Chapter 728: Defeat
The moment Liu Lan and the three of them left the battle group, they met Cao Cao, who was defeated and returned, and it was hard to imagine that a military strategist like Cao Cao would be defeated so quickly.
How could this Xu Rong be so powerful?
As far as Liu Lan knows, not long ago, Xu Rong killed Sun Jian to the point of losing his armor, and now Cao Cao, these two people who were defeated in his hands are real cattle people who have resounded in later generations, and it is conceivable how terrifying their strength is.
But is Xu Rong really powerful?
Liu Lan was skeptical.
So he looked at Cao Cao and Sun Jian's defeat at the hands of Xu Rong from a different angle, and immediately felt that it was reasonable for the two to lose in his hands, not that Xu Rong was really strong enough to be as invincible as Huangfu Song.
First of all, most of the Kwantung coalition forces are newly recruited Qianshou people, while Xu Rong led the Xiliang strong brigade that has no years and no war, and the elite who survived the Qiang and Hu wars.
Secondly, whether the current Cao Cao and Sun Jian's command art can be compared with the future is worth pondering, just like Zhang Liao really became famous in Xiaoyaojin, and just after Guan Yu, who defeated him just now, was flooded by the three armies, of course, before becoming famous in the world, both of them must have shown extraordinary talents, otherwise they would not have been entrusted with important tasks. But before that? The two of them are absolutely unknown in history, that is to say, during this period of time, whether it is force or command ability, the two are in a period of rapid growth.
This is understandable, but now Guan Yu is different from Guan Yu in another time and space, he has followed Liu Lan, and has been growing rapidly by his side for many years. Compared with the unknown Zhang Liao, Guan Yu's victory in this fashion is not surprising to the unknown Zhang Liao.
Yes. Is it possible to put an example like this on the heads of Cao Cao and Sun Jian, if it is really as he guessed. It is also reasonable for Xu Rong, who has been commanding the army all year round, to defeat the two of them, that is to say, Xu Rong, who defeated the two, was not really brave and good at fighting, but that he met two people who did not reach the peak of their command talent or the army they commanded.
Similarly, it is precisely because of these failures that the two continue to grow and achieve their future achievements.
Of course, this is just Liu Lan's own thoughts, and he is more concerned about the battlefield situation now.
"De'an, the thieves are attacking too fiercely, and it is difficult to resist the enemy. Let's get out of here! ”
Cao Cao just greeted Liu Lan and fled in a hurry with a few soldiers, whether it was strength or combat power Xu Rong had an absolute advantage, and if he resisted hard, he would die here today, running desperately, under the escort of Cao Hong, he had already reminded him out of friendship that he could not escape. It's up to him to make it to himself.
"Mengde!"
Liu Lan yelled in the direction where Cao Cao disappeared, his sheepskin map was clearly marked, and at this moment the direction of Cao Cao's escape was a section of Xingyang Bianshui, wanting to tell him that breaking through from this direction was looking for death. But before he finished speaking, Cao Cao had already run away without a trace.
Looking at the rapidly disappearing figure, Liu Lan sighed. I could only ask for more blessings, but in vain I saw many Xiliang cavalry chasing in the direction of Cao Cao's escape. Immediately led Guan Zhang and the dragoons to rush in the direction of Cao Cao's escape!
But it was said that Cao Cao ran all the way to escape, and suddenly heard the sound of gurgling water in front of him. At this moment, there were only martial artists around him, including Cao Hong, and he couldn't help but burst into tears: "De'an, don't blame me for being unjust!" If he has to see him again one day, I will thank you for your kindness today. ”
Just as he was about to cross the river, he didn't want to hear a shout from one side in vain: "General, several traitors have been found here!" ”
When he was the first to fight, he immediately rushed to kill.
Cao Cao was shocked, only then did he get out of the tiger's mouth and enter the wolves again, should my life be extinguished?
Cao Hong eagerly asked Cao Cao to cross the river and go first, he stayed to block the enemy for a while, but how could Cao Cao accept it, Cao Hong shouted under the excitement: "There can be no flood in the world, no king!" ”
Cao Cao, whose body trembled, began to wade with tears in his eyes, and when he crossed the water, he suddenly killed again, but when he looked at it in a panic, he found that the cavalry arriving in the distance was Liu Lan, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei with the dragoon Pegasus.
