Bao Kui gave hot pursuit, and the arrows were all in unison to try to knock down the Han army, causing chaos and slowing down the Han army's march.

However, Zhang Fei's command is the elite of a hundred battles, interspersed with each other, and the distance is appropriate, so as to avoid being shot down due to the dense formation, although some soldiers and horses were shot down, but the Han army on the left and right sides reacted in time, the speed was not affected at all, and kept turning back to fight back, and the Cao army was never able to catch up.

Gradually, chasing deeper and deeper, getting farther and farther away from the main formation, Bao Kui was anxious, and then afraid, at first he saw Zhang Feiren fleeing less, and he thought that his great achievements were at his fingertips, and his blood surged up without thinking much about urgently asking for his life to pursue.

Now I can't catch up, calm down and think about it carefully, so many cavalry can't stop Zhang Fei, even if a hundred people catch up, it will be difficult to stop Zhang Fei's bravery.

The number of Han cavalry seen during the day appeared, and now the night was thick, and it was possible to know whether there were people by sight and sound at close range, but it was completely impossible to judge at a distance, and it was easy to hide the soldiers and horses.

With the current strength, it is certain that he will die when he is ambushed by the Han army, Bao Kui thinks that he has no ability to rush out in the chaos, and his back is cold.

The Cao army rushed all the way and was shot down more than 40 people, shooting and wounding dozens of people, and the more they chased them, the more cold they became, and they all advised Bao Kui: "With Zhang Fei's bravery, it is not easy to capture and kill, and now I see that the arrow can't be missed, and the horsepower can't catch up. ”

Bao Kui was indignant when he heard this, but he didn't feel empty in his heart. His subordinates persuaded him, and Bao Kui pushed the boat down the river and ordered Le Ma to stop, and scattered to check whether there were any Han ambushes nearby. Zhang Fei noticed that Cao's army was detached, ignored it, urged the horse to return, and galloped for a while, when the Han cavalry came to catch it.

Ma Dai was ordered to lead 4,000 soldiers and horses to bypass and attack the rear of the Cao army, and the Han army detachment attacked, and the bow and crossbow were fired around the array to the gap between the Cao array, intending to disturb the Cao army.

Xu Huang was engrossed in commanding the battle, and secretly nervously calculated in his heart: "Our army has defeated the thief army retreating south, killed the thief army's soldiers and horses, and severely damaged the courage of the thief army, so that the two thief armies lost the opportunity to meet and attack our army with superior forces."

It is difficult for the thief army to do anything today, because the thief army has far more cavalry than our army. It is necessary to be cautious that the thief army set up an ambush to lure us, so that the distance between the front and rear of our army will be widened, and the cavalry of the thief army will cut off the connection between Cao Xiu in the front and our department, and secretly turn around and strike.

At present, such a march can be guaranteed, but it is easy to let the thief army let go of speed and run away, and miss the opportunity to annihilate the thief army.

Zhang Fei sent Ma Dai to lead the cavalry to disrupt the intention of testing whether our army's reaction to the attack was radical or cautious, so as to choose to prepare for war or retreat south.

You can't show weakness, when you fight forward, maintain the current speed of travel, maintain the momentum of the angle with Cao Xiu's department, and overwhelm the momentum of the thief army.

The thief army avoids the battle when it seeks war, and when it retreats, it advances and follows, so that they can't ask for war, they are afraid of retreating, they are afraid in their hearts, they are afraid of advancing and retreating, and they are consumed by the thief army.

When the general arrived, the troops and morale were completely overwhelmed by the thief army, and the major events of the battle could be decided.

Before that, the thief army was successfully delayed, and the concern was that the cavalry of the thief army was roaming around, the soldiers were wearing helmets and armor, and the physical consumption of several shields and guns was huge, and the general (Cao Ren) could not hold it before he arrived. ”

Xu Huang weighed for a moment and gritted his teeth and said: "If you fight, even if you fail and wait for help on the spot, the loss will not be big, once you succeed, the thief army will be heavy or even annihilated!" When it is broken, it is broken! ”

Xu Huang strictly ordered to continue to maintain the original speed forward, the thief army approached and shot back with strong bows and crossbows, spears and halberds marched layer by layer, keeping the same pace, and each general performed his own duties.

Cao Jun's speed did not decrease, Ma Dai had nothing to do, he couldn't stop it, and after consuming Cao Jun's physical strength for an hour, he left south, Xu Huang ignored it.

