Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 149
When Liu Dai learned that his forward troops had caught up with Cao Cao's follow-up troops, he was very happy. He finally caught up with Cao Cao, and the great credit was about to come.

However, Cao Cao's follow-up troops were not easy to fight, and Cao Cao's remaining generals were not very good, at least Liu Daishi thought so.Because their forwards fought against them for less than a quarter of an hour, they were defeated, and the large troops on their side hadn't had time to join the battle circle yet.

Xia Houyuan's defeat seemed to be a shot in the arm, giving Liu Dai a burst of encouragement, and he was as excited as if he had been pumped. He had already ordered the whole army to speed up, and he was about to catch up with Cao Cao in one fell swoop.

Not far ahead, Xia Houyuan's troops fought against Liu Dai's striker again, and the two sides fought together. Although Xia Houyuan's side was relatively small, the soldiers on his side were obviously more elite, and they were closely tied to each other. The formation fought against the enemy, and the comrades cooperated with each other, and even drew with the opponent.

Xiahoudun has been commanding the Chinese army with his brother, not because he is afraid of death, but because Xiahouyuan doesn't let him go out.This battle was all commanded by Xia Houyuan. This was Cao Cao's order, and Xiahou Dun had to obey it.

The two sides have been fighting for almost half an hour. Liu Dai's army has become more and more chaotic, and has completely lost its formation. Most of the generals are busy organizing soldiers to fight back.At this time Xia Houyuan suddenly ordered: "Brother, you immediately lead two hundred soldiers to fight out and take the opponent's general directly."

"Haha, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. Brothers, follow me." Xiahoudun immediately rode out with his gun, and the two hundred cavalry behind him immediately followed and killed them.

I have to admit that Xiahou Dun is indeed a strong general. He led two hundred cavalry to fight out at this time, and directly defeated the formation that the opponent had finally organized.

Xiahou Dun single-handedly attacked the opponent's general.Before the opponent's soldiers had time to react, Xiahou Dun had already pierced the opponent's chief general's chest with a single shot.Then, Xiahou Dun shouted: "Your general is dead, so don't surrender quickly."

Xia Houyuan seized the opportunity to counterattack immediately. Liu Dai's army had lost morale, and Xia Houyuan's attack was very fierce. After a while, thousands of people were all defeated.Xiahoudun wanted to chase, but was stopped by Xiahouyuan. The victory in front of him was only temporary, and there would be fierce battles to come.

Xia Houyuan looked at his brother who was excited to kill, and he was speechless in his heart. He could only shout: "Enough, although the enemy's forwards are defeated, but their army is still behind, we only have more than 1000 people left. If If you don't want your brothers to die quickly, retreat quickly.

Liu Dai still has tens of thousands of people, which we cannot resist. We will act according to the plan, so as not to delay the important event of the lord.Don't be arrogant, brother. "

Xiahoudun, who was on the verge of excitement, had no choice but to obey orders. Indeed, Cao Cao's major affairs were the most important. If he dared to disobey the military order, Cao Cao would not be relentless when he returned.

Liu Dai was also blocked for a while after encountering a rout.When Liu Dai learned that his striker was defeated like this, he was very angry. At that moment, Liu Dai ordered a full-speed pursuit again. Tens of thousands of troops chased in the direction where Xia Houyuan fled. A big battle was inevitable.

Twenty miles away, Gongsun Xu laughed when he learned that Liu Dai's striker had been defeated: "Xiahouyuan brothers are really good generals. It is really wise for Cao Cao to arrange for them to end. Next, we must ambush. Liu Dai probably It’s going to be a big loss, we speed up and detour to catch up, maybe we can take advantage of it.”

An hour later, Gongsun Xu's side finally arrived at the destination. At this time, the armies of Cao Cao and Liu Dai had already fought.

Sure enough, as Gongsun Xu expected, Cao Cao was indeed ambushing Liu Dai. After Xia Houyuan led Liu Dai's former army into the ambush circle, Cao Cao commanded the army to rush forward. Within half an hour of the battle, Liu Dai's former army suffered heavy losses. If it weren't for Liu Dai who would immediately press the whole army, I'm afraid this battle would have ended.

The two sides are fighting fiercely, and Liu Dai has a large number of people. Although tens of thousands of people are fighting independently, the crowd tactics still have an advantage.There were only 1 people on Cao Cao's side. They lined up in a defensive formation, obeyed the orders of their officers, and relied on the cooperation of their comrades to resist the attack of Liu Dai's tens of thousands of people.

Gongsun Xu's army stayed ten miles away. Except for more than 200 scouts monitoring the battlefield, the rest of them were resting, as if they were only preparing for the big battle.

Zhang Fei has been wiping his spear, and today he will inevitably have to fight again. The belligerent Zhang Fei is the most excited.Zhao Yun was discussing tactics with Gongsun Xu. In a battle like this, how to avoid casualties is the most important thing. If possible, Zhao Yun hopes to make a surprise attack.

After resting like this for more than an hour, at this time, Gongsun continued to order: "Okay, Yide, go and order the whole army to assemble.

