Chapter 482 The turtle can't shrink out

Cao Chun can be regarded as complacent today, he concentrated an army of 10,000, determined to let out a bad breath, let the damned Zhao Yun, who often provokes him, see his strength, I only hope that as soon as his military order arrives, the 10,000 army will surround Zhao Yun's hundreds of sergeants, and then kill them one by one, leaving only Zhao Yun, who is known as the victorious general, and then capture him and push him to the court to show his great achievements. 【，

In fact, Cao Chun was originally a wise and brave opponent, although it was worse than his brother Cao Ren and nephew Cao Xiu, but it was not too outrageous, and he was an excellent talent among the children of the Cao family, but since Cao Cao and Cao Pi's father and son died successively, his status as an old minister and a meritorious hero has also risen with the tide, and his inner pursuit of power has become more and more vigorous, and at the same time he wants to make more military exploits and establish his authority in the court, so that he has become more and more uncalm, and the gap between him and Cao Xiu is getting bigger and bigger. It's not even as good as young generals like Wang Ling and Sun Li.

Today's Cao Chun is a little impetuous, of course, this can't be completely blamed on Cao Chun, because even Cao Xiu didn't expect that this time Liu Qi would have such a big appetite, and he actually thought of destroying all the 10,000 troops brought by Cao Chun.

Cao Chun's army had just rushed up not far when he found that the ships on the opposite side were densely packed with cold-looking Han soldiers, who held bows and crossbows in their hands, and surrounded their ships in the middle like a half-moon.

Just a round of arrows rained down, and nearly 2,000 soldiers of Cao Wei, who were caught off guard because they were rushing forward, died.

Seeing this scene, Cao Chun's face suddenly became ugly, because he also realized that what he encountered this time was actually the main force of the enemy army, not the bluff he thought.

But by the time he realized it, it was too late. Because those Han soldiers who were familiar with water warfare had already used hooks and locks and other things to catch their own warships, and then boarded their own warships and fought with their own soldiers.

In fact, this is not a fight, but more accurately a one-sided slaughter.

Because fighting on a ship is not as simple as fighting on land, it is necessary to pay attention to the balance and stability of the ship at all times, and most of the Han army are southerners. They are as familiar with the ship as they are walking, and they are even more accustomed to the shaking of the ship, so they can always find a way to create a shaking on the ship, and then take advantage of the unstable chassis of Sergeant Cao Wei to strike a fatal blow.

Most of the generals and soldiers in the Cao Wei army were northerners, although they were brave, but they were not accustomed to water warfare, so they were in a passive position to be beaten as soon as they came up, and the Han army was three times larger than the Wei army. Therefore, the battle lasted only half an hour, and they gave up their resistance, threw down their weapons, raised their hands and surrendered.

"This, how is this possible? Why did so many sergeants suddenly pop out of the enemy army? Liu Qi'er's use of soldiers is really unpredictable, no wonder even Emperor Wu has been repeatedly calculated by him. I originally thought that this person was just a wasted name, but today's battle finally made me understand that there is a heaven outside the sky. There are people outside the world, Liu Qi is as cunning as a fox. Coupled with the assistance of cunning people such as Jia Xu and Pang Tong, I am afraid that only the former Guo Fengxiao can be comparable to each other in this world, but it is a pity that Guo Jia died early, and no one can control Liu Qi. ”

Cao Chun sighed helplessly, and thought slowly: "Now there are only one Sima Yi and one Cheng Yu left in the court, but it's a pity that Cheng Yu is old. And more importantly, this person is strictly neutral between my Cao clan and Sima Yi, and it is really difficult to get his assistance, and Sima Yi needless to say, there is a life-and-death hostile relationship between me and him. He is very reluctant that I will lose as badly as possible, alas, in just a few years, the situation of the prosperity of talents in my dynasty has become what it is now, and on the other hand, the Han Dynasty, there is really no way to compare, no, after returning to the dynasty, I must suggest that the emperor should also be like the Han Dynasty, implement the imperial examination system, and the chief examiner of the imperial examination must naturally be in my hands, hehe, as long as I master the imperial examination, this proves that I can master the rise and fall of the Great Wei for decades. ”

Cao Chun was in reverie, when he suddenly saw Wang Ruo, a soldier under his command, step forward and said: "General, the Han army has been killed, the last general will block them first, you leave quickly." ”

After finishing speaking, Wang Ruo jumped onto a small boat and rushed towards the largest enemy ship among them, and shouted, "Where is Zhao Yun? Do you dare to fight me? ”

Then Cao Chun saw a spear thrown from the boat and crucified Wang Ruo to the boat with a pop.

Cao Chun's heart was sour when he saw it, because Wang Ruo had been fighting with him for many years, and he had already been cited as a confidant, and he just thought about promoting him to a general after passing this battle, but he didn't expect to be killed by the enemy like this.

But Cao Chun couldn't care about being sad, because the enemy army then killed him, and he was so frightened that he had to retreat from his own soldiers.

