Prancing Horse Xiliang

Chapter 423 Competing in the Central Plains ([-])

The sun is slowly setting, and the sunset glow is like fire, dyeing the sky red.

Below Kaiyang City, there were broken limbs everywhere, and the ground was already stained red with blood.

After the [-] cavalry entered the city, Cao Jun's resistance was quickly broken, and the messengers could not come in. Xiahou Dun didn't know that Cao Cao had given up Xuzhou, and he had already made up his mind to perish with Kaiyang. Sleepy cover still fighting.

The Qianjun has three floors inside and three floors outside, surrounding Xiahoudun and the [-] Cao army regiments.

"kill!"

A military school lieutenant had a ferocious face, roared, and rushed forward with a knife.

kill kill kill...

Countless soldiers of the army fought bravely to be the first, fighting desperately in the narrow streets and alleys.

Xiahou Dun's armor has been torn, and his helmet has fallen off. The point steel gun has long been replaced by a ring knife for close combat. The edge of the knife has been cut and curled. The fierce tiger, no longer able to laugh proudly at the mountains and forests.

Under the overwhelming attack of the dry army, the eight hundred dead soldiers are rapidly decreasing at an alarming rate.

In just two sticks of incense, Xiahoudun only had more than [-] soldiers left by his side.

These soldiers all had red eyes and ferocious faces like ghosts. Although they were exhausted and covered with wounds, their murderous aura was shocking.

"There are people in the city!"

Xiahou Dun suddenly raised his knife to the sky and roared.

"I swear to follow the general!"

More than twenty soldiers roared in unison. Although there were not many people, their momentum was extremely astonishing.

"Good job!"

The lieutenant Ganjun who led the attack gave a big praise, and then grinned grinningly, "Kill, Xiahoudun is Cao Cao's chief general, and his head is worth a lot of military merit, enough for me to be a marquis. Kill Xiahoudun, and my descendants will have no worries."

kill kill kill!

The eyes of the officers and soldiers of the army turned red immediately, and they fought bravely to be the first, and moved forward desperately.

There was blood and howling.

Xiahoudun's remaining [-] or so soldiers were quickly killed by the soldiers who were fighting for military exploits. Xiahou Dun fell to the ground.

Before Xiahoudun got up, dozens of soldiers from the Qianjun army rushed up and held Xiahoudun down.

"Death to someone!"

Xiahoudun let out a wild roar and shook his arms with all his strength, and the soldiers holding him down immediately fell to the sides.

However, when he just jumped up from the ground, a junior officer next to him had already let out a smirk, and swung a long rope around his neck. Several soldiers in the army pulled hard, and the rope immediately became taut.

"what--"

Xiahou Dun burst into rage, roared, grabbed the rope with both hands, and was about to pull it back.

Dozens of soldiers of the dry army rushed forward earlier, struggling to pull the rope from both ends. The thick hemp rope on the baby's arm was getting tighter and tighter. No matter how brave Xiahou Dun was, he was already exhausted at this moment, how could he pull the rope back.

ah ah ah...

Xiahoudun roared sharply, but it was like a bound tiger.

The rope was pulled tighter and tighter, tightly strangling Xiahou Dun's neck, and continued to tighten.

Xiahou Dun's tiger's eyes widened, the corners of his eyes were cracked, and dark red blood dripped slowly from the corners of his eyes. Finally, he was dragged down by several soldiers, tied tightly with hemp rope, and escorted to ask for credit. .

North Gate, Luo Zheng is entering the city.

On the long street ahead, a rider flew towards him.

Yan Xing rushed forward on his horse, and clasped his hands vigorously, saying: "Master, Cao's army has been defeated, and Xiahou Dun has been captured alive."

"Oh, captured Xiahou Dun alive?"

Luo Zheng's spirit lifted, and he immediately said: "Where is the person?"

Yan Xing hurriedly lifted the reins and moved aside, and saw a group of soldiers turning out from a street corner not far away, Xiahou Dun, who had disheveled hair and was tied up, escorted him over. kicked Xiahou Dun to his knees on the ground.

"If you want to kill, kill, why humiliate people!"

Xiahou Dun stood upside down with his beard and hair, his eyes were about to burst, and the flames in the tiger's eyes were about to burst out.

Luo Zheng waved his hand and ordered the sergeant to back away, and then carefully looked at Xiahoudun for a few times, suddenly a little lost, and he couldn't tell what it was like, waved his hand, "Drag, cut!"

"As ordered!"

Some personal soldiers had already stepped forward and took Xiahou Dun under custody.

This time Xiahou Dun calmed down and stopped yelling, and was taken down very quietly.

Soon, a soldier came back with a bloody head in his hands.

Luo Zheng glanced at it, then retracted his gaze, and ordered: "Send someone to give the head to Cao Cao!"

"As ordered!"

The soldiers agreed, and immediately retreated with their heads in their hands.

At this moment, a meteor scouting horse rushed over from outside the city like a whirlwind.

"Pengcheng urgent report!"

The cavalry on horseback carried the order of arrows on their backs, and they looked like messengers conveying military information.

