Cao Cao figured everything out almost instantly.

After all, Dong Zhuojun's strategy was too straightforward and simple, and even Cao Cao could now conclude that the information about Dong Zhuojun's contraction was probably true, so he would repeat the old trick...... Because this battle was obviously an imitation of the previous routine of ambushing Sun Jian when Jia Xu and Lu Bu retreated, but he, Cao Mengde, Liu Xuande, and Er Zhang, like Erzhang, were too eager for Luoyang, so they easily fell for such a simple plan to lure the enemy.

But back in sight, none of this is a thing, the real problem is that our general Fenwu has just personally ordered the city gates to be burned!

The city was full of fires, shouting and killing, but the real killing moves hidden in the fire and shouting were the arrows shot from the dark shadows, and the faint sound of horses' hooves.

Therefore, Cao Cao saw Wei Zi die, but he didn't think much about it, so he could only rein in his horse and turn around...... No matter what, no matter where you go, you have to find Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin and Cao Hong first, and then try to meet Liu Bei and Yu Ban, otherwise he Cao Mengde alone and only two thousand soldiers and horses will not be able to escape.

However, it was still a moment too late.

Although it was dark in the night, although it was within the city, the broad avenue of Tonghuo Street, which once represented the prestige of the Han Dynasty, became a natural place for cavalry to charge...... Thousands of Kwansai cavalry did not need to line up, did not need to discern the enemy's position, and even the commander did not need to give orders, they just needed to charge forward along the wide and straight Tonghuo Street!

So, Cao Mengde just turned around in embarrassment and came to the back, and before he could organize the defense and call for reinforcements, the Guanxi cavalry behind him had already rushed in.

In other words, this Fenwu general himself may have known how to use cavalry and how to guard against cavalry when he followed Gongsun Xun to conquer the Yellow Turban, but in the dark night, on the side of the fire, the recruits recruited by his people from Chen Liu and Peiguo did not understand the power of the cavalry charging on the ground at all, let alone how to deal with it!

In fact, these people were already at a loss because of the sudden attack, so how could they talk about forming a formation to resist in such a situation?

The cavalry roared in, and the 2,000 people led by Cao Mengde collapsed almost instantly because of the loose formation and the sudden encounter with the enemy! Cao Cao reacted, shouted loudly and ordered, not to mention whether it would be too late, but at this time, no one paid attention to it at all...... All the subordinates were fleeing for their lives, but these people didn't have to think much about the result of selling their backs to the cavalry, and the more than 1,000 Kansai cavalry were like ducks, and they easily slashed and chased on this avenue that didn't know how much blood had flowed.

When this wave of charging momentum eased down, the ambush soldiers in Nangong also abandoned their bows and swords together, as if they were following the cavalry to wipe out the Cao army on this avenue.

Cao Cao's eyes were about to split, but the Western cavalry had already seen it through the firelight, and found this big man wearing a big red cloak and a crane crown, so he took the initiative to attack again...... In such a situation, although Cao Mengde's heart was like a knife, he could only take dozens of guards on horseback, leaned over and fled.

But he couldn't walk more than 100 steps in a panic, and suddenly, as a personal guard horse on his side stumbled and tripped directly over a corpse, and then even the man and the horse fell to the ground, Cao Cao couldn't dodge and fell directly from the horse!

In the dark night, there were pursuers behind him, and the surrounding guards changed color, but they could only turn around to stop the pursuers, and then count on Cao Cao to get up by himself.

However, what these desperate guards didn't know was that in the dark night, Cao Cao's heart was already cold...... Without him, after he fell, his entire right arm hit the ground directly, and he was instantly unconscious, and then the pain in his right rib was unbearable, and he couldn't get up at all.

Cao Cao took a lot of effort to sit up, and when he turned around, he found that only half of his guards had been cut down by the well-ridden Kansai cavalry, and he was also desperate in his heart.

In all fairness, at this moment, Cao Mengde even had the idea of giving up resistance and sitting on the ground waiting for death.

"Where is Gong Cao?" But at this moment, a short general suddenly led a group of men and horses to kill out of the Sangong Mansion on the south side of Tongtuo Street, but it was Le Jin, who had been separated from Cao Cao before.

