Yiyang City, east of the imperial capital Luoyang, south of Song County, west of Luoning, north of Xin'an, southeast and Yichuan as neighbors, northwest of Mianchi border, Luoyang City is only 40 miles away.

The three generals in the city, Li Dao, Guo Yan, and Zhang Ji, surrounded themselves and took the information that had just arrived, and tens of thousands of coalition troops had already passed Jiming Peak, and at noon, they could reach Yiyang.

"Brother Zhiran, this time the military advisor said: You are the main general in this battle. So how should this battle be fought? Guo Yan clapped his fists and asked Li Dao a little unconvinced.

This Guo Yan wants to compete for merit again.

But it's also good, after Hua Xiong's death, there will be a gap in the five major lieutenant generals under Dong Xiang, and the four of them are the four famous lieutenants under Dong Xiang's account, and the position of the lieutenant general will inevitably fall on the heads of the four people.

In this battle, whoever has made great contributions can be promoted to the position of general Zhonglang and become the minister of Dong Xiang's humerus.

The military advisor asked him to supervise the battle, didn't it imply that he had the best chance?

"Two brothers, this battle is related to the future of our Xiliang Army, we must win, otherwise Dong Xiang will blame him, and no one will be able to please him!" Li Wei said heavily to Guo Yan, and then his face suddenly pulled down, very serious, almost like cast iron.

It's Zhang Ji, who looks like he doesn't care about himself, and doesn't seem to care too much about the competition for the Zhonglang general.

Then, Li Dao expressed his plan, and after getting the consent of Guo Yan and Zhang Ji, the three of them went separately and prepared to go.

After a few quarters of an hour, the huge Yiyang City was boiling, and nearly 100,000 troops inside and outside the city were about to move, like the fury of thunder, and the sound shook the earth.

Cao Jun crossed the Jiming Peak and finally arrived outside Yiyang City at noon.

Cao Ren saw the dense footprints outside the city, and couldn't help shouting: There are ambushes here.

Cao Ren hurriedly walked towards Cao Cao and pointed to the dense footprints on the ground: "Big brother, look, there are so many footprints outside this city, I'm afraid there will be ambushes here!" ”

This Zixiao has more eyes than my Cao Cao, and his suspicions are heavier than Cao's.

Meng De raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Luoyang City in the north: "These footprints are probably left by Sun Wentai's army." ”

He looked at the south again: "Look, this is going twenty miles south for Xuanyuan Pass." After Sun Jian broke through the pass in the early hours of this morning, the army is estimated to rest here. Zixiao, look at the city, there is still a trace of cooking smoke, which must have been left by General Wentai after this early repair. ”

After listening to his eldest brother's confident remarks, Cao Ren let go of his suspicions, after all, Cao Mengde has always been the backbone of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and he is a model for all brothers.

Before he finished his confidence, Meng De saw that there were dense horseshoe prints next to the footprints, Sun Jian only had 3,000 cavalry, how could he print so many horseshoe prints.

summoned a Jiangdong soldier and learned that Sun Jian was not stationed here.

Cao Cao immediately panicked in his heart.

Cao's army got up early in the morning and lined up to intimidate the defenders of Tiger Prison. After successfully breaking through the pass, he did not rest for a moment, and hurriedly marched to chase after him. This morning, Cao Jun didn't eat a drop of rice, and his stomach was already hungry.

If you encounter a big battle at this time, you must lose.

Cao Cao, who has always been confident, also left a cold sweat on his forehead.

Years of experience in the march calmed down Mende.

Looking north at Luoshui, the weeds on the shore are shaking, there should be an ambush of the Xiliang army, not to go;

Looking to the south, a few miles away is a stretch of mountains, and then look closely, there are birds flying around, and there are ambushes in the mountains and forests, do not go;

Looking to the west, the city seemed to be empty, but the smoke curled up from the cooking had exposed the ambush and made it impossible to go.

Cao Cao, who calmed down, had extremely terrifying wisdom.

Cao's army had 50,000 horses, including 40,000 infantry and only 8,000 cavalry. And the soldiers of the Cao army rushed all morning, hungry and exhausted, and it was difficult to have the strength of an enemy.

