The swords in the tent of the Kwantung Righteous Army were tense, and all the princes were forced by Sun Jian's tiger might, and they all sat quietly and were silent, although there were many people present who coveted the jade seal, but they wanted to snatch it from Sun Jian's hands, which was tantamount to snatching food from the tiger's mouth.

Yuan Shao suddenly laughed and retreated: "General Sun has misunderstood, since he has a wound, he should recuperate and treat it as soon as possible, so as not to leave a hidden wound, and someone will drag down this villain who lied and slandered General Sun!" ”

Yuan Shao saw that Sun Jian was murderous, and he was afraid in his heart and didn't dare to forcibly ask for it again, that was the person who personally cut off the head of the general Hua Xiong, Yuan Shao saw that it was impossible to ask for the jade seal of the country, so he could only find a reason to borrow the slope to get off the donkey and save a little face.

What's more, in Yuan Shao's opinion, with Yuan Shu's temperament, he will inevitably ask Yuan Shao for the jade seal of the country, and there will definitely be a gap between the two.

"Thank you to the alliance leader for rehabilitating Zhaoxue for the last general, otherwise wouldn't everyone in the world think that my Sun Jian has the ambition to be the emperor, Sun wishes you a victory, behead Dong thief hanging in front of the city gate, and say goodbye."

Now that the words have been broken, Sun Jian naturally has no reason to stay longer, glanced at the deceitful princes, casually inserted the saber into the scabbard, hugged his fists and saluted, turned around and left the military tent.

In Sun Jian's view, these princes with their own ghosts have their own selfish intentions, red eyes, jealousy, fishing in troubled waters, each with a plan to gather the righteous army, first Chen Bing sour jujube hesitated, and even Yuan Shu, who supplied the grain and grass of the princes, also cut off the vanguard Sun Jian's grain and grass, wanting to make his army disperse.

Now the Kwantung Righteous Army is anxious to break through the Tiger Prison Pass where the opportunity has been abandoned, Chen Bing is far away from Luoyang, and when he sees the ruined imperial capital, no one wants to pursue Dong Zhuo.

*****

Cao Cao, who angrily reprimanded the princes for their lack of strategy, led 5,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to march westward quickly, taking advantage of the situation to catch up with Dong Zhuo in one fell swoop.

In order to catch up with Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao took all his family with him, and even left none of the armor soldiers who defended the station, desperate to break Dong Zhuo.

Everyone rode their horses, mixed with horses behind them, followed by rapid galloping, galloping in the starry night, just past Rongyang Bianshui, and soon there was a return of exploring horses, and thirty miles ahead found the traces of Dong Zhuo's rear army, wheel prints, and even many corpses of people who had just died.

Cao Cao was overjoyed in his heart and wanted to enter the army, Cao Ren hurriedly advised: "Lord, the enemy army is retreating, the escort people are slow to march, the Xiliang army is still strong, our army is galloping in the starry night, and the soldiers and generals are already sleepy, so don't rush to war!" ”

"Although Zixiao said that it is in line with the art of war, but the soldiers are fast, how can there be a reason to chase but not attack!" Xiahoudun saw that Cao Cao was going to order the army to march, but he let this Cao Ren pour cold water, and his voice was slightly higher, and he was already displeased.

Chen Liuweizi, who was dressed in military uniform, originally scattered his wealth to fund Cao Cao and Chen Liu's troops, and heard that Cao Cao wanted to pursue Dong Zhuo, so he did not hesitate to lead the few all the troops to come from the coordination.

