Chapter 156 Yan Liang killed two generals in a row

When Cao Cao heard that Yan Liang led a large army to rescue Baima, he ordered Dian Wei and Hou Cheng to continue attacking Baima. He led Cao Hong, Song Xian and Wei Xu to lead the rest of the troops to meet Yan Liang.

The troops of both sides walked towards each other, stopped a thousand meters away, and brought sand and dust to the sky to spread in front of the formation, and it only dispersed a few minutes later.

Cao Cao climbed up to look away, but saw that Yan Liang led the troops with distinctive armor, sharp swords and guns, and were quite majestic. The general Yan Liang took the gun and immediately stood in front of the formation, majestic; Cao Cao was shocked: Look at this posture, it seems that his generals embarrassed his opponents.

It happened that Song Xian was right next to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao asked Song Xian:

"I heard that you are a brave general under Lu Bu. Can you fight Yan Liang now?"

Song Xian bowed:

"The last general will set up Yan Liang's head to the lord"

After saying that, he urged his horse to rush out of the array and headed straight for Yan Liang.

General Yan Liang's hand was crossed in front of the saddle. When he saw Song Xian appearing in the battle from afar, he looked up and down for a while, but when he saw Song Xian's armor and weapons, he didn't look like a general. He asked loudly:

"Who are you? Quickly report your name"

Song Xian ran and said:

"Song Xian, the general under Cao Gong's account, is it?"

When Yan Liang heard this, he suddenly lost interest and said:

"I, Yan Liang, won't fight with the unknown. Please go back and fight in the future."

When Song Xian heard this, he said angrily:

"The tyrant general, take your grandpa Song first"

After saying that, the man had already rushed to Yan Liang, waved his black iron knife in his hand and chopped at Yan Liang.

Yan Liang was also angry at Song Xian at this time. Seeing the blade chopping down toward his head, he looked at the horses next to him, and stabbed Song Xian at lightning speed. But with a "puff" sound, the big iron spear, which was nearly thin forearm, penetrated Song Xian's neck, almost broke his neck, and then Yan Liang turned his hand. The big iron spear penetrated Song Xian's neck, and he picked it up from the horse and turned around in the air and fell to the ground.

Looking at Song Xian again, he was already dead

Wei Xu, who joined Cao Cao with Song Xian, was in front of the army and watched the enemy. Seeing Song Xian being killed, Wei Xu went straight to the snatch and rode his horse and ran away from Yan Liang.

The two horses intersected and did not answer. Wei Xu was first to thrust the gun and stabbed him. Yan Liang pushed away the big iron spear in his hand. He hit Wei Xu with a backhand shot. He threw the gun in his hand and wanted to defeat him. Yan Liang generals the big iron spear across the saddle bridge, bent his bow and arrow. With the sound of an arrow breaking through the air, Wei Xu, who had escaped three hundred meters, suddenly stopped his body, and the arrow almost penetrated his body, poked a long piece in front of his chest, and fell down from his horse.

In the blink of an eye, Cao Cao was shocked. He was worthy of being a famous general in Hebei. Yan Liang was indeed well-known.

Cao Hong asked Cao Cao for his orders and fought against Yan Liang again. The two of them fought together for no more than five times. Cao Hong failed to fight and came back after defeat.

Then, General Yan Liang waved his big iron spear and commanded 50,000 Yuan Shao's army to pounce like a tide. Cao Cao urgently ordered the entire army to stop it. However, after Yan Liang killed two generals in a row and defeated one general, the morale was great. Cao's army was exhausted due to the attack on the city for many days and lost two generals. The morale was very low. He was defeated by Yan Liang's troops, and many casualties were killed and injured.

Seeing that Yan Liang was too fierce and his soldiers could not resist at all, Cao Cao had to retreat to Baima Port under the protection of his personal guards. After Yan Liang, who was rushing in the chaos, reported the report, he hurriedly led thousands of cavalry to chase him closely behind.

