Chapter 34: Ice and Fire
The cavalry fell from their horses, and there was almost only one result left, and Wen Chou was no exception.
He naturally didn't know that Cao Cao's general order was to let the soldiers under his command behead Wen Chou desperately behead Wen Chou, and it was not until after falling off the horse that both the generals and soldiers of Cao Jun scrambled to stab at him with the weapons in their hands, and he suddenly woke up, but at this time, it was obviously too late.
An ordinary soldier of Cao's army was originally riding a horse to chase other enemy troops, but Wen Chou fell off his horse and happened to fall under his horse.
"Kill Wen Chou!"
A loud shout of killing sounded in his ears, making him involuntarily look at Wen Chou, who was stumbling on the ground, and then raised the blood-stained spear in his hand high.
He stabbed Wen Chou with the first shot, followed by the second shot from an unknown direction, followed by the first knife, and then the second knife......
Every Cao army soldier who participated in it heard Cao Cao's words before departure, whether this battle can kill Wen Chou and win more with less will be related to the direction of the subsequent battle with Yuan Shao, the direction of the war The soldiers don't understand, but what they understand is that as long as they win again and again, they can retain the possibility of survival.
In the end, Cao Hong repelled the crazy soldiers, and barely found Wen Chou's head.
Originally, Yuan Shaojun's soldiers were already in chaos, and they were scattered by hundreds of Cao cavalry.
However, some of them were not worried, because their numerical advantage was too great, and ten people could kill one Cao army, and they were the ones who won in the end.
However, when Wen Chou's head finally appeared on the flagpole, the last trace of illusion in their hearts was finally shattered, and they had to start running away in the real sense.
At this time, Liu Bei had fled several miles away with his cronies, killing the battle of Wenchou, Guan Yu did not go to the core area, but only killed some Yuan Shaojun soldiers who tried to reinforce Wenchou in vain on the periphery, his eyes were always staring at Liu Bei Shuaiqi, who was gradually moving away, until the small wave of men and horses broke away from the attack range of Cao's army.
Guan Yu understood that if he wanted to, he could reunite with Liu Bei today, and when he came to Yuan Shao's account, Yuan Shao would also reuse him, after all, his strength had at least proved to be above Yan Liang.
But he resisted such an impulse, because Liu Bei's two ladies were still in the emperor's palace.
He believed that Liu Bei could understand him, and he also believed that Liu Bei would not always be under Yuan Shao's account.
There is another thing that Guan Yu himself may not have realized, that is, for this battle, he has subconsciously been on Cao Cao's side, especially after the previous night talk with Liu Xie.
"Wen Chou is dead, Yuan Jun is defeated! Dismount quickly and be surrendered, and those who do not dismount will be killed! ”
Cao Hong raised the handsome flag with Wen Chou's head on it, and rampaged through the formation of the two armies, shouting in his mouth, and behind him, many personal soldiers shouted with him.
Yuan Jun, who was more bold, understood that Cao Jun had few people after all, so he ran back desperately when he got on the horse.
The timid simply threw away the weapon in his hand and knelt on the ground waiting for fate to judge him.
This battle lasted less than an hour, Cao Cao had a total of more than 600 horsemen, and in the end, there were nearly 400 people left, and Yuan Shao's thousands of cavalry, although most of them ran away, were captured by Cao Cao with nearly 1,000 people and hundreds of horses.
This is a textbook war to raise war, especially the war horse, which is a particularly scarce resource in this era, each horse is very important, so logically speaking, this battle is Cao Cao's unilateral victory.
"Sikong, our army broke Wen Chou and Liu Bei's pursuers, Wen Chou has been killed in the chaotic army, Liu Bei has long since disappeared, although our army lost more than 200 cavalry in this battle, but also captured a lot of enemy troops!"
After the battle was over, Cao Hong threw Wen Chou's head under Cao Cao's feet and began to report the results of the battle, obviously, such a big victory was something they had not expected before.
But Cao Cao's face did not see any smugness, and the successive killing of Yuan Shao's generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou was indeed a great blow to Yuan Shao's morale, but from the perspective of troops, Yuan Shao was far from reaching the level of breaking his muscles and bones.
"Reorganize the army and withdraw to Guandu."
Cao Cao immediately issued an order to continue to withdraw to Guandu, he knew that when Yuan Shao learned of Wen Chou's death, he would be furious, and what was about to happen was Yuan Shao's real assault on him, whether he could hold out to the end, or Yuan Shao could conquer Guandu before the troops were exhausted, it would be the final two endings of their battle.
Although the preparations that could be made in the early stage were almost done, Cao Cao still could not take it lightly, after all, the disadvantage in troops was difficult to make up.
With his pawns and horses, and of course more baggage than they had left before, Cao Cao returned to Guandu in the dust.
They knew that Yuan Shao's anger was already on the way, and the day that would come would definitely not be too far away.
According to Cao Cao's original idea, after returning to Guandu, he had to discuss with a few of his advisers how to hold on to the method of dragging Yuan Shao down, although he won several battles, but it was definitely not wise to take the initiative to attack, and it was not wise to be tough, so he could only grind a little bit.
However, when he arrived at Guandu, Cao Cao found some unusual signals.
This time, Cao Cao went out to relieve the siege of Baima, and the advisers he brought with him were Guo Jia and Xun Yu, and Cheng Yu and other advisers stayed in Guandu to prepare for the war.
But as soon as Cao Cao came back, he saw that everyone was waiting for him with anxious faces, this was definitely not what they should show at this time, after all, they had just achieved a phased victory at this time, and Yuan Shao was not going to call tomorrow.
"What happened?"
As soon as Cao Cao entered the house, he closed the door and asked Cheng Yu.
Xuchang was handed over to Xun Yu, and when he was not here, he naturally handed it over to Cheng Yu, in Cao Cao's opinion, they are all characters who can take charge of themselves, so he personally led the army, or rest assured.
"Commonplace......
Cheng Yu took out a letter from his arms, but looked at the attendant at the door.
Cao Cao frowned, a little aware of the unusualness of this matter in his heart, and then waved his hand, leaving only a few of his cronies and advisers around, which turned out to be the letter in Cheng Yu's hand.
This letter was written by Xun Yu, after handing over the letter to Cao Cao, Cheng Yu lowered his head, obviously, this matter was too big, so big that he didn't dare to make any arrangements before Cao Cao came back.
This letter gave Cao Cao a real understanding of what it means to be called the two heavens of ice and fire.