Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 74
In the battle of Huangmenting, Cao Ren's entire army was wiped out.

Of the 5000 men and horses, none escaped and were all wiped out.

Shen Chen is doing his best to ensure that history is still going its way.

In fact, Shen Chen is not afraid of changing history.

If a traveler thinks about the process of history all the time, but once a little change is caused by the butterfly effect, he immediately becomes blind, what kind of traveler is he?
Countless advanced knowledge of later generations is wasted, and the nine-year compulsory education and high school are all for nothing. What is the difference between that and waste?
It's just that when he was in Xuzhou, he wanted to change history, but he was powerless.Coming to Jingzhou, I can't change anything.

Only this time, killing Cao Ren changed history, but at the same time he had to conceal the news of Cao Ren's death, so that Cao Cao could continue to follow the historical process and experience a major defeat in Wancheng.

Because only in this way can he take advantage of the opportunity and take the initiative to attack when the time is right, like a hungry wolf dormant, launching a fierce attack on the sick lion.

So at this moment, not to mention that Huangmen Pavilion is [-] to [-] kilometers away from Wancheng, and it takes a day to ride a horse, even if it is very close, unless Cao Cao sends someone to investigate, no one will go back to report this matter.

Shen Chen is now waiting for news. His army is currently stationed at Huangmen Pavilion. After cleaning up the mess, he sent soldiers, pretending to be ordinary people, to go to Jiyang, Wancheng and other places to inquire about news.

On the other side, when Zhang Xiu learned that Cao Cao was going to find an excuse to kill him, he immediately followed Jia Xu's arrangement and began secretly preparing for the raid on Cao Jun's camp.

On the second morning, Cao Cao came out of Mrs. Zou's courtyard supporting the wall, sent someone to find a carriage, and took himself and Mrs. Zou back to his camp in the north of the city.

The 5000 army is now led by Cao Ren with 3000 to attack Huyang, and Le Jin with 2 to attack Anzhong, so at this time Cao Cao still has more than [-] horses.

And these 2 horses were divided into three camps, which were in the shape of corners, and the distance from each other was two or three miles.

In the front is Cao Hong's camp, with a total of 5000 people, in the middle is Cao Cao's main camp, with more than 1 people, and behind it are Yu Jin's soldiers and horses.

After Cao Cao brought Mrs. Zou into his camp, he was rather reluctant to think about Wei, and hung out all day long.

After waiting for two days, Cao Cao woke up with weak legs and feet in the early morning. Dian Wei outside suddenly came to report that it was Zhang Xiu's general Hu Che'er who had come to defect.

"Oh?"

Knowing this, Cao Cao said, "Let him in."

Hu Che'er is tall and mighty, only inferior to Dianwei. Although he doesn't know how good his martial arts are, Cao Cao still likes him very much just looking at his mighty appearance.

After a while, Hu Che'er came in, knelt down on one knee and said, "Hu Che'er has seen Mr. Cao."

"Get up."

In the tent, Cao Cao sat on the main seat, raised his hands falsely, motioned him to get up, and asked, "What is the purpose of General Hu coming to my camp?"

"Forehead"

Hu Che'er stood up, seemingly embarrassed, and said, "Although the villain is General Zhang's subordinate, he is loyal to the imperial court. I saw the general drinking all day long and speaking rudely to Duke Cao, so I dissuaded him. I beat and scolded and said in words"

"what did he say?"

Cao Cao asked.

"Talk about the day that Duke Cao gave me gold and silver, he must be trying to win me over, and he also said that I had opposed it a long time ago, and wanted to drive me out of the barracks."

Hu Che'er hesitated and said: "The villain fought hard according to reason, but General Zhang was angry and threw a halberd at me, and ordered the soldiers to arrest me. Fortunately, I am strong and I have many old friends in the army, so I was not arrested desperately. Otherwise, I may not be able to escape before Cao Gong. Now the villain has nowhere to go, so he has to come and join Cao Gong."

"So it turns out that Zhang Xiu is just a fool, and An Neng knows a real hero."

Cao Cao had long liked Hu Che'er Kong Wuyouli. Seeing him falling out with Zhang Xiu, he was overjoyed and said, "You come to me. This is called abandoning the dark and turning to the bright. In this way, you will be a Qu Junhou under my tent first." , I will promote it to you after it makes meritorious service on the Japanese battlefield."

Hu Che'er hurriedly said: "Thank you, Mr. Cao, but the villain has long heard that General Dian is very brave and admires him in his heart, so he is willing to serve under Dianjun's account."

"Oh?"

Cao Cao thought for a while, and then said, "Then you will be a lieutenant under Dian Wei's tent."

"Thank you, Mr. Cao."

Hu Che'er accepted his head and bowed with joy on his face.

Seeing his appearance, Cao Cao stroked his beard slightly, feeling happy in his heart.

