Chapter 38 Decisive Battle

The streets were a little strange, with only the cool wind blew silently. As soon as Geng Ji went out, he couldn't help but shivered. He looked up at the dark sky, took a long breath, and rushed out of the door first.

The journey went smoothly.

Geng Ji did not meet anyone along the way, as if someone had specially cleared the road for them, so clean that there was no one. It was not until two hundred steps in front of Cao's mansion that he met the first group of soldiers who were patrolling the night. Hundreds rushed forward, and they raised their swords and cut the soldiers into meat sauce. As soon as the crisp sound of the gong sounded, there was no sound. The team was a little confused. The servants held the weapons in their hands tightly and looked around nervously, and then focused their targets on Geng Ji's face. Some of the people who killed the night patrolling the night patrolling the night were excited by the blood, while others were a little nervous and kept rubbing their blood-stained hands on their bodies.

Geng Ji took a look and knew that he could not delay. He immediately reorganized the team and continued to run towards Cao's mansion two hundred steps away.

The gate of Cao Mansion was closed, and more than a dozen soldiers were divided into two rows, standing quietly at the door, two lanterns hung at the door, shaking by the cold night wind. When he heard the chaotic footsteps of the rebels swarming in, the alert soldiers immediately lined up in two rows of blocking formations and aimed the weapons in their hands at the visitor. The leader of the team was about to go forward to investigate, but when he saw the crowd rushing out of the darkness with his weapons, he immediately took two steps back, pulling out the long sword from his waist, and raising his hand and shouting: "Enemy attack--"

The sound of gongs broke the quiet night scene in an instant.

The soldiers immediately retreated, the first row stood under the steps, and the second row stood on the steps, with the mansion gate as the center, forming a semicircular formation. On the enemy tower at the corner of the courtyard, two city-guarding crossbows immediately turned over. Almost at the same time, two crossbow arrows flew out with the sound of the wind, one of which flew past Geng Ji, shooting down the two servants behind him.

A long arrow entered the body and blood burst out.

Geng Ji did not dare to be negligent, and raised his sword and roared. He ignored the city-guarding crossbow beside him, and commanded the people to rush up, surrounding the soldiers at the door in the middle, and slashed the swords. The soldiers guarding the door shouted, and the long spears in their hands came out, and immediately stabbed the servants who rushed to the front to the ground. The cold light flashed a few times and screamed. Then the servants who followed him were a little scared, but they were squeezed by the people behind and could not retreat even if they wanted to retreat. They had to raise the weapons in their hands and chop forward without thinking. Once the person saw blood, the fear in his heart would turn into madness. Although the soldiers in the Cao Mansion were all soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time, they could not resist the number of people and were quickly killed. The originally clean entrance of the Cao Mansion was immediately covered in blood, and the strong smell of blood spread along the night wind.

The city-guarding crossbow was still constantly showing its might, and every sound of the string took away one or two living lives. Wei Huang waved his hand and ordered the servants to stand against the courtyard wall to avoid the threat of the city-guarding crossbow. Geng Ji was about to arrange for someone to hit the door, but there was also a sound of fighting sounding inside the door. Then, the closed door opened, and Geng Ji was overjoyed and rushed in with the buzzers.

The courtyard inside the door was also in a mess. Nearly a hundred soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and there were more than 300 murderous soldiers standing next to them. Although their number was not as large as Geng Ji, their neat and clean movements and reasonable spacing showed that these people were very skilled in martial arts and were real soldiers.

Geng Ji and Wei Huang looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Chen Wei did not lie. He did recruit hundreds of warriors and successfully infiltrated into the Cao Mansion. They were relieved of their originally hungry hearts, and their originally very slim hope suddenly magnified a lot. Because Chen Wei said that the inner person should have a high level in the Cao Mansion. If it goes well, he could take them all the way to Cao Cao's bedroom. If this is true, then it would be no dream to attack him and kill Cao Cao in one fell swoop.

Geng Ji looked at the closed second-level courtyard gate nervously, and for a moment he was a little scary, with only heavy breathing sounds left in his ears.

