This was the Yuan army that was ordered to raid the left camp of the Cao army.

Each of them wore riding boots and straw sandals on the outside, and walked slowly in the mud, one deep and one shallow.

Mud, like snow, tends to slip, but straw sandals don't.

A crescent moon in the night sky was hidden behind dark clouds, and the cool moonlight shone through the clouds, illuminating a small patch of blue-white sky, and even the edges of the dark clouds were stained with a touch of white frost.

The ground was dim, except for the firelight at the gates of the camp on the periphery of Cao Jun's left camp, there were dark and hazy shadows everywhere.

Many sentry posts were placed on the periphery of Cao's camp, but they were eliminated one by one by the scouts of the Yuan army, who were several times their size.

Whether it is an open whistle or a dark whistle, there is no time to issue a warning.

Outside a camp on the west side, more than 300 people quietly hid at the side gate of Cao Jun's camp, and because they didn't have an order, they didn't dare to move, and they all hid among the shadows of the grass and trees, peeping from a distance.

Jiang Yiqu, the leader of the Yuan army, approached to observe, and saw that there were only three or two clusters of torches on the wall, and a few sentries could be seen in the shadows.

There are almost no patrols by Cao Jun around, because it is all mud, and a thick layer of mud is piled up on the shoes after walking a few steps, so basically even if there are sentry posts, they are only squatting on the wall or in the arrow tower, and there are not even many people on the dirt and mountains in the camp.

Jiang Yiqu took a look at the situation on the wall, and was calculating in his heart, and a deputy general beside him had already whispered a suggestion: "General, Cao's defense is not dense, they definitely didn't expect us to come back, one by one, we might as well let the soldiers spread out and take a ladder to climb the wall and seize the gate of the village."

"Let all the archers come forward and surround the gate from both sides, and scatter the teams to ambush on both sides to make way for them."

Jiang Yiqu didn't listen to his words at all, pursed his lips and squinted his eyes, looked at the quiet camp dozens of steps away and just groaned, and then said solemnly: "Listen to my orders!" Everyone is ready to fight! ”

He pointed to the left and right lieutenant generals and explained, "When you do it, you must be ruthless, fast, or at any cost!" ”

The order was given without a head or brain, and the adjutant general who came up with the idea was about to speak, when the colleague next to him suddenly said: "Whisper, the gate of the village is open!" ”

When he turned his head to look, he only heard a slight creaking sound of the door shaft rubbing, and the side door of Cao's military camp had already opened.

The lieutenant general stared at the black pressure on a large group of enemy troops pouring out of the camp, opened his mouth, but said nothing, grunted and spit, turned around and went to greet his own soldiers.

The right side of the Cao camp was suddenly attacked, and even Xiahoudun as the main general had already gone to support, and there were not many people left behind in the left camp, but it was also a vital force, and he was afraid that the Yuan army would raid the main camp, so the main camp issued an order to mobilize 3,000 people to the camp close to the main camp.

The camp is scattered, and now the left camp is empty, so they naturally do not put their troops in the inner camp, but in the outer camp, at this time temporarily transfer 3,000 men and horses, and move closer to the right side of the left battalion, although it is still in the left battalion, but there is also a certain distance.

The most important thing is that the inside of the camp is connected, but Cao Jun dug a large number of ditches in order to divert water, which makes it very inconvenient even if the interior passes. Some planks were laid, some planks were washed away, and the camp gate had to be opened and closed constantly, so it was simply planned to come out of the camp gate on the west side, and then move north from the front of the camp to the east.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Yiqu was overjoyed and said softly: "Sure enough, as the military division expected, the right battalion of the Cao army was attacked, and the people of the left battalion will definitely move some closer to the direction of the central army, and now the periphery of their left battalion is a little empty." ”

"General, now is a good opportunity to enter the camp."

