"Rush!"

With such an angry roar, the remaining more than 10,000 tigers and leopards rode to protect Cao Ying, Jia Xu and several other civilian officials in the core, and then the infantry moved out of the way and rushed straight away with Cao Ying. That indomitable momentum is enough to make any opponent fearful.

Directly opposite, the tiger and leopard rode hard, and no one went back to do such a stupid thing. Whether it is Guan Yu or Zhang Liao, they will not hit the stone with an egg like this for Cao Ying. They have quite a tacit understanding, and regard the remaining ** Wan Cao Army foot soldiers as objects that can be bullied.

"Wind and Cloud Cavalry, scatter!" Without the containment of the tiger and leopard riders, Zhang Liao's entanglement was still the same, but Guan Yu was able to encircle and encroach on the end of Cao Jun more unscrupulously. At this rate, Cao Jun will be swallowed by Guan Yu at least thirty percent before retreating to Xuchang. Of course, as the casualties increase, Cao's military spirit will also be scattered. I don't expect them to collapse completely, after all, there are still Li Dian and Yu Ban, but it is foreseeable that in the later stage, more and more Cao Jun will give up resistance.

"Soldiers of Cao Ying, we treat our captives preferentially. Cao Ying has abandoned you, don't make senseless resistance, lay down your arms and surrender immediately, and strive for leniency from our army! (Does this sound familiar?) Guan Yu is Guan Yu, and in his busy schedule, he still draws troops to carry out this somewhat shameless public opinion offensive. Of course, the sound can travel so far in the chaos of the army, all thanks to the earthen horn that Zhao Feng designed for him back then.

"Damn, how can this Liu Jun's voice be so loud!" Li Dian commanded the response in the center of the Chinese army, but the persuasion to surrender could still be faintly heard, let alone the rear army. More and more soldiers of the Cao army began to throw down their swords and squat on the side of the road with their heads in their hands, and their own relevant people stepped forward to collect them.

"I don't know what happened to King Wei?" Yu Ban looked at Cao Ying, who had already left in the distance, and muttered in his heart. It's not for Cao Ying, but for the fate of his own pawn, which is similar to an abandoned son.

"Wenhe, let's withdraw to Xuchang, how many soldiers and horses can be mobilized?" Cao Ying, who was retreating, suddenly asked Jia Xu beside him. After hearing Cao Ying's words, Jia Xu was also a little relieved, he knew that Cao Ying's mental state was not bad now, and at least he had begun to think about the next step.

"General Zixiao's 80,000 troops have already been drawn over in Liang County, but now it seems that the road has been blocked. And the 40,000 people of General Shanyang Gongming want to guard against Wei Yan in Qingzhou, and they can't be called. In addition, it seems that only the defenders of Dongjun and Chenliu can still be mobilized, but only about 30,000 people can be squeezed out of these two places. Jia Xu said after a little calculation.

"It's a lot, as long as Man Cheng and Wen can lead half of the people to withdraw to Xuchang, I can still gather more than 100,000 people, and then fight with Liu Da'er!" Cao Ying seemed to secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and then stopped talking, and it was important to run for his life with all his might.

Finally, an hour later, Cao Ying and 10,000 tigers and leopards fled back to Xuchang City in embarrassment. After Cao Ying sat down, Man Chong also handed him a copy of the military report that had just been delivered, Cao Ying opened it and looked at it, and his brows couldn't help frowning again.

Zhao Botao's troops entered Longxi, and Miaocai fought a decisive battle with him, but Zhang Ren and Lu Xun took advantage of the situation to intercept the back road, and Han Hao was killed. At present, the west of the Jing River has been lost! Cao Ying sighed and said, handing this military report to Jia Xu with some weakness.

"Zhongde has already made a decision to send all the people of Longxi to Jingdong!" Jia Xu comforted. In this way, Zhao Feng didn't want to enter Guanzhong for two or three years. Rao is like this, and he lost the two counties of Liangzhou and Yongzhou at once, which is enough for Cao Ying's flesh.

"First there is Zhao Feng in Yongliang, and then Guan Yu Zhang Liao is in the Central Plains, and even Lu Xun, there are so many talents under Liu Da'er!" Cao Ying said with emotion. At this moment, Man Pet had to tell him another piece of bad news, just now another batch of grain and grass was intercepted by Liu Bei's sailor when crossing the Yellow River through Yanjin Ferry.

"Is it really as Wenhe said, Liu Da'er wants to block the Yellow River waterway with a water master?" As soon as Cao Ying's words came out, everyone couldn't help but gasp. If this is the case, then he will be divided in Yanzhou, and even though there are thousands of troops and horses in Hebei, he can only watch the battle across the Yellow River.

"King Wei, don't worry, I think that even if Liu Bei is sharp, he may not be able to break into my hinterland. Now that the land of Yanjin is not passable, the lord can also transport grain or transfer troops from Hebei to Sizhou and then to Yanzhou! Jia Xu comforted. However, Cao Ying also knew that such a detour to transport grain or transfer troops would cost a lot of manpower and material resources. If this happens, the food and grass that I don't have enough will be even more stretched.

"Wen He, I estimate that Man Cheng and Wen Ze will be able to retreat to Xuchang tomorrow morning, what plan do you have to persuade them to enter the city?" Barely suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Cao Ying thought of the most realistic problem. Jia Xu hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "Although the King of Wei opened the city gate widely, I have my own way, but I need to arrange it first. ”

"That's it!" Cao Ying knew what kind of poisonous trick Jia Xu was going to use, and he didn't want to force him to say it on the spot. At this moment, the full pet on the side suddenly exclaimed: "Not good! ”

"What's wrong, Berning?" Cao Ying was a little surprised by Man Chong's reaction, but he heard Man Chong hurriedly said: "Lord, quickly send someone to inform General Zixiao to retreat to Liang County, don't go to Runan to throw yourself into the net again!" "Originally, Cao Ying wanted to join forces with Cao Ren to break Guan Yu and Zhang Liao, but now that Cao Ying has retreated, if Cao Ren goes to deal with it again, it will give Liu Bei a chance to catch them all.

