Chapter four hundred and eighty-six is ??always touching the hearts of wealth and silk
With Tao Qian's military orders, the governors from various places did not dare to neglect him and escorted him northward with good food and drink all the way.
"Old Master, we found a group of people ahead."
A scout rode up to Cao Song's car and told him what he had discovered.
"Who? Order the entire army to prepare for battle."
The person responsible for Cao Song's safety was a school captain from Yanzhou. Under his command were a hundred elite Cao family members who had experienced hundreds of battles.
"promise."
The Cao family guards quickly set up their positions, cocked their bows and crossbows, looked ahead, and were ready to fight at any time.
After a while, they saw the sky full of yellow sand in front of them. An army of about 2,000 people was slowly walking towards them. The first large flag was the flag of Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, followed by a slightly smaller military flag with the character "Zhang".
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"Are they Cao Zhoumu's family in front of you?"
Both sides took their respective stances, and Zhang Kai spurred Ma Biao out and slowly came to the front of Cao Song's motorcade.
"Who are you? Since you know you are Cao Zhoumu's family, why did you lead the army to stop it?"
Cao Ting rode out and talked to Zhang Kai face to face.
"As expected, they are from the Caozhou Mu family. My name is Zhang Kai, and I am a general under Taozhou Mu. I came here specifically to greet the old lady on your orders."
Finally finding the rightful owner, Zhang Kai hurriedly clasped his fists at Cao Ting.
"Is there any paperwork?"
Although Zhang Kai said that he was sent by Tao Qian, Cao Ting still wanted to confirm his identity.
"Here is Tao Gong's document."
Zhang Kai took out the autographed letter written by Tao Qian from his arms and handed it to Cao Ting. Cao Ting took the document without stopping and turned around to return to Cao Song's car.
"Well, yes, it is indeed Tao Gongzu's personal letter. They can believe it."
Cao Song confirmed Zhang Kai's identity through a letter, then opened the curtain and appeared in front of the car.
"Thank you so much, General Zhang."
Seeing Cao Song salute him, Zhang Kai returned the salute with fists clasped.
"Mr. Cao is so polite."
At this point, the two families were connected, and Zhang Kai led the army to guard Cao Song's convoy in the middle, marching toward the north in a mighty manner.
With Zhang Kai's escort, Cao's troops were somewhat relieved. After all, Zhang Kai represented Tao Qian. In the end, Tao Qian was the boss in Xuzhou, and no unscrupulous person would come to provoke them.
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We walked all the way until we arrived at Dongguan County, which was quite calm and uneventful.
"General, Cao Song has too much wealth, including dozens of carriages. Do we want to help him capture it?"
In the evening, a general under Zhang Kai came close to him and looked at Cao Song's wealth. His eyes were shining.
"Sun Que, don't talk nonsense."
Although Zhang Kai stopped his men, others didn't think so at all. After all, people die for money and birds die for food. With so much money in front of you, who can not be tempted.
"General, why did we become Yellow Turbans before? Why do we join the army now? Isn't it just for money? Now there is so much money in front of us, but you tell us not to touch it?"
Another general stood up and spoke to Zhang Kai.
"Yes, such a good opportunity, I don't want to give it up."
"I don't agree either."
After hearing what his men said one by one, Zhang Kai's face couldn't help but darken.
"Stop talking, I understand your feelings, but even if you want to take action, you can't do it in Xuzhou. I promise you, I will take everyone to do this vote after leaving the Xuzhou interface."
The so-called public opinion is irresistible. Since everyone wants to rob Cao Song and has made this vote, if he, the boss, makes a decision that goes against everyone at this time, it is very likely that they will steal Cao Song in the next second.
Song did it, so he could only try his best to retain them while he could still suppress them.
"Okay, the boss has said it, then I will listen to you. I hope you won't disappoint us."
After Sun Que finished speaking, he stood up and left the big house. The other generals did the same when he left. They were all gone in a while, leaving Zhang Kai alone and confused.
As time passed by, Cao Song's convoy was getting closer and closer to the border between Xuzhou and Yanzhou, and the sergeants on Zhang Kai's side also became a little different.
"Old Master, the border is ahead."
Zhang Kai approached Cao Song and pointed forward.
"Well, I would like to thank the general for this."
Cao Song thanked Zhang Kai.
"The old man's words are serious, you have to walk the rest of the way by yourself."
Zhang Kai looked into the distance and cupped his fists at Cao Song.
"Then let's say goodbye and let's go, Cao Ting."
Cao Song didn't say anything, got into his carriage directly, and then headed towards Yanzhou under Cao Ting's escort.
"Let's go."
Seeing Cao Song leaving, Tao Ding turned around and left at a distance with fifty elites to return to Tao Qian.
"General, we have left the Xuzhou boundary."
Sun Que came close to Zhang Kai again, looking at Cao Song's motorcade going away, a trace of greed flashed in his eyes.
"Okay, let me inform the brothers that we will attack Cao Song's convoy at night tonight and leave no one behind."
Since Zhang Kai agreed to everyone, there is no need for Zhang Kai to be a good person, just kill him, it doesn't matter.
"promise."
That night, Cao Song found a farm and everyone stayed there for the night.
"Listen to me, this matter is of great importance. We must kill everyone without leaving any one behind."
Looking at the farm where Cao Song was, Zhang Kaichong whispered to the brothers behind him.
"Don't worry, boss, we never leave anyone alive when we do things."
"kill."
Zhang Kai nodded, then drew out his sword and rushed out.
"kill."
Two thousand soldiers surrounded him from all directions like a tide.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack, protect the old lady."
Hearing the enemy's cry of killing, Cao Ting couldn't help but get excited and jumped up.
"What's going on, what's going on."
Cao Song also rushed out of the room.
"Old lady, the enemy is attacking us. We are being attacked by the enemy. Please come with me quickly."
Cao Ting couldn't care about anything else now. In this situation, he could only protect the old man and leave first.
"No, I still have dozens of carts of gold and silver. I want to take them away to Ah Ma."
The old man disagreed. After all, he wanted to give so much wealth to his son, so he couldn't give the thief an advantage.
"Old Master, what time of day is it now? Gold and silver are external possessions. As long as you keep your life, that is the most important thing."
After hearing Cao Song's words, Cao Ting was immediately dumbfounded. How long had it been since he was still thinking about those things?
"No, we must keep those gold and silver."
Although Cao Song is also panicked, he is still stubborn and does not want to give up what he gave his son.
"Then I'll offend you, Zhou Wei, Wang Chen, protect the old man and leave."
Cao Ting couldn't care less now and directly ordered two soldiers to carry Cao Song and follow them to break out of the encirclement.
Cao Ting only had a hundred elite men at his disposal now, but they faced two thousand extremely vicious Yellow Turban bandits. Even if they fought bravely, they could not save themselves, and in the end they could only die one by one at the hands of Zhang Kaijun.
