Tian Xuan frowned and said with a worried face, "There were two heavy snowfalls last winter. After the snow melted, the river water rose quite a bit, making it harder to cross than usual. Now there are Cao Ren soldiers stationed on the other side, controlling the bridge, Jinkou, and Pan Jun. , I'm afraid it's not easy to cross this river."

"That's why I have to cross the river tonight!"

Tian Xuan was taken aback and said, "Crossing the river tonight?" Looking up at the night, thick clouds filled the sky, and it was pitch black, unable to see the time.

Tian Zheng said: "It's five watch."

Tian Xuan said: "It's five watch, and it will be dawn in more than an hour! Pan Jun, do you think about it again?"

"It's raining, it's getting late! It's not more than an hour, I still have two hours to spare."

Tian Xuan said: "But there are Cao Ren's soldiers and horses garrisoned on the other side! If they are discovered by his soldiers and horses, they will attack him while the captain is halfway through?"

Pan Zhang smiled and said, "Where did so many people cross the ferry? Tian Gong~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I don't go to the ferry."

Tian Xuan asked, "Don't go to the ferry?"

Pan Zhang was confident and said: "Tian Gong, have you forgotten that I am also from Dongjun? There are quite a lot of people from Dongjun in our army! Someone has already offered me a river crossing channel with shallow water and no ferry on the other side! "

Tian Xuan was stunned and said: "So it is!" He couldn't help asking, "Where is the passage?" He wondered, "I don't know?"

But this Tian Xuan is pampered and has almost never been in the countryside. He has no idea about the public sentiment. It is not bad to know that there are several ferry crossings on the other side of the Yellow River.

When the time was urgent, Pan Zhang didn't talk to him, so he asked him to send someone to take him and the headquarters to the place where his family's disciples were hiding the boat.

Tian Xuan caught up with two steps, grabbed Pan Zhang's armor, and said hurriedly, "Sorry Captain, wait a minute! Dare to ask the Captain, how much has the troops come to this point?"

"two thousand."

"Don't you hear what the captain said? Cao Cao has already transferred most of the troops and horses from the south bank of the river to the north bank of the river, not to mention other places, only inside and outside Weiguo County, and now there are no less than four or five thousand cavalry! You will attack with two thousand. In addition, even if we can successfully cross the river, I am afraid that we will not be able to conquer Weiguo! Why not wait for the main force of General Le to arrive before attacking?"

Pan Zhang stroked his beard and smiled, and said, "Why should the general arrive? My two thousand soldiers are enough to defend the country!"

First, to attack Wei Guo and try to capture Cao Cao, this was the order of Xun Zhen. Second, Pan Zhang also wanted to be ashamed. How could he wait for Le Jin to arrive?

Looking at Pan Zhang who was wearing heavy armor and striding away in the rain and snow at night, Tian Xuan couldn't help but admire and said, "Tigers and wolves!"

A local gentry on the side said: "The soldiers are so brave that it is no wonder that Duke Cao is not the enemy of Zhendong."

More than a dozen gentlemen nodded, all agreeing.