Although Cao Cao did not agree with the rash pursuit, since Lu Zhi had given the order, Cao Cao would naturally use all his strength.
What's more, Cao Cao's objection to the pursuit just now was just out of rational considerations, and his three clan brothers met such a miserable end this time. Given the opportunity, Cao Cao would naturally not let Xiang Yu go.
Moreover, Cao Cao was very confident that the Yellow Turbans would definitely have an ambush, but if the ambush was set up in Chenliu County, the number of people would definitely not be too large, and it would never exceed three thousand. Otherwise, no matter how large the number of people was, they would not be able to hide it from the Han army.
The eyeliner here.
As cunning as Cao Cao, he had already thought of a way as soon as he started chasing. Moreover, Cao Cao's method was almost the same as Lu Zhi's. Unfortunately, Cao Cao left in a hurry. If he knew that there were Li Xiang's troops behind him,
It won't be unnecessary.
Cao Cao directly divided the five thousand Qingqi into two groups. Cao Ren, his younger brother Xia Houying, and Sun Jian's general Cheng Pu led the two thousand troops first. Cao Cao led the remaining three thousand Qingqi, following closely behind.
In this way, even if the front and rear sides are ambushed, the Yellow Turbans will never be able to eliminate them in a short time. And when the Yellow Turbans ambush and the ambushed soldiers and horses are fighting together, the other army leads the troops straight in,
Then the ambush of the Yellow Turban Army can be broken in an instant.
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"Report..."
Li Xiang was still marching when he saw a messenger running over in a panic and urgently reported, "Report to the general, General Cao Cao and General Sun Jian are in front of us, and they are ambushed by the Yellow Turbans. The situation is extremely critical."
"Send the order, the whole army speeds up." After hearing the news from the ordering soldiers, Li Xiang immediately gave the order.
Li Xiang can naturally guess that there is a high probability that there will be an ambush set by the Yellow Turban Army ahead. However, Li Xiang is not a good person. On the premise that the Han army overall wins, Li Xiang will not be aware of any accidents that happen to some people.
Don't care. Moreover, these people have been harvested by Li Xiang and their summoning points have been harvested these days, and their final value to him no longer exists.
Along the way, Li Xiang was not in a hurry to chase Chi You and his group. After all, without careful planning, it would be difficult to successfully kill people with such force if they caught up with them.
Not only was Li Xiang not in a hurry to pursue Chi You, but he also slowed down his marching speed without leaving any trace.
If Cao Cao and Sun Jian were really unlucky and fell into an ambush by Chi You, and Li Xiang was late to come to support, then the danger to Cao Cao and Sun Jian would be even greater.
If these two people really died in the ambush of the Yellow Turbans, Li Xiang would really have one and a half fewer opponents in the future. As for the remaining half, they would naturally be Sun Ce and Sun Quan. Besides, the cost of this plan is not high, five
Just a thousand soldiers and horses.
In the ensuing battle, five thousand soldiers and horses will be nothing more than drizzle, and even if they are preserved, they may not be of much use. But if these five thousand soldiers and horses are used to replace the lives of Cao Cao and Sun Jian, then Li Xiang will lose their lives this time.
That's a lot of money.
But now that the messengers have sent the news, Li Xiang has to speed up his march. After all, there are many people with mixed eyesight, and Li Xiang will not give others instructions.
What's more, after such a long time, if Cao Cao and Sun Jian can really persist until Li Xiang rescues them or escape with their own lives, then Li Xiang can only say that they are lucky. Anyway, it doesn't matter if they don't succeed. This is just a temporary failure for Li Xiang.
Just an idea.
To Li Xiang's surprise, when Li Xiang led his army to the ambush site, not only were Cao Cao and Sun Jian fine, but they actually won the battle, and almost all the three thousand Yellow Turbans who participated in the ambush were killed.
However, although Cao Cao and Sun Jian were said to have won this battle, their eyes were red, filled with murderous intent, and their mental state was extremely poor.
After getting to know each other better, Li Xiang found out that although Li Xiang was fine, Cao Bin under Cao Cao and Zu Mao under Sun Jian had died in the battle.
Cao Bin is a younger brother of Cao Cao, and Zu Mao is nominally a subordinate of Sun Jian, but in fact, although the two are not brothers, they are better than brothers. Now that these two people died in battle, it is no wonder that Cao Cao and Sun Jian are like this.
It's a pity that only two minor characters died, Li Xiang thought secretly.
At that time, Cao Cao and Sun Jian's army were pursuing all the way. When they passed through a mountain forest, Cao Ren's troops had passed safely. Therefore, Cao Cao and Sun Jian who were behind them took it lightly for a while.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Cao Cao, Sun Jian and others entered the mountain road, there was the sound of arrows, and three thousand yellow turban soldiers shot hidden arrows from all directions. However, fortunately, Cao Cao and Sun Jian reacted in time and managed to maintain the situation.
In fact, Chi You did set up an ambush in this mountain road. However, Chi You did not expect that this ambush could cause much damage to the Han army. The reason why Chi You set up this ambush was just to act as a barrier.
Just to prevent the Han army from really pursuing them. It can be said that these three thousand Yellow Turban soldiers were originally Chi You's abandoned sons.
Cao Cao's division of troops was indeed a clever plan. Zhang Dingbian, who was left here by Chi You to command the ambush, had no way to crack it. However, Zhang Dingbian was a famous general of his generation, and he quickly determined that the Han army's main general was behind.
In that army.
Therefore, Zhang Dingbian decisively let go of the army led by Cao Ren, and chose to ambush the route where Cao Cao and Sun Jian were.
The two most powerful brothers under Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan, were seriously injured and naturally they would not attack with the army. Xia Houying was with Cao Ren, leaving Cao Cao with only two generals, Cao and Cao Bin. However, these two generals are both good at
When leading troops in battle, his martial arts skills are inferior to those of other generals.
During the chaotic battle, Zhang Dingbian took the lead and went straight to kill Cao Cao. Cao Bin fought tooth and nail to protect Cao Cao. As a result, he was killed by Zhang Dingbian at the end of the fifteenth round.
However, Cao Bin's persistence was not meaningless. At the critical moment, Sun Jian blocked Zhang Dingbian in time and saved Cao Cao's life.
Sun Jian had fought against Zhang Dingbian once before Lu Zhi and Li Xiang arrived in Yanzhou, so he naturally knew that Zhang Dingbian was not his own enemy. Therefore, although Sun Jian had three generals: Huang Gai, Han Dang and Zu Mao
General, but still played very conservatively, just wanting to delay time and wait for Cao Ren and other generals in front to return with their troops.
The distance between Cao Ren and Cao Cao's army was not too far. When Cao Cao's army was attacked, Cao Ren accelerated his plan to return.
Although the three thousand Yellow Turban soldiers were considered abandoned by Chi You this time, Zhang Dingbian was not. Calculating that time was almost up, Zhang Dingbian wanted to leave quietly alone.
However, although Zhang Dingbian wanted to retreat, Sun Jian and others pursued him closely. In the end, Zu Mao was directly shot off his horse by Zhang Dingbian when he turned around.
There is no doubt that Cao Cao's strategy is quite correct. Although Cao Cao and Sun Jian's troops encountered an ambush, before the Yellow Turban Army could destroy Cao Cao, Cao Ren led his army back. Soon, under attack from both inside and outside, those who participated in the ambush
The Yellow Turban Army was completely annihilated.
Unfortunately, the gap between the generals of the two sides was a bit wide, and in the end, Cao Cao and Sun Jian each lost a general.
This battle seemed to be won by Cao Cao and Sun Jian, but in fact they were defeated.