"At present, more than 20,000 Cao's army has entered the plank road. How can the Gukou Plank Road, which is more than 300 steps in length, accommodate so many soldiers? Therefore, if it is not expected, Cao's army should have broken through the Gukou Plank Road and rushed to the Guan Road."

After saying this with great difficulty, Zhang Liao lowered his head with shame, fearing that his lord Li Li would take his anger on him in anger.

As Zhang Liao thought, Li Li's face was covered with clouds, his eyebrows were raised like a sharp sword unsheathed, his eyes narrowed slightly, his eyes were as cold as a knife, and his angry expression was as if he wanted to choose someone to eat.

However, Li Li, who was furious, did not take his anger on Zhang Liao, nor did he blame Xu Chu and Xu Huang, but instead endured himself and looked up at the night sky, silent.

"The lord will vent his anger if he is unhappy. He will be willing to be punished. As long as the lord calms his anger!"

It is rare to see Xu Chu who is furious and lose his composure. At this time, he saw Li Li's face turned red and angry, and he couldn't bear it. He immediately flew off the horse and walked to Li Li, bowing to ask for punishment.

Li Li looked down at Xu Chu when he heard the sound, his anger was slightly relieved, and he reached out and patted Xu Chu on the shoulder: "What's wrong with Zhongkang? Why are you willing to receive the punishment?"

"It is the fault of our ministers who are unhappy to the lord. Tonight's affairs are all incompetent. First, they trapped the lord in the siege of the thief army, and now they let the thief escape in the chaos and disappear. This is our crime. Please don't get angry, the lord is willing to be punished!" Xu Chu said with a sincere and respectful expression.

"Well, Zhongkang is enough to have this kind of intention." He pulled Xu Chu up casually, and the angry look on Li Li's face quietly dissipated, and a hint of relief appeared.

"Just just when I was surrounded, Zhongkang came here in blood regardless of his own safety. He was extremely brave and loyal. If I, Li Li, had no reward for his contributions and was punished without any mistakes, wouldn't I be a very stupid person? How can I command the entire army in the future and convince the public? Therefore, Zhongkang doesn't have to do this. Such a small setback is nothing to Li Li, and there is no need to get angry at all.

Isn't it just Cao Cao? At best, he is just a prince, and a loser who has lost his foundation. He ran away. What's the point? Tonight, I was too impatient. I was thinking about killing Cao Cao, and for this, I didn't hesitate to go into battle personally and use my body as bait. If I lose my original intention, I will make a mistake. But I was a bit outrageous tonight. I only broke into the valley with just over a hundred people, but now I am lost. Instead, I left an opportunity for the Cao army to take advantage of, causing them to rush into the valley entrance plank road. However, we were left behind by Cao's army, blocked the valley and could not directly block the Cao army's breakthrough.

This mistake was too big, and it was equivalent to tying yourself, thus missing a great opportunity to intercept and kill Cao Thief!”

Xu Chu turned his head and looked at the tightly blocked plank road at the valley entrance, and then realized that he and others were really left behind by Cao's army. They were blocked in the valley and could not get out. At this time, if they wanted to return to the valley entrance, they had to kill from behind Cao's army. There were more than 20,000 Cao's army. Even if more than 20,000 cattle and sheep were standing there and chopping and killing, they could not be killed before dawn. Moreover, the troops in front of Cao's army had already rushed out of the valley entrance, and there was no need to wait until dawn. In half an hour, they could break through the intercepting army led by Ma Chao on the official road, and then escape.

As soon as he thought of this, Xu Chu immediately thought that Cao Cao, who was disguised as an ordinary infantry, must be hiding among the soldiers in the front. Maybe he had already rushed out of the valley at this time and was fighting with Ma Chao's troops.

"Lord, Cao's thief is likely to be in the front army. Maybe he has rushed to Guan Dao and met General Meng Qi head-on. I just don't know if Meng Qi recognizes Cao's thief, can he stop him or kill him directly. If Meng Qi had never seen Cao's thief like us, maybe he would let Cao's thief slip away from him!"

After hearing Xu Chu's words, Li Li nodded slightly: "What Zhongkang said is reasonable. Maybe you really got it right. Meng Qi is very likely to have never seen Cao Cao like me. If his father Ma Teng was here, Cao's thief would have been doomed. Because Ma Teng had seen Cao Cao. Unfortunately, it was too late to say anything now, Wen Yuan could recognize Cao Cao, but we were in the valley at this moment and could not get out; otherwise, as long as Wen Yuan recognized Cao Cao, he would not be able to escape tonight no matter what!"

Zhang Liao nodded slightly and said thoughtfully: "Maybe there is another possibility. This is that Cao Cao is not in the Cao army on the plank road at all. But at the beginning, he led 20,000 troops to the entrance of the valley north of Feiyundu, which means he went straight to the exit of General Teng Xiao to guard the northern end. If this is true, perhaps Cao Cao has broken through the encirclement and fled long ago. After all, the entrance of the northern end is much wider than the entrance of the southern end, and only 8,000 county soldiers are stationed, and his combat power is limited. If Cao thief personally led 20,000 troops to attack fiercely, he would definitely be able to break out of the encirclement within an hour, then escape from the distance and disappear."

"Well, there is indeed such a possibility." Li Li frowned and nodded slightly, after thinking for a while, he pondered and shook his head: "If Wenyuan was Cao Cao, would you choose to break through from the north or the south?"