"That's right, it's all my fault for being negligent!" Cao Ying suddenly woke up when he heard this. Not only him, Jia Xu was also annoyed. Although both of them are wise and scheming, they have just experienced the big war and retreated to Xuchang, and they didn't care about this matter for a while. But he was full of energy and immediately thought of it.

"Quickly send someone to inform Zixiao and ask him to quickly withdraw to Liang County!" Cao Ying hurriedly sent someone to give an order, at this time it was already the beginning of night, and after a day of fierce fighting, Cao Ying also went to rest after seeing Lejin. However, outside the wilderness, the army led by Li Dian and Yu Ban and Cao Hong was not at peace under the harassment of Guan Yu and Zhang Liao. Temporarily stationed on a small dirt slope, Yu Ban and the others took advantage of Guan Yu's failure to launch an attack and discussed the military situation overnight.

"Man Cheng, why don't you say Guan Yu will wipe us out? Now he has the advantage of troops, and there are cavalry. After Yu Ban sat down, he was also a little puzzled. Yu Ban is good at managing the army, and these strategies are not his fortifications. The experience of fighting in battle is not as good as Li Dian.

"This guy is trying to bring us down!" Li Dian said hatefully, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao were so ghostly and harassing these foot soldiers, with the intention of dragging them down.

"I'm afraid it's not just that, he wants to follow us to Xuchang, so as to break Xuchang in one fell swoop!" Cao Hong said coldly. As soon as these words came out, Yu Ban also frowned and said: "General Zilian, you said that Mr. Jia has a way to deal with us entering Xuchang, but Xuchang only has less than 20,000 defenders, how can he deal with us?" ”

"Mr. Jia has his own clever plan, so I don't have to speculate. By the way, Mancheng, if there are no people who have counted points, how many people do we have? Cao Hong suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and continued to ask.

"There are more than 78,000 foot soldiers, and Guan Yu almost got another 10,000 along the way!" Li Dian sighed. Guan Yu's propaganda offensive was so powerful that many soldiers were coaxed and deceived by him and left, and Li Dian's words were really depressed.

"No matter, even if there are only a few of us left tomorrow, as long as we return to Xuchang to see the prime minister, it will be foolproof!" In the end, Cao Hong didn't know whether to cheer himself up, or to cheer Li Dian and them. But this trick really worked, because Li Dian and they also deeply trusted Cao Ying. Back then, even with only one-tenth of the opponent's troops, Cao Ying defeated Yuan Shao, who was dominating the north. Now that Cao Ying's strength is so strong, there is no reason why he will lose to Liu Bei. Yes, Cao Ying will not lose, they all think so.

After a short rest, without waiting for dawn, Cao Hong and Li Dian gathered their troops in the second half of the night and rushed to Xuchang at full speed. Although Zhang Liao and Guan Yu were still harassing them as always, Li Dian and the others were desperate and did not fight back at all, just trying to escape back to Xuchang as quickly as possible. Along the way, many soldiers were forced to surrender or be killed.

By the time Li Dian and the others rushed to the city of Xuchang, it was already the morning. In broad daylight, Li Dian and Cao Hong and others looked at each other, looked behind them, and there were at least sixty or seventy thousand soldiers, but they were all after a night of running, not to mention their physical strength, and there were still more Jingzhou troops and Xuzhou troops led by Guan Yu and Zhang Liao, just waiting for the gate of Xuchang to be opened, and they fished in troubled waters and entered Xuchang together.

"Zilian, General Li, General Yu, put your men and horses in order and prepare to enter the city quickly!" On the top of the city, Cao Chun, who had withdrawn to Xuchang with Cao Ying, shouted to everyone, and then the city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Li Dian and Yu Ban hurriedly led the army into the city slowly.

"Rush!" Guan Yu and Zhang Liao saw that the city gate was wide open, and hurriedly led their troops to follow and kill, striving to take advantage of the chaos to take Xuchang in one fell swoop. However, the city gate was narrow after all, and tens of thousands of Cao troops gathered at the gate, and it was difficult for them all to squeeze into the city for a while. Guan Yu and Zhang Liao immediately led their troops forward to slash and kill, while annihilating the enemy army, they advanced towards the city gate. Li Dian also had to arrange for some people to fight with him first, so as to cover the army's calm entry into the city. It's just that Guan Yu has a lot of soldiers and horses, and his own resistance is really not too effective.

"General Mancheng, don't fall in love with war, hurry up and enter the city!" After a fierce battle, Cao Chun's anxious voice came from the city again, Li Dian looked at his side, almost half of the soldiers had entered the city, and the generals such as Yu Ban and Cao Hong had also entered. Although he arranged the number of people in the palace, if he continued to enter the city so slowly, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao would be able to enter the city with him immediately. Thinking about this, Li Dian no longer fell in love with the war and went directly into the city.

"Throw!" After seeing Li Dian enter the city, Cao Chun suddenly gave an order. With this shout, hundreds of soldiers suddenly threw bundles of firewood and grass from the top of the city and threw them here at the city gate.

Then, the crossbowmen at the head of the city shot rockets at the piles of firewood and grass that had just been thrown down under the city, and these piles of firewood and grass immediately burst into flames, and the flames were so great that they immediately stopped everyone who was about to enter the city. Taking advantage of the fire, the defenders began to calmly close the city gates.

(To be continued)