There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

Xun Yu replied, "I also think so."

Cao Cao smiled and said, "Since that's the case, the children's tricks of alienation will be useless to you and me."

Xun Yu breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "I am very pleased to join Duke Cao's command. The Duke is the pillar of the Han Dynasty, and I am willing to support him with my whole life."

Cao Cao nodded and said: "Xun Yu and Cao have a heart-to-heart relationship with each other. How can our friendship and ambition be observed by others?"

The two met and smiled, everything seemed to be invisible in the ordinary, as if nothing had happened.

But when Xun Yu left Cao Cao's tent, a trace of loneliness appeared on his face.

And Cao Cao looked at the back of Xun Yu leaving, and there was obviously more gloom on his face.

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The people under the command of the pottery merchant moved very quickly. After receiving the instruction of the pottery merchant, Mi Heng immediately issued a call for thieves and an edict of guilt in the name of the Han Dynasty, stating Yuan Shao's heinous crimes, and spread them all over the world States and counties.

Since Yuan Shao dared to do it, he had planned it a long time ago. He also immediately ordered Chen Lin to write an appeal to refute the pottery merchants, and went to beat him up, saying that he held the blood of the Tian family hostage and supported himself.

Cao Cao is now an ally of the pottery merchant, so naturally he is obliged to stand by the pottery merchant's side and come out with him to scold Yuan Shao.

All of a sudden, because of the death of the emperor, the three princes blamed each other in the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty, and the Zhongzhou war was about to start again, and fell into a turbulent change.

The gentry who control most of the world's resources also began to hesitate because of the matter of the emperor, and they did not all support Yuan Shao. The battle pattern of the Northern War has not yet been determined, but the political pattern among the three princes, from this moment on, is also beginning to resurface. shuffle.

And it was at this delicate moment that Yuan Shao, who had assembled his army, began to advance.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses overwhelming the Central Plains, Yuan Shao first launched an attack on Guandu pass.

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Cao Cao set up a Tucheng camp at the throat of Guandu to resist the Yuan army's attack. Generals Cao and Tao led their respective strong troops to build solid defenses based on Tucheng and the camp to resist the enemy. attack.

However, in Yuan Shao's eyes, these tyrannical layouts are like worthless things.

He firmly believed that his soldiers and horses would be able to overwhelm the combination of Cao Cao and the potters.

Nearly September, Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses began to move.

Looking at the rows of dense black spots in the distance, it seems that soldiers who can't see their heads are densely gathered, guarding the faces of Xia Houdun, Cao Ren, Zhao Yun, Tao Ji, Xu Huang, Yu Jin and other generals in the front camp. A look of worry was revealed.

The vanguard generals of Yuan Shao's front troops were Wen Chou, Zhang He, Qu Yi, Guo Yuan, Qianzhao, Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and others. The number of soldiers, the one who drives the horse, the one who drives the battlefield, can be described as powerful.

Cao Cao and Tao Shang stood together on the watchtower in the camp, watching Yuan Jun approaching in the distance. Although Tao Shang and Cao Cao looked very calm, their hearts were constantly fluctuating.

The growth of the number of soldiers and horses was unprecedented even for Cao Cao and the potters.

With Wen Chou as the pioneer, the cavalry under his command began to take the lead.

Behind the big flag embroidered with the word "Wen", cavalrymen one after another began to surge out towards the front overwhelmingly.

The sound of Yuan Jun's horseshoes was like a small drum being beaten. It was faintly audible at first, and then gradually became louder and louder. The rhythm became denser and more deafening.

Gradually, the ground in front of the Guandu battlefield began to tremble violently, and Yuan Jun's cavalry rushed towards the face like a mountain torrent with the breath of death, which made people's mind shattered.

Yuan Shao, who was in the enemy's middle army, was calm and composed, with a smug smile on his face.

The horses of Cao Tao's allied army who were on standby in Guandu City began to shake their heads and tails and became restless.

Wen Chou, who was signaled by Yuan Shao, finally raised his sword in the anticipation of everyone.

The buglers in the first row immediately puffed up their cheeks and blew the copper horns that had been placed by their mouths long ago.

The long charging horn resounded through the entire Yuan Jun's front line for a while.

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Yuan Jun's cavalry raised their weapons high and let out earth-shattering shouts from their chests filled with suffocation.

All of Yuan Jun's blood boiled for a moment, and the deafening roar aroused the fighting spirit in his whole body.

"Kill..." Wen Chou raised his saber aloft and rode on his neighing horse with his forelegs raised high. Together with his cavalry, he rushed to the Tucheng of Guandu first.

Chapter 541 The Battle of Guandu

The dust billowed, and the beating of horseshoes shocked the sky. Wave after wave of Yuan Jun soldiers rushed towards the earthen village in Guandu like ants moving house.

What a crowd, what a majestic momentum.

Wen Chou was in charge of commanding the front army, and he kept commanding the cavalry, urging them to be as expected by Chou and others.

It was just the usual bow and crossbow tactics. Even though there were some losses, most of the cavalry in Yuan Jun's front line continued to charge towards the Tuzhai at Guandu.

As long as you cross that simple rejection horse, you will be Yuan Jun's world!

Step on them and trample them to death.

Gan Ning laughed loudly, and winked at Yu Jin provocatively or showing off, then pouted his lips, signaling Yu Jin to watch his performance.

Then, Gan Ning ordered the messengers under his command: "The Liannu Battalion will take turns in two formations!"

The soldiers of Jinling Liannu Battalion stepped forward, following Yu Jin's strong bow formation, they began to shoot continuously at Yuan Jun in Liannu formation.

All of a sudden, not only was Yuan Jun's front cavalry in chaos, but even the expressions of Yu Jin and Cao Jun's generals changed.

One arrow, one arrow, one arrow... The crossbow arrows of the Jinling Liannu Battalion seemed to be inexhaustible, and there was no gap during the period, and they shot towards the formation of the cavalry.

Bows and crossbows are the nemesis of cavalry. Facing bows and crossbows, the only chance for cavalry to win is to seize the time when the crossbow is wound up and the arrows are loaded to charge quickly. The crossbowmen are no longer useful.

Those crossbow arrows, which were fired slowly but with an extremely fast frequency, turned out to slowly eat away at the front vanguard cavalry led by Wen Chou before he knew it, shot Qi Lingchou himself, and blocked it again and again After several continuous crossbows, Sakura in the helmet was shot by an arrow, and had no choice but to back away in panic.

After a rain of arrows shot back Yuan Jun's cavalry, the cavalry alliance of Cao Cao's army and Tao Shang's army began to officially launch operations.

All the gates of Guandu's Qianzhai were opened, and Cao Tao's elite troops rushed out of the city to stand by.

Dozens of military generals including Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Xu Rong, Zhou Tai, Tai Shici, Xu Sheng, Zang Ba, Ji Ling, Zhang Xiu, etc. will be in the Tao army.

In the Cao army, there are dozens of generals including Pang De, Yan Xing, Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Xiahouyuan, Le Jin, Cao Xiu, and Liang Xi.

Cao Tao's coalition forces are ready to start a fierce battle against Yuan Jun.

Chapter 542 The Battle

The fierce generals in Cao Tao's coalition army are waiting quietly at the various places in the Tuzhai after rejecting horses, ready to fight fiercely at any time.

Behind them is the army arranged according to the order, waiting for Cao Ren, who is in charge of commanding and dispatching the central army at the rear, to conduct a comprehensive command and dispatch.

Although the generals of Cao Tao and Taoist armies are united, it is obvious that the generals are not very harmonious with each other.