Xiahou Yuan led the troops back to the city, rested for a day, and went out of the city on the second day to prepare for another battle. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Dao and Guo Yan closed the camp door and refused to fight. There were more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Xiahou Yuan did not dare to storm the camp, so he had to collect his troops and return to the city. This repeated for three days, but the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou did not have the slightest intention of fighting.

Xiahou Yuan is also strange, the enemy army is coming from afar to attack the city, so it should be a quick battle. Now that we can't hold on, don't we still wait for our army to run out of food and grass?

In fact, there is a problem in the Liangzhou army now. Li Dao and Guo Yan originally thought that they could defeat the soldiers and horses of Hedong and Hongnong in one fell swoop, and then take Emperor Xian back to Chang'an and continue to be their generals and chariot generals. Who knew that the soldiers were first burned by Tian Jing in the east of the river, and now they were blocked under the Hangu Pass.

Now the army has been out of battle for more than three months, and there is no result except for occupying some dispensable cities in Hongnong County. The morale of the upper and lower ranks of the army was low, and they all wanted to withdraw their troops and return to Chang'an.

Especially Guo Yan, after all, his sphere of influence is Zuo Fufeng, and he really defeated the whole county of Hongnong, and he just made a wedding dress for Li Wei. And now he is still worried about Ma Teng and Han Sui who are far away in Liangzhou, if the Eastern Expedition wins, these two will naturally not dare to act rashly. If they are undefeated like now, they must pay attention to the movements of Ma Teng and Han Sui, otherwise if they are not careful, they are likely to lose their bases.

Guo Yan advocated the withdrawal of troops, which also made Li Wei, who was very angry before, hesitate a little. In the battle of Hedong, it can be said that his troops suffered the most losses. Li Li, the commander of the Flying Bear Army, was killed, and the Flying Bear Army lost half of its men. His nephew, Hu Feng, who had always presided over the military affairs of Feng Yi, was captured, and his life and death are unknown. His soldiers and horses lost more than 10,000 people on the battlefield in Hedong. Can you really turn the tables if you continue to fight?

Just when Li Dao and Guo Yan hesitated, Cao Cao led 10,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to Hangu Pass.

Cao Cao met the hussar general Zhang Ji, and the two exchanged pleasantries very politely. To say that the official position is natural, Zhang Ji's hussar general is greater than Cao Cao's Yanzhou pastor; However, in terms of strength, Zhang Ji only has less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and only Hongnong is a county under his jurisdiction, on the other hand, Cao Cao sits on most of Yanzhou and Yuzhou, with a population of one million, and no less than 100,000 elite soldiers under his command, and his strength is not the same at all.

However, Cao Cao is a person who does great things, knows how to unite all the forces that can be united, and also knows the truth that the more powerful you are, the more humble you must be. Cao Cao's attitude made Zhang Ji very useful.

Now on the Hangu Pass, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses are 15,000, far more than Zhang Ji and Tian Jing's soldiers and horses, and Zhang Ji let Cao Cao call the shots and preside over the Hongnong war.

Cao Cao was not polite, and immediately raised the account, beating the drum and arranging the strategy. After the generals passed on, it was all how to pursue the rout of Li Dao and Guo Yan. Zhang Ji couldn't help but feel strange in his heart, so he asked Cao Cao, now he can know that Li Dao and Guo Yan will definitely retreat in a big way.

Cao Cao twisted his beard and smiled, "These two people are now under the Hangu Pass, they can't advance, they don't want to retreat, I think they have already retreated." All it takes now is a reassurance pill to retreat safely. When the enemy retreats, we will lead the army to attack again, and Li Dao and Guo Yan can be broken in one battle. ”

After that, Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan to lead 5,000 troops to the front of the pass, personally went to the front of the battle, said that there was a holy decree of the emperor, and asked Li Dao and Guo Yan to answer before the battle.

Li Dao and Guo Yan originally had the intention not to come out, but as long as they thought about it, as long as they kept the camp, where were they afraid of him? Li and Guo Yan sent cavalry out of the camp and stood still. The two of them slapped their horses forward, but they wanted to hear what Cao Cao had to say.

