"The soldiers are tired, and it is useless to advance. ”

Hearing the words of Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, all the princes echoed one after another, but Cao A was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and finally walked away.

Back at the camp, Cao Ah concealed all the generals and wanted to lead his soldiers to chase Dong Zhuo.

Yang Tang persuaded: "Meng De, although Dong Zhuo fled, but the main force was not damaged, if the lone army goes deep today, I am afraid of being ambushed." ”

Cao Apu rarely got angry at Yang Tang: "Dong thief burned the palace, robbed the Son of Heaven, the sea was shaken, and when this day died, he didn't dare to (love) his life!"

Yang Tang sighed when he heard this: "That's it...... Since you have this heart, as a Han nationality, I should do my part and accompany you. ”

Cao Apu was overjoyed: "With Yan Kun by my side, I don't have to worry about it!"

So they sent troops in pursuit.

Before he could catch up with Xingyang, Cao Jun collided head-on with Lu Bujun, who had deliberately ordered it.

Seeing this, Lu Bu laughed and said, "As Li Ru expected!" Before the laughter fell, only when his monocular vision was greatly reduced, he saw Yang Tang riding Ma Zhuo standing beside Cao Apu, and he was suddenly afraid.

But before Lu Bu could make a move, Yang Tang had already drawn his bow and arrows and shot them at will.

Lu Bu was frightened, messed up, and wanted to hit the horse at this time to turn around, but Yang Tang's arrow hit the left buttocks of the red rabbit horse, Rao is the red rabbit and then psychic, and it began to be uncontrollable when it was injured, and rushed away in the direction of Cao Jun at ten o'clock.

The sudden scene made the soldiers of the Lu Bu army dumbfounded, originally they ambushed the Cao army with leisurely work, but now before the battle, the main general turned around and fled, how much does this mean?

Gan Ning took the opportunity to yell: "Hugh left Lu Bu, kill!"

Cao Jun was about to move, but he didn't dare to move lightly without the commander's order.

Fortunately, Cao Apu also knew that this was a good opportunity to pursue, and immediately shouted: "Beat the drum!"

As soon as the drums sounded, Cao's army attacked on all fronts, covering up and killing Lu Bu's army, who was at a loss for the commander.

In ancient cold-weapon warfare, the number of personnel and excellent equipment were not the decisive factors on the battlefield. Morale and weather are actually the keys to cold weapon warfare. Even in the era of modern gun, artillery and aircraft warfare, morale is still an important factor, for example, during the battle of Xu Beng, the national army of 50,000 people was defeated and captured by our army in three days.

So some people lamented that 50,000 pigs were replaced, and our army couldn't catch them in three days. But the problem is that once a soldier loses morale and lacks the fighting spirit, he will follow suit when he sees his comrades squatting with their heads in their hands, even if the guns and bullets in their hands are still surplus, but the pigs will not.

Naturally, the attacking Cao army was like a tiger out of the gate, and Lu Bu's army was leaderless, making a pot of porridge, and was rushed by Cao Bing, and it was scattered. Seeing that he was chasing two or three miles away, Yang Tang reminded Cao Apu: "We don't have many troops, and the ambush may not be on this road, so it is better to gather the army, chase Dong Zhuo to the death, and smash Huanglong." ”

Cao Ah concealed: "Good." So he did.

As a result, the army had just been rectified, and it had moved forward for less than a mile, and two armies of Li Dao and Guo Yan were killed left and right, and the shouting of killing shook the sky for a while.

Cao Apu's color changed slightly, and he urgently ordered the Xiahou brothers to resist the enemy separately.

Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan led the soldiers, and as soon as they engaged in the battle, they only took half a pillar of incense, and Niu Fu led another army to kill. Cao A was busy and ordered Cao Ren's department to resist the enemy, and at the same time, his face was solemn, he looked at Yang Tang at his side, his lips moved slightly, and he was about to say something, but Yang Tang had already drawn his bow and arrows, shot three arrows together, and flew towards Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Niu Fu.

Dong Zhuojun's three generals seemed to expect Yang Tang's hidden arrows (after all, Lu Bu fled back, and anyone with eyes on the red rabbit horse's buttocks could see it), and they had already prepared, and their own horseback soldiers set up shields around the three generals to block the arrows.

