The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 253

The anger in Cao Ren's study seemed a little dignified. Cao Ren and Man Chong both frowned, shook their heads and sighed slightly while talking.

But suddenly, there was a noisy sound outside the closed doors and windows, as if a large group of people were arguing.

In the night when he had already issued a curfew order for the whole city, if there was such a loud noise, something must have happened outside.Cao Ren's first thought was that Liu Chan led the army to launch a night attack, but it was obviously unlikely; then his second thought was that his army had changed!
Cao Ren stood up with a swipe, and his haggard face became even uglier.

Suddenly, with a bang, the door of the study was knocked open from the outside without permission.One of Cao Ren's guards stumbled in, knelt down on the ground immediately, and reported: "The governor is not good. A large number of soldiers have gathered at the gate of the government office. I'm afraid the soldiers are going to mutiny!"

Cao Ren suddenly became anxious, and felt that his eyes were darkened, and his mind immediately went blank, and he could hardly stand up anymore.He never imagined that the army trained by himself would betray him one day.At the same time, he hated Liu Chan so much that his teeth itch.

Seeing this, Man Chong sighed secretly, the governor of Cao Ren is probably really old.He hurriedly stepped forward to support Cao Ren, and persuaded him, "Captain, don't be in a hurry, the soldiers should not have mutinied yet, otherwise there would have been a mess outside, and it wouldn't be so peaceful."

Cao Ren really said that caring leads to chaos. After hearing Man Chong's words, he felt relieved and let out a long breath.After Cao Ren quickly calmed himself down, he broke free from Man Chong's support, and the mighty aura on his body suddenly returned.

Cao Ren strode down the hall, and asked the guard in a loud voice, "Have my guards assembled yet?"

The guard replied: "Back to the governor, the guards have already tightly protected the four gates of the mansion."

Cao Ren looked back at Man Chong, and said, "Bo Ning, the governor's office is not very safe now, you should go to Chang Diao to send someone here. If anything happens to me, I will entrust all the affairs of Fancheng to you." Here you go."

Man Chong hurriedly bowed and said, "Captain, the final general is willing to stay here with you."

Cao Ren sighed, "Bo Ning, what time is it now, why are you so shy? Don't talk about it, I'll send someone to escort you out."

As Cao Ren said, he couldn't allow Man Chong to argue and stepped out of the study, and called dozens of guards, together with Man Chong's own guards, escorted Man Chong out from the back door.

Only then did Cao Ren straighten his armor and sword. His tall and burly figure cast a long black shadow under the flickering light of the courtyard lantern.Then, Cao Ren shouted in a deep voice: "All the guards, follow me out of the main gate!" It's really like a general!
At this time, the road in front of the gate of the Governor's Mansion in Fancheng was already crowded by the soldiers who came to petition. The bustling crowd, in this dark night, was like countless sardines swarming.Under the eaves in front of the mansion's gate, there were hundreds of guards with weapons in their hands and extremely nervous expressions, separating the crowd from the mansion's gate.

In fact, the wishes of these bottom-level soldiers are very simple. They hope that Governor Cao Ren can lead them home.

Just when everyone was looking forward to it, the dark and tall door of the Governor's Mansion was finally opened from the inside, and the two huge door panels immediately cast a thick black shadow on the ground.

And behind the black shadow stood Cao Ren's mighty body.The armor on his body is black, and the helmet and cloak are black, as if blending into today's dark night.

Cao Ren's face was serious—or even angry, and he stepped out of the mansion.Cao Ren stood silently under the eaves of the mansion office. On the six steps, his majestic eyes swept down immediately.

All the soldiers immediately became quiet, no one dared to make noise anymore, and all looked at their commander with bated breath.Cao Ren's power is so powerful!
However, Cao Ren appeared to be very calm on the surface, but in fact, his heart was overwhelmed at this time, full of helplessness and sadness.Among the soldiers below, which one was not selected by him himself?He even looked at it at a glance, even though the current light is very blurry, he can still call out the names of none of them!

