Chapter 593: Reinforcements
Yuan Yao didn't dare to gamble, because once he lost the bet, it would be a catastrophe, so Yuan Yao gave Cao Cao enough time to escape back to the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yuan Yao's goal had been achieved, that is, to lure Cao Cao's soldiers and horses out of the tortoise shell of his Xu Capital City and lead him to the field outside the city.
The statistics of the entire battlefield came out, and Yuan Yao's 40,000 army had lost more than half, leaving 15,000 people with combat effectiveness.
Yuan Yao won this battle badly, because as long as Cao Cao came out to duel with him, Yuan Yao would be considered half of the victory, as long as he didn't lose, he would win.
Yuan Yao's battle losses reached 25,000 people, and Cao Cao on the opposite side was no better! When the army of 50,000 came out, a small part of it was to burn high incense.
As for Cao Cao's most trusted tiger and leopard rider, he was even more disabled, and there was not even a team of 1,000 people who went back.
And although Yuan Yao is also miserable, at least he still has reinforcements, as well as soldiers and horses far away in Cangting and Guandu, as long as he gathers them back, and then attacks Xudu, then Cao Cao will be defeated.
Therefore, Yuan Yao will not pin his hopes on Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu can surrender himself and Cao Cao, if he blindly pins his hopes on Zhang Xiu, then it will bring Yuan Yao nothing but failure or failure.
There are as many as 50,000 soldiers and horses in Zhang Xiu's hands, and this reinforcement is mainly cavalry, and there are also more than 10,000 Xiliang iron cavalry.
pinning his hopes on Zhang Xiu, once Zhang Xiu rebelled, Yuan Yaoke really had no power to return to heaven.
Twenty miles away from Xudu, a long-distance march full of tired soldiers and horses appeared on the land of Yanzhou.
"Mr. Jia Xu, how long do you have to get to Xudu!" A figure who was clearly the main general asked the scribe next to him.
"It's coming, it's coming! If my guess is correct, the city ahead is probably Xudu!! The scribe said, pointing to the city that was slowly revealing itself in his vision.
"Xu Ducheng?"
"Report! Qi Qi Division, General, there are some routs found ahead! ”
"Router?" The scribes and generals were stunned, whose defeat was it? Whoever loses and who wins, are they too late?
"Grab two tongues for me and ask for a good question!" Soon, several of the routs were caught in front of the scribes and generals.
"Whose men are you?" I didn't dare to use coarseness, because I didn't know where the soldiers and horses were, whether they were Yuan Yao's or Cao Cao's.
"We are the soldiers and horses under Prime Minister Cao Cheng!"
"Cao Cao's army was defeated?" The scribes and generals glanced at each other, if the Huainan army could win, why should they be used as reinforcements.
"We didn't lose!" The few Cao soldiers who were caught said quite stiffly to the scribes and generals over there.
"Didn't lose?" The military general over there sneered and said, "I didn't lose, why did I retreat?" ”
"I, we, we didn't win either!" The few Cao sergeants who were caught said with a red face, and they only then told what was happening on the battlefield.
Cao Jun and Yuan Yaojun had no choice but to win this war, and the battle losses of both sides were almost 1-1, and after the battle, Cao Cao retreated, and Yuan Yao did not pursue.
"No pursuit?" Scribes are not ordinary people who soon have their own speculations, compared to attacking the city, Yuan Yao should prefer to destroy the Cao army in the field, if it is conventional, the Huainan army will definitely follow behind to fight, and now it can only explain one reason, that is, the Huainan army is testing itself.
Cao Cao, Yuan Yao, they must choose one and attack it.
"What does this Yuan Yao mean!" Although the generals are not sensitive to any strategies, they also know that this is the Huainan Army's distrust of themselves.
"Isn't he Yuan Yao afraid that I will help Cao Cao capture Yuan's camp?" The military general said angrily, now Yuan Yaojun and Cao Jun are in need of reinforcements, helping Yuan Yaona is the icing on the cake, and helping Cao Cao is a charcoal in the snow.
"General, if it was possible before, but now? Hehe, general, do you think that Xu Ducheng can feed our army? The scribe said with a wry smile to the generals over there.
If before, when their Nanyang was still there, they could really take refuge in Cao Cao, as long as they defeated Yuan Yao, then for Cao Cao, their soldiers and horses would be the savior, and Lao Cao was not a merciless person, and he would not be stingy with rewards, but now, Cao Cao is left with Zhili and Xu Du, whether they can afford to raise them or not is another matter, they Nanyang is still there and can still support themselves, but now Nanyang is gone, if you want not to starve to death, you can only find Yuan Yao, a local tyrant.
