The time returned to the afternoon of September 16 in the tenth year of the first peace, that is, the afternoon of the second day when Dong Chong skillfully stopped Cao Cao's army from digging the Yellow River, Dong Zhuo's Yongzhou army was still in a stalemate with Cao Cao's army that had retreated into the inner city of Dongjun and resisted stubbornly.

"Whew, whew, whew." Thousands of catapults continue to throw sacks and bags full of loess, and gradually pile up into a hill under the west of White Horse City, Dong Chong, who has a blue nose and swollen face, is dancing in the rear, but Hao Zhao, the main general of the defenders in the city, is so anxious that he is sweating profusely, as Kang Peng said, the more simple and clumsy the method, the more difficult it is to crack, these sacks full of dirt cannot be poured with water, the fire cannot be extinguished, it is simply oil and salt do not enter, watching those thousands of soil bags under the White Horse City to build a gentle slope, gradually approaching the city wall, but Hao Zhao is still helpless.

When the height of the mountain of sacks and dirt bags piled up exceeded half of the city wall, Hao Zhao, who knew that the city was about to be broken, decisively ordered the soldiers to be concentrated, to make the last pre-war declaration to the soldiers, and in a moment, except for ten soldiers who stayed on the city wall to monitor Dong Zhuojun's movements, the other three thousand Cao Cao soldiers all gathered under the west city of White Horse City, listening to the sound of catapults raging in the air, under the gaze of three thousand Cao Cao soldiers, Hao Zhao was dressed in a neat Cao Cao army general uniform, and stepped on the high platform with a standard military pace.

"Brethren, the time has come for us to die for our country." Hao Zhao said in a loud voice: "The enemy is about to invade the city, their number is 100,000, and they are well-equipped, food and grass are sufficient, we only have 3,000, insufficient equipment, even less grain and grass, the difference between strength and weakness is huge, none of us can escape for our lives." Hao Zhao's frustrated words, Cao Cao's army did not have a sad and disappointed expression, like Kang Peng, Cao Cao also won the hearts of the army, and the soldiers who could stay here to resist Dong Zhuo's Jizhou army alone were all loyal and brave men in Cao Cao's army, and their cohesion was far superior to that of other princes' armies.

"The death of a person, there is light and feathers, there is heavier than Mount Tai, our soldiers died on the battlefield, it is the supreme honor of soldiers!" Hao Zhao suddenly raised his voice, almost shouting: "After the city is broken for a while, I order you to fight like a man and fight the enemy until the last drop of blood is shed!" The more time we hold off the enemy here, the less pressure our brothers will have in Dongjun! We, the Qingzhou military boys, would rather die standing than live on our knees! ”

"Shed the last drop of blood!" Cao Cao's soldiers shouted one after another: "I'd rather die standing than live on my knees!" It is better to die standing than to live on your knees! ”

"General, the enemy has begun to charge." The soldiers in the city reported to Hao Zhao, who grabbed a big knife and shouted: "Rush out, and if you die, you will pull a few cushions on your back, and fight to the death!" The three thousand Cao Cao soldiers shouted, "Fight to the death!" Grip your weapons and follow Hao Zhao to the White Horse City Wall.

As soon as he got on the city wall, Hao Zhao saw that the dirt bags thrown by Dong Zhuojun had been piled up into a mountain of earth that was flush with the city wall, and the dense Dong Zhuojun soldiers rushed to the foot of the earth mountain. "The first to rush down the earth mountain, Cao Cao's soldiers followed closely, and rushed to Dong Zhuojun, who was ten times their size, with the momentum of the collapse of the sky and the earth, when the two torrents collided, there was an earth-shattering sound of gold and iron colliding, and the soldiers on both sides flew flesh and blood, and the soil bags under their feet in an instant ......

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At the same time, the brutal battle between Dong Zhuo's army and Cao Cao's army and Cao Cao's army has reached the last moment, as early as the early morning, the outer city of Dongjun has been broken by Dong Zhuo's army, but Cao Cao's army with heavy casualties did not give up resistance, after more than five hours of fierce street fighting, Cao Cao's army retreated into the inner city to hold on, compared with the outer city, although the city wall of the inner city of Dongjun is shorter, but the terrain in the city is narrow, the soldiers on both sides are entangled together, Dong Zhuojun's catapult and foot bow can not be put into use, Dong Zhuojun could only fight with Cao Cao's army in close proximity, and under the fierce and death-defying struggle of Cao Cao's army, Dong Zhuojun's progress was quite slow.