The fast horse quickly ran to the gate of the city. The messenger on the horse saw Luo Zheng who was about to enter the city. He quickly rolled off the saddle and knelt on one side and said loudly: "My lord, Cao Cao abandoned Pengcheng. General Gao Shun is gone. Lead the army to pursue."

"what?"

Luo Zheng was taken aback, "Cao Cao abandoned Pengcheng?"

When Jia Xu, Cheng Ying, Yan Xing and others heard the news, they couldn't help but change color.

The messenger replied, "Exactly!"

Jia Xu slammed Jie and said: "Cao Cao is so decisive. Xuzhou is the last foundation of Cao Jun. Now Cao Cao is still decisive to abandon Pengcheng. Abandoning Pengcheng is like abandoning Xuzhou. This is not an ordinary person. It can be done."

Luo Zheng said in a deep voice: "I have said long ago that Cao Aman is the confidant of the king, abandoning Xuzhou, such a thing even the king may not be able to make up his mind, but Cao Aman did it. If you let this guy If you escape, you will be a disaster again in the future."

Jia Xu took it seriously and said: "My lord's words are very true. General Gao Shun has already led his army to pursue him. I don't know if he can hold back Cao Cao's army. My lord should lead his cavalry southward quickly, and we must not let Cao Cao escape."

Yan Xingdao: "But, Cao Cao gave up Xuzhou, where can he go?"

Jia Xu said: "There is no place for Cao Cao in Hebei, Liu Qi in Jingzhou, and Sun Ce in Jiangdong. It is impossible for Cao Cao to occupy the magpie's nest. Only by going to Huainan and uniting with Sun Ce can we resist the lord's army of more than [-]."

"Huainan?"

Yan Xing was puzzled and said, "Huainan is in the hands of Sun Ce. Does Cao Cao want to compete with Sun Ce for territory?"

"Not necessarily!"

Luo Zheng said coldly: "Even if Sun Ce doesn't know that the lonely king will not only destroy Cao Aman this time, but also take advantage of the situation to drive him back to Jiangdong, but he can also predict that if Cao Aman is defeated, sooner or later Huainan and the two counties of Lujiang will be defeated. It's in the pocket of the lonely king. With only [-] to [-] soldiers, what can he use to resist the more than [-] troops of the lonely king. Sun Ce also has courage. As long as Cao Cao knows the benefits, it will be no good for Sun Ce to let go of Huainan and Lujiang. Strange."

Jia Xu nodded again and again and said: "My lord is wise, let Cao Cao take the lead in Huainan and Lujiang counties, so that Sun Ce can not face the pressure of our army directly, and join forces with Cao Cao to resist our army going south. Lose too!"

Yan Xing suddenly said: "The general understands."

Luo Zheng thought for a while, then said: "Order the army to hurry up and rest, and tomorrow the troops will go south."

Jia Xu hurriedly said: "My lord, you can lead [-] cavalry to go south, leaving the infantry to continue attacking the counties of Langya and Donghai County."

Luo Zheng said decisively: "For goodness, follow Wenhe's opinion."

In Gaotang, on the broad river, flags are flying, and soldiers stand everywhere.

Gan Ning stood on the deck of a Mengchong ship, watching the Wei army camp on the other side from afar.

Yuan Shang led his troops to the plains and tried to cross the river to the east several times, but they were all broken by the Gan Ning navy halfway. Naval opponents.

Even though the Ganning navy is slightly inferior to the Jiangdong and Jingzhou navy, it is still a navy.

Yuan Shang failed to cross the river, so he had to garrison troops on the north bank of the river to confront the Ganning water army across the bank.

Originally, Yuan Shang divided his troops to cross the river. After all, the river is not comparable to the river, and thousands of miles of rivers can be crossed anywhere. It is impossible for the Ganning navy to block all the crossings, but they were dissuaded by Shenpei, Fengji and others.

Sending troops to compete for Qingzhou, Wei Jun is famous for his division.After all, Qingzhou is the territory of the Yuan family. It was only because Yuan Tan took the initiative to send troops to provoke Luo Zheng, but Luo Zheng recaptured Qingzhou. Yuan Shang wanted to send troops to take it back, so it made sense.

But if you enter Yanzhou, you will wait for a full-scale war with Luo Zheng.

The consequences of a full-scale war with Luo Zheng are difficult to predict, and the trial match, Feng Ji, etc. do not want to provoke Luo Zheng at this time.

Right now, Yuan Xi is still eyeing the titles of Jizhou and King Wei, and the high-ranking officials are also unclear. Yuan Shang can actually control the territory of Jizhou and one state. At this time, it would be unwise to provoke Luo Zheng to death.

After a stalemate for half a month, the Wei army could not cross the river, and the judge proposed to withdraw the army, but Yuan Shang also disagreed.

Coming to Qingzhou aggressively, and returning in despair, will definitely lose prestige.

Although Yuan Shang had no ability, he was well aware of this, and he was not willing to withdraw his troops like this.

On the deck, Gan Ning was about to go back to the cabin when a walking boat rushed over not far away.

"Captain, a spy has been caught!"

