Chapter 348

Time passed quietly in waiting. Gradually, Cao Zhen also put away his excitement, he knew that this was to do better, and he had to be more cautious and not alarm the enemy army. Once you attack, make sure you hit it with one hit. So Cao Zhen ordered again, except for a few scouts on the side of the road, everyone else lay down and rested on the spot, and they were not allowed to walk without permission!

The jungle was as quiet as if there was no such team at all. I have to say that Cao Zhen still learned some of Cao Cao's skills. He has the style of a famous general.

"Why haven't you come yet?" Waiting is a tormenting thing. Cao Zhen muttered in a low voice, don't you want to take this road? Shouldn't it, there are scouts trailing along the way, and if you change the route, someone will know you first?

"General, it's hard to walk at night. There were many civilians in the enemy's ranks, no more than soldiers. Wait a little longer......" The guards on the side comforted Cao Zhendao.

An hour passed quickly, and even the distant village that could be seen was already dark, and only a few occasional dog barks made Cao Zhen and the others feel that they had not been forgotten.

After another stick of incense, the convoy still did not show up......

About another hour passed, and finally there was movement on the back road. Some experienced veterans lay on the ground and listened carefully with their ears.

"General, it's the sound of wheels. They're coming! ”

"Yes, General, I heard it too, it's the sound of wheels."

"Everyone, get ready, now disperse. Go some people to the other side of the road. I'll pay attention to that later. When the enemy is in the middle, we will fight at both ends! Cao Zhen saw that the enemy army was approaching, so he began to plan for the next battle.

"General, the enemy still has a mile to go."

"Well, let's get the torches ready!" A mile away, the sound of the wheels was audible. You can also see the light from the torches that illuminate the road. Cao Zhen knew that the enemy army was getting closer and closer. The spear in his hand became tighter and tighter.

"Five hundred steps, four hundred steps...... Three hundred steps......" Cao Zhen said silently in his heart. At this time, the enemy forces on the main road were already fresh and visible, and about 500 infantry were at the front, followed by rows of transports, and about 500 soldiers were sandwiched in between. In this way, the distance between the soldiers and the convoy also ensured that the infantry escorting the grain and grass could not take care of each other.

It is worthy of being a clerk, and he is so cautious in transporting grain at night. Xu Huang often mentions clerical employment. Cao Zhen has long listed Wenpin as one of the objects of study. So now he did not give the order to attack, even though he saw that the soldiers at the front had already crossed him.

One team, two teams...... Wait until the fourth squad of infantry appears, that is, two thousand people. The intelligence said that Wenpin sent 3,000 escorts, and this should be the middle of the team!

"Let's light the fire! Kill! Cao Zhen couldn't hold back any longer, raised the spear in his hand, and was the first to stand up and rush to the transport team in the middle of the road.

Smack, smack, smack...... Thousands of torches lit up on both sides of the road in an instant, followed by deafening cries of killing. Tens of thousands of people rushed out of the ambush points on both sides.

Cao Zhen, who rushed to the front, was already able to see the enemy's face clearly. They were visibly stunned by the sudden change.

Cao Zhen laughed: "Haha...... Ben will be waiting here for a long time. I'm afraid of death, lie on the ground! Spare you from dying! ”

But the scene he expected of the enemy Baotou squirrel did not appear. After a brief moment of daze, the soldiers immediately took up their weapons and prepared to meet the enemy. Even the people who had been bending over to push the grain cart quickly drew their weapons from the cart and prepared for battle.

Are they also infantry? Is it fake? Cao Zhen had a hunch that the situation was a little wrong, because a minfu was a minfu, no matter how he trained, in the face of his night raid, he actually stopped the car and pulled out his weapon in a hurry? Cao Zhen stopped and continued to advance, but carefully observed the enemy army.

The next scene made his eyeballs fall out. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, the stopped transports were lifted from underneath, and then three or five heavily armed infantrymen sat on each of them!

This is true on every car! Hit the trick! At this time, Cao Zhen has already understood, and he has won the plan! Three thousand plus five thousand, and the infantry, disguised as a civilian, is eight thousand. According to the calculation of four on each car, it is 8,000, and this convoy is actually 16,000 infantry!

