"Can we just withdraw our troops?" Xiahoudun asked unwillingly. www.biquge.info After suddenly getting the urgent information that the "capital" of Jiangdong was attacked by Li Shengjun, and this caused a situation that was unfavorable to themselves, although the people in the big tent believed Cao Ren and Cheng Yu's explanation, they were too unwilling to retreat when it was about to be obtained.

"Unless we have a strong navy that can effectively control both sides of the Han River." Cheng Yu spread out his hands and said helplessly.

"That is equivalent to not saying it......" Xiahoudun pursed his mouth when he heard this.

"So will you leave overnight?" Cao Ren glanced at the people in the tent, and when he saw that they had no superfluous opinions, he turned his head and asked Cheng Yu's opinion.

"Retreat overnight. We must withdraw from Xiangyang quickly, and later there will be changes. Cheng Yu nodded and said.

"Okay, let's do it overnight. To ensure the strength first, then to ensure the horses, as for the materials transported, ......" Cao Ren seemed to be a little reluctant to think about it, but in the end he gritted his teeth fiercely: "If you can transport it back, you will transport it back, and if it really can't be done, you will burn it on the spot for me." We can't let Li Sheng's side get our equipment for nothing. ”

"Understood, I'll do it." Cheng Yu nodded heavily and agreed. As a wise man, he naturally knows the urgency of this matter at the moment - if Pang Tong in Xiangyang City does not get this news, then his retreat tonight may still be victorious, but if Pang Tong in Xiangyang knows all this, it is very likely that tonight will become a nightmare for his own people. "Hopefully, the news won't spread so quickly." Cheng Yu sincerely looked forward to this, but he also knew that such a hope was just an extremely inappropriate opposite. "Instead of pinning your hopes on the enemy, it's better to figure out a solution yourself." After having such a thought in his heart, Cheng Yu quickly started to think about it. After a few moments, he gave Cao Ren a piece of advice.

"General, I think we should send someone to carry out the execution. Li Shengjun's appearance at the Yangtze River port was already beyond our expectations. We must have a completely new understanding of Li Shengjun's strength. As for the news we have received about Jiangdong now, we don't know whether Pang Tong in Xiangyang knows about it. Although we all think that this is not very likely, if there is an eventuality, it will put us in a desperate situation. Cheng Yu glanced at the people in the tent, and saw that they were all concentrating, so he went on to explain: "Retreat, I'm afraid we will be in the woods again." For for our large number of rafts, only shallow waters such as tidal flats are suitable for us. Considering that Pang Tong in Xiangyang City is likely to send a large army to pursue us, I think we need to set up defenses around the woods. ”

"That's right." After Cao Ren heard this, he thought about it silently, raised his head and looked at the generals in the tent with burning eyes: "I don't know who is responsible for this heavy responsibility?" I'll talk about it first, it's not so easy to break off this time. Mr. Chung Tak just said just in case. Actually, I don't think it's a matter of whatever, it's for sure. Therefore, what the people who have been cut off will be attacked by Li Shengjun's powerful army, and it is even very likely that they will be surrounded. ”

"What's that? It's up to me. Cao Ren had just finished talking about the matter, and Xiahou Tang over there agreed with a resolute face. He knew that this matter was very important to his people, so he naturally took it seriously. After all, he knew that breaking off was a job that required a lot of "skills", and who else here had higher "skills" than him? He's an all-rounder in foot combat and cavalry combat.

Since Xiahoudun should have undertaken this most dangerous matter, the discussion about retreat went very smoothly next. Soon, the people in the big tent discussed all this properly: Zhang Jaw led his troops to Fancheng as the vanguard of the retreat to make preparations; Cao Hong acted with the army as the middle lane; With Xiahoudun as the broken apse army, the safety of the entire army was guarded; The whole army was moving at midnight tonight, and all the speed required that half of the army be transported across the river as soon as possible, at least before dawn.

The matter was confirmed, and the barracks of Cao Jun began to boil at that moment, and everyone hurriedly packed their bags. It's no wonder - a few days ago, I said that it was impossible to defeat Xiangyang, so I thought I would leave today. Except for a few generals who knew the news first, the rest of the people didn't know anything about it, so this action naturally seemed a little chaotic.

There was such a big commotion in Cao Jun's camp, how could Xiangyang City not find out. At that moment, Pang Tong brought all his generals to them, but he said to them with a smile: "Now is the time for us to act." Now that I think about it, Cao Ren should also receive the news. They're leaving, and we can't make it so easy for them. ”

"That's, that's!" In this battle meeting, everyone seemed much more relaxed than the last time. Because they have already done everything that should be arranged, what is missing now is just the order that Pang Tong just said.

