Seeing that Cao's soldiers were all crazy, they tried to climb the trench and rushed over. Lin Xue looked calm and shouted in a deep voice: "The defensive formation, the third level of the gun formation is unfolded! It is as motionless as a mountain!"

Hearing Lin Xue's order, the soldiers of the two battalions of "Tiger" and "Bear" immediately changed their formation. With 500 people in a horizontal row, each of the 1,500 soldiers in the front row were arranged one step apart. The first row of soldiers knelt on one knee, the second row of soldiers stood in a low body, and the third row of soldiers stood long. After making the formation, the third row of soldiers stabbed the spear in their hands at the same time. Suddenly, the 1,500 spears were divided into three upper, middle and lower layers, densely spreading to form a trapezoidal forest. The front row of spears left half a step in front of the trench.

In a blink of an eye, a hundred Cao army soldiers had already climbed over, but before they could stand firm, a row of long spears had already stabbed over neatly.

"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"

Almost none of the more than a hundred soldiers survived, with at least one or two sharp spears stabbed into their legs. Most of them were stabbed involuntarily and leaned forward involuntarily. The second row of spears that were stabbed into the chest and died immediately. A very few who did not die immediately hit the third row of spears...

Cao's soldiers rushed through the trench like a tide, but were constantly harvested by rows of spears stabbed out. Soon, several layers of dead bodies had been filled in the trench, almost filling the trench. The land on both sides of the trench was stained with blood and blood red by blood, and the continuous flowing blood was blown cold by the cold north wind, and gradually solidified into the soil.

The second brother looked at the scene quietly, shook his head slightly in disbelief, as if he was saying to me, and seemed to be whispering to himself: "Qingzhou Army??!!!.........Is this really the invincible Qingzhou Army?" After staying in Cao's army for a while, the second brother had already recognized that the Cao army in front of him was the world-famous elite infantry "Qingzhou Army".

I smiled faintly and said to my second brother with certainty: "After this battle, the era of "Qingzhou Soldiers" is about to end!"

The second brother nodded, and a slight smile appeared on his face, "......Yes, the third brother... This battle is almost over!"

Indeed! This battle is almost over.

When the last madness of Cao's army was nailed to the trench by the rock-moving gun formation, the fire in the sky had already swallowed up most of the soldiers of Cao's army. Less than a thousand soldiers were left to shrink into a small space of less than 20 steps, but it was only a matter of time before these people were buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Xu Huang looked at the approaching fire in silence, suddenly a flash of light in his eyes, and said to Jin in a deep voice: "Wenze, you and I have no life in this battle. It is common for a real man to die in the battlefield!" Xu Huang glanced at Cao Ren, who was almost unconscious behind Yu Jin, "But General Cao Ren is a relative of the prime minister, with a noble status, and is different from us. Even if we fight to the death, we will still escort General Cao Ren to leave safely."

Yu Jin nodded and asked in confusion: "Gongming, what do you want?"

Xu Huang said with a resolute expression: "Wenze, would you like to live with me in death?"

"What is to survive in death?"

Xu Huang held the thunder axe and pointed the fire that was constantly approaching, "With the power of a war horse, we rushed through this sea of ​​fire. If I expected it, after a hundred steps of the fire, the dead grass will definitely be burned out. As long as I can pass the nearly hundred steps of the fire and do not die, I can escape from the sky! Wenze, please follow me!"

Yu Jin's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he said without hesitation: "Yu Jin is not talented, so I will accompany you to Gongming to break through this gate of hell! It's just the remaining brothers here..."

A Cao army captain next to him clasped his fists and said with a sigh: "General Xu, General Yu, you can escort General Cao away. The last general is willing to lead the remaining brothers to fight the enemy to the death! Please ask the two generals to repay the Prime Minister, there are no cowards in the 'Qingzhou Army'!"

Other soldiers of the "Qingzhou Army" also shouted in unison with him: "There are no cowards among the "Qingzhou Army"!"