An adjutant general looked at it and said in a low voice: "Now that they have divided each battalion into dozens of hundreds of people to the south, they must want to bypass the front battalion, and after they leave, we will attack directly." ”

However, Jiang Yiqu thought about it, shook his head and said, "No, attack directly, call the soldiers in the rear to come over, and we will seize the camp first." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the camp directly in front of them, less than two hundred meters away.

At this time, the soldiers who came out of the camp stepped on the yellow mud and gathered with great difficulty to the north, they did not actually go to support the right battalion, but only moved from the west of the left battalion to the east of the left battalion, so that if the main camp was attacked, they could support nearby.

But Yuan Jun relied on straw sandals to cross the yellow mud swamp area that was many kilometers long, and suddenly killed in front of him, which was something that even Guo Jia, Dong Zhao, and Mao Jue did not expect.

Who would know that a month before the flooding of Cao's camp, Tian Feng had already ordered the soldiers to prepare straw sandals.

On the one hand, Jiang Yiqu had the troops in the rear to get closer, while he himself led dozens of guards to hide behind a bush of basil on the side of the road, carefully observing the enemy's movements almost face-to-face.

This is only a few dozen steps away from Cao Jun, Cao Jun arrived in an instant, he held his breath and watched the enemy past thirty or forty rows, and saw a military flag rolled up in the queue, his eyes swept to the left, and he immediately found a general wearing armor and leather helmet.

said that he was a general, but it was estimated that he was a middle and lower-level officer such as a Qu military marquis or even a tun chief.

But now the left battalion of Cao Jun has become a swamp, and there are not many people left, and this kind of person is now considered to be a high-ranking officer among these people.

That's it!

Jiang Yiqu rushed out as soon as he straightened his waist, his body had not yet stood up straight, the steel knife in his hand had already picked up, drew a circle from his side to the front of him, and ran to the top of the officer's head with a whining sound.

The general who led the team was full of thoughts on the situation on the right side of the camp, and he never thought that he would encounter an ambush at the gate of his camp, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow emerging from the side of the road out of the corner of his eye.

Cao Jun in front and behind was afraid that he would accidentally slip on the muddy ground, so he concentrated on paying attention to his feet, and when he heard a muffled "poof" sound and looked again, he suddenly shocked them.

I saw the head of the head of the patriarch flying into the sky, the blood on his neck sprayed high, and his body fell softly, and then in a blink of an eye, I saw a tall and big general of the Yuan army standing in the queue with a big knife, all of them shook their lips and were stunned for a while, and they didn't understand what was going on.

"Kill!"

With this thunderous sound of spring thunder, the surrounding Cao Jun heard a series of dense and urgent bowstring crossbow arms trembling, and dozens of arrows and crossbows smashed over their heads and faces. Immediately afterwards, under the shadows of the trees on both sides of the road, countless Yuan Jun jumped out of the grass and ravines, shouting and shouting to cover up, arrows and knives, slashing and poking, and Cao Jun fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Cao Jun was cut down dozens of them in ignorance, and only then did he remember to form a formation to resist, and a few petty officers desperately shouted to let the team concentrate, but there were enemies everywhere, where would they leave a chance?

At this time, their main general had already given his life, and the military flag was also snatched away by the other party in the chaos, and in the darkness, I didn't know how many people Yuan Jun came, and they only heard the sound of shouting and killing in front and back, and there were swords and guns on the left and right, and I didn't know who howled in despair, and immediately blew up the camp.

For a while, the road of 100 paces long was full of shouts of killing, scolding, greetings, screams, and the sound of iron weapons when the blades intersected, and Cao Jun in black military uniforms were everywhere along the road, and his cloth and leather hats were rolling on the ground.

"Woooooooooooo

The sound of the horn began to sound, and all of a sudden tens of thousands of Yuan troops began to attack, but the attack was very messy.

The west and northwest sides of Zuoying were originally an ocean, but later Yuan Jun cut off the canals used to release water upstream, and after a few hours most of the water was released by Cao's aqueducts.

