Cao Cao was overjoyed when he saw it, he was now afraid that Li Xian would not fight, if he forced himself to attack the city, even if he finally captured the city, he would suffer heavy damage, and the difference between his strength and Yuan Shao's strength would become bigger and bigger, so attacking the city was his last choice.

He smiled and said: "Gongda's expectations are not bad, Li Xian finally couldn't help but fight, but what is he going to do when he comes out with such a few people?" ”

Cao Cao saw that there were only a few hundred horsemen out of the city, and he had tens of thousands of people, what kind of fame was Li Xian doing?

Guo Jia smiled and said: "In the battle of seizing qi, if they can return to the city safely after coming out for a while, it will be a great boost to their morale, and it will be a big blow to our morale." Therefore, the prince must let the front trap the enemy who left the city and annihilate them all, so as to deter the enemy in the city. ”

"Okay, no matter how many soldiers General Lejin loses, these enemy soldiers must be annihilated."

The herald waved a flag to convey the order to Lejin.

Le Jin led 3,000 people to the front, all of them were foot soldiers, and when Zhao Yun and them left the city, they were already ready for defense.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao rushed ahead, and the cavalry behind them only wore about a hundred horsemen in iron armor, and the others were only wearing leather armor.

When leaving the city, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao discussed, and the two of them each took two hundred and fifty horsemen, and rushed to the enemy formation on the left and right sides to divide the enemy's attack power.

Zhao Yun charged from the right flank, and when he was within a hundred steps of the enemy, the rain of arrows struck, and Zhao Yun danced his spear, blocking left and right, avoiding the enemy's arrows.

But the knights behind him were shot down more than thirty people, and the situation on Zhang Liao's side was similar.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and Lejin's archers had only shot two rounds before they were almost in front of the formation.

At this time, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao suddenly joined forces together and rushed towards Le Jin's army formation from the middle.

Originally, Lejin did a good job of defending the two wings, but he didn't expect them to attack from the formation with their combined forces.

At this time, it was too late to change the defensive formation, only to see the enemy cavalry rushing, the shield in front of it was washed down a few gaps, and the enemy cavalry burst into the formation and rampaged.

Especially Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, where the two passed, they all fell.

Seeing this, Cao Cao hurriedly ordered Xu Huang to lead 3,000 people forward to join Le Jin and block the retreat of Zhao Yun and others.

After rushing and killing for a while, Lejin's soldiers had killed and wounded nearly a thousand people, and Zhao Yun also lost more than 200 horsemen.

Seeing that Xu Huang led the troops to block the retreat, Zhao Yun became angry for a while, and shouted to Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan, Cao Cao is not far ahead, why don't we kill Cao Cao and capture Cao Cao?" ”

Zhang Liao also saw the position of Cao Cao's cover, and after swinging his knife and cutting down an enemy soldier next to him, he shouted: "Okay, let's rush over and capture Cao Cao alive." ”

The two of them rushed to kill together, and those cavalry followed the two of them closely and went straight to Cao Cao.

Xu Chu hurriedly said next to Cao Cao: "Gong go quickly, Xu Chu will go and block them." ”

Cao Cao smiled and said to Xu Chu: "Zhongkang, don't panic, they can't rush." ”

At this time, Li Gan led 2,000 men to protect Cao Cao, Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao had also rushed in, and there were only more than 100 horsemen left behind them.

Li Xian in the city saw that Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao were already trapped in the enemy formation, and it was already very difficult to break through.

Originally, he just wanted to rush for a while and seize the momentum of the enemy, but now it seems that he has to send troops to fight Cao Cao, otherwise Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao's two generals will not be guaranteed.

He hurriedly gathered 5,000 people, personally led it, and Gao Shun's trapping camp was in front, opening the door to kill.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao were killed all the way, Li Gan's army formation had broken through half, Cao Cao was smiling and watching, he was not worried that Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao would be able to rush in front of him, because at this time their cavalry only had more than thirty horsemen left.

Zhao Yun's cavalry lost more than 400 horsemen, but Cao Cao's soldiers also lost more than 2,000 men.

