Time flies, and the gentle river wind blows from the north, making Cao Cao suddenly feel the passage of time. The sun shines down from his back, which is clearly warm, but it also imitates a cold figure under the city head.
And in front of him was his old father.
Although they were more than ten feet apart, Cao Cao could clearly see that his father, Cao Song, a former Taiwei of the Han Dynasty, had his shirt stripped off, his hands tied up and thrown to the ground. This old man was over sixty years old.
He was very obese, his belly was bulging, his chest was heaving in the rope, and he was panting. His body was covered with yellow and black dirt marks, and his face and beard were also covered with dust. He looked embarrassed and ridiculous.
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When Cao Song heard that his eldest son was at the bottom of the city, he moved his body to take a look up, but he only saw the dazzling golden sun on the top of the city. He had to lower his head in disappointment, shaking his fat and panting. The black-armored knight on the side kicked him twice.
Cao Song calmed down with his feet, and he suddenly didn't dare to move. The same was true for several nephews beside him.
Zhang Fang raised his head again at the foot of the city and asked: "Cao Shijun! Your biological father, brothers, and nephews are all here. As the saying goes, the greatest filial piety is to support one's parents. I heard that Cao Shijun was born as a filial and honest person, so he should be
Love your family and show your filial piety. If you don’t surrender now, all the worms in these countries will be beheaded here. Do you really not surrender?”
Cao Cao found it difficult to reply.
Zhang Fang said loudly: "We recruited Lord Cao to surrender because we had heard of Lord Cao's good reputation. When Lord Cao was the Prime Minister of Jinan, he destroyed more than 600 ancestral halls of King Yangjing in Jinan City and killed all officials.
The people are not allowed to worship in temples, so that politics and religion are flourishing, and a county is peaceful. This is consistent with my teachings of Taiping! Therefore, the general values Cao Shijun and wants to join forces with him to rule the world. If he does not take into account his reputation, he will use Cao Jun.
How can we still keep such a national pest like Song to this day!"
Everyone looked at Cao Cao, but Cao Cao still found it difficult to reply.
At this point, Zhang Fang also knew that it was useless to persuade him to surrender. He sighed, turned and dismounted, pointed at the concubine, nodded slightly to his entourage, and three black-armored warriors stepped forward and moved amidst the woman's screams. First they cut off her tongue, then shaved her hair to expose her pale skin, then blinded her eyes, and chopped off her fingers and toes one by one with a knife. This process was too horrific to watch.
The soldiers gritted their teeth and closed their eyes, as if they were the ones being tortured. Even the Black Mountain sergeant who was executing the execution turned pale. He endured the discomfort, and finally pierced the woman's heart with the last knife, finally finishing her off.<
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Cheng Yu looked at this situation and scolded them: "I have also read your Lu Bu. You are called the king's teacher, but are you the one who tortures the people like this?"
Hearing this, Zhang Fang seemed to have heard some terrible joke. He pointed at the city wall and joked: "Mr. Cheng is too hypocritical. When Master Daliang was brought to Tokyo to be executed, he was chopped into pieces alive with a thousand knives. Little did he know that Mr. Cheng
What do you think?"
"Zhang Jiao has caused harm to the country and the people, and deserves death!"
All the troops in Heishan below the city laughed when they heard this. Zhang Fang stepped on Cao Song's back, grabbed Cao Song's hair with one hand, and said to the soldiers on the city: "The so-called harm to the country and the people deserves to be punished by death. I don't want to leave Cao Song for Taiwei."
Who is it?" After saying that, he stepped on Cao Song in the mud and shouted: "Dog slave! Tell them your and Naifu's sins. Otherwise, you will die like that woman!"
Seeing the tragic death of his beloved concubine, Cao Song almost fainted. After hearing Zhang Fang's words, his liver and gallbladder broke out. He didn't care about being stepped on and hurriedly recounted his past experiences one by one.
.It’s just that he was old, drank less water in the past few days, and his voice was hoarse. People in the city couldn’t hear it at all, so Zhang Fang had to ask his fourth son, Cao Yu, to speak loudly.
Cao Song first said that he was born in a poor family of Xiahou family. He lost his father and mother when he was young. Even if there were family members to help him, his life was precarious and he often begged. Until his adoptive father Cao Teng came to the family and saw that he was good at observing words and expressions, so he adopted him.
After joining the Cao family, will he be able to achieve great success?
Then Cao Song talked about his adoptive father Cao Teng. Cao Teng was a regular servant in the palace and had a close relationship with the general Liang Ji. When Liang Ji poisoned Emperor Zhi and established Emperor Huan, Cao Teng was incompetent. After Emperor Huan succeeded to the throne, Cao Teng died again.
Liang Ji followed the emperor and first decided to kill Liang Ji, and then participated in the party's supervision. Before and after, the people were greedy and extravagant, and he actually gained nearly ten thousand acres of cultivated land and tens of millions of goods.
When Cao Song himself entered the court as an official, relying on his adoptive father's relationship, he successively served as Sili Xiaowei, Dahonglu, Dasi Nong and other important positions in the court. During this period, he made money arrogantly, far better than his father. In the fourth year of Zhongping, he came out.
He spent 100 million yuan to buy the post of Taiwei from Emperor Ling. He served for half a year and was later dismissed due to his inability to quell the rebellion. From then on, he indulged in sex at home and had carnivals with prostitutes.
Speaking of this, Zhang Fang once again made a big publicity that the confiscated items from Cao Song's house included twenty carts of jewelry, one hundred thousand hu of rice and grain, more than seventy concubines, and several boxes of rare treasures, the value of which was incomparable.
Estimate.
