Chapter Seventy-Two: The Battle of Changgou (I)

The birds whirled in the air, the cries in the valley broke through the embarrassment, and the fire burned sweat like rain. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Lü Bu handed Xiahou Lian's head to Wei Yue, and ordered him to hang it on the horse lance and raise it in the air and shout: Cao Cao's head is here.

Since Cao Cao wants to confuse the real with the fake, then Lu Bu can also use the plan as the real with the false, and use Xiahou Lian's head as Cao Cao's head.

Lu Bu took the death army under Li Damu to the south to fight hard, and it was impossible to see how many people there were in the dark, thinking that Cao Cao was not far behind the army, and it was possible that he was hiding in the nearby chaos. Wei Yue led a group of soldiers to hold Cao Cao's head and shouted in unison in the chaos: "Cao Cao's head is here, and those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

The fire shone the head of Xiahou Lian on the horse lance flashing and flashing, with a round face and a nose facing the sky, thick eyebrows, small eyes and thick lips, and this ugly head was Cao Cao in a flash.

Cao Bing trampled on each other, dodging Lu Bu and leading the army to rush and kill, and saw Cao Cao's head hanging high on the opponent's horse lance, and the Cao soldiers who could hear the cheers nearby fell apart overnight, and those who could run ran away, and those who couldn't run turned around and knelt down to surrender.

Lü Bu had neither the time nor the manpower to escort the surrendered Cao soldiers, as long as the Cao soldiers separated the road, Lü Bu rushed down and killed. Lu Bu's army has been killing from the south to the north, and he can't remember how many he has killed, but his body is tired, but his spirit is very tired.

"Xu Huang has been waiting for Lu Wenhou here for a long time." Lu Bu came from afar, only to see a big man standing at the mouth of the north gorge of Changgou holding a big axe, mighty and extraordinary, the figure behind him swayed, Lu Bu turned around and looked at his own less than 1,000 soldiers, and did not dare to rush to kill.

"Kill back and move all the former troops of Cao Bing." Lu Bu ordered. He didn't dare to rush out with such a thousand people, and the Cao soldiers outside the canyon were illuminated everywhere under the firelight, and he couldn't tell how many people there were. In the middle of the ambush, how can the rear army not be guarded, as long as there are 3,000 soldiers in formation, it is not something that Lu Bu's current group of tired soldiers can break through.

Xu Huang saw that Lu Bu reflexively killed back, and did not dare to pursue, the soldiers behind him were simply fleeing for their lives, where the battle formation was formed, but his guards were lined up in a straight line behind him to bluff Lu Bu, and at a glance, the Cao soldiers behind him were surging like tens of thousands.

Lu Bu reflexively killed, and Cao Bing, who had previously knelt and surrendered, had already climbed and fled from the steep slope that had not yet caught fire. There were less than five hundred Cao soldiers who had not had time to escape, so they galloped to the south, intending to flank the former army that had been released earlier.

has not yet touched the shadow of the former army, the fire near Huai'an in the north is soaring again, it seems that Sun Guan has succeeded, Cao Cao lost grain and grass, and suffered a big defeat, and he will not be able to go south to Guangling again in three or five years, maybe he and Yuan Shao are deadlocked, and it is not necessary to go south for a longer time.

Lü Bu continued to command his soldiers to go south to pursue Yu Banqian's army, and he wanted to annihilate the nearly 20,000 Cao soldiers with Zang Ba.

As Liu Bei expected, the task of pursuing Lu Bu to the south of the front army really fell on his shoulders, Cao Cao did not let Liu Bei only bring his own troops this time, and also sent Yu Ban to lead more than 10,000 soldiers as the vanguard, Liu Bei is thinking about how to persuade Yu Ban to rebel, or how to seize the power of the army from Yu Ban's hands and escape.

Liu Bei saw that he was going to penetrate the riverbed of Changgou and enter a safe area, at this moment, the sound of drums behind him came, and the sound of horses' hooves at the mouth of the river valley in front shook the sky, he hurriedly ordered a long team to take over the enemy, the river valley was too narrow, and it was impossible to set up a battle formation, and the soldiers could be gathered together.

