Chapter 2797 Bai Qi defeated Baima City, and Cao Cao was forced to abandon his official position and cross the country


    Chapter 2794: Bai Qi defeated Baima City, and Cao Cao was forced to abandon his official position


    There were many peasant uprising troops in the early Ming Dynasty, such as the Thirty-Sixth Battalion, the Thirteenth Family, etc., but they were basically wiped out by Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou.


    Although Cao Bianjiao is not as good as the above four generals in terms of status, he followed Cao Wenzhao to send troops to fight when he was young, and accumulated military merits to become a guerrilla general. Later, he made many military achievements in the process of suppressing the uprising army.


    Wang Jiayin, the leader of the peasant uprising army in the early Ming Dynasty, defeated the main force of the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou, but was easily defeated by Cao Wenzhao Cao Bianjiao''s uncle and nephew, and was eventually killed by the spies of the Ming army after the defeat.


    In the battle of Qiutou Town, Cao Wenzhao was defeated and committed suicide because he was out of thin air. After Hong Chengchou took over his position, he appointed Cao Bianjiao as his deputy general. The two joined forces to continue to suppress the uprising army.


    Like the Zijinliang King, the first generation of King of Chuang Gao Yingxiang, the old Hui Hui, the Grand Star, the Great Heavenly King, the Scorpion Block, and the Chuangcaitian were basically defeated generals under Cao Bianjiao.


    As for Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others, they only began to rise after Gao Yingxiang''s death. Before that, they could only be considered juniors, and they were not even qualified to fight with Cao Bianjiao. They would basically take a detour when they saw Cao Bianjiao''s banner.


    The combination of Cao Bianjiao and Hong Chengchou was very easy to deal with the rebel army, but it was a bit too difficult to meet the Qing Dynasty in the early days of its business.


    After Songshan City was captured by the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou and Cao Bianjiao were both captured. Hong Chengchou directly chose to surrender, but Cao Bianjiao was killed because he would rather die than surrender, which shows his morality and bloodiness.


    In addition, the late Ming Dynasty was no longer an era of promoting personal bravery, but Cao Bianjiao was one of the few generals who were both wise and brave. Historical books evaluated him as: he was the best of the three armies.


    Such a famous general who is both civil and military, only uses both good quality. In addition, Zhongmu City has a good defense, sufficient materials to defend the city and 4,000 troops. Logically speaking, it would not be impossible to defend for two days.


    You should know that it only takes half a day to get from Guandu to Zhongmu, and two and a half days to get from infantry.


    Under Fan Li''s reminder, Cao Cao had sent Xiahou Yuan to lead his army to support him in advance, and Xiahou Yuan''s marching speed was notoriously fast.


    Cao Bianjiao only needs to wait until Xiahou Yuan’s reinforcements arrive. Even if he cannot repel the invading Qin army, he will definitely be able to defend Zhongmu Yueyue again. So what made Cao Bianjiao defeated so quickly and could not even escape?


    The culprit is still Jia Xu.


    Jia Xu asked Li Dingguoming to attack Kaifeng on the surface, but in fact he was a fake shot, and his real target was still Zhongmu City.


    The one who led the army to Kaifeng was indeed Li Dingguo, but the troops he led were not 40,000, but 20,000, but pretended to be a 40,000 army to mislead the Wei army.


    At the same time, Xu Huang and Gao Shun led 20,000 Qin troops and sneaked to Zhongmu in four directions.


    When he received Cao Cao''s dispatch of reinforcements to Zhongmu, Li Dingguo''s 20,000 main forces immediately gave up Kaifeng and rushed to Zhongmu at full speed, deliberately exposing the whereabouts of 5,000 troops along the way, making Cao Bianjiao think that the Qin army was going to ambush Xiahou Yuan.


    The information Cao Bianjiao received was that the main force of Li Dingguo was still in Kaifeng, while the Qin army in Zhongmu only had Gao Shun''s 5,000 troops.


    Gao Shun originally wanted to ambush Xiahou Yuan''s reinforcements, but after his whereabouts were leaked, he had given up setting up an ambush and prepared to retreat and join Li Dingguo.


    Cao Bianjiao naturally could not let Gao Shun escape easily, so he led 3,000 defenders out of the city, intending to attack Gao Shun on both sides with Xiahou Yuan.


    Cao Bian Jiao 3,000, Xiahou Yuan 5,000, Wei army 8,000, and Qin army 5,000, or attacked on both sides. The Wei army can be said to be a sure victory.


