Chapter 304: Both loses
Ju Su died and died for the Grand Duke of Yuan San. However, the danger of Grand Duke of Yuan San was not over yet. Yuan's army was still defeated, and Cao's army was still rushing and killing on the battlefield to find the whereabouts of Grand Duke of Yuan San. Seeing that the situation was extremely critical, Tao Sheng could only force the Grand Duke of Yuan San and carried Grand Duke onto the war horse in a hurry. Grand Duke of Yuan San did not struggle, but cried bitterly on the war horse, but regretted that he had not listened to Ju Su's unpleasant advice and hated some of his previous actions.
After helping the Grand Duke Yuan San to the horse, Tao Sheng grabbed a guard and pointed at the armor that Grand Duke Yuan San had just taken off, "You, put on the lord's armor! Hurry up, right away!"
The guard caught by Tao Sheng did not say anything, but quickly put on the conspicuous golden helmet and armor of the Sangong of Yuan, and then put on the big red brocade robe. Tao Sheng quickly divided the guard team into two, led one team himself, and ordered another team: "I protect the lord and break through the west, and you protect the fake lord and break through the east. When you meet our team on the road, you will ask them to come and protect the lord and attract the attention of the Cao thief team. Please, brothers."
No one refused Tao Sheng's order to die. The guards responsible for protecting the fake Yuan Shao's breakthrough only bowed to the Grand Yuan Sangong, and then surrounded the fake Yuan Shao and immediately rushed west. The Grand Yuan Sangong woke up at this time and shouted: "Soldiers, don't worry, as long as I can return to Jizhou alive, your parents and family, I will support them for the rest of my life!"
After changing into the clothes of ordinary soldiers, the resistance that Da Yuan Sangong encountered when he broke through the siege became much smaller. Even when he encountered a large team of Cao's army when he broke through the siege, the Cao army was not very interested in the more than 20 cavalry around Da Yuan Sangong, but only sent small teams to chop and snatch war horses. Tao Sheng and other guards also had the opportunity to protect Da Yuan Sangong and fight and retreat, and specifically picked out small people to escape in the dark. He no longer walked there like before and was surrounded by Cao's army and intercepted him. The hope of escaping was greatly increased.
At this time, the fake Yuan Shao also successfully attracted the attention of the Cao army. During the melee in the dark night, the golden helmet and brocade robe worn by the fake Yuan Shao were seen. Not only did the Yuan army defeated the Yuan army approach the fake Yuan Shao team, but the Cao army also rushed forward like a fly smelling blood. It kept shouting that Yuan Shao was here. It seduced more Cao army tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves rushed east to fight for the extraordinary achievements of capturing the Da Yuan Sangong alive. The real Da Yuan Sangong took the opportunity to escape desperately in the opposite direction, and soon disappeared deep in the night. Finally, it fled from the fierce battle battlefield with the largest number of Cao army.
The Grand Duke of Yuan ran away in a mess, covered in mud and blood. He ran away with tears. The soldiers of Yuan army who had no leader suffered even more. The fake Yuan Shao in his armor was even more painful. The Cao army shouted loudly. Each unit rushed like a dragon, chopped the gun and picked the axe, and crazily harvested the lives of Yuan army soldiers. Yuan Shao's army was defeated and could not be defeated anymore. The whole army ran away with his head and fled, like a group of panic rabbits ruthlessly chased by wolves. The bodies almost covered the entire battlefield. Blood flowed along the ditches, and the broken flags and guns floated. When they stepped on it, they immediately splashed blood.
After being surrounded by less than ten Cao troops and blocked, there was no way out, it was estimated that the Grand Duke Yuan San had successfully escaped from the battlefield. The guards pretended to be Yuan Shao stopped and fought bloody battles with their companions and the soldiers of Yuan's army who were unknown to the truth, fighting for more escape for the Grand Duke Yuan San. However, the Cao army was rushing too fiercely. In less than ten minutes, the team around Yuan Shao was scattered. Yuan Shao himself was surrounded by countless cheerful Cao soldiers. Yuan Shao originally wanted to commit suicide to the Lord, but was pulled by the last companion around him and whispered: "Surrender, buy more time for the Lord."
After listening to the advice of his companions, the fake Yuan Shao decisively threw down the weapons in his hand and raised his hands to surrender. The Cao army soldiers roared excitedly and rushed forward, holding the fake Yuan Shao and the last guard, tied it with a rope as if they were tied up a rice dumpling, and then cheered and took the fake Yuan Shao to the position of Cao Boss. When he heard the news that the Grand Yuan Sangong was captured alive, the Cao army was even more motivated and the chopping and slaughtering was even more fierce. However, when the fake Yuan Shao was covered in blood and was taken to the young friend of Grand Yuan Sangong, Cao Boss, the Cao army was stunned again.
