Chapter 36 Dangerous

On a quiet night, a cold moon hangs in the clouds like a hook.In the dark city of Puyang, there were only sporadic lights of fire, which were soldiers on guard.Cao Cao was lying in ambush in the grass half as high as a man in the east of the city, carrying a horse and plucking bells. Behind him were three thousand warriors led by Le Jin and Xia Houyuan. Signal. Cao Cao and Lu Bu have been stalemate for a month, and the two sides only had a few small confrontations with each other, which could not change the stalemate.And three days ago, someone fell from the city in the middle of the night and came out to Cao Ying, claiming to be a slave of the Tian family, a wealthy family in Puyang.

It turned out that since Lu Bu entered Puyang, he had forced the wealthy households in the city to donate food, and the military discipline of Bingzhou was corrupt, and they robbed the people's property everywhere, and the people in the city were miserable.The Tian family was persecuted by Lu Bu, and they were willing to respond internally. They bribed the city guards with a lot of money, and opened the city gate at night to let Cao Jun enter.At first Cao Cao was a little skeptical about this person's words, but after several correspondences, he felt that this matter was very feasible.In addition, Cao Cao agreed to conspire with him because he had been in love for a long time and the morale of the army was low.

Such an action is actually very dangerous. Cao Cao didn't have to come in person, but in view of the lack of morale in the army, he decided to personally encourage the soldiers to seize the city.In order to ensure safety, before leaving, he changed his armor and wore the same clothes as ordinary generals to conceal the enemy's eyes and ears, and ordered the soldiers to carry fire sickles and flints for lighting when entering the city. It was already the second watch, and Cao Jun had been waiting in the grass for an hour.Everyone didn't dare to relax at all, holding knives and guns tightly in their hands, but kept silent, only the rustling of grass insects was heard.It was the appointed time, but there was still silence on the top of the city. Cao Cao felt uneasy. After all, he didn't have a deep relationship with the Tian family. If things changed or the door failed, he had to quickly lead his troops back to the camp.

When he was anxious, the light on the east gate suddenly went out, and then a white flag was erected in a trance—the signal appeared! The rumbling sound of the door opening spread far in the dark wilderness, and Cao Cao immediately sent an order to rush into the city.He, Le Jin, and Xia Houyuan rushed into the city gate first, and the soldiers also quickened their pace, restraining their excitement and rushing to the gate of Puyang. No one shot arrows on the tower to stop them. In a blink of an eye, 3000 people had already rushed through the gate and lit the fire, but seeing the dead silence in the city, seven or eight guarding soldiers knelt down on the ground.

"What's the use of keeping the people who are greedy for money and unrighteousness? Kill them!" Cao Cao gave an order, and the heads of several people who offered the city were removed. Le Jin was about to kill him with his men, but Cao Cao stopped him: "Listen to my order now, let's capture the thief and the king. The soldiers on the city don't care about them. First kill Chen Gong at the Zhou Temple. It will be fixed immediately!" "Just in case, should we leave some people to guard the east gate for advance and retreat?" Lou Yi reminded, leading the horse.

Cao Cao sneered for a while: "We have come here, and we vowed to take down Lü Bu's supplies in Puyang. Today, we are desperate! Set fire to the east gate!" With his command, more than a dozen torches were immediately thrown towards the city gate. , The soldiers were all awe-inspiring when they saw this. Le Jin took the lead and shouted loudly, leading everyone to rush forward.The soldiers who came here this time were all Yanzhou soldiers, they were familiar with the road in Puyang City, they shouted the slogan to kill Chen Gong and went to the Zhou Temple to kill them.Unexpectedly, just after killing half the way, I suddenly heard more majestic shouts, and countless enemies rushed out from various intersections in Puyang's house, shouting: "Catch old man Cao Cao!"

"Tian's feigned surrender, the counter-insurgency plotted!" Cao Cao felt cold, and hurriedly reined in his horse, but seeing that the soldiers were at a loss, Le Jin had already started fighting with the enemy in front. The enemy soldiers gathered more and more, holding up their torches, knives and guns, and rushed their own team into several melees. If things go on like this, the entire army will be wiped out in a short time. Cao Cao has already thrown the big words he swore just now to the Yelang Kingdom, and raised his arms and shouted: "Retreat! Retreat!" But where can I withdraw?Shouts of killing, the sound of knives and guns, and the neighing of horses rang out together, and everyone was fighting alone.Xia Houyuan chopped several people and rushed in front of him: "There must be no master in the army, I will protect you out of the city!" After saying that, he led a few soldiers around him to rush out.Cao Cao had no choice but to flee with Xia Houyuan, while Lou Yi slashed and chopped to protect him.

But under the light of the fire, the front was covered in darkness, and there had been ambushes to break the way.Xia Houyuan didn't care much anymore, he raised his knife and killed in the crowd, and the ambush soldiers rushed up and surrounded him and his own soldiers.Lou Yi saw that he couldn't get through, pointed to the west with his hands, and shouted loudly: "Old man Cao Cao is over there!" This trick really worked. Although there was fire in the middle of the night, it was still hazy, and it was not easy to tell whether it was an enemy or a friend. When the group of ambush soldiers heard the word "Older" brought out by him, they didn't suspect it. .

Cao Cao saw that Xia Houyuan's personal soldiers were all dead, and he was still fighting with several enemy soldiers, and wanted to help him fight.Lou Yi held on to his reins tightly: "They have their own way of escape, you go, if you don't escape, it will be too late." The two took advantage of the chaos and continued to flee eastward, without even a single soldier around them. But when he came near the east gate, Cao Cao was horrified—the fire just now caused trouble! When Cao Cao entered the city, he ordered the east gate to be burned down to show his determination, but the flames of the city gate were inflamed by the east wind.Even the fodder and houses piled up near the east of the city were set ablaze. For a while, the wind took advantage of the fire and the wind, and it seemed that half of the street had already been burned.Tongues of fire climbed up the houses and ran around, and the sound of crackling and burning was endless, and some houses trembled and were about to collapse.

Cao Cao's Dawan horse died in the battle of Bianshui, and later got a BMW from Cao Hong, which was called "White Hu".But hearing a neighing sound, Bai Hu stopped in fright, raised his front legs high, and threw Cao Cao down.Before Lou Yi could support him, there was another chaos, and a large group of defeated soldiers rushed up from behind, pushing and shoving forward. At this moment, no one cared about whether the general was a general or not, and immediately pushed Lou Yi to the ground.Cao Cao felt pain all over his body from the fall, and felt a pair of feet stepping in front of him, and someone even jumped over his head, the dust brought up dazzled his eyes, he quickly got up in a daze, and scrambled to hide by the side of the road.The group of soldiers huddled and shoved, regardless of whether there was fire or not, in order to get out of the city to survive, they rushed out desperately.Some people's lives protruded from the city gate, some were crushed to death by collapsed buildings, and some were squeezed into the sea of ​​flames. Their bodies caught fire and rolled on the ground, screaming and screaming until they were burnt into a ball of coke and could no longer move.

As the fire burned, the billowing black smoke was blown head-on by the east wind, making people cough.Seeing in a daze, Cao Cao was standing there.I also saw Xia Houyuan and Le Jin galloping past with a few remnants of soldiers. "Miaocai...Wen Qian...cough cough..." He was choked by the smoke halfway through his shout. Xia Houyuan and Le Jin fought bravely with the enemy to cover the commander's retreat. They thought Cao Cao had already rushed out, but the noise was so loud that they didn't hear Cao Cao's call at all. Go east. At this moment, Cao Cao was already rolling in the smoke and dust, his battle robe was torn, his face was black with smoke, and he was wearing ordinary general's clothes, so no soldiers paid attention to him at all.He struggled to get up, the flames were dazzling and the smoke filled the air, the flames were getting bigger and bigger, until his face was swollen.At this dangerous moment, I heard the sound of the horse hanging the bell, and saw many Bingzhou cavalry chasing, and the first cavalry general sat on the red horse.When Cao Cao saw it, he was frightened out of his wits. This general is nine feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, with shoulders hugged, a purple gold crown with three-pronged hair on his head, a red gold beast face chain armor, a Xichuan red brocade and a hundred flowers battle robe, a gold lacquer painted sparrow half-moon bow on his shoulder, and an exquisite armor around his waist. Lion barbarian belt, silver silk knee pads on legs, tiger-headed combat boots on feet, a Fangtian painted halberd more than ten feet long in the palm, sitting on a neighing red rabbit horse.Looking at the face, the face is as white as jade, with dragon eyebrows and phoenix eyes, nose and red lips, black and brown hair, a pair of faint blue eyes reflecting the cruel flames opposite, showing an arrogant and conceited expression - it is Lu Bu who came. ! In this situation, Cao Cao saw Lu Bu coming straight towards him, as if he was a messenger rushing out of the hell of refining fire, Cao Cao couldn't avoid it, and sat slumped on the ground.Seeing Lu Bu laughing wildly and digging the dust, he raised the cold Fang Tian painted halberd and hit him on the top of his head, Cao Cao sighed and closed his eyes - it's over! Unexpectedly, the painting halberd was raised high, but it fell lightly, hitting his helmet twice.Lu Bu smiled and asked, "Where did Cao Cao go?" what! ? Cao Cao understood that he hadn't seen Lu Bu much, so he might not remember his appearance, plus today he was wearing ordinary general's clothes, and his face was covered with smoke, so he didn't recognize him. "If you tell me, I'll spare your life!" Lu Bu forcefully shouted again. Cao Cao hurriedly pointed his finger, and said in a sharp voice: "My general is out of the fire, and he is leading someone to seize the south gate! He is riding a yellow horse and wearing a yellow robe!" He thought that Lu Bu must chase all the way, but he didn't know that Lu Bu leaned over and slowly leaned on the horse, staring at him with a pair of faint blue eyes. He recognized me! ?Cao Cao quickly bowed his head, his heart almost jumped out. Lu Bu looked at him for a while, and a smile suddenly appeared on his white face: "You said South Gate, but you pointed to North." Cao Cao was so frightened and confused that he didn't make up any lies.But he had an idea, and knelt down on the ground by mistake: "General, you are invincible, and you can't tell the north from the south with such a small size... He did say that he went to the south gate." "Hahaha..." Lu Bu looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, "How can Cao Mengde be undefeated with such a cowardly villain as a general? I will let you live on... Brothers, come with me to capture Cao Cao alive! Hahaha..." Following The burst of arrogant laughter became quieter, and Lu Bu and Bingzhou Qi disappeared without a trace in an instant. Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief, and fell to the ground with weak legs. It took a long time to realize that he was not out of danger, and got up in a panic.He staggered forward, and suddenly felt that there was another person leading the horse and caressing in the smoke: "Lou Yi...is that you?" "It's me!" Lou Yi was so excited that he was about to cry, and there was a gash on his face, and blood gushed out. "what happened to you?" "There are a few people who want to seize the general's horse, and I will kill them all." Lou Yi touched the bloody knife edge, "It's good that you are fine, get on the horse quickly, let's escape!" Cao Cao helped the white goose horse. At this moment, the fire was out of control, and the entire south side of Puyang was on fire. The houses collapsed one after another, leaving only a narrow path.Cao Cao had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush out. While walking, he had to appease the frightened horse. Lou Yi ran behind the horse with a knife in his hand. Suddenly there was a rumbling sound, and a burning house fell down.Seeing that the two generals were about to die in the flames, Lou Yi stabbed Baihu in the buttock in a hurry, and the horse was so painful that he jumped forward desperately, and the burning rotten wood rubbed the back of Cao Cao's head and smashed it down. "Lou Yi! Lou Yi!" After escaping the catastrophe, Cao Cao bumped his head and looked around—there was only a sea of ​​flames, how could Lou Yi survive? The white swan horse was already frightened, Cao Cao had no choice but to hold the reins tightly, leaned on its back, and let it run wildly in the fire.When he rode alone to the east gate of Puyang, his battle robe and beard were all burned away...