Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 232 victory or defeat
Guan Yu is too strong!
After a fierce battle for a long time, Li Dian couldn't help feeling this way about his opponent.Since Le Jin was forced to withdraw from the battle, he has been fully responsible for attacking the Jingzhou army on this side.Under his command, the [-] Jingzhou Army fought hard for nearly three hours, and the casualties definitely exceeded [-].But relying on Guan Yu's efforts, he still didn't collapse.

No matter where the danger is encountered, Guan Yu is always the first to plug the loopholes.And his arrival was always accompanied by Cao Jun's massive casualties.Since the start of the war, there have been more than a hundred souls killed by Guan Yu Qinglong Yanyue's sword, and more than ten people have been killed by his sword just for officers above the school lieutenant level.Many generals of the Cao army with higher martial arts were dissatisfied with Guan Yu's bravery, and they stepped forward to fight him one after another, and the final result was that they all died.

Li Dian's own martial arts can only be considered top-notch, but he has been with first-class masters like Xu Chu for a long time, so his vision is naturally not bad.Just looking at Guan Yu's performance, Li Dian knew that he would be dead if he went up to fight, so from the very beginning, he never had the idea of ​​killing Guan Yu. Cao Xiu and Cao Chun are also similar.Although such an approach is very wise, it is undeniable that because of this, the morale of the Jingzhou Army has always been so overwhelming over Cao Jun.In the era of cold weapons, the spiritual power brought by individual heroism cannot be underestimated.

"General, General Yujin has been defeated!" Just as Li Dian was about to attack again, the lieutenant beside him shouted in disbelief, pointing at Yujin's army to the east.Li Dian looked in astonishment, but saw that Yu Jin's infantry started to run back like rabbits, or rushed towards him, even Yu Jin himself was among the defeated soldiers.

"It's the camp!" Li Dian quickly saw clearly the army that was chasing Yu Jin, as well as Gao Shun, who had a serious face among them.It's no wonder that Yu Jin, who has always been strict in running the army, was defeated. It turned out that his opponent was not only Zang Ba, but also trapped in the camp.The problem is that if he defeats his side in this way, not only will it not help him to pinch Guan Yu, but it will also disrupt his own formation.The final result can only lead to chaos among his troops.

"King Wei, order the troops to withdraw!" Looking at the expressionless Cao Cao, Jia Xu remonstrated softly.Cao Cao looked at Yu Jin who had already collapsed, and the trapped camp that was rushing after him, and he was full of annoyance: he actually ignored this elite soldier.It's been a full ten years, and it's Gao Shun and his camp again, and it's here in Yanzhou again, and I've been so embarrassed by him again.The more critical issue is that Liu Bei is not the second-five boy like Lu Bu. Once he loses this move first, it will be difficult to regain the disadvantage.

"Chuan Lingzi and He Wenlie, retreat first!" Cao Cao glanced at the battlefield unwillingly, and gave such an order without hesitation.If they don't withdraw in time, it will only make Cao Xiu and the others fall into a passive position, and now they can only withdraw first.

The horn sounded to withdraw the troops, and Li Dian, Cao Xiu and others who were fighting fiercely quickly ordered the troops to withdraw from the Bagua formation.Before Cao Chun wanted to lead the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to retreat, but due to Guan Yu's stalking, this goal was not fully achieved.Now that the whole army is retreating, Li Dian's infantry are also withdrawing. It will be difficult for Guan Yu to stop him.

"Hmph, let them go first!" Guan Yu snorted coldly, and withdrew his hand to signal his troops to gather temporarily.The 2 Jingzhou army used as bait suffered nearly [-] casualties.There were almost the same number of Cao's troops left on the ground. Considering that Cao's army included tigers and leopards, and their own troops were at a disadvantage, the result of such a battle was acceptable.

"Retreat!" Cao Hong swung his knife to force Zhang Liao back in front of him, gritted his teeth and led the army to retreat.Zhang Liao was not busy chasing after him for a while, but looked at Cao Hong who was retreating hastily with some amusement.Cao Hong didn't know that this ending was exactly what the Fengyun Cavalry wanted.

