Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1238 Defeat
Seeing Ding Yi holding up the spear with the gleaming tip stabbing at him again, Yang Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He had been rampant all his life, but in the end he died at the hands of a madman who didn't know martial arts. This was probably the retribution for his excessive killing.

With a "puff" sound, the tip of the gun pierced Yang Feng's forehead exactly. Ding Yi did not use much force, so the tip of the gun was blocked by Yang Feng's skull and did not penetrate.

Blood spurted out of the wound, splashing all over Yang Feng's face, but she didn't make a sound, just staring coldly at Ding Yi. Seeing this, Ding Yi retracted the gun with trembling hands and was about to stab again, but Cao Qing had already rushed up, pushed Ding Yi away fiercely, and shouted: "What are you going to do!"

"She just saved us!"

Ding Yi staggered back a few steps, the iron spear in his hand fell to the ground with a clang, and he said in a hoarse voice: "What's wrong with me avenging my father!"

"She killed my father. No matter what she did, I will take revenge!"

Cao Qing kicked Ding Yi and said, "Revenge, revenge! You still want revenge at this time! Are you crazy?"

Ding Yi laughed bitterly after hearing this, "Okay, okay, I am crazy, but I am no match for the eldest princess. For a man, she can betray her own father. Who is crazy?"

Cao Qing was furious and slapped Ding Yi on the face, "Bullshit!"

"You know what, useless stuff!"

Ding Yi covered his face, stunned for a moment, then the sound of horse hooves came from the long street in the distance, and a Jin army was coming over.

The quarreling crowd quickly quieted down, but saw that the faces of the Jin soldiers were covered in black and gray, with a lot of strange-looking weapons in between. The leading general wore silver armor and a silver helmet, and although he was full of fighting spirit, he couldn't hide the fatigue on his face.

He was riding in front, and when he saw Cao Qing, Ding Yi and others, he just glanced at them. But when he saw Yang Feng lying beside the earth wall, he was suddenly startled, jumped off his horse immediately, and surrounded Cao Qing and others with his guards.

He ignored Cao Qing and walked straight to Yang Feng and said, "Commander Yang, what happened?"

Yang Feng forced himself to open his eyes, and after a careful examination, he asked, "General Zhao?"

"Nothing much, I just had a fight with Xu Chu and lost."

The person who came was Zhao Yun. When he heard what Yang Feng said and looked at the scar on Yang Feng's forehead and the iron spear on the ground, he became suspicious. He asked the guards to watch Cao Qing and the others, and turned back to look for Yuan Xi in the team behind.

After hearing this, Yuan Xi hurriedly rode over to check. As soon as he saw Yang Feng's injuries, he knew it was not done by Xu Chu. Not to mention that Xu Chu did not use a gun, even if he did, if it stabbed Yang Feng's forehead, how could Yang Feng be alive?
Yuan Xi glanced around and found Cao Qing standing beside him with a complicated expression. He asked, "What's going on?"

Cao Qing nervously explained the whole story. Yuan Xi's face turned cold. He looked at Ding Yi and found that he looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. He said to his attendants, "Tie him up first."

He walked over to Yang Feng and said, "Can you stand up?"

Yang Feng shook his head, "Shouldn't you go after Cao Cao at this time?"

"Why waste your time on me?"

After hearing this, Yuan Xi said to Zhao Yun, "Zilong, go after him first, and I will follow."

After hearing this, Zhao Yun immediately led his cavalry straight to the west gate.

Yuan Xi helped Yang Feng up, but found that she no longer had the strength to stand up, so he squatted down and pulled Yang Feng onto his back, "There is a carriage carrying a doctor in the back, I will carry you over."

Yang Feng saw Yuan Xi carrying him on his back and swayed for a few times before he could barely stand up. He wanted to make a few sarcastic remarks, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.

Yuan Xi staggered back with Yang Feng on his back, without saying a word to Cao Qing from beginning to end. Cao Qing stood there blankly, and suddenly felt very suffocated in her chest. She held back the tears in her eyes and opened her mouth, but she didn't know what to say.

Seeing that Yuan Xi was about to walk away, Cao Qing suddenly shouted, "If we catch my father, can you spare his life?"

Yuan Xi paused, hesitated for a moment, then walked away without looking back.

Cao Qing looked at Yuan Xi's disappearing back and couldn't help crying. Ding Yi laughed at the side. "The princess betrayed the Cao family, but got such an end. How ridiculous, how ridiculous!"

Yang Xiu couldn't stand it any longer and shouted in a low voice: "Zhengli, shut up. If you say less, you can save your life."

Ding Yi was like a madman, "Dezu, you don't have to persuade me, I'm going to die anyway."

"From the moment we rebelled against Wei, could we still expect a good ending?"

"I just hate that I was blinded by a woman and did all these things. I don't want to support the Han Dynasty like you do. What do I care about?"

The sound of the quarrel was faintly heard by Yang Feng in the distance. She had just recovered some strength and sneered, "Cao Cao's daughter has paid so much for you, but you are so heartless."

Yuan Xi said in a deep voice: "So from the beginning, I didn't want to have anything to do with her."

"If I had responded to her shout just now, what would the soldiers and generals who fought with me to the death think?"

"The hatred between the Yuan and Cao families is so deep that it is almost impossible to resolve. On the battlefield, if you show mercy to the enemy, you are betraying your own subordinates."

