Chapter 394: Calculating Step by Step

The city of Anyi was in chaos. Xun You was standing on the top of the city wall. Down below, Cao Cao had led four generals of Cao's camp to counterattack the city gate and deployed their troops outside the city.

After the Xiliang army was cut off, they were in a panic for a while. Then, after hearing the order, they decisively retreated several miles and redeployed their troops.

Xun You recognized the general leading the team, who was Li Jue's nephew Li Xian. He led the cavalry into a formation, advanced and retreated appropriately, and held out until Li Jue and Guo Si led their troops to arrive and confronted Cao Cao's army from a distance.

Xun You thought that the Xiliang Army should not be underestimated. They all grew up on horseback, so this battle would probably not be easy to win.

He turned his head and looked towards the city, wondering why Lu Bu's army hadn't gone out to fight yet?

According to Lu Bu's personality, when he saw Cao Cao sitting in the center of the army, he should try to win military merit, right?

However, when the two sides started fighting, Xun You still didn't wait for Lu Bu's army to make any move, and he began to feel uneasy.

The city was in chaos. Seeing the city gates behind them closed, the Xiliang soldiers became more ferocious. They rode their horses into the streets, hacked anyone they saw, and headed straight for the emperor's carriage.

Kill all those who stand in your way, hold the emperor hostage, and there is still a glimmer of hope!

The Xiliang cavalry were extremely ferocious and bloodthirsty. The soldiers of Dong Cheng and Yang Ding along the way could not resist at all. They were killed and screamed like ghosts. They rushed forward in anger and were getting closer and closer to the emperor's residence!

Seeing the fierceness of the Liangzhou soldiers, Dong Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Yang Ding: "General, please lead the troops to stop them!"

"Otherwise, if the emperor is defeated, you and I will die without a burial place!"

After hearing this, Yang Ding snorted coldly. He was from Liangzhou and was a former general under Dong Zhuo. Naturally, he knew the tactics of the Western Liang soldiers very well.

He rode forward and led his soldiers to charge into the Liangzhou soldiers. The two sides fought each other, and the streets were gradually filled with corpses with broken limbs.

When the Liangzhou army broke in, the general who led the team had already been killed. Now there was no one giving orders and they were just relying on a burst of passion. Now that the offensive had failed, some people immediately wanted to turn around and escape.

As a result, shouts of killing were heard, and another army appeared behind them. It was the Baibo Army led by Han Xian and Hu Cai. Hu Cai shouted loudly: "General Yang, I am here to help you!"

He led the Baibo Army forward and immediately blocked the retreat route of the Liangzhou Army. Seeing that they could not escape, the Liangzhou Army fought desperately, and regardless of the Baibo Army attacking from behind, they rushed towards Yang Ding's army, shouting and risking their lives with every move.

At this moment, the casualties of Yang Ding's army increased rapidly. Yang Ding cursed in his heart, saying that the Baibo Army was obviously setting a trap for him by not showing up earlier or later!

But now he was in a dilemma and could only lead his soldiers to fight forward. The corpses of both sides piled up slowly and they had nowhere to go.

Dong Cheng and Yang Ding relied on the few remaining thousand personal soldiers they brought from Chang'an. However, most of them were killed or wounded in a battle that lasted only half an hour. The two were heartbroken, but they had no choice but to hold on.

Because the long street serving as the battlefield had only two ends, the Liangzhou soldiers were blocked and could not escape. The same was true for Yang Dingjun. Behind them was the emperor's residence, and in front of them were the Liangzhou soldiers. Where could they run?

Yang Ding saw that the casualties on both sides were getting more and more severe. The nearly one thousand soldiers of the Liangzhou Army who rushed in were almost wiped out, but he only had a hundred or so soldiers left!

He looked at Han Xian and Hu Cai who were walking towards him, and could no longer hold back, and yelled, "You bunch of bastards!"

"Fuck."

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Han Xian and Hu Cai looked at each other, and at the same time rode forward, shouting: "Dong Cheng and Yang Ding colluded with the enemy and led troops into the city, they should be killed!"

