However, it was said that Cao Cao met with Zhang Miao, Wei Zi and others, got together, and talked about the pursuit of troops this time.

Cao Cao advocated another pursuit, and said to Zhang Miao and Wei Zi: "The previous pursuit led our army to defeat and suffered a lot of losses. The enemy will be unprepared after repelling the pursuit of our army, and after a great victory, our army will surely succeed in pursuing it again. ”

Zhang Miao was not happy when he heard it. I thought: "You Cao Cao just suffered a defeat in the front, lost more than half of the men and horses, and the family was about to be defeated, I brought half of the soldiers and horses to meet you, but you don't know what to do, you still want to fight, do you still want to explain my 10,000 horses here?" So he said to Cao Cao: "Dong thief is powerful, and the Xiliang army is also extremely elite. With what can we do with these horses, it is difficult to achieve relatively large results in a timely pursuit. It is better to return to the coalition camp and meet with the princes first, and then make a consultation. What did Mende think? ”

Cao Cao still had the face to return to the coalition camp at this time, of course, he had to hold on to the death, so he said to Zhang Miao: "Brother Mengzhuo is very worried, but I am still unwilling, I don't know if Brother Meng Zhuo can borrow me some men and horses, and I will lead the troops to pursue." ”

It turned out that when Cao Cao and the Kwantung princes turned their faces and pursued alone, no one in the Kwantung princes was optimistic about Cao Cao. Only Zhang Miao had a good relationship with Cao Cao, and led some men and horses to respond, but there were not many only 10,000 people, and the remaining 10,000 horses and horses were handed over to his younger brother Shangdang Taishou Zhang Chao to lead, but he led 10,000 soldiers and horses to meet Cao Cao lightly and simply, just in case of accidents.

Cao Cao exhausted his mind at this time, but he couldn't convince Zhang Miao. At this time, Cao Cao's giant businessman friend Wei Zi felt that what Cao Cao said was very reasonable, and said to Zhang Miao: "Brother Meng Zhuo, what Cao Mengde said is reasonable, I am willing to lead the troops to fight with Meng De and fight the Xiliang Army again." ”

Zhang Miao saw that his friend Wei Zi also approved of Cao Cao's attack, and in desperation, he allocated 5,000 men and horses to Wei Zi and Cao Cao, and let the two lead the troops to pursue by themselves, but he still led the troops to stay here as a backup and response for the two.

Cao Cao got Zhang Miao's approval, and obtained 5,000 soldiers and horses, and was immediately overjoyed, and his courage increased, and he was ready to pursue Dong Zhuo again. If you want to say that Cao Cao, this buddy can't beat Xiaoqiang at this time, if you give a little sunshine, you can toss hard, and if you give a little space, you can play endlessly!

So Cao Cao regrouped his troops and horses, took Wei Zi and the new 5,000 men and horses, and his own 3,000 soldiers who were already wounded, turned around gorgeously, and continued to complete the glorious and great unfinished business of sending them to death. However, Zhang Miao set up a large camp in the same place, waiting for Cao Cao and Weizi to return victoriously. Of course, it is also possible to fail again.

Cao Cao led the troops to hurry non-stop, and after a short time, he found that Xu Rong's men and horses had not gone far, and thought: "I think that at the beginning, you Xu Rong beat me to the bottom of my fart, and the wolf was unbearable." Now that Lao Tzu has brought his little brother over again, he will definitely be able to beat you to the bottom of your fart, crying dad and calling your mother! "In fact, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong and other generals also have no bottom in this battle, but their group of people have always admired and blindly trusted Cao Cao, and they are obedient to Cao Cao and the head of the horse! Seeing that Cao Cao intended to pursue, he did not talk nonsense, nor did he object. Some just actively cooperate, and Cao Cao will do whatever he wants.

Xu Rong saw that Cao Cao's second pole was chasing him, and he couldn't help but be annoyed in his heart, as the saying goes, the mud bodhisattva also has three points of anger, not to mention Xu Rong, who has a heavy army? Xu Rong thought to himself: "This Cao Cao is too ignorant, just now Lao Tzu has already defeated you once, and he didn't even hurry up and run for his life, you two fools don't know what to do, and you led the troops to fight with me, and you want to spend it with me, right?" Now I have to beat you to death, it hurts you, and it makes you remember it for a long time. If you don't beat your little face to be swollen like a peach, you don't know why peach blossoms are so red! So his subordinates showed no mercy, immediately pulled out their best formation, and organized and commanded the men and horses to wait for Cao Cao to attack.

Cao Cao led his men and horses to immediately rush up and attack. Naturally, the enemies were very red when they met, and they all wanted to tear each other apart. Cao Cao was hit by Xu Rong's arrow on the shoulder, and it still hurts. So they each commanded their troops and horses and attacked in columns.

To say that Cao ** is also an excellent commander, this is true, but the current Cao Cao is not mature, Cao Cao since his debut, the big war he has experienced is the time of the Yellow Turban Army uprising. At that time, Cao Cao could be described as high-spirited and made countless meritorious contributions! However, the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, after all, were born in mud legs, and they didn't know a few big characters, and they had not received systematic sergeant training at all, so the level of leading soldiers in combat was limited after all. Therefore, although Cao Cao gained a lot of experience in the campaign to suppress the Yellow Turban Army, and also laid a good foundation for his future military career, after all, he cannot be compared with Xu Rong, a veteran of the battlefield who has been in the war for decades. Xu Rong has followed Dong Zhuo to fight in Xiliang for one or two decades, and he has never seen any battles, and he is much more experienced than Cao Cao. Although Cao Cao's experience is not as good as Xu Rong's, Cao Cao is a military master in the late Eastern Han Dynasty after all, and he is a talented genius. It's impossible to tell anything as soon as anyone gets a talent, after all, talent itself is a representative of magic, and it is used to create a miracle.

