Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 272

"My lord, what's the matter?" Jia Xu also asked quickly when he saw Cao Cao's rare gaffe.Cao Cao didn't say a word, but just passed the information to Jia Xu.Jia Xu took a look and couldn't help but exclaim.

With Jia Xu and Cao Cao's deep scheming, being able to be so anxious can only show that the matter is really urgent.In fact, the news sent by Cao Pi was enough to make people like Cao Cao and Jia Xu lose their composure.Cao Pi told Cao Cao that a few days ago, Zhang Fuwan, Sizhi Weihuang, Geng Ji of the Zhongshaofu, and Shi Jian, the infantry captain, suddenly launched an attack and contacted the infantry battalion, private soldiers in each family, and some unknown people. The dead men, together, committed an attack against the fire in Yecheng, trying to hijack the emperor and kill Cao's people.Cao Pi and Xun You hastily mobilized Xia Houfeng's Northern Army and Cao Tai's Iron Armored Army to guard them, but they didn't want some of the imperial guards to follow suit. This made Cao Pi and Xun You a little overwhelmed, and they were almost driven out of Yecheng.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Dianman, the son of Dianwei, who led a part of the Tiger Guards stationed outside the city, led an army to help.With the help of Dian Manzhi, Cao Pi and others finally stabilized the situation.By early morning, the situation had gradually become clear.Most of the soldiers of Fu Wan and others were just private soldiers composed of domestic servants in the mansion, with limited combat power, so almost all of them were wiped out.And the 2000 men led by Wang Shuang were only weak soldiers in the Black Mountain Army, and their combat effectiveness was not very strong, so after Cao Pi and others stabilized their position, they gradually became unable to stand up.Seeing that something was wrong, Fu Wan and others quickly led people to take away the emperor, empress, jade seal and other things, and left Yecheng to go west. Cao Pi was leading Hu Qiying to chase after him, and sent people to report Know Cao Cao.

The rebellion in Yecheng, the escape of the emperor, any one thing is enough to be thrilling.Now that the two are coming together, even Cao Cao, who has experienced many storms, was almost fainted from fright.Gathering his mind, Cao Cao also hurriedly ordered to call everyone to come to discuss the matter.Not long after, Man Chong and others came here one after another. After reading the letter, they were speechless for a while.

"My lord, the most urgent thing is to kill Fu Wan and other rebellious parties first, and save the emperor, so that there will be no danger!" After a long while, Liu Ye, who was also a member of the Han clan, was the first to put forward his opinion.In fact, Liu Ye himself was clear in his heart that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty ran away voluntarily rather than being held hostage, but he still chose to use the more euphemistic words of rescue.

"Zi Yang's words are not bad!" Man Chong also nodded and said, Cao Cao was noncommittal when he heard the words, turned his head to see Jia Xu frowning slightly, Cao Cao also asked: "Wen He, what do you think of Zi Yang's words?"

"Mr. Ziyang's words are not bad, but Xu is thinking, why did Fu Wan act like this? It is true to say that he has resentment towards the lord. But with his wisdom, I am afraid that he may not be able to plan such a thing. It's a big deal." Jia Xu said softly, stroking his goatee.Seeing that the generals were still a little puzzled, Jia Xu simply explained: "From the son's letter, the son and Xun Gongda could hardly control the situation before the little general Dian helped the battle. You should know that the son has Changshuiying under his command, and General Cao Tai's [-] Iron Armored Army, and Captain Xiahou's Huqiying Battalion. Even if the Huqiying Battalion cannot fight in the city, but it can suppress the prince and General Cao, the combat power of this rebel army is extremely impressive. Although Wan is the head of the state, his movements are quite restricted on weekdays, how did he organize such a rebel army? Even Wei Huang and others have no idea."

Jia Xu's mind is indeed not good enough, and he can see many problems from just one or two sentences in the information, so Cao Cao nodded again and again.After a pause, Cao Cao said again: "From Wenhe's point of view, who designed this matter?"

"Although I don't fully know who designed it, but Xu asserts that it was definitely not designed by Liu Bei." Jia Xu said with absolute certainty.As soon as these words came out, everyone was quite surprised.If it is said that Liu Bei is now in a desperate situation, it would make sense if he planned to disturb Cao Cao's rear.But Jia Xu said it was not Liu Bei, which is puzzling.

"Why is that so?" Cao Zhang asked a little strangely, but Man Chong and Liu Ye were thoughtful.However, I heard Jia Xu say: "The son said in the letter that after His Majesty was kidnapped, the rebels left Yecheng and headed west. If Liu Bei did this, they must have crossed the Yellow River in the south. And Liu Bei The navy is sharp, and it should have sent people to support it earlier. Now that there is no navy, and it is going west, there must be other plans!"

"That's right!" Jia Xu's words were reasonable and everyone nodded. "My lord, do you want to go back to Hebei to be safe?" Man Chong asked first after clearing his mind a little.

"No need, as long as Zihuan can rescue His Majesty safely, it will be fine. What's more, even if we return to the teacher, I'm afraid the matter is already a foregone conclusion." Cao Cao said lightly.Everyone was silent, then Cao Cao ordered the whole army to rectify, preparing to set up an ambush, just waiting for Zhao Feng to throw himself into the trap.