"Then we don't care if they vote for a new master!" Wu will continue.
"Isn't it General Hu Che'er who still wants to join Liu Biao's coalition army? The bones of the lord are still not cold! Jia Xu squinted at the side and looked at this general named Hu Che'er.
They were the reinforcements from Nanyang that Yuan Yao was waiting for.
"Me!" Hu Che'er really doesn't have the idea of taking refuge in the Liu Biao coalition, he still has feelings for Zhang Xiu, but what he wants to take refuge in is not the Liu Biao coalition, but another person, that is, Ma Teng, who is now outside Tongguan.
No matter what Ma Tengjun said, he is mostly of the Qiang people, and he is considered to be the same clan as Hu Che'er, so he will naturally be of great use if he takes refuge in the past.
What's more, he can also attack Tongguan from behind, so that he can put Ma Teng's 200,000 soldiers and horses into the pass, which is a great credit.
But Hu Che'er looked at Jia Xu's squinting eyes, but he was panicked, because Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe had been following them for a long time, once Jia Xu squinted, it meant that Jia Xu was going to calculate people, and someone was going to be unlucky.
So subconsciously Hu Che'er dispelled his thoughts.
"Everything is subject to the arrangement of the military advisor!" Hu Che'er hugged Jia Xu with a fist, in order to dispel the fear in his heart, Hu Che'er immediately rushed to the front of the battle formation, "Sons! Hu Che'er pointed to a huge city over there.
"Do you see that city? Conquer the past, and we will build on this city today! Hu Che'er shouted to the Xiliang Iron Rider under his hand.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The city of Xudu was undefended, because Cao Cao pulled all his troops out and fought a decisive battle with Yuan Yao in the field.
In order to facilitate the return of the army, the city gate and moat were not closed.
"Pass my military order, and the whole army will attack!" Hu Che'er took the lead and killed Xu Ducheng over there.
Seeing Hu Che'er leading a team of men and horses towards Xu Ducheng, Jia Xu breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that this Hu Che'er would turn against him at this time.
In that case, even if he could kill Hu Che'er, he probably wouldn't be able to escape.
Although he Jia Xu is a little vicious, how can he say that Jia Xu has not forgotten his identity as a Han Chinese.
Surrendering to Ma Teng, you don't have to think about it at all.
"Let's do it too!" Jia Xu said to the captain on the side, the entire Xiliang army was divided into two parts, one part of it was towards Xu Ducheng, and the other part directly bypassed Xu Ducheng and killed the enemy army that Cao Cao retreated over there.
Cao Cao's army was retreating, Cao Cao was originally ready to leave behind the palace of the dead, Lao Cao was very good at fighting back the horse gun Yin people, but what he didn't expect was that Yuan Yao did not send a soldier to chase them and forcibly capture Xu Du, but instead contained the soldiers and defended on the spot.
"What the hell is this?" Cao Cao was very puzzled when he heard the news brought back by the scouts.
But if you don't understand, Yuan Yaoxiaoer actually gave him the opportunity to retreat, so Cao Cao would not waste it in vain, and directly asked the soldiers and horses under his command not to ambush Yuan Yaojun, but to discard some baggage, and also to give up all the formation, run as fast as he can, and run to Xudu City before Yuan Yaojun has not repented.
Although the battle was lost, for Cao Cao, he could live a little longer in his dying struggle.
What's more, Cao Cao also has a plan not to leave Yanzhou. 、
After receiving Cao Cao's order, countless Cao soldiers began to retreat towards Xudu City, leaving behind the things that were in the way one by one, and asked if they could run back to Xudu City quickly, because they could resist Yuan Yaojun's troops because of the presence of the city.
After a day of fighting, they were also tired and stupid, so they needed to go back to the city to rest.
In this way, there is no formation at all, and there is no news of the scouts, and even if there are scouts, they are paying close attention to Yuan Yaojun's movements, not paying attention to the queen of Xu Ducheng.
The result of this was that Cao Jun's soldiers and horses were caught off guard by Jia Xu and Hu Che'er's army.
"Kill, kill, kill!" Hu Che'er took the lead and killed the soldiers and horses of the Cao army over there who took the lead in retreating, and the cavalry originally had congenital restraint for the foot soldiers, but now it is like a wolf entering the flock.
After fighting with Yuan Yaojun for a day, the whole person was already exhausted, and although Hu Che'er's soldiers and horses were also tired, it was clear which one was more tired on the war horse or walking on two legs.
In addition, Cao Cao's army has long been out of formation, and Hu Che'er fought very suddenly, and he was unable to resist how to cut vegetables and defeat Cao's army's front army.