    Cao Bianjiao, the silly child, thought he had seized the fighter plane, but what he didn''t expect was that the fighter plane in his eyes was actually a trap carefully compiled by Jia Xu for him. Gao Shun and Xu Huang were waiting for him to leave the city.


    Cao Bianjiao was trapped. He only took three thousand defenders out of the city, and Xu Huang led his army to raid Zhongmu City.


    After receiving the letter from Fei Ge who was attacked by Zhongmu City, Cao Bianjiao immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap, so he decisively led his army back. After all, continuing to advance would only collide with Gao Shun alone. He was not sure of winning by fighting 3,000 or 5,000.


    When Cao Bianjiao arrived at the city of Zhongmu, Xu Huang had already seized the city and waited for Cao Bianjiao on the city tower.


    Looking at the changing flag on the city tower, Cao Bianjiao was furious and furious, but he was helpless. He knew that he had lost completely, and at this moment, Gao Shun also chased after him.


    Cao Bianjiao had only three thousand Wei troops, but was blocked by Gao Shun and five thousand Qin troops under Zhongmu City. The Qin troops in the city were still surrounded by the city and obviously could not escape.


    If the number of people on both sides is equal, the Wei army will naturally dare to fight with the Qin army, but the current situation is that the Qin army will besieged 10,000 or 20,000, and siege them 3,000. This is obviously a battle that will surely be defeated and die.


    Therefore, after seeing this situation, the morale of the Wei soldiers naturally plummeted, and many people were afraid of their legs trembling.


    Gao Shun walked out at this time and shouted at the Wei army: "Listen to the Wei army opposite. As long as you put down your weapons and surrender, I promise to spare you all the time..."


    Gao Shun had a fixed set of tactics of persuading surrender. He had to say it before the war. It basically didn''t work before, but before this time, the Wei army took the initiative to put down their weapons and surrender.


    Seeing this, Cao Bianjiao subconsciously raised his bow and arrow and wanted to shoot the deserter to death, but the arrow was still not shot out.


    The power of role models is infinite. After the first surrendered troops, only eight hundred were left in the three thousand Wei army, including two hundred of which were Cao Bianjiao''s personal soldiers.


    Looking at the soldiers beside him who were trembling and trembling but still did not put down their weapons, Cao Bianjiao sighed and said, "If you want to surrender, put down your weapons and run to the Qin army. I will not blame you."


    As soon as this was said, the soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, and then ran away a lot, leaving only three hundred people without leaving, and shouted, "I wish to fight to the end with the general." Cao Bianjiao''s eyes were wet. He was ready to die in battle. He thought everyone would run away, but he didn''t expect that there were still three hundred people willing to fight side by side with him.


    "If you can fight side by side with all your brothers, I, Cao Bianjiao, will die without regrets."


    After saying that, Cao Bianjiao''s eyes were full of determination. He took the three hundred dead soldiers and took the initiative to charge against thousands of Qin troops, but he was unable to get close to him and was shot to death by the Qin army archers.


    Then, Gao Shun took action himself and captured Cao Bianjiao alive, and the remaining dozens of soldiers had to put down their weapons.


    In the previous battle, because Li Cunxiao had a good start, the Qin army would basically not show mercy when facing the relatives of Cao Wei.


    Cao Cao''s uncle Cao Yin, his younger brother Cao De, as well as relatives such as Cao Anmin, Cao Shuang, and Xiahou Feng all died in battle with the Qin army.


    In fact, these people could have been captured alive, but because Cao Cao''s firm attitude towards resisting Qin has caused dissatisfaction among many Qin generals. Therefore, when he met the relatives of Cao Wei, he would not capture them even if he could. Many of them were killed directly. After all, with Li Cunxiao in front of him, he could not ask them even if he was held accountable.


    From this we can see that the generals of the Qin Dynasty hated Cao Wei''s attitude, and the only general surnamed Cao who was captured alive is Cao Wenzhao.


    Gao Shun could naturally kill Cao Bianjiao directly, but when he saw that he did not stop the soldiers from surrendering, he knew that he would die and dared to fight to the end with the Qin army, he decided to give him a chance to survive and personally capture him.


    After continuous improvement, although Gao Shun has reached 101 now, he is not a brave general after all, so his overall combat power is actually weaker than Cao Bianjiao, who is 100 of Jiwu.


    The reason why Gao Shun was able to capture Cao Bianjiao alive was mainly because he received the blessing of the combination technique "Five Sons in One Heart".


    The Five Sons Together’ requires at least three people to be present to start. In addition to Gao Shun and Xu Huang, Yu Jin is also in the army, so he can trigger the combined skills.


