Chapter 15: Morale is low
On the other side of the riverbank, as early as when Lu Bu appeared, it attracted the attention of the coalition forces, and when Yuan Shao and others rushed to hear the news, they saw Lu Bu throwing the iron cavalry to beat the Yuzhou army with a head and running away, and there was no way to fight back.
The formation of the Yuzhou army was constantly divided and torn into pieces by Lu Bu, and countless Yuzhou troops jumped into the river frantically.
"Why is Lu Bu here!?" Yuan Shao saw the other party's flag, his face became extremely difficult to look at, and he looked back on the left and right.
When the princes heard this, they looked at each other, they knew why Lu Bu was here, but the Yuzhou army was afraid that it would be over.
Seeing that the enemy's courage had been lost, Lu Bu no longer took matters into his own hands, and let Cao Xing, Hou Cheng and other generals continue to drive the frightened Yuzhou army into the river, and came to Kong Ling's inhuman-shaped corpse, jumped off the horse, drew his sword, cut off Kong Ling's head, and hung it on the neck of the red rabbit horse.
In this way, the work has been done!
Lu Bu turned over and got on his horse, rode his horse and stepped on the corpses all over the ground to the shore, looking at Yuan Shao, who was a hundred steps away, but there was no trace of Ye Zhao, and a feeling of joy that had never been felt before rose in his heart.
He still remembers that when he first arrived in Luoyang, Yuan Shao was very intimate with him in order to deal with Ye Zhao, and then after he was defeated by Ye Zhao, Yuan Shao's attitude before and after was like a cloud of mud, and he didn't even bother to look at himself, and today he finally raised his eyebrows, so that the depression in Lu Bu's chest was completely dissipated, and only the indescribable happiness remained.
"Yuan Benchu, did you ever think that there would be today!?" Lu Bu hung Fang Tian's halberd on horseback, craned his neck, and looked at Yuan Shao on the other side of the river bank in a victorious manner.
Yuan Shao's face was dark, although there were 300,000 male divisions, but they were blocked by a water, he could only watch Lu Bu show off his might on the other side, and watch Lu Bu wantonly kill his own soldiers, which is undoubtedly a great blow to the morale of the coalition army, and more importantly, Yuan Shao lost one after another when he became the leader of the alliance, which is not a good sign.
To say that Xu Ling, who died before, is just Chen Guoxiang, which is not a big loss, but this time that Kong Ling is a state assassin, and he is also one of Yuan Shao's important supporters in this alliance!
"Shoot this thief with me!" These words seem to pop out of the teeth.
Dozens of archers shot arrows in the direction of Lu Bu on the opposite bank, but they were only a hundred paces apart, and the wind blew from time to time on the big river, and the dozens of arrow feathers were blown by the wind, and all of them lost their heads, and they all fell and disappeared by the water.
"Hahaha~" Seeing this, Lu Bu laughed wildly, took off the carved bow from the horse, pulled down an arrow cluster with his hand, and said loudly: "If the rat is a rat, let someone teach you how to shoot arrows!" ”
As he spoke, he had already shot an arrow with a bow, and everyone only felt a phantom in their sight, and then they heard a muffled sound of 'Bang~', and when they looked back, it was a flagpole behind Yuan Shao that was shot off and fell down.
Seeing this, the princes were all shocked, and subconsciously retreated, who knew if Lu Bu's next arrow cluster would be shot at them.
Lu Bu laughed wildly again, and when he saw that the coalition army had retreated without a trace, he rode on the red rabbit horse with a roar, and with a roar, he drove away with three thousand cavalry, leaving only a mess.
The Kwantung princes, until Lu Bu left for a long time, did not come back, looking at the messy battlefield opposite across the riverbank, and were speechless for a while.
"30,000 horses in Yuzhou...... It's all gone? Ye Zhao didn't know when he appeared beside the princes, and he was separated from the princes by some distance, watching the floating body of the great monk drift into the distance with the current, and said a little stunned.
Kong Ling is the assassin of Yuzhou, among the many princes, it is considered a relatively rich family, 30,000 troops, Ye Zhao looked at the riverbank, not many people died in battle, most of them jumped into the river and drowned.
"What did Ye Hou say?" Zhang Miao looked at Ye Zhao with an unkind face.
"What can I say, a general is incompetent, tired of the three armies, 30,000 troops, just gone, if it continues to fight like this, before it reaches the Tiger Prison Pass, half of these 300,000 coalition troops can die!" Ye Zhao said indifferently.
"Ye Zhao, Gongxu is dead, the dead are the greatest, you say this, you are blaspheming the dead!" Liu Dai glared at Ye Zhaodao angrily.
"The dead are greater? Ben Hou agrees with this very much! Ye Zhao pointed to the corpses on the river that had not yet floated away and said, "Then please tell Gongshan who should be responsible for the death of these 30,000 soldiers?" 30,000 were annihilated by 3,000! Ha, that Kong Gongxu used his own life and the lives of these 30,000 soldiers to achieve the prestige of Lu Fengxian, I desecrated the dead, and he blasphemed the 30,000 living people! ”
"You ......" Liu Dai was so blocked by Ye Zhao's words that he couldn't speak.
"Ye Hou, Gongshan and Gongxu are friends, Gongxu died on the battlefield at this moment, you shouldn't be like this." Yuan Shao frowned, and the surrounding princes also nodded in agreement.
