The wolf smoke is billowing and shouting to kill the sky.

Cao Ren's men and horses, who were bitten by Xu Huang, were able to get out of the battlefield only after being received by a team of cavalry led by Cao Chun.

Cao Chun, who led the team to withdraw from the battlefield, looked back, but saw that the cavalry led by Xiahoudun had fallen into a heavy encirclement.

Without the slightest hesitation, Cao Chun lifted the reins of the horse, turned the horse's head and shouted left and right: "General Xiahou is in the battle formation, and the brothers will go with me to rescue him." ”

"Whoa." The left and right cavalry, who had just come out of the battle circle, responded with a bang.

Seeing Cao Chun, who rushed out, and rushed back with the cavalry again, Xu Huang, who was angry, said coldly: "Brothers, pick up the iron shield and follow me to kill this thief." ”

Just when Xu Huang rode out and was about to meet Cao Chun, Tai Shi Ci, who was holding an iron spear on the front position, slammed left and right, and assassinated several cavalrymen in a row, seeing a cavalry of more than 1,000 people coming back and forth, worried that this cavalry would tear apart the battle formation that was difficult to control, Tai Shi Ci immediately flew out, hung the spear on the horse's back, and stretched out his long arms, picked up the divine arm bow on his shoulder, pulled out a wolf arrow from the horse's back, bent the bow and took the arrow, the arm was loosened, the bowstring sounded, and the arrow flew out like a meteor catching the moon.

"Poof!"

The enemy rider who rushed to the front was instantly pierced by an arrow in his chest, and the castrated arrow then penetrated the body of an enemy rider behind, and the huge impact force directly took the enemy soldier off the horse.

One arrow was successful, and Tai Shici on horseback was about to shoot the second arrow, when suddenly his gaze froze, locking the front of the military formation, Cao Chun, who was wearing chain mail.

Cao Chun, who was galloping forward, didn't notice Tai Shici, who was a hundred steps away, had already locked his eyes on him, and with the sword in his hand, all his attention was on Xu Huang, who was coming.

"Whoosh!"

At the moment when Cao Chun rode into Xu Huang's military formation, the wolf iron in Tai Shici's hand flew out, and the sharp arrows pierced through Cao Chun's heart at an astonishing speed with a sound of breaking through the sky.

"Bang!" When Cao Chun on horseback reacted, there was only a blood-red color left in his eyes, and the noisy battlefield seemed to be quiet all of a sudden.

It wasn't until he fell to the ground that Cao Chun's consciousness completely fell into darkness, and at that moment, Cao Chunfang knew that his life was still passing.

"Well done." Xu Huang in the battle array, when he turned around, he saw Tai Shici, who had withdrawn his divine arm bow on the flank of the battlefield, and couldn't help but praise it, and rushed into Cao Chun's cavalry queue with a wave of his spear.

And Xiahoudun, who was in the center of the battlefield, although he wanted to try his best to get rid of Dian Wei, but Dian Wei, who was desperate, was like a killing god, biting Xiahoudun tightly, even in the face of dozens of blades, Dian Wei was not afraid at all, and he never slowed down a step while wielding the iron halberd to kill the sergeant who blocked the flight and blocked him.

In the face of Dian Wei, who was so crazy, Xiahoudun was furious, and the blood in his heart couldn't help but burn.

"Damn, isn't this Dian Wei an ancient evil?" Xiahoudun scolded secretly, and when he was heading head-on, he suddenly found that a black-faced man had been killed in the oblique stab, waving a war horse, and was rushing towards the kill.

"The thief will leave, and Zhou Tai is here." The black-faced man who rushed out of the oblique stab was none other than Zhou Tai on the right wing.

"Boom!"

In the face of Zhou Tai's slashing knife, Xiahoudun had to swing his knife to block, and after this chase, there was no sergeant around him for a long time, and although the battlefield was full of soldiers and horses, they were all caught in a fight at this moment, and no one could care about anyone.

"Eat me again." Xiahoudun just stopped Zhou Tai's blade, and then the war knife in Zhou Tai's hand fell again, although Xiahoudun's force was not inferior to Zhou Tai, but he had no intention of fighting, where was Zhou Tai's enemy who was bent on fighting to the death.

After three rounds, he fell into a passive state, and it was in this Dian Wei that he killed again.

Xiahoudun, who was intercepted by Zhou Taidian Wei Er, finally realized that now he has fallen into extreme danger, and if he can't break out again, it is very likely that he will be a real dead end.

"Hmph, let's fight." Xiahoudun looked indifferently at the oncoming Zhou Tai, and waved his knife to meet him.

Xiahoudun, who was determined to fight to the death, suddenly skyrocketed in strength, and under the attack, he even had the upper hand, but if he faced only Zhou Tai alone, maybe he really had a chance to rush out, but Dian Wei, who followed up and rushed up, was not an opponent that he could defeat alone.

Xiahoudun deserves to be Cao Cao's most effective general, when he fought to the death, even in the face of the siege of Dian Wei and Zhou Tai, he was still able to stand for thirty rendezvous with attack and defense, and he still had the strength to spare.