Just as Cao Ren and Cheng Yu feared, Pang Tong's side had received the news of Gan Ning's attack on Jianye a few days earlier. Of course, they didn't get urgent information through an eight-hundred-mile rush like Cao Cao. In fact, no matter how strong Li Sheng's side was, it was impossible for him to see the post station in Sun Quan's territory. The reason why Li Sheng was able to get the news was actually because he had relatively close ties with many Shanyue tribes in Jiangdong's territory. After getting the Shanyue tribe in Jingnan to take effect, Li Sheng took advantage of the connection between Jingnan Shanyue and Jiangdong Shanyue, and won the favor of the name of Jiangdong Shanyue. Li Sheng contributed money, weapons, and materials to support Jiangdong Shanyue's war against Sun Quan, while Jiangdong Shanyue treated Li Sheng's support in return for Shanyue's various minerals and helping Li Sheng pass on intelligence. Shanyue people are good at raising birds, so they can naturally use flying birds to pass information to Li Sheng. Of course, it is possible that this information can be obtained by the Jiangdong Army, but after Li Sheng used strange characters that no one could understand to write the information, even if the Jiangdong Army obtained this information, it did not understand what this information meant, and naturally did not know much about Li Sheng's various things.

After getting this information, Pang Tong naturally began a series of deployments: on the one hand, he asked people to notify Zheng Ping, who was still in Jingling, to ask his First Fleet to come back; At the same time, he sent someone to inform Guan Ping and Liu Feng, who had been hiding west of Tanxi, to lead their troops and horses to Xiangyang to lurk; As for the troops in his city, they were also prepared early, and they only waited for Pang Tong's side to launch a large-scale surprise attack on Cao's army.

In the middle of the night, Cao's army began to move. The barracks was boiling again, and the rumbling drums continued to sound throughout the camp.

"Cao Ren is ready to go." Pang Tong is aware of this. Although the sound of the drums sounded as if they were about to launch an attack, which was a little terrifying, Pang Tong understood that this was the sound of Cao Ren preparing to retreat, and that the sound of war drums so fiercely was entirely to cover up the boiling sound of their camp's retreat.

"Wait! Now is not the best time to pursue it. Pang Tong read slightly, his eyes closed gently, but in his heart he calculated the passage of time in a special way. After about two quarters of an hour, his eyes opened suddenly: "Attack, let's go to pursue Cao Jun." He quickly gave the order, and then opened the gate of Xiangyang City and sent out the troops that had been prepared for a long time.

The troops were divided into three groups and set out from three directions, that is, north, east, and west, and because of the different distances of the road, Pang Tong estimated that the time for them to arrive at the battlefield was also different. This is what Pang Tong wants to see. After a few days of attrition in defending the city, Pang Tong believed that his troops in Xiangyang City had surpassed Cao Ren's side. It is not impossible to send these troops from the north gate to pursue Cao Ren at one time, but the speed of sending them out like that is too slow, and it suddenly makes Cao Ren realize the strength of his side. Although this strength will be exposed sooner or later, Pang Tong hopes that this time can be postponed as much as possible. He planned to divide his forces into several parts, and at a certain time and in a certain number as if they were in the battlefield, giving people the feeling that we were coming from another place to reinforce the troops, so as to hide his true strength.

"After all, now is not the time for us to rebel ourselves. Let's hide our strength for a while. Pang Tong thought so. This is not a concept he owns, but the concept that Li Sheng handed over to Pang Tong, the core of which is to become famous and sweep the world.

Once famous, sweep the world. This may seem abstract, but the real idiom to explain it is "blockbuster". "There are birds in the Chu country, and they don't fly for three years, and they don't sing for three years. If you don't fly for three years, you soar into the sky. Three years without a hit, a blockbuster. In Li Sheng's view, developing oneself and continuing one's strength is the most important thing, as for the affairs of the world, when no one knocks on the door, you can still let it go a little when you are like now. Once you pretend to be a grandson and accumulate your strength to an amazing point, then it will be the time when you sweep the world. At that time, they will surprise the whole world, because they will find that all their power is vulnerable in front of them.

