Chapter 2853 Deng Jiugong fought against Cao Ning, and Liu Tichun presented Ding Tao (Part 1)


    Chapter 2850: Deng Jiugong fights Cao Ning, Liu Tichun presents Ding Tao (Part 1)


    Although Liu Tichun was the garrison of Dingtao, Cao Ning was a member of the Cao Wei royal family and his military rank was much higher than him. If he arrived in Dingtao and wanted to enter the city, the city gate lieutenant naturally did not dare to stop him, so he let Cao Ning enter the city without notifying Liu Tichun.


    As soon as Cao Ning entered the city, he learned from the soldiers at the city gate that Ma Shouying entered the city to lobby for Liu Tichun. Now, regardless of whether Liu Tichun rebelled or not, Cao Ning had to take Liu Tichun off.


    The fall of both Puyang and Xuchang, and once Dingtao is also lost, Chenliu''s 100,000 Cao''s army will be cut off due to the retreat, and thus will be in danger of annihilation of the entire army.


    At this critical moment of life and death, Cao Ning naturally did not dare to take the risk of betting on whether Liu Tichun was loyal. So whether Liu Tichun rebelled or not, he had to take Liu Tichun first.


    As soon as he thought of this, Cao Ning immediately shouted, "Who is the highest level here?"


    "You report to the general, you are the last general."


    The city gate captain immediately stood up to respond, while Cao Ning said, "From now on, you and your subordinates will be under the jurisdiction of me."


    The city gate captain was stunned and then hesitated: "But, this is not in compliance with the rules."


    "Um?"


    Cao Ning immediately glared at the sight, with murderous intent in his eyes faintly revealed, and said lightly: "I was ordered by the lord, and my words were an order. Do you want to violate the order?"


    The naked and powerful murderous intent made the city gate captain feel that the temperature around him dropped sharply, so he dared not refuse. He immediately nodded like a garlic and said, "I dare not, I am willing to obey the general''s order."


    "Okay, take your people immediately and go to the city lord''s mansion with me."


    Relying on his identity and forceful deterrence, Cao Ning forcibly took over the military power of the city gate, and then led his troops to the city lord''s mansion, intending to take down Liu Tichun at lightning speed.


    On the other hand, although Liu Tichun knew that Cao Ning had entered the city, he obviously did not think that Cao Ning would kill him.


    After all, he did not really rebel. At worst, he cooperated to hand over the military power to prove his innocence. He lost the ability to rebel. It is impossible for Cao Ning to not believe him yet, right?


    But Liu Tichun was worried that Cao Ning would kill his good brother Ma Shouying.


    In fact, Ma Shouying cannot blame him for surrendering. After all, he only has 200 county soldiers in his hands, and it is impossible for him to stop Bai Qi''s tens of thousands of Qin troops. Whether he surrenders or not will have an impact on the overall situation.


    But even though that was the case, Ma Shouying surrendered after all, and he took the initiative to act as a lobbyist, so Cao Ning naturally could not let him go.


    After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Tichun responded to Ma Shou with a grim look on his face: "After Cao Ning comes, no matter how he asks you, you will say that you are pretending to surrender, and then return with the Qin army''s intelligence, rather than a lobbyist of the Qin army."


    Now that things have come to this point, Ma Shouying will definitely not be able to escape. The only way that Liu Tichun could think of was that Ma Shouying''s surrender was a false surrender, and brought important information from the Qin army to atone for his sins. Only in this way can he save Ma Shouying''s fate.


    After hearing Liu Tichun''s words, Ma Shouying smiled bitterly and said, "It''s useless. The name I reported when I entered the city was the Qin army envoy."


    “…”


    Liu Tichun wanted to sew Ma Shouying''s mouth at this time. You said you could just come in. What a mouthful. Now you have lost your last life.


    After thinking about it for a while, Liu Tichun finally said helplessly: "There is nothing I can do. I''ll help you hold Cao Ning. You will run away from the back door immediately with this token, and then go to the north gate. The North Gate defenders are my old subordinates. After seeing the token, they will let you out of the city."


    Seeing that his good brother was still considering himself, Ma Shouying was extremely moved and asked, "If I just left like this, what will you do? If Cao Ning knew about it, he would definitely not let you go."


    "Brothers have been here for so many years, so I can''t watch you die, right? Don''t worry, as long as I cooperate with the military power, Cao Ning should not kill me."


    Liu Tichun walked to the front door, but saw that Ma Shouying didn''t move. He immediately frowned and said, "Why haven''t you left yet? It''s too late if you don''t leave."


    Ma Shouying smiled miserably and said, "If I leave, you will definitely die. Even if I escape from the city smoothly, Cao Ning can catch up with him alone. What''s the point of escaping?"