What Cao Cao didn't know was that outside of Yecheng at this time, there was already chaos.The emperor, the empress, and the messy head of the state, Shi Jian, Wei Huang, Geng Ji, etc., and even court ladies, eunuchs, and all kinds of miscellaneous troops ran west all the way. , it was Cao Pi who led the army to pursue.

"Wang Zhuangshi, how long before we can retreat into Taihang Mountain?" Shi Jian asked while running.Finally, Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty had run across the road more than ten years ago and had rich experience, and now he is quite familiar with running.Otherwise, Cao Pi would have caught up long ago.

"Lieutenant Shi, the situation is critical now. How about letting the people around His Majesty throw the belongings carried by the army on the side of the road to attract the pursuers to snatch them?" Wang Shuang looked at the pursuers at the back door, and was quick to think.

"This plan is very good, act according to it!" Fu Wan nodded hurriedly.Everyone quickly dropped the gold, silver and jewelry they carried with them, and threw them on the side of the road.In order to grab the footsteps, many of the pursuers led by Cao Pi were from the Hu Qiying.These barbarians are inherently greedy, and when they saw the jewels, they immediately stepped forward to snatch them.What's more, after capturing the slow-moving court lady, they simply started working on the ground.Their behavior has also attracted more people to follow suit.In this way, the pace of the pursuers was immediately slowed down.

"Your Majesty, if the delay is so long, I'm afraid it will be bad if Your Majesty hides in the Taihang Mountains!" Cao Tai, who was chasing with the army, saw that Hu Qiying was so helpless, and quickly remonstrated.Cao Pi had no choice but to urge everyone to catch up as soon as possible, and even beheaded several people before he reluctantly pursued.But seeing that it was getting dark, he still couldn't catch up.Cao Pi could only order more scouts to continue the pursuit.

"Wang Zhuangshi, haven't you arrived yet?" Looking at the darkness around him, Fu Wan asked out of breath.He had been bumped all day on horseback, and his bones were falling apart.

"Did Cao Pi catch up?" Wang Shuang asked instead of answering Fu Wan's words.

"No, it's too dark!" Fu Wan was a little surprised that Wang Shuang didn't answer the question, but he answered honestly.

"That's it!" Wang Shuangyu was startled, Fu Wanzheng was surprised, suddenly felt a chill in his heart, looked down, and saw a steel knife had already been inserted into his chest.

"Why are you?" Fu Wan spat out these four words with difficulty, and finally fell to the ground with his eyes closed. "Kill me!" Following Wang Shuang's order, all the people under his command suddenly killed the person who had fled with him for a day.Palace ladies, eunuchs, and private soldiers in the ministers' homes were chopped down one after another.Wei Huang and the others were startled and quickly resisted.But their fighting power was really too bad, and they were killed after a while.In the end, only Han Xiandi and Empress Fu trembling on the dragon chariot were left.

"You guys, why are you so bold?" When Emperor Chao saw such a scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere, he was already frightened out of his wits.Wang Shuang didn't answer him, but a person behind him smiled and said: "It seems that His Majesty can only be a fool."

"Sima Yi, is that you?" Liu Xie had a pretty good memory, and immediately recognized this man's voice. It was Sima Yi who had met in the palace back then.

"Your Majesty's memory is not bad, it seems that you are not a fool!" In the triumphant words, Sima Yi walked over calmly.Taking a disdainful look at the Han Xiandi and the Empress who were lying on the ground, Sima Yi sighed lightly and said, "For the sake of His Majesty's imminent death, let me tell you, I will take advantage of your death to create something for Cao Mengde." It's just trouble!"

"What?" Han Xiandi was really surprised this time, it turned out that he was just being used by others.If he just died in the suburbs for no reason, then the account can only be charged to Cao Pi and Cao Cao.Although he is a puppet, if he is killed suddenly, then Cao Cao will be in trouble.He will have to be forced to return to Hebei to sort out the mess.As for Liu Bei, although it is very likely that he escaped, his life is not easy now. At least it will take some time to calm down the matter of Pang Tong and Liu Pan.Sima Yi, on the other hand, can use his family's deep roots in Hedong for a generation, cooperate with the tens of thousands of Black Mountain troops, and occupy the land of Sili in one fell swoop.If you are lucky, you can take advantage of Xia Houyuan's invasion of Hanzhong, and use your own manpower to occupy Guanzhong or even Hanzhong.In this way, he can also become a prince of one side, standing with Liu Bei and Cao Cao at the same time.And Fu Wan and others who knew the truth of Liu Xie's death have also been silenced by him.In this way, he is the big winner this time.

Naturally, these things were beyond Liu Xie's knowledge. Seeing the shivering and worthless emperor in front of him and the jade seal in his hand, Sima Yi stabbed him through the chest.Zhang Chunhua, who was smiling next to him, pulled up a ribbon and wrapped it around the neck of Empress Fu who was pinned to the ground, and then slowly tightened it...

When Cao Pi led his people to arrive here in the early morning of the next day, they found that there were only corpses on the ground, including the emperor and empress.Seeing all this, Cao Pi also felt a chill hit his forehead.

"Who, exactly, killed His Majesty and the Empress?" Cao Pi looked at the corpses all over the floor, smelled the bloody smell in the air, and felt his head getting bigger and bigger, and finally fell to the ground in darkness.

(End of this chapter)