Chapter 15 Low Morale
On the opposite side of the river bank, it attracted the attention of the coalition forces as early as when Lu Bu appeared. When Yuan Shao and others rushed over after hearing the news, they saw Lu Bu falling into an iron cavalry and fighting the Yuzhou army, with no power to fight back.
The formation of the Yuzhou army was constantly divided by Lu Bu and torn into pieces. Countless Yuzhou soldiers jumped into the river frantically. Some people could water and could swim here, but most of the coalition soldiers did not know the nature of the water. They slapped in the water for a few times and then disappeared.
"How could Lu Bu be here?" Yuan Shao saw the other party's banner and his face became extremely ugly, and he looked back and said.
When the princes heard this, they looked at each other. They knew why Lu Bu was here, but the Yuzhou army was probably over.
Seeing that the enemy's courage was lost, Lu Bu no longer took action himself, allowing Cao Xing, Hou Cheng and other generals to continue to drive the scared Yuzhou troops into the river, and came to Kong Yichang's unmanned body, jumped off his horse and drew his sword to cut off Kong Yichang's head, and hung it on the neck of the Red Rabbit Horse.
In this way, this is a success!
Lu Bu turned over and rode his horse to the shore on the corpse all over the ground. Looking at Yuan Shao who was ashen with a blue look outside, he could not see Ye Zhao's traces, and a feeling of pleasure that he had never felt before.
He still remembers when he first arrived in Luoyang, Yuan Shao was extremely close to him in order to deal with Ye Zhao. After he was defeated by Ye Zhao, Yuan Shao's attitude was like mud, and he didn't even bother to look at him directly. Today, he finally raised his head, causing the depression in Lu Bu's chest to dissipate, leaving only the indescribable pleasure.
"Yuan Benchu, did you ever think of today?" Lu Bu hung Fang Tian's painting halberd on the horse's back, raised his neck, and looked at Yuan Shao opposite the river bank in a victorious posture.
Yuan Shao's face turned dark. Although there were 300,000 powerful troops, they were blocked by water. He could only watch Lu Bu show off his power on the other side of the shore. Watching Lu Bu killing his soldiers at will was undoubtedly a huge blow to the morale of the coalition army. More importantly, Yuan Shao lost one after another when he was the leader of the alliance, which was not a good sign.
To say that Xu Yu, who died before, was just Prime Minister Chen, was not a big loss, but this time Kong Yichang was the governor of a state and one of the important supporters of Yuan Shao in this alliance!
"Shoot and kill this thief with me!" These words seemed to pop out of the teeth.
Dozens of archers shot arrows in the direction of Lu Bu on the other side, but they were only a hundred steps apart. In addition, the wind blew from time to time on the river. The dozens of arrow feathers were blown by the wind, and all of them were lost. They all fell down and disappeared by the water.
"Hahaha~" Seeing this, Lu Bu laughed wildly, took off the carved bow from the horse's back, and pulled a cluster of arrows, and said at the same time: "The rats are the rats, so I asked someone to teach you how to shoot arrows!"
While speaking, a bow was already shooting an arrow. Everyone felt a phantom passing through their eyes, and then they heard a dull sound of "bang". When they looked back, a flagpole behind Yuan Shao was shot and fell down.
Seeing this, all the princes were shocked and subconsciously retreated. Who knew whether the next cluster of arrows of Lu Bu would shoot on them?
Lu Bu laughed wildly again. Seeing that the coalition forces retreated without a trace, he rode on the Red Rabbit Horse with thunder and roared away with three thousand cavalrymen, leaving only a mess.
The princes of Kanto did not come back until Lu Bu left for a long time. They looked at the messy battlefield across the river bank, and looked at each other speechless for a moment.
"The 30,000 troops in Yuzhou... are gone?" Ye Zhao appeared next to the princes at some distance, and watched the floating corpse of the monk floating to the distance with the current of the water, and said with a little sadness.
Kong Yichang was the governor of Yuzhou. Among the many princes, he was a relatively rich country. He had an army of 30,000. Ye Zhao looked at the river bank and died in battle. Most of them were jumping into the river and drowned.
"What do you mean by Ye Hou?" Zhang Miao looked at Ye Zhao with a bad expression.
"What can I say? A general is incompetent and exhausts the three armies. The 30,000 army is gone. If we continue to fight like this, half of these 300,000 coalition forces will die before we reach Hulao Pass!" Ye Zhao said calmly.
"Ye Zhao, Gong Xu is dead, the dead are the most important. If you say this, it is a blasphemy of the dead!" Liu Dai glared at Ye Zhao and said.
"The dead are the most important? I agree with this!" Ye Zhao pointed to the corpses that had not yet floated away on the river and said, "Then please tell Gongshan, who should be responsible for the death of these 30,000 soldiers? Thirty thousand people were annihilated by 3,000 people! Ha, Kong Gongxu used his and the lives of these 30,000 soldiers to achieve the reputation of Lu Fengxian. I blasphemed the dead, and he blasphemed the 30,000 living people!"
"You..." Liu Dai was so stuck in Ye Zhao's words that he couldn't speak.
"Yehou, Gongshan and Gongxu are good friends. Gongxu is dead in the battlefield at this moment, you shouldn't have been like this." Yuan Shao frowned, and the princes around him nodded in agreement.
