The city of Sujube was broken, and Cao's army retreated very quickly, and there was no street battle with Xu Huang's department. Therefore, except for the western part of the city wall, which has become ruins, the rest of the place is still very intact.

After Xu Huang led the army into the city, he immediately commanded his soldiers and horses to clean up the battlefield and collect the corpses.

"Where's General Hu Zhen?"

Xu Huang remembered that he hadn't seen Hu Zhen since he entered the city, and knew that Hu Zhen was chasing the enemy, so he said to the captain of the guard next to him: "Summons the news immediately and let General Hu Zhen come back." ”

With the development of the past few years, the military group under Li Zheng has gradually made up for many deficiencies. The most notable thing is the improvement in the transmission of military orders, messages, and battle reports.

In the past, only important captains and generals were qualified to learn telepathy and communicate with Lan Xiangniao, but often as a general, there are many things to deal with, and many times they can't communicate with Lan Xiangniao in time to get instant information. In order to avoid this omission, Li Zheng ordered that the captain of the personal guard of every officer above the rank of lieutenant should learn this skill and serve as the general's personal communication commissioner.

They maintain communication with Lan Xiangniao at any time, and report any information to the generals in a timely manner without delay.

Xu Huang's personal guard captain received the order, and immediately communicated to the blue bird and conveyed Xu Huang's order.

At the end of the day, Hu Zhen finally returned.

But it was not Xu Huang's order to return, nor did he return with a big victory!

But I saw Hu Zhen dressed as a wolf, unloaded his armor, carrying a thorn strip on his back, and asked Xu Huang for his guilt with a heavy face!

With Hu Zhen looking like this, Xu Huang knew that the situation was not good.

Hearing Hu Zhen's report again, his face immediately darkened!

When the city was broken, Hu Zhen took the lead in entering the city, and when he saw that the enemy was about to flee, he led thousands of soldiers and horses to pursue him. chased all the way to Yucheng, but suffered a big loss.

He's been tricked!

When Hu Zhen led the army to arrive in the city, he was in the city. There were only more than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, and they were easily broken by Hu Zhen. Hu Zhen is anxious and earnest. Selectively ignored Meng Li's order to only capture the sour jujube, and continued to pursue while he was victorious, but there was a flood overwhelming!

Hu Zhen was shocked and was busy leading his troops to retreat, but where could he run past the rushing flood?

In the flood. The small city was submerged, thousands of troops were scattered, if it weren't for the personal guards to protect each other, and good luck, even Hu Zhen himself would not have come back!

Xu Huang glared at Hu Zhen fiercely: "You don't listen to orders, so that thousands of troops are gone?!" I'll see how you represent! ”

Hu Zhen hung his head and didn't say a word.

With a sigh of relief, Xu Huang pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that Cao Jun dug the embankment of the big river, and the water surface of the lower reaches of the river is slightly higher than the surrounding ground, which is suitable for breaking the embankment and releasing water, fortunately, the terrain around this sour jujube is slightly higher." Otherwise, the flood will spread, and the consequences will be unimaginable, so that the east of the city of Yucheng, at least to the area of Baima, will become a Ze country, this plan is ruthless enough, abandon a few counties, but also pit us, if it is not for the commander of the army only ordered to capture the sour date, I am afraid that the general will not be able to help but pursue it, and then the 20,000 army will be wiped out. I will die without forgiveness! Hehe, the flood spread, and it also blocked the way, ensuring their own safety. Awesome! ”

"General Xu, this revenge must be avenged!" Hu Zhen raised his head, and said with a blue face: "Please take a detour with my soldiers and horses, and you will definitely be able to break through Puyang and capture Cao Cao alive!" ”

"You're delusional!"

Xu Huang glared at him: "The current situation." From the beginning to the end, Cao Cao himself made up this battle, and there must be something strange in it, and he must not act rashly, and he must report to the commander of the army and the lord, so as to wait for the lord to decide. All we need to do is guard the door! ”

"And you, don't listen to orders, you lost this battle, and you lost thousands of soldiers and horses!" Xu Huang said hatefully: "Since the rise of my Liangzhou army, I have never suffered such a big loss, let me go down and stay well, waiting for the lord to fall." ”

Hu Zhen folded thousands of soldiers and horses, which was a big deal for the Liangzhou army. But for Cao Cao, it was a little disappointed. The strategy he planned with Guo Jia and others was to prepare to eat Xu Huang's soldiers and horses in one bite, but he didn't expect that Xu Huang did not lead the army to pursue. The water meter that has been prepared for a long time can only be regarded as a premature death, and it did not play the expected role.

Of course, for Cao Cao, it was also earned.

At least, he obtained more than two thousand sets of armor for Liangzhou heavy armor spearmen. These exquisite armors are worth a lot of money, and they can't be bought if they want to.

Puyang, among Cao Cao's mansions.

Cao Cao's face was full of red light, and he laughed and said: "This time it made Li Chongxiao suffer a loss, and he didn't dare to underestimate me Cao." In particular, I was delighted to have more than 2,000 sets of armor. Filial piety is great, and there are many rewards! ”

Guo Jia smiled and said, "Lord, don't forget what you're going to do next." ”

Cao Cao smiled, slowly bowed his head, and said: "Since this should be the case, I immediately ordered Zixiao to lead the troops to evacuate, give up Chen Liu, and retreat to Jiyin Dingtao!" ”

"So," Xun Yu said on the side: "The plan can be implemented smoothly." ”

All the civil and military officers nodded

Shenzhou grassland, in Li Zheng's mansion.

Just after Hu Zhen's defeat and the loss of his troops, Li Zheng chewed and thought about Meng Li's interrogation before and after, knowing that there must be something strange in it, so he hurriedly notified Xi Zhicai and Jia Xu to discuss with them.

