This seems to indicate that if Cao Zhi wants to achieve greater success, he must use the lives of his family members as a basis. This is what the ancients called the Lonely Star of Heaven. It means that the family members around Cao Zhi will all benefit from his career.
They are prospering and use their lives to be stepping stones for Cao Zhi.
This strange argument, in this era of superstition in ancient times, many people really believed that Cao Zhi was the fate of the evil star. Some people took this ridiculous argument seriously and speculated about what the Cao family would do next.
Who is the person who gave Cao Zhi his life?
After Cao Zhi heard the report from his spies, he was furious. A few years ago, he would have even impulsively taken people and killed them. But now Cao Zhi is no longer such an impulsive and reckless young man. He, Jia Xu, Guo Jia
Upon analysis, I realized that this was a man-made conspiracy. This would not only greatly discredit the great achievements Cao Zhi had made during this period, but also stir up internal conflicts among the Cao family who were currently very united.
These people who deliberately create rumors are very well-intentioned. Cao Zhi even had a list of candidates for creating these rumors at the first time. If you think about it carefully, there are only these people who have the strength and courage to do this.
How many people.
Before Cao Zhi received Xun Yu's secret report, he had already sent people back to Xudu for these rumors. At the same time, he also sent people to Kuaiji, Yecheng, Jingzhou, and even Yizhou and Guanzhong.
He wrote a secret letter to Le Jin in Yanzhou and asked him to send all his spies to investigate the matter and catch the mastermind behind it.
At this time, Cao Zhi received another secret letter from Xun Yu, which immediately made him understand that the root of the problem lay in his hometown-Xu Du.
Therefore, after Cao Zhi served the Duan Qi Day, he set off to send troops to Jiangting. He wanted to completely eliminate Yuan Shu before leaving Yangzhou and returning to Xudu.
After returning from Xuzhou without success, Yuan Shu's temporary residence could only be described in one word as "chaos!", and it was extremely chaotic, a complete mess!
Everyone knows that the end of the Yuan family and the Zhong family empire has come. There is already an unstoppable panic inside and outside the palace. Jewelry, silk and satin and valuables are everywhere, and they are constantly fighting with each other.
At night, the troops led by Zhang He finally saw the river outside Jiangting that Guo Jia mentioned before. Because there is some water shortage in the south this year, and the water shortage is even more serious in autumn, the river bed has dried up, and there were originally more than a hundred people.
The foot-wide river is only less than one-third of its original width, and the water level has dropped so low that even soldiers on foot can effortlessly wade across the water, let alone war horses.
The water level only reaches up to the knees.
But the 50,000 officers and soldiers of Cao's army watched with indifference what happened in the small city where Yuan Shu finally defended. No one of them was ready to intervene. The order they received was to surround this place. Yuan Shu was already a turtle in his dream. To seize this place.
This small town is only the size of a small camp, so it is really easy to capture.
At this time, Zhang He, riding on his tall horse, hummed and retorted to his subordinates who reported the situation: "To be precise, this place 'used to' be a small town! Now it's not even a village. Look at those city gates, it's really
It’s like a vegetable market!”
Everyone followed Zhang He's instructions and took a look from a distance. Indeed, there were many "emperor's relatives" and crowds fleeing with their baggage in hand. When the soldiers of Yuan's army fleeing from the city saw such a large formation of Cao's army, the surrenderers were even more excited.
He knelt on the ground and begged for surrender with his hands raised.
From a distance, Zhang He saw the circular broken earth city wall, most of which had collapsed. There were still several mutilated corpses of Yuan Jun lying in twos and threes on the earth city wall. There were still traces of trampling by horse hooves on those corpses.
Zhang He let out a long sigh and thought to himself: It seems that before he arrived, his subordinates had already engaged in a small-scale intimidating exchange of firepower. No one of Yuan's army who could still resist within the earth city wall was left alive. Several temporary earth buildings were built.
The sentry post was also destroyed. There used to be a withered old tree trunk in front of the city, but now there were two corpses of Yuan Jun generals hanging on the trunk. It seemed that these two blind guys were the only ones still resisting at this time.
In the city, on a hilly ground, above Yuan Shu's temporary "Imperial Palace", the Hu bed was Yuan Shu's "Dragon Chair" for the time being. In front of the "Dragon Chair" there was a broken table with a bowl of light tea on it.
Yellow things. On this "Dragon Chair", only Yuan Shu was sitting there, and Feng, who was wearing a white dress, stood beside Yuan Shu.
"emperor!"
Feng looked at the Emperor Yuan Shu of the Zhong Dynasty in front of her lovingly. This was her man. When she entered that palace gate, she regarded this man who was several years older than herself as her only relative in the world, and they lived and died together.
That kind of.
Feng is a person who has deep-rooted feudal thoughts when marrying a chicken, marrying a dog, and following a dog. As for Yuan Shu's accident and the imminent demise of the country, Feng believes that it is her own fate. At the age of twenty, Feng is in her prime.
