Chapter 152: Failure to assassinate Dong and escape from Luoyang
Cao Cao fanned Dong Zhuo on the side. Seeing that Dong Zhuo was already asleep, he put down the fan in his hand.
He slowly took out the Seven-Star Sword hidden in his arms. At this time, Dong Zhuo suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed it on his back.
Dong Zhuo's move scared Cao Cao so much that he felt cold sweat. He thought Dong Zhuo was awake. Fortunately, Dong Zhuo just wanted to grab his back unconsciously. In a hurry, Cao Cao hid the Seven-Star Sword in his arms, picked up the fan and slapped Dong Zhuo again.
After a while, Cao Cao saw that Dong Zhuo had no movement, so he took out the Seven-Star Sword again, used his strength to stab Dong Zhuo in the back.
But Cao Cao's thorn was actually blocked by Dong Zhuo's silk armor.
Dong Zhuo woke up faintly by Cao Cao's stab. Although Cao Cao was very powerful this time, it seemed like itchy to Dong Zhuo, who was covered in fat and protected by silk baojia.
However, the Seven-Star Sword failed to pierce the silk armor on Dong Zhuo's body, which was within Cao Cao's expectations.
Cao Cao hurriedly put away the seven-star sword, and Dong Zhuo, who woke up quietly, said to Cao Cao: "Meng De, what are you doing?"
"When I returned to the prime minister, I just saw that the prime minister was in my sleep, so I wanted to arrest him for the prime minister, but I tried too hard, which woke up the prime minister and asked the prime minister to forgive me." Cao Cao explained hurriedly.
"Yeah... Meng De is intent!" Dong Zhuo just woke up and was still confused, so he believed Cao Cao's words.
At this time, Hua Xiong, who was choosing a horse for Cao Cao, walked in and said to Dong Zhuo: "Lord, I have selected a sweat-blooded horse for Cao Mengde, and now I will stop outside the mansion."
"Well! Meng De, Hua Xiong has already selected a good horse for you, so you can go and try it." Dong Zhuo waved his hand and asked Cao Cao to go out to try the horse.
Cao Cao followed Hua Xiong out of the inner courtyard. On the way out, Cao Cao and Hua Xiong met Li Ru who was about to look for Dong Zhuo. After Li Ru and Cao Cao said hello, they entered the inner courtyard and obviously had something to discuss with Dong Zhuo. When they arrived at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, they saw the sweat-blooded horse in front of them. Cao Cao praised: "It's indeed a peerless horse. Can General Hua let Cao go and try it?"
"General Cao please take care of yourself!" Hua Xiong said to Cao Cao with a smile.
Cao Cao led the horse over and got on the horse. Such a hurrying action attracted the laughter of Hua Xiong and the soldiers of Xiliang.
"Ga~!!!" Cao Cao comforted the BMW under his crotch. Then Cui moved the BMW to run eastward to Luoyang City. Cao Cao knew that Liu Bei's camp was in the east of the city, so now he escaped from the East City Gate, but he could use the excuse of Dong Zhuo asking him to chase Liu Bei to escape from Luoyang City.
Li Ru came to the inner courtyard of the prime minister's mansion and was about to report to Dong Zhuo that Liu Bei had escaped from Luoyang. When Li Ru entered the inner courtyard, he saw Dong Zhuo sitting on the bed, as if thinking about something, so Li Ru spoke and asked, "I don't know what the lord is thinking about?"
"Oh! It turns out that it's Wenyou, you are here!" Dong Zhuo thought for a while and said to his question: "Wenyou, just while someone was sleeping soundly, Cao Cao suddenly hit the back of a certain family. He said he wanted to scratch the itch for someone. The more he thought about it, the stranger it became?"
"Oh! Is this really a matter? Can the lord let me see behind you?" Li Ru said.
Seeing that his son-in-law wanted to see behind him, Dong Zhuo turned his body over to Li Ru to see behind him.
As soon as Dong Zhuo turned his body, Li Ru saw a small hole in the clothes behind Dong Zhuo. Looking at the broken hole, it obviously didn't seem to have been accidentally hooked. Instead, it seemed to have been pierced by something.
Li Ru told Dong Zhuo his guess, and Dong Zhuo immediately said angrily: "Does Cao Cao really want to assassinate a certain family? If it weren't for the silk armor that Brother Lu Xian gave me, wouldn't the life of a certain family be ruined in Cao Cao's hands?" Dong Zhuo became more and more angry the more he said it.
Li Ru said, "My lord, this matter is my personal guess. Perhaps the lord accidentally broke the lord. Now that the lord doubts Cao Cao, why not call Cao Cao to ask for it clearly. The truth will be revealed."
"Okay! Come and call Cao Cao and Hua Xiong." After listening to Li Ru's suggestion, Dong immediately asked someone to find Hua Xiong and Cao Cao.
