The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 188

When Cao Cao returned to Guohuai camp, he was ashamed and grieved. He couldn't figure out why Yuan Jun suddenly had such a strong fighting power.Guo Huai and Li Tong repeatedly comforted Cao Cao, and Cao Cao urgently ordered Liu Yan and Dong Heng to gather the 20 horses from the camp fifty miles away, and the whole army fought a decisive battle with Yuan Jun.

Cheng Yu offered a plan to stick to Zhaishan and not fight, let's see what Yuan Jun can do to me.After Cao Cao's defeat, he could only agree.

For two consecutive days, there was no movement in Cao Ying. No matter how Sun Guan, Yin Li, Zhang Nan and others scolded, he just didn't fight.On the night of the third day, discuss with a few counselors, it is better to send troops to attack Zhongmu granary to see if he can get out.

Zhang Yan led a group of black dragon riders and 3 foot soldiers, lit torches, and charged towards Zhongmu.Cao Cao got the news early and immediately sent Lu Qian to lead his troops to rescue.Cao Cao's granary was originally very strong, and it was guarded by the general Xiahouen, with a force of more than [-]. In addition to his military discipline, Xiahouen was also a very fine person, so Cao Cao was not worried.However, he was also psychologically fragile and worried about gains and losses. This point was thoroughly analyzed by Jia Xu, a master of psychology: "Cao thief is newly defeated. He is frightened and worried. He must be afraid of losing food and grass. He will definitely send an army to rescue him. Waiting is not for food, but just to rob and kill this rescuer." Lu Qian was ambushed halfway, [-] horses were destroyed, and he fled back to the camp with only [-] horses.Cao Cao is really angry this time, Yuan thief bullied me too much, will he be killed?He didn't think about how he bullied my father back then.The counselors advised Cao Cao to be patient for the time being. Cao Cao had no choice but to wait for the opportunity.

I will not give him a chance to breathe, this is a god-sent opportunity to destroy Cao.

"Hu Guda, how is your snake army training? This general didn't give you money for nothing!" I squinted at Hu Guda.Hu Guda was so frightened that his face turned pale and he couldn't straighten up: "General Qi, you haven't paid a tael of silver so far, how can you let the villain deliver the goods?" "This matter—— I forgot ——" I immediately ordered to fetch 5 taels of silver notes, shaking in my hand: "How, Huguda, how much did you raise?"

Hu Guda looked at the numbers on it and spit out, "My lord, give me all the money, it's almost done."

"Five hundred—OK—" I readily agreed, "However, this general wants to see the goods first.

Twisting its neck like a snake, sticking out its tongue: "You are guaranteed to be satisfied!" Five hundred colorful snakes, the thinnest of which are as thick as a child's arm, twisted together and rolled into a huge snake ball. It looks like colorful flowers, so beautiful.In fact, hidden behind the flowers are fangs and blood-red eyes.

"General, don't worry, these snakes have already eaten my unique secret medicine. Whatever I tell them to do, they will do it obediently." Huguda looked at the silver ticket with confidence.

I threw the banknote into his arms: "Bring me the snake out and put it in Cao's camp, let these poisonous and slippery guys force Cao Jun out of me and muddy the water." Huguda was happy He promised: "As long as the villain blows the whistle, the snakes will crawl out immediately. When the time comes, sprinkle the medicine I prepared in Cao Ying to attract poisonous snakes, and they will swarm inside to bite people. These snakes are extremely poisonous, as long as they bite you, you will definitely die within half a stick of incense." Cao Cao sleeps very late these days, and always discusses with the advisers and generals until the third and fourth.Around the second watch, when Cheng Yu was talking about his counterattack plan.Lu Qian suddenly heard a chi-chi sound, and smelled an unprecedented fishy smell in his nose.He followed the sound and saw that my mother, a poisonous snake as thick as a sunflower in spring with a yellowish-yellow color like a spring sunflower, was spitting out long blood-red letters behind Cao Cao.A pair of small eyes on the pointed head stared at Cao Cao for a moment, and his mouth kept sneering, it seemed that he was about to act.

