Chapter 5 Poison vs. Ghost Talent, Fight Again! (below)
It seems that today is the birthday of the pure wolf...... οΌ
"Lu Bu!" The desperate Pound troops erupted in an earth-shattering cheer, and the morale of the already bottomed out immediately, and even the exhausted body after several consecutive battles regained its strength, shouting and rushing towards the direction of reinforcements.
"Lu Bu!" Yuan Cao's army, which was still complacent just now, let out a burst of exclamation, many soldiers turned pale, and their hands holding weapons were trembling, and some people had already begun to calculate and observe the escape route.
"Continue to surround Pound! Gao Ran, you and I are going to stop Lu Bu! Zhang He shouted, patted his horse and went straight to LΓΌ Bu, Gao Ran followed, and divided a part of his army to intercept Dong Zhuo's reinforcements, while Xiahou Dun and Jiang Qi continued to surround Pang De's troops and prevent them from joining LΓΌ Bu's troops.
The dawn sun rises from the foot of the mountain, the golden sun shines on the bloodstained gray and black earth, as if covering the earth with a layer of golden veil, the war drums thunder, the Tang Yi armor on Lu Bu's body reflects a little bit of broken gold, Fang Tian's halberd shines in the dawn, and the red rabbit horse's hooves that jump like flames step on Mars, pressing Zhang He and Gao Ran with the momentum of a landslide and a crack.
"Little thief, get out of here!" Lu Bu's Fang Tian painting halberd slashed, with the wind blowing sand and rocks swept Zhang He and Gao Ran, the two Hebei famous generals were frightened, and raised their guns together to parry, when the two sounds, Zhang He and Gao Ran's chests were like being hit by a big stone, although the steel gun was still in the hand, the tiger's mouth was numb. "Get out of here!" Lu Bu shouted again, Fang Tian's halberd stabbed Zhang He and Gao Ran like lightning, the two generals saw that the halberd was fierce and did not dare to greet them, and they sideways together, Lu Bu didn't bother to look at them, and rushed straight to Pang De, who was surrounded by heavy surrounds, and everywhere he went, Zhang He and Gao Ran's formation collapsed, like a knife cutting tofu.
"The number one military general in the world really lives up to his reputation." Zhang He sighed secretly, only fought with Lu Bu twice, Zhang He was already full of energy, sweating, wiped off a handful of cold sweat and shouted to Gao Ran: "Chase quickly, you can't let him save Pang De!" Gao Ran nervously pointed back and shouted, "It's too late, look at the back." Zhang He turned back suddenly, only to see that the overwhelming Xiliang Iron Rider had been pressed in a neat horizontal line in the morning mist, and the light reflected by the dense swords and guns made the sunlight lose its color, and the dense sound of horses' hooves shook the heavens and the earth, and then when it was closer, the sound of Zhang He and Gao Ran's troops talking to each other had been drowned out by the sound of horses' hooves.
"Oops!" Zhang He is in a hurry, the most terrible thing on the battlefield is the intensive charge of the cavalry, the power of the horse impact plus the arm strength of the cavalry itself, is extremely difficult for any soldier to resist, the only way to parry is to defend according to the danger, so that the impact of the cavalry can not be played, and then break it with a bow and crossbow, the reason why the Yuan Cao coalition army was able to surround the cavalry led by Pang De last night was because Cao Cao's army suddenly turned his face and attacked Dong Zhuo's army to compress the roundabout space of Pang De's troops, and Pang De's troops were tired after several battles, but now it is a new force, It was also used to use the terrain to discharge the charge formation in advance, in this wilderness without fortifications, how could the Yuan Cao coalition army resist them?
"Kill!" Zhang He's troops didn't even have time to set up their horse rejection guns, and the torrent of Xiliang Iron Cavalry had already swallowed them......
