The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Lu Bu's powerful attack, which repulsed the small soldiers in front of him in the blink of an eye, was already noticed by Cao Baoquan.

Cao Bao was already a little bit afraid of Lu Bu's strength, but after seeing so many people unable to stop Lu Bu's attack, he felt even more afraid.

Seeing Lu Bu continuously attacking in front of him, Cao Bao also started to retreat.

But when Lu Bu saw Cao Bao walking backward, he accelerated his movement speed and kept approaching Cao Bao's position.

Liu Zheng, who was standing on the cliffs on both sides, saw Cao Bao, and was frightened by Lu Bu's mere hundreds of people, and he also showed a look of contempt.

Sure enough, these officers and troops were still a group of stragglers without the command of powerful generals, not much stronger than those yellow scarf soldiers under him back then.

Seeing Cao Bao, he seemed to intend to retreat to the rear of the team.Liu Zheng also knew that he couldn't continue to let more than 500 people from Lv Bu block Cao Bao down below, otherwise Cao Bao's men might escape from here.

So Liu Zheng immediately glanced at Wu Anguo who was beside him, and ordered Wu Anguo and Jiang Qin to lead the thousands of troops brought by Liu Zheng to intercept the rear of the canyon.

As long as Cao Bao's retreat can be intercepted, all of Cao Bao's 2 horses can be wiped out.

Wu Anguo and Jiang Qin led more than [-] people each, and approached the valley below from the cliffs on both sides. The two of them formed an encirclement circle and joined the battle.

Cao Bao had just walked a few steps to the rear of the team when he heard the sound of charging horns from both sides in the distance.

Originally, Cao Bao was not worried about the hundreds of people under Lu Bu. Although the opponent was powerful, the number was still relatively small. Generally speaking, it would not form too much pressure. It just takes some time.

But suddenly, Cao Bao was stunned by the shouts from both sides. The enemy who ran out suddenly, looked around, there must be thousands of people, and they looked densely packed. Cao Bao immediately Don't count less, just think more.

At a glance, Cao Bao thought that tens of thousands of people were ambushed here.

"Enemy attack enemy attack!"

"It's not good, there is an ambush among us!"

Among the rebellious army, Cao Bao's soldiers immediately realized that they had been ambushed after they discovered the appearance of Wu Anguo and Jiang Qin's troops.

There were some army formations that seemed to be relatively chaotic, but when they were shouted by these two enemy attacks, they exploded. Those who had stayed where they were and did not attack Lu Bu were also frightened at this time. up.

Panic for a moment, actually started to run around.

The [-] army, with a good command, could wipe out these hundreds of Lu Bu's men in an instant. Not to mention the ease of winning, at least blocking a well-regulated fight, they will definitely not lose.

However, after Cao Bao's blind command twice, the [-] army didn't have any intention of fighting at this time. The sound of the enemy attack was frightening. Some people in the rear, when they saw the people in front started to run back, naturally they dared not rush forward.

They could only run back with the team. The [-] army, unable to take care of the front and back, just broke up into a ball like this.

Cao Bao naturally panicked, but he is the chief general after all, and he can be regarded as someone who has seen some big scenes. After the first panic subsided, he quickly calmed himself down. He knew that the other party's behavior was prepared. Come on, if you can set up an ambush here, it is impossible to escape from the opponent's siege if you just think about escaping.

So Cao Bao immediately roared loudly, urging the people around him not to panic, to stabilize the formation and defend.

Although it was said that the opponent was in an ambush, when Cao Bao saw that the opponent had only about [-] soldiers and horses, he thought that he had [-] troops here, and even if he encountered an ambush, he might not be incapable of fighting.

"Don't panic, don't panic, there are not many opponents, we can defeat these people and stabilize the formation!"

"Those in front, raise your shields, archers shoot!"

Cao Bao still had some effect at critical times. He shouted vigorously, trying to stabilize the people around him.

However, the effect was not obvious. How could the broken morale of the army be stabilized so quickly.

