When Yan Xing's troops appeared on the battlefield, the first person to recognize them was not the Xuzhou Army or the Huainan Army, but the Runan Yellow Turban bandits who had been in Runan County for a long time and had frequent dealings with Cao's army.
When Gong Du saw Cao Jun's arrival, he couldn't help but feel panicked. His big face turned red and he almost urinated.
It’s no wonder that after Cao Cao entered the territory of Runan, he implemented an iron-blooded policy towards the Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou, either surrendering or slaughtering them with blood, without mercy. Otherwise, Liu Pi, Gong Du and others would not have surrendered to Tao so easily.
business.
Gong Du was somewhat hopeless. He subconsciously turned around and wanted to run away, but was immediately calmed down by Liu Pi.
Liu Pi rode his horse to Gong Du and Zhou Cang and said to them: "On the battlefield just now, I deliberately faked defeat and led General Zhao to lead his army into the Huainan Army's formation..."
At this point, Zhou Cang interrupted him rudely and said: "Brother Liu, you are overthinking. You don't need to fake defeat to defeat General Zhao."
Liu Pi gave Zhou Cang a fierce look.
This man who looked like a black tower was now extremely convinced of Zhao Yun. When he looked at Zhao Yun, he was like seeing Chuoyue's mother-in-law, with both eyes glowing green.
To put it bluntly, Zhao Yun just pooped, and Zhou Cang said it was salty and just right when he ate it.
Liu Pi ignored Zhou Cang's admiration for Zhao Yun and continued: "I wanted to lure General Zhao into the battle, but General Zhao refused. Now it seems that at that time, the Taifu had already arrived and Cao Cao would send troops to fight with him.
The Huainan army, therefore, don’t let us act rashly, lest Cao Jun take advantage of it!”
Gong Du said nervously: "Then what should we do now?"
Liu Pi slapped his thigh fiercely and gritted his teeth and said: "Fortunately, we are here waiting for Chen Bing, and we did not drive troops with Liu Xun to compete with General Zhao! If we don't help Taifu hold off Cao Jun now, we will enter Xuzhou in the future
, among the generals, how can there be a place for our brothers?"
Zhou Cang flicked the ring knife in his hand and said loudly: "That's right! Brother Liu, I've known you for a year or two, and I just heard you say a few words of courage today! In today's battle,
I, Old Zhou, should take it first!"
Liu Pi raised his hand to stop Zhou Cang and said: "You two will arrange your formation first to resist Cao's army. I will go to get Yuan Yao's military order and summon Liu Xun back!"
After that, the horse went towards Yuan Yao who was in the rear.
Cao Jun suddenly appeared in the sight of everyone in Huainan. Yuan Yao's face turned pale in shock, his whole body was shaking like a sieve, and cold sweat fell on the ground in large drops down his cheeks.
"Lord!" Liu Pi galloped away and ran to Yuan Yao's side. He opened his mouth and started talking nonsense: "Lord! Cao Jun is cunning and dangerous. He has already decided that we will go to Hebei from Xuzhou Road! If we don't follow his Yuzhou Road,
Even so, if we had followed Liu Xun's words and left Yuzhou, how could we still be alive now?"
Until this time, Liu Pi did not forget to insult Liu Xun in front of Yuan Yao.
However, he didn't expect that this time he really got it wrong. Liu Xun and Cao Cao did have a plan in private.
Yuan Yao held Liu Pi's hand and was so moved that he almost cried.
"Thankfully, I listened to General Liu's loyal words. If I followed Liu Xun's words and took the Sanhe Road from Yingchuan, I'm afraid my life would be over! But now that Cao Jun is coming to kill us, what should we do?"
Liu Pi cupped his hands and said: "Don't worry, my lord, the general will fight to the death to protect the lord and prevent Cao's army from harming a hair of the lord! Please recall General Liu Xun quickly and help the general to defend the enemy together!"
Yuan Yao nodded hurriedly and said: "Exactly, exactly as it should be!"
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A group of yellow scarf thieves on Liu Pi's side temporarily blocked Cao Jun's offensive for Yuan Yao. Yuan Yao also listened to Liu Pi's words and hurriedly ordered Liu Xun to lead his troops back to protect him.
