[I'm on Sanjiang next week, can I ask for a Sanjiang ticket in advance, xiexie! ] 】

Just when Xiahou Yuan bravely stepped forward to stop the Xiliang army, roared loudly, and asked Cao Cao to leave quickly, Cao Cao was there in a daze, and his mind was full of paste.

He couldn't figure out that the first battle since the formation of the army, the first battle full of confidence, was defeated like this, and it was defeated so quickly and completely. In the previous battle of generals, the generals under his command were not defeated, and their morale was not greatly affected because of this.

But what happened when the two armies clashed made him unable to accept it for a while, a deep sense of powerlessness, and a strong sense of shame, like a heart-devouring little monster, gnawed his heart with blood and pain into the bone marrow.

In a daze, he only felt that someone was dragging his war horse, dragging him in the rout, and only cared about running away.

The man seemed to be still yelling at him, but he just turned his head blankly and looked at the man's mouth wide open, not realizing for a moment that the man was Cao Hong.

Everything in front of him, in his eyes, seemed to have nothing to do with him, and it seemed like a farce.

The soldiers scattered in all directions, and many of them did not care about the long knives in their hands, so they abandoned them on the ground at will, and fled with their hands empty. The shouts of killing, the screams, the screams, the orders, even if they were as loud as the earth, Cao Cao still felt that it sounded unusually distant and very real.

Suddenly, Cao Cao only felt that all this was really extremely funny, so he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore, and he was on horseback, dancing with his hands, and laughing wildly.

Cao Hong was so anxious that he desperately grabbed the reins of Cao Cao's war horse, and when he looked back, his face immediately changed, it was the two-way elite cavalry of the Xiliang Army, and he was killing at the end of the rank.

But although he and all the elite troops were riding horses, there were routs on the left and right in front of them, and they could only flow slowly forward with the flow of people, and they couldn't escape with their horses at all.

"Quick, disperse, disperse, rush out!"

Cao Hong shouted incoherently and loudly, and at the critical moment of life and death, guarding Cao Cao's elite troops, he immediately slashed and stabbed his own people, and attacked his own people ruthlessly.

The screams, the crying father and the mother, sounded again, mixed with the sound of scolding and cursing, it was the rout that vented to Cao Cao and his party in addition to their anger, at this time, even if they recognized the commander Cao Cao, they pretended to forget this.

What's more, most of the routs were subordinates of several other people, not led by Cao Cao.

However, anger to anger, curse to curse, most of the rout soldiers are already unarmed, and they can't threaten the fierce elite guards at all, and they are knocked to the ground by their war horses, and they are immediately trampled into flesh by iron hooves.

This move inevitably brought more commotion, more anger and swearing.

Cao Cao still couldn't stop daxiao, even if the tears were laughing, there was still no sign of stopping, until under the escort of Cao Hong and a group of elite troops, highlighting the coercion of the rout, beating the horse and galloping for his life, his laughter did not stop, but the laughter at this time sounded more like crying.

Cao Hong didn't care about Cao Cao's abnormal reaction at this time, and what he was thinking about was that he must escape with him, and as for the rest, he would escape first.

Running straight out for two or three miles, Cao Hong had just breathed a sigh of relief, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Chasing soldiers, there are chasing soldiers!" ”

When he heard this, he looked back, couldn't help but be shocked, and scolded angrily: "Lu Bu, you are a son of a bitch, and you are still chasing?!" ”

Behind him, all of them are fine horses, a big flag fluttering in the wind, showing majesty, and a big "Lu" word is written on it, which is Lu Bu's banner.

Cao Hong scolded and scolded, the movements in his hands were faster than anyone else, and he still firmly held on to Cao Cao's horse reins, not caring about pity for the war horse, and running wildly.

However, the pursuers behind him were still approaching little by little, and they did not distance themselves because they thought they had exerted their strength to eat.

What's even worse, when the pursuers approached, the sneer broke through the air, and before Cao Hong could make a warning, the crossbow arrows had fallen one after another, and most of them fell behind the horses, and only a small half fell into the crowd fleeing for their lives.