"Your family, Cao Gong, has been killed by me!" In the midst of the scuffle, a Kansai general heard the sound and caught a glimpse of Le Jin, so he stood on his horse, holding a blood-dripping spear, pointing at each other and laughing at each other from afar. "Kill you monkey now!"

Le Jin was furious when he heard this, regardless of it, he only carried a ring-headed knife, and directly led the crowd into the cavalry formation.

Although Le Wenqian's troops are not numerous, they are brave and good at fighting, and before this, although Dong Zhuojun's cavalry had the advantage, the momentum had stopped, and at this time it was only in the melee. Therefore, suddenly, a fresh force of Cao's army broke through from the flank, but it caught the chasing Kansai cavalry off guard.

Of course, in the final analysis, it is Le Wenqian who is brave and good at fighting, although his person is short in stature, but on the contrary, he is like a fish in water in this kind of melee, only to see that he personally led dozens of armor soldiers to rush to the front, in the chaos of the army, cut the cavalry, cut the horse's legs, and in a moment, he led the troops to kill more than ten cavalry in a row, and killed more than ten war horses in a row, and rescued Cao Cao's guards and defeated countless soldiers!

And the most distracting thing is that every time Le Wenqian kills someone, he asks 'Where is Cao Gong', and every time he saves someone, he also asks 'Where is Cao Gong', which attracts everyone's eyes on the battlefield, Cao Jun is excited, and Dong Jun is terrified...... And everybody is in for it!

In other words, the officer Dong Zhuojun, who had mocked Le Jin's figure before, sat on his horse and condescended, although he was fighting in the dark night, and he couldn't see clearly how the other party was so powerful that he cut the cavalry like cutting melons, but there was one thing he could glimpse clearly...... You must know that the ring-headed knife is like a straight sword, and it is just a matter of cutting people, but it costs a lot to cut off the horse's legs, so Le Jin can only abandon the knife after a few cuts, and then ask the guards behind him for a new ring-head knife...... And this officer saw the other party entering the formation, and the number was clear, and in just a few moments, this short officer of the Cao Army had actually changed five or six knives in a row!

Therefore, as Le Jin was covered in blood and killed closer and closer, this Dong Zhuojun officer couldn't hold it at all, and actually ran away directly on the horse!

It will be a military courage, since this person has fled, the surrounding Dong Zhuobu has also fled, or temporarily retreated, and Le Jin naturally will not chase it, but quickly follow the guidance of those guards to find Cao Cao.

However, at this time, Cao Cao had already been rescued.

It turned out that Cao Hong, as soon as he entered the city, was ordered to suppress and clean up the official temple and office office on the north side of Tongtuo Street, but he was always greedy for money...... As soon as the war started, the business with Amway was broken, and later in order to fund Cao Cao's troops, he even went to the brim, so he was even more concerned about treasures...... He walked halfway, but he thought that Nangong was a forbidden place, although Dong Zhuo had already searched it when he moved, but the chance of finding treasures and treasures there was still far greater than that of these official offices, so he made his own claim and directly led troops to Nangong.

So, when the war broke out suddenly, his people came here almost front and back with Lejin. And Cao Zilian is not a good fighter, Le Jin made a big show there, so he simply took the opportunity to find Cao Cao who fell off the horse, and even helped Cao Cao temporarily tie his arm with a broken spear shaft, and then helped him onto his war horse.

And Cao Hong protected Cao Cao, Le Jin personally led the troops to break off, and gathered the defeated troops along the way, retreated to the east while fighting, and after a short time, sure enough, Xiahou Yuan also led the crowd to find Cao Cao, and the three generals gathered, and at a cursory glance, there were only seven or eight hundred people left...... The rest may not all be dead, but nine times out of ten they were rushed by the cavalry, and each collapsed, and at this time it was being slaughtered in the streets and alleys, and of course it was also the main force of the 'queen of the palace' in a sense.

Of course, at this time, we must not feel sad anymore, Cao Cao and the three most trusted generals discussed a little, and immediately decided on the direction of retreat - the gate was burned, and the only hope at this time was that Yu Ban and Liu Bei could open the Middle Gate Gate.

