The two sides fought for more than half an hour, when suddenly they heard the sound of gongs from behind Yuan Jun's formation, calling for gold to withdraw his troops. Yuan Jun's cavalry retreated, and arrows shot out like rain, blocking the formation. Cao Jun's middle army and front army were at Zhang He and Wang Ping.
Led by Xu Chu, Zhao Yun and others, they charged three times in a row, but were unable to disrupt the opponent's formation. Instead, thousands of soldiers were shot to death.
Seeing that there were too many casualties among his own soldiers, Cao Zhi temporarily issued an order to withdraw his troops. When Cao's army also raised gold to withdraw its troops, Yuan's army sent two groups of cavalry to attack. Unknown to Cao's generals, who had already been prepared, he pretended to be defeated and retreated before the two groups of Yuan's army.
When the cavalry penetrated deeply, the two wings encircled and annihilated all three thousand officers and soldiers of the two groups of Yuan's army. The remaining hundreds of people dismounted and surrendered.
Cao Zhi waved his left hand, and Cao Jun's own sergeants led his troops and captured hundreds of people. This fierce battle lasted less than an hour, but the killing was extremely brutal.
The main forces of both sides retreated tens of feet each, and the open space in the middle was covered with corpses. The injured groaned and wailed, and it was unbearable to hear.
Next, I saw a team of unarmed soldiers from each side of the formation, each starting to clean the battlefield, carrying out the surviving soldiers of our own side, and transporting them to their own rear for treatment.
At this time, Cao Zhi raised his long sword high in the camp and shouted loudly to his sergeants: "Although Yuan's army is numerous, it has no fighting spirit. If they fight again, they will be defeated and flee!"
The officers and soldiers of Cao's camp shouted the slogan: "We must win!" In this first battle, Cao's army gained some momentum and achieved a certain victory. Cao Zhi just took the opportunity to boost morale. The two armies were fighting, and they did not have the advantage now. He
You can only win with morale.
Just when Cao Zhi was boosting his morale, he suddenly heard the horns of Yuan's army blowing in the formation. Several horses came out slowly, and a man in the middle shouted loudly. What he said was that Cao Zhi, the governor of Yangzhou, was not orthodox, and Cao's officers and soldiers should be loyal to the emperor.
If you are patriotic, you must surrender to Yuan's army immediately. Anyone who surrenders will be promoted to three ranks and rewarded with gold, silver and other words.
More than ten archers in Cao's army fired arrows at the man with a whooshing sound. Four people around the man raised shields as high as one person to protect him. The man continued to shout for a while, and suddenly all five horses were shot down.
The five men hid behind the shields, but when they saw that they were about to be killed by Cao's arrows, they stopped trying to persuade them to surrender and turned around to retreat to Yuan's formation.
At this time, Xu Chu, who was in the left army, immediately became energetic and shouted: "Come out with me and scold me back!"
So, under Xu Chu's careful selection, thirty officers and soldiers of Cao Cao stepped forward more than ten feet. Twenty soldiers held shields in their hands for protection, and the other ten were "swearers" with loud and rough voices and sharp words.
As the first "scolder", Xu Chu started to curse mercilessly as soon as he came out of the battle, such as "stupid, despicable villain, no place to die", etc., followed by the second "scolder",
Later, the scolding was filled with all kinds of filthy words.
At this time, Cao Zhi turned around to the camp of the Chinese army and could only hear very little. He didn't hear most of these "cursing hands". He only saw Zhang He, who was in the front army, nodding his head in approval, thinking of these "cursing hands".
The scolding was really wonderful.
Zhang He looked towards the enemy formation at this time and saw a man riding a horse, surrounded by military flags in the distance. He was pointing at Cao Jun's camp with a whip in hand. This man was wearing the finest armor and robes.
, wearing a military crown on his head, a long beard under his chin, a thin face, and a fierce expression.
