The green field stretches, the sun is slightly skewed among the clouds, on the field, the fine stones are quietly on the ground, a yellow horse's hooves step over, step down, kick it out of the air, a snow-white war horse gallops over, in the distance, hundreds of oncoming war horses come here, several of them in armor generals turned off their horses and knelt down on one knee around the returning Cao Cao, arching their hands.

"Is the eldest brother okay?" Xiahou Yuan raised his gaze.

On the tall snow-white war horse, Cao Cao, who was dressed in sackcloth, smiled and waved his hand, letting them get up, "The sky is endless, Cao Cao, it seems that the tiger will die, you get up, follow me back to the camp." ”

Along the way, Cao Cao laughed with them for a while, and the hand commander Wu talked about changing clothes with his subordinates on the way, so that he could escape, and for the personal guard who died for him, after going back, he would take good care of his family Yunyun. After a while, Cao Cao asked about the casualties in the army.

"Knowing the plan, Lu Bushang can turn the tide of the war like this, it is really rare to be a general, but unfortunately he doesn't understand what kind of road he should take after all, he killed Ding Yuan because of the injustice in his heart, and killed Dong Zhuoming for the country, in the final analysis, it is actually the anger in his heart, if he is willing to be a general, he will leave his prestige in the world...... When I returned, what were the casualties in the army? ”

"The damage was severe, and half of the grain and grass were burned by the fire." Xiahou Yuan lagged behind a horse, pursed his lips, and sighed: "There are more than 5,000 casualties among the soldiers, and the iron cavalry of the state is led by Lu Bu to charge, which is fierce and unstoppable. ”

"Say something glad." Cao Cao frowned and looked at the faint outline of the foothills in front of him, and after a moment, he turned his head and asked him in a low voice, "Has Lu Bu withdrawn?" ”

When this sentence was spoken, Cao Hong on the other side showed a happy look on his face and smiled: "This morning, Lu Bu pulled out the camp and returned to Xiapi, last night's battle, he also suffered a lot of losses, and there were more than 3,000 corpses counted, big brother, simply pursue them." ”

Cao Cao's tense face eased slightly, his eyes narrowed, and he still frowned: "Zilian, do you remember chasing Dong Zhuo?" Chen Gong is not a scheming person, at this time, he went to chase Bizhong and ambushed, went back to regroup, and then slowly pushed closer to Xiapi. ”

"Everything is up to the eldest brother. It's just that Lu Bu returned to help Xiapi, Gongsun Dudu's side, will it be difficult to deal with it, if he really wants to be targeted by Lu Bu, he is fast, maybe he can break through thousands of troops and horses, and break into battle. ”

"The horse I gave to Gongsun is not a mediocre thing."

The generals looked over, Cao Cao's sun in the clouds, and his hands were subconsciously raised into the air, "I gave it to him, but also in the hope that when I encounter a strong enemy, I can save a life, I really wanted to forcibly accept Gongsun Zhi, how similar he is to Lu Bu, but different, if there is no Gongsun, in fact, ..... now" He looked at the generals who came out of the barracks from afar to greet him, and paused: "....... I really want to take Lu Bu's tiger into the account. ”

"My lord!"

"Lu Bunai is a vicious tiger, he will hurt people for a long time!"

Xun You also looked at his lord in surprise, and waved his hand again and again: "What the generals said is that you don't agree with it either. ”

Over there, Cao Cao nodded.

"Let's just talk about it, but it makes me feel sorry to see such a person in the world die..... Let's go, go back to the camp—"

Soon after, the sunset fell on the foothills, the red afterglow sprinkled on the earth, the army with banners pulled out the camp, and the army of less than 50,000 still meandered seven or eight miles to the east, drowning everything that could be seen in the red vision, the fast horse passed back and forth, the order to adjust the speed of the contact, and the scouts galloped in the fields, foothills, and hills to detect danger, and Zang Ba, who was stationed in Pengcheng, saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, and took his subordinates to retreat east overnight and chased Lu Bu.

