Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 14
As night fell, Shen Chen was invited to visit Seventh Uncle's house.

Uncle Qi's family has three children. The eldest son, Shen Tao, has become the mainstay of the family's labor. The eldest daughter is 16 years old and married at the beginning of this year. The youngest son is 12 years old, the child who was scolded by Shen Chen before.

Shen Tao was sent to call back Shen Chen's parents, but because she hadn't returned for a long time, she was afraid that the food would not taste good if it got cold, so Uncle Qi greeted Shen Chen and said, "Ah Chen, let's eat first, don't be too polite."

"Uncle Qi and I are not polite." Shen Chen smiled and said, "But Uncle Qi is the host and I am guest, Uncle Qi eats first."

"Then eat first, Ah Ying, go put this bowl in the pot and heat it up, and leave it for the three brothers when they come back."

Seventh Uncle Shen Min asked his wife to heat up a bowl of cooked chicken first.

When Seventh Aunt came back, Seventh Uncle, his wife, their youngest son, and Shen Chen began to move their chopsticks first, eating rice cooked with corn, that is, millet.

At this moment, outside Lanshan Ju Shen's ancestral hall, which is about six miles away from Zenyang Ju, Shen Zhen has just passed the selection and officially became a clan member.

The Han people are more martial arts. During the Guanghe period, Shen Zhen went to Bingzhou as a border guard soldier because of the imperial conscript, and fought against the prosperous Xianbei at that time.

Although he had only fought skirmishes in the rear at the time, and even so far he had only killed one enemy.But the experience of serving as a soldier has always deeply affected him, making him often call himself a big Han frontier soldier.

This self-proclaim is quite worthy of boasting, because at that time the Han court recruited soldiers in three ways, one was banished soldiers composed of Xingtu sinners, the second was mercenaries from border ethnic minorities, and the last was It is a good family who is recruited from the mainland.

According to the status, Liang Jiazi has the highest status, and after arriving at the border, he will often be served as a low-level officer, such as a corps leader and a senior officer. Shen Zhen was a senior officer at that time, commanded a ten-man squad, and has a certain social status .

After retiring from the army and returning to his hometown, Shen Zhen was at least relatively high in the prestige of the Jushen family in Zhuangyang because of this experience.

Therefore, now that the clansman moved south to form a clan soldier, he had to participate in it, and even had to hold a certain position, whether it was due to affection or his own ideas, otherwise the village might gossip.

Shen Chen knew this, and also knew that his mother might not be able to persuade him, but his father was stubborn, and even if his mother could not persuade him, he would not be able to persuade him.

After all, in this society where parents are greater than the sky, as a son, if he goes against his father's wishes, it is unfilial.

Once being labeled as unfilial, in the Han Dynasty when filial piety was used to rule the world, and even the most important way to become an official was the era of "filial piety and honesty", it meant that it was difficult to move forward and was abandoned by the whole society.

So Shen Chen has no way to dissuade Shen Zhen, he can only look at his own mind.

But at present, Shen Zhen still hasn't changed his mind. After Shen Chen's mother found him, she tried to dissuade him for a long time, but she was still unmoved.

As it was getting late, the parents did not go back to Zangyang in the dark.

The clan organized clan soldiers to train and recruited a total of 100 people. Shen Zhen was appointed as the captain of 50 of them because of his previous experience. He arranged the residence uniformly and trained day and night to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

However, Shen Chen's eldest brother, Shen Zhong, lived in Lanshanju, and the husband and wife did not go to the dormitory, but lived in Shen Zhong's house.

Shen Tao's journey was fairly fast, and he had already arrived outside the Shen's ancestral hall before dark, but after he went there, he found out that not long after the clansmen had dispersed, his third uncle Shen Zhen and his wife went to Jucong brother Shen Zhong's house in Lanshan.

If Shen Tao hurried back at this time, maybe he could return home before sunset.But he is stubborn, and his parents asked him to find Sanbo and his wife, so he had to obey.

So I went to Lanshan again, and it happened that Shen Zhong's family also killed chickens to entertain their parents, seeing that it was getting late, Shen Zhong invited Shen Tao to have dinner at home.

Originally, Chen Tao still wanted to go back, but the third uncle Shen Zhen had always been dignified in the clan, so he obediently stayed behind with a single sentence.

After eating, it was already dark, and there were wolves howling at night near Lanshan Mountain outside.

There is only one year difference between Shen Zhong and Shen Tao, they grew up together since they were young, and they have a very good relationship, seeing this situation, they told Shen Tao not to go back in the dark, and stay at his house.

Shen Tao had no choice but to agree.

However, no one knew that after night fell, a heavily armed army quietly arrived at Huangmen Pavilion.

The leader was Cao Ren. Before Cao Cao left, he personally ordered him to get rid of Shen Chen.

Originally, Cao Ren planned to wait until Tao Qian's pursuers were defeated, and then return to the carbine and lead the army all the way to Xiangben County.

According to Cao Ren's assumption, most of the people in Xiangben had returned by this time, and they were all massacred to deter Tao Qian from making trouble behind Cao Cao.

As a result, he never expected that after the pursuers came, they were first scared off by Cao Ren's tricks, and then for some unknown reason, they chased them again and killed his troops in the rear.

If Cao Ren hadn't been cautious and arranged for the former army to respond, the consequences would have been disastrous.

But even if the pursuers were repulsed in the end, Cao Ren's loss was very great, especially among the pursuers were two fierce generals, who killed many other soldiers and soldiers during the charge, so that the morale was very low.

