Lu Boshe's five sons were shocked when they saw Cao Cao rushing out with his sword.

Lu Boshe's eldest son tried hard to remain calm and stepped forward to Cao Cao and said, "Brother Meng De, why haven't you had a good rest? What are you doing?"

"My father is close friends with you and your father, and he is as close as a brother. I also regard you as brothers, but I didn't expect you to be so heartless that you actually want to tie me up and ask for rewards. Then I can't blame me!"

Cao Cao said as he raised the sword in his hand and chopped it towards Lu Boshe's sons.

Those people were unarmed and had never practiced martial arts. They were not Cao Cao's opponents. In a blink of an eye, four of them were chopped over by Cao Cao.

Lu Boshe's youngest son retreated to the corner of the yard and looked at Cao Cao who was approaching him with a sword in panic.

He knelt down and cried and begged: "Brother Meng De, please spare my life. If you kill me again, you will cut off the incense of the Lu family!"

Cao Cao glared at the man, but without any hesitation, raised the sword in his hand and fell down with a fierce sword.

"Ah!" The youngest son of the Lu family let out a miserable scream, and a long wound was cut out from his chest, blood splattered, and he fell to the ground and died.

Cao Cao knelt down on one knee with his sword and said to the sky: "Uncle Lu, it's not that I, Cao Cao, wanting to cut off your incense. It's really that your sons are not upright in their minds and want to use my Cao Cao's life to exchange for rewards."

"If I don't kill them, I'm afraid they will bring pursuers to harm me. I have to do it. When I, Cao Cao, escape from heaven, get rid of Dong thief, and come back to take care of you for your old age." After Cao Cao said that, he put away the sword in his hand, got up and quickly fled to the manor.

Cao Cao escaped from the Lujia Manor and ran forward quickly. He ran for a few miles before stopping and leaned under a big tree to rest.

Cao Cao gasped and recalled what had happened at Lu Boshe's house just now.

If I hadn't been careful this time, I had heard the discussion of the fifth son of the Lü family, I would have died here. It seems that I would never be able to surrender to anyone on the way to escape again.

Cao Cao secretly made up his mind, after a short rest, he recovered his strength, quickly got up, and continued to rush forward...

After several days of running away, Cao Cao finally came to Chenliu County and found their old friend, the county magistrate Zhang Miao.

The reason why Zhang Miao was able to become the governor of Chenliu County was originally a foreshadowing of the Yuan family to fight against Dong Zhuo in the future.

Zhang Miao and Cao Cao had a good relationship. When they saw Cao Cao coming, they naturally would not betray him and would welcome him warmly.

Cao Cao failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo and fled here, hoping to recruit troops and organize a coalition forces to resist Dong Zhuo, and told Zhang Miao about it.

Zhang Miao had no objection to this and arranged for Cao Cao to recruit soldiers in Jiwu County under his rule...

Jiwu County is located in the southwest of Shangqiu, Henan Province today, very close to Qiao County, Peiguo, Cao Cao's hometown.

When Cao Cao wanted to recruit troops in Jiwu County, it was like he was at the door of his home.

Cao Cao said goodbye to Zhang Miao, returned home first, and expressed his idea to his father Cao Song to recruit troops and resist Dong Zhuo.

Cao Song strongly supported Cao Cao's idea. He not only took out all his property and asked Cao Cao to recruit soldiers, but also helped him contact the Cao family and the clan brothers of the Xiahou family.

Soon, Cao Cao's brothers Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Cao Chun, and Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan all rushed to help Cao Cao, and they quickly summoned more than a thousand people.

With the support of the Cao family and the Xiahou clan, Cao Cao also had a team of this thousand people. With the confidence, he immediately took them to Jiwu County to start recruiting troops.

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, civil wars have continued, and the court has repeatedly recruited troops and horses, and the gentry have also recruited troops to guard their territory.

There are many names for recruiting soldiers. At first, the people were still interested. After all, it is not easy to survive in troubled times. At least one can eat and have a way out when joining a soldier.

But as the soldiers left their hometowns, few people came back.

The people also became resistant and worried about joining the army, and it became extremely difficult to recruit soldiers.

Cao Cao and others arrived in Jiwu County for a few days and issued a number of recruitment notices. They also sent people to the countryside to directly promote recruitment, but they always had little effect and could not attract people.

Cao Cao was at a loss for this, but he had no choice but to solve this problem.

On this day, Cao Cao was worried about how to solve the problem of military source.

Cao Ren ran in excitedly from outside and shouted loudly: "Brother, someone has come to join the army."

These days, there have been sporadic people coming to join the army, so Cao Cao didn't care, just casually said "hmm".

"Brother, there are many people coming this time, more than a thousand people." Cao Ren saw that Cao Cao was not in high spirits and hurriedly reminded him loudly.

"What? One thousand people?" After a few days in Jiwu County, Cao Cao and others had only recruited dozens of people, but now thousands of people came to join the army, which really scared Cao Cao.

"It was Xiaolianwei, the county's Xiaolianwei, who brought people to join the army. He was very famous and financially responsible in the county. He paid for the money to recruit nearly a thousand people, and now he brought the soldiers to join us." Cao Ren explained to Cao Operation.

Cao Cao was very happy and hurriedly stood up and greeted: "Hurry up, come with me to welcome Wei Xiaolian."

Cao Cao followed Cao Ren to the open space outside the recruitment office, and saw a team of 1,000 people being arranged neatly and being registered in an orderly manner.

Cao Hong was talking beside a man in his thirties and quiet appearance.

Cao Ren hurriedly pointed at the man and said to Cao Cao, "This is Wei Xiaolian."

Cao Cao hurried forward enthusiastically and greeted him: "Wei Xiaolian, Cao is late to welcome him, please forgive me!"

Wei Zi heard Cao Cao's greeting and hurriedly turned around and saluted: "Duke Meng De, don't be so polite. Now the reputation of Duke assassinating Dong Zhuo has spread throughout the country."

"Weiz also admires you deeply, so he is willing to lead a thousand people from the village to join the army and serve the Duke. He also donates all the assets in his family to Duke Mengde as military expenses."

Cao Cao was moved after hearing Wei Zi's words: "Wei Xiaolian trusted Cao Cao so much and supported him with all his wealth. Cao must live up to his expectations and personally led the rebel army into Luoyang, killed Dong's thief, and supported the Han Dynasty."

With Wei Zi's joining, the enthusiasm of the villagers to join the army was suddenly mobilized, and even people from Lin County began to join the army. Soon Cao Cao recruited about 2,000 new recruits, and at this time his subordinates had already 4,000...

On that day, Cao Cao counted the new recruits, but found that one of them was not tall, but he was very energetic and strong, and he was very skilled in martial arts. He became interested for a moment and went up to ask, "What's your name?"
Chapter completed!