914 The proud army will be defeated
Wu Lan nodded in agreement, Ren Kui stepped forward with a gun, stepped forward without speaking, and the spear stabbed a little light, straight into Cao Zhen's chest.
Cao Zhen didn't panic, the big knife slashed, and with a crisp sound, all the guns dissipated, and at the same time, Cao Zhen returned a knife and went straight to Ren Kui's waist.
Ren Kui was unequivocal, and with a slash of the spear, he blocked Cao Zhen's big knife, which can be regarded as a quick eye. However, his strength was not as good as Cao Zhen's, and he could see that the spear was obviously bent.
Ren Kui couldn't calm down anymore, and a look of panic flashed on his face. Cao Zhen sneered, withdrew the broadsword again, and attacked Ren Kui's shoulder from the other side with lightning speed.
Ren Kui knew that his strength was not as good as Cao Zhen's, so he didn't dare to take it hard, so he hurriedly lowered his head, and the wind whistled overhead.
Just when Ren Kui tried to use a spear to pick Cao Zhen's horse's head, he only heard Cao Zhen shout, suddenly turned the horse's head, and the big knife danced wildly, slashing three times on the top of Ren Kui's head, with coherent moves and extremely fast speed.
only heard a snort, and Ren Kui didn't have time to scream, he was split in half by Cao Zhen vertically, and the brain-pulp and internal organs were mixed with blood, flowing all over the ground, which was unbearable.
Wu Lan was shocked, she didn't expect Cao Zhen's knife skills to be so strong, and immediately together with Lei Tong, each holding a big knife, she pounced on Cao Zhen.
Cao Zhen was fearless, raised his knife and prepared to rush up to fight against the second general, at this moment, the gong sounded in the city, Cao Zhen withdrew his sword and quickly retreated to the city.
As soon as the confrontation began, he lost a general, and Wu Lan was extremely depressed and scolded endlessly under the city. Until dark, no one went out of the city to fight, Wu Lan had to collect his troops, set up camp less than three miles away from Xiabiancheng, and only waited for tomorrow morning to launch a strong attack on Xiabiancheng.
"Hmph, the second general is still not my opponent, why did he withdraw his troops?" Cao Zhen was slightly dissatisfied, and stopped as soon as he warmed up, which was really unpleasant.
"Don't be impatient, I have my own plan to destroy the enemy." Cao Hong waved his hand.
Just when Cao Zhen went to war, Cao Xiu came over to offer a strategy, in his opinion, Wu Lan, Lei Tong and others were not leading the army. According to the practice of marching, the camp should be set up first, and after the foothold is stable, then attack the city, and Wu Lan is in such a hurry to attack the city, which shows the pride and complacency of this person, and he can attack the camp of Liu's army at night.
Therefore, in Cao Xiu's view, instead of fighting head-on, not to mention the risk value, it is also indispensable to lose troops and generals, it is better to raid at night and kill him by surprise.
Cao Hong pondered it carefully, felt that his brother's words were very reasonable, and immediately recruited Cao Zhen back and formulated a detailed strategy for the night raid. Just in case, Cao Hong still sent people to investigate many times to find out.
Later, when he heard that Wu Lan was only camped three miles away, Cao Hong was even more happy, and immediately ordered to go down, led by Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen respectively, went out of the city after dark, and marched along the mountain road to both sides of Wu Lan's camp.
After settling down in the camp, Wu Lan ordered Ren Kui's body to be stitched together, and held a decent farewell party for him, and then the soldiers wept and buried Ren Kui under a nearby hill.
Wu Lan and Ren Kui have a lot of feelings, and they have been crying bitterly, with a lot of tears and a lot of snot, and their true feelings have been revealed, which has touched many soldiers.
As everyone knows, Wu Lan's approach made another mistake, marching and fighting, morale is very important, and crying can only reduce the fighting spirit of the soldiers. At night, Wu Lan and Lei Tong were in a bad mood, sitting together and drinking alcohol, mentioning that Ren Kui, who had died tragically, inevitably wept again, gritted his teeth and swore to avenge him tomorrow and dismantle that Cao Zhen.
Exactly, tonight mourning the old friend, I don't know how to wake up from a dream to go to Huangliang.
In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard the rumbling of drums and the sound of killing around me, and countless torches lit up on the mountains on both sides, and countless Cao soldiers rushed towards the camp.
Wu Lan was a little drunk, she had just fallen asleep in her clothes, and she didn't react to the movement she heard in her ears for a while, but instead melted it into a dream, dreaming that she was fighting bravely to kill the enemy, slashing Cao Zhen into sections, stepping on Cao Xiu into mud, and capturing Cao Hong alive in her hand, so angry! The soldiers rejoiced and named him a first-class hero in the world, while Wu Lan righteously told everyone that these were not his own merits, but the big guys, so they gave all the gold and silver rewarded by Liu Bei to the brothers who depended on each other in life and death, and everyone swore to be good brothers for a lifetime!
But I don't know why, Wu Lan in the dream couldn't laugh, but her heart was infinitely desolate, and she saw two people walking slowly in front of her in a trance. Wu Lan curiously rode after her, the more she looked, the more strange she felt, and when she got closer, she found that it was not two people, but two and a half people, it was Ren Kui.
Isn't Ren Kui dead? Could it be a ghost? Oh, Wu Lan was shocked and suddenly opened her eyes, at this time, a soldier hurriedly came to report, saying that it was Cao Bing's night attack on the camp, Wu Lan was so shocked that he suddenly woke up most of the wine, hurriedly came out of the big tent, and ordered the soldiers to prepare to meet the enemy.
Whoosh! Countless rockets came from above, fell in the camp and burned, the whole camp was in flames in an instant, thick smoke billowed to the sky, the soldiers who were hit by the arrows let out a scream, the horses were also roasted by the fire and neighed, and many of them broke the burning reins and broke free.
At such times, it is necessary to withdraw troops quickly and minimize losses. But Wu Lan suffered a series of setbacks, and the residual alcohol made his brain not clear enough, and he made a wrong decision.
Wu Lan thought that there were a lot of soldiers surrounding Cao, so there must be emptiness in the city, so he beckoned Lei Tong and led the army to rush in the direction of the city.
At this time, Cao Hong had already led an army of 30,000 out of the city, and happened to encounter Wu Lan and Lei Tong on the road. Wu Lan's army had just been attacked by fire and its morale was low, but Cao Hong's army was at a time when its fighting spirit was high.
"Alive Wu Lan!" With Cao Hong's roar, Cao Jun bravely attacked.
Cao Hong brandished a big knife and went straight to Wu Lan, Wu Lan hurriedly raised his knife to greet him, where was Cao Hong's opponent, after less than ten rounds of fighting, he was struck by Cao Hong's skyrocketing knife and slashed under the horse.
Lei Tong was surrounded by a large number of Cao troops, and he couldn't rescue him, and he had just made a bloody way, but he heard a gust of wind behind his head, and it was Cao Xiu who rushed over and unceremoniously released an arrow at him. Lei Tonghou was shot in the heart and died on the spot in an instant.
The main generals are all dead, the soldiers have no fighting spirit at all, desperately fleeing backwards, Cao Jun is like no one, killing a hearty.
Of the 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Wu Lan, only 20,000 escaped, and the rest died and surrendered.
The three Cao each killed one general, was complacent, collected the troops and returned to the city, and then Zhang Fei and Ma Chao who came heard that Wu Lan, Lei Tong, and Ren Kui were all dead, and at the same time lost 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the intestines of regret were blue.