Cao Cao wanted to be quiet, but he couldn't.

One after another, news of insect infestations in various places came to the camp.

"Lord, what should I do?" Many generals gathered in Cao Cao's tent.

Cao Ren saw that Cao Cao kept beating his head with his hand, and hurriedly stepped forward to apply Zhang Guang's ointment to Cao Cao.

"How long will we be able to eat our stockpile?"

"Big brother, you can hold out for two days at most, and in the past few days, the soldiers can only eat half full."

"Withdraw, return to Juancheng, wait for the next spring harvest, save enough grain, and then come to take Lu Bupuff's life."

Worried about alarming Lu Bu in the city, Cao Jun did not light a torch, and quietly left Puyang in the dark, all the way north.

Not long after leaving Puyang, it is a deep mountain pass.

Cao Jun was still a mile away from walking out of the mountain pass, and tens of thousands of torches were lit on the slopes of the mountain deep in the mountain pass.

"Lord, the hillside ahead is blocked by Gao Shun's trap camp and the people from the surrounding county town Lu Bu who came to help Gao Shun." There are scouts coming to report.

"Speed up, rush over, if it's too late, Lu Bu will chase after you from behind, and we'll be all done."

There were many Cao troops, but there was a steep slope in the depths of the mountain pass, and Xiahou Yuan organized several rushes and kills, but there was no way to break through the blockade line of Gao Shun's camp.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

Behind Cao Jun, a dense torch suddenly lit up, and at the same time, the sound of war drums resounded in the sky.

"My lord, it's Lu Bu, who led tens of thousands of troops to chase after him."

"Could it be that I, Cao Cao, am going to die here today?"

At this time, Cao Cao completely lost his commanding bearing, and his face was full of the sorrow of a lonely hero.

"Big brother, I will lead the army to block Lu Bu behind, and you and Xiahou Yuan will organize 10,000 elite soldiers to rush out from the mountain pass."

At a critical time, the brothers are still reliable, and Cao Ren is ready to use his own life and tens of thousands of Cao Jun's lives in exchange for Cao Cao's escape alone.

"No, our troops are no less than Lu Bu, pass the order, we won't go, set up the formation, right here, and fight to the death with Lu Bu."

Cao Cao decided to break the cauldron and fight Lü Bu here.

The problem is, Cao Cao has this determination, and many of his subordinate Cao Jun have not eaten for many days, how can they fight?

Lu Bu's subordinates, who had high morale, and Gao Shun of Yamaguchi fell into the camp and rushed to kill at the same time, and Cao's camp was quickly chaotic.

The defeat was like a mountain, and Cao Jun had no strength to fight back.

"Xiahou Yuan, hurry up and escort the eldest brother away, I'll cut it off." Cao Ren yelled in the formation.

"I've tried it several times, but I can't kill it, Gao Shun's trapping camp is too powerful." Xiahou Yuan has always been by Cao Cao's side.

"No matter how powerful we are, we must rush out, otherwise, we will all die here in vain."

"Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, forget it, my Cao Cao's life should be extinct here, and I will kill a few more generals under Lu Bu." Cao Cao held the Qinghong Sword in his hand, and he didn't care about his life, so he started to fight with the crowd.

"Changshan Zhao Zilong is here, Gao Shun Xiaoer, eat me a shot."

"I Dian Wei Laiye, Lu Bu Pifu, Lao Tzu will meet you."

Thousands of lightly armored cavalry suddenly appeared on the hillside, and Zhao Zilong, who was holding a silver dragon spear, went straight to Gaoshun.

And Dian Wei, who was holding a double iron halberd, joined forces with Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, and the three of them joined forces to fight against Lu Bu.

"Haha, Zilong and Dian Wei are here, I, Cao Cao, have been saved, haha, Zhang Miao, Chen Gong, I will definitely break your corpses into thousands of pieces in the future."

"General Cao, you quickly cross the mountain pass." Dian Wei shouted.

With Dian Wei and Zhao Zilong's Flying Dragon Division participating in the battle, Cao Cao, under the protection of his guards, passed through the mountain pass.

Zhao Zilong's Feilong Department and Cao Jun also retreated while fighting and escaped the mountain pass.

"Chase, today, no matter what, you have to kill Cao Cao." Lu Bu chased after him, and the eight great generals followed.

"Hiss......"

The horse Chitu suddenly stopped and neighed, turned around and ran backwards, and the eight great athletes realized that something was wrong, and they were also busy riding their horses and turning around and running.

"Bang...... Bang bang bang. ”

The strange sound sounded intensively again, rushing to the front of Lu Bu's subordinates, as if the wheat field had been harvested, and a large piece fell at once.

"Withdraw, withdraw, everyone, withdraw." Gao Shun ordered the sound of the golden gong to be sounded, quickly evacuated the mountain pass, and ran to Puyang.

After Lu Bu and the others fled back to Puyang, Chen Gong asked about the situation.

"Feng Xian, you can't let Cao Cao leave, once he escapes back to Juancheng, one day, he will definitely make a comeback, with Cao Cao's character of revenge, the first person he has to deal with must be you Lu Bu."

"Gongtai, now if I go to hunt down Cao Cao, what if Zhang Guang takes my Puyang?" Lu Bu asked.

"Fengxian, Zhang Guang once promised that he would never take the initiative to attack your garrison."

