In fact, the Junzi army had every hope of arriving at the Cangting battlefield one day earlier, but before crossing the Guzi River, the Yin Li team of the Xuzhou infantry team, which was responsible for assisting the Junzi army to cross the Wenshui and Guzi River, was harassed and damaged by the defenders of neighboring Fan County when building a pontoon bridge, and it took a lot of strength to defeat the defenders of Fan County, and built a pontoon bridge to cross the river to cover the Junzi Army to cross the river.

However, after the Junzi Army crossed the river on all fronts, I saw the notorious bad taste military flags of the Junzi Army, and heard the more bad taste of the Junzi Army Song, and the defenders of Fan County, who originally planned to ask Che Xuan for help and fight again, also suddenly dispelled the idea of going out of the city to fight, and honestly hid in Fan County, watching the Junzi Army bypass Fan County, singing the beginning of the poem and going to the Cangting where there was no longer a large river to block it. also mistakenly stuck the time when the Junzi Army arrived at the Cangting battlefield at the most critical moment for Boss Cao.

Whether it is a coincidence or luck, in short, the time when the Junzi Army arrived at the Cangting battlefield is still too critical and too appropriate, just when Cao Boss's bluff has succeeded, it has completely hit the morale of Yuan Shaojun's army and greatly boosted the morale of Cao Jun, and when Cao Boss can win a complete victory as long as he orders to attack, the Junzi Army suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River, and sang a bad military song representing the identity of the army, and the entire battlefield situation was completely reversed, not only the lie of the fiasco of the Xuzhou army was self-defeating, The morale of Cao's army also fell to the bottom all of a sudden, and Yuan Shaojun's morale, which was already close to collapse, was resurrected on the spot with full blood, and suddenly reached a state of explosion, and its combat effectiveness increased exponentially.

If it weren't for the fact that Cao Boss had ambushed four ambushes on both sides of the camp in advance, rushed out in time to share the frontal pressure, and if it weren't for the excellent combat effectiveness of Cao's sergeants and soldiers, and their super cohesion and desperate fighting, then Cao's camp would definitely have to be kicked by Yuan Shaojun, who was in a state of fanaticism, and Cao Boss would not even have a chance to save part of the team to retreat across the Yellow River. But even if it barely blocked the crazy impact of Yuan Shaojun, the Cao army also paid a very heavy price for it, after the first battle, more than 10,000 main soldiers of the Cao army died on the battlefield, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, Dian Wei and Li Dian and other generals were all wounded by arrows, and Cao Boss himself was also shot in the helmet by a stray arrow, almost penetrating the top.

The brutal fierce battle lasted from noon until it was completely dark, and the Great Yuan Sangong originally planned to continue the night battle, but the strategists such as Fu Zhu and Cui Yan found that the physical strength of the self-army had seriously declined, and the Cao army relied on the camp fortifications to hold on desperately, and the attack was not only urgent and difficult to break, but also the casualties would be very huge, so they suggested that the Great Yuan Sangong Ming Jin withdraw the troops, let the soldiers return to the camp to rest first, recover their physical strength, and then launch a surprise attack when the Cao army crossed the river, which can receive twice the combat effect with half the effort. Yuan Sangong, who was eager for revenge, didn't want to hear it, Cui Yan pointed out that the morale of the Cao army was depressed at the moment, and the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for the Cao army and the more beneficial it would be for the Jizhou army.

Although it finally survived the fierce attack of Yuan Shaojun's army for more than five hours, Cao Jun understood very well that the greatest danger of the self-army had not yet passed, and before crossing the Yellow River, the situation of the self-army was still dangerous and could be destroyed at any time, so after Yuan Shao's army retreated, Cao Boss not only ordered to rescue the wounded soldiers as much as possible and give priority to transferring the wounded soldiers to cross the river, but also called several capable generals to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss, and said straight to the point: "The situation is critical, I need a warrior who can sacrifice for the main force, Leading a team behind the palace and covering the retreat of the main force, who wants to take this risk? ”

"The last general is willing to stay behind the palace!" Li Tong, a famous general in Runan, was the first to stand up without hesitation, and hurriedly said: "The last general is willing to lead the army to the palace, even if he fights for his life, he must cover the main force to withdraw across the Yellow River!" ”

