Chapter 69 The Sixty-eighth Round Gan Ning Baiqi Robbed Wei Ying Zuo Ci Throwing a Cup to Cao Cao

But it was said that Sun Quan was packing up his army and horses at Ruxukou, and suddenly it was reported that Cao Cao had led 400,000 troops from Hanzhong to rescue Hefei.Sun Quan discussed with his counselors, and first ordered Dong Xi and Xu Sheng to lead fifty large boats to ambush at Ruxukou; Chen Wu led troops to patrol the river bank.Zhang Zhao said: Now that Cao Cao is coming from afar, we must first dampen his spirit.Quan Nai asked under the tent, saying: "Cao Cao is far away, who would dare to defeat the enemy first to dampen his spirit?"Ling Tong came out and said: "Someone is willing to go."Quan said: How many troops will you take?Tong said: Three thousand people are enough.Gan Ning said: "It only takes a hundred horses to defeat the enemy, why bother with three thousand?"Ling Tong was furious.The two competed in front of Sun Quan.Quan said: "Cao's army is powerful, so don't underestimate the enemy."He ordered Ling Tong to lead three thousand troops out of Ruxukou to sentry out, and when he met Cao Bing, he would fight with Cao Bing.Commander Ling led three thousand troops away from Ruxuwu.Where the dust starts, Cao Bing arrives early.Pioneer Zhang Liao and Ling Tong confronted each other, and they fought 50 times, regardless of the outcome.Fearing that Ling Tong would make a mistake, Sun Quan ordered Lü Meng to escort him back to the camp.

When Gan Ning saw Ling Tong return, he told Quan, "Ning only takes a hundred men and horses to rob Cao Ying tonight; if one man and one horse are lost, it will not be considered meritorious service."Sun Quanzhuang ordered one hundred elite horsemen to pay Ning, and rewarded the soldiers with fifty bottles of wine and fifty catties of mutton.Gan Ning returned to the camp.Teach a hundred people to sit in a row, first pour wine from a silver bowl, and eat two bowls by themselves, and say to the hundred people: "I am ordered to rob the stronghold tonight, please drink a glass of wine each, and work hard to move forward."When everyone heard the words, they looked at each other in blank dismay.Gan Ning saw that everyone was distressed, so he drew his sword in his hand, and said angrily: "I am a general, and I will not hesitate to die; why do you hesitate!"When everyone saw Gan Ning's profanity, they all rose up and worshiped, saying: "I wish to serve the deadly force."Gan Ning shared wine and meat with a hundred people.When the food was exhausted, about two o'clock, he took a hundred white goose feathers and put them on the helmet as a sign; they all put on armor and mounted horses, galloped to the edge of Cao Cao's stronghold, pulled out their antlers, and with a loud cry, rushed into the stronghold and went straight. Run to the army to kill Cao Cao.It turned out that the soldiers and horses in the Chinese army used chariots to fight against the road, and they were surrounded by iron barrels, so they couldn't get in.Gan Ning only led a hundred cavalry, charging from left to right.Cao Bing panicked, not knowing how many enemy soldiers there were, and disturbed each other.Gan Ning's hundred cavalry galloped across the camp, killing whenever they encountered.The battalions clamored and raised fire like stars, and the shouts were loud.Gan Ning rushed out from the south gate of the stronghold, no one dared to attack him.Sun Quan ordered Zhou Tai to lead an army to meet him.Gan Ning returned Baiqi to Ruxu.Fearing an ambush, the soldiers dare not pursue them.Later generations have a poem praising it:

The sound of drums and drums came loudly, and ghosts and gods were mourning everywhere in Master Wu!Bai Ling went straight to Cao's village, and said that Gan Ning was a tiger general. Gan Ning led a hundred riders to the stronghold, one rider at a time; when he arrived at the gate of the camp, he ordered a hundred riders to play drums and flutes, saying: Long live!The cheers were loud.Sun Quan came to greet him.Gan Ning dismounted and bowed down.Quan helped him up, took Ning's hand and said: "The general's going here is enough to frighten the old thief."It's not lonely and giving up: just want to watch the brave ears.He gave thousands of pieces of silk and sharp knives to hundreds of mouths, and he would rather worship and accept them, so he rewarded hundreds of people.The generals said: "Meng De has Zhang Liao, and he alone has Gan Xingba, which is enough to fight against each other."

