Guan Yu is too strong!

After a long fierce battle, Li Dian also had to have such feelings about his opponent. Since Lejin was forced to withdraw from the battle, he began to take full responsibility for attacking the Jingzhou army on this side. Under his command, the 60,000 Jingzhou army suffered more than 20,000 casualties after nearly three hours of hard fighting. But relying on Guan Yu's efforts, he still did not collapse.

No matter where he encounters danger, it is always Guan Yu who goes up to plug the loophole in the first place. And his arrival was always accompanied by a large number of casualties of the Cao army. Since the start of the war, Guan Yu Qinglong Yanyue has already lost more than 100 souls under his sword, and more than ten people have died under his knife just for officers above the rank of captain. Many Cao generals with higher martial arts were not angry with Guan Yu for being so brave, and they stepped forward to fight with him, and the final result was death.

Li Dian's own martial arts can only be regarded as first-class, but he has been mixed with first-class masters like Xu Chu for a long time over the years, and his vision is naturally not bad. Just looking at Guan Yu's performance, Li Dian knew that it would be a death for him to go up to fight, so from the beginning he had no idea of killing Guan Yu, and even intentionally or unintentionally, he has been avoiding head-on conflicts with Guan Yu, similar to Cao Xiu and Cao Chun. Although this is a wise approach, it is undeniable that it is precisely because of this that the morale of the Jingzhou army has always overpowered Cao Jun. In the era of cold weapons, the spiritual power brought about by individual heroism is really not to be underestimated.

"General, General Yu Ban is defeated!" Just as Li Dian was about to attack again, the lieutenant general beside him shouted in disbelief as he pointed at the army in the east of Yu Ban. Li Dian looked stunned, but saw that Yu Ban's infantry began to run back like rabbits, or rushed towards his side, and even Yu Ban himself was in the midst of the rout.

"It's a trap!" Li Dian quickly saw clearly the force chasing Yu Ban, as well as the solemn Gao Shun among them. It is no wonder that Yu Banhui, who has always been strict in governing the army, was defeated, and it turned out that the opponent was not only Zang Ba, but also a trapped camp. The problem is that if he routs to his side like this, not only will it not help him to flank Guan Yu, but it will also disrupt his own formation. The final result can only lead to chaos in his own group.

"King Wei, give the order to withdraw the troops!" Looking at the expressionless Cao Ying, Jia Xu admonished softly. Cao Ying looked at Yu Ban, who had collapsed, and the trapped camp that was running wildly behind him, and his heart was full of chagrin: he actually ignored this elite army. It's been ten years, and it's Gao Shun and his camp again, and it's in Yanzhou again, and I've been so embarrassed by him again. The more critical problem is that Liu Bei is not Lu Bu's second or fifth boy, once he loses this move, it will be difficult to regain the disadvantage.

"Herald and Wenlie, withdraw first!" Glancing at the battlefield unwillingly, Cao Ying still made a decision and gave such an order. If they don't withdraw in time, it will only make Cao Xiu and them fall into passivity, and now they can only withdraw first.

The horn of the withdrawal sounded, and Li Dian, Cao Xiu and others, who were fighting fiercely, hurriedly ordered the team to withdraw from the Bagua Array. Cao Chun had wanted to lead the tiger and leopard to quit before, but due to Guan Yu's stubborn fighting, this goal was not fully achieved. Now that the whole army has retreated, and the infantry under Li Dian's department has also withdrawn, it will not be easy for Guan Yu to stop it.

"Hmph, let them go first!" Guan Yu snorted coldly, and withdrew his hand and motioned for his soldiers and horses to assemble for the time being. The 40,000 Jingzhou troops used as bait suffered nearly 20,000 casualties. There were also about the same number of Cao troops left on the ground, considering that the Cao army had tigers and leopards to ride, and their own troops were at a disadvantage, the result of such a battle was quite acceptable.

"Withdraw!" Cao Hong waved his knife to force back Zhang Liao in front of him, gritted his teeth and led the army to retreat. Zhang Liao was not busy chasing for a while, but looked at Cao Hong who retreated in a hurry with some amusement. Cao Hong didn't know that such an ending now was exactly what the Fengyun Cavalry wanted.