"Who are you?" Boss Cao, who had worked hard to capture a fake Yuan Shao. He was also covered in blood, was not angry. He just asked the fake Yuan Shao and his companions indifferently: "Where is Yuan Shao? Tell me, I will spare you two."
"Ph!" Fake Yuan Shao's companion spat a mouthful of bloody saliva.
"Bah!" Fake Yuan Shao spitted the bloody thick phlegm on Boss Cao.
"A man! Seeking death!"
Xiahou Yuan, who was already full of anger, was furious. He drew out a knife and cut one by one, killing the fake Yuan Shao and his companions. The two of them fell to the ground and did not say a word until their death. Boss Cao did not blame Xiahou Yuan for being impulsive, but just sighed: "There are so many righteous men in Hebei. Two young soldiers can be so loyal and righteous. If Yuan Shao can use it well, how dare I peek at Hebei half an eye? How can I have the victory today?"
After sighing, Boss Cao drew out the sword of Yitian again, pointed it to the north with his sword, and shouted: "I ordered the entire army to enter the Yuan army camp and encounter the Yuan army's army. No matter who it is, kill it!"
The Cao army soldiers around them agreed, and the war drums were ringing wildly, and the commanders rushed to pass the order. The Cao Lao Da Zhengqian flag fluttered in the wind. More than 30,000 Cao army soldiers were as enthusiastic as rainbows. They followed Cao Lao Da's flag to charge northward, floating like wildfire, sweeping across the living creatures.
Half an hour later, the Cao army met the Yuan army Cenbi team who was coming slowly. In less than ten minutes, the unstoppable Cao army defeated Cenbi's team and cut down the Yuan army soldiers brought by Cenbi in pieces. He harvested thousands of Yuan army soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables. Cenbi team was defeated and began to retreat to the camp.
More than a moment later, Cen Bi's defeated army and the main force of Cao's army led by Cao Lao Da encountered Yuan Xi. The team led by Yuan Shang brothers saw the main force arrive to reinforce. Zhang Liao and Cao Hong's team, who were attacking Yuan's brothers, were cheering and their morale was greatly boosted. The team of Yuan's brothers was frightened and was chasing the team by Cen Bi's defeated army, and they were forced to escape towards the direction of the camp. Cao's army pursued them reluctantly, and three groups came out together to continue chasing the Yuan's camp.
It was also at this time that the two generals of Cao, Le Jin and Li Dian, came to him, and explained to you in person: "Yuan Shao personally led elite troops to attack Xuchang, and he must arrange ambushings on both wings of the camp to be wary of our army taking the opportunity to attack the camp. You and the two of you can lead their troops to detour to the two wings of the Yuan army's camp. When the Yuan army's ambushings came out, they suddenly came out. Crashing behind the Yuan army's ambushings, they will surely win!" Li Dian and Le Jin clasped their fists and sang promises, and hurriedly took the order and led the army to attack.
After halfway through the fifth day, the Cao army drove the defeated soldiers of Yuan army to the front of Yuan army camp. The panicked Yuan Tan and Guo Tu and others opened the gate to let the defeated soldiers return to the camp. At the same time, they ordered the ambushers on both sides to escape. The speed of Cao's attack was delayed. However, the Yuan army had too many defeated soldiers. The narrow gate did not allow so many soldiers to pass quickly. The defeated soldiers were soon crowded with defeated soldiers in front of the camp gate. They trampled on each other, and the dead were full of the road. In order to survive, the defeated soldiers who were chased by the Cao army had to escape to both sides of the camp gate covered with trenches and deer antlers and horses, attempting to cross the camp gate to escape. As a result, they not only fought the vanguard for the Cao army for free, filled the trenches with corpses, and used their bodies and weapons to crush the fortifications of the camp defense, but also made the defenders in the camp unable to shoot arrows to stop the Cao army from charging.
"Kill!" The four Yuan army ambushers on both wings of the camp finally came out and surrounded the two wings of the Cao army. However, the Cao army was prepared. The four teams of Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao and Zhang He stepped forward and tried hard to block the four Yuan army ambushers. Li Dian and Le were also attacked from behind. The Yuan army ambushers, who had been already frightened, suddenly collapsed. They completely forgot that their army was waiting for their own efforts and had the advantage of physical strength. In just a moment, they collapsed one by one. Han Meng and Han Ding were also beheaded by Zhang Liao and Xiahou Yuan on the formation. The team completely collapsed and began to escape to the camp.
