When Lei Yuan led the Jiaozhou Army headquarters to sweep Jiliuyan, Ma Dai was chasing Cao Cao with all his might, while Cao Cao was escaping with all his might.
When Cao Cao's troops walked along the north bank of the Bangshui River to the Jiliuyan, most of the troops entered the camp on the dam, and there were many scattered camps one after another.
When the enemy situation first appeared on the Liuyan, the generals and officers of all the camps quickly urged their troops to move forward, trying to seize the opportunity to show in front of the King of Wei and have a future of killing the enemy to make meritorious achievements. However, not long after, the sound of killing on the dam shook the sky, and then a large number of soldiers collapsed like a landslide.
The entourages of the King of Wei were all well-armed and majestic, and they were said to be able to fight against one hundred people on weekdays. But they all lost their courage and rushed to escape. Because the water was blocked by the water, many people fell into the river in panic. Some people beat and push each other when they were fighting for the bridge. Some people grabbed each other and fell into the river, and then continued to fight each other, trying to climb to the shore, but were taken down the river by the water floating and sank downstream.
What's even more terrifying is that some people ran across the bridge and arrived at the north bank of the Bingshui and shouted loudly, saying that our army was defeated and the King of Wei was dead...
No one could hold on in such horror. The soldiers of various battalions who had rushed to rescue rushed from anxious to panic, from panic to horror, from horror to despair, and then began to flee.
The terrain on the north bank of the Bingshui is higher than the south bank, and the roads are relatively wide. Therefore, Cao Xiu had sent orders from Lumen Mountain to Jiliuyan, and the messengers all walked around from the north. But at this time, the tribes were in chaos, and countless people were running around and trampling wildly, and they only stepped on the road into mudflats. One person slipped on the mudflats, and then he brought down more than ten people behind him. Several war horses also arrived, kicking and neighing with four hooves, stirring up large clusters of muddy water.
If you want to pass such a mudflat, you have to walk slowly. But when the fire is burning, where can you have time? As soon as you stop, the Jiaozhou cavalry team will catch up and kill people!
"Go to this place! Go here!" A entourage named Gao Yancao looked left and right and shouted, leading the people to drill into the reed marsh on the edge of the mud flat.
This season is when the reeds are in full bloom. The continuous reeds, which are more than half a person tall along the coast of the Bingshui River, swaying and swaying. The reeds are like white rays. When they encounter the wind, they turn into white tulips all over the sky, which is a beautiful scenery. Just now, Cao Cao once felt a little poetic at the moment, but at this moment he was completely lost. He only thought of using the reeds to cover up his body and throw away the pursuers behind him as soon as possible.
After all, he was old and could no longer run. His excessively intense breathing made his lungs twitch and his eyes were even darker. He was all thanks to the four or five entourages who were around him who were holding his shoulders and raising his arms, and he led him to run wildly, as if he was not careful.
They rushed for about two miles in one breath, as if they were farther away from the Jiaozhou people who were chasing the road. Everyone had just breathed a sigh of relief, but heard a burst of loud noises.
It turned out that their location was very close to the Yanshui River, and across the river, the Jiaozhou army had strangled all the Cao army soldiers on the Jiliuyan! At this time, many people pointed at the locations of Cao Cao and others and shouted wildly. Cao Cao could clearly hear it, and they were shouting: "Catch Cao Cao! Grab him! It's the fat man wearing a golden helmet!"
Cao Cao was dizzy and suddenly grabbed the loose horn on his head, threw it into the water, bent down and went deep into the reeds: "Go quickly! Go quickly!"
Gao Yancao came back from the front with a rushing water, and some horses were brought from somewhere. He shouted: "Master, as long as you pass through this reed marsh, there are the soldiers of the head of the Captain Wu Zhi, the Screaming Clerk, behind them, they will definitely be able to withstand it! Please get on the horse and leave first!"
Cao Cao took a few breaths: "Where are the pursuers behind?"
