"When I was taking a nap in the tent a few days ago, I met Zhou Gong in my dream. Zhou Gong said that one of my requirements could be met. I said, I want to defeat Yuan Shao and unify Hebei! Zhou Gong said, don’t talk nonsense, Yuan Shao has the number of soldiers. With a hundred thousand dollars, you only have such a small number of soldiers, how can you beat him, and mention something else. I thought hard, and said, let’s make a small request. Recently, my wife is always whispering in my ears, which is annoying. It's dying, can you let me know what she is thinking?"
Cao Cao said that he couldn't help but laughed, and then said, "Guess what, Zhou Gong was silent for a long time and said: Bring me the map of Hebei."
Cao Cao couldn't straighten his waist, but seeing the two of them still looked at a loss, Cao Cao couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed, scratching his head and said: "It's really a bunch of rough people who don't understand Fengyue, you don't know that Guo Jia and I laughed at each other. What it looks like."
"The lord means..." Cao Ren asked in a low voice.
"Even Duke Zhou promised me to defeat Yuan Shao, what are you worried about?" Cao Cao took a deep breath, with a confident smile on his face, "Guess my inner man’s mind may not be good for me, but Yuan Shao and him I know exactly what the rice bucket under my hand is thinking about."
"Why do people who are worse than women beat me?"
A black war horse galloped uphill, the spy turned over and dismounted, and ran to Cao Cao quickly: "Report to the lord, a large number of enemy troops have crossed the Yellow River and are less than ten miles away from here. Look at the flags that he played, the leading generals It should be Wen Chou, a famous Hebei general."
"Yuan Shao's chasing soldiers?" Cao Ren was startled and asked hurriedly, "How many people are here?"
"There are countless horse infantry, and it is estimated that there should be no fewer than 10,000."
"Oh, I see." Cao Cao looked indifferently and nodded, "Go down and rest, no more exploration."
Seeing Cao Cao's expression as usual, Cao Ren said anxiously: "Master, this place is extremely dangerous, please leave first, I will lead the tiger and leopard to ride the break!"
Cao Cao's expression is still very calm: "Zi Xiao, in your eyes, am I such a cowardly lord?"
"Master!" Seeing that Cao Cao insisted on not leaving, Cao Ren strode forward, and stretched out his hand to support Cao Cao's arm. "Master, don't be impulsive, but there are more than 10,000 enemy troops. If the master refuses to go. Leaving, I can only be rude."
"How rude? Did you knock me out?" Cao Cao raised his horse whip, twitched it gently on Cao Ren's hand, and smiled: "Zi Xiao, in your eyes, it turns out that I am not only a cowardly lord. Still a stupid lord."
Cao Ren was stunned, stepped back a few steps, and stared at Cao Cao in a daze.
Cao Cao whispered: "Zixiao, Miaocai, after choosing the most elite half of your men to ambush on the hillside, the others unsaddled their saddles and scattered the horses nearby, pretending to be lazy and slack. Looks defenseless. At the same time, he scattered the grain, grass and equipment captured from the white horse on the road." Seeing that both of them were puzzled, Cao Cao increased his tone: "Hurry up, don't ask me why, wait I will use it. Wen Chou's head explains to you."
Seeing Cao Cao's self-confident appearance, the two of them stopped speaking at the moment, and passed down orders one after another.
Cao Cao looked at the backs of the two leaving and straightened his body slightly. A sergeant who had been standing far away brought his mount. Cao Cao turned on his horse and shouted, "Fight my banner! "
Wen Chou was panting slightly on the galloping mount, staring at the big flag flying not far ahead, the flame on the flag was burning in the wind, red dazzling. Wen Chou was surprised at first, and then came endless ecstasy. He was fully aware of the meaning of this banner. Cao Cao threw himself into the battlefield rashly. This was the unique opportunity in his life, as long as he could cut this shot. Great banner, then Cao Jun's morale will collapse in an instant.
"Brothers, rush with me!" Wen Chou turned around and shouted, "That's Cao's handsome banner. Everyone will follow me to kill the national thieves and avenge the dead soldiers!"
The cavalry rushing forward quickly shook off the infantry behind him and rushed towards Cao Cao’s handsome flag, but Wen Chou did not realize that the long-term non-stop pursuit had exhausted his cavalry. The horses were not running fast enough. The power brought by it will also decrease, and the hillside in front of Cao Cao Shuaiqi once again reduced the speed of the cavalry.
But at this time Wen Chou couldn't take care of this anymore. His eyes only had the burning flag. It wasn't until one figure with a horse appeared around the flag that Wen Chou realized what kind of desperation he was in. Among.
Cao Cao shot his arrows into the battlefield when the enemy cavalry was at the end of the crossbow. The tiger and leopard cavalry opened the formation methodically, and the cavalry in the front row was level as a line. With a sneer, Cao Cao looked down at the enemy army who was still struggling to rush towards him, and slowly withdrew his saber from his waist, the sword paused in the air for a moment, and then slammed forward. The 1,500 tiger and leopard riders simultaneously drew their swords out of their sheaths, and relaxed the tightened reins. The power of the 1,500 horses that were tightly bound was released in an instant, like a frenzy, surging toward the ugliness. Come.
