The Cao-Liu coalition army lost the first battle, but it did not flinch because of this, and regrouped in a very short time to compete with the Jingzhou army. Over the next five days, the two armies fought two battles in a row. In the first scene, Cao Cao set down an exquisite eight-gate golden lock array, which was recognized by Wang Xu, and Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other generals led troops to break through the Shengmen, and then retreated forty miles. In the second game, Cao Cao laid down the Five Elements Battle, but was also forced by Wang Xu, who was familiar with the formation, and was also defeated and retreated again. The troops retreated a total of sixty miles before and after, and they were almost beaten back to Nanyang.

This also made Wang Xu extremely puzzled, whether from a historical perspective or from the perspective of his cognition, it was impossible for Cao Cao to be defeated so lightly. In the past, he had a deep communication with Cao Cao in the formation, and it was really a bit incredible to defeat it so easily. After thinking about it, he felt that there was fraud in it, and he did not dare to take danger lightly, and he did not pursue after every victory, but kept moving forward to the camp and kept a distance of twenty miles from the camp of the Cao-Liu coalition army.

It was not until the fifth day that the two armies finally ushered in the third head-to-head confrontation, and both the soldiers and the Jingzhou army, which had a slight advantage in strength, were still in the upper hand. I thought that Yiqiē would be like the previous two times, but when the battle was in full swing, Wang Xu suddenly got a jaw-dropping news in the rear.

"Report to the General! Fuyang County is broken. After proving his identity, a slightly unfamiliar lieutenant quickly rushed to Wang Xu's approach. The armor was scattered and tattered, and the mud and blood stained the man made it difficult to see the person's appearance.

"Fuyang is broken?" Wang Xu was slightly stunned, and looked at the bloodied little school in disbelief. "Say it again, I didn't hear you clearly!"

The young general waved his hand to wipe the blood from his face, but he did not hesitate, and replied with a trembling voice: "General Qiyu, last night there was a Cao army that attacked my Fuyang County at night. Presumably, Fuyang has now fallen into the hands of the enemy! ”

"Shhh...... This ......" Wang Xu gasped with a tangled face.

Chen Deng, who was accompanying him, was also surprised, looked at Wang Xu, frowned and analyzed: "Lord, the disappeared Cao Jun really didn't retreat. Instead, he bypassed Dafu Mountain to sneak attack my Fuyang County? But what is the use of doing so? If it is said that it is intended to attack our rear in the event of a battle between the two armies. Is there any reason why we can't find out if we take Fuyang? Now we have plenty of time to prepare, and as long as we don't get all our men into battle, and leave our men and horses ready to fight, we can stop him as soon as he appears. In this way, what is the use of him Cao Cao to disperse his forces and let the sergeants trek through mountains and rivers to take a small county town from me? ”

It's not just Chen Deng who is confused. Wang Xu was even more dazed, and suddenly felt that his head was a little insufficient. What is this, Cao Cao's idle egg hurts? Just to let yourself suffer more losses and destroy a few more cities? It can't be, there must be a purpose......

At this moment, the earth-shattering shouts of killing and the fierce drums of war. couldn't make Wang Xu distracted at all, his brain was running fast, thinking about many possibilities.

"Huh?" After a long time, Wang Xu seemed to think of something, and his eyes widened suddenly.

"Xiangxiang!"

Almost at the same moment, Wang Xu and Chen Deng let out an exclamation in unison.

Glancing at each other in surprise, Chen Deng was already anxious: "Lord, if it is really as we think." That's a problem. Cao Cao lost two games in a row. The retreat of sixty miles should have forced our army to pursue. Today, our army is more than 60 miles away from Xiangxiang. General Guan Hai, who guarded Xiangxiang, must have also learned that Fuyang City was broken, and if the enemy general falsely reported at this time, saying that the lord was ambushed and in danger, Guan Hai would do his best to rescue him. ”

"Huh!" Wang Xu sighed fiercely, knowing that he was in danger, he couldn't care about anything else, and decisively shouted to the rear: "Zhang Jing! ”

"Here we go!"

