On the evening of the day when Cao Cao's army carried soil and stones to build siege fortifications outside Liyang City, Cao Cao received an urgent report from the soldiers, Zhang Liao transferred the main defenders to the east of Cao Cao's army construction fortifications, and the defensive strength of the other three city gates was greatly reduced, and only a few patrols patrolled the city. ”

That night, heavy rain fell in the Liyang area, the night was dark, no one was seen on the other side, Cao Cao was overjoyed, after the second watch, Cao Cao personally led the army out of the camp in the rain overnight, the rank of the person, the horse bundle cage, quietly touched the west gate of Liyang City, the heavy rain extinguished the torches of the patrol soldiers, only a few lonely oil lamps in the city tower on the west gate of Liyang City radiated a faint light, even the movement on the city head is difficult to observe, and it is said that Cao Cao's army is hiding under the city.

"God help the lonely." Cao Cao secretly praised, issued a code to start the action, Li Dian led hundreds of Cao Cao soldiers to each hold a spade  (PS: shaped like a pickaxe to plow the soil farming tools) and other climbing tools rushed up, climbed over the moat that had been filled in by Cao Cao's army, and dug out the climbing footing on the broken city wall with a spade, and gradually climbed upward, while the city of Liyang was silent, and did not find the danger of approaching.

About a pillar of incense time, Li Dian was the first to climb the city wall, the Cao Cao army behind him got his rope help, the speed suddenly increased a lot, when more than 400 Cao Cao troops all climbed the city wall, Li Dian waved his hand, hundreds of Cao Cao soldiers immediately went to the city, from the city wall to the city gate, Li Dian's troops progressed surprisingly smoothly, successively avoiding two weak Dong Zhuojun patrol teams, and quietly touched the east gate of Liyang.

Seeing that the east gate of Liyang was quietly opened, and the suspension bridge was slowly lowered, Cao Cao's heart was overjoyed, and he was about to personally lead the whole army into the city, but Cao Hong stopped him next to him, "The king, the situation in the city is unknown, the king rashly entered the city, I am afraid that there is danger, please let the last general enter the city first, and the king will lead the army to respond in the back, if there is a change, you can also rescue the last general." Cao Cao saw that Cao Hong was reasonable, so he nodded in agreement, and said softly: "Be careful, if you succeed, you must not let the enemy have the opportunity to burn the grain in the city." ”

In a moment, Cao Hong led an army to take the lead in entering the city, the heavy rain has weakened a lot, the city is still quiet, Cao Hong's 5,000 soldiers have all entered the city, and there is still no movement, Cao Hong is overjoyed, and takes the lead in shouting, "Kill!" Take the lead in killing the center of Liyang City, and Li Dian also yelled to follow, and Cao Cao outside the city knew that he had a plan, and pointed his sword at the city gate, and shouted: "Qingzhou man, breaking the city is tonight, fight bravely to kill the enemy!" Zhang He and Xiahou Dun took the lead, and the soldiers of Cao Cao's army shouted together and swarmed into the city.

"Kill!" The black and dark city of Liyang suddenly shouted and killed, the city was full of fire, I don't know how many big stones and trees fell down, and the west gate of Liyang was blocked in an instant, and Cao Cao outside the city was shocked, "It's a plan, quickly attack the city, and save Cao Hong back." Cao Cao's army rushed forward eagerly, but the arrows flew like locusts on the city, and the rolling stones fell from the trees and raindrops, and Cao Cao's army rushed into the city in a hurry.

Let's not say that Cao Cao was blocked by the defenders outside the city, just say that Cao Hong, Li Dian, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun and other Cao Ying generals who were divided suddenly saw Dong Zhuojun kill from all directions, knowing the plan, and hurriedly turned his head to kill back, but the arrows fell like rain on the house, and Cao Hong, who rushed to the front, became the live target of Dong Zhuojun's archers, Cao Hong blocked the arrows on the left and right, but the bow and arrows were too dense, and he was a little careless, and a feather arrow suddenly shot from the front hit Cao Hong's heart, Cao Hong screamed and looked, only to see Zhang Liao standing in the firelight with a horn bow in his hand, Cao Hong took a break from the pain, and he didn't know how many arrows had been inserted into his body, and Zhang Liao became the last person Cao Hong saw in the world.