And what's worse is that because of the food robbery, there is no formation at all. On the other hand, these people who got up from the car jumped out of the car and immediately came to their positions in an orderly manner to meet the enemy. Such a blow quickly spread, making the more than 10,000 infantry brought by Cao Zhen dumbfounded. Where is this convoy? The equipment is better than yourself!

The two sides don't need to greet each other, and as soon as they make contact, they immediately start fighting! Obviously, Cao Zhen's people were not ready for a vicious battle, and they originally followed Cao Zhen to make meritorious deeds.

Soon the two-mile-long road was full of corpses on both sides! In terms of morale, Cao Zhen suffered. In terms of numbers, Cao Zhen suffered! In terms of formation, Cao Zhen still suffered. Soon, some pro-soldiers surrounded Cao Zhen.

"General, the situation is not right, hurry up and withdraw!"

"Hey...... At this time, Cao Zhen was too young, and he didn't know what to do. It was the experienced pro-soldiers who persuaded him to withdraw quickly. Because if you continue like this, you will fight out sooner or later, and it will be too late to run when you want to.

"Withdraw! Retreat to the northwest! "Where is there still Xu Huang's preparation in advance to receive Cao Zhen's five thousand men. Cao Zhen now just wants to get in touch with them as soon as possible.

The unity of the soldiers is vividly reflected at this time! Cao Zhen thought of withdrawing, and some other experienced soldiers also thought of it. Everyone ran in the northwest direction. It's just that I pity the soldiers on the other side of the road, who can only run in the opposite direction if they want to. There's no one over there.

Soon two or three thousand people gathered around Cao Zhen. Together, they hugged Cao Zhen and ran in the northwest direction, trying to get out of the battle line as soon as possible.

But soon Cao Zhen found that this road was not working! After walking less than a mile, a team with a real lineup appeared. A piece of black pressing.

The enemy general rode a red horse and stood in the pool. This person is none other than Liu Pan, who rushed to the battlefield from Runan.

"Haha...... Want to run? First ask the uncle about the gun in his hand! Liu Pan didn't expect this plan to be so successful. As soon as he arrived, he discovered the movement of Cao Zhen and others, and he had been waiting for Cao Zhen here for a long time.

Not good! And ambushes! Cao Zhen's heart was cold! The hearts of the surrounding soldiers are even cooler! This person looks even more fierce than Cao Zhen. And there are no less than 5,000 people behind him. How good is that?

Just as he was hesitating, all of a sudden, fires lit up everywhere. Mountain shouts rang out from all directions. There were thousands of people in each direction.

All of a sudden, it's like a tightly wrapped dumpling that has been bloomed in the middle. Cao Zhen watched his team lose control. No matter how the generals screamed, the soldiers had completely disobeyed the command and were running around like headless flies!

However, there were enemy troops on all sides, and there were 16,000 people in the middle of the second to flank Cao Zhen's troops inside and outside from four directions! No matter how well-trained the troops came out to hunt in such a dark night, they were bitten by a group, and where was they in the mood to resist.

Cao Zhen's personal guards saw that the situation was not good, and quickly took off a few pieces of clothing from some of the dead Cao soldiers. One piece was put on for Cao Zhen, and the rest of them were put on a few of them. Then he extinguished the torch and tried to sneak away through the darkness......

In fact, Cao Zhen still underestimated the number of enemy troops. The 10,000 men who surrounded them were 36,000. Among them, 160,000 set off from Huyang City, and according to Liu Cong and Wen Ping's plan, even without Liu Pan's assistance, Cao Zhen's 10,000 people could be successfully solved. Because they were unexpected, Cao Zhen and the others would definitely not have imagined it, and their morale would definitely be a little worse.

36,000 men, 10,000 besieged. And these 10,000 people are ready to come out to rob grain and grass, and they are completely unprepared for a fierce war. The results can be imagined! In just one hour, the battle was over, 10,000 Cao troops were taken prisoner, and the rest of the 5,000 corpses were left at the scene. The remaining thousands of people could not afford to be injured, and they only waited. At least a very small number of scattered old fritters escaped in the night.

