Fifty miles is neither long nor short.

An ordinary march takes about a day and a half to complete, and a quick march will not be impossible to complete in a day.

But you can't run for your life.

Once the army is devoid of structure and restraint and scatters and flees for its life, it will be impossible to control it at all.

Cao Xiu was desperately restraining his subordinates, but at this time, there was the Shouchun army pursued by Eastern Wu in the rear, and the Ruyin occupation army that Lu Xun took the initiative to attack on the flank. In this case, the low-level captains of the Wei army were already panicking, not to mention the ordinary soldiers.

The Wei army once again reenacted the battle at Shiting a few years ago, and was chased by the Eastern Wu army and scattered and fled.

Once the soldiers began to flee without restraint, it was almost impossible to organize them and let them retreat in an orderly manner in the direction of Yingyang.

At present, the only thing Cao Xiu can control is the 5,000 soldiers belonging to his own Chinese army, these soldiers are the elite of Runan led by Cao Xiu himself, and they are much more obedient than the soldiers borrowed from Yanzhou and Yingchuan and ordinary Runan soldiers.

And at this point, Cao Xiu actually has two choices.

One is to lead his own lieutenant soldiers to turn around and personally intercept the pursuit and volley of the Eastern Wu army, so as to buy enough time for the rest of the soldiers to escape.

But. This choice, some too late.

If Cao Xiu did this when the soldiers had not yet collapsed, he could buy time for the soldiers, after all, the army was still in existence at that time, as long as someone took the lead, or the Yingyang side could take the initiative to send troops to respond, the soldiers could still retreat to the Yingyang side in an organized manner.

But now, the soldier system has been chaotic, and when they fled, no soldier cared where they fled, as long as they ran faster than their teammates.

And Yingyang, which Cao Xiu had high hopes for, did not take the initiative to send troops to respond, and until now, Cao Xiu has not seen Xu Qian's figure.

Therefore, at this time, Cao Xiu took the initiative to stay behind the broken queen, which was equivalent to taking the initiative to hit the arms of the pursuers of Eastern Wu, and there was no second role except for sending him to death.

Therefore, Cao Xiu only had one choice left - just like the Battle of Shiting a few years ago, he left these defeated soldiers who fled and led the elite troops to break through.

And the only good news at this time is that unlike the Battle of Shiting a few years ago, this time the commander of the Wu army took the initiative to let go of a corner of the encirclement network, and Cao Xiu no longer had to worry about being surrounded like zongzi, and he would not be able to break through without answering.

The chances of escape are greatly increased, but this battle is bound to end in defeat.

At this time, Cao Xiu had no choice, he could only lead the elite of the Chinese army to break through first, and at the same time, Cao Xiu's old mistake was committed again!

When the war situation was unfavorable, Cao Xiu always habitually began to shake the pot.

Last time, it was dumped at Jia Kui, who desperately responded to his breakthrough, which caused Jia Kui and Cao Xiu to disagree, and the trouble was known to the world.

This time, Cao Xiu threw it to Xu Zhen - if Xu Zhen could take the initiative to send troops to meet him, why would he be chased and killed by the Eastern Wu Army to such an embarrassing situation now.

The time when he threw the pot to Jia Kui, Cao Xiu was a little unreasonable, you must know that Jia Kui's status is not low, and there is no clear subordinate relationship with Cao Xiu, so people still save you at the cost of giving up Hefei City. It's a bit of a hard pot shake, not to mention that Jia Kui can't bear it, even Cao Pi can't stand it anymore.

But this time he threw the pot to Xu Qian, in fact, it makes some sense.

Cao Xiu didn't have a backhand, Cao Xiu, who had experienced the fiasco of Shiting, left 10,000 soldiers for Xu Zhen just in case, the purpose was to ask Xu Zhen to rescue him in the unfavorable situation of his own battle.

