Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 21 033. The Death of Tao Qian
Zhang Ren took the Chamber of Commerce to Xuzhou and did not return for a long time. Wang Hao was worried that something might happen to him, so he took Huang Zhong and five hundred mercenaries and left Changsha County under the cover of night. Safe for all.

During this trip, Gan Ning replaced Dian Wei as Wang Hao's guard, and eight mercenaries were divided into two shifts to guard Wang Hao's side day and night, all the way to Xuzhou.

Tao Qian told Cao Cao the truth in a letter, but Cao Cao didn't believe what Tao Qian said, and insisted on going his own way to massacre the city. Tao Qian sent people to ask for help.

Kong Rong in Beihai County is a well-known Confucian in the country, he is the twentieth great-great-grandson of Confucius, Kong Rong is four years old, and this is the one who can make Li. Tao Qian's subordinates are engaged in corruption. With Tao Qian's letter, he went to Beihai County to ask Kong Rong for help. One person was also sent from abroad to Pingyuan Liu Bei for help.

Confucian scholars such as Kong Rong in Beihai County naturally agreed. After all, they were just persuading Cao Cao not to massacre the city, but not to massacre Cao Cao. Li Dian, Yu Jin, Xia Houyuan and others under his command are now so powerful that they dare not lead troops to Xuzhou.

When Kong Rong was troubled, a white-robed man asked Kong Rong to see him, and he was willing to lead his troops to Xuzhou after learning the cause of the incident. Kong Rong knew that Cao Cao had elite soldiers and strong generals, and wanted to send all his soldiers to Xuzhou with him, but the white-robed man said Three thousand bows and horses are enough.

It is said that Tao Qian was willing to give up Xuzhou to Liu Bei when Liu Bei came to Xuzhou for the first time, but Liu Bei pretended to be unwilling to accept it. He was unwilling to accept it and stayed in Pingyuan County. .

This time Cao Cao sent troops to attack Xuzhou, Tao Qian sent someone to ask Liu Bei for help, and was willing to give up the position of Xuzhou Mu. Liu Bei still pretended to be noble and refused to accept it.

In fact, he was also afraid of Cao Cao's army. After incorporating the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao had nearly 20 troops. He, Liu Bei, had only 1 armored soldiers in Pingyuan County. He went north again under the pretext of borrowing troops from Gongsun Zan. Liu Bei's ability to flee in the face of the wind is No. [-] among the princes.

After Wang Hao led Huang Zhong into Xuzhou, Tao Qian learned that Wang Haoyuan came to help from Changsha County. During this period of hard work day and night, he could hardly bear it. After Wang Hao came to Xuzhou, Tao Qian fell ill completely. An arrow in front of the pass repelled Lv Bu. Few people in the world did not know the name of Huben Zhonglang General Huang Zhong. Tao Qian appointed Huang Zhong as Xuzhou Bing Cao Duwei and commander of all Xuzhou military affairs.

With Huang Zhong in charge of Xuzhou City, the hearts of the people finally settled down a lot. Soon after, Zhang Ren entered Xuzhou with a caravan and told Wang Hao about Cao Cao's massacre of the three cities. Wang Hao was so angry that he almost fainted. and go.

Not long after Huang Zhong became captain, reinforcements from Beihai County also arrived. Wang Hao was also very happy to see this leading general. Guan Yu is brave, but he is not inferior to Ma Chao and Wei Yan, and he is a handsome talent who can read and write.

When Liu Bei heard that Wang Hao was staying in Xuzhou, Tai Shici of Beihai County came to help him. He cheated two thousand cavalry from Gongsun Zan, and returned to Xuzhou in a hurry. However, if Tao Qian really gave up the position of state shepherd to Wang Hao, his plan would be in vain.

After Wang Hao came to Xuzhou, he didn't hold a position. Only Huang Zhong served as the captain and led the troops to resist Cao Jun. Later, Tai Shici also joined the team and served as a partial general under Huang Zhong. After Liu Bei returned to Xuzhou, he squatted in the prefect's mansion every day, but there was Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei are three fierce generals. It is obviously a bit powerless for Cao Jun to invade Xuzhou.

This also gave Wang Hao an opportunity. The mercenaries brought back a group of people from the front line every day. They were all victims of the war. Wang Hao told them that Changsha County had prepared houses and fields. Ten years after they arrived in Changsha County Tax-free, as long as you work hard, you will not starve to death. Except for some people who defected to their relatives, everyone else is willing to go west and enter Changsha County.

Those orphans from the war saw Xuefeng and others, a female class can go to the battlefield, and when they rescued them, they showed more skill than ordinary soldiers. No one yearns for mercenaries. Wang Hao and Zhang Ren all The day was busy sending refugees away, but fortunately, the Chongzhou Chamber of Commerce on Cao Cao's side retreated temporarily, and a large number of vehicles and horses went south, which was enough for Wang Hao to arrange for them to return to Changsha County in the west.

Seeing that the princes from all walks of life came to help Tao Qian, Cao Cao knew that there was nothing to do and decided to return to his old nest, but it was his backyard that caught fire. After Chen Gong left Xuzhou, he found Lv Bu. Lv Bu left Chang'an to vote for Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu was afraid that Lv Bu would be capricious. Dare to take him in, and then join Yuan Shao's command to make great achievements, but Yuan Shao is a man who is lenient inside and jealous outside, and he doesn't trust Lu Bu at all, so he didn't entrust him with important tasks.

It happened that Chang'an came to Chongzhou to reward Cao Cao's envoys. These were originally Lu Bu's old troops. After Chen Gong found Lu Bu, he persuaded him to enter the PY and take Cao Cao's lair and leave Yuan Shao. Why couldn't Lu Bu, so he took several thousand Bingzhou iron cavalry, rounded up the Chang'an envoys with a total of more than ten thousand soldiers and horses, and went straight to Py City to kill.

Cao Cao heard that his lair was occupied by Lu Bu, and retreated back to Xuzhou in a panic. Tao Qian wept with joy after knowing Cao Cao's retreat, and fainted in his room for several days unable to get out of bed. After the incident in Xuzhou, Wang Hao also planned to return to Changsha. After all, the second batch of recruiters is already in place.

Wang Hao bid farewell to Tao Qian with Huang Zhong, who was relieved of the captaincy. Tao Qian was bedridden but kept begging Wang Hao to let Wang Hao stay and govern Xuzhou. The massacre of Cao Cao stimulated him a lot. Tao Qian He couldn't take it anymore, but Wang Hao politely declined Tao Qian in Xuzhou because he still had a wife and children at home.

"Where did Wang Hao go..."

Wang Hao and Huang Zhong took the last bus out of the city, and the mercenaries had already set off with the orphan in the afternoon, but just as Wang Hao left the city gate, he heard Liu Bei standing on the tower and yelling at him loudly.

Liu Bei said that he assassinated Xuzhou shepherd Tao Qian, and killed Tao Qian’s family. This scapegoat is really black. As soon as Wang Hao separated from Tao Qian, Tao Qian’s family was silenced. Don’t even think about Wang Hao, he knows who did it, everyone. The ear thief stood on the top of the city gate, weeping and crying, talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but Wang Hao already understood what was going on.

"Zilong, are you here to capture me?"

Wang Hao and Huang Zhong's convoy consisted of only a few hundred people, and they were all guards and civilians. Liu Bei probably had already made up his mind, so he dared to let Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, with a hundred soldiers, dare to arrest Wang Hao and Huang Zhong. Hao, it is expected that Wang Hao has no soldiers to use.

(End of this chapter)