The first heavy snow in Hebei fell on the land of Heshuo at the end of October.

And just before this goose feather snow, the Taishan Army's Western Expeditionary Army had fought three times with the main force of the Han Army in Hanoi, and there were countless small contacts, and the two sides had a deep feud in the sea of blood on this Qi River.

October 26. The Taishan Army's western expeditionary army traveled day and night, and finally arrived at Qishui on this day. On the same day, Cao Cao, the former captain of the Henan Han Army, also rushed to the south bank of Qishui and stood up 200 steps from the water's edge.

On October 27, the Zhendong general Zhang Wen ordered Cao Cao to lead 2,000 soldiers in the front to wade through the water to attack. Cao Cao did not answer, and planned to continue to defend instead of attacking. However, Zhendong's general Yu Yu flew and ordered, and the feather cavalry sent to Cao Cao's army was endless.

In the end, Cao Cao's subordinates also asked for battle, saying that they would fight at least one battle anyway. In this case, Cao Cao had no choice but to fight.

At noon, taking advantage of the warm weather, 2,000 people from Cao Cao's department went out to cross the Qishui. On the other side, the watchtower of Taishan Army discovered the movement of Cao Cao's department and directly sounded the alarm, so the alarm on the north bank of Qishui was loud. qδ

On the opposite bank, Ding Sheng, the commander of the Taishan Army's Western Expeditionary Army, faced the attack of Cao Cao's troops, responded calmly, took advantage of the enemy's half-crossing, and supervised the Jinquan Department in the front to fight back.

After a fierce battle between the two sides for half a while, a sudden assault horse came from the upper reaches of Qishui, and the leader was Li Hu, the flying dragon rider. Under the sky-high flying dragon horse, Li Hu's five hundred sudden horses went straight into Cao Cao's waist.

Cao Cao, who was still on the south bank of Qishui, was caught off guard, and was rushed to the side by this thief, and there was a big chaos.

Cao Cao's front army, which was struggling to trek, saw the chaos behind him, and panicked all of a sudden, either stepping up to cross the river, or directly retreating to the south bank.

As soon as the road was copied, Cao Cao, who had already led his own army to cross the river and set up a formation, had an ugly face.

At this time, under the Cao Zi Daxu, Cao Cao, who was dressed in military uniform and basin collar armor, slammed his hood to the ground.

He said to the officials around him:

"There is no retreat in this battle, there is death and no life, today we are not alive together to defeat the moth thief, but we will die together on this Qi waterfront."

Cao Cao's blood bravely came up, and his surroundings such as Xu Chu, Shi Huan, Xu Ding, etc. were all blood warriors, seeing Cao Cao so arrogant, all the bloodlines were stretching, and they promised loudly.

Cao Cao originally wanted to show that he was the first, so he led his relatives to the north shore first. His two subordinates followed suit.

Among them, Sima Xiahou Yuan on the left is crossing the river, and Sima Xiahou Yuan on the right is on duty on the south bank. The assault cavalry led by Li Hu was the Xiahou Division.

The Xiahou brothers and Cao Cao are the real brothers of the family, and they are not the same as the Cao Ren and Cao Hong brothers. The Cao brothers are already heroic, have their own parts, and are very independent, so this will be under Zhu Jun.

And the Xiahou brothers have long been attached to Cao Cao's team, so Cao Cao joined his command at the beginning of the army, and he is also Cao Cao's most relied on general at this moment.

After being attacked by Li Hu, Xiahoudun roared loudly on the other side of the formation, and he asked the drummers on the shore to beat the cowhide drums on all sides to strengthen the whole army.

Then he led his soldiers directly from the front of the formation and rushed straight to Li Hu.

Under the banner of the flying dragon, Li Hu straddled the war horse, and the horizontal lance hit the front line. Every time one person is killed, a lance is broken, and then a soldier hands over a new one, so Li Hu changed six lances in a row, and he was bloodied.

Li Hu, as the first seventy-five old brother to follow Zhang Chong, became a pawn in Xue's wall. After countless bloody battles, he was the second largest cavalry veteran in the army after Tian Jun.