    However, even with the blessing of "Five Sons Together", Gao Shun of Kiwu 101 took nearly a hundred rounds to defeat Cao Bianjiao of Kiwu 100 and capture alive.


    Since Jia Xu''s plan was so serious that Cao Bianjiao would not be let go to help Xiahou Yuan.


    But compared to Cao Bianjiao, Xiahou Yuan, who was on the right side of Huzhu, was obviously much more scheming. When he realized that the situation was wrong, he immediately retreated to Guandu, and did not give Xu Huang and Gao Shun the chance to attack him.


    Xu Huang and Gao Shun followed Jia Xu''s plan and only suffered 56 casualties, they easily captured Zhongmu City. After Li Dingguo arrived, they left three thousand defenders and led all their troops to Guandu to meet with Zhang Liao''s army.


    Cao Cao originally thought that Zhongmu was approaching Guandu, and it was extremely convenient to send reinforcements or transport materials. As the southern barrier of Guandu, he could hold on for at least one or two months, but he did not expect that he could not hold on for two days and then fell.


    Of course, what drove Cao Cao the most crazy was not the loss of Zhongmu, nor was the capture of Cao Bianjiao alive, but the bad news from Cao Bin on the Yingchuan battlefield.


    The Wei army in Yingchuan retreated to Xuchang, Zhao and Song reinforcements had not arrived for a long time, and Yuan Jiuling ran away fearlessly, and the battle situation on the southern front was facing a collapse at any time.


    If Xuchang is a bit lost, the Yingchuan Qin army can attack Chenliu directly, and then Cao Cao''s persistence in Guandu is meaningless.


    As for whether Cao Bin could defend Xuchang without the arrival of Zhao Song reinforcements after Yuan Jiuling left?


    To be honest, not to mention that Cao Bin has no confidence, even Cao Cao does not have much confidence. After all, although Xuchang is solid, it is also the most serious city that has been penetrated by the Qin Dynasty because it is the capital of the former capital of Wei.


    Cao Cao didn''t know how many spies there were in Xuchang, nor how many people in the city had an affair with the Qin Dynasty, but obviously there would be no small number. If Cao Bin had not been watching him tightly, he would have been opened from the inside and offered the city to Ying Hao.


    In the letter, Cao Bin advised Cao Cao to give up Guandu, and even retreat to the east to continue to resist, but Cao Cao had two major concerns.


    First, if the essence of Wei State is in the west, if the west cannot be defended, the east will be even more uncontrollable;


    The second is how to get rid of the Qin army''s pursuit. After all, Li Dingguo is about to meet with Zhang Liao, and more than 100,000 Qin troops are in Guandu, and it is impossible to watch the Wei army retreat.


    At present, Guandu’s defense line is still very strong and there is no sign of being broken by the Qin army. But if Guandu retreat is given up, once Zhang Liao catches up on the way, there is a risk of annihilation of the entire army.


    This risk is too great, which makes Cao Cao hesitant and it is difficult for him to make up his mind for a while.


    But soon there was news that Bai Qi had broken through Baima City and Le Yi retreated to Puyang, which prompted Cao Cao to make up his mind and voluntarily give up the Guandu defense line.


    After all, once Baima City was broken, the eastern county defense line in the north was left with only a strong city in Puyang to defend.


    But once Puyang is also captured by Bai Qi, the Qin army can directly attack Jiyin County and cut off the Wei army''s retreat to the east, thereby besieging and annihilation of all the Wei army in the three major battlefields in the west.


    Once the Wei army on the Western Front is annihilated, the consequences will be unimaginable. After all, with the forces in the east, it is impossible to stop dozens of Qin troops, and the Qin army may even issue an edict to decide the Wei State.


    As soon as he thought of this, Cao Cao shivered in an instant and immediately decided to give up the Guandu defense line he had worked hard to build, but the problem that made him even more troublesome again emerged, that is, how should he get rid of Zhang Liao''s pursuit again?


    Cao Cao actually looked down on Zhang Liao at the beginning, believing that Zhang Liao''s ability to command troops was the last among the eight founding governors of the Qin Dynasty. It was a complete mistake to send Zhang Liao to deal with him.


    But after Li Cunxiao was transferred, Zhang Liao''s performance on the battlefield made him no longer dare to underestimate him, let alone that Zhang Liao had Jia Xu''s assistance.


    It is obviously not an easy task for Cao Cao to lead his army to retreat safely from Guandu under Zhang Liao and Jia Xu.


    (This chapter ends)