Seeing that Chen Gong regarded death as home, Zhang Yan was not afraid at all, and had a trace of respect for Chen Gong. However, before killing him, he still wanted to find out that Weishenme Chen Gong was good under Cao Cao, but he wanted to rebel against Cao Cao.

Regarding the questions raised by Zhang Yan, Chen Gong, who was about to die, did not hide it, and told Zhang Yan all the ins and outs of the matter.

Chen Gong had a deep friendship with Cao Cao, so after the death of his predecessor Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, he and Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, set up Cao Cao to succeed him as the assassin of Yanzhou.

But with the development of things later, as well as the flaws of Chen Gong and Cao Cao's own personalities, as well as the two things Cao Cao did, Chen Gong went to the anti-Cao route.

There are two main reasons for this. First, Cao Cao was sarcastic because of the sarcastic remarks made by Chen Liu's former Jiujiang Taishou Bian Rang and others, and killed many famous people who were considered to be nobles and doctors at that time.

Chen Gong has a strong personality and likes to make friends with celebrities, Cao Cao killed so many fellow practitioners, Chen Gong was worried about his head at the same time, he felt that he was a rabbit dead and a fox was hurt, and he planted the antecedents of resentment for anti-Cao.

Second, Cao Cao angered the people of Xuzhou because of his father's death and slaughtered countless innocent people. In the eyes of Chen Gong, although Cao Cao is a chief who knows himself, he is a murderer, so Chen Gong united Zhang Chao, Zhang Miao, and Lu Bu to oppose Cao Cao.

In Yanzhou under Cao Cao's rule, only Cao Cao's cronies Xiahou Dun, Xun Yu, and Cheng Yu guarded Puyang, Dong'e, Fanxian, Zhencheng and other places did not betray Cao Cao, and everyone else betrayed Cao Cao.

However, from Chen Gong's words, it is not difficult for Zhang Yan to hear that Chen Gong still has a feeling of heroic sympathy for Cao Cao, and he also knows that Lu Bu is a brave and unscrupulous person, and he cannot be compared with Cao Cao, but at that time, he was angry and unwilling to be with Cao Cao anymore, so he embarked on the road of rebellion, bent on eliminating Cao Cao and avenging those celebrities who were slaughtered by Cao Cao, as well as countless innocent people.

After listening to Chen Gong's words, Zhang Yan actually had a trace of respect for Chen Gong from the bottom of his heart, and suddenly, a thought flashed in his mind, whether to kill Chen Gong or not?

Zhang Yan was silent for a moment, and then said: "Gongtai, although Lu Bu is brave in the world, he is stubborn and self-serving, and he is not a master, I think you should know this better than me." You are also a resourceful person who has ambitions in his heart but nowhere to put them into his hands. You want to kill Cao Cao, I also want to kill Cao Cao, since we have the same purpose, why don't you leave Lu Bu, submit to my account, and give me advice? ”

Chen Gong frowned, a pair of deep eyes looked directly at Zhang Yan, although the person in front of him, although he was not as brave as Lu Bu, but he was wiser than Lu Bu, and he had an extremely sober mind, knowing what he wanted and how to move towards this goal. If he could have met Zhang Yan earlier, he might have followed Zhang Yan willingly.

Zhang Yan saw Chen Gong's thoughtful look, so he asked, "Gongtai, what are you thinking about?" ”

Chen Gong said slowly: "Cao Cao has the grace of knowing me, but I rebelled against Cao Cao, switched to Lu Bu's account, and openly made enemies of Cao Cao, which is already disloyal." Although Lu Bu is stubborn and self-serving, he is like a confidant and brother to me, if I rebel against Lu Bu again and throw myself into the account of the envoy, it will be unjust. I, Chen Gongtai, have already done disloyalty, and now the envoy wants to trap me in injustice again? Even if I am willing to serve under the envoy's account, I will oppose Cao Cao first, and then oppose Lu Bu, won't the envoy worry that I will also oppose the envoy in the future? ”

Zhang Yan was stopped by Chen Gong's words, and roughly knew what Chen Gong meant from the words, sighed softly, and said to Chen Gong: "In this way, is the public station ready to give me advice?" ”

Chen Gong nodded and said to Zhang Yan: "If you can defeat Cao Cao and use Jun's ambitions, you will inevitably swallow Lu Bu in turn." As Lu Bu's military advisor, I will naturally give advice to Lu Bu, and when the time comes, I and the envoy will be enemies. You don't have to be soft on an enemy like me, right? Kill me, if you have a brave and unscrupulous Lu Bu, naturally you won't be able to make any big waves, it can be described as once and for all. ”

Having said that, Zhang Yan naturally knew that Chen Gong was begging for death. He sighed heavily and said to Chen Gong: "Gongtai, after you die, I will take care of your family for you." ”

"Thank you!"

Zhang Yan waved his hand at Tai Shi Ci, and Tai Shi Ci took Chen Gong aside, pulled out his sword, and stabbed Chen Gong in the heart with a sword, killing Chen Gong. At the same time as killing Chen Gong, the two coachmen who were driving the carriage naturally could not escape death, and were killed by two soldiers with a sword.

Subsequently, according to Zhang Yan's instructions, Tai Shici led 200 cavalry to escort the carriage carrying Diao Chan and gold, silver and jewelry towards Changyi.

Zhang Yan took three hundred cavalry, along with Chen Gong's corpse, and rushed back to Dingtao.

By the time Zhang Yan and the others rushed back to Dingtao, the rebellion in Dingtao City had been put down, Hao Meng was beheaded by Gao Shun, and half of Hao Meng's subordinates were killed, and the rest were forced to surrender.