The screams of misery, as well as the neighing of war horses, sounded almost at the same time, some people fell from their horses, some people were hit by arrows from their horses, fortunately, no war horses fell to the ground, otherwise, after causing chaos, the losses would only be greater.

But the more he ran forward, Cao Hong always felt that something was wrong, and the pressure from the reins in his hand was getting bigger and bigger, and he looked back in amazement, and couldn't help but cry out bitterly.

Although Cao Cao no longer seemed to laugh or cry, he was hit by an arrow on the thigh behind the horse, which hindered his movement and slowed down his horse.

Cao Hong was anxious, and caught a glimpse of a low hill at the corner in front of the avenue, covered with dense forests, and immediately had a plan, urged the horse to run over the corner, stopped the war, turned over neatly, and shouted at Cao Cao: "Mengde, quickly, change horses!" ”

Cao Cao had regained his senses at this time, and he also noticed the abnormality of the war horse, and was about to speak, Cao Hong hurriedly shouted: "The world can do without me Cao Hong, but you can't do without you Cao Mengde, your grandmother's, change horses quickly, do you want everyone to die here?!" ”

In a hurry, Cao Hong completely forgot what the difference between the top and the bottom, the dignity and the humility were orderly, and he yelled and scolded Cao Cao, he didn't expect that he scolded Cao Cao and his grandmother, but in fact, he was also scolding himself.

Cao Cao's eyes turned red when he heard this, he didn't speak, he quickly changed horses, and when he was about to beat the horse, he only had time to look at Cao Hong deeply.

Led the army to keep an eye on Cao Cao's pursuit, it was Lu Bu, turning the corner of the avenue, Cao Cao's group of people in front of him was still beating horses and galloping, in the dust, he did not find that the hoof prints at the corner were abnormal, nor did he find that Cao Cao's group of people was missing more than a dozen people, let alone Cao Hong and others who were hiding in the dense forest on the hills next to the road.

After chasing Li Xu again, he put two rounds of crossbow arrows, and shot down a dozen or so people again, and he noticed that in the distance on the right side of the avenue, there was a dusty sky, and a group of men and horses were rushing here.

Looking left and right, silently estimating the distance, Lu Bu shouted in his heart that it was a pity.

Without figuring out the commander of this force and the virtual time of the troops, it is very unwise to chase Cao Cao and his party at the end of the year, and it is of course of great significance to him to catch Cao Cao, but if there is a mistake in the elite cavalry under his command, the impact on him is even greater than killing Cao Cao.

"Phew!"

Thinking of this, Lu Bu slowed down his horse, grabbed the reins, led the army to stop the pursuit, and soon lined up in the same place, dismounted and waited.

Soon, the Biao men and horses came to the front, and with just an order, the soldiers quickly changed from marching to array, and Lu Bu knew that it was a strong army.

The number of people is not much, at most there are only three thousand, all of them are foot soldiers, and Lu Bu led the elite cavalry to fight against them, and he can completely gain the upper hand.

As soon as the other party's circular formation was formed, Lu Bu was taken aback again.

Infantry against cavalry, or in such a flat place, only by adopting a complete defensive position, it is possible to escape. And this kind of circular formation is a formation that only defends and does not attack, and the entire military formation is like a hedgehog shrunk into a ball, which makes Lu Bu feel at a loss.

Although after the army arrived in Xingyang, the state elite cavalry was divided into 500 mounted crossbows, and it was completely possible to use ranger tactics to wear out the round formation little by little with the riding crossbows, but the riding crossbows were still a little less, if each of the 3,000 elite cavalry was equipped with one, Lu Bu was very confident, and he was here to grind this team to death.

On the banner, there is a word "Zhu" in the big book, and Lu Bu searched his intestines and scraped his stomach, but he still didn't remember which prince or general surnamed Zhu was in the Kwantung Coalition Army.

