The fire in Cao Jun's camp, in fact, even if he is far away in Zhao Yun's village at this moment, he can clearly see the billowing smoke rushing upward, Cao Ren has already discovered it when he gets the news, and the smoke can already be seen at this distance, how big the fire is, Cao Ren can imagine.

Without the slightest hesitation, Cao Ren chose to withdraw the troops, and the camp burned, it was not as simple as building another big battalion, the barracks were easy to build, but the grain and grass baggage could not be replenished in a short time, and the army did not have grain and grass baggage, so mutiny was almost inevitable.

In order to avoid greater losses, Cao Ren had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

"General! Withdrawn! On the big camp, several young generals looked at Cao Jun, who was receding like a tide, and said to Zhao Yun excitedly.

Zhao Yun's eyes were already attracted by the smoke rising in the distance, without saying a word, he ordered all the men and horses to leave the camp, the Cao army was not in chaos at the moment, and Zhao Yun did not dare to rush forward, but he felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he ordered five hundred soldiers and horses to hang far behind the Cao army to see if there was a chance to expand the results of the battle.

Jiang Xiong, who was above the river, apparently also discovered Cao's movements, and did not go ashore, but only commanded the fleet to attack and shoot arrows along the coast, and at the same time monitored Cao's movements.

Soon after Cao Ren retreated, he encountered the defeated army fleeing from the direction of the big camp, and there were Lu Lingqi, Wei Yue, and Wei Yan in the rear who were unhurriedly chasing and killing the remnants of the defeated soldiers.

The other party's three armies have no food, and as long as they wait, there will definitely be flaws.

Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan knew that something was wrong, and they recruited several defeated generals, and said sharply: "Why did the big camp break? What about Wen Qian? ”

"Back to the general!" Several defeated generals said bitterly: "The people and horses of Mocheng suddenly came out of the rear village of our army, and the last general didn't know what was going on, when General Le led me to arrive, the grain and grass had been ignited by the thieves, and General Yue was also captured by a female general on the other side, and I don't know if I was alive or dead." ”

"Female general?" Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan glanced at each other when they heard this, others didn't know who the female general was, but the two of them knew each other's identities very well, but the female doll was already so powerful back then?

"Yes, that female general is quite brave, and many generals of our army have been beheaded by her." Several defeated generals still had a bit of palpitations on their faces at the moment, obviously afraid of being killed.

"I'm going to kill her!" Xiahou Yuan's eyes were a little on fire, his eyes looked at the pursuers behind him, and he could faintly see the figure of the white robe and white armor, and he was about to go and kill him with a knife!

"Retire." Cao Ren grabbed Xiahou Yuan, shook his head and sighed: "The foundation has been lost, the army's heart has been chaotic, if you don't leave at this moment, I'm afraid these soldiers and horses will be folded here, what kind of face do you and I have to meet the prime minister?" ”

Xiahou Yuan clenched the blade of the knife, stared at Lu Lingqi's direction, and finally closed his eyes helplessly, nodded silently, and began to command the soldiers and horses to retreat in the direction of Jiangling.

Lu Lingqi, Wei Yue, Wei Yan and later Zhao Yun met, hanging behind the Cao army to look for fighters, but unfortunately Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan were not ordinary generals after all, even if they were defeated at the moment, but the formation could be maintained, the four of them followed for a day and a night, and failed to find the fighters, and the next day, the Cao army retreated into Huarong County, strictly guarded, Zhao Yun and others saw no more chance, so they could only withdraw and return to Mocheng.

In this battle, Cao's army suffered little losses, but coupled with the previous defeat of Xiahou Yuan, the defeat of Lejin and the loss of siege, the 10,000 troops allocated by Cao Cao returned to Huarong to recruit defeated soldiers and counted the men and horses, and in the end the remaining soldiers and horses were less than 6,000, a loss of nearly half, and a general like Lejin was folded.

