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Coo, coo.

Somewhere in the reeds, there was a sound of birdsong, and after a while, in the middle of the reeds in another place, a person appeared, and if you looked closely, it was Cao Pi.

The reeds rustled in front of him, Cao Pi pressed his sword vigilantly, and soon two Cao pawns appeared, bowing and saluting, Cao Pi breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said respectfully: "Ah Weng, it's okay, you can come out." ”

The reeds shook sharply, and several Cao pawns came out first, looking around with their knives, followed by one - if it weren't for Cao Pi's title, it would be almost impossible to believe that this was Cao Cao.

Liang Guan is not right, his hair is scattered, he is haggard, his face is scratched by grass leaves, his clothes are torn everywhere, and below his waist and legs, he is full of black silt. Is this Cao Cao? Well, it's really Cao Cao, from that still calm and calm expression, it can be confirmed that only Cao Cao, who has gone through hardships and is determined like a stone, will still be calm and calm in such a dangerous situation.

Danger? It is indeed a dangerous situation, since the fiasco of Shouchun, Cao Cao has fled for five days and five nights. This situation reminded him of the danger when Chen Liu's army was defeated in Xingyang ten years ago. These five days of thrilling wolf bèi are more than he has in the past five years combined, and the whole process is like a nightmare.

On that day, Cao Cao got the help of Xiahou Yuan and fled back to the Huaishang camp, but before he could sit down, he received a news that made him almost faint: Xiquyang was lost, Mao Jue was captured, Cao Hong was awarded the head, and the head was suspended at the north gate of Xiquyang.

"Zilian!" Cao Cao howled on the spot and fainted several times. Even when I heard the news of the death of my eldest son, I didn't see him so sad.

As soon as Xiquyang is lost, the triangle defense will lose a corner, and it will be cut in by the dragon wolf army at any time, cutting off the connection between the Huaishang camp and Dangtu, and then dividing and encircling. The top priority at the moment is the convergence of the two armies. At this time, the dragon wolf army had surrounded from Shouchun, Xiquyang, and Huaishui on three sides. Cao Cao's Huaishang camp may face the danger of being dumpled at any time.

Cao Cao at this time. Faced with two choices: should you abandon the camp and run to the camp, or should you abandon the camp and defend the camp?

From Ma Han to Li Dian, they all thought that Cao Cao would abandon the camp and run to Dangtu, after all, Dangtu is a county seat, and the defensive non-camp is comparable. And when Tu is opposite is Ping'a County, Yuzhou, which is controlled by Cao Jun, there is only a Huaishui in the middle, and it is convenient to cross the river and escape to anything.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Cao Jun pulled out of the camp and ran towards Dangtu. And when Tu over there. Cao Pi also led hundreds of soldiers to greet him.

At the same time, a procession of Cao army envoys traveled south to the city of Xiquyang, and proposed to Ma Han that he would redeem Cao Hong's head and body for a thousand gold.

The horse hung his head. The purpose is only to deter Cao Jun, and now that the goal has been achieved, he agrees to exchange it.

After the messenger team returned Cao Hong's corpse. claimed to bury Cao Hong on the bank of the river. When the messenger team crossed the river and entered Shaobei, it suddenly disappeared.

The place name of Shaobei. The average person would never guess that this is the name of a large lake. This lake has a water in the east and a water in the west, and the area is extremely wide, how wide is it? There's a contrast. More than 100 miles southeast of Shaobi, there is the famous lake "Chaohu Lake", and the area of Chaohu Lake at this time is about the same as Shaobi.

Here the reeds are in the sky, the swamps are everywhere, thousands of people enter, and it is difficult for thousands of people to find.

Do you still need to bury a dead man and run into this place where the ghost hits the wall?

Sensing something wrong, Ma Han immediately sent a search team, led by local guides, to follow the traces of the messenger team all the way.

That night, before the search team reported the results, there was a shocking news from Tu's side: after Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan, and Zhu Ling met with Cao Pi, they did not enter the city at all, let alone cross the Huaishui, but turned south, interspersed between Xiquyang and Yinling, and turned towards the river.

