Chapter 8 The Steroid Hill Fire Breaks Out, and Cao's Army Returns
As soon as the words fell, the gate of Wuxian City was opened, and it was Liu Bei who held a double-strand sword and led an army of 10,000 to rush out.
Xiahoudun sneered and asked Li Dian: "This is what you said about ambush?" So what, they don't add up to more than half of us! β
"It shouldn't be......" Li Dian's face was complicated, in his cognition, even if Liu Bei didn't know how to use soldiers, he wouldn't have made such a stupid operation.
"What should not be, it's obvious that you think too highly of the enemy army." Xiahoudun said with a disdainful face, waved the big knife in his hand, and commanded the army to rush over.
It is conceivable that the gap between the numbers of the two armies is so large, if it is a hard fight, even if Liu Bei and Guan Yu converge, they are not Xiahoudun's opponents.
There was no way, Liu Bei and Guan Yu could only choose to abandon Wuxian and flee towards Steroid Hill.
I hope that there, their third brother Zhang Fei can bring a miracle to defeat Xiahoudun's army of 100,000......
After taking Wuyuan and Wuxian Erchengchi one after another, Xiahoudun was already fluttering and unpresentable, and then continued to order the pursuit.
Li Dian frowned and said, "General, our army has already taken the second city one after another, so let's wait for a rest and then pursue it, right?" β
"Why do you keep saying such things that shake the hearts of the army?" Xiahoudun asked indignantly, "According to what you said, is it possible that when I come with an army of 100,000 and take two small cities, I can go back and make friends with the prime minister?" β
Li Dian said embarrassedly; "Of course it's not like that, but ......"
"It's nothing, I've made up my mind, continue to pursue, Li Mancheng, if you say some nonsense again, don't blame me for beheading you according to military law." Xiahoudun waved impatiently.
Li Dian finally had nothing to say.
Good words are hard to convince the damn ghost, he really did his best!
Immediately, Xiahoudun personally led the army to rush to the front to continue the pursuit, and finally chased Liu Bei and Guan Yu into Yongqiu......
"Liu Xuande, Guan Yunchang, today is the time for you to die." After Xiahoudun entered the mound, he found that Liu Bei and Guan Yu had not escaped, and he shouted excitedly.
At this moment, a roar like thunder sounded: "What kind of thing are you, and you are worthy of hurting my two brothers?" β
Xiahoudun looked up and found Zhang Fei standing on top of the mound.
Xiahoudun was not afraid of Guan Yu, and naturally he was not afraid of Zhang Fei, he sneered: "I said why didn't I see you, it turned out to be here, at such a juncture, do you still want to turn the tide?" β
Zhang Fei sneered and shook his head: "I don't want to turn the tide, but I want to think about how to send you on the road." β
With that, Zhang Fei took out a torch.
Looking at the blazing fire burning on the torch, Xiahoudun widened his right eye.
He already had a premonition of what was going to happen.
Sure enough, the soldier in charge of reconnaissance came to report: "General Qiqi Xiahou, there is fire oil all around!" β
"Withdraw, withdraw!" After learning the news, Xiahoudun immediately couldn't wait to give the order.
"Withdraw? It's late! Zhang Fei sneered and teased, and then waved his hand.
The archers around him obeyed his orders and began firing flaming arrows into the city.
All of a sudden, arrows with flames shot into the city full of oil, and the whole mound burst into flames.
Yes! Yes!
A series of screams sounded, and the troops led by Xiahoudun fell to the ground and died miserably.
"Withdraw, get out." Xiahoudun gave the order to retreat even more quickly.
However, the city was full of flames, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the army to hold the gate of the city respectively, and it was impossible for Xiahoudun to escape by his own strength.
Outside the city, Xiahou Yuan and Li Dian, who had not yet had time to enter the Yongqiu, were also directly stunned when they saw the flames in the sky.
After being stunned, Xiahou Yuan was very anxious, and he was about to lead the follow-up army into Ningqiu to rescue Xiahou Yuan.
Li Dian hurriedly persuaded and said: "General Miaocai, think twice, according to such a big fire, if our army forcibly breaks in, there is a chance that it will not survive." β
"How can anything?" Xiahou Yuantong shouted with red eyes, "As long as you can save Brother Yuanrang, no matter how many people die, it is worth it, if you dare to stop it, this general will be the first to kill!" β
Li Dian was completely speechless.
Immediately, Xiahou Yuan led the follow-up troops into the Steroid Hill, and at a great cost, he fought his way out and rescued Xiahou Yuan.
After the disgraced Xiahoudun was rescued, he looked with his one eye and found that less than half of his 100,000 army was left.
"I'm sorry Prime Minister!" Xiahou dun wailed, and then returned to Xudu with his brother Xiahou Yuan and deputy general Li Dian to ask Cao Cao for his guilt......
Liu Bei took the opportunity to lead the army to regain Wuyuan and Wuxian.
In this way, it is equivalent to Xiahoudun losing most of his soldiers, and as a result, he did not take advantage of it at all......
Pengcheng County, Lu County.
As a city relatively close to Steroid Hill, Xiao Feng stood on the tower of Lu County, enough to see the raging fire burning in Steroid Hill.
Seeing the fire in the sky, Xiao Feng had mixed feelings in his heart.
Although Liu Jun won a complete victory in this battle, because of this fire, I am afraid that there will be no way to live in it for a long time after the Steroid Hill.
Tens of thousands of families of Lamb Hill people are afraid that they will be displaced from now on......
"Cao's army is defeated! Cao Jun was defeated at Steroid Hill! β
At this time, a soldier of the defenders on the tower saw this scene and shouted excitedly.
Seeing this, Xiao Feng was speechless and said, "I said brother, you didn't participate in this battle, and you won't get any merit rewards, what are you happy about?" β
The defenders excitedly said, "What if there is no merit reward? It doesn't matter, I'm a native of Ningqiu, and I feel honored that Cao Jun can be defeated by Uncle Liu Huang in Ningqiu. β
When Xiao Feng heard this, he was even more speechless: "As a Steroid Hill person, do you know that this fire will cause Steroid Hill to be unable to live in the future, and you will be homeless in the future, do you know?" β
Xiao Feng originally thought that after his words reminded him, the defenders would turn from joy to sadness.
Who would have thought, the defender soldier directly smiled bitterly: "Home? I didn't have a home for a long time! β
"In the autumn of seven years ago, Cao Cao led his army to conquer Xuzhou, and there were no chickens and dogs left behind in the city that he conquered all the way."
"My wife, my parents, my children, all were killed at that time."
"I escaped by going out to buy food, but after I went back, looking at the corpses of my whole family, I felt for the first time that life was worse than death......
"But I can't die yet, I still have revenge!"
"I didn't stay in the sad land, but came to Lu County to remnants."
"My biggest wish for the rest of my life is to follow Uncle Liu Huang to kill Cao Jun more, if one day, I can cut off Cao Cao's head with my own hands, it will be even better."
Listening to the words narrated by the defenders, Xiao Feng was silent.
He clearly knew that seven years ago, Cao Cao's father Cao Song was killed by the rebel general Zhang Yan under the former Xuzhou assassin Shi Taoqian.
After Cao Cao heard the news, he did not chase and kill Zhang Yan, but came to attack Xuzhou in the name of avenging his father, and wantonly slaughtered the people of Xuzhou......