Half an hour later, Ma Dai returned and attacked again, walked again, returned again, and attacked again.

Ma Dai's move was to make Cao Jun unable to judge the movements of the Han army, and even if he left, he had to remain on alert, exhausting Cao Jun.

Ma Dai counted the time and carried out the last harassment and evacuation. The Cao army heralds, who had been blocked by the Han army for a long time, were finally able to see Xu Huang and report that Zhang Fei led his troops to attack the formation, and Cao Xiu was afraid that there would be variables and temporarily put his way on hold.

Xu Huang asked carefully and said in a deep voice: "Zhang Fei may have a plan to make a mistake, but we don't have time to think too much, you report back to General Cao Xiu immediately, and you must not slow down."

Don't be afraid, slow advance is to show weakness, show weakness is defeat, and the general's army must be able to reach it in a moment. Zhang Fei dared to attack, he didn't have to be afraid, when he retreated to meet with me, it was easy to support five or six hours with two troops, and when the thief army was tired, the general rushed to defeat the thief army with two combined attacks. ”

The herald rushed away as ordered, and Xu Huang sent men and horses to report the news separately in order to prevent the Han army from blocking it.

Zhang Fei hurried back to the cavalry hideout, and when the generals saw him, Zhang Fei asked, "Have all the soldiers and horses who met the way back?" ”

Lei Tong replied: "General, most of the soldiers have returned, and a few soldiers and horses have been informed and are rushing back!" ”

Zhang Fei looked behind him from afar and said, "The children of the Cao family were neither provoked by my battle, nor greedy for merit, and only sent a few hundred people to chase after them. ”

Lei Tong and other generals were overjoyed: "The general is really good, and the army can come and go freely!" ”

Zhang Fei said indifferently: "The success of the sneak attack in the dark night is not glorious, and I would have disdained it in normal times, but now I can't look back on it for the smooth withdrawal of the soldiers." ”

The generals looked at each other and said, "It's a pity that Cao Jun was not fooled and the ambush failed?" ”

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "I never thought about ambushing Cao Jun, just to deter. Our army can only fight with only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and it is divided into 4,000 and General Ma Dai, how can we have the strength to ambush Cao's army.

Now retreating back to Jingzhou is the first priority, and if you ambush it, it will not be easy to win the battle to surround Cao's army, and it is not good for a lone army to fight here for a long time.

If the ambush is successful, it will be cowardly and self-defeating, and Cao Junsheng will definitely chase after him, which is not good! I intend to arouse the suspicion of Cao's army, if Cao's army pursues, General Lei will pretend to be a momentum halfway, attack but not surround, and deter Cao's army, so that Cao's army will mistakenly think that our army is going to ambush, so that they will be afraid and retreat. ”

While everyone was talking, the scouts kept replying: "Most of the Cao army has not pursued, and the marching speed has slowed down!" ”

Zhang Feixi said: "Okay, now that Cao Jun doesn't chase him, he has doubts, and the goal has been achieved, take the opportunity to get rid of Cao Jun and evacuate quickly!" "The people will promise.

When the Han army let go of the horsepower and rushed to Quepo, along the way, Zhang Fei actually found that there were cavalry retreating with Zhao Lei pulling down, for these knights who looked like them, it was normal to toss back and forth for a day and a night to hold on, and Zhao Lei couldn't care about them after they fell, and they mostly hid nearby.

Zhang Fei tried his best to let the well-trained soldiers and horses lead them forward, but if they couldn't do it, he ordered them to abandon their horses and take off their armor to find a hidden place to hide, and then look for an opportunity to return to Jingzhou.

Zhang Fei knew that the army could not hide the truth and the truth, and when the Cao army captured a few people, he would understand, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he stepped up his urging of the whole army to rush to Quepo.

Zhang Wei, who was ordered to investigate the sentinel guard, recognized that it was Zhang Fei and led his troops to welcome in, and Feng Xi and Zong Pre greeted them one after another. Zhang Fei didn't have time to get off the horse and asked, "How is the situation?" ”

Feng Xi said: "General, the 20,000 soldiers and 20,000 cavalry led by General Gan have retreated south, and the last general will follow the general's instructions before the time, ordering them to take off all their armor and so on. ”

Zhang Fei responded: "How is the magpie slope arranged? What about the large and small intersections nearby? ”

Feng Xi took the map handed over by Zong Pre to Zhang Fei and said, "General, look, I have cut down all the three paths near Quepo, and it will take at least seven or eight hours for soldiers and horses to pass through and clear the trees.

