Zhang Xiao has no way to find out Mr. Zhu now, looking at the flock of sheep that are gradually moving away, he can only do this, let this battle come to an end, and then step on the oblique sword and fly towards the camp, it seems that it is not wise to deal with Lord Rabbit now, it is better to go back and see Niu Jin's injury.

Zhang Xiao flew along the original road for a long time, and finally saw the vanguard troops, but they did not move forward, but retreated, which made Zhang Xiao feel bad, could it be that the grass man imitation technique was not lifted, and the vanguard troops were defeated?

Since Niu Jin has now been seriously injured, Gao Zhan temporarily served as the leader of the team at the front to lead the troops to retreat, and when he saw Zhang Xiao flying over, he was immediately very happy, it seemed that the spell caster had been defeated.

Zhang Xiao fell in front of Gao Zhan very worriedly, and asked him: "Xie Long, what's the matter, why are you going back now, are you still defeated by the straw man?"

Gao Zhan drove his horse to Zhang Xiao and hurriedly replied: "That's not the case, those straw people all failed soon after you flew out of the camp, and they changed back to the original appearance of the straw people, but General Niu Jin was seriously injured, Fang Ji said that he might not be able to move for a few months, and General Niu Jin guessed that Jingzhou should know our movements now, so he decided not to advance for the time being, decided to retreat, stationed troops on the border of Jingzhou, and then went to Xinye after meeting with General Cao Ren." ”

This is indeed the wisest decision, Zhang Xiao guessed that Mr. Zhu would definitely go back to report the news, if he continued to advance at this time, it was likely to fall into the ambush prepared by the enemy in advance, and it would be safest to wait until the army was assembled, so he also retreated with the vanguard force.

The vanguard did not return to the grassland, because there was no danger there and was not suitable for camping, so they advanced to the east of the mountain and woodland, and happened to join the vanguard of Cao Hong's army, which had arrived behind.

The leader of the vanguard of Cao Hong's army was Cao Fu, who, after being informed of the battle situation by Gao Zhan, decided to let the two troops merge into one and wait until the army arrived here before marching towards Xinye.

Zhang Xiao and Gao Zhan led Cao Fu to meet Niu Jin, and after coming to the tent where Niu Jin lived, Cao Fu looked at Niu Jin who was lying on the bed with bandages on his body with great interest and said: "Junxiang is really brave in battle, I have heard about your amazing deeds, I didn't expect you to fight so fiercely in the first battle as a general, and the soldiers under him did not have much damage, and they bloomed." ”

Niu Jin has been serving as Cao Ren's subordinate general since he joined the army, and this time he took the initiative to ask for his life to have the opportunity to serve as a pioneer and became a pioneer general, but he didn't expect to meet an immortal cultivator in the first battle, and he was seriously injured, which is really embarrassing.

Niu Jin and Cao Fu are also familiar with each other, and they know that he is joking with himself, but he still laughs out loud and says: "Bozhi, don't laugh at me, since you go to the battlefield, you will definitely be injured, this little thing is nothing, but we are in some trouble now, the enemy army has already known our whereabouts, it seems that if you want to take Xinye, you must win by surprise." ”

Speaking of the current situation, Cao Fu also became serious, and he had already learned from Gao Zhan that there were spies within his side, and the surprise attack plan was a complete failure, and what he had to do now was to see how to counter the ambush.

But Cao Fu was more worried now, and said: "Although we already know that Jingzhou is on guard, General Xu Chu probably won't listen to it, and they may directly run into an ambush." ”

Niu Jin knew that Xu Chu could be called a reckless man, but he had rich combat experience, so such a situation should not be a brainless breakthrough, right? So he asked: "Why do you conclude that General Xu Chu will advance alone, with the current situation, they should also garrison the border, wait until all the three armies are assembled, and then attack Xinye at the same time, and open the gate of Jingzhou in one fell swoop." ”

Cao Fu shook his head and said: "There are some things that you don't understand, two of the three vanguard armies this time are from our Cao family, and they don't need to be successful at all, so they don't care if they start a war or not, but General Xu Chu is different, although he is a person trusted by the prime minister, but if he wants to be the commander of the three armies, he still needs military merits, so he will never give up for the first merit this time." ”

Niu Jin still felt that Xu Chu's army should not deliberately get into danger, and said: "But I have already ordered the spies to pass on the battle situation to General Xu Chu, in this case, General Xu Chu should not knowingly commit a crime, right?"