"Uh! This is more than ten miles away from the valley entrance to the north, and the situation is unknown. Moreover, Cao's army only sent 20,000 troops. It is indeed unsure whether it can break through. The valley entrance to the south is right in front of us, only more than 300 steps away from the valley, and there are 40,000 troops in hand, so the possibility of breaking through the siege is greater. In comparison, if it is Cao Cao at the end, I would choose to stay at the valley entrance to the south and break out immediately whenever I have the chance." Zhang Liao said thinking.

"Yes, what Wen Yuan said is exactly what I want." Li Lishen nodded slightly with agreement: "Cao Cao is suspicious and fickle, cunning and wise. When he suddenly changes drastically tonight, he will definitely weigh the pros and cons. Then, the two powers will take the minority and distribute troops calmly. He divided 20,000 troops to attack the northern valley entrance, just a tentative attack, and he must lead the superior forces to attack the southern valley entrance where we are located nearby.

More importantly, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, Cao Anmin and other relatives who always follow him are here, as well as his eldest son Cao Ang who just died in battle. These Cao clans are all here. Could it be that Cao Cao will break through the northern valley entrance alone? Therefore, I am sure that Cao thief is at the entrance of the plank road at this moment or has already rushed to the official road, and there is no second possibility. Perhaps, he just passed by us, but because we have never seen him, we let him slip under his nose for nothing."

After saying that, Li Li looked up at the night sky and sighed: "Oh, there is no chance to catch turtles in a jar like tonight, and no chance to be lost, but we still didn't capture and kill Cao thief as soon as possible! Perhaps this is God's destiny that Cao thief should not be eliminated, but we still let him escape from our side by catching turtles in a jar. The most helpless thing is that so many generals in our army, including myself, only Wen Yuan recognized Cao Cao, and no one else had seen him. Now the last glimmer of hope can only be placed on Meng Qi and Fengxiao. I hope they can intercept Cao thief, regardless of life or death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Liqiang focused his mind, put aside the distracting thoughts and feelings in his heart, and ordered: "Zhang Liao, Xu Huang listened to the order and ordered you and the two of you to lead forty-five golden armored soldiers through the mountain stream and to the northern valley entrance to support Tengxiao; if you really can't resist and the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, I allow you to give up the northern valley entrance to avoid unnecessary bleeding and casualties, and try to save the lives of our soldiers."

"No! After receiving the order respectfully, Zhang Liao said with confidence: "So, the lord has only Zhongkang and seven personal soldiers to protect him. I'm afraid it's a bit inappropriate. What if??????"

Li Li raised his hand and signaled that Zhang Liao didn't need to say anything again: "Wenyuan doesn't have to worry. It's enough to have Zhongkang around me to protect my left and right. It's safe. No need to say too much, go quickly!"

"I hope, the general will take the order. Please take care of it!" Zhang Liao and Xu Huang bowed their hands and responded, and immediately led the Golden Armored soldiers to the north of the valley and rushed to the north of the valley.

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"Soldiers, the way to live is right in front of you, and the Xiliang army can't resist it anymore! The soldiers followed me to kill Shangguan Dao, and defeated the Xiliang army in one go. Kill it?"

At the south of the valley entrance, when tens of thousands of Cao troops rushed into the valley entrance plank road, Qubei and Xu Ding led 3,000 infantrymen to resist stubbornly and fight bloodily, but in the end it could not stop Cao Cao's army who was determined to rush out of the valley entrance to escape. Outnumbered, Qubei and the two generals Xu Ding led the infantry and retreated. Unexpectedly, seeing that the Cao army soldiers who were expected to escape became more and more braver, they completely broke through the valley entrance in less than two quarters of an hour and met with the Jinqi Guards' short soldiers who were waiting for the formation.

Fighting on the open official road, the brave and good at fighting Jinqiu cavalry finally had a place to use their skills, completely dominating the direction of the battle, galloping, opening and closing, and invincible. The first batch of more than 2,000 Cao army soldiers who rushed to Guandao were killed by the eight thousand Jinqiu cavalry in a moment, and there were almost no counterattack. There were very few survivors.

However, the Cao army in the plank road continued to rush out of the valley entrance and rushed towards the Jinqiu cavalry without fear of death, as if they were putting their lives and death apart. They fought wildly with their blood and courage and extremely strong desire to survive, and seized a foothold on the official road, and then rushed to the south regardless of everything. Faced with such a brave Cao army, the pressure on the Jinqiu cavalry increased greatly. Although they still had an absolute advantage, they could no longer stop the Cao army from breaking through and running away.

Seeing that there were more and more Cao army soldiers on the official road, Ma Chao, who was temporarily the chief general of the Jinqi Guard, sent two generals Wei and Xu Ding to lead the three thousand Jinqi Guard cavalry to the south of the official road to intercept the Cao army, and ordered He Man and He Yi to lead the five thousand infantrymen to guard the mountain road east of Feiyundu, while he himself led the five thousand war cavalry to intercept the Cao army head-on, and the remaining three thousand infantry were led by military advisor Guo Jia to block the fork intersection and mountains leading to the southwest of the official road.

In this way, the Xiliang army blocked the road and the Cao army who escaped from the road were scattered and broken through, while the other was divided into troops to intercept them, which was a fierce battle against the wheat, and they could not give up any inch of land.

Just at this moment, an ordinary infantryman in Cao's army, wearing armor, stood by the exit of the plank road, shouting loudly over and over again: "Soldiers, the way to live is right in front of you, and the Xiliang army can't resist it anymore!

Quick, hurry, hurry up, hurry up??? Quickly rush to Guandao, defeat the Xiliang army in one go, kill????????”

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