Han Xiang

Chapter 68 Fishing in troubled waters
"Death to me."

Xu Ding swung his broadsword with a flash of cold light, and directly beheaded an officer of Cao Jun.

In this cao army of nearly 200 people, only four or five chief officers were equipped with war horses, which were comparable to Xu village's two or three horses. However, with the entry of nine cavalry from Longxiang, the battle situation changed subtly.

War horses not only have the ability to collide, but also have the advantage of condescending immediately. Cao Jun originally had the upper hand due to his well-equipped equipment, but at this time the balance of victory quietly fell to Xu Village.

When Cao Jun Quhou noticed something unusual, he yelled at everyone under his command.

"Privately raising war horses and fighting against officers and soldiers, can this kind of village survive? Kill all these bandits and let them take their property."

Cao Jun Quhou's words were like a chicken blood, and Cao Bing, who had been surrounded, immediately ran away.

In everyone's eyes, there is only killing and greed. After all, after the massacre of the village, women and property can be taken by themselves.

Isn't it just for the benefit of following Cao Cao?

"You have a big tone, let's see how much you weigh."

Xu Ding held a big knife in his hand and pointed at General Cao who was outside the crowd to invite him to fight.

Long Xiang was at the same distance as Xu Ding, and he thought that he was Qu Hou against Qu Hou, and he had the experience of single-handedly fighting against Zhang Fei and Xiahou Dun. He should be able to easily win this opponent, so he shouted to Xu Ding:
"Bo'an, give him to my younger brother."

"What do you think I am? My younger brother? Get out of the way."

General Cao shouted back the Cao soldiers around him, raised his gun and patted his horse on the horse to attack Xu Ding.

Soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, he thought his opponent should be Xu Ding.

Although Long Xiang also rode a horse, he had been exposed to the wind and rain since he broke out, and he looked much more embarrassed than Xu Ding, so even though he was wearing armor, he was just an ordinary cavalryman in the eyes of outsiders.

Long Xiang just had a glimpse just now, and he could see that Xu Ding's martial arts were good, probably at the level of Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui, so it was no problem to deal with a Quhou.

After stabbing a Cao soldier, Long Xiang raised his head to look again, only to see Xu Ding smiled disdainfully. The opponent had already killed him in a short time, and he was indeed a strong man.

Cao Jun Quhou was beheaded, and the morale of the remaining soldiers was greatly damaged, and they began to flee slowly outside the village.

At this time, Tang Xi rushed to the battlefield with the infantry.

Long Xiang knew that if Cao Bing escaped, Xu Village would be doomed in the future, so he raised his spear and pointed forward, drinking four words coldly:

"Not a single one."

The regular army joined the battlefield, and the demoralized Cao soldiers no longer had the will to fight, and instantly turned into a unilateral massacre.

After a while, the thunderous killing sound stopped.

There were hundreds of corpses lying at the south entrance of the village. In addition to less than two hundred Cao soldiers, hundreds of villagers were also killed in battle.

After deploying the task of cleaning up the battlefield, Long Xiang walked slowly to Xu Ding's side, and apologized with a little self-blame: "Bo'an, I have troubled you."

"It's none of your business, this is Cao Bing deliberately finding fault."

Xu Ding shook his head solemnly, and then added: "If my second brother hadn't brought Xiangyong to Feng County a few days ago, how would these picky people dare to provoke my Xu Family Village?"

Long Xiang thought to himself that you are too trusting. If Liu Bei said this, I would believe it. After all, what kind of existence is Erye Guan?I'm afraid your second brother doesn't have that kind of suppression.

"Ahem. Although there are no survivors, Cao Jun wants to find out, why don't you take the villagers to Huainan to avoid disaster?" Long Xiang changed the subject.

"There are thousands of people in my Xu village. No one will leave their homeland unless it is absolutely necessary. Since there are no survivors left, clean up the traces."

Before Xu Ding finished speaking, Tang Xi who was not far away suddenly waved and shouted:

"Yunqi, we found a living creature."

"Why don't we go to the first trial?"

Long Xiang and Xu Ding looked at each other.

