Time went back three days ago. In the opposite direction of Sha County, Tao Qian sat on the horse and sighed, shaking his head from time to time, obviously he had something to worry about. Beside Tao Qian, Kong Rong also had a depressed look on his face. Listening to Tao Qian's sighs one after another, Kong Rong could no longer help: "Tao Envoy, Yuan Shao and others conspired to ambush the champion Hou. Although you and I did not participate in it, we know this. If the champion Hou really died unfortunately, wouldn't you and I become accomplices of Yuan Shao and others?"

Tao Qian glanced at Kong Rong and asked back, "What should I do? The troops in your hands can only resist the princes at most. Don't forget that Yuan Shao and the others have more than a dozen princes, not to mention that Wang Yun and others secretly support Yuan Shao. Although you and I feel sad, they can't twist their arms. Alas——" As he said that, Tao Qian sighed again.

"No matter what, as the great-grandson of Confucius, Rong must not sit idly by the unkind and unjust things." Kong Rong said angrily. This was the first time in his life that scholars encountered difficulties in military affairs. Some things were not reasonable at all.

Tao Qian suddenly stopped the war horse and asked Kong Rong in an inquiring tone: "We don't have the ability to save Ao Junhou, but we can notify others to go and rescue each other. As long as there is no real evidence, Yuan Shao and the others cannot determine that it is the news that we leaked. In this way, we can neither offend Yuan Shao nor warn Ao Junhou. Isn't it the best of both worlds?"

Kong Rong said in confusion: "But today, who can dare to compete with the princes of half of the world?"

Tao Qian reached out and pointed to the southeast, and gently spit out two words: "Sun Jian."

"Yes, Sun Jian's eldest son is Ao Junhou's apprentice. He will definitely return to the army to rescue Ao Junhou. There is also Gongsun Zan. He is a subordinate of Ao Junhou and respects Ao Junhou very much and will definitely not sit idly by. We must find a way to notify him." Kong Rong put forward his own opinions.

Tao Qian nodded, then turned around and said, "Where is Meng Kui?" Behind Tao Qian, a man under thirty, rode over and replied, "Carda here." Tao Qian introduced to Kong Rong, "This is a deputy general. He was originally from Jingzhou. His surname was Kada and his name was Mengkui. He was quite brave and upright. Let him tell Sun Jian about this."

Kong Rong smiled and said, "Great Good!"

Not to mention that Kada was ordered to chase Sun Jian. Time returned to the present, outside Sha County, Ao Lie took a deep breath towards the morning sun, suppressed the uneasy emotions in his heart as much as possible, and then turned to Lu Bu and said, "Brother. For some reason, a huge rock was pressed in his heart, and he couldn't breathe."

Lu Bu comforted and said, "Maybe you are too tired. You can have a good sleep in these few months. This time, you will definitely have a good life and recuperate for a few days when you return to Youzhou. When the things in Bingzhou are finished, I will go to Ji County to find you and accompany you to get drunk."

Looking at Lu Bu's concerned expression, Ao Lie felt a lot more relaxed in his heart, and he smiled and said, "Is the eldest brother bullying me so hard?"

After the two of them talked for a while, Lu Bu jumped onto the back of the Red Rabbit, waved goodbye to Ao Lie, and led his army to the northwest.

Ao Lie looked at Lu Bu's back silently until he disappeared, then sighed, then turned over and jumped onto Zhao Yexue's back, asking Zhao Yun and Ma Chao to call the army to start.

On the top of a mountain in the distance, Yuan Shao and others hid their bodies under the cover of rocks and quietly watched the movements of Ao Lie's army. After seeing Ao Lie and Lu Bu say goodbye, they began to lead the army forward. A cold smile appeared on the corner of Yuan Shao's mouth: "If you have a way in heaven, you won't go, if you have no way in hell, you can break in. Ao Mohan, since you are here today, don't think about going out alive."

Hundred steps...eighty steps...five steps...Yuan Shao counted silently in his heart. As long as Ao Lie walked fifty steps forward, he would enter the net of heaven and earth set up by Yuan Shao and others. It was a not-so-open official road. There were towering peaks on both sides. Yuan Shao had already buried countless ambushes on the mountains on both sides.

Fifty steps away from the ambush circle, Ao Lie suddenly stopped, observing the movements around him vigilantly, and the feeling of anxiety in his heart became stronger and stronger. Ao Lie himself could not tell what the anxiety was, but he intuitively felt that there was danger ahead and it was a great danger. Ao Lie believed in his intuition, which was a special skill he had developed in years of fighting.

Ao Lie stopped, and the army behind him naturally stopped. Zhao Yun and Ma Chao came to Ao Lie’s horse, not understanding why Ao Lie stopped moving forward. Just as Ao Lie was about to explain, a rapid sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the side. Ao Lie turned his head and looked at a big man wearing the armor of a deputy general came over. When he saw Ao Lie’s big flag, he shouted out loud: “Mr. Retreat! There is an ambush in front of him!”

Ma Chao stood in front of Ao Lie and asked vigilantly: "Who are you?" The visitor ran wildly, and replied loudly: "It's Jingzhou Kada. Yuan Shao and others set up a net of heaven and earth in front. Please retreat quickly!" In order to protect Tao Qian from being angry with Yuan Shao and others afterwards, Kada did not report who he was.

