In the fourth year of Chuping (193 AD), Chen Liu.

Cao Cao followed Duan Xuan's advice and became an ally with Yuan Shao. In order to weaken Yuan Shao's power, Yuan Shu recruited the remnants of Wan's Black Mountain Army and attacked Yanzhou with Shi Jinshang, the assassin of Yanzhou appointed by the imperial court.

At the same time, he joined Yuan Shu's camp and Luan Ti Yufuluo, who had been defeated by Cao Cao before.

The direction of its troops was first Chenliu, which was located in the northwest of Yanzhou.

In the face of Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of allied troops, many of Cao Cao's subordinates were afraid. At this time, Duan Xuan resolutely suggested that Cao Cao send troops.

The battlefield finally chosen by the two sides was Kuangting.

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Cao Jun camp.

"Lord, this battle cannot be postponed, after all, our army's food and grass are always a problem." It was Cheng Yu, a strategist summoned by Cao Cao when he entered Yanzhou.

"What Zhongde said is right, after we have settled the soldiers and people in Qingzhou, there is not much grain and grass that can be used for battle." Duan Xuan also agrees with this view.

Cao Cao nodded, "That's true, but after all, our army's strength is far from Yuan Shu, and if we attack head-on, it may be difficult to win." Therefore, I have sent someone to contact Liu Biao and ask him to cut off Yuan Shu's grain path. ”

"Although the lord's plan is clever, if Yuan Shu continues to attack eastward, I am afraid that Chen Liu will not be able to hold it." Duan Xuan said as he scraped his forehead with his fingers.

"Then according to what Zhicai sees, what should it be?"

"My lord, although Yuan Shu has a lot of soldiers, he is not worried. The remnants of Montenegro, which he had recently recruited, could not coordinate with his own troops and horses. And the battle method of Yu Fuluo has been seen before, and it is very different from Yuan Shu's battle method. If you can use this species, it is not difficult to win. Duan Xuan said.

Cheng Yu also had the same opinion: "What Zhicai said is good, Yuan Shu's soldiers are mixed and disorderly, many but not refined, and it is easy to win by cutting off the echoes of its various departments on the battlefield." ”

After speaking, the three of them looked at each other and smiled.

Cao Cao stood up and looked to the west, although there was nothing else in his sight, he seemed to be able to see Yuan Shu's camp.

After a long time, Cao Cao smiled slightly, and said to Duan Xuan and Cheng Yu: "In this case, Brother Highway has no choice but to leave Yanzhou." ”

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The next day, just after dawn, Cao Cao ordered the three armies to prepare for a decisive battle with Yuan Shu.

The two sides lined up in the wilderness. Yuan Shu's morale was high at this time, and when he saw that Cao Cao's main formation on the opposite side was only about 30,000 horses, and the vanguard Li Dian only led 5,000 people out of front, he couldn't help but snort disdainfully: "Cao Cao'er, just with your soldiers and horses, you dare to stop me, it's really ridiculous." Ji Ling! ”

Yuan Shu gave an order, and his general Ji Ling led 10,000 horses straight to Li Dian.

However, Li Dian did not engage in the battle, but led his troops to quickly withdraw in the direction of the main formation.

"Hahahaha! I didn't want Cao Cao's people to be so unbearable, and they fled without a fight! Herald, march! Yuan Shu laughed.

After Li Dian and Cao Cao's main formation converged, they began to retreat eastward together. And behind him, Yuan Shu's army gradually pressed up.

Yanzhou has experienced several turmoil, and the productivity is almost deserted, so Cao Cao did not have many cavalry, and Yuan Shu himself was strong, and Fu Luo's men were all cavalry, and the distance of pursuit was slowly shortened.

Suddenly, a cavalry appeared from the right rear of Yuan Shu's army.

"Report! My lord, there are Cao cavalry in the right rear of our army, and the number is less than two thousand. ”

"Hehe, Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde, more than a thousand cavalry dare to be used as ambushes? Bridge, happy! Order the two of you to lead 5,000 cavalry to drive back the enemy ambush! ”

With Yuan Shu's order, the two generals led their troops to rush towards the ambush of Cao's army.

"General Xiahou, Yuan Shu has sent troops to intercept us." While running, the soldiers reported to Xiahoudun.

"How many?" Xiahoudun asked with a dark face.

In fact, it is understandable why Xiahoudun is so irritable. Originally, he was very excited when he heard that he was going to start a war with Yuan Shu, but Cheng Yu poured cold water on him - only 1,800 cavalry, and when Yuan Shu pursued, he would raid from the rear, but he was only allowed to escape and not fight.

"Too little!" Xiahoudun roared irritably, "Pass my order and prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

"But general, Lord Cheng said......"

"Less nonsense! If you want to give the order, you will give the order! If I run away like this, I won't let people laugh to death if it spreads! ”

The cavalry who reported the news next to him immediately began to convey the order.

In a short time, the pair was easily contacted.

Although the number of people is much worse, Xiahoudun is still a little disappointed - this Yuan Shu training is so bad, the cavalry who came to stop just charged according to a fixed formation, and they didn't know how to change in the face of changes on their side!

Xiahoudun waved his sword left and right, leading this cavalry through the middle of Yuan Shu's cavalry like cutting meat.

Yuan Shu didn't expect the general to be so brave, and immediately ordered: "Zhang Xun, lead 10,000 horses to support!" ”

Zhang Xun received the order, so he led the army to support Qiao Rui and Leqiu.

After breaking through the enemy's army, Xiahoudun led his troops to make a turn to the right and surrounded Le and his 2,000 cavalry. The cavalry of the Cao army is not weak in individual combat ability, and this style of play also gives Le a headache: the weapon of the former enemy has just flashed, and the latter has slashed again.

