——Cao Chun is back.

——Cao Chun is back in a mess.

He came back from the Sunset Valley full of corpses of tigers and leopards, to be precise, he crawled back.

He crossed mountains and rivers, and he grabbed a fast horse, and he relied on some obsession in his heart...

He is back.

When countless torches on the city tower lit up the dark night, under the torches, a man with disheveled hair stood in front of the door, and as the man raised his head, his familiar cheeks appeared on all the guards on the city tower

In the eyes.

"It's General Cao Chun, please open the city gate quickly... open the city gate quickly."

"Quick...quick!"

In the late night, the city tower in Xiangyang was like a dormant beast, accompanied by the "creaking" sound, and the door was open like a giant beast awakening.

Because it was already night, the streets were extremely quiet, and Cao Chun's footsteps became particularly clear.

The fleeing tiger and leopard cavalry saw their general's return and rushed up quickly.

"General, General..."

"General, General!"

These warriors of the tiger and leopard cavalry seemed to suddenly see hope and light.

Almost at the same time, their tears snatched the frame, and all the grievances they suffered since the Battle of Sunset Valley... all burst out at this moment.

Cao Chun looked at them with regret.

But the hunger in his stomach made him weak. He pondered for a long time before opening his mouth.

"Give me some food!"

"Now, now!!"

…

A lamp is like a bean.

Because it was already night and because Cao Chun specifically told him that the soldiers guarding the gate did not immediately report the news of "Cao Chun's return" to Cao Ren.

On the contrary, the remnants of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, they heard that their general Cao Chun was back, and all the soldiers who saved their lives rushed over.

At this moment, Cao Chun, regardless of his demeanor, stuffed the bread into his mouth with a big mouthful and took another sip of wine.

However, the stewed meat beside him did not move at all.

He seemed to be no longer hungry, he raised his eyes and asked dimly.

"How many brothers have died."

A commander of a tiger and leopard cavalry replied truthfully: "There are only more than 700 people who escaped, most of whom were injured, killed and captured by the Guan family army. It is still impossible to estimate... In the past two days, there have been soldiers like generals...

Return like this."

What the commander of the thousand-man wanted to say was to escape back like a general.

But... the word "escape" came to his mouth, and he quickly swallowed it.

How could this word be insensitive and fragile in the general's ears now?

Sure enough, Cao Chun trembled slightly and asked again: "Where are the weapons, the war horses? And your weapons? Why are you missing even a light armor?"

Hearing this, the head of the thousand-man hangs lowered and said sadly, "Military capital, food, equipment, armor, weapons... are all lost. The chariot of the Guan family army is so high that all the military equipment must be removed.

Only then can you crawl over... escape from the Shura field!"

"It's...it's thanks to General Cao Ren who prepared food and medicine. Otherwise, how could we have survived these few hundred of us?"

Cao Chun's eyes were filled with tears. He stood up in grief and anger, stared at the commander and questioned him.

"Thanks? Thanks to him not saving him when he was dead, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was defeated so miserably!"

"Thanks to me, the 'beloved brother', more than 4,000 brothers from the tiger and leopard cavalry were buried in a foreign land. I and Cao Zixiao are irreconcilable!"

After saying that...

With a "swoosh", Cao Chun pulled out the only long sword left by the long waist of the thousand men.

His own sword has already become paused because of climbing mountains and chopping stones. However, the one in his hand is extremely sharp and is most suitable for killing people!

"snort…"

With a cold snorkeling, Cao Chun wiped his mouth. He took another sip of wine and staggered out of the tiger and leopard cavalry's tent.

Under the moon, the sword is extremely sharp...

The cold light on the sword blade was aimed at... the official office of Xiangyang City.

It is his "loved relatives and friends" and "good brother" Cao Ren's residence.

…

…

The moon seemed to be covered by dark clouds, and there was no trace of light on the entire streets of Xiangyang City.

A "continuous crossbow" is placed on the table. This is the continuous crossbow that "Zhang Wuji" stolen from Jiangling when he surrendered. The four words "Made in Huang Lao Xie" on it look particularly eye-catching.

This was the second night that Cao Ren had insomnia in a row.

He sat on the table, but was not reading the official documents, nor looked at the "cross crossbow" beside him, his eyes were filled with empty and desolation.

