In mid-May of the fourth year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty (193 AD), Cao Cao raised troops to attack Taoqian in Xuzhou.

Ma Xiaoquan secretly ran the data device in his body, and learned that Cao Cao's first attack on Tao Qian should be in the autumn of the fourth year of Chuping, and now it is May on duty, Xuzhou is humid, and it is quite hot at noon, and Cao's soldiers are many people from the Central Plains in the north, and they can't adapt to such a climate for a while. Therefore, Ma Xiaoquan strongly advised Cao Cao to take a break and wait for the sergeants to get used to it a little before attacking Tao Qian.

As for the supply of grain and grass, Ma Xiaoquan thought of a way, and Cao Cao was very surprised when he heard it, but he still implemented it without hesitation.

Ma Xiaoquan said: "You only need to leave 20 people, and the rest will go back to grow food one after another, and when it is autumn, it will not be too late to come back." ”

Although Cao Cao carried out Ma Xiaoquan's order, the direct consequence of this was that the Chinese army was empty, and there were only a few of them left.

Ma Xiaoquan said again: "Xiao Cao, don't worry, you 20 people, as long as there is this immortal, absolutely guarantee their safety, of course, you can't run around, if you run out and die, this immortal is not responsible."

With the promise of Lord Shangxian, Cao Cao confidently gave the order to retreat in batches.

Watching the sergeants secretly evacuate one after another, Ma Xiaoquan exhaled and said secretly: Fortunately, this Cao Cao is obedient, if this guy beats Tao Qian now, wouldn't history be a little ahead?

Tao Qian's side got the news of Cao Cao's withdrawal from the scout's mouth, and he didn't believe it at first, and Tao Qian was planning to ask Kong Rong in Beiping for help. After confirming the news that Cao Cao had indeed evacuated, Tao Qian decisively canceled the plan for help, and called back the gold, silver and jewelry convoy that had been sent half the way. After Kong Rong found out about it afterwards, he scolded Tao Qian for not keeping his promises, and declared in public that Tao Qian would ask him for help in the future, but there was no door.

At night, Tao Qian proudly held a banquet to celebrate Cao Cao's unprovoked withdrawal, and when everyone was eating happily, he did not notice that a dark shadow had crept into each of their residences.

It turned out that the 20 people that Ma Xiaoquan asked Cao Cao to stay, except for Cao Ren and Cao Hong, the remaining 18 people were all soldiers with a history of petty theft.

Cao Cao himself is not only lustful, but also loves money (talent), Cao Cao often said: talent and money, are in their own hands, is the most real. Therefore, for the 18 soldiers left by Lord Shangxian, Cao Cao is the default.

Ma Xiaoquan trained them one by one in front of these 18 people, these soldiers may not be too afraid of Cao Cao, but for the immortals who have a high prestige in the army, these guys are afraid and worship.

After the training, Ma Xiaoquan assigned tasks to these soldiers one by one, and he made it clear that he would not participate in this operation.

Everyone was ordered to go out to carry out the task, and Cao Cao asked Ma Xiaoquan: "Lord Shangxian, can you do this idea?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan raised his eyebrows: "Of course it can be done, but there should be losses." ”

Cao Cao smiled, 20 people? If you lose, you lose, it's not a big deal.

"Lord Immortal, what are we going to do?" Cao Hong asked.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled, looked at Cao Cao, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, and said, "You guys, follow me to Tao Qian's house to get something." ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he hissed, and then his eyes were cold, and he said: "Lord Shangxian, if you can kill Tao Qian by the way, it will be better."

Ma Xiaoquan didn't care too much about Cao Cao's words, after all, in history, Tao Qian died of illness, not killed

Due to Tao Qian's large banquet in recent days, the city defense work was relatively loose, and Ma Xiaoquan led San Cao Shun to slip in through the side door.

"Poof~" Cao Ren spit out the straw in his mouth and whispered to Ma Xiaoquan: "Lord Shangxian, what are we stealing, you say." ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled: "Actually, it's not stealing, what we want to get back should be Xiao Cao's father's things, you say yes, Xiao Cao?" ”

Cao Cao was stunned, then nodded

The skills of the four of them are good, and after making a few very simple sounds, the four of them sneaked into Tao Qian's mansion smoothly.

Tao Qian was not here at this time, and he happened to cheapen these four people.

Ma Xiaoquan instructed that all those that make too much noise, are too large to handle, are heavy, and some other useless things are not allowed to obey, but must be obedient, only those light things.

Although San Cao had doubts, he resolutely carried out Ma Xiaoquan's order without complaint.

Cao Cao also worked as a thief when he was young, not because he lacked anything, but because Cao Cao at that time had nothing to do all day long, purely for fun. Cao Cao still clearly remembers that he stole other people's daughters-in-law with Yuan Shao and Zhang Miao

"Smack~" Cao Cao received a slap on the head, and when he came back to his senses, he saw that it was Lord Shangxian.

Cao Cao touched his head and smiled awkwardly, but he didn't laugh out loud.

