"Damn!" In Chang'an City, Xu Rong angrily walked towards a grizzled Xiliang general, and when he got closer, he scolded him: "A bunch of fools, how many times have I warned you!" No exit! No exit! But you still refuse to obey orders honestly, in that case, why did you still nominate me to be the initiator in the first place? Tonight's defeat and loss of troops are satisfied! ”

Before, Li Dao, Guo Yan and other cadres went out of the city to steal the camp without permission, but they fell into the trap of Cao Jun, and when they broke through, the battle was loud, how could Xu Rong not know such a big movement? When he arrived at the gate of the city, he happened to see Li Dao and the others running back with the remnants of the defeated army.

Actually, to be honest, at that time, Xu Rong really wanted to order that the door should not be opened, and simply leave this group of scourges outside the city! But after thinking about it, Xu Rong still held back, not because he was soft-hearted, but now that he wants to defend Chang'an City, he really can't do without the help of these people!

In desperation, Xu Rong could only sprinkle his anger on others, this one who was the substitute for Li Dao and others was naturally the city gate guard who opened the city gate and let Li Dao, Guo Yan and others out of the city.

The army was defeated and returned, with heavy losses, at this moment, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and Yang Feng themselves are all difficult to protect, where can they care about interceding with the city gatekeeper, watching him being dragged down and beheaded by Xu Rong's order, but he doesn't even dare to let go of a fart!

And when Xu Rong counted the damage, he found that the 50,000 troops brought out of the city by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others had returned less than 20,000, and such losses were really too huge.

In the face of Xu Rong's scolding, if it was in normal times, Guo Yan would have just left. But Li Dao, Zhang Ji, Yang Feng and others must refute it, but now Li Dao is at their own expense, so they can only hang their heads and let Xu Rong shout and scold, anyway, as long as their lives are still there, the rest doesn't matter.

Seeing that these people are all dead pigs, they are not afraid of boiling water. After Xu Rong shouted and scolded, he was helpless, after all, he couldn't kill all these people, right? At that time, Chang'an City lacked guards, and even if he had an army of 100,000 alone, it would be difficult to resist Cao Cao.

"From today on, except for the soldiers and horses of the headquarters. The other soldiers and horses under your command are all personally dispatched by me, without my military order, who dares to mess around again, be careful that I don't care about my feelings when the time comes! Xu Rong was angry, so he could only confiscate part of these people's military power, which was regarded as a warning to them, and then turned around and left with a sense of anger.

"Whew-" at this time. Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji, Yang Feng and others breathed a sigh of relief. They were really afraid that Xu Rong would attack them, after all, no matter what, Xu Rong was now their leader, and it was indeed them who violated military orders.

If it is said. This time they were very successful in the battle of stealing camps, even if they violated the military order, they also had the confidence to compete with Xu Rong, but this time they were extremely defeated, and the loss of soldiers was more than 30,000, even if Xu Rong really killed them. They were helpless.

In the final analysis, after losing Dong Zhuo's suppression, now they lead these Xiliang Army, relying only on their own prestige in front of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army, if they lose their prestige, it is difficult for them to command the Xiliang Army, and now, it is undoubtedly their own actions that have buried their prestige in the army.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ji couldn't help but sigh, and said: "Everyone, in tonight's battle, we will be defeated, the loss of troops will be so serious, and the prestige of the army will be greatly reduced, but what should we do?" ”

Although everyone didn't want to be soft, everyone knew in their hearts that after this defeat, their prestige in the army was far inferior to Xu Rong, that is to say, the command of the Xiliang Army had almost completely reached Xu Rong's hands, if he was not polite to Xu Rong, he was afraid that no one would have good fruit to eat at that time!

It's just that no one wants to be the first to do the soft thing, and after a long silence, everyone's eyes finally focused on Li Dao and Yang Feng, after all, in terms of dissatisfaction with Xu Rong, Li Dao was the first, and Yang Feng was the one who proposed to go out of the city and steal the camp.

