Chapter 576: The Battle of Yuan Cao
A generation of loyal Xun Cen just went, fulfilling his so-called loyalty.
However, Xun Cen prepared everything for Yuan Shao before he died, not only prepared the clothes of the soldiers for Yuan Shao, but also let his servants put on the general's armor that Yuan Shao had taken off.
Yuan Shao's whole mind was now full of hatred for Cao Cao and remorse for himself, so he could only help Yuan Shao on the war horse by the people on the side.
The remaining hundreds of people were directly divided into two parts, one was a domestic servant wearing general armor with a detachment to attract the attention of Cao Cao's army, and the other was to cover Yuan Shao's own retreat.
Although Yuan Shao is a little stupid, his IQ is not as high as Cao Cao's, and his face is as thick as Yuan Yaohou, but with the name of the fourth and third princes, there are many people who are willing to die for him Yuan Shao.
Therefore, the remaining two teams of men and horses did not have any complaints at all, especially the group that wore the armor of General Yuan Shao, and left directly with his soldiers and horses.
By the time Yuan Shao reacted, they had already walked away.
Yuan Shao could only shout in the back, "You don't live up to me, I will definitely live up to you!" ”
With the fake Yuan Shao over there as bait, plus they no longer took the small road, but chose the big road, because the places where Cao Cao pursued were all small roads, but there was no pursuit on the main road, even if there were, they would not be interested in encountering such a small group of Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses.
On the other hand, the fake Yuan Shao was successfully used as a bait.
I have to say here that Yuan Shao's armor is really not an ordinary bag.
The whole armor is golden, such clothes look handsome, but on the battlefield it is a target, before because the sky is dim and I can't see clearly, but now the sky is slowly brightening, this golden armor is dazzling.
Cao Cao said that those who got Yuan Shao's head were rewarded with the marquis of ten thousand households, so one by one Cao Jun saw the golden armor, which was really a hungry man who met a beautiful woman, and the wild dog fell in love with shit, and they were all crazy about it.
"Xun Cen is dead?" Cao Cao was also in pursuit, and there was news that a corpse had been found, and it looked like Xun Cen.
"What, my eldest brother is dead?" Xun Yu was also following Cao Cao's side, and when he heard the news, he was stunned: "How come, impossible?" ”
Xun Cen is just a strategist, how can he appear in the army? Still dead in the army?
"Wen Ruo, let's mourn and change!" Cao Cao believed that his subordinates would not lie to him, and Xun Cen must have died in the army.
"No, it can't be!" Xun Yu still can't believe it, if it really counts, then it was he Xun Yu who killed his eldest brother, although they knew it when they came out of the Xun family, if the brothers were estranged from father and son, they would definitely not be merciful, and they could only settle their own destiny, but he really knew the news of Xun Cen's death, and he still couldn't accept it.
"Wen Ruojie mourns and changes! Someone came to take good care of Xun Cen's body, wait for the end of the war, and bury it! "Although Xun Cen is an enemy, the Xun family's face cannot be withheld.
Cao Cao continued to chase and kill the fake Yuan Shao.
A general was incompetent and exhausted the three armies, and the main general Yuan Shao stubbornly substituted these Hebei Army soldiers into the fire pit, and the fake Yuan Shao took it
Cao Cao's main force was wandering around.
Even Cao Cao began to be suspicious, but there was no way, the golden armor over there seemed to have at least one target, and there was not even a target to be found elsewhere.
Originally, the fake Yuan Shao planned to continue to buy time for his lord, but unfortunately, the bureau under Lao Cao Bu still besieged this fake Yuan Shao from all directions.
"Surrender!" Cao Cao's soldiers and horses wanted to get a living Yuan Shao, because Yuan Shao's life was much more important than death.
"Don't think! We swear to protect the Lord to the death! "Over there, a group of Yuan Shaojun's soldiers are still protecting the fake Yuan Shao.
"Stubborn, looking for death!" Xu Chu and Dian Wei immediately rushed forward, with two killing gods, the fake Yuan Shao's subordinates over there couldn't hold out for long at all, and they quickly collapsed.