Boss Cao stared at Li Tong, and saw that Li Tong's expression was serious and his eyes were firm, so he said slowly: "Wenda, you have to think about it, you will face the death of Yuan Shao's 200,000 troops at that time, but the main force of our army is blocked by the Yellow River, and there is no way to provide you with even the assistance of a single soldier, once the pontoon bridge is destroyed, you and your team will also be difficult to return to Yanzhou, are you ready?" ”

Li Tong knelt down on his knees to Boss Cao, clasped his fists and said solemnly: "Since the last general has followed the prime minister, he has repeatedly received great favors from the prime minister, but he has no return for his work, and this time the situation is critical. ”

Boss Cao didn't speak anymore, but just hugged Li Tong with both hands, choked up and cried when he held Li Tong's hands, and choked up and said after a long time: "Since that's the case, then please ask the general." ”

Li Dian and Le Jin led the army to protect the wounded soldiers and grain and grass first retreated from the pontoon bridge, and lined up on the south bank of the Yellow River to protect the wounded soldiers and grain and grass, in case the elusive gentleman's army suddenly attacked. The Jizhou scout flew the news to Da Yuan Sangong, who listened to the advice of the strategists and did not immediately launch a pursuit, but just let the new force continue to protect the main force of the army, so that the main force of the soldiers could rest and recover their strength, until the next day when the sky was light, Da Yuan Sangong led the main force of a full meal to the south again to attack the Cao army team in the state of crossing the river.

In order to buy time for the main force to cross the river, Li Tong, the general of the Cao army, led 6,000 Cao army warriors to arrive alone more than 60,000 Jizhou army main force to take turns to attack, with simple camp fortifications to resist the impact of the Jizhou army, the trench has long been filled with the corpses of the soldiers on both sides who died on the first day, and the antlers have long been destroyed, but Li Tong's team still miraculously repelled the frontal impact of the Jizhou army again and again, Angry, Yuan Sangong beheaded several of his own generals who were ineffective in battle, and was also forced to divide his troops to attack the Cao army crossing from both flanks, and fought a fierce battle on the Yellow River embankment with the Cao army waiting to cross the river.

In the bloody battle, Li Tong was hit by three arrows, but he still fought to the death, and he beheaded many Jizhou generals, and also personally cut his own brother Li Wei, who persuaded him to retreat, and shouted that the retreater was guilty of the same crime as my brother, and encouraged the Cao army warriors who volunteered to leave the palace to kill the enemy desperately, and successively repelled the Jizhou army's charge on the Zhaizha defense line seven times, until the new army led by Yuan Xi arrived at the battlefield and broke the Cao army's Zhaizha with a numerical advantage, Li Tong was forced to abandon the Zhaizha defense line, and led the army to retreat to the camp to continue the street battle with the Jizhou army. The shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth, and although Yuan Shaojun's attack was fierce, he was never able to quickly rush up to the Yellow River embankment at the ferry and impact the Cao army team who crossed the river there.

In order to withdraw the combat troops across the Yellow River as soon as possible, in addition to the necessary grain and grass for the withdrawal, Cao Boss resolutely gave up all the baggage vehicles, and also pushed these baggage vehicles to the periphery of the ferry, ready to ignite at any time to intercept the pursuers, at the same time Cao Boss personally led the supervision team to guard the pontoon bridge, once someone retreats out of order, no matter who it is, Cao Boss black hand finger, by Cao Boss personally composed of the supervision team will immediately rush up, the person who violates the order will be hacked to death, the head is hung on the pontoon bridge to warn future generations, Ensure that a large team can cross the river through the narrow pontoon bridge in an orderly manner.

When noon was approaching, more than 50,000 Cao army troops had retreated for the most part, and Yuan Shaojun's team had already been killed to a position within sight, and even the hideous smiles on the faces of Yuan Shaojun's soldiers could be clearly seen. In addition to Li Tong's team, there are more than 10,000 troops who have not withdrawn, and Cao Ying wants to cross the river now, but the prime minister of the Han Dynasty will not allow it. ”

After saying this sentence lightly, Cao Boss not only ordered the peripheral baggage vehicles to be ignited, but also ordered a cadre of Wenchen strategists to cross the river immediately, Guo Jia and others did not comply, crying bitterly and asking to advance and retreat with Cao Boss, but they were whipped onto the pontoon bridge and ferry by Cao Boss, and ordered the soldiers to forcibly carry these strategists across the river, while Cao Boss himself continued to stay on the north bank of the Yellow River and commanded the rest of the army to cross the river in an orderly manner.