Cao Ren took a deep breath, finally spoke, and shouted loudly: "Now it's time for the curfew, what are you guys doing here, why don't you hurry back to the camp!" A thunderbolt exploded over the government office.

When the soldiers below heard the words, they suddenly fell to their knees and refused to leave.

When Cao Ren saw this, an imperceptible sadness flashed in his eyes.In fact, why didn't he want to just give up Fancheng and go home to reunite with his family?But in that case, how could he be worthy of King Wei's kindness?
In fact, I'm afraid it was such an unwavering loyalty that supported Cao Ren all the time, making him block the tide-like attack of Guan Yu's army.

The soldiers were silent, and Cao Ren was also silent.He suddenly flapped his cloak, held the hilt of the sword with his left hand, and actually walked down the steps.Seeing this, Cao Ren's chief guard hurried forward and stopped Cao Ren, because Cao Ren continued to walk through the guards and walked among the mutinous soldiers whose intentions were unknown.

Cao Ren stared blankly, and the guards immediately lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at Cao Ren again.Cao Ren pushed the arm of the chief guard away, then passed through the guards and walked straight to the middle of the soldiers.

At this moment, everything seemed so quiet, there were at least a thousand soldiers kneeling in front of the entire government office, but apart from their breathing, there was only the sound of Cao Ren's walking footsteps.Moreover, every time he walked by a soldier, they immediately lowered their heads.

Cao Ren walked a distance of more than ten meters like this, and finally stopped.He immediately lowered his head, his eyes resting on a very strong long body.Cao Ren suddenly opened his mouth and asked dignifiedly, "Takagi, tell Ben Du what are you doing?"

This Takagi turned out to be the boss of the Sansan!He is a veteran of Cao Ren. He has joined Cao Ren's army six years ago, and almost became Cao Ren's bodyguard later, so he is fairly familiar with Cao Ren.

Gao Mu raised his head to look at Cao Ren, but his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he choked up and said, "Governor, my brothers have never complained about following you in the north and south, that's because we are all willing to serve as soldiers under your command..."

Cao Ren interrupted Takagi, and asked coldly: "Then you don't want to follow me now?"

Gao Mu hurriedly said: "No, Commander, we people never thought of betraying you. But think about it, tens of thousands of our brothers went south, but they were killed and arrested by Guan Yu, and later they were besieged in Fancheng. There are only a few thousand people left. It’s really ineffective every day! Now Liu Chan is willing to give us a way out, please lead the brothers home!”

As soon as Gao Mu said this, those kneeling soldiers suddenly shouted at the same time: "Please lead the brothers home! Please lead the brothers home..."

Seeing this, Cao Ren knew that the general situation was such that no matter how high his prestige in the army was, it was impossible to suppress him any longer.These soldiers have not yet mutinied, but in fact, I should thank them.

However, a sense of powerlessness suddenly emerged in Cao Ren's heart, perhaps because these soldiers he trusted the most could not help him fulfill his loyalty after all...

Cao Ren suddenly untied his saber and slapped it to the ground.When the soldiers saw this, they all shut up immediately, but they looked at Cao Ren eagerly, hoping that he could give him an answer.

Cao Ren took a deep breath and shouted, "Go back to the camp right away, we'll be home in two days!" Cao Ren turned around and left expressionlessly as he spoke, but for some reason, after saying these words, his heart suddenly became inexplicable Feel a burst of relief.

After Cao Ren's dark figure disappeared behind the gate of the mansion, cheers erupted among the soldiers kneeling on the ground, because they could finally leave the hellish place of Fancheng and go home to meet their relatives .

And just outside those soldiers, a large number of people suddenly appeared at this time, but it turned out that Man Chong and Chang Diao led the people here.But when they saw the cheering appearance of those soldiers, the long arrow in Man Chong's hand fell to the ground.He knew that Fancheng was over after all.

(End of this chapter)