Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3380 Private Marseille

Outside Anyi City, the battle in Cao’s camp tonight is like a huge spider web node, or a huge gravitational black hole. When the wind blows and the fire rises into the sky, I don’t know how many people, how many lives, how much flesh and blood will be swallowed up or engulfed, changing the original direction of travel!

A fire suddenly broke out in the center of Cao's main camp. Even those who were the least aware of the war situation understood that Cao's army's current momentum was like a landslide and could never be reversed.

  No matter what caused the sudden fire in the central camp of Cao’s army, it meant a great defeat!

Xiahou Dun's face turned pale in the firelight.

He shivered, pointed and grabbed the flame in great pain.

He lost.

He lost in Taiyuan.

But it can be regarded as a case of a lone army advancing deep into the enemy's territory, and being defeated, especially the artillery of the Hussars, who were not prepared for this siege weapon. So sometimes when he woke up suddenly in the middle of the night, Xiahou Dun could still comfort himself a little, saying that it was not human fault, but just a strange and obscene tool of the Hussars...

Those who rely on external things will never be able to dominate the world.

He is just like the Confucian scholars throughout the ages. Although they know that what he said is wrong, if they don’t say it, doesn’t that prove that he is wrong?

As long as you don't admit your mistake, you are not wrong.

At the beginning, Xiahou Dun still had a little bit of arrogance and prejudice towards Fei Qian, even though he was captured. He thought that the cavalry was only powerful for a short time. In terms of long-term, tenacity, heritage, and inheritance, we still have to look to Shandong, the hometown of Confucius...

  As a result, now, his faith seemed to be burning and melting along with the flames!

"No... No, no no no..."

Xiahou Dun shook his head, as if denying everything he saw.

Fei Qian glanced at Xiahou Dun, then nodded at Julius, indicating that Julius should keep an eye on him.

Julius understood and took a step forward, covering Xiahou Dun with his shadow.

Xiahou Dun was at a loss. It was obvious that he was too shocked to recover for a while...

Fei Qian waved to Xun Chen and whispered a few words to him.

Xun Chen nodded, turned and left.

  A moment later, war drums and horns sounded!

The cavalrymen who were on standby in the mountains rushed towards Cao's camp like a raging wave amid the sound of war drums and trumpets!

This is the drum and trumpet of an all-out attack!

  Even if Cao's army is faking it, such a scene is still worth a bet!

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The cavalrymen who were on standby in the wilderness quickly joined the battle.

In the Cao army camp, large patches of fire were flashing and jumping, as if they were celebrating or wailing.

The sudden change in the central camp made the Cao army soldiers and military officers in the Cao army camp at a loss.

They hurriedly sent signals to the central camp and dispatched messengers, which invisibly weakened the defense of the cavalry army to the extreme.

There were trenches in many places outside Cao's camp, which were either filled in or had temporary footpaths built on them. Many cavalrymen were entering the camp along these seven or eight passages.

The Cao army camps that had been used to resist and defend at these camp gates or passages were now either breached or their morale collapsed and they fled.

The dead and wounded were scattered all over the ground, and the flames shot up into the sky as they fled.

Every gap was filled with fierce fighting.

In other words, a one-sided fight.

After all, not all of Cao's troops are cowardly. It's a pity...

Every camp was left with bright blood.

As the Cavalry Army attacked, Cao's army was constantly retreating.

  Although Cao's central camp had previously issued an order for each camp to hold its ground and resist, who would adhere to the previous order at this moment and in this situation?

Chaos spread upon chaos, escape followed escape.

The barricades that had once cost a lot of manpower and resources to build were now pushed into the ditch.

The suspension bridge on the corridor was cut off and burned.

Some were done by the Hussars, and others were done by Cao's army themselves in order to isolate the Hussars' attacks.

No matter who did these things, they aggravated the division of Cao's camp to some extent, making the originally integrated Cao's camp become scattered Cao's camps.

