The night was pervasive, Liu Bei and the three led the cavalry to extinguish the torches, wrap the horses' hooves, take advantage of the night to go out of Xiapi City, and then rushed to the south, when Liu Bei arrived at the nearest Cao army camp to him, looking from a distance, the soldiers patrolling the camp were still continuous, and the camp tent was also a human figure.

Guan Yu watched for a while and whispered: "Big brother, it seems that Cao Bing has not retreated at all, let's hurry back to the city!" ”

Zhang Fei also nodded beside him, but Liu Bei was not reconciled, and rode to a large camp farther away, and from a distance, the outside of the camp was also full of torches, and the firelight illuminated the camp, giving people the illusion that there were many people inside.

But when I got closer, there was no one in the camp, and even the tents had been moved!

Zhang Fei ran around the camp and shouted: "Big brother, this Cao Cao has really retreated!" They only have soldiers and horses in the previous big camp, and their big camp is to deceive us! ”

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao's messy camp and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Seeing that a few people suddenly appeared on the side of the camp, Guan Yu was afraid that those people were scouts who stayed, so he hurriedly led nearly a hundred cavalry to kill the camp, and killed the soldiers who stayed behind, Guan Yu burned the camp by the way.

Seeing that the camp was on fire here, Cao Bing's last camp also hurriedly took his things and began to flee north, because their secret had been discovered, and if they didn't run again, they would wait to be surrounded and annihilated!

There was chaos outside the city, and Cao Bao, who was watching the battle in the city, hesitated for a moment and finally led the troops to start the pursuit, and a pursuit battle began in the night.

It is said that after Cao Cao retreated from Pi, he led the soldiers and horses all the way to the north, and the spies sent by Zang Ba got the news and hurriedly went back to report to Zang Ba, and Zang Ba hurriedly asked Tao Ying for instructions. Although he is a marshal on the surface, he is Tao Ying's subordinate after all.

Cao Chun's cavalry outside the city did not see the slightest movement, there were only 10,000 soldiers and horses in Wuyuan City, Peng Cheng and Xiao Pei's reinforcements had not yet arrived, and even his own general Xu Sheng had not returned. Thinking that there were the two Xiahou brothers who were famous in the Cao camp, plus Cao Ren, who could lead the army, Cao Chun, who was invincible in cavalry, Xu Huang, Le Jin and countless other famous generals, Tao Ying panicked.

All the soldiers want to besiege Cao Cao, and this great credit is in front of them, who wants to miss it? If you can kill one or two enemy generals in this battle, you won't have to worry about it in this life!

Zang Ba also asked for instructions on whether to go out of the city to defeat Cao Chun first, Tao Ying thought about it, it seems that defeating Cao Cao is just the beginning, and he doesn't know if the general trend of history can be reversed. If he is unable to reverse the general trend, Liu Bei succeeds Xuzhou Assassin History, where will he go? If his soldiers and horses are finished, and he seems to be inferior to a grass people, who will be willing to follow him at that time? Presumably, Chen Deng and Zang Ba will leave him, and Xu Sheng may not vote for him.

Thinking of this, Tao Ying shook his head and stopped Zang Ba's suggestion. Zang Ba said anxiously on the side: "Lord, this opportunity cannot be missed. The lord has seen the opportunity, Cao Cao has withdrawn his troops, we should take advantage of the victory to pursue! ”

In order to appease so many puzzled soldiers, Tao Ying looked at Cao Chun's camp outside the city and said: "The opportunity has not yet arrived, if we send troops at this time, although we can delay Cao Cao for a while, but at the same time, we will both lose." When Cao Bao's soldiers and horses chase after us, it's not too late for us to act! ”

The crowd dispersed, and as February went on, it came to the end of the month. In addition to Pengcheng's reinforcements, who almost arrived in Wuyuan with Xu Sheng, there was also good news, that is, I heard that Pengcheng's military horses had arrived, and Cao Cao's general Cao Chun had already led his troops back.

Immediately after that, a quick letter came to Wuyuan, a letter from Cao Bao, in which Cao Bao wrote that Cao Cao had led his troops to retreat, and asked Tao Ying to intercept them halfway, and he and Liu Bei were already in pursuit.

After receiving the letter, Tao Ying hurriedly gathered soldiers and horses, because Peng Cheng and Xiao Pei soldiers and horses were tired from a long journey, Tao Ying asked Peng Cheng's soldiers and horses to rest in Wuyuan for two days, and asked Marshal Zang Ba to lead his troops north to intercept Cao Cao's soldiers and horses. Before Zang Ba left, Tao Ying repeatedly emphasized that as long as the enemy's marching speed was delayed, he must not fight hard!

Sending Zang Ba away outside Wuyuan City, Xu Sheng led Zhao Yun and others to visit, seeing that Xu Sheng was back, Tao Ying hurriedly took his hand and said: "It's good to come back, I'll rest assured when you come back!" ”

As he spoke, he pulled Xu Sheng towards Wuyuan City, where the soldiers had already set up a banquet in the city.

Xu Sheng returned to Wuyuan, Wuyuan changed very much, especially when the day was not so cold, so many soldiers were idle, and they were all people who received soldiers' salaries, so Tao Ying took the opportunity to let them build Wuyuan City.

The walls were repaired, and the soldiers kept cutting down the woods outside the city. In Tao Ying's own words, that is, to engage in big construction! Because in future generations, these forests will be cut down, and at that time, there were fertile fields that could not be seen at a glance, and these fertile fields could feed an unknown number of people!

Cao Cao's retreat is imminent, Tao Ying has already prepared for the construction of Pengcheng Guoda, and Wuyuan, as the northeasternmost city of Pengchengguo, must be planned in advance, and when Cao Bing retreats, the people will return from the south, and then he will attract all the people to his Pengcheng country, so that the population of Pengchengguo will skyrocket, he is to create a place like Hong Kong!

What's more, historical records record that Tao Qian died for a long time, and such a long time is the time to build his base. At that time, if he lives in Xuzhou, he will move the administrative office from Xiapi to Pengcheng. If he didn't live in Xuzhou, he could still divide Pengcheng in order to develop.

On the way back to Wuyuan County, Tao Ying looked at Xu Sheng a little haggard, and Tao Ying asked relationally: "Wen Xiang went all the way south, and I was very worried. Seeing that Wen Xiang has nothing to do today, I have a heart stone on the ground! Today, we will not get drunk in Wuyuan! ”

Xu Sheng was very excited when he heard that Tao Ying was so concerned about himself, and the two of them walked all the way to Wuyuan, at this time Xu Sheng suddenly remembered Zhao Yun who asked for his introduction, and hurriedly said: "Lord, I can come back safely this time, thanks to someone on the road to rescue!" ”

"Oh? Really? Wen Xiang was saved by whomever he saved, and I will thank him! ”

As soon as he heard that Xu Sheng could come back alive because someone rescued him, Tao Ying hurriedly stopped, he was a person who would repay his kindness, especially now when he had no cronies around him, he was particularly concerned about the life of the young general Xu Sheng.

Xu Sheng hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "The engong who saved me asked me to introduce him to the lord, and he also wanted to take refuge in the lord." I saw that he was very good at martial arts and quite resourceful, so I left him in the army and asked the princess to punish me for the crime of trespassing! ”

As soon as he heard that the person was also going to take refuge in himself, Tao Ying was overjoyed, sure enough, these battles were not fought in vain, and now he has a certain reputation in Xuzhou, when can he be like Yuan Shao in the north, how good it should be, the fourth world and the third duke, the protégé and the old officials are all over the world, and the heroes of the world are competing to take refuge!