Cao Boss also has no way, now Cao Boss himself can cross the river to ensure safety, but on the north bank of more than 10,000 uncrossed the river team and Li Tong's team is also definitely over, without Cao Boss to stay on the north bank to stabilize the army's morale and boost morale, Yuan Shaojun will rush to the wolves like lambs, quickly crush these Cao army teams that have lost their commander and order, and then carry out a brutal massacre, wash away the shame of Guandu a year ago, so Cao Boss can only stay, as much as possible to preserve the seeds of the army, and leave the last hope for the future comeback.

After withdrawing part of the attacking team that had exhausted its physical strength, another batch of Yuan Shaojun's fresh force was put into the battlefield, more than 50,000 Yuan Shaojun rushed wildly around the Cangting Ferry, and even refused to take prisoners, almost every fallen Cao army soldier was chopped into pieces with a knife, although the palace team led by Li Tong was still resisting desperately, but it had been divided into two pieces of Yuan Shaojun army surrounded by a large number of Yuan Shaojun troops, and more Yuan Shaojun soldiers began to attack the ferry pontoon bridge in groups, The Cao army, which had never crossed the river, was also forced to engage in a fierce battle with Yuan Shaojun in the raging fire, and more and more Cao soldiers fell, but Yuan Shaojun was still pouring in.

The situation is extremely critical, the generals of the Cao army who have not crossed the river have rushed to the front of Cao Boss, kneeling with tears and begging Cao Boss to retreat immediately, when Cao Boss beat these generals with a horse whip with a blue face, there were countless screams and excited roars from the upstream of the ferry, it turned out that a team of Yuan Shaojun rushed to a Cao army pontoon bridge in the chaos, and cut several hard wooden piles connected to the iron cable with an axe, and the pontoon bridge that had already been overwhelmed with a terrible cracking sound pulled off the remaining wooden stakes in this corner, and the pontoon bridge suddenly turned sideways, The dense Cao soldiers on the bridge deck screamed and fell into the Yellow River, crying and shouting and disappeared into the depths of the waves.

Seeing this scene, Cao Boss's tent in front of the lieutenant Dian Wei couldn't bear it, suddenly rushed up, pulled Cao Boss off the war horse, strode on the bridge on his shoulder, and rushed to the other side of the Yellow River desperately, Cao Boss was furious, while drinking Dian Wei to put himself down, while slapping Dian Wei with the handle of the horse whip, but even if he was beaten by Cao Boss to the head and bleeding, Dian Wei still refused to let go of Cao Boss, just strode towards the other side of the Yellow River, Cao soldiers on the pontoon bridge took the initiative to avoid, and occasionally a few soldiers refused to avoid or dodged, was also beaten down by Dian Wei with one arm and one by one.

"Dian Wei, let go of me, let go of me! I command you to let me go! I command you to ....... Shouting frantically, Boss Cao suddenly burst into tears, crying and scolding with remorse, "Six years ago, was I blind, or was lard blind?" How could you let that thief go? Without that thief, how could I be where I am today? How can I say now————?! ”

Although Li Tong's team is still fighting desperately, the general of Cao Jun, who has not withdrawn from the south bank, also resolutely stood up, took over the command of Cao's army's team, and continued to command Cao's army to retreat in order, but Cao's army team still began to panic and collapse, greedy for life and afraid that the dead would take the opportunity to coax, and rushed to the pontoon bridge in order to escape, which caused the psychological panic of Cao's army team to intensify, and more Cao soldiers rushed to the bridge to get on the boat first. You squeezed me and pushed me into a mess, no matter how much the Cao Jun Inspector team slashed and shouted, it couldn't get any effect, and in the end, even the Supervisor was scattered by the chaotic soldiers, and several soldiers of the Supervisor were also pushed into the Yellow River.

Then the Cao army's river crossing action was also completely chaotic, in order to survive, countless Cao army generals and soldiers rushed forward, the remaining four pontoon bridges were crowded out, countless Cao soldiers were overturned and squeezed down by their own companions, and then countless soles stepped on, and these fallen their own companions were trampled alive and never had a chance to stand up again, some Cao soldiers also raised their knives and guns to their companions, that is, they fought for a narrow crowded road, and there was no place to stand on the bridge deck, Countless Cao soldiers climbed on the south bank of the pontoon bridge and climbed hard, while more Cao soldiers were squeezed into the Yellow River by their own companions, screaming for help and drifting with the tide until they disappeared into the depths of the yellow water.

