Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 218

With such a plan in mind, Zhang Zhao stroked his beard with a smile, and asked, "How did Captain Cao fall into such a situation?"

"Why do you need to ask knowingly?" Cao Bao snorted coldly: "The Zhang family is a prominent family in Pengcheng. Although you Zhang Zibu has been in prison for some time, how can such a big movement in the past few days be hidden from your eyes and ears?"

"Now that Pengcheng has fallen into the hands of thieves, why is it so strange for me, a defeated general, to fall into this place?"

Hearing that the other party's words were full of desolation, Zhang Zhao smiled, and said softly, "There is a saying in the grandson, that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will be able to fight a hundred battles without danger, but how can there be a long-term victorious general in the world if you are fierce and dangerous? Invincible army?"

"If the county lieutenant is here because of this, there is really no need to worry too much."

"Hey, I don't have the wisdom of Huaiyin, nor the courage of King Xiang. If I am defeated, I will admit it." Cao Bao sighed, "It's just that the defeat in this battle did not come from foreign enemies, but from Xiaoqiang!"

"This festival is what makes me hate it!"

This last sentence was really gritted teeth, and the voice was hoarse, it was obvious that he was extremely angry and even more hated.

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Hearing this, Zhang Zhao, the instigator, laughed dryly, but couldn't continue to answer the conversation, and quickly changed the subject, saying, "Zhao does have one thing that I don't know, and I hope the county lieutenant will see me."

Cao Bao rolled his eyes at him, but just snorted coldly, motioning for him to continue.

"Zhao remembers that the daughter of the county lieutenant has married the flying general as his wife." Zhang Zhao said seemingly unintentionally: "Now that Yuan Jun has entered the city, he has not been convicted of any crime by the public?"

"Remember that before the parachutist voted for Yangzhou Mu and then left again, the two sides have always had a rift, right?"

"Yuan Jun?"

"Yangzhou Mu?"

Hearing Zhang Zhao's words, Cao Bao was stunned for a moment, his leopard eyes stared at him, and he said in surprise, "You mean Yuan Gonglu?"

"Zhang Zibu, why are you mentioning this person?"

Although Cao Bao was defeated and captured, and became a prisoner, but because of his own cheap son-in-law, before Wang Zheng gave the order, not only was he saved from the risk of his life, but he was not tortured, and every sentence he said was still the same. Full of air, loud and powerful.

And when these words fell into Zhang Zhao's ears, every single word was like thunder, deafening!
"What did you say!"

Finally realizing that something was wrong, Zhang Zhao's face was completely pale with shock, and the shock and calmness that he had always maintained on his face was no longer there.

He ran forward directly, clutching the wooden fence in front of him tightly, so hard that his finger bones turned white and his veins protruded:

"Aren't the troops from Yangzhou Mu who are attacking Pengcheng in the past few days?"

Frightened, his voice changed a little.

Seeing the other party's bewildered performance, Cao Bao's eyes moved, and something suddenly occurred to his mind, and his expression turned cold.

Since he was able to win the trust of Tao Qian and become the highest military officer in the country, Cao Bao couldn't be as bold as his appearance, he is a pure warrior, although he had a guess, he didn't attack immediately, he just sneered: "What Yangzhou soldiers and horses?"

Glancing at Zhang Zhao, Cao Bao said flatly, "These people are yellow scarf bandits!"

Yellow Turban Bandits
Yellow Turban bandits?

Yellow Turban bandits!

This understatement, the voice is not loud, and the speed is slow, but Zhang Zhao is shocked to hear it, cold sweat, and he just froze like a chicken, froze on the spot, without moving or speaking for a long time.

This sentence kept echoing in his mind, and every time he repeated it, he felt that the coldness in his heart increased.

In the end, it covered the whole body, from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet.

The family gambled on the future of the whole family, and even made a backstab to sell the city, but the result...
Was he flattering and asking for credit to a group of yellow turban thieves?
After standing blankly for a long time, Zhang Zhao suddenly laughed a few times, stared at the opposite side and hissed: "Cao Bao, you are lying to me!"

"Although there are many yellow scarves in Yuzhou, most of them are useless, and all of them have belonged to Yuan Gong."

"Even if they attacked Pengcheng, it was also ordered by Yuan Gong, so what's the difference?"

"What's more, as far as I know, the reason why the city was broken this time was because there was a group of elite cavalry on the opposite side, the number of which was more than a thousand. How can this be done by the Yellow Turban Bandits?"

"Hey, I just said it was the Yellow Turban bandit." Cao Bao curled his lips in disdain, and even showed a mocking smile: "Why did you ever say that it was the Yellow Turban from Yuzhou?"

"It's hard for me to understand how a group of thieves can have such elite cavalry."

"However, I want you to know that the origin of the thief was told to me by himself when he wanted to recruit me today!"

"This group of thieves are the Yellow Turban thieves from Qingzhou!"

Speaking of this, Cao Bao suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed loudly. While laughing, he continued to pat the wooden fence with such force that the shaking dust fell down.

"Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zibu!"

He stared at the devastated Confucian scholar, and sternly shouted: "You are a wolf-hearted, servile person!"

"You really think you're smart, you're so stupid."

"I thought it was Yuan Shu who came to commit the crime, so I wanted to betray the country and seek glory!"

"But I don't want to recognize that the yellow scarf is such an ignorant and loyal beast, it's really ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Such slander and scolding, but Zhang Zhao showed no signs of annoyance at all, he just turned around blankly, as if he had no face to face the other party again.

He raised his head and looked out through the small window of the prison cell. At this time, the sky was bright and the sun was shining brightly.

But Zhang Zhao couldn't feel any warmth.

own half-life fame
Zhang's century-old reputation
It's all ruined by my hands today
Thinking silently, he couldn't help it anymore, turned his head sideways, and let the tears flow.

"General, this way."

Wang Zheng nodded, and walked into the prison proudly.

Passing through a long corridor, the feet gradually lowered, as if walking towards the ground, Wang Zheng followed behind the jailer, and kept looking at this new place.

Speaking of which, it was the first time for him to set foot in such a place as a human being in two lifetimes.

At this time, there was no light in the sky, and only the light of the torch in the hands of the jailer who was walking forward was used to look around.But seeing that the top of the head and both sides are made of huge bluestones, which are slightly fixed with plaster, they are not intentionally placed flat.Many stones are protruding out, and the edges are very sharp. If you walk carelessly, you may be hurt.The surface of the stone is very wet, many water droplets condense on the stone, and the grains are distinct.

After walking not far, turning a bend, there was a flash of flames ahead, but there were a few torches stuck on the wall, burning blazingly, illuminating a row of more than ten giant wooden cages standing side by side in front.

As soon as you open it, you will feel the smell of rot, musty, and excrement.

"Cough cough."

For the first time in his life, Wang Zheng felt that having a good physique was not a good thing. He quickly covered his nose and looked up. He saw dozens of cages filled with people.

Seeing the two jailers coming to welcome a group of people, especially the current Wang Zheng, although he was young, he could tell at a glance that he had an extraordinary bearing.

For a moment, all kinds of voices in the prison came together, crying, scolding, begging and cursing.

Seeing Wang Zheng frowned, the two guards panicked, and immediately wanted to apologize.

"It doesn't matter." Wang Zheng waved his hand, but said softly: "Just took control of this city, and there are not many people. It's hard work for you to stay here."

Today, the three prisons in Pengcheng are all filled with some Tianfu soldiers, who are mixed with the original jailers and guarded together.

Seeing General Tiangong's kindness, the two newly-appointed jailors were all moved, and they said "willing to die for the general, let alone perform some labor".

Wang Zheng nodded, then turned to look at the middle-aged man, and said, "Where is your master, just take me there."

"Yes!"

The man replied respectfully, and continued walking forward with Wang Zheng and his party.

Soon after, everyone came to the cell where Zhang Zhao and Cao Bao were.

"General, this is Cao Bao."

Seeing Cao Bao, Xu Fang quickly pointed.

"Oh."

However, Wang Zheng has no interest in managing him for the time being. He is just Lu Bu's father-in-law, not Lu Bu.

He walked a few steps towards Zhang Zhao's cage, and looked at the Confucian scholar in the prison by the light of the torch. At this time, the man was turning his back to the wall, but he couldn't see his face.

Is this the protagonist of Sun Ce's last words "Ask Zhang Zhao if the internal affairs are not resolved"?

Thinking of this, Wang Zheng coughed and called softly, "But Mr. Zhang Zhaozhang in person?"

Called several times, but saw that the other party did not move or respond, Wang Zheng was stunned, what's the situation?
It stands to reason that the other party sent family generals to help him break the city, shouldn't he be pretending to want to be a corporal at this moment, right?
It's all over, so there's no need for this, right?
Could it be that he was punished in prison?
While he was wondering, he glanced at the two jailers, and was about to ask them to exchange for the former jailer to ask a question or two, but he saw Lu Bu's cheap father-in-law in the opposite cell suddenly burst out laughing wildly.

The laughter was full of ridicule.

"Zhang Zibu, the lord you've been thinking about is here, why are you pretending to be deaf and dumb at this moment?"

"Why don't you hurry up and see you?"

　PS:

　　Zhang Zhao, a native of Pengcheng, was eager to learn when he was young, and he was good at official script. He studied "Zuoshi Chunqiu" with Baihou Zi'an, and he was famous and friendly with Zhao Yu from Langya and Wang Lang from Donghai.

　　Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, admired him and recommended him as a talented person, but Zhang Zhao refused.Tao Qian thought that Zhang Zhao despised him, so he imprisoned Zhang Zhao.He was released after being rescued by his friend Zhao Yu.Even so, after Tao Qian died of illness, Zhang Zhao still wrote a eulogy for him ("The Lamentation of Tao Qian, the Inspector of Xuzhou"

　　
　
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