When all the brothers heard about it, they all rushed to go first. Cao Cao laughed and said: "Brothers, don't compete. This trip to Jiangzhou is a long way away, so you must leave someone to look after your home."
After some discussion, Zheng Tianshou wanted to take charge of business activities and could not go; Qin Ming and Huang Xin were the key criminals with a reward for capture, not to mention that Shi'er Mountain had to be guarded by generals, so he could not go; at the same time, the new mansion was just being built, and the wife of the inner house was needed to take charge. So Hu Sanniang couldn't go either.
Finally, it was agreed that the people going to Jiangzhou were headed by Cao Cao, leading a total of ten heroes including Luan Tingyu, Shi Xiu, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Yang Lin, Pei Xuan, Deng Fei, Meng Kang, and Shi Qian, all from Shi'er Mountain. Let's select a hundred of the most elite people to accompany them. Everyone rides on horseback and goes back quickly.
It was agreed that day and preparations would be made the next day. On the third day, it was April 18th, which was an auspicious day for travel. A group of more than a hundred people left Yanggu and headed south.
From Yanggu County to Jiangzhou, about two thousand miles away, everyone was divided into three teams. The first team was led by Cao Cao, Luan Tingyu, Lu Fang, and Guo Sheng. The second team was led by the three heroes of Yinmachuan, and the third team was led by Shi Xiu and Yang. Lin and Shi Qian each took thirty or forty people, all pretending to be merchants, and marched in groups twenty miles apart. Two fast horses were sent in front to explore the road.
Everyone traveled at dawn and stayed overnight, covering more than a hundred miles every day. After more than ten days, they arrived at Huainan West Road, which is the surface of Shouzhou.
Cao Cao and others headed straight ahead. The mountains around them gradually rose. After walking for a while, they saw an evil mountain rising from the ground, engulfing the road in the mountains. Lu Fangfang said: "It's such an evil mountain, the situation is dangerous, brother. , there must be gangs of thieves in this mountain."
When Cao Cao heard this, he frowned and took a look. Sure enough, the mountain covered a vast area and had an extraordinary atmosphere. He reined in his horse and said, "In that case, let's go over together when all the people on the road behind us have gathered."
After waiting for two or three hours, the next two teams arrived. Pei Xuan knew the geography and pointed: "This is the Dabie Mountains. It stretches for thousands of miles, has countless strange peaks, and endless secrets. This mountain is the northeastern gateway of the Dabie Mountains. It is called Huangshiyan." , also known as Huangmen Mountain, after passing here, you will reach Shuzhou."
Cao Cao looked at the mountain and thought deeply: "We have been waiting for a long time, why didn't any of the Tanma come back?"
Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of gongs and drums in the mountains, and twenty or thirty people rushed out of the road crossing. The leader was a very tough man. He pointed at the crowd and shouted: "Where are you? Dare to send spies to visit our Huangmen?" The reality of the mountain?”
Pei Xuan stepped forward and replied: "We are not a gang of thieves, but business guests going to Jiujiang. We sent people to explore the way for fear of being robbed. We have no intention of checking the reality of your village. Please forgive me."
The leader laughed three times, changed his face and shouted: "Fart! I have never seen a businessman wearing armor, wearing chicken feathers, and carrying a painted halberd. You are obviously a gang of thieves who want to seize my inheritance."
Guo Sheng and Lu Fang were furious when they heard this. Everyone else was wearing normal clothes on the way, and their armors were wrapped and placed on the accompanying cart. He was the only two deep cosplay enthusiasts. Whenever they got up, they wore armor and held halberds, and made up as Lu Bu and Lu Fang. Xue Rengui.
In fact, it's nothing else, except that neither of them likes to wear helmets. Each of them has a three-pronged vertical crown on his head. Lu Fang has a gold crown inlaid with beautiful jade, with two long colorful pheasant tails, and Guo Sheng has a silver crown. Surrounded by a circle of white velvet, two snow-white pheasant tails are long and raised, shaking and shaking so majesticly.
The halberds are also tied with money leopard tails and money five-color flags that are useless except for beauty. They often get mixed together during fights, but for the sake of beauty, they would rather risk their lives than take them off.
Now after listening to what the leader said about having chicken feathers and a painted halberd, there was no one else but the two of them who would give up. Guo Sheng immediately shouted: "A broken mountain can only be treasured by ignorant people like you! Nonsense!" Stop talking, return the Tanma first, and then argue."
The leader said with a ferocious smile: "If you give me a damn, I would have been skinned and covered with drum heads."
Guo Sheng said angrily: "In that case, I will skin you too!"
The horse galloped out, holding the cold silver painted halberd to look directly into the opponent's face.
