In the late spring and early summer of the eighth year of Jian'an, the sudden outbreak of war was like thunder blasting through the clouds, and the dark night sky was like a lightning bolt, which caught everyone off guard. Cao's army went south, Xuchang 50,000 Chao Runan gathered in Wancheng, Xiahoudun was the vanguard, Li Dian and Yu Ban were deputy generals to lead 10,000 troops from Wancheng south to Xinye, accelerating the march along the way, ignoring the dissuasion of Li and Yu Er, in the opinion of this one-eyed general: "Liu Bei is not good at fighting, but good at running." ”

Soon after, Shinno also sent troops and arrived in Bowang.

In the past few years, the army under Cao Cao is almost invincible, from the original Qingzhou Yellow Turban to Yuan Shao, it is difficult to have an army that competes with him and Gongsun Zhi, even though the western expedition began to recuperate, but Liu Bei still has no psychological bottom after all, and took the lead to lead the army to Bowang, and even only took a few horses to the front to secretly watch the movement of Cao's army southward, his face was not shocked, and his heart was still a little worried.

"Lord, if you don't fight this battle hard, is there a way out?" This is what the young man who stood on the stone steps of the official office and shook the feather fan told him before the expedition, looking at the neat Cao Jun, Liu Bei gritted his teeth and returned to Bowang, looked at the surrounding generals, and whispered: "Let's fight." ”

At this time, it is summer, the sun is scorching, there has been no rain in the Xinye area for several days, this land, the forest is a dry scene, and the Xiahoudun who did not listen to the persuasion insisted on walking with the soldiers and horses into the two mountains, Guan Yu, Chen Zhi, Liao Hua, etc. will take advantage of the weather and terrain to set fire to the piled up tung oil, the fire is burning, the war horse is frightened, and the arrows are shot from both sides like locusts. But the 10,000 vanguard soldiers and horses died and surrendered, and they were directly folded in half.

In mid-May, Cao Cao's main force arrived in Wancheng, and great chaos was already brewing.

Many people in Xinye and Dangyang began to flee one after another after knowing the outbreak of war, most of them read the edict in the city, and knew that Cao Jun slaughtered the city in Xuzhou, that is, they expressed their willingness to follow the army all the way away, and the two places added up to more than 100,000 people, standing at the head of the city and looking at the past, covering everywhere they could see.

On the city tower, the long hair stroked slightly in the wind, and a pair of phoenix eyes watched the vast sea of people flow slowly, and couldn't help sighing: "Big brother, why do you want to bring so many people to avoid the enemy's edge this time, outsiders look at it, thinking that it is the elder brother who brought them to block the Cao thief soldiers." ”

"They have been sitting here all their lives, and they can't bear to be brothers." Liu Bei had tears in his eyes: "I thought that if I led the army to leave, it would be fine, but I didn't expect them to be willing to follow, how to give up for my brother." ”

Guan Yu suddenly 'Alas! With a sound, Qinglong Yanyue slammed on the ground, and the silkworm wrinkled at the beginning: "Cao thief is elite in a hundred battles, Xinye City is a small villain, there are only more than 10,000 people, how can he stop it, then Zhuge Liang has to surrender to Jiangling, I also know that it is close to Jiangdong, and can be used as reinforcements for each other, but ....." He glanced at the fleeing people below, turned around and sighed heavily: "The one who ...... ends is not the son of man!" ”

Carrying the Glaive Knife, he walked down the city wall.

After that, the army went all the way to the east, but at this time Liu Biao was seriously ill and could not be a director, Cai Mao, his sister Mrs. Cai refused Liu Bei's army to enter the city, and at this time there was no young general Wei Yan in the city who opened the city gate to beckon him into the city, so he had to throw himself all the way to Jiangling, but Cao's army tiger and leopard rode to kill first.

After gathering the soldiers and horses, Liu Qi's fleet also responded, and soon after, he ordered the ship to sail.

The line of sight gradually became farther and farther away from the shore, most of the congested people sat hesitantly by the river, looking at the bow of the ship, the crying and mournful Liu Zhijun made a gesture towards them, frightened, and couldn't help but cry sadly, at this moment, the pursuing cavalry dispersed the congested Xinye and Dangyang people, and shot arrows along the shore towards the boats in the river, and the civilians who were pushed and knocked off kept falling into the river, struggling and screaming, and after a while, the corpses rose and fell with the water waves, and some directly smashed their bodies under the galloping war horses, and dragged out a long Yin red on the ground.

Liu Bei knelt on the city wall and cried for a long time to Xiangyang in the north, so that Guan Yu, Chen Dao, Liu Feng and other generals, the soldiers who looked around had mixed feelings, and there was such a benevolent and righteous lord, and he didn't know what to say, only to fight to the death.

In June, the banks north of the Yangtze River were successively opened to build ferries, after entering Jingzhou, Cao Cao received 80,000 soldiers and horses on land and water in Jingzhou, the army has exceeded 100,000, looking at the Jiangdong land across the river, how much has the intention of attacking, and when dozens of ferries were built, they were also destroyed and burned by Liu Feng, Guan Yu and others.