The door creaked open, and a man poked his head out to take a look, walked straight to Chen Wei, and whispered a few words. Chen Wei nodded and said to Geng Ji, "Mr. Geng, you must not miss the opportunity, follow him in quickly."

"Mr. Chen, if this matter is done, you will be the first contribution." Geng Ji patted Chen Wei's shoulder and praised. Chen Wei laughed nervously: "Mr., I'll take the lead." After that, he led his subordinates to the policeman and flocked in and disappeared into the yard.

Geng Ji waved his hand and rushed in with his people. He entered the second yard. He was stunned. Chen Wei disappeared. What awaited them was a row of armored soldiers holding strong bows and halberds. He was shocked and before he could speak, the armored soldiers behind him shouted, waved their swords and fought with the soldiers of the Cao Mansion. Geng Ji also raised his sword and shouted, and rushed forward with the messy servants to attack together.

In Cao's Mansion, there were shouts of killing everywhere.

Cao Pi stood on the shore at the corner of the courtyard, looked at the crowd fighting fiercely, laughed, said to Guo Biao beside him, then went down the shore and took a few personal guards to run to Cao Cao's bedroom.

Cao Cao was wearing silk pajamas and standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back. Looking at the dark darkness outside, he was silent. Xu Qian, who was fully armed, held the sword with his hands and stood solemnly beside him. Fifty cold-faced tiger soldiers surrounded the bedroom.

"Father!" Cao Pi strode to Cao Cao, lowered his head with shame. He knelt down on one leg, took off the long knife in his waist, and presented it with both hands: "My son is incompetent. Such a thing happened, but he knew nothing in advance, which frightened his father.My son asked his father to punish him."

"How is the situation outside?" Cao Cao turned around and looked at Cao Pi who was kneeling in front of him with a cold look, his eyes as cold as the light of a knife in the hand of a tiger soldier. He turned a deaf ear to the shouts of killing outside. In his opinion, such things were really not worth mentioning. In his life and death crises he had experienced were countless.

"The rebels came fiercely and broke through the door of the mansion in one fell swoop." Cao Pi said gaspingly, "What's even more terrible is that the people transferred from the Wangbi camp actually had their accomplices. My sons were worried that there were their inner supporters in the mansion."

"Is that true?" Cao Cao frowned, left the window, sat in front of the desk, raised his hand to signal. Wang Zhaoyi, who was standing nervously, quickly brought the tea tray, put down a cup, filled the tea, and delivered it to Cao Cao with both hands. In an instant, Wang Zhaoyi's eyes were a little flustered, and his hands trembled. When she retracted her hand, she was facing Cao Pi's eyes, and then she did not dodge.

Cao Cao held the teacup and sighed, "There is a traitor? This matter is really troublesome. No matter how strong the city is, it is not afraid of external enemies, but only fears of traitors. Cang Shu often said that the fortress is the easiest to break through from the inside, but I didn't expect that there were internal supporters in my mansion. Zihuan, have you found out which part of the people it is? Are there anyone else besides the people in Wangbi's camp?"

Cao Pi stared at the teacup in Cao Cao's hand, forgot to answer for a moment, and was stunned for a moment before quickly saying: "Father, the inner courtyard is from Wuweiying, I guess there will be no problem. In my opinion, the traitors are from Wang Bidaying."

"Oh!" Cao Cao nodded, raised the teacup to his mouth, blew it, and was about to drink it, but he remembered something, put it down again, and asked strangely: "Zihuan, aren't people from Wang Bidaying just transferred? I remember a total of 800 people, right?"

When Cao Cao raised the cup to his mouth, Cao Pi's heart almost reached his throat. He knew what was in this cup of tea. As long as Cao Cao stumbled into his mouth, he would definitely die today. All his wishes and worries from many years would be resolved. But he never expected that Cao Cao put down the tea cup again and asked about the manpower.