When he gathered his soldiers together to guard against the charge of Lu Bu's cavalry, the dustpan-sized fireballs in the maze of the east bank fell down the slope like a landslide. Cao Bing just hugged together, Liu Bei couldn't evacuate the Cao soldiers who were huddled together, and the fireball fell like a group of soldiers, engulfing two or three thousand soldiers in an instant.

As soon as the soldiers caught fire, they instinctively lay on the ground and rolled around, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies, and the dense forests on both sides of the river valley were gradually ignited.

At the mouth of the river valley ahead, thousands of horses stepped on the hooves at the same time.

A Confucian student on the mountain held a long sword in his hand, and led his soldiers to rush to the river valley from the place where it was not yet on fire: "Chen Gongtai has been waiting here for a long time. ”

Yu Ban asked the soldiers to line up to guard against the cavalry rushing in front of Taniguchi, and he didn't pay attention to the flanks for a while, Chen Gong led the soldiers down the mountain like a tiger, and more than a thousand soldiers killed from one point into the big formation. Cao Bing was so frightened by the fire that he only cared about throwing down the fire on his body, his morale collapsed, and he only cared about fleeing for his life, unable to resist Chen Gong.

Liu Bei saw that the soldiers did not know the generals and the generals, and the fire spread to the two mountains, and countless soldiers on fire rushed into their own battle formation, and they could no longer resist.

"Rush forward!" Liu Bei took the lead and slipped out before he finished speaking. He judged very accurately, not far in front of him is the mouth of the river valley, and only by rushing out can there be any hope of survival" Hugh let go of the thief. Chen Gong shouted, commanding the soldiers to slash and slash the chaotic front army even more violently.

Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Chen Zhisan saw that Liu Bei was the first to rush forward to kill, and left the ordinary soldiers to cut off their tails, and only took the most elite Baiwei elite soldiers to catch up with Liu Bei and break through.

Yu Ban behind him saw Liu Bei's flag in front of him fall to the ground, knowing that Liu Bei had fled from the battle, at this time the soldiers were chaotic and could not command, so he commanded his own soldiers to resist his banner and kill forward, and Liu Bei's troops who blocked the road were hacked to death, and those who did not die in the sea of fire died under the ban.

Zang Ba's troops relied on two or three hundred cavalry as suspicious soldiers and could not resist the elite soldiers led by Liu Bei's three tiger generals to break through, and Liu Bei broke through a gap and hid in the dense forest that was not yet on fire, Zang Ba did not dare to send people to pursue, and was about to order the reorganization of the large array to encircle the gap in the long ditch, and another Cao soldier general with the banner of "Yu" came to kill, and killed the gap broken by Liu Bei out of the river valley, and escaped by taking the way.

When Lu Bu led the army to chase from behind, the fire in front had sealed the river valley, and he couldn't move forward, so he had to take the prisoners from the dense forest that was not yet on fire to throw the prisoners into the large camp set up in advance by Chen Palace in Baima Lake.

Chen Gong and Zang Ba led the army to kill Cao Bing to the point of bleeding and corpses all over the place, and the rooster led the army to retreat. The two received less than 2,000 soldiers, and the rest were trampled by each other and buried in the fire, and the front army could escape far less than the rear army.

Sun Guan smuggled across Baima Lake according to the plan and burned Cao Bing's grain and grass. Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan in Huai'an City saw the fire in front of them, and led their troops to rescue them, regardless of the cavalry horseshoe falling into the swamp.

Before he reached the fire in the distance, he saw that the grain and grass were on fire, so Xiahou Yuan threw his horses in the swamp and asked the cavalry to rush to fight the fire as infantry. Cao Ren continued south.

Xiahou Yuan saw that most of the grain and grass were on fire, and his heart was furious, and the thieves saw him rushing to hurriedly throw the torch in the grain and grass and were about to flee, and killed him with a knife. Sun Guan saw the arrival of Cao Cao's reinforcements, had the intention to leave, saw that Xiahou Yuan was slaughtering his troops, and also took Xiahou Yuan directly with a knife, the two fought for a few rounds, Sun Guan was secretly shocked that he was not his opponent, he did not dare to fight, he was defeated and retreated, Xiahou Yuan took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, when Sun Guan fled to White Horse Lake, only two or three hundred of the 1,000 soldiers he brought were still with him.