Cao Pi found that he was still walking too slowly.

He originally thought it would be very fast, and it only took two days to reach Chenggao, Hanoi, and at this speed, he would be able to reach Yecheng in ten days.

At this time, on the south bank of the Yellow River, Cao Ren led the generals to strengthen the city defenses of Xingyang and Chenggao, and Cao Zhang also retreated from his fiefdom in time to help.

At the critical time, it is still the siblings who can be relied on, Cao Pi is now glad that he has not had time to attack Cao Zhang.

At the beginning, I wanted to find an excuse to get rid of Cao Zhi, but fortunately I was rescued by the Queen Mother's timely intervention, otherwise, without Cao Zijian, it would be his turn Cao Ziwen soon.

However, Cao Ren is obviously lacking in confidence now, and sent people to urge Cao Pi to speed up his journey, because Liu Bei's vanguard is already very close to Xingyang.

Well, hurry up, Cao Pi sent people to urge the officials and generals to hurry up before dawn. However, the people who sent out came back to report that several officials had suddenly disappeared last night.

Cao Pi's heart was a lot colder, but now he didn't have the heart to care about them, so he left and left, just to travel lightly.

After a day's journey, he arrived at Wude County in the evening, much faster than the previous two days, and Cao Pi decided to rest here for one night.

Xiahou Wei, who escaped from Luoyang, didn't have time to report, and rushed in directly with a sweat on his head and knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "The guilty minister deserves to die, he failed to defend Luoyang for His Majesty." ”

Cao Pi's head buzzed, and he couldn't believe it: "How can it be so fast?" ”

Xiahou Wei didn't know what to say: "I went out of the city to pick up the men and horses withdrawn from the West Road, I never thought that there were spies in the city, and the western lieutenant of Luoyang had already colluded with the enemy, took advantage of the chaos to open the city gate, and led the enemy in." ”

It turned out that someone betrayed me again, Cao Pi was silent, the wall fell down and everyone pushed it, why didn't these guys who saw the wind and steer them out earlier?

Xiahouwei didn't want to shirk responsibility: "It was my incompetence that caused Luoyang to be sent to the enemy in an instant." Originally, I didn't have the shame to come to see Your Majesty again, but it happened too quickly, and I was afraid that Your Majesty didn't know about it and missed a big event, so I didn't dare to stop all the way and came to inform. Now that I have seen Your Majesty, I should apologize for my sins with death. ”

With that, he stood up, drew his sword from his waist, and was about to kill himself.

Cao Pi hurriedly rushed over and snatched the sword: "Ji Quan!" What are you doing here? Well, well, since I have decided to abandon Luoyang the day before yesterday, it will be a matter of time before I fall into the hands of the enemy. Don't blame yourself too much. ”

At this time, if you still blame your brother, you don't know how many people are left around.

Seeing that Xiahouwei's eyes were already red and weak, he must have not closed his eyes in the past two days, Cao Pi hurriedly helped him sit down, and persuaded him with good words, until Xiahouwei's mood stabilized a little, and then asked tentatively: "Then, what about the people and horses who withdrew from Hangu Road?" ”

Xiahou Wei immediately knelt on the ground in shame: "I'm afraid, I'm just afraid of more than lucky." ”

Okay, okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, but I still have to ask, Cao Pi waited a while, and asked again: "Then, do Xiahou Boren and Da Sima know?" ”

This Xiahou Wei naturally thought about it, and replied: "I have assigned people to inform them, the situation is critical now, and I hope they can join forces as soon as possible." ”

The situation became more and more serious, Cao Pi felt that he couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly sent additional people to urge Xiahou Shang and Cao Ren, and at the same time decided not to rest tonight, and asked everyone to throw away some non-essential materials and hurry overnight.

When he arrived in Ji County, Cao Pi found that things were getting worse and worse.

Obviously, he just threw away the baggage along the way, but it turned out that it was as if he had thrown all the people together, throwing and throwing, and even the Yulin Army was less than 2,000 people.

It turned out that many people simply picked up something along the road, and then left the team and went home.

At this time, the county magistrate of Naji County also told him that Zhang Wei, the enemy general who had sneaked to Chaoge a few days ago, had recruited a lot of soldiers and mobs these days, and now he has occupied Chaoge City and many surrounding enclosures.

Cao Pi hated his heart, this enemy chased after him, how long has it been, has it become a luxury to take the initiative to give up Luoyang and return to Yecheng?

He ordered a half-day rest, let the Yulin Supervisors and Tiger Ben lead the whole army, severely punish the soldiers who showed signs of defection, and then set off in full gear to personally lead the army and engage Zhang Wei.

