【Chapter 663】 A Ride of the Dust (Middle)

"Li Wenchang personally went into battle?"

At the moment when Li Li appeared in front of the formation, among the Cao soldiers who were less than fifty steps away from Cao Hong, there were Cao Cao and Cao Zhen.

It's just that they were wearing the armor of ordinary foot soldiers, no horses, no red tasseled helmets, no dark red robes, armed with spears, and carrying bows and arrows, just like ordinary foot soldiers. If you look closely, you can still see some obvious flaws, such as the swords tied around their waists, the fine fabrics on their lower bodies, and the embroidered boots under their feet, which are not found in ordinary foot soldiers.

It's just that these are not easy to find, and unless you go up to them and take a closer look, you can't find them at all.

Seeing Li Li personally go into battle to fight, Cao Cao was stunned and almost couldn't believe his eyes.

Li Li, who is in a high position and has an extremely prominent position, actually went into battle to fight in person, is he crazy? As the commander of the Xiliang Army, how could he personally take risks?

Such a counterintuitive move is really absurd!

"It's not good, Uncle Hong was captured by Li Thief!"

Just when Cao Cao was stunned, Cao Zhen stretched out his hand in disbelief and pointed to the battlefield in front of him, his face pale with fright.

In the blink of an eye, I saw Li Li, who had just appeared, driving the golden beast to leap over the two war horses blocking him, and after landing, the war knife was on Cao Hong's neck.

"Ugh!" Cao Cao woke up when he heard the sound, followed the direction of Cao Zhen's finger, looked at the scene in front of him with wide eyes, and opened his mouth in surprise, but he was speechless.

However, Cao Cao is Cao Cao, and his mind is outstanding. Taken aback, he quickly came to his senses. Immediately, he reached out and pressed Cao Zhen's arm, shrunk his neck slightly, and pulled Cao Zhen back behind several soldiers riding war horses. Carefully observe the situation on the battlefield in front of the battle.

"Zhen'er, now that I have really reached the critical juncture of life and death, Zilian was restrained by the Li thief, Cao Xiu and An Min were seriously injured and unable to fight again. And Li Thief relied on the divine beast under the seat to deter the soldiers of our army and did not dare to act rashly, and hijacked Zilian to threaten our army. Destruction is imminent. The general was captured, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, so they continued like this. We had almost lost the strength of resistance except to be captured or sat still, and we could not break out of the valley at all. Now we must find a way to break the deadlock, and the only way for the officers and men of the whole army to fight to the death is to fight to the death. There is a glimmer of life! ”

"It's ??? Father. These children know it, but what can we do? Cao Zhen whispered with a decadent face.

"yes, what should I do?" Cao Cao frowned and muttered in a low voice, but he couldn't think of a countermeasure for a while, so anxious that he stomped his feet, restless like an ant on a hot pot.

"Zhen'er, for the sake of today's plan, one of our father and son must stand up. Command the whole army to fight bravely, there is no other way! ”

"Ahh Father means??? Do you want to let the child lead the army to continue to rush and kill? Cao Zhen looked at Cao Cao with a frightened face. His eyes were full of supplication, and his eyebrows were full of fear and timidity.

"Father, if I wait for this time to attack again, what will happen to Uncle Hong, An Min and Cao Xiu, will Li Thief let them go? Once our army continues to charge, won't it be tantamount to forcing Li Thief to kill them? ”

"Humph! Man is a knife and I am a fish, and the matter has come to this, what else can we do? Can we still ask Li Thief to surrender? Zhen'er, don't forget, the enmity between Li Thief and my Cao family is as deep as the sea, even if we are willing to surrender, Li Thief will not be merciful, and will definitely not let us go! So??? At the moment, we can only fight to the death, even if the fish is dead, it is better than sitting and waiting! ”

Seeing Cao Cao's expression was absolutely unquestionable, Cao Zhen's face was pale, and his expression was extremely desperate. Even though he was reluctant in his heart, he had no choice but to obey.

Because Cao Cao was right, since the moment when the Xiahou brothers attempted to assassinate Li Li, the Cao family and Li Li had already formed a great enmity, and then the grudge between them became deeper and deeper, and they were incompatible. Just now Cao Ang died at the hands of the Xiliang generals, and now Cao Hong is kneeling under Li Li's knife, Cao Xiu and Cao Anmin are seriously injured, as if they are in a catastrophe. At present, Li Li has the advantage and is aggressive, even if Cao Cao is willing to lead the people to surrender as a last resort, I am afraid that Li Li will not agree; Or Li Li agreed on the surface, but then he killed the killer and cut the grass to the roots. In the final analysis, the feud between Cao Cao and Li Li is too deep to be resolved, and it is completely impossible to coexist in the world.

At a certain moment, Cao Zhen regretted worshipping Cao Cao as his father-in-law, otherwise there would not be today's catastrophe. Although he was originally surnamed Cao, he had no blood relationship with Cao Cao, and was only surnamed Cao. In his early years, his father was the commander of Cao Cao's own soldiers, and followed Cao Cao to fight in the east and west, but he died because he sacrificed himself to block arrows for Cao Cao, and then Cao Cao took pity on him and his mother for being lonely, and he was the same surname, so he accepted him as his son.