As a result, Xu Zhen did not lead the troops when Cao Xiu needed it most, at first glance, it was indeed Xu Qian's problem, and Cao Xiu wanted to blame Xu Qian, which did make a certain sense.

Even, if Xu Zhen can appear in time when Cao Xiu's army is defeated, help Cao Xiu collect the defeated army and withdraw to Yingyang, and continue to confront the Eastern Wu army in Runan, the plan to attack Shouchun will fail, but it may not be that the Eastern Wu army will be driven out of Runan.

After all, in Runan, Cao Xiu has been operating for more than ten years, and it has long been entrenched, and the Eastern Wu Army has just arrived, even if it relies on sneak attacks to occupy part of the county, but it is difficult to say whether it can hold it.

But Xu Zhen did not appear, which led to the rout of Cao Xiu's army, and even if Cao Xiu escaped smoothly in the end, he did not have enough troops to block the follow-up attack of the Eastern Wu army.

Runan, it is very likely that under the siege of the superior forces of the Eastern Wu Army, it will be lost.

As soon as Runan was lost, the gateway between Yanzhou and Yingchuan was wide open, and now the two places are seriously short of troops, and things are in big trouble.

Therefore, the more Cao Xiu thought about it, the more he felt that all this was Xu Qian's fault. If you can escape this time, you must not spare this bastard.

And Xu Zhen, who has been scolded by Cao Xiu as a bastard, is actually quite wronged.

In fact, the scout cavalry sent by Xu Zhen had indeed sensed the direction of Cao Xiu's defeat, and he really wanted to take the initiative to attack to meet Cao Xiu's retreat.

But the problem is that counting the original defenders of Yingyang, Xu Zhen only has 4,000 troops, and on the battlefield of nearly 100,000 people, where is there to respond, it is simply to send them to death.

Again, Xu Zhen didn't expect that Cao Xiu's army would be defeated so quickly.

When Xu Zhen learned that Cao Xiu was about fifty miles southeast of Yingyang County, he also got another news - the Shangcai reinforcements led by Gao Tanglong would arrive in Yingyang in about half a day and join Xu Qian.

Xu Zhen pondered for a while, Gao Tanglong's reinforcements arrived in half a day, rested for another half a day, and went to meet General Cao Xiu early the next morning, which should be in time.

After all, that's General Cao Xiu, so it's not like he won't be able to last even a day, right?!

Yes, Xu Zhen hesitated for a while, waited for a while, and waited for a while, when he gathered enough troops and horses, left Gao Tanglong to guard the city, and took eight thousand soldiers to meet Cao Xiu. It's too late.

Cao Xiu's army had fled the night before, and when Xu Zhen led his troops to meet Cao Xiu, Cao Xiu had already led 5,000 soldiers to retreat to only thirty miles away from Yingyang.

In other words, even if Xu Zhen did not send troops to respond, Cao Xiu was about to retreat to Yingyang.

The hapless Xu Zhen thought that he had taken a great risk to meet General Cao Xiu, but. almost let the angry Cao Xiu directly throw off the blame and push it out to cut.

If it weren't for Cao Xiu's last little sanity, Xu Zhen would have really fallen to the ground.

And the reason why Cao Xiu still has a little reason left is actually very simple - the three partial generals under him, Zhang Pu, Xue Qiao, and Zhang Te, none of them have been able to withdraw safely until now, and they all don't know whether they are alive or dead.

If Xu Zhen is cut again, Cao Xiu will really have no available people under him.

You can't let Cao Xiu command Gao Tanglong, that scholar.

Let's not say that the two had conflicts before, even if he has a mind like Jia Kui, he can let go of the contradictions at a critical moment and endure each other for the country. Gao Tanglong, that scholar, doesn't understand military affairs at all, Cao Xiu still knows this.

In this way, although Cao Xiu threw the pot to Xu Zhen and scolded Xu Qian, but when he was employing people, Cao Xiu could only endure the fire and withdraw to Yingyang with Xu Qian.