In fact, when Hu Che'er first came to vote, Cao Cao still had doubts.

But when he had conflicts with Zhang Xiu, his subordinates would vote, fearing that there would be fraud.

But then I thought about it again, Hu Che'er is just a person, even if he came to vote, what can he do?

Assassinate him?

Dian Wei is under personal protection at [-] o'clock. Although Hu Che'er is brave, can he defeat Dian Wei?

What's more, now Hu Che'er has been incorporated into the Imperial Guard.

Dian Wei was the leader of his bodyguards, and there were nearly a thousand bodyguards around his tent. When Cao Cao traveled every day, at least dozens or hundreds of soldiers would guard him.

Moreover, there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the entire camp, not to mention assassinating him, even approaching him for no reason is impossible.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, he knew that Hu Che'er should have voted sincerely, not fraudulently.

Otherwise, what would he do?
It can't be to steal something, can it?

Thinking of this, Cao Cao said with a smile: "Okay, you go down first, and let Dian Wei arrange for you to patrol the camp."

"The villain will leave."

Hu Che'er withdrew and was incorporated into the Imperial Guard under Dian Wei's command.

Here Cao Cao was happy to have Hu Che'er, while Zhang Xiu pretended to drink heavily every day to paralyze Cao Cao, but secretly actively mobilized troops to prepare for a counterattack.

Due to the great disparity in strength between him and Cao Jun, and Cao Cao has already developed hostility towards him, Jia Xu believes that the action must be quick.

At least in a short period of time, before Cao Cao was aware of it, he had to launch a sudden attack, catching him off guard.

So these two days, while Zhang Xiu sent Hu Che'er to infiltrate the Cao camp to investigate the internal structure of the Cao camp, he also actively spied on the outside, often sending people to pretend to be civilians passing by the Cao camp and observe secretly outside.

On the third day, Cao Cao sent someone to Zhang Xiu to write a revised letter. Zhang Xiu pretended to be drunk at the time. Jia Xu asked Cao Cao's envoy to come in and take a look before accepting the letter.

After Jia Xu sent Cao Cao's envoy away and returned to the tent, Zhang Xiu suddenly woke up, got up from the table and asked, "Uncle, how is it?"

"It has been sent away."

Jia Xu threw the letter on the bamboo slips on the table.

Zhang Xiu took the letter, and after reading it, he threw the bamboo slips away and cursed, "Is this thief Cao taking me for a fool?"

In the letter, he said that he had a misunderstanding with Zhang Xiu, and that he just met Mrs. Zou to discuss things that day, and asked Zhang Xiu not to think too much. Cao Cao planned to host a banquet for Zhang Xiu tomorrow and asked him to go to Cao Jun's barracks.

"General, don't worry."

Jia Xu had read this letter on the way back just now, and knew that Zhang Xiu would be angry, so he said: "This shows that Cao Cao has already planned to get rid of the general tomorrow, but he doesn't know that we are going to raise troops, so he is the most unprepared tonight Now is the right time for us to do it.”

Zhang Xiu cheered up immediately, and said, "Uncle, do you want to do it tonight?"

"Ah."

Jia Xu's eyes flashed, and he nodded slightly: "If we don't do anything, we will be in danger, because Cao Cao will definitely choose to send troops to directly attack our barracks."

In fact, if there is a choice, Jia Xu is really unwilling to do so.

Cao Cao is powerful and the emperor is orthodox, and fighting against him is like hitting a stone with an egg.

But there is no way, he is now tied to the Zhangxiu chariot.

Zhang Xiu was staring at him, if he wanted to leave the Xiliang army barracks, Zhang Xiu would definitely kill him.

So he can't go.

But Cao Cao wanted to kill Zhang Xiu now, and there must be no delay. If Zhang Xiu refused to go, Cao Cao would definitely feel suspicious.

The worst result at that time is that Cao Cao directly sends a large army to attack their camp.

At that time, among the rebellious army, I am a scribe, and I am likely to die in it.

So Jia Xu can only be forced to launch another strategy-chaotic force!
How similar is this to Chang'an?
Lovely.

After all, it is for survival.

Compared with other people's lives, your own life is more important.

No?
soon.

The sky darkened, and it was midnight.

Outside Cao Jun's tent, there was a sudden bird cry.

Qiang people in Xiliang are best at imitating the sound of birds. There are Qiang people in Zhang Xiu's Xiliang army.

At this time, in Dianwei's tent, he was drinking with Hu Che'er.

His camp was very close to Cao Cao's. After all, he usually didn't sleep with Cao Cao. After the day's duty was over, he had to go back to the camp to sleep at night.

But before going to bed, Hu Che'er suddenly came over with a few jars of wine, saying that it was strong wine produced in Nanyang, and that this wine should not be drunk by non-heroes.

Knowing that it was strong wine, Dian Wei immediately became interested. He is a good drinker, and soon began to drink to his heart's content.

