"Woooooooooooo

At this moment, a terrible horn sounded, and the sound of sudden shouts of killing outside the city shook the sky, and the Yellow Turban Army, which was originally frantically attacking the city, also began to be chaotic.

"Reinforcements! Reinforcements are coming! ”

The defeated county sergeants and soldiers, hearing the sound of the horn, all cheered, and one by one their morale was greatly boosted, and they fought back desperately.

The Yellow Turban Army attacking the city wall was stunned at first, and then began to panic. Now the county town has not yet been breached, if the officers and soldiers are attacked from both sides, the Yellow Turban Army will be defeated and invincible.

Wang Yan stood on top of the command position of the Chinese army, looking at Chen Xu and Dian Wei, who were rushing left and right, and there was no enemy under them, and his face twitched fiercely.

The county seat was about to be breached, and the officers and soldiers of Puyang actually came at this time, he was very unwilling, but his reason told him that he must withdraw at this time.

"Woo!"

The sound of gold sounded, and the Yellow Turban Army, which was fighting bloodily on the city wall, began to retreat unwillingly.

The Yellow Turban soldier who slashed Cheng Yu showed a hint of ruthlessness on his face, wanting to kill Cheng Yu before retreating.

He picked up the big knife and slashed at Cheng Yu with all his strength.

Cheng Yu wanted to resist, but his body couldn't move, so he could only close his eyes and lament in his heart.

He defended Dong'a and waited for reinforcements, but he didn't want to be in a different place before he could stretch what he had learned.

He has the integrity of a famous man, and he is not afraid of death, since he can't stop it, let's die vigorously!

Cheng Yu opened his eyes and shouted: "What a pity to die!" ”

The big knife slashed down, blood splattered out, and Cheng Yu's whole body was dyed red.

"Kill!"

At this time, there were not many Yellow Turban soldiers on the city wall, and the county sergeants began to fight back, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who slashed at Cheng Yu with a knife were dismembered by the county sergeants who rushed over.

"Are you alright, sir?" The two county sergeants quickly ran to Cheng Yu and asked anxiously.

Cheng Yu opened his eyes, wiped a handful of blood from his face, and said confusedly: "I'm not dead yet?" ”

At this time, he found that a county sergeant with a broken right arm was lying on top of him, already dead. It was this seriously injured soldier who blocked a knife for him at a critical moment to save Cheng Yu's life.

Holding back the emotion and grief in his heart, Cheng Yu looked around and found that there were less than 1,000 soldiers on the city wall who could stand up.

He propped up his body, held his sword in his right arm, and shouted loudly: "Troops, follow me to hunt down the Yellow Turbans and avenge the dead robes!" ”

The soldiers responded with a bang, ignoring their own wounds and exhaustion, and all shouted to hunt down the Yellow Turbans.

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Chen Xu entered the city and looked at the top strategist of the Three Kingdoms in front of him, who had been thunderous in his previous life, and his heart was stirred.

He helped Cheng Yu, who was kneeling on the ground, and said loudly: "The Dong'e County Order disregarded the safety of the county seat and abandoned the city and fled, and it is not a pity to die." Mr. led everyone to fight bloodily, defended Dong'a, and repelled the Yellow Turban, with no fault. ”

"Although he is only the leader of the rebel army and has no real official position, he is also willing to recommend Mr. to the county keeper with a certain head!"

After repelling the yellow scarf, Cheng Yu ignored the wound on his left arm, came to Chen Xu and asked him for his guilt.

Although it was a last resort at that time, Cheng Yu killed Shangguan after all, which was a big crime. If Chen Xu catches him, it will be enough to put him in prison.

"Mr. should go down first to recuperate, and kill the Dong'e County Order, and a certain person will tell the county guard."

Cheng Yu was exhausted, his face was a little pale due to excessive blood loss, and his body was a little shaky. Chen Xu grabbed Cheng Yu and hurriedly said.

After Cheng Yu thanked him and left, Chen Xu lowered his head and pondered, he felt that Cheng Yu was a little different from the celebrity he imagined.

In his eyes, all celebrities should be modest, full of talent, and indifferent to fame and fortune. But in Cheng Yu, he saw the other side of the celebrity.

Cheng Yu's talent and prestige are undoubted, but he has an extremely strong desire for fame.

However, due to his bad temper and the fact that he often offended people, his career was very unsmooth, and he stayed up until he was forty-three years old, and still did not get an official position.

Forty-three years old is already a very old age for the ancients.

In fact, his bad temper is certainly one of the reasons why he can't go out, but the more important reason is that he is the dictatorship of the Ten Standing Servants and openly sells officials.

Today's official position in the Han Dynasty can be said to be a clear price, except for some children of big families, it is almost impossible to make meritorious contributions and be promoted.

Although Cheng Yu is talented and his family background is not too bad, he is not very wealthy. If you buy an official, one is that he doesn't have so much wealth; Second, spreading it is not good for reputation.

