Cao Hong, Cheng Yu and others led the soldiers and horses to come quickly, and they withdrew just as quickly.

They had already been prepared, so they naturally thought of the retreat, and at the same time knew that Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses would not pursue.

Because Liu Zheng had just been ambushed, although he stabilized the morale of the army and was not directly dispersed, he still lost a lot of his soldiers and horses.

At this time, what should be done should be to rein in the troops and horses, divide the troops to pursue the officers and soldiers, in case of another ambush, it will really be a devastated situation.

Liu Zheng has always been cautious, so naturally he will not do this kind of thing.

When Cao Hong and others led the soldiers and horses to retreat, Liu Zheng did not stay here for too long.

First, he ordered Zhou Cang and others to quickly rein in the soldiers and horses, and then let those who were still able to move temporarily evacuate from the battlefield. He didn't even bother to clean up the battlefield, so he retreated fifty miles directly from the vicinity of the battlefield.

After all, this place was too close to Shouchun City, and what Liu Zheng knew was that the combined forces of Cao Cao and the others exceeded 80,000 soldiers and horses.

Even if some people will be involved by Yuan Shu's people, they will still be able to mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to deal with Liu Zheng.

Therefore, Liu Zheng had to be cautious, first retreat to a wider place, make defensive measures, and then wait for an opportunity to act after setting up camp.

The soldiers and horses retreated, tossing until the evening, and sent several waves of spies, and after making sure that there were no pursuing soldiers, Liu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

That night, Liu Zheng's military tent was in the middle of the tent.

This was the first time Liu Zheng was ambushed, and the morale of the army was a little low, and in the military tent, several generals did not speak.

Huang Zhong and Zhou Cang's faces were not very good-looking, standing at the front, as the main generals, they were ambushed this time, because they did not take precautions and had a certain responsibility.

At this time, he didn't know how to speak, but Liu Zheng didn't blame them too much, after all, the main reason was that Liu Zheng didn't realize that Cao Jun and the others would set up an ambush here.

It's not that Liu Zheng didn't realize it, but Liu Zheng didn't expect Cao Cao's soldiers and horses to come so quickly, and thought of the men and horses who intercepted him here.

"Guys, what about our casualties?"

After being silent for a moment, Liu Zheng still asked the generals present.

Zhou Cang spoke first and responded to Liu Zheng.

"My lord, my battalion has killed and wounded three thousand."

"Three thousand, the casualties are a bit big. General Huang Zhong, what about you? ”

After Liu Zheng heard Zhou Cang's words, he frowned, his face was a little gloomy, and then he immediately asked Huang Zhong.

"My battalion is fine, it did not engage the enemy head-on, and the losses were only more than a thousand."

"Is it more than four thousand losses combined, and before you see the main force of the enemy, you lose one-fifth of your soldiers and horses, which is really not good news."

Liu Zheng listened to the battle damage reported by the two battalion commanders, not only had a headache.

Originally, he went to Shouchun to support Yuan Shu, but unfortunately, the distance was too far to rush to Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others arrived first, and now they don't even know what the movement of Shouchun City is, and they don't know if Shouchun has been defeated.

Fortunately, at present, camping here, I have not found that there are enemy troops coming to pursue, if the enemy pursues and leads 70,000 or 80,000 people to attack, I am afraid that Liu Zheng can only escape.

"My lord, this battle is not good for our army, and we didn't expect that the enemy army was so rampant and set up an ambush in the middle of the road, which was our carelessness."

Huang Zhong didn't say anything, stood up, and took the initiative to stop the responsibility for the unfavorable march this time.

"It's also to blame that the opponent we have encountered in the recent period is too weak, and the battle is too smooth, all the way from Jiaozhou to fight, we have not encountered any setbacks, this battle is also a lesson for us, let us wake up from the excitement."

Liu Zheng knocked everyone again.

"Everyone must always keep in mind this failure, and at the same time send people to find out about the current situation of Shouchun, if Shouchun can still be saved, we will save it, if the situation is beyond our control, if it is not good, we will retreat."

"Yes, my lord."

The crowd echoed in unison.

"My lord, I have doubled down on some scouts, and now the first group has returned to bring us some news."

"What's the news?"

Zhou Cang's words immediately attracted Liu Zheng's attention.

Immediately asked Zhou Cang, wanting to know about the situation on the Huainan battlefield now.

"Previously, the scouts we sent out contacted our meticulous work in Huainan, and a few scouts came back to report that now Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Liu Dai have occupied half of Huainan, and are currently leading an army of 60,000 to besiege Shouchun."

"Cao Cao and Zhang Miao didn't make a move before, and they have been in a state of spectatorship, so Shouchun City is still in a stalemate, and Yuan Shu is still resisting desperately, but just yesterday, Cao Cao and Zhang Miao sent a part of the soldiers and horses and Liu Dai's people to leave Shouchun, and their whereabouts are unknown."

"I think this part of the people we met are the same people who ambushed us in the middle of the road."

Zhou Cang told Liu Zheng the information he was currently in control.

After Liu Zheng listened, he lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

If someone else led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and failed to defeat Huainan County, Liu Zheng might only think that this person is not strong and has no brains, but under the siege of Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Liu Dai and others, only a small half of Huainan County has fallen, so there must be ghosts among them.

is still the same as Liu Zheng thought before, the target of Cao Cao, Liu Dai and others must not be Yuan Shu, but him Liu Zheng.

From the time he came directly to support Yuan Shu this time, it was the same to be attacked by the halfway.

And Liu Dai, Cao Cao and others, the reason why they didn't take down Shouchun City was that they were deliberately waiting for Liu Zheng to come over.

"It's insidious."

Liu Zheng couldn't help but complain.

"Lord, what should we do next?"

When Liu Zheng was still pondering, Zhou Cang opened his mouth to ask, wanting to listen to Liu Zheng's opinion.

"We can't do anything, we may have to withdraw, Yuan Shu, this guy is also unlucky, he just defeated Huainan, and he was attacked by Cao Cao and others, and I don't know if it's the destiny of heaven."

At the moment, Liu Zheng already felt that there was no need for him to go to Shouchun to support Yuan Shu, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this was a pit, a trap, waiting for Liu Zheng to jump down.

Liu Zheng didn't want to bring people over, and then he was surrounded by Cao Cao, Zhang Miao and others.

Wait a minute, half of his more than 20,000 people can't be brought back.

Now that he has directly lost more than 4,000 people, it has already made Liu Zheng feel very distressed, this is the elite of the elite, fighting head-on, not losing anyone's elite, but now it is so much lost.

"Lord, I have a plan to break the enemy army."