Sun Ce, who left Wushan, was disheartened, but he was full of ambition, he didn't dare to give up his hard work, and he was also worried about the small family still in Wancheng. Walking along the road of Wushan, there will be an official road leading to Shouchun City in Huainan, and Sun Ce decided to go to Shouchun first to settle down.

In his impression, his high-spirited and strategic-minded righteous brother Zhou Yu should still be in Shouchun at this time, and he wanted to visit Zhou Yu and persuade him to go out of the mountain to help him. Just like that little soldier Zhao Yue, didn't he also go to Songshan to ask for a master to go down the mountain, so he was able to achieve something?

Thinking like this, Sun Ce took his father's men and horses and some remnants of Yuan Shu's army, and slowly walked towards Shouchun City.

Yuan Shu's army, which was in a stalemate with Cao Cao in Kuangting, still had more than 100,000 people, while Cao Cao's army was less than 50,000, including less than 10,000 Qingzhou troops.

Despite this, Yuan Shu's army of 100,000 was short of grain and grass for a moment, and there was a batch of grain almost every half a day. So in the early hours of the morning, Yuan Shu had already learned about the burning of the camp of Wushan granary.

Yuan Shu, who learned of this, was furious, and sprinkled all his anger on his generals, he threw the bamboo slip to the ground in the tent, stood up and said: "Sun Ce's concubine, after all, is the son of a barbarian, and he actually damaged the foundation of my army, I am really angry, and that kid of Luoyang Zhao Yue actually violated the previous covenant and openly attacked my rear!" ”

Yuan Yin stood in the luxurious tent and added hesitantly: "Uncle, I haven't seen Zhao Yue himself before, I only saw the military advisors in their army, and they are idiots......"

"Waste, and the face to speak!" Yuan Shu stretched out his hand and complained, "When I break through Cao Cao, I will definitely defeat Luoyang together." Eating Zhao Yue alive can eliminate the hatred in my heart. ”

At this time, a petty official stood behind Yuan Shu, listened to Yuan Shu's words, covered his mouth and whispered: "Lord, you must not be like this. That Zhao Yue is certainly hateful, but what is the identity of the lord, the fourth and third princes! You can't do this kind of self-defeating thing. ”

Yuan Shu was stunned for a moment, then thought about it carefully, and said: "Well, what you said is also true, then when I arrest him, I will put him in prison first, and wait for the day when the world will be unified." I'll punish him again! ”

Yan Xiang, the chief bookkeeper, watched all this in the tent, and shook his head silently, he wanted to say something to save the declining situation, but seeing Yuan Shu's attitude, his heart was powerless to return to the sky, so he could only withdraw from the big tent knowing the number of days, return to his place to live, pack some luggage, and prepare for defeat. is also ready to take refuge in Cao Cao or Zhao Yue.

"Ji Ling, we have no food and grass. Why don't you attack immediately and fight Cao Cao's army? Yuan Shu tentatively asked Ji Ling, the general in the tent.

Ji Ling obviously felt that something was wrong, and frowned slightly: "Lord, Cao Cao is a resourceful person, and there are many civil officials and strategists under the account, I am afraid that he will be prepared." I think that sending troops at this time is probably not the best policy, it is better to retreat temporarily, find another unentrenched city as the foundation, and raise troops. ”

As soon as the words fell. Suddenly, a noisy sound sounded in the big tent. A herald rushed into the big tent in a hurry, knelt on the ground and said: "Lord, I don't know who leaked the news of the army's food exhaustion, at this moment the soldiers in our army's camp have come out of the tent to complain, complaining, and morale is unstable!" ”

When Yuan Shu heard this, he was shocked, and when he didn't know what to do, the heralds entered the account one after another. Some reported that the soldiers fled to Cao Cao's army, and some reported that Cao Cao began to count troops, and finally confirmed the news, saying that Cao Cao had known that they were short of food, and the army was uncertain, so he took the opportunity to lead his troops to attack and looked at this side.

