"Drag this thief out and cut it indiscriminately! Throw the carcasses into the mountains to feed the wolves, feed the wild dogs! ”

Xiao Yuan Sangong is also angry and his eyes are red, in the past six months or so, it was Xiao Yuan Sangong who personally promoted Mei Zhoulang from a rebel general to the position of a henchman to join the army, and it was also Xiao Yuan Sangong who married his beloved daughter to Mei Zhoulang, and he was absolutely kind to Mei Zhoulang, and his love was as good as a mountain! But how did Mei Zhoulang repay Xiao Yuan Sangong, in order to borrow the hand of Xiao Yuan Sangong to avenge the traitor Sun Ce of Yuan Shujun, he not only single-handedly provoked the Tao Yuan War, buried the tens of thousands of elites and tens of thousands of troops of Yuan Shujun, but also wanted to let Xiao Yuan Sangong die and consume food to fight cheaper other princes, wolf heart and dog lungs are so far, don't say that Xiao Yuan Sangong's temper is not too good, even if Xiao Yuan Sangong is really a bodhisattva, this will say that it is unbearable.

Under the rage, Xiao Yuan Sangong's left and right henchmen only hesitated a little, and Xiao Yuan Sangong immediately yelled again, "What are you still doing?" Didn't hear the order? Do you also imagine that this thief betrayed me? Yuan Shu's guards were all startled, and hurriedly came up and dragged the unconscious Zhou Yu away, but Xiao Yuan Sangong still refused to relieve his anger, and strode to the court to supervise the punishment in person.

dragged Zhou Yu to the open space in the camp of the Chinese army, in front of the countless soldiers of the Yuan Shujun who were surprised, the guards of Xiao Yuan Sangong waved the steel knife, and the first knife cut off the handsome head of Mei Zhou Lang, and then waved the knife to cut Zhou Yu's body and limbs, and finally came from outside the crowd The anxious shouts of keeping people under the knife finally came, but this sentence of keeping people under the knife was already too late, when Ji Ling, Jin Xuan and Shu Zhong and other loyal generals of Yuan Shujun rushed into the crowd, Mei Zhoulang's head had already rolled to the ground, blood splattered on his neck, and he could not be saved.

Seeing this scene, Ji Ling, a Shandong Han who was still a little bit of conscience and righteousness, cried, Jin Xuan, Shu Zhong and others stomped their feet again and again, only Xiao Yuan Sangong roared with a blue face, "What are you still doing?" Dismemberment! Divide this thief into pieces?! ”

"Wait!" Jin Shang drank the executioner, rushed to Xiao Yuan Sangong with a crawl, hugged his fists and asked: "Lord, since Gong Jin returned to the lord, he has repeatedly made good strategies and made many meritorious deeds, dare to ask why the lord beheaded him?" ”

"Tell him, tell them how this thief betrayed me!" Xiao Yuan Sangong pointed at Yang Hong and roared hysterically, Yang Hong was justified this time, and hurriedly explained in detail Zhou Yu's attempt to use Yuan Shu's hand to avenge the traitor Sun Ce, as well as the crime of blindly seeking war regardless of the interests of Yuan Shujun, Jin Shang, Shu Zhong and Ji Ling and others were shocked when they heard it, and they didn't dare to say anything more, but Xiao Yuan Sangong roared angrily, "Did you hear that?" Do you hear that? It's a shame that you still have the face to shout that the knife is left behind, and it's a shame that you usually remember this thief in front of me! If it weren't for Yang Hong's loyalty and the truth from the mouth of this thief, I would still be in the dark! ”

Ji Ling, Jin Shang and the others were dejected and didn't dare to talk, but at this moment, two roars sounded outside the crowd, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai carried a steel knife, rushed in with blood-red eyes, and went straight to Yuan Shu and Yang Hong to avenge Zhou Yu, Xiao Yuan Sangong and Yang Hong were shocked, while urging the guards to come forward to fight, while running backwards, Ji Ling was shocked, and quickly led the crowd to stop him, while fighting with Cheng Pu, he yelled, "Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, are you crazy?" Dare to assassinate the lord? ”