In order to prevent the ferry from being crushed, the Cao soldiers began to wield knives and slash their own companions who climbed on the edge of the boat, and the Cao soldiers who climbed on the edge of the boat refused to let go, crying and shouting and begging the companions on the boat to show mercy, but their companions mercilessly waved their knives and cut off their fingers, and the bloody fingers soon fell all over the edge of the boat, trembling and twitching in a pool of blood, and the owners of the fingers cried and fell into the water. Rolling on the water, struggling and calling for help. Even so, several ferries full of soldiers were overwhelmed and slowly sank on the way to cross the river, and the soldiers and sailors on board cried and shook the sky, but there was no way to go up to the sky and no way to get down to the ground.

Seeing such a scene, the Jizhou army team that has attacked the embankment is of course thunderous, laughing and cheering, gloating, on the south bank of the embankment, Cao Boss and Cao Jun's civil and military officials are like knives, crying silently abound, Dian Wei even knelt on his knees in front of Cao Boss to ask for guilt, but Cao Boss now has no care to punish Dian Wei for forcibly holding himself hostage across the river, just secretly praying for God's blessing to be able to let his team withdraw more.

Since the appearance of the Disaster Star Gentleman's Army, the old man worshiped by Cao Boss obviously did not go to work again, under the crazy squeezing and trampling of countless Cao Army's defeated soldiers, the other two temporary pontoon bridges soon collapsed on their own, and almost all the soldiers on the bridge fell into the water, and Cao Jun wanted to cross the river to the south, and there were only two narrow pontoon bridges that were built and reinforced before, as well as civilian and cargo ships with a pitiful carrying capacity. The morale of Yuan Shaojun's team was greatly boosted, and the soldiers on the bridge could not cross the river quickly.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Yu Ban also gave up his useless efforts to maintain order, led the supervision team to forcibly grab a ferry boat from his own soldiers, and cut down the defeated soldiers who tried to get on the boat into the water, and then desperately rocked to the south bank to escape, but at this time, a large number of Jizhou army archers who boarded the embankment also began to cover the river with bows and arrows, shooting countless Cao soldiers on the boat, one of the stray arrows, and the one who was still alive happened to be shot in Yu Ban's right eye, Yu Ban screamed and fell into the cabin, dead or alive. At the same time, Wen Chou and Gao Gan, two Jizhou fierce generals, also began to lead the army to storm the last two pontoon bridges of the Cao army, preparing to cut off the last return route of the Cao army.

At the same time, on the battlefield behind the palace, there were only thirty or forty Cao soldiers left by the seriously injured Li Tong, and Ma Yan, the general of Jizhou who was responsible for encircling and annihilating Li Tong's team, also gave Li Tong a chance, first ordered a temporary stop to attack, and then shouted out of battle: "Runan Li Tong, I have heard of your name, for your bravery, if you surrender, I will try my best to protect you from death in front of the lord!" ”

"Phew!" This is the only answer given by Li Tong, whose right hand has only a layer of skin connected to his shoulder, Ma Yan shook his head helplessly, and then with a wave of his hand, the Jizhou soldiers immediately rushed up like a tide, and in an instant, they flooded the last team around Li Tong, and Li Tong's head was quickly regarded as an important trophy by Ma Yan, and he sent someone to quickly send it to the big Yuan Sangong who was supervising the battle in the distance.

"Okay, okay." Seeing Li Tong's head, Da Yuan Sangong, who was always in a state of excitement, also smiled from ear to ear, and scolded hatefully: "Piff! If it weren't for the desperate resistance of this horseman to the queen of the palace for the Cao thief, our army's gains today would have to increase by at least 10,000 or more! ”

"Lord, there are many such stubborn people around Cao Thief." Fu Zhi calmly reminded: "Therefore, although our army has defeated Cao Thief, there are still many bitter battles to be fought in the future, and I hope that the lord will be cautious and not take it lightly because of today's victory." ”

Da Yuan Sangong didn't like the frustration of listening to words, but he was in a good mood and didn't bother to investigate, just nodded and smiled: "Gong and his words are reasonable, I can't take the remnants of the Cao thief lightly, but it doesn't matter much, as long as our army crosses the Yellow River and meets with Ying'er's Xuzhou team in Yanzhou, it will be easier to deal with the Cao thief." ”

