Chapter 109 Chapter Fourteen

As Liu Bei expected, this was Cao Mengde's act of luring the enemy. In fact, Cao Mengde had already established a special watchtower on the southern slope to observe the pursuit of Yuan Shaojun in the north.When the sentry found Wen Chou's army approaching rapidly, Cao Mengde ordered the soldiers on the watchtower to report Yuan Jun's actions in detail. "About 600 riders are rapidly approaching!" "It was discovered that many cavalry and infantry followed closely behind!" "The chief general, Wen Chou, is in the cavalry ahead, and it will take about half an hour to arrive!"

"There are still about thousands of troops behind, and the distance between the two sides is about two hours or more!" "No more reports!" Cao Mengde ordered the cavalry to take off their saddles and rest on a hill where the enemy could see. At this time, the train troops withdrawn from the Yanjin area and Baima City were heading to the south slope. General Lu Qian was very anxious and said: "These convoys should be temporarily retreated to the camp to avoid being attacked by Yuan Jun." Cao Mengde smiled but did not answer.The generals were puzzled. Seeing Cao Mengde's strategy, Xun Yu explained to the generals: "This is a bait for the enemy to fall for. How can we not let them go?"

Liu Bei knew that Cao Mengde was good at using strange soldiers, and he had been persuading Wen Chou to act cautiously.But on the one hand, Wen Chou was full of hatred for Yan Liang's beheading, on the other hand he looked down on Liu Bei, the defeated general, and didn't take Liu Bei's advice to heart at all.In order to grab credit, he took five or six hundred light cavalry to chase after him, and handed over the army to Liu Bei who followed closely behind. Originally intending to directly attack Cao Mengde's Wen Chou army, seeing that Cao's army on the hill disarmed and dismounted to rest, thinking that Cao's army was not prepared enough to cope with their own assault, and seeing the convoy of supplies passing through the south slope, they quickly attacked and retreated south. in the baggage convoy.

Some of the Cao soldiers on the mountain waved their helmets lightly, as if they were shaking fans, and some lay reclined in conspicuous places, as if they were extremely tired.Seeing that Wen Chou's cavalry was approaching the convoy, some soldiers hurriedly urged Cao Mengde to get on his horse and attack.Cao Mengde chewed a leaf and said leisurely, "It's not yet time." The generals almost stopped breathing.In a blink of an eye, Wen Chou's cavalry had broken into the convoy, swarming like flies to rob the vehicle. Wen Chou roared, as if telling them not to be so chaotic, but the crazy soldiers continued to rob property as usual.

"The time has come, all on horseback!" At Cao Mengde's order, more than 600 Qingqi cavalry rushed into the chaotic Wen Chou's army like tigers coming out of the mountain.Wen Chou couldn't greet him, so he had to turn his horse back. "Wen Chou is a famous general in Hebei, and Yan Liang is brave, who will take my place?" Cao Mengde pointed his whip at Wen Chou who was running back. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang drove their horses to chase Wen Chou. Wen Chou turned his head and saw the two generals coming, so he held down his iron spear, drew his bow and set up an arrow, and the arrow flew towards Zhang Liao like locusts.Zhang Liao tried his best to chase again, but Wen Chou shot another arrow in the cheek. Zhang Liao fell off his horse, Xu Huang moved his ax like the wind, and stopped the fight.

Cao Mengde first saw Zhang Liao falling off his horse, and then saw Xu Huang's big ax mess up his moves.Just as he was in a state of anxiety, he suddenly saw more than a dozen riders rushing towards him. The leader was a man with a red face and long beard, holding a Qinglong Yanyue knife in his hand, shouting: "Wen Yuan, Yun Chang is here to avenge you!" He caught up to Wen Chou like a fire, the knife flashed against the sun, and Wen Chou's head fell down the slope like an overripe melon. Seeing that Wen Chou was dead, Liu Bei's army who caught up behind did not dare to fight.

Liu Beiyuan saw that there was an unusual general in Cao's camp. The commander of the regiment had to stand out in the sunlight and shouted "Second Brother", but was dispersed by the rebels.Liu Bei watched helplessly as the familiar burly figure was getting further and further away from him. After Cao Mengde's victory in Yanjin, he accepted it as soon as he saw it. He was not in a hurry to expand the results of the battle. Instead, he ordered Liu Yan in Baima City to withdraw his troops, and he immediately returned to defend Guandu. Military action.On the contrary, the frustrated Yuan Shao, regardless of the persuasion of his staff, personally led the army to go south in hot pursuit. This was really Cao Mengde's beautiful move to lure the enemy, and Yuan Shao unknowingly approached the main battlefield carefully selected by Cao Mengde. ——Guandu.

Yuan Shao lost his army and lost his general. Hearing that Wen Chou was beheaded by a man with a red face and long beard, he was even more convinced that the man was Guan Yu. Of course, he would transfer his anger to Liu Bei.Seeing that Yuan Shao couldn't be deceived, Liu Bei said, "This is Cao Cao's plan. He knew that I was at Duke Ming's office, and he was afraid that I would help you, so he deliberately asked Yun Chang to kill two of your generals to arouse Duke Ming's hatred. This is obviously Cao Cao used the hands of Duke Ming to kill me." Yuan Shao, who was about to kill Liu Bei in a rage, convinced Yuan Shao.Liu Bei was afraid that Guan Yu didn't know that he was in Yuan Shao's army, so he took the opportunity to say to Yuan Shao: "I will immediately draft a letter and send it to Yun Chang. Wen Chou's revenge." Yuan Shao was overjoyed and said: "If Guan Yu can vote for me, Yan Liang and Wen Chou are nothing to worry about. Compared with Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Guan Gong is as different as heaven." Liu Bei immediately drafted a letter.

Late March to early April.Yuan Shao hurriedly marched all the way, at least 500 kilometers deep into the enemy's territory, and set up a battalion headquarters in Yangwu, about ten miles northwest of Guandu.However, after two years of preparation, Cao Mengde had set up an iron-fortified fortification in the Guandu area, and Yuan Shao had to stabilize the frontline deployment first, arrange supplies in the army, and temporarily ease the fighting. The castles lined up on both sides of Guandu, the smoke from the castles, the flags of the enemy and the enemy fluttering in the spring breeze, and the sergeants on drill... All these things were temporarily forgotten by the monster of war.

After beheading Wen Chou that day, Guan Yu also seemed to hear someone calling "Second Brother", but the voice was instantly drowned out by shouts of killing.But Guan Yu had preliminarily estimated that Liu Bei was in Yuan Shao's army. After returning to Xudu, Guan Yu was always depressed and drank all day long to relieve his boredom. Guan Yu was bored and was reading history books with Zhu Yingping when he suddenly heard that a friend visited him.Guan Yu welcomed the man into the house, but he didn't recognize him.The man introduced himself and said: "I am Chen Zhen, Yuan Shao's subordinate." Guan Yu immediately realized that there was something important to do, and quickly winked the people around him to leave.Chen Zhen took out a secret letter from his underwear and gave it to Guan Yu. Guan Yu quickly read it five times by candlelight and shouted, "Brother!"