No matter how loyal you are, you can't resist your absolute strength.
Xu Chu and Dian Wei were about to step forward and grab this Yuan Shao and send it to Cao Cao.
But this fake Yuan Shao was loyal and courageous, and he saw that he was not the opponent of Xu Chu and Dian Wei, so he immediately took the sword in his hand and wiped it towards his neck.
"Stop him!" Cao Cao also saw that this person was not Yuan Shao, and now although Cao Cao was unhappy, he also had to hold on to this person's life, because only this person could know Yuan Shao's location in his mouth.
Xu Chu and Dian Wei were both highly skilled in martial arts, and one of them grabbed one of Yuan Shao's arms and escorted him to Cao Cao.
"Say, where is Yuan Shao? If you say, not only will I let you go, but I will also make you rich, but if you don't say it, I will make you live and die! Cao Cao was also ruthless.
"You're dreaming, hahahaha!" Fake Yuan Shao suddenly laughed.
"Huh?" Cao Cao was stunned: "Not good!" ”
I saw that the fake Yuan Shao over there was laughing and spit blood out of his mouth, it turned out that this person had bitten off his tongue in one bite.
"Hahaha!" The fake Yuan Shao actually laughed and vomited blood and died.
"Hey!" Cao Cao sighed, although he was an enemy, he also admired this person, "Someone who came also took him down for a thick burial!"
sighed, what should be done still needs to be done" Pass the order, so that Cao Chun, Xiahou Chun, Cao Hong and others don't need to pursue Yuan Shao anymore, the whole army will attack and march with me to Yuan Shao's army camp, kill!" ”
"The last general commands!!" Chasing Yuan Shao before, Cao Cao originally thought that after catching Yuan Shao, he would be able to use Yuan Shao to threaten the entire Yuan Shao's Hebei army, let them throw rat traps, and finally exchange Yuan Shao for the materials and soldiers and horses that Cao Cao wanted most.
But now it seems that it is impossible to catch Yuan Shao, so now take advantage of the failure of Yuan Shao's sneak attack on Xu Ducheng just now, and take advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat Yuan Shao's main force in one fell swoop.
"Kill, kill, kill!" All of Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have gone out of the city, and even the private soldiers of the palace guards and major families have been taken out in the city, which is enough to show that Cao Cao is really ruthless this time.
This is also thanks to the Xun family, if it weren't for Xun Yu and Xun Yu's uncle and nephew of the Xun family, those imperial parties in the city would inevitably support this opportunity to turn the entire Xu capital upside down, but with Xun Yu's uncle and nephew's lobbying everywhere, coupled with Liu Xun's example, and Yuan Shao's sneak attack on Xu Capital City failed tonight. It can be said that Yuan Shao is now the first to hate Cao Cao, and the second is to hate the imperial party in the city.
In this way, the imperial party had to follow Cao Cao all the way to the end.
"The scholars are not dead, and the Han is not prosperous!" Cao Cao is eyeing the scholars in those cities, why, because the strength shown by these imperial parties is really terrifying.
There are hundreds of private soldiers in each household, and there are more than 1,000 people, and after Fu finished a mansion, Fu Chang actually took out 3,000 private soldiers in order to show his loyalty to Cao Cao.
Even Cao Cao couldn't help but fight a cold war, if this was gathered, once there was chaos in the city, Cao Cao would not be able to eat and walk around, which is why Yuan Shao would believe that Fu Wan could cause civil strife in Xudu City.
Cao Cao had 20,000 main forces, 30,000 auxiliary soldiers and horses, a total of 50,000 people, and those scholars in the city had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses before and after.
Yuan Tan, under the urging of Gao Gan and Zhang Nan, could only send troops in a hurry, and looking at the time, it was enough for Cao Cao to achieve good things, so Yuan Tan didn't stop him.
A team of 10,000 people was sent to rescue Yuan Shao.
Unfortunately, this team of 10,000 people happened to meet Cao Cao's army.
