"Bang ——— bang!"

With the loud bangs sounding one after another, more and more Xiliang cavalry rushed to the gate of the city, and it continued to intensify.

In this way, among the many suicidal horsemen who stormed the city gates, there will be a few survivors after all, and they are the hope of opening the city gates.

Under the successive rushes of the Xiliang army, the tightly closed city gate finally let out a "creak" and a loud roar. Obviously, the survivors who rushed under the city gates lived up to expectations and succeeded.

Immediately, the city gate was opened, and hundreds of Xiliang cavalry rushed out of the city gate, cutting the rope of the drawbridge with their knives in hand, and then galloping across the moat and quickly disappeared into the night.

In this short quarter of an hour, Cao Zhen led his army to block the south gate, and when Jiang Qi led his army to the north gate, the city gate was already wide open. The West City Gate, which Cao Zhen had high hopes for, was also snatched by the Xiliang Army, causing thousands of Xiliang Iron Horsemen to rush out of the city and lose their traces in the blink of an eye.

Swings and roundabouts.

The more than 3,000 Xiliang cavalry who were intercepted by Cao Zhen's army in the south gate completely lost the opportunity to escape, and had to turn around and come back to fight to the death with Cao's army, and the battle was extremely fierce. Afterwards, 3,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not survive, all of them died in battle, and their generals were beheaded after the battle, and their heads were hung above the south gate.

Just when Cao Zhen was complacent, urgent reports came from the north gate and the west gate one after another, and the two city gates were lost almost at the same time, so that no less than 10,000 Xiliang cavalry broke through the city and their whereabouts were unknown.

Suddenly, Cao Zhen was furious: "How can this be true! Waste, all waste. can't even defend the city gate, Yuan Shao's account is full of a group of fools who have not achieved enough things and have more than enough failures! Under the anger, Cao Zhen did not choose to speak. openly put the blame for the loss of the city gate on the generals of the Yuan army, and scolded them in public.

These words happened to be heard clearly by Gao Ran, who had been following Cao Zhen all the time, which made him indignant and angry, and even if he wanted to come forward to refute, he was stopped by the deputy general beside him, and shook his head again and again to signal him not to argue. Otherwise, it is self-inflicted. Seeing the melancholy eyes of the adjutant general, Gao Ran's face darkened, and after hesitating for a moment, he nodded knowingly. But there was a desolation in my heart.

Now that Yuan Shao has become an ancient, the two princes fled out of the city in a hurry, making them, the former generals of the Yuan army, become ownerless generals in the blink of an eye, which is tantamount to a lonely ghost and a wild ghost. Now it is under Cao Cao's account. had to be restrained by the Cao family. When the Yuan army rushed to the front, but the battle exploits were monopolized by the Cao family's relatives and nobles, and all the problems were pushed on these generals. Obviously, at present, all of them, the generals of the Yuan Army, have become stepmothers, grandma does not love uncle, they are all splinted, and they are not human beings inside and out.

And the reason why Cao Zhen dared to openly scold them, the generals of the Yuan army, was because Cao Cao had also scolded them like this before. At that time, Li Li's army broke through the ambush circle. Cao Cao was so angry that he thundered and scolded. Although Cao Cao did not deliberately target one of them. But there is no doubt that Cao Cao was not scolding his own generals, but Gao Ran and other Yuan army generals.

For Gao Ran and other generals, in the face of the rebuke of the new lord Cao Cao, they could only swallow their anger and did not dare to refute half a sentence. Unexpectedly, now Cao Zhen actually saw the same and cursed the generals of the Yuan army in public so unscrupulously. At this moment, Gao Ran really felt the bitterness and pain under the fence, dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, swallowed his anger, and made compromises.

Looking back on the day just past, he and Zhang He, Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and other generals of the Yuan army, who were not desperate and bloody battles, worked wholeheartedly for Cao Cao, in order to win Cao Cao's appreciation, and be recognized and accepted by Cao Jun's generals. But in the end, not only did they not get any military merits, but they were belittled by Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and other Cao relatives and nobles as useless, and now they are even more guilty.

Thinking of this, Gao Ran's anger that he had managed to suppress surged again, because he thought of a very strict question, or a charge that they, the generals of the Yuan army, categorically could not afford. This is that at this moment, the West Gate and the North Gate have been lost one after another, which means that Xiliang Li Li is likely to have broken through the city and escaped. However, Cao Zhen put all the blame on these people, this crime was too heavy, and the generals who had just joined Cao Cao's account could not afford it.

"General Cao Zhen, don't talk about it and wronged us!"

As soon as he thought of this, Gao Ran finally couldn't help but step forward, and hurriedly retorted: "The general should know that the two brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang and their five thousand soldiers and horses are stationed at the north gate tonight. On that day, it was the two of them who went out of the city to 、、、 Cao Gong Oh no, to send information to the lord, and it was also they who resolutely followed Yuan Gong's last order before his death, and decided to welcome the lord into the city, and did not hesitate to fight with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang brothers for this reason. There is no doubt about the loyalty of the Lu brothers to the lord, and now that the north gate is lost, the two of them are indeed guilty, but they should not be fully responsible. How could a general question their loyalty? ”

After a pause in his voice, Gao Ran didn't wait for Cao Zhen to open his mouth to refute, and then continued: "In addition to the North Gate, the West Gate guard is a close subordinate under General Cao Ren's account, but now the West Gate is also lost. How can the general spew blood and put all the blame on us, and won't such an act make me feel cold? ”

The more he talked, the more angry he became, and Gao Ran simply made public what happened tonight, so that all the soldiers could listen to it and see whose fault it was.

