Lu Zhi was defeated.

In the face of the multiple disadvantages of two wings being broken, three ways of attacking, and the army's morale being shaken, even with Lu Zhi's commander, the Xuzhou army was beaten into a mess.

Lu Zhi's Danyang soldiers escorted Cao Bao to run south, while Zang Ba fled to Zhengrong Valley with his brothers.

Zhengrong Valley is located in the south of Ju County, is Zang Ba's old camp, after seeing the strength of Cao's army, he immediately decided to escape from this troubled water and retain his strength.

Zang Ba was later able to become the head of the army in the Qingxu area, forcing Cao Pi to take the risk of patrolling east to seize his military power, naturally he was not the kind of loyal person who was willing to fight for others, but his withdrawal also made Lu Zhi's troops even more stretched, so he could only retreat again and again, and soon retreated to Kaiyang.

Kaiyang, that is, Linyi in later generations, Yishui and Wushui cross and merge here, and finally go to Xiapi, enter Surabaya into the Huai River and finally into the sea.

This is also the final battlefield strategically set up by Cao Cao, Xi Zhong and others for the Xuzhou army.

Cao Cao didn't expect this expulsion tactic to be so useful, looking at Lu Zhi at the head of the city, he laughed and waved his horsewhip, pointed at Lu Zhi and said, "Lu Gong, I haven't seen you for many days!" ”

Lu Zhi snorted, ignored it, and threw his sleeves into the city, which made Cao Cao feel a little bored.

"Ming Gong, I look at the sky, within ten days, there will be heavy rain, when the enemy is broken!" Xi Zhong coughed while offering advice to Cao Cao.

"Ten days... Okay, order all departments to build ordnance, do siege the city, and confuse the heart of the Xuzhou army. Cao Cao turned back to Cao Hong and said, "Zilian, you take the soldiers and horses to the surrounding areas to ask for the people, so as to disperse the hearts of the Xuzhou army!"

By the way, there are people from the family around to call me to govern the place, and they still need their cooperation. ”

When Cao Hong heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he arched his hand and said, "No!" ”

Cao Ren had a nickname in later generations, called Qian Taishou, but if you really want to talk about it, Cao Hong is more qualified to call this nickname than him.

It is recorded in the history books that Cao Cao also lamented that he was not as rich as Cao Hong, and Cao Pi was refused to borrow money from Cao Hong.

And the reason why Cao Hong has so much money is not only the way that Haoqiang is accustomed to making money, but also because he likes to collect floating wealth in wars.

Cao Hong pulled Cao Xiu and took the cavalry and plundered everywhere.

Looting is addictive.

And Lu Zhi, Cao Bao and others, looking at the fireworks everywhere outside the city, could only sit in the city, the most elite Danyang soldiers in their hands were also infantry, and they couldn't go out to stop the cavalry of the Cao army.

There were too few cavalry in Xuzhou.

And the strongest cavalry in Xuzhou is still on the way.

Outside the city of Jiqiu, about 50 miles away from Kaiyang, countless homeless people pushed wheelbarrows and carried money and grain on their backs, fleeing to the south.

A soldier and horse appeared in their eyes, and they saw this soldier and horse waving a red flag against the current.

"Big brother, even if you are Langya here, why are there so many people on the road?"

Zhang Fei carried a spear, looked at the fleeing people everywhere on the avenue, and shouted strangely.

As the saying goes, small chaos enters the city, big chaos goes to the countryside, from the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the present, the people of the Han Dynasty have been familiar with the military revolution, and generally do not leave their hometown because of the war.

Anyway, as long as the fight starts, everyone will go to the mountains and forests to hide, and when you officials are done, everyone will go home and farm.

It's easy to say that you have left your hometown, but when you go to a foreign land and have no land or land, how many ways do you have to survive except to be tenants for others?

And not everyone can afford to be a tenant.

Liu Bei urged the horse forward, but also felt strange, dismounted and came to a man leading an ox cart forward, and bowed, "I am Liu Bei, the prime minister of Peiguo, Liu Bei, Liu Xuande, and the Duke of Lu ordered to come to Langya to defend against the enemy, I don't know what the situation is now, why do you all abandon your family business and move south?" ”

When the man heard Liu Bei report his official position, he hurriedly stopped and said, "It turned out to be Xuande Gong in person, Liu An, a grass citizen, who has heard the name of Xuande Gong for a long time.

The specific situation, the grass people are not clear, but I heard that Cao Cao didn't know what was crazy, killing and plundering everywhere, and driving the people to attack the city, I don't know how many people died from the sword soldiers, we were afraid, so we met and fled south. ”

"Driving people to attack the city?" Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, and then he felt the fire rise from his chest, and said angrily, "How dare he, Cao Mengde??" ”

"Big brother, let's hurry up and find Lu Gong." Zhang Fei was coarse and fine, and heard Lu Zhi's danger from Liu An's words.

"Yes . . . Go find Lu Gong first! Liu Bei took out a small piece of gold from his arms and stuffed it to Liu An, then turned over and got on his horse, shouting to the sergeant to speed up the march.

Liu An looked at Liu Bei's departing back, pinched the gold in his hand, and almost thought it was an illusion, when will the soldier give money?

"Husband, let's go!" Inside the car, a woman shouted anxiously, Liu An responded, pulled the ox cart and continued to the south.

After walking for a few more miles, Liu Bei found that there were more and more homeless people, and he was worried about the battle situation in front of him, so he summoned the generals and said, "Third brother, I am worried about Lu Gong's comfort, you lead the cavalry to follow me first, Uncle Zhi, Deran, you take the infantry slowly, if you are undecided, Uncle Zhi you take the idea." ”

Known as Shuzhi is Liu Bei's new general Chen Zhi, Chen Zhi is a native of Yuzhou, known for his loyalty and courage in history, second only to Zhao Yun, and is Liu Bei's personal general.

At this time, Chen Zhi was still a young man in his twenties, and he and Liu Zheng gave up their hands, and saw Liu Bei pulling Zhang Fei with more than a thousand cavalry to push away the crowd and look north.

This thousand cavalry, thanks to Ma Qiang's control of Qingzhou and Jizhou, so that the Xuzhou caravan can freely enter Youzhou to trade, after learning that Liu Bei has become a county Xiangguo, Liu Yuanqi, who funded Liu Bei's study, simply called on the whole clan to defect to Liu Bei, and helped Liu Bei recruit a lot of rangers and wanderers, plus Lu Zhi's help and Liu Bei's own accumulation in Peiguo, this made up this thousand cavalry.

And this thousand cavalry is already the largest cavalry establishment in the Xuzhou army.

There is no way, if you go further south, after Sun Ce defeats Liu Xuan, the cavalry in his hand will exceed 1,000.

Liu Bei was anxious, and took Zhang Fei all the way to run for more than 20 miles, and then he saw smoke and dust rising in the distance, and he could faintly hear crying.

Liu Bei took out the telescope, this thing is almost the standard equipment of the princes at this time.

"It's Cao Jun who is chasing the people, third brother, let's go, let's save people!"

Zhang Fei responded, and with a spear, he rushed to the front first.

In the crowd, several ox carts were the most conspicuous, and a big man was shouting loudly with a sword, but how could the speed of the ox cart be compared to the cavalry, and it was about to be overtaken.

"I, the Langya Zhuge clan and their Cao clan, have no grievances or hatreds, why bother to force each other?" The one holding the sword was Zhuge Xuan, and he looked back at the Cao army cavalry who were capturing the people from time to time, and scolded.