For a while, he saw feathers and arrows flying, and the soldiers of the Cao army screamed and died, and he was also extremely embarrassed to see so many elite soldiers die because of his own mistakes.

"Alas, this time it's a big shame, how can I explain to the ministers and soldiers in the future?" Cao Chun's face was full of remorse, deeply regretting that he should not have listened to Cao Xiu's advice and led the army to go out in person, originally thought that he would be able to capture Zhao Yun alive this time, but he didn't expect that he would almost become a prisoner of the enemy, how could such a huge gap not make him feel frustrated?

As time went by, the casualties of Cao Wei's sergeants increased, and Cao Chun knew that if he didn't escape, he might not have a chance, so he had no choice but to lead the army to escape, and at the same time, in order to preserve his own strength to the greatest extent, he decided to call for reinforcements.

In fact, at the same time as Cao Chun and Zhao Yun's army were engaged in a fierce battle, Cao Wei's soldiers on the north bank had been nervously watching the changes in the battle situation, but unfortunately due to the thick fog, they couldn't see the fierce battle on the river at all, and even Cao Xiu thought that even if this battle would not be won, it would never be a loss, so he did not make preparations for rescue, until he heard the horn of need for support not far away, Cao Xiu realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately ordered to gather 10,000 troops to rescue quickly, And Cao Xiu, who realized that Cao Chun had been defeated, also gave an order, just to take Cao Chun back to the camp, and absolutely not to take the initiative to pursue, so as not to fall into Liu Qi's tricks.

After the reinforcements sent by Cao Chun arrived, it was found that the war had basically ended, and at this time the clouds and mist gradually dispersed, and the corpses of Cao Wei soldiers were floating everywhere on the river, in addition to those lucky but unfortunate Wei soldiers who were in pain, saying that they were lucky, because they saved their lives after all, and said that they were unlucky, mainly because they were all seriously injured, missing arms and legs, and living a picture of hell beings.

And it was not until this time that these reinforcements who rushed to see clearly the Han army on the water, no less than 30,000, and the Wei army who saw this scene all gasped involuntarily, no wonder their own defeat was so miserable this time, it turned out that the enemy army was prepared and gathered heavy troops.

Sergeant Cao Wei, who rushed to support, had already received an order not to pursue, but now seeing that the strength of the Han army was so strong, even if he didn't need Cao Xiu's explanation, he definitely didn't dare to come forward to pursue, and hurriedly abandoned the boat and landed ashore.

And when they came ashore, they found that the Han army had already played a triumphant song and left by boat.

In this battle, Cao Chun's soldiers lost three or four thousand people, surrendered more than 3,000 people, and only less than three thousand soldiers saved their lives.

Although Cao Chun faced the enemy's key attack, after all, he still had the personal soldiers of the tiger and leopard cavalry by his side, and under the desperate protection of these soldiers, he finally broke out of the encirclement safely.

However, seeing that today's battle had encountered such heavy losses, Cao Chun couldn't help but feel stunned, stunned for a long time, and ordered the casualties to be compensated, which finally cheered up the army's heart a little.

However, after this battle, Cao Chun's ambition to break the Han army in one fell swoop was suddenly discarded, and at the same time, he also deeply regretted and blamed himself, he did not listen to Cao Xiu's advice, and caused such a large number of casualties due to rash attacks, not only greatly reduced prestige, but also reduced morale.

Therefore, Cao Chun immediately ordered that no matter how provocative the Han army was from now on, no one was allowed to fight, and anyone who spoke of fighting the enemy would be dealt with according to military law.

In this way, Cao Chun, who was originally warlike and happy, is now like a turtle with a shrunken head, hiding in the shell of the turtle with him, no matter how the Han army instigates it, he simply ignores it, but he can't hold on.

Cao Chun didn't know that his move like this was exactly what Liu Qi wanted. When Liu Qi saw that Cao Chun, who had been taught a lesson, finally hid within the high wall according to his design, and could not hold out, he was not without pride in his heart, and immediately ordered to proceed according to the second set of plans.

The so-called second set of plans is that Zhao Yun led an army of 5,000 troops, waving the dragon and phoenix banner of the Son of Heaven to continue to confront Cao Chun in Baima, but he personally led the main force along the Yellow River to go straight to Ji County in Hanoi, and occupied Ji County by surprise, and then attacked Zhou Yu's army in Hedong, which was secretly transferring troops to Hedong, and captured Hanoi County in one fell swoop, not only to rescue the Han Emperor, but also to pose a threat to Cao Wei's capital Yecheng.

This is the main purpose of Liu Qi's battle, the so-called capture of Liyang is just a means to confuse people, Jia Xu and Pang Tong and others at that time were because they saw Liu Qi's intentions, so they chose to support Liu Qi to send troops, and Zhuge Jin did a hurry in vain because he didn't see this, if it wasn't for Liu Qi's extraordinary strength, I'm afraid Zhuge Jin would definitely not be as safe and sound as usual. (To be continued.) )