Two long and one short, this is the horn that Zhai Hao's rangers deployed outside the battlefield will only sound when the enemy cavalry is constantly approaching.

When Zhai Hao heard the sound of the horn, his eyes immediately widened, and he was a little incredulous, when did the Cao army also have cavalry?

It's just that the disbelief in his heart is not believing, and the warning horn in his ears is still whining, Zhai Hao doesn't dare to take these Xiliang cavalry under his command as a bet, betting that the Cao army cavalry who rushed to help is weak and does not dare to fight.

He looked at the Cao army's foot soldiers who had broken down in front of him, as well as the Yan and Yu Minlings who were scattered and fled, spat hatefully, waved his hand and ordered:

"Blow the trumpet, clean up the battlefield, and retreat quickly!"

The heavy horn sound around Zhai Hao sounded, and the Xiliang cavalry, who was still chasing the north, heard the horn of the withdrawal of the army, although they were also surprised in their hearts, but the military order was like a mountain, they still turned their horses' heads one after another, only brought the whole corpse of their comrades who could be found, followed the moving horn, and hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield and ran to the northwest.

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The Xiliang cavalry came like the wind and went like the wind, and they walked clean in the blink of an eye.

When Cao Chun arrived in a hurry with five hundred Cao army cavalry, he happened to see the bloody battlefield after this bloody battle.

The dazed and ownerless cattle licking the grass with their heads bowed, the grain carts that were burned, pushed into the river beach, overturned and scattered, broken spears and shields, broken arrows and broken armor, together with the corpses of Cao's soldiers and soldiers and the corpses of the Xiliang cavalry horses, were laid and piled up on the riverside grass and silted riverbanks, covering the whole land with a bright red bloody coat mixed with black spots.

The dejected report of Cao Jun's rout buzzed in his ears, and Cao Chun seemed to have seen a similar scene somewhere.

Yes, the scene in front of me is like the defeat of Dong Zhuo in the first year of Chuping, and the defeat of Cao's army in Bianshui.

It is also the Xiliang cavalry that gallops like a flight and suddenly attacks, and it is also the tactics of cavalry dismounting and cavalry attacking, Wei Zi, Bao Tao and other generals have been killed in battle, 30,000 Yanzhou soldiers and horses were wiped out, and the Cao brothers fled in embarrassment, only to be spared.

Cao Chun remembered that it was his brother Cao Ren who protected him from the battlefield, and his brother, who had always only shed blood and not tears, shed tears of grief and indignation for the first time in front of his brother when he turned around and saw his own soldiers who had become food for fish and shrimp in the water.

After that, after several twists and turns, Cao's army made a comeback, and Cao Cao also attached great importance to the construction and training of cavalry troops, and Cao Ren was the first cavalry general in Cao's army.

Cao's cavalry was small in number, but it made great contributions in many battles.

When Cao Cao handed over the talisman of commanding the cavalry to Cao Chun, Cao Chun, who had been ordered, felt the weight of the responsibility on his shoulders in his heart.

The rider is also serving the army, so he defeats the army, deprives the grain road, and hits the bento.

This is what Cao Chun, who has never commanded the cavalry, firmly believes, so although he was stationed in Guancheng as a division of the army, he never relaxed for a moment, and the cavalry under his command drove on the flanks of the army, just like himself, ready to rush to the front army and put into battle.

As a result, seeing this scene after the bloody battle on the battlefield, Cao Chun, who rushed to the battlefield with more than half an hour, knew that he and the Cao army cavalry were still a step late.

The blood-colored remnant sun was sprinkled in the water, and from a distance, Cao Chun couldn't tell whether it was red light or the blood flowing on the soldiers' bodies.

He could only ride his horse and approach this battlefield with a heavy heart.

At this time, as if God was trying to dispel the haze in Cao Chun's heart, a banner of Cao Jun was also slowly raised above Bianshui, and the Cao Jun cavalry around Cao Chun saw this scene and immediately exclaimed in an uproar.

Cao Chun's face tightened, and he finally showed a smile.

Thankfully, it's not too late.

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This skirmish, which took place in July, was put on the back burner of the turbulent situation and was destined to cause an uproar.

From the perspective of the war, Yu Ban and Li Dian were defeated by Zhai Hao, but when Cao Chunqian gave up the gong, and when the achievements of Ban, Li Dian and others resisted cavalry on foot, tried to protect grain and grass, and finally forced the Xiliang cavalry to withdraw were delivered to the Yanzhou Prefecture in the form of a military report, Yanzhou was still shaken!

Cao Cao was surprised by the tenacity of the Henan guards' will to resist, and the guard general Zhai Hao was trapped in a beast, which caused one of his generals to be injured and one of the generals to be seriously injured, which made him have to re-examine the gains and losses of Dong Zhao's scheme.

At the same time, Cao Cao also forgot the merits of Yu Ban and Li Dianer, who did not retreat from the fight to the death and forced the group to ride, especially Yu Ban, who insisted to the end, Cao Cao even praised him movingly in front of many civil and military forces:

"Captain Yu is as solid as a rock, there is an immovable knot, although the ancient famous general, how can he add it!"

Yu Ban, who was almost killed and captured, was a blessing in disguise, and turned into a bloody and rock-solid general of the dead festival, and his prestige in the Cao army did not decrease but increased, and he chased Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren's and other relatives in the Cao army.

On the other hand, on the Hedong side, the Henan soldiers who took the initiative to attack, cut off grain and grass, and defeated Yu Ban and Li Dian, were still facing a grim situation.