At this time, the fighting sounds are noisy everywhere. Who can know the situation outside? Gao Yancao shook his head and said, "With the enemy's instructions on the opposite side, the enemy will chase him on a horse. Go away quickly, I will lead my subordinates to cut off the rear!"
"Okay, okay! Go quickly!" Cao Cao looked at Gao Yancao gratefully, paused and said, "Leave a horse for you! After the battle is over, I will let you be the Marquis of Thousand Houses!"
Gao Yancao was born in the county Shan family, and was promoted to the Wuwei camp after making meritorious service several years ago. Xu Chu once praised him for his agility, extraordinary martial arts and outstanding archery skills, but Cao Cao remembered him mainly because this person usually does not use his real name but uses his name as "Yancao". His name sounds very auspicious.
Gao Yancao joined Wuwei for several years, but he had never been taken care of by the King of Wei like this, and his eyes suddenly became a little wet.
He turned over and shouted, and walked back with dozens of companions.
The reason why dozens of people can remain unshakable in this situation is naturally because Gao Yancao is good at scrubbing people's hearts and can get the soldiers' death. At this time, Cao Cao and Gao Yancao both understood that the greatest function of soldiers who are willing to serve the soldiers is to die.
After walking for dozens of steps, he heard the sound of water not far away. The Jiaozhou people, infantry and cavalry teams were mixed and chased them with great might.
Gao Yancao shouted loudly and rushed over.
He and his subordinates were in a mess. At this moment, the armor and weapons were not complete. The Jiaozhou knights fought and chased him here. Most of them also lost heavy weapons such as spears and spears, and only used swords to fight against the enemy.
Once the two teams approach, there were shot arrows in their respective queues. Several people fell on both sides.
Gao Yancao flew out with a crossbow and hit the chest of a Jiaozhou war horse. The horse must have been extremely tired and could not bear the vain pain at this time. He immediately fell to the ground with a whine. The horse knight fell down and fell to the ground, and was pressed heavily by the forward-turned war horse, and his tendons were broken and his bones were broken and he died.
Gao Yancao then put the second arrow clamped with his ring finger and little finger on the crossbow arm, and was about to pull it all over. A small axe flew out of the diagonal piercing and pierced it into his shoulder.
He subconsciously let go of his hand, and the crossbow fell down, and the arrow on the crossbow arm flew down with a whizz, pierced his own skirt armor, and thorned into the base of his thighs. Blood surged wildly, soaking the saddle in an instant.
Gao Yancao felt the severe pain, and his body was filled with hot and cold sweat. He screamed and pulled out the arrow and threw it towards an enemy approaching from the side.
At the same time, the huge sound of horse hooves and footsteps came from the direction of the road on the north side of the reed marsh.
Gao Yancao was shocked. He thought that these enemies in front of him were just small-scale troops who were responsible for entanglement with scattered soldiers!
The people of Jiaozhou do not need to circumnavigate the reed marshes at all. They are crowded and powerful, so how could they care about the mud pond on the road? Even if they are filled with corpses, they can fill out an easy passage and rush straight over!
When they control the road with the King of Wei, where can the King of Wei go? What is the significance of the battle between Gao Yancao and others in the reed marsh?
Gao Yancao's mind was turned on and his movements were still agile. He pulled out his waist knife, strode his arm, and stabbed the tip of the knife into the mouth of an enemy infantry like lightning, piercing it through his throat.
This action teared the injury at the base of his thigh. Gao Yancao's injury was so hard that he shouted: "Don't worry about them! Retreat behind Shuize! Their cavalry could not rush in! We rushed to the direction of the Shooting Camp and met with Captain Wu and fought again!"
His subordinates fought and retreated. All of these guards were brave and powerful. If they were determined to escape, the people of Jiaozhou would not be able to stop them for a while.
They ran wildly with their whizzing arrows, staggeringly across mudflats and puddles. Along the way, several people stepped on the cut-off reed poles, and their feet were pierced and they fell to the ground screaming. But no one could care about them.
After turning a river beach, I suddenly saw the teams of the Sound Camp lined up.