His screaming just made some people around him come to their senses. Those people didn't want to die, so they organized some defenses.

However, despite this, it did not help the situation on the battlefield. After Wu Anguo and Jiang Qin led the troops into the battlefield, Cao Bao's 2 people began to fight on the battlefield. casualties.

Chapter 578 The Ambush Succeeded

After all, it is an excellent ambush location. This place runs through the canyon like a long snake, forming a continuous mountain, making it difficult for Cao Bao's men to escape from here.

In this way, after spending a lot of effort and beheading thousands of enemy soldiers, Lu Bu finally approached Cao Bao's side.

"Cao Bao, come out and die!"

Seeing that Cao Bao was right in front of him, Lu Bu would not let go of this opportunity, and came straight to Cao Bao. After Lu Bu's act of killing a god just now, even if the people around Cao Bao still had the heart to fight, they saw Lu Bu. With this appearance, he didn't even dare to step forward to deal with it.

Those people watched Lu Bu coming straight towards Cao Bao, but few of them dared to step forward, they all retreated step by step.

Cao Bao was equally nervous.

"Go! Go, you guys!"

Cao Bao shouted angrily, wanting the people around him to help block Lu Bu's attack.

But no one paid attention to him at all. After seeing no one around, Lu Bu came towards him again, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go up to meet Lu Bu's attack.

At this moment, the Fang Tian painted halberd in Lu Bu's hand fell towards Cao Bao's body. Cao Bao raised the sword in his hand and withstood Lu Bu's blow. The two of them officially fought together at this time.

After Cao Bao blocked Lu Bu's attack with one blow, the expression on his face became even uglier.

He didn't feel complacent because he blocked Lu Bu's attack, thinking that Lu Bu was nothing more than that, but believed that Lu Bu's strength was beyond his ability to resist.

It was just a random blow from Lu Bu, and he had already tried his best to resist.

You know, when Lu Bu attacked for the next blow, Cao Bao would not have any more strength to resist.

While Cao Bao was still shocked by Lu Bu's strength, Lu Bu had already launched a second attack on him.

When Fang Tian's painted halberd fell again, Cao Bao gritted his teeth and raised his knife to block it again. Although he still blocked Lu Bu's blow this time, Cao Bao's own hands were shaking because of the huge force of Lu Bu's blow.

The powerful attack power was transmitted to Cao Bao's arm through the long knife, which made Cao Bao feel a little unstable even with the knife.

Lu Bu naturally also saw Cao Bao's embarrassment.

With a sneer, he stopped attacking at all, but Fang Tian raised his halberd and aimed at Cao Bao.

"Cao Bao, give up the sword and surrender, spare you!"

A few simple words came out of Lu Bu's mouth. Cao Bao was so scared that he didn't dare to resist any more. He threw away the long knife in his hand with a bang, and watched Lu Bu repeatedly say surrender.

"I surrender, I surrender!"

Cao Bao was also frightened by Lu Bu, and he didn't dare to resist, and Lu Bu was also thinking in his heart that a living enemy general is always more valuable than a dead one. It is more face-saving in front of Lu Bu.

"Since you have surrendered, let your men kneel down and surrender, lest my lord commit any murder!"

Lu Bu also knew that Liu Zheng had no more than 8000 men. Although relying on these 8000 men, it seemed impossible to defeat Cao Bao's 2 men. Cao Bao himself commanded the troops to surrender this way.

Cao Bao himself had already surrendered, so how could he not follow Lu Bu's words.

Immediately, he opened his mouth and shouted loudly at the people behind him.

"Kneel and surrender, you all kneel and surrender!"

Cao Bao yelled all around with a roar.

Although even if Cao Bao didn't shout, some people had already chosen to surrender, but after Cao Bao's order was added, even more people surrendered.

After a while, all the officers and soldiers could be seen in the canyon were dejected and slumped on the ground with helpless faces.

At a glance, there were at least ten thousand people.

