Cao Cao hurriedly helped Wei Kang up: "Zhong Dao, you can't die, without you selling your property to help me raise troops, I wouldn't have been able to recruit so many soldiers and horses to fight against Dong Zhuo." {We don't write novels, we're just web text porters - ∈↗,"

Wei Kang smiled: "I am selfish, to thank you for facilitating my marriage with Yan'er, but unfortunately I can't wait to marry her!"

He looked at the heavy snow, but muttered to himself: "I only hate that I was born a few years early, and Yan'er was born a few years late, hey, life is really lonely as snow! I'm going to die, I'm still a virgin, Cao Jun, I can't hold on, you and Doctor Gao, you have to work hard!"

Cao Cao shook Wei Kang frantically: "No, Miss Cai Yan is still waiting for you, and I still have to preside over the family affairs of the two of you, how can you die so irresponsibly!"

But no matter how much Cao Cao shook, Wei Kang couldn't speak, his hands hung weakly on the cold snow, and the brilliance in his eyes was slowly dissipating.

"Cao Cao is here! Chase!" a group of enemy soldiers found this place and shouted after him.

"Cao Jun, let's go!I'll stop them!" Bao Tao, who was covered in blood, actually struggled to stand up again.

Cao Cao hadn't recovered from Wei Kang's death yet, and looked at Bao Tao in surprise, who staggered and rushed towards the group of soldiers: "Bao Tao, you are seriously injured, you go first!"

"Please tell my brother that my parents will rely on him to support them in the future!"

Cao Cao was almost crazy, he stood in place and didn't leave: "I don't want to be this sinner, I want to live and die with you!"

"Let's go!" Bao Tao yelled, he drew his sword, coldly pointed at the enemy and said to Cao Cao: "If we don't leave, we will all die, I am just a small person." And Cao Jun, you are a person who does great things, I am very satisfied to die for you!" Gradually, his voice softened, weakened, and sank.

Cao Cao turned around and ran, he didn't dare to look at Bao Tao's corpse, he was afraid that he would not be able to walk as soon as he turned around, and today there were people who died for themselves, and thousands of them, they believed that they could lead them to a clear path, but in the end they died.

This time he also fled, but unlike the last time he assassinated Dong Zhuo, he no longer had the fear of death in his heart, but a kind of persistence, the insistence on not giving up on the hegemony at any time.

Stand in my way, Cao Mengde, die!

Cao Cao's breathing gradually calmed down as another group of enemy soldiers appeared in front of him.

"Keng" Cao Cao pulled out the green bar sword, which was another sword that sharpened iron like clay.

"Cao Cao?" a startled voice sounded.

Cao Cao looked at the person who came, and it turned out to be Wu Kuang!

Wu Kuang showed a hint of surprise: "I didn't expect that we would meet in this situation!"

"I didn't expect to meet you Wu Kuang here!" Cao Cao said coldly, he who had witnessed the death of his own people just now, and now the anger in his heart could not be described in words.

Wu Kuang pointed his sword at Cao Cao: "Hmph, traitor, today is your death!"

Cao Cao's words were like piercing ice: "I don't know which of the two of us is a traitor!"

Wu Kuang's face turned from white to red, from red to blue: "Kill him!"

"I, Cao Cao, will not die so lightly! Even if I want to die, I will pull you Wu Kuang to accompany the burial!" Cao Cao drew his sword and rushed over, fighting with Wu Kuang's soldiers.

Falling into Luoshui just now, the clothes and armor on his body have been soaked, and they are not dry yet, and the soaked armor clothes are tightly attached to the skin, evaporating Cao Cao's body and temperature.

Dripping water into ice, breathing into frost, heavy snow all over the sky, thousands of miles of northern color!

Only this passion in my heart, this motivation, this dream has never fallen, never shattered, and never wavered in the slightest.

Thousands of people's deaths are exchanged for their own lives, and thousands of people's hopes are pinned on themselves to their heart's content.

How light a body is, how heavy a body is!

This is no longer my own body, this is a body infused with countless souls, countless fighting intentions, and countless wills!

Wu Kuang looked at the Qingyu sword piercing into his body in surprise, and muttered in his mouth: "How is it possible, how is it possible?" and fell to the ground and died.

