Strictly speaking, if Boss Cao treats Liu Pan's team as an opponent at the level of Deputy Director Tao, attaches importance to Liu Panjun's team and Deputy Director Yu Tao, and calculates and analyzes all the possibilities and consequences of the enemy's every move, word and deed, then Boss Cao will definitely not be fooled.

But it's a pity that Liu Pan is a general who has never been known for his wit and deceit, Huang Zhong is just a brave and unscrupulous fighter, and poor Pang Tong is even more because of his classmate and friend Zhuge Liang, who was regarded by Cao Boss as a sour Confucian and mediocre talent, similar to Zhao Kuo Ma Tan's paper talker (huh?). Why does it seem that something is wrong there? In a word, Boss Cao and his strategists did not treat Liu Panjun as an equal opponent at the tactical level, and as a result, Cao Lao naturally had to pay the price of the cup.

This is a tragedy destined to make Cao Boss regret for life, in the case of extremely weak camp defense, Cao Boss took three-quarters of the main force to the north one after the other, in order to ambush the enemy in turn, but after feeding mosquitoes in the field for a long time in the autumn wind and bleak night, he never saw the gate of Ye County open, let alone the agreed fire on the head of Ye County, so that Cao Boss kept looking up to see the moon, judging whether the time had reached the third watch by the position of the moon, anxious but helpless.

Just when Boss Cao once again doubted whether his experience in judging time had gone wrong, Zhang Liao in front sent someone to report the situation to Boss Cao and ask for instructions, saying that Zhang Liao's team was outside Yexian City, and they had already heard the ringing of the three watches in the city, but they never saw the agreed ignition signal, so please ask Boss Cao how to cook?

"The third watch's bang has already sounded?" Cao Boss was suddenly shocked, but what made Cao Boss even more shocked was still behind, at this time, the rear army suddenly roared, and countless Cao soldiers shouted: "Lord, look at the south, our camp is on fire in the direction!" ”

"What?!" Cao Boss, who was sitting on the ground, jumped up directly from the ground, and when he turned his head to look at the self-army camp, Cao Boss almost fainted without a whirlwind, and in the direction of the Cao army's camp, there was indeed a sky-high fire, and the brightness was still increasing rapidly, obviously the fire in that position was getting stronger and stronger!

"Hit the mark! I'm in the heart of the tiger out of the mountain! Between the crazy roars, Boss Cao almost fainted in a hurry, and the direction of the fire was not only the marching food and grass that the Cao army team had managed to scrape together, but also the families of Boss Cao and countless Cao army soldiers.

"Withdraw! Withdrawal! Hurry up and save the camp! ”

In a hurry, Cao Boss could only order the main force to immediately return to the camp, and the order was conveyed, and the soldiers of the Cao army, who were also anxious, rushed to the first gallop and rushed back towards the way they came, and the team was suddenly chaotic, and the Zhang Liao team that was ambushed outside the east gate of Ye County was also a big mess, and they were rushing back from top to bottom. And Pang Tong heard the shouts and chaotic footsteps in Yexian City, and immediately understood that the morale of Cao's army had collapsed, and immediately said to Liu Pan next to him: "Major General, you can attack, Rong Tong first congratulates the Major General, our army will undoubtedly win this battle." ”

"Mr. Shiyuan is really clever!" Haha laughed, Liu Pan ordered the war drums to be beaten, the three suspension bridges in the east, west and south of Yexian County landed at the same time, the city gate was opened, and the four thousand Jingzhou soldiers shouted with torches to kill, and killed the enemy under the personal leadership of Liu Pan, although Cao Boss also decisively ordered Zhang Liao's team to be responsible for the palace, and then the soldiers of Cao Jun were worried about the safety of their families and grain and grass in the camp, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and they still had no intention of fighting when their combat effectiveness was obviously higher than that of the Jingzhou army, but they retreated to the south and did not have the time and courage to fight back the enemy's pursuers. Liu Panjun took advantage of the victory and pursued closely, gradually realizing the front and rear flanking tactics designed by Pang Tong.