Liu Zheng didn't bring these multiple ropes to bind these officers and soldiers. He simply confiscated their weapons, and then asked Jiang Qin and Wu Anguo to guard some of their troops.

Lu Bu escorted Cao Bao to Liu Zheng's side.

"My lord, I have already captured the person you want."

After Lu Bu finished speaking, he pushed Cao Bao out of his side with a push of his hand. Cao Bao glanced at Liu Zheng in embarrassment and showed an embarrassed smile. He had already understood Liu Zheng's identity from Lu Bu's mouth at this time, and he was afraid. , and some fear.

"Master Liu Zheng, I didn't expect it to be you."

Liu Zheng glanced at Cao Bao, ignored Cao Bao, and set his eyes on Lu Bu.

Liu Zheng naturally knew that Cao Bao in history was Lu Bu's father-in-law, and now that Lu Bu had his father-in-law arrested, he didn't know how to feel.

"General Fengxian is really fierce. One man is in charge of the gate and ten thousand is not open. Relying on his own strength, he entered and exited seven times in the chaos. Let me say that there is no second person in this world who can compare You Lu Feng first."

Liu Zheng just flattered Lu Bu, he just wanted to flatter Lu Bu, let Lu Bu know how much Liu Zheng cared about him on the surface, and wanted Lu Bu to introduce Liu Zheng as a confidant.

In the face of Liu Zheng's rainbow farts, Lu Bu's bragging was a little flattering. No one doesn't like to listen to good words, especially people like Lu Bu, but he still enjoyed Liu Zheng's flattery, with a smile on his face, pretending to be very happy. modesty.

"Brother Liu, with me helping you, the world can expect it!"

"Well, Fengxian, if I win the world in the future, you must be a great general!"

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he turned his eyes away from Lu Bu, and then fell on Cao Bao.

"This is General Cao Bao, the general under Xuzhou governor's command."

"Yeah, this is Cao Bao."

"General Cao is not with you in Xuzhou. What are you doing here in Donglai County, Qingzhou? Could it be that you want to deal with those Yellow Turbans?"

Cao Bao despised Liu Zheng in his heart. Liu Zheng was clearly asking questions knowingly, but he still didn't dare to express any dissatisfaction, so he could only patiently explain to Liu Zheng.

"Under the orders of Governor Tao Qian, I planned to surprise Donglai, and then turned around to encircle and suppress those Yellow Turbans in Beihai. I didn't expect to be ambushed here by my lord."

Cao Bao also licked his face, not shy at all, and directly told Liu Zheng all his experiences.

Thinking about it, Cao Bao also knew that since Liu Zheng was able to ambush him here, he should also know his plan of action well.

Cao Bao couldn't imagine why Liu Zheng would appear here, but no matter whether he wanted to make sense or not, he has now become Liu Zheng's prisoner.

Chapter 579 I promise to cooperate with you

"Tao Qian is so brave. He doesn't know that although Qingzhou belongs to the Yellow Turban Army, Donglai County belongs to me, Liu Zheng. If he dares to attack Donglai, isn't he tired of working?"

Liu Zheng questioned Cao Bao in a haughty tone, but Cao Bao was stunned for a while.

How did Cao Bao know that Donglai County belonged to Liu Zheng? If he knew, he would still dare to come.After all, before this, Cao Bao had only heard about Liu Zheng, but had never really seen Liu Zheng's horror.

Until now, Cao Bao really understood why Liu Zheng was able to make the court so afraid.

His [-] army was as fragile as an egg in front of Liu Zheng, and had no ability to resist when it hit Liu Zheng, a cobblestone.

It was useless for Liu Zheng to capture Cao Bao, but this guy didn't seem to be useless, at least Liu Zheng could extract some valuable information from him.

"Cao Bao, let me ask you, since it was a surprise attack on Donglai, why didn't Tao Qian come by himself, but let you go?"

Cao Bao didn't dare to neglect Liu Zheng's question, so he answered him immediately.

