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Cao Ang couldn't clean up the incident of Jiang Gan's disappearance on the way because Cao Ren's personal soldiers who were escorting Jiang Gan not only clearly reported that Cao Ang sent someone to pick up Jiang Gan, but also submitted a request from Cao Ang.

He handed over Jiang Gan's handwritten warrant as voucher. Although Cao Ang denied that he had issued the warrant, he could not provide any evidence to prove that this handwritten warrant that was almost perfectly imitated was not written by himself.

In this way, Cao Jun, who knew Cao Ang's pro-Tao position, could not help but feel suspicious. He was very suspicious that Cao Ang changed his mind temporarily and decided to hand over Jiang Gan to Uncle Liu to execute him and then change his mind, and quietly release Jiang Gan or protect him. He was extremely dissatisfied with his brother.

Cao Zhi, who was pro-tao, also took the opportunity to attack and directly questioned Cao Ang in public at the mourning hall of Boss Cao, and said, "Brother, what's going on? Where did your man bring the envoy of the pottery thief? He secretly took him.

After letting go, he would still let him hide there?!"

If anyone had dared to speak like this to Cao Cao, the boss of Cao's army, in such a tone, then there was no need for Cao Cao to speak. Xun Yu, Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, the important officials of Cao's army, would have been furious long ago, and generals like Dian Wei and Cao Hong

He even drew his sword and slashed people with a furious look, but this time it was different. Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others looked calm, Dian Wei, Cao Hong and other generals also had their faces sinking, and they even focused their eyes on Cao Ang's face.

Waiting for Cao Ang's reaction, but not very good at acting, Cao Ang looked a little panicked and said, "Fourth brother, why are you talking nonsense? Tao Ying's messenger ordered the arrest of his brother, how could he let him go

How could he protect him?”

"Then did Jiang Gan go there?" Cao Zhi shouted: "You sent someone to pick him up. Where is Jiang Gan now?"

"Ask me, who will I ask?" Cao Ang almost cried and said quickly: "Fourth brother, don't worry, I have sent Jingzhao master Bo Wei Kang Wei Yuan to investigate the matter in full swing soon.

There is news."

"What if I can't find out? Is it just that big things are turned into small things and small things are turned into small things?" Cao Zhi continued to be aggressive.

"Stop!" Cao Ang finally couldn't bear it anymore, and roared in anger and a little embarrassed, "Don't forget, I am your brother and the successor to the throne guided by my father, and I am still your lord now! Is there anyone who talks to your lord like this?"

"I am not talking to you as a subordinate, but as a younger brother." Cao Zhi roared even louder and shouted: "Brother, don't forget that it was the pottery thief who killed our father.

Our Cao family has forced us to this point today. He has also occupied our sisters and bullied our Cao family to the extreme! You are the eldest son of your father, so you must make up your mind to avenge our Cao family and don’t just think about getting along with the enemy.

Going around and colluding secretly! If you can't do this, you are not worthy of being a descendant of the Cao family!"

"Shut up!" Cao Ang finally couldn't bear it and shouted: "Come on, take Cao Zhi down!"

Dian Wei, Cao Hong and others continued to say nothing, only a few loyal soldiers stood up and took the order, pulled Cao Zhi, who was yelling and unrestrained, and asked Cao Ang what to do with his eyes, and the surname was loyal and honest.

Cao Ang hesitated again, thinking about it over and over again, he couldn't bear to kill his younger brother before his father's body was cold. Then he lowered his head as Cao Zhi roared and questioned, and said weakly: "Send him to the back garden and hand him over to his mother for treatment."

"You don't need to be false benevolence and righteous!" Cao Zhi refused to accept the kind-hearted brother's affection and shouted again: "If you have the ability, kill me now. I want to take me to surrender to the Taoist thief, you dream!"

"Take it away." Cao Ang twisted his head away, and his heart was extremely distressed.

Cao Zhi, who was in trouble, was taken down, and the mourning hall finally became quiet again, but the atmosphere became extremely strange again. Everyone was worried and said nothing. Cao Ang, who was almost isolated and helpless, noticed this.

