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In the fourth year of Chuping (193), Cao Cao's father Cao Song went to Yanzhou from Langya, accompanied by hundreds of servants and carriages with more than 100 items. It is worthy of your collection. In order to express your respect, Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, specially sent his commander Zhang Kai to escort 200 cavalry. When he arrived in Taishan County, Ying Shao, the prefect of Taishan who was asked by Cao Cao, personally led hundreds of soldiers to escort him.

At this time, just after leaving Langya for less than a hundred miles, another county prefect and a commander led hundreds of squads to escort. The security of this level is safe no matter how you look at it. But it is exactly the same as the saying "Defend day and night, but it is difficult for thieves from home." No matter how tight the security is, it cannot stop the internal thieves.

When the golden wealth team had just traveled a hundred miles to enter a temple in the suburbs of Fei County, Taishan County, Zhang Kai, who was already shook the golden light of wealth, secretly discussed with his two military marquises and led 200 cavalry to launch a raid on the rainy night. He first defeated hundreds of sergeants of Ying Shao's troops, and after relieving the threat, he killed Cao Song's entire family. Then he swept the gold, silver and soft soft that was easy to carry, set fire to the temple, destroy the corpses and escaped.

Ying Shao, who survived the disaster, was so scared that the officials were afraid to do it. He wrote a letter to explain the whole story that night, and asked someone to send Chen Liu to the death, and his family also abandoned their official position and fled.

The hatred of killing father and the hatred of taking his wife has been an irreconcilable hatred since ancient times. However, it depends on who the father is killed and who the wife is taken. If it is a common man, he can only use his head to slap the earth. If it is a prince, he will be buried thousands of miles away. Cao Cao, who was the governor of Yanzhou at that time, was a prince who took Qingzhou to destroy the Yellow Turbans, defeated Yuan Shu's reputation, and the princes from all directions were all afraid of it.

Revenge. This is certain. It is logical that there are injustices and debts. Since Zhang Kai is the culprit, it is better to pursue the culprit. But Cao Cao believed that this matter was inseparable from Tao Qian. Zhang Kai hid in the gutter like a mouse, and it was difficult to search and kill and vent his anger for a while. Then, let’s settle the account with you, the boss behind the scenes!

One month after the incident, at the turn of summer and autumn of the fourth year of Chuping, Cao Cao raised all the troops from Yanzhou. In addition, the troops sent by his ally Yuan Shao from the third battalion led by the cavalry commander Zhu Ling, a total of 30,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, and the battle of Xuzhou officially broke out.

Most of the Cao army's troops were the "Qingzhou Army", which was the Qing and Xu Huangteng who were driven out of Xuzhou by Tao Qian in the past, but it was a veritable "returning home group". For a moment, they avenged new revenge and recorded old hatreds, which was unstoppable. Cao Cao's army successively attacked and captured more than ten cities, and Cao General Yu Jin conquered Guangwei (east of Pei County). He went along Si Shui to Pengcheng. The van Cao Ren attacked Tao Qian's general Lu You, and defeated him in one battle, and then joined forces with Cao Cao.

Tao Qian led his army to Pengcheng to fight. There was a big battle in Pengcheng. Facing the Cao army, whose eyes were almost bleeding, Tao Qian's army was defeated, fled Pengcheng, and retreated to defend Tancheng in Donghai. Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to break through Pengcheng, Fuyang. Chujing, Luo, and Sanfu were successively rebelled by Dong Zhuo and Li Jue, and the people moved eastward and attached to Tao Qian. Most of them were in Pengcheng. When they met Cao's army, they were killed. At that time, people said that "the chickens and dogs were gone, and there were no more travelers in the ruins. Thousands of dead people were killed, and Si Shui did not flow."

Later, Cao Cao, who had not dried his blood, attacked Fei County in the northeast, Jimo and Kaiyang, and Tao Qian sent other generals to rescue the counties by Cao's army, while sending envoys to inquire against Qingzhou Governor Tian Kai. The reinforcements that rescued the counties were defeated by Cao Ren's cavalry. Kaiyang was defeated by the cavalry commander Zangba, Sun Guan and others defended the city in Kaiyang, and were spared.

In November, Cao Cao's army was aimed directly at Tancheng. After more than a month of besieging the city, the city was strong and the Cao army was exhausted from fighting for a long time and could not stop. At this time, Qingzhou Governor Tian Kai and Pingyuan Prime Minister Liu Bei both led troops to rescue Xuzhou. When Tao Qian saw that Liu Bei had few soldiers, he used 4,000 Yang soldiers to rebel against Liu Bei and ordered him to station in Xiangben, not far from Shan County.

