The big-eared thief Liu Bei was defeated by Cao Cao, and was separated from Guan and Zhang, leading the remnants to defect to Yuan Shao.
In order to save his two sisters-in-law, Guan Yunchang temporarily submitted to Cao Cao and was made a partial general. Zhang Fei defeated and led dozens of horsemen and horses to fall into the grass in the area of Mount Mangzhong.
In the spring of the following year, when the flowers were blooming, Liu Bei attacked Cao Cao with Yuan Shao, and Shao sent his first brave general Yan Liang as the vanguard, leading 100,000 troops to attack Baima (白馬, in present-day eastern Hua County, Henan) and pointing his sword at the old nest of Xu Du (Xuchang).
Cao Cao hurriedly sent 150,000 men and horses to meet the enemy in three ways. He personally led 50,000 horses to arrive at Baima first, and set up camp under the Tushan Mountains on the outskirts of the city to face Yan Liang.
Figure 1. Yan Liang
The next day, the two armies faced each other in front of the battalion.
The first brave general in Hebei, Yan Liang.
Raising his sword, he galloped in front of the battle with great provocation and constant provocation.
Cao Cao was under Huang Luo's umbrella and looked at the enemy position in the distance.
That Yan Liang, the water-splitting blue-maned beast under his crotch, carried a huge closed door knife in his hand, full of golden armor, and a big red cape on his back, walking back and forth in the wide area in front of the battle, screaming and cursing, killing the spirit and not being mighty! Behind him stood three hundred people, including honor guards, sharpeners, and archers. Further back was the large battalion of 100,000 elite soldiers, arranged in an orderly and orderly manner, stretching endlessly, and there was no edge in sight.
Cao Cao nodded slightly in admiration: "Yan Liang, the deployment is well-organized, solemn and mighty, and the momentum is extraordinary, and the first general in Hebei is by no means a vain name!" ”
Turning to look at the generals behind him, Cao Cao asked lightly, "Which general intends to go and meet Yan Liang?" ”
After speaking, Cao Cao set his eyes on Song Xian and looked at him with a smile.
This former Lü Bu's old subordinate, not long after his surrender, was in a hurry to make meritorious performances at this moment, so he held his fist and asked for battle: "Minister, the subordinates are willing to fight!" ”。
Cao Cao nodded his head in agreement, and Song Xian turned around and nodded at the Five Hundred Colonels, raised his gun and mounted his horse, and went straight to Yan Liang.
Yan Liang saw the smoke and dust rising, and a group of people and horses killed him, and immediately came to the spirit head, stopped the horse under the door flag, and waited quietly with a large knife.
The honor guards on both sides sounded in unison.
When Song Xian arrived, Yan Liang shouted loudly, and did not move, holding a knife to urge the horse to greet him.
Song Xian took advantage of the horse's momentum, twisted the gun with both hands to stab Yan Liang's throat, Yan Liang's left foot lit stirrups, and at the same time pressed the knife body with his right hand, raised the handle of the knife in his left hand, the figure was slightly deflected to the left, the tip of the gun flashed two inches in front of his neck, the handle of the knife hit the gun shaft, a loud gun was swung out, the two horses staggered, and at that moment the two people looked at each other, and they despised each other.
The two sides turned the horse's head, Yan Liang raised a large knife with both hands and charged forward, Song Xian saw that the gun was cut off in front of his chest with both hands, and he was ready to take this move hard.
With a loud bang, the tip of the knife shaft slammed firmly into the middle of the spear, and Song Xian's upwardly raised arms immediately became right angles, and his waist was slightly bent. The huge blade in Yan Liang's hand reflected the dazzling light, and it broke the helmet on the top of Song Xian's head, and the blade was enough to touch the top of the helmet. Song Xian's eyes were a little flowery, his ears were buzzing with vibrations, there was a hint of chest tightness, his hands were a little hot, it seemed to be accompanied by a little pain, and his head was a little confused.
Under the severe earthquake, the war horse hissed and took two steps back. Yan Liang took advantage of the momentum to slightly twitch the knife body backwards, and without waiting for the horse to stop, he stood up and crossed his legs to push the horse forward, and the knife with both hands was pushed obliquely from right to left.
Song Xian's horse took two steps back before stopping. The half-raised steel gun was still in the air and did not know where to go, and his mind was not yet fully awake. Then he saw the blade of Yan Liang's big knife, the white blade, which made his eyes glaze over, and the light of the knife flashed away. He tried to open his eyes wide, trying to see the knife clearly, his efforts were not in vain, he did see clearly, Song Xian looked at the wide blade, close to his left elbow, flashing in his left rib, flashing out from his right waist.