Some of the traps, flaps and other mechanisms in the main passages and key locations were discovered by the civilians first, while others were exposed and marked out through the detection of the cavalry scouts.

The cavalrymen who entered Cao's camp later were following the explored or marked safe passages to enter the camp, while helping their injured comrades to slowly evacuate.

Build wooden boards, clear trenches, demolish walls, clear out remaining enemies, mark traps, and rescue comrades...

All of this was not done by Fei Qian issuing orders and performing remote operations one by one, but by the middle and lower-level military school non-commissioned officers of the Cavalry Corps, who naturally formed an orderly operating mode based on their daily drill manuals and combat experience. It was like an exquisite and flexible war machine, presenting incomparable beauty in the process of gear meshing and operation.

On the other hand, the Cao army camps attacked by the cavalry were desperately waving the double rabbit flags, asking for help from other camps around them, but they also ignored the help requests from other camps...

Cao's army was large but scattered, while the Hussars were not numerous but united.

General Fei Qian of the Cavalry Army has always insisted on the elite troops route, and at this moment, he has received the most generous reward and the most brilliant display!

It was only a matter of time before the once powerful and huge Cao army camp was completely captured by the Hussars...

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As for why a fire suddenly broke out in the central camp of Cao's army, causing the entire situation to suddenly deteriorate to such a situation, we have to mention this person.

This guy who had gone all the way from Heluo to Hedong and had survived several rounds of purges and suicides, after joining together with Xu Chu, erupted with energy beyond imagination.

Of course, Conglai’s last name was not Cong, and his name was not Lai, but since he became Conglai, he must be Conglai.

He hated Cao Cao, he hated Fei Qian, and he hated this corrupt world even more!

For him, this huge empire and those huge families would be best to die along with the old things, just like the Yuan family, the Yang family, and now the Cao family, and perhaps the Fei family in the future...

Even ordinary people, as long as they have faith, will have a different look in their eyes.

  What's more, since he came from Heluo, he has always been paying attention and observing everything.

Therefore, the central camp of Cao's army was always the focus of his attention. After meeting Xu Chu, he almost never hesitated and immediately joined Xu Chu's team. He led Xu Chu and his party through the camp and reached the vicinity of Cao's central camp.

The order issued by the central camp of Cao's army to each camp to hold its ground, to a certain extent, also helped Xu Chu, Conglai and others to sneak away. However, when they got near the central camp, they could no longer move forward.

Because the central camp was surrounded by high walls, trenches, drawbridges, and sentry towers. Even if Xu Chu and his men had always been wearing armor and could withstand ordinary arrows, they might not be able to withstand crossbow arrows, let alone the crossbow carts and catapults placed on the towers...

Its original role has been fully demonstrated at this moment.

Based on his previous impression of the central camp, he pointed out several locations, and then Xu Chu led his men to fire two or three waves of rockets from the outside into the central camp!

In fact, the idea of ​​​​Nianlai and Xu Chu was not to rely on a few people to capture the central camp of Cao's army, but to fish in troubled waters. The purpose of firing rockets was to muddy the water. If they could destroy some catapults and crossbow carts, wouldn't it be convenient for subsequent attacks? However, Xu Chu and Nanlai never expected that the rockets they originally fired just for the purpose of chaos actually caused tons of damage in the central camp!

  When the rocket was fired, someone in the central camp screamed wildly, and then a huge fire burst into the sky, illuminating the entire night sky!

It also completely pushed Cao's army camp into the abyss!

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Fei Qian looked at the fire that suddenly broke out in the central camp of Cao’s army, and felt a little emotional.

This thing looks very familiar at first glance.

But every time it appears, it represents the same tragedy.

Fei Qian glanced at Xiahou Dun, who was on the verge of collapse, and felt a little bit of sympathy in his heart. Seeing the Cao army defeated with his own eyes, as the second-in-command of the Cao army, it was naturally not easy.