    As soon as this statement came out, Liu Tichun was silent. Ma Shouying was right. Cao Ning''s mount was a famous horse. He traveled thousands of miles a day, otherwise he would not have been sent by Cao Cao to Dingtao.


    In other words, Ma Shouying is dead this time.


    "As death comes to an end, I suddenly figured out something. In fact, your current situation is the same as mine. No matter whether you let me go or not, you will be dead. Cao Ning cannot take the risk of letting you go."


    Liu Tichun was shocked when he heard this. Yes, for Cao Ning, letting himself go is like taking a risk. If it was normal, but now Cao Wei is about to fall into a country, would Cao Ning take risks for him?


    After figuring out the key, Liu Tichun couldn''t help but smile bitterly: "It seems that the two of us brothers are probably going to die together this time."


    Liu Tichun didn''t think about resisting, but Cao Ning had already entered the city. The defenders in the city could not dare to resist Cao Ning. Moreover, with his terrifying strength, he alone was enough to kill all his confidants.


    "No, there is another way that may make you live."


    At this point, Ma Shouying walked over, under Liu Tichun''s puzzled gaze, pulled out the sword on Liu Tichun''s waist, and then forced it into Liu Tichun''s hand.


    "This method is to kill me with your own hands. Only in this way can Cao Ning make you believe in you and have a chance to survive."


    Hearing Ma Shouying''s words, Liu Tichun was silent. He also knew that this might be the last solution, but Ma Shouying was his good brother for more than ten years and he could not do anything at all.


    "No need to say, if Cao Ning really wants to kill our brothers, he will fight with Cao Ning. Eighteen years later, he will be a hero again. It is impossible for me to kill you."


    As soon as Liu Tichun said this, Ma Shouying became anxious.


    "If both of us die, what will happen to the whole family behind us? Your two sons, my two daughters and one son, how can you let them survive in this troubled times?


    If I die, I can get your life in exchange for you. Then it’s worth my old horse, even if I die, I will ask you to take care of my boy and girl in the future. ”


    Every word Ma Shouying said was reasonable. Even if Liu Tichun couldn''t bear it, he had to consider the two families. He could only raise his sword tremblingly, but he still couldn''t move it.


    Seeing this, Ma Shouying immediately urged, "Get on your own, Cao Ning will come, and we will both die by the time we are both going to die.


    If Cao Ning hadn''t seen suicide, I would have committed suicide long ago, so how could it have made you so embarrassed? ”


    After hearing this, Liu Tichun finally stopped hesitating and said with red eyes: "Brother, go." Then he waved his knife decisively. After cutting off Ma Shouying''s head, Liu Tichun knelt in front of Ma Shouying''s body.


    At this time, no matter how hard a tough guy was, he still couldn''t help crying.


    After a while, Cao Ning brought people there with great momentum. He was originally going to do it directly, but when he saw Ma Shouying''s body and Liu Tichun kneeling on the ground, he was stunned and did not take action.


    With Cao Ning''s strength, it was naturally seen that Ma Shouying died at the hands of Liu Tichun. But he couldn''t believe that these two people had such a good relationship. Liu Tichun would have the heart to kill Ma Shouying.


    "Liu Tichun, why do you want to kill Ma Shouying?" Cao Ning asked sternly.


    Liu Tichun wiped away the tears at the corner of his eyes and said seriously: "Report to General, Ma Shouying has rebelled and wants to lobby the last general Xiancheng to surrender to the Qin army.


    Liu Tichun was a defeated general, but the lord did not care about his past grudges and still gave him important tasks. Such kindness would be hard to repay even if he was too heartbroken.


    But Ma Shouying not only betrayed his lord, but also wanted to go to the waters. Since loyalty and righteousness are difficult to achieve both loyalty, he can only choose to give up righteousness and gain loyalty. ”


    Cao Ning could see that Liu Ma’s feelings were real, and the pain Liu Tichun showed after killing was also real, but even so, Liu Tichun still killed Ma Shouying.


    Even Cao Ning couldn''t help but be moved by such a loyal act of kindness and righteousness, and naturally he became indifferent to Liu Tichun''s murderous intent.


    "It''s hard for you."


    Cao Ning patted Liu Tichun''s shoulder intimately, and then said, "The lord ordered Dingtao to be the future, and assisted General Liu, you to guard Dingtao, but now this incident happened. With the general''s current state, it is probably not suitable to lead the army anymore. It''s better to make some adjustments and serve the lord again."


    The implication is to let Liu Tichun hand over the military power.


    Although Cao Ning had already believed that Liu Tichun was not prepared to kill him, he would not let Liu Tichun continue to take power, and military power would definitely be deprived.