As soon as Cao Hong died, Cao Cao's army was in chaos, Zhang Liao took the opportunity to lead the army to cover up, Cao Cao's army could not resist in the panic, and was defeated by Dong Zhuo's army, Li Dian, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun and others in front of him could not care about turning back to rescue the rear army, but rushed forward desperately, wanting to escape out of the city to meet with the large army, at this time, a sudden cannon rang out in front, an army was killed, and the first member of the general was Xu Huang Xu Gongming, Xu Huang waved a big axe and shouted: "Cao Ying's thief general, you have been surrounded, surrender quickly, but Rao Er will not die." ”

"Fart!" Xiahou Dun rolled his eyes and cursed, and shouted with a big knife: "Brothers, the matter has come to this, we can only fight bravely to kill the enemy and fight out of the city to survive." Zhang He and the others yelled together, the three generals took Xu Huang directly, but they had not yet exchanged hands with Xu Huang, and Zhang Liao had already arrived with Pegasus and joined the battle group, Cao Cao's army was surrounded by Dong Zhuo's regiment, and the army was in chaos, just crashing like a headless fly in the encirclement, trying to break through and flee for his life, but was stopped by Dong Zhuo's army's defense like a rain of guns and arrows, and any single action was just sent to death in vain. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang He hurriedly shouted, "Don't panic, don't mess up the team, team up, team up!" ”

Zhang He's hoarse shout played a role, under the leadership of some veterans, Cao Cao's army once again stabilized its position, with a large team to impact Dong Zhuo's army defense line, and gradually achieved some results, at this time, Cao Cao's army brigade also broke through the west gate of Liyang, which was only blocked by stones and falling wood, Xu Yang and Cao Ren took the lead, rescued Zhang He, Xiahou Dun and Li Dian in the chaos, fought a bloody road, and fled out of the city with their lives, but Zhang Liao and Xu Huang and others were willing to let go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs, and continued to chase out of the city, Cao Cao's corpses were all over the field, bleeding and pestle, and several tiger generals of Cao Cao's army fought bravely to save the Chinese army from being broken by Zhang Liao and Xu Huang.

At dawn, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang have chased and killed Cao Cao's army for more than 100 miles, Zhang Liao saw that the soldiers were too tired, so he ordered to collect the troops and return to the city, the frightened Cao Cao army stabilized its position, but the statistics of the results after the battle made both sides startled, overnight, Zhang Liao Xu Huang's troops actually annihilated the enemy and captured Cao Cao's army of more than 20,000 people, for Cao Cao, who had only a sparsely populated Qingzhou in the rear, this battle had seriously injured his vitality, since then, Zhang Liaowei shook the two states of Qingdao and Hebei, and had the effect of stopping children crying at night.

When the news spread, Dong Zhuojun, the commander of the Jizhou Army, Dong Chong, was overjoyed, and while sending a telegram to his eldest brother to report the joy, he invited Tian Feng to discuss, and Tian Feng immediately said after listening to the battle report: "Second general, there is no need to defend it anymore, Cao Cao's army is full of spirit, and our army should immediately attack and drive Cao Cao across the Yellow River." Dong Chong was a person who had no ideas, he obeyed Tian Feng's words, and without saying a word, he immediately ordered Dong Zhuo's Jizhou Army to go out and personally lead Tian Feng and Pang De to Liyang.

The news of Dong Zhuojun's Jizhou Army's full dispatch was quickly sent to Cao Cao's hands, and at the same time, Cao Cao received an urgent report from Xizuo lurking in Luoyang, Dong Zhuojun has been transporting food and ordnance to Luoyang in an endless stream during this time, and it is conservatively estimated that Dong Zhuojun's hoarding of food in Luoyang is enough for all the soldiers and civilians in Yanzhou and Qingzhou for a year, and it is still increasing, and Dong Zhuojun's Yongzhou Corps has entered the first-class combat readiness of the whole army, on the same day that Xizuo sent out the information, The first troops of Dong Zhuo's Yongzhou Corps had already been stationed in Luoyang City.

