As long as the war never ceases, we must not relax even for a moment.
Everyone knows this truth.
Cheng Yun also understands.
But he didn't do it.
He underestimated Cao Xiu's ability.
Cheng Yun thought that Cao Xiu only had a few dozen men. After a successful sneak attack, setting off a few fires and killing a few people would be very valuable. As long as he made a slight attack, Cao Xiu should be able to escape in panic, or even pursue him all the way.
To kill, behead him under his horse.
But Cheng Yun didn't expect that the reason why Cao Xiu didn't move was because he was waiting for him to come!
Seeing that Cheng Yun had fallen into the trap, Cao Xiu shouted and rushed forward with his sword!
Cheng Yun was so dizzy from the fall that he finally got up, only to see Cao Xiu rushing towards him.
Cheng Yun was shocked and quickly grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and threw it at Cao Xiu's face. When Cao Xiu turned to avoid it, he drew his sword to parry.
"when!"
There was a loud bang.
Cheng Yun's footing was unstable and he took two steps back.
Cao Xiu succeeded with one blow, but he didn't let anyone go. He chased Cheng Yun and chopped at him continuously.
Cao Xiu's martial arts is not considered a top master, but neither is Cheng Yun.
Cheng Yun was already badly thrown, and before he could adjust, he was hit by Cao Xiu's fierce attack. After parrying continuously, he finally couldn't resist, and his sword was hacked away by Cao Xiu!
Seeing Cao Xiu slashing at him again, Cheng Yun was shocked. He rolled around to avoid it, and threw as much sand on the ground towards Cao Xiu as possible with his hands.
Cao Xiu squinted his eyes, gritted his teeth, slashed the air with his sword, and then kicked Cheng Yun on the waist, turning Cheng Yun into a cooked shrimp.
"Come take your life!"
Cao Xiu shouted, swinging his sword and slashing again.
When Cheng Yun's men saw this, they were shocked and rushed forward to save him.
One person bumped into Cao Xiu, while the other dragged Cheng Yun back.
Cao Xiu deflected the impact of Cheng Yun's men, but he also failed to cut off Cheng Yun's head. He just slashed Cheng Yun's shoulder with a knife, and immediately removed one of Cheng Yun's arms!
As blood splattered, Cheng Yun screamed and fainted immediately.
Some of Cheng Yun's men quickly came to block Cao Xiu, and several others dragged Cheng Yun out with their hands and feet.
"kill!"
Cao Xiu yelled.
The people following Cao Xiu were also inspired by Cao Xiu's bravery, and they couldn't help but shout too, and their momentum was extraordinary for a moment.
On the other hand, Cheng Yun's men were suppressed by Cao Xiu's momentum. In addition, Cheng Yun was seriously injured and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. They had no idea of continuing to fight and fled with the unconscious Cheng Yun.
"Oh oh oh!"
Cao Xiu's men cheered.
However, Cao Xiu's face still looked worried, and he was not very happy about defeating his opponent.
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On the top of Anyi City, Xun Chen's face was as sinking as water.
What was originally a good situation suddenly turned into twists and turns due to Cheng Yun's mistake.
Xun Chen specially summoned Li Erchengyun and others before, repeatedly warned them, and even told these people allusions to the Spring and Autumn Period. The purpose was to enable these people to understand what the overall strategy was and how it should be done. The result was still the same.
Something went wrong.
In Zheng Burke's paragraph, one very important point is timing.
If the timing is wrong, your efforts will be in vain.
Obviously, Xun Chen needs to use his main combat power to maintain the stability of Anyi City and ensure the safety of the warehouse. Cheng Yun is used as a mobile force outside the city to contain and threaten Cao Xiu, rather than to let Cheng Yun go.
Fight directly with Cao Xiu.
There are too many uncertainties in the dark night.
Anyone can participate in the zero-yuan shopping event by covering their face.
But if it comes after dawn, some people who cover their faces will have to make a choice, and there will be no room for confusion.
Therefore, at dawn, it is the best time to attack. You can directly strangle Cao Xiu in one fell swoop, and also give those guys around Anyi who are still thinking about it a good look!
However, Cheng Yun's actions caused problems in Xun Chen's plan.
Now Xun Chen had to make changes to make up for Cheng Yun's mistakes.