There are two big roads on the left and right of Quepo Avenue, the road near the left takes an extra hour, and the road near the right takes two and a half hours, because the road is wide, it is not easy to block, and the last general can only send people to set up a simple horse rejection, fence, and dig a trench, hoping to delay a moment more. ”

Zhang Fei said with satisfaction: "Well done, now send someone to inform the soldiers who remain on the left and right roads, except for the scouts to continue to monitor, the rest will immediately withdraw to Jingzhou." ”

Feng Xi hesitated: "General, if there is no one left behind on the avenues on both sides, the speed of the Cao army's detour will be accelerated, and our army will not be able to defend Quepo for a long time." ”

Zhang Feiqi said: "Who said that you want to guard the magpie slope? Pack up and retreat now! ”

Feng Xi exclaimed: "Third general, our whole army evacuated?" What about Junhou (Guan Yu)? No one responds to the prince, how to break through this layer of encirclement? ”

Zhang Feiqi said: "Xiu Yuan, you are also a person who knows the soldiers, General Gan led his troops to retreat south in the water has attracted the Cao army, how can my second brother march along this path to death again?" There are countless paths to Jingzhou, all of which are far and near.

Moreover, the main force of soldiers and horses is under the command of General Gan, and the remaining soldiers and horses are few and lightly armed, and it is not difficult to find another way, even if there is a Cao army and a partial division to encircle it, it is difficult to stop, now we can retreat quickly, don't pay attention to the second brother! ”

As soon as Zhang Fei finished speaking, the scout flew to report, and Cao Jun suddenly rushed over for some reason after slowing down a little!

Zhang Fei unconsciously turned around and looked into the distance: "Cao Jun is afraid that he has seen something, I thought that he could hold on for a while longer, but I think that Cao Jun wants to stay with us, and wants to buy time for the Cao army of the Quartet to gather!" ”

Feng Xi stepped forward and said carefully: "Third general, let's withdraw now?" ”

Zhang Fei said: "All the armor, canes, and instruments abandoned by the previous time (Ganning Department) are piled up and used to block and fill the road, and if there is dry firewood, they are cross-filled.

In addition to the necessary items such as armor and weapons, the whole army abandoned all non-essential items, retreated lightly, and each person could bring three or five days of rations, General Lei stayed, and the rest of the generals quickly led the troops to evacuate Quepo! The generals answered their promise.

Lei Tong stepped forward and clenched his fists and was about to speak, Zhang Fei spoke first: "After you break off with me, I am in front, and you are in the middle." Cao Jun killed, I set fire on both sides while retreating, the fire could not spread for a short time, and when I led the troops to you, they were lit together.

With the horsepower, the fire was still faint, and we walked through the fire and ignited to block the Cao army, even if a small part of the Cao army rushed over, there was no need to worry. "Lei Tong promised.

In the magpie slope, Zhang Fei paid attention to Cao Jun behind him while setting fires, and when he saw Cao Xiu chasing after him, Zhang Fei laughed and praised: "The Cao family is so courageous!" Hmph, but it's useless to rely on courage in a battlefield confrontation, and a hard chase will definitely cost you your life! ”

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, the fire grew bigger, Lei Tong set fire to the armor, the fire intersected, and suddenly burst up, and Cao Xiu turned around when he saw this.

Zhang Fei said: "Count you as a kid." After leaving Quepo, a group of Han soldiers set fire to the army.

Cao Xiu beat his horse and retreated quickly, rushing out with horsepower before the fire was completely burned, and dozens of Cao Jun, who couldn't dodge, caught fire on their bodies, fighting the flames as they walked.

When they got to safety, they jumped to the ground and rolled, and their companions hurriedly came to help put out the fire, Cao Xiu turned around and looked at the fire burning on Quepo, and muttered: "The thief army was forced to burn clothes and armor to stop our army, which shows that it is exhausted!" Don't miss this opportunity, go all out to catch up and win! ”

After thinking about it, he turned his head and pointed to the back and ordered sharply: "Immediately turn around, retreat to an open place to reorganize the array, and find another path to intercept the thief army!" Hurry! The generals hurriedly complied with the promise and urged the soldiers to turn around.

Cao Xiu quickly pulled the chaotic cavalry out of Quepo, regrouped the formation, and rushed to the nearest path near Quepo, and in a panic, he did not forget to send someone to inform Xu Huang to change the pursuit route.