"The general is massive."

While Hu Che'er was praising, his eyesight and hands were full again.

Dian Wei laughed and said, "This wine is really interesting. Compared with it, the wine I drank before is like water."

"Yeah, when I was in Xiliang, I never saw such spirits."

Hu Che'er said: "I heard that this is a good wine produced in Xinye since I came to Nanyang. Many soldiers under Zhang Xiu who are good at drinking in Xiliang didn't believe it, and they all got drunk. The general is better than us in Xiliang. Anyone can drink it."

Dian Wei was very happy when he was praised, picked up his wine glass and drank another glass, put it down to wipe the wine stained on his beard beside his mouth, patted his chest and said, "That is, in our hometown, no one can drink like me. "

"When the general comes again, there has been no war recently. Just let go of the booze. After leaving Nanyang, it will be difficult to drink this wine in the future."

Hu Che'er refilled his glass again.

"is it?"

Dian Wei lost himself in Hu Che'er's massive compliments, and drank another glass and said: "Then we have to take this opportunity to drink a few more glasses."

Then I started to dry one cup after another, and soon drank three or four catties of liquor with a degree of more than 50 degrees.

His whole body was about to float up, his eyes were dazed, and he saw that Hu Che'er seemed to have turned into two, and then into four, and his voice persuading him to drink was much quieter in his ears.

"General, general?"

Hu Che'er was about to continue persuading him to drink when he saw Dian Wei staggering, and after drinking the last glass, the glass in his hand slipped to the ground, so he pushed it lightly.

In the next second, he fell headfirst on the table, opened and closed his mouth, snored like thunder, and fell asleep soundly.

"Choo Choo Choo!"

When the birds chirped outside, Hu Che'er saw Dian Wei's [-]-jin double halberds in the tent, so he immediately went up to pick them up. He was also very strong, able to bear [-] jin, and lifted them up easily.

After stealing the double halberds, Hu Che'er walked out of Dianwei's tent calmly. He was the deputy general of Dianwei at this time, and the patrolling guards around saw him and had to greet him.

It's just that Dian Wei's Shuanghalberds are known to the whole army, and they parade around the market with his weapons, fearing that they will attract attention.

So Hu Che'er stole the halberd and didn't dare to wander around in the barracks, but ran to his tent immediately. He secretly dug a hole in his tent, threw the halberds in it and buried them.

After a while, he pretended to be patrolling the camp, and went north to near the edge of the camp. His throat was agitated, and he made a crisp bird call.

"Cuckoo!"

The sound was transmitted to the outside, and the singing of birds outside stopped.

After confirming that his companion had received the news, Hu Che'er walked back to his tent as if nothing had happened.

The Qiang who sent the letter outside there received the message and immediately ran back to Zhang Xiu's barracks to report.

"Did Hu Che'er succeed?"

Zhang Xiu asked.

The Qiang replied, "Yes."

"it is good."

Zhang Xiu said with great joy: "The time has come, the troops will rise today, pass my order, and the whole army will make a surprise attack."

"only!"

The orderly immediately went to convey the order.

The entire Xiliang military barracks erupted in an instant, and the troops coming and going were shuttling back and forth, ready to go.

According to Jia Xu's strategy, Zhang Xiu personally led the dead man to touch him in the middle of the night.

It must not be possible for a large number of troops to rush directly to Cao Ying, because it is night, and if a large number of troops light torches, they will definitely not be able to hide it.

But if you don't light a torch, it will be difficult to march.

I can't see the road clearly at night, and I can't see my fingers a few steps away. The Xiliang Army is a long distance from Cao Jun's camp, and thousands of soldiers will become headless chickens.

The most important thing is that Cao Cao is not stupid. In addition to the strict defense inside the camp, there are also many guard posts on the outside.

That is to say, they had scouted the locations of these guard posts long ago, and with Hu Che'er as an internal response, the Qiang people who went to inform Hu Che'er could come outside Cao Jun's camp.

Otherwise, without these preparations, even if Zhang Xiu launched a sudden attack, Cao Jun's soldiers would be able to react quickly.

Even a few miles away, the horn can be blown to send a signal to Cao Ying, thereby exposing the operation.

Therefore, Zhang Xiu is also very fortunate to have a wise man like Jia Xu around him to help him.

Soon, Zhang Xiu led the guards towards Cao Ying.

The positions of the sentries on the periphery were all marked out one by one. It was late at night, and even the sentries were drowsy and their vigilance was low.

According to Zhang Xiu's instructions, the guards quietly settled a large number of outlying guard posts and approached Cao Ying.

"Let the army come over!"

After disposing of those guard posts, Zhang Xiu immediately issued an order.

After half an hour, the Xiliang army waiting outside had quickly assembled, and the torches flew towards Cao Ying like a dragon.

(End of this chapter)