"Get out of here!" Cheng Pu roared with red eyes, "I want to kill the old thief Yuan Shu, kill the thief Yang Hong, and avenge the young general and Gong Jin!" ”

Ji Ling was in a hurry, and some wanted to shout to these two life-saving benefactors to run, but they didn't have the guts, so they just glanced at Cheng Pu and Huang Gai and signaled Cheng Pu and Huang Gai to run away, but Cheng Pu and Huang Gai had already made up their minds to die, and Mo said that they didn't pay attention to Ji Ling's kind eyes at all, even if they noticed it, they didn't care about it. When Ji Ling was distracted and didn't pay attention, he was also slashed by Cheng Pu in the shoulder blade of his left arm, almost unloaded off his shoulder, Ji Ling screamed, Cheng Pu kicked Ji Ling away again, and waved the knife to the little Yuan Sangong in the distance, "Yuan Shu old thief, return Gong Jin's life!" ”

"Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! When Yang Hong yelled, the soldiers of the Yuan Shujun who had rushed over to protect the little Yuan Sangong fired arrows together, and in an instant Cheng Pu was shot like a hedgehog, Cheng Pu was still unwilling to even hit more than a dozen arrows, and took a few steps forward against the rain of arrows, and before he died, he threw out a steel knife to throw Xiao Yuan Sangong and Yang Hong, and yelled wildly, "Old lord, young general, Gong Jin, I will see you in the future!" ”

"Escort! Hurry up! Seeing the steel knife flying, Xiao Yuan Sangong also shouted again without words, when he squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, the steel knife slashed through the poor little Yuan Sangong's right arm, leaving a deep cut on the right arm of Xiao Yuan Sangong, and when the blood stained the placket of Xiao Yuan Sangong's clothes, Xiao Yuan Sangong also screamed, "Lang Zhong!" Doctor! Call Lang Zhong! Kill, kill all these rebels, not a single one will be left! Kill! Kill them all! ”

Cheng Pu and Huang Gai's actions in despair and anger were too bad, so even the civil and military officials of Yuan Shujun who were present were quite sympathetic to Zhou Yu and them, and they would not dare to cover up and release the water, and they urged the soldiers to step forward and besiege Huang Gai, who was already alone, and Huang Gai would not have much effect no matter how brave he was, after wielding a knife and killing more than 30 people in a row, Huang Gai, who was covered in scaly wounds, was finally stabbed in the back of the heart by a spear, and when the spear passed through his chest, Huang Gai didn't even have time to leave his last words. was chopped to pieces by the soldiers of the Yuan Shujun who swarmed up.

After Zhou Yu and others were killed, Xiao Yuan Sangong still refused to relieve his anger, and ordered Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai to be chopped into meat sauce and crushed bones and ashes. Listening to the advice of Lord Yang Hongyang, a loyal minister of the Yuan family, he ordered a large-scale search and execution of Sun Jian's old troops in the army, and completely cut down the grass and eradicate the roots! The order was executed, countless elite soldiers of Yuan Shujun's battlefield were killed, and Yuan Shujun's military morale was also in turmoil, people from top to bottom were panicked, countless fugitives were lost, and morale almost collapsed. Lord Yang Hong, who had secretly changed the lord a long time ago, was triumphant, and hurriedly sent someone to deliver the news and report the good news to the new deputy director of the lord Tao.