Just as Yan Liang was about to chase Cao Cao, Dian Wei received news of Cao Cao's defeat and led his troops to come to pick him up. He just happened to hit Yan Liang, and the two immediately fought together.

Both of them were powerful generals, one used a double halberd and the other used a large iron spear. The force was similar, so the battle was naturally very fierce. After the two of them fought for fifty rounds, they still had no choice but to win or lose. Cao Cao was afraid that Dian Wei would be in trouble, so he urgently ordered Dian Wei to return to his original formation. Yan Liang and he knew it would be difficult to defeat Dian Wei. Moreover, his main task during this trip was to rescue the siege of Baima, not to chase Cao Cao, so he did not chase him, but to lead his troops to Baima City.

Let’s talk about Cao Cao, who took over the defeated army and the siege troops, withdrew twenty miles west of Baima City, set up camp and set up camp, and remained in a row for three consecutive days.

Xiahou Dun and others escorted food, grass, soldiers and equipment to this point, and asked Cao Cao why he stopped leading the army to fight Yan Liang. Cao Cao said:

"Yan Liang's army is coming in a turbulent manner, intending to fight quickly. If our army has no chance of winning, it will be more defensive and consume its troops and food."

Xiahou Dun and others asked for their orders, confident that they could defeat Yan Liang, Cao Cao shook his head and rejected them all.

At this time, Jia Xu came to Cao Cao with the intelligence sent back from Hebei. Cao Cao hurriedly looked at it, and his eyes were frozen on Yecheng and the generals clearly stated that Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Sun Gan were in Yecheng.

Liu Bei is still alive? Cao Cao was stunned for a while when he saw Liu Bei's name. He turned to frown and pondered for a while. Suddenly his eyes lit up, and everyone retreated, saying to Jia Xu:

"Only what is the current plan can be made to war by Guan Yu."

Guan Yu had previously escorted the siege equipment to the camp and was obeying the orders in the army.

Seeing that Cao Cao rejected all the generals, Jia Xu only intended to let Guan Yu go to war. Based on this battle situation and the information Liu Bei was under Yuan Shao, he suspected:

"Master, is it because he wants Guan Yu to kill Yan Liang and then use Yuan Shao's hand to kill Liu Bei?"

Cao Cao laughed and said:

“That’s right.”

Jia Xu nodded and said:

"This plan is good. I am worried that if Guan Yu cannot kill Yan Liang, he will let Liu Bei know that Guan Yu is in our army. If so, Guan Yu will soon be under the lord's tent."

Cao Cao sighed:

"Even if this is the case, we should always try it. Most of the spies in Yuan Shao's army are distributed in our army. I believe that the news of Guan Yu will be transmitted back to Yecheng soon, and Liu Bei will still know it. Since it will be difficult to escape here sooner or later, it is better to let Guan Yu go to battle now. If it can be killed Yan Liang, even if it cannot be killed, I will make other arrangements to make Yuan Shao want to kill Liu Bei."

Jia Xu was deeply impressed by what Cao Cao said, so he ordered someone to come to Guan Yu.

The guards had just taken the order and left when they lifted the curtain, but they saw Wu Fan leading his subordinates to come in.

It turned out that Wu Fan had taken one step ahead of Cao Cao, and had already learned that Liu Bei wanted to surrender to Yuan Shao before Liu Bei entered Yecheng. Although the news that Liu Bei was still alive surprised Wu Fan, what made him even more urgent was that the historical trajectory appeared again in the battle of Yuan and Cao: Liu Bei surrendered to Yuan Shao, and the next step should be that Yuan Shao sent troops to attack Cao under Liu Bei's intrigue; then, Yan Liang and Wen Chou died one after another under Guan Yu's sword, which made Guan Lao 2 extremely powerful since then.

This inference is something that Wu Fan can never accept.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou, now they are Wu Fan’s second and third brothers. How can Guan Lao 2 let them hurt them at all?