In the same night, hundreds of miles away from the east of Pengcheng, among the hills, there was no star or moon, no light, and in the primitive and lush woods and strange rocks, insects chirped happily in the dark, and occasionally there was the slight footsteps of people, and the cry stopped abruptly.

The figure walked around, approaching the giant man on the side of a rock not far away, "Lu Bu's army is coming soon." The scout whispered, then handed over the information and quietly stepped into the night.

Dian Wei, who was leaning on the rock, pinched the information, turned around and went into the woods on the hillside behind, pulled out the branches that blocked the way, and said in a deep voice: "Lord, the news is coming, Lu Bu led the cavalry to the front, and he was anxious to take a shortcut to rush back to Xiapi, and he was about to pass here." ”

At night, the wind blew through the woods, the sound of the leaves sounded, the fallen leaves fell on the shoulders of people, dressed in armor, the tall Gongsun Zhi sat on a piece of bluestone with his legs crossed, with two scimitars at his feet, and his rough face was looking at the night sky outside the swaying branches, and among the scattered trees around, he could vaguely see many figures crouching or sitting.

"Tell Zhang Fei and Xiahoudun that these quick-tempered people don't be impulsive when they see Lu Bu, the other party is fast and can't stay." Gongsun Zhi asked people to light the fire, looked at the silk in his hand and threw it to the ground, while putting the two scimitars on his waist, he said: "Instead of wasting it on a person who can't be caught temporarily, it is better to kill the foot soldiers under Lu Bu as much as possible, and then join forces with Cao Cao to besiege Xiapi." ”

The straps on the scabbard were tightened, and he raised his cold gaze: "I will kill my head for violating the military order." ”

"I'll go. Don't listen to me beat them. Li Ke brandished his mace and ran away with the sound of stumbling footsteps.

On the other side, Cao Chun dropped the stone that had sharpened the blade and inserted it back into the sheath, "The leader beat Yuan Shu this time, and he made Zhang Liao, which is different from the beginning, presumably after the ambush, Lu Bu will definitely press this matter on Zhang Liao's head, and the suspicion of the enemy in private will never be cleared." ”

The tone was said with a smile, raising his gaze, the other side of the line of sight also looked over, Gongsun Zhi smiled and picked up a stone, pulled out the scimitar, and polished the edge: "Zi and Miao praised, this is Li Wenyou's strategy, when I came to Xu Du, I discussed this matter with him, but I didn't expect that the sneak attack on Zhang Xun would be so simple, and I didn't expect Zhang Liao to be stationed in Daze Township, so I had to use this strategy in advance, as long as Lu Bu's infantry was broken again, I asked him to rely on cavalry to defend the city......."

"Hahaha-"

Hearing this, Cao Chun laughed, although the killing for many days was refreshing, it was still depressing in the end, "Cutting off the rear infantry, it is difficult to last only by relying on the original more than 10,000 county soldiers in Xiapi." ”

As he spoke, he groaned for a while, frowned, and said: "But once the siege of my eldest brother's soldiers will also suffer heavy losses, surround but not fight, and it will be difficult to keep up with the baggage, if it continues to fight for a long time, it will definitely be demoralized, so that Lu Bu can take advantage of it, and after joining forces with my eldest brother, the leader may as well join forces with my eldest brother to fight one or two." ”

Gongsun Zhi nodded, and next to him, Dian Wei slapped his palm on the body of the tree, and a few leaves fell, "Hey, it's a big deal to attack the city, I'll go up and drag Lu Bu, you let go of your hands and rush up, and go into the city to seize the city gate." ”

As he was talking, Gongsun Zhi squinted suddenly, raised his hand to stop Dian Wei, who was speaking, and the two hurriedly pulled out their weapons and squatted down to look at the slope, the sound of insects disappeared, and the whole world was silent in the dark, and only the wind whining could be heard in the ears, and ...... The sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

"Lu Bu is here......"

He slowly drew his scimitar, the tip of which stabbed into the ground.