Cao Hong trembled and didn't know how to respond to Yan Liang's question...
He was thinking in his mind, it was obviously you, a thief, who attacked me secretly, killed my soldiers, and captured my city. Why did you bite me back now, and asked me if I knew I was guilty or not?
Cao Hong was stunned for a moment, unable to wrap up the logic in his mind.
"My master is asking you something, how dare you not answer it!"
Zhou Cang roared angrily, and applied force with his fingers, which only squeezed Cao Hong's shoulder bones until they were about to break, and he grinned in pain.
In pain, Cao Hong was also angered and shouted angrily: "You surnamed Yan, you attacked my city, killed my soldiers, and in turn asked me if I knew I was guilty, you still have no shame."
Boo!
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Liang kicked Cao Hong hard.
Although this kick was not done with all his strength, the force was extremely strong. Cao Hong was knocked to the ground with one kick, holding his chest and gasping for breath, almost losing his breath.
"Back then, I had no grievances against Cao Cao. He led tens of thousands of troops into Nanyang for no reason and acted recklessly. I would like to ask him, Cao Cao, how shameless he is."
Yan Liang stepped on Cao Hong and asked sternly, his words full of anger.
Cao Hong struggled desperately and tried to get up from the ground, but Yan Liang stepped on him like an ant and was unable to move.
Hearing Yan Liang scolding Cao Cao, the distressed Cao Hong was furious and gasped: "The prime minister is following the emperor's order to attack you, and it is natural and right, you dog——"
Before he finished swearing, Yan Liang stepped on Cao Hong's face with another kick, causing his face to become distorted and his mouth to deform, making it difficult for him to moan and groan.
"Don't do this in front of me. Who doesn't know that the emperor is Cao Cao's puppet, and in the name of the emperor, it's only natural and right to talk shit about your mother. Do you think I am a fool and easy to fool?"
Yan Liang's words were like a sword, and the generals on the left and right listened to him and cheered him up.
Cao Hong's face was trampled so tightly to the ground that no matter how much he twisted, he couldn't get away. He was filled with anger and wanted nowhere to vent his anger.
Yan Liang stepped on him for a long time before he calmed down a bit and then moved his feet away.
Cao Hong breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't care about the shoe marks on his face. He got up from the ground and opened his mouth to say bad words again.
Yan Liang said coldly: "Zifeng, if he dares to say anything disrespectful to me again, you will have all his teeth pulled out by me."
After receiving the order, Zhou Cang rolled up his sleeves and took out the dagger from his waist, as if he was going to pull Cao Hong's teeth.
Cao Hong was startled and had to swallow the harsh words he was about to say.
Falling into the hands of Yan Liang this time can be called "the second entry into the palace" for Cao Hong. Cao Hong can still remember the unbearable experience when he was a prisoner.
Cao Hong was well aware of the cruelty of Yan Liang's methods. He believed that Yan Liang was definitely not trying to scare him. The Hebei man in front of him could do anything.
Cao Hong closed his mouth bitterly and could only stare at Yan Liang with a resentful look.
"You're such a smart guy, why bother asking for trouble?" Yan Liang nodded with satisfaction, turned around and sat back on his seat.
Cao Hong swallowed, gritted his teeth secretly, and said in a deep voice: "Now that I have fallen into your hands, what do you want?"
Yan Liang could hear the hint of begging for mercy in these words.
If Cao Hong had the guts to die, he would have said righteously, "If you want to kill or behead him, it's up to you." But now he asked Yan Liang what he planned to do, and he was obviously timid and afraid of death.
Cao Hong's attitude has long been in Yan Liang's mind. Otherwise, this wealthy Cao family man would not have bowed his head when he was captured last time.
With a sneer, Yan Liang said loudly: "Life or death, it only depends on your thoughts."
In a moment of thought...
Cao Hong was shocked, and his deformed face showed suspicion.
After a pause, Cao Hong asked: "What do you want?"
"It's very simple. I want you to write a letter and give it to Cao Cao, telling him that I will attack Wuguan today just to avenge his previous invasion of Nanyang. Now that the past revenge has been settled, I don't want to know him anymore. If he
If you dare to come and take back Wuguan, I will accompany him to the end."
Yan Liang captured Wuguan just to eliminate the threat from Guanzhong in the Nanyang Basin, and naturally not to fight Cao Cao to the death.
Although Wuguan is now under control, if Yan Liang wants to lead his army to Chang'an, he will have to capture Shang County, Shangluo, Lantian and other counties along the way. These counties are all located between Qinling Mountains and Danshui, making them easy to defend but difficult to attack.
This means that although Yan Liang captured Wuguan in one fell swoop, it was not enough to pose a fatal threat to Chang'an.
Yan Liang asked Cao Hong to edit the book because he wanted to express two attitudes to Cao Cao. One is that I, Yan Liang, will avenge me, and the other is that although I have taken Wuguan, I have no intention of attacking Guanzhong occupied by Cao Cao.
The reason why Yan Liang asked Cao Hong to write this letter was to tactfully hint to Cao Cao that if you dare to mess around, your cousin's head will no longer be saved.
Cao Hong's face became darker and darker, with flames of anger flashing in his eyes.
It was fine that he was captured, but he was forced to write this kind of repair to his cousin. Yan Liang was simply openly humiliating Cao Hong's dignity.
Angry, Cao Hong immediately said sternly: "I, Cao Hong, would rather die than write such a humiliating book, so you can just dream about it."
"Would you rather die than write..."
Yan Liang's stern face was filled with murderous intent, and he waved his hand, "Since you want to be a martyr so much, I will make it happen for you. Come on, pull this guy down, cut him into pieces, and throw them to the dogs."
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After giving the order, Zhou Cang, who had long been unable to hold himself any longer, whizzed down, grabbed Cao Hong with his claws like iron pincers, and dragged him out.
