Chapter 63: The Battle of Zhili V

"Yuan Rang, if you come a little later, I'm afraid you can collect my body." Looking at Xiahoudun, who had killed the Yellow Turban Army, Cao Ren made a rare joke.

"Zixiao, are you alright?" Xiahoudun looked at Cao Ren, who was standing with a knife and panting, and couldn't help but worry.

"Don't worry, it's just a little out of strength, and it's okay to take a break!" Cao Renqiang replied with spirits.

Xiahoudun nodded after hearing this, pointed to a few Cao soldiers beside him and said, "A few of you help General Cao down to rest!" After saying that, Xiahoudun raised his spear and killed the other Yellow Turban soldiers on the wall.

Looking at the Yellow Turban Army that was constantly surging like a tide below, Xiahoudun sighed secretly and said in his heart: "I can only do my best to obey the destiny of heaven." ”

Seeing that the Yellow Turban Army had suppressed Cao Jun, Bo Cai nodded with satisfaction, if it continued like this, it would only take an hour at most to enter the Cao Army camp.

"Kill! Brothers, kill a Yellow Turban Army and reward hardware, kill a Yellow Turban Captain and reward 50 gold, kill a Yellow Turban general and reward 100 gold! Officer Cao Jun continued to encourage him, intending to revive his morale.

But it has little effect, money is tempting, but at the moment Cao Jun is obviously almost unable to hold on, the soldiers are not stupid, money is a good thing, but you also have to have a life to take it!

In the camp tent, Cao Cao sat at the table and said to the herald: "Order all the soldiers to withdraw to the camp and let the wall out." ”

"No!" The herald replied respectfully.

Soon, the Cao army on the wall of the wall retreated into the camp like a tide, and the Yellow Turban army on the wall cheered, and then chased after the Cao army.

However, when there were still fifty steps away from Cao Jun, the Yellow Turban Army at the front of the rush only felt that the soles of their feet were slipping, and a three-zhang wide trench appeared in front of Cao Jun and the Yellow Turban Army, which was covered with sharpened bamboo, and it was not only the Yellow Turban Army at the front who fell down, but the Yellow Turban Army behind was caught off guard, and also fell down a lot, and the person who reacted quickly quickly stopped, but the people behind him didn't know what was going on, and they pushed forward one by one. The Yellow Turbans who had reached the edge of the trench watched themselves continue to row towards the trench, and couldn't help but let out a burst of frightened screams, as a group of Yellow Turban soldiers fell into the trench like dumplings, and the people behind finally stopped, but at this time more than 300 people had been pushed down.

Cao's trench surrounded the entire camp, and the Yellow Turban army on the opposite side could only stare at them.

"Put!" The archers of the Cao army shot the arrows that lit the arrows at the wall, and the wall that had already been coated with fierce fire oil immediately burned, which was afraid that the Yellow Turban Army would condescendingly suppress them, and the Cao army only had a small amount of fierce fire oil, which was not enough to defend the city, so they simply made the worst plan, and dug a trench three zhang wide in the camp at night, and painted the wall with fierce fire oil, which was to prepare for this situation.

Some of the Yellow Turban Army on the walled wall who had not had time to come down were surrounded by fire, and the raging fire immediately swallowed them, listening to the return of the Yellow Turban soldiers, looking at the fire on the wall, Bo Cai scolded secretly, but he didn't expect that in this case, he was still overshadowed by Cao Jun.

It seems that the attack can only be resumed until the fire is extinguished, and it looks like it will burn for at least two hours.

However, the process of waiting is not satisfactory, the charred wall actually fell directly inward, the Yellow Turban Army outside has left the wall for a distance, but the people inside and Cao Jun have no choice, the front is a trench, the back is the burning wall, the gate of the village is filled with flammable materials by Cao Jun, and it has already burned, so these sad Yellow Turban Army were directly pressed down by the wall, and let out a burst of terrifying screams.

Finally, the fire on the wall was extinguished, and Bo Cai could already see the figures of hundreds of Cao soldiers behind the trench, at this time, a sound of horses' hooves came, and a yellow turban scout dismounted and saluted Bo Cai: "Tell Qu Shuai, the official cavalry is less than twenty miles away from here, and the banner is "Yuan"! ”

Bocai's face changed greatly, and he said, "Explore again!" ”

After a quarter of an hour, it was finally determined that Yuan Shao's cavalry was coming, about 8,000 men, and twenty miles could be reached in half an hour at most.

Looking at Cao Jun who was forming a formation behind the trench, Bo knew that he had no chance, and that wanting to cross the trench could not be solved in half an hour.

"Mingjin retreats!" Bo Cai's face was gloomy, Yuan Shao's arrival meant that the Han army was arriving in a steady stream, and it also indicated that his decisive battle with the Han army was about to begin.

On the other side, the Cao army finally joined up with Yuan Shao's forward cavalry, Yuan Jun led the troops with Wen Chou, looking at the Cao soldiers who were almost killed and wounded in the camp, even if they were as arrogant as Wen Chou, they couldn't help but secretly admire.

In this battle, although Cao Cao lost most of his soldiers and horses, he also beat his reputation as a loyal minister of the Han family, so to speak, it did not take long for Cao Cao to regroup.

In the evening, Yuan Shao's army finally arrived, and 30,000 troops appeared next to Cao's camp, because Cao's camp could no longer be used, so Yuan Jun simply re-established a camp by himself.

The arrival of Yuan Jun, Bo Cai did not do anything, he was already shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Cao army, in his view, the Yuan family was more powerful than the Cao family, and Yuan Shao's army was definitely stronger than the Cao army.

The fact is also the same, in terms of various materials, the Yuan army will surpass the Cao army, and the same is true in terms of quantity, in terms of training, the Yuan army with the four court pillars of Hebei is not weaker than the Cao army at all.

Jizhou, Zhang Jiao was also defeated under Lu Zhi's attack, Lu Zhi itself has an army of 50,000, far more than the strength in its history, coupled with the support of the powerful of various families, in the front of Zhang Jiao's 300,000 Yellow Turban Army continued to lose ground, Zhang Jiao sighed secretly: "After all, the Yellow Turban Army started from the grassroots, and there are too few capable people." In terms of command, Zhang Jiao and others are far from being Lu Zhi's opponents, and in terms of training, the Yellow Turban Army, which started in a hurry, is not the opponent of the well-trained Han army, so it is undoubtedly a matter of course for these peasants who had not had enough to eat a few months ago to fight against these well-trained Han troops.

"Order, the army retreats towards Guangzong and prepares for a decisive battle with the Han army!" Zhang Jiao is not a fool, he knows that his only advantage is the advantage of numbers, if he continues to consume like this, his only advantage will continue to become smaller, and there is no hope of winning at that time.

Zhang Jiao's order was quickly passed down, "The great sage and good teacher have an order, the whole army will withdraw to Guangzong!" ”

Lu Zhi was also keenly aware of Zhang Jiao's purpose, and his gaze was firmly fixed on a point on the map, which said "Guangzong".