In the face of Cao Ren's reprimand, the sergeant could only kneel and remain silent, but he said in his heart: You are chasing so happily in front, and you are desperately urging us to hurry up, as if the enemy is so frightened that they just want to run away, just waiting for us to hurry up and catch the prisoners, where is there any need to be prepared?

Alas, it's just that, now is not the time to be held responsible, Cao Ren asked people to wake up Pang De and Niu Jin, urging everyone to get up and hurry up to join the rear army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

By the time they arrived, the fighting there was already over. I saw that there was black smoke in Cao's camp, and there were still embers burning on the broken tents and barracks, and a member of Cao's general, led nearly a thousand remnants, was looking for the corpses of Cao Jun everywhere with smoke and fire, and helped up the wounded and undead sergeants.

Cao Ren's eyes were also on fire when he saw it: "How can it be so miserable?" What about the enemy? ”

General Cao cried: "General, last night suddenly killed a group of enemy troops, I led the sergeants to resist, but there are too many enemies, and it is difficult for us to resist alone." Later, I still led these sergeants and occupied the high ground for a night to survive, otherwise I am afraid that I will never see you again. ”

"But aren't you four or five thousand? How can the small ambush troops reserved by the enemy along the road defeat you so badly? Cao Ren remembered that the ambush soldiers they encountered when they retreated were only about 2,000 people.

Cao Jiang kowtowed again and again: "How many more than two thousand!" General, didn't you see, last night there were enemy torches all over the mountains, and there were tens of thousands of them! When they touched the front of our camp, they threw torches into our camp one by one. The sergeants were all asleep, caught off guard, they burned the barracks and rushed into the barracks, where could they resist......"

Cao Ren couldn't believe it: "What did you say? Tens of thousands of enemy troops have ambushed you here? ”

General Cao replied: "How dare my subordinates deceive the general, I'm afraid that there will be more than 10,000." ”

"Tens of thousands of enemy troops? Then tell me, where are they now? Cao Ren told himself that this must not be true. If it is true that there will be tens of thousands of enemy troops here, then doesn't it mean that he Cao Ren already has a large army of enemies in the front and rear, and he has been surrounded by heavy encirclement?

Cao Jiang pointed behind him: "They, all of them went over there." ”

Which side is over there, it's going to Xiangyang! Could it be that the enemy is still preparing to go straight to Xiangyang? Are they not only going to encircle and annihilate the troops that we are rushing to the front, but also to destroy all our troops who are temporarily lagging behind?

Cao Ren's heart suddenly felt weak, cold sweat flowed down, and he didn't have time to talk to General Cao again: "Quick, hurry up and gather your men and horses, and return to Xiangyang overnight!" ”

At this moment, another probe horse flew from behind: "General, Guan Yu led the army to chase after him from behind!" ”

"General Niu Jin, you quickly lead the men and horses to set up barricades to obstruct Guan Yu's pursuit! General Pang, you follow me to chase the enemy troops in front of you and prevent them from sneaking up on our army in front again. Cao Ren quickly ordered, and pointed to the member Cao Jiang and said, "Hurry up and take your people and follow!" ”

The Cao army was desperately hurrying again, chasing more than ten miles, and sure enough, they encountered the enemy army in front of them and were killing with their own men and horses all the way.

Cao Ren was glad that he had come in time, and immediately raised his arms and shouted with Pang De: "Kill!" "The first to rush towards the enemy.

The Jingzhou soldiers, who were fighting with the Cao army in front, saw that there were enemy troops behind them, and hurriedly divided a part of their forces to block them.

Cao Ren and Pang De took the lead, holding guns and wielding knives and desperately rushing forward to kill. Seeing that the enemy was so crazy, the Jingzhou soldiers divided their troops and withdrew to both sides after blocking for a while. Anyway, they are all infantry, and it is very brisk to climb a mountain and drill a forest.

Cao Ren also had no intention of pursuing them, so he hurriedly joined forces with his own team in front of him, and continued to desperately kill the enemy troops who were still blocking the front.

All the Jingzhou soldiers withdrew. The rescued Cao Jiang rushed to meet Cao Ren, but he didn't say anything about his situation, but asked Cao Ren about it: "General, didn't you say that you have all chased you out for a long time, why did you come back again?" ”

"Don't talk about it, you fell for the enemy, and like you, you were ambushed by the enemy." Cao Ren made a long story short, and even found that the enemy army was only five or six thousand, not at all that the defeated general in front said more than 10,000, so he didn't bother to investigate, and only looked at the rear, hoping that Niu Jin would follow quickly.

Niu Jin arrived soon, and without waiting for Cao Ren to ask him, he hurriedly said: "Quickly withdraw and retreat, it won't last long." ”

The Cao army scrambled to retreat to Xiangyang desperately. As soon as they moved, the Jingzhou soldiers who had already retreated quickly followed, shouting loudly and chasing after them.

The soldiers of Cao Jun were panicked, coupled with the continuous rapid march in the past few days, they were already exhausted, especially the foot soldiers who followed Cao Ren closely behind at the beginning, they felt that their legs were broken at this moment, and they didn't feel it at all when they lifted their legs, they really couldn't run, so they simply sat on the ground with their butts and surrendered to the pursuers with their hands raised.

Cao Ren had no intention of caring about them, because he believed that the matter behind him was still a trivial matter for the time being, and if there were a large number of enemy troops blocking the road in front, it would be a real matter.

Sure enough, his worries were not unreasonable, and when they fled for thirty miles again, they were really blocked by more than 10,000 enemy troops.

Seeing that the mountains were full of enemy troops waiting for battle, Cao Ren glanced at it, this time there were really more than 10,000! And in the middle of the road, there are still many corpses of Cao Jun, obviously, a war has just been fought here, and Cao Jun is completely defeated.

Cao Ren was a little puzzled: "There are so many enemies, how did they come here!" It's not far from Xiangyang here, how did so many people ambush them silently! ”

No enemy came up to reply to him, but he was met with shouts of killing all over the hills, and the enemy troops were already rushing from the hillsides and fields.

And behind him, the pursuing enemy army is getting closer and closer.

Cao Ren didn't have time to think about it, so he only shouted to the sergeants: "Now there is a blocking enemy in front and a chasing soldier in the back, if you want to live, follow me and fight hard!" Behind the enemy in front, there is still our army! Rush through and we'll be able to join the army and wipe them out! ”

It's just that there are more enemy troops in front of them than them, and the enemy behind them has caught up and surrounded them heavily, where can they still rush through.

Niu Jin sighed secretly, it's over, who else can I expect to save me this time?

Unexpectedly, the soul beckoned to the spirit, just when they couldn't support it, and the sergeants under them were about to abandon their weapons and surrender, there was a commotion among the enemy troops in front, and a Cao army rushed in: "Don't panic, everyone, I'm Lu Chang to save you!" ”

Cao Ren and Niu Jin were overjoyed and hurriedly moved closer to Lu Chang.

Lu Chang had a lot of men and horses, in addition to bringing out 5,000 men and horses from Xiangyang City, he also traveled all the way, and gathered some teams along the way that were originally following Cao Ren on the expedition, but still lagging behind, and the total number reached 12,000. (To be continued.) )