Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 723 Cao Zihuan was defeated and set himself on fire (1)

"My lord, there is news from Xuchang City that Cao Mengde has died of illness, but his second son Cao Pi has not yet had time to succeed to the throne, but he has already claimed to be the King of Wei!"

In the Hebei army camp in the north of Xuchang City, Xu Shu said to Liu Wei.

"Well, once Cao Cao dies, the morale of the Cao army in Xuchang City will definitely be unstable. Someone should write me a letter to surrender tonight!"

Hearing the news of Cao Cao's death, Liu Wei's face was calm, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or worried.

Xu Shu went on to say: "I heard that Liu Bei from the south took this opportunity to send troops to take Yuzhou. I didn't expect that Sun Ce didn't find a bargain, and let this big-eared thief take advantage of the loophole!"

"Heh, there is no threat to me that Liu Bei's conquest of Yuzhou is not a threat to me. As soon as Yuzhou is leveled, my cavalry can level Yuzhou in an instant!"

Liu Wei didn't take Liu Bei seriously at all. From Liu Wei's point of view, the most urgent task was to win Xuchang, and then continue to lead the army south to dominate the world.

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That night, as expected by Liu Wei, many generals in Xuchang City sent letters, all hoping that Liu Wei would let them go, and they surrendered when Xuchang City was broken.

What's more, they let down the rope from the city, followed the rope down to the city, and either defected to the Hebei army, or returned home as a deserter.

The next day, when Xia Houyuan and Cao Ren counted the soldiers and horses, they found that the number of soldiers and horses in the city had decreased by more than one-third, and there were only more than [-] soldiers left.

"These damned bastards actually ran away. Fortunately, they ran fast, or I would have killed them all!"

Cao Hong punched the wall hard.

"Report, captured dozens of deserters who wanted to escape!"

Xia Houyuan's personal soldiers pressed down dozens of soldiers who wanted to escape, and came in front of Xia Houyuan.

When these soldiers who wanted to escape saw Xia Houyuan and the other generals, they struggled and shouted: "Why are you arresting us, why are you!"

Xia Houyuan's complexion darkened, and he said in a low voice: "According to the laws of the Great Wei Kingdom, those who escape before the battle will be executed according to the law!"

Cao Hong had the most irritable temper, and he drew out his waist knife to kill these deserters himself.

These deserters naturally refused to accept, and retorted: "The Great Wei Kingdom is about to perish, so there is no law at all. Even if you kill us all, it will not change the fact that you are defeated!"

"Presumptuous! As long as His Royal Highness the King of Wei is still here, the Kingdom of Wei will not perish. You stubborn rats, if you don't kill you, what is the military power?"

Xia Houyuan was furious, and ordered the dozens of deserters to be brought in front of the army.

"Listen up, officers and men. These dozens of people are afraid of the strength of Hebei's army and want to escape, but I caught them. Today I will let you know what happens when you become deserters!"

After Xia Houyuan finished speaking, an executioner immediately came behind the deserter with a machete in his hand.

"cut!"

Xia Houyuan gave an order, and dozens of executioners raised their knives and dropped their knives, and dozens of good heads rolled to the ground.

Seeing the more than [-] Cao Jun, they felt that their necks were cold, and they couldn't help shrinking their necks.

After killing people, Xia Houyuan said again: "Today, we are going out of the city to fight to the death with the Hebei army. If we fail, we will be benevolent! Do you dare to follow this general out of the city to kill Liu Ziyan?"

Xia Houyuan was talking about lofty ambitions, but the Cao army below was silent, and almost no one paid attention to Xia Houyuan. Even if there were three or five of them, waving their hands and wanting to shout, they found that there was no one around Xia Houyuan who echoed Xia Houyuan and dropped their raised hands. down.

Xia Houyuan stood on the stage, embarrassed, and shouted again: "Do you dare to go out of the city with me to fight a decisive battle with the Hebei army?"

"..."

Cao Jun in the audience paid no attention to Xia Houyuan at all, and some young generals even turned their heads aside and stopped looking at Xia Houyuan.

Xia Houyuan didn't know that once he went out of the city to fight the Hebei army, two-thirds of the more than [-] soldiers in the audience would immediately defect and surrender.

Seeing this, many people don't understand, these people are all Cao Jun, why do they have a heart for Liu Wei.

There is a reason for this, because many of the more than [-] Cao troops are the Guanzhong army, but now Guanzhong has been occupied by the Hebei army, and their homes are all in the hands of the enemy. How can they have the heart to fight the Hebei army? The remaining soldiers and horses are Cao Cao's troops. Cao Pi had no access to military power when Cao Cao was alive. Cao's army was only loyal to Cao Cao. If there were no foreign troubles, they might obey Cao Pi's dispatch, but now there are strong enemies outside. Let them Who would be so stupid to work for a kid who has never met before.

Sima Yi, who was hiding in a corner in the distance, looked at this scene quietly, and said to himself: "Soldiers have no fighting spirit. If they go out of the city, Liu Wei may break the skill of a cup of tea. Xuchang, a place of right and wrong, cannot stay for long. I'd better get out of the city and go back to Hongnong!"

Sima Yi turned around and ran to the south gate. As soon as he arrived at the south gate, he felt familiar with an old man pulling a donkey in the crowd. After catching up with him, he turned out to be Jia Xu.

"Master Jia, what are you doing here? Why are you dressed like this?"

Sima Yi asked with a smile.

Seeing that Jia Xu was recognized, a man next to Jia Xu stretched out his hand to touch the donkey's back.

"Mu'er! Don't be rude!"

Jia Xu shouted Jia Mu back, and then asked Sima Yi, "What are you going to do, Master Sima?"

Sima Yi smiled and said, "I will do whatever Mr. Jia is doing!"

"Hahahaha, since we are like-minded, why not be together?"

"Master Jia really has a good plan. Are you trying to attach to our Hongnong Sima family?"

Sima Yi asked.

Jia Xu bowed his hands to Sima Yi, and said, "I hope Lord Sima will take him in for the sake of my colleagues for many years!"

"Naturally, Mr. Jia supported me a lot in the past, and our Sima family really lacks such talents as Mr. Jia!"

Sima Yi and Jia Xu's family left from the south gate of Xuchang City and headed for Hongnong.

On the other side, Xia Houyuan had already led his army out of the city, ready to fight Liu Wei.

After Xia Houyuan led the army to form a formation, Liu Wei just went out of the camp to take a look at Cao Jun, then returned to the camp and ordered: "I will not go out in today's battle. You can fight whatever you want, but there is one thing, you can't go." A general of Cao Jun!"

"Here!"

After Liu Wei finished speaking, dozens of tiger generals scrambled to return to the camp, gathered their soldiers and horses, and rushed out of the camp.

Zhao Yun and his Flying Leopard Army were the first to leave the camp.

After Zhao Yun came out of the camp, the white horse pointed the silver spear, and tens of thousands of Flying Leopards rushed towards Cao Jun.

Zhao Yun single-handedly entered the enemy's formation and killed several generals of Cao Jun in a row.

Followed by Yuexi's Xiong Wei army, the heavy armored cavalry crashed into the Cao army's formation, and the killed Cao army threw away their helmets and armor, and fled in all directions.

After these two entered the Cao army's position, the rest of the generals also attacked the enemy's formation. Most of the Cao army threw away their weapons and stood aside, not daring to be an enemy of the Hebei army.

(End of this chapter)