But it was said that Lao Cao set fire to the main hall, went to the back garden, and found the stone table rotating according to Yelu Nanxian's description. Sure enough, the rockery moved and a stone door appeared.
Lao Cao said happily: "This woman has never lied."
Just as she was about to use the key to open the door, she was suddenly held back by Hu Sanniang: "Guardian, wait a minute, this queen is cruel and ruthless. If she hates you for destroying her country and deliberately deceives you, in fact, there are hidden weapons, poisons, or venomous snakes and beasts hidden inside. , isn’t it dangerous?”
Cao Cao was stunned and nodded: "My wife is right! I killed my husband today, which was really erring on the side of caution."
Suddenly, he put his head in, pecked Hu Sanniang on her lips, and said with a smile, "Sure enough, the family has a good wife, and the husband has no trouble."
Although they are an old couple, Hu Sanniang couldn't help but flinch when he attacked her unexpectedly. Just as she was about to twist him, she saw Cao Cao turning around and shouting: "Let Hua Rong escort the prince and princess of Xixia."
Not long after, people were brought in. Cao Cao ordered the prince to untie the rope, handed over the key, and said with a smile: "This is your family's treasure house. If the owner is not here, how can I trespass? Please go and light the lamp first, and then invite me." It’s only polite to come in and be a guest.”
The prince said angrily: "If you want to kill me, kill me. Do you think I will obey you?"
Cao Cao laughed and said, "If you don't obey me, kill your sister first."
Poor young prince, he was so angry that he was shaking all over, but he had no choice but to cry suddenly. While crying and shaking, he took the key and opened the door.
After a while, light came out from inside. Cao Cao sighed and said, "Since you have never deceived me, I must not break your promise. Little princess, this is the treasure of all the kings of Xixia. Although I took it to support the army, I will also keep it." I will give you a share as your dowry."
After that, he led people into the stone gate, walked down the steps, and glanced around. The place was not big. It was a stone room of more than half an acre. The four walls were painted with exquisite murals, and there was a stone trough carved with grease. It was ignited and illuminated brightly.
There were hundreds of large boxes piled randomly on the ground. They were all beautifully styled. Old Cao was so happy that he opened them and saw that they were all empty boxes.
Li Renai wiped his tears and laughed loudly: "Are you disappointed? To tell you the truth, these boxes were originally filled with gold, but now in order to conquer your Song Dynasty, my father took them out and filled them with military supplies. You’re having fun for nothing, haha, haha.”
Lao Cao shook his head and said with a smile: "You are really a good boy. A prince of a country should be so courageous."
He walked over, flipped it around, and said to Hua Rong, "Look carefully. If you don't believe it, you won't find anything."
Hua Rong nodded, walked forward for more than ten steps, and suddenly said "Hey" and shouted: "Brother, come and see."
Cao Cao walked over and took a look. It turned out that at the end of the stone wall was a mural depicting the splendor of the palace. There was a door in it, the size of which was the same as the real door. Cao Cao wondered: "What's going on?"
Hua Rong reached out and touched it: "Brother, are you missing? There are faint scratch marks between the gaps in the door, as if it had been opened."
As he said, he pressed it and gradually exerted force. The door creaked and opened backwards.
Cao Cao was surprised and said: "If it weren't for my virtuous brother's amazing eyesight, who would have noticed it?"
He was about to turn around and call Li Renai to explore the way, but Hua Rong had already stepped in first: "Brother, it's so secretive. I don't think there is any danger in coming."
When Lao Cao went in and took a look, it turned out that the flames on the wall of the front room extended in from the dark hole in the stone wall, illuminating the back room as well.
The back room is not big, with two large boxes leaning against the wall. They are full of all kinds of gems and jewelry. The gems are bright and clear, and the jewelry is extremely exquisite. Cao Cao couldn't help but exclaimed: "Although it is a poor country, after more than a hundred years, it has its own foundation."
Hua Rong said: "He lives in the northwest, and he happens to be doing business with the Hu people. There must be no shortage of gems."
There was another long box. When I opened it, I found more than ten swords. The hilts and scabbards were quite different from those in the Central Plains.
Lao Cao took one and looked at it and said, "These patterns are all from Buddhism."