At this time, Li Dian crossed the river, Gan Ning and Zhang Hehua copied from the two breads, but they didn't expect that Cao Jun would not go north, but south. As a result, it was unable to stop, only intercepted the rear army of Cao's army, quickly defeated, captured more than 1,000 enemies, and collected their baggage. However, most of the baggage was useless marching tents and shabby weapons, and most of the captured enemies were auxiliaries and servants.

So Gan Ning and Zhang Hebing split into two routes, Gan Ning pursued, and Zhang He attacked the city.

At this time, Tu Tu had already gone to the empty building, leaving only a few hundred weak and crippled soldiers. Zhang He led 800 halberders to attack the city, which was simply a knife killing...... Frog, light yì capture.

The Bashu soldiers and Shanyue soldiers led by Gan Ning were both good at long-distance rapid troops, and soon caught up with Cao's army, and the two sides fought and left, fighting endlessly. It wasn't until Ma Hanqin led three hundred generals and guards to rush to the aid that he finally defeated Cao's army.

Xiahou Yuan and Cao Pi led only 400 horsemen to break through and escape.

Chen Zhi and Gan Ning broke through at the same time, killed Cao Jun, and captured Cao Cao - it was only then that everyone found out that this was Cao Cao, but a guy who looked a bit like Cao Cao in Lao Cao's clothes.

At this time, if Ma Han hadn't understood it, then his IQ would have to be recharged - Cao Cao was not in the team at all, but in the team of messengers who asked for Cao Hong's body that day. Therefore, the envoy team entered Shaobi not to bury people, but to abscond.

Because the fake Cao Cao successfully attracted the main force of the army, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Pi were able to break through and successfully escape to Weishui.

Although the battle did not capture the enemy chieftain, it also made great gains, at least intercepting all of Cao Cao's troops. In the end, Zhu Ling, another member of the trapped Cao army, led 3,000 Cao pawns who were almost collapsed, and abandoned their weapons and asked to surrender.

At this point, Cao Cao's 25,000 soldiers and horses in Huainan, except for more than 500 men and horses who escaped, were all wiped out, and Cao Cao was almost beaten into a bare pole.

After this battle, Ma Han, Guo Jia, Xun You, Gan Ning, Chen Zhi and others analyzed the reasons why Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan and others were able to escape from the encirclement, and they all believed that they had made an empirical mistake. I thought that Cao Cao must be in a hurry to go north to return to the river, but I didn't expect Cao Cao to be so decisive, willing to seek the near and far, not crossing the Huaishui, but the Yangtze River, but going south.

Now, the question is, Cao Cao is heading south and west, where is his goal? Is the thief's heart not dying, looking for the opportunity to cross the Huai, or simply going west into Jingzhou?

Guo Jia, Xun You, and Chen Zhi all believed that Cao Cao would enter Jingzhou, while Gan Ning believed that Cao Cao would cross the Huaishui.

In the end, Ma Han supported the majority, and the reason was simple: Cao Cao was reluctant to go far. refused to be in Dangtu Duhuai, not because he had to show any tactics in the art of war, but because the hundreds of miles of water from Shouchun to Zhongli had been cut off by the dragon and wolf water army. Cao Cao's water power is very weak, if he forcibly crosses the river, it will be impossible to escape destruction, and he will not be spared.

Cao Cao, who knew that he was unable to break through the blockade of the river, could only seek the near and far. As for why he will not seek to cross the river again and run from the western section of Huaishui to Runan, the reason is even simpler - Runan and Qianjun. Including the entire Yuzhou, it will soon become a thing in the pocket. How fat does he Cao Cao's courage have to be, so that he dares to get into Ma Hao's bag with this little bit of people!

"Tracking and searching are my strengths, and it seems that I have to go out myself." Ma Han saluted Guo, Xun, and Gan and said, "The matter of Jiujiang is entrusted to you." ”

Ma Han refused Gan Ning's repeated requests, and led 300 general guards to hunt down Cao Cao. It's not that he trusts him, and it's not that he wants to compete with his subordinates. Instead, he searched for an army of hundreds of men in the vast expanse, and he did have a much better chance of victory than Gan Ning. If Gan Ning is asked to search, his thousands of people will not even bubble up when they are scattered into the dangze, and they will be eaten by Cao Cao.