……………… The Xuzhou soldiers who accompanied Yang Hong to infiltrate the camp of Yuan Shujun brought the news back to their own camp, Lu Su, Chen Jue, Zang Ba and others were of course overjoyed, and congratulated Tao Ying one after another, praising Tao Ying's use of tactics like a god, and eliminated several strong enemies without much effort, and also let the enemy not fight, benevolent and pure. But our Deputy Director Tao only smiled shallowly, without much joy, and even sighed: "It's a pity, it's a pity, whether it's Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, or Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, they are all rare outstanding talents, it's a pity that they all went like this." ”

"Second brother, what's the pity?" Tao Ji interjected and said: "Sun Ce'er wants to rob our Guangling County, Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai are not to mention the abuse, and they have been haunting us all the time, trying every means to instigate Yuan Shu's old puppet to start a war with us, which is extremely hateful!" It's best if they're all dead, what's the pity? Besides, the more outstanding they are, the more trouble they cause us. ”

"The words of the third brother are reasonable, outstanding enemies, we can respect them, but we don't need to feel sorry for them." Tao Ying rarely praised the third brother who was stunned once, and said: "In this way, it is enough to set up a mourning hall in the army to pay tribute to Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, and fulfill our respect for the enemy." ”

"No." Everyone hugged their fists and agreed, and then Zang Ba suggested: "Lord, now that the enemy army is flustered and demoralized, it is the time for our army to break the enemy, and the last general thinks that the opportunity cannot be lost, and he should immediately launch a strong attack and strive to break the enemy in one battle!" ”

"General Xuangao's words are exactly what I want." Tao Ying made a quick decision, immediately threw out his long-brewing battle plan, and arranged: "Zang Ba, Chen Dao, Qin Yi, the three of you will lead 8,000 Xuzhou troops and 5,000 new troops, and go all out to storm the enemy's Huangshan partial division camp!" Remember, to attack at any cost, Yuan Shu's elite is mostly in the Huangshan camp, if you can break through this camp, you can turn things around in one fell swoop! Completely lay the winning momentum! ”

"No!" Zang Ba, Chen Zhi and Qin Yi agreed together. Tao Ying turned to the rest of the generals and ordered: "Xu Sheng, you lead 1,500 Fengyu troops and 3,000 infantry to intercept the enemy's Gaohuang Mountain camp gate, if the enemy army comes out of the camp to rescue Huangshan, attack it head-on!" Tao Ji led the Junzi Army, Zhong Kang led the headquarters of 3,000 elite soldiers, followed me and the military division to the south bank of Suishui to escort the formation, ready to be dispatched at any time! Han Yugong, you and Chen Yinggongzi led the rest of the troops to garrison the camp, responsible for organizing the people to transport food and weapons, and supply the front line at any time! This battle will not break the camp of Yuan Shu's partial division, and he will not withdraw his troops! ”

Although Deputy Director Tao has never liked to fight a tough battle, but this time I don't want to fight a hard battle, the main force of Xuzhou and Yuan Shujun have been facing off on the battlefield of Zhuyi for more than a month, and the rear has long been an undercurrent. He also concentrated the main force in the Changyi area to wait and see, and also took the initiative to contact several kind-hearted envoys, saying that as long as the son-in-law spoke, the father-in-law would definitely send troops to rescue!

In addition, there are Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, because Tao Qian was on the wrong team before, Yuan Shao was originally the enemy of the Xuzhou army, and he was not with Tao Ying's father-in-law Lu Wenhou, and the detailed investigation report has determined that Yuan Shao increased his troops in Yanzhou to help the young man's bad friend Cao Boss clean up Lu Wenhou, so it cannot be ruled out that Cao Yuan's coalition army joined forces to attack the rear of Xuzhou. Gongsun Zan was angry that Tao Ying refused to borrow food and soldiers, and was dissatisfied with Tao Ying's lesson and friend Uncle Liu Huang, who was too heavy, under the pretext that the war was urgent, and had stopped the war horse trade with the Xuzhou army during this period, and the friendly relations with the Xuzhou army took a sharp turn for the worse.

The situation in the rear is critical, Deputy Director Tao no longer likes to fight a tough battle, he must fight, only by quickly repelling the poor little Yuan Sangong, the main force of Xuzhou can free up his hands to parry those good neighbors in the north, so Tao Ying has no choice but to quickly make up his mind, seize the precious fighter that Xiao Yuan Sangong is currently unstable, take the initiative to attack with weak forces, and strive to break Yuan in a battle!

