Chapter 328: The Rear Camp is Attacked
Seeing that the Cao army's large army was surrounding, Lu Bu led the iron cavalry to break through the interception of the Cao army's war cavalry in one go, and rushed towards the camp on the mountain. Cao Jun was unwilling to let Zhang Lang run away like this, and rushed behind!
At this moment, there was a loud shout from the rear of Cao's barracks. Cao Jun hurriedly looked back up and down, only to see the rear camp blazing in the sky, the figure of longing, and chaos.
Cao Cao was shocked, "It's not good, someone is stealing the camp!" Hurry back to the rescue! β
The army that was originally chasing Zhang Lang turned around and poured into the camp. A lieutenant rushed to Cao Cao's horse and reported urgently: "Oh no, Prime Minister, Ma Chao led 20,000 war cavalry to break into the rear camp, and most of the grain and grass were heavily damaged!" Cao Cao was greatly annoyed and shouted to the generals around him: "You must not let Ma Chao get away!" The generals agreed in unison, and galloped towards the rear camp.
More than 200,000 Cao soldiers poured into the rear camp, but they did not find half a figure of Lu Bujun, only the corpses and the raging flames remained.
The scout came to report: "Prime Minister Qiqi, Ma Chao has led the war cavalry to bypass our military camp and run back to the village!" β
Cao Cao was so angry that he died. Suppressing his anger, he ordered the generals: "Cavalry vigilance, infantry extinguishing fire!" β
The generals received the order and immediately went on a mission. Hundreds of thousands of cavalry rushed out of the camp under the leadership of Xu Chu and other generals, and hundreds of thousands of infantry troops were busy fighting fires and saving supplies! The entire Cao military camp was in full swing.
Guan Zhang and Zhao San were immediately not far behind Cao Cao. Zhang Fei said contemptuously: "Lu Bu is nothing more than that!" It's just a child's trick, but they don't dare to fight us head-on! β
Guan Yu stroked his long hair and said proudly: "What is the ability of these three family slaves!" I think it's because the courage has been beaten away by us, so I only dare to do such a villainous act! β
Zhao Yun was silent, his mood was a little complicated, when he represented Gongsun Zan to envoy Lu Bu, he had talked with Lu Bu, he was different from Guan Yu Zhang Fei for Lu Bu's perception, he both despised Lu Bu's personality, but also admired Lu Bu's martial arts and ambitions, and now he was fighting with him on the battlefield, and he inevitably felt some emotion in his heart.
Zhang Lang led the army back to the camp, and said to Zhuge Liang with a wry smile: "You have said that every qiΔ has been right!" Cao Cao had really been prepared! I still have a back hand for you, otherwise we will be planted with this one! β
Zhuge Liang frowned and said, "It's a pity that I couldn't completely destroy their logistical baggage!" Glancing at Zhang Lang, "The overall situation has not changed." Lord, we need to think about the next steps! Zhang Lang nodded, "Does Kong Ming have any ideas?" β
Zhuge Liang told his plan.
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The next day, neither side had any intention of fighting, and the whole battlefield seemed very quiet and depressing, as if it were the eve of a storm.
That night, the night was so thick that it was panicking, and suddenly there was a loud bang, which shattered the silent night sky, and an incandescent lightning lit up the night sky and tore the sky in half!
Then the wind blew fiercely, the roar rolled in all directions, the smoke and dust swept up the grass and trees, and the tents were blown up, and the Cao army camp was in a hurry, and the soldiers tried their best to hold on to the tents so as not to be blown away by the strong wind!
Three earth-shattering thunders fell in the night sky in succession, followed by a torrential rain, and the wind swept the earth with torrential rain, and people only felt as if they were underwater, swept by the current and pushed by the current!
In such a storm, Cao Jun attacked! More than 200,000 infantry troops launched an attack on the LΓΌ Bu army camp under the personal leadership of Cao Cao, leaving Zhang Jaw and others to garrison Dazhai, while Xu Chu led more than 100,000 war cavalry to live on both wings of the army as a guard to prevent being attacked by Lu Bu's army war cavalry.
The soldiers of the Cao army stepped on the ground of the rivers and lakes under the pouring rain, pushed the city car and smashed through the fence outside the Lu Bu military camp, and more than 200,000 infantry troops shouted violently, and the shouts of this moment overshadowed the sound of the storm, and more than 200,000 infantry troops rushed in!
Cao's army did not encounter any resistance at the first heavy stronghold, and soon occupied the first heavy stronghold, and then the army attacked the second heavy stronghold, again without encountering any resistance, and occupied it by Shun lì, and finally the army attacked the third heavy stronghold! To everyone's surprise, there was still no resistance at the third stronghold!
Cao Cao rode his horse to the highest point of Lu Bu's military camp surrounded by all the civil and military forces, and looked west, his brows furrowed.
Zhang Fei, who was standing behind Cao Cao, laughed and said, "Lu Bu, this coward, has escaped!" Guan Yu smiled proudly and stroked the long hair under his chin.
A scout rode his horse from the bottom of the mountain into the camp, came straight to Cao Cao, rolled the saddle and dismounted, hugged his fists and said: "Prime Minister Qiqi, Lu Bu's army has retreated into Xiangyang!" β
Guan Yu sneered: "He runs faster than anyone else!" β
Guo Jia frowned and said, "The most worrying thing has finally appeared!" β
Zhang Fei shouted: "What are we still grinding here, let's chase it quickly!" β
Cao Cao laughed and said: "Yi De is not in a hurry, this matter has to be discussed in the long run!" β
Zhang Fei snorted dissatisfiedly, "Discuss from the long term, and when the long plan is over, the daylilies will be cold!" If you want me to say, it's best to kill the past! Guan Yu also said: "Now Lu Bu is already a frightened bird, if the army arrives, he will definitely be able to succeed in one fell swoop!" β
Guo Jia smiled and said: "What the two generals said is reasonable, but I don't know how to solve our army's current grain and grass problem?" β
The two of them thought that most of the grain and grass were destroyed last night, and now the grain and grass can't support it for many days!
Guan Yu hugged his fists and said: "In this case, please ask the prime minister to allocate 30,000 elite soldiers to the three of us, and the three of us will definitely capture Nanyang!" β
Cao Cao felt a little embarrassed and looked at Guo Jia, who smiled and said, "Since the three generals have this determination, the prime minister will agree to their request!" But what if the three generals don't win? β
Zhang Fei patted his chest without thinking about it and said: "If you don't win, dare to be a military lawyer!" β
Guo Jia immediately said: "Okay, there is no joke in the army, do the three generals dare to make a military order?" β
Guan Yu squinted Danfeng's eyes and said proudly: "Why don't you dare!" What if the three of us do? β
Cao Cao said solemnly: "If the three generals can really capture Nanyang, I will play the son of tomorrow as the three additional officials and knights, and at the same time canonize the one with the greatest merit to Nanyang Taishou, how about it?" β
The three of them were very excited, and Guan Yu said loudly: "Take the pen and paper!" β
Immediately a document took paper and pen, Guan Yu and the three of them made a military order in the military tent, Guan Yu handed the general order to Cao Cao's hand, and said proudly: "I'll come when I go." Please don't break your promise! β
Cao Cao smiled and said: "The military order is here, Yun Chang can rest assured!" Turning his head to Guo Jiadao: "Immediately send an order to Xu Chu and allocate 30,000 war cavalry to the three generals to command!" Guo Jia hugged his fists and promised to invite the three out of the big tent.
Soon after, General Guan Zhang and Zhao San led 30,000 cavalry borrowed from Cao Cao and set off towards Nanyang.