However, Yang Tang's bow and arrows were too fast, the shield array was about to be erected, his arrows were already behind the shield, one of the arrows pierced Niu Fu's neck, and Li Dao and Guo Yan were both battlefield generals, and they subconsciously tilted their heads when they were in danger, but because the distance was too close, the arrows did not have time to make an arc, and they all hit the collarbone of the second general, knocking them off the war horse.

"Okay, shoot well, really shoot god!"

Cao Apu saw the result, couldn't help but puff his palms and praise, and when he was proud, Yang Tang suddenly swung the bow and smashed it into his face, Cao Apu was frightened, and after half a breath, he found that Yang Tang's two-stone bow happened to be in front of his face, and the other side of the bow was inserted with a feather arrow, and then looked in the direction of the tail of the arrow, it was Xingyang Taishou Xu Rong who arrived with a team of elite horses.

Cao Apu was afraid, and threw a grateful glance at Yang Tang, but before he could say words of thanks, Xu Rong, who was already well aware of the whole battle, immediately ordered his elite cavalry to attack Cao Apu.

At this time, the armies of Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Niu Fu had just started to be disordered and had not yet collapsed, and the troops of the Xiahou brothers and Cao Ren were strangled with each other, which could be described as a stalemate, so Xu Rong led the cavalry to assault the Chinese army, which was quite deadly, it not only disrupted the Cao army's formation, but more importantly, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry brought by Xu Rong was good at riding and shooting, and they shot bows and arrows at Cao Apu and Yang Tang during the sudden advance, so that Yang Tang had to feel that the manpower was sometimes poor.

To be honest, with Yang Tang's various skills and the shield formed by his innate true qi, he is not afraid of all kinds of stray arrows and arrows on the battlefield, but the problem is that Cao Apu does not have his ability, and when he sees the arrows coming, he can only hide or block with a shield, which shakes the formation of the Chinese army's own soldiers, and it is not known if it is not well controlled, causing a riot in the whole army.

In fact, this is also true.

Xu Rong attacked, and the formation of the Cao Army, which had only been in the army for a few months, was really chaotic. At the same time, Cao Apu was a live target, and the arrows flying around him were like rain, so that Yang Tang had to help block those feather arrows, and there was no time to release cold arrows.

What's even worse is that this is a field battle, and Cao Apo can't hide in the big tent like a positional battle, just leave the pole and handsome flag on the battlefield. If he dared to get off the ground from his horse to dodge the arrows, not to mention whether he would be squeezed down and trampled to death by his own men and horses, just if the others were gone, in case the enemy shouted: "Cao Mengde has fallen from his horse!" These words would have ruined the victory of Cao Jun.

Sure enough, when he saw Xu Rong leading his troops to rush to a distance of six or seven layers of soldiers from Cao Apu, Cao Apu's face was still calm, but Cao Hong, who was guarding him, and a group of personal soldiers were already panicking.

Without waiting for Yang Tang to speak, Cao Hong had already shouted: "Protect the lord and retreat first, protect the lord and retreat first!"

Gan Ning echoed: "Hurry up and retreat...... My Royal Highness!" As he spoke, he greeted his group of water thief brothers who had joined Cao Jun, and greeted Xu Rong's cavalry without fear.

Not only Gan Ning, but also Lejin Li Dian also led his troops to kill Xu Rong's military horses.

Originally, this response was not wrong, but the problem was that as soon as the Chinese army retreated like this, it affected the whole body, and the three troops of Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan, and Cao Ren were about to defeat Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Niu Fu's troops, but the rear army was in chaos, and the troops were stagnant, but they were pressed up by Dong Zhuojun, and the momentum of victory and defeat was suddenly reversed.

As a result, the Chinese army retreated again and again, Dong Zhuo's troops took advantage of the situation to cover up, and Cao's army was defeated and left with Xingyang. In the retreat, everyone was running for their lives, and even if Yang Tang had force against the sky, he could only cry out in vain.

