The night is dark.

Occasionally there are red and yellow dots, but they cannot resist the black.

It's like a human heart.

Even the bright red blood cannot save my heart.

Cao Zhang stood above the broken city and looked at the black mountains in the distance.

In the dark night, climb the cliff and then attack the catapult position placed by Zhang Liao on the mountain line.

To be honest, Cao Zhang was not very sure.

But this must be done, otherwise if the soldiers in the pass will only lie flat when they see the commander and general, then these soldiers will lie flat immediately...

Cao Zhang suddenly understood some of his father's actions.

Some things that I couldn’t understand before but now can understand.

Under the pressure of survival, some suboptimal solutions, although they will pose hidden dangers, are necessary choices to break through the dilemma.

It’s like even though you know there is a ban, you have to go to work maliciously.

The bureaucrats in capital society do not care where the lower classes die, but they must not live to block their way to wealth.

Shandong, the world.

Aristocrats, emperors.

Cao Cao wanted to change, but he did not do well. Every "suboptimal solution" may leave some hidden dangers, but now these hidden dangers accumulate and become more or less the pain of the present.

『Look at General!』

The personal soldiers suddenly exclaimed and pointed ahead.

Cao Zhang looked in the direction guided by his personal soldiers.

I saw a sudden light and fire shaking on the mountain in the distance, like a meteor flashing, and then suddenly blooming, like a flash in the pan of a red lotus in the abyss.

『Oh oh oh oh oh oh …』

The soldiers around cheered.

"See?" Cao Zhang pointed at the blooming red lotus at the right time, "This is the proof of our warriors! The cavalry is not invincible either!"

"Major General, can you burn those catapults?!" A soldier from Cao shouted excitedly, "Does those damn catapults not hit us again? Will we not have to be smashed in the future?!"

Cao Zhang could only smile, but he couldn't say anything.

Although the Cao army soldier said something a little incoherent, it seemed that he had accumulated a long time of emotional venting. In the end, even his voice was torn apart.

Cao Zhang wanted to tell this guy the truth, but when he saw the stupid clear eyes flashing through the fire, Cao Zhang finally said nothing.

Perhaps, more false happiness for one night can also bring him more energy to recover, right?

When the day was cleared, the broken bluestone slabs in the schoolyard were empty.

None of the sixty or seventy suicide squads that attacked last night came back.

Cao Zhang stood on the side of the school ground, looking at the cracked patterns on the bluestone slabs, like outlined characters.

The chief clerk held the roster and trembled with his voice, "Major General... should be dismissed according to the law..."

Before the chief clerk finished speaking, Cao Zhang suddenly cut off the chief clerk's words, "Send an order! The Cao family Silang and others in Qiao County were promoted to the Sima of the Army! Record the file and reward the thousand golds!"

"No, no!" The chief clerk said repeatedly, "We know that the Major General is kind and for the sake of the affairs of these warriors... However, there is no precedent! He was promoted to the rank before he set out, and now he is promoted again... If there are greedy people in the future, they want to threaten this... No, no! Please think twice! Just give more pensions, and you must never get promoted again!"

Cao Zhang looked up at the black smoke rising outside the pass and gritted his teeth.

"precedent".

The words are simple, but the meaning contained in fact is not simple at all.

Cao Zhang reached out and pressed his forehead.

After not sleeping all night, being nervous, and having been exhausted for several days, Cao Zhang also vaguely felt some of his father's illness.

"In the past, Qi Huan could kill Guzhu's witch to establish his authority. Now, a certain man is the commander of the three armies, but he cannot honor the seventy loyal souls?"

The chief clerk crawled and bowed, holding the list with both hands. "The villain received the kindness of the prime minister. Even if he was crushed, he should be fair and fair, so that he would not let the prime minister down. Zhou Li said that the title and salary were taken to the Dazhong Priest. In the past, he was going to win the victory outside and still needed to return to Beijing to ask for a title. Now the general has repeatedly increased the title, which is of inspiration to warriors, but it is not a control. If there is no difference between superiors and subordinates, how could he have the order of superiors and inferiors?"

"What a superior and inferior!" Cao Zhang used the battle knife scabbard to lift a broken piece of armor left on the ground of the school ground. I don't know if it was the residual armor left by the suicide squad before, or if someone had died or injured here before, there were some dry blood on it. "Since you said that, if you don't have the next death squad, you'll be counted as one, what about it?!"

The chief clerk placed the list on the ground and kowtowed, "The major general wants to kill the villain, please tell me bluntly, "Wine, white silk, short blades, and all villains will accept it. The villain will receive the favor of the prime minister, and he will repay him with death! However, there is no possibility of promotion. If the Han Dynasty is damaged for four hundred years because of seventy soldiers today, the villain will..."

The chief clerk's words came to an abrupt end.

Cao Zhang pulled out the battle knife and put it on the chief clerk's neck. The blade still had residual blood and had a strong smell of blood. It rushed straight to the head of the chief clerk's nose, causing his neck hair to stand up.

