Chapter

The previous article revised: Zhang Liao led 50,000 tiger and leopard cavalry to Xihe, not 30,000, which is a typo.

The next morning, the guards entered Cao Pi's tent with their face wash water, and then they found that Cao Pi was missing.

This news immediately detonated in the military camp like a bomb, and was quickly known by Zhang Liao and others stationed outside the military camp.

Not long after Lu Bu changed his duty and went back to sleep, he was told by the guards that Cao Pi was missing and Sima Yi was gone. Preliminary analysis shows that the two of them escaped overnight together.

After hearing this news, Lu Bu realized that he had been fooled by Sima Yi last night. He was so angry that he picked up Bian Fangtian's painting halberd and rushed into the military camp where the First Legion was stationed.

Qiaozhang, Zhang Dong, Liang Gang and Li Feng, who were originally assisting Ma Teng in commanding the siege, learned that Cao Pi and Sima Yi were missing, and the people were scared to death when they saw Lu Bu suddenly rushed into the military camp with murderous aura.

If Cao Pi was a little more at ease here, after all, beating a dog depends on the owner. Now that Cao Pi is gone, he will feel a cool breeze blowing from his neck when he sees Lu Bu, and he turns around and leaves without saying a word.

It would be fine if these four people stood here honestly and did not walk. When they walked, Lu Bu became even more angry. Fang Tian Huaji chased behind the four people in one step and shouted angrily:

"Why did Zazi leave when he sees me? He also wanted to lie to me and escape with Sima Yi?"

Before he finished speaking, Fang Tian's painting halberd had already swung it, and with one move, he cut Qiao Zhang and Li Feng who were walking behind him into two pieces. Blood splattered everywhere and Zhang Dong and Liang Gang were so scared that they were all scared. He quickly turned around and knelt down at Lu Bu and begged for mercy. Lu Bu was already red in his eyes at this time, and there was no time to listen to the two of them nagging. Another halberd was splattered with a white chain across the necks of the two of them. Their heads fell to the ground together.

The reason why Lu Bu was so angry was that he was deceived by Sima Yi on the surface, but in fact this was not the main reason. The real main reason was that Sima Yi and Cao Pi framed Wu Fan's family, which made Lu Bu grit his teeth with hatred.

Wu Fan married Lu Bu's only daughter Lu Lingqi as his concubine, and Lu Bu became Wu Fan's father-in-law. As the saying goes, love the house and the Wu Wu, Lu Bu is naturally very close to Wu Fan and Wu Fan's family.

In this way, Sima Yi and Cao Pi ran away was enough to make Lu Bu angry. When he saw the four people turn around and leave, Lu Bu's simple but reckless head suddenly felt hot, and he killed the four people in a blink of an eye.

This scene happened to be seen by Ma Teng's son Ma Dai from afar. In shock, he hurried to find his father Ma Teng.

After Lu Bu killed these four people, his anger was still not gone. He carried the Fang Tian Hua Ji and rushed in the military camp to find Ma Teng, the main general in this siege.

After searching for nearly ten minutes, Lu Bu finally saw Ma Teng and his three sons standing together. He immediately rushed over with his halberd. However, when they were about to swing their halberd, they were stopped by a voice:

"Fengxian, you must not retreat quickly."

When Lu Bu looked over the voice, he saw that the person who stopped drinking was his immediate boss Zhang Liao.

After seeing Lu Bu killing Qiao Hua and the other four, Ma Dai immediately found Ma Teng to tell the story. Ma Teng was also surprised when he heard about this. He discussed with Ma Dai: When Cao Pi and Sima Yi were gone, our father and son were undoubtedly the culprits of this operation. Lu Bu must kill us next. If he wants to save his life, he can only go to Zhang Liao. Apart from Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Xiahou Yuan would definitely not care about this matter; as for Yang Biao, the prefect of Shangdang, he was even more speechless.

Therefore, the father and son immediately came to Zhang Liao and told Zhang Liaobei about Lu Bu's unreasonable murder, and repeatedly claimed that he was just acting under the orders of Sima Yi and Cao Pi. We had no idea what was hidden in it.

In other words, the message Ma Teng conveyed to Zhang Liao was: Don’t look at our father and son who led nearly ten thousand troops to attack Xihe, causing so many casualties, and even almost caught Wu Fan’s wife and daughter; in fact, we are innocent. Whether you believe it or not, we believe it anyway.

