The county seat of Boping was moved to E County, dozens of miles away to the north, where he used to be the county magistrate.

Zhang Dalongtou said that he would not escape, and indeed he would not escape. Cao Shancheng had never thought of leaving Qinghe County. He chose to go to E County to continue waiting for news about Gaotang and Licheng, but this does not mean that he saw the knife coming.

Not even trying to hide.

As a result, that night, the main force of the 18,000-strong Army on the Central Road fell to nothing!

And Mr. Wangxian and Mr. Han

The captain was caught off guard when he saw his immediate boss, Cao Shancheng, Mr. Cao Mansion, in a mansion in the county seat of E County.

"Zhangnan?! Dou Lide, a native of Zhangnan, brought 10,000 people across Licheng without paying any attention to him, and went directly to his hometown in Zhangnan?!"

Even though Lord Cao had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but turn pale when he heard this, and then smiled instead of being angry.

"I know, I know! All my captains and county magistrates have turned over to the bandits! But I don't know at all?! Zhangnan, Wucheng, Qinghe, Chiping, Boping...Gaotang

!Is all your hard work for three months in vain?!"

Just as Mr. Wangxian was about to comfort him, Cao Shancheng shook his head again: "No, it's not that three months of hard work have been in vain, but three years of hard work have been in vain... Back then, when the rebel army rose up, I defended the county alone. Within three years, I fought with all the people.

There were more than a hundred battles between the bandits on the road, and I thought they were gradually clearing up the situation, but I didn't expect that in the end, I was left with only one city in the county!"

Magistrate Wang immediately shut up. It was one reason that he wanted to jump off the ship but failed. The other reason was that the prince, who had been a little too tense in the past few months, was obviously greatly stimulated. It was another reason that he was not in a normal state.

At this moment, he could only hope that Lieutenant Han, who had always looked down upon him, would not sue him temporarily and say that he was planning to flee to the west. Otherwise, God knows what Cao Shancheng, who was in such a state under such a situation, could do.

In fact, beside him, the current Magistrate Zhao of Yan County had just remained expressionless and silent for a long time, as if he had seen something a long time ago.

"How many soldiers did you bring from Licheng?" Cao Shancheng, whose eyes were bloodshot, suddenly seemed to regain his clarity.

"Two thousand...there are too many stragglers on the road, especially the local soldiers in Licheng, who are hiding in the city and will not come out." Instead, Deputy Captain Han glanced at Mr. Wang nervously.

"Not bad." Cao Shancheng was silent for a moment, and actually nodded repeatedly. "Not bad. Marching forty miles in one night, three thousand soldiers brought out two thousand, but I couldn't... I brought them out in a hurry from Boping

Three thousand soldiers, leaving aside the five hundred who used my banner to lure the enemy, still only reached more than a thousand, and half of them were scattered on the road... How did you do it?"

Han Erlang answered seriously: "I usually ask them to prepare dry food, drinking water and torches."

"Did you think you would lose this battle from the beginning?" Cao Shancheng narrowed his eyes.

Han Erlang hesitated for a moment and told the truth: "Master Fu, I got used to this during the Three Expeditions. At that time, everyone wanted to escape, but those who escaped in a hurry and those who escaped early were caught and killed.

I had no choice but to be prepared to escape and try to escape based on the situation. Later I actually escaped, and I have been preparing like this since I relied on this to survive."

Cao Shancheng was silent for a moment, then asked inexplicably: "Is the Three Expeditions very hard?"

"It's definitely hard work, but the main reason is that I'm afraid of death... everyone died in the first two times, who dares to move forward?" Han Erlang obviously didn't want to start this topic, but he could only deal with it. "Go forward.

It means death, and running away means death, so why not try running away."

"If it's so natural, then do you hate me?" Cao Shancheng continued to ask. "I killed many people like you who escaped back that day. Aren't all Zhang Jin Shengjuan's gang like this?"

"How can you hate Fujun?" Han Erlang replied seriously. "Zhang Jinsheng also committed murder. It was Cao Fujun who dealt with him and allowed us and the people of Qinghe to live a stable life again...I

As a surrender soldier, I was not killed. I am grateful to Mr. Cao from the bottom of my heart. If Mr. Cao wants my life, I have nothing to say."

Cao Shancheng was slightly comforted and nodded: "That's good, that's good. In the end, I have an honest and capable person following me, which saves me a lot of worry... I'm too tired, let's take a rest."

Rest, I will leave all the military and political affairs in the city to you."

With that said, he ignored the two county magistrates and went directly back to his back house where he had lived for who knows how many years.

Just like that, the time came to the afternoon. Because they had easily captured Gaotang last night, it was Zhang Dalong who arrived at the foot of the county town ahead of the somewhat confused troops in the middle.

Then, he had Xue Sijiang sent into the city, and asked Cao Shancheng to open the city and surrender before this time tomorrow, and lead his neck to be killed.

Of course Cao Shancheng ignored him.

But Zhang Xing was bored, waiting for the army in the middle to gradually

When they gathered in the city, they picked and chose again and wrote a nonsense announcement in vernacular - "On the Death of Cao Shancheng", and then asked someone to copy several copies, one for the file and one for Xie Minghe to take.
Chapter completed!