The two men thrust their spears straight at Yang Ding, who was caught off guard. In shock, he roared, "Bullshit!"

"Damn it, you guys..."

Yang Ding was too late to continue, because Han Xian and Hu Cai's spears had already reached him. He shook the ring-handled sword in his hand, blocked the opponent's spear head, and turned to Dong Cheng and said, "General, help me!"

When he saw clearly, he almost vomited blood. Dong Cheng actually ran away!

Yang Ding was trying to hold his knife in place, and ended up blocking the upper part but missing the lower part. He was caught off guard and was stabbed in the stomach by Hu Cai's bullet, and he screamed in pain.

Hu Cai pulled out the gun, and blood gushed out of Yang Ding's abdomen. Seeing this, he laughed out loud, "Yang Ding, prepare to die!"

Yang Ding gritted his teeth, turned around, and rode away. Hu Cai saw him, rode after him, and shouted to Han Xian, "I will kill him, and you kill Dong Cheng!"

Han Xian hesitated for a moment and saw that the two men, one chasing and the other fleeing, were almost running far away. He cursed in his heart, because Dong Cheng was running towards the emperor's residence. If he ran in front of the emperor, could he still kill him in front of the emperor?

Hu Cai is really cunning. He gave this troublesome task to himself!

He was about to spurt his horse to chase after them, but he saw a general rushing out from the street in the distance, heading straight for Hu Cai, shouting, "The Baibo Army rebelled and killed the emperor's general without permission. Today, I am ordered to suppress the rebellion!"

The person coming is Cao Ren!

Hu Cai was just about to catch up with Yang Ding. Seeing that the other party was staggering, he was about to shoot him again, but Cao Ren's thunder-like roar made his ears buzz.

Only then did he realize that the other party had been waiting for him!

Hu Cai barely raised his hand to resist, but he heard a bowstring sound, and a feather arrow hit his arm, and his spear fell off his horse. He turned his head and saw that it was Xiahou Yuan who was shooting arrows in the distance. He was about to curse out loud.

However, he no longer had this chance. Cao Ren swung his long sword and cut off Hu Cai's neck. Blood gushed out of his neck and his head fell to the ground and rolled.

Han Xian, who was far away, was so scared that he felt he had fallen into the trap!

No wonder Cao Cao was so confident in leaving the city. It turned out that he used Dong Cheng as bait, making the Baibo Army think it was a great opportunity and they couldn't help but take action, but they ambushed them in advance and the fishermen got the advantage!

Seeing shouts and screams everywhere and Cao's soldiers rushing over from all directions, Han Xian led his troops to turn around and run straight out of the city.

At this time, Yang Feng was leading his troops at the South Gate to provide support, and he didn't know what was happening here. I had to meet up with him and then find a solution!

Yang Ding managed to stop his horse. Seeing Hu Cai's head chopped off, he covered his bleeding abdomen and laughed, "Serves you right!"

He bowed to Cao Ren and said, "Thank you for saving me!"

The next moment, there was a loud bang and the bowstring sounded. Yang Ding was shot in the back and the arrow came out from his chest.

He wanted to turn his head to look at the person who attacked him, but he had lost his strength. A flash of realization passed through his eyes, and then he fell off his horse and died.

Xiahou Yuan put down the longbow in his hand and thought to himself that Lord Ming was indeed amazing. Things in the city were going surprisingly smoothly. He wondered what was happening outside the city.

As long as you lead the army to repel Li Jue and Guo Si, our great mission will be accomplished!

The two armies outside the city stood up in chaos. Cao Cao's four generals blocked Li Jue and Guo Si in the center, and took the opportunity to spread out their formation and outflanking their two wings.

It was not known whether this route was a coincidence, but the cavalrymen Cao Hong and Cao Chun on the two wings, one on the left and one on the right, secretly blocked the marching route of their own flank armies.

Yang Feng came from the south gate, and Zhao Yun came from the north gate.

Yang Feng sneered secretly when he saw this. If you want to make meritorious deeds, go ahead. I am too lazy to waste my own soldiers. Is Cao Cao really crazy? Does he think he can really deal with Li Jue and Guo Si on his own?