The streets, houses, rooftops, and tree branches were littered with the corpses of soldiers on both sides, and the dark red blood flowed slowly on the ground, staining the ditches and moats bright red. In one day and one night, Dong Zhuojun has paid the price of more than 15,000 soldiers killed in battle, countless wounded soldiers, and the poorly equipped Cao Cao army has suffered even more heavy casualties, more than 23,000 soldiers have closed their eyes forever, and the remaining Cao Cao army has gone up to Cao Cao and Guo Jia, down to ordinary soldiers and even groom firefighters, all of them are wounded, and none of them are still intact. Moreover, Kang Peng also received a statistic that shocked him extremely much, except for a few seriously wounded and captured by Cao Cao's army, not a single soldier surrendered!

"Cao Cao, a real person." Kang Peng couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart, "If he hadn't been too unlucky, and he was surrounded by the three strong enemies of Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and Gu, he would definitely not have fallen to this point." ”

"The enemy is so stubborn, our army wants to completely annihilate the enemy, but I am afraid that the casualties will continue to expand." Jia Xu didn't sigh as much as Kang Peng, but frowned and said: "Originally, it is normal to die in war, but if there are too many casualties in Dongjun, morale will inevitably be frustrated, and it will have an impact on our army's next move, so we have to find a way to reduce casualties." ”

Kang Peng is so worried, although Dong Zhuojun can replenish troops from the rear at any time, but Dong Zhuojun still has a vicious battle to fight behind, and the opponent's comprehensive strength is even stronger, the shameless Liu Bei and the cunning Zhuge Liang are also more difficult to deal with than Cao Cao and Guo Jia, and now it is too demoralizing, which is bound to have an impact on the battle against Liu Bei. Kang Peng climbed the bloody tower of the outer city of Dongjun and carefully observed the bitter battle in the inner city with a telescope.

Looking from the telescope, the scarred Cao Cao army relied on the only advantage of the low city wall in the inner city to fight with Dong Zhuo's army, and although Dong Zhuojun, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, showed no fighting spirit under Cao Cao's army, the terrain was narrow and could not be deployed, and the army gave full play to its numerical advantage, and was crushed under the city by Cao Cao's army, not to mention the small progress, and the casualties were also large.

"Mingjin, let the troops retreat for a while and rest for a while." Kang Peng lightly ordered: "Prepare gunpowder and poison gas bombs, poison gas bombs suppress the defenders of the city, and gunpowder blasts the inner city walls." ”

Ding Ding Ding, the bronze bell rang, the soldiers of Dong Zhuojun who killed the red eyes near the inner city covered each other, retreated in turn, bandaged the wounds and replenished water and food in the rear, and made a move to make a move, the grenadier of the poison gas bomb specially used for throwing - in fact, it was a miniature and easy-to-move trebuchet that was quickly deployed in place, and the flag was moved again, and nearly a thousand grenadiers threw out one after another yellow smoke of poison gas bombs, drawing countless arcs in the air, and accurately smashed into the inner city of Dongjun.

"Poison gas! Cover your mouth and nose! The generals of Cao Cao's army, who had suffered a big loss in the city, shouted one after another, Cao Cao's soldiers covered their mouths and noses, and rushed to find strips of cloth soaked in water to bandage, and Dong Zhuojun's soldiers wearing activated carbon masks under the city held the powder keg, taking advantage of the opportunity of the poisonous smoke rolling and not seeing clearly, sneaking into the inner city wall to arrange the powder keg, and lined up the wires. Before the poisonous smoke dissipated, Dong Zhuojun's sappers had just retreated, and Dong Zhuojun's general, Li Dao, who was covered in blood, had already snatched the torches and set fire to all the wires gathered together......

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The location returned to White Horse City, the three thousand Cao Cao soldiers led by Hao Zhao had suffered more than half of the casualties, but they killed and wounded Dong Zhuojun's soldiers who far exceeded their casualties, although Dong Zhuojun had set up a dirt mountain under the city that could go straight to the city wall, but Dong Zhuo's army was always pressed by Cao Cao's army at the foot of the dirt mountain, and no soldier could kill the city, and some soldiers had been shocked by Cao Cao's army's spirit of fighting to the death, and even showed signs of escape.