As he said this, he drew out the sword, and there was a sound of sword sound, and the green light was dazzling. Lao Cao exclaimed: "What a sword!"
Hua Rong also said happily: "Xia swords are known to be the sharpest in the world. If these swords can be solemnly collected by Lord Xia, they must be treasures among treasures."
Both of them were filled with joy, and they pulled them apart one by one and looked at them. There were thirteen swords in total, and each one was a rare weapon.
Cao Cao laughed and said: "With more than ten swords, it is not in vain."
Yu chose a sword with a white scabbard, handed it to Hua Rong and said, "You are a general in silver armor. This sword is a perfect match."
Huarong was so happy that he immediately hung it around his waist.
Cao Cao already had the Dragon Transformation Sword, so there was no need to change the sword. He called Hua Rong to pick up the sword box himself, put it away, and opened a small wooden box in the corner of his house.
In the back room, he got two boxes of treasures and one box of good swords. Seeing that the small wooden box was quite exquisite, he thought there must be a rare treasure. Unexpectedly, when he opened it, he found a shabby monk's robe inside.
Lao Cao asked curiously: "Could it be that it is made of natural silk, which looks shabby, but is actually precious?"
When he shook it open, he saw that it was the most ordinary piece of Gebu. It had a musty smell of old things, but there were two lines of words written on the clothes: "In the autumn of the country's survival, you can take this clothes to the Piaomiao Peak of Tianshan Mountain and ask the master of Lingjiu Palace for help."
Cao Cao laughed and said, "It's interesting. I wonder who the owner of the Lingjiu Palace is. The majestic ruler of the country actually entrusts the safety of the country to this person? But the Tianshan Mountains are thousands of miles away from here. It's really the autumn of life and death. When the envoy finds it, , it’s too late to fly back.”
Shaking his head, he took out the fire folder, burned the monk's robes, threw the small wooden box into the fire, and walked away.
——If the time had moved here, it would be obvious that the space inside this wooden box is not quite right, and there must be a mezzanine.
As soon as Lao Cao threw it away, several extremely powerful martial arts in the mezzanine were wiped out from the world.
By the next day, Xingqing Mansion was in dilapidated condition. The remaining princes and ministers captured more than 300 people, and the rest were killed.
He also plundered a certain amount of grain, grass, dried meat and other items from the treasury, enough to feed his more than 10,000 men and horses for a month or two, and acquired thousands of horses. Previously, many of the horses were given to Li Zhu and Li Huai because of the inconvenience of crossing the river. , now that we have these horses, we have regained our mobility.
Lao Cao gathered the generals, took out the Western Xia swords and gave them to everyone as a reward for their merit.
Hu Sanniang, Shi Qian, and Jiao Ting shook their heads and said they had no use for it. They only gave Shi Bao, Yao Xing, Qu Duan, and Huang You four, each with a sword. The four of them were extremely happy and held it in their hands. Refuse to let go for a moment.
Lao Cao unfolded the map: "We broke into Xingqing Mansion today and captured many hostages. When the news came out, soldiers and horses from all directions in Xixia were coming to kill us. We have our own 'Mr. Golden Sword' strategy for the area to the west." Xuanhuafu, Suzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou and other places can be worry-free."
He looked at Qu Duan: "To the north, I would like to order General Qu to lead three thousand troops to the north along the river. They will wipe out Dingzhou, Chaoshun Army in Youxiang, Baimaqiang Zhenjun, and kill Weifu Army in Heishan all the way! "
This way of fighting led to the Langshan and Bayannaoer areas in Inner Mongolia. Going further, it was the Xijing Road of the Liao Kingdom, which is now the territory of the Jin Kingdom.
Cao Cao pointed to the "ji" shape of the Yellow River and the top horizontal line: "These places are now empty. You only focus on killing people and setting fires. When you get here, you don't need to enter the Golden Realm. You can just take the boat down and come to the Hedong Road to meet again." Or you can go straight to Xijing. In short, it all depends on the situation and is up to you to decide."
Qu Duan's face suddenly turned red, and he breathed quickly: "The commander trusts Qu, what else can you say? To destroy a city thousands of miles away is a man's career, Qu will definitely live up to the trust of the commander!"