Xu Huang's eyes were complicated, but he didn't say anything. He just hugged his hands into fists and raised them over his head, bowed his head and bowed to these fearless soldiers. Then he said to Jin: "Wenze, tie General Cao Ren behind you, find a bloody coat to put on General Cao Ren. I will clear the way for you, let's go!"

A moment later, in the surprised gaze of my second brother and I, Xu Huang and Yu Jin, rode their horses into the sea of ​​fire, and disappeared in an instant.

The remaining more than a thousand Cao soldiers shouted and launched the final battle, but their fate was irreversible. The fearless attack of death finally stopped in front of the ruthless gun array.

The fire quickly engulfed the trench north, but it could not continue to extend south. The trench one meter wide became the best barrier to block the fire. In addition, the dry grass on the ground hundreds of steps south of the trench had long been removed, so although Mars occasionally flew across the trench, it was quickly extinguished.

When the last Cao army soldier fell, Lin Xue shouted: "Tiger Gun Camp, Bear Gun Camp, everyone obeyed the orders. Get up, collect the guns, and retreated 20 steps!" The soldiers of the "Tiger" who were responsible for blocking the attack stood up, took back their spears, and retreated.

At this time, the eldest brother also rode his horse to me and my second brother, and looked at the raging fire with us. His eyes were shining with bright colors, and he said with joy but emotion: "I won... Second brother, Third brother, we won!"

The second brother also said excitedly: "Yes, brother, we finally really defeated Cao Cao once..." (Note: Although Liu Bei's army had many battles with Cao's army, they had almost no victory, so Liu Bei and Guan Yu were so excited)

At this time, under the leadership of Lin Xue, the soldiers of the two battalions of "Tiger" and "Bear" raised their spears in their hands and shouted loudly:

"The tiger gun is invincible! The bear gun is invincible!"

Inspired by their momentum, the 8th Battalion recruits behind them also began to cheer everywhere. Although it was not their turn to fight the enemy in person in this battle, the joy of victory also infected them. The magnificence of the "tiger" and "bear" battalions made them empathize with it.

After a long time, the fire in the sky finally slowly extinguished when the grass and trees were burned out. At first glance, the 23,000-step land was charred, and there were still a little grass gray in the sky falling from time to time. The air was filled with the unpleasant smell of meat being scorched, which continued to spread with the north wind. Many soldiers from the new camp could not control the sensation of vomiting in their chests and vomited with a "wow".

I rode my horse over and shouted loudly, "The two battalions of 'Tiger Spear' and 'Bear Spear' will go back to the city to rest immediately." After pausing, I said to Wei Yan, Chen Dao and other 8th battalions, "Chief Wen, Shu Zhi... I will clean up the battlefield with your battalions. All weapons, whether damaged or not, will be taken away. The enemy's corpses will be dug and buried on the spot. If there are soldiers of Cao's army who are not dead, please... send them on the way!"

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It was not until dusk that day that the work of cleaning up the battlefield was completed. According to the statistical returns of the captains of each battalion, nearly 30,000 people were killed in this battle, and no injured or captured. More than 26,000 of them were burned to death by fire, and less than 4,000 people were killed in the battle between the two armies (of which nearly 1,500 were stabbed to death by guns, and the other 2,500 were killed in front of the gun formation when trying to break through). More than 150 soldiers died in this battle in our army, all of whom were soldiers from the second battalion of Tiger Gun and Bear Gun. Most of them died in battle when they blocked Cao's army's breakthrough, especially when Cao Ren broke into the formation, the formation was disrupted, which gave the Cao army an opportunity to take advantage of. In addition, hundreds of people were injured.

In addition, Zhao Yun also sent someone to send a good news. According to my arrangement, Zhao Yun led the Fengqi Battalion to successfully raid the camp in Cao Ren's rear where the baggage was hoarded, and the result was quite a lot. Perhaps Cao Ren thought that his fire attack strategy would be successful, so he left almost no soldiers to garrison. Therefore, Zhao Yun captured it without any effort.