"In tonight's battle, the lord ordered the general to be the commander-in-chief, and we are all at the disposal of the general. When the Western Liang Army broke through, the last general built General Yì to support the North Gate and the West Gate, especially the West Gate; Because the West Gate is quite close to Bingzhou, only more than 200 miles away from Huguan, it is very likely that Li Li will break through from the West Gate. However, the general turned a deaf ear, and kept saying that the west gate was impregnable and safe, and insisted on mobilizing a large army to support the south gate. Now that the two city gates have been lost, does the general still want to shirk all the responsibility and put all the blame on us? In today's battle, we have repeatedly charged forward, and tens of thousands of horses and horses have died on the battlefield, so is it that the general turned a blind eye to this? ”

"Gao Ran, how dare you speak to General Ben like that? You?????? The coming day is long, depending on how long you are proud! Seeing the group of Yuan soldiers beside him glaring at him angrily, Cao Zhen angrily scolded Gao Ran. But after all, due to the huge pressure around him, he didn't dare to speak ill of each other, so he dropped a cruel word. Le Ma and go.

When he returned to the horse, Cao Zhen scolded in a cold voice with a sullen face: "What are you still doing in a daze? Hurry up and follow General Ben to the West Gate! Immediately, Cao Zhen galloped his horse, and at the same time signaled his soldiers to go to the Dongcheng camp to report, after all, the breakthrough of the Xiliang army was a big matter, and Cao Zhen did not dare to make decisions without authorization, so he had to report to Cao Cao and wait for the order.

Seeing Cao Zhen lead the people of the headquarters to leave. The adjutant general who had stopped Gao Ran before said softly with a worried face: "Why should the general offend Cao Zhen in public? You must know that he is the fake son of the lord of the Cao 、、、, although he is not of the Cao bloodline, but he is the adopted son of the lord after all. How noble is the status, how can we afford to provoke it? What's more, we have just joined the lord, and although we are still the commanders of the army, we are forced to do so. Then wait for the situation to stabilize. The whole army will inevitably be reorganized, and it is still unclear where we will go at that time.

It is because the general really shouldn't offend Cao Zhen, you must know that the Cao family is all high and powerful, and all of them are generals in command, and we will definitely be arranged to serve under their accounts in the future. At that time, maybe these people will take the opportunity to retaliate and make things difficult for us, and then our situation will be even more difficult in the future. These words are undoubtedly heartfelt. The real big truth.

Gao Ran nodded lightly when he heard this, and a thick melancholy appeared on his face. He sighed in a low voice, "I understand what you said. Now that the old lord has gone, we are like duckweed without roots, the blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable, and the good and evil are uncertain, so we can only take one step at a time and get by. In addition to the three generals Cao Ren, Cao Chun and Cao Hong, what are the abilities of people like Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Ba and others to despise us unscrupulously?

In addition, if all our colleagues are suppressed by the Cao family's relatives and nobles, I am afraid that the situation in the future will become more and more bad, and there will be no future at all. Rather than this, it is better to find out the estrangement and disagreement between each other as soon as possible, so that Cao Gong can detect it as soon as possible. If Cao Gong sincerely accepts us, he will inevitably carefully consider our positions, apply them according to the quantity, make an exception to the allocation of talents, and entrust them with important tasks. Otherwise, we will have to reconsider the way out?????? That's it, I'll talk about that later. Perhaps he felt that he was talking too much, lest the wall have ears, but Gao Ran's words came to his lips but swallowed them back, and then with a wave of his hand, he led the army to the west gate.

?????? Yecheng, the camp of Cao Cao in the east city.

As Cao Zhen's personal soldiers came to report the military situation in the middle of the night, after the initial thunderous anger, Cao Cao quickly calmed down, put on a brocade robe, and ordered his own soldiers to summon Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Xun Yu, Xu You, Guo Tu and others who were seriously injured to come to the tent to discuss the matter.

After a short time, everyone entered the account one after another, and they had learned from the pro-soldiers that the Xiliang army broke through at night, and the atmosphere in the tent was very tense and quite depressing. After all, Li Li's army broke out of the city is extraordinary, if he can manage to redeem himself, if he really lets Li Li escape, the consequences will be extremely severe, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is unimaginable.

"Li Thief led the army to break out of the city!" After everyone was seated, Cao Cao first explained the key points of the discussion, and then said in a deep voice: "Thief Li is really treacherous and cunning!" This thief also appeared to meet me in the morning, openly bewitched the officers and men of our army, and threatened us with the coffin of my first brother, but in the middle of the night, he suddenly divided his troops to break through. Just now Cao Zhen sent someone to report that Li Thief divided his more than 20,000 cavalry into three routes, and attacked the other three city gates at the same time except for the east city where our army was stationed, and broke through the north gate and the west gate a quarter of an hour ago, and has now fled Yecheng. Do you have any good plan for this? ”

Xun Yu responded: "Don't worry, lord. From this point of view, the enemy troops who raided the north gate were nothing more than a bluff feint to cover people's eyes. However, in my eyes, this move is a small skill of carving insects, and he wants to cover up, so his real breakthrough direction should be Ximen, and he is on the way to Bingzhou at this moment. The lord does not have to worry, the road from the West Gate to the Huguan of Bingzhou can be said to be full of murderous machines, those people are thinking about getting rid of the Li thief, and they can get their wish if they want to come here. Hehehe! ”

Seeing Xun Yu's face filled with a cruel smile of Zhizhu in his hand, Cao Cao bowed slightly, stroked his beard and smiled, his smile was the same as Xun Yu's, and he was awe-inspiring, as if he had planned it before, and he was all in the palm of his hand.

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