After all, Dong Zhuojun's strategy was too straightforward and simple. Even Cao Cao could conclude now that the information about Dong Zhuojun's shrinkage this time was probably true, so he repeated the same tactics... because this battle was obviously an imitation of the previous one.
Jia Xu and Lu Bu used a trick to ambush Sun Jian when they retreated. It was just that Cao Mengde, Liu Xuande, and Er Zhang were too eager for Luoyang, so they easily fell into such a simple trick to lure the enemy.
But back to the present, these are nothing. The real problem is that our General Fenwu just personally ordered the city gate to be burned!
Fires broke out everywhere in the city, and there were shouts of killing, but the real killing moves hidden in the fire and the shouts of killing were the arrows shot from the black shadows, and the faint sound of horse hooves.
Therefore, Cao Cao saw Wei Zi's death, but he couldn't think too much and could only rein in his horse and turn around... No matter where he went, he had to find Xia Houyuan, Le Jin and Cao Hong first, and then try to join them.
Liu Bei was banned, otherwise he, Cao Mengde, and a mere two thousand troops would not be able to escape even if he wanted to.
However, he was still a moment late.
Although it is dark night and it is within the city, Tongtuo Street, a wide avenue that once represented the majesty of the Han Dynasty, has become a natural place for cavalry to charge... Thousands of Kansai cavalry do not need to form formations.
There is no need to identify the enemy's position, and the commander does not even need to give orders. They just need to charge forward along the wide and straight Tongtuo Street!
As a result, Cao Mengde just turned around and came to the back in embarrassment. Before he could organize his defense and call for reinforcements, the Kansai cavalry rushed behind him.
In other words, General Fenwu himself may have known how to use cavalry and how to defend against cavalry when he followed Gongsun Xun in his conquest of the Yellow Turbans. However, in the dark night, beside the fire, the new recruits he recruited from Chenliu and Pei Kingdom were...
I don't understand the power of cavalry charging on the ground, let alone how to deal with it!
In fact, these people were already at a loss because of the sudden attack. Under such circumstances, how could they form a formation to resist?
The cavalry roared in. The two thousand men led by Cao Mengde collapsed almost instantly due to their loose formation and sudden encounter with the enemy! Cao Cao reacted and shouted orders loudly. Not to mention whether it was still in time, no one paid attention to him at this time.
All the subordinates were running for their lives. However, there was no need to think too much about the result of these people selling their backs to the cavalry. These more than a thousand Kansai cavalry were like chasing ducks, directly on this road that had shed a lot of blood.
The chase started with easy hacking and slashing.
When the charge slowed down, the ambush soldiers in the Nangong also abandoned their bows and swords and charged out, as if they were following the cavalry to drive away Cao's army on this avenue.
Cao Cao's eyes were about to burst, but the Guanxi cavalry had seen clearly by the firelight and discovered this big man wearing a red cloak and a crest, so he took the initiative to attack again... In this situation, although Cao Mengde was heartbroken
, but could only turn around and flee with dozens of mounted guards.
But he could not walk more than a hundred steps in panic. Suddenly, a guard horse beside him stumbled and was directly tripped by a corpse. Then he and the horse fell to the ground. Cao Cao was also unable to dodge and fell directly from his horse.
Down!
In the dark night, there were pursuers following behind him. The guards around him changed their colors, but they could only turn around to stop the pursuers, and then hoped that Cao Cao would get up on his own.
However, what these desperate guards didn't know was that in the dark night, Cao Cao's heart was already freezing when he fell to the ground... Nothing else. After he fell, his entire right arm hit the ground directly, and he was instantly unconscious.
Then the pain in his right rib was so unbearable that he couldn't get up at all.
It took a lot of effort for Cao Cao to sit up. When he turned around, he found that only half of his bodyguards had been killed by the excellent Kansai cavalry, and he felt extremely desperate.
To be fair, at this moment, Cao Mengde even considered giving up resistance and sitting on the ground waiting for death.
"Where is Mr. Cao?" But at this moment, a short general suddenly led a group of troops and came out of Sangong's Mansion on the south side of Tongtuo Street. It turned out to be Le Jin who had been separated from Cao Cao before.
