Chapter 244: The fierce general surrenders to Cao
After Wen Chou broke through Cao Ren's battle formation with a small group of cavalry, he had not had time to look back and wait and see, and a sound of chung was heard. Countless figures suddenly emerged from Cao Ren's battle formation, surrounding Wen Chou's small group of troops. Wen Chou took a look and observed for a moment, and his heart immediately felt cold. The Cao army came again! And it was Zang Ba's troops guarding Qingzhou.
Cao Cao's two elite troops, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Tiger Guard, all came from the Qingzhou Army. The Qingzhou Army is known for its bravery and good combat, and the leader is Zang Ba, who is best at leveraging the advantages of Qingzhou soldiers. Wen Chou realized that the form seemed to be not very good.
The Cao army in Qingzhou was divided into two parts, like two long dragons, bringing up rolling dust and coming towards the small army led by Wen Chou. The reason why Cao Ren deliberately let Wen Chou go was because Cao Ren knew that there was Zang Ba behind him, and Zang Ba would not disappoint him.
In the formation, Zang Ba ranks out and immediately comes in front of the formation with a long spear in his hand. After a cold look at Wen Chou, Zang Ba's voice without any emotion sounded: "Absiege Wen Chou, don't care if you live or die!" After Zang Ba's troops received the order, they immediately divided two teams of infantry, cooperated with the two teams that had previously killed Wen Chou and launched round after round of fierce attacks on Wen Chou.
Wen Chou only led more than a thousand people to break through Cao Ren's defense line. Now Zang Ba blocks the road in front and Cao Ren's heavy troops defend. Wen Chou has become a turtle in the jar and has no way out. It is a fool to want to fight Zang Ba's 20,000 infantry with a thousand people. However, Wen Chou is not willing to surrender, and waves a big sword to rush back and forth. Every time he slashes, he will take away the life of a Cao army soldier. The screams keep ringing under Wen Chou's knife. Although Wen Chou is brave, his human power is sometimes poor. Wen Chou is not Ao Lie, and he does not have the natural divine power and magical shooting skills like Ao Lie. After rushing back and forth for more than a dozen times, the war horse that Wen Chou sat down had signs of exhaustion, and his speed gradually slowed down. In the chaos, there is no advantage of speed and Wen Chou is surrounded by the core. The fate is self-evident. It is a matter of time.
The brave Wen Chou also realized that the war horse would only become a burden for him. He no longer hesitated, twisted his body and slammed his body and jumped off the war horse. He held a big knife and only wanted to kill him, as if he was going to take more burials before he died. Seeing Wen Chou's bravery, Zang Ba quietly took out his strong bow and took a sharp arrow. After aiming a little, he let go of his hand. The sharp arrow roared and shot towards Wen Chou.
At this time, it was obvious that Wen Chou's martial arts were so skillful that Wen Chou could still see all directions in the noisy battlefield. As soon as Zang Ba's sharp arrow was left, Wen Chou had already noticed it. After killing the two Cao troops in front of him with one knife, he suddenly turned around. At the same time, he took a big step forward with his left foot, giving his big sword space to slash. Then he held the knife in both hands and slashed the sharp arrow shot by Zang Ba in two pieces. After cutting Zang Ba's sharp arrow, Wen Chou looked at Zang Ba with a provocative face and told Zang Ba with his eyes: Your cold arrow will not hurt someone.
Zang Ba saw Wen Chou's provocative eyes, but was not moved at all, with no sadness or joy on his cold face. He pulled out two sharp arrows again and placed them on the bowstring. Zang Ba pulled the bow with his left hand and controlled the string with his right hand. The two sharp arrows were drawn without firing. He was looking for Wen Chou's flaws, or rather, he was waiting for Wen Chou to make a mistake. Once Wen Chou made any mistakes, Zang Ba's sharp arrows would arrive in time and give Wen Chou a fatal blow.
At noon, after a knife slashing, Wen Chou turned his body and faced the brilliant sunshine. The dazzling sunlight made Wen Chou subconsciously close his eyes. The time has come! Zang Ba maintains a string control posture and keeps paying attention to Wen Chou, like a calm wolf. At this moment, after seeing Wen Chou blink, Zang Ba's aura suddenly surged, and an invisible murderous intent locked on Wen Chou. Two sharp arrows that had been accused of force on the strong bow were shot to Wen Chou's legs one on the left and one on the right. In the midst of the chaos, if Wen Chou was shot in both legs by Zang Ba, it would be not far from death.
