"Bang———Bang bang bang bang!"

Accompanied by loud bangs, more and more Xiliang cavalry rushed to the city gate, continuously and intensified.

In this way, among the many suicide-like warriors who bumped into the city gate, there will eventually be several survivors, and they are the hope of opening the city gate.

With the continuous rush of the Western Liang army, the city gate that was tightly matched finally made a "creaking" sound. It was obvious that the survivors who rushed to the city gate lived up to expectations and succeeded.

Immediately, the city gate opened wide, hundreds of Xiliang cavalry jumped out of the city gate, raised their swords and cut off the ropes of the suspension bridge, and then drove their horses across the moat and quickly disappeared into the night.

In just a short quarter of an hour, Cao Zhen led his army to block the south gate. When Jiang Qi led his army to the north gate, the city gate had already opened. The Xicheng Gate, which was highly anticipated by Cao Zhen, was also snatched by the Xiliang army, causing thousands of Xiliang cavalry to rush out of the city and lost their traces in the blink of an eye.

Lost and harvested in the east.

More than 3,000 Xiliang cavalry who were intercepted by Cao Zhen's army in the south gate completely lost their chance of escape and had to turn back and fight to the death with the Cao army. The battle was extremely tragic. Afterwards, none of the three thousand Xiliang cavalry survived and all died in battle. After their generals died in battle, they were beheaded and their heads were hung above the South Gate.

Just as Cao Zhen was complacent, urgent reports came from the North Gate and the West Gate, and the two city gates were almost at the same time, resulting in more than 10,000 Xiliang cavalry breaking out of the city, and their whereabouts were unknown.

Suddenly, Cao Zhen was furious: "It's outrageous! The waste is all waste, and he can't even defend the city gate. Yuan Shao's tent is full of idiots who have failed to do anything more than to make trouble!" In a rage, Cao Zhen spoke without hesitation. He openly blamed the general of the city gate for the loss of the city gate on the Yuan army and cursed in public.

These words happened to be heard clearly by Gao Lan, who had been dragging his horse to Cao Zhen, which made him feel indignant and indignant. He immediately wanted to refute it. However, he was held tightly by the deputy general beside him. He shook his head repeatedly to signal him not to argue, otherwise he would be humiliating himself. Seeing the deputy general's melancholy eyes, Gao Lan's face darkened. After hesitating for a moment, nodded understandingly, but his heart was desolate.

Yuan Shao has passed away now, and the two princes fled out of the city in a hurry, making them, the former Yuan army generals, become masterless surrenders in a blink of an eye, tantamount to the lonely ghosts. Now that they are under Cao Cao's tent, they have to be controlled by the Cao family's personal nobles. When they charge into battle, the Yuan army soldiers rushed to the front, but their military achievements were monopolized by the Cao family's personal nobles. If there is any problem, they are all pushed to them. It is obvious that now, all of them are raised by stepmothers. Grandma does not love their uncles or love them, and they are all angry. They are not human inside and outside.

The reason why Cao Zhen dared to openly scold them, the Yuan army generals was because Cao Cao had scolded them like this before. At that time, Li Lirui's army broke through the ambush circle, and Cao Cao was furious and cursed. Although Cao Cao did not deliberately target someone among them, there was no doubt that Cao Cao was not scolding his own generals, but Gao Lan and other Yuan army generals.

For surrendered generals such as Gao Lan, facing the reprimand of the new lord Cao Cao, they could only bear it and dare not refute it. However, unexpectedly, Cao Zhen has followed suit and cursed the General Yuan army in public so unscrupulously. At this moment, Gao Lan truly felt the bitterness and pain of living under someone else's roof. He dared not speak out, but swallowed his anger and compromised.

Looking back on the day just past, he and the generals of the Yuan army such as Zhang He, Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang fought hard and worked hard for Cao Cao wholeheartedly, in order to win Cao Cao's appreciation and be recognized and accepted by the generals of the Cao army. However, in the end, they not only did not get any military achievements, but were demoted by Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu and other Cao family relatives to nothing, but now they are even more guilty.

Thinking of this, Gao Lan's anger that he finally suppressed appeared again because he thought of a very serious problem, or that the Yuan army generals could not bear the charge. This is because the Ximen and the North Gate were successively lost, which means that Li Li of Xiliang might have broken through the city and escaped. However, Cao Zhen put all the blame on them. This charge was too serious and the generals who had just joined Cao Cao's corps could not afford it at all.

"General Cao Zhen, don't talk nonsense, I'm wronged!"

At this point, Gao Lan finally couldn't help but rush forward and argued anxiously: "General, we should know that the ones stationed at the north gate tonight were Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and his 5,000 troops under the tent. On that day, they were the two of them who left the city to Cao Gong, Oh no, sending intelligence to the lord. They were also determined to carry out the last order of Yuan Gong before his death, and decided to welcome the lord into the city. For this reason, the Lu brothers' loyalty to the lord is beyond doubt. Now that the North Gate is lost, they are indeed responsible, but they should not be fully responsible. How can the general question their loyalty?"

After a brief pause, Gao Lan continued to say without waiting for Cao Zhen to refute, "In addition to the North Gate, the Ximen Guard General is a trusted general under General Cao Ren's tent, but now Ximen is also lost. How can the general slander and blame us for all the crimes? Wouldn't such behavior make us feel disappointed?"

The more he spoke, the more angry he became. Gao Lan simply made everything that happened tonight public and let all the soldiers listen to it to see who was wrong.