Gritted his teeth and said, "Please rest assured, I will give you an explanation for this matter, and I will also give our soldiers an explanation. Please believe me, that team of our soldiers who rescued Jiang Gan, really

Not from me.”

"Brother, I believe in you." Cao Pi, the oldest among Cao Ang's brothers, stood up, wiped his tears and said, "Brother, I believe you will not do this. My father's body is not cold, so you can't do such a thing

.If the elder brother trusts me, I would like to follow Wei Yuan to investigate the matter, find out the culprit of rescuing Jiang Gan for my brother, and give our soldiers an explanation for me."

"Since that's the case, there will be a labor of my second brother." Cao Ang also wiped his tears and choked and said, "I would like to ask my second brother to assist Wei Yuan to find out the real murderer as soon as possible and wash away this unjust injustice for me."

Cao Pi choked up and agreed. At this time, Guo Jia, who had not spoken, suddenly went out and asked: "Lord, I have a small problem. Please give me some advice. I dare to ask you, since I ordered the arrest of Jiang Gan.

, in order to make Liu Bei believe in our army's determination to unite with him to fight against Tao. So why did the lord insist on taking Jiang Gan to Chen Cang and handing him over to Liu Bei and killing Jiang Gan with Liu Bei's hand? Our army itself beheaded in Jiang Gan Tongguan, or

Wouldn't it behead Jiang Gan in front of the old lord spirit, and then send Jiang Gan's head to Chen Cang after the memorial service. Wouldn't it be even better?"

Cao Ang, who was guilty, was speechless. Sima Yi, beside Cao Ang, also had a gloomy face. Knowing that because of this unexpected trouble, Guo Jia had already begun to doubt Cao Ang's real purpose of insisting on taking Jiang Gan to Chen Cang. After a long time, Cao Ang

Took the bullet and explained: "Uncle Guo, my nephew wanted Liu Bei to see Jiang Gan himself, so as not to let Liu Xuande and our army follow Tao Ying and use fake heads to deceive him, so he insisted on taking Jiang Gan to Chen Cang and handing it over to Xuan

De Gong.”

Guo Jia stared at Cao Ang. Cao Ang did not dare to face Guo Jia's eyes, and lowered his head slightly guiltily. Seeing this scene, let alone Xun Yu and Cheng Yu knew Cao Ang's real intention, even generals like Dian Wei and Cao Hong also understood the situation.

No, anger began to appear on his face. Fortunately, for the sake of Boss Cao, Guo Jia did not force Cao Ang to do anything. He just sighed and then said, "Lord, the past can be done like this.

In the past, my subordinates still had a heartless request, and I hope the lord will make a promise."

"If you have something to do, please say it. My nephew will do his best." Cao Ang replied quickly.

"Please make an oath in front of the old lord spirit now." Guo Jia knelt down to Cao Ang and said with his fists: "I vowed to avenge my old lord, and vowed to die rather than surrender Tao Yingzhan, and violated this oath. Lord,

You are ashamed of being the descendants of the Cao family, and you are despised by our soldiers and soldiers. You have no face to stand between heaven and earth. After death, your soul cannot ascend to heaven and will never be forgiven by the old lord!"

If it were Deputy Director Tao, this kind of oath without any binding force would definitely be issued in the blink of an eye. However, Cao Ang, an honest child who was brainwashed by feudal superstition toxins, would not be able to do it, and he immediately lowered his head and hesitated again.

Indecisive. Seeing Cao Ang's expression like this, Dian Wei and Cao Hong immediately knelt down together, clasped their fists together, and shouted in unison: "Please swear by lord!"

"Please swear by lord." Xun Yu and Cheng Yu also knelt down to Cao Ang and asked. Although the voice was not loud, their tone was extremely firm.

"Please swear by swear!" Cao Pi and other Cao army civil and military officials also knelt down to Cao Ang.

Of course, Cao Ang knew the purpose of Guo Jia's intention to make an oath before the spirit, but Cao Ang had no choice but to kneel down to the eldest son Cao's spirit card with tears in his eyes: "The father is above the heroic spirit, the child Cao Ang

Unfilial, I am now saying that I will make a vow in front of your spirit, and I will avenge you and would rather die than surrender the thief! The child disobeys this oath, the heavens hate it, the earth hate it, the soldiers of the three armies and the people of the world abandon it, and they will turn into a new life after death.