In short, this battle can be regarded as a complete victory. The only pity is that since most of the corpses were burnt and could not be identified at all, it is unknown whether Cao Ren, Xu Huang and Yu Jin were alive or dead.

Early the next morning, my elder brother immediately ordered people to post a list to publicly announce the people of the whole city to calm the hearts of the people. Suddenly, the people in the city were filled with joy. The people had such a reaction, not because our army was so popular, after all, it was less than two months since we came to Runan. More because the reputation of Cao's army was already famous all over the world. A few years ago, when Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou to avenge his father, he killed hundreds of thousands of people in several counties without leaving any. The victory of our army made the people of Runan think that they had escaped the fate of being massacred, so they were extremely happy.

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Two days later, Xuchang, Prime Minister's Mansion

Cao Cao was discussing affairs with a group of civil and military officials in the mansion. Over the past few days, Yuan Shao, Hebei has been convening soldiers, raising food and grass, and preparing to avenge the defeat of Guandu. According to yesterday's latest return, Yuan Shao had gathered nearly 300,000 troops and was stepping up training. It seems that the day to send troops again is not far away. Cao Cao summoned all civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures on this matter.

During the discussion, a group of military generals led by Xiahou Yuan advocated taking the initiative and taking advantage of the opportunity that Yuan Shao's new soldiers had not yet completed the training, they took the initiative to attack Jizhou and completely defeat Yuan Shao. However, Guo Jia, Xun Yu and others strongly opposed it. They believed that it was not advisable to attack Yuan Shao before defeating Liu Bei in Runan, so as to avoid being attacked on both sides.

Cao Cao sat quietly in the seat, listening to the argument between the two sides of the literature and the military, but he did not speak. Cao Cao was not very worried about Yuan Shao's big fanfare. He was even more worried about Liu Bei from Runan. Cao Ren had been in the battle for Runan for seven days, but there had been no war reports back to Xuchang. He didn't know how the battle was going? For some reason, Cao Cao had been a little uneasy these and two days.

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister..." Guo Jia's call interrupted Cao Cao's contemplation, "Prime Minister, do you seem to be distracted?"

Cao Cao nodded slightly and said, "I am quite worried about the war in Runan. There has been no war reports in the past few days. I wonder if Zixiao and the others are going well?"

After hearing Cao Cao's words, the controversy among the people immediately subsided. Cao Hong grinned without any worries: "Prime Minister, don't worry. With the ability of Zixiao's brother to command the army, Wenze and Gongming help, plus 30,000 'Qingzhou soldiers', Liu Bei, a mere opponent in Runan. In Hong's opinion, Zixiao must have taken Runan away, and the person who sent good news is on the way!"

Yes, with the ability of his son to filial piety, it should be no problem to try to pacify Liu Bei's tens of thousands of mobs! Cao Cao smiled faintly with comfort.

At this moment, the outside official of the Prime Minister's Mansion suddenly came outside the conference hall and said in a hurry: "Report to Prime Minister, Yu Jin, and Xu Huang, two generals, to see you?"

Everyone in the hall, including Cao Cao, was very surprised. Why did the two of you suddenly return to Xuchang? Even if you report the victory, you don’t need these two people to come back in person!

Cao Cao stood up and said hurriedly: "Come in!"

"Yes, Prime Minister!"

To Cao Cao's surprise, Yu Jin and Xu Huang did not walk into the conference hall themselves, and were each carried in by two soldiers. When Cao Cao saw the two, he immediately spoke in surprise: "Wenze, Gongming, why do you look like this? What's going on?"

Yu Jin and Xu Huang were extremely embarrassed at this time, with dark all over his body and ragged clothes. There were countless burn marks on his face and body, especially Xu Huang's hair and beard were almost burned half.

Xu Huang broke free from the support of the soldiers beside him, knelt on the ground with a "thump", with a sad and angry expression, and a crying voice: "Prime Minister... Our army was defeated, and the 30,000 troops have been wiped out!"
Chapter completed!