Chapter 645: The war clouds rise in Xuzhou
Holding a long sword in his hand, Zhang Min grabbed the hair bun of a Cao Song guard with one hand, and kicked the guard on the leg violently.
The guard, who was already covered in injuries and had a hazy consciousness, was kicked to his knees by Zhang Min, and then the long sword in Zhang Min's hand was pressed against the back of the guard's neck, and his arm was violently forced.
The sword thrust through the back of the guard's neck and through the throat.
Raising his foot and kicking at the spine of the guard who had been pierced by his sword, kicking the guard's body aside, Zhang Min raised the long sword in his hand high, and shouted to the soldiers who were killing Cao Song's entourage maids and servants: "Don't let anyone run!" ”
After withstanding several rounds of arrow attacks, most of Cao Song's guards suffered casualties, and most of them did not die, and most of them fell to the ground and wailed.
What they could do was no longer to draw out their long swords to protect Cao Song, but to lie there, constantly wailing miserably, waiting for the Xuzhou soldiers to make up for them with a fatal sword.
The cries of men and women and their begs for mercy gradually faded away, and the road was stained red with the blood of the dead.
Blood stains are pasted on the ground, dyeing the ground red, and people walking on it, due to the involvement of blood between the soles of their feet and the ground, there will be a crisp sound of "popping".
"Yikes!" Carrying a sword, Zhang Min was walking towards the carriage that Cao Song was riding, when he suddenly fell to the corpse on the ground, let out a loud shout, and a man with a bloody face got up from the ground with a scream, carried a long sword, and rushed towards Zhang Min.
This man is none other than Cao De, who accompanied Cao Song to Xuchang.
Cao De and Cao Cao are brothers, and they have been by Cao Song's side, this time Cao Song went to Xuchang, it was Cao De who thought that the world was turbulent, and his father should go to Xuchang, which was already stable, to live a stable life.
But he didn't expect that seeing that he was only a few days away from Xuchang, a team of people would suddenly come out on the way.
Lying on the ground, pretending to be dead for a long time, Cao De has been observing Zhang Min's movements.
Seeing Zhang Min striding towards Cao Song's carriage, he felt that the time had come, and he should be able to kill Zhang Min with one blow, so he jumped up.
But he shouldn't have screamed so much when he rushed out.
Holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, Cao Degang rushed behind Zhang Min, before he could slash the long sword towards Zhang Min's head, he already knew that Zhang Min who he had rushed out, his wrist flipped, the tip of the long sword was backwards, and he stabbed back suddenly.
The sharp long sword "poof" pierced into Cao De's chest, Cao De, who was holding the long sword in both hands, his body was shocked, and he stared at Zhang Min in disbelief, but the hand holding the sword was loosened, and the long sword slowly fell off from his hand and fell to the ground.
With his back to Cao De, Zhang Min drew his long sword vigorously.
When the long sword was drawn, a stream of blood **** came out of Cao De's body, and Cao De fell to the ground.
After Cao De fell to the ground, Zhang Min didn't pay attention to him, but strode and continued to walk towards Cao Song's carriage, and more than a dozen Xuzhou soldiers surrounded by him rushed up at this time, holding a blade and poking Cao De's body.
Striding to Cao Song's carriage, Zhang Min pulled the car door.
The moment he pulled open the door, a silver light flashed before his eyes.
He hurriedly turned sideways to dodge, and as the silver light flashed, a woman in the carriage held a short sword in both hands, and when she suddenly stabbed a sword, her body did not hold her balance, and she fell out of the carriage.
The woman fell to the ground, and before she could get up, Zhang Min stepped forward and pierced her back with a sword.
Piercing the woman's back, Zhang Min rushed to the side of the carriage, stretched out his hand into the carriage, first pulled out an old woman, raised his sword and pierced the old woman's lower abdomen, and then dragged the very elderly Cao Song out of the carriage.
Anyway, Cao Song was also the captain of the Han Dynasty, and he was dragged out of the carriage by Zhang Min, he was not afraid at all, but stared at Zhang Min with a pair of eyes, and his eyes were so old that they were already chaotic, flickering with hatred.
The screams and pleadings of the maids and servants had fallen silent, and the path was littered with bloody corpses, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of blood.
Pulling out Cao Song, Zhang Min knew that he couldn't delay here for too long, so he first pierced Cao Song's lower abdomen with a sword, and when Cao Song's legs were bent and he knelt on the ground weakly, he held the hilt of the sword with both hands and slashed the long sword towards Cao Song's neck.
The head rolled and fell to the ground, and the father of Cao Cao, a generation of heroes, died at the hands of an unknown general.
"Go back to Xuzhou!" After killing Cao Song, Zhang Min pressed the long sword on Cao Song's shirt and wiped it off, wiped off the blood stains, and then returned the sword into the sheath and shouted to the soldiers present.
"General!" As soon as Zhang Min inserted his sword into the sheath, an officer ran to his side and whispered to him: "If Cao Cao knew that we had killed his father, he would have attacked Xuzhou." Tao Qian killed Cao Song at this time in order to curry favor with Liu Bei, and once Cao's army came to the city afterwards, Tao Qian was afraid, and we were afraid of being harmed. ”
After listening to the officer's words, Zhang Min was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at the officer, and asked him with some hesitation: "Then according to your wishes, what should I do?" ”
"Huainan Yuan Shu is now recruiting troops, and his military strength is stronger than Cao Cao." Approaching Zhang Min a little closer, the officer lowered his voice very low, and said to him: "I'll wait for Mo Ruo to bring Cao Song's wealth and go to Yuan Shu!" ”
Before killing Cao Song, Zhang Min had already thought that this time he might have caused a big deal about it.
