But at this time Bao Xin could only say: "What this young man said is false. King Hongli has been killed by Dong Zhuo! Don't listen to what he says!"
But Liu Bian pointed at Bao Xin and shouted: "General Bao, I saw you a few times when you were in my uncle's mansion. Don't you know me?"
At this time, Tian Yi angrily said: "Bao Xin, if it hadn't been for the general's appointment as a cavalry captain, you would have the glory and wealth you have today. Now that King Hongli is in front of you, you dare not to recognize him. You are worthy of the great king."
Did the general promote you in the first place? Your conscience has been eaten by dogs!"
Bao Xin said with a guilty look on his face: "Don't listen to the enemy's nonsense, everyone come and kill me! Kill!"
But the more Bao Xin behaves like this, the more suspicious the soldiers around him become, and they hesitate to take action!
Niu Fu laughed when he saw this situation: "Brothers, follow me and kill all these rebellious people! Kill them!"
3,000 ceramic heavy cavalry shouted: "Kill!"
Niu Fu took the lead and rushed towards Bao Xin and the others. The soldiers of the Xiliang Army started to speed up their horses almost at the same time.
The hoofs of thousands of war horses are like thunder, shaking the heaven and earth!
As the cavalry approached, Bao Xin realized that these cavalry were all armored cavalry.
Bao Xin shouted: "Archers shoot arrows, spearmen come forward!"
It's a pity that the soldiers now suspect that they have been deceived, and they obey Bao Xin's orders very little. Only dozens of long arrows flew out, causing no harm to the ceramic heavy cavalry at all!
As the cavalry got closer and closer! Bao Xin and the others faced increasing pressure from the heavy cavalry! Many soldiers were too frightened to move!
Niu Fu's spear pierced an allied soldier, and then flicked it, and the soldier fell to the ground. The war horse behind him galloped past, and his flesh and blood soon became mutilated under the trampling of the war horse.
The heavy cavalry behind Niu Fu rolled over like a huge mountain. The iron hooves of the war horses kept roaring. The heavy cavalry knocked away any obstacles along the way. The heavy cavalry kept waving the iron spears in their hands. Allied soldiers kept dying in their hands.
Wherever the iron cavalry went, it was as if a tsunami swept over it, leaving behind a messy place that was too miserable to look at.
With just one charge, the heavy cavalry completely defeated Bao Xin's army. Bao Xin himself was frightened by this powerful offensive. He could only watch helplessly as the soldiers he had trained so hard fell to Dong Zhuo.
Under the iron hooves of the cavalry.
He could hear the desperate wailing of his soldiers, but it had no effect. The enemy was like a god of death, trampling all the enemies in front of them under their feet, trampling them wantonly, and destroying them at will, leaving only a pool of flesh and blood in the end!
Bao Xin's soldiers collapsed and they could only flee in all directions, but how could human legs not outrun the horses? They were quickly overtaken and then brutally slaughtered.
At this time, Bao Xin's personal guard said: "Lord, the enemy is too powerful. Our army has collapsed. Let's escape quickly!"
After saying that, he pulled Bao Xin's horse and kept running away towards the rear!
Dong Zhuo, who was in the rear, saw that the coalition army was destroyed by the heavy cavalry in one charge, and said happily: "The heavy cavalry is really invincible. If we cooperate with other arms, even if the enemy has 100,000 troops, I am confident of defeating it. This time, I am overqualified!"
In Dong Zhuo's view, heavy cavalry is a sharp weapon that breaks formations. Even a 100,000-strong army cannot withstand the charge of heavy cavalry. But it is only used on an army of several thousand people now. It is a waste of the power of heavy cavalry!
Li Su, who was beside Dong Zhuo, laughed and said: "The Prime Minister of the State is just a little expert now. When he encounters Cao Cao's army, that's when the heavy cavalry will show its real power!"
Dong Zhuo smiled and said: "Order Niu Fu to take in the prisoners, and also have a few people inform Cao Cao to let him know the truth is coming!"
After receiving Dong Zhuo's order, Niu Fu quickly asked the soldiers to stop the killing and at the same time began to recruit soldiers to surrender.
In this battle, Niu Fu killed less than 10 people and injured less than a hundred people, but he completely defeated a battalion of 5,000 soldiers. Most of Bao Xin's 5,000 troops were killed in the battle, and the blood stained the battlefield red.
Liu Bian, who was at the forefront of the battlefield, was also surprised by the strength of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army. After experiencing this battle, he did not dare to resist Dong Zhuo.
On the other side, although Cao Cao had a nearly 10-fold military advantage, he was unable to defeat Li Jue's 5,000-strong Flying Bear Army. Instead, the Flying Bear Army defeated several battalions of soldiers. More than 3,000 soldiers died in the battle, and there were also minor and serious casualties.
There are more than 2,000 people. Most of the coalition soldiers are new soldiers. They have never experienced such a cruel war. Now they no longer dare to enter Li Jue. They can only suppress Li Jue with their superior strength!
