Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong~

After Ye Zhao and Cao Cao returned to the camp, the intense sound of war drums resounded through the wilderness with the rumbling drums. Two men and horses began to slowly advance in the wilderness in the Guoting area.

The rain of arrows began to intersect in the air, and the cold clusters of arrows ruthlessly pierced the bodies of soldiers on both sides. Cold corpses fell down, but more soldiers were coldly stepping on the corpses in their robes and began to charge towards the other party.

The sharp blade tore the armor apart, the cold spear pierced the chest and abdomen, and the blood began to invade the earth the moment the two sides started to fight.

This was a test of Ye Zhao and Cao Cao, a test of the opponent's military power, so there was no stalemate for too long. When Ye Zheng's troops were about to defeat Cao Cao's troops, Ye Zheng chose to withdraw his troops, and Cao Cao also chose to withdraw his troops.

"Brother Meng De, today's battle is just to tell you that I am better than you. After today, I will not stop so easily. I'd better take care of myself." Ye Zhao took a rough look at the battle losses and was a little amazed. Cao Cao could hold on for so long when the equipment, training, and food supply were not as good as himself, which also brought considerable harm to himself. If he could catch up with technology and the concept of raising troops, he would be evenly matched by then.

It seems that the winner should be decided as soon as possible between the two sides.

After making up his mind, Ye Zhao ordered people to clean up the bodies of his soldiers, and then withdrew his troops back to Hulao Pass.

"Lord, since you have won, why don't you take the opportunity to capture Xingyang in one fell swoop?" On the way back, Dian Wei looked at Ye Zhao with some confusion.

"I won the field battle, but the siege is not that easy. We did not bring siege equipment. This time we took action, it was just a test." Ye Zhao shook his head. The most elite vine armor army had not yet entered the battle. Moreover, looking at Cao Cao's crossbow, you can tell that Cao Cao is now using craftsmen to improve military equipment. How could he know that Cao Cao would have no backup plan?

Now that Xingyang is taken, it is just an isolated city. Ao Cang is on the side of Cao Cao. Xingyang is so prominent, it is a state of being attacked from all sides. Aren’t you waiting to be beaten?

Even if the troops are strong and the horses are strong, Cao Cao said that, since Lu Bu is planning to marry his daughter, even if the two families form an alliance, this will cause a subtle change in the current situation of the two heroes fighting for hegemony. Originally, Cao Cao wanted to attack Ye Zhao, only Hulao Pass, Yanmen, and Hedong, but Lu Bu's surrender was equivalent to giving Cao Cao an excuse to attack. As long as Xingyang, Ao Cang, and Henoi block Ye Zhao's troops, Cao Cao could let go and attack Nanyang and Runan first.

This is also the reason why Ye Zhao was unwilling to go to war with Lu Bu before. Once Lu Bu was destroyed first, it would be equivalent to increasing the area bordering Cao Cao. Moreover, if Cao Cao took Nanyang, Luoyang would become an enemy on all sides, and Ye Zhao would also face the same embarrassment as Dong Zhuo back then... the difficulty of logistics supply.

At that time, the Luoyang area had a population of more than 2 million, and it was somewhat self-sufficient, which still made Dong Zhuo's logistics difficult. Now that Luoyang is not considered an army, it does not even have a population of 100,000, which is not enough to supply the consumption of the army. Therefore, if Ye Zhao wants to fight this battle, he must transport food and grass from Guanzhong. Now he has formed an alliance with Lu Bu, and Cao Cao's offensive focus must be on Lu Bu's side. Ye Zhao naturally cannot sit idly by and watch Cao Cao annex Lu Bu and become a big shot, so the battlefield of this battle naturally moved from Hulao Pass to Nanyang and Runan.

In terms of technological progress, before the emergence of hot weapons, the technological progress in the era of cold weapons was limitless. In history, the Song Dynasty was not low, and even gunpowder had appeared, but it was still cedeed by backward nomadic peoples. Although the reason for the Song Dynasty itself was that, it was impossible to crush the era of cold weapons. Otherwise, Ye Zhao would not have to spend so much effort to fight Cao Cao’s wits. With the current situation, he could just push directly.

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"Lord, the Guanzhong army is so brave!" In Xingyang City, Cao Cao retreated back to Xingyang with the defeated generals, closed the city gates tightly. Xun You and others were worried. Xiahou Dun wiped the blood stains on his face, and his eyes were particularly incredible.

He can be regarded as a powerful general. Before, he was almost killed by a group of small soldiers on the battlefield. He was also the personal guards who fought to protect each other. In addition, Xiahou Dun was extremely brave, so he jumped out of the bloody path, but his personal guards were almost 90%.

As soon as Xiahou Dun said this, the generals in the tent fell into unspeakable silence. The strength of the Guanzhong army had far exceeded their expectations.

Cao Cao sat down, was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed.

"?" Everyone looked at Cao Cao in confusion, worried that he might have been irritated and laughed when he lost the battle?

"At least, we are on the right path." Cao Cao smiled at everyone.

Over the years, Cao Cao has vigorously encouraged and promoted the development of the craftsman industry, which has been resisted by many scholars. Even many poor children or generals do not understand what the use of spending so much money every year?

But in today's battle, the Guanzhong soldiers did not mention the quality of their training. Just weapons and armor alone could be seen to be more than one level higher than Cao's army, which also proved that Cao Cao was right to follow Guanzhong.

"Lord, Ye Zhao has such a powerful army, and with the danger of Hulao Pass, I'm afraid I want to break through Hulao..." Cheng Yu pulled the topic away. The question now is that although Cao's army now has more troops than Ye Zhao, they have now lost to Ye Zhao in the field. If they attack the city, it is almost impossible to break through Hulao Pass.

"Then let's defeat Lu Bu first!" Cao Cao said calmly.

Lu Bu?

Looking at the puzzled expressions of everyone, Cao Cao said with a heartache: "My son's death is killed in Wancheng no matter what. Lu Bu is responsible for his fault. I had a good intention to form an alliance with him, but Lu Bu caused my son to die in a foreign land. How can I not avenge this revenge?"

Xun You and others realized that Cao Cao wanted to attack Lu Bu in the name of Cao Ang's death. As long as he defeated Lu Bu and occupied Nanyang, there would be more choices to attack Ye Zhao at that time.

"When will the lord be planning to send troops?" Xun You frowned and said, "Now that our army has been newly defeated, although Lu Bu has no plans, he... is not easy to deal with."

No matter how he despises Lu Bu's IQ, Lu Bu is still quite talented in fighting. With the blessing of the world's number one general, it is not easy to capture Nanyang. And most importantly, it is necessary to defeat Lu Bu quickly, otherwise Ye Zhao would never sit idly by.

"No need to delay, today I will return to Xuchang and personally dispatch troops to attack Lu Bu." Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "Wenze!"

"The last one is here!" Yu Jin bowed and said.

"The army is left here, and you and Zidan will station in Xingyang and Aocang respectively. You should not fight easily."

"Here!" Yu Jin bowed and bowed.
Chapter completed!