Yan Liang's right hand raised the large knife three times into the air, and the small colonels in the slight array gave out a heaven-shaking cheer. The drums sounded wildly again.
Song Xian's eyes widened, his consciousness gradually blurred, and there seemed to be no other feeling other than that. The upper body half of the half holding the gun slowly slipped off his horse, the blood splattered, and the frightened war horse drove his lower body into the wilderness, and a string of blood and fragments was thrown behind him...
Figure 2: Yan Liang beheads Song Xian
"Sure enough, the cattle are batched!" Cao Cao sighed in his heart.
Without waiting for Cao Gong to speak, Wei Xu, as a good brother of Song Xian and a comrade-in-arms who was also born under Lü Bu, took the initiative to appear.
Wei Continued to carry the spear to Yan Liang'er, did not know the name and surname, did not move, and directly scolded.
Yan Liang, who had been in battle for a long time, did not say a word, he knew that this was to send people's heads and experience to let him have a mouth addiction, which belonged to the way of benevolence and righteousness.
After Wei Continued to scold and start fighting, he didn't think about where to use the spear, and was stabbed to death by Yan Liang's head. Probably in a hurry to meet up with good brothers, so I walked crisply and neatly.
Cao Cao was a little bit of chest tightness, Zhang Liao was even more chest tight, after all, after Lü Bu's death, they were all thrown under Cao Cao's command, so incompetent to send points, he felt that his face was gone, a good Yan Liang, Lao Tzu wanted to play with your life! Zhang Liao, whose eyes were flushed, stepped forward to ask for battle.
"Wen Yuan, don't be impatient." Cao Cao obviously did not want to lose his rationality zhang Liaobai to send a head, and decisively refused. After a little thought, he ordered Xu Huang to go to the battle.
Xu Huang led the order forward, and after exchanging names with Yan Liang, he raised the mountain axe to fight together, and fought back and forth for twenty rendezvous, obviously falling behind, and saw an opportunity to lose back to the main front. Yan Liang did not pursue and kill, and continued to show off his martial prowess in place.
Cao Cao ordered Mingjin to collect his troops and led his people back to the camp to refuse. Guan Yu was the only one who was close to him and could fight, and after consulting with the left and right, he sent someone to transfer Guan Yu to come.
Yan Liang called out for days, but when he saw Cao Jun's turtle shrinking, he didn't react at all, and he felt tasteless and excited. Simply moved the recliner and the tea table under the lid, and after the battle could not be reacted, they lay on the chair to drink tea and eat some food.
Guan Yu, who received the order, rushed to the front line of the White Horse with a few personal retinues.
Figure 3: Guan Yunchang
On the fourth day after the last fiasco, Guan Yu rushed to the White Horse Army.
Cao Cao, with Guan Yu, Zhang Liao, and other generals, led dozens of colonels to a small earthen mountain outside the camp.
He brought two chairs, side by side with Guan Yu, and the generals and the colonel lined up behind them, left and right.
Cao Cao pointed to Yan Liang's battle front, which was a stone's throw away, and said to Guan Yu, "The soldiers and horses of Hebei are quite majestic! ”
Guan Yu brushed his long beard and said indifferently, "In my opinion, it's just some chickens pinched in the dirt and dogs with tiles, not enough to worry about." ”
Cao smiled slightly, pointed to Yan Liang under the lid, and said, "The Golden Armor General under the red Luo umbrella is the famous general Yan Liang, who is brave and good at fighting, and cannot be underestimated." ”
Guan Yu snorted coldly, "I see that Yan Liang, but I am just inserting a bid to sell the head, and this boy's dog head is coming to get it!" ”
After saying that, Guan Yu stood up and gave a salute to Cao Cao: "Minister, please wait a moment, I will go and get Yan Liang's dog head to offer." ”
Zhang Liao hurriedly instructed, "Elder Brother Yun, there is no joke in the army, you must not act carelessly!" ”
Guan Yu did not answer, bowed his hand to Zhang Liao, turned around and took the Green Dragon Yanyue Knife from the colonel's hand, and flew across the Red Rabbit Horse.
After a little tidying up on the horse, Guan Yu lifted the green dragon sword upside down in his right hand, shook the reins with his left hand, and gently put a saddle bridge forward in his lower abdomen. The Red Rabbit Divine Colt ran down from the top of the mountain, and the arrow generally shot at Yan Liang, and a wisp of flying dust was set off behind him.
