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Chapter 358 Xu Yuanzhi became famous in battle

Seeing that there was a large army attacking the camp, Xiahou Dun naturally did not dare to entrust himself, and immediately commanded his soldiers to resist. Seeing that the situation was critical, Deputy General Cao Hong hurriedly urged Xiahou Dun and his military advisor Xi Zhicai to lead the army to break through, and he stayed to cut off the rear.

Between Cao Hong and Xiahou Dun's push, the camp gate ahead had been broken, and a group of soldiers in black armor and murderous intent of Zhenbei had already come in. Xiahou Dun then used a long sword to step forward to intercept Zhao Bing who rushed into the camp gate. He showed great courage, and no one could touch his edge for a while.

Suddenly, a tall black shadow rushed over from the night and roared: "I'll fight you!" Then he stopped in front of Xiahou Dun, and his two halberds were swung tightly, which forced Xiahou Dun to retreat from time to time. The person coming was naturally the powerful general Dian Wei. Seeing that the charging soldiers were blocked, he quickly came over to help.

With Dian Wei's help, Xiong Fu's army immediately boosted its morale. The soldiers rushed into the camp even more enthusiastically and fought with the Cao army who were exhausted and panicked in the dark. Seeing that the Zhao army coming to the camp was very brave and numerous, Deputy General Cao Hong no longer hesitated and yelled at Xiahou Dun: "Doesn't the general see that the soldiers are no longer willing to fight? Quickly lead the army to evacuate this place, leaving capital to wait for the day to avenge the previous shame!" After Cao Hong finished shouting, he resolutely did not fear Dian Wei, and turned over to join the battle group, hoping to replace Xiahou Dun to escape.

Seeing that Cao Hong was determined, Xiahou Dun stopped ruling. He took advantage of the opportunity to pull out and hurriedly walked towards the back camp gate. While walking, he shouted: "Zi Lian is a great righteousness today, I will repay you in the future!" In a hurry, Xiahou Dun only found some soldiers and walked away in a panic on a low-level old horse. When he arrived at the back camp gate, he happened to meet Xi Zhicai, so he asked the horse to let the military advisor ride. The two of them lived in a hurry and fled while gathering the remaining defeated soldiers until it was dawn and they were far away from the camping place. Only then did they dare to stop and breathe.

After counting the number of people, Xiahou Dun couldn't help but feel angina pectoris. When he came, 10,000 soldiers were equipped with troops, only 40,000 escaped, and more than half of the Taishan soldiers either became ghosts under the sword of the Zhao army or prisoners in cages.

Xiahou Dun was in a state of grief, suddenly shouting loudly behind him, but a team of cavalry followed, with only 500 cavalrymen. The general who was leading the team of cavalry was born with thick eyebrows and big eyes, majestic, and dressed in a swordsman look, but he looked very handsome.

Xu Shu stopped the horse from a distance beyond the range of the arrow and shouted to Xiahou Dun from afar: "I am Xu Shu under the command of General Zhenbei. Today, I will use a little trick to break the Ru camp. After I go back, I might as well tell Cao Mengde that it would be better to avoid wading in this muddy water in Bingzhou, otherwise there will be a backup plan in the future!" Xiahou Dun felt very angry, so he replied angrily: "I have recorded this advice from today!"

As the saying goes, don't pursue the enemy. Xu Shu naturally did not come here to pursue Xiahou Dun, but wanted Xiahou Dun to help bring a message to Lu Zhi, implying that Lu Zhi's intention to attack Zhongyang from the Xiliuzhuang area had been seen through. Since the intention had been achieved, Xu Shu no longer quarreled with Xiahou Dun and turned back with five hundred light cavalry.

Xiahou Dun and Xi Zhicai walked away from the battlefield with heavy steps, and the battle in Cao's camp gradually subsided. The Cao soldiers who dared to resist were shot and killed by Xiong Ju's crossbow troops at the first time. The rest either hugged each other and bowed their heads to bless them, or had already been trampled on by someone on the ground and took their lives. Cao Hong, with his own courage, resisted Dian Wei's several rounds of fierce attacks, and finally failed. He was injured by Dian Wei's double halberds and was eventually captured.

