The fateful opponents of Guan Yu and Cao Cao finally appeared on the battlefield of Pingyuanjin.
Cao Cao knew this person well.
Knowing that he was a rare brave general, a great general, and an important general, he specially found someone to draw a picture of Guan Yu and hung it beside his couch.
Every time he saw his majestic and majestic appearance, and thought about the stories about his majestic appearance on the battlefield from Xuzhou, Cao Cao would often lie on his couch and sigh:
"I wish I had known Mr. Guan earlier so that we could not get along with each other."
But when he got to the front of the hall, he changed his demeanor again. He often said to his left and right:
"Guan Yu was both civil and military, a man of extraordinary valor, and a hero of his generation. He was a disciple of Ting and Peng. He sat high and cut off Qing Xu. He was actually a thief on my bed beside me. The clouds are immortal, and I cannot sleep on my bed at night.
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Therefore, Cao Cao has really been a close friend of Guan Yu for a long time.
But unfortunately, it was not what Cao Cao wanted to see each other in such a scene.
With the sentry reporting the appearance of Guan Yu's tribe in the southwest, the current situation has become very dangerous for Cao Cao.
In the darkness, the battlefield situation could not be seen clearly. However, the shouts of killing coming from the center showed that the trial and distribution department still failed to capture the surrounded Taishan Army.
Now some of Youzhou's assault cavalry have retreated to the outside of the battlefield, but Ding Sheng's troops are still pressing forward step by step.
At this time, Cao Cao felt that he had underestimated Ding Sheng, but he did not expect that this man still had something.
But not much.
If Guan Yu had not come to help at this time, he would definitely destroy Ding Sheng here.
Thinking of this, Cao Cao sighed:
"Some people may not have the ability, but their luck is really good."
At this time, Cao Cao already knew that there was no need to fight this battle. But if he wanted to retreat, he couldn't just retreat by himself, so he ordered two Leopard Cavalry soldiers to pass the news of Guan Yu's arrival to Shenpei, asking him to retreat too.
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After that, Cao Cao once again glanced bitterly at the Taishan Army's strong formation in the firelight opposite.
"Don't be too happy too early, it's still growing."
In this way, Cao Cao took the Leopard Cavalry and some of the Youzhou Cavalry and evacuated in the dark.
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Daybreak came very quickly, and not long after Cao Cao withdrew his leopard cavalry, the east began to show its belly, and a red chicken jumped out from the horizon.
Cao Cao felt a little low on energy, and what should have been a hearty victory ended in an anticlimactic manner. But neither Xu Chu next to him nor the leopard cavalry of Cao's army who caught his eye could not hide their excitement.
In their view, they had won another brilliant victory, especially when their opponent was the famous Taishan Army.
See this battle from their perspective.
They first brilliantly ambushed a huge Taishan Army assault cavalry, and then pursued the victory. Then they repeatedly charged at the enemy's reinforcements in the dark. Although they couldn't figure out why the higher-ups wanted to retreat, who can say that this was not a victory?
Woolen cloth?
Therefore, facing the rising sun, everyone in Cao's army, except Cao Cao himself, returned victorious.
I don't know how far I retreated, but a sentry rider came running behind me and sent a message to Cao Cao.
The Qinghe New Army that was assigned to the trial has also withdrawn and is now returning to camp. Although there were losses in the process, they were not major.
After Shen Pei withdrew, he sent a sentry to chase Cao Cao and express his gratitude to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao nodded and said casually to the sentry:
"Let your commander keep an eye on it. It will be a good thing if we can retreat. There is a long road ahead. This time we are more confident. The Taishan Army is not terrible. It is also a head-on shoulder."
But at this point, Cao Cao suddenly stopped talking. He was completely stunned.
The generals on the left and right were puzzled, wondering where their lord was coming from.
But Cao Cao's Junbai face turned red, and he suddenly gave an order to Xunqi behind him:
"Blow the trumpet and let's fight back!"
Xunqi was still stunned, but Cao Cao had already taken the horn and started to blow it.
The rallying horn sounded, and the leopard riders scattered on the road were puzzled, but they still came after hearing the horn.
After gathering about seven or eight hundred riders, Cao Cao asked Xu Chu to hold up a large banner and shout:
"All the troops follow me to the west, let's fight back!"
Just like that, the eight hundred leopard cavalry stirred up the dust and fought back to the battlefield in the white of the east.
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"How is this going!"
When Ding Sheng led his troops closer to the flag with the word "Guan", he saw that the person standing under the banner was not Guan Yu, but his younger brother Ding Wu.
Facing Ding Sheng's doubts, Ding Wu smiled shyly:
"Commander, I followed the military order to attack Cao Ying at night, but Cao Ying's stronghold was strong and our army could not succeed. So I thought that you would need my reinforcements. So on the way, I asked someone to put on Guan Shuai's The flag was used as an illusion that the main force of the Left Army Marshal's Department was coming north for reinforcements."