Fortunately, he was prepared. The people he transferred were not from Wang Bida camp at all, but the dead soldiers recruited privately. The eight hundred people are now divided into two parts, 300 people dressed up as rebels and followed behind to make excuses. The other five hundred people resisted the rebels in front, just waiting for him to accomplish things. With a command, eight hundred people will kill the rebels together and then attack the inner courtyard. There are only two hundred tiger soldiers from Xu Qian in the inner courtyard. If Xu Qian doesn't know the truth, he will die. In order to prevent it, he also asked Sima Yi to lead two thousand people outside the mansion, ready to enter the mansion at any time, and kill the entire Cao Mansion. Anyway, all those who should be killed will be pushed to the rebels by then.

All of this starts with Cao Cao drinking the tea in his cup.

Cao Pi did not dare to look at Cao Cao. He raised his head and said in a hoarse voice: "My son is incompetent. Eight hundred people are transferred here. More than 300 people are traitors. My son is incompetent. Please punish my father."

"Hahaha..." Cao Cao laughed, he bent down and looked at Cao Pi and said, "Zihuan, don't worry, you just took over Wang Bi Daying, and you are not familiar with the situation inside, and it is understandable that you have some mistakes. Hey, why are you sweating so much? Are you very hot?"

"My son...My son is not hot, but ashamed." Cao Pi's mouth was a little dry, and he raised his hands to wipe the fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

"I think you are not ashamed, you are hot, you are thirsty." Cao Cao shook his head and pushed the tea on the table to Cao Pi: "Come on, you have drunk this cup of tea."

Cao Pi raised his head suddenly, looked at the cup of tea handed over by Cao Cao in horror, and quickly refused: "Thank you, my father, I am not thirsty."

Cao Cao laughed. He looked at Cao Pi with his eyes wandering, slowly straightened his waist, tilted his head and said, "I really don't drink it?"

"How dare you drink my father's tea?" Cao Pi wiped his cold sweat.

Cao Cao smiled, smiling very kindly, but his eyes were very cold: "You dare not drink my tea, do you dare to ask for this?" He said, taking the long dragon-patterned sword from Xu Qian's hand, gently putting it on the table, and slowly pulling out half of the long sword. The light reflected the light, shining on Cao Pi's eyes, forcing him to squint his eyes involuntarily.

"Do you want this knife?" Cao Cao sneered and pointed to the knife on the desk.

Cao Pi looked at the long sword on the desk and swallowed. He knew exactly what the knife meant. Of course he wanted it, he wanted it in his dream. He looked up at Cao Cao's face, and was about to speak, but suddenly he was in a cold look with Cao Cao. He felt a trembling heart, forcibly suppressing the ** who snatched the knife and hugged it in his arms, and shook his head with a dry smile: "Father, the situation outside is critical, you should avoid it first. The matter of this knife... will be discussed later."

"What are you avoiding?" Cao Cao snorted from his nose and looked at him disdainfully: "Are you just a few hundred people? I haven't seen any situation before, and I'm afraid of these people? I said Zihuan, are you afraid?"

Cao Pi shook his head, nodded again, and said awkwardly: "Father, it's not that my son is afraid of, but I'm just worried about my father's safety. Please ask my father to retreat first, and my son is dead."

"Retreat? Where to retreat?"

"The camp outside the city, or the camp of the tiger and leopard cavalry." Cao Pi stared at the tea on the table, and his heart slowly sank. He felt inexplicably that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of something.

Cao Cao stood up, turned back and forth with his hands behind his back, and suddenly laughed: "Zihuan, if there are only two hundred tiger soldiers in my inner courtyard, do you think 2,800 people, plus those mobs, will it take to take down my inner courtyard?"

"It's probably half an hour." Cao Pi replied subconsciously, and suddenly understood, how did Cao Cao know that there were 2,800 people? His cold sweat suddenly surged out, and he took a big step back in panic, stood up, and held the long sword specially prepared on his waist tightly - this was his most advantageous weapon.

The two tiger soldiers took a step forward and blocked behind him, but Xu Qian took a step forward, blocking Cao Pi's best attack position.

"Zhongkang, don't be so nervous. This guy doesn't have that kind of courage." Cao Cao gently patted Xu Qian's arm, and Xu Qian took two steps back in response. Cao Cao slowly took off in front of Cao Wai and looked at him coldly. Cao Pi was cold all over by his eyes, his legs trembled, and felt that he was unable to stand steadily by a heavy burden. His body shook twice, and he knelt in front of Cao Cao with a plop, shouting: "Father, I...I...I'm just worried about my father's safety."

