Zhang Xin shook his head, "I am not persuading the general to surrender, but I am following the order of Zhao Dudu to bring a sentence to the general, Zhao Dudu can't bear the people to starve to death, and is willing to send food into the city, or the Han army will retreat ten miles and let the Cao army leave, and the Han army will take over Luoyang." ”

Xu Huang didn't speak for a long time, these two conditions are a bit unbelievable, the second condition is quite reliable, let himself evacuate Luoyang, and the Han army occupies Luoyang, but the first condition, Xu Huang feels that it is impossible, the Han army must be deceitful.

Xu Huang pondered for a moment and asked, "Where can the Han army let us withdraw?" ”

"General Zhao can only guarantee the safety of Cao's army before crossing the Yellow River, and the Han army will not intercept it before crossing the Yellow River, but after crossing the Yellow River, the Han army will not make any guarantees, and whether it can escape the interception of the Han army depends on the general's commanding ability."

Xu Huang lowered his head and pondered silently, and then said slowly: "Let me think about it, Zhang joins the army, please wait." ”

Zhang Xin retreated, Xu Huang immediately asked several generals to find them, and told them Zhao Yun's plan, and one of the generals said: "Even if the first plan is true, it cannot be adopted, once the grain enters the city, the soldiers will be disintegrated, and the city will not be able to hold it." ”

Xu Huang nodded, he also thought about it like this, "What about the second plan?" Xu Huang asked the crowd again.

General Han Yi said: "General Xu, I think the second plan may be considered, doesn't Cao's army have 10,000 garrisons on the north bank of the Yellow River?" If the Han army did not attack the north bank, then this 10,000 troops could just meet us. ”

"How can you trust the promise of the Han Army?" Another general said angrily.

"Zhao Yun is a trustworthy person, since he promises like this, there will be no fraud!"

"What if the Cao army on the north bank of the Yellow River is gone?"

"It's better than starving to death in Luoyang City!"

Everyone fought for it, Xu Huang couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted angrily, "Shut up!" ”

Everyone quieted down, and then Xu Huang said in a deep voice: "No need to fight, General Han is right, instead of starving to death in Luoyang City, it is better to fight once, today the Han army is already fighting a psychological war, we have no time to drag it on, so it was decided, we will evacuate Luoyang tonight and return to Yedu, life and death are up to heaven!" ”

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The Yellow River was completely frozen in late November, and several successive heavy snowfalls covered the thick ice with snow.

Although there is no longer a need to cross the Yellow River by ferry after it freezes, the cold from the huge ice layer at the bottom of the river can easily hurt pedestrians on the ice, so even if you cross the Yellow River on foot, you need to be protected.

At noon on this day, at the Yanjin ferry in Dongjun, a Cao army of nearly 20,000 people was rapidly marching on the ice, this army was Xu Huang's army withdrawn from Luoyang, although Zhao Yun said that he was willing to give Cao Jun food to maintain the lives of the residents in the city, but Xu Huang still decided to accept the second plan, abandon Luoyang, and withdraw to Yedu.

This is not only that Xu Huang believes in the Han army, and suspects that they will take the opportunity to send food to attack Luoyang City, but more importantly, Xu Huang knows that Yedu has insufficient troops and is difficult to deal with the siege of hundreds of thousands of Han troops, and if his 30,000 troops return to Yedu, it will undoubtedly strengthen the Cao army in Yedu.

When Xu Huang withdrew his troops, he made full use of Zhao Yun's promise not to cross the Yellow River in Hanoi County, but to travel hundreds of miles eastward, and cross the Yellow River at Yanjin in Dongjun, so that they would be closer to Yedu, and after crossing the Yellow River, they could reach Yedu by another two hundred miles, on the other hand, he left all the 8,000 old, weak, sick and wounded soldiers in Luoyang, and he only led 20,000 elite soldiers to evacuate, which greatly accelerated the speed of the march.

At the same time as Xu Huang left Luoyang, he sent ten teams of messengers to Yedu to deliver the letter first, asking Xiahoudun to send troops south to meet him, so that even if he was besieged by the Han army after crossing the river, he could get timely support from Cao's army.

Xu Huang is also a famous general of Cao Jun's generation, and before making this heavy decision, he also repeatedly considered that instead of being besieged and perishing in the end, it was better to take the risk of going north, once successful, it would greatly enhance the strength of Cao Jun, even if it failed, it would only replace late destruction with early destruction, and the result was the same thing.