This time, Zang Ba was not in a mistake. After a long period of accumulation of momentum, Zang Ba had already adjusted his energy to the best state, and also used the shooting technique of killing two birds with one stone. Wen Chou was caught off guard and had no time to dodge one sharp arrow. However, he was powerless to do anything against the second arrow. He could only adjust the pace under his feet as much as possible and try to avoid the leg bones piercing through the sharp arrow.
Puchi - The sharp arrow hit Wen Chou's left thigh accurately, with a slit of blood beads pierced a blurred blood hole in Wen Chou's thigh. Fortunately, even though Wen Chou adjusted his pace, he avoided the collision between the sharp arrow and the leg bones, and did not cause the leg bones to suffer severe damage. It was just that the muscles on the thigh were shot through. However, even so, a piercing pain made Wen Chou twitch all over, but he endured the pain and let out a sound, staggered back a few steps, and then stuck it on the ground with the handle of the knife to support his body and prevent himself from falling down.
In Zang Ba's impression, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were a famous general under Yuan Shao, he was brave but not scheming and could not bear the responsibility at all. However, when he saw Wen Chou, he was so sad that he was trembling all over, but he refused to let out a cry of pain and supported his body with weapons. Zang Ba couldn't help but make Zang Ba respectfully. Waving over a team of personal guards, Zang Ba ordered: "Capture Wen Chou and hand it over to Sikong." Zang Ba said this, which was equivalent to leaving a way out for Wen Chou. At least, Wen Chou would not be killed by Cao's soldiers immediately.
On the other hand, Yan Liang and Yu Jin and Cao Hong's attack have also entered a white-hot stage. Yu Jin's strength is training troops rather than charging forward. Although Cao Hong is brave, he is still young and has insufficient experience, and is undoubtedly not proficient enough. Therefore, the two of them can't defeat Yan Liang in a joint battle. Instead, they are beaten by Yan Liang in danger. I believe that it won't take long before Yan Liang can be knocked down by the two.
Of course, Cao Ren would not let such a thing happen. Behind him, the personal guards had arranged three triple-marsoles according to his requirements with the cover of Cao's cavalry. Now, it was time for the triple-marsole to take effect. Cao Ren rushed into the battlefield with his sword and shouted loudly: "Zi Lian (Cao Hong's name), Wen Ze (Yu Jin's name) retreated and waited for the general to come to fight Yan Liang in person!"
After hearing Cao Hong and Yu Jin shouted, they both made a move and rode their horses to the formation. Yan Liang had the opportunity to chase after him and defeat or even kill one of them, but Yan Liang knew that the situation today was critical. Even if Cao Hong, one of Yu Jin could not help the crisis, and it would be better to capture Cao Ren. Cao Ren is currently the supreme commander of the Cao army. If Cao Ren could capture Cao Ren, it would be enough to make Cao army attack the rat.
As soon as he thought of this, Yan Liang roared and raised his sword to slash Cao Ren. Cao Ren was not willing to be outdone, so he raised his sword and fought against Yan Liang head-on. With the sound of the collision of the two weapons, Cao Ren suddenly felt that his arms were slightly numb. Yan Liang's bravery was indeed worthy of his reputation. At the same time, Yan Liang was also very surprised. He did not expect that Cao Ren's power and martial arts were much beyond his imagination. Since Cao Cao formed the army, Cao Ren has always served as the chief general and rarely took action himself, so the impression he left on the world is that he is a kind person.
The wise general who was deploying troops in a formation was actually his outstanding martial arts, but people were unintentionally ignored. Just imagine how brave the brothers Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan were. None of the two had martial arts skills than Yan Liang and Wen Chou. However, the two brothers had never expressed any questions about Cao Ren's position as the chief general of the central army. In addition to the relationship between clan brothers, Cao Ren's martial arts must also be one of the reasons that impressed the Xiahou brothers. Inferred in turn, even if Cao Ren's martial arts skills were not as good as the Xiahou brothers, they would not be far apart.
After fighting with Yan Liang for more than a dozen rounds, Cao Ren's sword technique gradually dissipated, and his breath was also fluctuating and seemed very disordered. Obviously, Cao Ren could no longer support Yan Liang's fierce attack. When the two of them met again, Cao Ren suddenly looked behind Yan Liang in horror. He asked in suspicion: "Who are you?"