"Dead open." At the cost of his left arm, under the halberd cut by Dian Wei, Xiahoudun, who was covered in blood, roared angrily, and when he waved his right hand to block the blade cut by Zhou Tai, his legs clamped the horse's belly, driving the war horse out of the battle circle of the two.

When he rushed into the cavalry team led by a captain who came to the rescue, Xiahoudun, who had his left arm cut off by Dian Wei, finally fell off his horse due to excessive blood loss.

"Quick, lead the general to break through." The captain who rushed up was the general of the Xiahou family, and seeing Xiahou, who had a broken left arm and was covered in blood, fell off his horse, the captain couldn't help but shout in a hurry.

"Hugh is leaving, Xiahoudun." Facing nearly a hundred sergeants who guarded Xiahoudun in the middle, Dian Wei shouted, and rushed forward like this, brandishing his halberd regardless of it, and stabbed Xiahoudun in the middle of the horse team.

"General Dian is magnificent." Seeing more than a dozen enemy soldiers wielding weapons and stabbing at Dian Wei, and Dian Wei, who was in it, was not afraid at all, Zhou Tai praised it, brandished his war knife and slashed down angrily, blocking the weapon for Dian Wei, and at the same time cutting out with a backhand, several enemy soldiers who had no time to block back were directly swept off the horse by the long knife in his hand.

"Uhh Xiahoudun in a coma, leaning over the horse, did not know death and coming, when Dian Wei's sharp halberd penetrated through the armor and pierced his waist, he was in pain, and he screamed fiercely from the horse, his eyes were cold, his eyes looked at the direction of the camp, and he shouted with a few mouthfuls of blood in his mouth: "Brother Mengde, I will ...... go"

Just when Xiahoudun was stabbed to death by Dian Wei on the spot, Cao Cao, who had always been calm as a mountain, was shocked and stood up suddenly: "Can Yuan Rang (Xiahoudun) come back?" ”

"Lord, General Zixiao is back." Hearing Cao Cao's inquiry, Cao Xiu, who was outside the camp gate, happened to see Cao Ren returning, and hurriedly replied.

"Zixiao is back." Cao Cao immediately greeted him, looked at Cao Ren, who was covered in blood, and hurriedly asked, "How is the injury?" Can Zilian and Yuan Rang come back? ”

"Zilian disappeared in the chaos, Yuan Rang was trapped in the military array, and Zihe took someone to answer." With the assistance of the guards, Cao Ren, who was taking off his armor, gritted his teeth and forcibly endured the pain on his body and replied.

"Han Ziyang deserves to be a fierce general." Cao Cao sighed in a deep voice and said, "Order, Yu Ban and Li Dian immediately respond to Xiahoudun and Cao Chun's retreat, and the rest of the soldiers and horses immediately withdraw from the camp." ”

Knowing that the cavalry was trapped in a battle circle and could not get out, Cao Cao realized that if he continued to delay here, it was very likely that the whole army would be encircled and it would be difficult to escape.

Cao Cao immediately withdrew, although he saved most of his strength, but completely buried his cavalry and the two generals of Yu Ban Li Dian.

Han Lie, who took the lead, personally led 20,000 soldiers of the Red Flame Army, and outside the city of Tancheng, he first started a battle to the death with the 5,000 iron cavalry of Xiahoudun Cao Chun's department, but just when Xiahoudun was killed and Cao Chun died in battle, he saw the cavalry team collapse. Generals Yu Ban and Li Dian each led 1,500 soldiers into the battlefield, so that the cavalry of the Cao army, which was in collapse, broke out again in combat effectiveness.

The second general Yu Ban Li Dian may only be a quasi-first-class level in force at most, but his ability to command operations is definitely a first-class general.

The troops under the command of the two, as soon as they entered the battlefield, did not rush to kill the enemy, but gathered the rout troops that restrained the battlefield, and then formed a formation to resist, so that when Han Lie led his troops all the way to the gate of Cao's camp, the casualties paid had already exceeded 4,000.

But Yu Ban and Li Dian were also completely surrounded in the camp by Han Lie's troops, and they were no longer able to break through.

A battle lasted from early morning until nightfall, and because he was so tired and hungry that Han Lie had to order the whole army to surround the camp and wait for the next day to continue the attack.

At this time, although Han Lie knew that Cao Cao had escaped, he was not disappointed, because he still had a follow-up move, that is, Sun Guan, one of the Taishan Qunkou, the three brothers Sun Kang and Sun Tao, under Wang Ling's army, had already set off to block the south bank of Weishui on the road where Cao's army must retreat.

"Order Xiahoulan to record the roster of all the fallen sergeants, and order Mi Zhu to immediately arrange for Minzhuang to clean up all the corpses overnight, whether it is our army or Cao Jun's, find a dry valley and burn and bury them on the spot, and never let the corpse smell spread." After fighting for a day, when he took off his battle armor, Han Lie found that there were as many as seven wounds left on his body, but fortunately, none of them were fatal.

Among the generals, Dian Wei was the most injured, with as many as seventeen wounds all over his body, and a wound in the center of his mouth, if he went in three inches, Dian Wei's heart would inevitably be pierced, and even the gods would not be able to save his life at that time.