"Li Xiaowei." Xun Chen pointed to the fire outside the city and said, "Immediately lead the troops out of the west gate and cruise around the city to frighten the bandits. Do not fight with them to avoid being ambushed again. Wait until daybreak to attack the bandits."
When the army sees that the city cannot be conquered, it will be in chaos! It will not be too late to cover up and kill them then!"
Li Er asked: "When my subordinates leave the city, the defense of the city..."
Xun Chen waved to Pei Hui who was standing aside, "Wen Ji, if there are thieves causing chaos in the streets of Shifang in the city, what should we do?"
Pei Hui put on a two-dang armor. Although his face was still a little pale, there was already some ferocity in his eyes. "Hui Hui is not good at fighting. He is always with the soldiers, with his sword out of its sheath and arrows."
Wind the string, and if you see a thief, kill him immediately!"
There are times when honest people are forced into panic.
Pei Hui originally had some ideas of communication and compromise, and wanted to bring packages of salt for the Hedong gentry, but now he found that the Hedong squires he represented gave him a brutal backstab!
No matter how good-tempered Pei Hui was, after seeing thugs breaking into his house, raping, killing and kidnapping his defenseless tribesmen and servants, he no longer had the so-called idea of talking about something.
Li Er looked at Pei Hui and thought for a moment, "I have left a few good men to guard Pei Hui."
Xun Chen nodded, "That's very good."
Pei Hui knew that these "good hands" would indeed protect him, but they were also spying on him. However, he did not feel disgusted and instead thanked Li Er with his hands.
Good fortune and misfortune depend on each other.
The fact that the Pei family inherited this catastrophe may be a turning point in the future of peace and prosperity.
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There weren't many cards that Cao Xiu could play, so Cao Xiu relied more on his opponent's mistakes to win in chaos.
But the problem is that Xun Chen did not make chaos when he saw it, and he took advantage of it when he saw it. Cao Xiu gradually showed his embarrassment.
Shortage of manpower.
Xun Chen more or less still had a few civil servants from the military school under his command, but there was no one around Cao Xiu. Only a few guards were still obeying orders, and the others were improvised. No one knew anyone, and they were covered.
Some of them even deliberately disguised their speaking voices.
Defeating Cheng Yun was undoubtedly the highlight of Cao Xiu's night. Some people thought that Cao Xiu could make a comeback, but soon they discovered that there was no chaos in Anyi City as Cao Xiu said, and he had always said that before.
There is not even a trace of the so-called "Cao Jun reinforcements" that are coming soon.
As time goes by, when the sky gradually becomes brighter, the demons and monsters in the dark night naturally gradually reveal their weak prototypes.
Light gradually dominates the world again.
The defeat of Cao Xiu and other rebel armies took shape in an instant.
Under such circumstances, Cao Xiu could not even recover from his defeat.
Because the people Cao Xiu originally gathered together were all a mob!
And from the beginning, these people knew that they were rebelling, which determined that if Cao Xiu could not gain absolute advantage in a short period of time, then these people would betray Cao Xiu very quickly!
I don't know since when, these people who had formed a temporary group began to shout and run away. The louder the sound of the defeat, the more anxious the other people became.
When the sun shone down, the team that Cao Xiu had gathered in the dark night broke up, scattered, and fled in an instant.
It's like a ghost that cannot be killed in the dark night, but under the sunlight, it turns into black smoke without any resistance.
"General! What to do?!"
Cao Xiu's guard asked eagerly.
"..."
Cao Xiu leaned on his knife and looked indifferently in the direction of Anyi City.
He succeeded partly, but also partly miscalculated.
Xun Chen's miscalculation was for Cheng Yun, while Cao Xiu's miscalculation was for Xun Chen.
Some of Cao Xiu's judgments about Xun Chen were correct. For example, Xun Chen's military power was not high, he had been in charge of people's livelihood and government affairs in Pingyang for a long time, and he was not very familiar with the military academy in the Hussars...
But Cao Xiu's other part of his judgment was wrong.
Xun Chen is from Yingchuan, but Xun Chen already has the mark of a hussar on his body. He is not like those civil servants in Shandong. When seeing chaos, the first thought is to run away!
Or is it called "A gentleman does not stand behind dangerous walls"?
After all, this kind of thing is traditional in Shandong.
When Yuan Shao made trouble, Han Fu wanted to escape instead of fighting, and then committed suicide with a knife in the toilet.