When Cao Boss led the team to rush back to the self-army camp ten or twenty miles away, the Cao army camp had almost turned into a sea of fire, almost all the tents and baggage vehicles had been ignited by the enemy, the precious grain and grass and baggage were turned into ashes in the flames, the panicked old and weak women and children cried and ran in the fire, and the soldiers of the two armies fought bloodily in the firelight, but in front of the Jingzhou army team that came prepared, the Cao army team that rushed to meet the battle and worried about many was completely at a disadvantage, and could not resist the impact of the Jingzhou army. It was even more impossible to stop the Jingzhou army from killing people and setting fires, and they were killed all over the field, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Seeing this scene, Cao Boss, who was so anxious that his eyes were red, of course did not hesitate to wave his army to join the battlefield, but it was too late to do so, the return of the main force of the Cao army could only drive away the Jingzhou team that had entered the camp, and protect some family members and children as much as possible, but he could not save the old and weak women and children who had been killed and burned to death by the Jingzhou army, and he could not stop the fire from continuing to devour the precious grain and grass. Morale almost collapsed on the spot.

If it had been changed to usual, Boss Cao would have yelled a sentence of life and death, wealth and nobility in the sky, and unceremoniously ordered to kill these crying soldiers who shook the hearts of the army, but this time it didn't work, because Boss Cao's twelve wives and concubines, nine sons and four daughters who were like flowers and jade were all on this bloody and chaotic battlefield, no matter how hard-hearted Boss Cao was, it was inevitable that he was anxious at this moment and there were some six gods without masters, and for the first time he was distracted on the battlefield, and he couldn't care about commanding the battle. Focus on finding your family. After all, blood is thicker than water, isn't it?

At this time, Liu Pan's rear army had also chased and killed the Cao army camp, and began to fight the Cao army team before and after Huang Zhong's team who succeeded in robbing the camp, and the Cao army team that was in chaos and panic was forced to split up to meet it, and the team was suddenly even more chaotic, and gradually began to resist the enemy, but fortunately, at this time, Cao Boss had begun to calm down, and decisively ordered to hold high the handsome flag that he had withdrawn from Zhang Liao's team, and ordered the surrounding armies and all the lone soldiers to immediately move closer to themselves and organize the team to counterattack.

The high quality of the Cao army team played the most critical role at this moment, although it was in extreme chaos and panic, but as the order was gradually delivered, the Cao army teams still quickly approached the place where Cao Lao's handsome banner was, and Cao Lao's side quickly gathered two or three thousand troops, and launched a counterattack under the personal command of Cao Lao, and twice repelled Liu Pan's team that tried to attack Cao's handsome banner, and gradually stabilized its position.

During this period, Cao Hong and Yu Ban, who were ordered to stay in the camp, also came to Cao Boss with injuries to ask for their guilt, crying about the fact that the army was caught off guard by the enemy's sneak attack, and Cao Boss said with a straight face: "It has nothing to do with you, this battle is caused by my light enemy, immediately organize your team, turn around and fight to the death, and avenge our relatives!" Cao Hong and Yu Ban tearfully agreed and immediately acted according to the order, and from beginning to end, Boss Cao never asked about the whereabouts of his relatives.

As more and more teams gathered around Cao Boss, the counterattack of the Cao army gradually became fierce, relying on the hastily formed Fangyuan array to cover, the Cao army team that was reorganized into an army re-entered the battlefield one after another, maintaining a strict formation to attack the enemy brigade, and although the morale of the Jingzhou army was high, there were many top generals like Huang Zhong, but the overall combat effectiveness was far inferior to the Cao army, not only could not break up the phalanx hastily formed by the Cao army, but was also defeated by the Cao army one after another. Countless Jingzhou soldiers died tragically at the hands of Cao Jun's soldiers who even killed their eyes, and the psychological advantage established by the sneak attack in the early stage was gradually reversed, and the phenomenon of gradually losing strength began to be exhausted.