The man was completely fearless, running an iron gun in his hand, and fought ping-pong-pong with Guo Sheng.
After everyone watched the battle for a moment, Luan Tingyu said: "This man's marksmanship is the best in the army. He must be a military general, but he doesn't know how to become a thief."
The two generals over there had been fighting for seven or eight times. The leader used all his tricks, turned aside his halberd, got back on his horse and fled. The twenty or thirty minions behind him shouted in unison: "We are defeated, we are defeated." They turned around and ran away.
Just as Guo Sheng was about to pursue him, Cao Cao shouted: "Guo Sheng is back!"
When Guo Sheng heard the call to him, he had no choice but to ride back, ran to Cao Cao and complained: "Brother, if you didn't call me, I would have captured that guy."
Luan Tingyu said: "Thank you, brother, for calling you. You know that the man's marksmanship was not messed up at all. If he left suddenly, he must be cheating. If you go, they will definitely catch you."
Guo Sheng didn't believe it. Cao Cao said: "Brother, our detective horses have been trained for a long time. Being caught by them proves that this group of thieves must have been prepared, either for secret sentry or for traps. The thieves are so meticulous. Among them There must be a wise man. In addition, the defeat was strange, so I won't allow you to pursue him."
Shi Xiudao: "What my brother said is that it is a pity that the two Tanma brothers were killed by them."
Cao Cao shook his head and said: "Since the opponent has wise men and we are not clear about the enemy at present, we will not be willing to harm him easily."
At this moment, three to five hundred men came out of the mountain pass, and four leaders immediately stood in front of the formation. One of them was the one who had just fought with Guo Sheng.
Guo Sheng said, "There is indeed an ambush."
Cao Cao took a step forward, clasped his fists and said: "You heroes, I can't wait to borrow a road, so I sent out a scouting horse just to make a foolproof plan. We have no enmity with each other. Why use my scouting horse to block my way?"
Among the four people, a handsome-looking leader smiled and said: "It's important to be on guard against others. You and others have a large number of people. Who knows whether it is our officers and soldiers who are encircling and suppressing us? Or our colleagues who are robbing the foundation? How about this? When you put down your weapons, we will send you over the mountain and then return the weapons."
The leader was wearing a long robe, a Confucian scarf, and a heart armor on top. He was carrying a stick in his hand. He was neither civilized nor military, and was very strange.
Cao Cao thought to himself: This must be the opponent's think tank.
He opened his mouth and said: "How can I, a man, be captured without any help? I think you are not an ordinary person in the green forest. Please tell me your name."
The man wearing the Confucian scarf smiled and said, "Why don't I just tell you?" The man wielding the iron gun said, "This is our boss, 'Moyun Golden Wing' Ou Peng."
He patted his chest and said, "As for Xiao Ke, his surname is Jiang Mingjing. He has some arithmetic skills and has earned the unfounded reputation of a 'magical fortune teller'."
Pointing to the two people next to him, he said: "These two are the 'Iron Flute Immortal' Ma Lin and the 'Nine-tailed Turtle' Tao Zongwang. The four of us brothers gathered here to build a stronghold, but we don't know where you guys come from. ?”
Cao Cao pondered for a moment and said: "We are heroes from Shandong and Hebei. We are going to Jiujiang to have an old grudge. I will not change my name or surname. My subordinate is Wu Zhi. People in the world call him 'Wu Mengde'. My brothers..."
He was still waiting to introduce a group of brothers, and the four of them all screamed in surprise.
Ou Peng stared and said, "Are you Wu Meng De Wu Zhi? Also known as the Broken Gate Sword?"
Cao Cao said: "That's right."
Ou Peng and others hurriedly dismounted from their horses and said, "I have heard of my brother's name for a long time. It is not appropriate to offend me. I will accept the respect of my younger brothers."
Cao Cao smiled and said: "My two brothers who are sentry detectives have never been skinned by you, right?"
Ou Peng waved his hand and said, "How dare you? I beat them a few times when I first started questioning them. Later, I saw that their bones were strong. We admired them, so we bound their wounds and gave them meat and wine to eat and drink."
Ma Lin called out: "Brother Wu family, it's not the younger brothers who are deliberately offending. It's because your spies are so well trained that they refuse to tell you where they are. Otherwise, I would have come to greet you earlier?"
Cao Cao glanced at these people and saw that they had sincere expressions and knew they were trustworthy. He deliberately tried to lure him with words: "It's not because he refused to say it. It's just because I've come thousands of miles away to do a big thing that will kill my head. So, I don’t want to reveal my name. If I didn’t see that all four of you brothers are strong men, I would not give my name.”
As expected, the four people looked serious and asked curiously: "What's the big deal that makes you lose your head?"