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"His Royal Highness the King of Wei." Jia Xu said politely on the gate of Yecheng: "If the King of Wei does not want to annex Jizhou alone, the king of my family does have the intention of sharing Jizhou equally with the King of Wei, but the king told Jia Xu before leaving, if the King of Wei takes the lead in breaking the contract, our army will have to fully occupy Jizhou, and every inch of land in Jizhou is not allowed to be distributed to the King of Wei." β
Kang Peng sent someone to Cao Cao's letter, which was completely a trap set by Jia Xu, deliberately asking Cao Cao to divide Jizhou equally, and the Xiliang army would annex Youzhou alone, obviously for Kang Peng to gain an inch, so that Cao Cao would not doubt Kang Peng's sincerity, in fact, Jia Xu had already concluded that Cao Cao and Guo Jia would not believe that Kang Peng would kindly give Jizhou half of Cao Cao's nonsense, Jia Xu asked Kang Peng to give Cao Cao Cao The real purpose of this letter was just to create an illusion for Cao Cao and Guo Jia, thinking that the time of Dong Zhuojun's all-out attack on Jizhou was on the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the sixth year of Chuping, Pang De burned Yuan Shaojun's lifeline grain and grass in Wuchao, and Dong Zhuojun's main force attacked Jizhou from Huguan, taking advantage of Yuan Shaojun's panic psychology of lack of food to capture Jizhou in one fell swoop.
In Dong Zhuojun's plan, Jia Xu carefully designed two small loopholes, one is to agree on the time of burning grain, but in fact, it creates a loophole that inadvertently exposes the time of Dong Zhuojun's all-out attack on Jizhou, so that Cao Cao and Guo Jia mistakenly believe that Dong Zhuojun's main force will act on the 28th day of the first lunar month, giving Cao Cao's army a time difference to capture Yecheng before Dong Zhuojun's army, so that Cao Cao's army will try every means to drag Yuan Shaojun's main force, help Pang De burn the black nest, and then use the time difference to raid Yecheng first; As for the second loophole, Jia Xu, a bad German division with sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet, was even darker, and deliberately ordered Pang De's troops not only to burn Wuchao, but also to take on the task of seizing Yecheng and Wei County and holding on until Dong Zhuo's army was reinforced, because Wuchao was between the main stream and the tributaries of the Yellow River, and if Pang De's troops wanted to raid Yecheng, they had to build a pontoon bridge on the tributaries north of the Yellow River. Dong Zhuojun's main force will only attack Yecheng after burning the black nest! caused Guo Jiazhong to plan to let Cao Cao make a detour to Guandu to raid Yecheng and betray Pang De's troops, killing two birds with one stone, not only attracting Yuan Shaojun's attention to Pang De's troops, but also letting Yuan Shaojun drag Pang Dejun's army and not let Pang Dejun have the opportunity to compete with Cao Cao's army for Yecheng, so that Cao Cao can not only capture Yecheng and not give Dong Zhuojun a chance to meddle in Jizhou, but also take advantage of Yuan Shao's hatred of Dong Zhuojun after Dong Zhuojun invaded Jizhou, and jointly or coerce Yuan Shaojun to fight a decisive battle with Dong Zhuojun with food and grass, and Cao Cao's army can take advantage of the chaos.
Jia Xu's two loopholes were discovered by Guo Jia, especially the move of Pang De's troops to steal across the tributaries of the Yellow River to grab the pontoon bridge, the drunkard guard Chun Yuqiong of Wuchao did not find out, and Cao Cao's meticulous work was secretly in his eyes, which made Guo Jia misjudge the march time of Dong Zhuojun's main force, and obediently cooperated with Pang De to play the scene of burning Wuchao well. When the grain and grass were well prepared, Dong Zhuojun used the excuse of supporting Yuan Shaojun, so that the two veterans of the Xiliang Army, Li Dao and Guo Yan, sent weapons and equipment into Jizhou in advance, so that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not have to worry about the grain and grass and backup, and raided Jizhou on the night of the 27th day of the first month. Dong Zhuojun completely grasped the initiative. As for the Pang De troops surrounded by Yuan Shaojun and Cao Cao's army, they are completely the bait in Jia Xu's poisonous plan, and they are also an abandoned son that can be given up at any time, Jia Xuming sent Lu Bu out of Jiguan to rescue Pang De's troops through Hanoi, but Jia Xu was not sure whether Pang De's army could insist on Lu Bu's reinforcement in the attack between Yuan Cao's two armies, Lu Bu's army was just a flag attacking Yuan Shaojun's flank in Jia Xu's big chessboard, and Yuan Shao's army could be contained in case of emergency, so as not to Yuan Shao's 500,000 army would go all out to counterattack Yecheng, and his wife would be tired and fierce husband. Even the main force of Dong Zhuo's army didn't want to fight a head-on battle with an army of 500,000, so it could only be a cheap Cao Cao for nothing. It's naturally good to be able to rescue Pang De, even if they can't rescue Pang De's troops, for Jia Xu and Kang Peng, it is just to cry bitterly in front of Pang Deling and add an excuse to start a war against Cao Cao's army.