    Liu Tichun didn''t expect to retain military power, so he immediately said, "Shame, the last general is restless now and is indeed not suitable to lead the army anymore. I''ll ask the general to be the important task of defending the city."


    "Don''t worry, if you have the general here, Dingtao will not be available. Reinforcements will arrive in at most one day."


    After Cao Ning comforted Liu Tichun again, he left to take over the military power in the city. This made Liu Tichun feel relieved and felt more and more terrified.


    Ma Shouying was really right. When Cao Ning saw him, the murderous intent in his eyes was not concealed at all. It can be seen that whether he rebelled or not, Cao Ning would kill him. If he had not been his good brother Ma Shouying, he would have been dead.


    "Brother, from now on, your children will be mine." Liu Tichun said to himself.


    At the same time, twenty miles outside Dingtao City.


    A three thousand cavalry under the banner of the Qin army was speeding towards Dingtao at full speed, and the generals leading the army were Deng Jiugong Deng Xiu and his son.


    After capturing Puyang, Li Cunxiao, Qin Niu and Yu Yuan all went to chase Lan Yu''s defeated army, while Hao Zhao and Wu Wenhua were sent to lead their troops to suppress the Dongjun Uprising Army. Yu Hua was seriously injured in the Puyang Battle.


    So much so that although there are many soldiers and generals in the huge Northern Army, there are not many strong generals.


    As a general, Bai Qi could not go on the battlefield to kill the enemy himself, so he transferred Deng Jiugong and his son who were left behind to the front line to listen to him.


    Deng Jiugong was injured in the Battle of Crossing the River and was left on Bai Qi by Bai Ma, cooperating with Huang Feihu from Yanjin to guard against Yin Shou in Yan County.


    But with the fall of Puyang, Yan County has become an isolated city, and it is not very meaningful to keep Deng Jiugong staring at Yinshou. After all, Huang Feihu is enough, so Bai Qi transferred Deng Jiugong and his son to the front line.


    Deng Jiugong Deng Xiu, father and son, two marches for 300 miles in two days, then they caught up with Bai Qi''s army that captured Lihu County. Without any rest, they were ordered by Bai Qi to lead three thousand cavalry as vanguards and rushed to Dingtao with simple equipment.


    Although Bai Qi was determined to win Dingtao, he would not only put his hope on Ma Shouying. He sent Ma Shouying to persuade him to surrender was just a courtesy, while Deng Jiugong was a soldier.


    Ma Shou is in the front, but if Liu Ti is ignorant of politeness, then Deng Jiugong is in the back, which is called politeness first and then military force.


    Bai Qi actually felt that it is likely that Deng Jiugong would not be able to appear this time. Ma Shouying alone could convince Liu Tichun, but he was always used to making preparations, but he didn''t expect that Deng Jiugong would be really useful this time.


    When Deng Jiugong and Deng Xiu and his son led their troops to Dingtao, Cao Wei''s banner was still hung on the city tower, and the soldiers on the city wall were also hurriedly transporting supplies. This was obviously not a sign of opening the city to surrender.


    "Father, Ma Shouying may have failed. He failed to surrender to Liu Tichun. What should we do now?" Deng Xiu asked.


    Deng Jiugong put away the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and said lightly: "Since we cannot persuade us to surrender, we can only attack hard. While the Dingtao defender was not ready to defend the city, he happened to catch them off guard."


    Deng Jiugong was very glad that he carried a detachable ladder on this trip, otherwise he would not even be able to attack the city with his entire cavalry lineup.


    Under the order of Deng Jiugong, the Qin army quickly filled the ladder, and then some cavalry dismounted and transferred to infantry, preparing to attack Dingtao forcibly.


    After the Dingtao defenders discovered that the Qin army had arrived, they immediately sounded the trumpet, and then the defenders in the city were mobilized to prepare for the battle to defend the city.


    Looking at the city not far away, Deng Jiugong did not come down to attack directly. He also wanted to try to persuade him to surrender. If it really doesn''t work, he would try to see if he could fight the generals. He would first hit Cao''s morale by killing the generals.


    "Listen to the Cao army on the city, I am Deng Jiugong, I have something to say to your general Liu Tichun." Deng Jiugong shouted.


    On the city tower, Cao Ning sneered and replied, "Deng Jiugong, don''t waste your time. General Liu has killed Ma Shouying, proving his loyalty to the Great Wei Dynasty. He will not see you."


    Deng Jiugong was shocked when he saw Cao Ning. Cao Ning, who should have been in Chenliu, now appeared in Dingtao. Now he understood why Ma Shou failed to persuade him to surrender.


    "It''s trouble." Deng Jiugong couldn''t help but say to himself.


    (This chapter ends)