So, Xiahou Yuan opened the way, after Le Jin broke off, Cao Hong personally took care of Cao Cao, and seven or eight hundred people immediately rushed to the root of the city wall to find Liu Bei at the Middle Gate. As for the many interceptions and pursuits of the large and small units of the Xiliang Army in the middle, it was naturally all due to the death battle between Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin, so they could barely get out.

However, the so-called adversity sees the truth, what surprised and moved Cao Cao the most was that Liu Bei did not escape alone, not only that, Liu Xuande guarded the city gate to the death, but also sent Zhang Fei to lead all the cavalry in his army along the east wall of Luoyang to meet Cao Cao...... Zhang Fei's courage and sense of security are of course undoubted, so the second half of the road is a lot better.

But it may be because Zhang Fei, the tiger general at that time, left, that when Cao Cao met Liu Bei at the Middle East Gate, the latter also suffered heavy losses, and there were only more than 1,000 people left. Fortunately, the 3,000 people of the Yu Ban Department outside the city were there, and they took out the second general Cao Liu head-on, and immediately took the initiative to take over the task after the break, and then let Cao Liu and the others withdraw to Yanshi first.

This night's fiasco, it was really nerve-wracking, Cao Cao was in a daze, he didn't know what he was thinking, Liu Bei was also pale, and the two fled until dawn, seeing Yanshi City in front of them, this was a breather.

"Last night's defeat, we lost most of our soldiers and horses, and when we return to Chenggao, I am afraid it will be difficult to gain a foothold, and I will not be able to do things." Seeing the city in front of him, with a broken spear pole tied to his arm, Cao Cao, who was covered with smoke and blood, finally spoke bitterly on the horse, but he didn't know who he was talking to. "Therefore, I am ready to recruit again...... Wen Qian returned to Dongjun to recruit troops; Miaocai and Zilian returned to their hometown, Zilian went to his home to recruit soldiers, Miaocai went to find Zixiao, that kid had thousands of people in his hands, and now he is wandering around Surabaya; Yuan Rang and I went to Yangzhou, Danyang soldiers are indeed good at fighting, and this time Xuande's department can be far better than me. ”

The rest of the generals naturally agreed busily, but Liu Bei was silent.

"Brother Xuande, don't worry." Seeing this, Cao Cao reluctantly cheered up and spoke. "You saved my life last night, am I the one who does not repay my kindness? I will definitely do my best to help you when I go to recruit soldiers, and I will be one and a half of the Danyang soldiers recruited, and I must also compensate you for your losses......"

Liu Bei, who was also embarrassed, sighed, and couldn't help but say quietly: "Brother Meng De, where do I care about these things? It's just that I think of the critical time when we are now fighting for Dong, and you and I are so defeated, I am afraid that it will have an impact on the overall situation of Dong; Second, when you and I come back from recruitment, I'm afraid that we will miss a lot of important things...... came here to ask Dong, originally because he felt that the eldest husband should be the first in the world, so he was full of ambition, but he was embarrassed and became a laughing stock. ”

Liu Bei has always been moody and angry, and today's emotion is already ashamed and sad to the extreme; And Cao Cao has always been an emotional person, and when he heard the words, he remembered all the things about last night's battle, but he was sad and almost wanted to cry aggrieved.

It's just that the surrounding soldiers are all extremely depressed, as the main general, at this time, Liu Bei's emotion is already the extreme, and if he continues to grieve, I am afraid it will affect morale.

As soon as he thought of this, Cao Cao slapped a smile and smiled at Liu Bei: "Brother Xuande, don't worry, but as long as you and I are still alive, and all the generals around us are here, we can always regroup." As for discussing the overall situation of Dong, I want to come to Benchu, Wen Qi, and Yuan Highway are all here, and you and I will have a small defeat, which will not affect the overall situation. ”

Liu Bei could only barely laugh.

However, at this moment, I saw a commotion in the Yanshi City in front of me, as if I was slightly alarmed after seeing the troops coming back.

At the same time, Xiahou Yuan, who was walking in the front, also opened his mouth to make a round: "You don't have to sigh, the front Yuan Rang went out of the city to meet us, and entered the city for a short rest, and then turned to others." ”

"Not bad!" Cao Cao caught a glimpse of the city gate opening from a distance, and then there were soldiers and horses coming out to greet him, and he was also relieved, and then forcibly cheered up. "If you don't accept me Cao Mengde this time, there will be blessings in the future!"

