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In a private house opposite the government office, several soldiers of Cao Jun were holding down a young woman for prostitution. The woman was struggling and crying, but it was of no avail. More than a dozen packages, the money that these Cao Jun searched from various houses.

Jia Kui was furious, drew his sword and rushed forward to hack, "You bastards, I will kill you!"

In the darkness, it was difficult to discern the identity of the person who came, so the leader ordered viciously: "Where did you come from, kill me!"

Several soldiers of Cao Jun swung their knives and rushed forward. Jia Kui was human after all. The opponents of this group of soldiers only blocked twice and were hit in the back with a knife. Jia Kui screamed and fell to the ground while staggering. , rushed forward, ready to cut Jia Kui into pieces.

At this moment, more than a dozen yamen servants rushed in. Seeing that the prefect was injured, their eyes turned red immediately, and they rushed forward with their knives, blocking the soldiers of Cao Jun. The thief Cao officer pointed at the soldiers and cursed: "How dare you kill the prefect?" , are you tired of living?"

Only then did the soldiers of Cao Jun know that they had caused a catastrophe, and they were so frightened that they fled in all directions. Some escaped over the wall, and some escaped through the back door. Kui, give him a bandage.

Jia Kui finally breathed a sigh of relief. The incision was half an inch deep, which caused him serious injuries. The severe pain almost made him faint. Cao Hong, order him to stop the search immediately, otherwise I will impeach him for collaborating with the enemy!"

"Prefect, please feel at ease and heal your injuries. I'll go find General Cao right now!"

Jiang Xin left in a hurry. At this time, Jia Kui couldn't hold on any longer, his eyes darkened, and he fainted again.

At this time, Cao Hong was in Deng's mansion, the gate of Deng's mansion had been knocked open by Cao Jun, the Deng family and his son were controlled by Cao Jun, and the other 200 members of Deng's clan were all driven to the back hall to wait for their punishment.

The five hundred Cao troops rummaged through the Deng Mansion, carefully searched every possible hiding place, and searched the Deng Mansion upside down. Cao Hongduan sat in the lobby, waiting patiently for the results of the search.

At this time, he had already received news that countless soldiers took the opportunity to harass the people and rob, but Cao Hong was unmoved. He knew that the morale of the Cao army in Nanyang was currently low. Give the soldiers a little benefit, who would be willing to work for Cao Hong.

Moreover, he once again confirmed by interrogating the housekeeper that there were indeed more than forty unidentified people who had mixed into the city. These people were very young and all of them were strong. The army, their presence in the city is a thorn in Cao Hong's heart, a thorn in his side, and he will never give up until he finds them.

At this time, a soldier accompanied Jiang Xin, the county magistrate, to quickly walk into the hall. Jiang Xin finally found Cao Hong, and he said anxiously: "General Zilian, something is wrong, the prefect Jia has an accident!"

Cao Hong was startled, and then asked, "What happened to Prefect Jia?"

"Prefect Jia stopped a group of soldiers from massacring women, but was besieged by soldiers and seriously injured."

Cao Hong suddenly became uneasy. He could not care about civilians being killed, but if something happened to Jia Kui, he would not be able to bear it and walk around. He immediately stood up and said, "Take me to see the prefect Jia!"

Jiang Xin bowed and saluted, "Prefect Jia is receiving treatment from a doctor, but he has something to tell the general."

"He what?"

"Prefect Jia, please order the general to stop the search immediately, otherwise... otherwise"

"Otherwise what?"

"Otherwise the prefect Jia will impeach the general for the crime of collaborating with the enemy to Duke Wei!"

"Why am I collaborating with the enemy?" Cao Hong put his hand on the hilt of his sword and asked Jiang Xin with a murderous look.

Although Jiang Xin was afraid in his heart, he still mustered up his courage and said: "Because the general plunders the people and kills people, it will destroy Wei Gong's reputation and popular support in Nanyang. This is tantamount to surrendering Nanyang to Liu Jing. .”

