Chapter 42: The Great Change in Wan City (1/5)

  Today there will be five updates, Monday seeking recommendations and collections.

  This is the first update, I'm back with a vengeance!

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  It's late at night and very windy!

  Cao Peng sat inside the small tent, quietly drawing out the long knife and finding a soft, dry cloth to wipe it clean. This Han Ring knife had not seen blood since it came into his hands. However, on the blade's edge, there was a faint hint of cold, eerie red light, indicating that it had once drunk its fill of fresh blood.

  "Ah Fu, what are you doing?"

  Wang Bu returned to his small tent and prepared to take off his armor.

  He leaned the iron spear against the rack and then took off the hook from his arm, stretching his body.

  Cao Peng raised his head and asked: "Where's your husband?"

  "He and Wei Tun will be inspecting the camp..."

  Deng Jie as a festival, has to undertake many things.

  However, such inspections should not be done by him. But out of caution, he still patrolled the camp with Wei Yan.

  The wind has broken the great banner, it is an unfavorable omen.

  Whether it was Wei Yan or Deng Ai, both became especially cautious for this reason.

  Cao Peng put the knife back in its scabbard, stood up and walked to Wang Mai's side. "Tiger Head Brother, my right eyelid has been twitching nonstop. People often say that when the left eye twitches, it means wealth is coming, but when the right eye twitches, it means disaster is approaching. I'm a bit worried, something might happen."

  "What's wrong?"

  Wang looked at Cao Peng with a surprised expression, "What unexpected event could have occurred?"

  "I don't know!"

  Cao Peng said unclearly, why was there such a strong sense of unease? So, he also didn't know how to explain it to Wang Mai.

  Wang bought a smile and said: "Ah Fu, you think too much! We are still one day's journey away from Wan City, we are very safe here."

  "This... let's just consider it as my wild imagination." Cao Peng sighed, walking to the entrance of the small tent. The wind outside was howling loudly, seeming to be getting stronger and stronger. He furrowed his brow, suddenly turning his head to ask: "Tiger Head Brother, on Ma Yu's side, is there anything strange?"

  "Honest!"

  Wang thought for a moment, "Throughout the day, he hardly spoke with anyone and worked quite diligently."

  "Brother Hu, I have a favor to ask of you. If anything goes wrong, please protect my brother-in-law and get him out of here. If it's possible to escape, then immediately return home. Bring my father, mother, and sister with you to Tufu Mountain... Before I left, I had asked your father to seek help on Tufu Mountain. There are some old brothers from his past there, can you protect my family and take them to seek refuge with your father?"

  Cao Peng's expression was very serious, causing Wang Mai to feel some tension as well.

  "A Fu, what's going on? Why are you being so suspicious and paranoid? We're fine now, what could possibly go wrong?"

  "Never mind, just promise me!"

  Wang hesitated for a moment before finally nodding his head in understanding.

  "What about you?" he asked with some concern.

  Cao Peng smiled and said, "I'll follow Wei Tun Jiang, with his protection, there shouldn't be any danger."

  "Alright, my father instructed me before he left to listen to you... but I really can't see what danger we're in now."

  Wang muttered a sentence in his mouth and couldn't help but make Cao Peng laugh.

  There are some things that I also can't see through. But being prepared for any situation and being cautious will generally prevent big mistakes...

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  "Cao Peng, Wang Mai, hurry to the camp for assembly."

  Just as Wang Mai and Cao Peng were talking, a small school suddenly shouted loudly outside the account.

  Cao Peng and Wang Mai did not remove their armor, so they immediately picked up their weapons and rushed out of the small tent, "What's going on, brother?"

  "Something's happened to Wei Duobo!"

  "Huh?"

  Cao Peng was momentarily unable to react.

  It wasn't until Wang Mu pulled him into a run that he realized, Wei Du Bo was actually Wei Ping.

  Wei Ping, what's going on again?

  Cao Peng and Wang Mai hastily arrived at the center of the camp, only to see Wei Yan already mounted on his horse.

  Twenty halberdiers stood in formation behind him. Seeing Cao Peng and Wang Mai approaching, Wei Yan didn't say a word, shouting loudly: "Cao Peng, mount your horse immediately."

  "Ah!"

  "Wang Mai, you stay and follow Deng Jie from now on."

  "Ah!"

  Cao Peng hastily mounted his horse and gave Wei Yan a surprised look.

  Wei Yan did not respond to him, but instead said to Deng Ai and Tang Ji at the gate of the camp: "Deng Jie, old Tang, you two stay here to guard the camp and protect the supplies. I'm going to Hong Shulin now, and before I return, you must not act rashly, be careful."

  Deng Ji and Tang Jie hastily bowed their heads in obedience!

  A confused Cao Peng still didn't quite understand the situation.

  Wei Ping, what's wrong?

  "A Fu, bring people, follow me to set out!"

  Wei Yan finished speaking and together with Cao Peng, they led twenty long spear holders and charged out of the simple camp.

  "What exactly happened with Deng Jie?"