Half an hour later, the Xuzhou army assembled to fight, Deputy Director Tao ordered someone to take a hundred five-baht coins to buy a hexagram to the sky, saying that if all the 100 five-baht coins are literally upward, it is the will of heaven to let the army win this battle, if there is a five-baht coin down, then the battle will be lost! Immediately afterwards, Tao Ying did not give the frightened civil and military generals a chance to oppose and persuade at all, and threw out all the 100 five-baht coins in front of the whole army. The result was not unexpected, a hundred special five-baht coins with words on both sides of the front and back landed, and the morale of the Xuzhou army suddenly reached its peak, shouting the slogan of long live, striding out of the camp, crossing the Suishui to kill the enemy camp.

Detection of the Xuzhou army swept to kill, the demoralized Yuan Shujun hurriedly closed the gate of the Gaohuang Mountain camp, set up more bows and crossbows to defend the camp, Yuan Shujun's Huangshan camp was also under the leadership of the guard Qiao Rui nervously organized defense, at the same time, Qiao Rui also had to pray for the sky to open his eyes, blessed the main target of the Xuzhou army was the main camp of Gaohuang Mountain - the Huangshan camp was only set up for four days, many fortifications have not been perfected and reinforced, and the defense is far less powerful than the Gaohuang Mountain camp.

Unfortunately, Deputy Director Tao asked the new lackey Yang Hong to instigate Xiao Yuan Sangong to set up camp in Huangshan, in addition to allowing Yang Hong to further win the trust of Xiao Yuan Sangong, there is also a goal to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, so that the current most capable Qiaorui team in Xiao Yuan Sangong's team will leave the strong fortifications and build new fortifications from scratch - so Yang Hongcai suggested by name in front of Xiao Yuan Sangong that Qiaorui should be set up camp in Huangshan. After the Xuzhou army crossed the Suishui, the infantry immediately came to the foot of the Yellow Mountain and launched a fierce attack on the bridge on the top of the mountain.

The Xuzhou army in the face of the crazy impact of the Xuzhou army can only be suppressed with a bow and crossbow, hiding behind the wooden fence and stabbing with a spear, not giving the Xuzhou army a chance to get closer, the Xuzhou army will be in the Xiangxian battlefield to recruit five thousand Yuan Shu army to the front as cannon fodder, led and supervised by Qin Yi, let them push the long shield feint up, desperately approaching the camp of the Qiaorui army, fill the camp trench and cut off the antlers to resist the horse, the arrows and arrows on the mountain fell like rain, and the Xuzhou cannon fodder soldiers suffered heavy casualties, Many people were afraid to move forward, but Qin Yi did not hesitate to cut down dozens of fleeing soldiers, forcing the cannon fodder team to continue to move forward and attack the Qiaorui military camp at all costs.

Paid nearly 2,000 casualties of cannon fodder rushed to the side of the Qiaorui military camp, Chen Zhi's Xuzhou elite soldiers immediately charged up the mountain, more than 1,000 flying muskets burned the defenders behind the fence and fence, although the direct lethality of the flying muskets to the human body was pitiful, but the first time to see the flying muskets of the Qiaorui army was still a big mess, and soon the Xuzhou army broke through several sections of the fence defense line one after another, the Xuzhou army took the opportunity to swarm into the camp, and the Qiaorui army started a death battle, and the Zang Ba under the mountain also waved his army to attack, and killed several times the enemy without hesitation.

Although there are 30,000 defenders under the command of Qiao Rui, there are only more than 10,000 quasi-second-rate teams that can really fight tough battles, and the others are auxiliaries and civilians, with poor equipment and little training, which is not very useful in the close battlefield. In addition to thousands of cannon fodder in the Xuzhou army, the Xuzhou regular army under Chen Zhi is a second-rate soldier, well-equipped and strictly trained, and the Langya soldiers under Zang Ba are quasi-first-class soldiers, almost all of them are veterans who crawled out of the pile of dead people with Zang Ba, and the rich experience in the battlefield is even far above the Xuzhou regular army.