At the foot of a barren mountain, about two watches, the moon was as bright as day, and the Chinese army of Cao Jun gathered some of the remnants of the army, and was about to bury the pot to make rice, only to hear the ups and downs of shouting in all directions, it turned out that Xu Rong led the cavalry to catch up.

At this time, Cao Apu was only surrounded by Yang Tang, Cao Hong and more than 100 soldiers, how could he not panic in the face of the cavalry that came like an earthquake, so he quickly turned over and got on his horse, and fled with his head bored, but he panicked and ran into Xu Rong.

The great opportunity was just around the corner, Xu Rong drew his bow and arrow, and shot at Cao Apu without hesitation, but fortunately, Yang Tang shot an electric arrow from the oblique stab and blew up Xu Rong's arrow. At the same time, Yang Tang also shot Xu Rong with an arrow.

Xu Rong was the most effective commander of the army under Dong Zhuo, although his force was not as good as that of Lu Bu Huaxiong and others, but his talent in marching and fighting far exceeded that of the rest of Dong Zhuo's generals. Naturally, he also cultivated the sense of danger that Li Dao and Guo Yan had on the battlefield, and when Yang Tang's arrow was on the verge of death, he also subconsciously flashed, although he did not dodge the arrow, but only let Yang Tang's arrow hit his left shoulder and fell off the horse.

At this moment, Xu Rong's cavalry's pursuit and killing footsteps suddenly slowed down. Many pro-soldiers covered their heads and surrounded themselves, picked up Xu Rong with their hands and feet, bandaged and healed their wounds.

Cao Agui, Yang Tang and others were able to escape smoothly.

"Taishou, what should we do now?"

Xu Rong frowned and said, "Collect the troops and go back to Xingyang!"

"Don't chase and kill Cao Mengde?"

"With Yang Yankun's peerless divine shot, maybe the next time it will be my chest that will be pierced not in my shoulder. Xu Rong said with palpitations, "Anyway, the prime minister has gone to the Western Capital, let's collect the troops and go back, it's a big deal to cut off a few more heads of Cao Jun's prisoners and hand them over." "I have to say that at that time, the head was a military merit, and sometimes in order to make up the number of heads, there were also cases of killing their own good Han people, let alone killing prisoners.

However, it was said that Cao Agui fled to the southeast until dawn, and almost rushed nearly forty miles, and finally couldn't run anymore, so he rested under a mound. Soon, Xiahou's brother Cao Ren led dozens of horsemen to fly in, and then Gan Ning, Li Dian, and Le Jin each led troops to find them, and when they saw Cao Agui, they were filled with joy and sorrow.

He didn't dare to make a fire to make food, so he ate some dry food, and gathered more than 500 remnants of soldiers in half a day, and Cao Apu retreated to Hanoi with his generals.

On the other side, Sun Jianjun accidentally found the heirloom jade seal from a well in the imperial city of Luoyang, so he secretly hid it, and secretly ordered the sergeant not to leak it.

It's a pity that there are many people and miscellaneous things, and a few things are not secret, and one of the soldiers who salvaged the jade seal at that time was a fellow villager of Yuan Shao, and felt that this news could be a step into the body, so he hurriedly went out of the camp overnight and reported to Yuan Shao.

The next day, Sun Jian came to see Yuan Shao, under the pretext of being ill, and wanted to resign and return to the army.

When Yuan Shao heard this, he sneered: "I know that your illness is caused by the jade seal of the country. ”

Sun Jian was shocked and said, "I haven't seen any jade seals at all, where do you start with this?"

Yuan Shao didn't believe Sun Jian's nonsense at all, and forced him to ask for it. Sun Jian refused to admit it, and swore that I would secretly hide the jade seal of the country, and I would not die well and die under the sword and arrow. When the princes saw that Sun Jian had made such a poisonous oath, they also believed his words.

As a result, Sun Jian left Luoyang with the front foot, and Yuan Shao wrote a letter on the back foot, and sent his confidant to Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, overnight.

Liu Biao of Jingzhou was a relative of the Han family, and after reading Yuan Shao's secret letter, he immediately ordered Kuai Yue and Cai Mao to lead 10,000 troops to intercept Sun Jian. The verbal negotiation was fruitless, and after a period of fighting, it was only after Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang were saved by the three generals, and most of the troops were broken, and Sun Jian was able to get back Jiangdong. Since then, the grudge between Sun Jian and Liu Biao has deepened.