Zhang He thought: "Look at this, is this person Yuan Shu?"
So they ordered the messengers around them to signal to Xu Chu and others, change their curse words, and focus on Yuan Shu. After receiving the message, Xu Chu and others suddenly discussed in low voices with more than a dozen "scold hands" for a while, and they all opened their throats and started yelling.
Exposing Yuan Shu’s secrets.
That Yuan Shu was not a very upright person, and he had many things to criticize. Xu Chu and others knew a little about it on weekdays, and Zhang He provided them with some fierce information they heard from Yuan Shao. More than ten people immediately
, all the ridiculous things that Yuan Shu did in his daily life were exposed.
More than a dozen people shouted in unison, using the same curse words. The sound carried for miles, and many of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Yuan's army heard clearly.
Yuan Shu didn't care at all that Cao Jun was yelling and scolding him, but he soon understood that it was directed at him personally, and he was so angry that he waved his whip, causing Yuan Jun to make a loud noise, mostly shouting "ahhh".
The shouts and shouts immediately drowned out the scoldings of more than a dozen people in Xu Chu's group.
There was chaos for a while, and it was already dusk. The soldiers on both sides were hungry and tired. They retreated several miles away, and after setting up camp, they prepared to bury the pots and make rice. Cao Jun rushed to build a camp on a hillside, condescendingly, as a defensive strategy. They set up camp.
As soon as they were settled, Yuan Shu, who had not cooked yet and was angry that his scars had been exposed, rushed to the foot of the mountain with his elite troops and immediately charged towards the hillside. Cao's soldiers immediately repulsed Yuan's army with arrows and rocks raining down like rain.
Yuan Shu saw that his attack was disadvantageous, so he immediately withdrew his troops and camped at the foot of the mountain.
That evening, Cao Zhi stood by the cliff and looked south. He saw the campfires in Yuan Jun's camp were like stars. There were three fire dragons snaking in the distance, but it was Yuan Jun's troops who were making adjustments.
He turned his head, stared into the distance for a while, and said to himself, "It seems there will be another fierce battle tomorrow!"
After a night of silence, on the second day, Yuan Shu returned to the plain where yesterday's battle took place and set up a formation to wait for Cao Zhi.
Cao Zhi's army had two small victories yesterday, and its morale was high. All the generals asked for orders to be the vanguard. Cao Zhi finally chose Zhang He as the former army commander, accompanied by several lieutenants such as Tai Shi Ci and Lei Gong, and Xu Chu and Zhao Yun as the left and right sides.
The army generals Li Dian and Wang Ping commanded the central army and marched down the hillside where they camped yesterday. They also returned to the plain where they faced off yesterday to confront Yuan Shu.
Yuan Jun was not in a hurry to attack today. After sending out troops and yelling for a while, the Chinese army suddenly separated and rolled out dozens of cars to the front of the formation. As soon as the cars stopped, the sergeants accompanying the cars pulled out dozens of women. Some of them
Over fifty, some of them were in their prime, and their clothes were very luxurious. As soon as these women stepped out of the car, the scoldings on both sides stopped immediately.
When Cao Zhi saw them from afar, he shouted loudly: "Mother, mother! If my son catches these beasts, he will cut them into pieces and vent his anger on you."
The middle-aged woman in the first place is Cao Zhi's stepmother and second mother, the Xu family, and the rest are Cao Song's concubines, as well as some members of the Cao family clan.
Wu Jing sent Sun Bi to take advantage of Lu Bu and Chen Gong's rebellion in Yanzhou, and when Cao Zhi was busy unifying Yangzhou, he quietly led his troops to surround Qiao County and captured all the Cao family members in Qiao County.
Behind the Xu family and others, the sound of iron chains continued to clang, and rows of men, women, old and children who were related to the Cao family were also led out from behind the formation. In an instant, there were loud cries in the two formations, and Jie
When they arrived at the battle, there were hundreds of people, but most of them were not members of the Cao family. Many of them were randomly captured during the roundup of Cao Song's family. Some were related to the Cao family, but not all of them just lived in Qiao.