Wei Zi didn't want to say much, but seeing that Dong Jun was thirty miles away, Cao Cao's generals disagreed, and said in a loud voice: "Dong Jun is in front of you, the whole army is attacking and there are ambushes, if you chase but don't attack, why do I wait for the starry night gallop, and ask Cao Gong to make a decision." ”

Cao Cao pondered for a moment, looked at Xiahou Dun, who was eager to try the spear, and said: "Yuan Rang, I will give you 800 cavalry, quickly go to pursue the Xiliang rear army, don't fall in love with the battle, don't go deep, in order to explore the reality of the enemy's army." ”

Cao Cao was very relieved of Xiahoudun, with his bravery, even if the Dong army was hiding ambushes, he was not afraid, so he sent most of the cavalry to follow Xiahoudun, Cao Ren and Xiahoudun's suggestions were correct, but at this time Cao Cao was more inclined to attack, rather than conservative temptation.

"No!" Xiahoudun clasped his fists and saluted, glanced at Cao Ren, who shook his head and smiled bitterly, and led eight hundred cavalry in pursuit.

The earth shook slightly, Xiahoudun took the lead with a spear in his hand, and eight hundred cavalry formed a queue to follow the left and right galloping, and the thirty miles of land arrived quickly, and sure enough, a lot of corpses were found, and the ground was full of discarded debris, and the marks of the wheels on the ground were very clear.

Xiahoudun immediately led the troops to continue the pursuit, and soon hundreds of Xiliang troops appeared in front of him, escorting a group of people who fell behind the team, crying, and helping the old and the young to move forward.

The soldiers of the Xiliang army were whipped and insulted at every turn, walked two steps slowly, and slashed and killed on the spot without hesitation, even if they were children, they did not let go, and let go of some people to make them flee quickly, but these people could not escape more than ten meters before they were shot by the soldiers of the Xiliang army with a bow, killing nature, and the cruelty was outrageous.

Xiahoudun was furious and rode his horse before, a group of cavalry suddenly accelerated, the Xiliang army only heard the sound of cavalry in the rear, turned his head to see the enemy soldiers killing, frightened, they pushed the people in front of them to the ground, and a group of nearly 100 Xiliang troops turned around and fled.

A group of people dodged in panic, and Xiahoudun's soldiers couldn't enter, so they just waited for the people to scatter, and immediately led the army to pursue the Xiliang army.

On the long and narrow road, where could a group of foot soldiers of the Xiliang Army escape the cavalry, the war horses rushed up, and suddenly crashed into the armor of the Xiliang Army, only to hear the crackling sound of broken bones, and suddenly the armor soldiers who spurted blood from their mouths flew out, fell heavily to the ground, and soon lost their breath.

Immediately Xiahou Xuan's spear swept and stabbed directly, and the Xiliang army armor soldiers fell to the ground one after another with wounds and died, seeing that they were cornered, a group of Xiliang army armor soldiers fought back, but although the cavalry lost its impact, they condescended to chop, and the surrounding Xiliang army could not enter at all for a while.

Xiahoudun led the cavalry to retreat suddenly, formed a military formation again, and charged again with the impact force, the Xiliang army, which had originally fought back, completely lost the will to fight, and turned around and fled, and the cavalry covered the pursuit, and soon there were hundreds of corpses of the Xiliang army on the ground.

"Report!" A cavalry galloped over, hugged his fist and saluted Cao Cao: "Lord, General Xiahou has broken through the rear army of the Xiliang Army, chased and killed hundreds of enemies along the way, rescued thousands of people, and did not encounter ambushes between the battle arrays. ”

Hearing this, Cao Ren's face was embarrassed, his character has always been steady and cautious, very good at guarding, I heard that Xiahoudun won the first battle in his heart a little uncomfortable, but the victory of the army is the key, but a little unconvinced Xiahoudun.

"Herald march at once!" Cao Cao immediately ordered.

Since Dong Zhuo was defenseless, and only wanted to flee west to Chang'an, if the whole army assaulted, not only could he rescue many displaced people, but it was even possible to rescue His Majesty and kill Dong Zhuo.

On both sides of the narrow road, there are lush trees and shrubs, the deeper you go, the narrower the road becomes, only twenty people can pass side by side at the same time, the woods on both sides are more dense, there are more and more debris on the ground, and even a lot of abandoned baggage appears, as if you will soon catch up with the Xiliang army.

