According to Jushou's idea, after driving away Li Jue and Guo Si, he should immediately join forces with Lu Bu and take the emperor's carriage back to Huaicheng to avoid long nights and dreams.
He looked at Xun You in the distance and guessed that the other person thought the same thing, but his destination was Cao Cao's Xu County.
I'm afraid there are still some twists and turns in Ju Shuo's mind. If there are no surprises, compared with the strength of the two sides, Lu Bu's Youzhou coalition is still weaker than Cao's army. But with Zhang He's reinforcements, Duan Xuan who reconciled with Lu Bu privately, and Dong Cheng who noticed Cao Cao's intentions,
Cao Jun did not dare to act rashly.
It can be said that Cao Cao's chess move in the city, which he was sure to win, was solved by calculation without intention, but was broken by this side, and he fell into an embarrassing situation.
Under the checks and balances between the two sides, the key decision-making power fell on the emperor Liu Xie, who was very ambitious. He may not necessarily favor Cao Cao, but the possibility of favoring the Yuan family is even lower.
The battlefield was already in chaos. Because of Duan Xuan's betrayal, Li Jue and Guo Si, who could have retreated safely, now had no way to escape.
Li Jue's eyes were red. While resisting Zhao Yun's iron spear, he shouted at Duan Xuan who was coming: "Duan Xuan!"
"If I escape today, I will definitely kill your entire family!"
Duan Xuan's expression remained unchanged and he said coldly: "Me too."
Li Jue saw that Zhao Yun's marksmanship became more and more fierce and he would be defeated within a dozen moves. He panicked for the first time and shouted: "Duan Xuan!"
“Liangzhou people don’t fight Liangzhou people!”
"Why betray us!"
Duan Xuan heard this and shouted: "You still have the nerve to say that you are from Liangzhou!"
"The reputation of Liangzhou people has been ruined by you!"
"Our ancestors guarded the border in Liangzhou to resist foreign enemies, not to harm the people!"
Li Jue shouted: "Duan Xuan!"
"You're so confused!"
"Our ancestors have been guarding the border for more than ten generations. How did the court treat us?"
"We are on guard against us, and we are short of food and wages. We are as devoid of dignity as dogs just for the sake of stuttering!"
"What's wrong with us getting back what we deserve?"
"Duan Xuan!"
"It's still too late to turn back now. Let's fight into the city together and let the emperor use us!"
Duan Yan sneered: "You are the one who can't look back!"
"No one in the world wants you to live!"
"kill!"
Li Jue saw that Duan Xuan was determined and knew that he could only fight to the death. He roared, waved his halberd with all his strength, forced Zhao Yun away, turned around and ran away.
When he saw Duan Xuan standing in front of him, he turned his horse and rushed out. Zhao Yun chased him all the way. Li Jue shouted to his subordinates: "Block him!"
Li Jue's personal guards rushed to catch up and tried to stop Zhao Yun, but they saw Zhao Yun's spear everywhere. Liangzhou troops were knocked off their horses one after another, but Zhao Yun's speed was also slowed down a lot.
Li Jue took the opportunity to escape. When he saw that he was about to break out of the siege, he heard the sound of a bowstring behind him, and Zhao Yun shot his horse in the butt with an arrow.
The red pupil of the war horse fell to the ground. Li Jue fell to pieces from the ground and barely stood up. Zhao Yun had already galloped past, with spears everywhere. The tip of the spear penetrated Li Jue's throat and came out from the back of his neck.
Bring out a bunch of blood flowers.
As soon as Zhao Yun put away the gun, Li Jue's body spun around, fell straight to the ground, and died.
The Youzhou soldiers present immediately shouted, "Li Jue is dead!"
"Li Jue is dead!"
The sound spread far away, and the Liangzhou army was in chaos, trampling on each other and fleeing. When Guo Si heard it from a distance, his heart became cold, and he immediately turned around and fled.