"I have killed Mr. Cao of your family!" During the melee, a Kansai general heard the voice and caught a glimpse of Le Jin. He stood on his horse, holding a bloody spear, pointing at each other from a distance and mocking. "Now.
I’m going to kill you, this monkey!”
When Le Jin heard this, he was furious. He didn't care. He only carried a ring-headed sword and led the crowd directly into the cavalry formation.
Although Le Wenqian's troops were small in number, they were brave and skilled in fighting. Before this, although Dong Zhuo's cavalry had taken full advantage, their momentum had stopped. At this time, it was just a melee. So, suddenly, a sudden
The fresh troops of Cao Cao's army rushed in from the flank, but caught the chasing Kansai cavalry by surprise.
Of course, in the final analysis, Le Wenqian is still brave and good at fighting. Although he is short in stature, he is like a fish in water in this kind of melee. He personally leads dozens of soldiers to charge forward, and cuts down the cavalry in the chaos.
After cutting off the horse's legs, in a moment, he led his troops to kill more than ten cavalrymen and more than ten war horses. He even rescued Cao Cao's guards and routed countless troops!
The most distracting thing is that every time Le Wenqian kills a person, he asks "Where is Duke Cao?" and every time he saves a person, he also asks "Where is Duke Cao?" This attracts everyone's attention on the battlefield. Cao's army is all excited. Dong
Everyone in the army is afraid...but everyone is attracted by it!
By the way, the officer of Dong Zhuo's army who had previously mocked Le Jin's figure was sitting on his horse condescendingly. Although they were fighting in the dark, he couldn't see clearly how the other party was showing off his might and cutting down cavalrymen like melons, but he could see one thing clearly.
...You must know that the ring-shou sword is like a straight sword. It can only cut people, but it takes a lot of effort to chop off a horse's leg. Therefore, Le Jin could only abandon the sword after cutting it for a few times, and then asked the guards behind him for a new ring.
The first sword... And the officer saw the opponent charging into the formation and counted clearly. In just a short period of time, this short Cao Jun officer had actually changed five or six swords in a row!
Therefore, as Le Jin was covered in blood and the killing came closer and closer, the Dong Zhuo army officer could not control himself at all and actually hit his horse and ran away!
The general is a courageous soldier. Since this man escaped, Dong Zhuo's surrounding troops also fled, or temporarily retreated. Naturally, Le Jin would not pursue him, but hurriedly followed the instructions of the guards to find Cao Cao.
However, Cao Cao had already been rescued by this time.
It turned out that as soon as Cao Hong entered the city, he was ordered to suppress and clean up the official temple and establish a government office on the north side of Tongtuo Street. However, he had always been greedy for money... When the war broke out, the business with Amway was cut off. Later, in order to support Cao Cao
He spent all his money to raise an army, so he paid special attention to the treasures... Halfway through, he remembered that Nangong was a forbidden area. Although Dong Zhuo had already searched it when he moved, he still couldn't find the treasures there.
The chance of finding treasures was still far greater than that of these official offices, so he took matters into his own hands and led troops directly to Nangong.
So, when the war suddenly broke out, he and Le Jin came here almost immediately. And Cao Zilian was not a good fighter. Le Jin showed his power there, so he simply took the opportunity to look for the fallen Cao Cao and found him.
Not to mention, he even helped Cao Cao temporarily tie up his arm with a broken spear shaft, and then helped him onto his horse.
While Cao Hong was protecting Cao Cao, Le Jin personally led the troops to cut off the rear, gathered the defeated troops along the way, and retreated eastward while fighting. Not long after leaving, it turned out that Xia Houyuan also led a crowd to look for Cao Cao. The three generals gathered together, and at a glance, they saw that only
There are seven or eight hundred people left... The rest are not necessarily all dead, but nine out of ten were charged in front of the cavalry, and each of them collapsed. At this time, they were being massacred in the streets and alleys. Of course, in a sense
The main force of the 'Queen'.
Of course, we must not be sentimental at this time. Cao Cao had a brief discussion with his three most trusted generals and immediately decided on the direction of retreat - Ximen was burned. At this time, his only hope was Yu Jin and Liu Beineng.
The door to the Middle East has been opened.
So, Xia Houyuan opened the way, and after Le Jin was cut off, Cao Hong personally took care of Cao Cao. Seven or eight hundred people immediately followed the city wall in panic to the East Gate to look for Liu Bei. In the middle, they encountered large and small groups of Xiliang troops.