After saying that, Ding Wu suddenly knelt down on one knee and apologized:
"Commander, the general failed to fulfill his military orders and is willing to be punished."
At this time, Ding Sheng looked at his clan brother with very complicated eyes.
He felt that his younger brother had grown into a responsible general, but he was also a little sad.
He was not sad that he was rescued by Ding Wu, because Ding Sheng never thought that he needed to be rescued. In fact, the ballista team that ambushed Gongsun Yue before was arranged by Ding Sheng.
Ding Sheng has his own plan, and his trump card is the Ballista Department affiliated with the military headquarters.
But now this trump card is useless, the opponent has already retreated.
So what makes Ding Sheng sad?
In fact, he was sad that Ding Wu could frighten Cao Jun with just one Guan Yu flag, but this was something he, Ding Sheng, could not do.
At this point, he no longer had any intention to punish Ding Wu, and besides, he had done nothing wrong.
He just asked Zhao Rong, Guo Liang and Huang Yong to assemble the scattered troops on the battlefield again. He wanted to abandon this place and withdraw to the Chinese camp.
Ding Wu couldn't understand his brother's hasty retreat.
he asked:
"Commander, the enemy has retreated. It's better for our army to take a rest here. Our brothers are exhausted from the battle last night."
But Ding Sheng's words made Ding Wu understand that his brother was still his brother, indeed more experienced than him.
Just listen to Ding Sheng say:
"Yes, the enemy troops have retreated. But you have made a big flaw, that is, if it is really Yun Chang who comes to help, will he let go of the pursuit? Will he let the trial troops evacuate safely? So the enemy troops will soon be able to When we realized it, we were bluffing."
Ding Wu was surprised and learned a lesson.
As a result, each school's military department received Ding Sheng's military order, and the entire army gathered and retreated toward the central army. The wounded went first, and each department followed in sequence.
In less than two quarters, Cao Cao came back with his Leopard Cavalry, dusty and dusty, but the only ones left on the battlefield were the new troops of the Qinghe Army who had been abandoned on the battlefield and some Youzhou Cavalry who had lost their horses.
Cao Cao snorted angrily from his nose and said bitterly:
"Ding Sheng can run fast."
In the end, he decided not to pursue the pursuit and stayed to rescue the wounded.
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The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and the Taishan Army built two more parapets on the Dongpo camp.
This was urgently repaired by the Taishan Army in the village at night.
At this time, surrounding the Dongpo camp was Cao Ren, a veteran of Cao's army.
He was sitting on a pile of dirt, with his bag at his feet and a dry biscuit in his hand.
Because there was no heating, the pancake was already cold and hard, so Cao Ren could only chew it with his cheeks puffed out.
While he was chewing the cake, his younger brother Cao Chun was shouting in a drake voice:
"I think Taishan's army is mediocre, not as mysterious as you said. How are they doing in this battle? Aren't they still beaten to a pulp by us?"
Cao Chun is Cao Ren's younger brother. He is currently in the stage of changing his voice, and his words are sharp and thin.
Cao Chun wanted to say more, and then a pancake was smashed over, and it was Cao Ren who smashed it.
Cao Chun was furious at that time and cursed:
"Cao Ren, is this how you treat me?"
Cao Ren wiped the crumbs from his mouth and hummed:
"What did I do to you?"
Although Cao Ren and Cao Chun are brothers, they actually separated their families long ago. The year before last, when Cao Chun was fourteen years old, their father died.
At that time, Cao Ren followed Cao Cao in the army and did not even come back to pay tribute. He wrote a letter home to the filial piety Cao Chun. He gave the family's land and slaves to Cao Chun and asked him to set up his own household.
Maybe Cao Ren did have feelings for his younger brother, but he didn't express it well.
There was a sentence in the letter that deeply hurt Cao Chun. It probably means that your brother, I am a swan with great ambitions, and I want to spread my wings and soar outside. But you, Cao Chun, are a house sparrow, and you want to inherit the family at home. famous.
Cao Ren's words may have been to keep his brother safe and not get involved in Cao Cao's affairs. But who knows that he thought Cao Chun was a domestic sparrow, but he was actually a thousand-mile horse.
After fulfilling his filial piety to his father, Cao Chun dispersed his family wealth in his hometown, recruited followers, and then went to Jinan to defect to Cao Cao.
In order to take care of this young clan brother, Cao Cao placed him under Cao Ren.
But Cao Chun had already been separated from his brother for a long time, and Cao Ren was silent and uncommunicative, so the separation became deeper and deeper.
Seeing that Cao Chun was still dancing, Cao Ren narrowed his eyes and filled with murderous intent. He pointed at the cake stained with dirt on the ground and said harshly:
"pick it up."
Cao Chun stiffened his neck, turned around and said:
"Don't pick it up."
Cao Ren repeated it again, this time with an even colder tone.
