The coalition forces of the princes attacked the tiger prison several times and could not pass, the food and grass were insufficient, and the princes' armies fought separately, and their morale was weakened.

Cao Cao said: "Dong thieves burned the palace, robbed the Son of Heaven, and the sea shook; At the time of death, the world was decided by a war. Why don't you doubt? ”

Yuan Shao sighed: "The princes and armies are tired, and it is useless to advance. The princes chimed in: "Exactly, do not move lightly." ”

Cao Cao said angrily: "The erector is not enough and conspiracy! ”

Cao Cao saw that all the troops were afraid of the enemy and could not advance, so he led Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Li Dian, Le Jin and other generals to lead more than 10,000 people and about 30,000 troops such as Bao Xin, Bao Tao and Zhang Miao's general Wei Zi to march into Chenggao.

Cao Cao led the army to Xingyang, and Li Dian, the captain of the spear army, said: "My lord, the grass and trees here are luxuriant. I'm afraid there will be ambushes! ”

Cao Cao came out of Yuan Shao's camp, he was angry, and he couldn't listen to Li Dian's words at all. Cao Cao led his army to a hillside, and the soldiers were exhausted and preparing to bury the pot to cook. Suddenly, there were shouts of killing all around, and I saw a general standing on the top of the mountain, wearing chain mail and holding a treasure knife, looking at Cao Cao and laughing: "Xu Rong, who is coming?" Dare to come alone with a tired army. ”

Cao Cao saw that there was an ambush, and hurriedly rode his horse to seize the road and escape, but when Xu Rong led the army to come, Cao Cao turned around and left. Xu Rong put his bow on the arrow and shot it on the shoulder.

The sergeants under Cao Cao's command were already tired, and when they saw Cao Cao fleeing with arrows, the army was in turmoil. Xiahoudun and other generals hurriedly stabilized the restless soldiers and fought with Xu Rongjun, Xu Rong's army was all elite in Xiliang, and the quality of weapons and armor and soldiers was better than Cao Cao's army, and Cao Cao's army was suddenly killed.

Cao manipulated the horse to cross the hillside, and the two Xiliang soldiers lay down in the grass, and when they saw Cao Cao's horse, the two guns stabbed out together, and Cao Cao's war horse was shot and fell. Cao Cao turned over and fell off his horse and was captured by these two Xiliang warriors.

I saw a horse rushing quickly, slashing two infantry soldiers to death with a knife, and dismounted to rescue Cao Cao. Cao Cao saw that it was his younger brother Cao Hong. Cao Cao sighed: "I died here, the virtuous brother can go quickly!" ”

Cao Hong said: "Lord, get on the horse!" Hong Yuan walks. ”

Cao Cao asked: "The thieves have caught up, what can you do?" ”

Cao Hong bowed and said: "Please hurry up and get on the horse, there can be no flood in the world, and there can be no justice." ”

Cao Cao sighed: "If I am reborn, your power will also be you." ”

Cao Hong helped Cao Cao onto his horse, Cao Hong took off his armor and followed Cao Cao's horse with a knife. They walked ten miles, only to see a big river in front of them, blocking the way, and Xu Rongjun's shouting behind them was approaching.

Cao Cao looked up to the sky and sighed: "My life has come to this, and I can't be resurrected!" ”

Cao Hong hurriedly helped Cao Cao dismount, took off his battle robe and armor, and crossed the river with Cao on his back. Before they reached the other side, Xu Rongjun's pursuers had already arrived, and they fired arrows at them across the river. Cao Cao hurriedly took a deep breath with Cao Hong, dived into the water and swam to the shore.

When it was almost dark, Cao Cao and Cao Hong walked more than 20 miles and rested for a while under the mound. Suddenly, outside the shout, a group of men and horses rushed over, and Xu Rong led a team of sergeants to cross the river from the upper reaches to chase. Cao Cao was in a panic when he saw a young general leading a cavalry to come and shout: "Brother Meng De, don't be surprised, Han Xuan is here!" ”

Han Xuan asked Huang Zhong to lead the cavalry to fight against Xu Rongjun, and he swung his sword to cut down two enemy soldiers, and led a team of cavalry towards Cao Cao's side.

Han Xuan asked the soldiers to bring two batches of good horses to Cao Cao and Cao Hong, and Cao Cao bowed his hand and said: "Thank you Zixin for saving me, if it weren't for Brother Zixin leading the army to appear in time, there would be no place to die!" ”

Han Xuan said to Cao Cao and Cao Hong: "This place is dangerous, let's talk while walking." ”

Han Xuan asked Huang Zhong to lead the army to retreat, Huang Zhong was about to capture Xu Rong, if Han Xuan knew it, he would definitely wait a little longer. Xu Rong's army will definitely arrive later, and the thousand cavalry brought by Han Xuan are all his family foundation, and they can't be destroyed in order to save Cao Cao.