Suddenly, seeing the city gate wide open, Li Xian led the army to kill, Cao Cao was busy with Le Jin and Xu Huang leading the troops to refuse, Yu Ban and Cao Chun also led people to rush towards Li Xian.

Li Gan caught Zhang Liao fighting, but after only a few rounds, he was beheaded by Zhang Liao, and the soldiers next to him avoided it one after another, not daring to stop it.

Zhao Yun even rushed to Cao Cao's approach, Cao Cao was shocked, hurriedly abandoned the car and went to the ground, and fled on foot with Guo Jiaxun.

Xu Chu took his knightly escort team to follow and protect behind, if it weren't for the protection of Cao Cao, he would have led people into battle to kill the enemy.

When Li Xian led his soldiers and horses to fight with Cao's army, the entire battlefield was already disrupted.

Gao Shun rushed to the front with the trapped camp, especially since he had three hundred armored soldiers, and he killed all the way, killing Cao Jun and retreating.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao saw that Cao Cao had run away, and that Li Xian had already led his troops to kill, so they turned around and killed again.

But now the five hundred cavalry they brought out were all dead, and only the two of them remained.

Li Xian wore armor, held a tiger halberd, rode a kamikaze white horse given to him by Cao Hong, rushed into the Cao army, stabbed left and right, and killed the soldiers of the Cao army one after another, not daring to resist.

Because Cao Cao had already fled, their soldiers only resisted for a while, and they also retreated and fled.

Li Xian did not dare to pursue, at this time there were not many defenders in the city, for fear that the enemy would take the opportunity to capture the city.

After leading the army back to the city, he left some people to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, more than 5,000 Cao's troops were killed, and he lost more than 1,000 people, including the 500 cavalry.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao were also injured in several places on their bodies, but fortunately, they were not seriously injured.

After Cao Cao fled back to the camp, he hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat another twenty miles to set up camp, he was really afraid that Li Xianhui would come to rob the camp at night.

If they come to rob the camp, they can find out a little earlier, so that they will have time to prepare for the enemy, and they will not be attacked and rushed to fight.

In this battle, not only did they lose more than 5,000 people, but they also lost one of their generals, Li Gan.

Li Qian is a native of Shanyang County, Yanzhou, and is a local powerful family.

After Cao Cao became the pastor of Yanzhou, he led more than 1,000 people to follow Cao Cao, first chasing the Yellow Turban in Shouzhang, and later following Cao Cao to conquer Xuzhou, making a lot of meritorious contributions and being promoted to Zhonglang General.

Li Gan died, and Cao Cao appointed his son Li Cheng as a lieutenant general, leading Li Gan's troops. Li Dian was also in the army at this time, mainly responsible for grain transportation.

Now there is a downturn in Cao Cao's army, not only because of the defeat, but also because he saw the bravery of Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, as well as the attack and killing of Gao Shun's camp, which made Cao Jun frightened.

Cao Cao was actually quite entangled at this time, and he didn't know whether to continue to attack the city or retreat his troops back.

If you attack, you have just been defeated, it is impossible to attack again, morale has been lost, and you will be defeated if you attack again.

If you retreat like this, not only will Nanyang be lost, but Xu Du will not be safe at all.

Caught in a dilemma, he sought out Guo Jia and Xun You to discuss.

Guo Jia said: "It's better to take a look at it again, General Xiahou Miaocai is stationed in Bowang and cut off the passage from Wanxian to Yexian. Ye County is short of food, and will take the initiative to find us for a decisive battle, and at that time we will be able to change from passive to active, and it will be up to us to decide whether to fight or not. ”

Xun You also said: "Li Xianzhi's army is brave and fierce, and it is difficult for us to win the siege, so we can only wait for them to come out of the city to attack, and we will set up an ambush to attack." ”

Cao Cao sighed and said: "Alas, it has to be like this, it's just the morale of the army, I don't know when it will be revived." ”

He also sent someone to tell Xiahou Yuan that he must strictly prevent and control it, cut off the passage between Wanxian and Ye County, and not let a single grain and rice be transported to Ye County.