Chapter 39 Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chen Deng, the son of Dr. Chen, also stayed in Xuzhou to assist Che Zhou, the acting prefect.One day, Che Zhou sent someone to invite Chen Deng to discuss the matter.Chen Deng thought there was something urgent, so he boarded the tower. Che Zhou avoided the others, and whispered to him: "Actually, I have received a secret letter sent by the prime minister, secretly ordering me to kill Liu Xuande. I know that if I don't handle it properly, there will be big troubles, so I am here to discuss with you. , do you have a clever plan to kill him?" Chen Deng was very nervous when he heard this, but he still pretended to be nonchalant and said, "Isn't it as easy to kill Liu Xuande now as to find something in your pocket? Just lay an ambush inside the city gate and invite him in. At the city gate, guns and swords came down from all sides, is there any way for him to survive? In addition, let me personally command the ambush shooters on the tower to wait for the opportunity. When the troops following Liu Xuande pass through the moat from the gate bridge, shoot them all. "

After hearing this, Che Zhou was overjoyed: "If that's the case, then hurry up and get ready!" So, while Che Zhou was busy arranging troops, he sent someone to send an invitation to Liu Xuande.The main content of the invitation card is: cool autumn and August, it is a good time to watch the moon.We sincerely invite you to come to the city tower and look up at the moon to spend the night together when the moon is white and the wind is clear. I would like to wait for you with beautiful girls and jade cups. On the same day, as soon as Chen Deng returned home, he immediately reported the matter to his father, Dr. Chen, and carefully observed the changes in his father's face.

Doctor Chen's friendship with Liu Xuande is still the same as before, without any change.Doctor Chen said: "Liu Xuande is a benevolent man. Although our father and son have received Cao Cao's favor, we can't bear to kill Liu Xuande. What do you think about this?" "My answer to Che Zhou was not from my heart." "Then it's better to go to Liu Xuande immediately and tell him the reason of this incident quietly." "I don't worry about sending someone there, I'd better wait until night and I will go there myself." Soon, Chen Deng rode a donkey and took a small path in the dark to the old house where Liu Xuande lived.Unfortunately, he did not meet Liu Xuande, so Chen Deng called out Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and revealed Che Zhou's plot to them.

Zhang Fei jumped up when he heard it, "Just now the envoy sent by Che Zhou took a white invitation card, said please come to the moon-watching banquet, and then went back. So it was for this? This clever bastard!" Zhang Fei was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He was going to rush into the city with 70 or 80 light cavalry to cut off the heads of the chariots. "You can't act so hastily, the enemy has already prepared." Guan Yu criticized Zhang Fei for being too hasty.So he came up with a plan to implement it only in the dead of night. "It's just a trivial matter. Don't let it reach the ears of the elder brother. Let's clean him up quietly."

Zhang Fei admired Guan Yu's strategy deeply. Therefore, the two decided to act according to the plan set by Guan Yu. Since the 50,000 troops from Xudu were still under the banner of Cao Cao, Guan Yu used Cao Cao's banner to quietly lead the army to the moat of Xuzhou City in the early morning when the fog was thick and the sky was dark. Guan Yu shouted loudly from the city: "Open the door! Open the door!" "Who are you?" Seeing this sudden appearance of the army, the city defenders will be very nervous and will not open the city gate easily. Guan Yu said loudly: "I am Zhang Liao, Prime Minister Cao's emissary. I have come here from Xudu on urgent matters. Don't doubt it, just look at the banner that Prime Minister Cao bestowed."

Guan Yu's subordinates waved Cao Cao's banner under the starlight. When Che Zhou heard that there was an urgent envoy sent by Cao Cao, he couldn't help feeling suspicious. Chen Deng had hurried back to the city before.Seeing Che Zhou's full of suspicion, he threatened secretly: "Why are you hesitating? Open the city gate quickly, don't the people in the city keep waving the prime minister's flag? If you hurt the feelings of the envoy Zhang Liao like this , even if the prime minister blames it later, it has nothing to do with me." Che Zhou is also a very scheming person, even though Chen Deng forced and threatened him like this, he still insisted on saying, "No, it's not too late to open the door after dawn. It's still dark outside the city now, let alone the messenger who came suddenly I haven't seen it before, so I can't just open the city gate casually like this."

