Chapter Seventy-Three: Ambush on All Sides

"Master Hou! Another army is coming. Dian Wei pointed to Yuan Xi's troops and whispered to Lu Rui.

"Oh?"

"Master Hou, should we do it?"

"No, this is the army sent to support the vanguard of the Yuan army, Yuan Shao has not yet entered the encirclement, we can't act rashly!" Seeing that Yuan Shao was still staying in place, Lu Rui did not act, Yuan Shao was his goal.

Soon, Yuan Xi led the army through the Cangting Trail, Yuan Xi glanced at the Cangting Trail behind him, showed a smug smile, and commanded the army to go to Cao Cao's grain hoarding place.

"Lord, the eldest prince and the third prince have already gone to pursue Cao Cao, and the two princes only brought cavalry, so we still send a large army to support." Guo Tu saw Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang chasing Cao Cao, worried that the two had fallen for Cao Cao's tricks.

"My lord, what the public rule says is reasonable, let's go after Cao Cao." Feng Ji also suggested to Yuan Shao to pursue Cao Cao.

"Good! Gongzhi, you lead 30,000 people as the front army, and the army pursues Cao's army through the Cangting Trail! ”

"No!" Guo Tu took 30,000 infantry as the front army and entered the Cangting Trail.

"Master Hou, Yuan Shao has started to move!" Dian Wei pointed to Yuan Shao, who was in the middle of the Chinese army, and rode slowly towards the Cangting trail.

"Hmmm! Pass the order, let the front army pass, let Yuan Shao enter the Cangting Trail, and when Yuan Shao enters the middle of the trail, block the crossing with a huge stone, and hit the bow and arrow to attack Yuan Shao! ”

"Yes, Master Hou!"

After Guo Tu led the front army through the trail, Yuan Shao also entered the Cangting trail.

"Master Hou, Yuan Shao is in the middle!" Dian Wei excitedly pointed to Yuan Shao, who was riding a black horse.

"Good! Shoot the arrows! ”

Whoosh. Dian Wei unleashed a ringing arrow. The ambush of Cao's army. Dropped boulders from the mountains!

"Shoot the arrows!" Lu Rui gave an order, and the crossbowman shot arrows at Yuan Shao under the mountain road.

"Protect the lord! Several of Yuan Shao's personal soldiers fell to the ground, and Han Qiong, the captain of the personal guard who followed Yuan Shao's side, immediately commanded his personal soldiers to protect Yuan Shao.

Shield hand, block it, the hillside is not very steep, send someone up to suppress Cao Jun!

"Master Hou?"

"Sure enough, it was Yuan Shao's elite troops, who reacted so quickly!"

"Evil, let the soldiers set fire oil!"

"No!"

"What is this?" Soon, Yuan Shao's pawn in the mountain road found some unknown liquid under his feet. It flows down from the top of the hillside.

"Oh no, it's fire oil! Come on! ”

"Fireball!" Lu Rui gave an order, rolled down a lot of fireballs from the hillside, and rushed directly into Yuan Shao's Chinese army.

Suddenly, the mountain road became a sea of fire.

"Sir, the lord is trapped in the mountain road." As soon as Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan led the troops out of the Cangting Trail, they found that the mountain pass was blocked by falling rocks.

"Oh no, we've been tricked, quick, send someone to hit the passage and save the lord!"

"No!" Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan immediately led people to attack the Cangting Pass backwards.

Feng Ji, who was the rear army's pressure formation, also found that the crossing was blocked. He also led people to attack the entrance of the Cangting Trail in an attempt to rescue Yuan Shao.

"Big brother. Why don't we see our father's reinforcements? Yuan Shang and Yuan Tan led the cavalry to pursue Cao Cao, and Yuan Shang saw that Yuan Shao's rear army did not follow, and looked at Yuan Tan suspiciously.

"Humph! Xianfu, if you are afraid, take the troops back, the battlefield is still not suitable for you! In Yuan Tan's eyes, Yuan Shang didn't understand military affairs at all, and led the cavalry to pursue Cao Cao, that is, to support Cao Cao's army, and wait for Yuan Shao's army to encircle Cao Cao, if Yuan Shao's army kept up with his cavalry, then what else did the cavalry do!