"Returning to my lord, Governor Tao Qian went to Beihai to join Liu Bei, Cao Cao and others and only allocated [-] soldiers. Let me go to harass Donglai. Even if I fail, I can still distract the Yellow Turban Army in Beihai."

Cao Bao's answer made Liu Zheng nod. In fact, Liu Zheng had already thought of this in his mind.

According to his previous intelligence, Tao Qian’s men had raised [-] soldiers, but Cao Bao’s men had only [-] at this time, so the rest should be in Tao Qian’s own hands. Tao Qian didn’t show up in Donglai, most likely Went to Beihai.

"Since Tao Qian asked you to attack Donglai, what is Tao Qian's plan in Beihai?"

Tao Qian didn't come over in person, so Liu Zheng knew that Tao Qian must be conspiring with Liu Bei and others in Beihai. If he wanted to come to this plan, he was probably targeting people like Zhang Ning.

Zhang Ning had only 5 to 10 people in Beihai. Liu Bei and his three-party coalition combined may have close to [-] troops, twice the number of Zhang Ning's troops. No matter how you look at it, Zhang Ning has no chance of winning.

At this time, Cao Bao didn't dare to hide anything in order to survive, and told Liu Zheng everything he knew.

"Inspector Tao Qian was invited by Liu Bei and decided to besiege Beihai, let us harass Donglai, and then increase the panic of the Yellow Turbans in Beihai, let them go out of the city and surrender. If they don't surrender, they will be in half a month. Wait until the Yellow Turbans run out of water and food, and attack the city."

What Cao Bao said was not a problem to Liu Zheng, and the information he had seemed to be similar to this.

After nodding his head, Liu Zheng looked at the people behind Cao Bao and suddenly thought of a plan.

"Cao Bao, I'm giving you two choices now, you choose whether you want to die or live."

Liu Zheng smiled lightly, and replied to Cao Bao. When Cao Bao heard that it was about his own life and death, he dared not listen carefully. He pricked up his ears and waited for Liu Zheng to explain to him.

"First, since you have chosen to surrender, I will naturally not kill you. I will imprison you in Donglai. All of your men and horses will become slaves in Donglai to serve as migrant workers, unloading goods, and even They were sent to Jiaozhou for labor reform for a few years, and then sent you back.”

"Secondly, I don't think the losses of your subordinates are too much. I will give you a chance to join me. Of course, if you choose to join me, then I have an important plan for you to complete. If you can help If I do this, I will be rewarded a lot.”

"Not only will you be regarded as a confidant in the future, but you will also have a place among the many generals under my command."

After Liu Zheng said this, Cao Bao immediately attracted Cao Bao's attention, and asked quickly.

"What mission?"

"I want you to betray Tao Qian. When our army is going to Beihai, you will deliberately send Tao Qian and the others a message that you have successfully attacked Donglai, and then my men will pretend to be your subordinates and go to Tao Qian's barracks. How about killing them by surprise at a critical moment?"

Liu Zheng didn't hide anything. After all, the plan he had in mind really needed Cao Bao's cooperation. If Cao Bao couldn't cooperate sincerely, even if he had a little bit of his own thoughts, he might be backlashed by this plan.

When Cao Bao heard this, his expression turned slightly gloomy. Liu Zheng's plan was to make him completely abandon Tao Qian and betray Tao Qian.Such an end is not a good outcome for Cao Bao, who would be ridiculed if he betrayed his lord in this society.

However, Cao Bao is not a person who trusts and promises after all. In order to seek a chance to survive and to enable himself to have a bright future, he will still choose to agree, otherwise Liu Zheng will arrest him and imprison him in Jiaozhou for a few years. Years of hard labor, this kind of life Cao Bao couldn't bear.

"I am willing to cooperate with adults, but my family is still in Xuzhou. If I betray Tao Qian, my family in Xuzhou will definitely be wiped out by Tao Qian!"

At this time, Cao Bao's only worry was his family in Xuzhou.

But this is not a problem in Liu Zheng's view, so he immediately said to Cao Bao.