Nanyang.

A rebellion emerged with the increasingly anxious battle between the Cao army and the Jingzhou army, but this rebellion was a bit special. This time, Cao's army abandoned Yuyang, which seemed to have made many people see hope and defeated Cao Cao.

In early April of the 23rd year of Jian'an, the garrison of Wancheng Hou Yin and Wei Kai, just as Cao Cao returned to the army, launched a riot and shot and killed Gongcao Yingyu, Gongcao Dongliguen, and Gongcao Zongziqing of the county, taking advantage of the chaos to escape from Wancheng and found the main force of the Cao army to report the matter.

"Hou Yin!?" Cao Cao felt the headache that he had finally stabilized and began to rebel again.

Hou Yin is one of the generals of Nanyang who is more optimistic about Cao Cao. This time he went to Nanyang and asked Hou Yin that he was not bad. Now even Hou Yin has betrayed him, which makes Cao Cao a little unacceptable.

"Bang~" Cao Cao slapped the table and looked at Cao Ren beside him and said, "Zi Xiao!"

"The last one is here!" Cao Ren took a step forward and bowed.

"You raised your troops overnight and rushed back to Wancheng before the thief was stable, and captured Hou Yin alive! I want to see him!" In the huge military tent, an unspeakable aura of depression filled the sound of silentness, and Cao Cao's eyes were rarely cold: "I ordered someone to notify Xu Huang, I ordered him to guard the rear, why did he even lose Wancheng!"

"Here!" Cao Ren bowed and left with murderous intent.

This was a dispute within the Cao army. Although Hou Yin sent Liu Bei news, it had been three days and three days after Liu Bei received it. For the Cao army, it was enough to wipe out a group of county and state soldiers and riots who were rarely on the battlefield on weekdays.

Three days later, blood stained the moat of Wancheng red, and heads were beheaded here. Cao Ren's first thing after he captured Wancheng and captured Hou Yin alive was to order the slaughter of Wancheng. In his opinion, the people of Wancheng had already been in a relationship with these rebels and would still rebel sooner or later. If they were killed now, they could also eliminate future troubles.

At dusk, the setting sun dyed the wings of the sky like blood, and the lonely geese hovered in the sky, as if they could feel the death aura emitted by this bloody city, and looked at the bloody city sadly.

The famous city was slaughtered, and the world was silent.

At the south gate of Wancheng, when Cao Cao led his army back, the entire city was already silent. Hou Yin looked ahead with his eyes blankly under the escort of two Cao troops, and let the Cao army soldiers press him to kneel down on the ground. The so-called sorrow is no greater than death. His uprising was to seek vitality for the soldiers and civilians in Wancheng, but now it seems that it has harmed them.

"King of Wei, please spare me!" Wei Kai twisted his body frantically, wriggled to Cao Cao's feet, and wailed: "The last general will be invincible."

"I know!" Cao Cao looked at the dead city in front of him, with a little confused expression. He silently drew his sword and stabbed Wei Kai's chest in his astonished gaze: "It's just that you're too noisy!"

"Drag it!" Xu Chu waved his hand and signaled the guards to drag the body away.

"Why do you betray the orphan?" Cao Cao used his sword to support Hou Yin's chin, making him raise his head to look at him, with an unconcealed disappointment in his voice.

"The people of Nanyang are suffering from corvee labor, and they can't bear to force each other anymore!" Hou Yin looked at Cao Cao, and the originally silent eyes gradually seemed to burn flames.

"What? Liu Bei is not collecting taxes when he comes?" Cao Cao smiled angrily.

"At least everyone has a way out." Hou Yin looked at Cao Cao, his voice a little hoarse.

"So..." Cao Cao moved the sword away and pointed to Wancheng in front of him: "Is this the result you want?"

"Hou Yin betrayed the King of Wei. Since he was defeated, he will never regret his death..." There seemed to be a breath brewing in Hou Yin's voice. His knees, which were originally kneeling, broke away from the two guards and rushed towards Cao Cao, but Xu Chu pressed his head down. No matter how hard his feet tried, he could not move forward. A blue veins popped out from Hou Yin's neck, stared at Cao Cao with bloodshot eyes, and roared shrillly: "Even if you kill my nine clans, Hou Yin has no complaints, but what's the people in the city?"

"This... is the price!" Cao Cao patted Hou Yin's head and said coldly: "Remember, there are some things that you cannot do even if your reasons are sufficient. Then, according to his words, kill the nine clans!"

"Hahahaha~" Hou Yin laughed wildly when he heard this: "The nine clans of a certain group have been killed today. The King of Wei does not care about the people's livelihood. Nanyang will not last long. The voice is under the nine springs... Waiting for the King of Wei!"

"Puff~" Before he finished speaking, Xu Chu had already cut off his head with one knife.

Cao Cao paused and did not look back. He just took Cao Ren straight to the city. In such a huge city, except for the soldiers who were transporting the bodies, there was no living person. The pungent and bloody smell, even Cao Cao, who was already used to fighting on the battlefield, felt dizzy.

"King of Wei, this time..." When he returned to the yamen office, Cao Ren was about to report what he had gained this time to Cao Cao, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Cao Cao.

"Ba~"

"I……"

"Ba~"

After two consecutive slaps, Cao Ren was a little confused and looked at Cao Cao in confusion. What else would he want to say? Cao Cao had already slapped him again, and he hit him hard, hitting him on his helmet.

