At three o'clock in the evening, the sun fell into the western mountains, but the sky was not completely darkened, and the brilliant fiery clouds burned the sky, illuminating the earth in a dim light.

It was about to be dusk, and the battlefield on the west side of Leishou Mountain became more and more intense, and the 40,000 Han army and the 60,000 Cao army launched a life-and-death struggle.

The wilderness was full of soldiers fighting back and forth, Cao Zhen's position was relatively close to the Han army camp before, less than a hundred steps away from the Han army camp, and then a little farther away, but he didn't go too far.

He laid a trap and specifically targeted Shen Chen's department, who had been fighting for a day in the main camp of the Han army, and at this moment all the remaining soldiers in the main camp of the Han army poured into their nests and engaged the soldiers and horses he had ambushed.

After estimating that it should be foolproof, Cao Zhen observed the situation in the distance from the edge of the battlefield, and there were only hundreds of guards around him to protect him.

At this time, a Han army broke through the encirclement, and Cao Zhen's personal guards focused all their attention on them, and under the gentle slope of the small river in the rear, more than 300 Han soldiers quietly approached the past.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, the sound of swords and spears intersecting, Shen Chen's waist was quiet, and when it was only about thirty steps, a Cao soldier suddenly turned his head.

He turned his head and saw the Han army not far behind him, and almost in a short second, the man's eyes were wide open, his mouth was wide open, and he let out a sharp cry.

"Enemy attack!"

A heart-rending cry pierced the entire sky.

Without hesitation, Shen Chen flicked his legs violently, and the whole person rushed out like an arrow, roaring angrily in his mouth: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

Behind him, Deng Ai Jiangwei and the soldiers of the personal guard team burst out with a shocking roar at the same time, and the momentum was earth-shattering.

It was only at this time that Cao Zhen's personal guards reacted, turned around one after another, and bumped into the Han army that had attacked head-on.

Shen Chen rushed to the front, he held the Tiger Courage Sword in both hands, and slashed at a Cao soldier head-on, the cold light of the falling sword flickered, and blood splattered.

A Cao soldier on the right silently stabbed Shen Chen's right waist, but then he snorted and was stabbed to death by Deng Ai on Shen Chen's right side.

But the crisis was not immediately resolved, and three Cao Jun stabbed at the same time in front of them, and the weapons in their hands were all spears, divided into three different directions, and normal people had to at least retreat to dodge.

However, Shen Chen was not afraid, turned his head, and the knife in his hand slashed diagonally, and then the whole person jumped lightly, jumping about two feet high, and the three spears immediately pierced into the air.

Before they could retract it and continue to stab again, Shen Chen had already jumped up with the Tiger Courage Knife, first slashed and killed one person, then kicked to the left, grabbed the spear shaft of the person in the middle with his left hand and moved forward, and then swung the knife to slash, and the blood splattered again.

The surroundings were full of enemy and enemy soldiers spears who were constantly stabbing back and forth, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei covered Shen Chen, and the three of them plus a few personal guards formed an assault team, and they cut down more than ten people in an instant.

"Governor, retreat first!"

The captain of Cao Jun's personal guard saw the fierceness of the Han army that came by surprise, and hurriedly wanted to pull Cao Zhen's horse.

But Cao Zhen looked around at the battlefield, now the battlefield situation has been very chaotic, there are soldiers on both sides fighting everywhere, and no matter where he goes, he is afraid that it will be a point of frenzied encirclement by the Han army, so it is better to stay where he is.

After all, this place was originally on the edge of the battlefield, so it would not be the focus of other places, so Cao Zhen immediately glared at him and said: "What to retreat, bloody battle!" ”

"Yui!"

The captain of the guard could only roar angrily: "Bloody battle! ”

"Bloody battle!"

Cao Jun also erupted in an earth-shattering shout.

The two sides are at war together, fighting is continuous, and people are constantly falling on the chaotic battlefield.

After slashing and killing several Cao soldiers again, Shen Chen raised his head and saw that Cao Zhen's Daxu was close at hand, and it was already less than twenty zhang away.

Under the big curtain, there was a person wearing black armor, riding a black horse, and the red cloak behind him was waving, and he also looked at it, and the two sides seemed to be looking at each other from a distance.

Cao Zhen!

Shen Chen's face froze, and his knotted arm muscles instantly bulged, and then he swung his knife again to block a spear that stabbed diagonally, and the knife spread horizontally, and then stabbed forward.

Cao Jun, who attacked him secretly, suddenly bled profusely, let go of the spear in his hand, covered the wound on his chest and retreated step by step, and fell unwillingly.

Then he attacked forward again, like a sharp sword, fiercely killing in the direction of Cao Zhen.

"Grand Duke, the enemy is coming."

When the captain of the guard saw this scene, he was immediately anxious.

Cao Zhen actually saw Shen Chen, but he didn't know that it was Shen Chen.

