Chapter 708: The Coming End
This battle was crucial for Cao Cao. If he wins, he will be trapped in the dragon and ascend to heaven, dispelling Yuan Shu's sharpness in one fell swoop, and striving for enough time to dominate the Central Plains. If you lose, you will have no power to fight back.
And in today's war situation, one word defeat is no longer enough to describe it, it should be called a big defeat. Several armies were all bitten by Yuan Shu's army, and they had no power to escape at all. Even if the strong man breaks his wrist, under the pursuit of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, it is not bad that the 400,000 army can escape 350,000. Cao Cao had no doubt that with Lu Bu's character, he would chase and kill more than a thousand miles, and he would definitely not turn back if he was not taken down.
At the beginning of the decisive battle with Yuan Shu, Cao Cao had the mentality of not winning or dying. He and Xi Zhicai worked hard and planned a lot, but they still couldn't shake the powerful Chu army. Even if he retreated now, even if Cao Cao was lucky not to be captured by Lu Bu or Hua Xiong, the remaining remnants of the defeated army would not be enough to defend the land of a state. At that time, Cao Cao's only choice was to defect to Yuan Shao and send someone under the fence. And Liu Bei, without his own existence, he must be alone, and he won't last long.
Cao Cao said that, ignoring Cheng Yu, who was lost in his soul, still looked at the battlefield so calmly, expecting a miracle. And Xi Zhicai is also constantly commanding and dispatching the army to make up for the omissions due to the loss of troops.
Cao Hong's strength in exchange for his life is certainly strong, but the gap between the two sides is huge. After the situation that was about to collapse was stabilized, it was still leaning in the direction of the Chu army.
The barely maintained military formation was torn out by the Chu army from time to time, and Xi Zhicai had to quickly command the generals to dispatch soldiers to make up for it every time, and use the lives of the soldiers to maintain the operation of the military formation. But because of this, the battle loss ratio between the coalition army and the Chu army is constantly increasing, and it is almost unbearable for Xi Zhicai.
"Won't Cao Mengde withdraw his troops?" Looking at the movement of the coalition forces from afar, and seeing Lu Bu, who was eye-catching and abnormal among the ten thousand troops, Yuan Shu frowned.
LΓΌ Bu appeared in the rear of the coalition forces, and the battle was decided. The generals of the Cao army were all pinned down by Zhang Liao, Sun Jian and other generals in the front army, and only the Xiahou brothers and Xu Huang were left to barely make two moves with Lu Bu, but they couldn't stop Lu Bu at all. And Lu Bu led the extremely elite Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, Cao Cao only had a personal guard army around him, and the half-crippled tiger and leopard cavalry had already been surrounded by the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, and there was no resistance at all.
Unless a divine soldier descends from the sky or a meteorite falls from the sky, Yuan Shu really can't imagine how Cao Cao can stop Lu Bu's charge.
"It seems that Cao Mengde does not plan to withdraw. At this point, there is no point in him withdrawing his troops. Jia Xu said lightly.
"Then why are you fighting such a pointless battle? If he wishes to surrender, I will not refuse to allow it. Yuan Shu frowned.
"Cao Mengde, as the master of the people, also has his dignity. If he surrenders without a fight, what will he face in the future against the civil and military forces under his command? It's not that he doesn't want to fall, but he can't. Guo Jia said.
Guo Jia knows very well why Cao Cao has not withdrawn from the army, and he also knows very well why Xi Zhicai knows that the defeat is certain and still resists stubbornly. The two of them are showing their abilities and maintaining their dignity, not bent on fighting Yuan Shu to the end.
As a prince, Cao Cao is not a "good-faced" person like Xiang Yu, but a hero. He will not be a brain fever and Yuan Shu will die to the end because of his hostility to Yuan Shu, after all, he still has a way back, and he still has a dream of "General Zhengxi".
Gou Jian can lie down and taste the courage, and he Cao Mengde can also endure humiliation and burden, and the temporary admission of defeat is for the opportunity to make a comeback in the future.
