Chapter five hundred and seventieth: Rescue arrives
So this group of Montenegrin soldiers saw that they had a large number of people, and the city was just around the corner. After the city was broken, the soldiers of the Montenegrin Army would just need to supplement their food rations, and even have the opportunity to make a little fortune. So they were driven by endless greed at this time.
, with unlimited motivation to break through Lunu City and realize their dream of getting rich.
Compared with the greed of the Montenegrin Army, Yuan Jun in Lunucheng is not that motivated. They join the army to have enough food, but they are bound by military discipline, and there is no chance to make a fortune if they defeat the Montenegrin Army. At the moment, they endure
Hunger withstood the Montenegrin Army's more violent attack than in the morning, resulting in numerous casualties. They gradually became fearful and held on until sunset, but the Montenegrin Army still had no intention of retreating.
After this day of fighting, Jiang lost several thousand more people today, and now he still has seven to eight thousand defenders left. If the Montenegrin army does not withdraw its troops, he will probably be doomed.
However, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Jun outside the city were still silent. At this critical moment, Xi Jinping decided to put down his arrogance and ask Xiahou Yuan for help, asking him to reach out and give him a hand for the sake of Yuan Shao!
Just when the army's personal guard took his command and had not left the city to ask for help, suddenly, "Woooo..." horns sounded in unison on the east and west sides of Lunu City.
The rumble of horse hooves and neat footsteps shook the earth.
** hurriedly rushed to the east city, stood on the high tower and looked to the side and behind. He saw that the endless gray and black soldiers of Cao's army had formed a formation, and the huge Cao's army flags and Li's general flags were fluttering in the wind.
This unexpected situation immediately aroused Yu Du's eyebrows, "What's going on? So many Cao soldiers are here?"
Yu Du muttered to himself, and was immediately greeted by the explanation from the kind-hearted lieutenant beside him: "That is Cao Jun's central army..."
"Fuck, if you don't come early, you won't come later. Come now and give me..."
Before Yu Du finished speaking, he heard loud war drums ringing from both sides of Lunu City at the same time. "Dong dong..." As the drum beat accelerated, Cao Jun began to advance slowly.
When Lunu City was still a hundred steps away, with a long trumpet blast, Cao Jun's formation let out a cry like a collapse, and Cao Jun officially began to charge.
After Yu Du learned that a large number of enemy troops appeared on both the east and west sides, he panicked and quickly ordered his siege subordinates to retreat and form a formation to meet Cao Jun. However, they had been focusing on siege, and suddenly changed the battle form and attacked.
Changing to defense requires adaptation and time to change.
Li Dian, Xia Houyuan and Xu Chu did not intend to give their opponents a chance to adapt or breathe. The two armies rushed towards the Black Mountain Army with thunderous momentum. One side was the exhausted army that had fought fiercely for several days, and the other side was the new force that had been recuperating until now.
The eastern and western armies led by Yu Du and Qing Niujiao were immediately submerged by a gray-black ocean like rocks on the shore. Under the rapid and fierce collision between the two sides, countless blood flowers were splashed, and the rocks were quickly shaken.
The Black Mountain Army did not adjust its pace from offensive to defensive, and suffered a fierce attack. Although Zuo Mouzhangba on the front of the center quickly withdrew the troops attacking Zhengnan, they were still unable to resist Cao Jun's attack.
The Black Mountain Army was retreating steadily. When night fell, Cao's army was pushed out of the ten miles of Lunu City and suffered a major defeat.
**After finding out that the Chinese army led by Cao's army, Li Dianbu, arrived, he swept away his worries about almost losing the city and shouted: "My sons, follow me out of the city!"
Preparing to deliver a fatal blow to the Montenegro Army, Li Hei led five thousand soldiers covered in blood and rushed to the south gate when they were stopped by Li Hei, the commander of Cao Zhi's bodyguard.
"Prefect Cao asked me to tell General Gao that his follow-up troops will arrive soon. Please ask General Gao to arrange the barracks and garrison area immediately."
After Li Hei passed the order in a loud voice, he said to the general in private: "My lord said that the pursuit of the enemy will be left to Li Dian and Xu Chu. My lord will go to the city to garrison with General Gao."
** Upon hearing what Li Hei said, he slapped his thigh and shouted: "Is this right? It should have been like this a long time ago. I want to have a good talk with Cao Zhi about this Xia Houyuan, how could he be like this..."
Li Hei deliberately did not mention Xia Houyuan, which made him think that Cao Zhi had replaced him.
####### Entering July is the real summer. When the toads are croaking in the fields, Cao Zhi leads the last 10,000 rear troops to Lunu.
** put down his identity and went to the west gate to greet him. ** When he saw Cao Zhi without armor, he took the initiative to reach out his hands, clasped Cao Zhi's hands together, and said sincerely: "Brother Cao, ** is very grateful to Brother Cao today.
of generous help.”
Cao Zhi was stunned when he actually called him brother. He and Yuan Shao were the same generation. This woman was Yuan Shao's nephew. Logically speaking, this woman should be a generation younger than Cao Zhi. At this time, he took the initiative to call Cao Zhi brother.
Not to mention the level of seniority, it even made Cao Zhi embarrassed to say anything.
Cao Zhi was amused that this woman was so scheming, but he didn't care about it. He just took advantage of the two of them to chat and looked at her face clearly. It was indeed as rumored, but he couldn't tell that he was already thirty years old.