With a loud bang, the tall Yuan army gate was washed away by its own defeated soldiers. The Yuan army archers on the arrow tower screamed and fell into the defeated soldiers with the gate, crushing and wounding countless Yuan army soldiers. These archers would never have the chance to get up and escape again. They were immediately stepped on the feet and horse hooves into meat sauce. Large areas of the village were uprooted by the defeated soldiers, and countless Yuan army defeated soldiers and Cao army soldiers swarmed in, fleeing and killing deep into the Yuan army camp. Seeing the Cao army swarming into the camp, the Yuan army soldiers on the other wall sections also began to collapse quickly and fled to the rear of the camp. The hard-built front battalion defense fortifications were completely made.
In a critical moment, just like Ju Su commented on his deathbed, Mr. Yuan Tan, who was not useless, also organized a group of troops to intercept Cao's army, trying to drive Cao's army out of the camp. However, the first thing they faced was thousands of terrifying defeated soldiers, and the neat team was quickly destroyed by the chaos. No matter how Mr. Yuan Tan called to stop him, or even slashed his defeated soldiers, he could not stop the defeated soldiers from coming like a tide. It was at this time that Mr. Yuan Tan finally truly understood a sentence, and the saying that defeated soldiers fell like a mountain.
Under the impact of these defeated soldiers, the interception efforts of Mr. Yuan Tan and all the Yuan army generals who had not lost their confidence became a waste of energy. The defeated Yuan army, who was panicked to the extreme, destroyed all its own teams. The Cao army followed him took the opportunity to kill and set fire everywhere. One military tent after another was ignited by the fire, one after another was overwhelmed by the defeated soldiers, the campfire was trampled, the baggage truck was overturned, the camp tent was torn down, people trampled, and people suppressed people, leading more Yuan army troops to collapse, more Yuan army soldiers joined the escape team, the Yuan army camp was completely in chaos, with raging fire everywhere, and fleeing his own soldiers everywhere, and the loss was a foregone conclusion.
Yuan Tan and some Yuan army generals did not want to give up. After hurriedly organizing some troops, they chose to line up on the openest terrain in the middle of the camp to intercept the army. Without hesitation, the soldiers ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows at their own defeated soldiers who were trying to rush to the team. Finally, they encountered the main force of Cao's army who was coming straight. However, Yuan Tan and other generals soon discovered in despair that the soldiers in the army had already softened their hands and feet in the face of the despair of the defeat and panicked. The Cao army's army used only one charge to smash the Yuan army's interception formation and killed the panicked Yuan army soldiers to pieces.
What made Yuan Tan and other Yuan generals frightened was the murderous aura of the Cao army. After a fierce battle, most of the Cao army soldiers were injured, covered in blood, and were exhausted, and were gasping for breath. However, after encountering Yuan soldiers, these Cao army soldiers who seemed to be unable to lift their arms seemed to have been exhausted. They were like hundreds of tubes of chicken blood. They were roaring and shouting wildly, fighting with Yuan soldiers, slashing fiercely with each knife, and stabbing fiercely with each gun. Even when facing the weapons stabbed by Yuan soldiers, they would not dodge or dodge, but tried their best to fight back the weapons in their hands towards the enemy, and even if they died, they would pull the enemy opposite to them to die. Faced with such a crazy enemy, not to mention that Yuan soldiers were all trembling with their legs, even Yuan soldiers and other Yuan soldiers had a cold vest.
The intercepting team also quickly began to collapse. Although Yuan Tan and other generals tried their best to restrain the team, they said that they could not stop the soldiers from escaping one after another. They could not stop the soldiers from escaping again. When Dian Wei, who was carrying the double halberds, led the army to rush forward, the team beside Yuan Tan's side collapsed faster. Dian Wei, whose face and body were covered with blood, had the same hell demon god, and rushed towards a crazy tiger. The blockers were invincible. Several Yuan army generals tried to step forward to intercept, but they were all cut off by his halberd. Yuan army was shocked and turned around to escape, while Yuan Tan was still rushing to the front.