"It seems that you don't like me very much at this moment, and I don't want to argue with you about the blasphemy of the deceased. It's not enough for the leader of the Yuan Dynasty. If I were you, what I should care about at this moment is not these 30,000 dead people, but those who are not dead and have a glimmer of hope!" Ye Zhao sneered, shook his head and turned around and left, without suffering a few great losses. It seems that these people are not good at learning.
After Ye Zhao left, Yuan Shao looked at everyone with a blue face and said, "Brother Bo Gui, quickly cross the river. After getting ashore, immediately rush to Meng De, Wentai!"
Since Lu Bu appeared here, the two troops attacking Xingyang might not be successful. Ye Zhao's last sentence awakened Yuan Shao and quickly sent Gongsun Zan, the most warlike princes among the remaining princes.
"Don't worry, leader!" Gongsun Zan agreed and quickly directed the soldiers to cross the river. With Kong Yichang's precedent, Gongsun Zan became much more cautious. The soldiers who crossed the river first dug many traps around and set up horse stakes. If Lu Bu came again, he would not have been destroyed as unprepared as Kong Yichang.
Yuan Shao ordered Liu Dai to search for more ships and speed up the coalition's crossing the river. If he continued to continue so slowly and consumed food and grass, Dong Zhuo would harass him a few more times, probably as Ye Zhao said. Before he reached Hulao Pass, the coalition would have to lose half of it first.
Just as Gongsun Zan crossed the river, another group of people came from afar, but Cao Cao who left in the morning to go to Xingyang.
"How did Meng De come here? Have you ever met Lu Bu?" Gongsun Zan asked hurriedly when he saw Cao Cao's expression change slightly.
"I met it!" Cao Cao nodded with a serious expression and said, "When Lu Bu saw that I had a rigorous formation and had never fought, he left by detour. Although I sent someone to inform the Wentai, I am afraid I can't get there."
"Why don't you go to the help desk and what should you do when you come back?" Gongsun Zan frowned.
"They are all cavalry, how can I chase after me? If I pursue them, I will be full of infantry. Once the formation is chaotic, I may be taken advantage of by Lu Bu, so I will come back to help the soldiers." Cao Cao smiled bitterly and said, "Bo Gui is full of cavalry. Why not, I will pick up the army Bo Gui here and go to support Wentai first. Cao still has 500 cavalry under his command, so how about handing over to Bo Gui to command?"
"Okay!" Gongsun Zan thought about it and nodded decisively. Cao Cao ordered his brother Cao Chun to lead the 500 cavalry and the 3,000 cavalry of Gongsun Zan to form a first army, and under the leadership of Gongsun Zan, he ran straight towards Xingyang.
Seeing that Yuan Shao and others were slowly crossing the river, Cao Cao frowned and thought for a while, and ordered people to use ropes to connect the small boats, either five or ten, and then use ropes to string these connected ships together to connect the two sides to form a pontoon bridge. The soldiers of the coalition forces could cross the river on the pontoon bridge in turn, and the speed immediately accelerated a lot.
Seeing that this method was effective, Yuan Shao ordered people to make a floating bridge with a template mixed with ships, first letting the coalition soldiers cross the river, and then let Yuan Shu command the logistics troops to slowly transport the food, grass and supplies across the river.
"Meng De's plan is great!" In the evening, Cao Cao's method actually ordered 100,000 soldiers to cross the river and set up camp near the ferry. Yuan Shao couldn't help but praise Cao Cao.
"If you don't want to fuck, you'll come back a little slower. If you could have been earlier, maybe Gongxu wouldn't have such a disaster!" Cao Cao felt uncomfortable when he heard that Kong Ji and 30,000 Yuzhou troops were taken over by Lu Bu. The coalition had just been established and there were two princes in two days. In addition to Li Min, who was destroyed by Hua Xiong before, the war had not yet officially started, and three princes were lost, which was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the coalition.
"Bo Gui left too late, so I'm afraid there is no time to rescue Wentai. This time, the general of Wentai is afraid that there will be little danger!" Kong Rong sat in the banquet, thinking of the war, and couldn't help but sigh.
When the princes heard this, they were silent. After the continuous blows, the morale of the coalition army was already depressed. If even Sun Jian was defeated, it would be even worse for the already low morale of the coalition army.
Cao Cao and Yuan Shao glared at Kong Rong together. They were such a nerd. No one could tell this, but at this time, did they shake the morale of the army?
Yuan Shao really wished he could kill this nerd now.
Seeing that the people were depressed, Cao Cao couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry too much. Sun Wentai is known as the tiger in Jiangdong. When he was in Changshe, Ye Hou also admitted that if he fought immediately, he might not be the opponent of Wentai. Although Lu Bu was brave, Wentai was not an incompetent general. In addition, Gongsun Bogui rushed to help, and Lu Bu's soldiers were young. If he really fought, it was unknown who would win or lose!"
Yuan Shao was stunned when he heard this, and then realized that Cao Cao was encouraging morale. He calmed down his mood at the moment and laughed loudly: "What Meng De said is right. Although Lu Bu is powerful, Wentai is also experienced and may not lose to Lu Bu. We should not be as worried as possible, otherwise Wentai will be ridiculed by him when he finds out."
Chapter completed!