At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"This... don't tell me..."

Mi Fang and Ruo Rong looked at each other, eyes full of disbelief.

"Tao Qian is dead."

Chen Deng stared: "Only when Tao Qian is dead can Danyang soldiers tie a white cloth to him with a white flag!"

Mi Fang and Ruo Rong were a little happy at first, but Chen Deng was very worried.

He said something.

"If Tao Qian is dead, it's not difficult to understand Cao Bao's behavior. He hates me for attacking Tao Qian first, so he wants to die with me... He has the idea of ​​dying with me, and he is afraid that he will never die with me. Now, Huaipu County is in danger."

Mi Fang and Ruo Rong, who were originally somewhat relieved, were dumbfounded when they heard this.

Who wants to die with you?

I don't want to die with you!

Don't come here!

The hearts of the two kept roaring.

Cao Bao’s siege continued swiftly and fiercely, but the city defense of Huaipu County was full of crises. Chen Deng tried his best and racked his brains, but he was just trying to maintain the situation. Huaipu was only a small county town, without a big city wall and perfect city defense equipment, and the situation was very critical.

Seeing this, Ruo Rong's psychology has undergone some changes.

He developed a strong hatred for Chen Deng.

Chapter 511 Yi Ruorong's Backstab

It was Chen Deng who persuaded Ruo Rong to rise up against Tao Qian together, because Guo Peng would definitely come and they would surely win.

As Tao Qian's fellow countryman, Ruo Rong would either run away. If he wanted to stay, he had to make contributions, otherwise he would be targeted by other Xuzhou people.

The native place of Danyang people in Yangzhou will bring huge troubles to Ruo Rong.

Seeing this, Ruo Rong decided to follow Chen Deng to fight against Tao Qian for his own interests and property, which was regarded as a nomination certificate.

I thought that this action would be vigorous and everyone must be very relaxed, but I never expected it to be such a dangerous end.

Ruo Rong's heart became more and more unbalanced.

I have so much property to enjoy, and you want me to die here with a dying madman!I do not want to!

I absolutely don't want to!

If Cao Bao broke through the city, he would definitely kill Ruo Rong, because Ruo Rong was Tao Qian's fellow townsman and was trusted by Tao Qian. Fortunate, but he failed this trust.

Cao Bao will definitely kill him!

unless……

Unless you can do something that will be worthless.

Under anxiety, Ruo Rong came up with a bold idea.

What can he do, he will not give up the opportunity to enjoy life and face such a desperate situation.

On the evening of the sixth day of September, after a day of offensive and defensive warfare, Ruo Rong and Mi Fang were called by Chen Deng to their mansion in the city to have dinner and discuss defense.

The atmosphere of this dinner was relatively low, and the participants were not in the mood to chat and laugh.

Especially Chen Deng.

Chen Deng felt that the situation in front of him was a great humiliation to him.

After making full preparations and launching an attack suddenly, he should have won the victory smoothly and climbed to the pinnacle of life, but in the end, he was defeated by a warrior and fell into such a predicament.

For the proud Chen Deng, it was a complete shame.

But after all, who would have thought that such a thing would happen?

At this point, being defeated by Danyang soldiers and reduced to a bereaved dog, how could it be the situation Chen Deng would like to see?

"This time, I didn't think enough about the incident. I didn't think too much about it. That's why this happened and put you in danger. It's all my fault."

Chen Deng took the initiative to review his mistakes, which was not easy for him who is proud and arrogant.

Mi Fang hurriedly said: "This cannot be said to be the fault of Chen Jun alone, we are all at fault, we never expected that Cao Bao would do such a thing, let alone Tao Gongzu's death would be so sudden, Danyang Bing So good at fighting."

"It's not an excuse."

Chen Deng looked defeated and said: "I made a big mistake in this battle. If Duke Wei finds out, he will be very disappointed with me. Even the dead Tao Qian can't fight against me. What face do I have to win Duke Wei?" trust?"

When Chen Deng said this, Mi Fang also had the same thought, closed her eyes and sighed again and again, feeling that she had made a big mistake.

Ruo Rong rolled his eyes, and suddenly picked up the wine glass, stood up from his seat, walked up to Chen Deng, and toasted him with a glass of wine.

