Chapter 164

Hearing Guo Tu's words, Yuan Tan's face gradually improved. He directly waved his hand and said, "you don't have to worry about it. It's only a matter of raising one's hand to deal with a mere 50000 thieves. For me, it's just a matter of raising one's hand. The public just needs to wait for good news in the letter."

Although Guo Tu still had some worries in his heart. After all, this was the first time for Yuan Tan to lead a soldier alone. But when he looked at Yuan Tan's face, Guo Tu knew that if he continued to speak, he would only make Yuan Tan unhappy. If the letter was enough, the regular army of 30000 would attack 50000 thieves, and there would be no problem. So he stopped talking and said to Yuan Tan, "in this case, my subordinates are here I'll leave and go to the barracks to prepare for the eldest son's troops tomorrow. "

Yuan Tan thought that Guo TU was still for his own good after all, so he didn't say anything more. He nodded and agreed to Guo Tu's request. After Guo tu quit, Yuan Tan burst out laughing when he remembered that he could make great achievements and solve the inheritance problem that had puzzled him for a long time.

In the morning of the next day, Yuan Tan set out from the governor's office in brand-new armor and went to the military camp. Guo Tu had been waiting at the gate of the barracks for a long time. Thirty thousand defenders lined up and stood inside the barracks waiting for Yuan Tan, the commander-in-chief.

Yuan Tan looked at the soldiers ready to go, nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his big hand, he set out from the gate of the city and drove to Qinghe County.

From Xindu to Qinghe, most of the way is plain. Only at the junction of Qinghe and Xindu, there is a valley. At this moment, the Houghton was lying on top of the valley.

With the scorching sun on top of his head, it is autumn tiger season in September again. The air is humid and stuffy, which makes all Cao's soldiers feel very bad. Lejin raised his head and looked at the direction of Xindu from a distance and asked Xia Houyuan, "miaocai, is this information accurate? Will Yuan Tan really pass by here? "

Xia Hou yuan nodded and said, "the sergeant who went to pretend to report the news has come back, which shows that he saw Yuan Tan himself and all the city guards set out from the gate towards the Qinghe River. From Xindu to Qinghe, there is only one road, and it must pass through this valley! We have the best ambush here. "

Lejin mumbled: "as for those Jizhou soldiers who are in a big bag of wine, let me take the army to deal with him head-on. I can win directly and easily. Why should I suffer so much to ambush him?"

Hearing lejin's murmur, Xia Houyuan couldn't help laughing: "Wen Qian! This war, of course, is to get the biggest gain with the smallest loss! If it's a face-to-face battle, I also believe that you can defeat Yuan Tan's 30000 troops, but you can't guarantee that you can completely annihilate the other party. If Yuan Tan returns to Xindu with some defeated troops, then it will take us a lot of effort to attack Xindu. "

Lejin curled his mouth and said, "miaocai, I know what you said. I'm just complaining."

Xia Houyuan was so angry that he opened his mouth to fight back. At this time, Xia Houdun's low roar sounded: "attention! Here comes the other party

Hearing Xia Houdun's warning, they both subconsciously lowered themselves to the ground. After a while, they saw a cavalry at the mouth of the valley, and then a soldier slowly walked into the valley. Xia Houdun made a little estimation and said in a low voice to lejin, "Wenqian, you take 5000 cavalry to the valley mouth to ambush! When the rocks fall from the mouth of the valley, you will lead the troops to attack the Jizhou army that is blocked outside! "

Le Jin nodded, and then he fell on the ground and climbed back. Xia Houdun said to his brother Xia Houyuan, "go and lead the soldiers to guard the exit in front. When the rocks fall down, you will stop the soldiers who have already left the valley. be careful! We must capture Yuan Tan, who is at the front of the line, alive

"Don't worry! Brother! I will catch Yuan Tan alive Xia Hou yuan answered, while his eyes were firmly fixed on Yuan Tan, who was swinging in the valley. He remembered his appearance and then he learned the method of happy advance and retreated.

After this explanation, Yuan Tan's army had already entered more than half of the valley. Xia Houdun watched closely and kept counting the number of people entering the valley. With the team slowly moving forward, finally, Yuan Tan led the front of the team has been slowly out of the valley. XiahouDun looked at the other side. There were only one or two thousand men and horses who had not entered the valley. Most of the enemy troops were already in the valley.

When Xia Houdun's eyes were cold, he made a sign to both sides, and the soldiers passed on the orders of XiahouDun one by one. Before long, he heard a roar at both ends of the valley. Numerous huge stones, which had been prepared for a long time, fell down from the valley and blocked the narrow mouth of the valley directly.