In a bloody battle, the Red Flame Army lost nearly 4,000 soldiers, and the results achieved were only a draw, and the corpses of the enemy were only about 4,000, and the only gain was to capture 1,200 live horses, as well as nearly 1,000 prisoners, and collect thousands of killed war horses.

The death of a thousand war horses is really regrettable, but this is the case on the battlefield, not to mention just livestock, even those living people, all of them are thousands of fallen, compared to what is the dead war horse.

All the dead war horses, outside the Cao army camp that night, set up a bonfire barbecue, or iron pot cooking, in the face of the bloody battlefield, already hungry, accustomed to the sergeants, so unscrupulous to eat and drink.

In the big tent, Han Lie took a sip of the hot horse broth, looked around at the generals and said: "Although everyone is tired today, there are still more than 2,000 Cao troops in the camp in front of them, in order to prevent them from jumping off the wall in a hurry, they must strengthen their vigilance tonight, I don't know which general is willing to shoulder this rule." ”

"The last general is willing." As soon as Han Lie's words fell, all the generals asked for their lives, but only Dian Wei, who was injured and resting, was not there.

"You deserve to be the ministers of the humerus, this matter can be done by one person, and I will let Zilong be in charge of guarding." The reason why Han Lie ordered Zhao Yun's generals was also because among the generals, only Zhao Yun was currently the least injured, with only three skin injuries.

Of course, this does not mean that he did not fight the contrary, although he did not kill the enemy generals today, his troops were the one that killed the most enemies and suffered the fewest casualties. It is not difficult to see from this record that Zhao Yun's way of using troops can be described as the best general.

In a valley fifty miles north of Tancheng, when Cao Cao received the inventory of the army, his face couldn't help but be clouded. Of the 35,000 soldiers and horses before the expedition, there are less than 5,000 people left, among which Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, and Cao Chun fell into the enemy formation before retreating, and the two generals Yu Ban and Li Dian, who were in charge of the broken rear, have not yet arrived, and there is no news about whether they are alive or dead.

"Lord, the moon is bright today, and now we are still close to Xuzhou, if we don't hurry up, in case the chasing soldiers arrive, it will be difficult to fight." Don't drive Cheng Yu, he is also full of worries at the moment, this battle, now it seems that it can be described as a complete defeat.

"Let Miaocai be in charge of the vigilance, and the whole army will rest for an hour and set off immediately." Cao Cao nodded with some interest.

In Cao Junyuan's camp outside Tancheng City, after Yu Ban and Li Dian counted the camp, they found that they now had only 2,700 soldiers and horses, of which there were 1,000 cavalry, and the rest were foot soldiers, and what was even more worrying was that there was no food available in the camp.

In order to satisfy their hunger, all the soldiers in the camp at night, except for a part of the soldiers who hid in dry food, killed more than a hundred wounded horses, and even then, at most, they had to eat a meal, but tomorrow, they would either break through the siege or die in battle, or they could only starve to death in the camp.

"Man Cheng, you must already know that Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, and Cao Chun all died in the chaos, and now the lord has withdrawn, leaving us alone, have you ever thought about what to do?" Yu Ban's official position at this time was the position of the captain of the battle, and his official position in the army was actually one level higher than Li Dian, and at this time, Yu Ban was only twenty-five years old, one year younger than Li Dian.

In terms of the time when Li Dian took refuge in Cao Cao, it was three years earlier than Yu Ban, Li Dian followed his uncle Li Gan and cousin Li Quan to follow Cao Cao, that is, after the defeat of the Kwantung Coalition Army, Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, was killed in battle, and Cao Cao entered Yanzhou.

Because of his uncle and cousin in front, Li Dian was taken care of in peacetime battles, and he was low-key, so he was only an adjutant, until recently, his uncle Li Gan and cousin Li Quan died in the siege battle, he was able to get Cao Ren's support, and was able to take over his uncle Li Gan's old department and be promoted to the position of Sima of other departments.

And Yu Ban just defected to Cao Cao last year, it turned out that he was Bao Xin's old department, after Bao Xin died in battle last year, Bao Xin's department was all owned by Cao Cao, and Yu Ban, who was a military candidate at that time, naturally became Cao Cao's subordinate. However, in the later Qingzhou Crusade against the Yellow Turban, as well as in the battle between Xuchang and Yuan Shu, Yu Ban had quite a lot of military merits and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in battle, commanding 2,000 soldiers and horses.

"Wen Ze, do you want to surrender?" Although Li Dian is not a person who is good at words, he is not stupid, at this time, how could he not know the current situation, and the bloody battle on the battlefield recently, the combat effectiveness of the Red Flame Army also gave him a great shock.

"Manchester City Hugh wants to laugh, Cao Gong is also kind to me, how can I betray the Lord." Yu Ban's face changed, and he categorically denied. In fact, Yu Ban at the moment, and he didn't have time to think about these things in the future, he asked Li Dian for advice, but in fact, it was just because Han Lie's army was pressing, and he was worried in his heart, so he just wanted to find someone to talk to, so as to alleviate the depression in his heart. (To be continued.) )