Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 408 Righteousness
Yuan Tan made a good plan. When the two armies met, he suddenly launched a surprise attack on Cao Jun. Cao Cao must have been unprepared. If he was lucky, he could catch Cao Cao.

Yuan Tan is plotting against Cao Cao, so Cao Cao is plotting against Yuan Tan.He ordered Zhang Xiu and Le Jin to be the vanguards, under his own banner, he attacked directly when meeting with Yuan Tan, and Cao Chun, Cao Zhen, and Xia Houshang led the tiger and leopard cavalry to echo from left to right.In December of the ninth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao left Cao Hong, Xun You and others to stay in Yecheng, and led an army of [-] soldiers to join in.

In order to paralyze Cao Jun, Yuan Tan slaughtered pigs and sheep in Longcou, prepared drinks and prepared to "reward" Cao Jun, and received the news from his men to report the arrival of Cao Cao's army. While Yuan Tan waited and watched, the Cao character banner fluttered in the wind, happy in his heart, led The subordinates came to greet him.

About a mile away, Cao Jun stopped and set up his formation, a road flashed in the middle, and a general stepped out.

Yuan Tan had met Cao Cao before, although many years had passed, the person in front of him was obviously not Cao Cao, he was much more majestic than Cao Cao, it was clearly Zhang Xiu from the Li Yang War.

"Excuse me, General Zhang Xiu, where is Lord Sikong?" Yuan Tan asked politely.

"Hehe, if you want to ask Lord Sikong, you must first ask about the gun in my hand." After Zhang Xiu finished speaking, he shook his tiger's head gun and charged at Yuan Tan.

This frightened Yuan Tan out of his wits. Cao Cao came here to kill himself. He wanted to sneak attack Cao Cao, but was attacked by Cao Cao. There is nothing to say, let's fight.

Yuan Tan hurried back to the main formation to organize the defense.It's too late to say anything. At this time, Yuan Tanjun is only ready to welcome but not ready to fight at all. Zhang Xiu is brave and Le Jin is ruthless. Qingzhou soldiers have already learned the lesson, and the two are willing to risk their lives. Hours later, Yuan Tanjun collapsed.

Zhang Xiu was in hot pursuit, Yuan Tan hung his gun on the saddle, bent his bow and set an arrow, turned around and shot at Zhang Xiu. During the melee, Zhang Xiu was caught off guard, an arrow was shot in his left rib, and he fell down with a loud cry. Get off now.Le Jin saw it and hurriedly protected Zhang Xiu.

Yuan Tan was overjoyed when he saw this, and was about to lead his troops to fight back when Cao Cao's army arrived. Yuan Tan had no choice but to order Zhang Yan to stop and lead the defeated army back to Nanpi.

Zhang Yan was cut off by the Tiger and Leopard Riders. He felt that he was invincible and led the crowd to surrender. By the way, he also informed Cao Cao of Yuan Tan's plan to attack Cao Cao. He was expelled from the house and returned to Yuan Tan.

Zhang Xiu was injured and fell into a coma. When he opened his clothes, he saw that Zhang Xiu was covered with scars. The arrow under his left rib was particularly heavy, and it passed through his lower abdomen.Even Le Jin who dared to go all out had to admire him. Cao Cao sighed: "The spear king of the Northland was created by himself with one sword and one spear." Then he sent Zhang Xiu back to Yecheng to recuperate.

Cao Cao also ordered the army to rest for ten days, Le Jin was puzzled, Yuan Tan was defeated, our army's morale was high, and it happened to take advantage of the situation to hide and kill, why did we stagnate?
Cao Cao said with a smile: "The persecution is too close, and Yuan Tan will flee to the plains. At that time, he refuses to defend the city, and we will be trapped in a siege again. Wait for another ten days, and there will be good news."

Brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang led the army to the plains. Standing on the top of the city, Guo Tu saw that the two of them had only [-] pieces of old Jizhou troops with them, and asked, "Why are you two so late?"

Lu Kuang said: "It was only because Cao Cao was very well guarded that it was difficult to succeed. We were able to escape by taking advantage of Cao Cao's leading army to go north."

Guo Tu was dubious: "The Lord is preparing to use troops against Cao Cao. You two can go to Longju to help."