"Attack!" Looking at the panicked soldiers at the bottom of the valley, XiahouDun uttered a cold hum, took the lead to stand up, raised his bow and arrow, and aimed at a leader level person, he shot directly at the man's face. Everyone knows that Xia Houyuan's archery is excellent, but they don't know that Xia Houyuan's archery was taught by Xia Houdun!

With the beginning of Xia Houdun's arrow, all the Cao troops who were ambushed in the valley stood up. The archers shot their arrows at the bottom of the valley, while the other infantry members threw stones at the bottom of the valley. For a time, the bottom of the valley screamed everywhere, and at this time, the two ends of the valley also broke out a startling cry to kill, it seems that lejin and Xia Houyuan began to fight.Since he shot the first arrow, Xia Houdun never started again. Instead, he looked coldly at the Jizhou army in the valley. It was impossible for him to wipe out all the 30000 troops, but it was not practical to persuade him to surrender at the beginning. Even if the other side surrendered, XiahouDun did not dare to take it in. What Xia Houdun wanted to do now was to beat these Jizhou troops hard. If they were frightened, they would surrender sincerely. And now these soldiers at the bottom of the valley are still holding up their shields, ready to seek exits on both sides of the valley, which proves that they have not given up, so they must continue to fight hard!

After about a stroke of incense, XiaHouYuan and lejin also wiped out the enemy on both sides. They went to XiahouDun and looked at the bottom of the valley coldly. Xia Houdun looked at the reaction of the soldiers at the bottom of the valley. He was attacked by Cao Jun's bows and stones, and the movement outside the mouth of the valley on both sides had disappeared. His comrades in arms fell one by one, and their faces began to show fear.

"Stop!" After a look at the effect, Xia Houdun ordered Cao's army to stop attacking, coldly looked at those helpless Jizhou soldiers, and cried out: "those who fall will not die!"

"The fallen never die! Those who fall will not die! " In the valley, all the Cao troops followed him, frightening those Jizhou soldiers to drop their weapons and kneel on the ground to kowtow for mercy. Xia Houdun looked at it carefully, and now there are less than 20000 left in the 30000 army, but for the present Cao army, it has been a great harvest! The three of them looked at each other and looked at Xindu at the same time. At this time, Guan Yu and Xi Zhicai were about to arrive at Xindu, right? In the face of the capital city of Xindu, which has no garrison, Guan Yu and Xi Zhicai have only 2000 men, but they are enough to break through Xindu, which has no defense capability. The next thing to do is to attack several cities in the south of Jizhou one by one. The task of sending troops to Jizhou this time has been successfully completed.

Xia Hou Dun's expectation was correct. At the moment when Yuan Tan's army was trapped in the valley, Guan Yu and Xi Zhicai, with the remaining two thousand cavalry, rushed to the direction of Xindu. Different from Yuan Tan's swaggering and leisurely manner, Guan Yu's cavalry had already arrived outside Xindu city in an hour.

At this time, the gate of Xindu city was still open. The people of Jizhou were coming and going inside and outside the gate. Only a few soldiers guarding the gate were standing guard there. Seeing this, both Guan Yu and Xi Zhicai smile, and Guan Yu's eyes are more than a trace of revenge. With a wave of the green dragon sword in his hand, he takes the cavalry to the gate of Xindu, leaving only Xi Zhicai and several knights who protect them to advance slowly in the back.

At the gate of Xindu City, the soldiers who guarded the city did not think that someone would come to attack the city and collect money from the people who had seen the city gate. When Guan Yu and his cavalry had rushed to a distance of only 500 steps, they suddenly found each other. For a moment, all the garrisons in the city had been taken away by Yuan Tan. Looking at the fierce cavalry in front of them, how could they resist them.

Just when they were stunned, Guan Yu and his soldiers rushed to the gate of the city. With a wave of Guan Yu's broadsword, all the heads of those garrison soldiers standing there were cut off. Those people at the gate of the city fled in panic, which brought some trouble to Guan Yu and others. After all, these people were ordinary people. Guan Yu, who followed Liu Bei in his early years, had formed the habit of not doing things to the people. Anyway, now that the gate of Xindu was broken, Guan Yu slowed down his pace and comforted the people of these gates.

In the governor's office of Xindu, Guo TU was still dealing with the official affairs left by Yuan Tan. At this time, a sergeant ran in from the outside in a panic and yelled to Guo Tu: "Guo, Lord Guo! The big thing is bad! "

Guo Tu frowned and said angrily, "asshole! Who let you just break in like this? There is no rule at all! Somebody! Somebody! Anyone here? Where have they all died? "

Just as Guo Tu cried desperately, the sergeant with a sad face said, "Lord Guo! What a big deal! There are enemies outside the city. Now the gate has been broken! Lord Guo! You'd better run away