Cao Cao personally led an army of 20,000 people, with Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Le Jin, Yu Ban and others, from Pengcheng.

He also ordered Cao Ren and Li Xian to lead 10,000 horses and march from Mount Tai.

Xiahou tuntun soldiers in Puyang, East County, Xun Yu and Cheng Yu stayed in Juancheng.

Tao Qian knew that after his subordinates Zhang Min and Que Xuan attacked and killed Cao Song, he beheaded Que Xuan and gave his head to Cao Cao.

But Cao Cao believed that Tao Qian instructed the two to kill his father, and resolutely led his troops to attack Xuzhou.

Li Xian had just gotten married, and Cao Cao told him not to go on the expedition.

He remembered that Cao Cao might slaughter the city this time in history, so he insisted on going, and when the time was right, he could dissuade Cao Cao from slaughtering the city.

Tao Qian learned that Cao Cao was coming with a large army, and led his troops to guard Fuyang County, Pengcheng State.

Xuzhou's army is also very strong, with 30,000 horses, many of whom are strong Danyang soldiers, because Tao Qian himself is a Danyang person.

But no matter how strong the Xuzhou soldiers were, they couldn't withstand Cao Cao's revenge army.

Especially Cao Ren, Cao Song was killed at his hands, and he was even angrier than Cao Cao at this time.

Li Xian was also angry at Tao Qian's attack on Cao Song, how to say that he was now a member of the Cao family.

Although he hadn't seen Cao Song, Cao Song was also his Aweng.

Cao Ren and Li Xian took 10,000 horses and horses directly to Taishan County.

Previously, Tao Qian and Que Xuan attacked Mount Tai, and Fei County and Hua County are still occupied by them.

They did not have many men and horses in Fei County and Hua County, and when they knew that Cao Ren was coming with 10,000 horses, they withdrew to Kaiyang County, Langyu County, Xuzhou.

Cao Ren and Li Xian marched to Kaiyang City again and asked the defenders to fight.

It was Tao Qian's subordinate general Lu You who guarded Kaiyang, and there were originally 5,000 men and horses in Kaiyang City, plus those who withdrew from Fei County and Hua County, adding up to 8,000 men and horses.

Lü You thought that Cao Ren was leading his troops from afar, and the soldiers were tired, so he led 8,000 men and horses to fight.

Cao Ren's stomach was full of anger at this time, and before Lu You could line up his position, he shouted: "Revenge for Cao Taigong, rush." ”

The horse rushed out first.

Li Xian was also full of anger at this moment, and immediately slapped his horse and rushed towards the enemy.

The 10,000 horses behind followed the charge.

They didn't care about keeping in formation, so they looked at the enemy and rushed towards one target.

Because Cao Ren said before that anyone who beheads the enemy will be rewarded.

And as long as they don't retreat and run away, they will be exempt from punishment if they violate other military laws.

It means that his soldiers can do whatever they want.

Seeing that the enemy had charged, Lu You hurriedly slapped his horse to block.

Cao Ren rushed directly at him, and in only five rounds, he was cut off from his horse.

Li Xian and the broken camp led by him rushed into the enemy's crowd and slashed and slashed the enemy soldiers to the ground.

When the enemy soldiers saw that the general Lu You was dead, many of them abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Cao Ren yelled: "If you don't accept surrender, you will be killed." ”

The soldiers were ordered to kill any enemy soldier who was alive, regardless of whether he was lying on the ground or not.

Li Xian was also slashing all the way, but when he saw such a slaughter of the soldiers who were willing to surrender, he still couldn't bear it.

He slapped his horse and killed Cao Ren and said, "Zixiao, the enemy soldiers are already willing to surrender, so let's not kill them again." ”

Cao Ren said angrily: "When they killed Cao Taigong, they should have known that there would be today." ”

Li Xian was helpless, knowing that he couldn't persuade him now, so he had to chase and kill the enemy soldiers with Cao Ren.

When you go to the battlefield, sometimes it's not like you don't want to kill without killing.

After killing for half a day, except for a few who escaped, more than 6,000 people were finally killed.

At this time, Cao Ren led the soldiers into the city and shouted: "Kill all the people in the city, and leave no chickens and dogs." ”

Li Xian was cleaning up the battlefield outside the city when suddenly a soldier came to report that Cao Ren had slaughtered the people in the city.

When Li Xian heard this, he thought that he was broken, and hurriedly entered the city with the broken camp.

Because Cao Ren is the main general of the forward, and Li Xian is the deputy general, except for the broken camp led by him, the other soldiers are led by Cao Ren.