The rebellion was put down, and Lu Bu's physical strength gradually recovered, when Gao Shun brought Hao Meng's head to Lu Bu, Lu Bu was angry, and he waved a halberd to chop Hao Meng's head to pieces, and then let people take Hao Meng's meat to feed the dogs, which shows how much Lu Bu hates Hao Meng.

Zhang Yan returned and informed Lu Bu that Chen Gong had been killed by Hao Meng's subordinates in order to protect Diao Chan, but Diao Chan was nowhere to be found.

Lu Bu was worried about Diao Chan's comfort, sent someone to raid Hao Meng's military camp, and found the correspondence between Hao Meng and Yuan Shu.

Lu Bu therefore concluded that Diao Chan must have been sent to Yuan Shu. He immediately ordered his troops and horses to chase after Diao Chan, but was stopped by Zhang Yan and told Lu Bu that he had sent Tai Shici to chase him, and there should be news soon, so that Lu Bu would wait for good news in Dingtao.

At noon, Tai Shi Ci finally rushed back, Lu Bu anxiously asked about the situation, Tai Shi Ci hung his head and told Lu Bu that Diao Chan was brutally dismembered and thrown into the river and washed away, and handed Diao Chan's clothes and jewelry as a witness.

After hearing this, Lu Bu broke his liver and intestines, cried bitterly without tears, and filled his chest with anger, and with a "wow" sound, he spit out blood, and threatened to kill Yuan Shu to avenge Diao Chan.

Seeing Lu Bu like this, Zhang Yan hurriedly asked Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to help Lu Bu go back to his room to rest, and found a doctor to diagnose and treat Lu Bu.

At the same time, the scouts outside the city came with the news that Xiahoudun, who was shot and wounded by Lu Bu yesterday, died because of his injuries, and now the entire Cao military camp is wearing linen and filial piety, threatening to avenge Xiahoudun.

After hearing the news, Zhang Yan was a little excited, but after a short period of excitement, he immediately regained his composure, he was thinking, what will Cao Cao do next? Will he turn his grief into liliang and drive the army to attack the city, or will he temporarily retreat back to Puyang because of the loss of Xiahoudun?

Zhang Yan had no way of knowing, so he had to send scouts again to pay close attention to Cao's movements.

Now, in Dingtao City, because of Hao Meng's rebellion, Chen Gong's death, and Diao Chan's dismemberment, Lu Bu, the hero I, was unacceptable for a while, and his mood fell to the bottom.

Lu Bu asked Gao Shun to be responsible for the burial of Chen Palace, and at the same time, he asked Zhang Liao to find a carpenter to carve a wooden figure according to the appearance of Diao Chan before his death, and prepared to make a grave for Diao Chan.

When the news of Xiahoudun's death reached Lu Bu's ears, Lu Bu regained some comfort in his heart.

In his opinion, the top priority at the moment is to get rid of Cao Cao as soon as possible, so he also sent scouts to inquire about the situation in Cao's military camp.

Today's Cao army camp is as quiet as death, and as far as the eye can see, the entire camp is dressed in linen and filial piety, and the morale is low, and the Cao army is even more immovable.

In the evening, the scouts sent by Lü Bu and Zhang Yan came back almost at the same time and reported the news to Lü Bu and Zhang Yan respectively.

Cao Cao was hit by the death of Xiahoudun, and he had no intention of fighting, and was ready to pull out the camp tomorrow and return to Puyang for the time being.

After Lu Bu got the news, he immediately left the room and went to find Zhang Yan.

At this time, Zhang Yan was sitting in the front hall of the Taishou Mansion, and just after listening to the scout's report, he saw Lu Bu swaggering towards here.

As soon as he entered the hall, Lu Bu immediately said: "Zhang Andong, Cao Cao will pull out the camp tomorrow, tonight I am going to attack the camp at night, are you willing to go with me?" ”

Zhang Yan said: "Cao Cao is cunning, although Xiahoudun died, but Cao Cao's strength will not choose to retreat." I think there's something strange about this......"

"What's the difference? Haven't I been hit by Chen Gong's death? Lu Bu retorted.

Zhang Yan said: "Since Cao Cao has decided to withdraw his troops, he will definitely withdraw his troops secretly, how could he have issued the order early, isn't he worried that the rest of the soldiers will oppose it?" What's more, the scouts we sent out to inquire were only scratching the surface, what if Cao Cao deliberately released the news and let us go to the camp at night? I think this needs to be considered in the long run......"

Lu Bu had nowhere to vent because of the deaths of Chen Gong and Diao Chan, and just heard the news that Cao Cao was going to withdraw his troops, so he prepared to attack the camp at night and vent all the anger in his heart on Cao Cao. At this time, where can he take care of so much.

"If you think long-term, I will not hinder you. However, I want to attack Cao's camp at night, and I hope you don't come to stop it. Once I succeed in my sneak attack and kill Cao Cao, don't blame me for not inviting you along! Lu Budao.

"Brother Fengxian, this matter is not trivial, didn't you attack Cao's military camp at night last time and be surrounded? This time, you should pay more attention, and wait and see what happens in the city, if Cao Cao really pulls out the camp tomorrow, it will not be too late for us to send an army to pursue! ”

"How can this time and that time be the same day? I have made up my mind, since Zhang Andong is unwilling to send troops to attack, please sit down and see how I make contributions! ”

As soon as the words fell, Lu Bu turned around and left, immediately ordered his troops and horses, led Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng, and brought the remaining more than 3,000 horse infantry troops to prepare to launch a fierce attack on Cao Cao.

Gao Shun and Zhang Liao also advised Lu Bu not to be emotional, and waited until tomorrow to talk about it, but Lu Bu did not listen, thinking that Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were mistaken, and left Gao Shun and Zhang Liao in the city.