Xu Huang wanted to charge forward on his horse, but was blocked by Guo Si's personal guards. He saw Guo Si fleeing further and further away.
When Cao Cao saw this, he knew that the overall situation had been decided. He smiled at Lu Bu and said, "Li Jue is dead and Guo Si is about to escape. Is Marquis Wen interested in taking Guo Si's head?"
After hearing this, Lu Bu said calmly: "My horse is not feeling well today, so I will give the credit to the commander-in-chief."
Cao Cao was speechless. When did Lu Bu become smart?
I originally wanted to send Lu Bu away and return to the city immediately, maybe there would be a chance, but now Lu Bu is unmoved, so calm?
His guess was correct, Ju Shou only said one sentence to Lu Bu before the battle.
What Cao Cao does, what Marquis Wen does, where Cao Cao goes, where Marquis Wen goes, other than that, don't worry about anything else.
Cao Cao looked at Guo Si who was escaping, and thought that if he sent Cao Chun and Cao Hong to chase him, he should be able to catch up. But in this case, he would only have infantry at hand. What if Lu Bu and the Youzhou Army attacked him?
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He hesitated for a moment, then decisively sent someone to call Cao Chun and Cao Hong back, preparing to return to the city and make another plan.
Ju Shou saw it from the top of the city and thought that Cao Cao's work was indeed impeccable. If there were flaws in his work, Ju Shou would not mind taking more drastic measures, but now it seems that this is unlikely.
He shook his head. Yuan Xihe guessed correctly. Cao Cao was indeed a formidable enemy.
If Jizhou continues to ignore it and allow it to expand its power, it will surely become a big trouble sooner or later!
Cao Chun and Cao Hong came back with a look of resentment on their faces. They had long known that Zhao Yun had killed Li Jue and Li Xian and became the main contributor to the defeat of the Liangzhou Army. They wanted to pursue Guo Si, but they were called back by Cao Cao.
Cao Chun said angrily: "Then Zhao Yun is lucky, he is in the limelight this time!"
"I'll lead two hundred cavalry to hunt down Guo Si, and I'll definitely bring back his head!"
After hearing this, Cao Cao said calmly: "The emperor's safety in the city is important, so go back first."
Cao Chun finally came to his senses and quickly accepted the order.
When Zhao Yun saw Cao Cao withdrawing his troops, he did not clean up the battlefield. He immediately withdrawn his troops and returned to the formation, preparing to enter the city with Cao Cao.
Now it was Yang Fengxu Huang's turn to be confused. Why didn't he hear the sound of Ming Jin withdrawing his troops? Why did Cao Jun and Youzhou Army go back?
Yang Feng looked at the Liangzhou soldiers who were fleeing all over the ground and said: "Gongming, what can we do now?"
Xu Huang saw that the Chinese army on Cao Cao's side was shrinking. It didn't look like they had after a victory, but rather as if they were on guard for something. He couldn't help but frowned and said, "Something's wrong."
"Something must have happened."
While the two were hesitating, they saw a cavalryman from the Youzhou Army riding over and whispered: "An incident occurred in the city. Cao's army attacked Baibo's army. General Hu Cai was killed and General Han Xian escaped."
"What!" Both of them were shocked and couldn't help but look at each other.
Xu Huang didn't know the key, but Yang Feng did. Today, Bai Bo's army deliberately let Liangzhou's army enter the city in order to take the opportunity to eradicate Yang Ding and Dong Cheng. This idea was originally proposed by Yang Feng.
But he never expected that, with the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind, Cao Cao would take the opportunity to attack the Baibo Army, which in turn caused the Baibo Army to suffer a big loss!
Yang Feng was suddenly sweating profusely and quickly said to Xu Huang: "Hurry up and organize the army!"
"The next one Cao Cao has to deal with will definitely be us!"
The two men quickly gathered the remaining Bai Bo army and gathered them together, ready to respond to Cao Cao's attack at any time.