"In the war tonight, the lord ordered the general to serve as the chief general, and we all obeyed the general's dispatch. Just when the Xiliang army broke through, the last general suggested that the general divide the troops to support the North Gate and West Gate, especially the Ximen; because the Ximen is quite close to Bingzhou and is only more than 200 miles away from Huguan, Li Li is very likely to break through from the Ximen. However, the general turned a deaf ear and kept saying that the Ximen was as solid as a god and safe as possible. Then he insisted on mobilizing the army to support the South Gate. Now that the two city gates are lost, does the general want to shirk all the responsibility and put all the blame on us? In today's battle, we have repeatedly charged forward, and tens of thousands of people died in the battlefield. Could it be that the general ignored this?"

"Gaolan, dare you speak like this to me? You will be long, see how long you will be proud!" Seeing the Yuan army soldiers beside you glaring at him, Cao Zhen scolded Gao Lan in anger, but in the end, he was forced to speak terriblely under the tremendous pressure around him, so he threw a harsh word and pulled his horse away.

When he returned to the horse, Cao Zhen scolded with a cold voice with anger on his face, "You are still standing still? Come to the west gate quickly!" Then Cao Zhen rode his horse and signaled his personal soldiers to go to the Dongcheng camp to report. After all, the matter of the breakout of the Western Liang army is very serious, and Cao Zhen dared not make decisions without authorization. He must report to Cao Cao as soon as possible and wait for the order.

Watching Cao Zhen lead the troops to leave, the deputy general who had stopped Gao Lan before said softly: "Why should you offend Cao Zhen in public? You must know that he is Cao, the lord's fake son, although he is not from the blood of the Cao family. He is adopted by the lord in the end. His status is so noble that we can afford to provoke? What's more, we just surrendered to the lord, and although we are still commanding soldiers, it is due to the situation. Afterwards, when the situation stabilizes, the entire army will inevitably be reorganized. It is still unknown where we will go.

Therefore, the general should not offend Cao Zhen. It is important to know that all the relatives and nobles of the Cao family are of high power and powerful positions. They are all commanding soldiers. In the future, we will definitely be arranged to serve under their posts. At that time, these people may take the opportunity to retaliate and make things difficult for us. In this way, our future situation will become more and more difficult." These words are undoubtedly heartfelt words, the real truth.

Gao Lan nodded softly when she heard the sound, and a strong sense of sorrow appeared on her face. She sighed in a low voice: "I understand what you said. Now the old lord has gone. We are like rootless duckweed. The good and bad luck are unpredictable. We can only take one step and just live by. However, I just can't stand these arrogant and arrogant faces of the nobles of the Cao family. In addition to the three generals Cao Ren, Cao Chun and Cao Hong, what are the abilities of Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Ba and others? They actually despise us unscrupulously?

In addition, if we recently joined Cao Gong, if all our colleagues were suppressed by Cao's relatives, we were afraid that our future situation would become worse and there would be no future. Instead of doing so, it would be better to clarify the gaps and differences between us as soon as possible and let Cao Gong notice them as soon as possible. If Cao Gong sincerely accepts us, he will definitely consider our position carefully, and apply the amount, and give us important tasks. Otherwise, we will reconsider the way out, and we will talk about this later." Perhaps because he felt that he had said too much, fearing that there would be ears between the walls, Gao Lan swallowed his words when he was at his mouth, and then waved his hand and led the army to the west gate.

Yecheng, Cao Cao camp in Dongcheng.

As Cao Zhen's personal soldiers came to report military information in the middle of the night, after the initial thunder and furious, Cao Cao quickly calmed down, put on his brocade robe, and ordered his personal soldiers to summon the seriously injured Cao Ren, Cao Chun, Xun Yu, Xu You, Guo Tu and others to come to the general's office to discuss matters quickly.

Soon, everyone entered the tent one after another, and had learned from the personal soldiers that the Western Liang army broke through at night. The atmosphere in the tent was very tense and depressing. After all, the incident of Li Li's army breaking out of the city was extraordinary. If he could try to save it, it would be a pity. If Li Li really escaped, the consequences would be extremely serious, and it would be unimaginable.

"Li thief led his army to break through the city!" After everyone sat down, Cao Cao first explained the focus of the matter, and then said in a deep voice: "Li thief is really treacherous and cunning! The thief also appeared in the morning to meet me, openly bewitching our soldiers, and threatened us to submit with my brother Benchu's coffin, but suddenly divided his troops to break through in the middle of the night. Just now, Cao Zhen sent someone to report that Li thief divided more than 20,000 cavalry under the tent, and at the same time attacked three other city gates except the East City where our army stationed. He also broke through the North Gate and the West Gate a quarter of an hour ago, and has now fled Yecheng. What good plans do you have for this? "

Xun Yu responded, "Don't worry, lord. From the perspective below, the enemy attacking the north gate was just a bluffing feint attack, covering up the eyes and ears. However, this move in my eyes was a trick, and he wanted to cover up. Therefore, his real direction of breaking through should be Ximen, and he was on the way to Bingzhou. Therefore, lord doesn't have to worry. There are murderous intentions along the way from Ximen to Bingzhou Huguan. Those people were thinking about getting rid of Li Zhe, and they thought about getting it done this time. Hahaha!"

Seeing Xun Yu's face full of grim smile as the wise beads were holding, Cao Cao nodded slightly, stroked his beard and smiled. His smile was the same as Xun Yu, with murderous intent, as if he had already planned it, and everything was in his palm.

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