Chapter 642: The Battle of Guandu (3)
Song Xian was killed, Cao Cao did not have any regrets, because he didn't plan to use Lu Bu's old generals, for Cao Cao, although Lu Bu was famous all over the world, it had become a thing of the past.
In Lu Bu's old department, except for Zhang Liao and Chen Gong, Cao Cao really couldn't see anything outstanding about the other generals. Those old generals of Lu Bu have always been in the shadow of Lu Bu's prestige, especially after Lu Bu took them to the Central Plains to live a chaotic life, they have experienced three or four ups and downs, and those guys now care more about comfort than living for the sake of fighting as before.
Like Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Wei Xu, and even Qin Yilu, etc., these guys can no longer see their blood, they are more in the camp, working hard for personal gain. They just want to keep the wealth they have scavenged during this period of following Lu Bu, and they don't want to pay, but they want to live a comfortable life as a rich man. That Hou Cheng concealed a large amount of wealth and did not report it, and wanted to unload his armor and go into hiding, but Cao Cao's spies found out that this guy actually had a wealth that made people blush. As a result, Cao Cao pretended to agree and let Hou Cheng leave, but secretly asked Cao Cao to set up a captain to touch the gold to solve Hou Cheng, and then retrieve Hou Cheng's wealth, only saying that it was the wealth of the dead.
Well, touching Jin Xiaowei, this term may be a little unfamiliar to many people, because there was no such official position in the Han Dynasty, and it was an official position set up by Cao Cao not long ago. This captain who touched gold was actually a tomb robber known to Cao Cao in his early years, who specialized in digging other people's ancestral graves and stealing funeral treasures.
In normal times, Cao Cao often asked him to steal some mausoleums for himself. Secretly looting money for him.
Without the help of the tomb robber, Cao Cao would not have been able to develop so quickly.
In that year, Cao Cao fled from Luoyang to his hometown. falsely preached the holy decree and called on the princes of the world to crusade against Dong Zhuo. At that time, almost all of the Cao family's wealth had been taken out to recruit troops for Cao Cao. At that time, when the army was raised, Cao Cao's military horses suddenly had tens of thousands, and this required Cao Cao to add the wealth accumulated when he was the prime minister in Jinan before Cao Cao could maintain his expenses.
Afterward. Cao Cao captured 400,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army at once, making Cao Cao suddenly rise to a hegemon-like prince. All of a sudden, there were 400,000 more horses and 400,000 mouths. Cao Cao was worried just about eating and drinking, not to mention building weapons and armor, and buying war horses or something? Where did you get so much money all at once? Well. Behind Cao Cao. Although there are many local tycoons who support it, it is not enough.
Cao Cao just let the tomb robber and pull up a group of people who specialize in this kind of dead and alive, almost dug up the graves in the north and south of the river for Cao Cao, and looted countless wealth for Cao Cao.
Cao Cao's digging of people's ancestral graves had already caused panic among the people at that time, but because of the mysterious whereabouts of those tomb robbers. And, take advantage of some strange accidents. Something horrific was created, so that although people were terrified, no one dared to care.
Of course, at that time, the government was corrupt, and the entire Han Dynasty was almost in a state of anarchy, and no one would care about those things, and the princes who occupied the places were also busy with their own development or fighting for territory. Whoever digs up their ancestral grave will basically not be cared for.
At that time, Liu Yi didn't know about these things, but at that time, after Liu Yi established the New Han Dynasty in Luoyang, he remembered that Dong Zhuo would excavate the Xishan Imperial Mausoleum when he moved the capital to Chang'an, so Liu Yi specially sent Lin Xian to lead people to guard the Xishan Imperial Mausoleum. Historically, Cao Cao also dug the Xishan Emperor's Mausoleum, but now there are military horses guarding it, and Cao Cao asked people to dig graves, but he did not dare to dig up the New Han Dynasty. This kind of thing, even if Liu Yi knows the Tao, he can't care about other things.
Now, Cao Cao has such a large territory all of a sudden, and the development is too fast, and the three prefectures of Henan, Zhou, and Xu, which have just been obtained, have not been able to provide Cao Cao with money, grain and other materials in a short period of time, and they will face a big war again. In order to alleviate the financial pressure, Cao Cao set up an official position to legalize the tomb robber.