In Luoyang City, although there are hundreds of thousands of troops, they are mainly infantry, and the cavalry is only 20,000.

Moreover, in Luoyang City, many princes are probably drinking and having fun, even if he asks for help, those people will not send troops to rescue.

Since the battle is definitely not possible, and there are no friendly troops to help, then escape is the key.

The most important thing now is to keep the army, especially the 40,000 infantry.

If you cross the Luoshui in the north, I am afraid that it will be intercepted and killed by the Xiliang army, and among the army, there are not many soldiers who know the water, the Luoshui is more than several zhang deep, hundreds of meters wide, there are no boats, and the river cannot be crossed at all;

If you attack Yiyang City, I'm afraid you won't be able to take it, even if you can take it down, if you don't have food, grass and reinforcements, you will be surrounded by the Xiliang Legion, and then there will be only one way for the whole army to be wiped out.

Then I had to go south into the mountains, retreat east and return along the road.

Moreover, the infantry could not go for a long time, and it seemed that they could only go south into the mountains, relying on the continuous mountain range, in order to resist the pursuit of the Xiliang cavalry.

And his 8,000 cavalry, going north to Luoshui, could not cross the river; If you go south to the mountains, you will be blocked by mountains and rocks; When he went west to Yiyang City, he was even more self-inflicted; Then I had to go east and follow the road back.

After making a plan, Cao Cao summoned Cao Ren, Cao Hong brothers, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan brothers.

The five brothers gathered aside, and Cao Cao said to the four: "Brothers, my army is afraid that it has been ambushed." ”

He also signaled his brothers not to panic: "There are ambushes in the city, on the banks of Luoshui, and in the mountains to the south, and I am afraid that there will be tens of thousands of people." ”

Cao Cao took a deep breath: "Our army is exhausted, and it is difficult to defeat Xiliang Xiaoqi. Zixiao, you lead the infantry to the south, and after breaking through the enemy's army, just run into the mountains; Miaocai, you lead 3,000 Jiangdong cavalry troops, kill them on the south bank of Luoshui, and resist the ambush army on the shore; Yuan Rang and Zilian led 5,000 elite cavalry to meet the enemy army in the city. ”

Seeing the brothers who had calmed down, Cao Cao said again: "Once the infantry enters the mountains and forests, we will wait for the cavalry to return along the road." Zixiao, remember that after the infantry enters the mountains and forests, they must not stay, bypass Songshan, gather at Taimur Mountain, and then return to Luoyang City together. ”

Each of the four brothers went down and gave orders.

Cao Cao looked at Yiyang City hatefully, if Cao Jun is not a tired army, how can he be afraid of your Xiliang Army.

Li Dao, who had been waiting in the city for a long time, secretly saw that the coalition army was stagnant, and it seemed that he was still arranging troops, so Li Dao couldn't wait, so he immediately opened the city gate and commanded tens of thousands of Xiliang cavalry to kill the generals.

The gates of the three cities were wide open, and the Xiliang army shouted and killed.

The Xiliang cavalry, all of whom were strong men, had just had a full meal, and the whole army waved their broadswords up and down, and rushed towards the Cao army with a roar, and the killing shouts broke through the clouds and rushed straight to Huanyu.

"Click! Click!! Click!! ”

The sound of stepping on the horse is like thunder, getting louder and louder! The murderous aura is getting closer and closer!

"Boom~~~Boom"

Although Sergeant Cao Jun had the instructions of the commander-in-chief, it was still chaotic.

He had to make his own appearance, so Cao Cao stepped forward and shouted, "Brothers, Cao went to block the enemy." Go south, into the mountains, and you will live. ”

Then the horses moved forward, and Xiahoudun and Cao Hong also led 5,000 cavalry to follow.

I saw Meng De turn around and say loudly to tens of thousands of foot soldiers: "I hope that there is an afterlife, and I can still be brothers!" ”

After speaking, he laughed loudly, didn't look back, and rushed straight towards the tens of thousands of Xiliang troops.