Just when Yuan Mai was excited to get a noble son again, shocking news came from Qingzhou.

As a counterattack against the Yuan family, Cao Cao sent Zang Ba, Chen Deng, and Sun Guan to send troops from Xuzhou to attack Qingzhou and contain Yuan Shao's army. Zangba and Chen Deng led the order and led 15,000 people from Xuzhou to the north to enter Langya and besiege Kaiyang County, where Langya was governed.

Jiang Qi, who took over as the prime minister instead of Fu Hu, saw that Cao's army was strong, and while guarding the door closely, he sent an envoy to Yuan Tan, the assassin of the state, for help, and Yuan Tan then sent his subordinate general Guan Tong to lead 10,000 horses and horses to the south to rescue Kaiyang.

After the reinforcements arrived, Jiang Qi opened the city gate to meet with the management of the commander, and fought with Zangba and Chen Deng in the Kaiyang field. Sun Guan was a Taishan thief before he surrendered to Cao, and he was quite famous among the grass thieves in Langya, and under his invitation, the Taishan thieves who fell in the grass in Langya came to help, gathered nearly 10,000 people, and secretly launched a surprise attack from behind the Yuan army.

Jiang Qi and Guan Tong were caught off guard, lost their troops, left more than 4,000 corpses, and fled back to Kaiyang City in embarrassment, guarding behind closed doors. Let Cao Jun scold in every way, but he just closed the door.

Zang Ba's ancestral home is Huayin County, Taishan County, and Kaiyang is only 100 miles away, and he was quite famous in Langya when he was young. Later, he was subordinated to Xuzhou Mu Taoqian and was sent to Langya to be a magistrate for a period of time, so he was more prestigious in Kaiyang City.

Seeing that Yuan's army was holding on behind closed doors, Zang Ba retreated thirty miles, making the defenders in the city lax. and secretly repaired the book to contact the three families of Han, Zhang, and Cai in the city, and promised them to open the door from the inside to answer, and the inside should be combined with the outside, and take Kaiyang together.

The night after the two parties agreed. The three families of Han, Zhang, and Cai in the city led nearly 1,000 servants to launch a surprise attack, captured the weakly defended west gate of Kaiyang, put down the drawbridge, opened the city gate, and received Cao's army inside.

Seeing that they deserved to succeed, Zang Ba and Sun Guan waved their troops into the city to cover up and kill, Jiang Qi and Guan Tong couldn't resist it, led the army to retreat, led more than 10,000 remnants of the army to defeat, and retreated to Yangdu County, the northernmost part of Langya.

After Cao's army occupied the Langya Governance Office. The Tibetan tyrant drove all kinds of Taishan thieves to attack and plunder the counties. Let Chen Deng sit in Kaiyang, and he and Sun Guan continue to pursue Yuan Jun.

Within a few days, the ten county towns of Qiu, Zhangxian, Gouqu, Dongwu, and Zhuxian were all invincible and fell into the hands of Cao Jun. Thirteen counties of Langya. Only the northernmost Yangdu is still in the hands of the Yuan family. All other places belong to the Cao family. Tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass were lost. It has a population of more than 200,000.

After the news spread, the morale of Cao troops everywhere was greatly shaken, and Cao Cao was overjoyed. Crowned Zangba as a general, led the Langya State Minister, gave the title of the capital pavilion, and the military governor of the Eastern Front.

"It's all a bunch of waste, so much food has been wasted, so many soldiers have been dispatched, and only now have we taken a county seat in sour dates, and a county has been lost in the east. Yuan Shao, who received the news, was furious, and slapped the table and scolded angrily.