Zhang Liao also wanted to kill the father and son. After hearing that Lu Bu killed the four Qiao Huan, Zhang Liao was very pleased after being slightly stunned. Because if the normal judicial procedures were followed in this incident, the four Qiao Huan were likely to not die, including the four Ma Teng and his son. The main culprit was their boss. Whether they were pretending to be confused or really confused, they were really on orders in this incident.

However, although I think so in my heart, it is not easy to do this on the surface. After all, Zhang Liao is the leader of a military army and cannot do whatever he wants as Lu Bu does; Besides, Wu Fan has his own determination in this matter, and Zhang Liao should not make arbitrary decisions.

Therefore, Zhang Liao stopped Lu Bu and ordered him to retreat.

After Zhang Liao drank, Lu Bu's head suddenly became clearer. Although he was unwilling to accept it, he still left with Fang Tian Huaji.

Ma Teng and his son secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

...

Another day later, Wu Fan personally led 100,000 cavalrymen, raising all the way up the sky, dust and smoke covering the clouds, and finally arrived at Xihe County.

Cui Yangyang, who was already so angry that he was so weak, saw Wu Fan suddenly appear in front of him, and suddenly sat up from above and rushed into Wu Fan's arms who had taken the previous step. He burst into tears and burst into tears.

But when Xiao Wuying saw her father, she was stunned for a while - I don't know if it was Wu Fan's frosty eyebrows and temples that made her feel strange, or whether her father, who was looking forward to day and night, suddenly stood in front of her and made her unable to believe it. But this was not important. After Xiao Wuying was stunned for a while, she threw herself into Wu Fan's arms like a mother, crying endlessly.

The family of three almost separated the yin and yang forever. At this time, they hugged each other tightly, for fear of losing each other again, and tears were wet in their clothes when they were moved. This scene made the viewer cry.

Afterwards, Wu Fan used his medical skills to diagnose and treat Cui Yangyang. Although Cui Yangyang was still in a "serious injury", his energy and physical strength had recovered a lot, and he basically had no worries about his life.

Next, Zhang Liao reported to Wu Fan that Sima Yi and Cao Pi are unknown, and Qiao Hua and the other four were killed by Lu Bu.

Wu Fan was of course very unhappy when he learned that Sima Yi and Cao Pi were missing. The murder of the four Qiao and Hua finally alleviated Wu Fan's discomfort. Although he had to settle the matter for Lu Bu afterwards, it was just a sentence.

Wu Fan was not in a hurry to chase Sima Yi and Cao Pi, because there was one thing he had to deal with before.

It is to protect his wife and daughter, and to fight against the defenders and people of Xihe County, which were desperately resisting Ma Teng's army.

After a day of rest, the siege battle ended since the arrival of Zhang Liao and Yang Biao's army, and the injuries of the injured soldiers and civilians have basically stabilized. The bodies of the victims were concentrated in the graveyard in the east of the city, waiting for collective burial.

After Wu Fan came to the tomb in the east of the city, he looked at the corpse with great pain. He took a pickaxe from a soldier waiting to dig a grave pit, and without saying a word, he digged it up. Each stroke was heavy and powerful, and each stroke seemed to tell the infinite respect for the deceased.

Seeing this, Zhang Liao and others and soldiers waiting for the order to excavate, they quickly took tools to dig. No one spoke during the whole process, and the excavation was completed in silence and solemnity. Then, they silently placed the bodies of the dead in a neat manner in the tomb pit, raising soil, and burying them.

According to subsequent statistics, a total of 2,741 people were killed in the battle against Xihe City, and more than 3,000 others were injured.

After adding the last shovel of soil to the tomb pit, Wu Fan closed his eyes and contemplated for a while. Then, he ordered Shangdang Prefect Yang Biao to carve a giant stone tablet with the best craftsman to stand here. The names of these victims should be carved in detail on the tombstone and why they died here. It is particularly important to note that the inscription should focus on the fact that these victims sacrificed their lives for justice.

This is true. The people whom Wu Fanen met are only a very small part of them. Most of them cannot sit still and see Wu Fan's family, who have outstanding achievements in the country and the people, were killed and remained indifferent, and then rose to defend the city. The reason is that this is the power of faith.

Wu Fan ordered the inscription to focus on the deceased of the victims for justice, and he also had his own ideas in it. If the inscription focused on the deceased not on the deceased who donated to the foremost but to protect his family, doing so was undoubtedly a disguised elevation. It can be foreseen that as time goes by, the righteous deeds of the victims will gradually be diluted by people, and people are increasingly concerned about how they were so popular at that time that they could actually make these victims willing to abandon their lives to protect their families.