When Cao Cao saw Jia Xu appear at the head of Yecheng City, he already knew that he had fallen for the tricks of the world's famous poisonous military division. But Cao Cao immediately returned to normal after a moment of remorse, laughed and took off the Yuan Shaojun uniform on his body, revealing the clothes of the King of Wei on his body, and laughed: "Jia Junshi's words are serious, the covenant between Lone and King Kang, naturally there is a letter, Lone soldiers entered Yecheng, but I was worried that King Kang would not be able to capture Yecheng on time, once Yuan Shao returned to Yecheng first, then King Kang would fall short, so Lone Cai attacked Yecheng first, and wanted to wait for King Kang's army to arrive and then return Yecheng to King Kang, but I didn't expect Jia Junshi to be clever and clever, and he was actually earlier than Lone. In this case, he took the right and retired, and drank three cups with Jia Junshi in the future! β
After speaking, Cao Cao turned his head and left, and Zang Ba, the general of Dong Zhuojun in the city, snatched it out, and pulled his bow to shoot Cao Cao, "Slow." Jia Xu stopped Zang Ba and said in a low voice: "Cao Cao has a lot of soldiers around him, and the distance is far away, you may not be able to shoot him." Besides, Cao Cao can't die now, as soon as Cao Cao dies, the Qingzhou army will be leaderless, Yuan Shao will be able to go south to Qingzhou, and it will be much more difficult for our army to deal with Yuan Shao, who has gained a firm foothold. β
Pulling Zang Ba, Jia Xu grabbed two more steps, bowed deeply to Cao Cao's back, and said loudly: "It turns out that the King of Wei has good intentions, Jia Xu will definitely convey the words of the King of Wei to the king of my family, and we may be able to discuss the matter of Jizhou." Cao Cao didn't look back, and while quickly escaping from the range of Yecheng's bow and arrows, he shouted: "Thank you Jia Junshi." β
When Cao Cao fled back to Guo Jia's side, he was already in a cold sweat, and just now he was afraid that a chaotic arrow would come down from the city, and it was difficult to say whether he Cao Cao could save his life. Guo Jia, who was full of frustration, came up to Cao Cao to confess his guilt, Cao Cao helped Guo Jia up, and comforted: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and Feng Xiao can't be blamed for the loss of Yecheng, but can only blame Jia Xu for being too treacherous." β
Cao Cao was so magnanimous, Guo Jia couldn't help but cry bitterly with gratitude, at this time, Cao Ren admonished Cao Cao: "King, I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in the city, they are far away and have an unstable foothold, our army has 40,000 people, if there are not many enemy troops, our army should be able to take Yecheng by storming." β
Cao Cao turned his head to look at Yecheng carefully, and saw that the banners on the city were dense, and he couldn't see the deployment of troops, Cao Cao frowned, calculated his heart, and ordered: "Don't attack, retreat immediately." β
Seeing the back of Cao Cao's retreat, Jia Xu did not send troops to chase and kill, but a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth......
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At the same time, north of Wuchao, Lu Bu fought alone against Zhang He, Xiahou Dun, Gao Ran and Jiang Qi's four generals, Yuan Cao, although he fell slightly, but he was not unable to support it, and the seriously injured Pang De had been rescued by Dong Zhuojun, and Ma Zhong, the number one killer of the Three Kingdoms, bandaged the wounds on his body a little, and went into battle with a gun to assist Lu Bu in fighting against the four generals.