"The cause of the war is in Yuanwu. Just yesterday night, an enemy army attacked Yuanwu and killed many merchants, and our Yuanwu Town Guard Department also lost more than 200 soldiers and horses. ”

"It must have been Cao Cao's doing." Xi Zhicai said.

Li Zheng nodded: "Meng Li and Xu Huang also thought so, so Meng Li ordered Xu Huang to wave his troops eastward to break through the sour jujube, thinking that it was a deterrent." ”

"I should be," Jia Xu nodded slightly: "If you are beaten, you have to fight back." ”

Xu Huang led an army of 20,000 to attack the sour date, and within two moments, the city was broken. The general Hu Zhen led the army into the city first, pursued the enemy army, chased to the city, hit the water plan, and thousands of troops were almost wiped out! ”

"Water meter!"

Hearing this, Xi Zhicai raised his eyebrows, and Jia Xu's face was calm.

"In the lower reaches of the big river, the water surface of the river is slightly higher than the surrounding land, which is suitable for water planning, but this Cao Mengde took the initiative to provoke a war, what does he want to do?!" Xi Zhicai groaned slightly.

"Xing" Jia Xu squinted slightly, and said: "Lord, your subordinates guess that Cao Mengde must have a next step, otherwise he will never be so reckless"

"What will Cao Cao do?"

Li Zheng frowned.

Cao Cao took the initiative to provoke the war, not to seek death.

"Now that I am weak and I am strong, Cao Mengde's move has the meaning of seizing the strategic initiative" Xi Zhicai pondered for a moment, and then said: "Empathy, if I were Cao Cao, hissed"

Suddenly, Xi Zhicai and Jia Xu glanced at each other, took a breath, and said, "I'm afraid that Cao Cao will trumpet the threat theory of the lord next, in order to provoke the princes to be vigilant against the lord, and even make them unite!" ”

"That makes sense!" Jia Xu thought so.

Li Zheng's eyes narrowed. Then he bowed his head slightly, and said: "I'm afraid that's the case, Cao Cao is powerful, hey" exhaled, Li Zheng said with a straight face: "Order the Eastern Legion Mengli, the Southern Legion Pang De, and the Northern Legion Lingbao Division, let them be strictly guarded, guard the main road, pay close attention to the movements of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Liu Biao, and report it immediately once there is a change." order, Hu Zhen did not listen to the order, so that he lost, lost thousands of soldiers, cut his rank of lieutenant, demoted to a military candidate, and allowed him to make meritorious service for his crimes. Order, Xu Huang, as the main general, was not thoughtful, so that the army was damaged, and he was punished for half a year to set an example! Order, Meng Li, as the commander of the corps, and the generals under his command are also guilty of failure, and they will be punished for half a year! ”

Two days later, Li Zheng received another letter from the Eastern Army.

However, it was Cao Jun's soldiers and horses guarding Chenliu who took the initiative to retreat and gave up the two counties of Chenliu and Yingchuan.

On the third day, there were frequent rumors in various places that Xiliang Li Chongxiao wanted to raise troops to attack the Quartet and dominate the world. Cao Cao showed up to say that Li Zhengjun was strong and unreasonable, and brazenly raised troops to attack Yanzhou, and took him Cao Cao to open the knife. Cao Cao was defeated, lost nearly half of his troops, lost several counties of Dongjun, Chenliu and Yingchuan, and has now retreated to Jiyin Dingtao.

In an instant, the shape of the world changed suddenly.

The major princes stopped fighting each other one after another, and hurriedly dispatched troops to guard the major passes and arteries at the junction with Li Zheng's territory, and took strict precautions, and the situation was immediately tense.

At the same time, the major princes also began to send envoys and contact each other.

At this point, how could Li Zheng still not understand Cao Cao's plan?

"Ruthless!"

This is Li Zheng's evaluation of Cao Cao!

secretly provoked a war, but pushed it on Li Zheng's head, occupied the moral high ground, and took the initiative to cede two counties and several counties, so as to prove the fact that Li Zheng sent troops. Take half of Yanzhou as a bet to wake up the major princes, and contact them to form an alliance! What kind of decision is this?!

"Okay, good, worthy of Cao Cao!" Li Zheng understood the reasons before and after, and while he hated deeply in his heart, he also had to admire Cao Cao's decision.

"In that case," Li Zheng sneered: "I'll give you a little color first!" ”

"Come, pass Lu Bu to see me!"

Lu Bu heard Li Zheng's order and hurriedly came to see him.

Li Zheng said: "Then Cao Cao calculated on me, the princes jumped Huan, Feng Xian, I ordered to lead the Golden Winged Tiger Cavalry, go to the major princes' offices, and give them some color!" ”

When Lu Bu heard this, he was overjoyed.

He is a military general, and his fame and fortune come from war. It has been several years since he was cast under Li Zheng, but he has never been used. So Lu Bu has been holding his breath, and now, it's finally time for him to appear!

"Whoa!"

Lu Bu clenched his fists fiercely and shouted.

"Go ahead!"

"Someone!" After Lu Bu left, Li Zheng called left and right again, and said: "Pass my order, so that Ling Bao, Meng Li, and Pang De will pay more attention, once there is a change in Puyang, Yecheng, and Xiangyang, if Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao are dead, they will immediately wave their troops to attack." If you don't die, you can put it aside for the time being. ”

"Whoa!"

Li Zheng stood in front of the window with a distant expression.

In fact, with Li Zheng's current strength, it is not impossible to dominate the world. Just like what Lu Bu was ordered to do just now, destroy his head with a sky war horse, as long as he kills Cao Cao and his people, etc., the princes and dragons have no leader, and they don't let Li Zheng handle it? (To be continued.) )