The Yuan army camp was broken and completely broken. The Cao army divided into many troops and rushed back and forth in the Yuan army camp, as if entering a deserted land. Wherever they went, they were all a sea of fire and blood. In order to survive, the desperate Yuan army soldiers were scrambling to escape to the back camp. The Yuan army in the back camp opened the camp gate early and fled to the wilderness in the north. The Cao army continued to advance, turning more Yuan army camps into seas of fire and blood. The Yuan army units rushed to abandon the baggage camp tent and fled northward. The camp was raging in flames and corpses were everywhere. However, the eldest son Cao himself refused to give up and continued to order the army to pursue, saying that he would kill the Yuan army.
Boss Cao had no choice. Although he had won a great victory in this battle, he took advantage of the opportunity to break through the main camp of Yuan's army, but after the main camp of Yuan's army, there were four Yuan's army camps, and the team arranged by Yuan's army to protect the granary in Yanling. At the same time, the whereabouts of Yuan Sangong himself were unknown. If the Cao army could not completely defeat the Yuan's army in one go, as long as the Yuan Shao army recovered, it would still pose a huge threat to the Cao army. Therefore, although he knew that the team was extremely exhausted and the casualties of the team were rapidly expanding, Boss Cao still ordered the pursuit without hesitation, not for anything else, just to not give Yuan Shao's army a chance to make a comeback on the battlefield in Xuchang.
The boss Cao's destruction and boating once again achieved good results. In the face of the crazy pursuit of the main force of the Cao army, although the defeated soldiers of the Yuan army were still roughly the same as the pursuers of the Cao army in terms of military strength, the interim commander Yuan Tan, no longer had the courage to stop and fight the Cao army to the death. They fled north desperately. The Cao army was as powerful as a mad dragon, and they rushed forward, shouting and killing, and the swords and axes kept rising and falling. The Yuan army soldiers continued to fall. The road was full of Yuan army corpses, blood flowing all over the ground. The bloody road quickly lasted for several miles and was still extending northward.
As the sky gradually became clear, countless exhausted Yuan soldiers gave up escaping and knelt on the ground to shout surrender. However, the more exhausted Cao army refused to accept prisoners at all. As the sword fell, a large number of Yuan soldiers kneeling on the ground fell to the ground, forcing these Yuan soldiers to get up and continue to flee north.
Every time he encountered a battle with the three Duke of Yuan, Cao was always very lucky. Originally, Cao was extremely worried that the four Yuan army would not be able to break the villages. However, in the face of tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, the first Yuan army was completely destroyed in less than half a quarter of an hour, and the Yuan army guarding the villages also joined the escape team. After receiving the news of the main defeat, the second Yuan army camp, simply did not wait for the defeated soldiers to rush forward, and the guard general Wang Mo had already led his army to abandon the camp.
The same is true for the third village. It was not until the fourth village close to Yanling that the Cao army encountered the tenacious resistance of the defenders. Because there was a safer Yanling city next to it, Yuan's defeated soldiers no longer fought for the Cao army for free, and almost all chose to bypass the camp and flee directly to Yanling City. The Cao army, whose physical strength was severely reduced, had to rely on their own strength to attack the last partial division camp of Yuan Shao's army, whose work was almost intact.
Cao Boss, who has always liked to make food and grass, once spent his energy studying the Yuan Shao army in Yanling. He knew that the leader of Yuan army guarding the Yanling granary was Ju Shu's eldest son Ju Hu. He also knew that the general who guarded the Yuan army's last division camp was Hao Zhao, and his courtesy name was Bo Dao. He was from Taiyuan, Bingzhou. He was a young general who came to Yanzhou to participate in the war with the Bingzhou Governor Gao Gan. Not long ago, because of his brave combat, he was jointly recommended by Cui Yan and Ju Su. He was named Sima of the Infantry by Yuan Sangong. Because of his cautious and steady personality, he was recommended by Ju Su again. He was arranged by Yuan Sangong to lead his army to station here to jointly protect the Yanling granary.
Facing such a young general, Cao did not take Hao Zhao seriously at first, but after launching the attack on the camp, Cao immediately found that he underestimated Hao Zhao too much. This guy simply built the camp where he was responsible for a thorny shell. There were three trenches, and temporary fortifications such as deer antlers and horses were built very strongly. Cao's army could not get close to the gate of the village after two attacks. Instead, he was shot by the archers arranged by this guy and suffered heavy casualties, forcing Cao's soldiers in front of the gate of the Bianzhai camp. It was even more because the hair beam bridge built by this guy suddenly overturned and fell into the trenches. He was buried in the trenches and was tied into a string of human candied haws, and died miserably.