Wu Zhi, the captain of the Shooting Sound, was actually a literati. But at this moment, he seemed to have some talent in governing the army. At this time, he could gather more than a thousand people in the chaos, forming a rigorous square formation stacked in front and back on the road.
A military academy that Gao Yancao knew was walking through the queue, waving his sword from time to time, shouting: "Stand up straight, don't move! Lift up the gun and shield! Repel the enemy, the King of Wei will be rewarded with great rewards!"
The wound on Gao Yancao's leg was bleeding and his head was dizzy. He limped and moved closer to the queue, thinking to himself that he had to fill his subordinates into the square formation and try to make the team thicker.
Just as he was thinking about this, he seemed to hear someone shouting something in his ears, but the battlefield was noisy and he didn't hear it clearly.
He looked east of the road and the infantry and cavalry brigade of the Jiaozhou Army was flocking to the front, and the cavalry at the forefront were only thirty or fifty steps away from him. Several defeated soldiers were running like cattle and sheep driven by herders on the grassland, and were shot by arrows from time to time.
"Hurry up and bandage the wound after entering the formation, and then continue fighting to resist the Jiaozhou army!" he said to himself.
However, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest.
Gao Yancao looked down in confusion and saw a spear penetrated through his chest. His blood flowed along the spear rod and flowed to the hands of a half-bent Cao army soldier with a terrified face.
"Idiot! Idiot!" Gao Yancao cursed.
But Wu Zhi shouted behind the phalanx: "If the troops dare to retreat, they will be killed! If the troops are stormed, they will be killed! If the troops are afraid of fighting, they will be killed! If the troops surrender to the enemy, they will be killed!"
I'm not, I don't.
Gao Yancao wanted to explain.
The soldier in front of him kicked Gao Yancao's chest and pulled out his spear. Gao Yancao fell to the ground like a pierced water bag.
Behind the square formation, Cao Cao was supported by everyone and stepped on a horse. He held the horse's neck and leaned over to Wu Zhi and said, "Ji Chong, you only need to hold on for a moment! At most two moments! There is chaos here. Xue Qiao, Dai Ling, Ren Fu, Duan Zhao and others already know, and they will come to help immediately!"
Cao Cao tried his best to control his trembling arm and patted Wu Zhi's shoulder hard: "The people of Jiaozhou will be exhausted in a moment when they run long distances! We can win! We can win! After this battle, Ji Chong, you have made the most merits, how can you say, the Marquis of Thousand Houses be worth it!"
He wanted to say a few more words, and the entourage started with the horse and ran away in a row.
This situation fell in the eyes of Ma Dai, who was looking at the square formation.
Ma Dai used his hands to fold the hardwood whip one or two pieces, and repeatedly said: "That person must be Cao Cao! He ran away! Escape! Hurry up!"
Just now, he was blocked by Xu Chu's guards. After breaking through Xu Chu's interception, he hit the road beside the water and turned into mudflats. He urgently ordered the knights to cut reeds, fill the road with artemisia, and even borrowed the bodies of the dead of Cao's army. But after rushing so quickly, he was still one step slower!
Even though Ma Dai was calm, his eyes were red with anger at this time.
A huge victory, a huge achievement is right in front of you, only one step away! Only one step away! How can you be blocked by a mere soldier formation?
He immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for bows, crossbows, arrows, and spears used to trap the formation, and prepare to attack and destroy the enemy's formation and continue to pursue.
Just as the order was issued one after another, Lei Yuan's voice suddenly came from behind: "Bozhan, don't be anxious, he can't run away!"
"General?"
"What Cao Cao relied on was nothing more than that his subordinates scattered all over the place came to support him. After the fierce battle of our soldiers, they were exhausted. If they were counterattacked by enemy reinforcements, they would be in danger of failure... Bo Zhan, let's first rectify the troops, choose the soldiers who still have the strength to fight everywhere, then collect the horses fleeing on the battlefield, prepare enough weapons and arrows. Then chase them over and attack Cao Cao's reinforcements along the way!"