When his wives and concubines abandoned Yuan Shu and packed up their gold and jewelry, Feng didn't want to run away anymore.
Looking at Yuan Shu, who was still sitting on the "dragon chair" today and looked sluggish, as if he was asleep, he raised his head after hearing Feng's voice for a long time, and glanced at Feng with dull eyes: "Oh, it's the queen.
, at this time, only you will be with me."
Feng said: "Why didn't the emperor escape? As long as you save your life, why can't you make a comeback?"
Yuan Shu shook his head: "Anyone can escape, but I cannot escape." There was a hint of coldness in Yuan Shu's eyes, "Cao Zhi has prepared so carefully, but they have not launched it until now, because he wants me, I am
, Cao Zhi’s first target for this action is me.” When Yuan Shu said this, he went crazy.
"Now it seems that the only way to pass on the inheritance of my Yuan family is the sons and Benchu I sent away. The funny thing is that I have looked down on him all my life, but now he has become the most important person in the family.
.I must not escape. Once I escape, where will my backbone be left? Ordinary people may also be massacred. Besides, Cao Zhi will stop at nothing to capture me and my flesh and blood."
Yuan Shu's body trembled slightly when he said this, and then Yuan Shu laughed sadly: "I can't escape, hahaha... Without thousands of troops, I will never escape Cao Zhi's dragnet. In this case
I will wait for Cao here
Zhi, let him kill me. I will die with dignity. Cao Zhi probably won’t be away for too long, right? I can only hope that one day, Yuan Yao and the descendants of the Yuan family who were sent away by me can take revenge.
I am willing to die for my hatred of destroying the country."
Feng listened quietly and looked at Yuan Shu for a long time, as if she was meeting Yuan Shu for the first time, and then sighed: "Your Majesty, I always thought that the Emperor... I didn't expect this..."
"You always thought that I was absurd and mediocre, right?" Yuan Shu said with a calm smile.
Feng didn't deny it. At such a critical moment of life and death, there was no need for any falsehoods. What's more, Feng had decided to become a couple in need with Yuan Shu.
At this time, after Yuan Shu smiled sadly, he asked Feng additionally: "Queen, why haven't you left yet?"
Yuan Shu, who was sitting opposite Feng and could hardly sit still, said softly with a gentle look on his face: "It's just that the emperor has the courage to wait here for that thief Cao. I admire the emperor from the bottom of my heart. I am now a member of the Zhong clan."
Queen, once the emperor dies, it’s meaningless for me to live alone, concubine
I can't do anything else for the emperor. Moreover, many people did this to the emperor after they married the emperor. I will die with the emperor today. I still can't do such a simple thing. Then I, the concubine, can't do such a simple thing.
There is no point in living in this world any longer."
Yuan Shu glanced at Feng without saying anything, nodded, and said slowly and feebly: "I didn't expect that I could have such a loving and righteous wife like you at this time. I didn't come to this world in vain. Okay, okay
Very..."
At the moment when Yuan Shu was praising Feng, a figure in black suddenly appeared in the "main hall". When he saw Yuan Shu, he immediately bowed and said: "To report to the emperor, the mission has been completed. All the empresses and concubines have passed away."
After hearing the report of the man in black, Feng's face changed. She suddenly understood that Yuan Shu had already ordered the killing of all the female relatives in the harem. If she had not been by Yuan Shu's side, she probably would not have been able to escape Yuan Shu's final madness at this time.
action.
Facing so many fresh lives that Feng knew were killed like this, Feng couldn't help but look horrified. Yuan Shu, on the other hand, had no expression on his face and waved his hand calmly: "Okay, I understand, you
The mission is accomplished, go ahead!"
The man in black responded expressionlessly, and then quickly left the hall, going somewhere unknown?
Boom, boom, the densely packed Cao army outside the impossibly broken city gate barely used any decent siege before marching into the city.
"Welcome General Chariot and Cavalry!"
This uniform cry was accompanied by a unified sound of everyone kneeling down on one knee, and several unique figures who stood out from the crowd were highlighted. At a glance, among tens of thousands of people, only Cao Zhi and a few important generals were standing.
With.
At this moment, Cao Zhi led Zhang He, Deng Ai, Guo Jia, Lu Su, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei and others directly to the "Imperial Palace" on the earth bag, and then 50,000 Cao Zhi followed Cao Zhi and entered the palace in a mighty manner.
In the last imperial city of Zhong's empire, Cao's army was instantly crowded inside and outside the city. The last remaining two to three thousand Yuan's troops had already collapsed in front of such a powerful lineup and disappeared without a trace.
At this moment, Cao Zhi's face was indifferent, without a trace of a smile. When he saw Yuan Yin kneeling in front of him, holding his official seal and begging for surrender, he seemed to have missed him.
Zhang He, Deng Ai and others also did not smile at all. They all walked directly towards the final "palace hall" of the Zhong family emperor. It was as if they had already known that Yuan Shu must be here, and all Cao Cao's soldiers, because almost
There was no need for them to fight, and they were all concentrating on looking at the house on the dirt bag.