Yuan Shu panicked.

Since ancient times, the two armies have been fighting, and the grain and grass have been attacked, which is a big blow to morale; If the Lord General is no longer the master, the soldiers really don't have any desire to fight.

Cao Cao rode a yellow horse and wore a brocade robe, and several generals under his command followed closely. He is such a person, once he seizes the opportunity, he will never let it go, this time he will personally go out to destroy Yuan Shu, a scheming person in the troubled times.

"My soldiers, follow the lone charge!" Cao Cao looked back at tens of thousands of soldiers, and the horsewhip pointed at Yuan Shu's camp.

The morale of the soldiers of the opposing camp is low, which is an encouragement to the soldiers of their own side. As soon as Cao Cao's words fell, the shouts of countless soldiers followed, and they were resolute in their hearts and followed Cao Mengde to victory!

After the charge was launched, the soldiers led by Cao Cao's generals gradually crossed Cao Cao, Cao Cao suddenly remembered something, slowed down his horse's feet, came to Guo Jia's side behind the battle, and whispered to Guo Jia vigilantly: "Fengxiao, I was originally trapped in Yuan Shu and could not be saved, I wanted to lead the army to attack the grain, but I was surrounded and couldn't draw troops, I didn't expect that Zhao Yue could and could grasp the key in the rapidly changing battlefield situation, and led the originally small number of soldiers to sneak attack Yuan Shu's grain and grass camp." It can be seen from this that he is by no means a good type, Luoyang is adjacent to Yanzhou, it seems that I need to be careful in the future. ”

Guo Jia thought for a while, smiled slightly, and said, "My lord, as the minister can see, he should not have the intention of entering the Central Plains." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Cao Cao frowned.

Guo Jia is good at analyzing people's motives, and he has achieved insight into people's hearts, only to see him smile slightly, as if he was not ready to explain it immediately, but wanted to leave it with Cao Cao for later understanding.

The sun in the sky was rising higher and higher, and it had risen directly above the Kuangting battlefield. Just as an essential part of a war should be carried out at night, the key to victory should be during the day.

Tens of thousands of Cao soldiers unstoppably defeated Yuan Shu's army in a hurry, the opponent's army was unstable, and the generals were also unwilling to have enough spare strength. Ji Ling rode a black horse, armed with a two-edged and three-pointed knife to seize the way in the chaotic army and escaped, was blocked by a team of Cao army soldiers, he fought hard and found the way again.

Just as he was about to flee from the rebellious army, Cao Ren rode a horse to intercept him, wielding a knife and fighting with Ji Ling. Ji Ling's martial arts were originally not bad, but at this moment, he was defeated, and he didn't dare to fight, so the sword technique in his hand was a lot messy.

Just as Xiahou Yuan was galloping in the army, seeing Cao Ren and Ji Ling fighting here, he took out a feather arrow from the quiver, closed one eye, bent the bow and arrow, and aimed at Ji Ling. Na Ji Ling didn't know it, and he was still concentrating on competing with Cao Ren in knife skills, preparing to retreat at the right time.

"Whoosh!"

I only heard a sound of breaking the air, and the arrow flew like a shuttle, shooting straight into the back of Ji Ling's head, and it didn't enter half of it. Ji Ling's eyes were hollow, and he didn't know who was dying, and his body leaned straight off his horse.

Yuan Shu learned the news of Ji Ling's death in the rear of the chaotic army, and his heart was even more panicked, his face was covered with sweat, and he hurriedly fled under the escort of his soldiers and other generals.

The soldiers without command only fought for a while, then lost all their fighting spirit, and were persuaded by Cao Cao's kind words, and collectively knelt on the ground and took refuge in the new lord.

After receiving these soldiers, the number of soldiers under Cao Cao finally exceeded 100,000, and everyone had no time to celebrate the victory, so they had to quickly lead their troops to Wancheng, first, to cut off the retreat of Yuan Shu's army, and secondly, to expand their territory again. (To be continued.) )