The people above Xu Capital City were also dumbfounded, not knowing whether it was better to close the city gate to guard against the enemy army, or whether they should open the city gate to receive their own people.
The news was quickly delivered to Cao Cao.
"What! Behind our army appeared the enemy's cavalry? "Cao Cao was riding on a war horse, and he couldn't believe such a news.
Haven't all of Yuan Yao'er's cavalry already been sent?
The scout team sent by Cao Cao to monitor Yuan Yao'er's cavalry sent back a message, saying that Yuan Yao'er's soldiers and horses were still waiting in Guandu Cangting, why did the enemy appear here again.
"What kind of enemy is this enemy, what kind of banner is it shining, and where does it come from!" It was Xun Yu on the side who asked the key.
From the description of the people under his hands, it doesn't look like the Huainan Army at all, and the banner is also Hu, when did the Huainan Army have such a general who commands the cavalry, not only is it looking in the direction of the southern generation, not the north.
"South?!" Cao Cao's pupils suddenly narrowed. "Could it be that this is really Yuan Yao'er's reinforcements!" Coming from the south, there was also cavalry, there was only one person, Cao Cao and the others looked at each other, and spit out a few words from their mouths with difficulty: "Nanyang Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses!" ”
Nanyang Zhang Xiu has a total of 50,000 troops, including 40,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 cavalry, looking at the scale, who else in the south has such cavalry besides Zhang Xiu?
Jingzhou Liu Biao? Although he is a local tyrant, Liu Biao can't take out more than 10,000 for the war horse, not to mention Liu Bei and Sun Quan, just two dicks.
There is also a speculation that Xiliang Ma Teng has already broken through Tongguan, but that is simply impossible, if the Xiliang army comes, it will not be such a few people, and it will not let Xu Ducheng not loot but come to attack them.
"Impossible, isn't Zhang Xiu our person?" Xiahou Yuan on the side asked strangely, Zhang Xiuke sent the intention of surrender when Yuan Cao fought before, which made Cao Cao very happy, at the beginning, for fear of chilling Zhang Xiu's heart, he was very relieved to Zhang Xiu, and let Zhang Xiu stay in Nanyang County to deal with Yuan Yao'er.
Now it seems like these are all jokes.
"This damn Yuan Yao'er!" Cao Cao now understands what Zhang Xiu is dragging Yuan Yao'er's main force, these are all farting, in order to let him Cao Cao and Yuan Shao die in the north.
However, Cao Cao also understood that if Yuan Yao Xiaoer and Yuan Shao besieged his Yanzhou together, he was only afraid that he would lose more severely and faster, but the final winner was Yuan Shao.
After scolding Yuan Yao, Cao Cao immediately prepared to make a countermeasure.
The best way to deal with the cavalry is the cavalry, there are more than 10,000 people in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and there are also tigers and leopards in his hands Cao Cao, although he has been disabled, but it can still be done to block the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
But Cao Cao is reluctant, to put it mildly, Cao Cao still expects to escape with these tigers and leopards, raising a tiger and leopard to ride him Cao Cao can raise ten foot soldiers.
However, Cao Cao didn't care much, because there was news from there that Yuan Yao Xiao'er's Huainan army, which was still defending on the spot just now, actually killed them again at this time.
"Damn Yuan Yao'er, you're going to kill them all!" Cao Cao gritted his teeth, and in desperation, he could only let Cao Chun take his subordinates to ride the tiger and leopard to resist the soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
"Kill, kill, kill!" It was impossible to hide Yuan Yao's earth-shattering shouts over there.
"Brother Yao, Brother Yao, good news, good news! Our reinforcements, our reinforcements are coming! Huang Yi hurriedly ran into the tent and shouted at Yuan Yao.
"What a system of panic!" Yuan Yao glared at Huang Yi, his brother-in-law just didn't open the house for three days.
"Brother Yao, the reinforcements are coming, this old thief Cao Cao retreated, patronizing to defend us, but he never imagined that a soldier and horse were killed from behind to disrupt his rear army!" Huang Yi told Yuan Yao over there about the scene he saw.
"They're really coming!" Yuan Yao didn't answer Huang Yi, but looked at Xu Shu and the others on the side.
"The lord won Cao Cao, but he is the overlord of the Central Plains, and if he and Zhang Xiu are no longer interested, then they are really asking for their own hardships!" Xu Shu said to Yuan Yao over there.
"Okay, pass on my military order, the whole army will attack, chase and kill Cao Jun, and capture Cao thief alive!" Yuan Yao immediately issued an order, he wanted to attack Xudu City, and only by taking Xudu City could he win the Central Plains.