Ma Xiaoquan quietly instructed Sancao: "Zixiao will go to the side room, Zilian will go to the wing room, and Xiao Cao will go to the inner room." ”

Cao Hong asked quietly, "What about the Immortal Lord?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "I'll go to the main hall to have a look, we'll be good after we're done, let's act." ”

At the sound of an order, the four of them dispersed.

There are a total of 15 side rooms in Tao Qian's mansion, except for a few doors with cobwebs, there are less than 10 left, Cao Ren quickly locked on the target to sneak into, and entered the first side room with his waist bent; Cao Hong's side, the number of side rooms is relatively small, but they are all in use, Cao Hong according to Ma Xiaoquan's instructions, first searched several of the largest rooms, as long as no one is inside, Cao Hong sneaked in one by one to search; Cao Cao, on the other hand, disappeared after entering the first inner room.

At this moment, Ma Xiaoquan was also searching carefully in the main hall.

A few days ago, Ma Xiaoquan established contact with a contact point in accordance with the slogan of the Hua family's secret contact, and got a piece of news that he needed very much: Tao Qian was said to have an unknown parchment map.

According to the contact point's subordinates, the drawing was painted with patterns that many people did not understand.

After hearing this, Ma Xiaoquan immediately decided to find an opportunity to sneak into Tao Qian's mansion and find out.

At first, Ma Xiaoquan was thinking about whether to go by himself, but after checking the internal data device, Ma Xiaoquan found that Cao Cao attacked Tao Qian a few months earlier than the time in history. Therefore, Ma Xiaoquan changed his original intention, persuaded Cao Cao to temporarily withdraw from the army, and then dragged Cao Cao to steal things.

Of course, Ma Xiaoquan wouldn't tell Cao Cao that I pulled you to steal things to help me find that parchment map.

Of course, if Ma Xiaoquan said this, I believe Cao Cao would not refuse him

Cao Hong and Cao Ren soon came out, and after coming out, the two of them ran towards the gathering point arranged by Lord Shangxian in advance, as for Cao Cao, there was still no news.

In the main hall, Ma Xiaoquan searched all the places, but did not find the parchment map.

"Damn, where the hell is it?"

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, quietly put the last searched object back in its original position, and walked out of the main hall with his waist bent.

Gathering point.

Ma Xiaoquan counted the treasures that Cao Hong and Cao Renshun came out.

Although these two guys have not done any big theft, they seem to have their own unique experience in touching wealth and treasure.

Cao Hong is very rich and stingy, but whatever Cao Hong comes out, he said, he will not give a single thing; Cao Ren is much more generous than Cao Hong, and the piece of jade pendant that Ma Xiaoquan is playing with in his hand, Cao Ren said that if Lord Shangxian likes it, he will give it to Lord Shangxian.

Of course, Ma Xiaoquan would not push back, so he immediately accepted the jade pendant and patted Cao Ren's shoulder.

"What about Xiao Cao, why hasn't Xiao Cao come yet?"

The words of Lord Shangxian woke up Cao Ren and Cao Hong, who were full of copper coins.

Cao Hong shook his head and said, "The last time I saw the lord, it was he who sneaked into the inner room. ”

"And then?"

Cao Hong shook his head: "Then I didn't see the lord come out again." ”

Ma Xiaoquan snorted, and suddenly felt a chill coming from his back.

"Oops!" Ma Xiaoquan screamed, hurriedly got up, left Cao Ren and Cao Hong, and ran towards Tao Qian's mansion.

"You two don't move, try your best to find a place to hide first, I'll go find Xiao Cao."

Looking at the back of Lord Shangxian in the distance, Cao Ren said: "Zilian, the lord won't have a problem, why don't we go with him?" ”

Cao Hong shook his head: "With the presence of the Immortal Lord, I believe that the lord will be fine." ”

"Hmm"

Ma Xiaoquan ran quickly, remembering that before stealing something, Cao Cao had said that he would kill Tao Qian by the way, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his head.

"Damn, I was negligent, if Cao Cao really did this, then wouldn't history be"

Chamber.

Cao Cao was indeed as Ma Xiaoquan had guessed, quietly lurking motionless.

Cao Cao felt that he was lucky, and after entering this first inner room, Cao Cao found the dominoes that his father had always loved to play with during his lifetime.

With this domino, Tao Qian's killing of his father was truly implemented, and at the same time, Cao Cao also concluded that Tao Qian would definitely come to this inner room.

Cao Cao put the dominoes in place and waited quietly

After a stick of incense, the door of the inner room was savagely kicked open.

Cao Cao, who was hiding in the dark, looked at it, it was really Tao Qian, and Tao Qian was the only one at this time.

"The opportunity is here~" Cao Cao was very excited in his heart, and his right hand quietly moved to the dagger on his waist.

Tao Qian wandered around a few times in a daze, and then sat down in front of the desk with a heavy ass.

"Hmm~" Tao Qian raised his eyebrows, grabbed the dominoes, and groped carefully.

"This domino is said to be the treasure of Xibo Ji Changhou, Cao Song, this guy hum~"

Tao Qian was delirious and inattentive, and at this moment, he didn't notice at all that behind him, there was a man standing.

The man quietly raised his dagger, and then stabbed it hard.