Lu Qian's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he took out a dagger from his boots and threw it at Cao Cao.Cao Cao thought he was rebelling and was about to assassinate him, but suddenly his waist was pulled by something, and he turned his head to see a poisonous yellow snake nailed to the ground by a pale three-foot dagger, struggling for its life there!
Lu Qian made an apology: "Prime Minister, forgive me, I am in a hurry, please forgive me." Cao Cao was about to say a few words of thanks when a series of screams came from outside the tent.All the generals looked at each other in awe.

Xu Chu was the first to rush out, lifted the curtain, and a poisonous snake as green as a bamboo leaf fell down with a snap, and rushed towards him angrily.With quick hands, Xu Chu grabbed the snake by the tail and threw it to the ground. Turning his calf, he crushed the snake desperately, trampling the snake to death.

Literati like Cheng Yu and Huan Jie Dong Zhao almost peed their pants in fright.The generals held their sabers in their hands one after another, but they were too embarrassed to go out.

Cao Cao sternly said, "What's the matter, where are these poisonous snakes—"

Yu Jin said: "Could it be Yuan Jun's trick, I will go out and have a look." When Yu Jin came outside the tent, he heard countless wailing, slippery bodies writhing and swaying everywhere in the dark, and many soldiers lay wailing and crying in the barracks After a while, his face turned black and he died.He saw with his own eyes a little red snake bit a soldier, and when he let go, the soldier died immediately.

Yu Jin turned back and shouted, "Prime Minister, it's not good. The soldiers were all bitten by snakes. It seems that someone has played tricks." Probably at that time, they didn't know that snakes were afraid of sulfur.Cheng Yu panicked: "Snakes are afraid of fire, order the soldiers to set fire to drive away snakes."

Cao Cao said: "Quickly, order the soldiers to set the fire—" Before he could finish speaking, the shouts of killing outside were loud, and the flames were everywhere, and someone set it for them.

"Yuan Jun is here to rob the camp, Yuan Jun is here to rob the camp—run—" Cao Jun's soldiers no longer had the intention to fight back. The poisonous snake is too terrifying, and it can penetrate everywhere, so how can they fight.Immediately, they scattered and ran outside.

Lu Qian raised his sword and shouted, "Go out of the tent to meet the enemy." The generals rushed out together, and Cao Cao still had time to say: "If Yuan Jun released the poisonous snake, wouldn't they be afraid of themselves?"

I had people prepare sulfur, and sprinkled it all over the people and horses. When the poisonous snakes saw Yuan Jun coming, they trembled in fright, and fled in all directions, specially choosing Cao Jun to bite.

When approaching Cao Cao's gate, I saw those crossbowmen and gatekeepers either being bitten to death, rolling and wailing on the ground, or running away in fright. large account.Cao Cao and the others didn't sleep. When they heard that there was a change, they immediately raised their swords and mounted their horses to fight.But it was too late, because there was no resistance, 10,000+ Yuan Jun rushed into the camp to kill and set fire, Cao Ying became a sea of ​​fire in a short while, countless Cao soldiers died in the fire, even poisonous snakes burned to death. .

As soon as I entered the camp, I saw Cao Cao fleeing in embarrassment under the protection of Xu Chu. I yelled: "Cao thief, stop running, save your life." stop.Yu Jin yelled: "Capture Yuan Xi, you can turn defeat into victory."

Cao Hong's spirit was lifted, and he was desperately hacking, but he heard Cao Cao shouting, "Where is Cao Hong, my life is over." The general surrounded Cao Cao, who was in a red robe and a gold belt, and beat him fiercely.Cao Hong let me go with a roar.Go to the rescue.All of a sudden, Chang Xi slashed at Cao Cao's head with a big knife, and Cao Cao took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement.Cao Hong didn't dare to fight, and followed Cao Cao to chase.

