In the early morning of the next day, Cao Cao silently left the camp with 5,000 soldiers and horses under the surprised gaze of soldiers and horses from all walks of life. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Immediately behind Cao Cao's army was Bao Xinbu, who had fewer troops.

At this moment, Cao Cao's back towards the west was so lonely and depressed.

On the west bank of Bianshui, Guo Yan, who had arrived for many days, received news from Tanma that some of the soldiers and horses in the coalition army were rapidly approaching.

As an important general under Dong Zhuo, Guo Yan has a lot of combat experience, so he did not immediately arrange his troops, but asked the scouts to go forward again to find out how many soldiers and horses there were in the westward allied army, and who the commander of the army was.

Half a day later, Tanma reported again and reported the situation of Cao Cao and Bao Xin's two troops to Guo Yan in detail.

Knowing that the people who came with the troops were Cao Cao and Bao Xin, and that there were only less than 10,000 soldiers and horses on the other side, Guo Yan immediately had an idea.

Guo ordered the troops to withdraw thirty miles back, let go of the west bank of Bianshui, and wait for Cao Cao and Bao Xin's troops to cross the river.

Guo Yan's posture is not to put Cao Cao and Bao Xin in his eyes at all.

Dong Zhuo's order to Guo Yan was to inspect the front line of Bianshui, and did not require him to cross the river to fight a decisive battle with the coalition army, so the initiative of this battle was completely in Guo Yan's hands. Guo Yan did not need to cross Bianshui, and his withdrawal of troops to the west for thirty miles did not affect his completion of the task assigned by Dong Zhuo to inspect Bianshui.

If Cao Cao and Bao Xin didn't dare to cross the river, then they would continue to stay in the east of Bianshui, anyway, it would be him, not Guo Yan, who would be embarrassed at that time. If Cao Cao and Bao Xin dared to cross the river, although they could prove that they were brave enough, they would face a great danger that it would be difficult to retreat in the event of defeat.

Guo Yan never thought about the problem of his own failure, because it was impossible!

There were 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Guo Yan, and they were all veterans of life-and-death struggles with the Qiang people in the northwest for a long time, how could they lose to Cao Cao's troops temporarily recruited in Chenliu?

Facts have proved that Guo Yan's self-confidence is not arrogant, but knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent.

When Cao Cao arrived at the east bank of Bianshui with his troops, scouts who were searching everywhere came back to report to him, and Guo Yan withdrew his troops thirty miles to the west.

After receiving this military information, Cao Cao's face, which was already a little dark, became even darker. Cao Cao knew that it would be difficult for him to escape this time.

Knowing the difficulties and retreating, and returning in vain? Unless Cao Cao hides back to his hometown in the future, he will never see anyone again. In front of the troops sent by the coalition forces from all walks of life, he didn't even fight Guo Yan, and returned to the sour jujube camp, this person Cao Cao couldn't afford to lose at all.

The current situation has become a situation where he knows that there are tigers in the mountains and prefers to go to the tiger mountains. Even if all these 5,000 people were buried on the west bank of Bianshui, Cao Cao had to make a heart and order the troops to cross the river!

Cao Cao sent someone to bring a message to Bao Xin, who followed closely, and he crossed the river with his soldiers and horses first, so that Bao Xin could answer in the back.

At noon, Cao Cao led his troops to cross the river, and the Bianshui in March was still cold, and the soldiers waded through the Bianshui one after another, one by one soaking wet, and some even sneezed. Cao Cao seized the time to line up his army on the west bank of Bianshui to guard against a possible sneak attack by Guo Yan.

However, the sneak attack did not come, and Guo's troops remained immobile.

Cao Cao then led his troops to continue to approach Guo Yan, and Bao Xin also began to lead his troops across the river.

When Cao Cao's troops marched fifteen miles west again, Guo Yan suddenly dispatched his whole army and met Cao Cao at the fastest speed, and the two armies collided together half an hour later.

The infantry and cavalry cooperated with the tacit understanding of the Xiliang army, and it was easy to tear open the external shield wall of the Cao army, rush into the interior of the Cao army, and shatter the Cao army's originally neatly arranged formation.

Cao's army was not superior in numbers, and after the formation was chaotic, this battle could not be fought. The one-sided massacre began, and although the Cao army had fierce generals like Cao Ren, Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, they struggled to organize resistance, but they were still unable to stop the rout of the entire army.

