Going from Yecheng to Nanyang, there are official roads and small roads. On the small roads, a carriage is running wildly in the morning light.
Behind the car, a woman dressed in black chased on horseback.
The horse ran much faster than the carriage, and she quickly caught up to the carriage. She saw that her calf exerted force, and her body was lifted out of thin air, and she stood on the horse's back.
The next moment, the woman in black jumped up high, her swords in her hands glowed with cold light, and she slashed down in the air.
A cross was cut into the carriage carriage, and it was completely torn apart from back to front.
However, a man slipped out of the carriage and leaned against the bottom of the carriage, stabbing the woman in black with his sword.
With a "bang" sound, the woman in black pushed away his sword with her left hand sword, and the sword in her right hand had already penetrated his chest.
The sword went in and out, and when she stood on the ground, not a drop of blood came out of the man's chest.
But judging from his reaction, he was already on the verge of death.
His mouth overflowed with blood, and he asked with a murmur: "Why do you do this to my Sima family..."
The woman in black didn't answer, she just put the sword back into the two scabbards on her back, frowning and thinking.
This was already the third time. The Sima family divided their troikas and came out from the three city gates. She intercepted and killed the troikas one by one.
However, let alone Sima Yi, there was not even one of Sima Bada in the carriage.
This Sima Yi is really not simple.
Sima Hanoi is worthy of being from a noble family, with three chariots and three dead men, all of whom are not ordinary warriors.
It's a pity that she is Ah San in Beifu, the only Ah San in Beifu who knows martial arts.
The order she received was to test the Sima family's background and see if she could kill Sima Yi within ten days. If she could, she would kill him. If not, Cao Wuzi would find other ways to suppress the Sima family.
Cao Wu didn't have any deep hatred for Sima Yi, but Sima's usurpation of Wei was a history he understood. When the Chibi incident happened, he would find a way to make it impossible for the Sima family to usurp Wei.
Now he is trying his best to give Sima Yi a warning. It is the consequence of him instigating everyone to force him to go to the palace.
It is also to let all parties know that I, Cao Wu, am going to target Sima Yi. Let’s see who of you wants to protect him.
…
In Ye City, Sima Yi was sitting in the hall, and Sima Bada was the only one who accompanied him.
Sima Yi counted the time and sighed: "It has been a day and a night, and no letter has been sent back from the three waves of people."
Sima Fu was still unwilling to give up and said: "Maybe I was just delayed by things. I don't believe it. Everything north of the Yangtze River has been leveled. There are really people who dare to intercept and kill the imperial officials in the street!"
Sima Yi said helplessly: "Shuda, you also know that the north of the Yangtze River has been leveled, so who leveled this north? The only blame is his brother, who has the appearance of swallowing up the world, and your brother can only live here. , I don’t know when I can show off what I have learned.”
Sima Fu consoled him: "That insidious villain Cao Wu was discovered by his brother. He used bait to fish, but the fish has already surfaced!"
"You underestimate Cao Wu too much. Do you think intercepting and killing him is all his plan? He knows that Ye City is full of officials and cannot kill me. So he tried to find a way to issue an order for me to accompany the army. If I leave Ye City, I will be intercepted and killed by him. If I don’t come out..."
Sima Yi sighed: "If I don't go out, I will miss the military order and fail to arrive at the military camp after the expiration date. It will also be a disaster for my head."
"this……"
Only then did Sima Fu wake up, and it turned out to be such a plan. The pole and the wolf were blocked at both ends, and Sima Yi would die no matter what he did.
Is this still the playboy Cao Wu rumored to be?
Yesterday everyone said that Cao Wu was going to trample a common man to death in the street, but the scholar saved the common man's life by kneeling down.
How could such an overbearing and arrogant playboy come up with such a plan?
"Otherwise, let the eldest brother go to Hanoi, gather people from the clan, and escort him to Nanyang together!"
"No, it's useless if we have a small number of people. If we have a large number of people, Xun Yu, who is sitting in the rear, will not allow us to act rashly. If we are charged with raising private soldiers, it will bring trouble to the whole clan!"
"What should we do? Why did Cao Wu do this to our Sima family? When did I offend him?"