So. It can only be a horse. From this moment on, Cao Cao was sad.

It was on the third day that Cao Cao finally joined up with Xiahou Yuan, Cao Pi and other 400 horsemen. The rest of my life after the catastrophe should have been celebrated, but then it came. It was the horse warrior who chased after Xiahou Yuan's cavalry and his dragon and wolf horseman.

If Cao Cao hadn't joined Xiahou Yuan, Ma Han would have had a hard time searching, and the lake was too big. But. Xiahou Yuan exposed his whereabouts and brought out Cao Cao by the way. In the general's guard, half of the horsemen are good at horse herding, don't forget that their original identity is Han Nu, and their daily job is to herd horses and sheep. Searching for people may be poor, but tracking horse tracks is top-notch.

The result was that the cheers did not stop, and the enemy was killed. If it weren't for the complicated terrain, fast horses, and Xiahou Yuan's desperate protection, Cao Cao would have been finished.

From that moment on, Ma Han was like a maggot attached to the bone, no matter where Cao Cao was, how secretive he was hiding, as long as he stopped, no more than a moment or three, that terrible cavalry would definitely kill, and never miss the appointment. Cao Cao and his soldiers and horses couldn't eat and sleep well, they were shocked every day, the wind was loud, and they had to prick up their ears even to.

Xiahou Yuan is also a first-class general among the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, and he can be called a first-class general with cavalry tactics, but he commanded 400 cavalry, and fought seven times with the dragon and wolf cavalry in three days, and lost seven battles and seven defeats. Every time I am suffering from the baptism of arrow storms, I can't catch up with them, and I can't hit them. If it weren't for the complicated swaying and the reeds covering the sky, but on the plain, the four hundred cavalry would have died long ago. Rao is like this, and after three days, most of them have been killed, and only more than 100 riders remain.

Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan's hearts twitched in pain, this cavalry, but the elite of the Huai and Si rangers left by Cao Ren. In the past ten years, this cavalry has been the backbone of Cao's army, and has made countless feats, and has escaped a catastrophe like the Battle of Xiapi.

This is the sixth day of the escape, Cao Cao finally walked out of Shaobei, with the support of Cao Pi and the guards, a deep foot, a shallow foot out of the reeds, panting and holding the trunk of the tree on the shore, leading his neck into the distance. Looking at the faint city wall line in the distance, he muttered: "That's Anfeng County in Lujiang, right?" ”

"Yes, I hope ......" Before Cao Pi finished speaking, several people rushed to the direction of An Feng, led by Xu Chu, who was sent to inquire about the news.

Xu Chu saluted Cao Cao, and said in a humming voice: "The Anfeng city wall has been destroyed, and there are only a few homeless people in the city, and there are no rest. ”

Cao Cao's father and son looked at each other and were speechless for a while.

After a while, nearly a hundred horsemen galloped on the sand moraine along the shore of Dangze, led by Xiahou Yuan, but at this time his face was ugly, and an arrow was stuck in his shoulder. Many of the cavalrymen behind him were also wounded.

Next, it was a good toss, first of all, it was natural to pull out the arrow for Xiahou Yuan to change the dressing, but fortunately, the arrow did not penetrate the flesh deeply, but it was only a wound to the flesh.

Cao Cao inspected and comforted the cavalry, then came to Xiahou Yuan and sat down, and said bitterly: "Thirteen more horses? ”

Xiahou Yuan nodded silently.

Cao Cao looked at the undulating terrain of the hills and the flat road in front of him, and his brows tightened: "Once you lose the cover of the waves, you will encounter it again, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to get out......"

Xiahou Yuan said bluntly: "If you encounter this cavalry on the plain, you will be wiped out." ”

Cao Cao clenched his fists tightly, stared straight at the water, as if he wanted to see through the depths of the water, and said word by word: "In this case, we will fight an ambush and teach the horse to retreat in the face of difficulties, don't be a fool of Cao!" (To be continued......)