"The virtue of the Han family is lost to the hands of you and other ill officials!" Cao Zhang looked at the chief clerk's expression of pretending to be calm, and cut off the chief clerk's crown with his backhand, "Get out! I'll be promoted today!"

The chief clerk staggered and crawled out a few steps, raised his hand and touched it. He didn't know whether to touch his head or his hair, but suddenly shouted sternly, "Major General, today I can die and you can chase the title of the title. What kind of reward will be needed tomorrow?! It is easy to advance, but difficult to retreat! When there is no way to advance, the world is often out of order and the universe collapses!"

Cao Zhang laughed wildly with his sword, "What a chaos in the world!! Today I want to see if I was promoted to seventy soldiers, that's...

Before Cao Zhang finished speaking, a military Sima suddenly rushed over, "Major General! It's not good! The cavalry army is ready to solve the problem again!"

『Prepare for the fight!』

Cao Zhang didn't care about chewing with the chief clerk, so he immediately got up and went to close.

The chief clerk lowered his head, his hair was scattered, his eyes rolled out, and his eyes were exposed. He stared at Cao Zhang leaving. He gritted his teeth and took the bamboo slip list. He opened the list of the suicide squad yesterday. He was silent for a moment, stretched out his hand stained with mud, took out the carving knife from his arms, and looked up at Cao Zhang who was leaving, "Major General! It's for your own good! For the Prime Minister! For the Han Dynasty! For the world!"

After saying that, the chief clerk seemed to be determined, lowered his head and cut off the name on the bamboo slip with a knife.

Under the sword and pen, the ink marks were dim, and finally there was no trace. Only the little ink color left in the fibers of the bamboo slips was left, which seemed to prove what I had written on this bamboo slip before...

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...

The southern foot of Taihang Mountain.

It's also early morning.

From night to daylight, Cheng Yu gradually felt a little uneasy.

He originally expected that Jiang Jie would launch a sneak attack in the dark. After all, sneak attacks would naturally be more effective at night. However, the clear vision during the day makes it impossible to talk about a "sneak attack".

Now Jiang Jie didn't make any moves in the middle of the night, and he stopped moving abnormally, which made Cheng Yu a little confused about what Jiang Jie was doing?

Didn’t you meet those fleeing Cao’s soldiers?

No, Cheng Yu was clearly sure those guys were running to the west!

Could it be that Jiang Jie has not found a suitable offensive line?

No, there are mountains in the north and rivers in the south, and there are only the east and west directions. What else is there to choose?

Or did the fleeing soldiers fail to meet the scouts of the Cavalry?

It's also wrong. The scouts of the Cavalry Army were there before...

Could it be that Jiang Jie's film has actually retreated?

Cheng Yu suddenly thought of this possibility.

In order to prevent being captured by Jiang Jie's scouts, Cheng Yu did not send a scout team to conduct investigations in the western area, but maintained a close-range patrol with a brigade around the basic camp, so the distance between Cheng Yu's investigation was not far.

After all, Cheng Yu is not like Jiang Jie, and there are more cavalrymen to use for reconnaissance.

So if Jiang Jie evacuated, Cheng Yu could indeed find out immediately...

Cheng Yu was a little regretful. If the Cao army did not lose a large number of war horses in the previous battle, or Cao Chun from Youzhou...

Thinking of this, Cheng Yu couldn't help but sigh deeply.

If there are war horses, then Jiang Jie's activity space will be much smaller than 5, and the connection between him and Cao Cao will be much closer. It is not like the present, he does not understand the changes ahead, nor does he lack contact with the rear.

Cheng Yu immediately sent someone to investigate in the direction of Jiang Jie's camp.

Soon, Cheng Yu received a piece of news that Jiang Jie's camp was empty!

Jiang Jie is really leaving?

Cheng Yu asked repeatedly, afraid that the scout had neglected some details, or even found out the wrong direction...

There was no way. After the incident of Cao's barracks desertion, Cheng Yu felt that no one in Cao's army could completely believe it.

The scout was anxious when asked, and later he simply said that he didn't know. Anyway, he saw that Jiang Jie's camp was empty. As for where Jiang Jie's troops had gone, others had tried to continue to investigate westwards, but they didn't know the others. He asked Cheng Yu to ask the scout who came to report later.

Cheng Yu didn't care about the impatientness shown by the scout, because almost all his thoughts were thinking about why Jiang Jie withdrew?

Could it be that Heluo has any new changes?

Until the next wave of scouts came back and told Cheng Yu that they had found some traces of crossing the river in the shallows of the river, but the footprints of crossing the river were very messy, with some from south to north. Moreover, because some time had passed, it was not easy to determine which direction they were going, so they could only confirm that someone had crossed the river.

Cheng Yu immediately asked someone to take the map and check it carefully.

Could it be that Jiang Jie wants to go around the back?

When Cheng Yu thought of this, he immediately sent people to patrol the rear and sent a large number of scouts near the camp to inquire about the news, so as not to be attacked by Jiang Jie.

As a result, another day passed, but no Jiang Jie's troops appeared.
To be continued...