Cao Chun moved back a little, but still said firmly:
"If you don't pick it up, why should we pick up the pancakes you threw?"
Cao Ren didn't speak, but stood up directly and walked towards Cao Chun.
Cao Chun immediately bent down to pick up the pancakes on the ground and was about to retreat.
But his belt was directly grabbed by Cao Ren, and with a slight movement, Cao Chun was lifted up. Before Cao Chun could resist, his brother's giant palm-like hand hit him hard on the buttocks.
Go down.
Cao Chun wanted to see him, but when he saw the robes and subordinates nearby, he stood firm.
He said arrogantly:
"Cao Ren, you are just bullying Naigong because he is young. Wait a few more years and see if you still dare to treat me like this? No, I will kick your butt in a few years."
Cao Ren wanted to laugh, but held it back. He spanked Cao Chun again and scolded:
"Whose father-in-law are you? Don't you know that an elder brother is like a father? After my father is gone, I am your father-in-law, and you deserve to be beaten."
Hearing Cao Ren mention his father, Cao Chun strained his waist and was able to break free.
Cao Ren was not prepared, so he forced Cao Chun to hit him on the ground. Just as he was about to feel distressed, he saw Cao Chun get up and yell at him:
"You are not allowed to mention your father. Why should you mention him? When you and your uncle were staying at the side of Qingjun in Hanoi, did you ever think about the clan in Bo County? My father was so angry that he had a stroke. He lay in bed like a cripple and died in pain after a whole spring and autumn.
But what about you? You are enjoying yourself happily in Kyoto."
Cao Ren wanted to explain, but in the end he remained silent.
Sitting on the ground, Cao Chun felt aggrieved and wanted to cry.
Back then, Cao Cao and a group of Henan Qingliu scholar-bureaucrats came to Qingjun in Hanoi, which not only turned the political situation upside down, but also the entire Cao family.
As a family of eunuchs, the Cao family shared the fate of the entire family with the eunuch group. However, there was a traitor in the family. Cao Cao, who originally belonged to the eunuch group, took the lead in launching an attack on the eunuchs.
What's even more terrible is that what Cao Cao called the Qing Dynasty at that time was actually a rebellion.
So when the news reached Qiao Di, the government came down to arrest Cao's party.
Cao Song, who was directly related to Cao Cao, took his five younger brothers and took refuge in Xuzhou. Cao Ren's father, Cao Chi, was even humiliated by the swordsman and pen official, and he was so angry that he had a stroke when he came back.
It was not until the Henan rebels successfully entered Luo that the Cao family and the Xiahou family became a little more peaceful. However, Cao Song, who was extremely disappointed with his son, refused to return home and stubbornly stayed in Xuzhou.
But Cao Chun actually had no objection to what Cao Cao did, and even admired his uncle in his heart. This was also the reason why he gave up his family wealth and joined Cao Cao.
In the minds of these Han men, the eunuchs are really the culprits of this apocalypse.
And what Cao Cao did was the heroic act of exterminating relatives for righteousness.
But recognition of Cao Cao is one thing, but recognition of his brother Cao Ren is another matter.
Cao Ren didn't know that his younger brother had so many thoughts. Seeing Cao Chun sitting on the ground feeling aggrieved, he sighed:
"You go back."
Cao Chun was stunned for a moment, raised his head and asked:
"Back to where?"
"Go back home, the battlefield does not belong to you."
Cao Chun was so unconvinced that he quickly stood up. Because of his openness, he raised his head and put it on Cao Ren's chin and asked:
"Why doesn't it belong to me? If you can, why can't I?"
Cao Ren pointed to the Taishan Army on the opposite side who was still on the solid barrier, and asked:
"You know, two years ago, your uncle Xiahou and I attacked them together. In that battle, fourteen members of the Cao family as big as you were killed. Before the battle, like you, they all felt that those Taishan thieves were nothing.
Now they have no bones left.”
Having said this, Cao Ren paused, and finally opened his mouth and said:
"I don't want to collect your body like this one day. So go back and inherit the incense of our Cao family."
Cao Chun's eyes flickered, he looked at his brother Gao Wei, and replied seriously:
"Brother, I can't go back. The world has changed, and my Cao family has also changed. Now that the majesty of the imperial court has been lost, and the court is gone, are there still eunuchs? The eunuchs are all gone, and my Cao family's former upper-class relationship
Of course, there is no such thing. And even if you can farm in your hometown, can you live in peace? Qiao is located in a place where there are four wars. How can you live in peace? So if you can't go back, you might as well follow your uncle and the others to build a business. Not to mention..."
At this point, Cao Chun stopped talking and looked at his brother.
Cao Ren felt uncomfortable and continued:
"No need to say anything?"
At this time, Cao Chun smiled:
"Not to mention we are brothers."
Cao Chun's smile made Cao Ren stunned. After a long time, he said: