Chapter 43 43. Going home again in disgrace

Early the next morning, three hundred strong men lined up neatly, each with a jujube stick. The confidants of the Cao family drove out the carriage carrying the goods, and then hung a shaft cart and a tug cart behind the carriage.Cao Cao and Lou Yi were about to set off on horseback with swords each. Xia Houyuan rushed over with a few people, and said that if Ding Chong hadn't been too drunk to wake up, he would go too.Thanks a lot for Cao Cao, he finally left his homeland. The distance between Peiguo and Luoyang is 1,200 miles. Cao Cao walked through it many times, but only this time was the slowest and most tense.Although it still took the land of Zheqi, such a complicated team stretched half a mile, and the walking escort was very slow. In addition, the winter was short, and it could not go far in a day.What's more important is that there are a lot of people and goods, and it is absolutely impossible to go to the city to rest along the way, and the post station can't accommodate them. The only way is to sleep in the open.

Cao De had already prepared sufficient dry food for everyone in advance. At night, Cao Cao stopped the team and shouted: "Let's pack the pack and set up the camp!" Thirty horse-drawn carriages formed a circle, and the animals were untied. It is impossible to take the whole car away.Then the fifty chariots were untied, and a large circle was formed outside, which became a mobile camp. Four gates were opened in the southeast, northwest, and the chariots were tied with hemp ropes and erected, and there were four outposts. Door.People inside draw water and walk their horses to come and go freely, and outsiders want to come in, but there are special people guarding the door.In the dead of night, if there are people on duty at night, they just need to light a torch and climb on the shaft car for a ride.

Xia Houyuan was speechless: "This is like a camp." "This is the barracks," Cao Cao laughed. "It's just an ancient method. Nowadays, chariots are not used in wars, so such chariot camps are not common. But it is very suitable for us to protect property." "Who did you learn from?" "Mozi." Cao Cao shook his head. "Mill? Still grinding?" Lou Yi laughed: "You are such an idiot, I know Mo Di, he loves both, and he is not offensive!" Cao Cao nodded again and again: "That's right, although Mo Zi advocated 'non-aggressive', he was exceptionally good at defense. This car camp method is what he left behind."

In this way, everyone held up sticks to guard during the day, and set up a car camp to rest at night.Such an arrangement can be described as impenetrable.There were indeed bandits who were surveying at night, but they had no choice but to look at the camp and leave with a sigh.After traveling for six days, the team finally arrived in Yuzhou safely. After passing through Zhongmou, Cao Cao refused to let the three hundred men go any further.First, the Son of Heaven in Henan is afraid of causing trouble, and second, he is even more afraid that they will see the Taiwei's Mansion when they come to Beijing, and that nonsense will be exposed!

Xia Houyuan turned back with three hundred men first, while Cao Cao and Lou Yi led their confidants to continue forward.After entering the customs, there is no need to worry about the thieves anymore. Without the people stepping down, the carriage can also let go of its footsteps, and arrived at Dutingyi the next night.Ten miles further on was Luoyang City, but the journey was exhausted, and the city gate was closed at night, so everyone had to sleep in the open for another night. Before dawn the next day, Cao Cao got up, woke everyone up, and ordered all the shaft carts and tukshaws to be burned.

"Why? You can use it later if you keep it." Lou Yi was puzzled. "It's inappropriate to hide the mianbian soldiers in private. This is also called threatening the emperor." Cao Cao said as he mounted his horse, "Hurry up and burn it, because if people see it, it will cause trouble." "promise." "Our own people have suffered more in the past few days, so you can take them to rest in Luoyang for a few more days, and don't rush back." Cao Cao shook the reins and turned the horse's head. "Master, do you not want us to enter the city?"

Cao Cao shook his head, and glanced at the majestic capital city ten miles away: "I don't want to go to Luoyang City anymore. I'll leave as soon as it's dark, lest I meet acquaintances." "Aren't you going to see the master?" "Daddy has already fulfilled his wish to win the title of Sangong. Tell him for me that the wealth of billions of dollars is gone, let him do it for himself." After saying that, Cao Cao whipped Dawan's horse hard and ran southeast.On the way home, the joy of completing the escort gradually faded, and then, the unbearable emptiness once again invaded his mind.

Cao Cao was thinking along the way, do he really want to go back to Luoyang?Could it be that the choice of resignation was wrong?How many times he wanted to dismiss the horse's head, but he still held back.His wife, Ding Shi, said that he was a layman and couldn't be a hermit, and he said big things in front of Cui Jun, so he ran back to Luoyang in disgrace, where would his face be? In the end, he still made up his mind not to go back, since he had a choice, he couldn't go back...