The soldiers were shocked, what they saw now was a devil, a complete murderous devil, but everywhere the long sword in the hand of this devil went, the armor was broken, the weapons were broken, and no one dared to step forward for a while.

Cao Cao has now become a bloody man, and this fight is really enjoyable! But his body is also overdrawn, and he supports his body with a sword, Cao Cao glared angrily at the weapons that these miscellaneous soldiers had accumulated together, and a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.

Finally, is it still impossible to escape death?

"Big brother!" A loud shout woke up the confused Cao Cao, he shook his head, only to see Cao Hong galloping on a horse not far away, killing and scattering the soldiers, dismounted and supported Cao Cao, who was covered in blood, "You are seriously injured!"

Cao Cao nodded with a wry smile, and said to Cao Hong, "The chasing soldiers are coming, Brother Hong, you can escape quickly, I am seriously injured, I am afraid I will not be able to escape, and I may even die with you!"

Cao Hong was anxious: "Big brother, what are you talking about? Big brother, you are raising troops for the righteousness of the world, I, Cao Hong, am just an unknown person, I can do without me Cao Hong in this world, but I can't do without you, big brother!"

Cao Cao was so moved by Cao Hong's words that he couldn't imagine that the young Cao Hong would have such courage and insight: "If I survive, it depends on Brother Hong's strength!"

Cao Hong helped Cao Cao onto his war horse Baihu: "Big brother rides first, I'll cover you on foot!"

Cao Cao still had to say something, Cao Honghe slapped the back of the horse with a knife: "Xiaobai, the life of the eldest brother is in your hands, run as fast as I can!"

"Hmm" Bai Hu also seemed to understand Cao Hong's meaning, and the four hooves immediately rose into the air and ran towards the road.

Cao Hong was not idle, took off his clothes and armor, held a knife in his hand, and followed Cao Cao.

Not far away, the chasing soldiers came one after another, Cao Hong shouted, a long knife danced vigorously, the pursuers did not dare to move forward, but seeing Cao Cao behind Cao Hong, they were reluctant to give up.

"Let's not attack first, a few of you quickly notify General Xu Rong and ask him to send troops to arrest Cao Cao quickly!"

Cao Hong killed a group of chasing soldiers again, the body consumption was great, fortunately robbed the enemy of a war horse, although not as good as his own mount, but it is better than nothing, seeing that the other party did not dare to approach, he laughed and rode his horse to meet Cao Cao, with a pride in his mouth: "Big brother, the chasing soldiers have been killed by me, and now there is no worries!"

Cao Cao looked back, nodded with satisfaction, and said approvingly: "There is Brother Lao Hong, this defeat is my Cao Mengde's fault!"

"Why should the eldest brother be so discouraged, don't you usually tell me that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers?"

"No, this defeat is different, it could have been avoided, it was because I overestimated my own strength, and was designed by Xu Rong, Xu Rong is Dong Zhuo's henchman, it is our big trouble, this person can be used for us, how good should it be?"

"Big brother, I and several clan brothers are all good at fighting, why did we lose so badly today? I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out!" Cao Hong said angrily.

"I can't figure it out either, I want to know the answer too, but the enemy won't give us time to think about it!" Cao Cao sighed and pointed with his horsewhip at the somewhat silent Xingyang City not far away.

Suddenly, there was a sound of neighing in the distance, the two of them couldn't help but be shocked, and only after seeing the banner of the comer couldn't help but be overjoyed, it turned out to be Xiahoudun's men and horses, he collected the remnants of the defeated generals all the way, but he also gathered more than 500 foot soldiers, of course, they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and the real combat effectiveness was worrying.

"Meng De, I'm sorry, my men and horses have suffered heavy losses, that's all left!" Xiahoudun turned over from his war horse and came to Cao Cao and said apologetically.

"It's better than nothing!" Cao Cao laughed heartily, although the arrow wound on his shoulder still hurt faintly, but he wanted to laugh and show the soldiers a smile, so that they would have the confidence to continue fighting.

After a while, Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin, and Cao Ren also arrived, but they all had no soldiers and horses, and only sporadic followers remained.

"Report to the lord!" the herald came to report, "Xingyang ordered Xu Rong to come to our army with a thousand men and horses!"

"Damn!" Xiahou said hatefully, "Xu Rong, this guy really doesn't give people a chance to breathe, and now that he sees us returning from defeat, he must want to defeat us and ask Dong Zhuo for credit!"

