Chapter 296
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After Cao Ren thought about it, the current situation could be explained as his brother Cao Hong said, so Cao Ren made a cruel decision and ordered the troops to chase Kui Mulang quickly. Why did he chase after him? Can he not chase him? Cao Ren did not make an appointment with Kui Mulang and did not know that Cao Ren was coming. In Lijiazhuang, when Cao Ren was waiting for Cao Ren to investigate, Kui Mulang of course wiped out Lijiazhuang and rushed to the village in front, for the time being that Kui Mulang's troops were walking and dragging on, and the journey was slow. Cao Ren did not have much effort and chased him less than ten miles away from Kui Mulang.
At this time, Cao Ren said again: "The whole army rests and eats a lot and then go to bed." Cao Hong was anxious when he heard that Cao Hong asked quickly: "What's the matter with brother? We are about to catch up with the rest now?" Cao Ren laughed and said: "Brother, don't worry, those bandits and mobs are vulnerable, but we will pursue them from afar, that's too scary, anyway, those thieves can't escape. Why don't we raise our troops? After nightfall, we go to steal the camp and rob the village so that we can win easily?" Cao Hong was convinced and immediately convinced.
That night, Cao Ren and Cao Hong divided his troops into two groups to surround Kui Mulang's camp, 50,000 Cao's soldiers, as if they were in a no-man's territory.
Kui Mulang was killed by Cao's soldiers in his dream. These soldiers led by Kui Mulang were in panic. In a panic, there were countless enemies who fled and trampled on each other. However, at this time, Cao Ren and Cao Hong had already surrounded the Yellow Turban Army's commander Kui Mulang, who had already surrendered. These remaining Yellow Turban troops surrendered. Cao Ren's troops injured only 100 people and captured more than 20,000 prisoners. Kui Mulang's troops were destroyed. All of them died of trampling on each other or were killed by Cao's soldiers in their dreams. In addition to obtaining 20,000 prisoners, Cao Ren also seized countless swords, guns, armor and supplies, but the quality of these swords, guns, armor is not very good. They can only be used as waste recycling. The only pity is that they did not seize any military rations from Kui Mulang's troops. These prisoners have to waste food to support them.
However, Cao Ren didn't care much about this. After all, there was an example of Liu Bin. The prisoners were always good things. They could produce added value and the least value could be used to cultivate a farmland site. After the battle ended, Cao Ren did not stop there, but ordered Cao Hong's confidant general Che Wei to take his own Che Zhou to lead three thousand soldiers to escort the prisoners back to Chenliu, and ordered Guo Zu Gongsun Du, who had been drawn from Lu Qian, to escort the materials and then go.
Cao Ren led Cao Hong to lead the remaining soldiers, and the general quickly rushed to another horse unit fifteen miles away. The troops were led by Yan An. Yan Ande had a temper similar to Kui Mulang, and was extremely dissatisfied with the horse. After leaving the large army of Ma, there was no military discipline. When Cao Ren, when Cao Hong rushed to Yan An, it happened to be four hours when one person was the most tired at night, and when one person slept the most fragrant, there was no accident. Yan Ande's troops were also made dumplings by Cao Ren. Yan An himself was also not lucky.
Overnight, Cao Ren and Cao Hong annihilated two horse troops in succession, with a total of 100,000 troops and his own losses were extremely small, which was simply negligible. Cao Hong was very happy. This credit was too easy to make, according to Cao Hong's plan, he directly ordered the troops and then destroyed the remaining troops. However, Cao Ren was still a little sober after all, and knew that his troops had been running dozens of miles overnight, even if they didn't fight.
That's enough. After all, my own army cannot be compared with the legendary Xiang Yu army. The robbery of three cities every day and eight villages at night. It's a legend. Others don't know what their troops are like. Don't he know? It's the limit now that he is running dozens of miles. Don't fight, and the rest of the house will be left to kill them. Therefore, Cao Ren dissuaded Cao Hong and set up a camp to rest. The whole army waited for the horses to gather troops to take revenge. He lured the horses to Chenliu and kept the horses.
The cold wind gusts of air conditioning in Cao Ren's mood at this time was as cold as the weather. The two armies of the two sides had broken horses and more than 100,000 people fled. How could there be thousands of people? Cao Renman thought that the horse would gather troops and horses, turn around and attack him, so that he could lure the horses. Follow him back to Chenliu, use the city defense war to drag down the horses and achieve outstanding results to wash away the shame of Guandu's previous defeat. But who would have thought that the sun rose and sunset passed by two days. Cao Ren had scattered dozens of miles of horses and did not see any signs of gathering here. Not only that, even the horse troops that Cao Ren had known the traces before but had not had time to clean up are now away from Cao Ren's location. There was no sign of revenge for friendly forces.