After repeated interceptions and pursuits by the troops, Xia Houyuan and Le Jin fought to the death to escape.
However, as the saying goes, a friend in need is a friend indeed, what surprised and moved Cao Cao the most was that Liu Bei did not escape alone. Not only that, Liu Xuande defended the city gate, and at the same time sent Zhang Fei to lead all the cavalry in his army along the east wall of Luoyang to meet him.
Cao Cao...Zhang Fei's bravery certainly gave people a sense of security, so the second half of the journey was much easier.
But it may be because Zhang Fei, the tiger general, left at that time, when Cao Cao met Liu Bei at the East Gate, the latter also suffered heavy losses, with only a thousand people left. Fortunately, there were 3,000 people from the Yujin Department outside the city.
, who met General Cao and Liu head-on, immediately took over the task of cutting off the rear, and then asked General Cao and Liu to evacuate to Yanshi first.
This night's tragic defeat was really nerve-wracking. Cao Cao was confused and didn't know what he was thinking. Liu Bei also looked pale. The two of them fled until dawn. When they saw Yanshi City in front of them, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"We lost most of our troops and horses in the defeat last night. When we return to Chenggao, we may not be able to gain a foothold and be unable to do anything." Cao Cao finally saw the city in front of him, with a broken spear pole tied to his arm, and his face covered in dust and blood.
He immediately spoke bitterly, but he didn't know who he was talking to. "Therefore, I am going to recruit soldiers again... Wen Qian went back to Dongjun to recruit soldiers; Miaocai and Zilian returned to their hometown, Zilian went to his home to recruit soldiers, and Miaocai went to look for Zixiao. Then
The boy has thousands of men and is currently wandering near Surabaya; Yuan Rang and I are going to Yangzhou. The Danyang soldiers are indeed good at fighting. It is not an illusion that Xuande's troops can be far superior to me this time."
The other generals naturally agreed hurriedly, but Liu Bei remained silent.
"Don't worry, brother Xuande." Seeing this, Cao Cao managed to cheer up and said, "You saved my life last night, how can I not repay the kindness? I am going to recruit troops, and I will definitely help you with all my strength. The Danyang I have recruited
You and I are half soldiers, so I must compensate you for your losses..."
Liu Bei, who was also embarrassed, sighed and couldn't help but said quietly: "Brother Meng De, why do I care about these things? I just remembered that we are at the critical moment of the war against Dong. Such a big defeat for you and me will probably affect the overall situation of the war against Dong."
Secondly, when you and I come back to recruit troops, I'm afraid we will miss a lot of important things... I came to challenge Dong because I thought that a man should be the first in the world, so I was very ambitious, but I didn't expect that I was defeated embarrassingly and became a laughing stock.
"
Liu Bei has always been indifferent to emotion and anger, and today's emotion made him extremely ashamed and sad. Cao Cao has always been an emotional person. When he heard this, he remembered everything about the battle last night, but he was filled with sadness.
Come on, I almost feel aggrieved and want to cry.
However, all the soldiers around him were extremely depressed. As a general, Liu Bei's emotion was already extreme at this time. If he continued to feel sad, it would probably affect his morale.
At this thought, Cao Cao forced a smile on his face and smiled at Liu Bei: "Don't worry, brother Xuande, as long as you and I are still alive and all the generals are around, we can always regroup. As for the overall situation of Dong Dong, I think I will come here.
Chu, Wen Qi, and Yuan Jiujiu are all here, so a small defeat for you and me will not affect the overall situation."
Liu Bei could only force a smile.
However, at this moment, I saw a commotion in Yanshi City in front, as if they were slightly disturbed after seeing the returning troops.
At the same time, Xia Houyuan, who was walking at the front, also opened his mouth to smooth things over: "You two don't have to sigh, Yuan Rang came out of the city to greet us. He will go into the city to rest for a while, and then take another turn."
"Not bad!" Cao Cao saw the city gate open from a distance, and then soldiers and horses came out to greet him. He breathed a sigh of relief, and then cheered up. "If God doesn't accept me, Cao Mengde, I will be blessed in the future!"