Xu Ding nodded in agreement: "Alright."

The so-called cleaning up the battlefield is to prevent someone from pretending to be dead. Tang Jue held that Cao soldier in his hand, and the opponent's eyes were full of panic.

Long Xiang lowered his head and asked coldly:

"Whose play are you waiting for? How dare you massacre civilians in Qiao County?"

The Cao Bing panicked, looked at Long Xiang, Xu Ding and the others surrounding him, and didn't answer the question immediately.

Seeing the other party curled up like a quail, Long Xiang gave Tang Xi a wink.

Tang Xi understood instantly, he clasped his hands around the other's neck, and then threatened with a low voice.

"If you don't want to suffer, you'd better answer the question truthfully, otherwise"

"I"

That Cao Bing looked left and right, with hesitation in his flickering eyes.

"If you can tell the truth, maybe you can save your life, I will do what I say"

Long Xiang threw out a hope to the opponent, and Cao Xing and Tang Yu beside him opened their eyes in disbelief, saying, are you serious?

Probably because of the desire to survive, the injured Cao Bing finally gave up his persistence and explained the ins and outs like beans in a bamboo tube.

It turned out that this team was originally from Qingzhou, and they were field soldiers drawn by the guard Han Hao in Xudu, and the leader of the team was Yuan Hao who was beheaded by Xu Ding.

Xiahou Dun was seriously injured by Cao Xing, and Sikong Cao Cao was furious.

He ordered all the ministries to hunt down the enemy on a large scale around the place where the crime occurred, and avenge Xiahou Dun.

Cao soldiers from all walks of life took the opportunity to slaughter villages and loot property during the search and arrest, and basically encountered no decent resistance. Yuan Hao, who kicked the iron plate, was an extreme case.

After learning about the relevant information, Long Xiang signaled Tang Xi to release him with his eyes.

Cao Bing, who was pretending to be dead, turned around limping, with incredible joy in his eyes.

It's a pity that his smile and life came to an abrupt end the moment he turned around.

Xu Ding calmly made a knife from the back, and that knife was the first ring knife presented by Long Xiang, and then explained as if talking to himself:
"Yun Qi promised to let you go, but I didn't intend to spare your life. If I let you continue to slaughter the people, it would be my crime."

Long Xiang gave Xu Ding a thumbs up, and echoed: "These Cao soldiers are the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and they belong to the old evils that are hard to get rid of. They may have started Cao Cao's massacre of Xuzhou."

"Hmph, what kind of lord is there above, what kind of soldiers are there below. I heard that Cao Cao had a famous saying, 'I would rather blame others than others'. He is not much better than Yuan Shu." Xu Ding looked sullen. .

Cao Xing finished counting at this time, and trotted to report the battle situation.

Cao Jun killed 170 and five people, the people of Xu Village were injured 63 and died 84, and Long Xiang lost three infantry.

"Hey, it's a miserable victory."

Long Xiang sighed, then turned around and asked Xu Ding: "Bo'an, 170 and five Cao soldiers disappeared for no reason. Can your Xu Village really not be affected? You should carefully consider my suggestion just now."

"Go to Huainan?"

Xu Ding shook his head, looking at the rows of corpses of Cao soldiers, he said in a deep voice: "Burn these corpses, including weapons and armor, who can tell the truth?"

"Weapons and armor are buried? It's a pity."

Tang Yu looked regretful, implying that the village braves in Xu Village were not well equipped, so why not keep them for themselves.

Xu Ding frowned and explained: "Although these weapons and armor are good, they will cause too much trouble if they are left behind. It is good to bury them."

Tang Xi nodded and muttered to himself: "If you really want to leave no trace, you have to take things elsewhere"

After listening to Tang Xi's words, Long Xiang suddenly thought of a good way to fish in troubled waters.

"Uncle Xi, take off Cao Bing's armor and let our men change into it."

"Huh?" Tang Yu was surprised and puzzled.

Long Xiang walked to Xu Ding's side, looked at Tang Yu and smiled mysteriously.

"Bo'an, do you think Uncle Xi looks like Quhou Yuanhao?"

(End of this chapter)