Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 171
Although Cao Cao didn't agree with rash pursuit, since Lu Zhi had given the order, Cao Cao naturally wanted to use all his strength.

What's more, Cao Cao's objection to the pursuit just now was just out of rational considerations, and his three brothers had such a miserable end this time. Given the opportunity, Cao Cao would naturally not let Xiang Yu go.

Moreover, Cao Cao is very confident that the Yellow Turbans will definitely have an ambush, but if the ambush is set up in Chenliu County, the number of people will definitely not be too many, and it is absolutely impossible to exceed [-].Otherwise, no matter how many people there are, they won't be able to hide from the eyes of the Han army.

As treacherous as Cao Cao, he had already thought of a way when he started chasing him.Moreover, Cao Cao's method is almost the same as that of Lu Zhi.It's a pity that Cao Cao was too anxious to leave, if he knew that Li Xiang's soldiers were behind him, he wouldn't need to do so.

Cao Cao directly divided the five thousand Qingqi into two divisions, with his clan brothers Cao Ren, Xia Houying and Sun Jian's general Cheng Pu as one, leading the two thousand troops first.And Cao Cao led the remaining three thousand Qingqi, and followed closely behind.

In this way, even if the front and back sides were ambushed, the Yellow Turbans would definitely not be able to eliminate them in a short time.When the yellow turban ambush soldiers were fighting with the ambushed soldiers and horses, and the other army led the troops straight in, the ambush of the yellow turban army could be broken in an instant.

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"Report..."

Li Xiang was still on the march, but he saw a messenger running over in a panic, and hurriedly reported, "Report to the general, General Cao Cao and General Sun Jian are ambushed by the Yellow Turban bandits ahead, and the situation is extremely critical."

"Send the order, the whole army speeds up." Hearing the news of the order, Li Xiang immediately ordered.

Naturally, Li Xiang could also guess that there was a high probability that there would be an ambush set by the Yellow Turban Army ahead.However, Li Xiang is not a good person, and under the premise that the Han army won overall, Li Xiang would not care if some accidents happened to some people.And these days, these people have already been harvested by Li Xiang, and they don't even have any final value to him.

Along the way, Li Xiang was not in a hurry to chase Chi You and the others. After all, without careful planning, it would be very difficult for people of this level of force to catch up and kill them successfully.

Not only was Li Xiang not in a hurry to pursue Chi You, but he slowed down his marching speed without any trace.

If Cao Cao and Sun Jian were really unlucky and fell into an ambush by Chi You, and Li Xiang was late to support them, then Cao Cao and Sun Jian would be in greater danger.

If these two people really died under the ambush of the Yellow Turban, Li Xiang would lose one and a half opponents in the future.As for the remaining half, it is naturally Sun Ce and Sun Quan.What's more, the cost of this plan is not high, just five thousand soldiers and horses.

In the ensuing battle, five thousand soldiers and horses are nothing more than a drizzle, and even if they are preserved, they may not be of much use.But if the lives of Cao Cao and Sun Jian were replaced by these [-] troops, Li Xiang would have made a lot of money this time.

But now that the messengers had sent the news, Li Xiang had no choice but to speed up his march.After all, there are many people with mixed eyes, and Li Xiang will not give anyone a handle.

What's more, after such a long time, if Cao Cao and Sun Jian can really persist until Li Xiang rescues them or escapes with their own lives, then Li Xiang can only say that they are lucky.Anyway, it doesn't matter if it doesn't succeed, it's just Li Xiang's impromptu idea.

Contrary to Li Xiang's expectation, when Li Xiang led the army to the ambush site, Cao Cao and Sun Jian were not only fine, but they still won the battle. Almost all the [-] Yellow Turbans who participated in the ambush were killed.

However, although it is said that Cao Cao and Sun Jian have won this battle, at this time the two people's eyes are red, murderous, and their mental state is extremely poor.

After a lot of understanding, Li Xiang knew that although Cao Cao and Sun Jian were fine, Cao Bin under Cao Cao's command and Zu Mao under Sun Jian's command died in battle.

Cao Bin is Cao Cao's brother, and Zu Mao is Sun Jian's subordinate in name, but in fact, although they are not brothers, they are better than brothers.Now that the two died in battle, it is no wonder that Cao Cao and Sun Jian are like this.

It's a pity, only two small characters died, Li Xiang thought secretly.

At that time, Cao Cao and Sun Jian's army were chasing all the way. When they passed a mountain forest, Cao Ren's troops had already passed safely.Therefore, Cao Cao and Sun Jian, who lived behind, took it lightly for a while.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Cao Cao, Sun Jian and others entered the mountain path, there was a sound of arrows, and three thousand yellow scarf soldiers shot hidden arrows from all directions.However, fortunately, Cao Cao and Sun Jian responded in a timely manner, so they managed to maintain the situation.

In fact, Chi You set up an ambush in this mountain path.However, Chi You did not expect that this ambush could cause much damage to the Han army.The reason why Chi You set up this ambush was just to serve as a barrier, preventing the Han army from really chasing up.It can be said that these three thousand Yellow Turban soldiers were originally Chi You's abandoned sons.

And Cao Cao's division of troops is indeed a clever plan, and Zhang Dingbian, who was left here by Chi You to command the ambush, has no way to solve it.However, Zhang Dingbian was a famous general of a generation, and he quickly judged that the main general of the Han army was in the latter army.

Therefore, Zhang Dingbian resolutely let go of the army led by Cao Ren, and chose to ambush the road where Cao Cao and Sun Jian were.

Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, the most powerful under Cao Cao's command, were seriously injured, so naturally they would not attack with the army, and Xiahouying was in Cao Ren's way. Cao Cao was only left with Cao and Cao Bin.However, these two generals are good at commanding troops in combat, and their martial arts are not as good as the other generals.

During the chaotic battle, Zhang Dingbian took the lead and went straight to kill Cao Cao. In order to protect Cao Cao, Cao Bin fought with all his strength, and finally he was cut off by Zhang Dingbian at the end of the fifteenth battle.

However, Cao Bin's persistence was not meaningless. At the critical moment, Sun Jian blocked Zhang Dingbian in time and saved Cao Cao's life.

Sun Jian had fought Zhang Dingbian once before Lu Zhi and Li Xiang arrived in Yanzhou, so he naturally knew that Zhang Dingbian was no match for him.Therefore, although Sun Jian had three generals, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao, he still fought quite conservatively. He just wanted to delay the time and wait for Cao Ren and other generals in front to return.

The distance between Cao Ren and Cao Cao's army was not too far. When Cao Cao's army was attacked, Cao Ren hurried to return.

Although the three thousand yellow turban soldiers were regarded as abandoned by Chi You this time, Zhang Dingbian was not. Calculating that the time was almost up, Zhang Dingbian wanted to leave quietly alone.

However, although Zhang Dingbian wanted to retreat, Sun Jian and others pursued him closely. In the end, Zhang Dingbian turned around and shot Zu Mao off his horse.

There is no doubt that Cao Cao's strategy is quite correct. Although Cao Cao and Sun Jian encountered an ambush along the way, Cao Ren led the army and killed Cao Cao before the Yellow Turban Army wiped out Cao Cao.Soon, under the attack from inside and outside, the Yellow Turban Army who participated in the ambush was wiped out with all their strength.

It's a pity that the gap between the generals of the two sides was a bit big, and in the end, Cao Cao and Sun Jian each lost a general.

In this battle, Cao Cao and Sun Jian seemed to have won, but in fact they were defeated.

(End of this chapter)