Touching the gold captain, at first it just said the official position of the leading tomb robber, and later, it developed into a tomb robber who was called the gold school captain. Of course, that's just for later.
Now Cao Cao's captain is a strange person, and it has developed to the point that there are two or three thousand people under him who rob Cao Cao's tomb. And some shady things, Cao Cao also likes to let these people do it. Hou Cheng, without knowing it, was solved by Captain Jin.
Song Xian and Wei Xu may have guessed from a certain aspect that Hou Cheng's disappearance might have something to do with Cao Cao, so they participated in this big battle with Yuan Shao, hoping to perform well and make some credit, so that Cao Cao has no excuse to do anything with them.
It's a pity that Song Xian didn't know how powerful Zhang He was, and he was killed after only two or three rendezvous.
In addition, Song Xian didn't know what Cao Cao remembered, it was his woman Wei who took from Lu Bu, not his wealth.
Cao Cao saw that Zhang He was really powerful, and felt that it would be difficult to fight Zhang He if he didn't send his own generals. Just as he was about to kill Xu Huang or Zhang Liao and other generals to fight, Wei Xu suddenly jumped out with great excitement and grief, and said to Cao Cao: "Zhang He killed my companion, and I am willing to avenge General Song, chir!" ”
Wei Xu didn't wait for Cao Cao's consent, so he slapped his horse and rushed out.
Well, Wei Xu's martial arts are not even as good as Song Xian, when did he have such courage? Cao Cao looked at Wei Xu, who rushed over, and was a little puzzled.
At this moment, Wei Xu's eyes were red, and he stared closely at Song Xian's body that fell to the ground.
Wei Xu naturally didn't rush out to avenge Song Xian, even if Song Xian was Wei Xun's real brother-in-law, Wei Xu would not be afraid of death to avenge Song Xian. In fact, he went for Song Xian's corpse, and he wanted to snatch Song Xian's body back.
This guy conspired with Hou Cheng and Song Xian to tie up Lu Bu and surrender to Cao Cao. Since it is to vote for Cao Cao, then before binding Lu Bu to join Cao, they also have to prepare some back roads for themselves, at the beginning, Liu Yi hid in the Lu Mansion and saw these guys plotting, in addition to plotting how to capture Lu Bu, they were also plotting how to seize Lu Bu's property.
At that time, Song Xian and Wei's affairs, they all knew about it. They wanted to make sure that after they voted for Cao Cao. Their own belongings and the wealth they took from Lu Bu's family would not be taken away by Cao Cao, and they would all let the Wei family help keep the wealth because. Even if Cao Cao occupied Picheng and found that Lu Bu's wealth was missing, he would not suspect that he would be in a woman like Wei. Therefore, it is safest to put the property in Wei's hands.
Wei is Wei Xu's sister, at that time, Wei Xu was very relieved of his sister, and entrusted all his belongings to his sister to keep the collection for him.
And so it goes. Hou Cheng, Wei Xu, and Song Xian, plus Wei, the property of the four. In addition, Lu Bu's wealth was all secretly hidden by the Wei family in a very secret place. At that time, it was unlikely that the belongings would be transported away from Xiapi City, and the Wei clan hid all those belongings in Xiapi City.
It is not convenient to remember the location in the future. Wei asked the man in charge of collecting their belongings to draw a map. With the help of the map, it is possible to accurately find the wealth they have hidden.
In order to reassure everyone, Wei divided the treasure map into four, and each of the four of them held a treasure map.
However, no one thought that Wei and Song Xian had a hot adulterous relationship, and they actually leaned completely towards Song Xian to know the way. All of Wei Xu's wealth was handed over to the Wei family for safekeeping. Now, he looks. Wei and Song Xian are suspected of embezzling his and Hou Cheng's share.
However, Hou Cheng is better than him Wei Xu, because Hou Cheng's property that he secretly looted in those years was not handed over to the Wei family for safekeeping, so even if Hou Cheng doesn't want Lu Bu's share of the wealth, Hou Cheng can live a good life and live a rich man.
Now, Hou Cheng is missing, which means that the whereabouts of the treasure map that Hou Cheng is holding are unknown. And his sisters Wei and Song Xian talked about Hou Cheng's disappearance, saying that they had lost Hou Cheng's treasure map, and they had no way to dig up their wealth.