The latter glanced at Cao Hong, who was standing on the riverbank, and the enemy general who was rushing towards him, and shouted at the moment when he urged the horse to gallop: "Liu Lan is here, the enemy general will take his life!" ”
The enemy general saw that the oblique stab was coming, and the speed was so fast that he had no choice but to abandon Cao Hong temporarily, and instead slapped his horse and ran towards Liu Lan with a horse lance.
As soon as the two met, the enemy general directly swept towards Liu Lan with a lance, and this sweep had a doorway, but it was a single lance slash, and it swept towards Liu Lan with a dragon slaying knife.
The momentum was swift, but Liu Lan didn't care about his exquisite lance technique, it was he who was strong and let him be strong, the breeze caressed the hill, danced the dragon slaying knife and gently knocked it upward, knocking the horse lance in his hand to the side, and swept towards his chest with a split.
The enemy general has followed Dong Zhuo on the battlefield for more than ten years, and the moment the lance in his hand was knocked aside, he knew that something was wrong, but when he saw the halberd coming, he instantly hid on the side of the snow leopard horse, and the whole person disappeared in front of Liu Lan's eyes.
The enemy general's immediate kung fu was good.
Liu Lan, who split the air, sighed, and the enemy general dodged Liu Lan's fatal blow and then flipped back to the horse's body, leaned up the horse lance, and swung towards Liu Lan's waist, who knew that Liu Lan's dragon slaying knife had already been raised high, and when he waited for a long time, he slashed down from mid-air with extremely perverted force, and the sound of breaking the air immediately buzzed, wanting to cut the enemy into two with one blow.
"Bang"
In a hurry, the enemy general changed his attack to defense, raised his hands with a lance, dragged up and down, and took Liu Lan's thunderous blow.
However, this blow was strong and heavy, although Liu Lan was forced to retreat, but he felt a sweetness in his mouth, a mouthful of blood splashed out, and the palms and tigers holding the horse lance broke instantly, and his heart was invincible, so he hurriedly turned the horse and fled.
But how could he escape the pursuit of Liu Lan's foal when he sat down on the war horse, and in an instant, he was caught up by Liu Lan, who was driven by the horse, and the dragon slaying knife pierced his back with a pop, and the enemy general's body shook slightly, and he fell off the horse and vomited blood and died.
Cao Cao, who crossed the water, returned to meet Liu Lan, a thousand thanks, but there was no chance of getting rid of the catastrophe, the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, his expression was surprisingly ugly, Liu Lan had a maximum of a few hundred cavalry behind him, and his current soldiers were not even five hundred, which made him not feel pain. With a long sigh, he looked at Liu Lan and said, "De'an, what should we do now?" ”
"Back to sour dates!" Liu Lan didn't think about it, and said that at this time, where else could he go except go back.
"But." Thinking of the scene of being ridiculed after going back, Cao Cao was unwilling, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he could only return with Liu Lan.
"Our defeat is even more difficult after that."
"Are we defeated?"
Liu Lan laughed: "In this battle, we have killed two enemy generals in a row, and we can explain to the alliance leader, if the 'princes' can send troops with us, we can win a big victory today, not a small victory!"
"Are we going to win by a small margin?"
Cao Cao was suspicious, but then he understood, isn't it, Liu Lan only lost less than a few hundred people, while the Xiliang army suffered thousands of casualties, in this way, he did win a small victory, but what about himself, 5,000 people are now less than 500 people, this is a fiasco.
immediately looked at Liu Lan with a gloomy face, but found that his expression was even angrier than his own: "Today's defeat is all because of you, Meng De, otherwise you would never be so embarrassed!" ”
"Because of me?" Cao Cao was struck by lightning.
Liu Lan rebuked unceremoniously: "As the main general, you don't delay the enemy but run faster than anyone else, if I didn't care about the friendship of the past and chase after me, you would have already become a corpse!" (To be continued......)