For Cao Jun, the biggest blow was still under a small ink city, and it suffered setbacks one after another, which cast a shadow on the Cao army since the Battle of Guandu, which had won consecutive battles and had a rainbow of morale, although for the entire Cao army, this was nothing, but it was a shame that was generally imprinted in the hearts of Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren.

After the two left soldiers and horses to garrison the Jiangling area, they returned to Xiangyang to report to Cao Cao.

"Prime Minister, please let the last general fight again, this battle will definitely be able to wipe out Namo City!" Xiangyang, in the Assassin's Mansion, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan looked unwilling like Cao Cao.

"Mocheng, Mojia!" Cao Cao didn't answer, just knelt in front of the table, tapped his fingers on the table, and suddenly looked at Cai Mao on the side and said, "Deju." ”

"Prime Minister." Cai Mao hurriedly saluted.

"I asked you before, you said that this person is just an ordinary craftsman, and he is swaggering and deceiving in the name of the Mo family." Cao Cao didn't see joy or anger on his face, but asked lightly: "However, according to the words of Zixiao and Miaocai, this person is quite proficient in the art of war, and he has broken the elite of our army three times, but he really does not seem to be a talentless person, how can this be explained?" ”

If it is once or twice, it can be said that it is light enemy and luck, but this three times in a row, it can't be said with a simple light enemy, especially this time, Cao Cao listened to the words of Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan, and felt that including Le Jin, there was no big problem in judgment and command, but whether Liu Yi was the final decision to boldly send people around the rear camp or the good use of people and the reconciliation of internal contradictions that he showed before, it was not something that ordinary craftsmen could do, not to mention ordinary craftsmen, how many of these talents here could do it?

"This ......" Cai Mao smiled bitterly: "Prime Minister forgive sins, Liu Yi is this person, Mao has only met once, at that time this person was an ordinary craftsman, but his craftsmanship was quite good." ”

"Yes, the craftsmanship is indeed extraordinary, the attic looks ordinary, but the inside is quite pleasant." Cao Cao stood up, walked to Cai Mao's side, patted Cai Mao's shoulder and said, "It's just because of your words that I lost a general, and I was even more defeated in Mocheng!" ”

Although Cao Cao's tone was very flat, Cai Mao could feel the anger in Cao Cao's heart from the strength of Cao Cao's slap on the shoulder, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "Prime Minister forgive sin, this is Mao's fault!" ”

"Mocheng ......" Cao Cao returned to his own position and knelt down, patted the table: "Chicken ribs!" ”

According to the heart, it is natural to want to capture Mocheng, but in fact, Mocheng is neither a strategic place nor much value for today's Cao army, it belongs to the kind that can be attacked or not, and now it seems that Cao Jun still needs to spend a lot of effort if he wants to break through Mocheng, it is really ......

"Prime Minister!" Cheng Yu came out of the ranks, bowed to Cao Cao and said: "At present, our army has occupied half of Jingzhou, at this time, it should be to appease the people, as for this Mocheng, but the land of projectiles, if you gather heavy troops to attack it, for our army, it is really meaningless, the minister thinks that he can issue an edict in the name of the Son of Heaven, ordering Mocheng to return to General Lejin, and at the same time set up another county, which is Mo County, which belongs to Nanjun, Liu Yi has meritorious service in building the city, and can be the county order of Mo County, I don't know what the prime minister thinks?" ”

There is no need to attack, and this bone is not easy to gnaw, so it is better to pacify it first, set Mocheng as a county, which can be regarded as a reward for Liu Yi, and then attribute Moxian County to Nanjun, so that nominally, even if Liu Yi is a subordinate of Cao Cao, he can provoke the relationship between Liu Yi and Liu Bei and Liu Qi.

When Cao Cao heard this, he touched his beard, nodded and smiled: "Good!" ”

Although Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan were not convinced, now that Cao Cao had made a decision, they could no longer oppose it, so they could only bow down and say that the prime minister was wise and returned to their seats.