Seeing that the other party was frightened, Cao Cao said to his left and right: "Go back to the city!"
Seeing that Cao's army and Youzhou's army had entered the city, Yang Fengxu Huang was in a daze outside the city.
To enter or not to enter?
If you go in, what if you are ambushed by someone?
If we don't advance, the Baibo Army will have no power at all around the Emperor!
Yang Feng hesitated for a long time and said in a solemn voice: "Gongming, do you think this was ordered by the emperor?"
After hearing this, Xu Huang sighed: "The general had known about this, why did he do it in the first place?"
Yang Feng knew that Xu Huang was talking about Bai Bojun's attempt to gain power, and said bitterly: "Who knew so many people came suddenly?"
"What Cao Cao imitates today is not what we were like back then?"
"Just like he dealt with us in the future, someone will definitely do this to him!"
"I want to go to the city to see the emperor to plead guilty, but I'm afraid that if I don't see the emperor, Cao Cao will attack me!"
"How about we run?"
Xu Huang sighed: "General, where can we run now?"
"Huang is willing to meet the emperor on behalf of the general to convey the general's wishes. For the sake of Baibo's rescue, the emperor will probably remember his past kindness."
Yang Feng hesitated again and again, and finally sighed: "Thank you for your work, Gong Ming."
"I will lead the troops outside the city to support Gong Ming."
Xu Huang looked at Yang Fengzhan's trembling look, sighed secretly, and rode into the city alone.
In the emperor's residence in the city, Dong Cheng knelt in front of Liu Xie and told him with tears and snot that Cao Jun had sinister intentions and first attacked Bai Bo's army and then attempted to attack him.
When Liu Xie listened to Dong Cheng's words, he didn't know why, but he felt a little happy.
Do you remember coming to me for help at this time?
When you sent people to attack my queen, did you ever think about today?
But Liu Xie understood that now he still wanted to keep Dong Cheng. After all, the other party still had many forces inside and outside the government, which he had not yet fully digested.
In addition, Cao Cao took action so decisively this time that Liu Xie was a little unexpected.
He was very willing to believe Cao Cao at first, but although the other party's move this time had some vague hints, Liu Xie's intention at that time was just to beat Bai Bojun, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to do it so simply.
!
Yang Ding and Hu Cai were killed, and Han Xian fled. After all, he was a general by himself. Did Cao Cao go too far?
Is Cao Cao really as loyal to him as he said?
While he was deep in thought, an attendant came to report: "Your Majesty, a great victory!"
"The rebel Li Jue was killed, Guo Si fled, and the entire Liangzhou army collapsed!"
Liu Xie was overjoyed. Within half a day, he solved the nightmare that had troubled him for several years!
He smiled and said, "It seems that Commander Cao is quite capable."
"Which of his generals killed Li Jue?"
The attendant quickly replied: "Your Majesty, this is Zhao Yun, the captain of Youzhou!"
"Zhao Yun?" Liu Xie pondered, "I remember he killed Hu Feng the day before yesterday?"
The guard replied: "Your Majesty, it is indeed true. He also killed Li Jue's nephew Li Xian, and he alone gets the credit for today."
Liu Xie felt a bit toothache after hearing this, and thought that Youzhou was lucky to have found such a general.
Although he has always been aloof from the Yuan family, the generals he sent have made such great achievements, and it makes no sense for him not to reward them.
But the key is that Zhao Yun is a member of the Yuan family. Who knows if he will turn around and deal with him after being granted the title?
Liu Xie hesitated for a long time. He now had no direct troops. The most reliable one was Lu Bu. However, Lu Bu's territory now only had a few cities, making it difficult to protect himself.
Therefore, Liu Xie must find more people who are loyal to him, but he still can't understand who is trustworthy and who harbors evil intentions.
He has been deceived and hijacked enough, and suffered too many losses, but in the end, he still can't understand people's hearts.
So now he doesn't dare to trust anyone completely.