Here I am fierce with a fierce gun, stabbing fifty consecutive spears non-stop, forcing the general Lu Qian to retreat, and chasing Cao Cao on horseback.Countless Cao soldiers were beheaded along the way. Cao Cao's soldiers were like a group of walking corpses who had lost their souls. They let Yuan Jun kill them. There was only one consciousness in their hearts. Where did they flee?
About half an hour later, I ran out of Cao Ying, with about two thousand soldiers behind me.The official road leading to Sishuiguan was already in chaos, people and horses trampled on it, screaming loudly, Cao Cao fled among the chaotic army, Chang Xi, Zhou Cang, Mayan Huonu, Zhu Ling, Li Dian and other generals all lost his trace .

I led people to kill Cao Bing all the way to Sishuiguan, searched Cao Cao on the way, and before I knew it, the morning light was dim, and people could already be seen.Suddenly someone shouted: "Over there, it's Cao Cao—"

I saw a man in front leading three or five soldiers running wildly, and shouted: "The one in the red robe ahead is Cao Cao." It was found that Cao Cao was frantically rushing up like a hungry wolf.Yuan Jun's soldiers didn't recognize Cao Cao, but they recognized the red robe, just like a bull that was in a hurry by a matador would kill anyone in red.Cao Cao saw that he couldn't do it, so he galloped on the horse, cut off the red robe with a knife, and continued to run wildly, so that the soldiers could no longer recognize him.

I couldn't catch up with him at a distance of more than ten feet. I thought it would be better if someone intercepted me. Remembering Ma Chao's strategy against Cao Cao, I shouted: "The one with the beard is Cao Cao—"

In an instant, there were more than [-] figures around Cao Cao, all of whom were some of Yuan Jun's cavalry. Cao Cao dealt with them easily, hacked two or three to death, and continued to run wildly.As in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he raised his knife and cut off his beard.

I was amused in my heart, and shouted at the top of my voice: "The one with the short beard is Cao Cao, and the one with the short beard is Cao Cao." More than a dozen Yuan soldiers came up beside Cao Cao to wish Cao Cao a mess of swords. .

Cao Cao's martial arts are mediocre at first, but he is old and lacks training, so he has already lost all his skills, how can he be my opponent.With all my might, I smashed it down on the head.Cao Cao raised his saber to meet him, but was shocked by the domineering force of the fierce gun and almost fell off his horse. I swept across his waist and reached out to catch him.Cao Cao leaned over on the back of his horse and stabbed his horse's butt with the tip of a knife. The horse was in pain and shot out with all four hooves like an arrow.

How could I give up, chasing after him and stabbing him, always missing the thief's head by a foot and a half, but I just couldn't succeed.I became ruthless, and stabbed down: "I chopped you up." Peng stabbed on the big tree, Cao Cao laughed and walked away.I drew my gun and went after him again.After breaking the hillside, a general turned out, it was Li Tong: "Don't hurt my lord." Li Tong sent Fang Tian to draw a halberd and stab at me. I thought to myself, Cao Cao's fate was saved.Anxious to Li Tong, he opened and closed his fierce gun regardless of life or death, fought with Li Tong for thirty rounds, and stabbed him in the right arm with a single shot.Li Tong let out a miserable howl and fell off his horse.I was about to kill him when Xiahoudun led fifty or so Cao soldiers with crooked armor clamoring to kill him.

Behind me, Chang Xi and Hu Che'er also followed.Yu Jin protected Cheng Yu and Dong Zhao, and arrived with five thousand soldiers. The two sides fought for a while, Yu Jin rescued Li Tong, and the defeated troops retreated to Sishui Pass.

A dozen or so generals and I turned around and strangled. Cao Jun was defeated, and most of them raised their hands to surrender. Along the way, we met Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, Cao Chun, Xia Houshang, and they all ran wildly with thousands of troops in embarrassment.They don't distinguish between indiscriminate and indiscriminate, and when they go up, they will be killed one at a time, one by one.From the second watch until noon the next day the sun was high.Just now he packed up his soldiers and returned to the camp.