If he hadn't been thinking about catching a living agent for the military advisor, Dian Wei's double halberd could have completely dismantled Cao Hong. Although Dian Wei knew in his heart that the one who had just left was the big fish, he was not so angry that he took Cao Hong out of his anger. Psychologically, Dian Wei still admired and admired this deputy general who dared to sacrifice himself to save his master.

Even though I admire him, Dian Wei always had to exude some of his anger, so the unlucky Cao Hong was seriously injured by the evil one and could not stand up. He probably hadn't had a year or two to recuperate, so he was afraid he would not be able to get on the battlefield in the future.

When Xu Shu brought the cavalry back to Cao's camp, the battlefield had basically been cleaned up. In addition to capturing about 2,000 prisoners, the other 3,000 people died under the thunder and crossbow arrows. This also severely hit the morale of Cao Cao's coalition forces and became the second local victory for the Zhenbei Army fighting on the Western Front. According to statistics, the Xiong Ju soldiers who came to the camp suffered only a few hundred casualties, and most of them were injured. Not many were actually killed in battle. It was a big victory.

Xu Shu was not immersed in joy, but immediately ordered his subordinates to send fireworks signals to greet more than 4,000 Xiong Ju soldiers on the other side of the river to hurry up and cross the river. In the future, this Cao camp will be the second camp of Xiong Ju soldiers. As for Xiliuzhuang, Xu Shu did not completely abandon it, but left two hundred special forces members to guard and set up numerous traps and mechanisms. If the ignorant person dared to break into the camp, he would be afraid that the continuous bombing of the sky-shaking thunder would kill his life.

Xu Shu ordered people to divide more than 2,000 Cao's army prisoners who had seized weapons into several teams and detained them in different camps, waiting for the rear base camp to send the captives back to Shangdang. In particular, Deputy General Cao Hong, Xu Shu asked the doctor of the medical team to hurry to treat them to prevent the disease from falling into the root of the disease and causing a general to regret for life.

Xu Shu also heard of Zhao Xing, who could squeeze oil from the stones, and knew that Zhao Xing would definitely extort Cao Cao a lot of benefits from Cao Hong and these more than 2,000 prisoners, so he was naturally particularly concerned and careful about the prisoners' custody.

It was later proved that Xu Shu was so kind to Cao Hong and Cao Cao's soldiers who were descending to the army had indeed had a positive demonstration effect, so that in the future, all forces deliberately avoided the cruel act of killing the army and saved the lives of many innocent soldiers when fighting each other.

By the way, Xiahou Dun, who was in a state of dismay, had four days passed when he found Cao Cao with less than 5,000 defeated soldiers. When Cao Cao heard that Xiahou Dun's camp was attacked, his companion Cao Hong was still heartbroken, but he did not scold Xiahou Dun, but advised him kindly: "Yuan Rang does not need to blame himself. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Today, he lost to the Zhao army first, but only a small defeat. The main force of our army is still there, and we will definitely take revenge in the future!"

After appeased Xiahou Dun and his soldiers, Cao Cao immediately went to Lu Zhi's tent to report the battle situation. Hearing that Xiahou Dun's unit, who acted as a pretender, suffered a major setback and was attacked. Now it fell into the hands of Xiong Jujun. Lu Zhi had no choice but to smile bitterly, and then immediately promoted the tent to discuss the decisive battle with Zhenbei Army.

Lu Zhi naturally understood Xu Shu's intention to occupy Cao's army camp. Now that the strategic intention of crossing the river to attack Zhongyang has been seen through by the Zhao army, Lu Zhi had to focus on the use of troops in Fushi, Zhang Fei and Sun Jian's north of Shangjun to the west of Lin County.

After the battle report of Xiong Jujun defeating Cao's army on the other side of Xiliuzhuang was spread to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing finally let out a long sigh. The breakthrough he had been worried about now that everyone can finally concentrate on studying the combat plan to intercept Lu Zhi's army in the Lin County area.
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