After withdrawing to Yingyang, Cao Xiu saw that Gao Tanglong, who was supposed to stay in Shangcai, had actually arrived in Yingyang, and he was immediately in a hurry.

Xu Zhen has the task of withdrawing his own troops, and it is understandable that he appeared in Yingyang. Why are you here?!

If Gao Tanglong is in Yingyang, then who is staying behind in Shangcai?!

Cao Xiu became popular again, and this time, he planned to even dump Gao Tanglong to ask for the blame.

But Gao Tanglong is not Xu Qian, in terms of social status, Gao Tanglong is indeed inferior to Cao Xiu, but it is not inferior to Jia Kui during the period of guarding Hefei, Gao Tanglong is a great Confucian in the world, an official and famous for his honesty, can he suffer this grievance? !

Gao Tanglong immediately asked Cao Xiu - what is the use of me staying in Shangcai, do I have soldiers in my hands?!

Is there a commander of the light pole, stay in Shangcai and wait to be the prisoner of the Jiangnan turtle?!

Cao Xiu was also a little choked when he heard this. When he arranged for Xu Zhen to take over him, he really didn't think about how to arrange Shang Cai's defense in case Xu Zhen transferred all the soldiers away.

But now, Cao Xiu didn't bother to argue whose responsibility it was, and it was all Xu Qian's fault anyway.

Can't you throw the pot to Gao Tanglong, can't I still throw the pot to my men?!

Moreover, after Cao Xiu learned that Shangcai was almost an empty city now, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the troops to retreat and return to Shangcai.

No way, the geographical location of Shangcai is very important, the north side is Yanzhou, and the west side leads to Yingchuan Shangcai is lost, then there is no need for Runan to continue to hold on, and all the roads that should be opened are opened.

Cao Xiu wants to withdraw his troops back to defend Shangcai, Gao Tanglong has no opinion on this, but Gao Tanglong has a problem - Cao Xiu has withdrawn, what should Yingyang do? !

Just give it to the Soochow Army?!

Let's not talk about running away without a fight, will it repeat the fate of being chased and killed by the Eastern Wu Army. Let's just say that those Wei troops who are still scattered and fled near Yingyang, what should they do?!

Once they give up Yingyang, they don't even have the last destination to escape, doesn't that force them to surrender to the Eastern Wu Army?!

On the contrary, as long as Yingyang is still there, those routs have a direction to flee, and if you wait here for a few days, you may be able to gather some escaped Wei soldiers and soldiers to return to Jianjian than to give them up directly, right?!

When Cao Xiu heard it, the depressed one. A scholar is a scholar, at this time, I still think about this.

Yes, if you are not in a hurry, Cao Xiu also wants to hold on to Yingyang for a few days, and by the way, he can gather some routs. When the Chibi fire was defeated, the clan uncle Cao Ren was ordered to stick to Jiangling in danger, and he relied on the remnants of the army to block Zhou Yu's first wave of offensive, and then rebuilt the morale and military morale, and held Jiangling for nine months.

Now, Cao Xiu can actually follow Cao Ren's example and stick to it in Yingyang.

But the problem is that Yingyang is just a small county town, where is the strategic point of Shangcai important.

He Cao Xiu fought a turnaround battle in Yingyang and defeated the besieging Dongwu army in Yingyang, but if Shangcai lost it, it would be all in vain.

In addition to being suffocated to death by the Eastern Wu Army in Runan, Cao Xiu couldn't think of his second fate.

Therefore, Cao Xiu left 2,000 soldiers for Gao Tanglong and asked him to stick to Yingyang, while he took the remaining 13,000 or so soldiers and immediately returned to the army and returned to Shangcai.

Since you Gao Tanglong feel that it is necessary to stick to Yingyang, then you can guard it.

Keep it, it's your credit, you can't keep it. I don't blame you.

(End of chapter)