When Cao Cao saw Li Dao and Guo Yan, he said to the two, "The emperor sent me a secret edict and wanted to make peace with the two generals." If the two generals are willing to retire from the army, the official title of the emperor's reward should be the same, and the two can return to Guanzhong to guard Xijing for the imperial court, passing through Liangzhou. If the two generals are unwilling, then there are still 100,000 elite soldiers under Cao's command, who can enter Henan from Yanzhou at any time and compete with the two generals. You and I are both people who lead soldiers, so we naturally know the importance of the soldiers and horses under our command, and no one wants to let us use our own family wealth to compete with others for the length of a day. In today's troubled times, only the territory and soldiers and horses in their hands are the most reliable. ”

Cao Cao saw that the two of them listened to his words and did not refute and continued, "I am a person with no ambitions, I just want to hold Yanzhou and Yuzhou's own territory." If the two generals had to attack Luoyang and operate as Hanchen, they could not be exempted from the emperor's move, so they had to meet the generals on the battlefield. But now that there are other options, I hope the two generals will think twice. ”

Cao Cao said it, and he didn't urge. Li Dao and Guo Yan, you look at me, I look at you, they both have the idea of withdrawing the army and returning to Guanzhong.

Li Dao was the first to ask: "You are talking in the vernacular, do you have any credentials?" If we retreat to Guanzhong and wait for the army to move westward, what will we do? ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Raising troops to the west? You still don't know how many soldiers and horses Zhang Ji and Tian Jing have in their hands? They are still not enough to protect themselves, how can they have the strength to raise troops to the west. There are some soldiers and horses under his command, but even if the land in Guanzhong is laid, how can he go beyond Hongnong to govern, isn't that a marriage? Do you think would do such a stupid thing? ”

Guo Yan asked again, "In this case, we will withdraw from Hongnong, but do you have any objections to the right to guard Tongguan to be handed over to the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou?" ”

Cao Cao still smiled, "I said just now, Hongnong County is his Zhang Ji's territory, what does it have to do with me." As long as the two generals withdraw, Emperor Xian will naturally be happy, and my task will be completed. As for a Tongguan, even if Zhang Ji is unwilling, he has no ability to fight for it. So the two generals can rest assured. ”

Li Dao and Guo Yan asked some more questions, and felt that they could rest assured, so they turned over and dismounted and received the holy decree. Cao Cao held a fake holy decree, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he accepted the two salutes with a big grin. Then he helped the two and said some polite words before they each got on their horses and returned to the camp.

After Li Dao and Guo Yan returned to the camp, they discussed the withdrawal of troops. After Cao Cao returned to the camp, he told the generals to prepare tonight, the ambush that should be ambushed, the rest that should rest, but wait for tomorrow to break the enemy in one fell swoop.

Tian Jing honestly admires Cao Cao's ability. During the day, he was so affectionate with Li and Guo, and said a heart-to-heart word. At night, he was planning how to get the heads of the two of them, which is really not something ordinary people can do.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li and Guo Yan really pulled out the camp and withdrew their troops. They were not completely defenseless, in order to prevent Emperor Xian from repenting, they put all the elite cavalry in the rear army, thinking that they would be cut off.

The army marched in a hurry for a long time, and there were no pursuers chasing after it, so it was time to change to a normal pace and slowly withdraw the troops, and the scouts on guard against the enemy army gradually decreased.

Who knew that this was, Cao Cao's army was all moved. It was none other than Cao Cao's pro-army of 3,000 tigers and leopards who acted as the vanguard. Zhang Ji sent 500 cavalry to accompany him, and Tian Jing personally led 500 reserve white horse Yicong to go on the expedition together, also wanting to see the power of the tiger and leopard cavalry.

In the second echelon was Xiahou Yuan's infantry army. The task is to chase the enemy and completely annihilate the enemy's backward army and soldiers.

