Cao Ren, Li Dian, Gao Ran and others led the defeated remnants of the defeated army to flee in a hurry in the night, like a lost dog. The wind in the distance and the howling of the grass in the distance made them tremble and panic, and they suspected that the enemy was chasing them. In the early hours of the morning, the group fled to the mountains and forests near Hanyang. Looking in the direction of Hanyang, I saw a group of troops wearing the armor of the Cao army and waving the banner of the Cao army, and was heading to Gangdong through the guò pontoon bridge.

Li Dian said in a deep voice: "Oh no! They must be heading for Jiangxia! ”

Cao Ren felt dizzy in his head, and said anxiously: "We must rush back to Jiangdong as much as possible!" ”

Gao Ran frowned and said, "What can we do even if we return to Jiangdong?" The main army has been completely wiped out, and there are no usable troops in Jiangdong except for Chaisang with 20,000 infantry troops and Chaohu with 20,000 sailors! However, Lu Bu can lead an army of nearly 300,000 to the east, and even if we rush back to Jiangdong, we will not be able to stop Lu Bu's attack at all! ”

Cao Ren was furious and shouted angrily: "What is your intention to destroy your own prestige for so long others? ”

Gao Ran was shocked when he saw Cao Ren angry, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The general is angry, the last general is just stating a fact, how dare the last general have any intentions!" ”

Cao Ren snorted.

Li Dian persuaded: "Don't be angry, General Gao Ran just said his opinion, and didn't mean anything else!" Now that the situation is sinister, we should be in the same boat! Cao Ren said categorically: "We must rush back as much as possible, preferably before the enemy army captures Jiangxia!" ”

Li Dian and Gao Ran both thought that this was impossible, but they didn't dare to say it. Li Dian said: "There is no way to cross the river here, let's go upstream to see if we can find a boat to cross the river." Cao Ren nodded. Hundreds of people left and turned and headed upstream, taking advantage of the cover of the trees.

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Zhang Lang adopted Zhuge Ruoxue's strategy, and used the Cao army spies lurking in Xiangyang to use a trick to make He Kui, Li Gui, and Qiu Jiu pretend to surrender to the Cao army, because the three were once Cao Ren's generals, so Cao Ren and the others had no suspicion at all, and they thought that the time had come to seize Jingzhou. Then He Kui and others and Cao Ren determined the time to attack Jingzhou, and Cao Ren's army crossed the river to storm the two fortresses of Hanyang and Shiyang, and at the same time He Kui and others followed Zhang Lang to Nanyang.

When he arrived in Nanyang, He Kui personally went to Cao Jun's barracks to deliver false news to Cao Ren. At the same time, the soldiers of the Tiger Wing Army of the two fortresses in Hanyang and Shiyang deliberately abandoned the fortresses and retreated along the Xiangjiang River, and this army of more than 20,000 people did not go far, but hid in the mountains near the Xiangjiang River and waited for the time to counterattack.

Cao Ren and others thought that the retreat of Lu Bu's army was due to the loss of Nanjun, so they led the main force to boldly advance into Nanjun, but then entered the net woven by Zhang Lang and Zhuge Ruoxue.

On the night of the same day, Lü Bu's army was launched at the same time in Nanjun and Hanyang Shiyang, and Cao's army was caught off guard, and the 10,000 army and 50,000 sailors of Cao's army left in Hanyang Shiyang were all annihilated, and Cao Ren's more than 100,000 troops led into Nanjun by He Kui became the turtle in the urn. After a night of fierce fighting, there was no suspense, and Cao Ren's army of more than 200,000 troops was completely annihilated.

After annihilating Cao Ren's main army, Zhang Lang left 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Wing Legion to guard Nanjun to guard the prisoners, and then led Zhuge Ruoxue's 250,000 troops eastward. In the early hours of the morning, the army reached the left bank, rested for a while, and crossed the Yangtze River to the east bank by means of a pontoon bridge. Then the army marched towards Jiangxia, and an hour later, the army drove to the city of Jiangxia, at this time, the battle flag of the word "Lu" had been floated on the head of Jiangxia. It turned out that before the arrival of the army, a vanguard army disguised itself as Cao's army deceived the city gate and captured Jiangxia, which was only garrisoned by more than 1,000 people. When Lü Bu's army entered the city, the 1,000 Cao troops defending the city surrendered without any resistance.

The army did not make any stop in Jiangxia, leaving 5,000 men and horses to garrison, and the main army marched along the Yangtze River to Chaisang.

Xiangyang.

Wei Yan hurriedly rushed into the lobby of the Assassin's Mansion, and rushed to Zhuge Liangyu, who was sitting on it, and reported: "My lord, good news, the lord led your army to destroy Cao Ren's main force in one fell swoop and crossed the Yangtze River!" He immediately handed the battle report he had just received to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang took the battle report, read it, and said happily: "Okay! The First World War decided on Koto! Koto is already in our pocket! ”

Wei Yan said with some emotion: "I didn't expect Miss Ruoxue to be so powerful, and she wiped out Cao Ren's more than 200,000 main forces in a flash!" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled, put down the defeat, raised his head and ordered: "Just now, 600,000 loads of grain have been transported to the port of Xiangyang, you go and tell them, don't unload the ship, the grain will be transported directly down the river to Jiangxia." Wei Yan clenched his fists and promised, and ran down.

Zhuge Liang stood up, walked to the door, looked at the white clouds in Zhang Lang's sky, and sighed with a smile on his face.

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Cao Ren and his entourage finally crossed the river from near Baling County. The group wanted to enter Baling County to eat something, but when they came to the suburbs, they found that the battle flag with the word 'Lu' was hung on the head of Baling County. The people were so frightened that they did not dare to enter the city, so they bypassed the city by the small road and marched towards Chaisang. At this time, the county commander in the city discovered their fallen Cao army, and immediately sent people to Jiangxia to report, while sending hundreds of people's troops in the city to chase them.

The People's Army caught up with Cao Ren and his party in the mountains and forests east of Baling County, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides. How is the People's Army the opponent of Cao Ren, a hundreds of proud soldiers! After only a short moment of fighting, the people's army was defeated and the wolf rushed to the front!

Cao Ren and the others did not chase after him. Cao Ren counted the number of people and found that only a dozen people were killed or injured, but Gao Ran was gone! Cao Ren was greatly surprised, and asked in a loud voice, "What about Gao Lan?" ”

Everyone looked around, but they didn't see Gao Yan's voice. Someone said: "Has General Gao Ran been left behind?" Another said: "How is this possible, everyone has been together all the time!" Li Dian walked to Cao Ren's side and whispered: "Gao Ran, this person is Yuan Shao's general, unlike us, and now seeing that we are poor, he is very likely to leave us and go to Lu Bu!" ”

Cao Ren's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "This bastard! ”

Li Dian hurriedly said, "General, we have to get out of here quickly!" Cao Ren nodded and beckoned everyone to go on the road. The group took a few wounded soldiers and hurried along the thorny mountain road, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Those defeated militia fled into the city, and the county commander was frightened in his heart, and hurriedly ordered the city gate to be closed, and at the same time ordered all the militia and the middle-aged men in the city to go to the city wall to garrison. The people of the city were trembling and nervous.

After half a month of arduous trekking, Cao Ren and his party finally came to the vicinity of Chaisang.