Fei Qian was actually a little surprised.

His original plan was not to capture Cao's camp overnight.

The reason for making a bet with Xiahou Dun was just to use this as an excuse to break through Xiahou Dun's hard shell.

Whether Xiahou Dun wants to come forward to gather the remaining troops or write a letter, there is a lot of room for maneuver.

  But Fei Qian could not have imagined that the Cao army camp would collapse so quickly and so outrageously!

After a while, Xiahou Dun gradually crawled back from the edge of collapse.

"This looks like kerosene..." Fei Qian said, looking at Xiahou Dun, whose face was still extremely pale, "It looks like... well, it should be prepared for me... but, hehe, ah, Brother Yuanrang, thank you for letting me..."

"…" Xiahou Dun was speechless.

Xiahou Dun's identity was clear, so even if he was captured, he still had some freedom, but he was under the close surveillance of the hussars.

Xiahou Dun was naturally very worried about this battle, so even though he knew that meeting Fei Qian and standing in front of the two sides would inevitably be humiliating, he still felt that he had to see it with his own eyes...

  Xiahou Dun never expected that he would witness this scene with his own eyes!

Those scenes of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of brave men fighting bloody battles on the battlefield in the Central Plains in the early years now seem like a dream!

It was just like the battle between Cao and Yuan, except that Fei Qian did not belong to the side similar to Yuan Shao as Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun had expected. Instead, Cao Cao and his men became the second Yuan Shao!

And this is also the script that Liu Xiu got back then!

  Liu Xiu also marched from the Central Plains to Hedong, and finally bypassed Guanzhong and conquered the world in one fell swoop!

Why is it different here, at this time?

Is this fate really over?

"Brother Yuan Rang, you made a bet with me before. Did you hope that I would send all the cavalry to fulfill the bet?" Fei Qian said with a smile, "Now I have sent all the cavalry... Brother Yuan Rang, why don't you smile?"

"..." Xiahou Dun groaned, and after a moment he slowly said, "This is a different time. If the cavalry had penetrated deep into Cao's camp before, they could have mobilized soldiers on both wings and fought in the camp, with the advantage of terrain... Even if they couldn't win, they wouldn't be defeated... But now... the central camp is on fire, and the army is in chaos. As long as they rush into the camp and cut off the big banner, they will be... Alas... the cavalry is so talented that they can even predict such a thing..."

Since Fei Qian had seen through him, Xiahou Dun did not deliberately deny it.

  This kind of thing is always a matter of mutual calculation. Whoever is stupid will suffer. And it is all effective. Once the time is up, the strategy is useless. Just like Xiahou Dun deliberately confessing to Fei Qian now, isn't it also another strategy?

"So..." Fei Qian smiled, "Brother Yuan Rang, do you still have some hope in your heart?"

Xiahou Dun immediately said, "Why do you say that, cavalryman?!"

Fei Qian laughed and said, "Brother Yuan Rang, are you still unwilling to speak? This person inside the Cao army camp...under the banner is a substitute for Prime Minister Cao!"

"You..." Xiahou Dun stared at Fei Qian. After a while, his shoulders slumped slightly. "So the cavalry knew about this a long time ago?"

Fei Qian shook his head and said, "It's not like I knew it earlier... Brother Yuan Rang has repeatedly lured me to march... Even if I knew it... Prime Minister Cao, where are you waiting for me now? Yangchi or Zhongtiao Mountain?"

"Humph!" Xiahou Dun refused to say anything.

Fei Qian smiled and also looked into the distance.

The flames soared into the sky, like a group of demons dancing wildly, but these dancing demons would eventually stop.

  Suddenly, some chaotic sounds were faintly heard in the wind!

"Enemy attack!" 』

  Fei Qian was stunned. Where did the enemy come from?

Xiahou Dun was immediately refreshed, and he looked into the darkness and the fire with wide eyes...