At this moment, as soon as Li Hu pierced the broken lance into the eye socket of a Han pawn, the soldiers on the side shouted:

"General, an enemy general is coming from the left, and he is coming at us."

Li Hu was murderous, wrapped his beard, took the horse handed by the soldiers, and shouted:

"Come with Naigong and pick up these dead leftovers."

The soldiers shouted, and then with a round of horses' heads, they directly attacked in an awl formation.

Xiahoudun was wearing three layers of armor, just killed a rout, and then held the head of the rout and shouted:

"I am Xiahou Dun, all of them stabilize their positions, the soldiers are in chaos, and the army commander is killed. Wu Changchao will be killed. Even if there will be chaos, the team will be killed. Whoever dares to retreat, kill!"

The soldiers behind him also shouted:

"Those who dare to retreat, kill!"

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Seeing that the flying dragon rider was coming at him, Xiahoudun laughed:

"What a dog slave, I'm going to kill you."

After speaking, he strode wildly, even if he was wearing three layers of armor, Xiahoudun was still as fast as the wind.

The wind is raging, and people are shouting.

Li Hu struck with a lance on a horse, and Xiahoudun slashed with a knife.

But at this moment, an arrow came from the west, straight into Xiahou Xuan's pocket, Xiahou was stunned, still afraid, Li Hu's lance in front of him had already swept over.

This lance was directly slapped into Xiahoudun's face, directly smashing several bloody teeth, and then he fell directly to the ground.

Seeing that his master was about to fall, Xiahoudun's soldiers were shocked and were about to rob, but they were scattered by Li Hu's cavalry on the opposite side. At this point, Cao Cao's troops who remained on the south bank of Qishui could no longer stabilize their positions and retreated one after another.

The soldiers on Li Hu's side were about to get off their horses to chop off the head of Xiahou Dun, but they were stopped by Li Hu, and he said:

"This Han will leave the head to Xu Huang, let's go."

After speaking, he continued to intersperse with the soldiers, chasing the dead and chasing the north.

It turned out that Li Hu saw that it was his favorite general Xu Huang who had just shot the arrow. His people were worried that he would lose, so they directly interfered with the Han general with an arrow.

Li Hu was also self-conscious, unwilling to snatch his merits, so he generously conceded.

But as soon as he left here, Xu Huang didn't know that there was still a Han general's head waiting for him to cut, so he continued to pursue the others.

With Xiahoudun being stunned, Cao Cao's army on the south bank collapsed, which reflected that Xiahou Yuan's army crossing Qishui had no way to retreat.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan saw that his brother did not know whether he was alive or dead, his tiger eyes were tearful, and he waved an iron spear and said to the army:

"At this time, the way of life in the rear has been cut off, so I can only stand forward, join forces with the captain, and survive in death."

After speaking, Xiahou Yuan took the military flag and trekked towards the north bank, and finally took less than a thousand people from his department, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and landed on the land on the north bank of Qishui.

This ashore made the already narrow tidal flats even narrower.

Cao Cao's pro-army was suppressed by 2,000 men from Jinquan on the tidal flats, with arrows like flying locusts on top, and a thousand people marching in front of them.

Cao Cao closed his eyes in despair:

"Could it be that I, Cao Mengde, am going to die here today?"

At this time, Xu Chu, who had been silent, suddenly put on an iron shackle, and then poured the weighted ring head knife, and bowed to Cao Cao:

"Don't worry, captain, I promise Chu to relieve the general's troubles."

After speaking, without waiting for Cao Cao to speak, Xu Chu took more than 50 of his hometown disciples and rushed to the front of the Jinquan Department with a rain of arrows.

It was before this large array was lined up that everyone witnessed a pinnacle of human physical fitness and martial arts.

Under the iron pocket, Xu Chu, who pursed his mouth, strode away, and when he was still five steps away from the front of the Taishan Army, his whole person rolled into a ball and crashed into the Taishan Army's infantry array.

Xu Chu, who was wearing three layers of armor, directly smashed the outermost circle of the military formation with the impact force of rushing like a wild elephant. The commander of the Taishan Army in this position was directly hit in the chest by Xu Chu's collision, and the corpse also became Xu Chu's cushion, buffering the force of smashing the ground.