Because he hadn't seen each other, and at the same time, Shen Chen's own Da Xuan was still in the Han camp over there, and he didn't have it with him at all, so he couldn't help but sigh: "Shen Chen is so fortunate to have such a fierce general." ”

"The Grand Duke!"

The captain grabbed the reins of his horse and tried to go.

But Cao Zhen turned over and dismounted, and scolded: "There is no way to retreat, this battle was originally our sneak attack on Shen Chen, but I didn't expect Shen Chen to be prepared, our troops were originally much more than them, but now it has become a chaotic battle, where else can we retreat?" ”

As he spoke, he took off the red cloak tied behind him, pulled out the knife at his waist, and said coldly: "Now the only way to fight to the death, to gather morale with my great strength, if you can repel Ma Dai Pound, and then look back at the Han camp, you have a chance of winning. ”

"Kill!"

Dozens of guards roared angrily.

Cao Zhen took the lead and launched a charge against the Han army.

Soon he encountered the first enemy and was entanglement with another Cao Jun.

Cao Zhen did not hesitate, sneak attack from the side, first slashed and killed one person, then dodged the knife of another person, and stabbed that person to death diagonally.

Because Shen Chen went directly to the direction of Cao Zhen in the middle from his left side, but Cao Zhen did not pounce on him, but went straight to his right side, so the two of them missed perfectly.

But Cao Zhen's Da Xuan has been moving with him, even if the boss personally goes into battle to slash and kill, there are still two soldiers behind him who have to follow him with Da Xu.

Shen Chen watched the big sword almost slip away in front of his eyes, and in a fit of rage, he fought to catch up. But now both sides are red-eyed, the Han soldiers are brave and good at fighting, but the Cao soldiers are also brave.

Although everyone is tired and hungry, they don't think of themselves as alive, and they don't think they can go back alive, they just want to drag an enemy on their backs when they die, so they are extremely fierce.

shouted and scolded angrily one by one, slashing and poking at the enemy with knives and guns in their hands, even if they were cut off by the enemy's arms and legs, they had to hold the other party and never let go.

The speed of Shen Chen's pursuit was seriously hindered, and he had to clear at least seven or eight Cao Jun every time before he could continue to chase after that dozen steps.

After fighting for a while, he finally approached Cao Zhen's side step by step, and in the face of the assault of his fierce squad, the guards around Cao Zhen behaved extremely bravely, almost dragging Shen Chen to death with a human wall.

A Cao soldier had his arm cut off, and he fell to the ground, and he had to hold his leg with his other hand, bite his foot with his teeth, and his eyes were even more red as if he wanted to eat someone.

Although Shen Chen sighed for a moment in his heart that Cao Zhen's army was indeed good, this was one of the very few generals who could make his guards work so hard, but he didn't have any mercy, the tip of the knife slashed through the soldier's neck, sent him to see his Taizu, and then raised the knife again.

"Bang!"

A violent metal friction sound was heard, and this powerful blow was blocked by Shen Chen.

Cao Zhen's face in front of him approached, and he said viciously: "Whose general are you, you want to kill me and make meritorious service, see if you have a life!" ”

"Huh."

Shen Chen stepped back and drew his knife and slashed like lightning, and shouted in his mouth: "You Cao family don't know how many people died in my hands, and you don't even know who I am?" You're so pathetic! ”

"Bang!"

It was another fight, and the knives of the two of them burst into flames, and Cao Zhen's face was distorted, and two words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth: "Shen!" Daybreak! ”

Who killed their Cao family the most, besides Shen Chen?

Although Cao Zhen is only a son of Cao Cao's family, since the death of his father Cao Shao, Cao Cao has always treated him as his own son, so Cao Zhen is already angry in the face of the enemies of the Cao family.

In an instant, he fought with his knife again and again, and the surrounding Cao Jun's personal guards also fought with Deng Ai, Jiang Wei and other Shen Chen's personal guards, and the two sides fought into a pot of porridge.

In just a moment, Shen Chen and Cao Zhen fought for more than ten rounds, Cao Zhen was brave and brave, he once defeated the tiger and shot the tiger to death, Cao Cao because of his force, once let him lead the tiger and leopard ride, it can be seen that his force is not weak.

But how could Shen Chen have ever been weak?

Just when he made the fourteenth move, he suddenly changed his move, and the whole person squatted forward, the strong wind whistled over his head, and Cao Zhen's blade almost grazed his head.

After dodging this blow, Shen Chen raised his knife and slashed at Cao Zhen's leg, Cao Zhen was dressed in big armor, fully armed, only his face and feet were exposed, seeing that the other party was going to cut his own feet, Cao Zhen wanted to retreat and dodge too late, and instinctively crouched with both legs.

Because in this way, his legs would be blocked by the iron armor at the hem of the armor, but Shen Chen was waiting for this moment, and he saw his originally squatting legs jumping up like springs, and they were actually three or four feet high, and the person jumped over in mid-air.