At present, more than half of Cao Ren's rear army has been killed or injured, and there are about 2000 people with combat effectiveness, more than 1000 wounded soldiers, and nearly 800 people killed in battle.

At this time, it is impossible to lead the troops back, but the task assigned by Cao Cao still needs to be completed, so Cao Ren had to choose two hundred elites to carry out it himself.

Originally, they planned to slaughter the entire Xiangben County openly and complete the task by the way, but now they can only sneak into the village, which makes people a little aggrieved.

However, Cao Ren is not a person who sticks to being mean or not. Cao Cao taught him that as long as things get done, it doesn't matter what means.

So even if it was a regular army attacking an ordinary village, Cao Ren could do it. After all, completing the mission was better than anything else.

In the night, the two hundred soldiers were all night-vision elites without night blindness. The moonlight plus every torch, a total of twenty torches, was enough for them to find their way and direction in the dark.

"General, that's the one."

One of Cao Ren's soldiers pointed to the house by the creek not far away at the foot of the mountain and said.

That house was lit, it was Shen Min's house.

Cao Ren had sent people here to investigate before. At that time, Cao Cao planned to send people to call Shen Chen to question, but because Shen Chen was hiding in Niqiu Mountain to avoid disaster, so he just sent people to find the way, thinking about coming to find him later.

In ancient times, the land was sparsely populated, and the houses where the villagers lived were often scattered. However, Shen Zhen's house and Shen Min's house happened to be close to each other, less than ten feet apart.

It was dark at this time, and Shen Zhen's house was not lit. As a result, the soldiers who knew the way pointed to the wrong house.

In fact, he couldn't point to other places, because Shen Zhen's house was not lit, and the location was at the foot of the hill, the moonlight was blocked by the shadow of the forest, and it was so dark that he could only rely on a little light from the main room of Shen Min's house to judge the direction.

At this time, Shen Chen had already had dinner. Shen Min and his wife waited for a long time and Shen Tao did not come back. They were a little worried. Shen Chen comforted them by saying that it was because they were delayed on the road and it was already dark. Making trouble with tigers and wolves, Shen Tao and his parents are staying at Shen Zhong's house, let them not worry.

It used to be the same situation, the folks in the village, everyone knew each other, not to mention that Shen Tao and Shen Zhong were brothers and grew up as children, but in Huangmenting, Deng and Shen's two families were mostly acquaintances, it was getting late It is also common for people who can't go home to randomly knock on a family or friend's house to stay overnight.

But Shen Min and his wife were still afraid that Shen Tao would come back in the dark, so they kept the oil lamp on after eating.Waste is waste, but the whole family is about to move, and even hundreds of acres of land have to be given up, so I don't care about this little bit of lamp oil.

Cao Ren looked towards the direction his subordinates were pointing at. They were located on the post road north and south of Huangmen Pavilion, and the village houses of Zangyangju were scattered on the east and west sides. To the west was a plain with many fields, and to the east was Niqiu Mountain. It is a piece of hills, the height may not be more than [-] or [-] feet, and the forest is dense.

There is a small stream near the post road, which flows out of the mountain. On the opposite side of the stream is the house at the foot of the mountain. The terrain is slightly higher, about 100 feet away from the post road, and there are some criss-cross fields in the middle. And a small pond and mulberry.

Seeing the terrain by the moonlight, Cao Ren quickly made considerations in his mind, looked at the small bridges on the east and west sides, and said: "Ten people on each side of the small bridges on the east and west sides will be guarded, and the rest will follow me. Go to ten people from each household, no chickens or dogs will be left, and another 20 people will guard the back mountain, and the rest will follow me."

On the east side of the road are not only the two houses of Shen Zhen and Shen Min's family, but at the foot of this hilly mountain, there is a distance of more than 100 feet from the creek. Along the way, many fields, vegetable fields, mulberry forests and small ponds have been reclaimed near the creek. Most of the villagers live at the foot of the mountain, with about a dozen households.

There are more than 30 households and more than 100 villagers in Zengyangju, of which 23 households live at the foot of the east mountain of the village, and [-] households live in the west plain of the village. Sincerely rooted in this land.

However, no one thought that there would be uninvited guests to disturb their tranquility.Even Shen Chen didn't know, because he was not a fortune teller, knowing that Cao Cao already knew of his existence, and wanted to kill him in the cradle.

Cao Ren's men tiptoed into the village, passed through fields and mulberry forests, and slowly approached the nearest house to the east of the village, which was less than twenty feet away.

At this moment, a dog barking suddenly woke up the world like a shock, followed by a second, third, and fourth sound.

"Wow woof woof woof woof!!!"

"Wow woof woof woof!!"

"Wang Wang Wang!"

"It's so noisy, why is the dog at home barking again?"

"Maybe an outsider passed by the village."

"Why are there still people at this time?"

"Go and see."

The tranquility of the village was instantly broken, and the villagers who had already rested got up one after another to see what was going on.

However, Cao Ren had anticipated this situation a long time ago. He also grew up in the countryside of the Cao clan since he was a child. He led thousands of young people across the Huaishui, Sishui and other places at the junction of Yuzhou and Xuzhou, and often harmed the people everywhere. The custom of dog guarding the home?

So almost at the moment the dog barked, he no longer hid his tracks, but quickly signaled to the soldiers under him, ordering them to act according to the previous deployment, while Cao Ren led 30 people to directly raid Shen Min's house.

(End of this chapter)