Cao Ren doesn't understand what this means? How can he ignore his own troops' life and death like this? No wonder Cao Ren doesn't understand. After all, Cao Ren is a professional and studied regular military strategy. Of course, he couldn't imagine that the internal chaos of the Ma army and the factions have reached an uncontrollable level. Now the Ma army has obviously divided into three major factions. The 30,000 people who are from Ma themselves are one faction and the most trusted and caring force of the Ma army. In addition, Yang Feng and Yu Pi also form a faction. Among them, Yang Feng and Yu Pi have more than 300,000 troops, while Yu Pi has more than 200,000 troops.
However, although the largest number of people in these three factions is Yang Feng, the strongest one is Yu Du. After all, under the leadership of Yang Feng, Yang Feng's troops have always avoided the encirclement of powerful enemies. They have never fought any tough battles, but Yu Du's troops have fought with Cao Cao for countless times. However, Yu Du, the two factions of Yang Feng, although there are many people and powerful people, their control over the faction is far less than that of the horse. As for the combat effectiveness of the troops, it is nothing to say about the combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army. They have always been scumbags. In this era of the battle between the princes, they are also countable. If the horse's troops are regular troops, Yang Feng and the others are at best a group of militias and lack training militias.
Just like the seven leading generals appointed by Ma, the ones who were even Yang Feng and Yu Du suppressed, there were some difficulties in the problem. So Ma, at the suggestion of Yang Feng Yu Du, divided the seven guys out. Among them, the five generals, Kui Mu Lang, Yan An, Zhang Deshou, Che Bao, and Wang Biao, were eliminated from the Yang Feng faction, and the other two restless guys were eliminated from the Yu Du faction.
The seven troops diverted by the horse, except for the confidants of the seven leaders, were all the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, and the people who were recently entangled in the army, and the 150,000 troops in the headquarters, except for the 30,000 regular troops under the horse, the rest of the rest of the remaining 70,000 troops, and Yang Feng's 50,000 troops were all the same young and strong, and all the leading generals were Yang Feng and Yu Bu's absolute heart.
So although the horse was forced to divide the troops, it actually gave Ma a disguised opportunity to disarma. Therefore, for Ma, Cao Ren eliminated the two so-called troops. Ma did not feel any regret at all. Instead, he secretly thanked Cao Ren for letting go for himself. Yang Feng Yu Bu would not care about anything. Since he was the general who was divided, he would die if he was not completely in the same mind as him. Besides, the two troops that Cao Ren eliminated were the two troops with the most soldiers, otherwise they would not have gone so slowly and were easily marked by Cao Ren. So Yang Feng and Yu Bu had no regrets about this. They just wanted to follow the horse to arrive in Qingzhou early, occupy Qingzhou, and safely complete the bleaching process of transforming from bandits into regular troops.
So Ma, Yang Feng, Yu Du all didn't say anything about it, and he was determined to run and fight the rest of the diversion troops far away from Cao Ren. Then I don't know what happened. The only Zhang Deshou's army, who knew that there were pursuers, wouldn't they run quickly without the support of the main force? So this situation that confused Cao Ren was born. Although Cao Ren was confused about this, the war still had to continue. Cao Hong, who was irritated, urged his brother Cao Ren to send troops to pursue him eight times a day. So Cao Ren finally made up his mind. No matter why he didn't come out to fight with him, he would defeat him one by one, and fight until the horse could not stand it and came out to fight with him.
Cao Ren, who was determined, continued to send horses to explore the main traces of the horse troops in the distance; while setting up camps and pursuing Zhang Deshou's troops, although Zhang Deshou's troops had run two days in advance, since Cao Ren discovered that Zhang Deshou's troops could be imagined when he was fleeing Kui Mulang and Yan An, the marching capabilities of Zhang Deshou's troops were on the same level as those two waste troops. Although Zhang Deshou felt a sense of crisis and tried his best to urge the troops to move forward quickly, those groups of troops that had just transformed from peasants could withstand this kind of training-like advance? Even Zhang Deshou's direct troops had not been through the remnant troops, and the baptism of blood and fire could not bear this kind of pain in marching.
In addition, Zhang Deshou just wanted to escape quickly and catch up with the large army as soon as possible to get safety. There was nothing to do in two days when the surplus food in the army was about to end. These poor troops, which were hungry and cold, finally couldn't run after running for two days, even if Zhang Deshou sent someone to whip it, it would be useless. Zhang Deshou had to slow down the pace of the team and find a suitable target to replenish supplies. The only thing that made Zhang Deshou feel a little relieved and lucky was that Cao Ren's pursuit was not seen behind the army.
However, Zhang Deshou's good luck came here. Cao Ren waited foolishly for two days and then chased after Cao Ren's elite troops. The troops crawling with Zhang Deshou's snails were not like eating a dish. Soon Cao Ren caught up with Zhang Deshou's troops. However, Cao Ren discovered that this troops were obviously much more cautious than before. After the night, he began to have a guard post. However, Cao Ren's combat effectiveness was determined through the previous two battles. He knew that the guys in front of him were still a group of mobs, and he was not much stronger than ordinary people.