Cao Fu smiled contemptuously and said: "How could it not, Xinye was originally a piece of fat, and now General Xu Chu knows that our two armies have stopped moving, isn't it a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions? It is estimated that he will not stop now, but may also speed up the march and rush to Xinye, and it is inevitable that he will encounter a defeat." ”

Niu Jin was very anxious when he heard this, and said: "Everyone is a team, if this is the case, we have to quickly repair the book to remind him." ”

Cao Fu shook his hand and said: "It's useless, you don't know General Xu Chu's temper yet, if you repair the book to persuade him, it is estimated that he will be even more excited, thinking that you are looking down on him, the result must be bad, let's wait for the news, I hope I am just worrying about nothing." ”

No matter how Xu Chu's army would attack, anyway, Cao Ren and Cao Hong decided to join forces, and now they will wait for all of them to converge, so Niu Jin asked, "Then I don't know how long it will take General Cao Hong's army to reach here?"

Cao Fu calculated for a moment and said, "According to the distance, I believe that it will take about the same time as General Cao Ren, and it should arrive on the same day." ”

Niu Jin and Cao Fu did not communicate again after this meeting, because Niu Jin needed to recuperate from his wounds, while Cao Fu had to lead two vanguard troops, until five days later, Cao Ren's army and Cao Hong's army arrived in the morning and evening of the same day, respectively, and they could finally go to Xinye together.

After the convergence, Zhang Xiao finally met Zhang Yao, but he was a little sullen, and he failed to solve the cultivators in Jingzhou, which was equivalent to saying that Zhang Yao was close to danger, and the situation was getting worse and worse.

When Zhang Xiao saw Zhang Xiao, he felt that he was now a little preoccupied, thinking that the vanguard army had suffered a defeat, and he was a little angry, so he comforted: "Cousin, I heard that you met an immortal cultivator in Jingzhou some time ago, and you fought with him, you weren't injured, right?"

Zhang Xiao has been calculating the journey to Xinye now, and suddenly became a little restless, and replied: "I'm not injured, it's just that I'm a little nervous about participating in the battle for the first time." ”

Seeing that Zhang Xiao was indeed a little distracted, Zhang Xiao felt that he should be caused by nervousness, so he said: "Cousin, I always feel that there is something wrong with Yuan Li, it stands to reason that he should be organizing his own army at this time, taking advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains, just to revolt, maybe he can open up some territory, but now he is staying in the Han army so leisurely, don't you think it's strange?"

Although he experienced the theft of the Qingyu fragments, Zhang Xiao always felt that Yuan Li was still credible, and replied: "Cousin, are you too careful, and his current stay in the barracks means that he may have figured it out, and he doesn't want to live for the needless restoration of the country, isn't it better?"

Zhang Xiao felt that what Zhang Xiao said was very unfounded, so he retorted: "I don't think he will be so simple, he has always been mysterious, there must be nothing good, and there is definitely no harm in beware of him." ”

Zhang Xiao was still thinking about his thoughts, but when he heard that Zhang Xiao had been saying bad things about Yuan Li, he suddenly laughed and said: "Cousin, you are fundamentally prejudiced against Yuan Li, since he stole the Qingyu fragments, you haven't looked at him with your eyes, you let him go." ”

Zhang Xiao saw that he couldn't make sense with Zhang Xiao, so he didn't say much to him, but Yuan Li still had to pay attention to it, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that he was not pleasing to the eye, and such a person staying in the barracks could only bring trouble.

However, the most distressing thing for Zhang Xiao now is that Cao Ren and Cao Hong have decided to rush to Xinye quickly, and it is only a day and night journey from here to Xinye, so it can be said that the danger is imminent, which makes Zhang Xiao even more anxious, so it is mandatory for Zhang Xiao to stay in the army and never leave the team.

When the two armies drove to the place where they were only a few kilometers away from Xinye, they received the news from Xu Chu's army, and sure enough, as Cao Fu guessed, Xu Chu's army was eager to make meritorious contributions, and fell into the enemy's plan to lure the enemy, and encountered Liu Bei's army ambush at Queweipo and suffered heavy losses, and now the remnants have been assembled and withdrawn to join Cao Cao's army, and can no longer attack Xinye with Cao Ren and Cao Hong's army.