When the soldiers on the city heard this, they were all in an uproar. They only thought that the governor came from a famous family and had extraordinary talents, but they did not expect that his father and ancestors were like this. Nowadays, famous people even want to claim to be clean, and the people hate corruption to the extreme. Among the soldiers in the city, who is
Not from an ordinary commoner? Now everyone is looking at Cao Cao to see how he will answer.
Cao Cao was silent for a long time, and finally shouted loudly: "Moth thief! Don't even think about messing up the morale of our army. Although I, Cao Mengde, have a flawed background, I have offended countless rich and powerful people since I became an official. All I can do is to serve my purpose."
The word "country" means that although my father has some shortcomings in virtue, how can a son accuse his father of his faults? If you want to use this to deceive the city, I would rather put my whole family in trouble than let you get anything!"
After saying that, he threw the iron armor on his head off the city wall to show that the head could be cut off but the man could not surrender.
Hearing this, Zhang Fang slapped Cao Song on the back with his knife and sneered: "Dog slave, please tell me about the bad deeds of our Cao Shijun when he was a child. If you say it well, we can let you live."
Cao Song was sweating coldly, but when he heard the words of his eldest son just now, he felt even more sad. When Cao Cao was young, he was so ridiculous. He and Yuan Shao robbed his bride, and bullied men and women. However, Cao Song didn't say a word at this time.
Without coming out, he murmured for a moment and said in a very low voice: "My son is a good man. Even though he has the bells and drums of Lan Tai and the Bronze Man of Wuyuan, he is not comparable."
Zhang Fang was furious and shouted: "What a slave dog!" So he ordered three people to come forward and chop his body with rusty knives. The rusty knives were blunt and cut off his hands and feet every ten times. Cao Song cried bitterly and defecated.
He shouted "my son" repeatedly in his mouth, and when his head and neck were separated and his breath disappeared, Cao Song suffered sixty-seven stab wounds in total. Blood flowed out from the wound, but more of it was grease and fat. All the troops in Montenegro saw this.
Even though the soldiers on the city were silent, they were still happy. After all, they were so greedy, and all they had in their hands was the people's fat and anointed people. I don't know how many people were forced to death. To be able to enjoy the blessings until today, it is considered that God has no eyes.<
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Then Zhang Fang abandoned Cao Song and walked to the rest of the Cao family, reading out their evidence of guilt one by one. After each person finished speaking, the swordsman and axeman stepped forward and chopped off his head with a single blow, and the Black Mountain Army cheered.
Seeing this hellish scene, all the Cao family's disciples were so frightened that they became weak and allowed the Black Mountain Army to kill them.
Only Cao De said: "I am a son of a famous family. If you die, your ears will be dead. What should you fear? But you can't die at the hands of thieves." After saying that, without waiting for Zhang Fang to read out, he hit his head on a rock and died. Cao De was Cao Cao's younger brother.
, has long been known for his courage, and even the Black Mountain Army couldn't help but sigh: He is a strong man. So Zhang Fang ordered him to be buried richly.
At this time, Zhang Fang looked up at the top of the city again, and was about to talk to the people on the city wall. But he saw an astonishing silence on the city wall, and suddenly there was a burst of noise, followed by a commotion, and then he saw a surge on the wall, and then
As the people dispersed, soon there was no sound anymore.
Late at night, the doctor went to see Cao Cao and came out. He said to Xun Yu and others: "Your Majesty is overly sad and angry and has a headache. There is no serious problem in life or death. But I am afraid that he will have to recuperate in the past few days and will not be able to do anything." After Cao Ang heard this, he quickly went into the house to see Cao Cao and saw his father lying on the bed with his eyes closed, his hands clenched into fists, and his chest heaving. As Cao Ang entered the house, Cao Cao opened his eyes. He was so wide open.
It was so fast that the eldest son was startled. When he calmed down and saw his father's shining eyes, he felt that his father was a little different.
Cao Cao said slowly: "How is it outside the city?"
"Those thieves buried all my grandfather, uncles and brothers."
Cao Cao heard that Cao Ang was hesitant in his words and asked, "What else is there?"
Cao Ang said: "There is also a man wearing armor and riding a tall horse to show off under the city. He is said to be his grandfather's gray-headed Zhang Qi. He once abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side. Now he has been reused by the Linzi court and has become a military commander. He waved the flag and let people
The sergeants surrendered immediately."
Speaking of Li Qi, Cao Cao remembered it. He held his head and said bitterly: "I remember him! I remember him!" The voice was like an owl, and the hatred in it made Cao Ang tremble. As he spoke, Cao Cao's head felt cold.
The attack occurred again, and he was in agony and tossed repeatedly on the bed.
After he calmed down again, Cao Cao was covered in sweat. He said slowly: "I'm afraid I can't see things in this state. All the next matters will be decided by Xun. Whatever he says will be whatever he says. Don't do it."
Be hesitant."
Cao Ang nodded slightly, waited for Cao Cao to sleep, and then slowly went out to talk to Xun Yu. After Xun Yu asked about Cao Cao's situation, he weighed the situation in his mind and sighed: "I didn't expect the enemy to have this strategy. It was my mistake! Now!
Our army's morale is low, our general is seriously ill, and the enemy's morale is high. I'm afraid it's impossible to stay here. Even if I'm unwilling to do so, I can only abandon the city and go away to join the army with the general." Guan Yu said: "The enemy is surrounded by three and one is missing. They must be planning to pursue them when they withdraw, so let me come to the rear. I promise not to let a single enemy pursue me."
Xun Yu then finalized the arrangement and informed Cao Cao, who had no objection.
The next night, Puyang opened the west gate, and the army filed out of the city gate and ran towards Henan in the west. Cao Cao was lying on a carriage, listening to the sound of wheels and horse hoofs, and couldn't sleep for a while. He could only raise his head to look at the sky.