This is simply an insult to these victims.

It is different in the inscription that these victims sacrificed their lives for justice. The so-called right path in the world is vast, and justice is always an indispensable part of the universal values ​​of mankind. Therefore, future generations will always remember these ancestors on the road to justice, and will be infected by their spirits and influence generations of people.

This is what Wu Fan wants to achieve. Only in this way can he be worthy of these victims.

After returning to the city, Wu Fan expressed his sincerity to the military and civilians in the city gathered inside and outside the restaurant. He also asked Sun Shangxiang to return to Luoyang immediately, and took the handwritten documents he wrote to collect one million taels of gold from the Grand Governor's Office's account room and distributed it to these military and civilians.

Although the original intention of these military and civilians to protect their wives and daughters is not for money, when the lives of these military and civilians are not very rich, they not only express their feelings but also completely improve their lives. Why not do it?

One million taels of gold is not a small amount. Wu Fan’s current family is only 4.3 million taels. This may not be intuitive enough. Take Xihe County as an example. The annual tax is 450 taels of gold; but each of these military and civilians can get more than 100 taels of gold. For a family of four, the gold obtained is basically the same as the annual tax revenue of the entire Xihe County.

Since then, Xihe County has become a well-known county for wealthy prosperity. Even farmers who carry hoes can be described as wealthy. Of course, this is a later story.

After dealing with these primary matters, Wu Fan suddenly remembered He Shao.

No wonder Wu Fan ignored He Shao. Since Wu Fan entered the city, he had only met He Shao once when he first entered the restaurant. Moreover, Wu Fan was extremely eager to see Cui Yangyang and Wu Ying immediately, so he nodded politely at He Shao who was waiting bent to look at him by the stairs and did not care.

Later, when learning about the previous situation of defending the city, Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang killed He Shao for all his brother, and then mobilized the people of the whole city to defend the city to Wu Fan. It was not until this time that Wu Fan realized that this little Xihe County Magistrate, who had not been paid much attention to, was actually the benefactor who saved his wife and daughter.

Later on, Wu Fan was busy digging the grave pit and appeaseing the military and civilians in the city, and was so busy that he had no time to spare. He Shao never showed up during this process, so Wu Fan temporarily ignored him.

It was not until this time that the ugly reminder that Wu Fan suddenly remembered He Shao. It was strange why he had never seen him. I wonder where He Shao is now?

He asked the people around him, and finally, a yamen runner told Wu Fan: County Magistrate He and his family buried their younger brother in the west of the city and returned to the city first, and then heard that they went out of the city alone to the west of the city.

It was too late at this time, so Zhang Liao and others suggested that Wu Fan have a meal and rest first, and it would not be too late to summon He Shao to see him tomorrow morning.

Wu Fan did not agree. He felt that He Shao was a little different, mainly manifested in two aspects. One was to destroy his relatives for justice; for justice and justice, he could even kill his own younger brother. The other was that he was obviously his great benefactor, but he did not take credit when he saw him, but was extremely low-key and didn't even say a word.

This made Wu Fan feel that he should not treat this unusual He Shao in the way he treats ordinary people.

He decided to go to the west of the city in person and go to see He Shao's brother's grave.

Needless to ask, He Shao went to the west of the city and went to his younger brother's grave. After all, that was his younger brother, so he must have a lot to say to his younger brother.

After making up his mind, Wu Fan rode out of the city with Zhang Liao, Wen Chou, Zhao Yun, Gan Ning and other generals, and came to the west of the city.

...

At the same time, twenty miles west of the city, in front of a newly raised tomb.

He Shao sat beside the grave, holding the soil with his hands, just like he was holding his younger brother during his lifetime.

On the ground in front of him was an empty wine pot, half of the wine inside was drunk by He Shao and half was poured in front of the grave.

He raised his head and breathed a sigh of relief, saying to himself:

"Brother, do you know? Governor Wu's family is saved, and my brother can finally feel relieved. I don't have to worry about being lonely in that world. I said I will accompany you on the road."

After saying that, He Shao grabbed the iron sword beside him, put the tip of the sword in his heart, took back the hand holding the grave soil, grabbed the sword body with both hands, turned his head and looked at the new grave meaningfully, and said:

"Brother, brother is here to accompany you."

After saying that, with both hands, he used force and pounced on the ground, the iron sword pierced into the ing chamber...f@!!
Chapter completed!