Chapter 853
When Liu Xie was in power, he was granted the title of General Cao Cao's General of the East. Since he was General of the Han Dynasty, he died on the way to advance eastward, and died in a dignified manner, at least he was decent.
When leaving Xiang County, Cao Cao issued his last military order: "Continue going east, Li Su can't catch up with us. Zhao Yun was passing through Mangdang Mountain, and we went east along the southern foot of Mangdang Mountain and the north bank of Sui River!
Ma Chao is the only one who can catch up with us. Once you are caught up by Ma Chao, you don’t have to resist. Li Dian, if you lead the rear army, when you meet Ma Chao, it means that the entire army will surrender. If you don’t catch up, just take the last journey with the orphan.”
Li Dian was no longer pretentious and hesitated for a few seconds, expressing his willingness to accept the order.
Le Jin was then assigned similar tasks, but he was not leading the rear army.
It is estimated that after Li Dian surrendered, when the remaining troops were caught up again, it was his turn to lead the team to surrender.
In addition, although Cao Cao himself did not leave Mangdang Mountain, he divided about hundreds of soldiers, gave up some of the horses, and took Guo Jia and the last few civil officials to cross Mangdang Mountain to Pei County.
He tried to convey some of Cao Cao's last orders to the rear counties through Guo Jia, so as to facilitate the favorable treatment for the Cao family during the handover.
Because Cao Cao knew very well: Liu Bei, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun were going to chase him, not Guo Jia. As long as he did not climb Mangdang Mountain or even died, Zhao Yun would not search carefully along Mangdang Mountain.
When they parted, Cao Cao also took care of Guo Jia, saying that he said it himself that Cao Ang and Cao Pi, the adult children, cut off the father-son relationship with him.
Cao Ang was finally qualified to lead the surrender of the remaining counties in Yanzhou and Qingzhou, not because he was Cao Cao's son, but because he had a high position in Liu He's court.
This is very important. It concerns whether Cao Ang can be pardoned and how much he can be pardoned. This is what Cao Cao just figured out on the road yesterday.
Guo Jia knew his mission, so he did not refuse pretentiously.
After Guo Jia left, Cao Cao and his party walked east along the Sui River, without any goal. They strolled in the garden and were caught up wherever they went. Even if it was the end.
On the final journey, Cao Cao finally ordered a confidant, that is, his guard commander Xu Chu.
If Xu Chu has been with Cao Cao for so many years, it is actually quite miserable.
Although he has always been trusted by Cao Cao, because Cao Cao was not doing well in this life, Xu Chu experienced too many life-and-death battles, and the injuries on his body became more and more.
As early as seven years ago, when Guandu was fighting for Lu Bu's life, Xu Chu left the first wave of serious injuries, with several arrow scars on his body, and his waist and ribs were dragged by Fang Tian Huaji, leaving two terrible scars deep and visible bones.
Later, he fought with the Han army many times, and Xu Chu was injured three or four times in total. The most miserable time was that he was shot by Huang Zhong last year. So far, the upper front teeth and the upper palate bone are missing, and the tip of his nose has been cut off, looking extremely ferocious.
If we can use the game data of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14" to compare, Xu Chu may have a force value of 96 in his heyday. Now, Xu Chu, who is in his mid-normal health, is at most in his early 90s, and it would be almost the same as if he could tie Zhou Tai.
Cao Cao ordered Xu Chu to say, "Zhongkang, then you should surrender with the last guards and cavalry, or surrender in advance before the Gu was caught by Ma Chao."
Xu Chu didn't understand geography either, so he caught a few cavalry in the army and asked. Finally, a tiger and leopard cavalry from his hometown came over and reported to Cao Cao:
"Prime Minister, this is Fuli County, the easternmost part of Qiao County. This town is called Gaixia Town. After this, opposite is Suiling County, Xiapi County, which is located in Xuzhou."
Cao Cao was stunned: "In two and a half days, we actually ran through the entire Qiao County, from Qiao County to the westernmost part of the eastmost part of Fuli County? Yes, the Feng Shui here should be OK.
There is Ma Chao in the west, Zhao Yun in the north, and Li Su in the south, and it has become the siege of Gaixia. When I walked along, I just went with the other side to see who was blocking the road in the east."
Cao Cao only brought Xu Chu and dozens of cavalry to follow him. He went forward without any hesitation and asked his subordinates to shout, indicating that he was Cao Cao and should not shoot arrows.
Zhuge Liang heard that it was Cao Cao, so he urged Zhou Tai to open a few sieves and lean over, blocking the river surface where Cao Cao was advancing, and blocking Cao Cao at a bend of the river. Zhuge Liang himself hid behind the wall of the sieve on the sieve, and used a telescope to observe Cao Cao through the shooting hole.
After so many years of war, although Cao Cao has not seized the Han army's telescope so far, this thing is only equipped with high-level generals and artillery observers, and it is difficult to seize the battlefield.
However, Cao Cao had never eaten pork and had seen pigs run. After suffering too much loss, he also vaguely knew that the Han army had an observation artifact such as "telescope".
At this moment, Cao Cao vaguely saw a reflection of the sunset flashing through the shooting hole after the piles on the ship, dazzling him for a moment.
After all, Cao Cao fled from west to east, and Zhuge Liang chased from east to west. At this moment, it was the setting sun, and the sunlight shone from west to east, just in time on Zhuge Liang's lenses, and the reflection was very obvious.
Therefore, with Cao Cao's IQ, he was keenly aware that there was a senior Han army general who was observing him with a telescope.
Maybe there are a few divine arm crossbows next to the telescope, wanting to kill him.
Cao Cao laughed heartily: "The child opposite! I want to see if Cao Cao! I have a divine mirror, I must have seen it clearly enough! I don't have three heads and six arms, but I am just an ordinary person!
Perhaps, you have also set up a powerful crossbow and want to shoot or kill the orphans and ask for rewards, but that's not necessary. You are lucky. Today, I don't know who is Lu Matong and who is Yang Xi, but it's definitely not the credit of "Ma Guanying".
When Zhuge Liang saw Cao Cao see through someone here who was observing with a telescope, he didn't hide it anymore. He still hid behind the pile, just took a wooden horn and answered calmly:
"Cao Piece, you have a good vision and can still tell from reflection that I used a telescope. I am Zhuge Liang, the captain of the Sili of the Han Dynasty. Now dozens of powerful crossbows are aimed at you, and you can take your life at any time."
"Save some crossbows, and you can also save me and other guards. Haha, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Cao Cao laughed to the sky, and pulled out the sword of the Heavenly Sword and came from it neatly, and the body fell to the ground.
According to Cao Cao's previous instructions, Xu Chu and others threw all their weapons to the ground, dismounted their horses and retreated dozens of steps, surrendered and waited for the prisoners.
Zhuge Liang waved his hand and then ordered several crafts to lean on and drag Cao Cao's body back and load it up.
Because Liu Bei did not issue the order to "World House Marquis ask for Cao Cao's head", and Cao Cao was not killed in the battle like Xiang Yu, so there was no difference in judging the robbery of merit.
The Han soldiers brought Cao Cao's body back in an orderly manner without killing each other.
Chapter completed!