Without waiting for Bao Xin to lead the army to help, Cao's army began to flee in a large-scale rout, Guo Yan led the cavalry straight to Cao Cao's location, and at the critical moment, Wei Zi rushed up with dozens of dead soldiers raised by the family to help Cao Cao resist.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan hurriedly escorted Cao Cao to flee in the direction of Bianshui, and Guo Yan took the fierce Xiliang cavalry to solve Wei Zi and the dozens of dead soldiers around him in one round. Seeing that Cao Cao was about to escape, Li Dao ordered the cavalry to shoot on his horse, and a round of random arrows was fired, and one of the arrows hit Cao Cao's shoulder near his neck. If the arrow had gone an inch further to the left, it might have entered Cao Cao's neck.

Cao Cao was hit by an arrow, and blood flowed. Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Cao Chun, the three members of the Cao clan, invariably stayed behind for Cao Cao, although they were not cavalry, but the Cao family soldiers led by them were also experienced in a hundred battles, and with their fierce hand-to-hand combat, they even temporarily stopped Guo Yan.

When the Xiahou brothers escorted Cao Cao to flee to the edge of the Bianshui, they met Bao Xin's troops head-on, and Cao Cao asked Bao Xin to send troops to meet several of his brothers, and Bao Xin was unequivocal and immediately ordered Bao Tao to lead 2,000 men to march west to meet Cao Ren and others.

When Bao Tao arrived on the battlefield with 2,000 men, Cao Ren and the others were almost exhausted, and Bao Tao hurriedly led his troops to join the battle group, so that Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Chun and Ren Jun quickly withdrew from the battlefield.

In the end, Cao Ren and the others fled to the edge of Bianshui and crossed it with the help of Bao Xin. However, Bao Tao and the two thousand Jibei soldiers led by him slept on the battlefield.

In this battle, Cao Cao lost his henchman Weizi, and less than 500 of the 5,000 soldiers and horses returned alive to the east bank of Bianshui. Bao Xin lost his younger brother Bao Tao, and only 1,000 of the 3,000 soldiers and horses remained.

Although Guo Yan fought a great victory, he was not carried away by the victory, but stopped on the west bank of Bianshui, and did not lead the army to cross the river and attack the sour jujube coalition army.

Cao Cao's troops and horses were only a small part of the Kwantung coalition army, and defeating Cao Cao could have a good deterrent effect. But if you cross the river to find the main force of the Kwantung Coalition Army for a decisive battle, the crushing defeat suffered by Cao Cao on the west bank of Bianxi today may fall on Guo Yan's head.

Cao Cao, who was wounded by an arrow, returned to the coalition camp with a disgraced face under the escort of Bao Xin. Even so, he still has confidence in defeating Dong Zhuo.

However, when the news of Cao Cao's defeat at Bianshui spread throughout the sour jujube camp, the allied forces were deeply shocked, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, who had no desire to fight, were even more afraid of a real war with Dong Zhuo's troops.

After losing the first battle, Cao Cao didn't care about the criticism from the outside, carefully summed up the lessons in his account, and soon put forward a strategic concept of three-way encirclement to the leaders of the coalition forces.

The specific content of the proposal was that Yuan Shao led Hanoi's troops to attack Mengjin in order to contain Dong Zhuo's main force in Luoyang; The coalition forces stationed near Suojube held Chenggao, occupied Aocang, blocked the passes such as Yuyuan Pass and Taigu Pass, and completely occupied the natural danger around Luoyang. Let the later general Yuan Shu lead Nanyang's troops from Danshui and Xixian to enter Wuguan, and then deter the three auxiliary places in Guanzhong.

In this way, Dong Zhuojun is difficult to deal with, tired of coping, and after a long time, people all over the world feel that Dong Zhuo will fail, and more anti-Dong forces will join in, such as Tao Qian in Xuzhou, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Liu Yan in Yizhou. Once these powerful state pastors sent troops to support, at that time, Dong Zhuo would really be defeated.

At the end of the day, Cao Cao disregarded the faces of the leaders of all walks of life, and said loudly: "We sent troops this time because we occupy the righteous name of crusading against Dong thief, if we keep hesitating to go west, it will disappoint the people of the world, and at that time, I feel ashamed for everyone!" ”

However, Cao Cao's plan was not recognized by Zhang Miao and others, and what he said did not arouse everyone's blood and fighting spirit.

Everything Cao Cao did became a sad joke.