As soon as he finished speaking, from Cao Cao himself to Liu Bei beside him, from Xia Houyuan who was opening the way in front to Zhang Fei who was silent next to him, from Le Jin who was extremely tired to Cao Hong who was thinking blindly, almost everyone changed their colors... It turned out that the people in front of him changed their minds.
There were too many soldiers and horses pouring out to 'greet' them in Yanshi City, which was only a few hundred steps away, and they were all cavalry!
You must know that Cao and Liu only left Xiahou Dun and led more than a thousand people to stay in Yanshi, and they were short of cavalry, so there should only be dozens of cavalry in the city, but in front of Yanshi City, there was a steady stream of impressive cavalry.
They're cavalry! And the numbers are staggering!
As for Xiahou Dun, they soon saw it with their own eyes...but he was tied up and pushed to the front of the army!
"Everyone, how are you doing?" Approaching Xu Rong, the commander-in-chief of the Yingchuan side of Dong Zhuo's army, who was approaching the Xu banner dozens of steps away, he bowed slightly on his horse, quite politely.
Cao Cao and Liu Bei looked at each other, then looked at the thousands of remnant soldiers behind them, as well as the exhausted lieutenant generals, and each felt sad - Lu Bu, an old man from Luozhong, had killed King Kuang of Hanoi, so that the queen
They ended up 'hanging themselves'; now is it the turn of another old friend to finish them off?
And just when the two of them were looking at each other in silence, but neither of them had any fighting spirit, Zhang Fei, who had been silent before, rode out alone, facing each other from a distance: "General Xu, I have long admired you!"
"General Zhang," Xu Rong saw the person coming, but he took a few steps back, letting a group of armored knights come forward, and then continued to smile. "Your name is also very popular in my ears these days... I don't want to say goodbye to Guangzong City that day.
, it was like this when we met again."
Zhang Fei shook his head when he saw this: "General Xu, why should you be so careful? I see that you have five thousand fine cavalry. Not to mention whether I can kill you, what's the use of killing you by chance? On the plains in the daytime
Come on, five thousand cavalry are charging forward. The defeated generals like us will be turned into powder in an instant, right?"
"Are the words about the enemy of ten thousand people false?" Xu Rong shook his head repeatedly. "It's better to be careful."
"General Xu!" Zhang Fei was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he simply said bluntly. "General Cao is an old friend of General Wei, brother Xuande is the younger brother of General Wei, and you are an old subordinate of General Wei... Can you just let us live?"
"
Xu Rong laughed in embarrassment for a moment: "General Wei is magnanimous when it comes to a duel, how could he blame me for such a thing?"
"Brother Bo Jin!" Hearing this, Liu Bei's heart moved, and he hurriedly rode forward, then leaned over and saluted. "Can't you see clearly the current situation? My brother cut you off from Chang'an in Hongnong.
Now, if Dong Zhuo wants to deliver a message here, he has to make a long detour from Wuguan to Nanyang, and Niu Fu is said to be an incompetent person... In other words, as a general of a town, you have actually already
No one can restrain us... In this case, why not remember the old love between you and me in Luozhong and let us go?"
"That's right!" Cao Cao also quickly moved forward with his horse's belly under his arms, holding on to his arms and trying to persuade. "Brother Bo Jin, we all got along very well in Luozhong and called each other brothers... Today, can you really bear to see us die here?
Besides, times are easy to change, and no one knows what will happen in the future. If you can let Yuan Rang and the rest of us go today, we will be richly rewarded in the future!"
Xu Rong became more and more sarcastic.
"General Xu!" Zhang Fei finally became impatient. "Others don't know your thoughts, but I know your difficulties. But when a man is born in this world, don't you just want to be happy? If I were you, I would immediately kill Xia Houyuan
Either let us go together, or order us to be taken down and kill us all here directly. Why bother being confused here? What good will this do to you, mother-in-law?"
Xu Rong finally shook his head helplessly: "I never asked for any benefits... I just hope that the two generals Cao and Liu will learn a lesson today, and maybe they can remember that it is not your turn to get involved in this major event in the world at this time!"
What he said was incomprehensible and somewhat condescending... However, under such a situation, Cao Cao and Liu Bei could only listen to what Xu Bojin said. In fact, even Zhang Fei had already kept silent.