At this time ** looked a little haggard.
Cao Zhi has never met **, and he doesn't come to Jizhou often. Among them, only Xia Houyuan has accompanied Cao Cao to Yecheng several times, so ** should only know Xia Houyuan, but now that Xia Houyuan is not here, there is no one to introduce him*
*But he recognized Cao Zhi at first sight, probably because Cao Zhi and Cao Cao looked quite similar.
Cao Zhi responded apologetically to Mao Zedong's enthusiasm: "General Gao is not offended. Cao Zhi is already grateful. Alas..."
At this time, everyone understood that Cao Zhi's apology was about Xia Houyuan and his wife's personal anger, which led to Xia Houyuan's deliberate failure to save him.
** As soon as ** heard Cao Zhi admitting his mistake in such a high-profile manner, he felt much better. However, ** who had been suppressing it for a long time decided to sue Xia Houyuan severely. In this way, ** nagged Cao Zhi all the way to where he came.
Lu Nu's temporary residence was also the county seat of Zhongshan Kingdom.
As soon as the personnel from both sides were seated, Cao Zhi asked ** urgently: "Can the battle report from General Gao to Yuan Zhoumu be sent out?"
** Hearing that Cao Zhi was anxiously concerned about the battle report, his heart moved, and then he realized that Cao Zhi might want to protect Xia Houyuan, and hoped that Cao Zhi would buy his favor and not mention Xia Houyuan's inaction.
** is extremely angry with Xia Houyuan. He has already mentioned his dereliction of duty in the battle report a few days ago. Today, he wants to complain to Yuan Shao. If it weren't for this bastard, he would have only seven to eight thousand remaining soldiers.
. This face should not be given to anyone. When ** mentioned this, he stood up excitedly and said loudly to his subordinates outside the door: "Go and ask the king's secretary, has the battle report been written?
Once it’s written, bring it over immediately.”
"Yes!" Someone immediately came to the guard outside the door.
The reception hall suddenly became deserted as the personal guards left. At this moment, ** had time to look at the two military guards who entered with Cao Zhi; one had a red face and a left
One man had a beautiful beard and was holding a long knife that he had never seen before. The other was very young and handsome, holding an iron spear. Standing behind Cao Zhi was a man who was not talking or smiling, and there was also a relative of Cao Zhi.
Li Hei, the commander of the guard camp, looked around and didn't know what he was looking at.
** didn't pay attention to country bumpkins like Li Hei. He was just curious about the two military guards behind Cao Zhi. They were talented people and very brave. So what if they didn't know about martial arts?
At this moment, Li Hei, who was looking around, suddenly said that he wanted to check out the temporary camp where the Guards Battalion was temporarily located, and hurriedly stood up to leave.
Cao Zhi didn't seem to care about his whereabouts, and just nodded casually to allow Li Hei to leave. He also called in his personal guard commander and asked him to take Li Hei to the camp. When Cao Zhi's troops entered Lunu City,*
* then arranged for his subordinate officers to lead Cao Zhi's ministries to the designated defense area. This was the obligation of Cao Zhi's troops. * * did not intend to be polite to Cao Zhi's troops. At this time, * Lunu City was in great need of supplements.
manpower.
**After looking at Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, he was about to continue talking to Cao Zhi, when the bodyguard who suddenly left and returned loudly reported outside the door: "Bring General Wang, Chief Secretary!"
"Please!"
Following **'s words, a middle-aged man who was neither tall nor short but surprisingly fat pushed in the door. When he saw **, he bent down and knelt down to report: "The general's battle report has been compiled. Please take a look."
"Yes!" ** took the carp letter handed over by Master Wang with both hands, flipped it through and scanned it, then handed it to Cao Zhi beside him, and politely said to Cao Zhi: "Brother Cao, please take a look."
** was basically satisfied with the battle report written by Master Wang, because it was written according to his wishes. He asked Cao Zhi to take a look at it to thank him for the timely reinforcements that arrived today and saved him. And for a period of time,
He still wanted to get along with Cao Zhi, so he still wanted to have a good relationship with Cao Zhi.
Although it was the first time that ** had contact with Cao Zhi, from the moment he entered the city until now, he felt that Cao Zhi was still easy to get along with, and he was more reasonable and generous than Xia Houyuan.
While he was waiting for the war report to be sent by the chief clerk, his anger had subsided a little. He thought that if Cao Zhi wanted to intercede with Xia Houyuan, he could still consider buying Cao Zhi's face and changing the battle report. But he had thought better of it.
Well, the bottom line is to ask Cao Zhi to drive this Xia Houyuan back to Yanzhou immediately. He will never work with such a person again.
Cao Zhi said thank you, took the letter handed over by the police very politely, and carefully opened it and read it carefully.
At this time, ** waved Master Wang to step down and said that the battle report would be sent out tomorrow and asked him to take a rest early.
Not long after Master Wang responded and went out, Cao Zhi also finished reading the battle report.
** Before reading the battle report, Cao Zhi spoke first: "Brother Cao, this Xia Houyuan of yours is really too much, otherwise my troops would not have suffered such huge losses. I must deal with it impartially this time."
**After speaking, he turned away from Cao Zhi and put on airs, with an attitude that left no room for doubt. He was waiting for Cao Zhi to beg him.
But before Cao Zhi could plead for mercy, Cao Zhi laughed, put the letter on the cases in front of him, and said loudly: "Very good, just follow General Gao's wishes!"