At that time, Tao Qian guarded Shan County, Liu Bei occupied Xiangben, Tian Kai stationed in Lanling (a hundred miles away from Xiangben), and three troops lined up, forming a frontal blockade and a flanking threat to Cao's army. It was winter, and a cold current hit, freezing the busy East China Sea battlefield in an instant.

The two armies were stalemate as if they were frozen. In this murderous confrontation, the fourth year of Chuping finally ended, and the new year - the first year of Xingping, has arrived.

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On the eve of this storm that was brewing and fermenting, no force noticed that in Guangling County, Xuzhou, the entrance of Yuntiguan Huai River in Huaipu County, two tower ships and three sill boats quietly entered.

Ma Han, here it is!

The journey of Mahan is very fast and has a long journey. In early November, he went out from the west coast of Liaodong Bay, headed south along the coastline, bypassed Donglai and entered the East China Sea, and drove at night. With the help of the north wind, he sailed very fast. It took only a little more than two months to reach the entrance of the Huai River. This is the best place to enter Xu by Mahan.

The escorts and equipment of the Ma Han were all excellent. The two powerful generals on the left and right, Zhao Yun and Zhou Cang, were 200 white wolf cavalry, including fifty heavy cavalry, fifty light cavalry, and one hundred bow cavalry, and the eagle slaves were also indispensable. In addition, there were more than 200 boatmen from the Da clan in Liaodong, including more than 100 war soldiers, nearly 100 boatmen, and more than 100 ship workers and servile workers. The families of these people have been placed in western Liaoning for good life, and their new lords went south without any restraint.

The two tower ships that Ma Han rides on are different from the silhouettes that are simply used for carrying, and this is a real warship.

The reason why it is called a tower ship is because it can build tall buildings on the ship, and there are multiple high buildings, so it is named. The tower ship is the main type of warship in the Han Dynasty. It appeared in the Qin Dynasty. By the Han Dynasty, its scale and shape were far better than that in the Qin Dynasty.

Take the two tower ships that Marhan rides for example. There are sails at the beginning and the end, and three-story buildings are built on the deck, which is more than three meters high. There is a half-height female wall on the side of the bottom deck to prevent enemy arrows and stones. Usually, melee soldiers are equipped with swords and swords to meet the enemy's close forces to fight against the enemy's side. A one-story building is set up within the female wall on the deck, called the Lu, and there is also a female wall around the perimeter of the hut, which can provide cover for spears and soldiers on the hut. There is a second floor above the hut, called Feilu, with a shooting port on the female wall, and the crossbowmen are hidden in Feilu. The highest floor is the bird room. It is equivalent to the cab and command room of modern ships.

This is not over yet. There are cabins under the deck for paddlers to row. The paddlers are soldiers who row paddlers and generally do not participate in battle. The paddlers in the cabin have good protection and can be protected from enemy attacks. According to ship workers and soldiers, the outer layer of these female walls should also be covered with leather to resist the enemy's swords, guns, arrows and fire attacks, but due to lack of maintenance, the leather has long been removed, sold or corrupted.

After Ma Han visited the boat, his mood could only be described as breathtaking.

For the soldiers who defected to the scene, Ma Han didn't know how good their combat power was. Anyway, they had all the weapons they should have, so they should be treated as self-defense. I guess there would be no water battles during this trip.

In addition to more than 500 passengers, there were still 200 horses, thousands of stones of grain, various weapons, armor, saddles and stirrups, and they were loaded. In just two months, thousands of stones of grain, grass, people and horses were almost eaten. Fortunately, there was a supplement in the middle of the journey. When we arrived in Donglai, we took a detour to Jiaozhou Bay and bought 500 stones of grain from Kongrong. By the time of Guangling, there was less than 300 stones left on the ship.

Guangling is a wealthier county in Xuzhou. At this time, the war did not burn Guangling. Ma Han planned to replenish supplies here and then march towards the Donghai Kingdom.

After entering the inland river, after a day and a half, Ma Han and his party arrived at Huaiyin, Guangling County. Standing in the Que Room, looking into the city three miles away, they saw straw sheds everywhere and sewage flowed. Although it was difficult to see a few figures, from the smell of smoke in the air, it can be inferred that these straw sheds must be full of people.

Ma Han called a guide - this time he brought three guides, all of whom were refugees from Xuzhou who had been wandering to Qingzhou as a Yellow Turban thief and were finally taken to western Liaoning. These people were from Xuzhou, including merchants, coachmen, and peddlers. They were all wandering around and were very familiar with Xuzhou geography, and helped Ma Han's trip.