"Boy, you deal with him." When Lu Bu saw Ma Zhong coming, he was worried that Ma Zhong would not be able to parry Zhang He, Xiahou Dun or Gao Lan and others, so he hurriedly pointed Fang Tian's halberd at Jiang Qi and asked Ma Zhong to deal with Jiang Qi, the weakest of Yuan Cao's four generals.
"Understood!" Ma Zhong's eyes were pretended, and he shouted loudly: "Jiang Qixiao'er, I'm here to fight you!" Jiang Qi knew that Ma Zhong's martial arts were not under him, so he hurriedly raised his gun to prepare to parry, who knew that Ma Zhong rushed to the middle of the way and suddenly held the gun in his right hand, and threw his left hand towards Gao Lan, a black light flew out of his sleeve, and in the middle of Gao Lan's left shoulder, Gao Ran roared in pain, and when he looked down, he saw that a short sleeve arrow had been deeply nailed into the flesh of his shoulder, at this time, Lu Bu's Fang Tian painting halberd had been photographed, Gao Ran raised his gun and hurriedly - but how could he fight Lu Bu with one hand, and the steel gun was slapped to the ground, If Zhang He hurriedly stabbed Lu Bu and forced Lu Bu to return to the halberd to protect himself, Lu Bu's next halberd would be able to kill Gao Ran, Rao was like this, Gao Ran did not dare to besiege Lu Bu again, and ran away when he returned to his horse, and Lu Bu's pressure suddenly decreased.
"The thief will rest the hidden weapon!" Jiang Qi was so angry that he screamed, and a steel gun stabbed Ma Zhong, Ma Zhong laughed, "Okay, I won't let go of the hidden weapon." Before the words fell, Ma Zhong suddenly lowered his head, and three black lights flew out of his back, which was the most shameless and despicable life-saving trick of the ancient Jiangyang thieves - with his back and bowing his head to install a crossbow! Jiang Qi was caught off guard and was shot in the face, bleeding all over his face, Ma Zhong laughed, raised his hand and stabbed Jiang Qi into the heart, and immediately killed him.
When Ma Zhong turned around again, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun were already extremely careful about him who was full of hidden weapons, but Ma Zhong, who was born as a thief, didn't pay attention to any knight's single rule at all, and shot at Zhang He with a sleeve arrow out of his hand, when Zhang He hurriedly dodged, he was hit in the chest by Fang Tianhua's halberd tail, which knocked Zhang He into a wild spray of blood, Xiahou Dun saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly shot Lu Bu falsely, and escaped separately from Zhang He. The main general was defeated, and the two armies of Yuan and Cao immediately collapsed and fled for their lives, and Dong Zhuo's army immediately reversed the situation.
"Where to go?" Lu Bu patted his horse to chase Zhang He and the others, but Ma Zhong hurriedly stopped him, "Wenhou, our troops are too tired, let's rescue the army first." Lu Bu looked around and saw that Pang De's troops were indeed exhausted, and they could only rely on the cover of the new force he brought to support them, so he shouted, "Don't chase, retreat north first." β
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On the periphery of Yecheng, Cao Cao led the army to withdraw twenty or thirty miles, and when he didn't see Dong Zhuo's army chasing after him, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing, "Hahahaha, pass the order, change the front team to the rear team, turn around and kill back to Yecheng!" β
"Why is the king laughing?" Cao Ren hurriedly asked, "Why didn't our army attack the city under Yecheng just now?" Why do you want to turn back and attack Yecheng now? β
"I laugh at that Jia Xu is short." Cao Cao laughed and said: "Lone does not attack the city under the city of Yecheng, because the enemy situation is unknown, I don't know the number of enemies, and the rash attack is bound to suffer huge losses, so Lone pretends to withdraw the troops, if there are many enemies in the city, they will definitely pursue our army, and our army can also retreat calmly; Now the enemy does not chase our army, it can be seen that Dong thief light cavalry rushed into Yecheng, the strength is really not much, so do not dare to take the limited force risk, if you are alone in Yecheng with troops, no matter how small the troops, but also pretend to chase after it, let our army mistakenly think that there are many soldiers in the city, and dare not turn back to attack the city, now Jia Xu does not dare to pursue our army, our army can rest assured to turn back and attack Yecheng. β
"The king is clever, and the ghosts and gods are unpredictable." Cao Ren was overjoyed, patted his cousin on the back, and hurriedly organized the troops to turn around and return to Yecheng.