  Deng Ji's face was grave, and he spoke in a low voice: "Just received news that Wei Duobo led the vanguard army to patrol around when they were ambushed in the Red Tree Forest..."

  "An ambush? Who set up an ambush?"

  Deng Ji shook his head, "It's still unclear, Wei Tun will go and take a look."

  "Hu Tou, follow me and continue patrolling the camp. Tang Ji, take some men to guard the supplies and provisions. If anything happens, counterattack immediately."

  Tang Ji nodded and took the people away.

  Deng Ji's face was filled with worry, as Cao Peng's previous warning still echoed in his ears.

  Like Cao Peng, Deng Ji is also worried at this moment...

  Wang unconsciously tightened his grip on the snake spear, and hooked the shield on his arm, tightening it. Taking a deep breath, he could only secretly pray that nothing would happen. It seemed that Ah Fu's concerns were not unreasonable. The situation was indeed chaotic at this time.

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  Cao Peng followed Wei Yan, galloping his horse at a rapid pace.

  Twenty halberdiers followed closely behind, sprinting wildly.

  It seems that these Yiyang Wu Ze were specially trained, although they had two legs, but when running, they only fell behind Wei Yan and Cao Peng by a short distance.

  "What actually happened with Wei Tunjiang?"

  Cao Peng galloped his horse to catch up with Wei Yan and asked loudly.

  Wei Yan slowed down his horse and briefly told Cao Peng what had happened. It turned out that just now, a Yiyang cavalryman covered in blood came running back to tell Wei Yan that Wei Ping and the others had been ambushed.

  The situation of the opponent is still unclear, and the ambush appeared very suddenly.

  Wei Ping led several scouts and tightly entwined with the enemy, sending scouts back to ask for reinforcements.

  Those who excel in many things often have a huge defect. They may be able to grasp the overall situation, but they cannot grasp the subtleties of details.

  Cao Peng also has this problem.

  Even if he can say the classic remarks of ten wins and ten losses, but for the subtle places that have occurred in this era, there is no understanding. So far, he seems to be like a headless fly, crashing around randomly. During the Battle of Yan, did Cao Cao ever mobilize troops against Liu Biao?

  At this time, in this place...

  It is possible that the person who used troops against them was Cao Cao.

  However, Cao Cao had just accepted Zhang Yang's surrender and was capable of using military force against Liu Biao at this time?

  Cao Peng, also cannot be determined.

  The Red Forest, located about thirty miles northwest of the Sunset Gathering Camp. Because there is a piece of maple trees here, when autumn comes, from afar, the red maple leaves are like fire, so it's called the Red Forest. When Wei Yan led Cao Peng and others to the Red Forest, they saw several lonely ownerless war horses wandering outside the forest, whinnying sadly. Beside them were a few corpses...

  Wei Yan shivered with fear!

  Although the distance was still far away, he recognized those horses at a glance, which were Wei Ping and his scout cavalry.

  Hurriedly urging the horse to gallop, Wei Yan jumped off and quickly walked two steps, half squatting beside a corpse. The corpse was sprawled on the ground, back facing upwards, with fresh blood turning the ground into a red muddy puddle.

  "A Fu, fire torch!"

  Wei Yan let out a loud roar, Cao Peng hastily jumped off his horse and took out a torch from the saddle bag. He lit it with a fire starter and suddenly illuminated the surroundings. He quickly walked to Wei Yan's side, not waiting for him to speak, Wei Yan snatched the torch from his hand, lowered his head to turn over the corpse, carefully identifying it.

  It's none other than our own family's traitor!

  Eyes wide with wonder, expression extremely strange.

  Wei Yan may not have noticed anything, but Cao Peng, who was a detective in his past life, also sensed something strange.

  The deceased's expression was one of incredulity, as if he had died without being able to believe it. The wound on his body was also very obvious, a gunshot wound right in the throat. In the fist-sized blood hole, fresh blood was still flowing non-stop...

  Cao Peng looked around and found that there were obvious signs of a struggle in the surrounding area.

  However, the wounds on the corpses were different. Three of them were clearly killed in a fight, hacked to death with a chaotic knife; while another scout was killed from behind. The wound was the same as that of the previous deceased, and the fatal wound was an iron spear.

  "Ah Fu, have you found Wen Bo's body?"

  Just as Cao Peng was observing these corpses, he heard Wei Yan shouting loudly behind him.

  The long spear, had arrived at the front of the Red Tree Forest, panting and out of breath, with a somewhat disordered formation. Cao Peng turned around, but in an instant, a kind of hair-raising fear was born. That fearful feeling, was as if unseen by the naked eye, snakes and insects crawling, deeply felt by the ear, fierce beasts approaching...

  "Be careful, Wei Ge!"

  Cao Peng shouted loudly and his body suddenly leaned forward.

  Just as he leaned back, a series of bowstring sounds suddenly came from the red forest behind him. Dozens of sharp arrows broke through the air with a shrill whistling sound, flying in like stars. Cao Peng fell to the ground with a thud, and the arrow brushed past his back!