"Follow my master's order, but can you provide me with food and food? I marched in a hurry and did not bring food and grass."

"Stand back three miles, and I'll send someone to deliver food to you."

Lu Kuang led the army back, and within half an hour the gates of Pingyuan City opened wide, and dozens of vehicles were pushed out.

The two brothers looked at each other and smiled, and in a tacit understanding, they danced their swords and rushed towards the gate of the city, with more than a thousand horses behind each of them.Three miles away, the galloping horses were only an instant away, and it was too late for the defenders to close the city gates when they realized something was wrong. Someone at the top of the city wanted to place arrows, and the sparse rain of arrows did not pose any threat.The two entered Pingyuan City and separated immediately. Lu Kuang went to capture Guo Tu, and Lu Xiang went to collect the soldiers in the city.

They fought with Yuan Shang several times, Pingyuan had not many soldiers and horses, and Yuan Tan took away all the elite, there were no good generals in the city, and the remaining ten thousand people, old and weak, were no match for the Lu brothers.For two consecutive years, after repeated battles and defeats, the Pingyuan army had lost their will to fight. The city gate was occupied and there was no danger to defend it. Except for Guo Tu's confidants, the soldiers abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and Guo Tu was surrounded by groups.

"Rebel, why did you betray the lord!" Guo Tu yelled.

"I have never served Yuan Tan as my master, so how could I betray him?"

"Even if the two of you don't want to serve General Yuan Tan as your master, you should still be grateful for the kindness the General showed you during his lifetime. Why did you defect to Cao Cao? The General and Cao Cao are enemies, don't you know?"

"You recklessly used swords and guns to stir up war in Jizhou, ruined the great general's good fortune, and ruined the general's good fortune. Don't you betray the general? You instigated the two sons to sever brotherhood and confront each other with swords and guns. What face do you have to see the general under the nine springs? ? To see the people of Jizhou who died in vain?” Lu Kuang reprimanded sharply.

"You are just a man, how do you know righteousness..."

All the Jizhou soldiers snickered, Lu Kuang waved his hand, and the archers fired their arrows at random. Guo Tu and his cronies were completely changed, only a few big hedgehogs remained.The angry soldiers still refused to give up, rushed into Guo Tu's mansion, beheaded all Guo Tu's family regardless of men, women, old and young, and Yuan Tan's family also died in the rebellion. Only Yuan Tan's daughter lived among the people.

Lu Xiang stayed in the plain to persuade the surrounding counties to surrender, while Lu Kuang led the army to Nanpi and Cao Cao formed a pincer attack on Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan saw Lu Kuang's army coming at the top of the city, thought they were coming for rescue, and sent someone to invite Lu Kuang to enter the city, but Lu Kuang refused, and instead sent someone back to persuade Yuan Tan to surrender.Only then did Yuan Tan realize that he had been cheated by the Lu brothers, and he felt powerless and annoyed, and just wanted to escape with his life.He remembered that Guan Tong sent someone to tell him that there was a boat at the mouth of the Yellow River to meet him, and ordered the whole army to have enough food and break out at night.

At two o'clock, Nanpi's north gate opened, and a group of infantry rushed out of the city, while Yuan Tan changed into ordinary soldiers' armor and mixed in with more than a thousand cavalry, opened the east gate and rushed out.When Cao Cao got the report, he immediately ordered Le Jin and Lu Kuang to surround him, and sent out the tiger and leopard riders to capture Yuan Tan.

There was chaos outside Nanpi City. Le Jin vaguely saw a general holding an iron gun who looked like Yuan Tan. He caught up with him and attacked him with a knife.With the help of a torch, Le Jin looked carefully and found that it was not Yuan Tan. Le Jin shouted to Cao Chun: "General Zihe, Yuan Tan escaped by using a golden cicada to escape, please send someone to chase after him."

Cao Chun left the battlefield immediately, and led an army each with Cao Zhen and Xia Houshang to pursue separately.Yuan Tan could no longer take care of his subordinates, and ran all the way along the Yellow River by himself, running for thirty miles in one breath, gradually losing his horsepower.Suddenly, I heard the sound of horseshoes getting closer and closer behind me. I looked back and saw that there were three riders who were getting closer. Looking up again, it seemed that I was not far from the mouth of the Yellow River.

(End of this chapter)