"The eldest prince, our cavalry is equipped with iron hooves, I'm afraid the speed will be affected." Wang Ling, the general of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, stepped forward and reminded Yuan Tan.

"General Wang, you don't have to worry, General Ben has thought about it, I and the third brother's headquarters light cavalry pursued Cao Cao, General Wang is behind, after I trap Cao Cao in the front, General Wang and my father's reinforcements will attack Cao's army again!"

"Third brother?" Yuan Tan glanced at Yuan Shang.

"Big brother, you are not afraid of death, I am also my father's son, how can I be afraid of death!" Yuan Shang glanced at Yuan Tan dissatisfiedly, this credit must not allow the eldest brother to eat alone.

"Good! The third brother is worthy of being a good man of the Yuan family! Yuan Tan glanced at Yuan Shang with disdain and continued to pursue Cao Cao.

"Lord, the front is on the bank of the Yellow River, and Zihe is already in ambush in front."

"Okay, lead the cavalry behind you into the quagmire area!"

"Yes!"

"The eldest prince, Cao Cao, is in front!"

"Okay, give an order to the whole army, speed up the front army, and capture Cao Cao's first rank and promote him to three levels!" Yuan Tan saw that Cao Cao was in front of him, and ordered the whole army to speed up and capture Cao Cao.

"Ahh A Yuan soldier fell from his horse.

"What's going on!" Yuan Tan restrained his horse, and the horse also made a crutch and almost fell down.

"General, we're all mud!"

"What! Yuan Tan only realized that he had entered the quagmire area at this time.

"Tiger and leopard ride, fight back!" Cao Cao found that Yuan Tan had been trapped, and immediately commanded a large army to counterattack Yuan Tan.

"Rush!" Cao Chun also rushed out with the pikemen who were lying in ambush on the shore and fought with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang's cavalry.

Outside the Cangting Trail, with the efforts of Feng Ji and Guo Tu, Yuan Jun finally opened the entrance and exit of the Cangting Trail, and the Yuan Army in the trail began to escape from the trail.

"The herald generals are ready to attack!"

"No!"

Zhang Liao, Yu Ban, and Le Jin led the army to kill near the exit and raid Guo Tu's front army.

Cao Hong, Cao Zhang, Cao Pi, Zhu Ling, Zhang Jaw, and Gao Ran led the army to kill near the entrance and besiege Feng Ji's rear army.

"Quick, protect the lord and return to Liyang!" As soon as Han Qiong covered Yuan Shao's exit from the Cangting Path, he found that Cao Jun was coming from all directions.

"Capture Yuan Shao, seal a county guard!" Cao Junzhong shouted the slogan of capturing Yuan Shao.

"Hebei boy, come with me!" Yuan Shao drew the sword of the world, rode his horse and led his guards to break through to Cao Cao's encirclement.

"Extraordinary, it seems that Yuan Shao has lost a lot this time!" Yuan Shao still broke through Cao Cao's encirclement by virtue of his numerical advantage, but left a lot of corpses in the Cangting Trail.

"Uncle Zilian, it seems that Yuan Jun has also killed and injured tens of thousands of people this time!" Walking on the path, there were Yuan Jun's corpses everywhere.

"What you say is reasonable, I'm afraid that there are more enemy troops killed this time than in the Battle of Guandu!" Cao Hong smiled, the battle of Guandu only burned Yuan Shao's military rations and made Yuan Shao retreat, but this time tens of thousands of Yuan troops really died, and they were Yuan Shao's elite!

"Uncle, let's hurry up and clean up the scene and rush to meet up with the middle father!" Cao Cao and Cao Chun's former army against Yuan Shao is probably successful now, and it seems that Cao's army has won a big victory this time.

"Good! I ordered someone to speed up the clearing of the battlefield, and then rush to join the eldest brother. ”

At the same time, Yuan Xi's army had approached the place where Cao's army was hoarding grain. (To be continued......)

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