"About Xuzhou Tao Envoy, Your Majesty has a few words to say to the lord." Frustrated, he did not give up, and said: "This time, our army was able to defeat the Cao thief with the shame of Xue Guandu, the Xuzhou army made a huge contribution, and Tao Envoy Jun was even more filial to the lord of your father-in-law, and gave up the opportunity to take the whole territory of Jiangdong in one go, and the sacrifice was not small, so after our army and Tao Envoy Jun met, I also asked the lord to comfort Tao Envoy Jun a lot of kind words and praise, and other things can be said slowly." ”

"I don't need to be instructed by my husband and husband about this, Ying'er is my son-in-law, so I naturally won't treat him badly." Da Yuan Sangong waved his hand impatiently, and then yelled at the herald next to him: "Go and give Wen Chou and Gao Gan an order, telling them to destroy the last two pontoon bridges of the Cao thieves as soon as possible, and not give the Cao thieves the slightest chance to escape!" Again, let's see if the thief died in the chaos, he wanted to see people alive and corpses when he died. ”

The herald took the order, and Mr. Guo Tu on the side took the opportunity to say to him: "My lord, since the gentleman's army has once hit the south bank of the Yellow River, then Tao Yuanjun's main force must not be far from the Yellow River, why don't you send someone to contact Tao Yuanjun as soon as possible, so that his main force can be exhausted, cut off the road for Cao Thief to retreat to Xuchang, and strive to annihilate the remnants of Cao Thief in the hinterland of Yanzhou, so that our army can quickly take Xuchang." ”

"Mr. Gongtu's words are very kind."

As soon as Da Yuan Sangong heard the great joy, he hurriedly ordered Bo Chenlin to pick up the pen and make a book, and ordered Guo Tu to arrange a capable work, and immediately sneaked to the south bank of the Yellow River to contact Deputy Director Tao, and asked Deputy Director Tao to send troops to cut off Cao Laoda's way. Cui Yan on the side hurriedly said: "Lord, the distance between the rear of Xuzhou and the Yellow River is too far, and the transportation of grain and grass is difficult, and it is definitely not so easy for Tao Envoy Jun to cut off the retreat of Cao Thief, so the Lord still don't use the tone of command, you might as well let Tao Envoy Jun see the opportunity to act, it is best to cut off the retreat of Cao Thief, but it is really not necessary to force it, so as not to make our army and Xuzhou Army unhappy, which is not conducive to the future war to destroy Cao." ”

The third prince of Da Yuan hesitated, and Xin Bi on the other side smiled and said: "Mr. Ji Jue's words are wrong, Tao Envoy Jun is the son-in-law of the lord, why can't the father-in-law give command to the son-in-law?" Besides, Tao Yuanjun is also notoriously slippery, if he doesn't put a little pressure on him, I'm afraid he will steal and play slippery again, and he won't fight hard. ”

"That's right, Ying'er is my son-in-law, why can't I give orders to him?" Da Yuan Sangong nodded quickly, waved his hand and said: "Just use the tone of command, Ying'er is also a little too slippery, don't give him a little pressure, he won't act obediently." ”

Guo Tu and Xin Bi sang a promise with a bow, and Fu Zhu and Cui Yan glanced at each other helplessly, and secretly said in their hearts together: "It's troublesome, it seems that this battle to destroy Cao is probably not as easy as imagined." ”

At this time, there was good news from the front, it turned out that Wen Chou's team seized the entrance of a Cao army pontoon bridge, and quickly destroyed the pontoon bridge, so that the Cao army had only one pontoon bridge left to pass, and a large number of Cao soldiers were cornered, so they had to put down their weapons and kneel to surrender. Da Yuan Sangong laughed even more when he heard this, and then said very dissatisfied: "Ying'er's gentleman's army, what the hell is it doing?" How did you show up on the south bank of the Yellow River and run away? If they could block the south bank today, would Cao Thief An be able to escape so many soldiers and horses? ”

"Don't blame the lord, the gentleman's army is not good at tough battles, and it is difficult to bear the ...... of blocking."

Before he finished speaking, Guo Tu had already said with a smile: "Don't be angry, the gentleman's army is Tao Yuanjun's magic weapon, and it is also the first strong army in Xuzhou formed by Tao Yuanjun himself. ”

Of course, Da Yuan Sangong didn't care, he just snorted heavily, and began to think about how to teach his unscrupulous son-in-law who only knew how to preserve his strength, and how to force his unworthy son-in-law to fight the next hard battle.

(To be continued)