"Fengyun Cavalry, line up and pursue!" Zhang Liao gave an order, and the remaining 10,000 or so Fengyun cavalry began to assemble, divided into two columns and began to pursue at full speed, the target was the newly withdrawn Cao Ying's army. At this time, Yu Ban, Li Dian, Cao Xiu and even Cao Chun have all converged in one place, and Cao Hong's last 3,000 tigers and leopards will also catch up, and there are about 90,000 people in the total of the various armies, who are rushing to retreat in the direction of Xuchang.

The only one who is still fighting fiercely is Xu Chu and the three thousand tiger guards. The barrel of the gun in Chen Zhi's hand was still tightly gripped, but his arms were already sore. There was a fierce battle, and he and Xu Chu fought hard-fought for more than 80 rounds, which almost exhausted all his energy. If it weren't for Cao Jun's order to retreat, he estimated that he would have held out more than twenty moves at most.

"Withdraw!" Looking at Chen Dao in front of him with unwilling eyes, Xu Chu waved his hand to lead his Tiger Guards to retreat. "Commander, do you want to chase?" One of the deployments asked Chen Zhi.

"Chasing, naturally chasing. Pass my general order to pursue Cao's army, but follow General Wenyuan's Fengyun cavalry, don't be too reckless! Chen Zhi calmed his breath for a moment, and when he gave the order again, his tone had returned to normal. At the moment, under the command of Chen Dao, Guan Yu, Zang Ba and others, all the foot soldiers were assembled, followed by the Fengyun cavalry led by Zhang Liao, and began to pursue Cao's army.

"King Wei, the enemy army is catching up!" In the retreating Cao army, Xiahou Feng, the son of Xiahou Dun and the captain of Xiaocai, said loudly. Cao Ying's face was like water, and he just said lightly: "It's okay, Zilian's tiger and leopard are riding in the rear army, he must have been prepared!" ”

Cao Ying's expectations were not bad, and Cao Hong, who retreated in the end, and his tiger and leopard riders took the initiative to take the responsibility of the break. But what he didn't expect was that Zhang Liao did not fight hard with the tiger and leopard cavalry, but led the Fengyun cavalry army into two columns and began to outflank Cao Ying's army, especially the foot soldiers of the Chinese army and the front army. That's right, Zhang Liao just wanted to reproduce the strategy of dealing with Sun Yi in Danyang in the past, using the Fengyun cavalry to entangle the opponent's brigade with left and right formations, and then his own infantry followed and strangled. After all, it is too unrealistic to rely only on his own 10,000 or so Fengyun cavalry to annihilate his opponent here.

"Wind and Cloud Cavalry, Array Scattering!" Zhang Liao gave an order, and the Fengyun cavalry did not go to Cao Hong at all, but directly divided into two columns, Zhang Liao and Zang Ba each led one to outflank Cao Ying's army from the left and right, and at the same time, the cavalry also began to use bows and crossbows to shoot at Cao Jun, and immediately bounced off after an arrow was shot to avoid the opponent's counterattack.

10,000 long arrows were shot into the Cao army's array, because the Cao army was retreating, and the cavalry was mixed, the casualties caused by these 10,000 arrows were really not small. At the same time, because most of the tiger and leopard cavalry were wrapped in the formation, they could not fight back in time against the Fengyun cavalry, and the Cao army was almost naked and passively beaten.

"Good boy!" Cao Chun was the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, but he also had to be impressed by Zhang Liao's ability to command the cavalry. Just now, the Fengyun cavalry was almost wiped away, and it was originally always maintained on both sides of Cao's army, and then suddenly pressed into the middle, and withdrew after shooting a round of arrows. The tiger and leopard cavalry are all heavy cavalry wearing iron armor, and they chase each other on the flat ground, even if they are riding good horses, they may not be able to catch up with the lightly armed Fengyun cavalry. At the time of the Great War, the Fengyun Cavalry was forced to fight Cao Hong in hand-to-hand combat in order to prevent him from merging with the rest of the army. Now as soon as the chase starts, the advantage of the flexible surname of the Fengyun Cavalry will be brought into play. By the time Cao Jun wanted to fight back, the other party had already left far away.