Zhang Ji's soldiers and horses were the third echelon, mainly occupying the previously lost counties along the way, capturing and imprisoning prisoners.

The reason why Cao Cao had the confidence to defeat Li Dao and Guo Yan was because Le Jin had already led 3,000 elite soldiers to ambush on the road from Hangu Pass to Xin'an.

Now Lejin is waiting for Li Dao and Guo Yan's men and horses in a mountain pass. Li Dao and Guo Yan retreated, but they let the weakest soldiers and horses in front and put all the strongest soldiers and horses behind. originally thought that Hongnong could be evacuated safely, but who knew that there was a Yanzhou army blocking the road.

When Le Jin saw that the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou had arrived, he did not answer, and occupied a favorable position so that the crossbowmen firmly blocked the mountain pass with arrows.

Li Dao and Guo Yan were angry and scolded Cao Cao for being untrustworthy. He ordered the forward's soldiers and horses to rush up and occupy the mountain pass while the enemy was short of bows and arrows. How do you know that the arrows of the Yanzhou soldiers and horses seem to be inexhaustible, as long as their infantry rushes, there will be bows and arrows to shoot, wave after wave of arrows, never stop at all.

Li Dao and Guo Yan couldn't restrain the front army, so they had to transfer elite soldiers and horses from the rear army to support the front.

Just when they were blocked from advancing, Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry caught up with Li Dao Guo Yan's rear army. Cao Chun saw that there was the Liangzhou cavalry in front of him, and immediately gave the order to attack.

I saw three thousand tigers and leopards riding towards a whirlwind and killing the broken descendants of Li Dao and Guo Yan. As the broken queen, it is none other than Wu Xi's three thousand wolf riders. At this moment, the two strongest cavalrymen came together.

Tian Jing led the reserve white horse Yicong and the five hundred cavalry under Zhang Ji to support, and he could be regarded as seeing the power of the tiger and leopard cavalry.

The tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao is not only better than the Liangzhou cavalry in terms of horses, but also the knights are one of the best soldiers in a hundred.

The wolf rider and the tiger and leopard rider, who had made the Hedong soldiers and horses suffer a lot, met, and were completely defeated in less than half an hour. Wu Xi had no choice but to lead the remnants of the soldiers to quickly leave the battlefield and flee westward, and the infantry behind him was miserable. Where are they Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry opponents, Cao Chun led 3,000 cavalry to rush left and right, killing the enemy is not the biggest goal, dividing the enemy's troops and horses to lose their unified command is the primary goal.

At the same time that the tiger and leopard cavalry brought chaos to the Liangzhou soldiers and horses, Xiahou Yuan's 5,000 soldiers and horses arrived in time, and they were the executioners who harvested the lives of the Liangzhou soldiers and horses. Tian Jing observed carefully and found that Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses fought this kind of chaotic battle, but they were not chaotic at all. Xiahou Yuan's soldiers and horses often used a tun as an independent combat unit, dividing a small group of enemy troops to gather and annihilate them, and then choosing the enemy to fight again.

Due to the vastness of the battlefield and the scattering of the enemy, the troops commanded by the Golden Drum Banner were somewhat unable to keep up with the speed. And Xiahou Yuan simply gave up the unified command of the Chinese army, and let the following songs and tuns fight independently, but there is a general direction that remains the same, that is, what Xiahou Yuan Daxu points to, that is, the general direction of the next attack.

In this way, the pursuit of Cao Cao's soldiers and horses to annihilate the main forces of Li Dao and Guo Yan unfolded in front of Tian Jing like a training battle. Tian Jing watched from the sidelines, and it can be said that he benefited a lot.

When the sun set, the battlefield that had been killing for a long time finally calmed down. Li Dao and Guo Yan left behind nearly 10,000 corpses and thousands of routs, and only took the elite troops to flee westward in panic. The soldiers and horses of Lejin, Cao Chun, and Xiahou Yuan defeated the division, and the Yanzhou army won a decisive victory in the Hongnong battle with very few casualties.