Chapter 25: A slap in the face

"Slow down, generals! There will be a proposal at the end that you might as well consider it! Cao Hong saw the soldiers and horses coming around, his brows furrowed, and he suddenly thought of a time-delaying attention, he knew that the remaining 100 or so old and weak soldiers would definitely not be able to stop it, so it was better to make a desperate bet, and maybe there would be a turnaround.

"Oh? Who are you? What are the good proposals to say out and listen to! Yuan Shao was very interested in listening to this suggestion, and asked the horse to stop first, he didn't want to grab things until he had to, and it was not good for his reputation.

"General Yuan, in Cao Hong, Cao Mengde is my brother. Since you and my eldest brother are good friends, and at the same time do things for the general, it is inevitable to compete for credit, but the fight between friends is also an internal contradiction, and some bloodshed will be laughed at. The last general proposed that we each send fifty men to fight, and whoever stood last would be counted as the winner, and this credit would be given to the winning side. What do you think? Cao Hong came up with an idea that could not only delay time but also have a chance to keep this credit, he and Xiahou Yuan's martial arts are good, and it is absolutely no longer a problem to fight twenty or thirty alone, but I don't know if the other party has a master to fight.

"How do you decide if you win or lose?" Yuan Shu is also very interested, his martial arts can barely be regarded as a quasi-second-rate general, and Chun Yuqiong's martial arts are much better than him, and he can be regarded as a second-rate general. Yuan Shao is similar to him, Bao Xin and Chun Yuqiong are also evenly matched, and the odds of winning are still very good and they must not offend anyone. As for Cao Mengde's two soldiers, it is estimated that they don't have much ability, and he is also calculating the winning rate in his heart.

"Whoever is the last one to stay in the center of the field wins! How is it? Yuan Shao's eyes were also shining, he had a hole card in his hand that no one knew, some time ago he received a capable subordinate, his name is Gao Lan. He was proficient in archery, horseback and archery, and led the troops to charge into battle and take the lead, but his life was not good to perform in Luoyang, and he was bullied and killed by the ruffian, just when Yuan Shao passed by to rescue, he kept pretending to be an entourage to follow Yuan Shao.

After deliberation, the soldiers and horses of the three sides agreed to send troops into battle, as long as they belonged to their own side to pick at will, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they all removed the head of the spear, and stood in a corner with a wooden pole in hand. On Yuan Shu's side were the other forty-nine sergeants led by Chun Yuqiong; On Yuan Shao's side were Bao Xin, Gao Ran, and other tall and mighty soldiers; The remaining party is Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong with the old and weak remnants, and they picked out forty-eight remnants who looked pretty good.

"Knock, knock, knock—knock knock......" A hurried war drum sounded.

"Kill—"

The three parties were slaughtered together, Xiahou Yuan used the wooden pole with the head of the gun removed as a spear, and the gun sweep swept out directly with both arms clenched, and the soldiers who rushed over fell to the ground with a crackle; Chun Yuqiong, Gao Lan, and Bao Xin all followed behind the soldiers in order to preserve their strength, but they were suddenly disrupted by Xiahou Yuan's deployment, and the soldiers on both sides were huddled together in a small place. Originally, the three hundred old and weak soldiers led by Cao Cao, the five hundred elite soldiers of Yuan Shu, and the one thousand elite soldiers of Yuan Shao were all from the barracks of the great general He Jin. The soldiers in front were knocked down by Xiahou Yuan with a stick, and the soldiers behind followed the situation and lay on the ground and wailed.

That is, there are only five people left standing in the place where the blink of an eye is not much, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Chun Yuqiong, Gao Lan, and Bao Xin, and the current situation is a bit weird, Yuan Shu's side instantly became the weak side, and Yuan Shuqi next to him scolded: "You bastards, quickly get up for General Ben, don't fight for a while." No matter how he called, the ** son lay on the ground and didn't get up at all.