When Wu Fan thought of this, he could no longer sit still, so he immediately sent a messenger to Luoyang and ordered Luoyang prefect Tian Feng to transfer 10,000 troops to guard Henei, and at the same time, he left Cao Ren as the general, Xun Yu and Guo Jia to support each other to defend Henei. He led the four people of Huaxiong, Zhang Liao, Zhou Tai, and Lu Lingqi and 35,000 Qingzhou fighters to come to Puyang under the pretext of aiding Cao Cao's First Legion.

This is the time to help Cao Cao, and the two sworn brothers who saved him were the master

Cao Cao was really overjoyed when he saw Wu Fan. With Wu Fan here, Cao Cao's confidence in facing Yuan Shao's army was immediately increased. The two had just finished meeting with the rituals of the king and his subjects. At this time, Guan Yu came to the central army's tent under the leadership of the guards.

As soon as he entered the Central Army tent, Guan Yu first glanced at the people in the tent, then came to Cao Cao and bowed:

"I wonder what's important to ask Guan to come?"

Cao Cao was very happy when he got Wu Fan here to help him, and his tone of speaking changed from the previous solemnity, and said to Guan Yu:

"Oh, Chang Yun, that's it. Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang, one of the famous generals in Hebei, to lead heavy troops to the White Horse. Yan Liang is very amazing. In one confrontation, he even injured two of my generals, which caused our army to lose many troops. Therefore, I want you to go and meet this person, are you willing?"

When Guan Yu heard Cao Cao say Yan Liang so well, he immediately disagreed:

"What is Yan Liang worth mentioning? Although he is not talented, he wants to take Yan Liang's head and throw it under the tent."

Wu Fan heard it next to him, glanced at Guan Yu, and said in his heart: Can you, Mr. Guan 2 be more modest? Why am I seeing you more and more unhappy now

Hua Xiong behind him was not used to Guan Yu's arrogant attitude, and snorted coldly, turning his head away.

Seeing that Guan Yu was so confident, Cao Cao said happily:

"It's so good. Yun Chang, let's go back and have a rest. I will see Yan Liang tomorrow."

Guan Yu said:

"Why do you need to wait until tomorrow to kill this incompetent person? You can lead the army now"

Before Cao Cao could answer, Wu Fan said sternly:

"The lord said that the day is tomorrow, and this is no joke in the army."

What is Wu Fan's status in Cao Cao's mind? How could Guan Yu compare? Besides, Wu Fan's words are reasonable and he also safeguards Cao Cao's face. Therefore, Cao Cao nodded and said to Guan Yu:

"Chief Yun doesn't have to worry. It's not too late to fight Yan Liang after the entire army is rested tomorrow."

Although Guan Yu was arrogant, he was not as arrogant as ignorant. Seeing this scene, he knew that he could not overwhelm Wu Fan's limelight, which made Cao Cao change his mind, so he had to respond and turn and leave.

Afterwards, Cao Cao and Wu Fan talked for a while, Wu Fan also bid farewell to Cao Cao and left the central army tent, hoping to come to the camp of the army.

As soon as he returned to his army camp, Wu Fan immediately wrote a letter and ordered Zheng Long and Deng Xiu to pretend to be ordinary people to cross the Yellow River. He did not necessarily see Yan Liang tonight and handed him his own letter.

The two took the order and left.

This is actually the fundamental reason why Wu Fan insisted that Cao Cao leads his troops to fight Yan Liang tomorrow in the Central Army tent.

...

There was nothing to say all night. The next morning, the Cao army soldiers had a full meal. They left 20,000 to guard the camp, and the remaining 100,000 troops were led by Cao Cao and were looking for Yan Liang's army to come.

In the past three days, Yan Liang has been leading his army to challenge the enemy and scold the enemy in front of Cao's camp, intending to fight. If Cao's army does not go to fight today, Yan Liang has decided to attack Cao's camp at night.

Seeing that Cao's army was coming out of the camp, Yan Liang, Xu Huang, Gongsun Zan and other deputy generals were very happy and ordered the entire army to line up five miles away from Cao's camp to wait for Cao's army to

Yan Liang stared at Cao Jun's array, stroked the armor on his chest, and looked thoughtful.
Chapter completed!