Cao Wenzhao laughed and pointed to his seat: "Sit down, let's sit down and talk." ”

Dong Ce sat down according to his words, he could see that Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were quite affectionate to him, and they seemed to be intending to approach, Cao Wenzhao's words revealed a closeness and wooing, these two can be like this, he is still very happy in his heart.

This time, he desperately rescued Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew for three reasons. First, it is naturally to retain the strongest cavalry force in Shaanxi Province; the second is to make Cao Wenzhao owe himself a favor, and even let Hong Chengchou and the court owe him a favor; Third, it is for a merit.

The thousands of elite cavalry under Cao Wenzhao's command should be clearly seen on the three sides of Shaanxi, on the overall situation of the current battle with the thieves in Guanzhong, and even on the overall situation of the entire suppression of bandits.

This time, strictly speaking, although he rescued Cao Wenzhao, the three of them should be said to have lost the battle. After all, he was surrounded by people, and then fled in a hurry, which is naturally a defeat. However, if you count the number of enemies killed, you will almost annihilate two or three thousand intruding troops, and they are all elite cavalry in the invading army, and their own losses are about one thousand. From that point of view, it's an out-and-out win. After all, there is merit in killing the enemy, and there is no fault of losing land, because Zhenning County was occupied by the invading army, and Zhenning County was occupied by the invading army, and this crime cannot be counted on Cao Wenzhao's head.

As for escaping, it can also be said to be temporarily avoiding the edge and slowly trying to figure it out.

To put it bluntly, there are thousands of kills on the table, and this credit is easy to count.

If this battle is fought by Dong Ce alone, then this battle may not be successful, because if Dong Ce wants to operate, he can only find Liu Ruozai, but Liu Ruozai is too square, if Dong Ce begs him because of this matter, he will definitely not agree. But with Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao participating in this battle, it is much easier to say. Both of them are extremely important generals of Hong Chengchou, thinking that this time Cao Wenzhao was angry at the gate of Sanshui County under the pretext of Guan Yinzhi, and openly vented the news of his dissatisfaction with Hong Chengchou, and it won't be long before Hong Chengchou knows.

Hong Chengchou will give him a credit even if he is appeasing the big battle that his subordinates rely on, and the cavalry that broke into the army that was killed and injured some time ago today is clearly there, and it is easy to give credit to him.

With Dong Ce's scheming city, as well as his understanding of Cao Wenzhao and Hong Chengchou, it can naturally be seen that Cao Wenzhao is also venting his dissatisfaction at the city gate. Regarding this matter, he and Cao Wenzhao's judgment is the same, and they both think that Hong Chengchou will appease, rather than be angry and punish Cao Wenzhao.

In the final analysis, the war situation in Shaanxi is inseparable from Cao Wenzhao.

Dong Ce and Cao Wenzhao can see this point more clearly. Cao Wenzhao can see it clearly because he has been in a high position for a long time, and he knows the war situation in Shaanxi very well, and he also knows Hong Chengchou very well. And Dong Ce knows it because he is familiar with history, and he also understands Hong Chengchou's character and the way the imperial court acted at this time.

At this time, in the eight years of Chongzhen, the situation is not the same as before, it is easy for the court to kill unarmed civil officials, but it is not so easy to kill military generals with heavy troops.

Cao Wenzhao raised his wine glass, and seeing his uncle acting like this, Cao Bianjiao also hurriedly raised his wine glass.

Cao Wenzhao said in a deep voice: "Brother Dong, today's incident is thanks to you, if you hadn't killed it in the air, I'm afraid that my uncle and nephew would have been in a different place at this time and died in the army formation." ”

Dong Ce hurriedly said: "Brother Cao, don't talk like that, this is all a brother's duty and should be done." ”

"Yes, you're right, this is indeed your duty, as a Ming general, you see us surrounded and helped, it is right! However, I want to say, if you are replaced by any other Ming officer, he himself took hundreds of people, and saw from a distance that there were tens of thousands of horses in the invading army, would he dare to take this little bit of his own men and horses to attack the large array of the invading army, which was a hundred times the strength of his own troops? ”

"He would never dare!"

Cao Wenzhao stared at Dong Ce and cut the railroad to the fore. His hand swung down heavily, his words filled with power.