As Cao Cao expected, when Cao Cao's army returned to Yecheng again, the city was in chaos, and the shouts of organizing the city defense could be heard everywhere, and Cao Cao's army had already prepared the ladders and other siege things, Cao Cao immediately ordered the siege of the city, and 5,000 infantry carried hundreds of ladders to the city, and only some sparse feather arrows fell on the city, obviously not prepared to defend the city.
"Hahahaha, Jia Xu Xiao'er, Lone must be good-looking this time." In Cao Cao's laughter, the cloud echelon had already rushed to the foot of the city wall, and Cao Ren and Li Dian and other generals also led the army to pounce, preparing to be the second wave of troops to attack the city.
Cao Cao's ladder just set up the city wall of Yecheng, suddenly a cannon sounded in Yecheng, and the arrows and stones on the city fell like raindrops, Cao Cao's army was immediately in chaos, and on both wings of Cao Cao's army also shouted to kill, two Dong Zhuo troops killed from both sides, and the left side was the first general, the white horse and silver gun, it was Changshan Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong, Zhao Yun shouted: "Cao thief, you have won my family's military division again!" On the right side of Cao Cao's army, Dong Zhuojun's general Zang Ba had silently entered Cao Cao's army, and Cao Cao's two wings were in chaos.
"Jia Xu Xiaoer, swear to kill you!" In Cao Cao's scolding, the west gate of Yecheng was opened, Dong Zhuojun's generals Li Dao and Guo Yan led the army to kill, Cao Cao's army was attacked on three sides, and was immediately defeated, Cao Cao saw that Dong Zhuo's army was numerous, and did not dare to fight again, so he hurriedly commanded the army to retreat, but Cao Cao's army rushed to the city The cloud echelon has been surrounded by Dong Zhuo's army, and there is no chance to return to Cao Cao's side.
Dong Zhuojun pursued and killed Cao Cao's army more than once, and directly killed Cao Cao's corpses all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river, until he chased out more than 30 miles, Jia Xu ordered to withdraw his troops. When Cao Cao's army fled dozens of miles in a hurry like a lost dog, he met LΓΌ Bu's army to cover Pang De's troops to withdraw to Yecheng, and fought with LΓΌ Bu's troops again, and the demoralized Cao Cao's army was defeated again and had to retreat to Liyang.
After noon, Cao Cao's army finally fled to Liyang, fortunately, last night Xu Yang and Cao Hong's sneak attack on Liyang was quite smooth, and successfully controlled Liyang City, and the main force of Cao Cao's army had a place to rest and station, after entering the city, Cao Cao's army listened to the reports from all sides, and couldn't help laughing again, and laughed more proudly.
Seeing Cao Cao laughing again, the generals of Cao Cao's army, who had suffered enough losses just now, couldn't help but be frightened, Cao Ren asked cautiously: "King, why are you laughing?" β
"I laugh at that Jia Xu's lack of resourcefulness after all." Cao Cao laughed and said: "If he divides another army last night and preempts Liyang before our army, our army will only fall into the trap of Yuan Shao and Dong Thief's army, and there will be nowhere to stay, so we can only wait to be killed." Hahahaha......" Cao Cao's laughter stopped, and a thought suddenly rose in his heart, did Jia Xu deliberately give it to me in this Liyang City? Let our army block Yuan Shaojun, who is about to go crazy and take revenge, for Dong thief?
At this point, the battle of Wuchao came to an end, and the situation in Jizhou was not only not clear, but more chaotic, Cao Cao's army occupied Liyang, Dong Zhuo's army occupied Yecheng, and Yuan Shaojun, who had the most troops, was still in Baima, a hundred-legged insect, dead and not dead, and Yuan Shaojun also had the strength to fight. Who's in Jizhou, please see the next chapter, "Jizhou Melee".