"Fengyun cavalry, line up and pursue!" Zhang Liao gave an order, and the remaining 9 Fengyun cavalry began to assemble, divided into two columns and began to pursue at full speed. The target was Cao Cao's army that had just withdrawn.At this time, Yu Jin, Li Dian, Cao Xiu, and even Cao Chun have all gathered in one place, and Cao Hong's last three thousand tiger and leopard riders will also catch up. Retreat in the direction of Xuchang.

The only ones still fighting fiercely were Xu Chu and the three thousand tiger guards.Chen Dao still held the gun tightly in his hand, but his arms were numb.After a fierce battle just now, he and Xu Chu fought head-to-head for more than 80 rounds, which almost exhausted all his energy.If it wasn't for Cao Jun's order to retreat, he estimated that he would last at most twenty more moves.

"Retreat!" Looking at Chen Dao unwillingly, Xu Chu waved his hand and led his Tiger Guards to retreat. "Commander, do you want to go after him?" A deployment asked Chen Dao.

"Chasing, of course. Pass on my general order to pursue Cao Jun, but you must follow General Wen Yuan's Fengyun Cavalry, don't be too rash!" Chen Dao calmed down and his tone returned to normal when he gave the order again .At present, under the command of Chen Dao, Guan Yu, Zang Ba and others, all the infantry gathered together, followed the Fengyun cavalry army led by Zhang Liao, and began to pursue Cao Jun.

"King Wei, the enemy is coming!" Xiahou Feng, son of Xiahou Dun and lieutenant of Xiaoqi school, said loudly among the retreating Cao army.Cao Cao's face was as still as water, but he said indifferently: "It's okay, Zi Lian's tiger and leopard are riding in the rear, he must be prepared!"

As Cao Cao expected, Cao Hong and his tiger and leopard cavalry, who retreated in the end, took the initiative to take responsibility for the rear.But what he didn't expect was that Zhang Liao did not fight head-on with the tiger and leopard cavalry, but led the Fengyun cavalry into two columns and began to outflank Cao Cao's army, especially the infantry of the central army and the front army.That's right, Zhang Liao just wanted to reproduce the strategy he used to deal with Sun Yi in Danyang in the past. He used the Fengyun cavalry to entangle the opponent's brigade, and then his own infantry followed and strangled.After all, relying on his own [-] Fengyun Cavalry Army, it is really unrealistic to want to wipe out the opponent here.

"Fengyun cavalry, spread out!" Zhang Liao gave an order, Fengyun cavalry did not go head-to-head with Cao Hong at all, but directly divided into two columns, Zhang Liao and Zang Ba led one each, outflanking Cao Cao's army from left and right, and at the same time The cavalry also began to use bows and crossbows to shoot at Cao Jun, and immediately bounced off after shooting an arrow, avoiding the opponent's counterattack.

Ten thousand long arrows shot into Cao Jun's formation. Since Cao Jun was retreating and the cavalry and infantry were mixed, the casualties caused by the ten thousand arrows were really not small.At the same time, most of the tiger and leopard cavalry were trapped in the formation, so they were unable to fight back against the Fengyun cavalry in time. Now Cao Jun was almost naked and passive.

"Good boy!" Cao Chun was the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, but he had to admire Zhang Liao's ability to command the cavalry.Just now, the Fengyun cavalry almost left as soon as they touched it. They had always remained on both sides of Cao Jun, but then suddenly pressed in the middle, and withdrew after shooting a round of arrows.The tiger and leopard cavalry were all heavy cavalry in iron armor, and if they were chasing each other on flat ground, even if they were riding good horses from Bingzhou, they might not be able to catch up to the lightly armed Fengyun cavalry.At the time of the battle just now, the Fengyun Cavalry was forced to fight hand-to-hand with Cao Hong in order to prevent Cao Hong from joining up with the rest of the army.Now as soon as the chase started, the flexibility advantage of the Fengyun Cavalry was brought into play.When Cao Jun wanted to fight back, the opponent had already moved away.

