Boss Cao's action was very smooth. He set Wuchao on fire and caught the drunken Chun Yuqiong.

It's funny to say, Chunyu Qiong was still drunk when she was arrested.

There was a river of blood outside the main tent, but our General Chunyu Qiong had not even put on his own armor yet.

When Boss Cao's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry surrounded him, he was still confused and could not stand firm.

As a result, the two pawns captured Chun Yuqiong without any injuries.

When Boss Cao learned that he had captured the Wuchao leader Chun Yuqiong and was still drunk, he just sighed and put the matter aside.

What he is more concerned about now is the situation where Xia Houyuan led the ambush of Yuan Jun.

When the shouts of killing from Wuchao were loud and flames were everywhere, Gao Lan, who was stationed at the main camp, knew that something was wrong.

He quickly brought his troops and horses to prepare to rescue Wuchao. After all, the importance of Wuchao could be said to be crucial.

However, when he took the first 20,000 people out and walked three miles away from Wuchao, he met Xia Houyuan.

Seeing Yuan Jun getting closer and closer, Xia Houyuan made a prompt decision and commanded the tiger and leopard cavalry to rush out from the dense forest on both sides of the road.

Gao Lan underestimated the situation of the battle. He did not expect that so many Cao troops had crossed the river in just one night.

In order to make it easier to travel, he eliminated the long snake formation, but it was cut into several sections by the tiger and leopard cavalry, and the ending could not be seen.

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The darkness of the night and the chaos of the sudden attack resulted in the 20,000 Yuan army under Gao Lan being defeated in one blow.

Gao Lan tried his best to organize manpower, and even took his personal guards into battle himself, hoping to stabilize the battle situation and wait for subsequent reinforcements.

But when he saw that the enemy's 20,000 elite infantry were surrounding him from all directions, he knew that the situation was over.

Gao Lan was helpless. He wanted to take the remaining soldiers back to the main camp, and when he wanted to rely on the walls of the main camp for defense, he saw that there was also a blazing fire on the other side of the main camp.

Cao Cao took action and struck a fatal blow.

In fact, when he decided to attack Wuchao at night, Boss Cao had discussed it with his advisers.

All of them felt that as long as Wuchao succeeded in the sneak attack, Yuan Jun in Guandu would definitely send people to rescue him.

As long as Guandu sends people to rescue, Guandu's defense will inevitably be weakened. So why not try to attack Guandu?

Cao Cao considered that as long as the sneak attack was successful, Guandu would have only two choices, either to save it or not to save it.

In order to save Wuchao, he sent people to sneak attack Guandu, so that Yuan's army could not see each other and made them rush back and forth.

If the situation were better and more people were sent out, they might be able to capture Guandu in one fell swoop and bring the war to Yuan Shao's territory.

To put it bluntly, even if only a few people go, the people they send to attack Guandu can still contain the Guandu camp's rescue force against Wuchao.

In this way, Wuchao will inevitably be burned down. Then Guandu will also face a lack of food and grass, and low morale.

It can be said that in this wave, Boss Cao is on the winning side. No matter what Gao Lan chooses, he, Cao Cao, will never lose.

That is to say, all subsequent plans failed, and all he paid was the Cao army he sent out, and he didn't sleep all night.

The price was so small, as long as he was not a fool, he would know what to do.

What happened next was just as Boss Cao expected. When Gao Lan saw the fire in Wuchao, he subconsciously organized people to go to the rescue.

He did not fully anticipate the enemy's situation. He initially thought that only a small number of enemy troops would cross the river to attack Wuchao.

Unexpectedly, there were forty or fifty thousand people crossing the river.

With superior force,

If you can't win by ambushing a small number of enemy troops, then either Xia Houyuan or Boss Cao can find a piece of tofu and kill them.

Gao Lan looked at the Wuchao with flames soaring into the sky. The shouts of killing over there had gradually become quieter. Gao Lan knew that the Wuchao could not be saved.

At the same time, a fire broke out in Guandu. He knew without looking that Guandu must have been attacked by Cao's army.

With the road ahead blocked and the road behind burned, Gao Lan felt he had no way out.

So, he just sighed, took the remaining five thousand pairs of men and horses, identified a direction, and launched an attack.

Gao Lan knew that if he continued to stay here, he would only die. He could only abandon the army and retreat to Yecheng to join Yuan Shao.

Facing the angry Gao Lan, Xia Houyuan just thought about it and ordered Gao Lan to be let go.

After all, in Xia Houyuan's view, Gao Lan was not an important role, so it was not impossible to let him go.

There is no need to disrupt Boss Cao's layout just for a high-level view.

Now the mission of Cao Jun is to burn Wuchao and capture Guandu if there is a chance. The rest is not important.

Stopping Gao Lan, or killing Gao Lan, only increases Gao Lan's military merit by one head, and is dispensable for defeating Yuan Shao.

Only by destroying a large number of Yuan Shao's effective forces can it help the later battles.

Or, to put it another way, it is better to understand that Cao Jun does not want to waste time on Gao Lan now.

If you have this time, why not quickly capture Guandu and Wuchao, and then either go north to besiege Yuan Shao, or go to Baima to capture Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi.

Which of these two people is not more important than Gao Lan? As long as one of them is captured, it will be a huge surprise for Boss Cao.

Why waste time on Gao Lan?

In this way, under Xia Houyuan's arrangement, Gao Lan led more than 5,000 people and broke out of the encirclement.

Without Gao Lan's command, both Yuan's army preparing to rescue Wuchao and Guandu were plunged into chaos.

Some captains wanted to organize men to resist, but they were unorganized and undisciplined, and were easily defeated by Cao Jun.

That night, it was very dark and windy.

That night, Boss Cao led his army and successfully crossed the Yellow River and brought the war to Jizhou.

That night, the Han army and the princes allied forces changed their offensive and defensive positions.

That night, all the heroes in the world were shaken, and Boss Cao finally showed his strength to the world.

Similarly, this night also sounded the clarion call for the demise of the Yuan family, the fourth and third generation.

When the fire burned all night and it was getting dark the next day, the air was still filled with the aroma of burnt wheat.

Boss Cao stood in the main camp of Guandu with a happy face. Behind him were the civil and military personnel he relied on.

At this time, the Guandu camp had been captured by Boss Cao, and most of Yuan Shao's soldiers left here had surrendered.

They were placed in a prisoner of war camp outside the military camp.

Boss Cao looked at Yuan Jun's tent in front of him with a smile on his face.
Chapter completed!