The guide is Yu Xin, a businessman. He has been to Huaiyin many times. When he saw the situation in front of him, he widened his eyes in surprise: "What's going on? When did Huaiyin look like this?"

Ma Han asked, "Isn't this the case before?"

"Of course not." Yu Xin looked in disbelief and stretched out his fingers and gestured, "In the past, the city was covered with willow forests and flowers and trees were lush. It was a good place for outings. How could he look like this... Could it be that it was caused by swords and weapons?"

Ma Han nodded slowly: "It seems that it's good. Half of Xuzhou has ignited war. In order to escape the disaster of this sword and war, the other half of Xuzhou, which has not yet been robbed, will also bear the accompanying 'gift' of the war."

When Zhao Yun was ordered to stay, Ma Han led Zhou Cang, Yu Xin, Ying Nu and four heavy cavalrymen among the white wolf cavalry to enter the city.

Ma Han and his eight men, except Yu Xin and Yingnu, were all powerful men, and they were naturally under the supervision of the city gate guards. Ma Han had long expected such treatment, and everyone had no weapons except gold and silver. Anyway, the ship was berthed not far away. Once there was a change, the flying eagle flapped its wings and could react within a few seconds. At least in the Central Plains, there was no communication and reaction ability of that army, which could be compared with this White Wolf Knight who had been intensively trained and fought in a row.

After stuffing hundreds of money to the guards at the city gate, Ma Han and others were able to enter the city smoothly.

What we see in the city is still shocking. Beggars are everywhere, pedestrians are ragged, and women and children are selling their bodies everywhere. Ruffians are swaying across the city and harassing refugees, but the patrolmen in the city are unable to maintain order. When Ma Han and his party enter the city, they are immediately targeted by those beggars and gangsters, but they are all big and round, and their expressions are fierce, so they dare not approach, which saves a lot of trouble.

Yu Xin first brought Ma Han to a grain shop. The door of the shop was closed and there was a notice of the food being exhausted. Yu Xin asked Ma Han to wait, and knocked on the side door when he was familiar with the door. The corresponding door said something, and then flashed in. Not long after, Yu Xin came out and whispered to Ma Han: "The prefect Zhao in this city prohibited the sale of grain from bulk, and this grain merchant was only willing to sell us three hundred stones."

Ma Han pondered for a moment and said, "Three hundred stones are a little less. If it really doesn't work, let's see if we can replenish it after we arrive in Xia Pi."

Yu Xin thought for a while and said, "Please wait for the city, I'll go somewhere else to inquire."

So Ma Han and his party came to a food shop with a second floor, waiting for news from Yu Xin while eating.

Halfway through the meal, Ma Han suddenly stopped moving his chopsticks and looked down from the window. On the streets and alleys downstairs, there were two sneaky men following a girl in plain clothes. From Ma Han's perspective, only the girl's back was seen. The hair comb represents an unmarried double-ringed bun, wearing a plain skirt. Although it was a cloth-clad skirt, it was hard to hide its charming charm when worn on the girl. Well, in later generations, this is the natural "clothing rack".

The girl was carrying a bamboo basket on her arms, and her white wrist was extremely white, which was considered to be a vague frost and snow. She was wearing a jasper bracelet on her right wrist, which was green and reflected in the snow, which was very pleasing to the eye. The girl walked slowly, but didn't know that there was a "tail" behind her. After walking for about a hundred steps, the girl pushed open the door of a small courtyard beside the alley, flashed in, and the door immediately closed.

The two men at the tail winked each other and turned around.

This occasional scene confused Ma Han. What kind of drama is this? Is it a young master who was interested in seeing sex? Is it that his subordinates were ordered to step on the plate so that they could come to the door to propose marriage and store it in the future? Or is it that the gangster occasionally saw beautiful women and followed them, intending to take the opportunity to rob the sex? It is unknown.

Although it is not a good thing in that situation, Ma Han can do nothing and has no time to do it. He is not a knight, he will always have endless gold and silver, and he will only be a hero for justice all day. He will not be able to leave behind a ship full of people and a battlefield ahead that may undergo drastic changes at any time to care about a woman he has never met before.

At this time, I saw Yu Xin climbing the tower with a strange expression, both happy and sad.

Ma Han didn't ask, but just asked him to sit down and eat.

Yu Xin thanked him, scratched his head, and said, "I met a little person, and the other party was willing to provide 800 stones of food and grass..."

"Wait." Zhou Cang couldn't help but interrupt, "You mean to provide it? Don't have any money?"

"Yes, no money, but there is a condition."

The remaining wine in the Ma Qiang glass was sipped, and his expression remained motionless, and he said lightly: "What conditions?"
Chapter completed!