If the war continues like this, there is actually a great hope that Cao's army will repel Liu Pan's army, and the casualties of the inferior army will not be too heavy. However, what neither of the warring parties had expected in advance was that at this time, a sudden shout shook the ground in the northeast, and another army shouted and killed with torches, Liu Pan and Cao Boss were also taken aback together, and exclaimed in unison: "Whose team is it?" Friend or foe?! ”

The answer made Boss Cao and the soldiers of Cao Jun completely desperate, it was Yuan Tanjun's team, the current honorary ally of the Jingzhou Army, and the sworn enemy of Boss Cao. And what made Cao Lao vomit blood even more was that in addition to Wang Le, the general of the Yuan army, who led this Yuan Tan army to Cao Jun, there were two sworn enemies, Uncle Liu Huang and Zhang Fei............

Roughly introduce the before and after Yuan Tanjun joined the battlefield, as mentioned earlier, when the Cao army scouts were reconnoitring the movement in the northeast direction, there was a Cao army scout who was unfortunately injured and became a prisoner of Yuan Tanjun, extremely unfortunate, this Cao army scout is a greedy and afraid of death, after being captured, he was just escorted to Yuan Tan's former army general Wang Le, and immediately confessed the situation of the Cao army, Wang Le was shocked when he learned that the Cao army had arrived in Yexian County, and he did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so he could only quickly send the herald back to report to Xin Ping, who led the Chinese army.

Like Wang Le, Xin Ping, who heard that his old opponent Cao Jun had arrived in Ye County first, and the rear army was about to be caught up by the Xuzhou Army, was also shocked, almost screaming that our army was killed, and Uncle Liu and Zhuge Liang were ecstatic, and then Uncle Liu Huang hurriedly went to Xin Ping under the guidance of Zhuge Liang to speak, and volunteered to go to the front army to open the way, assisting Wang Le to break through the pursuit of Cao Jun and get in touch with Liu Panjun, and persuaded Liu Panjun to send troops to meet Yuan Jun, Xin Ping naturally agreed in a panic, and also divided a thousand soldiers to Liu Huang's uncle and brother to lead, As a result, after Uncle Liu Huang arrived in Wang Le's team, he suggested that Wang Le march into the army overnight, and kill Cao Jun by surprise and rush to Ye County as soon as possible.

In fact, at the beginning, Yuan Tanjun and Uncle Liu Huang were also a little confused and worried, for fear that Cao Jun was bullying the Jingzhou army, and the army had to face a hard battle on the battlefield, but after discovering through the scouts and finding out that it was the Jingzhou army that succeeded in robbing the camp, General Wang Le and Uncle Liu Beihuang suddenly went crazy like chicken blood, and while sending people to contact Liu Panjun's team, they roared and led the army directly into the battlefield, and gave full play to the housekeeping skills of fishing in troubled waters to beat the water dog Cao Boss, and Uncle Liu Huang and Zhang Fei also rushed to the front, Overwhelmingly, they entered the camp of the Cao army and defeated a blocking Cao army with lightning.

The total strength of the 4,000 Yuan army under the command of Wang Le and Liu Huangshu is not very much, but joining the battlefield at this critical moment, the impact on the morale of the Cao and Liu armies is unimaginably huge, and the Liu Pan army, which has been supported by reinforcements, is of course the confidence in victory has increased greatly, and the morale has suddenly reached the extreme, and the Cao army, which has gradually reversed the disadvantage, is like being struck by lightning, and the morale has once again slipped to the lowest point, and the position that has gradually stabilized is also loosened again, and the Liu Yuan coalition army took the opportunity to advance and quickly rushed out of a gap in the Cao army's formation, the morale of the Cao army completely collapsed in all directions, and the dead were innumerable.

In the melee, Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong took the lead in the battle, there were fierce tigers in the mountains, rushing left and right as if entering no man's land, all of them were invincible, and the Cao soldiers who tried to stop were killed and wounded, and the Huang Zhang team was rushed to pieces, and the corpses were all over the ground, Liu Huangshu, Wang Le and Liu Pan's team also took the opportunity to fall into the well, rushing back and forth on the chaotic battlefield, desperately slashing and killing the Cao army soldiers who were alone and messy, and the women and children of the Cao army who did not escape from the battlefield were even more seriously injured and killed, and the tragic death in the chaotic army was innumerable, the Cao army was defeated like a mountain, and there were many fugitives. The generals of the Cao army could no longer restrain themselves.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, and worried that there were reinforcements behind the Yuan army, Boss Cao shook his head and sighed that our army was dead, and then he could only immediately order to abandon the camp and his family, women and children, and lead the team around him to break through to the northwest, and sent guards to give orders everywhere in the chaotic army, ordering all the generals to break through to the north as much as possible, and after getting rid of the pursuit, they went to the ruins of Lixian County in the northwest of Ye County. Fight your way out of a bloody road to the northwest and run wildly.

