(Thanks to the Great Alliance!) Thank you Zhao Wuxian 2014, UFGW, Glorious Charter, Heng-Peng)

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On August 13 of the third year of Jian'an, north of Guandu, the most astonishing defeat battle since the end of the Han Dynasty was staged.

The 50,000 Yuan troops in the Guandu battalion, nearly 10,000 servants, were chased by more than 10,000 Cao troops and had no way to go to the sky and no way to go down. Those who climb mountains, those who drill forests, those who swim in water, and those who hide in the wilderness. Within a radius of 100 miles, various stories of pursuit and escape, hiding and finding, life and death, sorrow and joy are staged.

Cao Ang is also interpreting his harvest and joy. As Cao Cao's eldest son, he is the heir to this force, but since he was captured by shame two years ago and placed under house arrest for more than a year, the whole person is almost abolished. When he returned to his father, he only said one word to him: "Be ashamed and courageous." Since then, this phrase has become his motto.

The Battle of Guandu was the first battle that Cao Ang participated in after his release, and he fought with all his strength. It's a pity that his father was suspicious of this, and at the beginning of the war, he was not given elite soldiers to attack, but only gave him a miscellaneous army as a containment.

Cao Ang used this miscellaneous army, so he set up a suspicious formation, completed the task of containing Wang Mo, and made meritorious contributions to the first battle of Guandu. Although it is not outstanding, it is also remarkable. But Cao Ang was not satisfied, he kept holding his breath, wanting to fight a battle of turning over with his eyebrows raised. It's a pity that in the next few months, he was extremely aggrieved by the superior forces of Yuan's army, except for Xiahou Yuan, who fought a beautiful surprise battle, the rest of the generals' records were lackluster. Cao Ang's hope of showing his face naturally came to naught. In the end, he was transferred back to Chenliu to take charge of logistics and transportation.

Just as Cao Ang was getting more and more on fire, a surprise fell from the sky, the black nest was burned, and hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass were burned. Yuan Jun collapsed, and the time had come to beat the water dogs.

Cao Ang led his team of more than 1,000 infantry miscellaneous soldiers, searched and killed all the way, collected prisoners, and captured materials, but it took only half a day, the line became longer and longer, and there were more and more material vehicles. Looking at the huge army and hundreds of truckloads of grain and grass military supplies, Cao Ang finally realized what it meant to raise his eyebrows, as long as he brought back all the troops and vehicles. It's proper to turn over. The fly in the ointment is that so far, he has caught all the small shrimps, and he has not caught a single small fish, let alone a big fish.

If you can catch Fu Zhu, or Guo Tu, or Chun Yuqiong (Cao Jun still doesn't know that this person is dead), or even Yuan Shao...... That's a beautiful death.

It was with this kind of unwillingness that Cao Ang refused to return to his subordinates several times, and continued to advance northward, gradually approaching Yangwu.

Cao Ang didn't know that Yang Wu had changed hands. He estimated that in the case of the collapse of Yuan's army, most of the Yangwu defenders would abandon the city, and of course he did not rule out the possibility that the defenders were still there. So two groups of sentinels were sent to reconnoitre.

Half an hour later, it was nearly dusk. The two sentry horsemen brought back an exciting news: ten miles away, there was a Yuan army on the other side of the mountain forest, waving the banner of the word "Zhang", and learned after grabbing his tongue and interrogating. It was the army of Zhang He, the general of the Yuan army who defected.

Zhang He! Cao Ang was overjoyed, this is a heavyweight general of the Yuan army, if he can capture it. Who wouldn't dare not be impressed?

"How many men do they have?"

"There are thousands of people, less than 100 horses, and they are preparing to bury the pot to cook."