"Take off the helmet!" Cao Cao pointed at Cao Ren's helmet.

"Why is this?" Cao Ren said unwillingly.

"I asked you to pick it!" Cao Cao did not answer, but just looked at Cao Ren.

"Here!" Cao Ren suppressed the resentment in his heart and silently took off his helmet.

Cao Cao slapped again without saying a word.

The crisp slap echoed in the empty yamen. This time, Cao Ren did not ask again or resist. He just let Cao Cao slap down one by one, and half of his cheeks were swollen. Then no one dared to come up to stop Cheng Yu and others.

Even if Cao Cao was furious, all the generals would come forward to persuade him at this time. But now it is different. Cao Cao is so cold, so angry.

With dozens of slaps, Cao Ren's left cheek began to bleed out. Perhaps he was tired of hitting, Cao Cao stopped and said to Xu Chu behind him: "Zhongkang, continue to hit him."

"Lord, this..." Although Xu Chu had never frowned even if he killed Xu You, he asked him to beat Cao Ren, which made Xu Chu hesitate.

"What?" Cao Cao turned around and looked at Xu Chu and said, "Is the words of the Lonely One useless?"

"Here!" Xu Chu sighed, thanked Cao Ren, waved his hand like a dustpan and covered Cao Ren's face. The sound was very loud, but anyone who knows it knows that in fact the strength is far less than the dozens of slaps Cao Cao had before.

"Who asked you to massacre the city?" Cao Cao glanced at Xu Chu, and looked at Cao Ren with a calm tone.

"Nanyang...the people in chaos...these...rebellions have been repeatedly over the years...now...it is the time when our army...the decisive battle with Liu Bei...the rear is unstable...this matter will eventually happen again..." Cao Ren said two words, and was slapped by Xu Chu and said intermittently.

"What do I want in such a stable rear?" Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren and said calmly: "How many people in the civil and military affairs of the court want to betray me? Otherwise, you will lead your troops back and slaughter Xuchang City, and then go and slaughter Ye City. Sooner or later there will be someone there to betray me."

"When you slaughter Yecheng, you will slaughter the entire Jizhou. When you slaughter Yecheng, I'm afraid Jizhou will rebel sooner or later. How about preparing several tombs for my Cao family? I guess the death date of my Cao family is almost there, and a tomb may not be able to accommodate the nine tribes of my Cao family."

"We... are in Xuzhou..." Cao Ren was dissatisfied. Cao Cao never ruthlessly even when he was in Xuzhou.

"Is Xuzhou ours at that time?" Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren and said, "The people of Xuzhou have something to do with me? They are my people? I avenge my father, they are enemies. Even if I massacre all Xuzhou, they can only say that I am cruel and unkind. You are now... slaughtering my people! Do you think that if you massacre the city like this, there are still people in Nanyang who are willing to recognize me as the King of Wei? What do you think if you let me rule the people in other places?"

"Hou Yin betrayed me, and only killed the Nanyang Prefect and Gongcao, and seized a city." Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren and suddenly smiled: "Zi Xiao, you didn't betray me, but you gave Nanyang to Liu Bei!"

Cao Ren's entire face was beaten to blood and blood, but he didn't even hum. But when he heard this, he knelt down with a thud and said in a stern voice: "Lord, Cao Ren deserves to die for all his crimes!"

"I know you're wrong?" Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren and said.

Cao Ren touched the ground with his head and nodded silently.

"It's good to know your mistake. Just drag it out and chop it!" Cao Cao sighed and waved.

Xu Chu's slap froze in the air, looking at Cao Cao in astonishment: "Lord, is it really chopped?"

"Chuo? Pay your life for more than 100,000 people!" Cao Cao waved impatiently.

"The King of Wei cannot!" Sima Yi knelt down and said, "King of Wei, the big mistake has been made, and the people in Nanyang are irreversible. At this time, killing General Zixiao will be useless. What's more, our army is now at the moment of using people, how can we cut off one arm?"

In recent years, Cao's army has lost more generals. Le Jin, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Hong have now seized another Zang Ba and Yu Jin who doesn't know if he really surrendered. There are fewer and fewer generals who can use it. No matter what, Cao Ren's ability is indeed a general under Cao Cao's command who can stand alone. Killing at this time will only cause Cao's army to suffer more losses.

"What Zhongda said is right!" Cheng Yu also stepped forward and looked at Cao Cao and said, "King of Wei, now he is killing the general himself, and he may lose his military spirit!"

Cao Cao sighed, patted Cheng Yu on the shoulder, indicating that he didn't have to be excited, but his eyes swept Sima Yi, turned his head to look at Xu Chu who was frozen in the spot, waved his hand, and Xu Chu retreated tactfully.

"Look at Zhongde's face, I will record this time first, let you make meritorious contributions!" Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren, and naturally he was not really going to kill him. Not to mention Cao Ren's ability, he was the old man who followed him since he had not yet made a fortune. After so many years of love, Cao Cao was not willing to kill him.

"Thank you lord!" Cao Ren kowtowed to Cao Cao silently, and gave Cheng Yu a big gift. Cheng Yu hurriedly turned sideways and gave in half.

"Go down!"
Chapter completed!