Because there was no horse and animal power, Cao's army was a light soldier, each person only carried one bucket of rice when they set out, and they got a little supplement on the way, so that each person had three buckets of rice, and hundreds of donkeys and mules as animal power, consignment of grain.

Xu Huang also rode on a temporary war horse, although this war horse was relatively strong and could bear his heavy body and big axe, but compared to his previous war horse, this war horse was still too far behind, and could only be barely ridden for him, Xu Huang could only bury his gloom and sadness in his heart.

"Speed up! The river is too cold, run and march! ”

Xu Huang shouted loudly, the soldiers did not have thick winter clothes to resist the cold, and the ice for more than ten miles could easily frostbite them, and the 20,000 Cao soldiers ran quickly, and in less than half a time, they gradually arrived at the north bank of the Yellow River.

Xu Huang's worst fear happened as he expected, at this time, some of the leading soldiers fled back, many of them were still wounded by arrows, they stumbled and shouted: "General, there are tens of thousands of Han troops on the north bank, and the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and we can't get ashore!" ”

Xu Huang's heart seemed to sink to the bottom of the icy river, he knew that Zhao Yun did not lose his promise, they were indeed not intercepted in any way before crossing the Yellow River, and the Han army did not intercept them in the Yellow River, but intercepted them on the north bank, so that they could not go ashore.

At this time, the 20,000 Cao soldiers stopped, and 40,000 eyes looked at the main general Xu Huang, Xu Huang turned back to look at the south bank, and vaguely saw the overwhelming banners on the south bank, which should be Zhao Yun's big army tail chasing and cutting off their retreat.

They were trapped on the ice of the Yellow River, Xu Huang looked at the soldiers who were shivering from the cold, the soldiers of the Cao army were generally thinly dressed, if they did not rush ashore, they would not survive an hour, Xu Huang decided to fight against the water, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Rush to the north bank to break through!" ”

The war drums of the Cao army sounded, and the 20,000 Cao troops let out a shout and rushed towards the north bank two miles away like a tide.

Yanjindu is located in the southern remnant of Taihang Mountain, both sides of the Yellow River are hundreds of miles of lofty mountains, Yanjindu is actually the valley between the two mountains, forming a gentle river bank about ten miles wide, making it a famous ferry, crossing the Yellow River, and then walking dozens of miles long valley, it enters the vast northern Henan Plain.

At this time, Wen Ping led 50,000 Han troops to wait on the north bank of the Yellow River, of which 20,000 crossbow soldiers held crossbows to block the bank of the Yellow River, they built a simple earthen wall on the north bank of the Yellow River, and poured hot water, the cold weather made the earthen wall become an ice wall overnight, from a distance, the ice wall is like a white and bright ice line in the sun.

20,000 Han army crossbowmen stood on the high platform, condescendingly looking at the ice of the Yellow River in the distance, at this time, the black pressure of Cao soldiers appeared on the ice of the Yellow River, and they were rushing towards the north bank. ”

The 20,000 crossbowmen were arranged in three rows, brushed the ground and raised their crossbows, and the cold arrows were aimed at the overwhelming Cao soldiers, and behind the crossbowmen, thirty heavy trebuchets also creaked apart, and they were waiting for the first round of Cao soldiers' assault.

The Cao soldiers got closer and closer, rushing within three hundred steps, and Xu Huang shouted, "Trebuchet launch!" ”

Thirty trebuchets were launched suddenly, thirty boulders flew into the air, drew an arc in the air, and smashed them towards the rushing Cao soldiers, the boulders smashed into the crowd, and suddenly the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the screams rang out, and the boulders rolled on the ice, so that a large number of Cao soldiers were smashed over, their bones were broken, and they wailed all over the ground.

"Rush forward!"

Xu Huang also turned red in the eye, brandished his war knife and shouted loudly, the thirty boulders only killed and injured hundreds of people, and still did not pose a threat to the Cao army soldiers of more than 20,000 people, and the 20,000 Cao soldiers shouted and killed the north bank, all the Cao soldiers understood that if they could not rush to the north bank, they would be frozen to death on the ice of the Yellow River.

At this time, the crossbow arrows of the Han army were launched, the first round of seven thousand arrows rose into the air, and quickly formed a cloud of arrows, which rushed towards the Cao soldiers in black pressure, and the dense arrows rushed like a storm, and the lethality it caused was much higher than the impact of the boulder, although the Cao soldiers raised their shields to cover it, but it was still to no avail, and the Cao soldiers were shot down one by one, and the cries and wails resounded through the ice field.