As soon as the words fell, from Cao Cao himself to Liu Bei next to him, from Xiahou Yuan who opened the road in front of him to Zhang Fei who didn't say a word next to him, from the extremely tired Lejin to Cao Hong who was thinking about something, almost everyone changed color...... It turned out that there were too many soldiers and horses pouring out of the Yanshi City only a few hundred paces away to 'greet' them, and they were all cavalry!

You must know that Cao and Liu only left Xiahoudun to lead more than 1,000 people to stay in Yanshi, and they were already short of cavalry, so there should only be dozens of cavalry in the city, but the Yanshi city in front of them is full of cavalry! And the amount is staggering!

As for Xiahoudun, they soon saw it with their own eyes...... But he was bound and pushed to the front of the army!

"Are you all right?" Approaching to the banner of Xu Zi dozens of steps away, the commander-in-chief of Dong Zhuojun's Yingchuan side, Zhonglang bowed Xu Rong slightly on the horse, quite polite.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei glanced at each other, and then looked at the more than 1,000 remnants of the soldiers behind them, as well as the extremely exhausted army general Zuo, and they were also cold in their hearts - the old Lu Bu of Luozhong had brutally defeated Wang Kuang of Hanoi and made the latter 'hang himself';

And just when the two of them were speechless, but they couldn't raise half of their fighting spirit, Zhang Fei, who had not spoken much before, rode out alone, and faced each other from afar: "General Xu, I have admired my name for a long time!" ”

"General Zhang," Xu Rong saw the comer, but he took a few steps back and let a team of ironclad knights step forward, and then continued to smile. "Your name is also thunderous to me these days...... I don't want to say goodbye to Guangzong City that day, and this is the case when we meet again. ”

Seeing this, Zhang Fei shook his head: "Why should General Xu be so careful? I see that you have 5,000 elite horsemen, and not to mention whether I can kill you or not, what is the use of killing you by luck? On the plain during the day, five thousand cavalry rushed in on horseback, and the defeat of our remnants will be reduced to powder in an instant, right? ”

"Is the word of ten thousand enemies false?" Xu Rong shook his head again and again. "It's better to be careful."

"General Xu!" Zhang Fei didn't bother to talk nonsense, so he simply gave it up. "General Cao is General Wei's old friend, Brother Xuande is General Wei's brother, and you are General Wei's old department...... Can you leave us alone? ”

Xu Rong smiled embarrassedly for a while: "In the battle, General Wei is magnanimous, how can you blame me for this kind of thing?" ”

"Brother Bojin!" When Liu Bei heard this, his heart moved, so he hurriedly stepped forward, and then bowed down on the horse. "Can't you see the situation clearly? My brother cut off your connection with Chang'an in Hongnong, and now Dong Zhuo has to go around from Wuguan to Nanyang if he wants to deliver news here, and Niu Fu is an incompetent person when he hears it...... In other words, you are the general of a town, and in fact, no one can restrain you...... That being the case, why not remember the old feelings between you and me that day and let us go? ”

"Not bad!" Cao Cao also hurriedly grabbed the horse's belly forward, holding his arm and trying to persuade him. "Brother Bojin, we used to get along very well in Luozhong, and we called each other brothers...... Do you really want to see us die here today? Besides, current events are easy to change, no one knows what will happen in the future, if you can let go of Yuan Rang and us today, the two of us will have a good reward in the future! ”

Xu Rong became more and more sneering.

"General Xu!" Zhang Fei finally got impatient. "Others don't know your mind, but I know your difficulties, but the eldest husband is born in the world, don't you just ask for a pleasure? If I were you, I would either immediately release Xiahou Yuanrang together, or I would order us to be taken down and killed here, why should I be at a loss here, what good will my mother-in-law do to you? ”

Xu Rong finally shook his head helplessly: "What benefits did I want...... I only hope that the two generals Cao and Liu will learn a lesson today, and maybe they can remember that the major events in the world are not your turn to be mixed at this time! ”

This is inexplicable, but it is a bit condescending...... However, in such a situation, Cao Cao and Liu Bei could only listen to what Xu Bojin said, in fact, even Zhang Fei had already kept silent.

