Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 498 Deep in it
Seeing that the situation was critical, Yuan Xi took out an ox-horn bow to shoot at the opponent, but found that the two generals on the opponent's side kept shaking and could not aim at all.

Knowing that this was due to the opponent's rich experience in battle, Yuan Xi felt a headache, so he deflected his bow and shot dead a Cao Jun who was about to attack.

His personal guards also shot arrows, and Cao Jun's soldiers who came up were shot to death. At this time, they heard shouts and shouts, and several Cao Jun generals had already rushed in with their men brandishing swords!
Yuan Xi's personal guards saw this.He had no choice but to take back his bow and arrows, draw his sword and go up to fight. The two sides fought in a melee. Seeing that the opponent had a large number of people, Yuan Xi also drew out his sword. He thought to himself, how long had it been since he had killed someone with a sword?
When Lu Lingqi heard the noise behind her, she glanced at the enemies around her, she was a little distracted, when Xia Houyuan saw this, she rushed over, slashing repeatedly with the long knife in her hand, forcing Lu Lingqi to retreat uncontrollably.

Yuan Xi roared: "Take care of yourself first!"

He yelled, stabbed out with a knife, and directly stabbed Cao Jun's abdomen in front of him, and then stirred, the man fell to the ground screaming, his body bowed like a shrimp, and twitched continuously.

Just as Yuan Xi was about to withdraw his knife, he was slashed on his back. He staggered two steps, stabbed the knife out from his armpit with his backhand, and stabbed Cao Jun's chest. Kicked to the ground.

These few strokes were quite dangerous, and Yuan Xi gasped for breath. He looked around, and Cao Jun rushed over like a tide, with a cruel light flashing in his eyes. Obviously, the reward offered by the Marquis Feng made them completely crazy, and they all wanted to take it. Yuan Xi's head!

Seeing that the time had almost arrived, Yuan Xi shouted: "Form up!"

After hearing this, Lu Lingqi and Sun Li made a quick attack and forced Xia Houyuan and Li Dian to retreat. They took the opportunity to retreat, and hundreds of Yuan Xi's personal guards took the opportunity to set up dozens of shields around them.

This is the five-man formation practiced before the Battle of Montenegro, with swords and shields in front, spears in the middle, and crossbows in the back. This time, relying on the terrain of these abandoned houses, everyone completely blocked the incoming Cao army. But Cao Jun still relied on the superiority of numbers, and forced him up in a dark way!

They are also thieves. Under Xia Houyuan's command, they follow the same pattern. The sword and shield soldiers are in the front, and the pike soldiers are in the middle, focusing on one consumption.

Xia Houyuan was proud of himself. Regarding the Battle of Black Mountain, how could he, as the general of the army, not study the fighting methods of the Youzhou Army in advance?
Now the two sides are in the same position, if you fight for consumption, you will not lose if you exchange one!

The swords and shields of the two sides collided, and both sides roared and exerted their strength. Neither of them would back down. !
Yuan Xi didn't waste any time and shouted: "Light the fire!"

The last person in the formation of five was Shi Chang, what they were holding now was a bamboo pole, and what was tied at the front end was a bamboo tube that had been lit all the time!
With a shout, the two pikemen moved out of the way, Shichang stepped in, and stabbed the bamboo tube directly towards the opponent's door!
The sword and shield soldier on the opposite side was startled, and subconsciously dodged the bamboo tube, letting it pass over his shoulder.

If Yang Feng had been present, he would have understood what this was, but Cao Jun didn't know!

The next moment, dozens of bamboo tubes exploded in front of Cao Jun.

Although the Youzhou army had been prepared for a long time, they were still retreated by the blast wave, and their ears that had been plugged in advance were buzzing.

Even a few chiefs had paid great attention in advance, but their hands were injured by the blast, dripping with blood.

On the opposite side, Cao Jun's sword and shield soldiers were miserable. Some of their ears were blown to pieces, and blood continued to flow from their earholes. Neither can tell.

Because there are a lot of impurities in the gunpowder, the power of the explosion is not the same, but even so, the light ones fell to the ground with their ears covered and twitched non-stop, while the heavy ones were beyond recognition and died on the spot.

Yuan Xi was also shocked. He didn't expect that some gunpowder could be so powerful when hit by mistake. Think about it, firecrackers in later generations can also kill people, let alone this kind of gunpowder with dozens of times the dose?

Seeing that the opponent's front line was in disarray, he shouted: "Kill!"

The Youzhou Army took the opportunity to charge up with their swords, and the explosion caused more than half of Cao Jun's sword and shield soldiers in the front row to be killed or injured, while the pike soldiers behind them were like undefended lambs, and they were killed in a blink of an eye.

The forward collapsed, and the people in the back rows immediately panicked and crowded together.

Seeing this, Xia Houyuan sternly reprimanded Cao Jun to maintain the formation, but as soon as he raised his head, he saw more than a dozen bamboo tubes more than one foot long thrown out of Yuan Xi's formation.

If the bamboo tube that exploded just now was only as thick as a wine glass, then the current bamboo tube is as big as a bowl. Even a fool, Xia Houyuan knew something was wrong, and immediately shouted: "Get out of here!"

However, it was already too late, and this time was considered good. As soon as it fell into the crowd, the explosion rang out.

This sound reached the ears of Cao Jun soldiers who were close to Chi Chi, and it was like a thunder explosion at close range. Cao Jun soldiers all roared in pain, couldn't help but throw away their weapons and cover their ears.

