In a brawl between military generals, Song Qian, Sun Shao and Huang Ce all came back with a sore body, the physical exhaustion was still light, and the most important thing was the mental exhaustion. After all, Zhang Liao is a general who is appreciated even by the martial saint Guan Yu, just saying that martial arts are within two palms of the entire Han Dynasty, how can he not be tired of fighting with such a general.

Qiao Ren was also considerate, and after they returned to the city, he just briefly explained a few words, and then let them go back to rest. And Qiao Ren himself was in the middle of the hall, staring at the map alone in a daze.

"The Grand Duke! Do you have something on your mind? As Qiao Ren's brother-in-law, Sun Lang lives in the county mansion on weekdays, and he is coming with a bowl of meat soup at this time.

Qiao Ren didn't answer when he saw Sun Lang coming in with the meat soup, so he first sorted out the books on the case aside, and motioned to Sun Lang to put the meat soup down first. Waiting for Sun Lang to put down the bowl, Qiao Ren couldn't wait to drink a few spoonfuls before saying, "Good morning, you see, it's only been three days since I went down to Hefei with the wind." Do you say that Xingba and Youping can defeat the Xuzhou Navy and coerce Hefei. ”

Sun Lang glanced at the map, thought for a while and said: "The Xuzhou Navy in Chaohu Lake is only more than 3,000 people, and it is extremely weak, where is the opponent of the two wolf-like generals of Gan and Zhou, presumably they have all been wiped out now!" ”

Then, according to the time, Zhang Liao should have received an urgent report from Hefei in the past few days. I'm afraid it's been a few days since Cao's army withdrew. Qiao Ren pinched his fingers and calculated.

Sun Lang's mind was more active and asked, "Is the Metropolitan Governor planning to pursue?" ”

"Chase, why not?"

The next day, Qiao Ren came to the city wall to inspect as always, and even rested and had lunch on the gatehouse, but today at five o'clock in the Shen hour (more than four o'clock in the afternoon), Cao Jun was not seen, and even the rangers who usually observed the city tower were not seen.

"Governor, shouldn't Zhang Liao be injured yesterday, so he didn't dare to fight today!?" After speaking, Song Qian laughed stupidly.

And Qiao Ren didn't answer, just stared at him, and the look in his eyes clearly said, 'It's up to you to have this ability'. Seeing this, Song Qian's laughter stopped abruptly, he knew that he couldn't walk forty times in Zhang Liao's hands.

"Zixia (Jia Hua) ordered the scouts to expand the scope of investigation and see what Cao Jun in the village is doing?" Qiao Ren didn't believe that Zhang Liao would stay in the village well, yesterday Zhang Liao was a single person to fight the three generals of the Wu army, Zhang Xi and his deputy general did not move. And even if he doesn't fight alone, Zhang Liao will not be so consumed with Qiao Ren, but he is the one who suffers.

About half an hour later, the glimmer of the setting sun gradually imprinted on the city wall, looking particularly bleak. "Back to the governor, Cao's camp is empty." The return of the scouts was good news for the generals of the Wu army, Zhang Liao finally retreated.

"Xu Sheng took the order and ordered you to take the troops and horses of your headquarters to pursue Zhang Liao's Cao army, and this governor ordered Jia Hua to bring nine hundred cavalry to be controlled by you and go quickly. Remember that the poor Kou Mo chases, and the maximum pursuit cannot exceed ten miles. "Qiao Ren didn't really want to pursue Zhang Liao, it was just to put on a show and raise morale, after all, Zhang Liao was besieged in the city for six days, and Sergeant Wu also needed to vent.

"Whoa!"

Xu Sheng and Jia Hua took the order and left, fortunately, the Wu army in the city was in a state of standby at any time, and Qiao Ren's personal guard cavalry was always under the city, and Xu Sheng only took a quarter of an hour to gather the soldiers and horses.

The Wu army had many foot soldiers, even if there were 900 cavalry, they were all walking leisurely, and when Xu Sheng came to the stockade where Zhang Liao was originally garrisoned five miles away, it was already sunset, and the sky was getting dark.

"General, but there is no one in the village. Judging by the residual temperature of the earthen stove for cooking, the enemy has been gone for an hour. ”

In an hour, according to the marching speed of the Wu army, it would not be possible to catch up no matter what, but Xu Sheng's purpose was not really to chase Zhang Liao and Cao Jun. "The army is moving quickly."