When Kong Rong was the governor, not only did he see the rebels, but he also had no means. After his pretended calmness was exposed, he would just run away...
There are also people who have no military skills but are reckless and self-righteous, such as Liu Dai and others.
There are too many examples among civil servants in Shandong.
Coupled with Xun Chen's original experience, Cao Xiu believed that Xun Chen was a person who had different ideas and was greedy for life and afraid of death. After all, Xun Chen was under Han Fu at the beginning, and then turned around and paid homage to Yuan Shao. As a result, he fled again not long after.
Coming from the North, from a certain point of view, you are also a slave with three surnames!
What kind of determination would such a person have?
As a result, Cao Xiu did not expect that when the people from Yingchuan arrived in the North, they would become more like the North!
A miscalculation is a miscalculation.
Once the cards are played out, it is impossible to shout "card" and then have everyone do it again.
If there is no chaos and no mistakes in the city, Cao Xiu will have no chance.
If Cao Xiu still had real elites on hand, he might be able to command and try to attack the city and seize the gate, attack by force, but there are only seven or eight guards around him, he is barely a good player, what else...
The riots at night were like those in later generations when the stock market was rising. A group of ghosts and ghosts were all bragging to each other. It seemed that everyone was a master of the tide, but it was only when the stock market turned down that you would know who was swimming naked.
Cao Xiu is almost like swimming naked now.
The guys who were following him sneaked away at first, but later they started running away in groups. There were even stampedes on some narrow roadbeds, and some people were squeezed into the water and ditches.
, fields.
Li Er, with his troops, also began to expel and kill on the outside.
Number of people is no longer the most important indicator of victory or defeat.
Even if Li Er now dispersed the cavalry into a small team of more than a dozen people, no one dared to turn around and fight. It was like chopping melons and vegetables.
Cao Xiu looked at it indifferently, and then let out a long sigh, "You... you should go too."
"General!" The remaining guards looked at each other, "General, why don't you go together?"
Cao Xiu looked up at the sky.
The bright sky began to become brilliant.
Blue sky, white clouds.
The mountains in the distance are like black daisy.
Cao Xiu suddenly laughed and turned around, "I've burdened you all! Today's things have come to an end. I don't have you all accompanying me all the way. I'm so lucky! I'm so lucky!"
"However, all the feasts in the world must come to an end, and now it's time to say farewell!"
Cao Xiu said with a smile, and bowed deeply to his remaining guards, "Don't be ashamed of me! I promised you a rich and prosperous future, but now... you all, please bow to me!"
The guards quickly got out of the way.
However, Cao Xiu paid three obeisances meticulously. What he paid homage to was loyalty and friendship, and what he paid homage to was the promise he failed to fulfill.
"General! Let's go together!"
The guard advised.
Cao Xiu shook his head, "If Xiu goes together, no one will be able to escape! Leave quickly!"
After that, Cao Xiu turned around and no longer looked at the guards behind him.
The guards hesitated and looked at each other. After a moment of pause, some secretly moved back, while others still stood still.
The hussars in the distance also gradually came closer, but they were worried that there were traps around Cao Xiu, so they did not attack immediately but began to detect and surround them.
Seeing this situation, two or three more of the guards who had been standing still left. When Cao Xiu looked back again, almost all the people behind him had fled, leaving only the last three guards.
"you……"
Cao Xiu looked over one by one, and then tears suddenly fell from his eyes and his voice was choked with sobs.
He carried the coffin for thousands of miles and did not shed any tears when he encountered high mountains and dangerous rivers.
When I was young, when I was bullied because I lost my father, I also didn’t shed any tears.
During these years of fighting on the battlefield and being wounded and bleeding, I did not shed any tears...
But when Cao Xiu looked at the guards around him, he shed tears.
An older guard said with a smile: "General, I am old and can't walk far anymore. Why don't I just accompany you here... The scenery here is very beautiful... Haha, even if you reach Huangquan Road,
Come on, I’m with you too!』
Cao Xiu also laughed, tears rolling down his cheeks, "Okay! Now there are no generals who are not masters. We are brothers in this life, and we will be brothers in the next life! We have three brothers to accompany us today. He Mutian has five hundred men."
?!』
At this moment, Li Er had already led people to surround him.
"Come and fight!"