This enemy was very red when he saw him, Cao Cao attacked directly without saying a word, 10,000 people and 80,000 people fought, and he knew the end with his ass, and suddenly this 10,000 army was killed and abandoned his armor and scattered towards the Chinese army.
Yuan Shao lost nearly 50,000 troops, and Yuan Shang had a chance to kill Yuan Shang again, but thinking that Yuan Shao didn't catch it, wouldn't it be cheaper to kill Yuan Shang? A unified Hebei was not what Cao Cao wanted to see, so Yuan Shang was also let go.
Soon Cao Cao's main force advanced all the way to Yuan Shao's Chinese army camp.
"Lord, the last general is going to fight!" Who is the first person to attack Yuan Shao's Chinese army, this is a great credit, now the morale of the Cao army is booming, and Yuan Shao can only retreat step by step, this first to attack the Chinese army is outstanding.
"The lord will ask for battle!" One by one, they all knelt down in front of Cao Cao.
"There's no need to fight, this attack on the Chinese army can only be done by me!" Cao Cao said with a fixed gaze.
"Where is Cao Hong!"
"The last general!"
"Yu Ban Cao Hong, the two of you each command 5,000 soldiers and horses, ambush around Yuan Shao's Chinese army camp, Yuan Shao sneak attack my Xu Capital City, there is no reason not to ambush soldiers and horses in your own Chinese army camp to prevent my sneak attack, once you two Yuan Shao ambush soldiers are killed, immediately encircle and suppress them from behind!!" Cao Cao is worthy of being a military strategist, and he can see the reality of the Chinese army camp at a glance.
Originally, the Chinese army was taught by Yuan Shao to Guo Tu and Yuan Tan, but Xun Cen intervened when he led it away, and now the Chinese army camp Sizhou does have ambush soldiers.
This is also the reason why Yuan Tan did not withdraw immediately.
"The last general commands!"
"The rest of the soldiers and horses will rush with me and attack the city!" Saying that, Cao Cao, under the command of Dian Wei and Xu Chu, took the lead towards the camp of Yuan Shaozhong's army over there.
Cao Cao can be said to be fully prepared this time, not only soldiers and horses but also countless siege weapons, the rushing car has been transferred, and he immediately bombarded the camp of Yuan Shaozhong's army over there.
Under the attack of the rushing cars, even the city gate could not withstand it, let alone the camp that was only set up in the wild. Soon the camp gate was broken, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses swarmed in.
"Cao Cao's old thief, suffer death!" Just as Cao Jun rushed in, two teams of Yuan Shaojun's ambush soldiers committed suicide from the left and right sides. If Cao Jun is not prepared, then this time there will inevitably be heavy casualties, because Yuan Shaojun's confidence is still there, even if Cao Cao wiped out nearly 50,000 troops, but there are still 100,000 soldiers and horses, Cao Cao will not swallow Yuan Shao's in one go.
Once Cao Cao is deadlocked in front of him, then Cao Cao will be in danger if he is outflanked on both sides.
But fortunately, Cao Cao had already prepared, and the 5,000 armies of Cao Hong and Yu Ban were killed from behind Yuan Shao's army.
At this moment, Yuan Shaojun was also dumbfounded.
It's really dumplings and dumplings, all filling.
"How is that possible?" Yuan Tan naturally looked carefully in the camp, originally he was very calm and the ambush was caught off guard, Cao Hong and Yu Ban came out with four kills, and Cao Jun was in an excitement again.
Yuan Tan's ambush lasted not long before it was wiped out, and even the two generals were beheaded by Yu Ban and Cao Hong. The remaining soldiers and horses of Yuan Shao's army could only flee towards their own camp.
"No, it can't go on like this!" Guo Tu is on the side of Yuan Tan, in fact, Guo Tu is still very capable, the only pity is that he has been used for internal friction with Yuan Shang before. Now it's about himself, and immediately Guo Tu's talent will be brought into play
"The rules of the public will be taught to you in the camp!" Yuan Tan's eldest son is also on fire.
"What do you want to do, eldest son?" Guo Tu was stunned for a moment.