However, Cao Hong was so frightened that he lost his mind. He heard words such as "cutting the body apart by five horses" and "feeding the dogs". His expression changed with horror. The little courage he had just squeezed out fell apart in the blink of an eye.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute -" Cao Hong shouted anxiously in fear of death.
A sarcastic smile appeared on Yan Liang's lips. He had known for a long time that Cao Hong was a man who cherished his life.
He was familiar with the Three Kingdoms and knew that although Cao Hong had rescued Cao Cao and seemed very brave, deep down, like Yu Jin, he was greedy for life and afraid of death.
There is no other reason than that Cao Hong is extremely greedy for money. In these troubled times, he still does not forget to amass money.
Historically, Cao Pi asked Cao Hong for a loan because he was short of money, but Cao Hong unexpectedly refused.
You must know that Cao Pi, as the leader of Cao Cao's disciples, would sooner or later become Cao Hong's monarch, but Cao Hong would not hesitate to offend his future monarch for a mere amount of money.
This shows that Cao Hong loves money as much as his life.
People who love money generally love to enjoy luxury. This can be seen from the fact that Cao Hong raised so many dancers while he was in the army.
People who are greedy for money and enjoy themselves are often the ones who cherish life the most.
Because of this, Yan Liang easily saw through Cao Hong.
Now hearing Cao Hong shouting like this, Yan Liang waved his hand to signal Zhou Cang to stop.
"What, Cao Zilian, have you figured it out again?" Yan Liang asked with a sneer.
Cao Hong lowered his head and remained silent, neither refusing nor agreeing.
Yan Liang knew that although Cao Hong was afraid of death and had to agree to him, he was still a member of the Cao family. He had more integrity than the ordinary people who were greedy for life and afraid of death. He also wanted to take care of his own dignity and did not dare to appear in front of so many people.
Face, openly embarrassment.
Yan Liang was thinking about his concubine Cao Jie's face and decided to save some face for Cao Hong.
At that moment, he said: "Cao Zilian, if you don't speak, I will take it as your answer."
Cao Hong remained silent and lowered his head in silence to express his submission. At this moment, he had completely lost his temper and did not even dare to look at Yan Liang.
Yan Liangsui laughed loudly, waved his hand and said: "Very good, I appreciate you as a wise person. Come on, please take General Cao down and take good care of him. Don't neglect him."
Zhou Cang rolled down his sleeves, stretched out his hand, and said coldly: "General Cao, please."
Cao Hong didn't dare to be disobedient in the slightest, so he had to lower his head, with his face half red and swollen and half shoe-marked, and walked out of the lobby dejectedly.
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Jingzhao County, Chang'an City.
In the lobby of Jingzhao Yin Mansion, the one-eyed middle-aged general was listening to the reports from the officials in front of the hall.
This person is General Fubo, Jingzhao Yin Xiahou Dun.
Now Cao Cao led his troops into Xiliang to conquer Han Sui, while Cao Ren stationed his troops in Longyou to guard against Ma Teng who fled to Qishan.
As the leader of the Xiahou family, Xiahou Dun was also the Yin of Jingzhao just as he was the Yin of Henan back then, sitting in Chang'an for Cao Cao, raising food and fodder, and ensuring the safety of the rear.
"The Prime Minister is out on an expedition to Xiliang. Now I have received an order from the Prime Minister, ordering me to send an additional 200,000 husks of grain and grass to the front line. We should not be hindered by this for the important military affairs, and we should prepare them as soon as possible."
Xiahou Dun made some arrangements and ordered the meeting to be dismissed.
All the officials retired, and the hall quickly became quiet.
When Xiahou Dun was about to leave the palace for inspection, his troops suddenly came to report that it was Xun Yu who was ordered by the minister to come to meet him.
"Please invite Wen Ruo quickly." Xiahou Dun waved his hand.
Not long after, Xun Yu walked into the hall, and Cao Cao's two important ministers met each other. They greeted each other politely and sat down with each other.
"If Wen Ruo comes here, does he have something important to discuss?" Xiahou Dun asked first.
Xun Yu nodded, "That's right, there was news from Wuguan in the previous period, saying that Yan Liang planned to send troops to conquer the three Shangyong counties. Xun Yu felt that Yan Liang's move was quite suspicious, so he wanted to ask Yuan Rang to send more troops to Wuguan.
, just in case something unexpected happens.”
When Xiahou Dun heard this, he couldn't help but wonder: "Everyone claims that Yan Liang is going to attack the three counties of Shangyong. I wonder if Wen Ruo thinks there is anything suspicious about it, so he has to send more troops to Wuguan?"
Xun Yu said: "I thought the same thing before, but after thinking about it carefully, the Shangyong three counties have few soldiers and few generals. They are useless to Yan Liang. If they capture them by force, they will border Hanzhong and only increase Zhang Lu's army."
This enemy, with Yan Liang's deceitfulness, how could he do something that would do more good than harm?"
Xiahou Dun thought about it carefully, and it seemed to make sense, so he said: "If Wen Ruo is worried that Yan Liang will raid our Wuguan in the name of attacking Shangyong, well, your worry is also reasonable. But at present, the number of soldiers in Chang'an is only 10,000, and we will allocate more troops.
There seems to be something wrong. Let's do this. I will write a letter and send someone to Wuguan to remind Zilian and ask him to be more alert."
"That's okay." Xun Yu nodded slightly.
At this moment, a soldier hurried into the hall and exclaimed: "General, there is an urgent report from Wuguan. Yan Liang's army suddenly approached Wuguan. General Cao sent someone to ask General Pegasus for help."
As soon as these words came out, both Xiahou Dun and Xun Yu's expressions changed with shock. (To be continued.