"Mr. Chen still made meritorious service. After all, Tao Qian is dead, and the people of Xuzhou have already driven Tao Qian away. In this way, isn't our previous goal achieved? Now we just need to wait for Duke Wei's army to arrive, and everything will be settled." The dust has settled."

After speaking, Ze Rong sighed again: "I just don't know when Wei Gong's army will come?"

"It should be soon. Before, I learned that Duke Wei had sent a large army, so I decided to do it. Now that I figure it out, I should arrive in Tan County anyway. I just don't know when I will come to our place."

Mi Fang shook her head: "I don't know if Mr. Wei knows that we are under siege."

Chen Deng also had a bitter look on his face, and Mi Fang had an even more anxious look on his face.

Ruo Rong understood, and with a fierce gleam in his eyes, he handed over the wine glass.

"Chen Jun, let's have a drink first. No matter what, we still have to find a way to hold on before Duke Wei's army arrives."

"Oh...you are right."

Chen Deng took the wine glass with his right hand, put it to his mouth, and covered his face with his left hand holding his sleeve, which was a perfect aristocratic drinking etiquette.

The chest is open.

It was too late and then it was too late, Ruo Rong took out a gleaming dagger from his arms, and sent it forward, the sharp dagger directly pierced Chen Deng's chest.

Chen Deng was shocked, the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, staring at Ruo Rong in disbelief, without saying a word, he vomited a mouthful of blood, and his eyes became lax.

The smile on Ruo Rong's face had already turned into murderous intent, and he withdrew his dagger abruptly, and with a push, Chen Deng fell limply to the ground.

Mi Fang on the side was melancholy after drinking a glass of wine, when she suddenly heard a noise, she glanced over and saw that Chen Deng was already lying on the ground, and Ze Rong was holding a bloody dagger in his hand, turning his head like a bloodthirsty beast Staring at him with murderous intent on his face.

"This this……"

Mi Fang's mind suddenly went blank.

Until Ruo Rong rushed forward with a dagger and stabbed him in the chest, he didn't realize what happened.

Mi Fang limply fell to the ground, her body twitched a few times, and she lost her breath.

Ze Rong took a few breaths, looked at the dying Chen Deng and Mi Fang, and grinned.

"How many more days? Do you want me to die with you? You go to die first!"

Ze Rong stood up and pulled out Chen Deng's saber on the screen.

He chopped off Chen Deng's head with one knife, and Mi Fang's head with another knife, and walked out with two bloody heads.

Pushing open the door, he quickly walked to the gate of Chen Deng's mansion, ignoring the surprised or screaming maidservants all the way running away, and nodded to his subordinates who had rushed in.

"Kill them all."

Ruo Rong waved his hand, and the soldiers who had already been prepared poured into Chen Deng's mansion, and started a massacre.

No one can escape this deliberate slaughter.

The people in Chen Deng's house were slaughtered by Ruo Rong, including his father, Chen Gui, and his two other living brothers.

Chen Deng is dead, Mi Fang is dead, Ruo Rong's soldiers and horses control everything, Ruo Rong shows the heads of Chen Deng and Mi Fang, the soldiers in the city have no leader, they can only obey Ze Rong's orders.

Ruo Rong sent people out of the city to discuss with Cao Bao, explaining that he was forced to rebel with Chen Deng, that he could not die out of his own heart, now that he had the opportunity, he killed both Chen Deng and Mi Fang, and used his two heads to pay homage to Tao My humble soul in heaven, please forgive him Cao Bao.

As long as Cao Bao forgives him and vows not to harm him, he will open the city gate and surrender.

Seeing the heads of Chen Deng and Mi Fang, Cao Hong and Cao Bao were amazed, as was the potter.

"Ze Rong was really forced?"

The pottery merchant looked at Cao Hong and Cao Bao, but they didn't know what to say.

Originally, it was just to cover the evacuation of the family members and play the game of escape, but I didn't expect to get such a big gift.

"Ze Rong is also from Danyang, and he is our fellow countryman. We should trust him in terms of emotion and reason. In the current situation, one more person will give us more power."