"General Liu is hard! Fortunately, the general arrived in time. Otherwise, let these bastards run away again! ”

"General Huang is polite, now is not the time to celebrate, there is still a unit in the northwest, and I ask General Huang to stay and clean up the battlefield. Pan then led his troops to destroy the enemy. ”

"General Liu be careful, the old man can leave 3,000 people, and take the rest of General Liu away." Huang Zu looked at the wounded soldiers of the Cao army who were trying to survive on the ground, and then looked in the northwest direction. "Liu Pan is young and strong, there is no loss at all after this battle, Huang Zu is more than half a hundred, walked for two hours, and fought for another hour, so Liu Pan asked him to stay and clean up the battlefield, and he did not back down.

After some preparation, Liu Pan left 4,000 men for Huang Zu to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield. He marched sharply to the northwest with less than 30,000 men.

In the battle just now, Liu Cong also suffered a lot of casualties on this side, and some wounded soldiers stayed in place. This is a night road, Liu Pan naturally can't take them.

At this time, Niu Bi, who was waiting to answer Cao Zhen, was still envious of Cao Zhen. Niu Bi has been Xu Huang's lieutenant for many years, but as soon as there is such a good opportunity, Xu Huang naturally thinks of Cao Zhen. This is the relationship between the clansmen. Of course, Niu Bi has a good mentality. Such things are all too normal in this society.

But soon he realized that something was wrong, and there were constant screams in the distance. Gradually, Niu Bi noticed that someone seemed to be running towards him. Could it be Liu Cong's rout? Ha ha...... They deserve their bad luck.

"Brothers, prepare! Don't let them run! ”

"General, it seems to be your own people?" A sharp-eyed soldier reminded.

"Huh?" Niu Bi put down the gun in his hand at this time, looked ahead, and suddenly shouted: "It's General Cao!" General Cao, this way, this way! ”

At this time, Cao Zhen's face was embarrassed, covered in blood, and he stumbled on the road with the help of several guards, and Niu Bi beckoned to him again and again.

Finally seeing Niu Bi, Cao Zhen also breathed a sigh of relief. One of Cao Zhen's personal soldiers quickly ran to Niu Bi's side: "Quick, retreat!" The enemy is coming! ”

"What? How many people are there? "Originally, Niu Bi was still confused, didn't Cao Zhen go to rob grain and grass, why did he look like this?

"Good...... Tens of thousands! The pro-soldier gasped, obviously undecided.

"Really?" Niu Bi walked a few steps quickly to Cao Zhen and held Cao Zhen, who almost fell.

"It's true, we've got it. Quickly lead the men and horses to retreat, and Pegasus to inform General Xu! ”

"Come on, help General Cao get on the horse. The others came with me and prepared to stop the enemy. Niu Bi is also Xu Huang's lieutenant general, but he has many years of combat experience. At this time, he knew very well that although Cao Zhen and himself were both deputy generals, at a critical juncture, he could die, but Cao Zhen couldn't. At least I can't watch him die. Even if Xu Huang comes, he will give Cao Zhen the chance of survival. That's the difference in origin.

Cao Zhen didn't have time to be polite, and after sitting on the horse, he bowed his hand to Niu Bi: "General Niu be careful!" After saying that, he ran all the way with a few guards!

Looking at Cao Zhen in the distance, Niu Bi regained his mood: "Brothers, the enemy is chasing closely. We have to speed up. As soon as you encounter an enemy, immediately change from the rear team to the front team! Let's go! ”

Although he is also running, it is obvious that Niu Bi's running is much more calm and handsome than Cao Zhen, which is also related to the time difference. It will take a little time for Liu Cong's troops to catch up here on a large scale. Of course, Niu Bi didn't want to run into the enemy.

Just kidding, tens of thousands? Even Cao Zhen was killed like a dead dog. His own mere 5,000 people must not be able to resist. When the time comes, you can only take one step at a time. He still hopes that Cao Zhen can get out of the front as soon as possible. As long as Cao Zhen returns to the camp, Xu Huang will definitely send someone to help if he knows that he is careful.