"Dong thief is going to do it." Knowing that the end was approaching, Guo Jia said with a gloomy expression: "If we can stalemate with Zhang Liao and others for a while, maybe Dong Thief will do it later, but our army has been defeated in successive battles, and the time for Dong Thief to make a move will inevitably be advanced." ”

"I heard that Dong thief has mastered something called the telegraph." Liu Hao said heavily: "The battle in Jizhou, he can know the detailed battle report in a few hours in Chang'an, our army has suffered consecutive defeats, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the military food is scarce, Dong Thief will definitely not let go of this opportunity." ”

"Our army can't afford to hold it any longer." Cao Cao got up suddenly and said lightly: "We must immediately withdraw our troops and return to Qingzhou to organize defense, otherwise we can only wait to be killed." Speaking of this, Cao Cao raised his head and said, "Pass the order down and withdraw the army." Although Cao Cao's voice was flat, there were no mood swings, but his heart was like a knife, for Cao Cao, he evacuated Jizhou this time, and it was likely that he would never have the opportunity to set foot on the land of Jizhou again.

The news of Cao Cao's army withdrawal came, the city of Liyang thundered, Zhang Liao Xu Huang set up a military order to stick to Liyang City for ten days, not only overfulfilled the task, but also annihilated a large number of Cao Cao's main forces, forcing Cao Cao to withdraw without an inch of land, which can be described as an outstanding achievement, but Zhang Liao and Xu Huang are not satisfied with the current results, and they want to lead the army to continue to chase and kill, and want to win again.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were mobilizing their troops, Dong Chong sent a messenger to send an official letter quickly, ordering Zhang Liao and Xu Huang not to pursue, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were not convinced, and asked the messenger why, the messenger replied: "Report to the two generals, this is the idea of the second general's staff Mr. Tian Toyoda Wenhao, Cao Cao is treacherous, and the retreating troops will leave ambush soldiers on the road, and the pursuit will be defeated." ”

"Then we'll watch Cao Cao swagger back from the army?" Xu Huang said unhappily.

"Two generals, Mr. Wen Hao also asked the second general to give you an order." The messenger was not in a hurry, and took out another official document from his bosom like a trick, "Mr. Wen Hao judged that Cao Cao's withdrawal this time must have been frightened by the news of our army's Yongzhou Legion, Cao Cao had to return to Qingzhou to reorganize the defense, and Dongjun is Cao Cao's first line of defense, so Cao Cao withdrew his troops, he must take the white horse, the second general ordered you to take a small road and detour to the white horse to ambush, the task of pursuing Cao Cao, carried out by General Pang De, when Cao Cao's army crossed the river, the two generals crossed it halfway, and Cao Cao was defeated. ”

Cao Cao really set up an ambush on the road to withdraw the army, but the ambushed Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun and others waited on the road for a day, and never saw Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's troops to catch up, Cao Cao's army's itinerary could not be delayed, so he had to put away the ambush to chase the brigade, but Cao Cao's ambush soldiers just appeared not long after, they received the news that Pang De led a Xiliang iron cavalry to chase after him, Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun's troops had to stop again and reorganize the defense, but Pang De's troops found out the news, and they did not move, and waited for Cao Cao's army to move again. Cao Cao's army stopped when Pang De's troops stopped, sticking to Cao Cao's rear team like a piece of kraft candy, not fighting or retreating, Cao Cao's army could not get rid of it, and the trip was greatly delayed.

