Cao Ren fought Guan Yu, he was definitely invincible, but Guan Yu's left ear was injured, although it was not serious, he kept bleeding, and just now he had a vicious battle with Huang Zhong, and he also used martial arts skills, and his strength has been greatly reduced.

So, Cao Ren worked hard and fought a draw with Guan Yu.

What the lord said was good, Cao Ren was secretly surprised in his heart, if it was a normal time, he would definitely not be Guan Yu's opponent.

Not only Guan Yu, but the soldiers under Guan Yu have also experienced a battle, and they have run all the way, and their physical strength has been consumed a lot, how can they stop the thousand new troops under Cao Ren's command.

While fighting with Cao Ren, Guan Yu paid attention to the situation on the battlefield, and when he saw that his soldiers killed one of the other party, they had to pay three or four lives, and he couldn't help but be angry.

The situation of Liu Bei and Ju Yi's armies was not very good, and Cao Ju's army was still crossing the river in an orderly manner and then joining the battle.

Huang Zhong also led the army to arrive, but he didn't look for anyone, so he directly found Guan Yu and joined forces with Cao Ren.

Immediately, Guan Yu fell into the disadvantage, how could he resist the combined attack of Huang Zhong and Cao Ren, and he was quickly defeated, and he couldn't even take care of the more than 1,000 soldiers under his command, and was defeated in the direction of Yang Zhai.

The defeat of Guan Yu's army immediately triggered the defeat of Liu Bei and Ju Yi's two armies, and the three armies were defeated together in the direction of Yangzhai, while Huang Zhong and others were in hot pursuit.

At the head of the city, Kong Ling watched in amazement as the defeated army of Yuzhou ran over here, turned his head to Xin Bi and asked, "George, our army is defeated, what should we do?" ”

What should I do?

Xin Bi is not an immortal, what can he do, so he had to smile bitterly and said: "My lord immediately ordered someone to put Liu Bei and Ju Yi's defeated army into the city, and then he could only defend Yangzhai City." ”

Xun Yu also nodded and said, "This can only be the case." ”

Kong Ling had no choice but to follow what Xin Bi said, open the city gate, let Liu Bei and Ju Yi's men and horses in, and then order the archers to shoot back the Cao army that was chasing after him.

Cao Ju didn't plan to capture Yang Zhai in one fell swoop, and when he saw that the arrows at the head of the city were raining down, he asked Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Seeing that Cao Ju had collected his troops and did not take the opportunity to attack Yang Zhai, Kong Ling also breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered the defenders at the head of the city not to relax their vigilance, and then went down to the city to welcome Liu Bei and Ju Yi.

Let's say that Huang Zhong and others collected their troops and went back, as soon as Cao Peng saw Cao Ju, he asked with a grin: "My lord, the Yuzhou army has been newly defeated, the morale has plummeted, and the morale of our army is like a rainbow. ”

Cao Ju smiled slightly and said: "Yang Zhai is the seat of Yingchuan, the city is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, today our army has just experienced a battle, quite tired, not suitable for a hard siege of the city, let's talk about it in the future." ”

Although Cao Peng felt that Cao Ju's reason was insufficient, he didn't dare to say anything more, so he had to give up.

Yan Zhong understood in his heart that Cao Ju didn't know that attacking the city at this time was the best time, but because he was unwilling to be cannon fodder for Dong Zhuo.

In this Eastern Crusade, Cao Ju's purpose was very simple, just to train the troops, so defeating the Yuzhou Army was the goal, not having to kill it all, after all, killing a thousand enemies would cause eight hundred self-losses. Moreover, even if you can take Yangzhai City, what can you do, there is a sour jujube coalition army in the north and Yuan Shu's army in the south, and it is impossible to hold it at all.

When the purpose of this battle was achieved, Cao Ju ordered people to camp on the spot, with Kuishui at their back, and Yangzhai City was only less than five miles.

It is generally thirty miles away from the enemy city and camped, and there are also twenty miles away, keep a certain distance, in case the defenders in the city suddenly kill and take them by surprise. However, like Cao Ju, who only set up camp five miles outside Yangzhai City, it is estimated that there is still no one before, and it is clear that the Yangzhai defenders are not taken into account.

Seeing Cao Jun's busyness, Ju Yi slammed the city wall and said angrily: "Cao Ju Xiaoer, the deception is too much. ”

Zhang Fei was also so angry that he shouted, and said angrily: "Lord, please give the last general 3,000 soldiers and horses, you will definitely be able to kill one of them by surprise." ”

"No." Liu Bei waved his hand and said, "Yide can't be so reckless, then Cao Ju is scheming, how can he not guard against a sneak attack by our army, there must be an ambush." ”

Guan Yu had already gone down to bandage his wounds, and Zhang Fei persuaded Liu Bei not to move, so he had to give up.

Cao Ju in the letter in addition to mentioning the victory of the process, but also said that Kong Ling to defend Yangzhai, many generals, grain and grass are sufficient, Yangzhai City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Cao Ju sent troops to attack several times, all in vain, but also lost the army.

Cao Ju's meaning is obvious, Yang Zhai can't attack, so he won't attack, anyway, he has defeated the Yuzhou army many times, and achieved the purpose of deterring the princes' coalition army.

Cao Ju decided that after this letter reached Dong Zhuo's hands, Dong Zhuo would definitely let him withdraw his troops, the reason was very simple, Yuan Shu had already approached Luoyang with a large army, Dong Zhuo had to send troops to block it, and Luoyang City had to be guarded by Cao Ju.

Besides, Hu Zhen has already lost to Sun Jian once, this time Dong Zhuo sent Xu Rong as the commander, leading 50,000 troops to meet the enemy, if he is defeated again, Dong Zhuo must immediately send Cao Ju.

After setting up camp, Cao Ju did one more thing, that is, to investigate the whereabouts of many talented people in Yingchuan.

However, the effect is not very obvious, because Yangzhai is the west gate of Yingchuan, Cao Ju can't attack Yangzhai, and if you want to enter Yingchuan, you have to bypass from the south or north, and you have to guard against the defenders from all over Yingchuan.

There are a lot of talents in Yingchuan, but what Cao Ju wants most at present is Xi Zhong, but Cao Ju sent a wave of people, but none of them brought news of Xi Zhong.

Xi Zhong, after leaving Yangcheng, did not return to Yangzhai, but went all the way to the west, and turned out to be in the direction of Luoyang, which Cao Ju did not expect.

On this day, Cao Ju was watching Cao Ren train soldiers in the camp, when a messenger suddenly came, saying that he had brought a letter from Huangfu Song.

Cao Ju's correspondence with Huangfu Song is once every two days, which is already a normal thing.

However, today's letters are different from those of normal times, and they are thicker.

Cao Ju wondered in his heart, seven or eight days had passed since the battle of Yangzhai, and Huangfu Song had long appreciated Cao Ju's battle, and the letter on that day was thicker than usual, but it was not as thick as today.

Could it be that something had happened in Luoyang City, Cao Ju immediately took the letter and opened it, only to find that there was an envelope inside, which was also sealed with fire paint.

Hey, Cao Ju took out the envelope first, took it right and looked at it, the envelope was written with two lines of extremely beautiful handwriting, the first line was "Cao Juma personally opened", and the second line was "Lai Ying'er handwriting".

It turned out to be a letter from Ying'er, Cao Ju was stunned for a moment, and Ying'er's beautiful appearance immediately appeared in his mind.