Cao Hong decided to accept Ruo Rong, so Cao Bao told Ruo Rong that they would not blame the past and promised not to harm Ruo Rong, so Ruo Rong opened the city gate to welcome the potter and Cao Hong Cao Bao, knelt down in front of the potter and wept loudly, with the whole city Huaipu County once again joined the fugitive group in order to vote for a certificate.

Then, the potter made a decision, he decided to slaughter Huaipu County.

"Chen Deng perfidiously killed my father, I want people in Huaipu County to be buried for my father!"

Chapter 512 Two Zhang Liao Comes

The potter gritted his teeth and hated Chen Deng, and because Chen Deng was a native of Huaipu, he helped Chen Deng in the rebellion and killed Tao Qian, so the potter decided to slaughter Huaipu County to avenge his father.

With an order, the Danyang soldiers began to massacre the city wantonly and selflessly.

Regardless of whether they are elite soldiers or not, massacres are still the same massacres.

In this era, only Guo Peng can restrain his soldiers from doing such things. Other people and other troops will not have such awareness and will not have any sense of guilt.

Emperor Guangwu and Liu Xiu all did this, and all emperors did this, so what can we not do?

To fight a war is to gamble with one's life, in order to make a fortune, or else, is it for honor?

Do not make jokes.

Huaipu County was weeping helplessly under the attack of raging fire and steel knives, and there was nowhere to escape under the ravages of elite soldiers.

After massacring the city overnight, the group of desperadoes returned with a full load and continued to flee south.

The next step is Guangling County, passing through Guangling County, crossing the river from the Yangtze River Ferry in the south of Guangling County to return to his hometown in Danyang, Jiangdong.

In this way, it is safe.

They really think it's safe.

But things don't work that way.

The Danyang soldiers accidentally got Huaipu County, and joined Ruo Rong, a habitual criminal, and immediately started burning, killing, and looting all the way, running all the way south, burning, killing, and looting all the way, wanting to avenge Xuzhou people, and Tao Qian who has governed Xuzhou for so many years Anwen was completely destroyed in order to retaliate against the people of Xuzhou.

So when they entered Guangling County, they massacred Xuzhou people even more recklessly, burning, killing and looting on a large scale.

Zhao Yu, the Governor of Guangling County, resigned after Tao Qian became Duke Xu, and came out to serve as the Governor of Guangling County when Chen Deng called on everyone to attack Tao Qian. He stayed and led his troops to conquer.

As a result, Zhao Yu failed to stop the red-eyed Danyang soldiers. Cao Bao led the Danyang soldiers to defeat Zhao Yu. Zhao Yu died, and the Guangling soldiers were defeated.

Because they didn't get the news that there were chasing soldiers going all the way south, the Danyang soldiers became more courageous. Under Ruo Rong's instigation, the potters gritted their teeth fiercely to support Ruo Rong's view, and wanted Xuzhou people to pay for their betrayal.

The potters ordered Danyang soldiers to plunder freely, kill anyone they met, rob anything they found, and burn houses if they found them. They wanted to destroy everything Tao Qian brought to them.

This is the price you should pay!

The potter's bloodshot eyes scanned the land of Xuzhou viciously.

Although Cao Hong felt that this was inappropriate and that he should retreat quickly, the crowd was so angry that everyone felt that Cao Hong alone could not reverse the will of the group.

Yu Jin and Chen Gong stayed in the county seat of Tan County to sort out the battlefield and collect information. After spending more than a day, they finally figured out what happened before.

Chen Gong keenly sensed that something was wrong with those things, and deduced from it that Tao Qian's death might be the trigger of everything.

Chen Deng opposed Tao Qian and led Xuzhou's powerful gentry to ask Guo Peng for assistance. This was Guo Peng's reason for sending troops, but before Guo Peng's army arrived, Tao Qian died. Once Tao Qian died, guarding Xuzhou became useless. Meaningless, so Danyang Group decided to leave Xuzhou.

As for where to go, it is also easy to explain.

Go back to my hometown, to Danyang, Jiangdong.

So they defeated Chen Deng's rebels from the south, and then went all the way south, trying to cross Xiapi and Guangling, and then cross the river to the east of the river.

If you really want to let them cross the river, it will be difficult.

Chen Gong told Yu Jin his analysis, and Yu Jin immediately realized the problem, so he ordered Gao Lan and Yan Liang to lead [-] cavalry to go south in pursuit.