Cao Cao clapped his hands and laughed and said: "General Qu is so majestic! In this case, there is no need to worry about the northwest. Our army will cross the river immediately, first take the Xiping Mansion in Lingzhou, join the Jishan cavalry, and compete with the Xixia people. Fan!"
The two sides immediately divided their forces. Cao Cao asked Qu Duan to carry as much food as he could and fight north along the Yellow River, while he led the troops and crossed the Yellow River on a raft.
When they reached the shore, Cao Cao turned around and said to the rafters, "Wu didn't break his promise, did he?"
The faces of all the raft passengers were all red.
It turned out that when the city was breached yesterday, Cao Cao specially sent more than a hundred people to protect these rafters and make a big robbery. These rafters had occasionally served as water thieves in the past, so naturally they would not show mercy, and everyone made a fortune.
Cao Cao waved them away. Only Zhang Liang, a Hu from Guiyi, gave away the raft and followed Cao Cao with an iron spear.
After Cao Cao reached the east bank, he headed south for dozens of miles and chose a place to ambush. However, he sent two experienced Western troops, pretending to be Xixia people, and headed for Lingzhou with the help letter from Hua Rong. Ask for help.
When Lingzhou guard Hei Damu learned that the capital was under attack, he was immediately frightened. He did not distinguish carefully, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers and horses in the city and rushed to the ferry. However, he was ambushed by Lao Cao in the middle. He killed a large number of people in a battle. Defeated, Yao Xing took the lead and stabbed the enemy general Hei Damu to death. He killed the bead curtain and took advantage of the situation to seize Lingzhou.
Immediately, they sent out reconnaissance cavalry to search for where the troops could be hidden. Sure enough, they found Jishan cavalry and ordered him to join the city.
These iron cavalry were heavily armored and difficult to cross on rafts, so when they were in Lanzhou, they asked him to set off early and take a detour.
At this point, Lao Cao's men gathered another 13,000 soldiers and horses, killed all the party nobles and officials in Lingzhou that day, plundered the grain and fodder, and abandoned the city.
Seven or eight days later, Lao Cao led his troops to fight, successively defeated Weizhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou and other places, causing chaos in Xixia, and went straight to the Yongxing army.
By this time, the news that Xingqing Mansion had been breached had reached the front line. Lord Xia was furious and killed the messenger on the spot to vent his anger.
He wanted to return to the army in person, but Wanyan Wushu stepped forward to persuade him: "Father-in-law, don't panic. Nowadays, a large area of Song land has been acquired by my father-in-law. The Song army is not in danger of protecting itself. How can it be necessary to send a large army to your country's homeland? My son-in-law predicts that, It must be a small group of elites, ranging from ten to twenty thousand to three to five thousand, who broke out from Hanzhong, stole Xingqing, and took advantage of the emptiness in the country to cause trouble. If they return to the army and fall into his scheme, they might as well respond. Use it as a partial teacher!”
Someone took the initiative to ask for help and said: "My son-in-law is not talented. I am willing to lead my troops and horses to come back to rescue my beloved wife and kill all the invading enemies to repay my father-in-law."
After Wanyan Wushu's advice, Li Qianshun regained his composure a little, waved his hand and said: "You can't go. Although your soldiers are powerful, they don't know the geography of our country's water and land. However, what the wise son-in-law said is right. If we return to the army in a big way, It's just what he wanted, and I asked my brother to deal with it."
Immediately, King Richard of Jin was ordered to send 50,000 troops to come back for reinforcements. He must kill everyone in the future and rescue the queen, prince and others.
Brother Richard was the younger brother of the Lord of Xia. He was deeply trusted by Li Qianshun and could be called the number one general in Xixia today. Liu Fa, who was hailed as a "born famous general" by the Song people, was defeated by this man and fell while retreating. The cliff died at the hands of soldiers.
After Brother Richard led the troops away, Taiyuan City, which was plunged into blood and fire, could finally take a breather.
This is exactly what it is: the whole city sings heroic songs, and the mountains and rivers inside and outside are full of vigor. Why go to the battlefield to serve your family and country? Why bother grinding your flesh and blood into the stone?
(End of chapter)