Immediately after the second round of arrows and the third round of arrows roared again, the Han army's three-stage shooting always maintained a continuous stream of arrows, round after round, Cao Jun suffered heavy casualties, blood stained the ice field red, and even Xu Huang's war horse was shot by two arrows, which threw Xu Huang on the ice field.

Xu Huang saw that the originally dense Cao army soldiers became thinner, and the ice field was full of soldiers who had been killed by arrows, and at least four or five thousand people had been lost, Xu Huang had always loved soldiers like children, and the heavy casualties made his heart like a knife, so he had to order: "Retreat immediately!" ”

'When! While! While! When the bell for retreat rang, the Cao soldiers were relieved and retreated to the Yellow River ice sheet like a receding tide, and the first breakthrough ended in failure.

The ice field was full of tired Cao soldiers, they huddled together, warmed each other with their bodies, and struggled to resist the harsh cold coming from the bottom of the river, Xu Huang and several partial generals got together to discuss the way out, but the signs on the map made them all cold, they could continue to go east, or continue to retreat west, but no matter whether they went east or west, the next landing point was fifty miles away from them, and they couldn't go to the landing point at all.

Even Xu Huang's eyes showed a hint of despair, they fell into the trap of the Han army, and they had no second way out except to get out of the Yellow River in Yanjin.

Several partial generals looked at Xu Huang, the first time they broke through, they were killed and wounded more than 3,000 people, morale was hit hard, even if they desperately rushed ashore, in the face of tens of thousands of Han soldiers surrounded, they still had no way out, in fact, several partial generals understood that they had no second way to live except for surrender.

Xu Huang also understood in his heart, but let him betray Cao Wei and surrender, he couldn't make up his mind, and at this moment, a soldier came running to report, "General, the Han army joined the army last time and came again." ”

Xu Huang looked at several generals, and the generals all nodded, unanimously agreeing on the Han army's persuasion, Xu Huang sighed secretly, "Bring him over!" ”

After a moment, Zhang Xin, who had joined the army, was brought up, and he bowed and saluted, "See General Xu!" ”

Xu Huang said lightly: "Zhang joined the army but came to persuade me to surrender?" ”

Zhang Xin took out a thick stack of letters from his arms and handed them to Xu Huang, "Return this to the general first." ”

Xu Huang took the letter, and was stunned for a moment, this turned out to be a letter of help he wrote to Yedu, a total of ten, one is not a lot, it turned out that the ten messengers he sent were all captured by the Han army, and the last ray of hope in Xu Huang's heart was also shattered, he let out a long sigh, "I didn't expect that I, Xu Huang, would also have a day at the end of my rope!" ”

Zhang Xin smiled slightly: "Governor Zhao gave the general two ways, I don't know if the general is willing to listen?" ”

Without waiting for Xu Huang to express his position, several generals next to him said in unison: "Sir, please speak!" ”

Xu Huang was helpless, so he nodded and expressed his willingness to listen, Zhang Xin said unhurriedly: "One way is to surrender, the general leads the Cao army to surrender, the Han army will incorporate the Cao army soldiers, those who do not want to join the army can be released to go home as farmers, and the other is captured, that is to say, the Cao soldiers are all prisoners of war, and they may have to go to the mine or military camp to serve three years of labor before they can be released, and the two roads can be chosen by the general." ”

Xu Huang looked back at the soldiers, the soldiers of the Cao army were all stunned, their eyes were full of pity, he really couldn't bear it in his heart, so he said in a deep voice: "All my soldiers chose to surrender, but I, Xu Huang, chose to be captured, I would rather die in battle or become a prisoner of war than surrender to the Han army." ”

Zhang Xin nodded, "Just according to the general's words!" ”

Xu Huang held a big axe in his hand, turned around and strode towards the south bank, the soldiers got up one after another, wanting to follow him, but Xu Huang shouted: "Everyone is not allowed to move, this is my military order!" ”

The soldiers stared blankly at Xu Huang's figure and went away, and many soldiers knelt down and cried.

Zhao Yun watched Xu Huang striding alone on the south bank, he suddenly understood, and couldn't help sighing slightly: "The real name is also a general!" ”

Zhao Yun turned back to Pang De and ordered: "Don't hurt him, you should capture him alive!" ”

Pang De shouted an order and led a thousand cavalry to rush towards Xu Huang.

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