This battle, which was "deprived of grain and attacked by the Benkou", evolved step by step into a bloody battle of cavalry and fierce soldiers under the condition of strict defense in the rear of Cao's army.

Although Zhai Hao's Xiliang cavalry finally defeated Yu Ban and Li Dian with cavalry, he paid the heavy price of losing more than 100 horses and 70 or 80 casualties.

This is not a proud record for Zhai Hao, a cavalry general who advertises "ten horsemen defeat a hundred people, and a hundred horses walk a thousand people".

Moreover, what the people in Hedong did not expect was that the arrogance of the aggressive Cao army in Henan was defeated by a counterattack by Zhai Hao, and the momentum of advancing into Luoyang was also curbed for a time, but this slightly eased situation broke out again at the end of July.

The army of Chun Yu Quang, who had been stationed on the border and had been stationary, took the opportunity to send troops and invaded Hanoi at the end of July.

Chun Yuqiong played a strategy of attacking the east and the west, and the army poured out of the nest from Gongxian County, making signs of wanting to cross Qingshui and attack Yucheng, but secretly ordered Wei Yuanjin and Han Juzi to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Jiacheng.

Although the two generals of Wei Yuanjin and Han Juzi were ultimately unable to capture the city of Huojia, which was garrisoned by Youma Lin, they still relied on the advantage of troops to harvest the wheat fields outside the city first, and then retreated east before Xu Huang's reinforcements arrived, and returned to Ji County with a swagger.

With Yuan Shao, the Hebei overlord's war again, although the war has not yet broken out, but it also suddenly made Hanoi, Henan two counties of the pressure greatly increased, people panicked, Yanzhou in the Hebei army to attack the military report, overjoyed, morale also reinvigorated, soon also sent troops again, this time by Xiahou Dan in person, led Liu Dai, Liu Ruo, Cao Chun and other cavalry army, violent, full attack Aocang, Xingyang two cities.

After the battle of Bianshui, Zhai Hao also predicted the overall strength of Cao's army, knowing that Henan's troops were insufficient, and the east of Chenggao could never be defended, so he simply gave up the two cities of Aocang and Xingyang, shrunk his forces and retreated to Chenggao, and defended Cao's army according to Hugao Pass.

Cao Jun won two cities in a row, learned that Zhai Hao was defending Chenggao, and rushed to make siege equipment day and night, preparing to continue to attack Chenggao's Tiger Prison Pass.

The situation in Luoyang was once alleviated by the fact that Yuan's army did not move, and Zhai Hao's defeat of Cao's army, but now because of Yuan Cao's march to the north and south, it has become precarious again.

However, as the envoy of Yanzhou, Wang Bi still did not leave Luoyang, Wang Bi's intelligence may not be as good as Guo Jia, Dong Zhao and others, but he is loyal to his duties and will never return if he does not complete his mission, and he can indeed afford Cao Cao's evaluation of him as "loyal and diligent, heart like iron stone, and a good official of the country".

This also made Cheng Gao's Yu Yu urgent report delivered to Mianchi by a fast horse, and when Yan Xing, who was in Mianchi, convened his ministers again, the focus of controversy was on whether to negotiate peace with Yanzhou.

It can be said that Cao Jun has never clearly pointed out that Hedong Yan behaved as a chaotic minister and thief because of the rat trap, and spread the command of Guandong Prefecture and County to fight together, but used coercion and temptation to win the Son of Heaven in Luoyang City.

This also gave Hedong the opportunity to realize the tactics of "fighting and talking, talking and pulling", but after Yuan Shao's army intervened in this chaos with the momentum of Mount Tai, the situation in the Kanto region that Hedong had barely managed to maintain was close to the brink of collapse.

In the face of absolute strength, all means seem so powerless.

Zhou Liang, who was in Luoyang, felt particularly strongly about this crisis, and in his letter, he suggested that Yan Xing should attack Yuan and Cao together, and the strength of the enemy and us was huge, and the city of Luoyang could no longer be defended, so he simply killed the Son of Heaven, moved the court to Hedong and Hongnong, and cut off Cao Cao's idea of welcoming the Son of Heaven, and then re-selected the Han clan to establish as the Son of Heaven, which could still form a small court situation in a corner of peace.

Yan Xing had doubts about this. As far as he knew, Dong Zhuo did this back then, killing the young emperor, cutting off the thoughts of Yuan Shao and others, and then moving the imperial court to Chang'an, blocking the danger of Cuihan, guarding the pass, and claiming to be respectful.

Yan Xing believed that if he wanted to kill the Son of Heaven now, he was afraid that he would immediately break with Pei Mao, Pei Qian, Wei Kai, Xun You, Zheng Hun and others in the imperial court and the overlord, and drag the entire new force into the quagmire of internal and external troubles.

As for the small court, if he wanted a small court that was self-respecting and peaceful, then why did he need to escort the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, and shouted the slogan of "Zhongxing Han Room, return to the old capital".

Zhou Liang is a henchman who can solve the thorny problems in front of him, but he is not a qualified adviser who plans for the overall situation.

Xi Zhicai, who was also in Luoyang, suggested that Yan Xing and Cao Cao negotiate peace.

In his view, the struggle in troubled times is nothing more than the way of "offensive and defensive warfare". Since we are currently unable to attack the Kanto region and even struggle to defend it, we should resolutely abandon the strategy of engagement and rationally choose peace talks.

Note: "Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Cao Ren" from the expedition to Xuzhou, Ren Chang supervised the cavalry, and was the vanguard of the army. Don't attack Tao Qian's general Lu You, break it, and join Pengcheng with the army, and break the Qian army.