When the bamboo tube exploded, the surrounding soldiers were all blown to the ground, dead or wounded. In this face-to-face meeting, hundreds of soldiers were killed or injured!

This is also the reason why Cao's army formed a dense formation, because no one thought that the Youzhou army would have such weapons!
Xia Houyuan staggered a few steps, saw the Youzhou army rushing over, his own formation was completely broken, so he had to shout: "Back!"

With a plop, his thigh was shot by the arrow. He raised his head in horror, and found that the fierce tiger opposite him began to bend his bow and nock his arrow again, looking at him with extremely cold eyes.

With a pop, his other thigh was also shot, and the arrow even shot right through. It turned out that Lu Lingqi also shot.

Xia Houyuan fell to the ground at once, Li Dian rushed up and left with Xia Houyuan on his back. Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers became even more flustered and collapsed completely with a bang.

Yuan Xi thought to herself that Lu Lingqi knew what she was thinking. It would be better to shoot dead than wounded. In order to save the enemy's general, one of the generals had to be abolished. Now the opponent has no one to command!
He shouted: "Kill it!"

The Youzhou army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill thousands of people in Cao's army, and most of them were killed in a short time.

Yuan Xi knew that he could not be reluctant to fight at this time, so he quickly called for troops to withdraw, took Liu Bei's wife, daughter and Mi Zhen, and returned along the way.

Everyone walked back for more than ten miles in the dark, and when they were about to return to the camp where they came back, the loud shouts of killing had already sounded.

Using the binoculars, Yuan Xi saw that Cao Cao's soldiers were attacking the camp a few miles away. It was obvious that Cao Cao's army had arrived ahead of time!

Yuan Xi knew that it must be quite difficult for Lu Xun who was guarding the camp without a general under his command. He was about to rush over to support him, when the soldiers from the rear came to report, and Cao's army, which had just been routed, gathered up and followed behind.

Yuan Xi sneered after hearing this and shouted: "Turn around and form an array and kill everyone who is following you!"

Li Dian led the army to follow at this time. He had only joined Cao Cao in the last six months.

The Li family is rich and has thousands of diners. The patriarch Li Zheng led the people to repel the invading Yellow Turban bandits several times, and led his family members to successfully block Lv Bu's army when Lv Bu raised an incident in Yanzhou.

Li Dian was also among them and was admired by Cao Cao, so he marched with Xia Houyuan. When Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, Li Dian followed.

He has been familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and his strategy is better than martial arts. He and Xia Houyuan are very complementary. The two cooperated to besiege the Youzhou army. The arrow was injured, which made Li Dian quite unwilling.

He originally wanted to take Xiahouyuan away, but he didn't expect Xiahouyuan to grab him by the collar and shouted sharply, "Mancheng, if we retreat, what about the other two routes?"

"Leave me alone, you take them and crucify the fierce tiger, so that he can't look at each other from head to tail!"

After hearing this, Li Dian immediately took orders to have Xia Houyuan taken away, saying: "General, my subordinates will avenge you for this blow!"

Xia Houyuan thought two arrows, two arrows, it hurt me to death, this vicious tiger is really insidious!
Counting the time I was in Huaicheng, how many times have I been shot by the Youzhou Army?

Li Dian rushed over with the remaining soldiers, and was about to attack Yuan Xi's rear formation when he heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance.

He looked at it by the moonlight, and his expression changed drastically.

The use of cavalry is the most taboo in the dark night. If the horse stumbles, the people on it will also fall half dead, which will have a counterproductive effect.

But now the Youzhou army is using cavalry to attack, is it still fighting the harassing team?

Li Dian wanted to cry, but your camp was beaten, why didn't you go to save him?

The next moment, the thousands of soldiers he managed to gather were smashed to pieces by the cavalry.

Yuan Xi saw that the enemy had finally completely collapsed, so he sent an order to withdraw his troops, and everyone rushed to the walled city together, fighting with the two armies of Le Jin and Cao Chun who were besieging the camp.

The dark night covered the tragedy of the battlefield, but it gave the soldiers on both sides inexplicable courage. The two sides seemed to be red-eyed, but no one was willing to retreat. When it was bright, both sides were exhausted, and the flags and drums temporarily died down.

Yuan Xi counted his own soldiers and found that the casualties were not a small number. Although he knew that Cao Jun's casualties were several times this, it still made Yuan Xi very heartbroken.

However, the reality does not give him extra leisure, because dense figures appear on the horizon.

Seeing the color of the opponent's flag, Yuan Xi's heart sank. Cao Jun's main reinforcements arrived so quickly, a day earlier than he predicted!
On the other side of the battlefield, the exhausted Cao Chunlejin looked at each other and laughed. They desperately held back the Youzhou army. Now that their goal has been achieved, the fierce tiger can no longer escape!
Northeast of Xiapi City, a defeated army was marching in embarrassment towards Guangling.

Zhang Fei angrily grabbed a civilian lying on the side of the road, questioned him for a long time, and then threw it on the side of the road again. He ran over and said to Guan Yu, "Second brother, eldest brother was attacked by Cao thief. It is said that the whole army collapsed. The whereabouts are unknown!"

"What should we do now?"

Guan Yu was also in doubt. After they left Xiapi, they followed Liu Bei's route, but on the way they learned that Liu Bei was attacked by Cao Cao's army, and Liu Bei's whereabouts were unknown.

Liu Bei is also a general who knows the army, and he led a full [-] soldiers. How could he be beaten like this?

Guan Yu hesitated, what if Liu Bei really died, what would he and Zhang Fei do?
(End of this chapter)