My balcony connects the Three Kingdoms

While Wei Cheng was preparing for the 'retreat' for a few days, a major event happened in Xuzhou and Yanzhou.

When Chang Xi was arrested before, Huang Zhong seized a batch of food and supplies.

Of course, these materials were originally intended to be sold to Cao Ren by Chang Xi, including not only grain and grass, but also more than a dozen carts of slaves.

The problem lies with these slaves, to be precise, it is an important person who pretends to be a slave.

Yanzhou, Yecheng.

Cao Cao shot out angrily, and threw the bamboo tube in his hand at the person in front of him, "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

The person under the head didn't dare to hide, and could only kneel on the ground and tremble.

"My lord, be calm when things happen, and don't be impatient."

Kneeling on the side, Guo Jia frowned, got up and bowed his hands, and then said: "The most important thing now is to determine whether Duke Cao's identity has been exposed, and whether the money has fallen into Tao Qian's hands, as long as Duke Cao's identity is not revealed , and there will be no worries about life for the time being.”

Cao Cao looked coldly at the man kneeling on the floor, with mixed feelings in his heart. After all, the man who was arrested was his biological father. The old father was still working hard for him at this age. He was not filial, and now he was reduced to a prisoner. Can you calm down?

But looking at Guo Jia, Cao Cao didn't want his subordinates to see such a miserable side of himself, so he could only suppress his impatience, suppress the anger and worry in his heart, and only hoped that his old father would be safe and sound.

Guo Jia looked at the man delivering the letter, motioning for him to get up and talk.

The man looked at Cao Cao in fear.

Cao Cao snorted coldly, acquiescing.

The man bowed down as if he had been pardoned, and then got up to answer.

Guo Jia asked dozens of questions about everything, and the man knew everything. He didn't even dare to add fuel and vinegar, because he knew that the military adviser was outstanding.

When Guo Jia asked: "Just now you said that you have bribed Chang Xi, and disguised yourself as a businessman to go to Yangguan, but in the end, for some reason, you killed dozens of sharp archers in the middle?"

When talking about the sharp archer, Guo Jia deliberately emphasized his tone.

The man recalled it for a while, nodded and replied, "That's right, all of them are sharp archers, and the clothes they wear are also very strange, as if they are integrated with the dense forest and bushes, making it impossible to guard against."

Guo Jiajian's eyebrows furrowed unconsciously, a trace of fear appeared on his face.

Seeing this, Cao Cao frowned and asked, "Feng Xiao, why are you worried?"

Guo Jia's face was not very good-looking, but he just looked up at Cao Cao, and said in a low voice: "Master, if it is not bad, Cao Gong did not fall into the hands of Tao Qian, but... Wei Shi."

Ping Pong Pong!

"...What?" Cao Cao stood up in shock, and directly overturned the short table in front of him, spilling wine bottles, bamboo slips, and pens and ink all over the floor.

Guo Jia hastily clasped his hands forward, and just as he was about to speak, he saw Cao Cao walking down the steps.

"Come on, come on, Yuan Rang, Miao Cai, where are you?"

Cao Cao pushed open the bead curtain at the door, and a thick rain curtain rolled over his face, slapping him on the face, making him even more embarrassed.

The Xiahoudun brothers who were not far away, as well as several soldiers including Cheng Yu were alarmed and gathered here.

After listening to Guo Jia's narration, I realized that Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, was captured by Wei's men, and even the money that was originally used to expand the army was also lost. Wesley's trophy.

Hearing that Cao Song had been arrested, the Cao family all volunteered to rescue him.

Even the brothers Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan looked at Guo Jia nervously. Their minds were not confused yet, and they knew that the only person who could rescue Duke Cao was the military adviser in front of them.

Cao Cao also came out of the irritability at the beginning. He also looked forward to Guo Jia, hoping to see a glimmer of hope in Guo Jia's eyes.

And Guo Jia didn't disappoint him either. He lowered his head and twitched his beard with a contemplative look on his face. This is Guo Jia's habitual action when he considers a problem. Seeing this, everyone closed their mouths tacitly, and even the sound of breathing became louder. Be careful.

A group of people just stood in the rain, letting the drizzle wet their clothes, but no one dared to move to the eaves next to them, for fear that the noise they made would be too loud and disturb the military teacher's thinking.

Until Guo Jia's eyes suddenly brightened.

"Have it!"

The crowd seemed to be an oasis seen in the desert, with the rain coming after a long drought, all the hostility in their body escaped with Guo Jia's voice.

Entering the house again, Guo Jia is like the protagonist in the city, and even Cao Cao respects him very much.

Guo Jia enjoyed this feeling very much, but he knew that if his strategy could not help Cao Cao and rescue Cao Gong, the image he created would fall back to the bottom all of a sudden, or even worse.