In fact, as early as when it was discovered that the main target of the Xuzhou army was the Huangshan camp, Xiao Yuan Sangong sent the general Chen Lan to lead an army of 20,000 down the mountain to rescue. But it's a pity that Chen Lan's team has not completely gone down the mountain, at the foot of the mountain was attacked by the Xuzhou Fengyu army, the low-cost Fengyu arrows are like a raging storm, and they are pouring down to Chen Lan's team all the time, and the soldiers of Yuan Shujun have suffered heavy casualties in the face of this continuous rain of arrows, and they have fled up the mountain, Chen Lan can't stop it, so he has to flee back to the mountain camp.

After scolding Chen Lan, who was afraid of the battle and running away, Xiao Yuan Sangong sent Lei Bo down the mountain to go to the Fengyu Formation, Lei Bo, who had already suffered a big loss from the Fengyu Army, did not dare to take the order, but just shirked, until Xiao Yuan Sangong threatened to kill the head, Lei Bo then led the troops down the mountain, but seeing the corpse mountain in front of the Fengyu Army and the crazy arrow rain, Lei Bo's legs up and down were weak, and he didn't dare to go before he walked to the mountainside, Xiao Yuan Sangong jumped like thunder on the mountain, but he was helpless.

At this time, Jin Xuan, who was quite loyal to Xiao Yuan Sangong, came out to offer advice, suggesting that Yuan Shujun line up the long shields to resist the crossbow arrows that the Wind Feather Army could not throw, and slowly advance to the front of the Wind Feather Army in the shape of a wall, and then engage in close combat with the Wind Feather Army. Xiao Yuan Sangong was overjoyed and let Lei Bo follow the plan, but when Lei Bo's army acted like this, the Fengyu army quickly retreated to the rear, and Xu Sheng personally led three thousand infantry forward, first with a bow and arrow to kill the enemy, and then with Lei Bo melee hand-to-hand combat, where Xu Chu also led reinforcements to kill from the flank, Lei Bo's army was defeated, and had to flee back to the Gaohuang Mountain camp.

Fierce battle to the evening, the bridge on the Yellow Mountain has begun to show the defeat, although the main force of the bridge under the command of the battalion is still struggling to resist, the auxiliary soldiers and the people have opened the camp gate, began to flee to the southeast and north direction without the Xuzhou army, seeing this scene, not only the ordinary soldiers are shaken, even the bridge and the generals under his command are also anxious, constantly looking westward, looking forward to the reinforcements of the main battalion to come to the rescue as soon as possible.

Seeing from afar that the division was in a hurry, Xiao Yuan Sangong also went out and finally gambled, so that Ji Ling, the only one who dared to go down the mountain to fight, was injured and went into battle, led 10,000 troops down the mountain to charge, and promised that as long as he killed Huangshan and rescued Qiaorui, he would be rewarded with two taels of food per person. And Ji Ling is also worthy of being the first fierce general of the Yuan Shu Army, with injuries on his body, he rushed to the front, and rushed to the front of the Wind Feather Army with a round shield to protect the vital points, but what made Ji Ling and Xiao Yuan Sangong vomit blood was that Ji Ling was injured and killed in front of the Wind Feather Army to get a chance to fight hand-to-hand, but the team that Ji Ling took down the mountain was scattered, and fled all over the mountains, and many people simply fled directly to the Xuzhou army to surrender, Ji Ling only had dozens of soldiers around him, how could he block the intensive shooting of 1,500 strong crossbows, Even the men and horses were shot like hedgehogs, and died tragically less than five steps away from the position of the Wind Feather Army, dozens of personal soldiers were all killed, and only one person rushed to the long shield of the Wind Feather Army, but before he could swing his knife and cut people, he was stabbed to death by the spear stabbed in the gap of the long shield.

