But death is not the same as death! Tai Shi Gong said: "People are inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than a feather." "Since ancient times, although good generals are not afraid of death, it is good to die if it is valuable. This is also the reason why Han Xin is willing to endure the humiliation of his crotch. It's not that Han Xin is afraid of death, it's just that he thinks it's not worth it to fight with hooligans and die! Similarly, Cao Hong's mood at this time is probably the same as Han Xin back then! In Cao Hong's view, if you fight with the enemy in a bloody battle, even if you die in battle, it will be glorious. But if you die at the hands of these little ones today, it will be so unworthy!

Cao Hong ordered his subordinates to maintain this circular defensive formation in a low voice and slowly move towards the edge of the forest.

"Whoosh~ah~" Just a few steps away, a cold arrow flew and accurately pierced the throat of a soldier on the far left. The soldier fell to the ground.

Looking at the other party's fierce crossbow arrows, all the soldiers were secretly frightened and did not dare to move a single step.

In desperation, Cao Jun had no choice but to stop and drive the war horse to the periphery, forming another layer of war horse fortifications on the periphery.

Death is not scary, waiting for death is scary. At this time, Cao Hong probably had deep feelings about this sentence.

As the minutes passed, the soldiers of the Cao army hid behind the ring fortifications of the war horses, nervously observing the surrounding movements. There was a deathly silence all around, and almost no sound could be heard.

Battle-hardened people can feel it intuitively, and this silence is so abnormal.

None of the soldiers behind the horse dared to move, because everyone knew that acting rashly at this time would mean death. They just waited, waited.........

At this time, on the official road four or five miles away from the dense forest, dozens of horse-drawn carriages dragged a whole vehicle of military supplies were speeding on the unimpeded official road.

At the front of the convoy was a fairly ordinary small horse-drawn carriage that carried people. The driver was a thin little old man, whose gray beard fluttered in the wind. But the smile on his face showed that he was in a good mood.

Needless to say, everyone also knows that this is the convoy of Mi Zhu and his gang. This group of obscene guys took advantage of the cover of the favorable terrain of the woodland, and after calmly shooting and killing more than 100 Cao soldiers, they quietly got out of the battlefield in the forest, and went all the way south for a few miles before going onto the official road. At this time, Cao Hong and his gang were still waiting for death in fear in the forest a few miles away!

"Haha, today's battle is really happy!" Guan Ping, who was sitting in the car, smiled very brightly at this time. This guy didn't have anything to do, but because he was so excited, he accidentally fell off his horse when he was out of the forest just now, and his right arm was injured and broken. There's no way to pull the reins, and there's no way to ride a horse! I had no choice but to get into Mi Zhu's carriage.

But this guy didn't seem to care about the injury on his arm at all, and his face was full of excitement.

"Oh! That's right! Why didn't Zhan'er let us completely destroy Cao Jun just now? "In that case just now, Guan Ping was sure that he would completely annihilate Cao's army. But Zhuge Zhan stopped him.

Young Master Zhuge was so tired at this time that his upper eyelids touched his lower eyelids. Hearing Guan Ping's question, he sighed and replied listlessly: "We can completely annihilate Cao's army just now!" But we can't! ”

"For what?" Guan Ping is strange. Cao Hong is a high-ranking general in Cao's army, and if you can kill him, it will undoubtedly be a great achievement! For this reason, Guan Ping regretted it!

"First, our main task is to deliver this batch of military supplies to Xiakou as soon as possible. So the most important thing for us is time, not killing Cao Hong. The trapped beast is still fighting, let alone the fierce general of the Cao army? Killing Cao Hong will surely cost us a lot of time. Moreover, the killing of Cao Hong is likely to anger Liu Fu, the assassin of Yangzhou. After all, this is still Liu Fu's territory, and if Liu Fu pursues us with all his might, we will be in danger. Second, now that the Jiangdong Army and the Cao Army are in a state of confrontation, this is the most favorable situation for us. In the battle of Gangneung, our army suffered heavy losses, lost all the baggage, grain and grass, followed the lord, and a large number of veterans who had been in battle for a long time died, and the newly recruited new army had not yet been trained. At this time, no matter if the Jiangdong Army and the Cao Army have a decisive battle, no matter who wins, it will be unfavorable to us! Because whoever wins will not hesitate to swallow us without strength. So the longer this confrontation drags on, the better it will be for us. Cao Hong is Cao Cao's cousin and his most relied on confidant. If we kill him rashly, it is difficult to guarantee that Cao Cao will not be carried away by anger and launch a general attack in advance. Then we are in danger. That's why I don't want you to annihilate Cao Jun and kill Cao Hong! Young Master Zhuge held on to his sleepiness and explained to our curious baby Guan Ping.

Guan Ping was stunned after hearing this, and was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, regardless of the injury to his arm, he held his hand and pulled Young Master Zhuge into his arms, holding Young Master Zhuge 's small face carved with jade, and pinched it left and again.

"Ah~ what are you doing? It hurts! "Guan Ping, this guy is practicing martial arts, and he doesn't have a light or heavy shot. Don't you know that the children are the flowers of the motherland? How can it be so ravaged?

Guan Ping stopped his hand at this time, and smirked embarrassedly: "I'm just curious about how your little guy's brain grows?" How can you know so many things at such a young age? ”

Young Master Zhuge finally broke free from Guan Ping's clutches, and quickly retreated to the position where he thought he was safe, grinning and rubbing his pinched face, while squinting at Guan Ping, and said angrily: "Who will I ask if you ask me?" ”

"Hey, hey, hey!" Guan Ping nodded and said with a smile: "It's too!" ”

Mi Zhu looked at the two living treasures, one big and one small, and shook his head with a smile.

Cao Hong and his gang were tense in the forest all night, and it was not until the next morning that Liu Fu and his army rescued them from the forest. When Zhilu Dao Mizhu and his gang had already fled, Cao Hong couldn't help but jump like thunder. But there is nothing to be done, everyone has been running away for so long, and it is obviously too late to chase after it at this time.

However, through this incident, the contradiction between Cao Hong and Lei Xu has become more and more public. Cao Hong scolded Lei Xu for being a spy sent by Liu Bei, and threatened to find evidence to bring him to justice. Lei Xu accused Cao Hong of suppressing the local scholars, and sent the handwritten letters from Cao Hong to his subordinates one by one to the mansions of the major families of Lianghuai. aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the two Huai families against Cao Hong. The contradiction between the power of the central forces of the Cao clan represented by Cao Hong and the power of the two Huai local scholar groups represented by Lei Xu became increasingly acute. Let's not talk about how it will end for now.

Let's say that Young Master Zhuge and his entourage went all the way south with a large number of military supplies plundered from Hefei, and arrived near Anhui County, Lujiang County, along the river three days later. After meeting with General Liao Hua, who had come to meet him, he traveled all the way up and finally arrived safely at Xiakou two days later.