"Gongtai, don't be so nervous about Cao Cao, even if he makes a comeback, what can he do? Today's Yanzhou is my Lu Bu's world, I have Fang Tian's halberd, and I have a red rabbit, he Cao Cao is to attack Puyang again, and I will let him run back to his Juancheng again. ”

Lu Bu said that he was unwilling to go out of Puyang to chase Cao Cao again, and he didn't know if he was afraid of encountering Zhang Guang's strange weapon again, or he was reluctant to Diao Chan's gentle township.

"Well, one day, you'll regret it."

Chen Gong sighed, shook his sleeves and left.

After Cao Cao escaped from the mountain pass, he ran for nearly ten miles and met Pang Tong, who was leading the guard battalion and waiting for him.

"General Cao, Pang Tong has been waiting here for a long time."

"Pang Tong, what about Zhang Guang?" Cao Cao was out of breath, and the war horses under his seat kept neighing in a low voice.

"My eldest brother went to the county towns to collect grain, and specially asked me to wait for General Cao here."

"Collecting grain? Zhang Guang is a good plan, taking advantage of Lu Bu's all his energy to collect grain here. ”

"General Cao, my eldest brother went out to collect grain this time, not for our Ninth Army, but for you, look there."

Pang Tong snapped his fingers a few times, and among the trees next to him, torches were lit, and a wagon was piled with burlap bags.

"It's all grain and grass?" Cao Cao still didn't believe that when a natural disaster came, Zhang Guang was willing to give himself so much food.

"It's all grain and grass, my eldest brother said, the past grievances are cleared."

As soon as Pang Tong finished speaking, Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Zhao Zilong, Dian Wei and others came one after another.

"Dian Wei, where is Yan Liangren?" Pang Tong asked.

"After he led the musket battalion to block Lu Bu and Gao Shun, he went directly to pick up the eldest brother, and I came with Zilong to pick you up."

"Okay, General Cao, there will be a period later."

Pang Tong, Dian Wei and Zhao Zilong, led thousands of lightly armored cavalry, and quickly left without delay.

"Third brother, why did the eldest brother give Cao Cao so much grain and grass? Just give tens of thousands, isn't it? I actually gave 100,000. Dian Wei grumbled as he ran.

"Second brother, the eldest brother said, Cao Cao has passed this hurdle, and he will still be a hero in the future, the time for us to dominate alone has not yet come, and it is only good for us to get along with Cao Cao."

"I don't know how much grain I can collect this time, Pang Tong, Dian Wei, it's time to hurry, or I'm going to lose to Yan Liang and Zhang Yan." Zhao Zilong began to urge.

"Drive!"

The next day, at dawn, Zhang Guang and others returned to Chen Liucheng one after another.

"Most of the people's grain was wiped out by locusts before they were harvested, and they didn't receive much grain at all."

As soon as Zhang Yan walked into the noodle restaurant, she began to scold, snatched the noodle bowl in front of Zhao Zilong, and sat down to eat.

"Second Sun, Zhang Yan lost, for a month, you can't give him wine to drink!" Li Ju shouted at the top of his voice.

"What is the loss? Although I didn't collect much, I also collected more than 20 stones, I don't believe that you all collected more than me. ”

"Zhang Yan, your method is wrong, you go to the countryside to collect the people's grain, their summer harvest this year is basically nothing, how much grain can you have?" Holding a large basin and squatting at the door with Dian Wei to eat, Gan Ning looked up and said.

"Zhang Yan, where is there food in the countryside? If you want to collect grain, you must go to the surrounding counties to grab it. ”

"Grab food?" Zhang Yan was confused.

"yes, rob. Gao Shun took most of the people in the surrounding counties to block Cao Cao, and there were no garrisons in the city, so they went into the city to rob it. ”

"After Lu Bu collected the grain and grass harvested in the spring of Yanzhou, most of them were sent to Puyang, but in every county, there are hundreds of thousands of stones of grain in stock, or even more in stock."

Everyone, you said a word, Zhang Yan realized that she had made a mistake at all, not to collect grain, but to grab grain.

"Big brother, what are we going to do next? Did you go to Puyang to grab Lu Bu's grain storage? ”

Dian Wei sent the empty big basin to the stove house, came out with a jar of wine, and stood next to Zhang Guangshen and drank it rumblingly.

"What are you doing with Lu Bu? Next, we will not go anywhere, and we will train well in Chenliu, and now our grain stock should be able to hold on until next spring's harvest. ”

"My lord, in fact, you don't have to hold on until next year's spring harvest, this year's autumn harvest should be able to catch your breath." Zhao Zilong said.

"This time the locusts will not only affect the summer harvest, but the seedlings that will be sown will definitely be eaten up by the locusts, and the grain from the autumn harvest will definitely not be much, so let the people keep it themselves." Wei Zhen explained on the side.

Regarding the power of locusts, Wei Zhen, who often runs in the countryside, naturally knows it.

"Big brother, when Cao Cao left, he said that we can only figure out a way to pay for the food and salary in the future of the Ninth Legion, do you want to talk to the people and pay a little tax and grain from next year's spring harvest?"

"No, we pay to buy grain and grass from them, and as for the money, it's easy to do."

Zhang Guang looked at the north, then at the south, thinking about who to find to fool around.