The place that was finally chosen was called Chibi.

However, there are fewer people in this story, but there is one more person, and his name is Guo Jia. When the river burned the boat, Cao Cao finally knew Huang Gai's plan to deceive, and was not angry and panicked, while ordering Zhang Liao, Cao Ren and others to retreat to the water village to defend it, and pour the fence with water to prevent the fire from burning. On the one hand, it was strictly guarded against land attacks on the camp, and after a few days of stubborn defense, Guo Jia instructed Xu Huang and Xiahoudun to take the cavalry from the side village to take a detour, taking advantage of the arrogance of the Jiangdong soldiers, to sneak attack Gan Ning, Ling Tong and other land soldiers and horses, and then chose a windless night, surrounded the Jiangdong big ship flexibly with small boats, and counterattacked the other side with fire.

Wait until dawn, on the rippling river, the scorched black boat trees rippling, and a floating corpse collided slightly, some drifted into the distance with the current, a small boat sailed across the river, Zhuge Liang, who was shaking a feather fan, looked at a Jiangdong soldier corpse passing by the side of the boat, stunned, raised his head and looked in the direction of Cao Jun, frowned, and soon laughed again.

"Although they haven't done their best, Cao Cao and Sun Quan are also seriously injured." With a wave of the feather fan, he pointed to the oarsman in the direction of Gangneung, "Let's go, the calculation of watching the fire from the other side is complete." ”

The weather turned cooler, after the autumn, Cao Cao also ordered to withdraw to Jingzhou, although he counterattacked Sun Quan, his own ships also suffered serious losses, coupled with the water and soil adaptation, most of the soldiers had symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, and most importantly, after the autumn, Guo Jia fainted several times, fortunately he was found in time, and after careful consideration, he decided to return to Xuchang for the time being.

At the same time, Sun Quan, who suffered a big victory and a big defeat, confidence has never been sufficient, after all, Cao Cao crisscrossed the Central Plains, the north, Yuan Shao of the land of the four states were defeated in his hands, the battle of Chibi, although he suffered losses, but the other party was unable to cross the river again, before the winter, he encouraged the generals, organized the army to cross the river from Jianye, attacked Xuzhou, and fought more than ten battles with Taishou Chen Deng, after all, it was still in vain.

Jiangling, Liu Bei, who got a respite, seized the time to recruit troops and horses, train soldiers, and desperately stabilize his foundation, with the winter, and spring, the entire Central Plains and the south are colliding countless times, winning and losing each other, Cao Cao retreated to Xuchang, Sun Quan directly attacked Jingzhou after the beginning of spring, but was taken by Liu Bei first, while pulling the skin, and successively attacked Changsha, Guilin and other places, and the Central Plains, when the two rebels in the south became more and more huge, Cao Cao was also crazy to expand the army, when the military budget was tight, He ordered people to steal gold and silver from the tomb and use it as military funds.

The competitive expansion has always continued, and then wars, recuperation, recruitment, and wars, spring and autumn, and then year after year...... Two years...... In four years, when everyone was accustomed to the beacon fires everywhere, the soldiers and horses that had been gradually forgotten were finally like steel knives forged in the flames, cutting everything off.

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Persian Gulf.

The sky was a dusky color, and the huge chaos was full of Persians and Han Chinese, Romans, Greeks, and so on..... figures, hysterical shouts of killing shocked people's eardrums, crowded and pushed in the field of vision, Ardashir was wounded, covering his bleeding abdomen and retreating on horseback, however, in front of him, the crowd was rushed away, and the shirtless Dian Wei rode on a war elephant and pounced frantically, near the elephant's legs, the scumbag-faced general was dyed red and rode through the corpse mountain and sea of blood, Bloodshot eyes looked at the Persian emperor riding his horse.

"Ardashir! Bring the head!! ”

A hoarse voice shouted, and the figure pulling the reins turned its head, and the on-coming, galloping knight, leaped up from his horse, and slashed down with a knife on the head—

Sassanid Persia, which had not yet risen, collapsed at this moment. Headless corpses fell from their horses, the remnants of the Persian army fled like a tidal wave, and the giant man jumped off the war elephant and galloped in this direction: "My lord! Lord! The black horse neighed left and right, and then leaned down to lick the faces of the people on the ground.

Gongsun Zhi stretched out his hand to open the horse's mouth, pinched the handle of the knife and staggered up, when the giant man stood in front of him, he patted the other party's shoulder, picked up a human head at his feet, his eyes crossed the surging screams and the spread of blood, over the fleeing rout and the corpses everywhere, looking at the clouds for an unknown time, his eyes were wide open, his Adam's apple rolled a little, and he struggled to squeeze out the 'lotus .....' Hoarse laughter,

Then, with a loud roar of "Ahh

Another four years have passed, and the whole of Central Asia and the West has been brought into the maelstrom.

Time came to the summer of the twelfth year of Jian'an, and it was full of blood.