After a slight hesitation, Zhang Min waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers who followed him to kill Cao Song: "If we return to Xuzhou and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses are killed, then Tao Qian may really hand us over in order to ask Cao Cao to retreat." Today, I won't go back, collect Cao Song's wealth, and go to Huainan! ”
A group of soldiers listened to Zhang Min's orders, responded in unison, packed up the wealth and silk that Cao Song had carried, and went to Huainan with Zhang Min.
A few days later, inside the city of Xuchang.
Cao Cao held a letter in his hand, and when he looked at the letter, his hands were trembling violently, and his whole body was trembling involuntarily.
"Smack!" Finally, Cao Cao slapped the letter heavily on the low table in front of him, gritted his teeth and scolded angrily: "Tao Qian, kill my father and brother, this revenge is not shared!" If you don't raze Xuzhou to the ground, you will be a person in vain in this life! ”
On the day Cao Cao received the letter, a large army had reached the southern border of Yanzhou and was rapidly advancing in the direction of Xuzhou.
This army was dressed in the armor of Cao Jun, and all the officers and soldiers had a snow-white linen cloth wrapped around their heads.
Leading this army was Guo Jia and Xiahoudun, who were stationed at the junction of Qingzhou and Yanzhou earlier, walking at the front of the team, their faces were solemn, and they couldn't see the slightest expression.
"Strategist!" Seeing that he was about to enter the boundary of Xuzhou, Xiahoudun asked Guo Jia: "Before receiving the order of Duke Cao, the army will enter Xuzhou, if it is ......?"
"At this moment, Cao Gong is probably eager to swallow Tao Qian alive!" Without waiting for Xiahoudun to finish speaking, Guo Jia took over his words and said to him: "Our army is advancing to Xuzhou, not to attack Xuzhou City, but to oppress Xuzhou, so that Tao Qian will die early!" ”
"Ugh!" Hearing Guo Jia's words, Xiahou was stunned, and still didn't come back for a while, and asked Guo Jia: "Then Tao Qian's body and bones are still healthy, how can he be willing to die?" ”
"If he doesn't die, someone will let him die!" While moving forward, Guo Jia said lightly: "Liu Bei is in Xuzhou, although he is stationed in Xiaopei at the moment, he always doesn't want to replace Tao Qian. Jia Xu, the former Zhonglang of the Luoyang Wang's tent, is now also in Xuzhou. Naja Xu was called a poisoner because of his vicious and reckless deeds. It is precisely because of this that the king of Luoyang refused to reuse him, but just asked him to do some things back and forth. ”
Listening to Guo Jia's analysis, Xiahoudun nodded, and couldn't help but have a little more respect for Guo Jia's transparency in his heart.
It's just that he still can't figure it out, Liu Bei wants Xuzhou and Jia Xu to be in Xuzhou City, how can he let Tao Qian die easily.
"All parties are looking forward to Tao Qian's death, and as soon as Tao Qian dies, Liu Bei can get Xuzhou. Lu Bu can also take advantage of the situation to enter Xiaopei, and then plot Xuzhou! As he spoke, the corners of Guo Jia's mouth twitched slightly, and he said to Xiahoudun: "The king of Luoyang wants Lu Bu to sit in Xuzhou and block Duke Cao. What if I can help him? ”
"What does the military advisor mean?" was stunned by Guo Jia's words, and subconsciously continued to ask.
"Feint to attack Xuzhou, let Tao Qian panic, Xu defeat is not allowed to win!" With an indifferent smile on the corner of his mouth, Guo Jia said to Xiahoudun: "If our army attacks Xuzhou at this time, Xuzhou will definitely fight together, even if we take Xuzhou, our army will suffer huge losses." It is better to feint and fight, and by the fight of all parties in Xuzhou City, until they are scattered, our army will take the opportunity to attack, this Xuzhou will be like a bag, ready to be taken at any time. ”
The things that Guo Jia considered were completely beyond the scope of what Xiahou Xuan's brain could think about.
His words made Xiahoudun blink his eyes, and he thought about it for a long time, but he didn't understand the truth.
However, leading the troops with Guo Jia for a few days, Xiahoudun was already convinced by Guo Jia, although he didn't understand what Guo Jia meant, but in his heart he thought that since Guo Jia thought it was right, the strategy must be excellent.
In the Luoyang Palace, Liu Wei, who had been inspecting various military camps for a day, had just returned to the palace when he received an urgent report from the scouts on the Eastern Front, knowing that Cao Song had been intercepted by Zhang Min and had died in the wilderness.
Looking at the urgent battle report that had just been delivered, Liu Wei couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Cao Song was killed, and if it had followed the normal path, it should have happened a few years ago. But now it has taken so many days to happen, if it is said that his crossing has not had an impact on this era, even Liu Wei himself does not believe it.
What exactly is the impact? At the end of the day, no one can say whether history will go in his favor, or whether it will leave him in this era and just let him be a hurried passerby.