Chapter 111 Wei Wenchang, the guts of the sky
Cao Cao's mood at this time was really like a dog who was soaring to the sky.
When he went to the village bandit, he dared to bet with his life that this person must be the spokesperson who was near Yiyang, and even the entire eastern Nanyang, and even pushed up the enemy. These guys did not dare to resist the court blatantly, and were unwilling to cut their lives. So he found such a thing to disgust them.
Otherwise, why didn’t the emperor hear any troubles of the village bandits when he was there? He jumped out as soon as the emperor left?
No matter how incompetent Xiahou Dun was, he was a veteran who had been in the military for a long time. He could never be tied up by an unknown rural bandit.
But in fact, this matter is a little complicated. Cao Cao really underestimated Wei Yan. Really, this matter is not that Xiahou Dun is useless!
This time he received the order from Meng De and divided his troops with Cao Ren. Cao Ren went to the west, and Xiahou Dun went to the east, leading his troops along the water road to show off his power to scare the local nobles and powerful.
To put it bluntly, it's not here to fight.
If you collect taxes, you must give kindness and power. You must slap a sweet date. Moreover, these are all nobles. You have to put a knife on their necks, but you still have to give a smile to them. You must also give a smile to them while you ask for land, money and food.
So every household came all the way, and there were always people who wanted to invite him to drink, which had to be given face. So, when I ate and ate, I happened to meet Wei Yan slaughtering cattle and sheep, and I had to work hard for them with great fanfare.
Xiahou Dun instinctively thought that this was a noble family. After showing off his power in routine, he directly took charge of Wei Yan's money, grain and land. Wei Yan also agreed with full permission, and said that their children were willing to station in the army and asked the court to give him a formal official position.
Xiahou Dun was very happy and appointed Wei Yan as the captain on the spot, and took his hand affectionately to the table to drink with him.
Xiahou Dun had an average ability to fight, but he was very capable of winning people's hearts and uniting soldiers. After drinking a drink, he chatted and laughed with Wei Yan, and the atmosphere was harmonious. The two of them hugged their necks and waists, and they were almost like killing chicken heads and burning yellow paper, and they became brothers of different surnames.
Then Xiahou Dun proposed to ask Wei Yan to follow him directly, first recruit his hometown warriors, and then carry out military farming when they arrive in the north. Wei Yan proposed that this trip could be considered as joining the army, and wanted to invite Xiahou Dun to visit his mother at his back house.
This requirement is normal, so Xiahou Dun naturally agreed.
Then, he was kidnapped.
The second time! This is the second time he has been kidnapped in his life!
Ah~, it’s so embarrassing, I want to die!
When the deputy general Han Hao saw it, he also walked by his hundred thousand divine beasts in his heart.
What a great sin I had done in my previous life? I actually encountered this kind of thing twice in my life!!
Immediately gritted my teeth and led my personal soldiers to kill them first.
Unexpectedly, Wei Yan had a plan, and laughed loudly and waved his hand, and a large row of powerful crossbowmen surrounded them.
Han Hao was stunned and saw Wei Yan taking a dagger and stabbing it hard on the butt of Xiahou Dun with a big tied up.
"Come on, at worst, we can die together. We can die with the famous Xiahou Dun. I, Wei Yan, will be regarded as famous in history!"
This cruelty scared Han Hao directly.
You should know that this kidnapping is really different from the last time in Yanzhou. The last time, the kidnapping was just a temporary riot army. Secondly, Lu Bu sneaked into Yanzhou at that time, and a life-and-death crisis that would be destroyed if the entire Cao family group was not properly handled. To be honest, naturally he couldn't care about Xiahou Dun's life.
This time, they are just here to show off their power.
Moreover, Wei Yan was obviously prepared, not comparable to those of the Yanzhou rioters before.
If he dared to act like he did last time, Wei Yan, a lunatic, might really kill people. This time, Xiahou Dun's life would be very important.
Besides, he is not a fool. He is doing it at Xiahou Dun. If he really wants to get it, I am afraid that Cao Cao will not dare to ask for it if he praises him again.
"Brother, if you have something to say, you can release my general first. You can just ask for anything."
"My request is that you get out of Yiyang and stop coming here to collect taxes!"
So Han Hao had no choice but to take his troops back to Xinye and let Cao Cao make a decision.
Besides, on Xiahou Dun's side, he was tied up for no reason and was really disappointed at this moment.
This kind of thing has never been so shameless to see people once in this life, twice!
Are you Wei Yan sick? Why are you tying me?
So he cursed Wei Yan and shouted loudly that he killed himself, not living anymore, no longer wanted to live, and had no shame to live anymore.
Wei Yan was very happy. Not only did he not kill him, but after Han Hao retreated, he took him to visit the powerful and nobles from nearby counties one by one.
"Hey, do you know? This is Xiahou Dun, the confidant general of the Grand Sima of the dynasty. Now he has been tied up by me. I am in your house now. You guess I will tell Grand Sima that this matter has nothing to do with you. Do you believe it or not? Grand Sima fake Huang Yue will collect heavy taxes from you here. Are you so willing to be killed?"
"Now you only have two roads. One. I will take Xiahou Dun to hide in the mountains. You will find a way to deal with the Grand Sima. The second one is to believe me once. Give me horses, money, food, soldiers, weapons, and arm me. All the blame is my. I am a bandit nearby. Every time you pay taxes, let me rob the money you pay, and we will get our 37th cent account. I will do it if I do it."
In just three days, Wei Yan walked the living Xiahou Dun like a dog walking, and went door to door. Wei Yan, who originally had only seven or eight hundred people in his hand, even less than one thousand soldiers, expanded to six thousand people with a blow, and replaced the cannon with a bird gun.
Then Cao Cao, who was furious, came to beat him in person. Seeing this, Wei Yan smiled and ordered the troops to be broken into pieces, wherever they came from. When there was a task to fight next time, he would send his personal guards to organize the big guys, and then he would steal the money and everyone would divide it.
He himself fled into the nearby mountain with his meat tickets.
Cao Cao couldn't find him, and his head hurted so much that he was so angry that he thought it was the work of the nobles here.
He had to close the door and let Han Sui go.
Gou never expected that Wei Yan would repel Han Sui with his advantage in the peace of mind.
After Han Sui retreated, Cao Cao came again, and Wei Yan disappeared again.
Then there was news that Wei Yan ran to the west and was stationed near Nanxiang.
After that, Wei Yan had expanded to a scale of 20,000 troops in just a few days, and was stationed in Shangmi, and the person who was facing Luo and Drum started to work with Cao Ren.
Cao Ren had a young soldier and even suffered a small loss and retreated.
It's really bold.
Just when Cao Cao was furious, he planned to lead a large army to wipe out Wei Yan. This time he dared to escape again and even if he searched mountains and checked waters, he would even scrape him out.
But after Cao Cao arrived in Nanxiang, he received a war report that Wei Yan led an army of 20,000 to head north.
Cao Cao looked confused.
Shangmi is already enough to go north. Where can I go north? He doesn’t want to fight Wancheng, right?
Isn't it like this even if I commit suicide?
Then the next day, Cao Cao received the news that Wei Yan ran to Luyang and surrendered to Yang Biao, and he couldn't spit out an old blood.
Chapter completed!