This is a flight full of blood and tears, in the case of his wife and children who do not know the whereabouts of the elderly, and in the cry for help of countless soldiers' families, the soldiers of the Cao army shed tears while fighting to the northwest, leaving behind the burning camp and all the heavy grain and grass, and also left all the old and weak women and children who were helpless, crying and breaking out, and the Jingzhou army and Yuan Tanjun were still in hot pursuit, saying that they would not miss the rare opportunity to capture alive or cut off the expensive head of Cao Boss, Fortunately, there were some fierce generals around Boss Cao who struggled to open the way to the palace, and Boss Cao was very lucky to break out of the encirclement and escape into the complex area of mountains and forests in the northwest, winning more opportunities to escape.

Cao Boss and the elite soldiers around him broke through, but the single Cao Jun and Cao Jun's family members who did not break through were unlucky, among which Yuan Tan Jun had a deep blood feud with Cao Jun's team, and Liu Panjun, who pretended to be a bandit and robbed all the year round, was not a good thing, of course, he had to vent his pleasure when he got this opportunity, while desperately killing the Cao soldiers and family members who had not escaped, while desperately taking advantage of the fire to rob and rob all the property that could be snatched in his hands, Cao Boss had dug graves and dug graves to get rare treasures over the years, and almost all of them were cheap Liu Yuan's coalition army, What's more, after catching Cao Jun's female dependents, they were dragged to a no-man's land and raped, and the cries and cries for help on the battlefield were endless, and many Liu Yuan soldiers also fought for treasures.

In the chaos, Xun You, the strategist of the Cao army who did not have time to escape, was strangled to death by several Yuan soldiers, and was stripped of his valuable clothes after his death, Cao Boss's most beloved son Cao Chong was trampled into meat sauce by the chaotic army, Cao Boss's seventh wife, the daughter-in-law of the general He Jin, together with He Jin's grandson He Yan, was surrounded by a team of rebels on the bank of the Wushui River, in order not to be insulted, Yin and He Yan's mother and son could only throw themselves into the water together and die, and the rest of the Cao Jun's family members who died in the chaos were simply countless.

When Cao Boss's team escaped from the Yanshui, the sky was already bright, and although there were still more than 1,000 soldiers left, Cao Boss still did not dare to slack off, and quickly led the team north to flee to the ruins of the city abandoned in the war, and at this moment the Yuan army led by Xin Ping had also rushed to the bank of the Tanshui River to start crossing the river, and Cao Boss, who received the news, did not dare to slack off, urging the army to just rush north, not daring to stop and wait for the rear army. But fortunately, because the Xuzhou pursuers had already caught up with the team behind Yuan Jun's palace, Xin Ping did not dare to wave his army to pursue, but just ordered the army to quickly cross the river and join the Jingzhou army under the city of Yexian, so that Cao Boss was not pursued and killed again.

More than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army finally fled to the ruins of Licheng, the time was noon, the grain and grass had already been lost to the Cao boss was forced to be helpless, can only order Zhang Liao to lead the army to search the nearby villages, loot the food supply, after Zhang Liao's team set off, there were hundreds of soldiers in the south to come, it turned out that Yu Ban rescued Xun Yu and Guo Jia and other strategists in the chaos, escorted here to meet with Cao Lao, Cao Boss was also overjoyed, laughed and said: "To be able to rescue Wenruo, Fengxiao and other princes, it is better than saving back 100,000 troops, and our army is expected to make a comeback." ”

Everyone smiled bitterly, not daring to echo Boss Cao's laughter, at this time, a few people rushed in the distance, when Boss Cao looked closely, but saw that there were his eldest son Cao Ang and second son Cao Pi, Boss Cao was suddenly even more overjoyed, hurriedly rushed forward to hug the two sons, and asked, "What about your mother and brothers and sisters?" ”