Cao Xiu's arrogance remained unabated, holding a blood-stained sword and inviting Li Er to fight.
But Li Er shook his head and signaled his men to raise their crossbows, "Let's capture him without mercy! Otherwise we will be killed on the spot!"
Cao Xiu laughed loudly and rushed forward with his sword in hand.
The last three guards behind Cao Xiu also rushed forward.
One master, three slaves.
It seemed to bring out endless murderous aura on the battlefield.
Li Er waved his hand, "Shoot!"
Arrows whizzed in.
The armor on Cao Xiu and others was incomplete, and the distance was so close that they were unable to resist the arrows. They were shot continuously, as if they had hit an invisible wall of air, and their running momentum suddenly stalled.
"Hmph..." Cao Xiu looked down at the arrows pierced in his chest and abdomen, and sneered at Li Er, "A coward... doesn't deserve a... head on his head!"
After saying this, Cao Xiu turned the edge of the knife upside down and killed himself.
Cao Xiu's guards also followed Cao Xiu and committed suicide one after another, falling to the ground one after another.
Li Er looked at it and was silent for a long time before ordering: "You have calmed down... you can be considered a good man..."
In response, some hussar soldiers stepped forward, lifted the bodies of Cao Xiu and others, put them on their horses, and then took them to the gate of Anyi City.
He didn't go directly to behead him, nor did he drag him away with a rope like a dead dog.
The blood was stained on the horse's back, dripping all the way.
Li Er looked at Cao Xiu's body and frowned slightly.
Cao Xiu is dead, but this matter...
Somewhat weird.
The momentum last night was so great that it seemed to turn Anyi City upside down, but after dawn, it collapsed!
This land east of the river is far from as stable and stable as he originally thought!
I don’t know how many people with ulterior motives appear to be submissive on the surface, but turn into murderers whenever they get a chance!
Cao Cao had robbed a lot of people in Hedong, and they could still be so restless overnight. If Cao Jun hadn't taken those people away...
No, maybe Cao Jun took away ordinary people, but left some spies behind?
You Wen Si should be busy now!
That’s not right, not only the Youwen Department, but also the Inspection Office don’t want to have a quiet life!
If this is the case, when will it end?
After all, you can prevent it for a while, but it is difficult to prevent it forever!
Li Er sighed, as if he had foreseen the busy situation that would follow.
When he arrived at Anyi City, Li Er saw Xun Chen who had been guarding the city. He also unexpectedly met Cao Zhao, Cao Xiu's son!
When Cao Zhao saw Cao Xiu's body, he screamed, jumped up and down, and cried, but he didn't have the courage to step forward and hug his father's body.
Everyone looked at Cao Zhao, but after looking at it for a while, they didn't want to look anymore.
It's actually not difficult to tell whether you are really sad or just crying for others to see.
It's like later generations waited for the old man to die before they made all the fuss. They invited a funeral team and a copper pipe team, along with monks and Taoists, but they were unwilling to cook two more meals for the old man to eat while he was still alive.
Eat soft food, spend more time with the elderly, sit in the sun and chat...
If the father is a good man, his children may not necessarily be good men.
Li Er suddenly realized that this was the way to solve the problem!
By the way, it’s like the Southern Huns!
Wasn’t it the same for the previous generation of Southern Xiongnu people?
With the sword in hand, he can ruthlessly rob the Han people southward, and he can jump off his horse and become an honest shepherd.
Wasn't it also that the big man was once helpless?
But what about now?
They are all shepherds!
They are all taking care of the animals for the General Hussars!
So what is the problem in Hedong now?
It’s okay to be on the Mu side. It’s just that from Mu Nan Xiongnu, he has become a powerful nobleman like Mu!
Li Er no longer worried, raised his head and looked at Xun Chen, only to see that Xun Chen was also looking over.
The two people's eyes intertwined in the air, and they seemed to see confidence and determination in each other's eyes, and then nodded to each other.
The sun rises and golden light fills the land.
The originally bright blood gradually solidified and turned purple-brown.
The flames that rose last night now have some black smoke left, and are gradually dissipating.
Everything seemed to be back to normal, as if everything had returned to the human world from ghosts.
In this world, in this world, there will always be ghosts who want to turn the world into a world of human life every day, and there will always be ghosts who want to turn the world into a ghost world again.
