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"When the general led his army to rush, the general knew the general's power and dared not fight. He had to turn around and retreat back to the valley, and met Cao Cao on the way. Then the general rushed into the valley alone. Cao Cao instigated the general to lead the general to surround and kill the general, and he himself took four personal soldiers to sneak into the plank road again. Then, taking advantage of the general's general's eagerness to ask for help, he personally led the army to rush out of the valley entrance."

After Cao Zhen finished speaking, Li Li stared at him with a sinister face, as if considering whether to kill him with one knife.

"Master, what Cao Zhen said should be correct. Please spare his life for the time being. Besides, these people are not worthy of the lord's personal actions, and they are not worthy of dying under the Jinqiu sword!"

Seeing that his lord still wanted to kill Cao Zhen, Guo Jia looked at Cao Zhen coldly and was trembling with fear. The submissive Cao Zhen's eyes were filled with contempt and disdain.

"I have noticed the person Cao Zhen mentioned before, who stood at the entrance of the valley to encourage Cao's army to fight bravely. But I didn't know that he was Cao Cao at that time. I thought he was a veteran with rich combat experience, so I didn't take it seriously. Now, after Cao Zhen said this, I never expected that that person was Cao Cao.

If everything is true as Cao Zhen said, and that middle-aged veteran is Cao Cao, then he is not hiding among the second group of Cao troops who rushed out of the valley entrance, but the first group. However, Cao thieves were treacherous and fickle. When they broke through the valley entrance, he did not immediately rush to the Guandao to fight, but stayed at the valley entrance waiting for the soldiers behind him. When the second group of Cao troops rushed out to fight with our army, he always hid behind him, and after the soldiers in front to tear open our army's defensive battle formation, he immediately broke out of the encirclement and fled to the south of the official road."

After a moment of speech, Guo Jia looked regretful: "This scene was seen by Wei Chen with his own eyes. He had suspected the identity of a middle-aged veteran at that time, but he was deceived by his ordinary infantry armor. In addition, the battle was stalemate and the battle was fierce. Tens of thousands of soldiers from the enemy and our army fought together. He really couldn't care about a mere veteran over forty years. He never expected that the person was Cao Cao! Looking back now, Wei Chen regretted it and asked Cao Cao to escape from my eyes, but I didn't know it at all.

Alas, no wonder Xu Shao once said: Cao Mengde is a capable minister in governing the world and a traitor in troubled times. Now it seems that this is true!"

"You don't have to blame yourself so much for Fengxiao. Didn't I, Li Li, be deceived by Cao Zhe? Before that, I must have met Cao Cao, and even passed by him, but because I didn't know him, I let him slip away from me."

After comforting Guo Jia softly, Li Li put away the sword on Cao Zhen's neck and looked at him with a very bad look: "Come here, detain this thief for the time being and then deal with it. Remember, all captive Cao's generals must be detained separately. No one is allowed to say a word to them. Those who violate the order shall be killed!"

"No!" He Man and He Yi brothers immediately handed Cao Zhen over to their personal soldiers. Then they apologized to Li Li, claiming that their brothers did not investigate for a while and mistakenly regarded Cao Zhen as Cao Cao. This was a crime of deceiving the king and it was difficult to escape the suspicion of taking military merits and willing to be punished.

Li Li shook his head slightly without caring about this, waved his hand to signal that they didn't have to care, and naturally he would punish them for this.

"According to the previous arrangement, the generals will lead their troops to search separately, and I hope everything is still too late!"

"No, we obey the order!"

With the promise, Huan Fei, Li Zhi, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, He Man and He Yi led their troops to set out, trying to surround Feiyundu and extend around with Feiyundu as the center, arresting Cao's surrendered soldiers and searching Cao Cao.

Watching the generals leave, Li Li suddenly remembered something and immediately turned his head and looked behind him: "Where is Meng Qi? Can Fengxiao know where Meng Qi is?"

"Uh!" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, turned his head and looked around, but he did not see Ma Chao's figure. "This??? Oh, by the way! Before the reinforcements arrived, General Meng Qi kept fighting here. When the reinforcements arrived, Cao's army was panicked and fled to the south official road regardless of everything. General Meng Qi saw that there were not many Cao troops around the valley entrance, so he led more than a hundred personal guards and cavalry to chase along the official road. It must have been ten miles away at this time."

"The official road to the south is ten miles away?" Li Li pondered after hearing this: "Fengxiao just said that he had seen a middle-aged veteran who matched what Cao Zhen said, fleeing south, which was exactly the same as Meng Qi's pursuit. Judging by the time and the speed of the infantry running, if the middle-aged veteran Fengxiao saw was Cao Cao, then would he be on the official road ten miles away at this moment?"

"Huh?" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, and immediately reacted: "What the lord said was very much. The direction of Meng Qi's pursuit of the middle-aged veteran was the way to escape. But after five or six miles south of the official road, there were many forks, and most of the mountain roads were stepped on by fishermen along the river. However, it was late at night and the mountain roads were extremely difficult to walk. If you want to get rid of our army's pursuit as soon as possible, walking the official road is undoubtedly the first choice."

"So Meng Qi is very likely to catch up with Cao Cao?" Li Li said suspiciously.