If you wait until dawn, everything will be over. Guan Yu was well aware of the advantages and disadvantages, and he shouted anxiously: "Aren't you going to open the door? I am Zhang Liao sent by Prime Minister Cao. I have a very urgent and confidential matter. Why haven't you opened the city gate for me yet? Ah, I see. , it turns out that you Che Zhou has a different heart. Well, I will go back and report this matter to the prime minister, don't regret it!" As Guan Yu said, he deliberately and loudly ordered the following team to return. Seeing this scene, Che Zhou couldn't help panicking: "Hey, please wait a moment. Now that Dongfang is white, I can see whether you are really the prime minister's envoys. That's right, you are the envoys sent by the prime minister! "

After a while, the city gate creaked open. At this moment, the white mist that filled the moat spread towards the mist.In the morning mist, only the sound of many soldiers crossing the river and the sound of horseshoes could be heard.But because the sky is not clear, everything is blurry, as long as it is not face to face, it is impossible to see the other person's face clearly. "Are you Che Zhou?" Guan Yu asked suddenly after approaching Che Zhou. Che Zhou felt something was wrong, and after a closer look, he couldn't help shouting in panic: "Ah, so it's you?"

Under the cover of the morning mist, he immediately ran away desperately. At this time, there was a fierce bloody storm here, and the soldiers in the city fell in a pool of blood in an instant. At that time, most of the soldiers defending the city were still sleeping, and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and more than a thousand soldiers under them who rushed into the city were all eager to fight, so a large number of soldiers under Che Zhou were ruthlessly killed. wiped out. Chen Deng quickly boarded the tower, and ordered many archers who had already ambushed there: "Shoot arrows at Che Zhou's subordinates!"

The crossbowmen with their bows and arrows were stunned when they heard the order to release arrows at their own troops. Chen Deng drew out his sharp sword and stood behind to supervise the battle, so the crossbowmen had to face the guarding soldiers who fled in panic. shoot arrows.Countless soldiers died instantly under the random arrows.The acting eunuch Che Zhou pulled out a fast horse from the stable, rode on the horse quickly, jumped over the gatehouse, and fled in a hurry. "Where are you going to escape, this pest?!" Guan Yu clapped his horse and chased after him, only to see a flash of the saber, and Che Zhou's head fell to the ground immediately.

It was bright. After Liu Xuande heard the news of the incident, he yelled, "Something has happened!" He immediately left the house and galloped towards Xuzhou city on horseback. On the way, I saw Guan Yu riding a tall horse with the bloody head of the harness hanging on the saddle, leading the soldiers returning singing triumphant songs. Liu Xuande greeted Guan Yu's team alone with a gloomy face.He said regretfully to Guan Yu: "Che Zhou is Cao Cao's trusted minister and Xuzhou's deputy prefect. Now that you kill him, Cao Cao will be a hundred times angry. If I had known about this earlier, I would never have done so." Let you kill him." Liu Xuande suddenly found that Zhang Fei was not in the team, and when he was worried, Zhang Fei had already arrived on a fast horse.He was covered in blood, and when he saw Liu Xuande, he yelled: "Ah, what a joy! I really want to drink wine to celebrate this morning." Liu Xuande frowned, and asked Zhang Fei, "How did you deal with Che Zhou's wife and family?" Zhang Fei raised his head and replied nonchalantly: "I just stayed behind and killed them all, so brother should be at ease." "Why are you so ungrateful?" Liu Xuande scolded Zhang Fei for his mania, but no matter what he said, it was useless. Now, in Liu Xuande's heart, he secretly deepened his worry and fear towards Cao Cao.