For the lonely ghost, forever..., I will never be able to get my father's heroic spirit..., forgive..." After the oath, Cao Ang was already crying and kowtowed in front of the boss Cao's spirit, deeply hating his incompetence and being unable to avenge his father

, it cannot change the fate of the complete destruction of the remnants of the Cao army.

Seeing that Cao Ang was forced to make an oath, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others, who knew that Cao Ang would not violate the oath, then their expressions were slightly relaxed. After exchanging a glance with each other, Xun Yu, Guo Jia and Cheng Yu stood up and quietly took the dictionary.

Wei and Cao Hong pulled out of the mourning hall and went to a secluded place to discuss. As soon as they arrived, Dian Wei immediately asked Xun Yu and others impatiently: "How are you, gentlemen? Did the eldest son do it?

”

"No." Guo Jia shook his head and replied, "I can see that the young master should have wanted to take Jiang Gan to Chang'an first, create some momentum, and then release Jiang Gan quietly on his way to Chen Cang. Jiang Gan is coming from Tong

The sudden disappearance on the way to Chang'an must have been an accident for the eldest son, and he was completely caught off guard."

"I think it should be a good thing one of the young masters did." Xun Yu whispered: "This young master wants us to know that the eldest son is unwilling to avenge the old master, and is likely to surrender to the pottery thief,

It arouses our dissatisfaction and forces the eldest son to abdicate, and then he has the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the lead."

"Who is it?" Cao Hong said furiously: "Is it the fourth young master? Our army has been forced into this by the pottery thief. He actually wants to kill each other and create civil strife!"

"Wrong, the one who calls the most fiercely may not mean it's just doing it." Cheng Yu sneered: "The fourth young master is the smallest, because he takes the lead in jumping out and attacking the eldest young master, and he will definitely be secretly monitored by the eldest young master's people.

, If it were really his, it would be possible that the news would be leaked and he would suffer the consequences. Besides, the fourth young master was only fifteen years old after all, and even if he was talented, it would be difficult to come up with such a careful and vicious plan to frame the eldest young master."

"Who is that?" Dian Wei asked again quickly.

"General Dian, what do you think?" Xun Yu asked back and said with a smile: "If the annihilation plan of accusing the eldest son of the slander succeeds, and we old people join forces to force the eldest son to step down, who is the most likely to be helped by us to the main position?"

"Second..., Second Young Master?" Dian Wei's voice trembled and said, "How could it be him? Didn't he help the eldest young master speak, and volunteer to help Wei Kang investigate the matter?"

"Are you not a chance to eliminate the evidence that may be missed?" Xun Yu smiled even more happily and said quickly: "General Dian, General Cao, you are the guards who control the Lord's Mansion, and the other controls the city defense of Chang'an.

Keep a close eye on the second young master and his people, and don’t alert us if you find any abnormalities. Just inform us in secret.”

"Then should the eldest son know about this?" Dian Wei asked again.

"No need, let's do it for him secretly." Xun Yu shook his head and said expressionlessly: "Although Fengxiao forced the eldest son to make an oath in front of the old lord's spirit, the eldest son was unlikely to violate the oath, but

In order to prevent it, we should be more careful. No matter what, the second young master is far above the eldest son, whether it is scheming or forbearing, and he is firmly hostile to Tao Ying and annihilate the thieves. Perhaps..., never..."

Xun Yu did not finish his words, but several old men of Cao army understood what he meant and added the whole sentence in their hearts, "Maybe the second young master is a better choice than the eldest young master!"

……………………

With the extraordinary insight and secret protection of the old ministers of Cao's army such as Xun Yu and Guo Jia, Cao Ang finally barely passed the test of Jiang Gan's disappearance, and did not expect those old ministers of Cao's army to be knocked down like some people, and got a little breath.