"The father forgives his sins, and the child is separated from the mother." Cao Ang and Cao Pi howled and cried together, and roughly said what happened last night, it turned out that Huang Zhong led the army to rob the camp last night, and the camp of the Cao army without the protection of the fence bore the brunt, and was first killed by the Jingzhou army, Cao Boss's wife, Mrs. Ding and Cao Ang, quickly led their families to flee to Cao Hong's team to protect the Chinese army, and rushed out of the army in the oblique stab, and dispersed Cao Ang's team, Cao Ang's third son, Cao Zhang, was also killed by Jingzhou soldiers, only Cao Ang and Cao Pi brothers were not separated, and luckily escaped into Cao Hong's team, Then Cao Ang and Cao Pi did not see other family members.

After crying, Cao Ang knelt in front of Boss Cao and kowtowed and bleed, saying that he did not do his brother's strength, failed to protect his mothers and brothers and sisters, and asked Boss Cao to behead himself for questioning, but Boss Cao was tearful and choked up: "It's not your fault, it's for my father to underestimate the enemy, it's for my father to fall for the enemy's tricks, which has hurt you, and also harmed your mother and brothers and sisters." ”

After that, Boss Cao also cried loudly, beating his chest and crying to death, "Ladies, children, daughters, I am sorry for you, I hurt you." Everyone couldn't persuade them, so they could only accompany Boss Cao to cry bitterly.

Finally waited until Boss Cao had cried enough, Xun Yu said timidly: "Lord, Licheng is not very far from Yexian, the enemy may chase at any time, the lord also asks for condolences and changes, lead the army north as soon as possible, don't give the enemy a chance to catch up with our army." ”

"yes." Yu Ban also echoed: "The last general once caught a prisoner of the Yuan army during the breakout, and learned during the interrogation that the Yuan Tan army retreated in three teams this time, the front and middle armies have arrived in Ye County, and the rear army has exchanged hands with the team of the Xuzhou pottery thieves, so the pottery thieves may also chase us at any time, and the pottery thieves will definitely not let us go at that time, and they will definitely pursue our army with all their might." ”

Boss Cao nodded tearfully, and he also knew that with Deputy Director Tao's vicious and far-sighted intentions, he would definitely not give himself a chance to escape to Sili and Guandong to make a comeback. And after wiping a handful of tears, Boss Cao was about to order a retreat, but suddenly his heart moved, and he hurriedly shouted: "Who dares to risk going south to contact Tao Ying's thieves?" ”

"Contact the pottery thief?" Everyone looked at each other in surprise, and then Xun Yu asked suspiciously: "Lord, what are you going to do with the pottery thief?" If the lord wants to sue for peace, I'm afraid it's impossible, our army is so embarrassed, I'm afraid the pottery thief won't give us another chance to recover? ”

"No, it's not a sum." Boss Cao shook his head bitterly and said, "I want to ask him to search for my family, search for your family, and ask him to give them a way to live as much as possible." ”

"It's ......." Xun Yu hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It should be possible, the pottery thief is not a person who kills indiscriminately, and he is very benevolent and righteous, and he may agree to the request of the lord, so that our family will fall into the hands of the pottery thief as hostages, which is far better than falling into the hands of Yuan Tan's team or Jingzhou's team." ”

"Still." Xun Yu added, "However, the army of the pottery thief is chasing all the way from Xuchang, and the former army must not have a lot of troops, and it is difficult to divide too many troops to search for the lord and our family, so even if the pottery thief agrees, I am afraid that it will not be able to protect many of our family members." ”

"Do your best." Boss Cao bowed his head in a dejected manner, and said with a wry smile: "Arrange a messenger who is not afraid of death to go south, and let the messenger tell the pottery thief, I know that he has been coveting my daughter for a long time, and if he can find my four daughter......s this time, let him see it." Anyway, my unlucky father-in-law is decided, and it is far better for Qing'er and them to fall into the hands of pottery thieves than to fall into the hands of my other enemies. (To be continued.) )