But at this time Bao Xin fled here with his cronies. When he saw Cao Cao, he grabbed his hand and said: "Retreat quickly. Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army is too strong. He has an armored cavalry in his hand, and there is no one to charge."
However, my 5,000 men and horses were defeated by this armored cavalry in one charge. We cannot be Dong Zhuo's opponent on the plains!
Qiao Mao and others were already frightened by the combat power of Li Jue's Flying Bear Army. Now that they heard that there were more powerful Xiliang soldiers behind Dong Zhuo, Qiao Mao, Liu Dai, Zhang Miao and others were so frightened that they immediately withdrew their troops and left.
Only Cao Cao wanted to know the specific situation and said: "Yuncheng, please tell me the story of the battle in detail!"
Bao Xin explained to Cao Cao one by one his attacks against Dong Zhuo.
The Xiliang Army's combat power was beyond his imagination. He was not worried. After all, he had already known how powerful the Xiliang Army was. However, Dong Zhuo used King Hongli to undermine the morale of the coalition forces. This was something Cao Cao did not expect!
Is this still Dong Zhuo? Isn't it Yuan Wei who is wearing Dong Zhuo's skin?
Cao Cao began to worry about the coalition forces. If King Hongli continued to appear on the battlefield, the side edicts of the Qing emperor in their hands would become a joke. Even the prefects who had come here might retreat, because without righteousness, their Kwantung coalition forces would really
He has become a rebellious man. This is something that many people cannot accept!
Cao Cao thought for a while and said: "It seems that he has to find a way to snatch King Hongli away!"
Only when King Hongli was on their side could they coerce the emperor to order the princes. Although the emperor had been deposed, they could re-establish it again. The advantage of Cao Cao over Yuan Shao and the others was that he and Liu Bian had no hatred.
Don't worry about Liu Bian's backlash.
Bao Xin shook his head when he heard Cao Cao's words and said: "It's impossible. The Xiliang army now is stronger than when I saw it in Xiliang. After they obtained the weapons and equipment from the imperial court, their combat effectiveness has far exceeded ours."
Got it!"
Although Qiao Mao and others retreated, there was still Li Jue's Flying Bear Army on the battlefield, so Cao Cao could only lead his troops to cut off the rear.
At this time, Hua Xiong led 5,000 cavalry here, found Li Jue and asked, "You have nothing to do? The prime minister was worried that something would happen to you, so he asked me to come and support you!"
Li Jue laughed loudly: "The Kwantung Allied Forces are just cowardless bandits, how can they be the opponent of my Flying Bear Army? Although Cao Cao attacked me with 10 times the strength of his troops, I still defeated him alive! Now they are scared.
He ran away in panic!"
Hua Xiong looked at Cao Cao's army, thought for a moment and said, "If you have the strength to fight on your own, how about we join forces to destroy Cao Cao?"
After Cao Cao led his troops, there were only 10,000 soldiers. After seeing this, Hua Xiong wanted to annex Cao Cao's troops!
Li Jue smiled and said: "Of course I have the strength. I will give Cao Cao's head to me. I will chop it off and use it as a urinal!"
Hua Xiong said: "Okay!"
So Li Jue and Hua Xiong's troops united and attacked Cao Cao's troops together! Cao Cao's men were exhausted, and their combat effectiveness and equipment were not as good as Hua Xiong's and Li Jue's. In this encounter, Cao Cao's army was defeated.
Defeat and retreat!
Cao Ren said anxiously: "Mengde, we can't defeat Dong Zhuo and the others, should we retreat first?"
Cao Cao said solemnly: "We cannot retreat now. Once we retreat, the entire army will be defeated."
Then Cao Cao pulled out the Yitian Sword and said: "Now we can only fight to the death, and we must hold on until it gets dark. Only then can we have the possibility of retreating!"
Then Cao Cao looked at his Cao family members and said: "Now is the time to fight. You take your own guards to control the various ministries. Even if you are defeated, you must send the feeling of defeat to the battlefield!"
Cao Ren and Cao Hong said solemnly: "Promise!"
At this time, Bao Xin also said: "Mengde, I also brought some personal guards, and I will help you guard for a while!"
Cao Cao said excitedly: "Thank you very much!"
Unfortunately, the gap in combat power could not be made up by the efforts of Cao Cao and the others. Cao Cao led 8,000 soldiers to defend until the afternoon, but in the end they were defeated by Hua Xiong and Li Jue.
Cao Cao's entire army was defeated, and his generals fled in confusion!
While escaping, Cao Cao was shot by a stray arrow and the horse he was riding was also injured.
At this time, only Cao Hong was following him. After discovering this, he dismounted and gave his horse to Cao Cao!
But Cao Cao said: "You are a military general, how can you fight with less horses!"
But Cao Hong said: "The world can live without Cao Hong, but it cannot live without you!"