After a while, only Hua Xiong came in, but he did not see Cao Cao.
Dong Zhuo asked Hua Xiong: "Hua Xiong, where is Cao Cao? You didn't go to try horses together, why didn't Cao Cao come in with you?"
"Reported to the lord, I just tried the horse with Cao Cao outside the mansion. Cao Cao said he wanted to try the horse's foot strength, so he rode his horse towards the east gate. He had not seen Cao Cao come back yet." Hua Xiong told Dong Zhuo about the process.
"What!!!" There was a little anger hidden in Dong Zhuo's tone.
Li Ru said at this time: "Lord, why not send someone to Cao Cao's house to see him, maybe he has returned home at this time."
"Okay!" Dong Zhuo asked him to go to Cao Cao's house to find him.
But not long after the sent people went out, a person sent by Li Jue reported to Dong Zhuo: "Lord, General Li asked the villain to come and ask if Cao Cao was sent out of the city to hunt Liu Bei?"
"Where is Cao Cao now?" Dong Zhuo and Li Ru felt even more at ease when they heard this. Cao Cao was indeed going to assassinate Dong Zhuo just now.
"Go back to the lord, because Cao Cao held the lord's token, General Li had to let Cao Cao go out of the city."
"Damn Cao Mengde, it's really hateful that he dared to assassinate a certain family." Dong Zhuo immediately said angrily: "You should immediately ask Li Jue to lead his troops to chase Cao Cao. Be sure to chase Cao Cao back. I have to remove him from the bottom of my heart."
Seeing that Dong Zhuo was so angry, the soldier did not dare to neglect at the moment, so he quickly stood up and informed Li Jue.
Li Jue had just returned from chasing Liu Bei, and now he received an order from Dong Zhuo, but this time he was chasing Cao Cao. Although Li Jue didn't understand why Dong Zhuo suddenly wanted to capture Cao Cao, Li Jue did not dare to neglect him and hurriedly asked the soldiers to get on the horse again and chase Cao Cao in the direction where he left.
Cao Cao escaped from the East City Gate of Luoyang and did not dare to slow down along the way. About half an hour later, Cao Cao and the 5,000 army led by Xiahou Dun met and marched towards his hometown Peiguo.
Half an hour later, Cao Cao and his group were caught by Li Jue's army who was chasing from behind. When Li Jue saw Cao Cao chased him, there were nearly 5,000 more people around Cao Cao. He didn't say much at the moment, and people were catching up with Cao Cao and preparing to surround Cao Cao and his group.
Li Jue suddenly saw a general in Cao Cao's army coming towards him. Because he had suffered from Liu Bei's losses before, Li Jue did not dare to come forward this time.
When pursuing Liu Bei, Li Jue had a friend Guo Si around him, and now he was the only one left. Li Jue was not arrogant and felt that he was invincible in the world. Not to mention the brothers around Lu Feng, even the young general in the green robe next to Liu Bei should not be underestimated.
At present, Li Jue took advantage of his large number of people to let a deputy general lead his troops to fight the general who rushed out, while the others continued to surround Cao Cao's army.
The one who rushed out of Cao Cao's army was Xiahou Dun, but after rushing out to fight with the Xiliang army, he saw that he could not get close to Li Jue, so he led his army back and killed. The biggest purpose of his trip was to protect Cao Cao. Therefore, Xiahou Dun could not only show off his personal courage, protecting Cao Cao was the first priority.
While escaping and chasing, the army around Cao Cao was really getting fewer and fewer. At this time, less than a thousand people were following Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was in a dense forest and left Li Jue's army, and said to Xiahou Dun: "Yuan Rang, you lead the other people to disguise themselves. We will meet in Chenliu in two groups. I believe that there will be documents that want me soon. Therefore, it will be unsafe to walk with me. Moreover, there are many people, which will be a big goal. Now we will break the whole thing into pieces and disguise ourselves in batches to return to Chenliu."
"But brother, isn't it too dangerous for you to be alone?" Xiahou Dun asked worriedly.
"Haha! Yuan Rang don't worry, this time I specially asked Ang'er for two shadow guards, just in case, so I shouldn't go along the way
Life is in danger, but Yuan Rang is you, you must be careful," Cao Cao explained.
When Xiahou Dun heard Cao Cao say that he borrowed two shadow guards from Cao Ang this time, he felt much more at ease with Cao Cao's safety. The ten shadow guards around Cao Ang were basically known to the Xiahou and Cao family, and they also knew that these ten shadow guards were sent by Cao Ang's adoptive father Lu Feng to protect him.
Previously, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan and several brothers of the Cao family had tried to test the ten shadow guards, but in the end they were defeated.
Chapter completed!