The civilians in the county could not tell for a moment that they had caught the wrong one. At this time, Yuan Jun had no one to verify, so they all pushed them to the front of the battle as a threat. However, they saw hundreds of people behind them, dragging their children with their children, in a chaotic mess.
At this time, a general under Yuan Shu rode out of the battle and shouted: "Cao Zhi, listen, you and your family have been captured. If you surrender, you will be reunited with your family. My lord will spare your family's life. If you don't surrender, General Yuan
With the order, all members of the Cao family will be killed together."
In ancient times, both the enemy and the enemy were always cruel to prisoners and easy to kill. Cao Zhi knew that Yuan Jun's words of "kill them together" were by no means a threat. They really wanted to kill them together. Didn't Cao Zhi just kill them too?
The Zhang Miao clan? So he believed that if Yuan Shu was forced into a hurry, he might be able to kill the Cao clan, old and young, in front of this formation.
At first, Cao Zhi told the soldiers that he saw Yuan Jun threatening his family with him, and he would never say that he was soft-hearted. But when the real wheel came, he was no longer so hard-hearted. Cao Song, Cai Wenji and others have not seen it yet, but
That Er Niang was the best person to Cao Zhi when he came to this era. How could he just say that he didn't care, and Cao Zhi looked at the old and young people crying in front of the battle, and he was a little dull.
Cao Zhi later regretted it. When Cao Zhi's generals and counselors were worried about why Cao Zhi didn't kill him with the law, they heard Xu, the second mother-in-law who was captured in front of Yuan's army, shouting loudly: "Zhi'er, Zhi'er, I
My wise child, don’t think about the old woman and your wife and children, and work hard to defeat the enemy! Kill... your mother is watching you in the sky..."
Dozens of sergeants from the Yuan Army were pulling out their long swords and placing them on the necks of Cao Song's wives and concubines. The young concubine immediately cried out in panic. When the steel sword was placed on Xu's neck, she was not afraid and tried her best to break free.
Stand up and let Cao Jun come over.
But whoever dared to move among the soldiers of Cao's army knew that they were the lord's family. At this time, Er Niang had not seen any movement from Cao's army on the opposite side. The cries of the warblers behind her made her immediately furious.
Once again, regardless of the intimidation from the Yuan Jun soldiers behind him, he shouted loudly towards the Cao Jun camp on the opposite side: "Whoever is my general on the other side, shoot all the crying women to death. Shoot quickly, this is an order..."
When Xu shouted, the former generals who could hear clearly looked at each other, and no one dared to order the real shooting of Cao Song's concubines. At this time, only a shout was heard, and Zhang He came out of the crowd. With a whooshing sound, he took the lead in shooting the two concubines.
Arrows were shot out from Zhiyu, and when the crying and shouting women were neutral, two people were killed by the arrows.
Then I heard Mrs. Xu shouting over there: "This general shot well, shot well! The foundation of our Cao family will never be destroyed in the hands of such a bitch. Whoever dares to cry again, who dares to cry again, this
That’s the end…”
Immediately, Cao Song's concubines gradually stopped crying when they saw Mrs. Xu yelling and scolding her hoarsely. Those who followed, old and young, also became timid and lowered their crying voices.
Xu's shouts of turning against her guests and her fearless attitude immediately shocked the entire audience. Including the Yuan Army soldiers who stood behind her and put a steel knife on Xu's neck, they couldn't stand the vicious and sharp look in Xu's eyes.
He took a few steps back timidly.
They have seen many men who are not afraid of death, but they have never seen women who are not afraid of death. At the same time, they admire Xu's courage from the bottom of their hearts.
A courageous man is admired by others, and a courageous woman is admired by others! Especially Mrs. Xu is a middle-aged woman over fifty years old.