"Kill!" Zhang Liao's round of assault obviously slowed down the opponent's speed, and the pursuing infantry immediately surrounded under the leadership of Guan Yu, biting off the opponent's tail, and then leaving people to outflank and annihilate, Guan Yu himself led the brigade to continue the pursuit.

In this way, you chase after me, once the retreat speed of Cao's army accelerates, Zhang Liao pounces and uses cavalry to slow down the opponent's retreat. And once he retreats a little slowly, Guan Yu will pounce like a mad dog, not to mention bite off a piece of meat.

This battlefield is only more than 60 miles away from Xuchang City, and it is all plains and open land, if he really retreats with all his strength, Cao Ying can withdraw to Xuchang in more than an hour. But under the joint efforts of Zhang Liao and Guan Yu, after almost an hour, Cao Ying retreated for only ten miles. Cao Ying knew that it was very unsafe for him to do this, and once he was trapped in this wilderness at night, he would be even more passive.

"King Wei, this kind of retreat is not a way!" Jia Xu drove forward at this time, Cao Ying looked at his soldiers, many people's faces were already frightened, and the psychological pressure brought to them by Zhang Liao's riding and shooting was too great.

"Is there a way for Wenhe?" Cao Ying heard Jia Xu say this, and hurriedly asked. Jia Xu looked at the surrounding situation and admonished: "The lord can first retreat to Xuchang under the escort of the tiger and leopard, and then let the infantry follow!" ”

"No, how could Cao leave the soldiers and run for their lives alone?" Cao Ying categorically rejected Jia Xu's suggestion.

"King Wei, if you retreat together like this, I'm afraid that you will be entangled to death by Zhang Liao, or the King of Wei will retreat to Xuchang first to stabilize the army's heart, and the rest of the infantry will retreat alone under the leadership of General Zilian, so it is better than everyone dying in the suburbs together!" Jia Xu said bitterly.

"What Mr. Wenhe said is true, King Wei, please go first!" Li Dian also admonished at this time, and another round of arrows came from his words, and many soldiers fell to the ground immediately.

Cao Ying looked at the army behind him, there were at least 80,000 foot soldiers here, 80,000. Even if Cao Ying broke his wrist as a martyr, he was reluctant to give up these 80,000 people at once. "The lord will go first, and we will lead the infantry to withdraw to Xuchang safely!" Yu Ban is also persuading.

Cao Ying knew the ability of Yu Ban and Li Dian to command the troops, but with their ability, they would be able to bring most of the soldiers back to Xuchang at most, and they would definitely lose some. The problem is that the marching speed of the infantry is very slow, even if they hurry to retreat to Xuchang, under the interference of the Fengyun cavalry, Guan Yu can be firmly behind them, and then a very embarrassing scene will be staged under the city of Xuchang, that is, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao are waiting steadily behind Li Dian and Yu Ban, and when Cao Ying opens the gate of Xuchang, they will follow Li Dian and Yu Ban to attack Xuchang together.

"King Wei, rest assured, Jia Xu has his own way to let the two generals withdraw to Xuchang safely!" Jia Xu seemed to anticipate what Cao Ying was worried about, and hurriedly made a package ticket. Looking at Cao Xu's disbelieving eyes, Jia Xusuo said: "If Jia Xu can't do it, I'd rather die to thank the three armies!" ”

"Good!" Li Dian and Yu Ban knew Jia Xu's ability, and now that they heard him say that there must be a way, they were relieved a lot, at least they had a hope for their army to withdraw to Xuchang. But Cao Ying knows Jia Xu's surname, since he has a way but doesn't know how to say it, it must not be a good way, and saying it now will affect morale.

However, Cao Ying couldn't take care of these now, and after dodging another round of arrow rain, Cao Ying ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and all the tiger and leopard cavalry gathered up, ready to escort him out of the encirclement and kill Xuchang.

(To be continued)