When I entered the city, I saw corpses everywhere in the streets, and the scene was terrible.

He hurried to find Cao Ren, and after turning a few streets, he saw a group of soldiers chasing down several fleeing civilians, including children.

He hurriedly slapped his horse behind the people and shouted, "Stop, don't kill innocent people." ”

There was a Qu soldier in the group of soldiers, and when he saw that it was Li Xian, he replied: "General Li, it was General Cao who ordered us to kill, and we only obey General Cao's orders now." If you want us to stop, let General Cao give us orders. ”

Li Xian was furious, no matter how he said that he was also a deputy general in the army, this military candidate didn't take himself seriously.

"I order you to get out of the city, immediately."

The soldier sneered: "We only listen to General Cao Zixiao's orders." ”

When Li Xian killed the enemy soldiers, he still felt that the enemy soldiers were to blame, so although he couldn't bear it, he could do it.

But he could never do anything about these unarmed innocent people.

After all, he came from a time when there was no war and peace and stability.

After he crossed over, he also participated in dozens of battles, large and small, but all he killed were enemy soldiers on the battlefield, and he never killed civilians.

What has happened to the people of these cities that they should kill them?

His eyes were on fire, he glared at the soldier angrily, and said slowly: "Then you are determined not to obey my orders?" ”

That military candidate is usually close to Cao Ren and is reused by Cao Ren, so he doesn't take Li Xian in his eyes.

He also knew that Li Xian was powerful in martial arts, and now he was Cao Cao's son-in-law, but he relied on Cao Ren to support him, thinking that Li Xian couldn't treat him well.

"I only listen to General Zixiao's ......"

Before he finished speaking, his head was cut off by Li Xian's halberd.

At this time, Cao Ren came to the horse, and when he saw this scene, he asked Li Xian angrily: "Why did you kill him?" ”

"This man killed innocent people and disobeyed military orders, and I have executed him on the spot."

Li slanted at the head that rolled to the ground, and said indignantly.

"You...... This man is my soldier, what right do you have to kill him? ”

"Disobeying military orders on the battlefield, as a deputy general, I naturally have the right to kill him."

"Then I also killed the people, do you want to kill me too?"

Cao Ren was clearly furious.

"Zixiao, General Cao is just when he wants to win the hearts of the people in the world, didn't you bring notoriety to General Cao by killing innocent people like this?"

"I don't care, Cao Taigong died at the hands of the people of Xuzhou, and I want them to pay for their blood debts."

Cao Ren attributed Cao Song's death to the responsibility of his poor guards, which is why he was so angry.

Li Xian wanted to maintain Cao Cao's reputation, so he simply slapped his horse and took two steps forward and said, "If you must kill the people, then kill me first." As long as I am here, I will not let you kill the people like this. ”

Cao Ren was so angry that he raised his knife, and Li Xian immediately closed his eyes, making a look of preparing to die.

He didn't believe that Cao Ren would kill him, and if he didn't kill him, the people in the city would not be able to kill him again.

Sure enough, Cao Ren snorted and said, "You can explain to the general yourself." ”

He led his men and horses out of the city.

Li Xian saw corpses all over the street, including old people, women, and children.

He burst into tears.

Thousands of people died on the battlefield, and even when Cao Ang was attacked, he piled up the corpses of bandits, and he felt that it was nothing.

Seeing these innocent people dying like this, he was really very sad in his heart.

He wanted to end the war early.

He let people spread the word to the people in the city, asked them to clean up the corpses in the city themselves, and then led the troops out of the city, and hurriedly followed Cao Ren to Jiqiu.

He was afraid that Cao Ren would kill the people again, so he had to follow him closely.

The defenders of Jiqiu knew that Kaiyang's army was defeated and the people were slaughtered, so they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled.

At this time, Cao Cao had also defeated Tao Qian in Pengcheng, and Tao Qian had died more than 10,000 soldiers.

Cao Cao slaughtered Fu Yang again, and the body sank into the Surabaya River, which blocked the river and could not flow.

Tao Qian retreated to Tan County in the East China Sea and held on, not daring to fight again.

Cao Ren and Li Xian also led their troops to Tan County at this time and besieged Tan County with Cao Cao.

The siege lasted more than ten days, and more than 3,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, but the city was not broken.

Although Tao Qian was defeated in Pengcheng, he still had thousands of men and horses guarding Tanxian.

Cao Cao was also difficult to capture for a while, and the food was about to run out, so he had to lead his troops back to Juancheng.