Dusty

The sky is getting darker and darker, and Xu Sheng is becoming more and more cautious, don't look at Xu Sheng's usual likes to mumble a few words, but in fact, he is the most attentive general under Qiao Ren, and he needs to be extra careful when marching in the dark. In addition, Cao's army had a planned and organized withdrawal, and there might be an ambush anywhere.

"There's a dense forest ahead of the general." In fact, there is no need to scout to report, Xu Sheng has already seen this dense forest.

At this time, Xu Sheng's head was unprecedentedly clear, and a plan came out in an instant. Xu Sheng signaled the armies not to move, and he slapped his horse into the edge of the dense forest alone, and said loudly: "The art of war has clouds, don't enter the forest, there is an ambush here, retreat." ”

As he spoke, he took the lead and retreated, and when he walked to the camp abandoned by Cao Jun, he said to the guards beside him: "Quick, go to the dense forest to investigate quickly, you must be careful." ”

"The rest of the soldiers, rest in place, do not slack off."

It is said that the guard returned to a stone next to the dense forest and observed, and after a quarter of an hour, he saw a Biao Cao sergeant about a thousand people, emerging from the dense forest.

"That kid is pretty powerful, isn't it? actually saw through the general's ambush. ”

Seeing a figure flash from behind the stone, a strange smile flashed on the corner of Cao's mouth, who had been speaking.

"General, there is indeed an ambush of Cao's army in the dense forest." The guards came back panting to report, afraid that Cao Jun would find out that the guards had deliberately tied the horse a mile away.

"How many people are there?" Xu Sheng asked.

The guards finally took a breath and said, "About a thousand people. ”

"A thousand." Xu Sheng pondered secretly, clapped his palms and said, "Brother Zixia, let's lead the cavalry to chase and eat these thousand people." ”

There is a reason why Xu Sheng decided this way, the ambushed troops generally use short weapons such as ring-headed knives for fear of being discovered, and if they are bitten by an equal number of cavalry, there is no other way but to destroy them all.

Dusty...

The speed of the cavalry far exceeded the infantry, and in less than two moments, Xu Sheng and Jia Hua's cavalry caught up with the ambushed Cao army, and a torrent crashed into the black Cao army, slaughtering it.

"That's not right!" In less than a minute, Xu Sheng felt that something was wrong, generally pursued by cavalry, few soldiers could resist, and it was basically dispersed in minutes, but the Cao army in front of him was so stoic, even the most elite troops should have a trace of panic.

"Zixia, get out of the battle, let's retreat." Xu Sheng shouted loudly.

Jia Hua picked up a Cao sergeant with a halberd, and then shook it away, and when he heard Xu Sheng's words, he was puzzled: "Why do you want to withdraw." ”

Just as Jia Hua could finish speaking, a puff of smoke appeared in the east, and the earth began to shake. "Cavalry! Heavy cavalry! Jia Hua shouted, having dealt with cavalry for so long, Jia Hua also knew a little about cavalry.

At this moment, Jia Hua finally understood why Xu Sheng decided to retreat, at this time, the enemy cavalry was still far away. "Withdraw!"

When Xu Sheng shouted to retreat, half of the cavalry had already left the battle, and now Jia Hua roared, and almost all the cavalry began to retreat. Looking at the enemy cavalry getting closer and closer, the general who was already headed by a big knife with a finger and a black armor was already at the head. Jia Hua and Xu Sheng were both shocked into a cold sweat, what a powerful plan.

It was actually a plan, the previous ambush was just an illusion, and the real killing move was the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry behind. It was also thanks to Xu Sheng's quick reaction that he discovered something wrong in time, otherwise the second largest cavalry in Jiangdong would have been confessed here. Compared with the cavalry under Cao Ren who Qiao Ren fought under Jiangling City in the past, the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry is more elite, and it is also a semi-heavy cavalry. Using Jiangdong's half-hung cavalry to fight against heavy cavalry is tantamount to an egg hitting a stone.

Xu Sheng sighed in his heart about Zhang Liao's strategy, and at the same time ran back desperately. Heavy cavalry is terrible, but the speed is much slower than light cavalry, even if the horses of the Jiangdong cavalry are far inferior to the horses of the state, it is difficult to sharpen the abyss between light and heavy cavalry. At the same time, Xu Sheng was also glad that he was bringing cavalry, if it was infantry, it would be really over.

"It's actually cavalry!" Zhang Liao, who was in the distance, also sighed.