Volume 2: The King's Way Chapter 137 Cao Cao's Outrageous Operation
In the first month of the second year of Jian'an, before Xun You brought back any news about Jiangdong, Cao Cao encountered a terrible incident...
Originally, because Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, Liu Biao of Jingzhou had made peace with Cao Cao. However, Cao Cao was still worried that Zhang Xiu was a sharp knife hanging at the back door of Yanzhou, so he stationed troops at Yushui to put pressure on Zhang Xiu.
On the way, something happened that made Cao Cao famous. After the White Map, Cao Cao also began to enforce military discipline, but Cao Cao did not dare to bring up his deceased father...
Otherwise, Cao Cao would say "Killing one person is like killing my father"? Not only would he not be able to stand the shock of the Confucian scholars, he would also be criticized to death - you lost your father, and you acted recklessly in Xuzhou... Why? Now that I think about it, everyone is your father? So, if one father died, you killed thousands of fathers... Are you a perpetual motion machine?
So Cao Cao was very honest and just issued a military discipline that "anyone who tramples on the green seedlings will be beheaded" - it was early spring, and farmers had just started farming, and the farmland could not withstand the tossing.
As a result, Cao Cao's own warhorse lost control and ran into the farmland. The scene was extremely embarrassing - the warhorses trained by the city girls would also lose control due to insufficient skills. The lower the warhorse training skills and the lower the cavalry skills of the city, the more likely this problem would occur!
But Cao Cao was quick-witted. He followed the example of Zhao Xiangzi who allowed Yu Rang to "strike his clothes with a sword" and shaved his long back hair into a short haircut...
Although it was too low-key compared to Bai Tu's "Killing one man is like killing my father", it at least allowed Cao Cao to appease the people from Yanzhou to Nanyang.
Zhang Xiu, knowing that Liu Biao had made peace with Cao Cao, was afraid that he would lose his usefulness. As he did not see any reinforcements from Liu Biao, he simply surrendered to Cao Cao and welcomed him into the Wancheng military camp.
After all, if you think about it, it was Liu Biao who killed his uncle Zhang Ji, with whom he was like a father and son, while Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu... at best only had some minor grudges - old grudges between Cao Cao and the generals of Xiliang, which were not a big deal in comparison.
Cao Cao used the righteousness of attacking Yuan Shu to first make Liu Biao dare not act rashly, and then intimidate Zhang Xiu, and took Wancheng without bloodshed, controlling the southern gate of Jingzhou in the Central Plains. From now on, he can advance to Xinye and Rangcheng in the south, and retreat to ensure the stability of the rear. By defending Wancheng, he can put an end to the harassment from Nanyang...
It can be said to be a huge profit!
However, at this moment, Cao Cao made a bold move and reached a new level.
In the Wancheng military camp, Cao Cao's "good man|wife" attribute suddenly couldn't be restrained, and there was also a bad nephew Cao Anmin around him...
It would have been fine if he had just followed Cao Cao's lead in other matters, but at this time, in order to please Cao Cao, Cao Anmin actually "introduced" Zhang Ji's widow...that is, Zhang Xiu's aunt, Madam Zou!
Cao Cao, with his monk-like hair, showed no intention of reflecting on himself and was actually moved. After that... something inappropriate for children happened.
When Zhang Xiu learned about this, he was so furious that he decided to rebel against Cao that very night!
Moreover, although Zhang Xiu was a military man, Jia Xu, the ruthless scholar who had given advice to Li Jue and Guo Si, was under Zhang Xiu's command. Knowing that Zhang Xiu could no longer be persuaded, Jia Xu devised a plan for Zhang Xiu...
First, he asked Zhang Xiu's trusted general Hu Che'er to go drink with Cao Cao's guard Dian Wei, got the unsuspecting Dian Wei drunk, then stole his military token, and then attacked Cao Cao's unsuspecting army at night!
Dian Wei was Cao Cao's personal guard. Although he was not familiar with military affairs, he possessed a bravery that even Lu Bu had to take seriously. In terms of martial arts alone, Lu Bu's evaluation of him was even higher than that of Guan and Zhang.
However, the E'Lai armor, as the relic of E'Lai, a fierce general of the Shang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, has a very obvious flaw from today's perspective - there is no engine interface!