Cao Ang turned his head to look at the more than 1,000 subordinates, as well as nearly 2,000 prisoners of war, gritted his teeth again, and finally ordered: "Leave 300 auxiliary soldiers to guard the prisoners, and the remaining 500 soldiers and 300 auxiliary soldiers will all go into battle." Command the whole army, the enemy is a defector, their enemies are not only us, but also the former robes, the whole army will be frightened birds, this battle will be won by our army - we have taken two thousand prisoners, not a thousand! ”

Sergeant Cao has been carried away by today's victory, and the previous 2,000 captives all rushed over, and before the weapons in their hands were raised, the enemy soldiers knelt down and surrendered. As the eldest prince said, 2,000 have been caught, is there still 1,000 missing?

Cao Ang was enthusiastic when he inspired the army, but when he really acted, he was cautious, after all, the troops were equal, and the enemy army was not a straggler, and Zhang He was also a famous general in Hebei.

Cao Ang's 700 cavalry was compared to 600 infantry and 100 cavalry, originally he had no cavalry, but he captured a lot of horses along the way, but unfortunately there were less than 100 people who could barely ride and fight. This is the disadvantage of miscellaneous soldiers, even if they have powerful equipment, it is difficult to play due to their own level.

Cao Ang led a team of cavalry and 600 foot soldiers to march slowly, constantly sending sentry cavalry to investigate, and the news also converged like flowing water:

"The enemy army is unprepared, and the millet is steamed."

"The enemy pawn eats, and the enemy post is lax."

"The location of the enemy's Chinese army has been found, in the northwest of the mountain forest near the mountain stream, and the roof of the tent is decorated with red tassels."

When the last news arrived, Cao's army was less than three miles away from the target.

Cao Ang couldn't hold back his excitement, drew his sword and pointed forward: "The foot pawns are surrounded left and right, and the cavalry is charging with me!" ”

Seven hundred Cao troops raised their weapons in unison, roaring one after another, and the rustling sound of their steps was like countless silkworms devouring mulberry leaves. This is also the reason why Cao Ang's army is classified as miscellaneous soldiers, if it is elite, it is not close to a mile and a half, and it will not make a sound at all.

Cao Ang couldn't care about this much, he took the lead, and dozens of horsemen followed closely behind him, just hoping to catch a big fish.

At a distance of three miles, the cavalry was only half an hour away, the iron hooves stepped through the clay pots, kicked over the clay kettles, the golden wheat rice was thrown all over the ground, and the purple and black pickles were scattered and dripping. A hundred paces away, hundreds of sergeants ran up the hill with all their might, many of them holding wooden bowls in their arms and reluctant to put them down, and even stuffed rice balls into their mouths as they ran - this glance knew that they were veterans, and knew that if they wanted to run far and escape fast, they had to replenish their energy.

Cao Ang rode like a fly, and even men and horses rushed into the tent decorated with red tassels, and the tent collapsed, and there was no one inside. But judging from the arrows and flags scattered all over the ground, there is no doubt that it is Zhang He.

"Chase! He couldn't run. ”

Cao Ang rushed out of the tent, and joined another group of horsemen, hundreds of horses rushed to thunder, and chased closely. Along the way, when he saw that Yuan's soldiers and soldiers were gathered, they immediately drove the horses and scattered; In the event of a counterattack, the hundred horsemen swarmed around, slashing and poking with knives and spears, and crushing the enemy.

After chasing out of Lixu, he turned a mountain bend, and sure enough, more than ten horsemen appeared in front of him holding a big banner with the word "Zhang", running wildly towards the valley.

At this time, a rider reminded Cao Ang: "It is a desperate valley, and there is no way out." ”

Cao Ang squinted, raised his hand to signal stop, and rode his horse towards the valley for a while, but saw that the valley road was deep, covered by trees, and the mountains on both sides were undulating, which was an ideal ambush location.

Cao Ang sneered, left ten horsemen to guard the valley mouth, and led the remaining eighty horsemen to turn around, ready to join the infantry army. But before he took a hundred steps, he suddenly heard the sound of killing and shook the sky, and countless Yuan soldiers rushed out on both sides of the mountain forest, cutting off Cao Ang from his infantry army.

When Cao Ang and his cavalry struggled to restrain the startled horse, a ride came out of the mountain forest, although he did not play the flag, but the silver armor, the white horse with a long lance, and the momentum was awe-inspiring, saying that he was not Zhang He, no one believed it.