But Xiahoudun didn't have time to kill him, because Qiao Rui, who had just been rushed to the other side, had already rushed over, and Zhang Xun's soldiers and horses had already arrived.

Xiahoudun took the reins, shouted to retreat, and retreated to the southeast. Qiao Rui, Le and Zhang Xun also led their troops to chase after them.

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In the retreating formation, Cao Cao looked back and saw that most of Yuan Shu's men were still behind, so he waved his hand to Duan Xuan.

Duan Xuan nodded, and then led a team of men and horses to run north.

Duan Xuan wasn't evacuating, because all he was bringing at the moment were archers.

With his order, the archer half-crouched in front of the left in the direction of Yuan Shu's travel, drawing the bowstring.

Seeing that Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses were not far away, Duan Xuan waved his hand, and a volley fell from the sky.

Yuan Shuzheng was "intently" laughing at Cao Cao, and suddenly felt that the top of his head was dark, so he looked up and almost didn't scare him to death - dense arrows.

He hurriedly dismounted, snatched a soldier's shield over his head.

The arrows fell like a torrential rain, and the soldiers of Yuan Shu were covered by huge shields, but there were still some soldiers who shot through the gaps in the shields.

The wails sounded, and people kept falling, and the soldier who had been robbed of his shield had already become a hedgehog.

"Yuvro! Go and repel the archers. ”

Yu Fuluo took the order and led the cavalry to rush to Duan Xuan's side. After all, Yuan Shu didn't know Yu Fuluo and didn't trust him very much, so he let him be in the rear of the army. But he didn't want to be the only move, but instead helped him avoid the fate of his mount being shot.

When Yu Fuluo led the army to chase Duan Xuan, Yuan Shu's main formation was freed from the squatting state. It's just that most of the mounts, including Yuan Shu's own war horse, were also shot.

Among the relatively safe troops behind, someone led a horse for Yuan Shu to ride.

Yuan Shu was so angry that he couldn't stop screaming on the horse.

He didn't see that in the direction that Xiahoudun was coming, another cavalry was rushing at him.

This cavalry was very different from the one of Xiahoudun just now, there were only more than a thousand people, each of them was well-armoured, and even the harness was different from other cavalry.

And the most different thing is the quietness of this cavalry. This kind of quietness is almost indistinguishable from a trapped.

When someone in the Yuan Shu array heard the sound of horses' hooves, this cavalry had already arrived in front of them.

This mysterious army of soldiers and horses clashed left and right, repeatedly shuttling through Yuan Shujun's main formation.

Due to the pursuit of Xiahoudun and Duan Xuan, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses had been divided into several groups, and the charging of this cavalry had even disrupted the formation of his own formation.

Cao Cao took advantage of the situation to return to the army to attack, and the formation turned around and rushed towards Yuan Shu.

At this time, Yuan Shu complained bitterly in his heart, but he also understood that the general trend had gone and he had been defeated.

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The pursuing troops from all over the place successively converged with Yuan Shu's main formation and slowly withdrew westward.

The mysterious cavalry from before was now lined up behind Cao Cao, and the general who led the troops dismounted and knelt on one knee.

"Zihe, how's it going?" Cao Cao asked.

The leader of the cavalry is Cao Ren's younger brother Cao Chun, and this mysterious cavalry is the strongest force of the Cao army composed of excellent riders selected by Duan Xuan and Xun Yu - the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Distract Yuan Shu's forces with bait, consume part of the enemy army with the help of bow and arrow troops, suppress its momentum, and then disrupt the enemy's main position with the strong combat ability of tiger and leopard cavalry, and finally Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shu's coalition army with his arrogant tactics.

And Duan Xuan also took advantage of this opportunity to let the tiger and leopard ride experience.

After this battle, because Liu Biao also sent troops to intervene, Yuan Shu had to retreat to Yongqiu and return to Shouchun in the south, but the guard Chen Yu did not let him enter the city.

Yuan Shu had no choice but to retreat to Yinling, reassemble his army, and then attack Chen Yu.

Chen Yu had no choice but to flee back to Xiapi, and Yuan Shu led the remaining troops to Jiujiang County, and killed Chen Wen, the assassin of Yangzhou, and then led Yangzhou Mu himself. At the same time, it is also known as Xuzhou Bo, and the Feng Department will Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui as generals.

Although Cao Cao won this battle, it still needs time to develop. Therefore, he dismissed the slightly older soldiers in Qingzhou and placed them like ordinary people, enriching the productive forces.

However, through this battle, Cao Cao had completely eliminated Yuan Shu's threat to Yanzhou.

Duan Xuan suggested that Cao Cao take this opportunity to recuperate and prepare to cooperate with Yuan Shao in attacking Xuzhou. After all, Xuzhou is relatively wealthy under Tao Qian's governance, and Tao Qian is an ally of Yuan Shu, which happens to kill two birds with one stone.

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Just when Duan Xuan was as active as a fish in water under Cao Cao, his master encountered a lot of trouble.

When he heard that Lu Bu had taken refuge with Yuan Shao before, Mo Yue had a headache, but after that, Yuan Shao never reused Lu Bu, and Mo Yue gradually put his mind at ease.

But not long ago, Mo Yue heard that Yuan Shao was preparing to attack Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army, and the main general turned out to be Lu Bu.

What Mo Yue is most worried about is that Yuan Shao's strength will increase again, after all, he is a famous and ambitious person, if he adds another fierce general, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Lu Bu naturally wouldn't know that someone had a headache about his own affairs, and at this moment, he was preparing for an attack on Zhang Yan in Changshan.

What will be the result of the cooperation between Wushuang Meng and Hebei Xiaoxiong......