I don't believe that you, a nobody, who came out of nowhere, want to put me to death?

However, Zhang Wei knew that his troops were insufficient, and half of his troops were still maneuvering near Suiyang, and the newly recruited soldiers and horses here were too mixed, and their combat effectiveness was not strong, and they could not be successfully trained in the short term, so they simply scattered them along the line, destroying the roads on the one hand, and harassing the aircraft on the other, and destroying the echo between the enemy's two places.

It wasn't until Cao Pi and his entourage were exhausted and walked for two days and arrived outside Chaoge City that Zhang Wei led his original subordinates to rush out of the city and block the way.

Cao Pi hurriedly let Yulin Huben fight.

Zhang Wei rushed to kill for a while, and when he saw that the enemy was overwhelming, he led the army back into the city.

Cao Pi naturally didn't have the heart to attack the city, so he continued to hurry.

Zhang Wei saw that the enemy's army had passed to protect Cao Pi, but he led the crowd to rush out again, followed behind and attacked again.

The Wei army was panicked and had no intention of fighting, leaving behind the valuable materials that they were reluctant to discard before, and hurriedly approached the front army.

Zhang Wei chased and stopped, entangled endlessly.

Cao Pi hurried to hurry, even left a lot of his palace attendants, walked for two more days, and finally approached Yecheng, and the front came to report, saying that the people had left the city, so he was a little relieved.

At this moment, a cavalry team of several thousand people suddenly came from the west again, and the leader turned out to be the enemy general Wei Yan!

Wei Yan had already understood the advantage of the cavalry's rapid attack, and he didn't stop as soon as he got out of Huguan, and went straight to Yecheng.

Fortunately, Yecheng had a wide field of vision, and the defenders found a large number of unknown cavalry running in the distance, so they hurriedly closed the city gate first.

Seeing that there was no hope of capturing the city, Wei Yan did not delay, and when he learned that a group of enemy troops had just left the city and headed south, he immediately chased after them, just in time for them to join Cao Pi.

Although it was a headless enemy army at a glance, when he saw the Qingluo umbrella cover in the distance, Wei Yan analyzed that it must be Cao Pi who had fled to Yecheng, and he was overjoyed, so he waved his arms and called out to the army: "If you want to make meritorious service and be promoted, hurry up, Cao Pi is there!" ”

When all the sergeants heard that there was such a good opportunity, they were all very excited, and they had long forgotten all about their exhaustion, and followed Wei Yan to rush towards the center of the enemy army regardless of their brains.

The Wei army was rejoicing that they had returned to Yecheng safely, when they suddenly suffered another blow, and they suddenly became a mess.

Cao Pigang breathed a sigh of relief and held it back, annoyed and angry, immediately pulled out his sword, and personally commanded all the feathers and tigers to come to meet him.

Fortunately, Yulin Huben were all elites, and it didn't take long to block the enemy's offensive, and even relied on the large number of people, and there was a tendency to encircle Wei Yan's department.

At this time, Zhang Wei, who had been following behind, learned that there was another battle ahead, so he quickly led the army to catch up and launched an attack on the enemy's rear army.

The counterattack of the Wei army was about to collapse.

Cao Pi complained bitterly, he was bullied to the door of his hometown, and he had to fight!

Zhang Wei did not lead the army to rush in, but quickly detoured around the outer edge of the enemy army, connected with Wei Yan's subordinates, and asked them to quickly inform Wei Yan to retreat.

Wei Yan couldn't attack, he was annoyed, and when he heard the news, he had to lead the army to withdraw first, and complained to Zhang Wei: "The enemy is breaking up, I am preparing to capture Cao Pi alive, what are you making to call me back?" ”

"If I hadn't rushed over, I'm afraid you would have been surrounded by enemies!" Zhang Wei didn't say much, and immediately asked again, "How did you come here?" Where can this neighborhood be good for sticking? Hurry up and take us there. ”

Wei Yan's nagging is not over: "Since you have rushed over to help me, why did you ask me where I could hold on, am I still afraid of Cao Pi?" ”

Zhang Wei told him softly: "I originally thought that the front and rear attacks would be able to defeat them, but just now, my soldiers told me that behind me, a large number of enemies are coming!" ”

As soon as Wei Yan heard that there were many more enemies than now, he didn't fight, and hurriedly led Zhang Wei to retreat westward first.

Cao Pi saw that the enemy in front and behind would no longer attack after the division, and secretly rejoiced, but now he didn't have the heart to pursue, so he ordered to enter Yecheng first.

(End of chapter)