He looked at the Crane Wing Formation set up by Cao Cao and felt something was wrong. In the Crane Wing Formation, isn't the weakest point the junction between the two wings and the center army?

At this time, the horn sounded in the Liangzhou army, and Li Jue and Guo Si each led a cavalry and broke through Cao Cao's central army and the weak points on the flanks!

The cavalry of Cao Chun and Cao Hong had no time to turn around, and the Xiliang soldiers passed them by. In a blink of an eye, they broke through the extremely weak connection and outflanked Cao Cao's central army!

Yang Feng was distracted for a moment when he saw Guo Si leading his troops and rushing to his formation!

Only then did he realize that the other party had broken through and was heading straight towards him.

It was too late for him to run, so he had to face the enemy head-on.

When Cao Cao saw Li Jue and Guo Si coming to outflank his central army, he said to Le Jin and Yu Jin, "I used myself as bait and finally lured them here."

"Now we just need to defend the center and delay time."

"Wait until Zi Xiaomiao puts down the rebels in the city, then we can attack the enemy from both sides and defeat them."

"Before that, the two infantrymen must stop the Xiliang army. My life is in your hands."

Le Jin and Yu Jin shouted loudly: "We will not retreat until we die!"

At this time, Li Jue and Guo Si's thousands of cavalrymen attacked the central army's infantry at the same time, but Guo Si ran straight towards Yang Feng, grinning, "Yang Feng! What a coincidence!"

"I want to see where you can escape to!"

Yang Feng was born into a Baibo bandit group in his early years, and later followed Li Jue. He once defeated Guo Si in a conflict between Li Jue and Guo Si, but later defected to Guo Si.

At first, Liu Xie returned to the east, led by Guo Si, but Guo Si changed his mind halfway and wanted to return to Chang'an. Yang Feng and others took the opportunity to break away from Guo Si and establish their own regime, leading the emperor back to the east.

In the meantime, Li Jue and Guo Si chased after them and the two sides fought several times. Yang Feng always resisted in the front and put in a lot of effort. Although he, like Dong Cheng, wanted to monopolize the emperor, it can be said that Yang Feng made a great contribution to being able to get to this point. Without him, Guo Si might have succeeded long ago.

So when Guo Si saw Yang Feng now, he thought of how he had betrayed himself and Li Jue one after another, just like Lu Bu, the wolf that could not be tamed. He immediately became furious, and instead of attacking Cao Cao's central army, he rushed directly towards Yang Feng!

Seeing how ferocious the enemy was, Yang Feng had no choice but to meet him with his spear. Within a dozen rounds, he was beaten to the point of sweating profusely and his muscles and body were limp.

Guo Si was a man who could fight against Lu Bu in a duel, and he was also one of the best in the Xiliang army. How could Yang Feng be his opponent? Seeing that he was in danger, a long axe stretched out from the side and blocked the long axe that Guo Si was stabbing at Yang Feng.

Yang Feng looked carefully and found that it was Xu Huang who arrived. He was overjoyed and immediately joined Xu Huang to attack Guo Si from both sides. The three of them fought in a group.

Zhao Yun saw Li Jue's army break through Cao Chun and head straight for him, so he was about to meet them with his spear. Li Xian, who was beside Li Jue, said, "Uncle, this man is cunning, let my nephew do it!"

Li Jue was targeting Zhao Yun. The day before yesterday, Zhao Yun killed his nephew Hu Feng, which made Li Jue extremely angry. He vowed to kill Zhao Yun for revenge. When he heard what Li Xian said, he shouted, "Good!"

"Be careful, I'll help you!"

Yu Jin, who was standing on the flank, saw that Li Jue and Guo Si did not charge towards Cao Cao's main formation, but instead faced Yang Feng and Zhao Yun respectively. He thought to himself that Ming Gong was so good at understanding people's hearts that one could not help but admire him.

Compared with Cao Cao, Guo Si and Li Jue hated Yang Feng and Zhao Yun more, but Cao Cao happened to arrange them on the two wings. Is this a coincidence?