After saying this, Xu Rong finally bowed to an officer beside him. This officer looks similar to Xu Rong, but he is much younger, as if he is a relative of Xu Bojin, and when he was signaled, he also came to the front of the army, split the rope on Xiahoudun's body with a knife, and let the latter flee to the remnants of the opposite formation in embarrassment.

Cao Liu and the others knew in their hearts that the two of them had escaped death again, so they reluctantly made a big salute to Xu Rong together, and then prepared to lie on the back of the horse and prepare to walk around the city.

"Don't go to Chenggao!" Xu Rong suddenly reminded again. "You don't know yet, do you? Just when you were marching all the way before, some Tanma said that Yuan Benchu had signs of withdrawing from Chenggao...... The three people who set up an ambush this time, Li Meng and I are about to lead troops to the west, but Duan Xuan will still stay in Luoyang to garrison, and his people may take advantage of the victory to pursue to the east, if Chenggao has no soldiers and horses to defend, I am afraid that you will be caught up by Duan Zhonglang's cavalry...... Therefore, if you think about it properly, you might as well send someone to Gongxian County, call the troops there to go to Xushi together, and then turn to Yingchuan, where I have just evacuated, to avoid the edge, so that it is safest. ”

Cao Cao and Liu Bei changed color again, and then thanked them again and again, and without hesitation, they turned to the direction of the south on the spot, without any doubts throughout the whole process.

After all, since Xu Rong had already let them go, there was no need to deceive them again; Second, it is really Yuan Shao's abnormal movements that have long been revealed, and the contradictions between the princes have long appeared, with the wisdom of the two of them, they have actually been prepared for this.

Not to mention that Xu Rong let these old remnants of the defeated army flee to the Shi clan, and then slowly led the troops to the east, only said that Cao and Liu came to the Shu clan in a hurry, and they were exhausted to the limit, but they were startled head-on...... Without him, Luoyang's southeast gateway to Yingchuan, in the county town of Xushi, is actually a banner display, dazzling armor, and obviously there are soldiers and horses stationed!

However, this is another false alarm - it turned out that the city turned out to be the former old man who was also the prince of Dong, Sun Jian and Sun Wentai.

As for why Sun Jian is here, it is also admirable!

In other words, although he was almost wiped out by Jia Xu, Lu Bu and Dong Zhuojun and Henan generals that day, Sun Wentai was a Jiangdong Tiger in the end, frustrated but not discouraged, tenacious and persevering, and had the heart to serve the country with his fists. Therefore, he finally packed up the remnants of the army, and after recruiting thousands of soldiers and horses in Nanyang a little, he heard that Xu Rong had retreated and Luoyang was empty, so he actually personally led troops to chase after him, and then he had just crossed the Yuyuan Pass during the day today and entered the city of Xu, but he did not wait for Dong Zhuojun's attack, but ushered in the defeat of Cao and Liu.

The three old people who sang and danced to the wine when Yingchuan attacked the Yellow Turban on the day saw each other again today, but they were embarrassed and embarrassed.

———————I am the dividing line of Cao Liu———————

At the end of April of the first year of the first year of the first peace, Cao Cao and Liu Bei entered Luoyang together, and were ambushed by Duan Xuan, Li Meng, and Xu Rong. After a little rectification, it will go to Luoyang again, first heard that Yuan Shao abandoned Cao Liu and drove the princes to the east, and then Yuan Shu cut off Sun Jian's army food in the south, and the three generals sighed. and Cao, preparing to recruit troops in the south, Jian also wanted to go to Luyang to resign Yuan Shu in person, but he sighed and sent the wine to the foot of the Shishi Mountain. Wine to the third tour, reciting the past singing and dancing in the water, then about poetry, Cao weeping and chanting: 'The army is uneven, hesitant and geese walk. Snobbery makes people fight, and heirs fight each other...... The princes of the Kwantung region, where there are dozens of roads, there are only two people who can support life and death! 'Firm, prepared and sighed, so they worshiped the emperor and the queen of heaven, and swore blood to pay each other's wives. swore and staggered. —The Dictionary. Yan. Pei Song's note