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Cao Cao's escape; Written By Ling Chun
Topic Started: Oct 21 2008, 10:17 PM (246 Views)
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Part 1: Xiahou Dun's death.

We were on the march against the Yellow Turbans. The scum, they’ve killed both my brothers. Now I’m all that’s left of my family, my mother and father died from a plague while we were out fighting. I was put into a calvary charge with a captain by the name of Cao Cao. We heard that several of his followers would be coming, great warriors.
When we heard that we were about to meet the yellow turbans we split up into 5 groups of horse men, Cao Cao, Dian Wei, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, and some nobody. I was with Xiahou Dun. We were supposed to ambush but Cao Cao said not to and that the charge would cause confusion.
2 groups attacked the each side, while one attacked at the head. I was at the front; Xiahou Dun started charging, and we spurred our horses to follow. I was some where in the middle of the group. but i saw the terrible thing that happened.
They quickly lowered their spears and took out the whole front line. I saw Xiahou Dun take one right in the chest. no one could get past the long spears. finally after about 3/4 of our group were dead we turned tail and ran.
When we got back to the place where we were supposed to meet after the battle we found Xiahou Yuan, Dian Wei, and Cao Cao along with only 2000 troops. only one fifth of the original amount...


Part 2: the retreat

We were all amazed at how terrible the charge happened. we were there for 5 hours while Cao Cao and others made a plan of action. the troops talked amongst themselves."No, we're going to have to charge again. Cao Cao can't risk retreting, a honorable death is better than coming back in disgrace!" "We don't want to die! The only logical idea is retreat, against their numbers we couldn't do anything." "He has a point, no use in dying while we could live." "But Cao will be executed for disobeyin orders! he can't risk death while he still has a chance to fight and live through this." This Useless banter went on for a while, No one getting a conclusion. Finally Dian Wei came out of the commanders tent,
"TIME TO GET MOVING!! STRIKE THE TENTS! WE'RE HEADING BACK TO LUO YANG!" We were ready to go in the hour, and started marching, we took a side path through a valley in hopes of losing the turbs. We were halfway through, riding to get out of the place. when we heard yells coming from every direction. IT was A Ambush, We couldn't get into any order, we couldn't find or hear the orders. Then we saw the turbans they seemed to come from the ground itself. popping up with sword or bow. They shot their arrows all at once. it did little but make every on cunfused. then they charged, tearing away at the horsemen, all we could do was hope to escape many ran forward, but others ran back, only to meet the bulk of the turbans charging them. I myself was knocked off my horse when it reared up, but i ran as fast as could following my fellow troops in the retreat. i wasn't the only one on foot, but in the chaos i was able to get on a horse and ride away. with the few that was left.


Part 3: Thus ends Dian Wei

I joined up with a small group of soldiers when i got out of the valley. Fortunately for us Dian Wei was also in the group. He was the unquestioned leader. After an hour of riding he told everyone to take a break. Several men started argueing with him. saying if we stop the enemy willl catch up with us, I kept my own opinion to myself. Unfortunately for the others Dian wei had his way to win arguements. He killed them on the spot. with only 12 soldiers left we sat around a dim fire talking. Dian Wei told us how he came to be with Cao Cao, also why Cao Cao did what he did. He was afraid that the enemy would expect an ambush. he went into the valley because he thoguht they would think they'd go through another way. I learned al lot about Cao Cao, I also lost my respect for him. He wasn't fit to be a farmer.
after a while he told us to pack up, we were going to look for Cao Cao. I personally didn't want to go, but I didn't have much of a choice. after going about 5 miles we found him. He was with Xiahou Yuan and a group of soldiers that counted about 300, which surprised me because i thaugh that it would be hard to gather so many men to gather. In hindsight i realize that i was right. Cao Cao had us stay to the side of his group, He believed some of us might be some yellow turbans in disguise. I was furious at the thought. We still followed Dian Wei, who folllowed Cao Cao. Unfortunately...
Cao Cao's group set up camp, making a makeshift wall with tree's. It didn't take to long. He ordered everyone to get to sleep, except ou group and 50 other soldiers. While in the night I realized theree were more than 50 soldiers out on watch, everyone was supposed to be in there tent until ordered out. I immediately ran to Dian Wei telling him of my finindings. He immediately told me to gather or smalll band togather. it took me 15 minutes, after we were togather he lead us to Cao Cao's tent. He told us to stand gaurd, he marched in and after a few minutes came out with cao cao and his 10 personal bodygaurds. Dian Wei started to head out the back of the camp. with us surrounding Cao Cao, The 10 gaurds had 3 to our sides, and with 4 behind us. we didn't make it 15 paces before someone had set some tents alight and a lot of screaming was heard. We all started running keeping our circle, but as we rounded a bunch of tents we ran straight into a group of soldiers. before any of us could react Dian Wei charged them and took out two of them with his halberd. all of us charged after Dian Wei even Cao Cao. There was only 15 of them against the 32 of us. Still they were able to take out 3 of Cao Cao's Gaurds. Dian Wei had a deep cut on his arm. He said every vulgar word i can think of. I didn't understand many of them, but he just started running agai. We ran after him forming a U around Cao Cao. We were almost to the edge of the camp when I heard a loud "FIRE" our whole left flank fell down under a rain of arrows. I saw Dian Wei take 5 of them himself. Cao yellled for all of us to attack. We chaged the archers taking even more casualties. But we were able to kill the group of 20. when the last five of us returned to the road we saw Cao Cao riding off with two of his gaurds. Dian Wei limped ono the road using his halberd as a cane. We could hear more men coming Dian wei picked up his weapon ready to fight more. We may have been scared shitless, but we wern't going to let Dian Wei die like this. as a group of horse men came charging at us I recognized the leader. It was Xiahou Yuan, with the remaining soldiers he could rally. we quickly cleared to the side. but Dian Wei collapsed onto the ground. Xiahou Yuan ordered one of the men to put him on spare horse and make sure he didn't fall off. We hid, fearing he'd mistake us for the Yellow Turbans who had infiltrated our camp. After they had gone our small group ran into the woods. away from the burning camp.
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Afterwards...

the imperial army is defeated, I heard Cao Cao had gone to Ye in hopes of finding help from Yuan Shao, but only getting some of his officers and a burned Ye.
I hope to get my revenge on the Yellow Turbans, but I won't forgive Cao Cao for ditching Dian Wei. Now I plan on finding a lord capable of defeating The Yellow turbans as well as Cao Cao, after that I don't know what i'll do...


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