Chapter 293: Running away
Soon Cao Cao also returned to the Guandu camp from Wuchao. I saw Zhang Jie's army storming the camp.
Said happily: Zhang Jie must have received our brigade to attack Wuchao, thinking that our camp was empty of troops so he stormed the camp, and wanted to fight back to break the Guandu block.
Hehe, I expected this to happen. Now his army has been destroyed, and he will be hungry in less than two days. Haha, I will win this battle!
After dawn, the Jizhou army began to retreat in an orderly manner, and the team retreated in a very neat manner.
Cao Jun battalion, report! Lord, Zhang Jie's army began to retreat.
Xun Youdao: When retreating, did you throw down your weapons and be in chaos?
The soldier said: Evacuated neatly, never dropped a weapon.
Cao Cao waved his hand, and the soldiers went down. Cao Cao said: What do you think?
Cheng Yudao: Zhang Jie's grain and grass were burned, and the withdrawal of troops is certain. Otherwise, you'll be hungry.
It's just that why is the retreat so neat? It's not like a sign of desolation.
Cao Cao said with a smile: This is Zhang Jie's cleverness, he is afraid that our army will pursue, so Gu Zuo is calm. Pretend to retreat in an orderly manner.
Yuan Shaodao: In this case, why don't we send troops to chase and kill?
Cao Cao was a little moved. But I'm afraid of the scheme. Dao: Fengxiao, what do you think?
Guo Jiadao: Don't worry, after Zhang Jie retreats a little farther, we will follow behind his army. It depends! He has no food and grass, how long can he eat with this little food with the army? As long as we are behind him, he will not be able to run, and when his soldiers are hungry, we will not be too late to attack.
Cao Cao said: Good! Anyway, he has no food and grass, and it is Zhang Jie who is in a hurry, so we are not in a hurry.
When Zhang Jie's army withdrew for more than ten miles, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao left 5,000 people to guard Guandu, and the remaining 50,000 or so main forces followed behind Zhang Jie's army. I don't chase and just follow.
In the afternoon, Jia Xu said: It seems that Cao Cao is still a little worried that we will design and ambush him! Hehe, just follow.
Zhang Jie said: Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have a lot of strategists, and it is indeed not easy to let him fall for the scheme!
Jia Xu said: Then the old man will add fire to him! The lord let people kill the horses! At least 100 horses must be killed, and the soldiers will fight for tooth sacrifices. Good run.
Dian Wei has some heart for musk horses. Dao: Strategist, we still have some food on the army, why kill the horses! What a good war horse, it's a pity to kill it.
Zhang Jie understood Jia Xu's plan, which was to make Cao Cao think that he had no food and killed horses to satisfy hunger.
Dao: Yuanfu, you go and arrange, kill the horse immediately, but throw the horse's blood on the road, so that the enemy can find out. We have a lot of horses, go quickly.
Promise!
In the evening, Zhang Jie's army set up camp on the spot, and then began to eat horse meat. Wait until everyone is full.
Jia Xu smiled and said: Lord, it's going to be dark in the morning, and now the acting has really begun, and then it's time to watch the lord's performance. A few of our old guys are going to go first, my lord, you have to pay more attention to safety!
Zhang Jie smiled: Jie can't do anything else, but if you want to talk about this acting, no one dares to admit the first if I recognize the second in this world.
That's good, this old man will rest assured. When evil comes, you must protect the safety of the lord. Don't leave half a step.
I know, don't worry! Dian Wei Dao.
Tian Feng said again: If necessary, let the lord change into soldiers' clothes. Dong No!
I see.
Subsequently, Fu Zhu, Jia Xu, Tian Feng, Xu Huang, Ju Yi, and others led the team, and when it was almost dark, everyone began to run away. There is no formation to escape. Flag equipment, thrown everywhere. It wasn't long before the tent was empty.
And Zhang Jie's 3,000 soldiers of the personal guard battalion guarded in front of the camp tent and pretended to be forced. And these 3,000 guards were all cavalry, and they stayed to protect Zhang Jie.
When it was dark, he had people light torches everywhere. It seems that there are still people in the camp.
Zhang Jie took out a piano and began to play. After not playing for some time, Zhang Jie played his head in one breath and "borrowed from the sky for another five hundred years". Playing and singing at the same time feels a bit like a fucking battlefield concert.
About five miles away from Zhang Jie's camp, Yuan Cao's more than 50,000 people and horses were also encamped and heavily guarded.
In the big tent, Cao Cao said: Will Zhang Jie run away at night?
Guo Jiadao: There is this possibility, but with hundreds of thousands of troops, it is dark, and many soldiers have night blindness, how far can they run?
Yu Bandao: Why don't we take advantage of the night to enter Zhang Jie's camp and have a look?
Cao Cao said: Forget it, Zhang Jie has a lot of soldiers, we are so close, he will definitely guard against our sneak attack on the camp. If you are ambushed, it is not beautiful. Now that his army is short of food, we will see tomorrow whether he has escaped or not. It's not too late to chase tomorrow, and he won't be able to escape far in one night.
Nothing happened overnight. They fled with people all night, and Zhang Jie didn't sleep well all night.
Early the next morning, Cao Cao's army and Yuan Shao's army came to Zhang Jie's camp.
At this time, Zhang Jie sat in front of the camp and pretended to be forced. Seeing that Cao Cao was not far away.
Zhang Jie shouted: Brother Meng De, Brother Benchu. Jie really didn't expect the two brothers from famous families to do this kind of stealing and touching dogs, Jie really admired.
Cao Cao said: It's not easy to defeat the virtuous brother! If you don't burn the food and grass of the virtuous brother's army, how can you win!
Zhang Jie said: Jie is a little confused, since the two of you know that our army is short of food, and our army retreated yesterday, why did you only follow behind and eat soil, why didn't you pursue it? Jay was given a day to retreat in vain.
Ay! The younger brother guessed that the two were afraid that the younger brother would set up an ambush! That's why I didn't rush to take the initiative to pursue.
Haha, the two of you guessed right, Jie was in ambush with an elite army. It's a pity that I was busy in vain.
Okay, the two brothers, Jie is going back to Jizhou, and this time the younger brother is careless. For the time being, I won't play with the two brothers, and next time we'll fight again! The two brothers will not be disappointed at that time. Farewell. Take care!
Then Zhang Jie got on the horse, waved his hand and left.
The guards behind him also got on their horses and left.
Drive!
After Zhang Jie left, Cao Cao felt that something was wrong, how could he be so human.
Yuan Shaodao: Zhang Shimin, this is an empty plan! He used himself as bait. Let us think that his army is still here. In fact, the brigade fled yesterday.
Cao Jun then rushed into the camp tent, only to see flags, swords and guns thrown to the ground. People have long since run away.
Xu Youdao: Zhang Jie's army must have run at night last night, so it shouldn't have run far. It's too late for us to catch up.
At this time, someone came to report, my lord, the Jizhou army killed a lot of horses, and there were all horse bones and horse blood left behind.
Cao Cao Dao: How many? My lord, go and see it! A lot, at least a hundred.
Subsequently, Cao Cao came to the place where the horse was killed, only to see horse blood and horse entrails everywhere. No less than a hundred heads of horses were cut off.
Cheng Yudao: It seems that Zhang Jie's army really has no food, otherwise he would not have killed so many war horses.
Yuan Shaodao: Meng De chases it! If Zhang Jie's army is allowed to flee back to Hebei intact, it will only take a year for Zhang Jie to go south again! What else are we going to do next year?
One year is enough time for Zhang Jie to gather hundreds of thousands of stones, grain and grass.
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