Father, you don't need to participate. Zilong and Yide will lead 4000 people to attack Liu Dai. I will accompany you to watch this good show. "

Gongsun Zan nodded in agreement. To be honest, with generals like Gongsun Xu, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Fei beside Gongsun Zan, it really wasn't his turn to make a move.Besides, this is not a death blow, and there is no need for the whole army to press on.

After Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei led the attack, Gongsun Xu accompanied Gongsun Zan to occupy a favorable terrain to observe the battle of the three sides.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei are both masters of cavalry, and they are also good at using cavalry. Of course, four thousand cavalry in their hands can defeat Liu Dai's army, let alone an army that has fought fiercely for more than two hours.With the addition of Youzhou Army, Liu Dai's side has become a defeat.

Half an hour later, Liu Dai led the remnants of the defeated 2 soldiers and fled.The Youzhou Army captured more than 1 prisoners. As for the other routs, they were all dispersed.There are more than 8000 people left on Cao Cao's side, all of whom are exhausted.

Although Cao Cao knew that the Youzhou army had been standing by and watching, he still had to do the obvious work.In terms of real talk, Gongsun Xu saved Cao Cao again.

After some courtesies from both parties, Cao Cao led his men to continue to retreat to Yangzhou, while Gongsun Xu stayed temporarily to set up camp.

Now, Gongsun Xu wasn't worried that anyone would attack or chase him. He stayed for the tens of thousands of defeated troops.

After Gongsun Xu set up camp here for five days, he surrendered a total of nearly [-] defeated troops.Most of these people are Qiao Mao's subordinates.Gongsun Xu didn't force himself to do so. Anyone who was willing to stay, Gongsun Xu promised to take them to Bingzhou. If he wanted to leave, Gongsun Xu would not stop him, and he would also distribute three days of rations.

In the end, less than 1 of the [-] surrendered soldiers remained, and the rest received rations and went home.Gongsun Xu also fulfilled his promise, everyone's rations are real, and there will be no falsification.Anyway, these grains were all captured, and Gongsun Xu didn't have any reluctance to part with them.

After dealing with these matters in this way, the Youzhou army finally pulled out their camp and marched towards Bingzhou. This time, they really wanted to go back.

On the way, Gongsun Zan asked Gongsun Xu: "Why did you let so many people go? If you promise something more, I believe that you can still keep thousands of people."

Gongsun continued to smile without saying a word, he just shook his head without explaining.

It wasn't until a few years later, when Gongsun Xu began to turn his gaze to the south, that Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei understood why Gongsun Xu had let so many people go. It turned out that among these people, many details arranged by Gongsun Xu had been mixed in.

On the other side, in Luoyang City, although Yuan Shao was in the mood to continue to be his leader, the rest of the princes were not willing to continue to obey Yuan Shao's orders, especially Yuan Shu and others.

After confirming that Gongsun Xu had retreated back to Bingzhou, Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, and Kong Rong were in no mood to stay in Luoyang.Yuan Shu always remembered Gongsun Xu's reminder that Lu Bu's army was still watching not far away, if they did not retreat now, it would be difficult to retreat when the enemy counterattacked.

After the discussion between the three of Yuan Shu, they collectively wanted to say goodbye to Yuan Shao. In fact, everyone knew that Yuan Shu and the others were just putting on a show.

Since everyone knows the situation, it is better to make the superficial articles more interesting.Yuan Shao graciously agreed with Yuan Shu and others to leave, and even went out of the camp to see them off for ten li.

The other princes saw that several powerful people had left, and they didn't want to stay any longer.Especially Liu Dai who was defeated, he had lost most of his food and grass, and now he had to rush back to his hometown, otherwise, he also knew that if he left late, he might end up in the same fate as Qiao Mao.

Of course, he himself understood that he no longer had the strength to make Yuan Shao agree to his departure.Just when Yuan Shao left the camp to send Yuan Shu and others away, Liu Dai also led his army to leave Luoyang from another direction.

Yuan Shao also understood that Luoyang could not become a base for him to settle down, and he himself never thought about staying here.It's good now, the leader of his alliance is already in name only, and it doesn't make much sense to stay in Luoyang.In this way, Yuan Shao also withdrew his troops after discussing with several of his counselors.

The remaining princes seemed embarrassed. It would be a complete waste of manpower and material resources to stay, and it would be embarrassing to not stay.Yuan Shao, the leader of the alliance, retreated without saying a word, and they didn't know what to do.

However, as soon as a few big forces left, there would be a lot of vacuum areas in Luoyang, and the remaining princes would fight to snatch such meaningless vacuum areas.The whole Luoyang almost became a chaotic battlefield.

The good alliance finally dissipated.It was originally intended to rescue the Allied forces in Luoyang, and almost brought a devastating blow to the ancient city of Luoyang.

A righteous move against Dong Zhuo still ended in farce.The princes who stayed in several powerful places in Luoyang City also returned to their hometowns with smiles after gaining their own benefits.

As for the others, they were simply bullied. On the other hand, Dong Zhuo, although he lost a city, his crisis was successfully resolved.In the end who won this battle, who can tell? /
(End of this chapter)