Wen Chou's heart was like falling into an ice cave. He restrained the galloping war horse, watching the tide of tiger and leopard riding towards him in fear. But his cavalry hadn't realized the danger yet, one by one, they rushed past him towards death.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is like a straight blade, sharply drawing a straight line in front of the battlefield. Although there are only 1,500 people, all of them are the elite of the elite. Not only are they exquisite in swordsmanship, but also intrepid. Fear of death. Where the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry passed, Wen Chou's cavalry fell from their horses one after another, and were immediately trampled by the iron hooves that followed. With just one simple contact, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry completely smashed all the morale of the enemy.
Wen Chou turned his horse's head and led the remnant defeated generals to retreat behind him, but their way was blocked by his infantry. The infantry lagging behind did not know the situation ahead. They only took care of the heavy horses abandoned by Cao Jun. The chaotic formation was like an insurmountable natural barrier. Wen Chou gritted his teeth and severely ordered the cavalry: "Step on, step on, don't care if it's his own!"
The stern shouts on the battlefield concealed the bowstrings and the sharp howling. Wen Chou felt a sharp and cold hard object inserted from his back, and then rushed out from his chest. At the moment when the feather arrow penetrated his body, he I felt all the heat and strength in my body seemed to be taken away in an instant. Wen Chou slowly lowered his head, and Yu Jian had completely penetrated his armor, revealing half of the arrow tip in his heart. Wen Chou spit out a mouthful of blood and his last breath, leaning to the sky and slamming down.
"General Wen is dead!" A cavalry had just yelled this sentence, and he was chopped off by the tiger and leopard rider who came from behind, and blood rushed out from the fracture.
Wen Chou’s death undoubtedly dealt the final fatal blow to this desperate army. Cao Cao looked down on the chaotic battlefield in front of him from the hillside and sighed softly: "Yuan Shao, what you brought is such an army of tigers and wolves. Huh?"
Li Yang, Yuan Shao Army Camp.
When Yuan Shao returned to Liyang from Yecheng desperately, he was greeted with even more crazy news-more than 20,000 troops had not returned their horses, and Yan Liangwen died in battle. Two of the four courtyard pillars in Hebei were cut off in just a few days, and Yuan Shao felt that the sky above his head was about to collapse. The loss of two consecutive battles and the loss of soldiers will dazzle Yuan Shao's mind in an instant. Under the anger of his heart, he can't wait to fight Cao Cao. On the third day after Yuan Shao returned to Liyang, he pushed all the main force to Yangwu north of Guandu.
In the sixth year of Jian'an (AD 201), the confrontation Guandu finally became the final battle. Yuan Shao did not listen to Jushou and Tian Feng's suggestion that they would fight Cao Cao in a protracted battle and drag him down. After imprisoning Tian Feng and demoting Jushou, Yuan Shao adopted the method of closing camps and advancing step by step, bringing the main force closer to Guandu. After that, Yuan Jun leaned back on the sand and set up camp. The camp was connected to the east and west for dozens of miles, forming a confrontation with Cao Cao who was stuck at Guandu.
Since Yuan Shao set up the camp, he led troops out of the camp every day, and then sent out loud soldiers to yell at him, as if setting up a stage to sing. The literary and artistic ones among the scolding sergeants will also count the various atrocities of Cao Cao, saying that he is a greedy and cruel and innocent minister, and the vulgar ones will directly criticize Cao Cao as a castrated eunuch, a descendant of eunuchs, and political attacks and personal insults. Do everything to extremes. But Cao Ying was quiet as if there was no one. Only when Yuan Jun approached, arrows would be shot from the camp, warning them that the main force of Cao Jun was still stationed here.
On this day, Yuan Shao led the army to scold again all morning, but Cao Ying still did not move. As time approaches noon, the sun in the late summer has slowly become venomous. The sergeants who scolded were all exhausted and couldn't help returning to their own formation.
Cao Cao was sitting in the Great Tent of the Chinese Army, flipping through it with a volume of military books. Hearing the yelling and cursing outside gradually lowered, Cao Cao put the bamboo slips on the table and asked Guo Jia, who had just walked into the tent, "Yuan Jun stopped cursing? It seems it's time to eat again."
Guo Jia was a little absent-minded and said, "Yuan Shao is very punctual when he eats and sleeps. We can save the soldiers who are fighting in the camp."
Cao Cao raised his head and looked at Guo Jiadao: "Fengxiao, what's the matter, something on your mind?"
Guo Jia nodded and walked a few steps closer: "Lord, about Yan Rou's surrender, I always feel that things will not be so simple. The lord has always insisted that he must have sincerely surrendered, although there is no real evidence to refute the lord. , But the time to receive the letter from him is just when the decisive battle is about to begin, doesn't the lord feel a bit weird?"
"Weird, of course weird." Cao Cao clasped his hands and said, "You don't need to think about it to know that he must have colluded with Yuan Shao, and he is going to yin us in the future."
Guo Jia was taken aback, then understood what Cao Cao meant, and laughed...