"A bunch of trash, give me a rush! Retreater, slash! At this moment, Dong Chong, who was like thunder, also took his own soldiers to the front line to supervise the battle, and personally cut down the two fleeing soldiers, Dong Zhuojun stabilized his position, and Hao Zhao in the distance saw Dong Chong and shouted, "The enemy commander is in front, rush with me!" With a wave of the big knife that had already cut the gap, he took the lead in rushing towards Dong Chong, and the soldiers of Cao Cao's army behind him held incomplete weapons and rushed to Dong Chong's side without hesitation. Oh my mother! Dong Chong shouted, the first to run away, the main general was the first to escape, Dong Zhuojun's army was in turmoil, and Cao Cao's army broke through the two teams one after another, and directly connected with the team around Dong Chong.

At this time, Dong Chong's personal army rushed out of the first army and shouted, "Avenge the old Dong Second Army!" "Rushed and directly exchanged hands with Cao Cao's army, and the crazy Cao Cao's army, this well-equipped team also entered a state of madness as soon as it came up, and it was even more fearless of death - because they wanted to glorify their ancestors, the two crazy teams collided together, and suddenly hit a series of sparks, and the soldiers on both sides swung their knives and slashed like madmen, regardless of their own defenses, they only cared about slashing and stabbing the enemy, and they were afraid that their own flesh and blood would fly, and they would drag the enemy to hell together, and the knife was cut off, and the gun was broken, so they were stoned and beaten with their fists, Biting with teeth, buttoning eyes, picking nostrils, pinching throats, and even grabbing the scrotum, on the one hand, they want to drag their backs at the moment of life and death, and on the other hand, they are infected by their predecessors and brothers, and want to use their military exploits to get rid of their slave status, and they are fighting equally.

"Rubbish! Something that is afraid of death! Taking the opportunity to escape to safety, Dong Chong was furious again, pointing at Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Pang De and other generals and scolding, "You have brought good soldiers, compared with my new second master army, it is just rubbish!" Shit! Tian Feng couldn't pull it next to him, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were scolded so that their faces were blue and red for a while, Pang De suddenly roared, grabbed a steel knife and rushed towards Cao Cao's army like a mad tiger, Pang De's personal army also followed with red eyes, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang saw it, and they also rushed up with knives and guns to join the death fight with Cao Cao's army.

"Kill, kill, kill!" A Cao Cao soldier roared angrily and chased and slashed a soldier of the second army of the new Dong, and suddenly slashed a knife from behind, Pang De cut him down, and slashed at his convulsive corpse, and the Cao Cao soldiers next to him pounced, Pang De returned the knife in time to open his spear, but he hugged Pang De's waist, opened his mouth on Pang De's leg, until the rushing Pang De's own soldiers smashed his head, Pang De was able to get rid of it. On the battlefield, such a fierce Cao Cao army is not just thousands, but all.

With the enraged Zhang Liao and Xu Huang and other Dong Zhuojun generals personally joined the battlefield to the death, Cao Cao's army gradually could not support it, and the soldiers fell one after another, but none of the soldiers escaped, and none of the soldiers surrendered, all of them died heroically after shedding blood, in order to eliminate this army, Dong Zhuojun also paid a heavy price, and the soldiers who died in the battle were far above Hao Zhao's troops.

The sun is hanging in the west, Cao Cao's army is already only Hao Zhao alone, the last ray of sunlight shines on Hao Zhao's lonely body, blood is shining, under his feet, are the corpses of Cao Cao's soldiers and Dong Zhuo's soldiers, and around Hao Zhao, are the boundless Dong Zhuojun soldiers. Dong Chong, who was covered by more than a dozen long shields, squeezed into the circle and shouted to Hao Zhao: "General Hao, the matter has come to this, I admire your loyalty, surrender, I will vouch for it with my head, my eldest brother will definitely give you a satisfactory official position." ”

The answer to Dong Chong's persuasion was Hao Zhao's muttering, "King, the last general has done his best." After that, Hao Zhao killed himself with a knife.

"Salute!" Dong Chong shouted loudly and took the lead in saluting Hao Zhao's corpse with a standard military salute, and then a military salute for all the soldiers of Dong Zhuojun. Dong Chong ordered again: "Gather the corpses of all the soldiers of Hao Zhao's army and bury them together and erect a monument." "This is the result of Kang Peng's usual education of Dong Chong, respect the respectable enemy, and his army will make a move that makes the enemy respectful; the second is that Dong Chong also gave Cao Cao Jun preferential treatment of the body of the old Dong Erjun in Jizhou in the past; The third is that Dong Chong really respects these enemies from the bottom of his heart......