So Cao Cao mounted his horse, and Cao Hong followed on foot, and fled in the dark.
Hua Xiong and Li Jue took in the prisoners and were a little upset when they found out that they had not captured Cao Cao at all.
But it was already dark, so they could only gather their soldiers to join Dong Zhuo!
Dong Zhuo heard the report of the two men and said with a smile: "Cao Cao only has 50,000 soldiers, and now we have annihilated more than 20,000 people. How can there be any courage there? His head will be placed on his body first, waiting for us to go
Take the wild jujube and then take Cao Cao’s life!”
Cao Cao led the defeated army back to Suanzao. What made him happy was that all his generals had escaped without any casualties. Of course, the bad news was that his 10,000-strong army was almost wiped out. Xiahou Dun and the others only brought back a few
To 1,000 defeated troops!
At this time, Zhang Miao and the others came to Cao Cao and said, "Meng De, should we retreat to avoid Dong Zhuo's attack?"
Qiao Mao also followed up and said: "Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army is too powerful. Should we retreat to Hanoi County and join them at Benchu first? This way we still have nearly 100,000 troops and don't have to worry about the strength of Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army."
Obviously, Zhang Miao and the others were afraid of being beaten and did not dare to continue facing Dong Zhuo!
But Cao Cao stopped him and said: "Dong Zhuo has 10,000 cavalry. If we retreat now, we will only be massacred by the Xiliang cavalry on the plains. The army should not forget what happened to Yuncheng. Dong Zhuo has thousands of armored cavalry around him. We
We can still fight Dong Zhuo's Xiliang soldiers by relying on jujube for defense, but if we go to the plains, our army will be defeated if these armored cavalry charge.
At this time, Zhang Miao and the others remembered that Bao Xin's 5,000 men were defeated by Dong Zhuo's armored cavalry at once!
In this way, they are even more dangerous in the wild!
Liu Dai panicked and said: "Let's ask Benchu for help quickly and let him lead the army to rescue us."
Just when the whole Suanzao was panicking, Dong Zhuo led his army to the city of Suanzao quickly.
Dong Zhuo did not attack the city, but asked Niu Fu to lead a group of soldiers to protect Liu Bian. Then Liu Bian took an iron trumpet and told the city every day that he was King Hongli and that the edict on the side of Yuan Shao and his Qing emperors was false.
Yes, let them turn from darkness to light!
Zhang Miao and the others were even more frightened when they saw Liu Bian coming to the battlefield. They were even more frightened than when they saw Dong Zhuo. Liu Bian's arrival completely exposed their skin.
When the soldiers knew that they had been deceived, their morale plummeted! Because after they heard what King Hongli said, they discovered that their so-called alliance to fight against Dong was not legal at all and was a rebellion.
Yuan Shao deceived the fools among them. Originally, everyone was a good army commander and county captain, eating good royal food and working as a local emperor. But now because of Yuan Shao's relationship, not only will they lose their rights, but they may also become rebellious and implicate the family.
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People like Zhang Miao dared to betray the imperial court because they could get more benefits, but it was unlikely that officers below the rank of Army Sima would get more benefits.
And they couldn't accept their betrayal of the imperial court. They marched thousands of miles to fight against Dong. Do they really want to defeat the rebellious ministers? Everyone was full of ambitions to serve the country and wanted to make achievements. But now they suddenly discovered that the rebel was actually themselves?
For a time, many soldiers did not know where to go!
However, Cao Cao and others found that the morale of the coalition forces was low and they were even more afraid to give up the jujubes. They could only keep sending signals to Yuan Shao for help!
At the end of March, Hoai Thanh, Hanoi County.
At this time, Yuan Shao and the others were in a very low mood, as their pursuit of Dong's great cause brought bad news one after another!
First, Sun Jian's 30,000-strong army was defeated by Liu Bei. Yuan Shu led Kong Ni's 70,000-strong army to prepare to fight Liu Bei in Nanyang County. Liu Bei alone was able to contain the 100,000-strong army of Dong's alliance.
Not long ago, bad news came from Suanzao. Dong Zhuo dispatched 40,000 troops to fight against the 50,000 coalition forces. In the end, the coalition forces were defeated and 20,000 people died in the battle. The rest fled to Suanzao and were surrounded by Dong Zhuo's army. Now they are constantly asking Yuan Shao and the others for help!
The strength of Dong Zhuo's army exceeded Yuan Shao's imagination. The 50,000-strong army in the Central Plains was so vulnerable to Dong Zhuo. Yuan Shao couldn't believe it!
But he really didn't dare to lead an army of 50,000 to rescue Cao Cao and the others. Judging from the intelligence they received, even if they went to rescue Cao Cao, they might not be Dong Zhuo's opponents.
And the worst news is that King Hongli appeared on the battlefield in the Central Plains. His appearance made Yuan Shao and the others completely ungrateful and became a rebel army. The consequences were even more terrible than the failure of Cao Cao and the others.