At the moment, the ground is still wet, and it is very easy to slip when stepping on it, so it is better to wear straw sandals, but once you run, even if you wear straw sandals, you will fall.

However, this messy generals at all levels could barely maintain, and soon the overwhelming Yuan army was killed on the edge of Cao Ying.

Jiang Yiqu had already rushed into a camp of Cao Jun, and there were actually not many people left in the camp.

After a burst of killing, they snatched the gate of the wall, and then began to rush deeper through the other camp gates inside the camps, and the defense facilities of the Cao camp were still very complete, not only the earth mountain, watchtowers, and walls, but also the school field and a large number of open space buffer zone.

But at this time, the school field and the open space were flooded, and I don't know how many aqueducts were dug inside. Yuan Jun almost dug two rivers to irrigate Cao Ying, and Cao Ying almost dug hundreds of canals to divert water.

Therefore, after the Yuan army rushed in, it was unexpectedly blocked because of these canals.

However, the number of Cao troops in the village was still too small to organize effective resistance, so under the offensive of Yuan's army, they were defeated and retreated, and the fighting lasted from the beginning of the night to the third quarter of Pingdan, and almost most of the Cao troops in the left battalion retreated to the main camp.

During this period, there were even Cao generals who wanted to counterattack back, but were repelled by Jiang Yiqu. Until the end of Pingdan, when it was close to dawn, Yuan's army finally occupied the left camp of the entire Cao camp.

At this time, the battle on the right side of the camp was still going on, and the flames were soaring, and all kinds of arrows, rushing carts, nest carts, catapults, and even ladders were pushed over.

Yuan Shao almost simply set up a tent not far from Cao Ying, and he didn't think about confrontation at all.

There is no other way but to attack.

His time is running out, from preparing for the competition in June last year to June this year, it has already taken a year, and he can't afford to wait.

If you don't take advantage of Cao Cao's absence, when will you have to wait until Cao Ying?

The sky was just getting brighter.

Yuan Shao personally arrived at the front line with the last 20,000 horses.

Under his order, only 5,000 people were left around to protect him, and the rest of the people pressed the border again, and it was necessary to completely annihilate Cao's army today.

At this time, the Cao army was faced with 60,000 troops attacking from both sides at the same time, and the newly joined 15,000 people suddenly began to storm the main camp of the Cao army, causing the already chaotic situation to be even more chaotic.

Such a large-scale corps operation is very temporary.

Yuan Shao did not command, his health was too poor and he could only wait and see from the rear, and the front line basically relied on the temporary performance of the generals to make decisions.

It's just that although Yuan Jun didn't command, neither did Cao Jun.

Cao Cao was not here, and Xiahoudun's command talent was far inferior to Cao Cao's, resulting in the battle between the two sides was actually very undisciplined, and often relied on a melee.

And melee is what Yuan Jun is good at, because there are many of them.

Soon at three quarters of sunrise, the sky was bright, the sun was slowly rising, and a huge orange disk appeared in the east.

At this moment, in the west of Pushui, there are more than 1,000 light horses, galloping towards Pushui at high speed.

Cao Cao rode on horseback, unable to hide the tiredness in his eyes.

After disintegrating the Guanzhong coalition army, he immediately led the forbidden army to rush to the front line, and before the night yesterday, they finally arrived at the sour date.

Approaching the front line, he was afraid that the soldiers would not get rest and hurriedly participate in the battle, so Cao Cao asked Yu Ban to lead the troops to rest for the night.

And he himself only rested for two hours, and then rushed to Kuangcheng with a thousand light horses, wanting to return to the camp as soon as possible to command the battle.

But when he approached Kuangcheng, he saw a huge river channel with a width of seven or eight zhang dug out on the southwest bank of Pushui, and at this moment the river channel was refilled, and there were thousands of Yuan soldiers on the left and right.

"Cao Jun!"