Cao Hong said coldly after a long time: "If the prefect of Jia wakes up, please tell the prefect that the elite Han troops have sneaked into the city. If they are not found, Wancheng will be destroyed by them. For the sake of the overall situation, I have to do this. , the search will never stop, please forgive me!"

After that, Cao Hong turned back and ordered: "Go and search for the soldiers who injured Jia Taishou, and immediately behead them for public display. Soldiers are not allowed to commit suicide and killing, and those who disobey the order will be beheaded!"

At this time, a military officer rushed over and reported in a low voice: "The mansion has been searched, and there is indeed no suspicious person. In addition, there is a confession from the servants. The Deng family has a separate house, and the person we want to arrest is most likely hiding there. "

Cao Hong turned around and walked out, loudly ordered: "Take Deng and his son into prison and deal with them later. All the soldiers follow me to search the other house!"

Jiang Xin looked helplessly at Cao Hong walking away. Cao Hong only mentioned that rape and killing were not allowed, but he was not allowed to plunder property. It was obvious that he had no sincerity to solve the problem. Jiang Xin could only sigh and hurried back to the county office.

Deng's villa is also located in Beicheng, less than one mile away from the main house, covering an area of ​​about *** mu. It used to be a businessman's mansion. After the businessman left Nanyang, he sold this mansion to the Deng family. The family used it as a guest room, but the situation in Nanyang was tense during this period, and the Deng family did not have any guests, so the other house was closed.

At this time, a group of soldiers had just searched here, and the words 'Deng's Beppu' written on the plaque made them dare not act rashly. !"

After yelling for a long time, no one paid any attention to it. The chief became a little annoyed, and ordered to the rest of the soldiers: "Slam the door!"

At this moment, a fire dragon came quickly in the night, and more than a thousand soldiers with torches in their hands quickly surrounded the house, their swords drawn and their swords drawn, ready for battle.

Cao Hong appeared in the flames and asked loudly, "What's the matter!"

The chief was so frightened that he knelt down and reported, "The brothers led by the humble officer have just arrived here, but no one answered when they knocked on the door, and they are about to knock on the door."

"A bunch of idiots!"

Cao Hong cursed, and immediately ordered: "Break open the gate and rush in. No matter who you meet, shoot and kill!"

'boom!boom! There were several loud bangs in a row, the gate was knocked open by a giant tree, and hundreds of soldiers of the Cao army rushed in with their knives. Soon, the soldiers of the Cao army searched the mansion, but found nothing. The soldiers of the Han army did not hide here. Disappointed, he was also confused, where did the Han soldiers hide?

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There is also a mansion in the south of the city that covers an area of ​​nearly [-] mu. This is the main house of the Huang family, the three most prominent families in Nanyang. The Huang family is divided into two branches, one is Nanyang Huang, and the other is Jiangxia Huang. Due to Huang Zu's strength, the Huang family even became one of the four great families in Jingzhou.

However, as Huang Zu was destroyed by the Jiangdong Army, the Huang family gradually declined, from the former four major families in Jingzhou to the third family in Nanyang County, ranking behind the Zhang family.

The head of the Huang family was Huang Chengyan. In order to avoid the war, Huang Chengyan temporarily moved his family to Longzhong, and thus had Zhuge Liang as his son-in-law. However, with the great changes in Jingzhou, Huang Chengyan did not follow his daughter and son-in-law to Jiaozhou, but moved back to Nanyang.

After several twists and turns, the Huang family gradually declined, and Zhuge Liang was unable to help the Huang family. Now the Huang family barely maintained its position as the third most prominent family in Nanyang only by relying on its former status and the care of Huang Zhong, the first general of the Han army.

In the past few years, Huang Chengyan has kept a low profile, rarely going out, and the Huang family has nothing to do with the world. The whole family lives on the rent and tax of more than ten hectares of fertile land. However, the city-wide search tonight also affected the Huang residence. The family still had some influence, so the head of the village who led the search did not dare to go too far, and only searched the outer house of the Huang's mansion. After accepting some bribes from the Huang family, the head of the village gave up searching the inner house, and withdrew his troops and left the Huang's mansion.