"Is that true?" Cao Cao looked down at him: "You dare not drink my tea. You dare not ask for my knife. Do you dare to transfer my soldiers?"

Cao Pi stammered on the ground: "My son... I know that he is wrong, but My son... I know that he is wrong. But My son is just... worried, just worried..."

"You are worried about my safety, and you can send two thousand more troops to protect me. Then, what are you worried about when you order Lu Cui and Wu Zhi lead the army into the grassland?" Cao Cao suddenly flew up and kicked Cao Pi on the shoulder, shouting loudly: "You beast, can you actually attack your brothers?"

"Father--" Cao Pi was kicked upside down by the way. He screamed in shock. He was about to argue, but was stunned by a wheelchair. This wheelchair was specially made by Cao Chong after Cao Cao was injured. Cao Pi had pushed Cao Cao countless times to relax. However, today the person sitting on it was not Cao Cao, but Cao Zhang who was cold-eyed, and Cao Pi was not pushing the cart, but Cao Zhi with tears in his face and Xun Yun with a sneering face.

Cao Pi was stupid, Cao Zhang was not dead, he was finished.

"What else do you have to say, a beast who killed your father and brother?" Cao Cao pulled out his long knife and put it on Cao Pi's neck. His eyes were wide open, his eyes were about to split, and his thick beard also trembled, as if he was about to fly, and his not tall body suddenly burst out with an irresistible murderous aura.

Cao Pi was frightened by this power and sweated like a spring. Since Cao Cao was injured in the 13th year of Jian'an, he has not been able to go to the battlefield again. He spent most of his time unemployed in Xuanwu Pool. He has become fatter and more and more like a rich man. The fierceness and ruthlessness of the past were getting worse and weaker. His whole body was full of kindness, which made people look like a satisfied old man. This made Cao Pi unknowingly ignore that he was once a ruthless character who was murderous. Now the power bursting out in an instant reminded Cao Pi that his father was not just an old man who was so kind that he just wanted to play with his children and grandchildren.

Cao Pi collapsed on the ground, and the long sword in his hand fell to the ground, making a crisp sound of dragon roar. The sword is a good sword, and his sword skills are also derived from the true teachings of Shi A, Henan, but his courage is broken. No matter how good the sword skills are, no matter how good the sword skills are, they are still useless.

"Bad!" Cao Cao looked at him with contempt, and opened the long sword on the ground with a long sword in his hand. A tiger soldier stepped forward to disarm Cao Pi. Cao Cao took the long sword, returned, sat back to the edge of the desk, and returned to the appearance of a rich man. He waved to Xun Yun a little tired, "Changqian, I heard from Cang Shu that you have made great progress recently. Take your people and take down all the things that are not alive outside."

"Here!" Xun Yun responded, pressed the long knife around his waist, and strode out. Cao Cao sighed, lowered his head, took a few pages of paper from Cao Zhi's hand, and threw it in front of Cao Pi: "Look, after reading it, say something, and have nothing to say, so drink that cup of tea."

Cao Pi became busy tremblingly, picked up the pieces of paper from the ground, and looked at it with tears in his eyes. The things on the paper were very simple, nothing more than the assassination of Cao Chong in the 13th year of Jian'an, and during the Battle of Liaodong, he took advantage of it, Jizhou investigated military ration cases and framed Cao Zhang. There were many things, and he remembered them very clearly.

Cao Zhang glared at Cao Pi, and slowly, his anger turned into a kind of contempt. He turned his head and looked out the window, disdainful to look at Cao Pi again. Cao Zhi kept lowering his head, and tears dripped from his cheeks. He occasionally glanced at Cao Pi with pity. He could not believe that Cao Pi would be so cruel that he killed his father and brother. Even after seeing the evidence, he still couldn't believe it, but when Cao Pi didn't dare to drink that cup of tea, he believed it. He must have known that the tea was poisonous, so he didn't dare to drink it.

The room was silent for a moment, and the shouts of killing outside came in clearly.