When he landed again, the Tiger Courage Knife had already penetrated deeply into the neck under the face door that Cao Zhen had been guarding, and stabbed through the connection between the armor and the helmet, and in an instant, the blood surged, and the helmet fell to the ground.

"Ugh"

Cao Zhen's eyes widened, his eyes were full of disbelief, and his legs, which were already crouching, went limp, and he slowly fell to the ground.

"The Grand Duke!"

Several Cao Jun who were still fighting next to him immediately had red eyes, and they desperately killed Shen Chen regardless of the opponents around them, wanting to avenge Cao Zhen.

But before they could reach Shen Chen, they were attacked and killed by the enemy they had just fought against, and it was a fatal thing to be distracted on the battlefield of life and death.

"The enemy will give the head!"

Shen Chen chopped off Cao Zhen's head with a knife and held it high.

Jiang Wei slashed and killed two Cao Jun holding Da Xu, and then cut off the arm-thick flagpole with three consecutive swords, and Cao Zhen Da Xuan fell in an instant.

At that moment, it was as if the sky had fallen, and countless voices of all kinds appeared on the entire battlefield.

"Daxu has fallen, Dadu Governor Daxu has fallen."

"The Governor is dead."

"Run, if you don't run, you'll die."

"Don't run, keep killing!"

"Cao Zhen is dead, those who surrender will not die!"

"The Wei army is defeated, brothers, kill with me."

For a time, the battlefield was in chaos.

There is a saying called Da Xuli, then the military heart gathers, stable as Mount Tai; If the army falls, the army will be disheartened and vulnerable.

Dian Wei was able to be appreciated by Cao Cao because he could protect the Daxu banner alone.

In ancient times, where the banner of the war commander Daxu was erected, there must be countless flag guards to protect it, and Cao Zhen's personal guards were the flag guards.

But Shen Chen broke through the opponent's flag team with his own personal guards, killed Cao Zhen, and cut down his Daxu, which collapsed like a landslide in an instant, and Cao's army collapsed.

In the chaos, all kinds of trumpets, drums, and whistles sounded continuously, and the flames burned, and billowing smoke and dust covered half of the sky.

A large number of soldiers scattered by the Cao army ran to the south like their lives, but the Cao camp in the south was burning with fire, and Ma Dai also set fire everywhere after the raid on the Cao camp, so the Han army camp in the north of the entire battlefield was burning, and the Cao army camp in the south was also burning.

After Cao Zhen's death, Cao Jun's group of dragons was leaderless and wanted to escape, but found that there was no place to run, and some even went to the direction of the Yellow River and wanted to escape from the water, but most of them chose to surrender.

Except for a very small number of people who were still dying, the swords and shadows of the battlefield slowly subsided, and the originally noisy and chaotic sound gradually quieted down, leaving only the sound of the waves of the Yellow River.

It was getting dark.

The red sunset sets lazily from the junction of heaven and earth in the west.

The dew on the grass on the banks of the Yellow River became more and more crystal clear under the sunset. Two goshawks soared in the blue sky with their wings flat, and from time to time they let out a chirp, and the mournful sound spread far away over the field.

More than an hour later, the fire in Shen Chen's main camp was slowly extinguished, and only a few remaining smokes were still floating in the wind.

Whether it was the Cao army or the Han army, almost most of the camps had collapsed, and among the piles of blackened stumps and broken wood, many large black logs were crumbling, which were the fences and towers of the Han army, they were like overwhelmed old men, staring sadly at the battlefield under their feet.

Inside and outside the camp, and in the middle of the camp of the Cao and Han armies, there were everywhere the corpses of our and enemy soldiers, lying on their backs, lying down, alone, in groups, curled up, burned into black charcoals, and lacking heads and bodies.

This is not only the case in the big camp, but from the big camp to the south, it stretches for more than ten miles, and you can see entangled corpses everywhere. In some places, the dead are crammed into piles, in other places, they are intermittent, and there are countless people who have disappeared in the bloody grass and have never been seen again.

The blood gathered into a river, the scattered weapons were not packed up, the Han army escorted the captives back to the headquarters camp, and now the battlefield is still a mess, because some Cao soldiers do not look like they were captured, they just want to go home and reunite, either run to the east of the mountains, or jump to the Yellow River, the Han army still has to rush around to arrest people, no one is idle to clean up the battlefield.

Shen Chen's side united some Han soldiers and soldiers, and after clearing out the diehards of Cao Zhen's guards, the battle was finally over, he looked at the Cao camp that was still burning in the distance, and then looked at the corpses of the enemy and our soldiers on the vast land, and there was no trace of relief in his heart.

Although this time he won more with less, he also killed Cao Zhen, annexed Hedong County, and threatened to merge the state and Luoyang, which became an extremely important turning point for the Han Dynasty against Cao Wei. But such casualties are still heavy.

These are the most elite soldiers of the Great Han!

(End of chapter)