Hearing Cao Ren's words, Yan Liang was so scared that he felt cold on his back. There was someone behind him, but he didn't notice it. Yan Liang hurriedly turned around and looked behind him, but found that there were only soldiers fighting in melee behind him. There was no one particularly eye-catching. After being stunned, Yan Liang immediately woke up and came to his senses of deception. Cao Ren was using a trick! He hurriedly turned around. Yan Liang saw Cao Ren attached to the saddle, looking weak, and had already run more than ten steps towards the Cao army's battle formation.
Yan Liang was so angry that Wuming became angry that the duck he got was about to fly away! How could Yan Liang bear it? Judging from Cao Ren's appearance, Yan Liang was confident to capture Cao Ren within three moves. Unexpectedly, Cao Ren actually made a fraud and turned around, but he took the opportunity to escape! He roared, Yan Liang raised his big sword and urged his war horse to chase Cao Ren.
In the Yuan army formation, Shen Pei was shocked when he saw this scene and shouted quickly: "General Yan, return to our formation quickly!" Now that Wen Chou led his army to break through Cao Ren's defense line, he did not take the next move. Shen Pei guessed that Wen Chou had encountered an accident. If Yan Liang had any more accidents, the 40,000 Yuan troops he brought would really die in a foreign land.
However, Yan Liang turned a deaf ear to Shen Pei's call. Relying on his bravery, he did not take the Cao army seriously. In his opinion, as long as he could capture Cao Ren, his team would have the capital to save his life. Therefore, Yan Liang did not slow down, but instead stepped on the horse's belly more vigorously, hoping to make the horse run faster.
Ten steps...five steps...three steps. When he was about to catch up with Cao Ren, Yan Liang suddenly felt a dizzy sound. He heard his war horse cry in his ears. Then, Yan Liang's body had an intimate contact with the earth, and he fell to him and was at a loss.
After Yan Liang got rid of his confusion, he suddenly found that his neck was covered with steel knives, the steel knives of Cao's soldiers! Yan Liang looked up and saw Cao Ren standing next to the tripper, looking calm and at ease. He was not as good as his breath was just now. In an instant, Yan Liang understood that he had fallen into a trap. He wanted to capture Cao Ren, but Cao Ren captured him.
Yuan Jun, who had lost Yan Liang and Wen Chou, was like a tiger without teeth. In just one hour, he was defeated by Cao's army. Only a few thousand people fled the battlefield, and the rest were either killed or surrendered to Cao's army. In this battle, Cao Ren captured Yan Liang alive, Zang Ba captured Wen Chou, and Cao's army captured more than 10,000 surrendered soldiers. Only Shen Pei's whereabouts were unknown, probably he escaped in the chaos.
After the war, Zang Ba told Cao Ren about Wen Chou's performance and tactfully asked Cao Ren to forgive Yan Liang and Wen Chou based on the standard of using talents. After a little pondering, Cao Ren happily agreed to Zang Ba's request. Yan Liang and Wen Chou's martial arts, Cao Ren also realized that if these two people could truly serve Cao Cao's command, it would be a great help. However, Cao Ren was not sure about persuading Yan Liang and Wen Chou, so he ordered the two to be brought back to Yanzhou, waiting for Cao Cao to personally persuade him to surrender. At the same time, Cao Ren also asked the military medical officer to treat Wen Chou's arrow wounds. After arranging the post-war affairs, Cao Ren said goodbye to Zang Ba and told Zang Ba to guard Qingzhou with all his heart and try his best to ensure the stability of the front line. Cao Ren returned to Yanzhou.
A few days later, Cao Cao returned to Yanzhou from Huainan. After hearing about the results of Cao Ren and Zang Ba, Cao Cao was overjoyed and immediately gave the two generals a heavy reward. Afterwards, Cao Cao summoned Yan Liang and Wen Chou. After a moderate conversation, Cao Cao believed that although these two lacked wisdom and were not suitable for leading troops to fight, because of their high-level martial arts skills, they were not afraid of life and death, and had no personal grudges with Cao Cao, and they were most suitable for the position of commander of the personal guards. They immediately appointed them as the backbone general and the middle general, allowing them to take charge of the Tiger Guards, with the guards beside him. Cao Cao's style of using people without doubting others and not using them was fully demonstrated in the handling of this matter.
Chapter completed!