Wancheng, Sun Ce's general's mansion, here is a residence that Yuan Shu specially found for Sun Ce, the environment is relatively quiet, and it is far away from the city council hall.

People are under the eaves, and they can't always lift their heads. However, Sun Ce has no confidence in himself at the moment, so he has to lie dormant under Yuan Shu's tent. This time he went to Cao Cao, and he wanted to see his true strength.

In the palace, because almost all the generals had already gone out with the army, only a few servants and maids were still coming and going on the vegetated path. In the backyard, there is a half-human-high target, where Sun Shangxiang is practicing martial arts.

The little girl had given up using a bulky bow, at least until she was twelve, and she wasn't ready to try it, but she didn't give up, and her clever little head allowed her to make a slingshot of her own, and she could also shoot small pebbles to improve her shooting accuracy.

The two maids stood behind Sun Shangxiang, guarding her safety, while Sun Shangxiang stood not far from the target, holding a slingshot in her left hand, pulling a rubber band in her right hand, closing one eye and aiming hard.

"Smack!"

A small pebble came out in response, hitting the red position in the center of the bull's-eye, making Sun Shangxiang smile and keep jumping in place, she can't say that she can hit the target nine times out of ten!

The maid said happily on the side: "Little county lord, you are really amazing, but it's a pity that you are a girl, if you are a man, you should be able to fight as well as General Bo Fu; No matter how bad it is, like your brother Sun Quan, you can at least learn some knowledge and become an official in the future. ”

Sun Quan is a few years younger than Sun Ce, but he is also much older than Sun Shangxiang, and he stayed in Changsha City when he fought against Dong Zhuo before. When he defected to Yuan Shu, he followed his brother to come. At this moment, he has also joined the army as Sun Ce's account and went to war with the army.

"Who says girls can't go to war?" Sun Shangxiang listened to the maid's words, and pouted, a little unconvinced. Said: "When I practice the bow technique in the future, I must avenge my father and fight the world for Brother Bo Fu." ”

The maid sighed and shook her head slightly: "As a girl, she will marry in the future, and the little county lord is the daughter of the tiger of Jiangdong, presumably General Sun Bofu will not treat you badly, and will definitely find a good husband for his sister, not a hero in the world." It is the heroes of the Quartet. ”

Sun Shangxiang tilted his little head and thought about it, and smiled a little embarrassedly, because he remembered Zhao Yue, and muttered even more at this time: "In that case, even if Shangxiang gets married, she will have to fight the world for her husband, hehe." ”

The sky above Sun's Mansion was blue, and a few white clouds would occasionally drift by. But no matter how beautiful and harmonious. None of them could avoid the tragic situation when the soldiers were fighting not far away.

Yuan Shu's army had already marched into Yanzhou, destroying many people's residences along the way. This was not a deliberate order from Yuan Shu. It's just that after all, there are nearly 200,000 people, and military discipline is not strict, and it is easy to produce soldiers who break the law.

Cao Cao, on the contrary, asked Xun Yu and other strategists to go out to calm the people and recruit all the homeless displaced people to return to the city, and these people were filled with righteous indignation. spontaneously helped Cao Cao's soldiers to defend the city, but they couldn't drive it away. Without any worries, Cao Cao resolutely ordered the whole army to go out to meet Yuan Shu!

The two sides engaged in a protracted battle at Kuangting, and the soldiers died in piles on the battlefield. Blood almost turned the low-lying plains into a lake.

The sounds of fighting, shouting, and charging sounded here almost without interruption for a day and a night. And the soldiers have lost track of time while fighting. It was a great battle of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the victory or defeat was by no means predictable overnight.

The surrounding forces all dare to rashly reap the benefits of the fisherman, and Tao Qian of Xuzhou is old and fearful. Both Cao Cao and Yuan Shu had asked him for reinforcements, but he refused and said that he would never help either side. Beihai Taishou Zhu Rong had the Confucian demeanor of Rang Li when he was a child, and he didn't like war, he just wanted to keep Beihai City safely.

As for Yuan Shao in Hebei, he wanted to send troops, but Gongsun Zan was eyeing his territory in Beiping, and his advisers had the same ideas, so Yuan Shao had a headache and missed the opportunity to send troops, so he had to give up.

Zhao Yue was still leading 2,000 men and horses to Kuangting's side, and he had already ordered his subordinates to report to Cao Cao first.

On the battlefield, Cao Cao rode a yellow-white BMW and wore a brocade robe, and after receiving this letter from Zhao Yue in Luoyang, he said with a happy face: "Great! Although there are only 2,000 people, for our army, a little more strength means a little more bargaining chips to defeat Yuan Shu! ”

The battlefield not far away is still fighting, ten thousand arrows are like a rain of arrows, and even archers who shoot far away can occasionally shoot arrows into the canopy of Cao Cao's chariot, making a frightening sound.

Xun Yu said kindly on the side: "Lord, the minister heard that Zhao Yue was just a small soldier in the past, and it is enough to see that he is not a good kind of person to have such an achievement in a short period of time. ”

Cao Cao smiled, in this troubled world, who would be stupid to help others, but not for the slightest benefit? "Being a soldier in the past does not mean that you will always be a soldier, and a person's ability often has nothing to do with his birth and status. Wen Ruo, I also know what you said, Zhao Yue sent troops to come this time, and I owe him a favor, but if I can defeat Yuan Shu this time, I will definitely not give him the territory of Yuan Shu in the past! ”

Wancheng County in Jingbei, with Chang'an in the west and Yanzhou in the east, is another hub connecting the East and the West after Luoyang City. If Cao Cao ceded Wancheng County to Zhao Yue, it meant that if he wanted to attack the West in the future, he would have to look at Zhao Yue's face.

However, Cao Cao miscalculated Zhao Yue's thoughts, and Zhao Yue at this time had no intention of being original, but just wanted to recover Qin's hometown, including the current west of Chang'an, and the Longxi counties under Ma Teng.

Helping Cao Cao, the only benefit Zhao Yue wanted was to exchange for a firm ally east of Luoyang. Freedom from worries, he can concentrate on entering the West.

In the armor array surrounded by shields in front, a small path suddenly dispersed, and a general covered in blood rushed over and knelt in front of Cao Cao. He is none other than Cao Cao's brothers, Cao Ren, and Cao Zixiao.

"Zixiao, how is the war?" Cao Cao asked with some eagerness.

"Lord," Cao Ren shouted, took off his helmet, wiped a handful of sweat, and said with some fatigue: "General Xiahoudun led the horse army to rush back and forth in the enemy formation, and there have been two round-trips, but in the third round-trip, he was trapped in the enemy's encirclement!" ”

In terms of combat effectiveness, if the number of soldiers was roughly equal, Cao Cao would have ended the battle long ago, and Yuan Shu would have been annihilated long ago. However, at present, the number of soldiers of Yuan Shu is extremely large, and Cao Cao's soldiers are more combative, so at this moment, the two sides are anxious, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from defeat, and it has become a battle of grinding meat.

"General Xiahou Yuan! Why didn't the archers he led shoot arrows on the periphery to cover General Xiahoudun's breakthrough? On the side, Guo Jia, another of Cao Cao's advisors, asked in surprise, because his voice was too high, he might have hurt his throat, and coughed desperately. (To be continued.) )