Cao Tuo looked at the scattered soldiers around him and felt extremely depressed.
Originally, he was at the border between Lu and Zhu, and the whole army was prepared to be harassed by Lu from time to time.
But more than a month ago, he was summoned back by Duke Cao Kong with a direct edict.
He originally thought that he had been slandered by a villain, which aroused Cao Kong's suspicion.
Unexpectedly, he was asked to lead an army to attack the Ling Kingdom, take back the four cities taken away by it, and destroy its national sacrifice.
Before the stone in his heart could fall, he was choked and stuck in mid-air by the soldiers Cao Kong prepared for him.
I can't go up, and I can't come down.
Do you want to say that this army is useless?
Most of them came from a family of ministers in Zhu State, and their abilities were much better than those of his soldiers.
Do you want to say it's not useless?
Except for the children of the ministers, they are all a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, no one is over twenty or under forty.
Moreover, the children of the ministers had no experience in military training at all, and when they went to fight, they even took Jiu Jue Meiji on the chariot.
After finally integrating it a little bit, he just knew some of the rules of the army.
He couldn't help Cao Kong's urging, so he had to set off in a hurry.
However, this journey of less than a hundred miles has lasted for more than ten days. Now that we are approaching the battlefield, we are starting to get emotional again.
Some people wanted to finish the battle quickly and go back early, while others were unwilling to leave.
Is this an army?
Are they just a bunch of rabble?
"stop!"
Seeing that he was about to enter Qiu Valley, Cao Tuo couldn't help but shouted loudly.
After a long while, the troops in front were about to enter the valley, and the team slowly stopped.
"General Cao, why did you stop? The prince is still rushing to make meritorious deeds!"
At this time, a chamberlain ran over and asked him.
"The terrain of Qiu Valley is steep, and I'm afraid the Lingguo army will ambush it."
Cao Tuo explained patiently while holding back his anger.
“It’s a small country, but there is no general’s foresight in it.
I think the general is overthinking it, so we should cross these barren mountains and ridges as quickly as possible and go to Dugu City to wash away the dust. "
The chamberlain said compliments in an eccentric manner.
Hearing this, Cao Tuo was furious. However, this man was serving the Crown Prince and was very favored by him, so he did not want to offend him easily.
While the two were arguing, they saw the front army moving slowly.
There were also the prince's guards running around shouting and ordering the army to move out.
In an instant, Cao Tuo's vision went dark and he almost fainted on the chariot.
After standing up straight with the help of the soldier beside him, he sighed mentally and physically exhausted.
"Is God going to destroy our Zhu country?"
However, he still ordered to the left and right: "Quickly integrate the army, be careful, and then go to the top of the left and right valleys to investigate."
The twenty personal followers who followed him were divided into two groups. One group of ten people ran back and forth to integrate the army, and the other ten people divided up to explore the top of the mountain.
He had sent people to investigate in advance and reported that there was no ambush.
However, he was still worried when the matter came to pass and asked his personal guards to investigate.
He followed the army into the valley with anxiety, and then saw a personal guard making a gesture at the top of the valley to indicate that there was no ambush.
Cao Tuo felt a little relieved and couldn't help shouting loudly.
"The whole army speeds up and passes through this valley as soon as possible!"
But what he didn't see was that the guard's pupils turned white and his face was dull.
There was another person not far behind him, lying motionless on the ground, but his fingers moved from time to time.
After hearing Cao Tuo's shout, he controlled the guard to leave the edge of the valley.
This man got a heart-challenging insect given to Cao Xu by Lingqing, which can confuse and manipulate others.
"Prepare……"
The commander in charge of the ambush on the top of the mountain whispered to the people next to him when he saw this, holding the flag in his hand and getting ready to go.
When he saw the signal coming from Cao Xu, he stood up suddenly and shouted.
"Smash!"
"Roar!!"
Ten strong men on each side of the valley stood up and suddenly turned into black lumps more than ten feet tall. They grabbed a stone the size of a millstone next to them and slammed it down.
"Boom boom boom!!"
The huge boulders roared and wailed in the valley, and soon they were covered with bright red mud.
When Cao Tuo heard the shouts, he felt excited.
He looked up suddenly and saw at least three huge rocks heading straight for him.
"drink!"
He shouted sharply, and a strong aura erupted from his body.
He grabbed the Changge in his hand and swung it, smashing the three boulders into pieces with the sound of thunderbolts breaking through the air.
Broken stones splashed everywhere, causing the soldiers around him to be beaten to bloody pulp and writhing on the ground wailing.
However, this also exposed Xingzang to the Yuanjingshi who assassinated him.
Seeing this, the three Yuan Strikers on each side put away the slender bamboo swords in their hands with their backhands, roared, and transformed into nine-foot-tall black apes.
With another touch on the body, a finger-sized jade stick swayed in the wind and turned into a jade stick as thick as the mouth of a bowl and one foot long.
The six giant apes danced him like a windmill and smashed his head at him.
Bang bang bang bang~~
The Chang Ge and the jade stick collided, making crisp and loud impact sounds.
The force like a tide made Cao Tuo's hands weak and numb, and he was overwhelmed.
When he exerted force suddenly, Chang Ge swept across and cut open the abdomens of the six giant apes.
Just when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he saw that they were still attacking him as if they were unaware.
The wound on his abdomen was slowly healing.
Having lost the initiative, he was surrounded in the middle and could only parry.
At this moment, four golden monkeys that were no more than a foot tall suddenly jumped out from behind the six giant apes.
While his breath was changing, a green bamboo-like sword energy in his hand silently went straight to his throat, lower back, perineum, and ankles.
Suddenly, his heart burst into flames, his hairs stood up, and he threw the long sword in his hand.
Using his hands and feet together, he grabbed the four bamboo swords in a flash of lightning.
"Bang bang bang~"
But he couldn't help but stab another one with his other hand, hitting all the vital points.
"呲呲呲~"
At the same time, the jade sticks in the hands of the six giant apes fell on him and smashed him into pulp.
Before he died, he saw forty sapphire chariots pulled by tigers rushing towards him not far away.
Standing on each of them is a driver, an archer with a bow and an arrow, and a black halberd holding a halberd more than ten feet tall.
During the charge, Zhu's troops fell on their backs and their chariots were torn to pieces.
After a while, after the war, Cao Xu and Zuo Qiuyi were walking in the valley covered in blood and flesh.
When he came to the place where Cao Tuo died, he looked at the flesh and blood mixed with the mud and sighed.
"I never thought that Cao Tuo, who had resisted several attacks from the Lu State, would die so easily in this small valley."
"There is no need to sigh for others. Soldiers like us will inevitably die on the battlefield, and he deserves to die."
"General, we captured a man and said he is the prince of Zhu State."
At this time, two tiger soldiers escorted a young man with fair skin and gorgeous armor to come to them.
"I am the crown prince of the Zhu Kingdom, a descendant of a prince. I want to see your king."
When the young man saw the two of them, he hurriedly wiped the blood stains on his face and shouted.
"He is indeed the crown prince of Zhu Kingdom."
Zuo Qiuyi looked at it, turned to Cao Xu and said.
When he was doing business before, he had given many good things to the prince, so he recognized him.
"First escort him back to Dugu City together with other prisoners, and then take him back to Lingqiu City. Please give me your instructions."
Cao Xu nodded and waved his hand to have the Crown Prince of Zhu, who kept shouting, be taken away.