Pursuit is difficult, especially when the enemy has superior military strength. If the pursuit is not well controlled, it will become the beginning of failure. Ma Dai is accustomed to leading the cavalry to advance and retreat greatly, so he naturally understands this principle. But he couldn't help but say:
"General, Cao Cao escaped too quickly! If you give it to him..."
"After the flood, lakes and ponds were everywhere. The direction of Cao Cao retreating was to go east along the Bingshui River, to the place where the Bingshui and the Bingshui converged, and then to the north. On the way, we had the opportunity to catch him! What's more, even if he arrived at the Bingshui River, there would be someone waiting for him!"
Half a moment later, the loud horn sounded, and the Jiaozhou army was completed and they were brave enough to fight again!
Everyone in Ma Dai's cavalry was killed and he did not shoot around, but rushed forward with the arrows falling from the opposite side.
Dozens of war horses crashed into the square formation and rushed in like a destruction. The gun-carrying team at the first row of the shooting camp station immediately collapsed. The spearmen who had no time to escape fell down one after another, and were immediately trampled into meat mud by the iron hooves of the fierce horse.
Ma Dai lifted the reins lightly and urged the horse to a Cao army soldier holding a shield. The war horse under his crotch was newly brought, jumping violently, and his two front hooves stepped on the shield one after another, immediately shattering the shield. When Ma Dai continued to charge, the sound of the bones of Cao army soldiers cracking and shattering came from under him.
In the five or six directions parallel to him, screaming everywhere, and blood and flesh splattering everywhere. The iron cavalry of Jiaozhou had already rushed out of the gap. The knights rushed straight to the second row, the third row and even deeper.
"Kill them! Kill them!" Ma Dai yelled wildly: "Open the path and continue chasing! I want Cao Cao's head!"
After shouting twice, he heard countless soldiers behind him roaring, and his murderous aura seemed to scatter. The red flag with the words "Left General Lei Yuan" fluttered in the wind and pressed up. Under the flag, Lei Yuan was wearing a full picture and was in person.
The Jiaozhou soldiers who could continue to fight in this situation have been reduced to less than 5,000. But their momentum was only stronger and their offensive was only stronger. Everyone charged forward without avoiding hardships, just like a flood that was wrapped in huge rocks and rolled down the sky and the earth.
In contrast, Wu Zhi's troops seemed to be soaking in the water with a soft embankment. They gradually retreated, gradually became chaotic, and finally collapsed at a critical point. Wu Zhi was unable to defeat and left first, but his head was cut off by Luo Ayanning who had emerged from the reed marsh.
The Jiaozhou army unstoppably rolled over the entire square formation and marched rapidly westward.
Juliuyan headed westward, along the line of the water, the sound of fighting was as loud as thousands of thunder, rumbling endlessly. It was clearly the west wind, but Guan Yu seemed to feel the bloody smell of the battlefield in the direction of Juliuyan floating towards him and spread into Dengsai.
"The two teams have been broken, so it should... no, from Qingshui to Jiliuyan, there is at most a team of people. They are really chasing each other!" Guan Yu murmured.
Guan Yu has experienced many battles and has long been very sensible in his judgment of the situation on the battlefield. With the sound of killing in the distance, Guan Yu seemed to see the direction of Jiliuyan. The Jiaozhou army suddenly defeated the enemy and chased them bravely. He also seemed to see Cao's army running around and fleeing, and saw Cao Cao himself panic.
"Hehe... I really didn't expect that Xu Zhi could plot against Cao Gong."
Guan Yu lowered his head and looked at the Cao army around Dengsai. Several flags that were approaching Dengsai and planned to launch an attack retreated at the same time. As each unit changed direction one after another, there was a slight chaos. This chaos was not only in the queue, but also in the psychological state of the soldiers in the formation.
They are shocked, they are hesitating, they are afraid.
There are always tens of millions of such troops, which is no different from native chickens and tiled dogs.
Guan Yu straightened his body and stretched his arms, and the joints on his body made a slight crackling sound. His face was redder than before, as red as a fire of charcoal. When he held the hilt of the knife, all the generals around him felt the violent murderous aura and awesome heroic spirit.
Chapter completed!