Qian County, Yuan Shu camp.

From a distance, the camp is lifeless, as if there is a dark cloud shrouded in the sky, it can be seen that its morale is low, and the halberd guards outside the military tent are even more unbearable, and they don't even dare to breathe for fear of disturbing the lord in the tent, everyone has got the news that the vanguard of 15,000 troops has been defeated, and the main general Ji Ling and the soldiers are not known to die.

Suddenly, the scout came to report, the guards did not dare to stop him, and when he saw the scout kneeling on one knee after entering the tent, he immediately bowed his hand and said: "Only a few hundred soldiers in the vanguard survived, and Ji Ling and the military advisors were all killed......"

Upon hearing such bad news, Yuan Shu was instantly furious and roared: "Kill all the deserters!" ”

The scout was frightened in a hurry, and with trembling hands, he took out a letter and said, "Lord, lord, this is a secret letter left by the soldier before his death......

Yuan Shu quickly took the letter, and saw that the letter read: "Jian and Liu Biao fight, if Sun Jian wins, you can abandon Cao Cao and take Jingzhou, if Liu Biao wins, you can collect Sun Jian's remnants."

Lu Bu is not a person who has lived under the people for a long time, if Lu Bu and Cao Cao fight, you need to sit and watch his fight, and when Lu Bu is defeated, he can be taken under his command. ”

Yuan Shu was gloomy, and the old tears were rampant.

Let's say that Sun Jian fought with Liu Biaojun, Sun Jian's army was unable to overcome it for a long time, and then he fell into Liu Biaojun's treacherous scheme, was defeated and killed, and the generals under his command were leaderless, and they were suddenly in chaos.

Speaking of Lü Bu's army, Lü Bu led 3,000 iron cavalry to frantically pursue Cao Ren's army, and was finally led by Cao Renjun to Jia Xu's ambush, and Lü Bu's army was defeated.

Lu Bu was also almost captured by Jia Xu's army, but fortunately, Lu Bu was brave and led more than 100 soldiers out of the encirclement.

After Yuan Shu learned the news, he sent envoys to take Sun Jian's remnants under his command, and welcomed Lu Bu into the army to attack Cao Cao.

Zhang Jijun led the army to withdraw to Wancheng after defeating Lü Bu, first, he did not want to clash head-on with Yuan Shu's army, and secondly, Sun Jian was defeated, and Liu Biaojun's army would definitely send troops to recover Wancheng, so he had to defend.

Cao Ren saw that Lü Bu had been defeated, so he led the army to withdraw to Chen Liu, and he had resisted Yuan Shu.

In addition, Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Gongsun Zan of Youzhou fought happily, I am afraid that they will not be able to distinguish the winner in a short time, and Yuan Shao does not have the troops to go south to rescue Cao Cao.

And Guandu's tens of thousands of yellow scarves are also ready to move, ready to go, at this moment has approached Chen Liu's abroad, Yuan Shu even sent an envoy to promise: "If you can break Cao Cao together, send 50,000 stone grain and grass." ”

Stone is an ancient unit of weight, and one stone is one hundred and twenty catties.

The Yellow Turban Army is short of food, and most of them are composed of refugees, and these 50,000 stone grains and grass are enough for all the Yellow Turban Army to eat for several months, how can they not be moved?

Two days later, Yuan Shu and Tao Qian's combined troops came to Chen Liucheng, and Lü Bu was also in Yuan Shu's army.

The Hebei Yellow Turban also entered the territory of Chenliu, and it could be under Chenliu City in two to three days.

On Chen Liucheng, Cao Cao and all the soldiers stood on the wall, looked at Yuan Shujun from a distance, and saw that Yuan Shujun had set up camp ten miles away.

Cao Cao looked at it from afar, and said lightly: "Attack the Yellow Turban in the north, defend Chenliu, if one side loses, our army will be defeated." ”

Cheng Yu arched his hand and said: "Although the enemy army is numerous, it can't conquer Chenliu in a short time, our army only needs to act according to the plan." ”

Guo Jia said categorically: "If the interruption continues, it will be chaotic, if the enemy army besieges the city, our army will have no chance to surprise the army." ”

"That being the case, I have made up my mind, keep Zixiao, Wen Ruo, and Zhongde to stay in Chen." Cao Cao said again: "Yuan Rang, Miaocai, Dian Wei, Zilian, Gongda, and Fengxiao are all following me to attack the Yellow Turban in the north!" ”

The generals led the order, and Cao Cao led the generals to lead thousands of light horsemen and open the north gate.