"Well, I was careless before, but now I have to be careful to deal with the battle, Yuan Rang, I have a way to take down his Xingyang City!" Cao Cao's eyes flashed and he said with a smile.

"Oh, what do you have in mind for Mende?" Xia Houdun was curious.

"Simple, I will lead the army with the generals to meet Xu Rong's army, and you will take two hundred men and horses to attack the city!" Cao Cao said confidently.

Xiahoudun frowned: "In this way, Meng De will only have three hundred people, and Xu Rong will have a thousand!"

Cao Cao smiled indifferently: "Do you have no confidence in you or no confidence in me?"

"Take care, everyone, be sure to protect Meng De's safety!" Without further ado, Xiahoudun knew that Xu Rong's army might arrive at any time, and now five hundred weak soldiers plus the hard work of his own people might be able to win narrowly, but he was afraid that the result of the narrow victory would be that there were few of his own men and horses left, and the other horses of the coalition army did not know the situation here, and they were probably fighting on their own, Dong Zhuo's reinforcements to support Xu Rong might arrive at any time, and Cao Cao had no men and horses here, even if he took Xingyang, what would he rely on to defend it?

"Cao Cao's traitor, surrender as soon as possible!" Xu Rong didn't find Xiahoudun's men and horses, and only led a thousand men and horses all the way to surround Cao Cao's remaining three hundred men and horses, and shouted loudly.

Cao Cao nodded to Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan understood, and rode his horse to rush to the enemy formation: "Enemy general Xu Rong, dare to fight with me!"

"Why don't you dare?" Xu Rong garrisoned Xingyang, and his martial arts were also good, seeing Cao Cao's end of the road, where would he put Cao Cao's soldiers in his eyes, and immediately took the long knife to the swordsman

According to Cao Cao's wishes, Xiahou Yuan only fought with Xu Rong for a few rounds before he was defeated and returned to his army.

Xu Rong was overjoyed and laughed at General Cao: "A group of incompetent people!" Xu Rong's soldiers also echoed.

Cao Ren saw that Xiahou Yuan was defeated by Xu Rong, and he didn't know Cao Cao's strategy, so he rode his horse out, and was about to end Xu Rong's life, but he heard a roar that shook the world from behind.

Cao Cao and the generals were shocked, and they hurriedly led the horse sentinel, and after a while, the horse returned: "Dong Zhuo sent Lu Bu to support Xu Rong, and went straight to chase and kill our army!"

"What? Lu Bu? Didn't he be relieved of his military power by Dong Zhuo and left him idle in Luoyang? Could it be that our intelligence is wrong?" Cao Cao was shocked, but the situation did not allow him to think too much, and immediately broke through the encirclement of Xu Rong's army with three hundred outnumbered forces with all the generals, and advanced in the direction of Xingyang City.

Fortunately, Xiahoudun lived up to his trust, and before Cao Cao arrived, Xiahoudun had already led the two hundred men and horses to break through Xingyang City, and such a fast speed was very unexpected by Cao Cao.

"Yuan Rang, are you a heavenly general? The same soldier, with heavy casualties in my hands, how can you be so brave under you?"

Xiahoudun smiled: "It's not that I'm brave, but lucky, General Fang Yue, General Mu Shun, General Wu Anguo, don't you really want to meet my lord?"

Cao Cao followed Xiahoudun's gaze, and the three generals each came with hundreds of men and horses, it was Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, and Zhang Yang, the Taishou of Hedong, and Fang Yue, Mu Shun and Wu Anguo, the generals of Beihai Xiang Kongrong.

Xiahoudun explained to Cao Cao: "It is precisely because the three of them sneaked into the city in advance as an internal response that Xingyang City can be taken so smoothly!"

Cao Cao laughed: "This is really the east corner of the lost mulberry harvest!"

"But our shape is very bad, and the situation is even a little bad!" After rejoicing, Cao Cao coughed and looked at the generals who had finally gathered together, everyone was full of fireworks, and they were all injured, plus the men and horses brought by Fang Yue Mushun and Wu Anguo, the total number of people was less than two thousand, and they were all old and weak soldiers.

And outside Xingyang City, Xu Rong has already sent people to surround this place without leaking!