The next day, Zhang Liao led his troops to fight.Seeing Gan Ning's meritorious service, Ling Tong said excitedly, "Tong wishes to defeat Zhang Liao."The right to allow it.Tong then led five thousand soldiers and left Ruxu.Quan Zi cited Gan Ning to watch the battle.At the round, Zhang Liao came out, with Li Dian on the left and Le Jin on the right.Ling Tong raised his sword on his horse and went out to the front of the formation.Zhang Liao sent music in and out to welcome him.The two fight to fifty, and there is no winner.When Cao Cao heard about it, he rode his horse to see it under the banner of the gate. Seeing the two generals fighting vigorously, he ordered Cao Xiu to shoot cold arrows secretly.Cao Xiu dodged behind Zhang Liao, shot an arrow, and hit Ling Tong as he sat down on his horse.The horse stood up straight and threw Ling Tong to the ground.Le Jin quickly stabbed with a gun.Before the gun arrived, only the sound of the bowstring was heard, and an arrow hit Le into the front door, turning over and falling off the horse.The two armies went out together, and each rescued one general and returned to the camp.Mingjin strikes.Ling Tong returned to the village to thank Sun Quan.Quan said: Gan Ning is the one who shoots arrows to save you.Ling Tong bowed his head and said to Ning: "I don't want you to be so kind!"Since then, Gan Ning has become a life-and-death friend, and he will never do evil again.

Let's say that when Cao Cao saw Le Jin hit the arrow, he ordered him to come to the account for adjustment.The next day, the troops were divided into five groups to attack Ruxu; Cao Zi led the middle; Zhang Liao on the left, Li Dian on the second;Each way brought 10,000 horses and rushed to the riverside.At that time, two generals, Dong Xi and Xu Sheng, saw the Fifth Route Army horses approaching on the building boat, and all the troops were afraid.Xu Sheng said: "The salary of eating the king, the matter of being loyal to the king, why be afraid?"So he led hundreds of warriors across the river in small boats and entered Li Dian's army.Dong Xi was on board and ordered the soldiers to beat drums and cheer.Suddenly, a strong wind blew up on the river, whitecaps lifted the sky, and the waves were rough.Seeing that the big ship was about to capsize, the sergeant tried to get off the ship and escape for his life.Dong Xi held his sword and yelled: "I will be ordered by the king to guard against thieves here. How dare I abandon the ship and go away?"More than ten sergeants disembarked immediately.After a while, the boat capsized due to the strong wind, and Dong Xi died in the water of the river estuary.Xu Sheng was in Li Dian's army, and there were conflicts.

But when Chen Wu heard about the fight by the riverside, he led an army to meet Pang De, and the two armies fought in a melee.When Sun Quan was in Ruxuwu, he heard that Cao Bing had come to the river, and personally led Zhou Tai's army to help.Seeing Xu Sheng stirring up a mass fight among Li Dian's army, he led his army to join him.But Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's two armies trapped Sun Quan in Gaixin.When Cao Cao went to Gaofu and saw Sun Quan being surrounded, he hurriedly ordered Xu Chu to charge his horse into the army with a knife, and split Sun Quan's army into two sections, so that they could not rescue each other.

But Zhou Tai rushed out from the army, went to the riverside, disappeared Sun Quan, reined in his horse, rushed into the formation from outside, and asked the army: "Where is the lord?"The soldier pointed to the thick place of the soldiers and horses, and said: "My lord is in a hurry to be surrounded!"Zhou Tai stepped forward to find Sun Quan.Tai said: "My lord, you can fight with Tai."So Tai was in the front, Quan was in the back, and fought hard.When Tai went to the river, he didn't see Sun Quan when he looked back. Naifu turned himself into the siege and found Sun Quan again.Quan said: "The bows and crossbows are all fired, but you can't get out, how about it?"Tai said: The lord is in front and someone is behind. You can go out of the siege.Sun Quan rode his horse forward.Zhou Tai was shielded from left and right, his body was shot several times, and the arrows pierced through the heavy armor, saving Sun Quan.When they reached the riverside, Lu Meng led a navy to meet and disembark.Quan said: "I owe Zhou Tai three times to charge and kill."You have to break free.But Xu Sheng is in his heart, how can he get rid of it?Zhou Tai said: "I will save it again."Then Lun turned around and rushed into the siege to rescue Xu Sheng.Both generals were seriously injured.Sergeant Lu Meng taught random arrows and shot the soldiers on the shore, and saved the two generals from getting off the ship.

