Although Cao Cao expressed anger at the robbery of Madame Du and the treasury, he also knew that what Guo Jia said was very reasonable, so he had to forcibly suppress the anger in his heart and prepare to attack Yuan Shao at night.

"Fortunately, Xu Yu surrendered, so that our army has the opportunity to break Yuan Shao, otherwise, our army was first attacked by Guan Yu Xuchang, and then was sacked by Liu Qi, if the Guandu battlefield is defeated again, I am afraid it is really going to suffer a catastrophe, alas, my Cao Cao has never experienced such humiliation in his life, the little Liu Qi, the big-eared thief Liu Bei, the humiliation you brought to me, I thought that I would definitely repay you tenfold and hundredfold."

Although he was angry in his heart, Cao Cao could only pretend that nothing happened, and ordered Guo Jia to strictly seal the news, and never leak the matter of Xuchang to anyone, so as not to affect the morale of the army.

At one o'clock in the evening of the same day, Cao Cao left the general Cao Hong and the strategist Xun Yu to guard the official crossing, led 5,000 cavalry, and Guo Jia, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin, Xu Huang, Xu Chu, Cao Ren, Cao Chun and others went to Wuchao.

This time, Cao Cao concentrated all the elites under his command, in order to win with one blow, and there was absolutely no room for failure, because he had no way to retreat.

Cao Cao's army under the banner of the Yuan army, Shucao salary, ranks, Malekou, at dusk, Wangwuchao marched, the army came to the vicinity of Yangwu within two hours.

This is already Yuan Shao's camp, and if you want to get to Wuchao, you need to go to Guò here first, and then walk forty miles to the northeast, so the army must be careful not to reveal their identity.

Soon after, Cao Cao's army encountered a group of people, it was Yuan Shao's army in the other village to inspect the horses, seeing the other party ask his identity, Cao Cao ordered someone to lie that it was the general Jiang Qi who was ordered to go to Wuchao to protect food.

Everyone originally thought that those soldiers were going to check it, and even some soldiers were ready to make desperate plans, but they didn't expect that the other party saw that it was Yuan Jun's banner, and immediately let them go without the slightest hesitation.

Later, when he encountered several night patrol soldiers who were interrogated, Cao Cao all lied that they were Chen Qi's soldiers and horses, and he was allowed to go all the way without any obstacles.

While secretly rejoicing, the soldiers under Cao Cao also deeply despised Yuan Shaojun's loose discipline, and he was mixed into the enemy army so lightly, it would be strange if such a team was not defeated.

By the time Cao Cao's army arrived at Wuchao, it had already passed the fourth watch. Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to surround the camp and set fire to the siege from all sides, Yuan Jun did not expect Cao Cao to send people to sneak attack, so he was unguarded in his heart, and now he saw the fire, and suddenly there was chaos, Cao Cao saw that Cao's camp fell into chaos, and led all the soldiers to enter under the sound of drums that shook the sky.

Because the Wuchao guard Chun Yuqiong drank with the generals at night, and was still drunk and lying in the tent, he suddenly heard the sound of drums, and hurriedly jumped up and asked, "Where did the drums come from?" ”

Chun Yuqiong's relatives and soldiers all looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

At this moment, I heard a personal soldier come to tell me that Cao Cao led the army to attack Wuchao. Chun Yuqiong couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, the wine turned into a cold sweat, and hurriedly ordered someone to immediately go to Yangwu to ask Yuan Shao for help, at the same time, he hurriedly put on armor and raised his weapon, which was a big axe, ready to meet the enemy with all the soldiers.

But it is said that Chun Yuqiong led the crowd to the outside of the tent, and saw that the sergeants outside the tent were panicked, and they had already messed up the military prostitutes, relying on their prestige to kill some soldiers who tried to flee, and constantly gathered soldiers, but also formed a team of considerable size, and by dawn, this team had expanded to seven or eight thousand people.

Chun Yuqiong saw that Cao's army was small, so he gathered his troops, formed a formation, and tried to lead the team to counterattack. But he didn't expect that this time Cao Cao's army would all desperately launch an attack, although the number of enemy troops was small, but everyone was desperate, and the morale was high, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Chun Yuqiong's command was already weak, and now they were attacked by the other party, plus the main general Chun Yuqiong had already drunk wine, and his hands and feet were weak, so he couldn't resist Cao Cao's offensive, and gradually pushed back.

At this time, there was a fierce debate in Yuan Shaoying.

But it was said that Yuan Shao was in the tent, and when he heard the news that the northeast was full of fire, he couldn't help but be shocked, and he knew that it was the Wuchao that he had lost, and he immediately regretted that he shouldn't have listened to the frustration and sent heavy troops to guard the Wuchao.

Sighing softly, Yuan Shao hurriedly summoned the civil and military officials to discuss the matter of sending troops to the rescue of Wuchao.

I saw that Zhang He and Gao Ran immediately asked for their lives and led heavy troops to the rescue of Wuchao, but they were stopped by the strategist Guo Tu, but Guo Tu said slowly: "The two generals can't be like this." Now that Cao's army is robbing grain, it must be Cao Cao himself who leads the army; Now that Cao is out of his own, his camp must be empty, and the lord only needs to attack Cao Cao's village first. Cut off its way back, Cao Cao heard it, must return to the army for first aid, at this time our army ambushed a strange soldier from the road, Cao Cao will be defeated, this Sun Bin besieged Wei to save Zhao's plan. ”

But I heard Zhang Tai step forward and say: "Guo Gong's words are not true. Cao Cao was resourceful, since he went out to rob the camp, there would definitely be people left in the camp to prevent danger. If we storm Cao Cao's camp and do not pull out, and Chun Yuqiong and others are defeated, the three armies will have no food, and our army will be defeated. ”

However, Yuan Shao thought about it again and again, and finally agreed with Guo Tu's opinion, he ordered Zhang He and Gao Lantong to attack Cao Cao's camp with an army of 20,000, but ordered Jiang Qi to lead 5,000 people to aid Wuchao.