As soon as the foot lance of the Taishan Army in front of him was on the ground, the foot lance hand in the back immediately went on top and was ready to stab Xu Chu who was still on the ground. But Xu Chu jumped up directly, and the treasure knife in his hand slashed east and west, and the step lances in his hands were all broken.

Subsequently, Xu Chu was like a whirlwind, directly rolling up a rain of blood in front of the Taishan army. Xu Chu's hometown disciples also rushed into the military formation wrapped in iron armor at this time.

Only one moment, the Taishan Army, a hundred people in the Tun General, was killed in battle, Deputy Tun was seriously injured, six people were killed, and the team was killed in two. Without the military officer Jia Yong's military formation, it collapsed.

But the chaos did not stop, Xu Chu drove the rout, and rolled back to the Taishan army formation behind.

In half a moment, the second hundred people of the Taishan army collapsed.

After that, it was a shorter period of time, and the third hundred-person tun collapsed.

Ding Sheng, who had been watching the battle from behind the Jinquan Formation, discovered the turmoil and collapse in front of the Jinquan Formation early.

He pointed to Xu Chu's position and was shocked:

"I thought Qu Shuai was already the best in the world.

Who is this? There is such undue courage."

Ding Sheng's words made the Taishan generals around him speechless.

Many of them were conceited and brave, but none of them thought that they could collapse three hundred-man formations in a row with a few dozen people. This hundred-person array is the strict formation of the Taishan Army, and it relies on its own martial arts to fight like this, what kind of person is this?

Isn't this heavenly?

The mood of the generals was swaying, but of course Ding Sheng couldn't let this person go on like this. He didn't think about going up by himself, just kidding, the thief will be that brave, is he going up to die?

Ding Sheng didn't plan to let his subordinates fill in, and he wasn't such a person. Who is he Ding Sheng? The first wise general of the Taishan Army, he uses his brain to fight!

Ding Sheng waved his military allocation and ordered the two hundred rhubarb crossbowmen under the Chinese army to step forward. At the same time, the drummer was ordered to beat the drums of the division.

So, six shirtless men with yellow scarves, shouting trumpets, hurriedly beat the cowhide drums, and the drums reached the golden spring in the front.

At this time, Jinquan's eyes were blood-red, and he gritted his teeth and looked at Xu Chu in front of him raging in the formation, but he could only be helpless. Lining up in a large formation is a military formation killing method, and generally speaking, personal martial arts are useless in front of a large array.

But this is only for most people, but for a 10,000-strong warrior like Xu Chu, especially when he is wearing three layers of armor, the big array is so powerless.

Because no matter how many people there are in the Taishan army, because of the limitation of space, Xu Chu only has three or four people in front of him, how can this be enough for Xu Chu to kill.

At this time, the sound of the drums behind the formation reached Jinquan's ears, and he was overjoyed, and immediately waved the flag to the flag soldiers, so that the various formations that met Xu Chu were separated from both sides.

The flag fluttered, and the teams responded to the flag, and then the left and right sides changed formations, and in the howl of the robe in the middle, they separated from the middle.

Xu Chu, who was torturing and killing in the array, suddenly found that his front was empty, as if the sea had been split from it, leaving only him and his hometown children.

Then he saw a group of people on the opposite side, and subconsciously, Xu Chu yelled:

"Lift!"

Fifty hometown disciples immediately swung out from behind, and then formed a formation in front of Xu Chu.

Xu Chu, who was behind the shield array, didn't encounter the expected arrow rain for a while, and was wondering, so he watched from the slit.

I saw that the thieves who were rushing did not stop, but continued to run towards them, directly to a distance of less than twenty paces from them.

Then he saw these people take out an object from behind their backs, and he Xu Chuzheng recognized that it was the Han Army's rhubarb crossbow.

At this moment, the big sun couldn't give Xu Chu warmth, he seemed to be in an ice cellar. Looking at the hundreds of rhubarb crossbowmen opposite, Xu Chu subconsciously scolded:

"Hot Girl."

Then it was AE Ran's huge force that smashed into the array in front of Xu Chu.