These Yuan troops were actually auxiliaries used to block the river, and at this moment, when they saw the Cao army suddenly appearing on the other side of the river, they were all startled, and the generals led by them shouted, turned their heads and ran away.

When Cao Cao saw this scene, his heart sank, so he raised his right hand and clenched his fist, waving his palm in the direction of Pu Shui's upper reaches.

Pushui is a tributary of the Yellow River, it flows to the southeast first, and then shifts to the northeast, and the location of Kuangcheng is in the northeast Pushui, so to Pushui upstream, it is actually to the southwest direction, after crossing the river, you can go around to the southwest of Kuangcheng.

What Cao Cao didn't expect was that the bridge across the river in the south had been occupied by Yuan's army at this time, which made him feel very bad, so he stood on the north bank of the bridge and quietly waited for the arrival of the forbidden army in the rear.

The Yuan army on the other side did not destroy the bridge, and the two sides maintained a standoff.

Time passed minute by minute, and by noon, Yu Ban's army had finally arrived, and at this time, a large number of Yuan troops had also flocked to the other side of the river.

Tens of thousands of Yuan troops began to gather.

A huge luxury carriage slowly drove up and stopped on the other side of the river, facing Cao Cao across the river by dozens of feet.

The door curtain of the carriage was opened, and Yuan Shao slowly walked out with difficulty on crutches.

A rare touch of blood appeared on his face, and a smile appeared in his eyes when he looked at Cao Cao on horseback on the other side of the river.

"At the beginning, long time no see!"

Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao on the other side, no matter how dark his face was, he was also the first to speak: "I heard that I have been in poor health recently, I don't know how I live?" ”

"Ahem, ahem."

After Yuan Shao got out of the carriage, he felt a little cold when he was blown by the wind, shrunk back, barely supported his body and responded: "Lao Mengde is worried, and his living is okay." ”

Cao Cao pointed to the canal in the distance and said, "Brother Benchu dug the river and flooded my camp." ”

"yes."

Yuan Shao supported his cane with both hands and said with a smile: "I also took the opportunity to attack your big camp last night, and now your left camp has been captured by me, and it is only a matter of time before the middle camp and the right camp are broken." ”

Cao Cao waved his hand lightly to the rear, signaling Yu Ban to continue to detour south to support the main village, and at the same time said calmly: "That is, it has not been broken, I still have tens of thousands of troops, and after I cross the river, I will immediately consult with Brother Benchu." ”

"Huh."

Yuan Shao smiled and waved his hand: "The destruction of tens of thousands of troops is in an instant, even if it comes." ”

Cao Cao nodded: "In that case, please wait for me!" ”

As he spoke, he was about to turn around and leave.

"Report!"

At this moment, a scout Pegasus in Yuan's army came to the front of the formation, knelt down on one knee and said: "Last night, taking advantage of the chaos to attack Cao Ying, Cao's army was defeated, tens of thousands of people were killed and captured, and the remnants retreated to Pingqiu. ”

"Hahaha!"

Yuan Shao raised his head and let out a maniacal laugh, his whole face full of excitement and joy.

Cao Cao's face on the other side changed suddenly, and a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.

"Hahaha."

Yuan Shao only felt that he was raising his eyebrows, his spirit tended to be excited, and he laughed wildly: "Meng De, have you heard, have you heard!"

He pestled the carriage with his cane and shouted hoarsely: "I have won!" I won! ”

In the past few years, Guandu has failed miserably.

Kurouti fiasco.

It appeared before his eyes all the time.

But this moment.

It seems that all the unwillingness and failure have turned into ashes.

He just laughed, laughing maniacally.

It seems that the whole world seems to be echoing with his laughter!

Cao Mengde, Cao Mengde!

I can lose to you many times.

But I.

You only need to win once!

In this battle, at the end of the day, I am the winner.

Hahaha!

Poof!

A flush suddenly appeared on Yuan Shao's pale face.

The corners of the mouth are overflowing with blood.

(End of chapter)