"Over there, Cao Cao's old thief is leading the charge, if I don't show up again, I'm afraid the camp won't be able to resist!" Yuan Tan was also ruthless, after all, Yuan Tan was also a military general, and his father also went to the battlefield to kill the enemy before he became the overlord of Hebei.
"Soldiers, Cao Cao's old thief deceived our army too much, can't my Hebei Erlang be as good as this Yanzhou army, pass on my military order, and all the soldiers will rush to kill with me! Destroy the Cao thief! Yuan Tan also jumped out, and in order to boost morale, he also took the initiative to rush out with his subordinates and Lao Cao.
Yuan Tan's did raise the morale of the Hebei army, but unfortunately the defeat of the Hebei army was doomed, and Yuan Tan's first wave faced his own army's rout, even if he Yuan Dagongzi was brave, he couldn't bear his own army.
Cao Jun entered the camp and immediately lit fires everywhere, and the fire rose, and Yuan Shaojun had no imperial thoughts.
"The eldest prince withdraws!" Guo Tu persuaded Yuan Tan, and now this situation will not be of any benefit to the Hebei army.
"No, I won't withdraw!" Yuan Tan was unwilling to lose the Chinese army camp like this, because there were not only grain, grass and ordnance in the camp, but also countless soldiers and horses, and now they could still be integrated together, once the order to retreat was issued, it might be dispersed, and how much could he Yuan Tan get in the end?
Yuan Shang has no news yet, he Yuan Tan has just obtained the military power, and he doesn't want to waste it like this.
"Even if you withdraw, you have to press Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses!" Yuan Tan said with a gloomy face.
Yuan Shang's 100,000 troops were in addition to the 20,000 soldiers and horses he brought out, and more than 20,000 were killed before, and there were still 50,000 or 60,000.
Yuan Tan waved his hand and transferred Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses, originally planned to eradicate dissidents, but he didn't expect the rout to speed up even faster.
Because Yuan Shang's subordinates are not stupid, you Yuan Tan let us keep an eye on it, if 10,000 people and 20,000 people are okay, you let us all resist in front, and your own descendants are retreating, who is going to fuck you.
So it collapsed all of a sudden, you Yuan Tan run, we also run, see who runs fast.
"This, this, this, this!" Yuan Tan was also dumbfounded and wanted to make amends, sent his soldiers and horses to the forefront, and also wanted to stop the defeated army, but it had no effect.
"Kill, kill, kill! Hahaha! Cao Cao laughed on the side, and when he entered the camp of the Chinese army, he knew that this battle was won by his Cao Cao, but the victory was more miserable, but after waiting to get the grain, grass and ordnance in Yuan Shao's army, he Cao Cao was able to make a comeback.
Just when Lao Cao was happy, something unhappy happened.
"What? You say someone is targeting friendly forces? "Lao Cao's unhappy thing happened. It turned out that the private soldiers of the scholar clan were okay at first, and they were able to break Yuan Shao together with Cao Cao, but they changed after rushing into Yuan Shao's army camp, why? Because wealth moves people's hearts, there are so many grains, grasses and ordnance, who doesn't want to step forward and take a bite.
There are many natural ones, there are few, those who run fast and those who run slowly, those who run fast naturally occupy a good granary, and those who run slowly can only be selected from the rest, and those who have just run, they are dumbfounded when they have rushed into the camp, because everything is occupied.
At that time, I was not happy, it would be better if this family occupied a granary, people's greed is endless, some scholars have hundreds of soldiers and horses under their hands but want to occupy several granaries, what do you think of those who have thousands of soldiers and horses under their hands who run slowly?
If you don't agree with each other, everyone is still in the middle of the war, and everyone has just killed the red eye, and then under the temptation of these grains and grasses, then you can do it directly.
Is this good, Yuan Shaojun has not been broken yet, and his own people will fight first.
If only the scholars only saw the attack, it would be fine, the generals of the Cao army were originally going to persuade the fight, but originally these scholars were mostly the imperial party, and they were enemies before, but the enemy is now, and Yuan Shao is even more desperate, so they immediately united to deal with Yuan Shao, but now Yuan Shao's army is almost the same, where do you care about Cao Cao.