Cao Apu, who returned to Hanoi to rectify the military horses, met with Yuan Shao and other princes again, and the anger gradually grew after the wine soup was drunk, and after scolding, everyone broke up unhappily.

At the same time, Cao A concealed that the princes had ghosts and could not succeed, so he led the army to Yanzhou.

Gongsun Zhan saw that Cao Apu, who was the most diligent, was gone, so he also beckoned Liu Guanzhang to return to Youzhou, and when he passed through the plains, he ordered Liu Bei to be the prime minister of the plains and go to defend the land to raise the army.

Within a few days, Liu Dai, the Taishou of Yanzhou, killed Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Dongjun, under the pretext of borrowing grain, and surrendered all of them.

Yuan Shao saw that everyone was scattered, and gradually did not listen to the order, so he simply led the troops to leave Luoyang and go to the east of the river. In the following half month, Yuan Shaona met with the strategy of discipline, secretly connected with Gongsun, and agreed to jointly divide the territory of Han Fu, but without waiting for Gongsun to send troops, Yuan's army had already occupied the magpie's nest and won Jizhou.

Gongsun Zhan knew that Yuan Shao had taken Jizhou, and sent his younger brother Gongsun to see him more and more, wanting to divide his land. Yuan Shao refused, so the two families had a grudge, which opened the prelude to the struggle for hegemony in Hebei.

On the other side, Yuan Shu was in Nanyang, and when he heard that Yuan Shaoxin had won Jizhou, he sent someone to ask for a thousand war horses. Yuan Shao didn't give it, Yuan Shu was furious, and the brothers were not in harmony ever since. After that, Yuan Shu sent someone to Jingzhou to ask Liu Biao to borrow 200,000 yuan of grain, but Liu Biao did not borrow it, so Yuan Shu held a grudge and secretly sent a letter to Sun Jian, wanting to make an agreement with him to cut down Liu Biao and divide Jingzhou.

Sun Jian still remembered the old grudge with Liu Biao before, did not listen to the dissuasion of his subordinates, and brazenly raised troops to crusade against Liu Biao. After the start of the war, Sun Jian's army first fought a success, and then Liu Biao's army set up an ambush in the valley of Da Xian Mountain, Sun Jian only led more than 30 horsemen, and the arrogant soldiers advanced lightly, and as a result, they entered the ambush circle, and suddenly heard a gong, and the stones on the mountain fell chaotically, and the arrows in the forest were fired together.

Sun Jian was hit by several arrows in his body, his brain burst out by stones, and all the people and horses died in the valley, only thirty-seven years old, but he also fulfilled his poisonous oath.

Not long after, Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Chang'an, learned the news of Sun Jian's death, and couldn't help but be happy: "I finally got rid of a confidant!" Since then, he has become more and more arrogant, and he is called "Shang's father", but he didn't know that Situ Wang Yun was plotting a serial beauty scheme.

Here, Cao A concealed to the Chenliu area, first broke the thief with Bao Xin, the prime minister of Jibei, and then in the battle of Shouyang, Bao Xin entered lightly, killed the heavy land, and was victimized by the thief. Cao's army pursued and killed the thieves to Jibei, and tens of thousands of people fell.

In less than three months, more than 300,000 soldiers and more than 100,000 people were recruited. After considering it, Cao Apu chose one of the elite people, called "Qingzhou soldiers", and the rest ordered them to return to agriculture and be responsible for raising soldiers in Tuntian.

At this point, Cao Jun's prestige became more and more famous, and at the same time, the good news arrived in Chang'an, and the imperial court added Cao Apu as the general of Zhendong. At this point, Cao Jun's basic calculations have stabilized.

Cao Apu finally had some free time, and during the publication of the recruitment list, he sat down with Yang Tang to have a few drinks.

"Yan Kunna, when I was chasing Dong Zhuo, if you hadn't rescued me several times, I, Cao Mengde, would have ......"

"The past is not mentioned. Yang Tang waved his hand and said, "I have been in your army for a long time, and it is time to talk about it." ”

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