Zhang Jing, who was patrolling the array of soldiers in the back formation, heard the call, and immediately rushed over with a smile: "Boss, do you want me to bring another batch of soldiers into battle?" ”

"No!" Wang Xu glanced at the soldiers in the rear who had not yet been put into the front-line battlefield, shook his head solemnly and said: "Zhang Jing, I will give you a task, and you will return to Xiangxiang with dozens of elites now." Tell your master Guan Hai that no matter what happens, don't take your troops out of the city. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Jing was stunned by this sudden order, so he looked at him and Chen Deng, and said strangely: "Boss, what's wrong!" ”

"Oh, I'll talk to you slowly later, you go quickly." Wang Xu didn't have the heart to explain more, so he said to himself: "In short, you have to remember that you must pass on the order." Also, there is likely to be an enemy in ambush on the road, you have few people, pick a small road, and pay attention to safety. ”

Feeling the eagerness in Wang Xu's tone, Zhang Jing also knew that he must be in a hurry, and immediately sank his face. "Good! Boss, I'll take care of this. ”

"Well, go ahead! Remember, be careful. ”

"Understood!" Zhang Jing made an OK gesture for the rest of the world, and without saying much, his legs slammed into the horse's belly, and he rushed out with a smoke.

Seeing Zhang Jing go away, Wang Xu turned around and said hurriedly: "Yuanlong, let's almost withdraw too!" The enemy's movements are unknown, so it is not advisable to fight for a long time! ”

"Hmm!" Chen Deng nodded. "It's better to withdraw to Xiangxiang quickly."

Wang Xu was about to give an order, but there was a sudden suddenness in his heart, and the fire dragon spear raised high stopped in mid-air, but he didn't swing it.

"Lord, what's wrong with you?" Sensing his abnormality, Chen Deng asked suspiciously.

"Yuanlong, something is not right!" Wang Xu shook his head, his eyes were a little dazed, and he said, "What if Cao Cao is indeed plotting against my main army?" ”

"The Lord means ......"

"Yes, if Cao Cao expected me to think so, what if I deliberately did this. That army rushed thousands of miles to attack Fuyang, which made me realize that this move was useless, and it might be a plot against Xiangxiang, so I let Guan Hai not come out. But in fact, it is to wait for the opportunity to attack the rear of our army, and by then our army has not yet got rid of the enemy's main force, and the array is not in order, but it is suddenly ambushed, and it will inevitably be defeated! This kind of strategy is to put myself into the trap. ”

With Wang Xu's complaint, Chen Deng also frowned tightly, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but continue: "Lord, otherwise, now divide a group of soldiers and horses to intercept it?" ”

"How? At present, we only know that the enemy army has taken Fuyang last night, and we don't even know where it is. Wang Xu asked rhetorically.

"Then we will not put all our troops into battle, and this rear army will always be a reserve, and as soon as he appears, we will stop it. Even if he defeats the main force of the Cao-Liu coalition army again, he can not be afraid. ”

"No!" Wang Xu shook his head again and vetoed. "Yuanlong, it must be more dangerous to act like this. Cao Cao has made sufficient preparations this time, if he expects what I just thought. Then it is inevitable to guard against this hand. Otherwise, wouldn't it really be in vain? Therefore, if he does not withdraw, he will definitely have a backhand. ”

"How about that!" was refuted by Wang Xu like this, and Chen Deng was also a little anxious. Xu Shu, who had been quietly listening to the conversation between the two, was even more beautiful and wrinkled, worried, but Zhao Yu seemed to understand whether she understood or not, and was still tilting her head and thinking hard.

Wang Xu forced himself to calm down. After a long time, when Chen Dengdu was a little anxious, his eyes suddenly opened, and he shouted decisively: "Go, retreat to the southwest!" ”

"Southwest?" Chen Deng and Xu Shu were both surprised.

"That's right! To the southwest. Wang Xu said affirmatively: "The location of my army is more than sixty miles north of Xiangxiang. Twenty miles to the southwest is Huyang County, the location of Fuyang is in the southeast, that army of soldiers and horses no matter what, the appearance is also from the southeast, we will retreat to Huyang County first, crack this situation. ”

Chen Deng thought about it, and there was no better way, so he had to nod. "It's fine. But listen to the Lord's command. ”

Looked at. Wang Xu did not hesitate anymore and decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops. The sharp cymbals struck slowly......