“…… Children can't beat adults no matter what. Therefore, what we have to do is to become adults before Jiangdong and Cao Cao. Pang Tong remembered that Li Sheng had used such a very popular metaphor for this. He honestly remembered this metaphor in his heart, and deeply realized that now is not the time for his own side to burst out of his strength. Although the strength of his side is strong now, it is still a little inferior to Cao Cao's side, let alone facing the alliance of Cao Cao and Sun Quan. Therefore, Pang Tong decided to hide his strength as much as possible. "Let Cao Jun's side think that we only concentrated all our strength to defeat them, not that we have such ability." Pang Tong thought about it like this, so he naturally had the order from above.

At this moment, the Cao Jun military camp was still in chaos. Although Cao Ren announced early on that his army planned to retreat and asked his subordinates to hurry up and prepare, how could this army dismantle a tent and leave like tourists stationed in the wilderness? What's more, Cao Ren was still a little reluctant to give up so much equipment. So, when Pang Tong and his army quietly approached the Cao army camp from the north gate, the people in the camp were still loaded with all kinds of ignorance. They had already worked very hard, but that short period of time was only enough for them to send out the vanguard troops and part of the Chinese army, and most of the Chinese army and the rear troops were still here. As everyone was busy packing up, the troops behind the palace did not have time to spread out their formation, and the rumbling drums that resounded throughout the camp also drowned out the rustling footsteps of Pang Tong and them approaching.

Approaching Cao Jun's camp and hearing the sound of panic and busyness hidden under the rumbling drums, a sinister smile appeared on Pang Tong's face. Is there anything more pleasant in the world than to attack the enemy, who is in a spontaneous chaos without any reaction? No, at least not in Pang Tong's opinion.

"Then let's attack." Already approaching less than ten zhang away from the opponent's camp, Pang Tong finally gave an order. Even though he was not a military general, even though he was only a man of letters, and his strength was not much higher, he still pulled the sword from his waist, which was not very heavy, and could only be used as an ornament, and shouted forward: "Kill ......!" ”

"Kill ......!" The soldiers who followed Pang Tong's shouts rushed forward amid their own angry tsunami-like killing sounds: several people smashed through the barracks fence, and countless people swarmed in, and under the wide-eyed and disbelieving gaze of those Cao soldiers, they swung their long swords in their hands. The sword fell, the human head flew, the stump rose into the air, and the thick bloody aura quickly filled the entire space. Such a pungent smell, coupled with the shouting of killing that completely drowned out the drumming, undoubtedly gave a clear signal to the people in the barracks: "There is an enemy attack......!" ”

"Damn...... How could someone kill someone at this time? Even if Pang Tong's side reacted quickly, it shouldn't be like this? Could it be that we have an inner ghost here? Cao Ren guessed nervously. The timing of Pang Tong's attack was too "wonderful", and it was "wonderful" that it happened to be the most chaotic and weak time for Cao Jun. Although the arrangements had been made in advance, at this time, it was too late to start all the arrangements. There was no way, Cao Ren had to make the decision he hated the most to "escape"!

There was no way, Cao Ren had no choice but to spread his footsteps and run wildly. He ran so fast that those who could not see him at all saw only the banner representing his general constantly retreating northward. Because Cao Ren himself was anxious to flee for his life, he didn't have the heart to tell his guards to do anything like "Yanqi", so that the current Cao Ren seemed so eye-catching among the army.

With such high-profile generals constantly fleeing north, where will the soldiers under them have any courage. They already had a bit of a chaotic taste, and now that they were hit hard by this thing, their morale was even more chaotic. At that moment, he also followed closely behind Cao Ren and fled quickly. Of course, in a panic, although they wanted to flee at a fast speed, the actual situation was very different from what they imagined, stumbling and stumbling between each other, and stumbling and crawling lowered the speed of their escape by a big notch. Not to mention anything else, just to say that the speed of their escape is compared with the speed of Li Shengjun's attack, which is itself superior. Countless people wanted to flee but couldn't escape Li Shengjun's pursuit, and they were very miserable to be beheaded by the weapons in the hands of Li Shengjun's soldiers, pierced their hearts, and became a body that had lost their lives - for the enemy, Pang Tong and his men were extremely ruthless on the battlefield.

Fight! No, more precisely, a massacre unfolded at the front of Cao's camp. Because the enemy's resistance was very weak, this part of the team commanded by Pang Tong was simply very monotonous repeating two things, looking for the enemy and killing the enemy. They've always been on the offensive, and defense isn't their concern.