Seeing everyone's eyes converge, Li Dao and Yang Feng couldn't help but scold in their hearts, but they were not stupid, they knew that if this matter happened next, then they were afraid that they would not have the face to mix in the Xiliang Army in the future, so the two of them had a tacit understanding and looked up at the sky at the same time.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but scold for a while, knowing that Li Dao and Yang Feng were afraid that they would not be able to count on it, and after glancing at each other, Guo Yan sighed and said, "Alas! I don't think General Xu Rong deliberately embarrassed us, in the future, for the sake of the overall situation, let's not deliberately embarrass General Xu Rong! ”

The implication was that he took over the matter of giving in to Xu Rong, which made Li Dao, Yang Feng and others breathe a sigh of relief, but they also knew that this matter was not authentic, and their faces were naturally a little unpleasant, and they were polite to each other, and then they left with a sneer.

Although they were unwilling, they had to admit that the defeat in this battle had made them lose face.

Outside the city, Cao Cao raised his tent to gather generals, looked at the battle report sent urgently, and the joy of last night's victory disappeared without a trace in a blink of an eye.

"Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan, Lu Bu and others more than 300,000 allied troops were defeated at Jieqiao, and more than 200,000 soldiers were lost." As soon as Cao Cao's words came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the soldiers of Cao Jun.

Not to mention, the elite of the army under the command of Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan cannot be underestimated, just a Lu Bu, who is known as the world's number one general, has immeasurable combat power, and the Bingzhou cavalry led by him is definitely a huge force that no force can underestimate.

"How so?" Cheng Yu frowned and asked, "Even if the alliance of princes is not compatible with each other and the combat strength is difficult to complete, it shouldn't be defeated in such a short period of time?" ”

"Lu Bu is defeated." Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "Xiao Lan, the leader of the Taiping thieves, showed a strong force beyond Lu Bu in the battle of the boundary bridge, and in the process of one-on-one fighting, he was defeated and killed Lu Bu, plus he broke a large number of cavalry of the Jizhou coalition army with a battle formation, which greatly reduced the morale of the coalition army, so that the Taiping thieves seized the opportunity and defeated it in one fell swoop!" ”

"Tsk...... I really didn't expect that Xiao Lan, the leader of the Taiping thieves, would have such combat power, and after this defeat, Yuan Shao and others no longer had the strength to fight against the Taiping thief army, but I was afraid that even Jizhou would be difficult to keep. Cheng Yu sighed, suddenly moved, and exclaimed: "Ah, it's not good! ”

Cao Cao was shocked and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Cheng Yu said: "The Taiping thief army has annexed Jizhou, and the next step is Youzhou and Merge State, I'm afraid that it won't take much time for us to fight with it." ”

Hearing this, Cao Cao couldn't help frowning, the battle of Chang'an, the stalemate so far, is something he did not expect, I have to say, although the virtue is corrupt, but, the combat power of the Xiliang army is really extraordinary, Xu Rong, Zhang Ji and others can be not bad, to successfully capture Chang'an, it will take some time.

But if the time drags on too long, when they capture Chang'an, the Taiping army has already taken Jizhou, and they will attack them when they turn around, at that time, they who have experienced the battle of Chang'an, I am afraid that they will not be able to deal with the Taiping army's soldiers!

"Damn, how did this Taiping thief grow so quickly?" Thinking of this, Cao Cao couldn't help but scold angrily.

"Huh! Don't worry! Seeing Cao Cao's expression, Cheng Yu hurriedly smiled and said: "That Jizhou is an important place for the Yuan clan to pass through, the battle of Jieqiao, although the princes' coalition army was defeated, but relying on the geographical advantage, it can still resist the Taiping thief army for a period of time, plus Gongsun Zhan's help, this battle, there are still fights, so we have enough time to capture Chang'an." ”

"Li Wei Guo Yan's generation, but he is a traitor who sells his head, but Xu Rong is not to be underestimated, there are still fierce generals in the Xiliang army, and it is not easy to take Chang'an." Cao Cao sighed, as if he remembered something, and suddenly asked, "By the way, there is still no news in the city?" It stands to reason that those princes and ministers in the city have long been extremely dissatisfied with the Xiliang army, why don't they send people to contact us? ”

Cheng Yu said with a smile: "I'm afraid that the Xiliang Army is too tightly guarded, wait a little longer, maybe there will be good news soon!" ”

At this moment, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Lord Governor, today we caught a spy and found a secret letter from him!" (To be continued......)