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"Boom! Bang! Bang......! After the loud noise cleared, the inner city of Dongjun was blown up several times, and almost all the surrounding houses collapsed, vacating a large area. The sound of war drums was deafening, and countless Dong Zhuojun soldiers swarmed up, and Cao Cao's army in the inner city rushed out with incomplete weapons and collided with Dong Zhuojun's soldiers, and another bloody battle began. This time, Cao Cao's army no longer had any favorable terrain to rely on, and it was completely blocking the advance of Dong Zhuo's army with the flesh and blood wall.

Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Li Dao, Guo Yan, Xu Rong, Wu Yi, Wu Ban and Zhang Yi and other generals of Dong Zhuojun all went into battle, including Ma Zhong, who joined the battlefield with the Dark Moon Group, which was skilled in hand-to-hand combat, and Kang Peng personally sounded the war drums, and the final battle with Cao Cao's army was completely launched in the inner city of Dongjun. In the melee, Dong Zhuo's generals showed their martial arts and always rushed to the front line, which greatly boosted the morale of Dong Zhuo's soldiers, and killed Cao Cao's army to retreat, and the vanguard had rushed into the inner city for several zhang.

At this moment, in the relatively safe area in the center of the inner city of Dongjun, Xiahou Dun and Xu Yang gathered the last group of cavalry tigers and leopards of Cao Cao's army, and bowed to Cao Cao: "King, Dongjun can no longer be defended, we are willing to give up this life to protect the king from the siege and go to Qingzhou to regroup, in order to make a comeback." This is the second time that Xiahou Dun and others persuaded Cao Cao to break through, when the outer city was breached, Xiahou Dun and others had persuaded Cao Cao to break through, but Cao Cao immediately refused, now the inner city has been broken, Cao Cao does not break through, he can only burn with the jade of Dongjun City.

"Dong Zhuo's army has besieged the inner city of Dongjun like an iron bucket, can it be killed?" Cao Cao, who was also injured, was expressionless, and said lightly: "Even if we get out of the city, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Iron Cavalry is more than ten times that of our army, can we run away?" ”

"Even if it's not very hopeful, give it a try." Xiahou Dun was anxious, and shouted directly: "Big brother, break through, it's too late." ”

"No need." Cao Cao flicked his sleeves and turned around and said: "Gu has made up his mind to live and die with Dongjun and the army." After speaking, Cao Cao and Guo Jia strode into the Dongjun official hall, ignoring the cries of Xiahou Dun and Xu Yang and others.

"Since the king is unwilling to break through." Xiahou Dun stood up and shouted: "Then let us fight to the death with the enemy, even if we die, we must die vigorously!" ”

"Kill!" The tiger and leopard riders shouted in unison, and they dismounted to kill the enemy, and there were so many people crowded in such a narrow terrain as the inner city, and the cavalry could not exert their sprint speed, but there was no convenience for foot combat. Similarly, Dong Zhuojun's cavalry also gave up their horses and started a foot battle with the enemy.

The battle has reached this point, Cao Cao's army, which has been fighting bloodily for more than a day and a night, is already at the end of its strong crossbow, and has no chance to take a nap, has no chance to eat a mouthful of food, most of the soldiers have not even had the opportunity to drink a sip of water, no matter how brave the soldiers, they will inevitably be mentally relieved and exhausted, and the Cao Cao army at this moment is already completely relying on willpower to fight with Dong Zhuojun in a bloody battle. In the melee, Li Dian, the general of Cao Cao's army, fell from his horse and was killed by the rebels, and Fan Cheng, Dong Zhao, Mao Jue and Liu Hao and others were either killed in battle or captured by Dong Zhuo's army.

After sunset, when the lanterns were first on, Yu Ban was captured by Zhao Yunsheng again, and Cao Cao's army was only left with Xiahou Dun, Xu Zhen and Zhang He, three generals, leading less than 8,000 scarred Cao Cao soldiers in a bloody battle with Dong Zhuo's army, Dong Zhuo's army even killed Cao Cao's outer county official hall, Kang Peng's Wang Jia simply moved to the inner city of Dong County to watch the battle, although Cao Cao's army was in such a predicament, but still no Cao Cao army soldiers surrendered.