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Two days later.

Xuzhou Langya, Taikang County.

Zang Ba led a force of 2 soldiers and horses, stopped and stopped along the way, and finally arrived at the destination.

The biggest disadvantage of marching and fighting in ancient times was that the timeliness was too low. A march of fifty miles a day was considered a rush march.

Unlike Wei's elite soldiers, who didn't need civilians to carry food and grass at all, Wei used compressed military rations, combined with hunting and a certain amount of herbal medicine knowledge, to ensure that even if they had no food, they could survive in the wilderness with their weapons and would not starve to death.

Therefore, Wei's people were able to arrive seven or eight days earlier than Zang Ba and the others, and they did not join Xuzhou's army until today.

The city of Taikang County is not very big. The urban area is a square city surrounded by rammed earth, which can accommodate about 5 to [-] people.

Because of Cao Ren's looting once, when Xun Yu took people to capture here, there were less than [-] residents left in the city.

In this way, Zang Ba led people directly into the city, which also avoided the risk of stationing outside.

Even if there were 2 more people, the city would not be crowded at all.

At the gate of the city, a team of women and children attracted the attention of the city guards, especially a few old women among them, holding a plain white flag in their hands, with a big [grievance] written on it in red liquid, and [ Eliminate harm for the people] and other words.

Before the city guards went to investigate, the women and children had already started shouting.

"Please let Lord Jun decide for us."

"Please envoy Lord let my man go."

"Leave my son alone, he was arrested innocently, not a traitor."

"Changxi is originally a bandit, he deserves to die, please make your lord help the people..."

The city guards on the top of the city gate looked at each other in blank dismay, and the people in the know immediately remembered something when they heard the name of [Chang Xi].

Some people couldn't see the women and children kowtowing and crying, so they hurriedly asked people to open the city gate and let them in first.

It's raining heavily today. During spring and summer, this kind of rain is supposed to be auspicious. I don't want to think that these women and children spoiled the mood today.

Looking at the kneeling women and children in front of the guard, Xun Yu frowned.

"Have you checked it out?"

"I have found out that they are all Xuzhou's local farmers and mountain people. If you are more detailed, you have to go to the state and county to find out the details."

Xun Yu thoughtfully looked at the women and children who were kneeling in front of the gate of the guard and shouting for grievances. He always felt that there was something strange about it. The most important thing was how did these people know that their husbands, sons and brothers were being imprisoned in the prison at this moment? Kang County?
One must know that when Huang Zhong seized the spoils that day, there were only Long Xiwei's people around him, as well as dozens of subordinates of the dead Chang Xi.

Since the news has not been leaked, how did these women and children find this place? Xun Yu squinted his eyes.

"Go, call Zang Ba." Xun Yu suddenly thought of something, and turned around to order the Longshan team members who were in charge of protecting him.

After a pause, Xun Yu's face suddenly changed, and he said hastily, "No, don't disturb the Xuzhou army."

The two members of the Longshan Army looked at each other, it was the first time they had seen the military division with such an expression, as if, as if they had picked up a treasure.

The corners of Xun Yu's mouth curled up, with a half-smile, and he said, "Let's go, let's meet those slaves for a while. Before, I thought it was strange that these slaves were treated so well that they were specially carried on horse-drawn carts."

Xun Yu laughed and said, "Just now I suddenly remembered a sentence from the young master, which made me wake up from a dream."

The two members of the Longshan Army were very supportive, "I don't know what the young master said to make the military division so happy?"

With his hands behind his back, Xun Yu strolled down the wooden ladder, stopped for a moment, raised his head and said, "Young Master once said that the emperor violated the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime. His original intention is to call for equality for everyone."

The Longshan army and the two nodded slightly. This was written into Anyi's law, so they were no strangers to it.

Xun Yu then went down the stairs, laughing as he walked, as if sharing interesting things with his friends.

"Do you still remember the picture of those slaves brought back by Uncle Han? There was a man sitting on the shaft of the chariot, with someone protecting him in the middle. That day, I just thought he must be a respectable old man. Looking at it now Those women and children are acting, ha ha."

The man behind him suddenly realized, "That's right, if he is really a person of high morals and respect, there must be someone pleading for him, but just now those women and children didn't say a word about such a person."

"So there must be a big problem with this person!" another man exclaimed.

Xun Yu nodded with a smile, "That's right, there is something wrong with that old man, and those women and children outside the city gate are probably running after him. Of course, they are indeed the family members of those slaves, but it's so true. Between fake and fake, it is difficult for people to distinguish their real purpose."

It's just unpredictable.

When the three of Xun Yu rushed to the prison in the east of the city, they found that it had been emptied.