However, it was said that after Jiang Qi received the order, he immediately led an army of 5,000 to Wuchao for rescue, and after a short time, he had already come to a short distance outside the camp.

At this time, Cao Cao led a large army to attack Chun Yuqiong was in a hurry, and suddenly heard that the sergeant reported that Yuan Shao had sent reinforcements, and he was still less than five miles away from him, so he knew that the key to life and death was at this moment, so he shouted: "Life and death success or failure is in this move, now we have a strong enemy in front of us, and there are enemy reinforcements in the back, if we don't fight to the death, when will we wait?" All the soldiers must step forward together and kill Chun Yuqiong, and our military will have a chance to live. ”

After that, Cao Cao drew the sword at his waist and personally led the soldiers to rush forward to kill. Le Jin, Xu Huang, Xu Chu, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun and other generals all fought desperately to the death, and for a while the morale of the Cao army was great, and the soldiers under the command of Chun Yuqiong were difficult to resist.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Xuan, Le Jin, Xu Chu, Xu Huang and other fierce generals had already launched a fierce attack around Chun Yuqiong.

Although Chun Yuqiong is brave, how can he resist the joint attack of these fierce generals? Hugh said that it was him, even Lu Bu, who dominated the world back then, probably didn't have this ability, so under the joint attack of these fierce generals, Chun Yuqiong was already out of breath and sweating.

After a short battle, Xu Huang's big axe sold a flaw, and took advantage of Chun Yuqiong's inattention, directly slashed his helmet, and the violent impact almost deafened Chun Yuqiong.

Xiahoudun, who was behind Chun Yuqiong, saw an opportunity, and the spear in his hand immediately stabbed into his body without losing any time.

Chun Yuqiong, who only heard it, shouted, and the whole person had already been picked up into the air by Xiahoudun's spear, and then was thrown to the ground heavily.

Before Chun Yuqiong could climb up, the whole person was dismantled by the generals' weapons, and he couldn't die anymore.

Seeing that Chun Yuqiong was killed, and all the soldiers under his command were defeated and fled, Cao Cao finally breathed a sigh of relief, at this time he found that he was so nervous that his whole body was sweating, but he ignored this, and immediately said: "Now that Chun Yuqiong has been killed, we must immediately burn Yuan Shao's grain, Miaocai, Yuan Rang, you two immediately lead the soldiers to burn Yuan Shao's grain and grass, Wen Qian, Gongming, Zhongkang, the three of you are so, this time you will definitely kill the enemy's main general and defeat the enemy's reinforcements." ”

"No." Several people received the order, and according to Cao Cao's instructions, they each carried out their own tasks.

And said that Jiang Qi led 5,000 troops to Wuchao to rescue, and soon came to the outside of the camp, and saw a team of soldiers with untidy armor, so he stopped and asked about the situation, but heard those soldiers say that they were soldiers who broke out of Wuchao and were ordered to come here to urge reinforcements.

Jiang Qi did not doubt this, and hurriedly waved his army to the black nest, and when he came to the narrow part of the road, he saw a general shouting like thunder: "Where is Jiang Qi going?" Look at the knife. ”

Before Jiang Qi could react, he was cut off by Xu Chu's head, and his entourage soldiers saw that the master was about to be killed, and heard someone in the enemy army shouting: "The grain and grass of Wuchao have been burned by our army, and you have no way to live now, surrender quickly, and you can save your life, otherwise, you will be ordered to die and have no place to be buried." ”

At this time, Cao Cao, in order to further put pressure on Yuan Shao's army, ordered the soldiers to cut off the noses of the enemy who died in battle, a total of more than 2,000, and ordered people to send more than 2,000 noses to the Yuan army outside the black nest.

When the news of the burning of Wuchao's grain and grass reached Yangwu, Yuan Shao's nearly 100,000 troops were suddenly shaken, and the soldiers fled one after another, leaving less than 20,000 in just one morning.

And the strategist Guo Tu saw that Zhang He and Gao Ran did not conquer Cao Cao's camp, but let the reinforcements defeat, in order to shirk responsibility, he deliberately framed the second general, and said to Yuan Shao: "Zhang Tai and Gao Ran will be happy when they see the defeat of the lord's army." ”

Yuan Shao was stunned when he heard this, and then asked, "Why did the public rule say this?" ”

I heard Guo Tu reply: "The two of them have always had the intention of surrendering Cao, and now they are sending an attack on the village, and they deliberately refuse to use force, so that they will lose their soldiers and cannot be attacked." ”

Yuan Shao was furious when he heard this, and ordered the messenger to urgently summon the two to return to the village to ask for the crime.

But he never thought that Guo Tu had already ordered someone to say to the second general: "The lord thinks that you two don't need to die, so he will send someone to kill you." ”

Zhang He and Gao Lan were shocked when they heard this, and had no choice but to lead the army to Cao Cao, and were respectively named partial generals, Duting Marquis, partial generals, and Donglai Hou

At this point, the advantage of the Battle of Guandu had completely shifted to Cao Cao's side, and the great war that had lasted for more than a year finally came to an end.