He looked at Dong Ce, the gratitude in his eyes was not concealed at all, and he said in a deep voice: "Except for you, except for Brother Dong, no one else dare!" That's why I said, Brother Dong, you are a real hero, a hero! My Cao Wenzhao has a higher official position than you, but I am willing to recognize you as a brother, because I admire you, just because of today's incident! ”

"What's more, today's incident is related to the lives of my uncle and nephew, no matter what, you saved our lives, this life-saving grace, we must thank and thank again!"

Cao Wenzhao actually Huo Ran stood up, took two steps back, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed heavily to Dong Ce.

He suddenly made this action, not to mention Dong Ce, even Cao Bianjiao didn't react, and when he came back to his senses, he quickly knelt behind his uncle and kowtowed to Dong Ce.

Dong Ce was really frightened, who is Cao Wenzhao? Hanging the title of the governor of the five armies, and at the same time the chief military officer, this is a dignified national dynasty is a second-grade member, Cao Bianjiao is also a high-grade military attaché, these two high-level military generals, actually kowtow to themselves?

How can this be tolerated?

He hurriedly stood up, vigorously mixed Cao Wenzhao from the ground, and said in a stacked voice: "Brother Cao, I can't help it, I can't help it, you are killing the little brother!" ”

He has a lot of arm strength, and he really wants to help Cao Wenzhao, but Cao Wenzhao's strength is really not small, so he didn't help him up, and he kowtowed three times before he stood up. He drank all the wine in the cup, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Dong, these three heads, this cup of wine, I thank you for saving your life, if you can afford me, you can accept it calmly, just drink the wine, we are brothers." ”

Dong Ce didn't say a word, tilted his neck, and drank a glass of wine.

When Cao Wenzhao Cao Bianjiao sat down, he toasted three more times and said, "Brother Cao, you just said that you want to thank me for saving my life, and I kowtowed a few times, I dare not accept it." But these three glasses of wine are my respects to you. ”

Cao Wenzhao laughed: "Brother, I drank your three glasses of wine." ”

Then it's time to drink it all.

Over there, Cao Bianjiao smiled and said: "Han Chen, you call my uncle brother and brother, we are about the same age for two years, so how should it be calculated?" Could it be that I should shout uncle? ”

Cao Wenzhao waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about this, we have our own opinions, and it's nothing for brothers to be commensurate." ”

Although he said so, Dong Ce and Cao Bianjiao could not talk about each other like him. The two counted their ages, Cao Bianjiao was three years older than Dong Ce, but Dong Ce called Cao Wenzhao the eldest brother, and Cao Bianjiao didn't dare to let him call himself brother, so the two said yes, and each of them was commensurate with each other.

Dong Ce's word Hanchen, and Cao Bianjiao is the word Qihua, which comes from the peach of the Book of Poetry: the peach is untimely and scorching.

It's time to thank you, the title has been decided, and the three of them are a lot more relaxed, so they eat, drink, and gossip. Most of them say some interesting anecdotes that they know, and they don't talk about anything serious, and their attitude is leisurely and very relaxed.

After eating for more than half an hour, the wine has passed thirty years, and the food has passed five flavors, Cao Wenzhao finally asked a sentence that he had been holding in his heart for a long time.

He stared at Dong Ce and said in a deep voice, "Brother Dong, why did you pass by Hutou Town?" Was it by chance, or was there another reason? ”

He had been holding this question in his heart for a long time, in fact, from the moment Dong Ce suddenly came out to save him, he had already had this question in his heart. Because the timing of the appearance of Dong Ce and the others was too coincidental, it happened that the encirclement of the invading army was about to be formed but had not yet been formed, and it was the time when it was weak. At this time, it is possible to rescue Cao Wenzhao and them, and it is not possible to do it sooner or later. If it had been earlier, their small team would have been enveloped by the invading army, and if it had been a little late, the encirclement of the invading army had already been formed, like an iron wall, and no matter how much it could not be penetrated.

Cao Wenzhao was not surprised that Dong Ce was able to grasp this fighter, because from today's contact, he could see that Dong Ce was the kind of person who was quite brave and good at fighting, and at the same time had a strategy, and was good at grasping the fighter with a vicious vision. But the fact that this team could suddenly appear at such an opportune time in that period has to be doubtful.