Therefore, Xu Rong and Cao Cao, the two brothers, each commanded the men and horses to fight equally. Xu Rong's command skills were slightly stronger than Cao Cao's, but his soldiers had already fought with Cao Cao before, and they were a little tired. Although Cao Cao's command is not as good as Xu Rong, after all, his talent is awe-inspiring, and his command is also impressive, and he is slightly stronger than Xu Rong is that the 5,000 men and horses led by Wei Zi are a new force, and the body is lì. The energy was even more abundant, and for a while, it was really Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong, and they were fighting equally.

I saw Xu Rong put on a formation suitable for sniping, and first ordered a thousand archers to open their bows and release arrows when Cao Cao's army was about 150 meters close to the position, and threw them into the sky above Cao Cao's army. With nearly 200 people killed and wounded in this rain of arrows, Cao Cao did not hesitate to continue to command the army to continue to advance. Xu Rong commanded the archers to head again, and at this time Cao Cao's troops had already entered about 120 meters of Xu Rong's position, and Cao Cao lost more than 300 people. Cao Cao had relatively few archers in his army at this time, with a total of more than 200 people, and he was unable to organize an effective bow and arrow counterattack, and could not shoot against Xu Rong's archers. Cao Cao gave the order for the archers to return fire, and the scattered more than 200 arrows did not have any effect at all, and the effect of the counterattack was very unsatisfactory. Finally, Cao Cao's army entered a distance of about fifty meters away from Xu Rong's army, which was the range of the archers' greatest damage, Xu Rong's side was so unceremonious, the third wave of arrow rain fell, and as a result, Cao Cao's army died nearly 400 people. Cao Cao gritted his teeth and commanded his troops to walk briskly and accelerate the charge. As soon as the fourth wave of arrow rain fell on Xu Rong's side, it entered a state of hand-to-hand combat, so the effect of the fourth wave of arrow rain was not very ideal, and only more than 100 people were killed or wounded. This Cao Cao saw that this battle had not yet started, and there were nearly 1,000 casualties on his side, and he was angry in his heart, and he must organize more archer troops when he turned around, so as not to be passive like today and suffer such a big loss.

As soon as Xu Rong saw that the two sides had begun to engage in short-handed combat, he did not give in, and immediately organized his men to rush forward. At this time, Xu Rongjun had a total of more than 9,000 people, and Cao Cao was about the same, there were about 8,000 people, Xu Rong's four waves of arrow rain made Cao Jun basically dead more than 500 and injured more than 500. The overall strength is about the same.

At this time, the success or failure of the war depends on the command level of the generals and the comprehensive quality of the soldiers. Needless to say these two points, Xu Rong can definitely lead Cao Cao at this time. After all, Cao Cao's campaign time was still shallow, and the art of war had not yet been completed. Moreover, the Xiliang Army has been fighting in the northwest frontier and ethnic minorities in the frontier for many years, and the soldiers have good psychological qualities, strong combat ability, high killing skills, no fear of difficulties, and brave battles. At the beginning, Cao Cao's army fought vigorously, and when the battle began to stalemate, the gap between the two sides began to appear. After all, most of Cao Cao's army, including Weizi's army, were newly recruited, neglected to train, and experienced relatively few battles. At the beginning of the battle, it could still be supported by a bloody and brave spirit, but as the battle continued to deepen, Cao Cao's army gradually became difficult to support.

At this time, if there was no new turn in the battle, then Cao Cao's army would definitely be defeated. Cao Cao also lost confidence in the war at this time, there was no good way to achieve victory, although he had the intention to let his younger brothers fight desperately, looking for new fighters, and opening up the situation, but he couldn't say it, after all, when the war was stalemate, whoever wanted to come out of the war would face the danger of being wiped out by all the enemy forces.

At the critical moment, Cao Cao's good brother and good subordinate Xiahoudun stood up. I saw him roar, rise up to his might, kill a few small soldiers around him, and then rampage all the way, slashing left and right and killing straight towards Xu Rong, the purpose is obvious, that is, to kill Xu Rong, as long as Xu Rong dies, the enemy army will be in chaos, lose command, and his army will naturally win This Xiahou Dun is a good calculation! I saw Xiahou Meng raise his might, rush out of the encirclement, and kill Xu Rong. Xu Rong was shocked when he saw this, and he didn't talk about anything above board, and he was not afraid of others saying that he had hurt people with a secret arrow, so he picked up the longbow he carried with him, and shot it at Xiahoudun with an arrow.

This Xiahou Dun rushed too fast, he didn't dodge this one, he was in the left arm, and the painful fierce brother Xiahou couldn't help screaming, his body was stunned, and he continued to rush towards Xu Rong This time it was even more amazing, as if he had taken a stimulant, and rushed towards Xu Rong even more bravely and violently. To say that this Xiahou Meng Brother is famous for his injuries and bleeding and adding a fanatical aura, a critical hit, a bloodthirsty aura, a movement speed, a hit rate and other various auras and states on all battlefields, I saw that although Xiahou Meng Brother was injured, he was still desperate, not afraid of arrows and stones, and rushed to Xu Rong without fear of difficulties and dangers, and stabbed out gorgeously with one shot. As the saying goes: one general is desperate, and the three armies are easy. General Xiahou is in this state now.

Whoever sees this state of desperation has to be worried.