Holding a lantern, Huang Chengyan walked slowly towards the backyard with the support of his second son Huang Yu. Huang Chengyan had two sons and a daughter. His daughter Huang Yueying married Zhuge Liang. The eldest son Huang Jin was an official under Liu Bei and served as the prefect of Yulin County. The second son, Huang Yu, stayed with him and took care of Huang Chengyan's daily life.

"Go this way, father, slow down!"

Huang Chengyan was in poor health and walked very slowly. He smiled bitterly at his son: "I pride myself on being noble, but in the end I have to imitate ordinary people and use money to bribe Cao Jun. What a great irony."

"The boy thought that his father was doing the right thing. He listened to Cao Hong's order to search the whole city. In fact, he sent troops to plunder. The whole Wancheng was ruined by Cao's army, and it was a trivial matter to lose some money. Many families' wives and daughters were humiliated, and their parents were killed. In contrast, the Huang family is already very lucky."

Huang Chengyan sneered: "Cao Hong obviously wants to use this to boost the morale of the army. Although the morale of the army has been boosted, Cao Cao's reputation in Nanyang has also been ruined by him. This kind of person only cares about short-term benefits and does not care about the long-term. He is destined to be unable to defend Nanyang. In the end, Nanyang County was returned to Han, and he was the most dissatisfied with Zhang Liao. In my opinion, he is far behind Zhang Liao!"

Huang Yu hesitated for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Do you want to give up Liu Bei for helping Han like this?"

Huang Chengyan shook his head and sighed: "I don't know why? But I really don't like Liu Bei. They are far away in Jiaozhou, with few people and barren land. Even with a great talent like Kong Ming, there is nothing they can do. They want to make Jiaozhou strong." , At least several generations of hard work are needed, Liu Jing will not give them time, it is difficult!"

Huang Yu was also silent. If this is the case, wouldn't the elder brother's nearly ten years of struggle with Liu Bei be in vain?

The father and son walked into the warehouse in the backyard. Just as Huang Yu opened the warehouse door, a sharp sword brushed against his throat. Huang Chengyan was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "General Ren, we!"

The saber was withdrawn, the father and son were pulled into the warehouse, the door was closed immediately, and a ball of light was lit, which immediately illuminated the inner room of the warehouse. Dozens of men in black were hiding behind the iron frames. Peace with his more than forty subordinates.

Although Deng Yi placed them in Deng's other house, Ren Ping did not stay in the other house for a long time. He was very shrewd and cautious. When they were in Deng's manor, they had been seen by many people. Home is obviously not safe anymore.

At dusk, he asked everyone to leave Deng's Biefu separately, and came to Nancheng to seek help from the Huang family. The reason why he chose the Huang family was because of Huang Zhong's high prestige in the army. Ping instinctively thought that nothing could be wrong,

Secondly, the Huang family was mainly related to Jiaozhou, and Cao Jun would not suspect the Huang family. Fortunately, Ren Ping was not wrong in his judgment. Huang Chengyan accepted their request for help and hid them in the warehouse in the backyard.

There is also a very hidden cellar in the warehouse. Even if Cao Jun searches the warehouse, they can hide in the cellar. However, Ren Ping already knows that Cao Jun who searched the Huangfu has withdrawn, so they don't have to hide in the cellar anymore.

Ren Ping stepped forward and bowed deeply, "We are extremely grateful for the protection Huang Gong gave us."

Huang Chengyan smiled and waved his hands, "You are welcome, General. I have two questions, so I don't know if I should ask them or not?"

"Don't hesitate to ask Huang Gong, if you can answer, I will tell you the truth."

Huang Chengyan then asked: "I want to know when the Han army will attack Nanyang County?"

Ren Ping was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "Attack now, the Han army has divided into three groups and attacked Nanyang County."

Huang Chengyan nodded, "I still want to know, which general is the coach of the Han army this time?"

Ren Ping smiled and shook his head, "It's not a general, but His Royal Highness the King of Han leads the army himself."

Huang's father and son looked at each other, and they were a little stunned.