Before the pre-Qin and Warring States periods, not only did the countries lack cavalry, but the armor of the generals activated by the city princesses also had no engine interface. Only the armor obtained by the northern Hu people from their shaman princesses had an engine interface.
Later, King Wuling of Zhao, through a series of extraordinary actions, moved a shaman named Ji Nangui, who then innovated the technology of Zhao State's city shamans. After discovering its effect, other countries also rushed to follow suit, which led to the emergence of cavalry and the current armor with engine interfaces!
The previous armor, because it had no engine component interface, could not load the engine trained from BMW. It only had the original power of the armor itself, making the "Evil" look very bulky, unable to achieve fast long-distance movement, and unable to fly too high...
But the advantage is that there is an extra weapon interface - there is a pair of armored arms on the back, which means that two sets of weapons can be held at the same time!
Just like in a chariot, there is a soldier holding a weapon on each side of the driver...
Moreover, the way Dian Wei inherited the armor left behind by E Lai was different from that of Sun Ce. When Sun Ce inherited the armor left behind by Xiang Yu, he already had his own armor, and the two were "fused", while Dian Wei inherited the armor left behind by E Lai without any equipment.
Both inheritance methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, but Dian Wei's inheritance method is destined to make him inherit all the flaws and advantages of "Elai"...
Generally, Dian Wei holds a short melee halberd in both hands, and the armored arms behind him can also use a row of small halberds at any time, which allows him to use them for both close combat and throwing!
When Lu Bu was discussing with Bai Tu about the brave generals of the time, he ranked Dian Wei's bravery above that of Guan and Zhang.
At least when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were at Hulao Pass, they were not at the peak of their gold and jade armors. Otherwise, Lu Bu, who was only at the peak of his gold and jade armors at that time, would probably not have had a chance to break through in battle.
When Dian Wei was fighting in the Battle of Puyang, Lu Bu discovered that he could fully unleash the power of the "E Lai" armor, that is, he could unleash the peak strength of gold and jade!
But in the future…if this chaotic world continues and other powerful generals have a further foundation, Lu Bu is more optimistic about Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
Because Dian Wei only inherited "E Lai", it is difficult for him to take that step himself.
However, during the Wancheng Rebellion, after losing the Elai Military Token, Dian Wei could only go into battle naked...
In order to deal with Dian Wei, Hu Che'er specially brought Zhang Xiu's personal soldiers into the battle - personal soldiers, that is, soldiers only wearing wooden and stone armor, without any Ji-made soldiers!
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The organized Ji-made soldiers would interfere with the effect of the armor, and Dian Wei now had no armor, so he naturally had to seize this advantage. He did not send out Ji-made soldiers at all, but used Hu Che'er, who was at the peak of his gilded status, and hundreds of his personal soldiers to surround and kill Dian Wei!
Dian Wei snatched the Pu Dao from the enemy's hand and faced the enemy with difficulty...
It was at this time that Hu Che'er realized the gap between himself and Dian Wei. He originally thought that he would soon be promoted to Gold and Jade, and also wielded a pair of iron halberds, and that the gap between him and Dian Wei was not much. It was the military advisor who was too cautious. Hu Che'er even wanted to challenge him in a one-on-one duel as a test .
Who would have thought that Dian Wei could fight him on equal terms in a one-on-one duel even without armor!
Because behind him was the retreating Cao Cao camp. Even after Hu Che'er saw that he could not capture him for the time being and called on many of his personal soldiers to rush forward, Dian Wei still fought to the death at the entrance of the camp and killed dozens of wooden and stone personal soldiers...
When Dian Wei's body was covered in blood, especially his right shoulder blade, which was broken by Hu Che'er's iron halberd. An ordinary person would not be able to stand, he still stood in front of the tent with his head held high, even though he knew that the enemy was already at the end of his strength. The surrounding soldiers, including Hu Che'er, did not dare to approach him for a long time.
At this moment, a heartbeat like a war drum sounded in Dian Wei's chest. At the same time... the evil military talisman that Hu Che'er kept close to his body quietly "shattered" into a stream of light, and rushed towards Dian Wei again unstoppably!