Xun Yun walked out of the room, and the two hundred Northern Army he brought was ready to fight. He followed him out of the inner courtyard. Seeing the crowd of people fighting in a mess, Xun Yun waved his hand coldly and took the lead in rushing into the crowd. He raised his sword and cut a soldier who was being beaten into two halves. Then he raised his arms and shouted: "The general has an order. Those who have not rebeled will abandon the sword and kneel on the wall. Those who violate the order will be killed without mercy!"

Before the soldiers came to their senses, the soldiers of the Northern Army behind Xun Yun lined up and rushed forward, with long swords, and first killed several soldiers in front of them. Then, led by Xun Yun, they rushed into the crowd like a sharp knife, and were as powerful as a bamboo shoot.

Geng Ji was shocked. He looked around, raised his knife and was about to shout, then there was a loud noise behind him, and the entire wall collapsed. Three hundred fully armed soldiers stood in front of them coldly. Geng Ji took a breath of air and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom. He understood that he had fallen into the trap. The Cao family was ready and was waiting for them to take the bait.

However, although he realized that he had been fooled, he did not really understand who he had been fooled. Just as he was about to fight to the death, Chen Wei suddenly shouted: "The Prime Minister has an order, Geng Ji, and Wei Huang intend to rebel, and he will be rewarded to capture the thief!" As he said that, he took several men beside him to pounce on Geng Ji, swung his long sword and slashed him.

Geng Ji subconsciously raised his sword to resist, but Chen Wei's opponent was not Chen Wei's, and he was so busy that he was killed. When his servants saw that they were surrounded by so many cold-blooded warriors, they were immediately panicked. Some wanted to go forward and escape, some wanted to kill Geng Ji and others for credit, some wanted to throw weapons and surrender, and some were easily cut down by the soldiers who had crossed the wall. More than half of them were lost in an instant, and the rest knelt on their backs.

More than a thousand people surrounded the courtyard. Even if the courtyard of the Cao Mansion was huge, it was really crowded. It was not easy to escape from here. Seeing that the situation was not good, some of the dead soldiers recruited by Cao Pi wanted to rush to the inner courtyard, but were stopped by the tiger soldiers and hit him head-on. Some wanted to quit the palace, but they were also unable to move forward. After the leader was shot and killed by four city-guarding crossbows one by one, they became a mob. Under the siege of Xun Yun and others, they soon fell into a pool of blood.

Half an hour later, the battle ended, Geng Ji and Wei Huang were injured and captured alive.

Sima Yi stood on the street two hundred steps away, panicked for no reason. He only heard the sound of Cao's house shouting and killing, but he never received a notice from Cao Pi to let him enter the house. If Cao Pi had grasped the situation himself, why was the battle still over so far? If Cao Pi could not control the situation, why didn't he let himself in for reinforcements? Could it be that he had been controlled by someone?

Sima Yi suddenly had an ominous premonition. Only then did he realize that Cao Zhen, who was holding the handwritten warrant of Cao Pi's fake photo, had no news from him. Everything was different from what they expected, and things were in a direction they could not control. He turned around nervously and suddenly saw that the Prime Minister and Chief Secretary Wang Bi, who was supposed to be drunk in the camp, looked at him with a smile, but Jin Wei was tied tightly, standing aside with dejected expression, with two vicious sword-holding guards standing behind him.

"Mr. Sima, I will take back military power by the Prime Minister's order." Wang Bi smiled and shook a piece of paper in front of Sima Yi: "If you have anything, go to the mansion with me and speak slowly in front of the Prime Minister.

In the camp of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Cao Xiu sneered and looked at Cao Zhen with a pale face, waved his hand to signal, two leopard knights came up and put Cao Zhen tied up on the back of the horse. Cao Xiu looked at Wang Shuang and others with a frightened face and said, "Cao Zhen is the chief criminal. You are on orders and everything has nothing to do with you. I'm going to see the Prime Minister now. If you stay here honestly, everything will be fine. The Prime Minister ordered you, you are still the people of my Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. If there is any abnormal movement, haha, don't blame me for not agreeing with the righteousness of my colleagues and sending you back to heaven."
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