This is an excuse, because Wei Xu knows that the treasure map was painted by his sister Wei, and there may be more than one, even if there is only one copy, but his sister must remember the complete treasure map. Wei Xu was a little worried, worried that his sister and Song Xian, the two dog men and women, would take the wealth in private.
However, Wei Xu is not stupid, it can be said that he is quite treacherous. Because after he voted for Cao Cao, he immediately thought that his sister seemed to be unusual with Song Xian, women would be conquered by men, even if it wasn't like that, if his sister and Song Xian were together in the future and became a family, then he Wei Xu would become an outsider instead.
Worried, he coaxed his sister to show him her treasure map while he was still close to him. Then, Wei Xuqiang wrote it down, turned his head and drew it. In this way, he has half of the treasure map in his hands.
Then, he found Hou Cheng again, exchanged resources with Hou Cheng, and copied each other's shares. Hou Cheng didn't think too much about it at that time, and felt that he would not suffer from each other with Wei Xu. What's more, at that time, he also faintly felt that Song Xian and Wei were a little wrong, which made Hou Cheng not very relieved, and felt that it would be good to get one more treasure map.
In this way, Wei Xu had three-quarters of the treasure map in his hands, but unfortunately, no matter how he knocked on the side, he couldn't get Song Xian's one-quarter treasure map.
He talked to his sister, and heard his sister say that Song Xian's treasure map had not left him at all.
In other words, the one-quarter treasure map has always been on Song Xian's body.
At this moment, Wei Xu was not trying to avenge Song Xian, but wanted to snatch back Song Xian's body and obtain the treasure map on Song Xian's body.
Well, how much wealth can make Wei Xu red-eyed?
Well, it can be calculated that Lu Bu took countless treasures from Chang'an at that time, and later, when he garrisoned the army in Handan, the money and food developed at that time were obtained in exchange for Emperor Xian and Cao Cao, and the second was asked for from Yuan Shao. That fortune was not spent much. Later, after a sneak attack on Yanzhou, Lu Bu ordered people to go out to raid and plunder. I don't know how many wealthy families of the noble clan have been looted. When I arrived in Xuzhou, don't look at Xuzhou City, because there was Chen Gong watching, Lu Bu's military horses did not let go of Xuzhou to plunder, but the wealthy families of the scholars in other towns were not so lucky, in fact, even those soldiers under Lu Bu's account would go to sell and buy privately. In addition, although Lu Bu did not plunder, he demanded it.
Lu Bu's wealth should be able to support his more than 100,000 military horses for three years, or even more. If you don't count the food, even if you are a military salary. Don't say much, just say that more than 100,000 military horses are paid for three years, how many of them are? Just do the math. If a soldier has a monthly salary of 100 yuan, then the cost of 100,000 military horses in a month is 10 million, and it will exceed 100 million yuan in a year, and hundreds of millions in three years.
Hundreds of millions is the lowest estimate of this wealth. 100 million is just a unit.
Anyway, the wealth is moving, and Wei continues now. There is only Song Xian's corpse in his eyes.
After Zhang He killed Song Xian, he was about to wave his hand to ask the sergeant to move Song Xian's body back, and then cut off the head and hang it on the handsome flag, so as to dampen the morale of Cao Cao's military horses.
But. But he saw a horse galloping over.
Just killed a Cao general. It should be stronger again, right? Zhang He thought in his heart, but he was not slow in his hand, and directly waved his gun to meet him.
Wei Xu may really be a little lost at this moment, although he is also carrying a spear, but he does not make a battle move, but stares at Song Xian's corpse with an excited expression, as if he is thinking. Wealth, wealth, you are mine......
Call!
"Drink! The thief will die! "Zhang Heke doesn't care if he's ready or not. The spear swept straight away.
The cold killing machine made Wei Xu feel a chill rise from the bottom of his heart, and he looked at it intently, but saw a flash of silver light, and at the moment when he came to his senses, he saw Zhang He's spear swept directly under his ribs.
"Ahh
Wei Xu didn't make any movement at all, and was directly swept off the horse's back by Zhang Yiyi's gun.
The huge momentum made Wei Xu puff and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Die!"