"Meng De, instead of waiting for death here!, let me go out and kill a good time!" Xiahou Dun pulled out the unicorn teeth on his body and was about to go out of the city to fight to the death, but Cao Ren stopped him.

"Don't be impulsive, the city defense of this Xingyang City is quite strong, and the grain and grass are sufficient, so it's no problem for us to hold on for a while!"

Xiahou Yuan smashed his fist on the wall, and suddenly the wall sank three inches: "It's too wretched, can't you sit here and wait to die!"

Cao Cao was calm at the moment, he just ordered someone to make a basin of water to wash the blood on his face, and at this moment he was starting to say: "Zixiao's words are good, Xu Rong's soldiers and horses are just ambush soldiers, and it is impossible to bring much grain and grass here, now it is snowing, although it is June, the weather is also suddenly cold and unbearable, you see that the clothes they are wearing are all single clothes, it can be seen that Xu Rong did not expect this heavy snow beforehand, so the current situation is neither good nor bad for us or for them!" We will defend the gates and the broken walls* to prevent the enemy from sneaking up!"

Cao Hong also interjected: "Yes, even if they are only thousands of men and horses, and they are all cavalry, even if they capture Xingyang City, they will almost be lost!"

Cao Cao nodded: "Send an order to go down and search the whole city to see if there are any enemy spies lurking in the city, to prevent them from stealing the city gate! Our base camp is not far from here, it is estimated that Yuan Shao and they have already received the news, and they will definitely send troops to rescue!"

Xiahoudun sneered: "Meng De don't expect that Yuan Shao who can only talk big, I'd rather believe that Sun Jian, who is far away in Luyang, will come to the rescue than believe him!"

At this time, the little soldier came to report in a panic: "Oh no, the lord, I just got the report, Wang Kuang's soldiers and horses were broken by Lu Bu, and they have fled back to Sour Zao, Lu Bu heard that the lord was besieged here, and he led the people and horses of his headquarters to Xingyang!"

Cao Cao frowned: "There are two more 10,000 enemies!"

Cao Hong was puzzled: "Two?"

Cao Ren nodded: "A Lu Bu! a trapped-camp led by Gao Shun!"

"Hmph, let this Wang Kuang run away again!" Lu Bu cursed unhappily and rode the red rabbit horse to the front.

Gao Shun's whole body armor also followed closely behind: "Yes, I defeated him in Hanoi last time, and this time it's him again! This person is not very good at fighting, but his ability to escape is not bad, and it is really useless to use my trap camp against him!"

Song Xian, Wei Xuhou, who had just joined Lu Bu's camp, said: "Wang Kuang is just a small character, and now Cao Cao, who is besieged by Xu Rong in Xingyang, is a big fish!"

Lu Bu snorted and said, "Cao Cao, the big fish all look up to him, what will the guy who can't even fight Xu Rong do!"

Gao Shun thought for a while and said: "This Cao Cao is also a figure that Dong Zhuo values very much, but unfortunately he can't use it for himself, so he sent Xu Rong and the general to exterminate it together!"

"Then we have to hurry!" Song Xian and the other three raised the spears in their hands and shouted, "This credit can't be snatched away by others!"

"Ahh

The lieutenant general immediately flattered: "The general is mighty! Cao Cao was killed with a little trick just now, but the defense of Xingyang City is strong, and the grain and grass in the city are abundant, and we will suffer a big loss if we attack rashly!" It just so happens that Lu Bu guy is here, you can let him be this cannon fodder!"

Xu Rong nodded: "That's right, sue Lu Bu, I, Li Ru, am not a person who is greedy for merit, and the credit for exterminating Cao Cao this time will be counted on his head, as long as he can capture Cao Cao alive!"

"No!"

Listening to Xu Rong's words, Lu Bu's face was slightly unhappy, but he still smiled and sent people away, but Gao Shun complained dissatisfiedly: "Sure enough, as we expected, Xu Rong must have been instructed by Dong Zhuo, and he wants to use the hand of the coalition army to damage our strength, it is really a vicious mind, none of these Xiliang generals are good things!"

Wei Xu hugged his fists and said: "The last general is willing to lead a thousand men and horses to fight with the general!"

Lu Bu sneered and said: "No need, you can just watch the battle behind me, the so-called coalition forces are actually like mustard, why do you need a thousand people, just me!"

The armies shouted in unison: "Unparalleled in the world, unparalleled in the world!"