But it is said that Zhenwu fought with Pound, and there was no response from behind, and was driven to the valley by Pound, where the woods were dense; kill.Seeing that Sun Quan had escaped, Cao Cao rode his horse and drove his troops to the river to shoot at him.Lu Meng ran out of arrows.In the middle of a panic, a ship suddenly arrived on the opposite river. The first general was Lu Xun, the daughter of Sun Ce. Cao's soldiers were wounded countless times. They were defeated and returned to find Chen Wu's body in the chaos. Knowing that Chen Wu was dead and that Dong Xi had drowned in the river again, Sun Quan mourned so much that he sent people into the water to find Dong Xi's body and buried it with Chen Wu's body.I also feel grateful for Zhou Tai's contribution to rescue and hold a banquet to pay for it.Quan personally held the lamp, stroked his back, burst into tears, and said: "You have saved each other twice, at the expense of your life, you have been shot dozens of times, your skin is like a picture, why do you not want to treat you with the kindness of your flesh and blood, and entrust you with the importance of soldiers and horses?" ?Qing is a hero who is lonely, and he should share honor and disgrace with Qing, and share weal and woe.After saying that, let Zhou Tai take off his clothes and let the generals watch: the flesh and skin are like a knife gouging out, the roots are all over the body.Sun Quan pointed to the marks and asked them one by one.Zhou Tai said that he was injured in the battle.An injury ordered a cup of wine.It was a day when Zhou Tai got drunk.The right is bestowed with a scorpion umbrella, so that people can go in and out and cover it, thinking it is prominent.

The right lies in Ruxu, and he refuses to fight for more than a month, so he can't win.Zhang Zhao and Gu Yong said: Cao Cao is too powerful to be taken by force; if he fights for a long time, his soldiers will be greatly damaged; if he does not seek peace and peace, the people are the most important.Sun Quan followed his words and ordered Bu Zhi to go to Cao Ying to seek peace and pay tribute every year.Cao Cao saw that Jiangnan was in a hurry, so he followed him and ordered: Sun Quan withdraws his troops first, and I will be the teacher next.Bu Zhi replied that only Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were left to guard Ruxukou, and all the soldiers were sent back to Moling on board.

Cao Cao stayed with Cao Ren and Zhang Liao to join Fei, and the class teacher returned to Xuchang.All the civil and military palaces discussed making Cao Cao king of Wei.Shangshu Cui Yan insisted that he couldn't do it.All the officials said: Do you only see Xun Wenruo?Yan said angrily: "It's about time!"Time!There will be a change!Let yourself do it!If there is any disagreement with Yan, please inform Cao.Cao was furious, and Shouyan was sent to prison for interrogation.Yan Hu's eyes are full of beards, but he just scolded Cao Cao for deceiving the emperor and being a traitor.Tingwei Baicao killed Cui Yan in prison with his stick.Later generations praised and said:

Cui Yan of Qinghe River: Strong in nature; bearded and tiger-eyed, with a heart of stone; treacherous and easy-going, with a strong voice; loyal to the Han Lord, eternally famous! In the twenty-first year of Jian'an, in the fifth month of summer, a group of ministers presented a performance to the emperor, praising the merits of Cao Cao, the Duke of Wei.Emperor Xian ordered Zhong Yao to make Cao Cao the king of Wei.Cao Cao pretended to write three words.The three edicts were not allowed, but Cao was ordered to accept the title of the King of Wei, crowned twelve, ride in a golden root chariot, drive six horses, use the emperor's chariot to wear Luanyi, go out to the police and enter the palace, build the Wei Palace in Ye County, and discuss the establishment of a son.The eldest wife, Mrs. Ding, has no way out.Concubine Liu's son Cao Ang died in Wancheng when Zhang Xiu was conquered.The Bian family had four sons: the first was called Pi, the second was called Zhang, the third was called Zhi, and the fourth was called Xiong.So Mrs. Ding was deposed, and Bian was made the princess of Wei.The third son, Cao Zhi, styled Zijian, was extremely intelligent, and he wrote his pen to write a chapter, and he wanted to make him his heir.The eldest son, Cao Pi, was afraid that he would not be able to stand up, so he asked Jia Xu, a senior official in the middle school, for advice.Pride is so so.Naturally, when Fan Cao went out to fight and the sons saw him off, Cao Zhi praised his merits and made his speech complete; but when Cao Pi resigned from his father, he just worshiped with a runny nose, and both left and right were sad.So Cao suspected that Zhizhi was well-behaved, and his sincerity was not as good as Piye.Pi also asked people to buy and order close servants, all of whom spoke of Pi's virtue.Cao Cao hesitated to make an heir, so he asked Jia Xu, "If I want to make an heir, who should I make?"Jia Xu didn't answer, Cao Cao asked why.Xu said: "I am thinking, so I can't answer my ears."Cao said, "what do you think?"Xu said to him, "I think of Yuan Benchu, Liu Jingsheng and his son."Cao laughed, and made the eldest son Cao Pi the prince's son. In the tenth month of winter, the palace of Wei Wang was completed, and he sent people to collect exotic flowers and fruits to plant in the back garden.An envoy went to Wu, met with Sun Quan, passed on the decree of King Wei, and then went to Wenzhou to fetch oranges.At that time, Sun Quan Zhengzun let the king of Wei, so he ordered more than 40 tans of big oranges to be selected from the city, and sent to Ye County in the starry night.On the way, the porter was tired and rested at the foot of the mountain. He saw a man with a slender look, a lame foot, a crown of white vines on his head, and lazy clothes. How about if the poor can shoulder a shoulder for you?Everyone was overjoyed.So the husband picked five miles for each load.But the burden that Mr. took was lightened.Everyone was surprised.Before the gentleman left, he said to the leader of the mandarin orange: "Poverty Dao is an old man of the king of Wei. His surname is Zuo, his first name is Ci, his character is Fang, and his name is Mr. Wujiao."If you go to Ye County, you can say that Zuo Ci made a wish.So he walked away. The person who took the tangerines went to Ye County to see Cao and presented the tangerines.I dissected it myself, but it was only an empty shell with no meat inside.Cao was shocked and asked the man who fetched oranges.The person who took the tangerines was right about Zuo Ci.Fuck not willing to believe it.The door official suddenly reported: There is a gentleman who calls himself Zuo Ci and asks to see the king.Fuck called in.The man who picked up the tangerines said: "This is the person I saw on the way."Cao scolded and said: "What kind of magic do you use to capture my good fruit?"Ci smiled and said: "Is there such a thing?"Take the tangerine and cut it open, there is meat inside, and its taste is very sweet.But those who dissect themselves are all empty shells.Cao became more frightened, so he asked Zuo Ci to sit down and ask him.Compassionately ask for wine and meat, give it to him according to orders, drink five buckets of wine without getting drunk, and eat a whole sheep without being full.Cao asked, "What technique do you have to get here?"Ci said: I have studied Taoism for 30 years in Mount Emei, Jialing, Xichuan. Suddenly I heard a voice calling my name from the stone wall;Suddenly a thunder from the sky shattered the stone wall, and three volumes of the Heavenly Book were obtained, called the Dunjia Heavenly Book.The first volume is named Tiandun, the middle volume is named Didun, and the second volume is named Rendun.Tiandun can soar through the clouds and wind, soar into the void; Earthdun can penetrate mountains and see through rocks;Why don't you step back and go to Mount Emei to practice with the poor Taoist?It should be taught with three volumes of heavenly scriptures.Cao said: "I have long thought of retreating bravely from the rapids, but the Nai court has not heard of him."He smiled kindly and said, "Liu Xuande of Yizhou is the head of the emperor's family, why not give him this position?"Otherwise, the poor will take your head with a flying sword.Cao said angrily: "This is exactly what Liu Bei did carefully!"Drink left and right down.Ci couldn't stop laughing.Cao ordered a dozen jailers to arrest and handcuff them.The jailer beat him vigorously, but when he looked at Zuo Ci, he was sound asleep and felt no pain at all.In anger, he ordered to take the big yoke, nailed it with iron nails, locked it with iron chains, and sent him to prison for supervision.The shackles had all come down, Zuo Ci was