"If he can't surrender, then I'll force him to surrender!" Yuan Shu gritted his teeth and said. This kind of meaningless battle brought about the death of countless soldiers every second, and this kind of waste of young and strong and elite soldiers Yuan Shu could not tolerate it at all.
"Feng Xiao, send a signal to Lu Feng to hurry up. There is also Hua Xiong, don't care about Gao Ran's army, charge directly at Cao Mengde, and be sure to capture it as soon as possible. Remember, I'm going to live! Yuan Shu shouted angrily.
A living Cao Mengde is far more useful to Yuan Shu than a dead Cao Mengde. Not to mention the issue of making him expand his territory to the west in the future, just so many good generals under Cao Cao's command were enough to give Yuan Shu a headache.
With Cao Cao's personality charm, there are not a few people who are loyal or follow him. Once Cao Cao died, there was a good chance that the remaining Cao soldiers and generals in Qingzhou would turn to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shu has not ignored Yuan Shao's existence. At this time, Yuan Shao had already secretly stationed troops on the Qinghai-Hebei border, and only waited for the war to end and break into Qingzhou. If he got the help of Cao Jun's generals again, Yuan Shu would definitely add countless troubles if he wanted to take Qingzhou. Yuan Shu wanted to try his best to avoid this happening, he didn't want to see his hard work finally make a dowry for Yuan Shao.
After receiving Yuan Shu's order, Hua Xiong decisively abandoned Gao Lan's army and charged towards the rear of the coalition army, that is, in the direction of Cao Cao.
After Lu Bu saw the Xiliang Iron Cavalry led by Hua Xiong rushing towards him, his face sank, he snorted softly, accelerated the speed of the charge, and shouted loudly: "Wolves ride in Bingzhou, kill with so!" β
There was a lot of grudge between Lu Bu and his Bingzhou wolf cavalry and the Xiliang generals and Xiliang iron cavalry, including Hua Xiong. Although most of them were provoked by Dong Zhuo and Li Ru in order to balance the forces under their command and restrict Lu Bu, the grudge between the two sides could not be alleviated. To this day, despite being on the same camp, the two sides still can't look at each other. Lu Bu was unwilling to let Hua Xiong snatch half of the credit that belonged to him, so he no longer left his hand and charged with all his might.
"Get out of here!"
Seeing Cao Cao's guards in front of him, who were waiting for him with a huge shield, Lu Bu reprimanded angrily. Under the suppression of the legion's cloud qi, a black light faintly appeared on Lu Bu's halberd, and with Lu Bu's angry shout, Fang Tian's halberd flicked, and a black halberd headed forward.
"How is that possible! Under the suppression of cloud qi, you can even use internal qi! Is Lu Fengxian already terrified of this? Xiahoudun and the others thought in disbelief.
The halberd was not large, but it was fast, and it appeared in front of the shield wall in an instant.
"Bang!"
A loud explosion rang out, and where the halberd swept through, flesh flew along with the broken giant shield. A huge gap appeared in the tight shield wall in an instant, and corpses were scattered all over the ground.
Panting slightly, Lu Bu pulled the reins, and the psychic Chitu BMW instantly rushed forward like an arrow from the string. The blow just now consumed nearly half of his internal qi and a lot of physical strength before he created such a good opportunity, and Lu Bu naturally had to grasp it firmly.
The shield array that was torn apart was simply vulnerable in front of Lu Bu, and the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand kept waving, cutting down the shield soldiers around him who wanted to gather up, and Lu Bu rushed straight towards Cao Cao like a bamboo.
Xi Zhicai had the heart to command and reorganize the shield array, but the speed of the Red Rabbit Horse was really too fast, coupled with Lu Bu's keen battle instincts, he repeatedly grasped the weakest point and tore it apart, so Xi Zhicai couldn't stop him at all.
Soon, Lu Bu rushed in front of Cao Cao from the midst of the ten thousand armies, and stabbed Cao Cao in the throat with a halberd.
"Be careful, lord!" Cheng Yu anxiously pounced. But as a weak scholar, how could his reaction speed be as fast as Lu Bu's shot? The tip of the halberd reached Cao Cao's face first.
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