Chapter 133: Friends and Princes

The generals went back to the camp to prepare, but Cao Cao left me alone and said, "Second brother, you accompany me to the camp for a walk." "I also have nothing to do, and there are strong soldiers under Cao Cao's account to fight, so I don't have to worry about it, so I walked out of the tent with him.

Passing by a shooting range, several soldiers were practicing archery. But I saw a young man holding his bow like a full moon, his arms struggling, and an arrow hit the bull's-eye. Cao Cao shouted, "Good!"

All the soldiers saw that it was Cao Cao, and they all knelt down and shouted: "Prime Minister!" Cao Cao raised his hand and said: "Get up, no need to be polite!" The soldiers got up, Cao Cao asked the young soldier with a smile, and said, "How old are you this year?"

"The youngest one is sixteen years old this year, almost seventeen. The boy raised his head and replied proudly.

Cao Cao smiled: "Okay! Archery is already so powerful at a young age!"

"Back to the prime minister, the youngest has been practicing archery since he was eight years old, and he can shoot a red heart within 100 steps at the age of twelve. In this war with Hebei, I will kill a hundred heads and become a centurion for military merit!"

"Ambition!" Cao Cao laughed.

"After making military merits, my mother will marry me a daughter-in-law when the time comes. The boy said embarrassedly.

Everyone laughed, and Cao Cao said: "You kill the enemy well, and I will marry you a daughter-in-law if you have military merits!"

The young man knelt down on one knee and said, "Thank you, Prime Minister!"

Cao Cao smiled happily. As we continued on our way, he suddenly said:

"When I was a teenager, Yuan Shao and I were good friends. Until I was about twenty years old, I still envied him, because his ancestors were the fourth generation and the third duke, and his protégés were all over the world. My grandfather was a eunuch, and I was always ashamed of myself when I was with him, and I was always ridiculed by others. Almost thirty years old, I am the same captain as him, I respect him on the outside, but I look down on him in my heart, when the rebellion of the Ten Standing Servants, it was Yuan Shao who asked Dong Zhuo to lead the army into Beijing, which caused the chaos in the world, and I have long told him that this will lead the wolf into the house and bring disaster upon himself. Now, I am the same prince of troubled times as him, and each dominates one side. But I almost began to despise him, because as the master of the man, he was narrow-minded, shallow in his knowledge, wide in the outside and jealous in the inside, and suspicious; as a commander-in-chief, he was scheming but indecisive, fierce and timid, with many soldiers and different commands, and arrogant with unclear government orders; as a father, he allowed his sons to support the army and compete for the position of the son, and to use his relatives instead of the virtuous. ”

Cao Cao stopped on a high ground and looked down at the martial arts training ground. In the distance, the soldiers who practiced spears were shouting loudly.

"But I know that sooner or later I will have a war with him, the fourth generation and third prince of his family, and I am the descendant of the eunuchs. But war is no better than this, it is a contest between the weak and the strong! So all these years, I have been working day and night to prepare for this war. When he was fighting against Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao had 300,000 troops, and I thought that I would have to have 200,000 soldiers and horses to defeat him; three years ago, Yuan Shao had already had 500,000 troops, and I thought, how could I have 100,000 soldiers and horses to defeat him; now, Yuan Shao has 700,000 troops, and he alone owns four of the thirteen prefectures and counties in the world, which can be described as a monstrous momentum, right? But I now think that if I want to defeat Yuan Shao, I only need 70,000 elite soldiers. ”

The ambition and heroism of his words made me admire. I've known him since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, when he was a street gentleman. Now, he has transformed into a man with great ambitions. The kind of gentlemanly demeanor that was back then is disappearing more and more in him, and he is like a bloodthirsty broadsword, standing there quietly, which can also make people feel an inexplicable fear.

I smiled and said, "You will win Yuan Shao after all, I must not doubt it." However, after winning Yuan Shao, do you want to conquer the world?"