At this time, Cao Cao, who was far behind the Cao-Liu coalition army and was sitting on top of the chariot, was chattering to himself: "Ziyang! It really didn't disappoint me, if you don't retreat, it's really a dead end. But where are you going? With your cautious and courageous style, you should retreat southwest to Huyang County! Either way, you lost the battle from the start. If you don't withdraw now, it will be a fiasco. Retreating to the southwest is a great defeat. Only by withdrawing to Xiangxiang is a small defeat! But you will never dare to retreat to Xiangxiang, false and real, true and false, guerrilla tactics, this is what I learned from you back then, hahahaha......"

In the end, Cao Cao couldn't stop the joy in his heart, and looked up and laughed!

The Jingzhou army broke away from the battlefield as quickly as possible, and Wei Yan, Zhang Liao, and Zhao Yun led their troops to provide time and space for the army to evacuate. However, the Cao-Liu coalition army was in the doldrums for several days, the attack was extremely fierce, and the command of each department was orderly, biting the Jingzhou army to the death. This made Wang Xu believe that Cao Cao must have a plan and resolutely retreated to the southwest.

Fighting and retreating all the way, the army retreated extremely quickly, and the front army had arrived at the Tangzi Mountain Road seven miles northeast of Huyang County. Wang Xu had just entered the mountain road not long after he was protected by Xu Huang and other generals, but he suddenly felt a heartbeat accelerating, and he watched vigilantly, only to suddenly find that the terrain here was steep and abnormal, and the slopes on both sides of the mountain road were steep, and the end was a dangerous place for soldiers.

"Wife, I suddenly have a bad premonition!" Wang Xu was anxious in his heart, so he had to whisper to Xu Shu, who was riding beside him.

Xu Shu smiled reluctantly and comforted: "Husband, you are under too much pressure, don't think about it, just wait until you withdraw to Huyang County." ”

"Hmm!" At this moment, Wang Xu had no choice but to move forward.

But the more I walked, the more severe the sense of crisis became, and I hadn't felt this way for many years. It was only when I was hovering on the edge of life and death for many years that I often had this inexplicable intuition.

"No, no!"

After chattering twice in his heart, Wang Xu immediately prepared to restrain the war horse. But the reins of the horse had not yet been straightened, and on the high slopes on both sides of the mountain road, there was a sudden sound of earth-shaking drums, and a rough and hearty laughter shook people's hearts.

"Hahaha! General Wang, Yu Ban has been waiting here for a long time! ”

With the sound, countless soldiers suddenly appeared on the mountains on both sides, stretched their bows and arrows, and aimed at the Jingzhou army marching on the narrow mountain road.

"Shhh...... Forbidden! ”

At this moment, including Wang Xu and the generals, the entire Jingzhou army panicked. Before everyone could react, the rain of arrows was already pouring down, and the rolling stones and wooden rows fell down the sea, and the screams instantly sounded throughout the mountain road, as strong as the Jingzhou soldiers were also in a mess.

"Quick! Protect the Lord! ”

"Protect the lord!"

"Soldiers, hide, hide!"

The roar of the generals also sounded in time, shaking the entire mountain road, although Wang Xu was terrified in his heart, he still waved the fire dragon spear to dial the occasional arrows, and shouted in his mouth to command the soldiers to dodge.

"Lord, ma'am, hide quickly! Fast! Xu Huang, Xu Sheng and the others hurried over to surround Wang Xu, Xu Shu, and Zhao Yu, urging them to dodge as much as possible.

The scene at this moment was really chaotic, the soldiers of Jingzhou were hit hard, the casualties rose rapidly, and Wang Xu was furious. Seeing the tragic death of the soldiers, but there was nothing he could do, his eyes were red, and his heart kept roaring: Why? Why? Why are Yu Ban's soldiers and horses here? How did he come here? Cao Cao, you are ruthless enough! (To be continued.) )