"It should be like this. In the battle between the two armies just now, almost all the cavalry of Cao's army were intercepted by our cavalry. Only a few cavalry escaped, and the combined number of cavalry would not exceed 500 cavalry, and they all fled in scattered ways. In other words, more than 90,000 Cao's army broke out of the encirclement were infantry, so their escape speed was definitely not as fast as our horses. From this, General Meng Qi should be able to catch up with Cao Cao now, and may even have caught Cao Cao or killed him directly!"

"Meng Qi grabbed Cao Cao?" After pondering, Li Li almost didn't have to think about it and shook his head subconsciously, as if he was very unfavorable about Ma Chao's arrest of Cao Cao.

Guo Jia was puzzled when he saw this: "Why is this lord? Do you think General Meng Qi can't catch Cao Cao or did not catch up with Cao Cao? I think it is impossible. As far as I know, General Meng Qi's crotch is the snow-shadowed divine horse that is hard to find by the lord himself. I heard that this horse is 12 feet long and has a shoulder height of more than nine feet, nearly one steep. It crosses mountains and ridges, crosses the river like walking on the flat ground, only a little less than the other lord's Hualiu horse. General Meng Qi has such a majestic mount, and his extremely powerful martial arts skills, how can a mere Cao Cao who is hard to escape? Of course, he is easy to capture it! "

Seeing Guo Jia's serious expression, Li Li nodded slightly, as if he had agreed with Guo Jia's remarks. However, he disagreed and still subconsciously thought that Ma Chao was really a bit difficult to capture Cao Cao, and it was very likely that Cao Cao would slip away from him.

In history, in the battle of Tongguan, Ma Chao led 100,000 Qiang cavalry to kill Cao Cao and fled. Then Ma Chao led his troops to chase Cao Cao, and he was targeted at Cao Cao at first, and then chased him all the way, forcing Cao Cao to cut off his beard and abandon his robe. However, even so, Cao Cao finally escaped from Ma Chao.

Therefore, when Li Li learned that Ma Chao was going to chase Cao Cao, his mind was immediately filled with doubts: "If Ma Chao could catch Cao Cao, how could the Three Kingdoms come from? Is this the so-called fateful encounter?"

"The lord still seems to have doubts. Could it be that he is still worried about General Meng Qi's arrest of Cao Cao?"

"Don't ask too much about the filial piety. I immediately follow me to the official road to the south. I hope it can still be too late!"

Before he finished speaking, Li Li immediately ran to control the golden beast. Seeing this, Guo Jia didn't say much, and waved his hand and led five hundred Jinqiu cavalry to catch up with him.

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"Tada!"

"You stop, those who squat on both sides of the road will avoid death, and those who are the rest will be killed without any quarrel!"

On the official road twelve miles south of Feiyundu, Ma Chao led more than 200 cavalry guards to chase and kill Cao's deserters, and forced nine deserters to surrender, with each deserter ranging from two to three hundred, and at least as many as 100. All of them captured more than 2,000 prisoners of war. Although these prisoners were taken over by the Western Liang army, no one took over the three 500 surrendered soldiers who had just caught up with. The subsequent troops had not arrived yet, leaving only 150 of them left to be divided into three teams to stay in charge of the surrendered soldiers.

Therefore, when Ma Chao chased after twelve miles along the way and finally caught up with a group of more than 300 Cao's army surrendered, he had only fifty personal guards around him, but he still used the old method he had tried and shouted while riding his horse to chase.

"I am the general Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi under the command of the general. You and others will stop me and surrender to avoid death. Otherwise, you will definitely ask you to leave your body and body in the wilderness!"

Indeed, until the fierce battle of the night, the Cao army's soldiers have become frightened birds. As long as they can save their lives, once they are caught by the Western Liang cavalry, most Cao soldiers will choose to surrender and survive. Only a very small number of people are still resisting and want to continue to escape, but they are defeated by Ma Chao and his personal soldiers. However, for Cao soldiers who squatted on both sides of the road and surrender, Ma Chao will do his best and will never kill anyone indiscriminately.

Therefore, after chasing all the way, Ma Chao and his team of more than 100 cavalry went very smoothly and did not encounter too tenacious resistance. Because most of the Cao soldiers were exhausted and even more unable to resist. I heard that surrender would be able to survive. Those who died for a lifetime and finally broke through the siege naturally did not want to die, and surrendered as long as they could survive.

However, there are exceptions in everything. Among the ten deserters of Cao's army, a deadly hard-working person who turned a deaf ear to Ma Chao's surrender was finally seen.

"Don't be afraid of all the soldiers. Ma Chao has only fifty thieves. As long as they kill them, they can survive. Let's kill the thief general Ma Chao together!"

Just as Ma Chao was racing to catch up with the tenth deserter in the middle of the deserter, more than 100 Cao soldiers behind him immediately threw away their weapons and squatted on the side of the road to surrender. However, two people suddenly jumped out of the front of the team. While waving their weapons to kill Ma Chao, they loudly instigated the soldiers beside them who were preparing to surrender to counterattack and killed Ma Chao.

"I'm really brave. Since you insist on dying, I'll send you a wait!"

With a loud shout, Ma Chao jumped and galloped. Dozens of Cao soldiers who were still hesitating along the way were frightened to throw away their weapons when they saw Ma Chao so fierce. They all avoided the roadside and squatted down. The dozens of cavalrymen at the front of the team were galloping wildly, and they no longer had time to care about the safety of an important person behind them.

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Chapter completed!