Fortunately, the answer will soon be revealed, the circle array cracked, and one person galloped out of the crowd, leaving the formation more than ten steps, that is, he stopped cautiously, and a pair of eyes, like sharp eagle eyes, constantly patrolled on Lu Bu's body.

Lu Bu smiled proudly, rode forward alone, came to a place about twenty steps in front of the man, and asked, "Dare to ask the old general's name!" ”

The person who came was indeed old-looking, but he was in good spirits, and he felt that he was getting old and strong, and his gray eyebrows were clustered together, like two small swords, standing on his eyes. If it weren't for the puffy eye bubbles, with those sharp eyes, it would definitely hurt people invisibly.

The old general looked Lu Bu up and down, nodded and praised: "It's really a hero out of a young man!" A certain surname Zhu, the name Jun, the word Gongwei, you are so young, you have already led the state, and shouldered the heavy responsibility of resisting the desert alien races, Ding Jianyang Jiuquan has knowledge, and he should be gratified. ”

Zhu Jun!

Lu Bu was in awe, he never expected that the old general in front of him turned out to be Zhu Jun, a famous general of the Han Empire, who was as famous as Huangfu Song. The pacification of the Yellow Turban Rebellion was the pinnacle of their two veteran generals' careers.

Now, Huangfu Song is in Chang'an, according to Zhang Ji in Guanzhong, and later Li Dao and others entered Luoyang, worshiping Zhang Ji as Jing Zhaoyin, and Huangfu Song recognized him; And Zhu Jun went to the Kanto region to recruit troops after the death of the Taiwei Dong Zhuo, on the order of Situ Wang Yun, but he didn't expect to appear on the Xingyang battlefield today.

Fortunately, by coincidence, he just stopped Lu Bu and his Bingzhou elite cavalry, and inadvertently saved Cao Cao's life.

Lu Bu placed Fang Tian's halberd on the saddle, respectfully bowed on the horse's back, and said, "It turned out to be General Zhu, disrespectful, disrespectful!" Is the old general from a sour date, or is it a ......?"

Zhu Jun haha smiled, held the iron lance in his right hand, stroked his beard with his left hand, and replied: "A certain person came from Zhongmu, I wanted to come to Xingyang to see the power of the Xiliang army, but I never wanted to bump into the nephew to chase after him, well, is the nephew going to continue to chase, or will he stop the army?" ”

Lu Bu scolded in his heart: Okay, you old man, you made it clear that you were blocking my way, and you chased a fart!

What he said was something else, and he said: "There is an old general who leads the army to come, how dare Bu make a mistake, well, Cao Mengde must be a high fragrance on the ancestral tomb today, so that the old general can relieve the siege." It's a pity that there is no wine in the army, and I can't give the old general a glass, so don't say goodbye to the cloth, please! ”

Zhu Jun smiled and nodded with satisfaction, but he didn't move at all, just watched Lu Bu pull his horse, turned around, roared, and led the Jingzhou Elite to retreat, just for a moment, he turned the corner and disappeared behind the hills.

Zhu Jun sighed at this time, stretched out his hand to wipe his forehead, in fact, there was no sweat there at all, not even a little sweat.

"General, this person ......"

Hearing the question coming from behind him, Zhu Jun sighed without looking back, and replied: "Alas, old, and the state fine horse, it really deserves its reputation, if it really starts a war, the three thousand foot soldiers that you and I finally gathered together, and lose thirty percent, it is still a haode." ”

The one who asked was Yang Yuan, the commander of Zhongmu County, who was called Henan Yin by Yuan Shao, and he was a little puzzled when he heard the words, but he looked at Zhu Jun and knew that he was not joking, but serious, so he immediately closed his mouth with interest and did not say anything more.

On the military journey, if Zhu Jun said something he didn't understand, it must not be Zhu Jun's mistake, but his own problem.

Yang Yuan comforted himself with this sentence in his heart, and looked at Zhu Jun's gaze, where there was only dust trampled by the torrent of iron hooves, and there was no figure in sight.