These thousand light cavalry are all heroes in a hundred battles, most of them are elites under Cao Cao, and even fought with Xu Rongjun when they fought against Dong Zhuo, and the rest also fought against Tao Qian and Yuan Shu, which can be described as elite.

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A day later, Cao Cao's army was ten miles away from the Yellow Turban thief.

Tan Malay reported: "The enemy army has about 70,000 or 80,000 thieves, most of whom are old and weak, women and children, and the enemy army is not in formation, like a plate of scattered sand, is coming south. ”

Cao Cao, Guo Jia and Xun You looked at each other and smiled.

Xiahoudun smiled and said: "Although the enemy army is numerous, but it does not know the military formation, our army only needs to meet the head attack to break the enemy army!" ”

Guo Jia said: "The enemy's name is the Yellow Turban, which is actually a refugee, in order to survive, out of helplessness will invade the territory and plunder, our army needs to destroy its elite, and the Yellow Turban will not attack itself." ”

Cao Cao bowed his head and said: "Good, that's exactly what I mean." ”

Xun You said softly: "Most of the enemy vanguards are refugees sent to death, and their elite must be in the Chinese army. ”

Cao Cao looked sideways at Guo Jia after hearing this, waiting for Guo Jia to make a decision.

Guo Jia nodded and said: "I think it's the same, there are not many soldiers, but fine, the general is not brave, but plotting, although the enemy army is numerous, it is a rabble, although our army is small, it is really a hundred battles of elite soldiers." ”

Cao Cao looked back, and saw that the morale of the generals behind him was high, and the soldiers were full of expressions, as his elite troops, the equipment was even better, almost everyone was wearing chain mail, and the weapons in his hands were sharp spears and horse lances.

Cao Cao shouted: "The man joins the army, since he should kill the thief and make meritorious service, the thief is in front, I hope that the army will move forward bravely, compete for the thief first, and wait for the battle, my generation of sons and daughters should be as fast as a leopard, fierce as a tiger!" ”

"Is this the prototype of the Haw Par Ride?" Guo Jiahuan looked around, and saw that the blood of the soldiers was boiling, holding high the weapons and shouting in unison, and the pride of the sky swallowed the mountains and rivers!

Cao Cao was the leader, taking the lead, Guo Jia and Xun You followed, followed by the four generals, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan, Dian Wei, Cao Hong, and behind him were more than 1,000 elite horsemen!

The leader of the Yellow Turban Army is named Yu Poison, who belongs to the Yellow Turban of Montenegro, but he is not under the command of Zhang Yan, but he leads an army, the troops are short of food, and Yu Poison only leads the troops to plunder the grain and grass, he originally wanted to attack Yuan Shao's Jizhou, but he received a message from Yuan Shu's envoys, which made him change his mind, and he went south to the Central Plains to attack Cao Cao!

Although Yu Poison began to gather the Yellow Turban Army in the first year of Zhongping (184), and also fought several battles with princes from all walks of life, he did not know the art of war and did not know the battle array.

He will only select the tall and powerful ones from the refugees and the Yellow Turban Army to be the elite, as his own army, like this soldier, he has 3,000 people under his command, this is all his elite.

Yu Poison stood on top of the war horse at the moment, calculating the pros and cons of this battle in his heart, no matter whether he won or lost, he would get Yuan Shu as help, as for the 50,000 stone grain and grass promised by Yuan Shu, Yu Poison also knew that Yuan Shu would not necessarily give, even if he did, it would not be so much.

He also has his own little abacus in his heart, after the alliance with Yuan Shu broke through Chenliu, he could wave his troops to the east and take Yanzhou directly.

Although he didn't know the art of war, he also knew that Yanzhou was controlled by the wealthy family, and even Liu Dai, the Mu of Yanzhou, could not command the whole state, and such states and counties were the best targets for the Yellow Turban Army to plunder.

Suddenly, there was the sound of rolling iron horses in the distance, Yu Poison was suddenly shocked, raised his eyes, and saw more than a thousand iron horses galloping towards him, he was a little relieved, after all, there were tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, how could they be defeated by these more than 1,000 cavalry.

What's more, he also knew that Cao Cao's army was being besieged by Yuan Shu's army at the moment, how could he send a large army to crusade against him?

Yu Xuan waved his gun and shouted: "The three armies listen to the order, kill the enemy, and reward half a stone of food!" ”

The Yellow Turban Army had no food, and the refugees and miscellaneous soldiers were all yellow and thin, and they were thin and thin, and when they heard the reward of half a stone, they had already drawn their weapons and wanted to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

This half stone of food is enough for one person to feed for a month, how can these refugees and miscellaneous soldiers not be moved?