Sima Fu sat down helplessly.
Sima Yi still sat upright and said after a long time: "It's only a few hundred miles to Nanyang. It's just a battle of wits and courage. If he forces me to make a move, I will make a move. When I get to Nanyang, there are military formations everywhere, so I will be safe."
After saying this, he stood up and said: "If our Sima family still has a chance in the future, we will let the Cao family pay for it with blood!"
…
Cao Wu and A Da have entered the realm of Nanyang.
Unlike other places in the north, as soon as you enter Nanyang, you can clearly feel the tense atmosphere. There are craftsmen everywhere repairing bridges and roads, and a team of officers and soldiers are building special roads to prepare for future reinforcements.
The entire Nanyang is a large military camp, and troops speaking various dialects can be seen gathering here along the way.
There are nine out of the thirteen states in the world. In addition to Yizhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou and Liangzhou, which is only nominally controlled, the entire army of the world is marching here.
Cao Wu estimated that because of his previous reasoning, Cao Cao might have invested much more troops in this battle than 800,000.
The number of civilian men recruited alone is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands.
Since Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the north has been in turmoil for years. How many household registrations are left in total?
This battle can be said to have involved all the efforts of the whole country.
When there are more people and horses, food and grass are a problem. Cao Wu alone saw that several troops did not have much rice in their porridge and rice.
"It's not easy to live with me, brother."
Cao Wu thought.
Compared with fighting on the front line, Xun Yu, who maintained the entire rear and continuously sent food and troops to the front line, was the most critical point in the entire battle.
Let Ah Wu look at the account book and donate one-tenth of his family property to Xun Yu, which should be enough to support him for a while.
The two passed through Luyang, Yuancheng, Xinye and Fancheng, and reached the boundary of Xiangyang.
Because there were too many soldiers along the way, Ada had already put on men's clothes to hide his figure as early as Luyang.
Passing by a thousand-man infantry team repairing on the roadside, she stared at the soldier's bowl for a while and asked: "Cao Wu, you said you dreamed of a place where everyone has clothes to wear and everyone has enough to eat. Is that true?"
Cao Wu nodded: "It's true. Not only is there a full meal, but everything you want to eat can be delivered to your door."
"so good."
Ada thought for a moment, but couldn't imagine what kind of era it was.
She covered the sun with her hands and said, "I really want to see it."
Cao Wu remained silent.
After a long while, he replied: "I want it too. Once we dig something like that under Beifu, things will get better."
Ah Da nodded.
While the two men were talking, a thousand-man infantry regiment was ready to set off on the road.
Xun Yu had already sent people to widen the road day and night, but when he set out in July, Xiangyang still belonged to Liu Biao. It is only November now, and the time is too short to make it well repaired.
The thousand-person team walked up, and it still seemed a bit crowded.
Cao Wu and Ah Da stood aside and waited for them to pass.
Suddenly, a loud roar came from the mountain not far to the side.
"Grandpa is here!"
The sound was like a bell, and it shocked everyone present to look there.
Hundreds of cavalry suddenly rushed out from the mountain and came straight here to kill.
Compared with the Jiangling front line, Xiangyang was already the rear area controlled by Cao Jun. The soldiers never expected that they would encounter enemy attacks here.
The leader of the thousand-man team, the captain, shouted at the top of his lungs: "Formation! Formation!"
The soldiers took out their weapons in a panic, but before the formation was ready, the cavalry was already halfway through the charge.
Ah Da's horse was frightened. Ah Da held on to the horse's reins tightly. The horse screamed and raised its front hooves.
"Abandon your horse!"
In an emergency, Cao Wu grabbed Ada's waist and carried her to Xiaohong's horse.
Ah Da's chest rose and fell and he said, "Quickly go!"
"That's too late."
Cao Wu looked at the charging cavalry with burning eyes. The leader of the cavalry was a dark man with leopard eyes and curly beard, holding a spear in his hand.
Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide.
Didn't Liu Bei go into exile in Jiangxia? Jiangxia is hundreds of miles east of Xiangyang, separated by the Dabie Mountains. How could he appear in Xiangyang?