"Big brother, how about seeing this situation as if you and my brother joined forces? Cao Mengde's two entourages seem to be masters, wow! If Cao Mengde really comes, how embarrassed it will be for our brothers to be so ruthless. Yuan Shu didn't want to be punished if he couldn't get the credit, so he immediately dragged Yuan Shao into the water with him as soon as he turned his brain.

"Alright! Highway, we are also a family, and the credit is also our brothers'. "Yuan Shao's overall view is still good, the four of them swore in front of the general to ask for their lives, and in the end, they were defeated by Cao Cao, who led the remnants of the army, and the general would at least think that the ability of the four of them was not enough to take on the big responsibility, which would eventually affect their future. Thinking of this, he shouted: "Gao Lan, General Bao, you and General Chun Yu, the three of you will join forces to win the two of them first, and then discuss the ownership of these things." ”

Cao Hong and Xiahou Yuan looked at the three people in front of them back to back, they had not yet fought but the air was already filled with nervousness, this was an invisible collision of momentum, Xiahou Yuan saw the right time to stab a stick towards Gao Ran, and Cao Hong swept towards Chun Yuqiong and Bao Xin with a stick; Gao Ran grabbed the wooden stick with both hands and quickly raised it diagonally and slashed it down, wanting to hit the stick stabbed by Xiahou Yuan, who knew that the two of them were masters of using too much force, the two wooden sticks snapped into two, Xiahou Yuan and Gao Ran threw away half of the wooden stick at the same time and threw themselves together to start hand-to-hand combat. Regardless of the level of martial arts of the two, the two of them who were hugging together could only rely on their own endurance to fight, and their armor and clothes were torn and tattered. Looking at Cao Hong's side, he fought with Chun Yuqiong and Bao Xin alone, and he fought evenly, Cao Hong just used wooden sticks to attack or dodge flexibly, and did not approach Bao Xin and them so as not to be dragged by the two of them.

"Uhh

"The people in front listened, quickly dodged and retreated to the side, His Royal Highness the Prince is here! Otherwise, it doesn't matter if you kill you-" Xiahoudun was afraid that something would happen to Cao Hong and Xiahouyuan, so the generals who took Cao Cao took the lead and broke in, Zhou Yu was afraid that Xiahoudun alone would not be able to deter the Yuan brothers, so he asked Dian Wei to give an order. He, Cao Cao, the eldest prince Liu Xie, and Cao Ren led the foot soldiers to arrive later, and none of them wanted to turn a great credit for saving the crown prince into a group brawl with each other.

Xiahoudun galloped over and pulled the reins in front of Cao Hong and the three of them, the horse neighed and jumped high in front of the hooves, taking advantage of the momentum of the horse's fall, Xiahoudun stabbed the wooden stick in the hands of the three people with a shot, and the three wooden sticks were instantly broken into several pieces, and then Xiahoudun drank; "Stop! - Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless. ”

The three of them felt Xiahoudun's murderous aura and quietly stepped aside. And Xiahou Yuan and Gao Ran have already been angry, to the point that either you die or I die, Dian Wei saw that the two did not obey the order, jumped down from the horse and threw away the knife in his hand, strode over, instantly grabbed the back collars of both sides, and threw the two people to the ground separately with both arms like garbage.

After waiting for about half an hour and not seeing anyone coming, Yuan Shu couldn't sit still, he decided that the two people in front of him must have been sent by Cao Mengde to delay time. So he stood up suddenly, walked up to Xiahoudun and Dian Wei, pointed at the two of them, and said, "General Ben asks you, where is His Royal Highness the Great Prince, and why hasn't he appeared yet?" You're not fooling General Ben again, are you? ”

"Back to the general, His Royal Highness the Great Prince, Zhou Duwei and Cao Duwei will be here in a moment, please wait—" Xiahoudun stood up and replied.

"What? Still have to wait! Where did you two come from, and you dare to lie to me Yuan Highway! If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince were with you, according to the speed of your horses and the speed of the march of the infantry army, it must have been a trick that Cao Mengde came up with - come on, take them down for me! The more Yuan Shu thought about it, the more angry he became.

"Slap, slap-" Two crisp slaps sounded, and everyone was a little dumbfounded.