323. The arrival of the army
In the chaos, Xiahou Dun suddenly heard someone calling him in the left rear. When he turned around, he saw that it was Li Dian. He wrapped his mouth and nose with a piece of rag, and had arrived beside him.
"Yuan gave it to you, protect your mouth and nose first! Don't be choked by smoke!" Li Dian said as he handed over a piece of rag. Xiahou Dun nodded and hurriedly took it, covering his mouth and nose like Li Dian.
"Mancheng, I regret not listening to what you said just now. What should I do for the current plan?" Xiahou Dun said to Li Dian.
"Yuan Rang, the road ahead has been cut off. Now we can only withdraw from the way we come." Li Dian said with a wry smile. "But this design person is afraid that he will not let us leave easily, so there will be a large army to intercept the way we come!"
After hearing this, Xiahou Dun glared at his eyes: "A family is about to fight and get angry. Mancheng, you can gather the soldiers, I will take people out to see!" After saying that, without waiting for Li Dian to answer, he rushed to kill the horse and rushed back to the way he came.
When Li Dian saw Xiahou Dun killing back, he was determined to follow and help. But at this moment, another rain of arrows came, and the fire became increasingly fierce, and even if he covered his mouth and nose, it became difficult to breathe. Even if people were like this, the horses would be even more unbearable.
When Li Dian saw it, he had to shout, "The soldiers will follow me to kill you!" After that, he walked out immediately, and all the Cao troops who could move behind him followed. But no one cared about those seriously injured.
Just like this, Li Dian walked and shouted, and in a short while, thousands of people gathered together. At this time, fires were rising into the sky and thick smoke rolled. Li Dian shouted so hard that he looked at the people behind him and thought to himself, "Forget it, I can't care about the rest. It would be nice to take these people out."
Thinking of this, Li Dian stopped shouting, but led his men to kill him. At this time, Xiahou Dun, who was the first to fight out, had already fought with Wen Pin. In order to survive, Xiahou Dun used all his strength at this moment, and his big gun was dancing like a dragon. Wen Pin resisted with all his strength, but was still suppressed. However, Wen Pin withdrew from Xiahou Dun's two rounds of fierce attacks with his tenacity.
After a long period of attack, Xiahou Dun suddenly became angry. He yelled: "How dare you stop me by a man?" The big gun in his hand suddenly accelerated and rushed towards Wen Pin's throat. Wen Pin drifted over, and then the knife in his hand flipped and rushed towards Xiahou Dun's chest.
Xiahou Dun actually ignored the big knife that was chopping at him, and the gun in his hand ran towards Wen Pin's head. It was a way of fighting to die together. Wen Pin was afraid at the critical moment. He raised his knife to block Xiahou Dun's big gun.
Xiahou Dun's eyes lit up, and he was waiting for this moment. Xiahou Dun's big gun trembled, changed direction and stabbed Wen Pin's shoulder.
"Ah!" Wen Pin shouted, handed the sword with one hand and then defeated. Seeing that he finally defeated Wen Pin, Xiahou Dun breathed a sigh of relief, swung his gun and joined his troops into the enemy.
As the saying goes, generals are the courage of soldiers. Wen Pin retreated, and his soldiers no longer fell in love with the battle. They were attacked by Xiahou Dun and fled in all directions. At this time, Li Dian and his men also escaped. As soon as the two met, they quickly retreated in the direction they came. Not long after they left, Wei Yan led his army to surround all the Cao army that had no time to escape.
Xiahou Dun and Li Dian escaped more than fifty miles with the defeated generals in one breath, and then stopped. After counting the number of people, there were only less than three thousand men left. It was useless to say more. With the three thousand men, let alone attack Xinye, if they don’t leave, they will be destroyed. Thinking of this, Xiahou Dun sighed helplessly and led these defeated generals to Xuchang with Li Dian.
After Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun and Li Dian to set out with the vanguard, he began to rectify the army. Two days later, the army was rectified and the food, grass and supplies were ready. He then led the army out of Xuchang City and rushed to Xinye County to fight.
The army had just set up a camp one evening when the scout suddenly reported: "Pioneer Xiahou Dun and Li Dian were defeated in front of him, and most of the 20,000 people were killed or injured, and the remaining one was less than three thousand."
Cao Cao was stunned when he heard this. He suspected that he had heard it wrong. So he asked the scout and said, "You will tell me the information you just now!"
The scout bit the bullet and told the information again. After hearing this, Cao Cao was furious. He stood up and kicked the case in front of him. Then he angrily rebuked: "It's outrageous. Xiahou Dun and Li Diangu are a bag of wine! All of my 20,000 troops were sent here by him. When they were about to return to the camp, they would take it down with me directly. I want to use the heads of these two to pay tribute to the dead soldiers!"
Cao Cao was angry and scared everyone in the tent. The scout who came in to report the news was even more frightened and trembled all over, for fear that Cao Cao would be unhappy and let someone kill him first. At this time, Guo Jia stood up and said, "Let's go back, there may be other hidden information in this matter. Let me ask you: Do you know how General Xiahou Dun was defeated?"
The scout said tremblingly: "It was when he was ambushed in Bowangpo, most of the army was burned to death by fire, and the two generals fought to break through the siege to escape."
After hearing this, Guo Jia nodded, then waved his hand to signal the scout to retreat first. The scout was ashamed of amnesty and helped him bow to leave the tent. At this time, the clothes behind him were already wet with cold sweat.
After the scout withdrew, Guo Jia bowed to Cao Cao and said, "Lord, you don't need to be angry. This defeat is not all bad. At least let me know that Liu Qi must have a master's advice. Otherwise, how could Liu Qi come up with such a meticulous plan just by relying on how to come up with such a meticulous plan."
"Oh? Is Fengxiao meant that someone was helping Liu Qi?" Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and asked Guo Jia.
Guo Jia obviously felt Cao Cao's murderous aura, and he replied with a thorn intent: "It's true. This person calculated General Xiahou's temper and decided on this plan. This shows that this person must be extraordinary!"
"Haha, what an extraordinary person! Since he dares to stop my king's army from moving south, there is no need to live in the world. If you pass the order, I want this person's head!" Cao Cao was really angry this time.
Zhuge Liang did not know that Cao Cao had issued a killing order to him, and was celebrating with everyone who returned triumphantly in Xinye City. Liu Qi was the happiest. At first, he was scared by the news of Cao's army going south. After this battle, he found that Cao's army was not invincible, which greatly increased Liu Qi's confidence.
However, compared to Liu Qi's optimism, Shan Fu and Zhuge Liang did not think so. After the banquet, Shan Fu sought to Zhuge Liang and said, "Kong Ming, although this battle has severely damaged Cao's army, it has not hurt him. The next time it will probably not be so simple."
"Brother Shan said it well. But don't worry too much. I already have another plan to plan. You can give Cao Cao a surprise at that time." Zhuge Liang said confidently.
(End of this chapter)
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