Until...... A battle flag with yellow characters on a red background was re-erected after Cao Ren's handsome flag disappeared on the battlefield, and all Cao Jun came back to their senses from the incomparable panic, and they seemed to have a backbone in their hearts.

The flag has a very important position in war, it can not only enhance the momentum of the army, create a huge scene, but also prove the existence of the general in the eyes of all soldiers. After all, this battle is fought by tens of thousands of people. How can a soldier in a military formation judge whether his general is still on this battlefield and has not escaped? Because of the battle flag, only the battle flag is still flying, then everyone will believe that their general is still fighting with them.

Cao Ren's irresponsible "escape" in front. Although it was helpless, it turned the entire Cao army into a demoralized appearance of the soldiers who were still left in the camp. And the current raising of the battle flag, although it is also the helplessness of the owner of the battle flag, Xiahou Dun, but because of this, the morale of the entire Cao army has been slightly restored. These effects may be nothing to the Cao soldiers who are closer to Li Shengjun's side, but for those Cao soldiers who are behind the formation, who are still just panicked and have not really confronted Li Sheng, the raising of the battle flag of Xiahoudun is undoubtedly a direction for them to contribute. Instinctively, they gathered around Xiahoudun and obeyed his command.

"Formation! Shield men move forward, pikemen in the middle, archers behind! Square Formation...... Block them. Xiahoudun shouted loudly. In the cramped camp, in the face of the chaotic soldiers, it was naturally impossible for Xiahoudun to let them set up some large formations. Although the large array was more powerful, Xiahoudun knew that with his current strength and morale, as well as time and space, he could not organize the large array. In fact, not to mention the big array, even if these people are asked to form the simplest phalanx right now, they are a little unbearable. They quickly stood in line, but this queue seemed to Xia Houdun to be an out-and-out garbage queue: the distance between them was either too tight or too loose. This made Xiahou Dun frown: "How much defense can such a formation have?" He shook his head slightly, but there was no solution.

Fortunately, the Li Shengjun who came over was mostly infantry, and did not have much powerful impact. And they were still some distance away from where Xiahoudun was, which also gave Xiahoudun time to be able to reorganize the team a little. Of course, in such a chaotic situation, it is impossible for him to put together a large number of obedient soldiers under any circumstances. When Pang Tong rushed over with men and horses, there were only 5,000 soldiers and horses in Xiahoudun's hands.

Five thousand against 10,000, low morale is high for high morale, and Xiahoudun still has the courage to meet it. First the archer scattered, then the spearman's stab and the shieldman's resistance. Xiahoudun commanded his troops in a rhythmic manner, letting them retreat slowly, constantly passing, wave after wave of neat attacks, to deal with Li Shengjun who rushed over. For a while, Li Shengjun, who had been advancing all the way, was like a river that had slammed into a stone, and it was scattered and torn apart. Under Xiahoudun's neat resistance, they roared but left a large number of corpses behind and could not move an inch.

"Damn, how can this be?" Guan Xing frowned tightly, staring at Cao Jun opposite with a pair of red eyes, locking the battle flag "Xiahou" that was waving in the wind, "Xiahou? Looks like we've got a big opponent this time. Guan Xing sighed, and now he was going to let his soldiers attack again. Although nearly a thousand brothers had already died on the way to the attacking Xiahoudun formation, he Guan Xing still believed that this Xiahoudun would not last long, and as long as he persisted, he would definitely collapse. "So, in exchange for Xiahoudun! It's worth it! Guan Xing gritted his teeth and thought that he remembered that the person who killed his third uncle was Xiahou Yuan, the general of the Cao army, and this Xiahou Yuan was Xiahou Yuan's brother, and his importance in the Cao army and his feelings with Xiahou Yuan were not comparable to ordinary generals.

"Hmph, I'm going to let your Xiahou family cut off an arm." With such a thought of revenge in his heart, Guan Xing couldn't help but shout loudly: "Impact, impact!" Guan Xing roared angrily, and was about to rush forward desperately, but was stopped by a handful of people coming from behind: "Wait, Zhenye!" Pang Tong whispered his words.

"What, Strategist?" Guan Xing looked at Pang Tongyi strangely, and didn't understand why he stopped himself.

"Why do you have to charge? If we want to take down Xiahoudun, we have a better way. Why waste the lives of soldiers? Pang Tong looked at him with a smile, and his burning gaze seemed to be like a sharp arrow in substance, piercing Guan Xing's face and reaching the depths of Guan Xing's heart - Pang Tong already knew Guan Xing's thoughts.