"It seems that you are not very interested in seeing Ben Hou at this moment, and Ben Hou does not want to argue with you about this blasphemy of the dead, it is not enough for the Yuan Alliance Master, if I were you, what I should care about at this moment is not the 30,000 dead people, but the living who have not died and still have a glimmer of life!" Ye Zhao sneered, shook his head and turned around and left, without suffering a few big losses, it seems that these people are not good at learning.
After Ye Zhao left, Yuan Shao looked at everyone with a blue face: "Brother Bo Qi, cross the river quickly, and after you go ashore, immediately rush to the aid of Meng De and Wentai!" ”
Since Lu Bu appeared here, the two soldiers and horses attacking Xingyang may not go well, Ye Zhao's last sentence woke up Yuan Shao, and he hurriedly sent Gongsun Zhan, the most warlike among the remaining princes.
"Alliance leader rest assured!" Gongsun Chan agreed, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to cross the river, with Kong Ling's precedent in front, Gongsun Chan was much more cautious, the soldiers who crossed the river first dug a lot of traps around the surroundings, and set up a horse post, if Lu Bu came again, he would not be as defenseless as Kong Ling was destroyed.
Yuan Shao ordered Liu Dai to be willing to search for more ships and speed up the crossing of the river by the coalition army, if he continued to swallow so slowly, not to mention the consumption of grain and grass, Dong Zhuo would attack and disturb him a few more times, I am afraid that it would really be as Ye Zhao said, before reaching the Tiger Prison Pass, the coalition army would have to lose half of it first.
Just as Gongsun Zhan was crossing the river, another group of men and horses came in the distance, but it was Cao Cao who left in the morning to go to Xingyang.
"How is Mende here? Have you ever met that Lu Bu? Gongsun Zhan saw Cao Cao's face change slightly, and hurriedly asked.
"Touched!" Cao Cao nodded solemnly and said: "Then Lu Bu saw that I was in a strict position and had not fought, so he took a detour and left, although I sent someone to inform Wentai, but I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up." ”
"Why don't you go to the aid of Wentai and come back to do something?" Gongsun Chan frowned.
"They are all cavalry, how can I catch up, if it is a pursuit, I will be full of infantry, once they attack, the formation will be chaotic, I am afraid that Lu Bu will take advantage of it, so I will come back to move the rescue soldiers." Cao Cao smiled bitterly and said: "Bo Jue is full of cavalry, why don't I pick up the army here and go to support Wentai first, there are still 500 cavalry under Cao's command, how about handing them over to the commander of Bo Jue?" ”
"It's good!" Gongsun Chan thought about it when he heard this, nodded decisively, and Cao Cao ordered his brother Cao Chun to lead his five hundred cavalry and Gongsun Zhan's three thousand cavalry into one army, and under the leadership of Gongsun Zhan, he went straight to Xingyang.
Seeing that Yuan Shao and others crossed the river slowly, Cao Cao frowned and thought for a while, and then ordered someone to use ropes to connect those small boats, or five boats in a row, or ten boats in a row, and then use ropes to string these connected boats together, connect the two banks, and form a pontoon bridge, and the soldiers of the coalition army can cross the river on the pontoon bridge in turn, and the speed is immediately accelerated a lot.
Yuan Shao saw that this method was effective, and immediately ordered someone to make a pontoon bridge with templates and boats, first let the coalition soldiers cross the river, and then let Yuan Shu command the logistics troops to slowly transport the grain and grass across the river.
"Meng De's plan is wonderful!" In the evening, Cao Cao's method actually ordered 100,000 soldiers to cross the river and set up a camp near the ferry, Yuan Shao couldn't help but praise Cao Cao.
"If you don't want to, you'll come back a little slower, if you can do it earlier, maybe Gongxu won't have this misfortune!" Cao Cao heard that Kong Ling and 30,000 Yuzhou troops were served by Lu Bu, and he felt uncomfortable, this coalition army had just been established, and there were no two princes in two days, plus Li Min, who was destroyed by Huaxiong before, before the official war, there were three princes who were lost, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the coalition army.
"Bo Jue left too late, I'm afraid it's too late to rescue Wentai, this time General Wentai is afraid that he will be more than lucky!" Kong Rong sat in the banquet, thinking of the war, and couldn't help but sigh.
When the princes heard this, they were all silent, and after this continuous blow, the morale of the coalition army was already low, and if even Sun Jian was broken, it would make the morale of the coalition army even worse.
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao glared at Kong Rong in unison, what a nerd, who can't see this, but at this time, isn't it shaking the hearts of the army?
Yuan Shao really can't wait to cut this nerd now.
Cao Cao saw that the crowd was depressed, and couldn't help laughing and said: "Wenju Gong don't worry too much, that Sun Wentai is known as the Jiangdong Tiger, when the Changshe was in the past, Ye Hou also said frankly that if he fought immediately, he might not be Wentai's opponent, although Lu Bu was brave, but Wentai was not an incompetent general, plus there was Gongsun Boqi galloping to help, then Lu Bu had few soldiers, if he really fought, who would win and who would lose was not yet known!" ”
Yuan Shao was stunned when he heard this, and then understood that Cao Cao was motivating morale, and he also cleaned up his mood at the moment, and laughed loudly: "What Meng De said is good, although Lu Bu is powerful, but Wentai is also experienced in a hundred battles, and he may not lose to Lu Bu. ”
When the rest of the princes in the tent heard this, their mood was also a lot more relaxed, and they thought about it, Sun Jian's ability was still good, even if he was defeated, he would not be as completely defeated as Kong Ling.