Walking to the side of the big boat, a navy soldier pointed at a middle-aged scribe who was tied up and said loudly: "This guy is going to cross the river secretly, but he was caught by the brothers. Cut it off and ask the governor to dispose of it."

"Guo Tu!"

Gan Ning glanced at the scribe, and his eyes froze immediately.

Guo Tu, with disheveled hair, described himself as embarrassed, with a dejected expression on his face.

"Hahaha!"

Gan Ning laughed loudly and said: "A certain person broke through Linzi, but he searched all over but couldn't find him. He didn't want his foot to come to Pingyuan. Why, he wanted to sneak across the river, maybe he wanted to go to that boy Yuan Shang?"

Guo Tu said sadly: "I just want my life!"

"Forgive your life?"

Gan Ning grinned grimly and said, "I don't have such great power, come on, take this fellow under arrest, and wait for the lord to deal with it later."

"As ordered!"

Several sailors immediately took Guo Tu to the big ship, so as to keep him under custody.

Under the city of Lu'an, the two armies confronted each other, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Since Zhao Yun led the army out of Qingni Pass to attack Hefei, Sun Ce decisively returned from Anfengjin to the south and intercepted Zhao Yun's army in Lu'an. In the past month, the two armies have fought each other several times. .

Zhao Yun used his troops cautiously and never underestimated the enemy to advance aggressively, so Sun Ce had no chance to take advantage of it.

Sun Cexiong was talented and strategic, and there were many resourceful men in his tent to advise the military. Zhao Yun went to Jiong several times, but he couldn't find any advantages.

Zhao Yun didn't have much rations and wanted to lead his army to Anfengjin, but was blocked by Sun Ce.

After several battles between the two armies, they did not show their chariots and horses to fight again. Sun Ce ordered Tai Shici to invite a battle in front of the battle. He wanted to kill several generals to strengthen the army. Beheaded by Tai Shici.

Seeing that the morale of the army was shattered, he had no choice but to fight in person against Tai Shici.

This time it is really a match for a good talent and an opponent.

Both Zhao Yun and Tai Shici wielded guns, and the two shot back and forth, and the killing was quite brutal.

The soldiers of the two armies saw their blood boiling, and the cheers never stopped.

Sun Ce saw it clearly in front of the formation. Seeing that the two hundred heaps had passed, Zhao Yun became more and more courageous in the battle, but Tai Shici was at a disadvantage. He could only parry with all his strength but was unable to attack. He is the number one brave general in Xigan, once fought fiercely with Lu Bu in Baihe, and he has no vain soldiers under his reputation, even Ziyi is slightly inferior."

All the generals of the Eastern Wu were awed. If the lord Sun Ce was not counted, Taishi Cishi was the number one general in the Eastern Wu.

And even if the lord Sun Ce was the champion of Jiangdong, he was only a draw with Tai Shici.

Now Tai Shici is gradually losing to Zhao Yun, that is to say, Sun Ce, who is brave in Jiangdong, is also not Zhao Yun's opponent.

If Zhao Yun is just a brave man, it is not a cause for concern.

But Zhao Yun is also good at commanding troops, which is very rare.

While Sun Ce was talking to the princes under his command, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici fought for more than [-] bouts. Since Zhao Yun fought Lu Bu outside the city of Yuzhong back then, he had learned a little about his marksmanship and improved his martial arts a little.

At the beginning, he retained most of his physical strength, but now he took advantage of Tai Shici's exhausted strength and launched a sudden attack, killing him with guns and guns. Tai Shici suddenly felt the pressure suddenly increased, and secretly thought that the number one brave general in Xigan really lived up to his reputation.

Even Lu Bu, who claims to be invincible in the world, is probably nothing more than that.

After fighting for more than [-] rounds, they were already unable to do what they wanted, and the people who were killed were sweating profusely, and they were weak in parrying.

"Ziyi, stand back and let someone come!"

Seeing that Tai Shici's left and right were clumsy, and his body was already in danger, Sun Ce immediately gave a loud shout and urged his horse to kill him.

Tai Shici immediately took advantage of the situation and withdrew from the battle circle, took a few breaths, and watched Sun Ce fight Zhao Yun.

Sun Ce was extremely belligerent, and even more conceited. Seeing that Zhao Yun was more brave than Tai Shici, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, and he didn't want to join forces with Tai Shici to fight Zhao Yun. World War I.

"Good come!"

Zhao Yun gave a loud shout, let go of Taishi Ci, patted his horse and went straight to Sun Ce.

I've heard that Sun Ce was known as the Little Overlord of Jiangdong back then, and he had unstoppable courage, so I had to meet him for a while.

when!
Amid the ear-piercing sounds of clashing gold and iron, Zhao Yun's iron spear and Sun Ce's ancient ingot knife collided fiercely, and then swung away at the same time. preliminary understanding.

Zhao Yun was surprised, this Sun Ce really lived up to his reputation.

As the leader of one party, it is really rare to be so brave.

Sun Ce was heartbroken, thinking to himself that Zhao Yun had already fought Ziyi more than 160 times, but now his strength is not short at all, and he can still be evenly matched with himself.

(End of this chapter)