"Where are people?" Xun Yu frowned.

A middle-aged man ran over in fear, "Mr. Hui, all the people in the prison have been taken to mine."

"Mining?"

Xun Yu's complexion changed drastically. He had the impression that this man was the jailer of this prison.

Prison Cheng nodded and said: "General Zhang came over in person this morning and took out the document written by the envoy himself. The villain saw that there was no problem, so he released them all. In the past, there were not a few criminals who were called to serve, so they didn't care."

Xun Yu's face changed again and again, and he murmured: General Zhang and the envoy wrote it himself.

The Longshan army next to him suggested: "Military division, do you want someone to bring him back?"

Xun Yu looked at the empty prison, his expression was a little gloomy, he sneered, and said, "Don't worry, I want to see what kind of tricks Tao Gongzu is playing. He obviously knows that there are abnormal identities among the slaves. man of."

In fact, after Chang Xi was killed, Chen Deng sent someone to send the news back. Tao Qian was already dissatisfied with Chang Xi. After some in-depth investigation, he found that he almost missed [-] million yuan.

The person who secretly colluded with Chang Xi turned out to be Cao Song, Cao Cao's biological father.

And Cao Song also carried a large amount of money, food and supplies with him when he crossed the border this time. The amount was huge, enough to form a powerful army in just a few months.

This made Tao Qian afraid, but he couldn't help but feel greedy.

Immediately, Zhang Kai, an effective general, was sent northward with the army, and secretly brought Cao Song back.

Taikang County, in the woods ten miles outskirts.

Zhang Kai slapped the man in front of him away, and took a breath to calm down his mood.

Looking at the angry man, Zhang Kai turned his head sideways, looked at Cao Song who had closed his eyes and said nothing, and threatened in a cold voice: "Old guy, if you are sensible, tell me where you are, otherwise the next one will not be a slap, Changed the knife."

Cao Song didn't move his eyes, but replied in a cold voice: "I don't know what you mean, what kind of treasure, I don't know anything at all."

Zhang Kai's eyelids twitched a few times, and his big yellow teeth sizzled, making a grinding sound that gave people goosebumps.

"Okay, let's not say yes, I want to see if it's your stubbornness or my knife..."

As he spoke, he was about to draw his sword, but was stopped by a scribe beside him.

"General, don't act recklessly. It's better to bring him back. My lord has his own way to make him speak."

Zhang Kai looked at the hand held down by the scribe, a glint of predation flashed in his eyes, and he murmured in a cold and terrifying voice: "Idiot, I have so much money, I got it by myself, so why not go to Hedong County to hide your name from now on? "

"Zhang Kai, what did you say?" The scribe turned pale with shock.

Zhang Kai shook his hand away, drew out his saber and slashed at the scribe's neck, blood flowed for a moment, and even Cao Song, who was kneeling on the ground, was stunned by this sudden scene.

Zhang Kai laughed haha, shook the blood on the knife, looked at Cao Song, and said playfully, "I heard that your old Cao family specializes in digging up people's ancestral graves, so you must have obtained a lot of treasures over the years, haha Haha, I don't want too much, give me [-]%, I only need [-]%, and the rest is yours, how about it?"

Cao Song looked in horror at the scribe who was dying on the ground, only felt that Zhang Kai in front of him had been blinded by his interests, this kind of person was the most terrifying, he couldn't explain it clearly to him, and if he didn't follow him, he would just keep going. humiliated.

Cao Song nodded hastily, "Okay, I'll give you [-]% and I'll give..."

call out!
"Uh, uh, I..."

Cao Song just told the location of the treasure, but suddenly he held his throat, and blood and saliva kept gushing out of his mouth.

Zhang Kai's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly grabbed Cao Song and kept shaking him, "Say, tell me quickly, where is the treasure, exactly where is it?"

In Cao Song's throat, a crystal-clear short needle slowly melted into the blood, and finally disappeared.

But Zhang Kai thought that Cao Song committed suicide by taking poison, even if he died, he was unwilling to reveal the hidden treasure.

"General, it's hopeless, I'm completely out of breath, what should I do?" After investigating, his subordinates told Zhang Kai the helpless fact.

Zhang Kai's face was gloomy, and he looked at Cao Song who was terribly dead, and the scholar who was killed by him, and finally said weakly: "Cao Song resisted arrest, took poison and committed suicide, Master Sun was brutally killed, so be it."

"What about the others?" The subordinate looked at the other Nudins who had been brought out.

A stern look flashed in Zhang Kai's eyes, and he waved his hand casually, "No one can be left alive."

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A few hundred meters away, Tai Shici yawned, looked at the flames in the distance, and said in admiration: "The military master really knows things like a god."