After saying these words, Xu Rong finally nodded at an officer next to him. This officer had a similar appearance to Xu Rong, but he was much younger. He seemed to be a relative of Xu Bojin, and he got the signal.
, also came to the front of the army, cut open the binding ropes on Xiahou Dun's body with a knife, and allowed the latter to flee in embarrassment to the remaining formation on the opposite side.
Cao and Liu knew clearly that they had narrowly escaped death again, so they reluctantly saluted Xu Rong together, and then got ready to lie on their horses and prepare to go around the city.
"Don't go to Chenggao!" Xu Rong suddenly reminded again. "Don't you know? Just when you were marching all the way, someone said that Yuan Benchu was showing signs of withdrawing from Chenggao... The three men who set up an ambush this time
People, Li Meng and I are about to lead our troops to the west, but Duan Xuan will still stay in Luoyang to garrison. His men may take advantage of the victory to pursue him from the east. If Cheng Gao has no troops to defend, you may be defeated by Duan Xuan.
General Zhonglang's cavalry has caught up with me... So if I think about it properly, I might as well send someone to Gong County to call the troops there to go to Goushi together, and then turn to Yingchuan, where I just evacuated, to avoid the edge. This is the safest way."
Cao Cao and Liu Bei changed their expressions again, thanked them profusely, and turned south on the spot in the direction of Goushi without hesitation. There was no doubt in the whole process.
After all, firstly, since Xu Rong had let them go, there was no need to deceive them anymore; secondly, Yuan Shao's changes had actually been revealed for a long time, and the conflicts between the princes had also appeared long ago. With the two of them, He is smart and has actually been prepared for this.
Not to mention that Xu Rong allowed these old and defeated generals to flee to Fengshi, and then slowly led his troops eastward. It is just that Cao and Liu arrived at Fengshi in a panic. They were exhausted to the limit, but they were frightened when they faced them. Jump... Without him, in Fengshi County, the southeastern gateway from Luoyang to Yingchuan, there are also flags fluttering, armor dazzling, and soldiers and horses clearly stationed!
However, this was another false alarm - it turned out that in the city was an old friend of Sun Jian and Sun Wentai who was also fighting against the Dong princes.
As for why Sun Jian is here, it is quite admirable!
In other words, although Jia Xu and Lu Bu combined with Dong Zhuo's Henan generals to annihilate the entire army that day, Sun Wentai was a tiger from the east of the Yangtze River. He was not discouraged by setbacks, was perseverant, and had the heart to serve the country with all his fists. So. , he finally collected the remaining troops, and after recruiting several thousand soldiers and horses in Nanyang, when he heard that Xu Rong had retreated and Luoyang was empty, he actually led his troops to chase after him, and then he just crossed Sheyuan Pass during the day and entered. Unexpectedly, Fengshi City did not wait for Dong Zhuo's army to attack, but instead faced the defeat of Cao and Liu.
The three old friends who drank, sang and danced together during the Yingchuan crusade against the Yellow Turbans met again today, but they were each in a state of embarrassment and lamenting.
——————I am the dividing line between Yishi Cao and Liu————
"At the end of April in the first year of Chuping, Cao Cao and Liu Bei entered Luoyang together and were ambushed by Duan Xuan, Li Meng, and Xu Rong. Fortunately, they escaped because of their old acquaintance Rong, so they entered the Feng family in embarrassment. They met Sun Jian's lone army coming from the south. After a while, we will head towards Luoyang again. We first heard that Yuan Shao abandoned Cao and Liu and drove the princes eastward. Then Yuan Shu cut off Sun Jian's army in the south. The three generals sighed. When Cao Cao prepared for the general to go south to recruit troops, Jian also wanted to go to Luyang in person to say goodbye. Yuan Shu was filled with emotion and sent wine to each other at the foot of Fengshi Mountain. After drinking for three rounds, he recalled the past when we sang and danced together in Mishui, so he arranged a poem, and Cao shed tears and recited: "The army is not in full strength, and the geese are hesitant. Snobbery makes people fight." , the heirs also killed each other... Among the dozens of princes in Guandong, there were only two who could live or die! 'Jian, prepared and sighed, so they jointly sacrificed to the emperor and the empress, and swore in blood to pay each other's wives. After swearing, each staggered away. Powder." - "Dianlue". Yan. Pei Song's Notes