He said, "My lord, please listen to me. Now Cao Cao has been prepared, the army is excited, and he destroyed Lu Bu and Zhang Xiu, and solved the troubles. It is better to retreat to the army for the time being, send a few generals to cross the Yellow River, and attack and harass all parts of Cao's army, so that it will not be peaceful, and take care of one and the other. However, our army gradually encroached on the territory of Cao's army, and after a long time, our army had the advantage of strength, and the advantage of sufficient grain and grass became apparent. Annihilate Cao Cao, don't be in a hurry! ”

"Hmph, the words of a scholar are just words on paper!" Yuan Shao's robe sleeves flipped and reprimanded loudly, "Now that the army is out, can An easily retreat?" Our army has the advantage of strength, if you don't eradicate the Cao thief with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, wait for it to sit down, and regret it too late! If I occupy one of their counties, and the other takes away one of my counties, will not the world laugh at me if I do not avenge this revenge? ”

Feng Ji echoed: "What the lord said is extremely true, now that the army has crossed the Yellow River and entered the territory of the Cao family, when it is a blow to sweep away Cao Kou, don't give him a chance to breathe!" ”

The more Yuan Shao spoke, the more angry he became, he got up and pulled out his sword, cut off a corner of the table, looked at the civil and military forces under the tent angrily, and said sharply: "Frustrated and retreated, if anyone dares to say that he will retire again, it will be like this!" ”

Frustrated, he had no choice but to sigh secretly and retreat to the side to obey orders. The civil and military staff on both sides all trembled, and no one dared to retreat lightly!

"Where are Lu Weihuang and Yang Yu?"

Hearing Yuan Shao's roll call, the two generals went out together, bowed down and said, "The last general obeys orders!" ”

Yuan Shao picked up an arrow from the table and threw it down: "The two of you immediately light up 20,000 horses and go to Baimajin to help Yan Liang, and the deadline is ten days to break through the Baima defense line, if not, all three of you will come to see you!" ”

"No!"

Lu Weihuang and Yang Yu glanced at each other, and didn't dare to say anything, took the order and turned around and walked out of the Chinese army's tent, lit up 20,000 horses, left the Liyang base camp, and rushed to Baimajin, a hundred miles away from the south, to meet Yan Liang.

After sending away the two generals Lu and Yang, Yuan Shao issued another order, ordering Yuan Shang to go to the east with 10,000 horses to assist Gao Lan, and take any of Dong'e, Fanxian, and Juancheng within half a month.

He also sent people to the county town of Suozao in the west, commended the two generals Zhang He and Gao Shun, and ordered them not to delay the fighters, leaving a part of the men and horses to guard the sour jujube, and continued to lead the army to the south, enter Fengqiu, and deter Chen Liu. Swear to repay the shame of losing Langya!

At this time, it was already late July, and due to the continuous rain in the previous days, the climate was much cooler than half a month ago, and it was a good time to fight.

Yan Liang and Cao Ren, Xiahoudun, and Xu Huang have been confronted for more than 20 days in the Baima area, and they have fought many fierce battles, losing six or seven thousand men and horses.

Generals Lu Weihuang and Yang Yu led their troops to Baima, set up two camps on both sides of Yan Liang's camp, and came to pay homage to Yan Liang together, conveying Yuan Shao's military order to break through the Baima defense line within ten days.

After hearing this, Yan Liang, who was nine feet tall and had a majestic face, stroked his beard with his hand and said in a deep voice: "Since the lord has an order, we should fight forward to kill the enemy!" Tomorrow, the whole army will go out, kill the Cao camp, and the two generals will be on the left and right flanks of me, and they will go out in three ways to attack Cao Ren! ”

"Obey the general's orders!" Lu Weihuang and Yang Yu bowed down together to receive the order.

The next day, the melodious horn sounded, echoing in the four fields, endlessly, and the sound of the drums was earth-shattering. More than 40,000 Yuan troops marched forward in formation, and the dust trampled on covered the sky and the sun, and the momentum was huge.

Hearing that Yan Liang poured out of the nest, Cao Ren ordered to fight. At the moment, Cao Ren was in the middle, and on both sides of Xiahoudun and Xu Huang sub-bureaus, he led 25,000 elites, went out of the camp, bypassed the fortifications, and came to the foot of the White Horse Slope to confront Yuan's army.