Yang Feng said: "I don't think Cao Cao thinks so." "In his eyes, both his daughter and his subordinates are just pawns."

"I even think that he deliberately left Cao Qing behind in order to reconcile with you a little, so that you wouldn't kill the Cao family after he died?"

After hearing this, Yuan Xi shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I am fighting him right now. If I think about this, it will only kill more people."

"Don't talk anymore and have a good rest."

As the two were talking, the blood on Yang Feng's forehead kept flowing down his forehead and nose, then flowed onto Yuan Xi's helmet, staining Yuan Xi's face and shoulders.

Yang Feng felt that Yuan Xi's steps were weak and knew that he had been fighting for a whole day and his physical strength had reached its limit. She wanted Yuan Xi to put her down, but in the end she did not speak.

What I heard were sounds of fighting and shouting. Most of the fires in the city had been put out, but flames would still pop up from time to time, lighting up the sky flickeringly. The smell of burning and choking smoke and black ash filled my face.

But for some reason, Yang Feng felt a rare sense of peace from the chaos in the city. Unconsciously, even she didn't realize it, she seemed to like the current situation. She vaguely hoped that the journey that Yuan Xi carried her on his back would never end.

The fighting outside the city was still going on, but the Cao army outside the gates had already seen the situation was not good and began to retreat, because the previous response of Yuan Xi's army was really beyond their expectations.

The original intention of Cao's army was to block the Jin army in the city and use the fire in the city to inflict as much casualties on the Jin army as possible. As long as they delayed for a moment, the number of casualties of the Jin army would continue to increase. If the Jin army wanted to break the deadlock, they could only break out with the civilians. By then, they would be no match for the Cao army that was eyeing them outside the city.

However, Cao's army did not expect that the Jin army had blocked the city gates, but did not break out. Instead, they went into the city to put out the fire!

This approach was incomprehensible to Cao's generals at the three gates. The fire was so big, and with the harassment from the fleeing civilians, how much manpower and energy did the Jin army have to put out the fire?

But the most unlikely thing happened. The fires in the city were put out one by one at a speed that far exceeded Cao's army's expectations. Not to mention that more and more people from Yecheng joined the firefighting efforts. With united efforts, they actually put out this seemingly unstoppable fire!
Cao Hong, who had already retreated to the west gate, stared at the fire in Yecheng gradually dying down and sighed, "Mingsong's plan was originally foolproof, how come it failed?"

"Xionghu did not break out, but chose to enter the city to put out the fire. If he is not careful, he will die on the spot. Where does he get the confidence from?"

"The people of Yecheng would actually choose to help put out the fire. Is the prestige of Xionghu so high?"

Cao Zhang on the side said angrily: "These ungrateful people from Ye City, we have kept them for this year, and in the end they are helping the enemy!"

"If you ask me, when we captured Ye City, we should have slaughtered all the people in the city. Maybe today's plan would have succeeded!"

Cao Hong looked at the Youzhou cavalrymen who were chasing after him and said, "It's no use saying anything now. Let's go. Let's retreat first and make plans later."

Cao Zhang asked, "Go to Xudu?"

Cao Hong shook his head, "No, if we go to Xudu, I'm afraid we won't be able to defend anything."

He lowered his voice and said, "Besides, the king's health may not be able to hold on and return."

"In the best case scenario, we can get to Luoyang."

A dozen miles ahead, Cao's army was escorting Cao Cao's carriage westward.

Some time ago, Cao Cao had just ridden his horse out of the city when his body could not support him and he almost fell off his horse. When Zhong Yao, who was accompanying him, saw this, he quickly found a carriage carrying female relatives, drove the people on board, placed Cao Cao in it, and had Cao's army escort him and hurry on their journey.

Cao Cao slowly opened his eyes and said to Zhong Yao beside him: "Call Sima Yi over."

Soon, Sima Yi climbed onto the carriage, and Cao Cao asked, "Where is Xu Chu?"

He knelt at Cao Cao's feet and kowtowed, saying, "I have come this way, but have not seen any trace of General Xu."

"I offered a bad plan and I shall be punished by death."

He was responsible for covering the rear and providing support until most of the Wei soldiers in the city came out, and then he caught up with Cao Cao's main force.

Cao Cao sighed, "Forget it, I miscalculated."

"I completely lost the battle in Yecheng."

"It seems that the enemy has already taken advantage of our idea of ​​using fire attack. That's why they used rockets to test us at the beginning and then launched an all-out attack right after. They wanted us to withdraw early so that they could use their trick to trick me."

"My miscalculation was that I didn't expect that the Jin army could put out the fire in Yecheng despite the interference of the people. One wrong move led to many mistakes."

"Perhaps I am really old, and Zihuan is young and unable to support the overall situation. From now on, the Kingdom of Wei will be handed over to you two."

The two were shocked and kowtowed immediately, saying, "Mingsong is in good health, there is absolutely nothing wrong with you. We will definitely help you defeat the fierce tiger!"

Cao Cao shook his head, sighed, and slowly closed his eyes.

Sima Yi straightened up, but what he was thinking in his heart was that Zhong Yao and he had just said the same thing, both of them said to help Ming Gong instead of helping the State of Wei. Was this a coincidence, or did he have other ideas?
(End of this chapter)