Knock knock knock~

After Ye Zhao and Cao Cao returned to their respective camps, the passionate war drums resounded through the wilderness with the rumbling drums, and the two groups of men and horses began to slowly advance in the wilderness around the Yuting area.

The rain of arrows in the sky began to stagger in the air, and the cold arrows ruthlessly pierced the bodies of the soldiers on both sides, and one by one the cold corpses fell, but more soldiers indifferently stepped on the corpses of their robes and began to charge at each other.

Sharp blades tore through armor, cold spears pierced chests and abdomen, and blood began to infest the earth the moment the battle began.

This was a test of Ye Zhao and Cao Cao, a test of the other party's military strength, so it did not stalemate for too long, when Ye Zheng's troops were about to defeat Cao Cao's troops, Ye Zheng chose to withdraw his troops, and Cao Cao also chose to collect his troops.

"Brother Meng De, today's battle is just to explain to you that I am better than you, and after today, I will not stop so easily, brother will do it himself." Ye Zhao roughly counted the battle damage, and was a little amazed in his heart, Cao Cao could still hold on for so long when his equipment, training, and food supply were not as good as his own, and he would also bring a lot of damage to himself, if he was allowed to catch up with him in terms of technology and the concept of raising troops, he would really be evenly matched at that time.

It seems that between the two sides, the winner should be decided as soon as possible.

Having made up his mind in his heart, Ye Zhao ordered someone to clean up the corpses of his soldiers, and then withdrew his troops back to Tiger Prison.

"Lord, since they have all won, why don't you take the opportunity to capture Xingyang in one fell swoop?" On the way back, Dian Wei looked at Ye Zhao with some puzzlement.

"The field battle was won, but the siege war was not so easy, we didn't bring siege equipment, this shot was just a test." Ye Zhao shook his head, the most elite vine armor army has not yet entered the battle, and looking at Cao Cao's barrel crossbow, you can know that Cao Cao is now using craftsmen to start improving the army's equipment, how do you know that Cao Cao will have no backhand?

Now that I have taken Xingyang, it is just a lonely city, Cao Cao's Hanoi and Ao Cang are on the side, Xingyang is so prominent, that is the state of being attacked on all sides, isn't it waiting to be beaten?

The soldiers are strong and the horses are not so strong, and Cao Cao has a sentence that is right, now that Lu Bu is ready to marry his daughter, even if the two families form an alliance, this also makes the pattern of the two heroes compete for hegemony have undergone subtle changes, originally Cao Cao wanted to attack Ye Zhao, only Tiger Pass, Yanmen, Hedong These points, but Lu Bu's submission is equivalent to giving Cao Cao an excuse to attack, as long as Xingyang, Aocang, and Hanoi block the road for Ye Zhao to send troops, Cao Cao can let go and attack Nanyang and Runan first.

This is also the reason why Ye Zhao was reluctant to start a war with Lu Bu before, once Lu Bu was destroyed first, it would be equivalent to increasing the area bordering Cao Cao, and if Cao Cao took Nanyang, Luoyang would become an enemy on all sides, and Ye Zhao would also face the same embarrassment as Dong Zhuo back then...... Logistical supply difficulties.

At that time, the population of Luoyang was more than 2 million, and there was still some self-sufficiency ability, which still made Dong Zhuo's logistics difficult, and now Luoyang is not an army, not even 100,000 people, which is simply not enough to supply the consumption of the army, so Ye Zhao wants to fight this battle, he must transport grain and grass from Guanzhong, and now he has formed an alliance with Lu Bu, Cao Cao's offensive focus must be on Lu Bu's side, Ye Zhao naturally can't sit back and watch Cao Cao annex Lu Bu, so the battlefield of this battle will naturally move from Tiger Prison Pass to Nanyang and Runan.

The progress of science and technology, before the hot weapons came out, the scientific and technological progress of the cold weapon era was limited, the science and technology of the Great Song Dynasty in history was not low, and even gunpowder had appeared, but it was still beaten by the nomads with backward equipment to pay compensation, although there were Song Dynasty's own reasons, but the era of cold weapons could not be crushed after all, otherwise Ye Zhao would not have to spend so much effort to fight with Cao Cao, with the current situation, it would be enough to push it directly.

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"My lord, Guan Zhongjun is so brave!?" In Xingyang City, Cao Cao retreated to Xingyang with the remnants of the defeated army, closed the city gate, Xun You and others were worried, Xiahou wiped the blood stains on his face, and his eyes were a little incredible.

He can also be regarded as a member of the fierce generals, before on the battlefield, he was almost killed by a group of pawns, and it was also the personal guards who desperately protected each other, plus Xiahou was extremely brave, so he came out of the bloody road, but his personal guards were almost ninety percent broken.

As soon as Xiahoudun said this, the generals in the tent fell into an unspeakable silence, and the strength of the Guanzhong army was far beyond their estimates.

Cao Cao sat down, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly smiled.

“？” Everyone looked at Cao Cao suspiciously, a little worried that he wouldn't be stimulated to go crazy, and he still laughed after losing the battle?

"At the very least, we're on the right track." Cao Cao looked at everyone and smiled.

Over the years, Cao Cao has vigorously encouraged and promoted the development of the craftsman industry, which has been resisted by many scholars, and even many poor disciples or generals do not understand what is the use of spending so much money every year?

But in today's battle, the officers and soldiers of Guanzhong did not talk about the quality of their own training, and the weapons and armor alone could be seen to be more than one grade higher than Cao's army, which also proved that Cao Cao was right to follow Guanzhong.

"Lord, Ye Zhao has such a strong army, coupled with the danger of the Tiger Prison Pass, I am afraid that it will be ...... if you want to break through the Tiger Prison" Cheng Yu led the topic away, and now the problem at hand is that although the Cao army now has more troops than Ye Zhao, but now the field battles have been defeated by Ye Zhao, if it is a siege, it is almost impossible to break through the Tiger Prison Pass.

"Then break Lu Bu first!" Cao Cao said indifferently.

Lu Bu?

Looking at everyone's puzzled expressions, Cao Cao said with some heartache: "My son's death, no matter what, was killed in Wancheng, Lu Bu can't escape the blame, I had good intentions to form an alliance with him, but Lu Bu caused my son to die tragically in a foreign land, how can this revenge not be avenged?" ”

Xun You and the others reacted, Cao Cao wanted to crusade against Lu Bu in the name of Cao Ang's death, as long as he broke through Lu Bu and occupied Nanyang, there would be more options to attack Ye Zhao at that time.

"When is the lord going to send troops?" Xun You frowned and said: "Now that our army is newly defeated, although Lu Bu has no plan, but ...... It's not easy to match. ”

No matter how much he despises Lu Bu's IQ, but Lu Bu is still quite talented in fighting, coupled with the blessing of the world's number one fierce general, it is not easy to capture Nanyang, and the most important thing is that to break Lu Bu, you must be fast, otherwise Ye Zhao will definitely not sit idly by.

"Without further ado, I will return to Xuchang today and personally transfer troops to attack Lu Bu." Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "Wen Ze! ”

"The last general!" Yu Ban bowed.

"The army stays here, and you and Zidan are stationed in Xingyang and Aocang respectively, so you can't fight easily."

"Whoa!" Yu Ban bowed.

At the moment, Cao Cao left the army, because of the ban on responsibility, he brought Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Li Dian, Le Jin and other generals to rush back to Xuchang with their own guards, preparing to send troops to recruit Lu Bu, as for how to fight, since Lu Bu can fight, naturally he will not be hard, Cao Cao knows that the chess pieces he arranged under Lu Bu can be used this time.

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