It seems like he was trapped in some kind of meditation.

On top of his head, there was a plaque given by Cao Cao, with the huge four words "General of Heaven and Man" shining brightly on it.

This was during the Battle of Nanjun. His general Niu Jin led 300 people and was besieged by Zhou Yu's thousands of vanguard troops.

Cao Ren rushed in with dozens of cavalry to save people. He first rescued Niu Jin, and then rushed in to rescue Niu Jin's soldiers.

Then, as if he had turned on the "Wu Shuang Zhuang" mode, he forced Zhou Yu's army to retreat with his generous and brave spirit that shook the sky.

From then on, Cao's Lieutenant General Cao Ren called him "Heavenly Man"!

The plaque above his head, "General of Heaven and Man", also seemed to show his excellence and glory of Cao Ren over the years.

only…

Who should I tell Cao Ren’s pain to?

And the source of this suffering lies in his identity as a "coward son".

Cao Ren and Cao Chun's father was Cao Chi. During the two dynasties of Huan and Ling Emperors, he successively served as Taizhong Doctor, Sima, Changshi, Shizhong, and Changshui Captain. Even Cao Cao had to follow the rules and call him

A voice of "Father"!

In the previous generation, Cao Chi's father Cao Mao was the brother of Cao Cao's grandfather Cao Teng, and he also achieved the title of "The Prefect of Yingchuan".

Because of this, Cao Ren's family was a large family in Qiao County, Pei State, and had a wealthy family.

Cao Ren was two years older than Cao Chun, but when Cao Ren was fifteen years old, his father Cao Chi passed away. Cao Chun, who was thirteen years old, naturally became the head of the family as a "legitimate son".

All resources of the entire family belong to Cao Chun!

It is precisely because of this that before Cao Chun was able to serve the emperor before the crown, he was the standard "son inheriting the father's business", and he achieved the long history that his father had ever done,

The script of Shizhong.

But...what about Cao Ren?

As Cao Chun's elder brother, he was two years older than Cao Chun, but because of his identity as Cao Chun's concubine son, he gradually drifted away from all the resources in the family.

The death of his father marked the decline of his "status" in the family.

It was precisely because of helplessness that Cao Ren left the family.

Of course...after all, it is Cao Chi's son, and the family will still give him a lot of money, which is equivalent to a cash-out division.

Logically speaking, Cao Ren led a script that "Didn't love your father, your mother doesn't love you, your younger brother succeeds to the throne, your elder brother wanders around, give up on yourself, and dies of yourself."

But, Cao Ren played the "king bomb" in one hand!

He first settled between Huai and Si, then spent all his family's wealth, recruiting more than a thousand younger brothers here.

As the world was in chaos, Cao Ren brought more than a thousand younger brothers to Huai Si, fighting the Yellow Turbans while collecting protection and fees, growing step by step.

Many people thought that when Cao Cao and Chen Liu raised an army, and when the eighteen princes attacked Dong, Cao Ren went to support Cao Cao.

This is not entirely true.

Cao Ren never participated in the bidding for Dong.

In "The Three Kingdoms", the first record of Cao Ren was when he was subordinate to Cao Cao, and in the fourth year of Chuping, when Cao Cao fought Yuan Shu.

In other words... Before, when Cao Cao had a difficult nightmare, Cao Ren did not appear at all. Instead, Cao Chun immediately went to support Cao Cao.

——So-called: "At the age of twenty, I went from Taizu to Xiangyi (a county left by Chen) to recruit soldiers!"

——Cao Chun is bringing funds into the group!

This is actually easy to understand.

Those who support Cao Cao must be from Qiao Pei Cao or Qiao Pei Xiahou clan.

As Cao Chi's legitimate son, Cao Chun is naturally a continuation of Cao Chi's lineage in the family. It is understandable to support Cao Cao, who is of the same clan.

But Cao Ren had already separated the family...

His ties with the Cao family were not that deep, so he did not support Cao Cao as soon as possible.

Instead, I developed in Huaisi and planned to make a name for myself.

But later, Huaisi came to Huainan Destruction King, "Honey Pill lover", and "the first person of the pseudo-emperor".

...Cao Ren's living space was compressed at once.
To be continued...