So after catching up with Zhang Deshou's troops, Cao Ren took a short rest and then attacked Zhang Deshou's troops. At this time, Zhang Deshou's troops were still marching. Although Zhang Deshou's troops set up some observation personnel, under Cao Ren's rapid assault, it was not very useful. Before the probing horses ran to Zhang Deshou's troops, they reported that Cao Ren's troops had already reached the tail of Zhang Deshou's troops.
Zhang Deshou's rear army was in chaos at that time. This chaos also affected Zhang Deshou's central army and front troops. When Zhang Deshou's army had the upper hand, it could rush up to form huge destructive power and fall into a disadvantage, it would scatter and flee with a cry. At this time, Zhang Deshou encountered this situation. Although on the books, the Yellow Turban troops that could be millions of at all times were not considered a large number, but in this reality, it was boundless, especially in this marching. Four people were lined up for several miles. The head of the team could not see the tail of the team. As a result, Zhang Deshou's rear army was in chaos. Everyone only knew that there were enemies who came here. How many enemy troops were there? No one knew.
The unknown is always the most terrifying thing. Besides, the soldiers of Zhang Deshou's army were all for a meal and no one really wanted to give their lives here. Of course, they were scattered and fled. They even stopped Zhang Deshou's direct troops from supporting the rear army. Zhang Deshou was so angry that he cursed not only, but he had no choice but to defeat, but Zhang Deshou also wanted to escape with the army, but unfortunately it was too late. At this time, Cao Hong had already led his troops and rushed to the central army like a bamboo shoot to stop Zhang Deshou, and he saw that the nature of the outlaws was aroused. He shouted and waved the sky fork and rushed to Cao Hong to kill him.
Originally, if Zhang Deshou threw his weapons and got rid of the armor and mixed them in the chaos, he might be able to escape. However, Zhang Deshou was born in a rampant family. Not to mention his desperation, he had some gambling nature. Seeing Cao Hong's armor, the entourage was following him. It was obvious that he wanted to kill Cao Hong and turn defeat into victory. Unfortunately, Zhang Deshou overestimated his force. Who is Cao Hong? Even if the famous general under Cao Cao was brave, he could not say that he would win against Cao Hong. Now Zhang Deshou rushed over with a loud shout, which was a reminder to Cao Hong to notice Zhang Deshou.
Cao Hong laughed loudly and urged the horse to welcome Zhang Deshou to come and two cavalry generals entered. Cao Hong cut off Huashan with a knife and chopped off Zhang Deshou with a knife. It was a pity that Zhang Deshou's sky-holding fork was a wooden pole. Although the wood was solid and the duck egg was thick, it was soaked in oil. It was fine. It was fine to block any weapon. However, Cao Hong's phoenix tail knife was made of pure steel. The knife head was a very large knife. It immediately cut Zhang Deshou and the fork and the people into both ends.
This time, Zhang Deshou's troops ran happily. In the end, Cao Ren and Cao Hong's troops only intercepted less than Wu Qian's troops, captured more than 10,000 people and fled everywhere. They could not pursue them. This also made Cao Ren and Cao Hong open their eyes again. However, because Zhang Deshou's troops ran away this time, there were too many people mixed with Zhang Deshou's confidants, but unexpectedly caused great trouble to the horse.
Zhang Deshou's army had a huge number of deserters, most of whom escaped into the wilderness and escaped from the horse. Yang Feng's venomous troops mingled with Sili people. However, some of the confidants under Zhang Deshou who escaped from their lives ran back to Yang Feng's large army for shelter and some fled to the Chebao. Wang Biao and four other leaders reported the news for a while. Wang Biao and Wu Kui, Jiao Ting's four generals contacted each other quickly, and blamed the horse's team, questioning whether Ma took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents.
Although these generals and soldiers in the Ma team were all Yang Feng and Yu Du's absolute confidant, among the Yellow Turban tribe, they were inseparable from the Yellow Turban tribe, either father and son or brothers were the least helpful. How could the villagers in the same village break so clean? What's more, the seven generals including Che Bao and Wang Biao were able to be diverted and stand alone. Of course, they also have a lot of prestige and relationship in the Yellow Turban tribe. At this time, the rabbit died and the fox was sad. Naturally, they also caused dissatisfaction in the Ma team.
Faced with this dissatisfaction and accusations, Yang Feng and Yu Du could not bear the Yellow Turban Army's team was originally formed by faith, killing and interests. The loyalty of this team was originally very fragile. Now the faith of Taipingdao has long disappeared completely. Now it is only based on the personal charm of commanding soldiers and officers, and the pressure of being alone. It must be held together to survive. Loyalty is as fragile as a piece of paper as a question of eliminating dissidents and abandoning companions. If the army mutiny is not handled well, it will be a shout, even if it is a big leader like Yu Du, it will not be spared.
At this moment, Yang Fengyu Du could only choose to stand on his own brother's side, push the blame to the horse, and let the horse come forward to find a way to solve the problem. After all, the reason why they surrendered to the horse was not because the horse's personal charm touched them, but because they followed the opinions of Youzhou and surrendered to the horse for their own future considerations. They would not be loyal to the horse and would not take the blame for the horse. To be continued.
Chapter completed!