The opportunity to rectify the internal situation. However, the external situation became worse. Hedong and Hongnong counties were in a row and in a row, reporting that the team of Zang Ba, the partial division of the Xuzhou army, had already reached the city of Anyi and defeated Cao's army on the battlefield of the Salt Lake

The defenders took down the salt lake and salt fields in Anyi and cut off the largest source of military expenditure of Cao's army. Ren Jun and Pei Mao's teams who were guarding Hedong had no power to fight back, so they had to defend the city and restrain Zang Ba's side troops.

On the front side of the Hongnong battlefield, the Cao brothers were able to fight for power and profit in the current situation of the enemy. In fact, it was because Hongnong prefect Zhong Yao bought time for them on the front side of the battlefield, in order to delay the attack speed of the main force of the Xuzhou army,

Tongguan has made time to set up defenses. Zhong Yao used only 4,000 troops to defend the lonely city of Hongnong to fight against the main force of Xuzhou, which restrained dozens of troops. Although the Hongnong city located on the ancient road of the Guhan Road can be regarded as easy to defend and difficult to attack, it cannot stand it.

The main army in Xuzhou took turns to attack, and conspiracies emerged one after another, open and secretly attacked, and suffered heavy casualties in the face of the strong attacks and tricks of Xuzhou's army, and it was difficult to resist. Forced to helplessness, Zhong Yao had to send an envoy back to Chang'an and report to Hongnong to guard the battle.

For the specific situation of the army, Cao Ang asked him to allow himself to withdraw from Tongguan as soon as possible.

In the emergency letter with tears, Zhong Yao told Cao Ang that if Cao Ang had to persevere until September to break through again and return to Tongguan, then there would be only one outcome for Hongnong's defenders, which would be the entire army! In this regard, Zhong Yao himself

Although he was mentally prepared, Zhong Yao did not dare to guarantee that his team would fight to the end, because the Xuzhou army's attacking tactics were too powerful. With the absolute advantage of troops, he still resolutely adopted the three-in-one siege without one siege.

The tactics of attacking the hearts of Cao's army have been constantly arranged to surrender to Hongnong City to speak, promoting the Xuzhou army's policy of treating prisoners well. The cohesion of Cao's army was strong enough in this era, but the morale of the army was still greatly affected. Zhong Yao's

On the night before Cao Ang's book, the Hongnong defenders had already seen soldiers sneaking down the city wall to surrender to the Xuzhou army.

When Zhong Yao's emergency letter was delivered to Chang'an City, it was already August 19th, the eleventh year of Jian'an, which exceeded the four days of reinforcements promised by Emperor Liu to support Chang'an. However, the imperial army did not arrive at the city of Chang'an, but the latest reprimanding sent by the emperor

The investigation also clearly shows that as of the evening of August 16, the Imperial Uncle Army was still holding troops in the Chencang area, and there was no sign of advancing eastward to reinforce Chang'an.

Hongnong was already shaking, but Uncle Liu was still traveling around Chencang to commemorate his ancestors. Cao Ang, who had originally planned to drive away wolves and fight against tigers, had no choice but to quickly summon Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others to discuss countermeasures. However,

Faced with this situation, Wang Zuo Guishuo's plan, Xun Yu and Guo Jia had no choice but to do anything, so after a little discussion, the chief adviser Xun Yu could only say to Cao Ang: "Lord, there is no other choice, no matter how big-eared thief is for it."

No matter how we keep our troops in motion, our plan to drive away wolves and fight against tigers has no chance of success. We can only let Zhong Yuanchang withdraw back to Tongguan immediately."

"Lord, Mr. Wen Ruo's words are reasonable." Guo Jia also said helplessly: "There is no way to lure the big-eared thieves out of the pass to meet the enemy. Our army cannot go out of the pass to fight to the decisive battle. Let Zhong Yuanchang stay in Hongnong again.

It’s meaningless to go down. Let him break through and return to the gate. Otherwise, Zhong Yao might not even have the chance to return to the gate."

"Okay, I'll send an order immediately." Cao Ang nodded helplessly. After a little calculation, Cao Ang ordered again: "Let Zhang He send troops from Huayin, lead 4,000 troops out of the pass, and pick up Zhong Yuanchang back to the pass."
To be continued...