The tip of Zhang He's spear followed Wei Xu, who was shot out, and he took it back with a slump.
Crackling!
Wei Xu fell to the ground heavily, his eyes widened, and he covered his chest in disbelief, and a column of blood spurted out of his chest, staining his clothes red in the blink of an eye.
"I, I want him, his ...... Hide...... Treasure...... Fig...... Uh......"
Wei Xu also found that he fell to the ground, slipped some distance, and actually slipped not far from Song Xian's corpse, he stretched out his hand stained with blood, towards Song Xian's corpse, and said a word intermittently with great effort and then coughed up another mouthful of blood, and the side of his head was lifeless.
"Huh? This guy actually came to die for nothing? What did he say at the end of the day? Treasure maps? Is that the guy who died first had a treasure map on him? Zhang He was also a little curious at the moment.
"Come on, pull back the body of that Cao Jiang, no one is allowed to move!" Thinking of this, Zhang Yiyi turned around and summoned his own soldiers and dragged Song Xian's body back into his own military formation.
Just as he was about to consider whether to drag Wei Xu's body back to his own military formation, another general in Cao Cao's camp rode down from the hillside to kill him.
"Zhang He! Xu Huang is here to fight you! ”
Xu Huang rushed down from the hillside, coming in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, he was more than ten steps away from Zhang He.
He shouted, and the big axe in his hand was raised high above his head, and the axe slashed down from afar.
With a snort, if you look at it from the side, Xu Huang's axe is still a little far away from Zhang He, and it seems that he can't split Zhang He, but only Zhang He knows that he is now afraid that he has met a real opponent.
With an axe, he suddenly crossed a distance of more than ten steps, like thunder, and went directly to the top of Zhang He's head.
"Well done! Tyre! ”
Zhang He was not afraid, holding the gun in both hands, focusing on his arms, and the horizontal gun was in gear.
Boom!
Xu Huang's big axe, like a sledgehammer, hit Zhang He's gun hard.
There was a loud roar, and with a snort, the two war horses came forward, flying sand and stones, countless grass clippings and other sundries, which were stirred up by the strength of the two.
"Ah......h
The war horses of the two almost neighed in unison, only to see Xu Huang's war horse pause, and the whole war horse stood upright, while Zhang He, but even people and horses, jumped back as if they had been hit, and tom tom retreated more than ten steps before stopping.
"Whew......" Zhang He exhaled in surprise, suddenly feeling that his arms were numb, and there was a feeling of soreness.
"You're Xu Huang? Sure enough, it was worthy of its reputation, and it was able to repel Zhang with one blow. Zhang He's eyes lit up, staring at Xu Huangdao.
"Ha Luha, Zhang He is nothing more than that, even killed two generals of my Cao army, I thought you were really amazing, suffer death!" Xu Huang calmed down the irritable war horse, and once again swung out three axe shadows, attacking Zhang He.
Very strong! Zhang He's eyes narrowed, and he sighed secretly in his heart, he knew that if it was his previous self, he would definitely not be the enemy of Xu Huang, even now, if he fought hard with Xu Huang, he might not be Xu Huang's enemy. However, his martial arts have improved not long ago, and he may not lose if he fights Xu Huang with his martial arts.
Zhang He is now very confident in himself, and he is not afraid because he was repelled by Xu Huang's blow.
In fact, Zhang He also understood that Xu Huang's blow was the strength of the high-speed rush of the war horse, and if there was no impact of the war horse, Xu Huang's divine power would not be much stronger than him.
Zhang He is good at scheming, and he always thinks about it in his heart when he encounters trouble, and feels that he has a chance to defeat Xu Huang, so he has no intention of escaping, but instead arouses a sense of war, feeling that now is the time to test his martial arts.
Recently, Zhang He's martial arts have made another breakthrough, because he recalls the past battles, especially the battles that he lost to Liu Yi many times, and he had an epiphany in the previous battle with Liu Yi, before the war, his heart was cowardly before the battle, so that when he was fighting, he couldn't do his best, and he always had spare strength, so that he always had a subconscious idea that he was inferior to others. Now, he realized that he should move forward in battle, so that his martial arts made a breakthrough and went further.
"I don't know who kills whom, look at the gun!" Zhang He did not back down, and shot up. (To be continued......)