Thirty miles before Sishui Pass, Cao Cao set up Zhaishan and asked Yu Jin and Lu Qian to pack up the defeated soldiers. After counting the number, the number was less than [-]. He couldn't help but feel desolate. Elite soldiers, let him burn food and grass, and go here to help out in the starry night."

Cao Cao resolutely said: "Okay, send someone to pass the order!" People are gone, what do you need food and grass, it's not cheap, Yuan Xi bastard, why not burn it yourself.At dusk, Xu Chu, Cao Zhang, Cao Zun, Guo Huai, Liu Yan and other generals also led their troops back one after another. The total number of soldiers and horses including Xia Houen did not exceed 15.Cao Cao sighed deeply, now he is not as good as Yuan Shao was back then.

Cheng Yu suggested temporarily returning to Luoyang to rectify the troops and horses, and they will fight Yuan thief to the death in the future.Cao Cao thought to himself, no matter what, it is impossible to fight Yuan Jun's monster corps with the current force, so let's avoid the edge for now.Immediately, he led the remnant soldiers and defeated generals, and approached Sishui Pass like a lost dog.Cao Cao led his two sons and Lu Qian and other generals back to Xuchang, leaving only Yu Jin, Guo Huai, Liu Yan and Wang Zhi to guard Sishui Pass.

I returned to the camp, rested for three days, ordered the army to advance, and set up camp fifty miles below the Sishui Pass.He also sent Zangba and Zhang Xiu to lead the army to plunder the land along Sishuiguan, taking all counties and counties in the south of the Yellow River except Sishuiguan into his hands, turning Sishuiguan into an isolated city.Zhongmu, Wuchao, and Chenliu were all captured.

It's just that it was a little troublesome when attacking Xingyang, and Zhang Xiu came back in defeat.Tens of thousands of troops will be lost.I was wondering, who else could defeat General Zhang Xiu in such a devastating situation?Zhang Xiu said: "Yes, Xu Rong, Grand Master Dong's subordinate."

I said loudly: "Impossible, Xu Rong is dead, he was killed by Liangzhou general Li Jue and Guo Si." Jia Xu suddenly stood up and said: "I know this matter very well, Xu Rong is actually not dead. Surrendered, he also surrendered, and I was still working with him under Li Jue's tent. It's just that Xu Rong was the only Liangzhou army general who was not from Liangzhou under Dong Taishi's tent, and he was always rejected by Li Jue and Guo Si, so I can’t be reused. On that day, Xu Rong dissuaded Li Jue from killing me. Later, after Li Jue died, Cao Cao asked him to be the prefect of Xingyang, but I forgot about him.”

Zhang Xiu said: "That's right, it's Xu Rong. I met him when I was young, but he's a bit older, so I can't be wrong." I thought to myself, Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu are both Dong Zhuo's former subordinates, so it's not appropriate to let them deal with Xu Rong .It's better to let Li Dian go. On the one hand, Li Dian has not made any contributions. On the other hand, he is a surrendered general, so he can persuade Xu Rong to surrender.

Li Dian didn't wait for me to speak, so he came over and begged for orders: "My lord, Xu Rong is a young general. Let me lead [-] soldiers and horses, and Xingyang will surely be conquered." In Li Dian's eyes, the low-key Xu Rong may be a young general. But I know how powerful he is.Shaking his head, he said, "I'll give you [-] soldiers and horses. Don't be careless." Zhang Xiu felt a little awkward. Li Dian was not afraid to slip his tongue when he spoke big words. Xu Rong was so easy to deal with.

Jia Xu's heart skipped a beat, the lord suspected that Xu Rong and I were having an affair, so he didn't ask me for advice!It's okay, I don't have to worry about it, but don't beg me if you are defeated.

(End of this chapter)