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The flame may go out at some point, but some things will never die.

The flames illuminated the night sky, and the fire in the central camp piled countless lights and shadows on the battlefield.

  The combined roars of both sides echoed in the night, colliding and splashing between the earthen plateaus and gullies, like a tragic aria, which made Cao Hong almost cry!

what on earth is it?

  Wasn't it arranged to wait until the Hussars fell into the trap before launching the attack?

What happened to Cao Sheng?

The sounds of fierce fighting on the surrounding battlefields and the roar of the cavalry's horses' hooves shook and spread in front of Cao's camp, even causing Cao Hong's robes and armor to tremble...

Of course, it is also possible that Cao Hong himself was shaking.

Compared with the chaos in the front camp of Cao's army, there was still a group of elite Cao's army in the rear camp, holding swords and guns, waiting for Cao Hong's orders.

Cao Hong’s original plan…

Forget it, up to now, none of Shandong Idea King’s ideas have been put into practice.

Now it seems inevitable that Cao Hong’s plan has failed again.

  But it seems hard to say how many mistakes Cao Hong made and how stupid he was. He could fight and resist in the Central Plains before, but when he came here, he couldn't fight well and couldn't resist anything!

When Cao Hong had not been injured during the day, his mental state was still very good. He was thinking about how to fight against the cavalry and how to weaken Fei Qian's strength. He gave clear orders and was full of confidence. But now that he was injured, small mistakes turned into big mistakes at night, and big mistakes turned into irreversible fatal mistakes!

Now that a fire broke out in the central camp of Cao's army, the whole camp was shaken. Some people began to scold Cao Sheng, and many of their words excused Cao Hong and put the blame of all the mistakes on Cao Sheng.

This is also a traditional Shandong art. Leaders, of course, will not make mistakes. The mistakes are all in execution. Since Cao Sheng is the one who is in charge of lighting the fire, even if everyone knows that the person in charge of pressing the button is a temporary worker who was called in temporarily, it does not prevent him from becoming the best person to blame.

Cao Hong's face looked extremely ugly. He stopped the shouting, but still did not indicate who was primarily responsible.

Even if there was a secret passage under the central army tent, looking at the fire, Cao Sheng was most likely dead. Not only did Cao Sheng die, but many Cao soldiers in the central army camp were also buried here, and turned into smoke along with the Cao army camp.

"General, let's retreat!" The trusted guard said, "It's not our fault. Even if we go up now, what can we do? The Hussars have already formed their forces. With so few people, we are just a drop in the bucket! Why don't we retreat before the chaos spreads to here? Burn the supplies in the rear camp according to the plan. On the one hand, we can cut off the Hussars' pursuit route, and on the other hand, we won't leave these things to the enemy..."

The advantage of being a confidant is that he or she can say things for the master that the master is not comfortable saying.

Indeed, the fire in the central camp caught fire prematurely, which neither disrupted the rhythm of the Hussars nor caused much damage to them. Instead, Cao's army itself suffered tons of critical hits and was shattered into a sea of ​​fire.

Even if Cao Hong risked his life now, he might not be able to save anything.

What's more, Cao Hong was injured.

If he had not been injured, Cao Hong might have still had some courage and felt that he could give this last chance of a comeback. But now all his chips were lost, except for this one in his hand.

Should I leave with my last chip and wait for the next bet, or should I just throw in the last chip? !

Even though most people know that even if they throw in the last chip, they still can't win...

Everyone's eyes were focused on Cao Hong's face.

  If it were just chips, most people would throw them away, and at worst go home and sleep after losing everything. But what if the chips included their own lives?

Cao Hong is a gambler, but he has not yet reached the level of a gambling addict or even a compulsive gambler.

After a moment, Cao Hong drew out his sword, cut a gash on his palm, and smeared the blood on his face, "Qiuqi! I swear I will not live with you!"