Looking at the surrounding woods and shrubs that blocked his vision, Cao Cao became more and more uneasy, the quiet and terrible atmosphere on the narrow road, and the extremely dignified atmosphere couldn't help but make the Cao Jun's mouth dry, and he clenched the blades and shields in his hands while being nervous.

Suddenly, at the end of the narrow road, a general's eyes were cold, and the horizontal knife immediately led many Xiliang troops to block at the end of the narrow aisle, and a group of Xiliang troops stared at the pursuing Cao Cao army coldly.

"I am Xu Rong under the account of Duke Dong, you are the thief Cao Cao who came to send him to death!" Before Xu Rong patted the horse, the horizontal knife asked in a murderous voice.

"Thief General Xu Rong, you are rampant, but you are just an eagle dog, what qualifications do you have to be arrogant!" Cao Cao reprimanded Xu Rong in the array, and whispered to Cao Ren beside him: "Immediately turn the rear army into the front army and slowly retreat, don't let the enemy generals find out." ”

Cao Ren also quickly realized that unconsciously Cao Cao led the army and had gone deep into the narrow place, and the enemy general Xu Rong seemed to be confident, and he didn't know how many soldiers and horses he had brought with him, so he hurriedly led the order to slowly ride his horse to the rear army.

"Dong Gong said, although Cao Cao is a wolf and has the ambition of gathering people to rebel, but his people can be of great use, if you dismount and surrender, you can be spared death."

Xu Rong sneered and persuaded, looking down on the surrendered general Xu Rong from the bottom of his heart, even if he surrendered from the Bingzhou Army Lu Bu and others, they were also unable to get on the stage, and they were not qualified to sit on an equal footing with their old Xiliang Army, not to mention Cao Cao, who was planning to persuade him to surrender at this time, and revealed that Dong Zhuo had never said this, Xu Rong was just trying to break the heart of Cao Junjun.

"Dong thief is not my monarch, I am not the minister of Dong thief, how can I rebel, Dong thief goes against the sky, burns the palace, robs the Son of Heaven, and even the sea is shaken, the thief will not have to say much!" Cao Cao made a loud noise, and the afterglow swept to the rear army that was slowly retreating.

"If you're here, why bother!" Xu Rong waved his hand casually as he spoke, and before the words fell, the archers who ignited the rockets behind him suddenly diffused, not only shooting into the woods on both sides, but also shooting at the many piles of debris on the ground.

These debris seemed to be just ordinary things at first, but when the fire bolts shot down, the debris was originally flammable, and there was a little fire hidden underneath, and suddenly the flames rose, and the surrounding bushes caught fire, and the flames soared into the sky for a while.

Many Cao Jun soldiers were either killed by the arrows that were shot, or were ignited by the flames, and rolled on the ground with a terrible wail.

Xu Rong saw that the Cao army was retreating on all fronts, and immediately led troops to kill, and the neatly arranged cavalry was like a crushed heavy chariot anyway, and the Cao soldiers had no way to survive wherever they went.

Xiahoudun and others escorted Cao Cao all the way to retreat, the war horse kept knocking over the sergeants of the headquarters who were scattered and fleeing, seeing that the army was defeated like a mountain, Cao Cao's heart was like a knife, and he couldn't kill the enemy, but was caught off guard by an ambush, if he had seen through everything earlier, there would have been no dilemma.

It's just that there is no if in this world, and there is no if, Cao Cao led a group of routs to flee all the way, and the road became wider and wider, but the army at this time had no will to fight, and there was Xu Rong chasing after him, and there was no way to escape.

At this time, I only heard a loud shout: "Cao thief is leaving!" ”

Cao Cao was shocked, and when he looked at it, he saw the general Lu Bu leading the troops to kill, and all the Cao soldiers who wanted to stop were swept off the war horses and did not know the life and death of the horses.