The visitor was Kada. After he caught up with Sun Jian's team without stopping, he told Sun Jian about Yuan Shao and others' preparation to ambush Ao Lie. Then he changed his horse to Sun Jian's army and rushed to Ao Lie day and night to report the message to Ao Lie. Sun Jian led his army and arrived later.

"How can you prove what you said?" Ao Lie asked cautiously. Kada was very anxious, but could not explain to Ao Lie. Kada knew that Yuan Shao must be hiding nearby. If he said Tao Qian's name, although Ao Lie could believe it, it would expose Tao Qian to Yuan Shao. Gripping his teeth, Kada shook the reins suddenly, turned his head and ran towards the official road. While riding the horse, he reached into his arms and took out a fire note. Kada lit the fire note with difficulty in igniting the fire note in the bumps on the horse's back. After sitting down and running onto the official road, Kada shook the reins and let the front hoof of the war horse trample on the official road twice, and then threw the fire note in his hand to the ground.

The official road had been buried by Yuan Shu, and it was covered with a thin layer of floating soil to cover people's eyes and ears. Kada urged the war horse to trample on the ground, kicking the floating soil on the surface, and the fire fell directly on the fire-induced object under the floating soil, and the fire instantly rose up and burned forward along the official road.

Yuan Shao, who was hiding on the top of the mountain, saw that the net he had laid was destroyed by a man who came out of nowhere. He stood up in anger and no longer cared about hiding his path. He shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrow!" The ambushers who had already ambushed the mountains on both sides rose up. A series of sour string sounds were clearly transmitted to Ao Lie's ears.

The next moment, the rain of arrows fell from the sky, and tens of thousands of arrows even temporarily obscured the sun's light. Xu Chu and Dian Wei rushed to Ao Lie first, blocked Ao Lie behind him, and then waved their weapons to dial the arrows shot for Ao Lie.

Ao Lie looked forward through countless arrows. He saw Kada and his horse being shot to the ground. Kada smiled and struggled to convey the last message to Ao Lie: I am fortunate to fight side by side with the Lord in this life.

Looking at Kada slowly closing his eyes, Ao Lie raised his overlord gun high and roared at the top of the mountain where Yuan Shao was: "Yuan Benchu! I'm not in line with you!"

Ao Lie was protected by Xu Chu and Dian Wei. However, the Blood Killing and the Tiger Ben elites behind Ao Lie did not. Faced with the arrow rain coming from the sky, even if the soldiers from the Blood Killing Camp and the Hu Ben camp were very elite, it would be difficult to open all the arrows one by one. The casualties were inevitable. At the critical moment, Ao Lie spent a huge amount of money to build the elites of the two battalions, which played a crucial role. The strong armor blocked most of the key points of the elites of the two battalions, otherwise it would be difficult to estimate the casualties. Even with the excellent armor, nearly a thousand elite soldiers were shot by cold arrows under this round of arrow rain, and countless other injured people were.

"Retreat! Go back to Sha County!" Ao Lie issued an order loudly. The elite troops of the two battalions waved their weapons and dialed the arrows, while retreating as they said.

Seeing that the soldiers on his side had a condescending advantage and caused losses to the elite troops of Ao Lie, Yuan Shao felt extremely happy and shouted loudly: "Don't stop! Keep shooting arrows!" With Yuan Shao's orders, another sound of pulling the strings sounded.

Ao Lie was anxious and shouted repeatedly: "Drive to kill. Dismount! Use war horses to resist arrows!" The war horses equipped by Ao Lie for the Blood Killing Camp were all excellent horses, with a total of 10,000 war horses, but Ao Lie spent a lot of money to buy them from all over the country, but the situation is critical at the moment, no matter how good the war horse is, no matter how important it is, no matter how important the war horse is, in Ao Lie's eyes, every elite force who follows him is far more precious than these war horses. In order to save the lives of these elite troops, Ao Lie could only sacrifice these war horses, even if he exposed the secret of the horse's Three Treasures to Yuan Shao, he would do whatever he wanted.

The Blood Killing Camp had never given any discount to Ao Lie's orders. After hearing Ao Lie's shouts, nearly 10,000 elite blood Killing soldiers all turned over and dismounted, left their beloved war horses behind to resist the arrows, and then followed the elite tigers and rushed to Shaxian City on foot.

The second round of arrow rain fell, and the two elite battalions in the retreat suffered casualties again. However, this time, due to the barriers made up of war horses, the number of casualties was much less than before, and only a few hundred people were shot on the spot. After overcoming the second round of arrow rain, the rest accelerated to escape the range of the ambushers standing on the mountain.

With just two rounds of volleys, nearly two thousand people were shot and killed by the Blood Killer and the Tiger Ben elite. Perhaps, Yuan Shao was not satisfied with this record and believed that the number of people shot was too small, but Ao Lie didn't think so. At this moment, Ao Lie's heart was bleeding! Every Blood Killer and Tiger Ben elite was selected after thousands of choices, and after rigorous training and countless wars, Ao Lie poured too much effort and a lot of money into them. Every elite killed in the battle was like cutting off a piece of meat from Ao Lie.

The elites of Blood Killing and Hu Ben did not disappoint Ao Lie's cultivation and dedication to them. Faced with the overwhelming rain of arrows and even death, no one ever screamed from beginning to end! Every elite who was caught in the arrow gritted his teeth and stood up, breaking the shaft of the arrow stuck on his body, bleeding, and following Ao Lie to advance and retreat together.
Chapter completed!