The problem is that Liu Xun has been with Cao Jun as early as Shouchun.
The sudden appearance of Yan Xing's group was not only unexpected by Yuan Yao and others, but also unexpected by Liu Xun.
I remembered that day when I was arguing with Liu Pi about which way to go north, when I was arguing with Liu Pi, Liu Ye secretly stopped me. I thought that he might have already had a desire for it at that time.
From this point of view, Liu Ye's wisdom is higher than his own.
When Cao Jun came to attack Yuan Yao and his troops in the rear, Liu Xun seemed to have nothing to do and continued to direct his troops to attack Zhao Yun's camp.
After Zhao Yun himself saw the arrival of Cao's army led by Yan Xing, Zhang Ji and others, he also shrunk his troops and let his troops start to defend the camp, quite like waiting to see what happens.
Zhang Xun, Li Feng and other generals saw that Zhao Yun had taken a defensive position, and that the lord's rear army in the rear was being attacked by Cao's army. The situation was very unfavorable, and they couldn't help but turn pale with fright and panic.
Zhang Xun made a prompt decision and hurriedly moved from the front line to the rear to question Liu Xun.
"Mr. Liu! My lord's rear is currently being attacked by Cao's army! Liu Pi and Gong Du's Yellow Turban Army are not fully equipped and armored. I'm afraid they may not be Cao's army's opponents. We still need to retreat quickly for reinforcements. If it's too late, I'm afraid that my lord will lose something."
ah!"
Liu Xun thought to himself, what I want is to make him lose!
But Liu Xun naturally couldn't say this.
He pretended to have a thoughtful expression and gritted his teeth and said: "Although there is a sneak attack by Cao's army in the rear, Liu Pi is a god general who can be compared with Zhao Yun. With him protecting the lord, it will be fine! Now Zhao Yun is blocking us and others.
The camp is the only way for us to escape and ascend to heaven. If we don't break it, we will be attacked from both sides and sooner or later we will die...we cannot retreat!"
After hearing this, Zhang Xun said anxiously: "But you don't care about the safety of your lord?"
Liu Xun affirmed: "With Liu Pi, a powerful general in this world, I think everything will be fine!"
After Zhang Xun heard this, he wished he could slap Liu Xun to death.
How did he think about saying this?
"General Liu! My lord is in a dangerous situation and is besieged by Cao's army. If you are not careful, you will be defeated. At this moment, you, how dare you abandon my lord's life and ignore it!"
Liu Xun ignored Zhang Xun, but still issued orders to his subordinates to attack Zhao Yun.
Zhang Xun gritted his teeth and glared at Liu Xun for a long time. Seeing that he was unmoved, he yelled: "Okay! Since you don't care about my lord's safety, then I will lead my troops back to save my lord."
Liu Xun was finally moved when he heard this.
He turned his head and glared at Zhang Xun, shouting: "Zhang Xun, do you dare to disobey the military order?"
Zhang Xunyi shouted righteously: "You are the prefect of Lujiang appointed by the imperial court, General Hou, and I am the prefect of Jiujiang, appointed by General Hou personally. You and I have the same position, how can we disobey orders?"
Liu Xun gritted his teeth and stared at Zhang Xun. At this moment, he even had the idea of instructing his men to kill him.
But Zhang Xun also has a group of trusted soldiers behind him. If he really attacks him now, the consequences will be disastrous.
In this case, we can only rely on Duke Cao's arrangements.
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Xuzhou, Lugu.
The main force of the Chinese army, led by Cao Cao himself, has been deployed here for nearly ten days.
Since Yuan Shao in the north and Liu Biao in the south were on his side, Cao Cao did not dare to lead more soldiers. This time he only brought the Chinese troops and horses in Xuchang City, but with only the tens of thousands of Cao's troops, looking at the world,
It is also very powerful and cannot be easily defeated.
The spies of Yingshe Mansion brought the news to Cao Cao as early as when the pottery merchant was hundreds of miles away from Lu Valley.
In Lu Gu's big tent, Cao Cao couldn't help but sneer after listening to the scout's report.
"Tao Shang Zhuzi, you have some skills, and you can actually find Cao Mou's garrison place. Anyway, this time Cao Mou will see you again for a while, and see how vast the land of the Central Plains is between you and me.