Those celebrities who are famous all over the world regard their prestige as more than life, and if they get official positions by buying officials, their reputations will be ruined.

Selling officials, also known as donating officials, began during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, there were many troubles at the border, and the state treasury was very expensive, and the practice of exchanging titles for food was no longer enough to solve the problem, so they sold their official positions to increase their income and pay for huge military expenditures.

At this point, the "selling official beard" has become one.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Hong hung the price list of officials inside and outside Hongdu Gate, selling 400 million for 400 stone and 10 million for the "Three Princes".

Cui Lie, a celebrity, once bribed Emperor Ling's nanny and bought the position of Situ at half price. Originally, with his talent and prestige, he was enough to hold the position of the third prince, but after he spent money to buy officials, he was despised by the world.

Later, he asked his son Cui Jun, "What do outsiders say about me?" ”

Cui Jun replied: "Outsiders think you stink of copper." ”

Cui Lie was furious when he heard this, raised his staff to hit him, and walked away in embarrassment. Cui Lie scolded: "Dead pawn, father left, filial piety? ”

Jun said: "Shun's father, the small staff will be accepted, and the big staff will go, not unfilial." ”

When Cui Lie heard this, he was ashamed, and stopped chasing Cui Jun.

Cheng Yukong has an ambition, but he can't display it, and he usually sighs when he looks at the gray hair that grows on his head. After a long time, the more serious it is to be a person, and if you are not close to people, it will be more difficult to get out.

Chen Xu also heard people talk about Cheng Yu, and when he thought of this, he sighed majestically.

Because of the sale of officials, several ballads have been circulated in the world. Among them is a ballad that says: 'According to Xiucai, he is illiterate; Filial piety and honesty, the father does not live';'Straight as a string, on the edge of the road of death; Qu is like a hook, anti-feudal marquis'.

It can be seen that the situation of a talented celebrity like Cheng Yu but not being able to become a celebrity is not uncommon in the Han Empire.

Some celebrities are open-minded and indifferent to fame and fortune, but instead devote themselves to studying, writing books and teaching their children; Some celebrities like Cheng Yu are depressed at home.

When the Han Empire reached this point, how could it not lose the country?

No longer thinking about these things, Chen Xu sent a messenger to Qiao Mao to report the situation of the battle in Dong'a and the shooting of the county commander by Cheng Yu; On the one hand, let Chen Jing lead the soldiers to defend the four gates, and then send the soldiers to appease the people.

After handling the affairs at hand, Chen Xu also felt a little tired, he patted his head suddenly, and secretly called a mistake.

Originally, according to the distance from Puyang to Dong'e, under normal circumstances, it would take three days for Puyang reinforcements to arrive. But Chen Xu was afraid that Dong'e would be lost, so he asked the soldiers to rush to Dong'e in the starry night.

After a long and rapid march, the soldiers were exhausted, but fortunately, Chen Xu's prestige in the army was very high, so the soldiers did not mutiny.

Arriving at Dong'e City, Chen Xu also mustered up his last strength to save Dong'e County. If the Yellow Turban Army does not retreat to the death, with the exhausted 3,000 Puyang reinforcements, it is not yet known who will die.

However, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated by Chen Xu several times in a row, and there were already some shadows in his heart, even Wang Yan. Therefore, as soon as he saw Chen Xu leading troops to support, he became unwarlike and immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn.

Now, even he, the main general, is so tired, let alone those ordinary soldiers. Chen Xu hurriedly walked out of the big tent, wanting to let the soldiers take turns to defend the city so that they could recover their strength.

Arriving at the city wall, Chen Xu found that there were only two hundred people on the city wall. Chen Xu was very surprised in his heart, so he asked the generals guarding the city why there were so few people.

The general defending the city did not dare to slack off, and said: "General Chen Jing has an order to divide the county sergeants into four squads, each with 800 people, and take turns to defend the city. ”

Hearing this, Chen Xu was quite happy in his heart. Chen Jing is his own brother, and when he is confused, he can help him check and fill in the gaps, which is really a good thing.

Ignoring sighs and resting, Chen Xu returned to the county government to deal with affairs.

Now the county order fled with many officials in the county, the county order was shot by Cheng Yu, and the rest were beheaded by Wang Yan for public display. Now a county government office of Nuoda, there are many things that Chen Xu needs to deal with.

After dealing with it for a long time, Chen Xu was overwhelmed by the trivial official documents in the county, and suddenly heard Cheng Yu's visit, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly went out to greet him.

Cheng Yu's wound was bandaged, but fortunately, he didn't hurt his bones, and after resting for a long time, his face was much better.

Seeing Cheng Yu, Chen Xu first saluted forward, and then held his right arm and said: "Xu has been dealing with things in the county for half a day, and I feel powerless. ”