At this moment, Yan Liang was sitting bored on the edge of the recliner, he had already drunk two pots of tea, half a pot of wine, ate a plate of dried fruit and beef, and even the armor was a little loose, a wave of sleepiness struck, and his eyelids were a little heavy. Several small colonels saw Guan Yu and began to whisper, Yan Liang also suddenly woke up, and before the small soldier reported that he had stood up, he subconsciously reached out and took the big knife and jumped on the war horse.
It was too late to sort out the armor and look up. Only to see a fiery red rushing forward, and the loess behind it flew.
Yan Conscience was very confused: "I didn't see Cao Thief's side fight, what kind of ghost is the one who came?" Thinking about the sword in his right hand, he hurriedly straightened his helmet with his left hand, and it was too late to sort out the armor. Because the people who came had rushed to the front.
I have never heard of such a thing as a solo rider suddenly rushing into the camp, let alone seen it. Therefore, the unknown little colonels were a little overwhelmed, and as Guan Yu charged and killed, they flashed to both sides to scatter and dodge, of course, they couldn't stop it if they wanted to.
Guan Yu, whose eyes had been staring at the door flag and the red Luo umbrella, saw Yan Liang on the horse and locked on the target. The knife inverted in the right hand was changed to parallel to the horse's body at that moment, the blade was forward, the blade was inward, and the human knife was locked on Yan Liang's neck.
Yan Liang's mind was a little confused: "Who is this person?" What's the situation? Cao Thief's warlord? Looking for a run? This red war horse is so fast and good! The red-faced long beard charged with the knife! Not good! ”
Yan Liang, who was aware of the hostility, shook the reins in his left hand to urge the horse, and his right hand was about to raise a knife to meet the battle. Guan Yu, who had broken through more than a dozen small colonels, had already arrived in front of him, and the castration did not stop, and between the four eyes, the large knife in Guan Yunchang's hand only gently pushed outward a little.
The man, the horse, and the knife rushed over Yan Liang, the two horses were facing each other, Guan Yunchang pointed the stirrups with his feet, and lifted the reins of the horse with his left hand to the left. The red rabbit horse's hind legs were nailed to the ground, the front legs stomped into the air, standing up with a long hiss, and there was a one hundred and eighty degree turn, and the soldiers behind Yan Liang rushed backwards and flashed backwards.
After the red rabbit horse hissed, the people and air around it seemed to have frozen, and the quiet of the battlefield was somewhat frightening.
Guan Yunchang urged the horse to reach out, picked the fruit like Yan Liang's head, and hung it on the hook under the horse's neck, and the green dragon knife in his right hand was in the air, and the red rabbit horse ran wildly in the direction of Tushan.
Figure 4: Guan Yu chopped yanliang
Hebei Yan Liang's subordinates were all dumbfounded, looking at Yan Liang one by one, but when they saw the headless Yan Liang, his neck spurting blood, his body sliding crookedly to the horse's back, the large knife in his hand fell to the ground, emitting a dull sound, and the frightened water-splitting green-maned beast ran towards the empty area with Yan Liang's body. Some of the soldiers who reacted to it shouted and wailed, and the scattered arrows shot several arrows at the smoke and dust raised by Guan Yu, venting panic and anger, no one dared to believe the facts in front of them, and they always felt that the fog in the clouds seemed to be in a dream.
Foresight Yan Liang's front line was already in chaos, and it was expected that Guan Yu had already succeeded. Cao Cao ordered the generals to return to the camp and lead their troops to fight. Only Zhang Liao and dozens of small colonels were left around, sitting on the tushan mountain and waiting.
The trumpets roared, the drums sounded like thunder, and the Cao army left the camp and launched an offensive.
Guan Yu had already returned to Tushan and presented Yan Liang's head.
"Nest grass! The general is really a god under the mortal, cattle batch! Cow batch! Boasting about Guan Yu, Cao Cao was happy and afraid of the five tastes and miscellaneous chen in his heart. Afraid of losing this loyal and brave general one day, afraid that he will become the fast knife of his enemy in the future.
The leaderless Yan Liangbu was killed and fled, the Cao army was captured countless times, and the danger of the white horse was solved. Cao Cao made a contribution to Emperor Huan of Han and asked guan Yu for merit, and the official title was "Marquis of Han Shouting". The name is very intimidating, and Feng Lu is a pavilion level, which is a symbol of honor, after all, Guan Yu is a person who relies on military merit by his ability, not a person who receives a death salary to eat. Moreover, it is officially recognized by the righteous and smooth, issued by the orthodox Han Tianzi Han Xiandi, not Cao Cao's sub-seal, so it is cherished by Guan Yu himself.