Speaking of which, Cao Cao has been very good to him in the past two years, taking good care of him and treating him as his own. However, no matter how good Cao Cao is to him, it has only been two years, and now he wants him Cao Zhen to risk his life to repay this kindness, which is too great!

However, even if Cao Zhen was unwilling in his heart, how he regretted it, even if his intestines were repentant, it would be useless, because he couldn't turn back. In any case, he is now carrying the status of Cao Cao's righteous son, and this identity can never be washed away, so he can only go all the way to the dark until the end of his life.

"No, the last general will obey!"

Under the turn of his mind, Cao Zhen finally couldn't step into the status of a righteous son, but in his promise, he called himself the last general, instead of calling himself a child like before. This "last general" is full of his unwillingness and regret at the moment, and there is also a bit of absolute determination and dissatisfaction with Cao Cao.

"Well, that's fine. Look at the right time, do your best, the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us. ”

Cao Cao could naturally see that Cao Zhen was affectionate and very dissatisfied with himself, but the current situation forced him to do so, and he couldn't take care of these trivial things at all. No matter how unhappy Cao Zhen is, he has to wait until he survives this catastrophe; Otherwise, once it falls into the hands of Li Li, everything will be over, where will it come from later?

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"You're Cao Hong and Cao Zilian, right? Don't pretend to be a hero or a hero in front of me Li Li, let me ask you again, do you want to die or live? If you don't answer again, don't blame Li for being ruthless! ”

Two hundred meters away from the plank road at the mouth of the valley, Li Li sat on the back of the Jinqi Beast King, the Jinqi war knife was against Cao Hong's neck, and he squinted his eyes slightly and looked coldly at the nearly 20,000 Cao soldiers in front of him, trying to capture Cao Cao's figure from the dense crowd. However, he had only seen Cao Cao once from afar before, it was still on the hillside on the outskirts of Tancheng, Xuzhou, and it happened to be a rainy day, the rain and fog were hazy, and he only saw Cao Cao's size and facial outline, but he didn't really see what Cao Cao looked like.

In Li Li's impression, Cao Cao is not good-looking, less than eight feet tall, moderately built, not fat or thin, and his face is not handsome, he belongs to the kind of people who can't be found if they are thrown into the pile. But what impressed him the most was that Cao Cao's eyes were as deep as the sea, even if he stood hundreds of meters away, he could feel Cao Cao's sharp gaze.

When Li Li put the war knife on Cao Hong's neck, Cao Jun, who had been fighting bravely, was suddenly frightened, and no one dared to come forward to fight.

At this moment, Li Li wanted to find a breakthrough from Cao Hong, delaying time, waiting for reinforcements to arrive and capture Cao Jun in Feiyundu; The second is to find Cao Cao, so as to keep an eye on Cao Cao, and vow to capture or kill him alive. As long as Cao Cao is killed or captured, it doesn't matter if the remaining tens of thousands of Cao troops are captured, how many can be caught, and it is not a pity if they can't be caught, there will be opportunities in the future. However, once Cao Cao is allowed to escape this catastrophe, it will not be so easy to catch him in the future, and it is almost impossible to encounter such a good opportunity tonight except to defeat him completely on the frontal battlefield.

"I'll just ask one last time, where is Cao Cao?"

"Humph! Cao fell into your hands tonight, if you want to kill, you will kill, why bother to say more. Li thief, if you want to ask the whereabouts of the lord from my mouth, it's just a pipe dream, wishful thinking! ”

Cao Hong was very afraid of death in his heart, and the moment the tip of the knife pressed against his neck frightened him into incontinence, fortunately, it was the middle of winter, and he was still wearing very thick clothes and pants in his armor, otherwise he would have made a fool of himself on the spot. However, although he was very afraid of death and spared his life, he knew very well in his heart that Li Li would not let him go, and he would definitely die tonight. is still the same sentence, the grudge between the Cao family and Li Li is too deep, and they are incompatible with each other. At this time, it is useless to beg Li Li for mercy, except for self-inflicted humiliation, it will be difficult to escape death sooner or later.

Instead of this, Cao Hong simply kept silent, stiffened his neck and begged for a pleasure, so as not to lose his life, and before he died, he had to take the reputation of the Cao family for hundreds of years.

I thought it was good, but when Li Li really gave his last ultimatum, Cao Hong was still scared. It was because he finally opened his mouth to reply, although the words sounded hard, but in fact he was strong on the outside and dry in the middle, and he was afraid to die in his heart, and he wanted to live secretly for a while, take a look at this great river and mountain, reminisce about the delicacies he had eaten, and recall the beautiful wives and concubines in the house and hundreds of graceful Maiko. This is the love of his life, for which he once went to the soup and fire, repeatedly risking his life to save Cao Cao from danger, so as to win the capital to enjoy glory and wealth.

However, at this moment, this qiē has completely said goodbye to him Cao Hong, and his life is gone, so what is the use of no matter how good the glory and wealth are?

Seeing that Cao Hong seemed to have made up his mind, a cold light flashed in Li Li's eyes, and his right hand gently stretched his fingers, staring at Cao Hong coldly: "Since you want to be a hero and pretend to be a tough guy, this general will fulfill you, and I will send you on the road!" ”

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