lying on the ground, unharmed.He was imprisoned for seven days without food or drink.When he looked at it, Ci Duan sat on the ground, his face turned red.The jailer reported to Cao Cao, who took it out and questioned him.Ci said: "It's okay if I don't eat for decades; if I eclipse a thousand sheep, I can do it all."Fuck helpless. On that day, all the officials went to the palace for a big banquet.Walking in the wine room, Zuo Ci put on wooden shoes and stood in front of the banquet.The officials were surprised.Zuo Ci said: "Your Majesty has all the water and land today, and he is feasting all the ministers. There are so many foreign objects in the four directions. What is missing in the interior, the poor Taoist would like to take it."Cao said: I want dragon liver to make soup, can you take it?Ci said: "What's so difficult!"Take an ink pen and draw a dragon on the whitewashed wall, and with a flick of the sleeve of the robe, the dragon's belly will open by itself.Zuo Ci took out a pair of dragon liver from the dragon's belly, and the blood was still flowing.If he didn't believe it, he scolded him and said: "You first hide it in your sleeve and ear!"Ci said: "It's cold today, and the vegetation is dead; the king wants very good flowers, and he can do whatever he wants."Cao said, "I only want peonies."Ci said: Yi Er.Order to take a large flower pot and put it on the banquet, and pour it with water.In an instant, a peony was released and double flowers bloomed.The officials were shocked and invited Ci to sit and eat together.In a short time, people eat fish.Ci said: Fang Mei must be the one who wins the perch in the Songjiang River.Cao said: "It's thousands of miles away, how can I take it?"Ci said: "This is so hard to get!"Teach me to bring the fishing rod and catch it in the fish pond under the hall.In an instant, dozens of large perch were caught and placed on the temple.Cao said, "There is this fish in my pond."Ci said: "Why does the king deceive you?"The perch in the world has only two gills, but the perch in Songjiang has four gills: this can be distinguished.All the officials looked at it, and it turned out to be four gills.Ci said: "Purple bud ginger is the only way to cook Songjiang perch."Cao said: "Can you also take it?"Ci said: Yi Er.Order to take a gold basin, and cover it with clothes of kindness.After a while, I got a pot full of purple bud ginger, before going to exercise.Cao took it with his hands, and suddenly there was a book in the basin, titled "Meng De's New Book".Take it and see it, word for word.Doubtful.Ci took the jade cup on the table, filled it with good wine and said to Cao Cao: "Your Majesty can drink this wine and live a thousand years."Cao said, "You can drink first."Ci Sui pulled out the hosta hairpin on the crown, drew a picture in the cup, and divided the wine into two halves; drank half for himself, and served the other half for exercise.Fuck it.Ci threw the cup in the air, turned into a white dove, and flew around the hall. All the officials looked up at it, but Zuo Ci didn't know where he was going.Left and right suddenly reported: Zuo Ci has gone out of the palace.Cao said: "Such monsters must be eliminated; otherwise, they will be harmed."Then Xu Chu was ordered to lead three hundred iron armored troops to pursue and capture him.Chu got on his horse and led the army to the city gate, and saw Zuo Ci walking slowly in front of him wearing wooden shoes.Chu Fei chased after him, but he couldn't catch up.When they came to a mountain, a shepherd boy came with a flock of sheep, and Ci walked into the flock.Chu took an arrow and shot at it, but Ci Shi disappeared, and Chu killed the flock of sheep and returned.The shepherd boy was crying while guarding the sheep.Suddenly he saw the sheep's head talking on the ground, and called the little boy, saying: "You can put all the sheep's heads on the dead sheep's cavity."The little boy was startled, covered his face and walked away.Suddenly I heard someone shouting from behind: "Don't be scared away."Return your live sheep.Looking back, the little boy saw that Zuo Ci had made alive the dead sheep on the ground and rushed to the future.When the little boy was eager to ask, Zuo Ci had already left in a flick of his sleeves; he moved like flying, and suddenly disappeared. The boy reported to the master, but the master dared not hide it and reported it to Cao Cao.Manipulate the shadow graphics, capture Zuo Ci everywhere.Within three days, inside and outside the city, there were three or four hundred people caught with a single eye, a lame foot, a white vine crown, lazy clothes, and Mr. wearing wooden shoes, all of average appearance.Shake up the streets.Cao ordered all the generals to pour the blood of pigs and sheep and escort them to the school in the south of the city.Cao Cao personally led five hundred armored soldiers to surround them and behead them all.Everyone's necks were filled with a qi, they flew to the sky, gathered in one place, turned into a Zuo Ci, beckoned a white crane to sit on the sky, clapped their hands and laughed loudly, saying: "The ground mouse follows the golden tiger, and once the villain quits!"Cao ordered the generals to shoot them with bows and arrows.Suddenly there was a strong wind, and the stones and sand were blown away; all the beheaded corpses jumped up, held their heads in their hands, and rushed to the martial arts hall to beat Cao Cao.The civil servants and military generals covered their faces in shock and ignored each other.It's exactly: the power of a traitor can overwhelm the country, and the magic of Taoist priests is even more different.It is unknown how Cao Cao's life will be, let's see the breakdown below.