"Kill!" This round of Zhang Liao's assault obviously slowed down the opponent's speed. The pursuing infantry immediately surrounded him under the leadership of Guan Yu, bit off a piece of the opponent's tail, and left behind to outflank and annihilate him. Guan Yu himself led the team again. Continue to chase.

In this way, you chased after me. Once Cao Jun's retreat speed increased, Zhang Liao rushed forward, using cavalry and shooting to slow down the opponent's retreat.And once the retreat was a little slower, Guan Yu would pounce on him like a mad dog, and would bite off a piece of meat at least.

This battlefield is only more than sixty miles away from Xuchang City, and there are open plains in between. If Cao Cao really retreats with all his strength, Cao Cao can retreat to Xuchang in more than an hour.However, under the joint efforts of Zhang Liao and Guan Yu, after about an hour, Cao Cao retreated no more than ten miles.Cao Cao knew that this was very unsafe for him, and once he was trapped in this wilderness at night, he would be even more passive.

"King Wei, retreating like this is not the way to go!" Jia Xu drove forward at this time, Cao Cao looked at his soldiers, many of them were already terrified, and Zhang Liao's riding and shooting just now brought to their psychology The pressure is just too much.

"Is there a way for Wenhe?" Cao Cao asked quickly after hearing what Jia Xu said.Jia Xu looked at the surroundings and advised, "My lord can return to Xuchang under the protection of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and the infantry will follow later!"

"No, why did Cao leave the soldiers and escape alone?" Cao Cao flatly rejected Jia Xu's suggestion.

"King Wei, if we retreat together like this, I'm afraid that we will be entangled to death by Zhang Liao. It's better for King Wei to retreat to Xuchang to stabilize the army, and the rest of the infantry will retreat alone under the leadership of General Zilian and the others. It's better than everyone dying together in the suburbs." !” Jia Xu remonstrated bitterly.

"Mr. Wen He's words are right, King Wei please go first!" Li Dian also remonstrated at this time, and another round of arrows rained down while speaking, and many soldiers fell to the ground immediately.

Cao Cao looked at the army behind him, there were at least 8 infantry here, [-].Even if Cao Cao's martyr broke his wrist, he was reluctant to give up these [-] people all at once. "My lord, go first, and I will lead the infantry back to Xuchang safely!" Yu Jin also persuaded.

Cao Cao knew that Yu Jin and Li Dian were capable of commanding troops, but with their abilities, at most they could bring most of the soldiers back to Xuchang, and they would definitely lose some.The problem is that the marching speed of the infantry is very slow. Even if they retreat back to Xuchang in a hurry, Guan Yu can steadily drive behind them under the interference of the Fengyun cavalry. That is, Guan Yu and Zhang Liao waited steadily behind Li Dian and Yu Jin. When Cao Cao opened the gate of Xuchang, they followed Li Dian and Yu Jin to attack Xuchang.

"Don't worry, King Wei, Jia Xu has his own way to get the two generals back to Xuchang safely!" Jia Xu seemed to anticipate what Cao Cao was worried about, and quickly made a guarantee.Looking at Cao Cao's disbelieving eyes, Jia Xu simply said: "If Jia Xu can't do it, I would rather die to thank the three armies!"

"Okay!" Li Dian and Yu Jin knew Jia Xu's abilities, now that he said that there must be a solution, they felt relieved, at least they had something to look forward to when they returned to Xuchang.However, Cao Cao knew Jia Xu's character. Since he had a way but didn't say it clearly, it must be a bad way. Speaking up now would affect morale.

But Cao Cao couldn't take care of these anymore. After avoiding another round of arrow rain, Cao Cao ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and all the tiger and leopard riders gathered together, ready to protect him and rush out of the encirclement to attack Xuchang.

(End of this chapter)