Seeing this, the army's physical strength had dropped to the critical point, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops. No more attacks on the turtle shell. Seeing the Cao army assembled to withdraw the troops, the young and energetic Hao Zhao originally wanted to lead the army to attack. Cui Yan, who had just escaped here not long ago, grabbed Hao Zhao and whispered: "Don't be anxious, let the Cao thief team rest for a while. Cao thief's morale was not exhausted at this time, and it is difficult to win if he rushes out now. When the Cao thief's team starts to retreat, his morale is exhausted, and his body relaxes, he feels exhausted. Then he will attack again and will win a great victory."
Unfortunately, Cui Yan's crow spoke up and began to retreat in front of the battle, the Cao army soldiers, whose morale was always high, relaxed a little. They immediately found that they were so tired that they could not even walk. The wounds of their bodies began to hurt severely. The team kept moaning. After seeing this at the height of the arrow tower, Cui Yan also decisively shouted below: "General Bo Dao, you can attack and avenge our fallen soldiers!"
When the war drums sounded, Hao Zhao led 3,000 infantry out of the camp and roared at the Cao army ten times his own. Cao eldest son, who once thought that Hao Zhao did not dare to pursue, was furious. When Li Dian was decisively dispatched Li Dian to lead the army to fight, although Li Dian's team, who had already been tired from his legs and feet, followed the order, said that nothing could stop the attack of Hao Zhao's new force. In the melee, Hao Zhao stabbed Li Dian and dismounted. Li Dian's team collapsed immediately. Cao eldest son was shocked and angry when he heard the news. He quickly ordered the army to stop and turn back to face Hao Zhao's three thousand courageous infantry team.
The unlucky boss Cao quickly regretted that he did not order the army to escape immediately. During the battle, Hao Zhao's three thousand new troops relied on his physical strength to almost suppress more than 30,000 Cao's troops. Hao Zhao himself even clashed in the Wanma Army, as if he had entered a deserted place. If it weren't for Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and Zhang He and other generals fighting hard, Hao Zhao almost rushed to the front of Cao. But even so, even if the generals of Cao's army who had almost exhausted their strength finally retreated from Hao Zhao's team, almost all of them were injured. The Cao's soldiers suffered heavy losses. Nearly two thousand Cao's soldiers who had killed countless enemies last night fell on the road to victory and triumphant victory. Cao's face turned pale, but he was helpless.
After discovering the weakness of Cao's army's physical strength, not only Hao Zhao took three thousand new forces to fight again, Ju Hu also led a new force guarding the granary. This time, Cao's boss didn't dare to fight anymore, and commanded the army to retreat south. Fortunately, Cao's brother-in-law Ren Jun also led a new force to arrive in time, caught Ju Hu and Hao Zhao's pursuers, and thus covered the safe retreat of the main force. But even so, the exhausted main team of Cao's army still took most of the day to retreat to Xuchang City more than 40 miles away. Countless soldiers lie on the ground as soon as they entered the city, lying swaying, lying around the streets in Xuchang City.
"Both losers are hurt, both losers are hurt!"
A day later, when the casualties of this battle were counted, the boss Cao couldn't help but wailed loudly. In this battle, although Cao's team defeated Yuan Shao's army and completely destroyed Yuan's main camp and the three side division camps, after a series of hard battles, the losses of Cao's army still reached a shocking level. General Li Dian was killed, Dian Wei, Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao and Zhang He and other main generals were injured, and the soldiers killed reached more than 14,000 people that stunned Cao's army. Most of the remaining soldiers were injured, and more than 3,000 soldiers seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. The overall strength of the Cao army was also weakened to an extremely dangerous level.
"Fortunately, Yuan Shao's team suffered greater casualties than me, so they would definitely not have the strength to continue fighting." Faced with the huge casualties and dangerous situation, Boss Cao could only comfort himself quietly: "In the Xiliang Ma Teng side, it doesn't matter if Zhong Yao and Pei Mao lost Chang'an. As long as we guard the natural danger of Tongguan, our army can get time for rest. As for Liu Biao, Liu Bei and Zhang Xiu, even if these fence-bearing grass took over the northern part of Nanyang, they may not have the courage to continue attacking Xuchang. Even if they kill Xuchang, our army has cities to defend, and there is no need to be afraid of these mobs in Jizhou."
"Tao Ying..." After comforting himself, Boss Cao was a little worried no matter how optimistic he was, and he did not dare to comfort himself. He only dared to pray secretly, "God blessed me, I hope that this traitor would bet after seeing it and not be prepared to attack Xuchang. He needed to temporarily dispatch troops and mobilize food and grass to have the strength to attack Xuchang. Give me more time and give our army more time."
Chapter completed!