Three days later, Cao Cao's army, which carried a large amount of precious grain and grass, traveled ten miles north of Baima, and Pang De's troops behind were still following from afar, Cao Cao was furious and ordered, "Let Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun meet and fight Pang De to the death, otherwise we will be attacked by cavalry when we cross the river, won't we have to be killed and wounded?" ”

Cao Cao's order was quickly sent to Cao Ren Xiahou Dun, the two did not dare to slack off, immediately led the army to turn their heads and kill back, and wanted to fight to the death with Pang De, who knew that Pang De's army ran away without letting go of an arrow, although the speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was not as fast as the black cavalry, but compared to the two legs of Cao Cao's infantry, it was still much faster, Pang De's troops escaped thirty or forty miles in one go, Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun collected their troops to meet with the large army, Cao Cao seized this precious time difference, ordered the army to advance with all its strength, and immediately crossed the river.

In front of the Yellow River crossing in the north of Baima, the crowd is bustling, the people are called horse neighing, the large and small boats shuttle non-stop, the south bank has already been Cao Cao's army guard Hao Zhao responded, Cao Cao's army or will be grain and grass heavy loading boats to cross the river, or grab a pontoon bridge at the place where the water flow is gentle, and the Cao Cao army behind is always vigilant against the chasing soldiers that may appear at any time behind, and there is a vigilant scene everywhere.

When Cao Cao's army crossed the Yellow River, a cannon sounded on both sides, Zhang Liao on the left, Xu Huang on the right, each led an army to kill out, and the Pang De troops also suddenly came out, although the palace troops led by Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun resisted bravely, they had no choice but to be sandwiched by three breads, and were scattered by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the Black Cavalry Army, and the Cao Cao army in the river jumped into the river to escape, and the Cao Cao army who could not water had to scramble for a raft to cross the river, the scene was chaotic, and the precious military horses, grain, and grass were lost countless times.

In the melee, Zhang Liao stared at Cao Cao, who was surrounded by everyone, and killed in a rage, and rushed to Cao Cao in the chaotic army. Cao Cao was frightened and ran away, but fortunately, Huang Feidian under the crotch claw was really a miracle horse, Zhang Liao never caught up with him, but Cao Cao was separated from the large army during the run, and he could only flee along the river alone.

Zhang Liao saw Cao Cao's horse and horse, difficult to catch up, so he took the bow in his hand, pulled the bow and released the arrow, the arrow was like a meteor to catch the moon, right in Cao Cao's right shoulder, Cao Cao screamed and fell to the ground, rolled off the horse, Zhang Liao rushed up, the steel spear went straight to Cao Cao's head, Cao Cao secretly sighed and closed his eyes to die, at this time, the rear chased a horse, and immediately the man shouted: "Zhang Liao child, don't hurt my king." It turned out to be Cao Cao's cousin Cao Ren, he saw Cao Cao being chased by Zhang Liao, so he gave his life to chase him, Zhang Liao was afraid that Cao Ren was plotting, so he returned to the horse to fight Cao Ren, and fought for one or twenty times, Xu Yang also flew to kill, and Pang De and other votes of Xiliang Iron Cavalry were chased behind.

"Zhongkang, leave me alone, quickly carry the king across the river." Cao Ren yelled in the death battle with Zhang Liao, Cao Ren knew the current situation very well, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was fast, Cao Ren and Xu Zhen joined forces even if they could defeat Zhang Liao, the surrounded Cao Cao would not be able to escape the catastrophe, and now Cao Cao had only one chance to escape, that is, to let Xu Zhen, who was born in the Yellow River Dock Lord, cross the river on his back, otherwise when Pang De killed, Xu Yang would have no chance to save Cao Cao.

In a hurry, Xu Zhen subconsciously went to save Cao Cao according to Cao Ren's command, although Zhang Liao wanted to stop him, he was helplessly entangled by Cao Ren, and Cao Cao, who was resisted by Xu Zhen, cried, "Lonely don't go, lonely don't go, lonely want to go with Zixiao." But Xu Yang resisted Cao Cao and didn't look back, jumped into the Yellow River, and swam quickly to the south bank.

"Zixiao, Zixiao." Cao Cao cried blood, but he was getting farther and farther away from Cao Ren, and when Cao Ren was surrounded by a group of Xiliang iron cavalry led by Pang De, Cao Cao roared frantically, "Zixiao, brother Lone!" He tilted his head and fainted on Xu Yan's shoulder......