Chapter 718: Lost Soldiers
finally ran out of the mountain road, and finally came down safely, Cao Cao found that he was bruised in many places all over his body, and his whole body was in hot pain.
Look at his guard Xu Chu again, an arm as thick as a thigh was smashed, and a large piece of flesh on his thigh was smashed, revealing his white bones.
Xu Chu grinned and tore off his robe, preparing to bandage the wound himself.
However, one of Xu Chu's arms was broken, and he couldn't bandage it at all.
Cao Cao couldn't help but take the robe from Xu Chu's hand and bandaged Xu Chu himself.
Cao Cao's simple action couldn't help but move Xu Chu to tears, and he couldn't help shouting excitedly: "Lord! ”
Cao Cao patted Xu Chu on the shoulder and said, "Xu Chu, the conditions are limited now, after we go down the mountain, Prime Minister must find the best famous doctor to bandage you!" ”
Hearing Cao Cao's words, Xu Chu smiled and said: "Prime Minister, I have rough skin and thick meat, and I don't get in the way, hehe!" ”
As he spoke, the more than 40,000 soldiers in ambush on the mountain, except for the soldiers who were stoned to death, or who were seriously injured and could not climb out on their own, all the surviving soldiers had fled the danger area.
Cao Cao glanced at the remnants of the soldiers and found that the 40,000 soldiers had lost 15,000 or 6,000 in this attack on the rocks.
Nearly half of the injuries were damaged, and the 24,500 people who survived were all wounded.
And Lu Bu and Dahua's people's soldiers, obviously they are not willing to let them go so easily.
The emperor of Dahua led 50,000 soldiers to chase after them by a detour.
Cao Cao didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly took his soldiers and fled outside the Dingjun Mountain.
Now, we must not let Lu Bu's army catch up.
Once they catch up, it's over!
Fortunately, at this time, Cao Cao also had 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Cao Ma who had previously acted as bait.
The 10,000 soldiers and horses stopped when Lu Bu led the army to climb the mountain.
When 50,000 people's soldiers attacked with rocks, these 10,000 soldiers and horses escaped because of the distance.
At this time, it became a new force in Cao Cao's side.
With the help of these 10,000 soldiers, Cao Cao's army quickly withdrew out of Dingjun Mountain and ran in the direction of Hanzhong.
And the army led by Lu Bu, when going down the mountain, because there are rocks that have just rolled down everywhere, sometimes they may collapse again when they step on it.
Therefore, when they go down the mountain, they need to be careful, and they must ensure absolute safety before going down.
Because of this, their speed was much slower than the speed of Cao Cao's army.
By the time they came to the foot of Dingjun Mountain, Cao Cao's army had already run ten miles away.
Lu Bu led the army and chased all the way.
At this time, most of the soldiers and horses under Cao Cao's command were wounded, and they couldn't run too fast.
Seeing that Lu Bu led the army in pursuit, in desperation, Cao Cao had to leave the 10,000 new troops led by Cao Ma as bait behind the palace.
Then, Cao Cao led the remnants of 24,000 and 5 troops and quickly fled in the direction of Hanzhong.
Facing the 10,000 palace troops left by Cao Cao, Lu Bu couldn't help but let out a sneer.
These 10,000 soldiers, since they stayed, of course, they wanted to eat them, so don't think about going back.
Lü Bu led a large army and launched a brazen attack on these 10,000 soldiers.
Lu Bu took the lead, raised the Heavenly Painting Halberd in his hand, and rushed directly to kill him like a god of war.
Cao Ma, who bore the brunt of the attack, saw Lu Bu galloping over, only to feel a stiff back, and a chill rushed straight to his head from the tailbone.
At that moment, Cao Ma felt a chill to his bones.
Cao Ma felt that if he couldn't block this blow, he would die!
Cao Ma didn't dare to slack off, and quickly raised the spear in his hand, trying to block the Fang Tian painting halberd that Lu Bu swept over.
Clang!
With a loud bang, the spear in Cao Ma's hand was directly knocked away by Lu Bu's Fang Tian Painting Halberd.
In an instant, the spear had bent into a bow, and under the action of great force, it flew straight into the crowd with a whirlwind, and burst into screams.
Cao Ma's tiger mouth was completely violent, and blood trickled down.
And Lu Bu's Fang Tian Painting Halberd, after knocking Cao Ma's spear into the air, only paused for a moment, and then continued to fly, directly cutting off Cao Ma's head!
Just a face, the emperor of Dahua Kingdom, Lu Bu, beheaded Cao Ma, the general of the 10,000 soldiers left by Cao Cao behind the palace, under the horse!
As soon as Cao Ma died, the 10,000 soldiers were leaderless, and under the impact of the soldiers of the Great Hua Kingdom, a rout occurred.
In this situation, Lu Bu did not intend to let go of the prisoners at all, and led the army to slaughter these 10,000 soldiers.
It only took half an hour to slaughter this 10,000-strong army.
Next, Lü Bu led the army and continued to pursue and kill the twenty-four or five thousand soldiers led by Cao Cao.
These soldiers were all wounded, and as long as they could catch up, it was bound to be a one-sided slaughter.
An hour later, Lü Bu led his army to catch up with the remnants of Cao Cao's army.
At this time, Cao Cao's department in Hanzhong got the news and sent 10,000 troops to meet him.
However, even if Cao Cao's army came with another 10,000 troops, it would be less than that of Dahua in terms of total strength.
For Lu Bu and the people's soldiers, even though the enemy was twice as numerous as theirs, they were not afraid at all.
And with confidence that they will be able to defeat the enemy.
Not to mention, the enemy is now even fewer than them.
At this moment, under the leadership of Lu Bu, 50,000 people's soldiers and Cao Cao's army launched a fierce battle before Hanzhong.
The combat effectiveness of Cao Cao's army was already weaker than that of Dahua's people's soldiers, not to mention that the number of people's soldiers was far greater than Cao Cao's army, and there were more than 20,000 wounded in Cao Cao's army.
Therefore, at the very beginning of the battle, Cao Cao was at a disadvantage and his defeat was revealed.
As a last resort, Cao Cao had no choice but to command the army to retreat while fighting, while urgently mobilizing reinforcements.
In the end, the two sides fought until the city of Hanzhong, and several teams of Cao troops came out of the city to meet them, and only then did they bring the remnants of Cao Cao's army into the city.
At this time, Lu Bu stopped the pursuit and led his soldiers and horses to slowly retreat.
And Cao Jun didn't dare to pursue at all, so he could only watch the Dahua military horses leave.
After the battle, Cao Cao counted the men and found that their soldiers had lost more than 10,000 people again.
So far, their 50,000 soldiers and horses have actually lost more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses.
Such a battle damage made Cao Cao almost vomit blood.
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After the war, Lü Bu directly sent 30,000 soldiers and horses to occupy Dingjun Mountain.
Next, Lu Bu wanted to open all the checkpoints between Dingjun Mountain and Wuzhang Plain.
As long as this road is opened, grain can be transported directly from Wuzhang Yuan and Xiegu to Dingjun Mountain.
(End of chapter)