At the foot of the White Horse Slope, the flags of both sides were waved in the wind, and more than 40,000 Yuan troops and 25,000 Cao troops lined up to resist, and the archers on both sides shot their own feet.

Yan Liang had a black Dawan horse under his crotch, a sixty-five-pound iron knife in his hand, and shouted at the enemy: "Cao Ren, the chief general of the Cao army, listen, the big husband is competing for power, why do you need soldiers?" If you have a seed, come out and share it with me! If you don't dare, kneel on the ground and beg for mercy as soon as possible, you can avoid waiting for death! ”

Although the two sides have been facing each other for a long time, Yan Liang believes that he is the chief general of the three armies, so he has never fought alone. Today, he was forced by Yuan Shao to fight the formation in person to boost the morale of the three armies and deter the Cao army.

Cao Renjiu heard that Yan Liang was the number one fierce general in Hebei, thinking that he was invincible, and was about to say an excuse, but Song Xian, a partial general who had just been transferred to his command, had already gone out of the battle, "General Zixiao is a little restless, and let him take the head of this arrogant enemy general!" ”

Cao Ren was about to stop it, but Song Xian had already urged the horse to come out of battle. If he is called back halfway, he will not say anything about the enemy army, and it will also dampen his morale, so he had to remind Song Xian loudly: "Yan Liang is a famous general in Hebei, General Song is a good student, if he is not an enemy, he must not fall in love with the war!" ”

"General Zixiao is waiting for good news, watch me take the head of the thief!"

Song Xian was full of disapproval, dedicated to making meritorious contributions, holding a single-edged halberd in his hand, a yellow-maned horse under his crotch, and rushed straight to Yan Liang, roaring in his mouth: "Arrogant Yan Liang, can you know Song Xianhu?" ”

Yan Liang laughed loudly: "Nameless, take your own death!" I originally wanted to behead Cao Ren, but you just came to the door to die, no wonder I am under the nine springs! I don't know who Song Xian is, so let me know the big knife in my hand? ”

Before the words fell, the two horses intersected, the halberd came and went, the battle had three combinations, Yan Liang sold a flaw, Song Xian was really fooled, and he stabbed with a halberd, but Yan Liang turned over and slashed his neck, and a head rolled to the ground, and a stream of blood spurted out of the cavity like a spring, splashing all over the ground!

Song Xian's headless corpse shook a few times on the horse, and then an upside-down onion fell off the horse.

The war horse without its owner panicked, screamed a few times with a few screams of "bang, bang, bang......" in his mouth, spread his four hooves, and fled for his life in a panic!

"The general is brave and unparalleled!"

Seeing that the main general would kill the enemy general within three rounds, the morale of the Yuan army was high, and more than 40,000 Yuan troops raised the weapons in their hands and shouted in unison, the sound vibrated the universe, and the heavens and the earth changed color.

When the soldiers of Cao Jun saw that the famous generals of Hebei were worthy of their names, the morale of the army was awe-inspiring, and their morale was suddenly low!

Seeing that Yan Liang was so brave, Wei Xu, who was like a brother to Song Xian, didn't dare to fight, his martial arts and Song Xian were between him, Song Xian was killed in seconds in three rounds, and if he went out to fight by himself, it would definitely be for nothing! Ants are still greedy for life, so Lao Tzu won't send them to death!

"Haha...... Have all the generals of Cao's army been scared away? Send a vulnerable general to come out to fight the enemy, Cao Ren, if you have a kind, come out to fight me in person, if you are a girl, go home and pick up the child as soon as possible! ”

Yan Liang sat on a horse, brandished an iron sword, picked up Song Xian's head, and loudly humiliated the chief general of the Cao army.

Seeing Yan Liang rampant, wearing a black hat, eight feet tall, and a broad-faced and heavy-faced Xu Huang, he couldn't hold back any longer, flying under his crotch and riding a horse, holding a mountain axe in his hand, and shouting: "Yan Liang's cultivation is rampant, Xu Gongming of Hedong is here, and let me meet you for a while!" (To be continued......)