Zhang He laughed from afar: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being the son of Cao Mengde, although he is eager to make meritorious contributions, he is still cautious." However, I want to sue you, you can't escape the first day of junior high school, but you can't escape the fifteenth, and if you don't fall for this plan, you will fall for the other plan. When you find me Zhang He, you are doomed to failure, just because you miscalculated one thing - my Zhang He's department is not a defeated pawn, nor a fugitive pawn, but a dragon and wolf other department. ”

Cao Ang trembled and almost fell off the horse.

Dragon wolf! This was his nightmare, he couldn't have imagined that the pursuit of Yuan Jun would actually kill the head of the Dragon Wolf Army.

Zhang He raised his hand and made a move, and a group of cavalry appeared in Hulala in the forest.

The more Cao Ang looked at it, the more his heart sank, and finally sank to the bottom - there were as many as 500 horses!

Cao Ang said bitterly: "Our army has a secret agreement with the Dragon and Wolf Army, and the two armies are friends and not enemies......

Zhang He raised his lance high: "I am ordered by General Huya Zhonglang, but anyone who attacks our army, no matter what happened before, will be regarded as an enemy." ”

"Cao Ang, just grab it! For the sake of the three thousand captives you sent and hundreds of carts of military supplies, spare you from death! ”

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Cao Ang's grief was not without reason, just when he was surrounded by Zhang He's regiment and was once again reduced to a prisoner, Xiahou Yuan, who was thirty miles away from him, was known for his good use of cavalry and fast marching, and was also severely warned.

The warning is from Yangwu City.

At that time, Xiahou Yuan's thoughts were similar to Cao Ang's, and he was ready to take advantage of the chaos to take Yangwu and ensure the safety of the back road. As a result, when I went to the city, it was not the Yuan Junhu flag fluttering at the head of the city, but the wolf's head flag.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan understood why the Yuan army was defeated, and it was really the dragon and wolf army that made a move. Now that the Dragon Wolf Army has occupied Yangwu, no matter what considerations he has, it is impossible for him to get involved again, so he plans to bypass the city and continue to pursue Yuan's army.

As soon as Xiahou Yuan wanted to ride his horse and raise the whip, he saw a finger from the riding whip: "Envoy, someone has come out." ”

Xiahou Yuan turned his head, and saw that the city gate was ajar, and he rode like a horse, ran close to fifty steps and stopped, ignoring the Cao army cavalry who surrounded him, and said loudly to Xiahou Yuan: "The hussar general has an order, attack Yuan Zhi, take Yangwu to Fengqiu as the boundary, return to Cao Gong in the south, and return to the dragon wolf in the north, don't cross the line, otherwise it will be regarded as an attack on the ally." ”

Cao Jun was in a commotion, Xiahou Yuan's thick eyebrows were twisted, and his eyes were full of anger. Bounded by Yangwu to Fengqiu? From Yuan Shao down, most of the soldiers and horses of the Yuan army escaped Yangwu. Although they also captured a lot, most of these people who fell behind were servants and auxiliaries, and the vast majority of those elite soldiers, especially cavalry, escaped Yangwu. What a good opportunity to replenish his strength, he was cut off by the Dragon Wolf Army like this.

Xiahou Yuan suppressed his anger and asked, "Who is the Yang Wu Guard?" Please go out of town. ”

The dragon wolf knight said to himself: "My general has a word to tell him - this road is not passable, turn back quickly, and don't trap Cao Gong in injustice." After saying this, he slapped his horse and left, not glancing at the more than ten Cao army cavalry soldiers who surrounded him from beginning to end.

Xiahou Yuan raised his hand to stop the imminent rider, his face was extremely ugly, and he gritted his teeth: "Retreat!" ”

The left and right are uneven: "Envoy, such a good opportunity, just let it go in vain?" ”

Xiahou Yuan snorted heavily: "Go back and report to the lord first, in my opinion, the lord will not give up." (To be continued......)