Cao Cao was stunned, shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it yet." But there is no choice in the troubled times, either you kill me or I will kill you, only by working hard can you have a chance to live, inevitably, you will have to be the enemy of the princes of the world. ”

I pondered in my heart, was silent for a long time, and asked, "If one day, I have a different choice with you, such as competing with you for hegemony, will you blame me?"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "There are only two heroes in the world. If you don't fight with me, I'll be lonely. ”

I smiled and said, "But I don't have the spirit of a hero like you, I'm afraid even if I have an army of 700,000, I can't beat you." ”

Cao Cao smiled: "But in terms of martial arts, I can't beat you!"

"It's also the truth, and it gives me a balance in my heart. I said.

On the second day, Cao Cao ordered his troops to join Yuan Shao in Guandu. Although Yuan Shao divided his army, he still had 500,000 soldiers, while Cao Cao only had 50,000.

When the sun set, Cao Cao sent troops. The two armies opened their positions, Cao Cao's army in the southwest, and Yuan Shao's army in the northeast. The shield in Cao Cao's army was shining, and by the setting sun, Yuan Shao's soldiers couldn't open their eyes. When I saw that this was also a solution, I couldn't help but sigh that Cao Cao really knew how to play.

Cao Cao drew his sword and shouted: "Soldiers, our army is only 50,000 people, but your enemy has 500,000, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!" shouted the soldiers, "Kill, kill, kill!"

"Okay! There are not many soldiers, but there are fine, and the generals are not brave, but they are scheming! If I want to be more than the soldiers, I will never be able to compare with Yuan Shao, but compared with the spirit and resourcefulness, three Yuan Shao tied together, and I will not be as good as one Cao Cao! This battle will be won!" Cao Cao shouted.

"Victory!" the soldiers shouted loudly in the sky, and a fiery red fiery cloud in the west was looking down on the beings bloodthirstily.

"Archer, release the arrow!" Cao Jun preemptively attacked, ten thousand crossbows were fired, and the rain of arrows in the sky shot towards Yuan Jun, who was blinded by the rays of the setting sun, and immediately suffered countless casualties.

Yuan Shao was furious and sent a hundred chariot convoys, one chariot with four soldiers, one driving, one firing arrows, and two armed with spears to guard the left and right sides. The war horse neighed wildly and rushed into Cao Cao's army, and the iron wheels on both sides of the chariot wounded dozens of soldiers. Cao Cao shouted, "Array!" The soldiers were surrounded by shields in front of them and hook and sickle spears in the back, and the shields resisted the iron wheels, while the hook and sickle hooked the soldiers on the cart.

Yuan's side sacrificed the ramming car for the siege of the city, and it rampaged, and the shield hand was hit and vomited blood. Cao Cao released a huge iron gyroscope and threw it into Yuan Shao's camp by a catapult. Yuan Shao's army was densely populated with soldiers, and a single iron gyroscope could kill and injure one or two hundred people. It was so pressed that Yuan Junjun turned over on his back, and his flesh and blood flew sideways.

"Cao Chun, the tiger and leopard ride and charge!" Cao Cao pointed his long sword and issued a final order.

Five thousand tigers and leopards rode down the mountain like fierce tigers, black clothes, black robes and black armor, and rushed towards Yuan Shao's army. Yuan Shao also sent cavalry to fight against both sides, and the tiger and leopard rode with one enemy and ten, killing bloody.

At this moment, a group of men and horses suddenly appeared on the left, waving the banner of "Xiahou" and rushing towards Yuan Shao, while on the right was Cao Ren, who also led the army of Yuan Shao. It turned out that the two of them were just feints to attack Yejun and Liyang, but they suddenly turned back halfway and went straight to the front line of Guandu!

At this time, the three armies attacked, and Cao's army was unstoppable. Yuan Shaojun had already lost grain and grass, and he was invincible in a series of battles, and his morale was low. At this time, I don't know how many Cao soldiers there were, and they suddenly had no desire to fight, and the soldiers trampled on each other.

Cao Bing hunted homeopathically, and the general put away his knife and fell, killing the ground redder than the sunset. The cry was loud, and I watched from a distance, just as Xiahoudun stabbed a soldier in the head with a shot, and picked him up, and Cao Ren had just pinned a soldier to the ground with a shot, and blood came out like a spring of earth.

The bright red flowers are blooming, as if they are sacrifices to the heavens!