"And what does the military advisor mean?" Guan Xing looked at Pang Tong.

"Xiahoudun's current formation is a formation, not a phalanx. What is the difference between this, you yourself should understand. Pang Tong said lightly: "The general is very important, but the veterans with combat experience under the general are also very important. A sheep led by a lion can defeat a lion led by a sheep, but it is definitely no match for a lion led by a lion. ”

"I know." Guan Xing lowered his head in shame when he heard this. He knew that this was Pang Tong trying to persuade himself. He was silent, and then looked up again, his eyes less furious and more clear. He quickly ordered: "The first and third songs will attack head-on, and the second and fourth songs will follow me around behind them." Hmph, I don't believe that Xiahoudun has any special tricks in this situation. ”

"No!" Guan Xing's subordinates answered loudly, and then quickly started fighting.

Everything went as smoothly as Pang Tong had lit up. Although on the surface, Xiahoudun had excellent strength to withstand the impact of Guan Xing, but in reality, the fearless and fierce charge of the army led by Guan Xing still brought a great shock to Xiahoudun. This kind of shock Xiahoudun himself can bear it, but Xiahou's subordinates can't stand it anymore, and they have all reached a limit. When, the people led by Guan Xing restrained Xiahoudun's energy in the front, and when a large army appeared in the rear of Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun's soldiers couldn't stand the limit of being added a straw and completely collapsed, they scattered and fled, running wildly, even Xiahoudun himself couldn't stop them.

"Damn...... Xiahou roared, but he also had to run wildly with the army. They wanted to retreat, but Guan Xing clearly didn't want him to go.

"Kill!" Guan Xing roared, and the long knife in his hand slashed through a cyan sword light, slashing obliquely like Xiahou Xuan. Soldier to soldier, general to general, at this moment he and Xiahoudun met together.

"Be ......!" With a loud bang and a ball of sparks, in the face of Guan Xingna's long-time preparation, Xiahou Dun, who had risen in a hurry, took a few steps back a little too much. The war horse beneath him neighed, but there was a bit of pain in the long voice. Guan Xing knew that it was because the joints of the war horse could not withstand this kind of force. "Xiahou Yuanrang, it really deserves its name." In the blow just now, Guan Xing seemed to have tested that Xiahoudun's force was still above him. It's not much, but it's still high.

"Who are you?" Guan Xing was surprised here, but he didn't know that the surprise in Xiahou Dun's heart on the other side was still above him. Unlike Guan Xing, who had only heard of Xiahoudun's reputation, Xiahoudun felt the belonging of Guan Xing's sword technique directly from Guan Xing's blow. "Isn't this Guan Yu's Spring and Autumn Sword Technique? How do you ......" Xiahoudun looked at Guan Xing, and suddenly felt a little clear in his heart: "You are Guan Yu's son!" Although it was a question, his tone was affirmative. The reason is very simple, the only person who can obtain Guan Yu's sword method is Guan Yu's son.

"In Shimonoseki." Seeing that Xiahoudun had already seen through his identity, Guan Xing lightly told him his name.

"Sure enough." Xiahou was stunned, the color on his face became heavy, he knew Guan Xing's identity, and also confirmed that the knife technique in Guan Xing's hand was the Spring and Autumn Sword Technique, and he didn't dare to be careless at the moment. Although Guan Xing is not Guan Yu, although Xiahoudun has confirmed the fact that Guan Xing is not as good as himself from the blow just now, but because of Guan Yu's name, Xiahoudun does not dare to be careless. At this moment, he was looking at Guan Xing intently, the long knife in his hand was held tightly, and the battle intent on his body couldn't help but rise.

"Kill ......!" The brown sword burst out with countless sharp knife momentum overwhelmingly towards Guan Xing - out of respect for Guan Yu and the fear of the Spring and Autumn Sword Technique, Xiahoudun used his unique "powerful knife" as soon as he made a move.

"Qiang ...... While...... When ......" cyan blade was raised in Guan Xing's hand, it met Xiahoudun's "sharp knife" without giving in. For a while, the explosion of energy, the collision between knives, and all kinds of clear sounds made the people around the two involuntarily retreat. They had to retreat, for they had seen the strength of the clash between the two men knocking the brown earth into scars. Although the trace was shallow, it was clear enough in the eyes of everyone. Both Li Sheng's side and Cao Cao's side realized a problem because of this, that is, Guan Xing has become a fierce general comparable to Xiahoudun. Even if he is not as good as Xiahoudun in some aspects now, it is really about the same.

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