Seeing this scene, Kang Peng couldn't help but burst into tears, and could hardly bear to urge the army to come forward to cover up the killing, Jia Xu saw Kang Peng's mood, and arched his hand to Kang Peng: "King, this is your battlefield of life and death, and there is no room for the kindness of a woman, please urge the army again and settle the situation in one fell swoop." ”

"Lone knows." Kang Peng wiped away the tears on his face, and was about to command the army again, when two people suddenly walked out of the Dongjun official hall, Kang Peng looked fixedly, but it was Cao Cao and Guo Jia, Kang Peng hurriedly commanded the army to retreat for the time being, to see what Cao Cao wanted to do. Cao Cao's army also temporarily stopped fighting, waiting for Cao Cao's order, and the battlefield that had shouted the sound of killing just now suddenly became silent.

"Yuan Rang, Zhong Kang, Jun Yi, all the soldiers, Lone orders you." Cao Cao said slowly: "Put down your weapons and surrender to Dong Zhuo." ”

"Why?" Xiahou Dun was the first to shout: "King, aren't we going to fight until the last moment? Why are we suddenly asked to surrender now? ”

"Yuan Rang, how many years have you been with the lonely army?" Cao Cao looked at Xiahou Dun lovingly and asked.

Xiahou Dun was stunned for a moment before replying, "Eleven years." ”

"yes, eleven years." Cao Cao wept, pointed to the Cao Cao soldiers who were covered in bruises and were so tired that they couldn't stand steadily: "The shortest of them are all with Gu for three years, and they still have wives and children at home. ”

"General Xiahou, this is the king's consideration for the sake of our soldiers, don't insist, surrender." Although at this time, Guo Jia still did not have the slightest disappointment on his face, but with a relieved smile, "Don't let the soldiers die in vain, the time for the unification of the world has come, this is the reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao, how can human beings stop it?" ”

When Xiahou Dun, Xu Zhen and the others were still hesitating, Cao Cao was already furious and said angrily: "Didn't you hear Lone's order? All lay down their arms and surrender to Dong Zhuojun! ”

"Choke!" After a long time, the first soldier to drop his weapon finally appeared among the soldiers of Cao Cao's army, and then the soldiers of Cao Cao's army laid down their weapons in groups, when the soldiers almost all laid down their weapons, Zhang He sighed, and finally threw down his spear, until finally, Xiahou Dun and Xu Yan dropped their weapons at Cao Cao's urging.

"The soldiers of the Xiliang Army obey the order." A gong-like voice came from the inner city wall, "From now on, no soldiers of the Cao Cao Army who surrender are allowed to be harmed, and the soldiers and generals of the Cao Cao Army who surrender will be treated the same as our army!" ”

"Yes!" After Dong Zhuojun's generals and soldiers agreed, Kang Peng shouted again: "Cao Cao, the king of Wei, is loyal to the country, and the king is crowned as the king, and the descendants of the future generations will be supervised by the orphan!" ”

"I've seen the King of Prison." Dong Zhuojun and everyone saluted Cao Cao neatly.

"Lone is Hanchen, he will not accept Dong Zhuo's gift, Lone wants the soldiers to surrender, because he doesn't want the soldiers to be buried with Lone, not that Lone wants to surrender Dong Zhuo." Cao Cao shook his head and turned his back to refuse to accept Dong Zhuojun's salute. Guo Jia arched his hand to Kang Peng and said: "His Royal Highness King Kang, from now on, I hope that the king will treat the people of Li well, so that the people who have suffered from war will no longer be displaced, and the country and the people will be safe from now on." ”

After that, Guo Jia and Cao Cao raised their legs and left, and walked to the official hall again, Kang Peng guessed what Cao Cao and Guo Jia wanted to do, and hurriedly jumped up to chase him, but he was far away from Cao Cao and Guo Jia, and he could catch up there. And Xiahou Dun and Xu Yan glanced at each other, followed by Cao Cao and Guo Jia, Zhang He's lips moved, and he raised his legs and wanted to follow, but he was pulled by Zhao Yun next to him, Zhao Yun said in a low voice: "Keep this useful body to repay the country." The muscles on Zhang He's face twitched, and finally he retreated to the side in tears.

When Kang Peng rushed to the front of Dong Zhuojun's formation, the Dongjun official hall in the hall was already filled with fire and fire, and the flames were raging, engulfing the Dongjun official hall built by civil engineering in an instant, Kang Peng's legs were weak, and he sat on the ground weakly......