These granaries are shared, Cao Jun and the two sides were not in harmony, and joined the war group again.
Lao Cao's main force has to deal with Yuan Shaojun on the one hand, and the soldiers and horses of the Shi clan on the other, and they are really lacking in skills.
"Damn!" Cao Cao had a total of 50,000 troops, and he lost more than 10,000 in the attack on Yuan Shaojun's camp, leaving more than 30,000, and he had to take out more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to suppress the scholars, and there were still 20,000 soldiers and horses left.
The 20,000 soldiers and horses Cao Cao could still do much, so he could only watch Yuan Tan over there retreat step by step with his soldiers and horses, and retreat step by step into his rear military camp.
"Pass my military order, give up all the grain, grass and ordnance in the Chinese army camp, and chase me out!" Cao Cao gritted his teeth, once Yuan Tan ran into the rear army with the army, it was even more impossible for him to win.
"Lord, those grains and grasses were hard for us to get, so we gave up and cheapened those scholars for nothing?" Cao Hong, the miser on the side, was not happy.
This old man has to detain a copper plate for a long time, and he feels distressed looking at those grains, grasses and ordnance.
"Must chase! Yuan Shao is not extinguished, I am uneasy, our army can now break through Yuan Shao's army camp so easily, it is because Yuan Shao is not there, once Yuan Shao is allowed to go back to the camp, gasping for breath, our army is also not an opponent! "Cao Cao doesn't have much main force left, and now that he has even pulled out the private soldiers with the scholars, where does he still have much spare strength to fight.
I can only hold on to it when I am not exhausted.
"Those grains, grass and ordnance, they want to give them is, I want to see, they have the life to take it, and they have the life to spend it!" Cao Cao snorted coldly, this time the casualties of pursuing Cao Cao would be great, because Yuan Shaojun also began to slowly gain a foothold in the camp of the rear army, and those warriors successfully gave Yuan Shaojun the time he needed the most.
Those Yuan Shang's subordinates and Yuan Tan's subordinates also understood one thing, that is, if you are together, you will live, and if you are divided, you will die.
As for the surrendered? The rows of corpses lying on the ground over there tell their fate, Lao Cao is now short of troops, and he doesn't dare to take in the prisoners at all, and there is only one way to treat the prisoners, that is, kill, kill, kill!
Cao Cao himself doesn't believe in fate, but now he doesn't believe it and can't do it, his boss Cao is like Yuan Datou's nemesis, as long as it is related to Yuan Shao, there is no Huainan Army's two living treasures Yuan Yao and Huang Yi to stir up the situation, then Yuan Shao's army will always play a scene according to Cao Cao's want, Cao Cao was still worried that he would attack several battalions of Yuan Shao's army on the back road and would make himself suffer heavy losses.
Who knew that in this first camp, a group of Yuan Shaojun patronized and fled, but the gate forgot to close, too, no one is stupid, the gate of the camp will be closed for at least half an hour, and the pursuers behind Cao Cao will be killed at that time, and no one is willing to sacrifice themselves for others.
Therefore, the first camp was quickly pulled out by Lao Cao, and Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses inside naturally did not let go of any of them.
When it came to the second camp, it was different, Cao Cao still wanted to continue to be the same as the first camp, those Yuan Shaojun only cared about his own escape and was not willing to close the door behind the palace, but he didn't expect to meet a young general in Hebei who was willing to dedicate himself.
"Who is this man?" Cao Cao looked at the 1,000 generals who commanded more than 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and the colonel asked the generals on the side.
However, although the generals fought against Yuan Shao a lot, they didn't know such a thousand-person general.
"Hao Zi?" Cao Cao only saw that the banner over there was Hao, but he didn't know the name of this young general.
"Wait and break into the camp and capture this person alive with me!" Although Cao Cao did not dare to surrender those Hebei soldiers who surrendered, one or two generals were still okay.
"Yes!" Dian Wei and Xu Chu's two pairs of Tongling-like big eyes were on the little school over there.