Cao Cao asked, "Why did Zixin know that I was going to have this defeat?" ”

Han Xuan said incomprehensibly: "Brother Meng De's army is deep alone, and Dong Zhuo will send a general to lead the army to ambush." And Xingyang is an important place for soldiers, and I expect that the ambush army will be here. Therefore, I led the cavalry to chase back Meng De, and when I arrived, I saw that Dong Zhuo's army was fighting with Brother Meng De's army, and I searched all the way along the river to find Brother Meng De. ”

Han Xuan was talking nonsense seriously, but in fact, it was because he was a traverser that he knew that Cao Cao would be defeated. Cao Cao believed it, looking at Han Xuan's face of admiration, but a trace of jealousy flashed in his heart.

Han Xuan asked, "Why don't you see Liu Du and Liu Junli under Brother Meng De?" ”

Cao Cao said: "Liu Du led the army to the north, this person is the emperor's family, and it is inconvenient to stay. ”

Han Xuan secretly scolded in his heart, he is a member of the Emperor Family and a member of the Han Family, just because his surname is Liu? Wait, he went north, did he find a famous general to recruit?

Han Xuan, Cao Cao and others walked for a while, and Cao Cao's troops arrived with Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan and others and joined Cao Cao. In this battle, Bao Xin was wounded, Bao Tao, Wei Zi and others were killed, Cao Cao's army lost most of them, and Cao Cao withdrew his troops back to the coalition camp.

Yuan Shao saw that Cao Cao was defeated by Xu Rong, and gave Cao Cao a drink to suppress the shock. Cao Cao himself picked up the wine utensils and scooped up the wine and drank it bitterly, drunkenly pointing at the Kwantung princes and the army and said with a smile: "I laugh at you and other Kwantung armies of nearly 200,000 people, and they hold high wine meetings every day, and they don't want to make progress." I originally wanted to suggest that the armies occupy the key passes, and then divide the troops to attack and disturb the pass, but I know that the princes will not listen, and the princes of the Eighteen Roads will soon be dispersed~"

Cao Cao shook his body out of the big tent, Yuan Shao looked at his back and snorted coldly: "If you don't listen to me, you should be defeated!" ”

In the first month of the second year of the first peace, Yuan Shao, Han Fu and others wanted to abolish the emperor on the grounds that the emperor was young and controlled by Dong Zhuo, and elected the Han clan and Youzhou Mu Liu Yu as the emperor. So Yuan Shao and others sent Le Lang Taishou Zhang Qi and others to Liu Yu. Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and others disagreed, Gongsun Zhan had always disagreed with Liu Yu's politics, and he was also resolutely opposed, Liu Yu also insisted on not accepting, and Yuan Shao had to give up.

Dong Zhuo's army defeated the Dong coalition army several times, and Sun Jian asked Yuan Shao to move his troops to Liangdong to attack Dong Zhuo, who refused to defend Luoyang, and Yuan Shao agreed.

Sun Jian's troops lost more than 10,000 people after the previous battle, Sun Jian gathered his army and marched to Liangdong, and Dong Zhuo sent Xu Rong and Li Meng to plunder everywhere and clear the wilderness. Sun Jianjun couldn't collect military rations everywhere, and the army's morale was unstable.

Sun Jian ordered people to urgently urge Yuan Shu to send people to transport grain, Xu Rongjun captured the messenger sent by Sun Jian to ask for food, and learned that Sun Jian's army was short of food, so he attacked the camp at night.

Sun Jian ordered Xiao Hu to distribute the grain, and there was a pinch of rice floating in the porridge that the soldiers drank, and Sun Jianjun was hungry and sleepy. At this time, suddenly there were fires all around, Xu Rong and Li Meng led the army to kill, and Sun Jian's army was in chaos.

Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang fought to protect Sun Jian's retreat, and Xu Rong led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to surround Sun Jian's army, and the one-sided slaughter, most of Sun Jian's army was killed and wounded. Many of the soldiers fled in all directions wailing, and some chose to surrender.

Several Xiliang cavalry pursued, and Han Dang rode away while turning around to shoot arrows. only heard a few "whoosh" sounds, and the Xiliang cavalry fell off their horses one after another. Sun Jian, Han Dang, Huang Gai, and Cheng Pu led dozens of cavalry to attack Xu Rongjun's encirclement. Because it was night, Xu Rongjun couldn't see Sun Jian clearly, Sun Jian waved the ancient ingot knife in his hand and hacked to death several Xiliang cavalry who came to block the road, Cheng Pu Huang Gai guarded Sun Jian on the left and right to prevent the enemy from releasing cold arrows, and finally this group of people killed the encirclement of Xu Rongjun.

Sun Jian fled with them to the Yangren, gathered the military horses in the Yangren, and found that most of the soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, and Li Min, the Taishou of Yingchuan, was missing. Han Xuan also led an army to join Sun Jian, and later they learned that Li Min had been captured by Xu Rongsheng and then killed. Han Xuan was so frightened that he patted his heart, this Xu Rong is also really fierce, he defeated Cao Cao and Sun Jian in a row, fortunately he didn't come with Sun Jian before, otherwise he would have died so miserably like this Li Min.