Even Ji Ling was killed in battle, and no one of the generals under the command of Xiao Yuan Sangong dared to go down the mountain to fight, and Xiao Yuan Sangong did not have the courage to personally lead the army down the mountain to fight a decisive battle with the Xuzhou army, but he sighed for a long time on Gaohuang Mountain, and couldn't stop scolding Zhou Yu for destroying the thief and harming himself, forcing himself into such a predicament, I just wanted to collect Zhou Yu's ashes again, and cut him 3,200 knives!

The cold weapon war is fought morale and fighting spirit, Qiao Rui fought hard in the Huangshan camp to close to the second watch, Gaohuang Mountain still did not have a soldier to come to the rescue, and saw that the situation of the army and the casualties were very serious, at the same time, the Xuzhou army rushed to kill, it was clear that the Huangshan camp was not broken, and Qiao Rui did not have the will to resist, so he simply led the remnants of the defeated army to abandon the camp and flee for his life, went down the mountain from the south, and fled directly to the road of Shouchun, Zang Ba and Chen Zhi searched and killed the remnants of the enemy in the camp, and divided the troops to chase and kill Qiao Rui, desperately expanding the results.

The news of breaking through the Huangshan camp came back to Tao Ying, Tao Ying did not hesitate, and immediately ordered Xu Chu to lead the headquarters of 3,000 elite soldiers to chase and kill, as much as possible to weaken Yuan Shu's main force of soldiers, Xu Chu rushed to lead the order, and Tao Ji next to him was very dissatisfied, protesting: "Second brother, the pursuit of the enemy should be handed over to me, right?" The cavalry of the Junzi Army is the fastest, and I should be allowed to chase and kill, besides, I have almost no chance to go into battle in the battle of Zhuyi this time, and it is time for me to show my hand. ”

"No, the gentleman's bow and arrows in the dark night are not very powerful, but they are not as good as the infantry under Zhong Kang's command." Tao Ying shook his head categorically, and said with a smile: "Besides, the Junzi Army also has to retain its physical strength and horsepower, otherwise tomorrow morning, how will it be possible to hunt down Yuan Shu's main team?" ”

"Tomorrow morning?" Tao Ji was stunned and asked suspiciously: "Yuan Shu Lao Pifu still has tens of thousands of troops, and his strength is still above us, how can he withdraw tomorrow morning?" ”

"Yuan Shu is very timid, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, seeing that our army is attacking the Huangshan camp head-on, he must be worried that our army will do the same, so to attack his Gaohuangshan camp, and his military spirit has been depressed, so after our army collects troops tonight, he will definitely retreat and flee." Tao Ying replied arbitrarily, and said with a smile: "Besides, even if he doesn't want to escape, someone will persuade him to escape, so third brother, you just have to rest with your heart, and the speed of delaying Yuan Shu's retreat will be handed over to you, as long as you bite Yuan Shu's tail and make him unable to escape, after the main force of our army rests, he can come over to help you expand the results." ”

Tao Ji suddenly realized, quickly agreed with a smile, and went down to appease the gentlemen who were eager to fight, Tao Ying turned his gaze to the blazing Huangshan camp, and his face showed a little worry, and said secretly: "I don't know how big the casualties are?" In a head-on battle, it is so difficult to fight a quasi-second-rate Yuan Shujun with combat effectiveness, the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou army is still weaker, and the elite soldiers are still far from enough. ”

Thinking about this, Deputy Director Tao, the son-in-law of Buxiao, couldn't help but have such a thought again, "If there is any way, it would be good if Cao Ying could kill Lu Bu, as soon as Lu Bu died, it would be far easier for me to envelop and buy his team than anyone else. - Husband, how good would it be if you died of illness or war now? For the sake of your son-in-law and your only daughter, you better die as soon as possible! ”

(To be continued)