It's too hard, it's too close.

Xu Chu's first row of armor bearers couldn't withstand the impact, and the big ones were skewed, and then more and more arrows rained down on them.

Even if he was wearing armor, Xu Chu's hometown children were also killed and injured. But even if they die, they all grab the big slug in their hands, because behind them is Xu Chu.

They can die, but Xu Chu can't.

Ding Sheng's two hundred rhubarb crossbowmen were divided into four formations and fired four rounds in a row, directly filling the open space where Xu Chu was located with arrows.

In the middle of the night, no one stood in the formation of fifty people, and just when everyone thought that they had completely wiped out this wave of fierce soldiers, the corpse pile shook for a while, and then they saw Xu Chu with his head scattered, and three arrows were inserted in his body, like a ghost.

As soon as he stood up, he saw the scene of his own children all dying, and roared, as sad as a night owl. The Tarzan officials who had just put down their big yellow crossbows were horrified by this mournful howl.

This scream also reached Cao Cao on the beach, and he heard Xu Chu's sad scream, his eyes were blood-red.

Cao Cao pulled out his sword, directly pushed away the soldiers, and shouted:

"Those who are willing to die with my old Cao, take a step forward."

Cao Cao is a hero, and the charm of a hero is never because of his family background, but because no matter where he is, no matter what hardship, there are always people who are willing to follow him forever, even if they go to the underworld.

So, Cao Cao's pro-army all stepped forward, and no one said anything, but showed everything.

Cao Cao cried, he cut off his hair bun, then bit it in his mouth, and cried:

"If I, Cao Cao, don't die today, I will bring your children and grandchildren to glory and wealth!"

Then Cao Cao bit his hair bun and carried a knife to launch a decisive attack. Shi Huan and Xu Ding beside him protected him in the middle, and then hundreds of people, all of them were evil ghosts, not for life, but for death.

Cao Cao's attack was much more than Taishan expected, and the front avoided one after another, so that Cao Cao's troops reached the place where Xu Chu was fighting.

When Cao Cao came, he saw Xu Chu, who had become a bloody man, wailing like a beast, he immediately hugged Xu Chu and took off the big coat to wrap Xu Chu's wounds.

Xu Chu lay in Cao Cao's arms and cried:

"They're all dead."

Cao Cao said softly:

"Zhongkang, you go to sleep first, go back to the camp, let's drink, take these dead brothers' share, and drink together."

After speaking, Cao Cao sent Xu Chu to the rear of the battle.

At this time on the north bank, Ding Sheng in the Chinese army was about to dispatch Zhao Rong's troops in the rear, preparing to annihilate this fierce force on the north bank.

But at that moment, he saw Li Hubu on the south bank, carrying a red flag running back and forth on the opposite bank.

Ding Sheng knew what this meant, this was the arrival of reinforcements from the Han army on the south bank, and Li Hu told him that he couldn't intercept it.

Looking at Cao Cao's department, which was about to be surrounded, Ding Sheng was so angry that he dropped his hood and scolded:

"Hot girl, that's the end of it. No, Naigong has to eat him today."

Ding Sheng's Hun is famous in the Taishan Army, and it is precisely because he is the heaviest general in the Taishan Army that Ding Sheng himself arranged a confessor for himself, that is, when he was on top, to remind him.

So Ding Long, a son of his own family, sang loudly:

"Ding Daqi, have you forgotten the weight of Qu Shuai's letter?"

This singing directly called Ding Sheng's reason back, and he looked at the red tide of the Han army that was appearing in the distance in a complicated way, and sighed:

"Mingjin, collect the troops."

In this way, the first battle between the Western Expeditionary Army and the Han Army ended.

After the war, only more than 300 members of Cao Cao's army returned to the south bank of Qishui alive, leaving behind 600 corpses.

Later, Sun Jian and Zhao Rongbu, who heard the battle, crossed the river again to attack the Taishan army after clearing the chaos on the south bank of Qishui, and three times before and after, all of which were blocked by Ding Sheng, and both sides were killed and wounded.

Then, the heavy snow in November came, covering up the blood of the battlefield and forcing the two sides to have to cease fighting and confront.