Chapter 306

"My Lord, be careful of Liu Bei."

Cao Cao nodded.

"Benchu and I are good brothers. His sons can be well utilized. Qingzhou is very close to my Yanzhou and Taking Xuzhou. As long as I occupy Outside Yecheng, most of the three states of Hebei will be in my hands!"

Cheng Yu also agreed.

"Even if Youzhou is occupied by Liu Bei, it doesn't matter. The most prosperous part of Hebei is Jizhou, and Qingzhou is second. Our army attacking Youzhou and drawing Liu Bei's troops out of Guanzhong is not necessarily a bad thing!"

Cao Cao and Cheng Yu were discussing how to retreat safely.

"Report! My Lord, urgent report from Yuzhou!"

Cao Cao's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous omen struck him.

Sure enough, what he feared came.

Cheng Yu opened the bamboo slip and took a look.

"My Lord, Xia Xia Houyuan was sneak-attacked by Zhuge Zhang Liang at night at Wu Pass, and was ambushed on his way back. He was injured by an arrow, and only five thousand of the sixty thousand troops retreated to Ye County."

Cao Cao sighed deeply.

"Still calculated by Liu Bei, this Zhuge the villager is really..."

Cao Cao didn't expect that this villager had actually defeated both Xia Hou brothers in succession.

"Fortunately, Miaocai is fine."

Troops can be recruited again, but good generals are hard to find!

Cao Cao went to "complain" to Ding Yuan Shao with a bitter face.

Ding Yuan Shao's nephew was killed, and sixty thousand troops were almost lost, and the two instantly had more common language.

Also because the Black Mountain bandits' attacks on the grain road became more rampant,

Cao Cao kindly proposed to send Cao Hong to lead thirty thousand troops to station in the Zhi County area to temporarily protect the grain road.

In fact, what Cao Hong took away were the elites among the Cao army elites!

Ding Yuan Shao agreed without being careful.

When Xu You heard about it, he hurriedly found Ding Yuan Shao, heartbroken.

"My Lord, this Cao Cao Aman wants to escape, and by the way, take our grain and fodder!"

Ding Yuan Shao:?? His face was a bit bad. Did Xu You mean that he was tricked by Cao Cao?

Guo Tu observed his words and expressions.

"Xu Brother Ziyuan, you are alarmist again!"

"The Black Mountain bandits are rampant, and it is normal for Cao Cao to help transport grain. I think this Cao Cao doesn't want to suffer losses in battle with Liu Bei, so he proposed to transport grain to avoid it."

"How could the Lord not see it? There has been no war recently, and the weather is cold. Isn't it better for our soldiers to recuperate in the camp?"

Xu You still wanted to say something.

Ding Yuan Shao waved his hand.

"Alright, I'm a bit tired, you all go down."

Xu You turned and left the tent, sighing in his heart, feeling that he couldn't lead them anymore!

As for reminding Ding Yuan Shao to retreat, he really didn't dare to say it. Ding Yuan Shao was very face-conscious, and if he mentioned retreating at this time, he might be beheaded.

"Hey, other people's lords have eight hundred schemes, my lord..."

A few days later, news also came from Yanmen Commandery.

Zhao Yun, Yan Gang, Tian Yu, and others defeated the one hundred thousand coalition forces of the Western Xianbei and Wuhuan in Yanmen.

Zhao Yun shook the outside of the fortress, and in one battle, the Western Xianbei and Wuhuan were routed. The Western Xianbei Kebineng and Wuhuan King Gujin were both beheaded, and corpses lay for dozens of miles!

Zhao Yun led thirty thousand iron cavalry to continue the pursuit, sweeping away dozens of Western Xianbei tribes and more than a dozen Wuhuan tribes along the way, obtaining a large number of cattle and sheep, fifteen thousand horses, and twenty thousand young Hu women!

While sending people to drive them to Yanmen Commandery, he let Yan Gang and Tian Yu contact the old subordinates of Brother Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, and the army entered Dai Commandery!

Ding Yuan Xi, the Youzhou Inspector appointed by Ding Yuan Shao, while hoarding troops in strong cities like Ji, sent an emergency report to Ding Yuan Shao!

Due to the conscription of hundreds of thousands of laborers, Jizhou and Qingzhou were unstable, and small-scale uprisings broke out frequently. Hejian even gathered ten thousand peasant armies.

The Taking Xuzhou newly acquired by Cao Cao began to have uprisings, and the Runan Yellow Turbans began to revive, occupying mountains as kings and looting states and counties!

The disadvantages of the main army being away for a long time began to manifest!

Liu Bei's side also encountered some trouble; Yang Qiu and others in Liangzhou rebelled and wanted to invite the Qiang people to join.

As a result, the Qiang people who were living a well-off life sold them directly. Ma Teng and Guanqiu Sun Jian led their troops to directly destroy Yang Qiu's old nest and beheaded the rebels directly!

Yizhou was very calm. Nanzhong was the Great King brought by Liu Bei's brother-in-law. Zhang Song, Wu Yi, Yan Yan, Leng Bao, Dong He, Li Hui, and others were very loyal, and Wei Yan guarded Badong with heavy troops.

Pang Xi directly beheaded Cao Cao's envoy and sent the head to Zhang Song, expressing his loyalty to Liu Bei. His desire to survive was extremely strong.

Another ten days passed.

Mount Mount Zhongtiao was covered by white snow, and the weather became colder and colder.

After Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao learned that the backyard was on fire, they were all anxious and eager to return!

Especially with the snow blocking the road, grain transport became more and more difficult.

If they dragged it out any longer, it would have no meaning.

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu used the excuse that there were too few winter clothes and it was cold in the mountains, directly retreating to the southeast, retreating all the way to the vicinity of Maojin Ferry, and even crossing the Yellow River!

After Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao found out, they both cursed loudly. Sun Sun Bofu was indeed treacherous!

Ding Yuan Shao also realized it was time to retreat.

However, Liu Bei had been like he had been injected with chicken blood recently, letting generals often leave the camp to challenge.

Zhang He and Xu Rong even came out of Mount Mount Zhongtiao, threatening Ding Yuan Shao's rear. It was dangerous for Ding Yuan Shao to retreat.

"The big-eared thief is too treacherous!"

Ding Yuan Shao was not lightly angered, but he had no way.

Seeing that the grain and fodder in the camp were getting less and less, Ding Yuan Shao couldn't sit still.

"Meng De, I want to retreat, what do you think is the best way?"

Cao Cao frowned.

"Brother Benchu, Liu Bei is waiting for this moment. If our army retreats improperly, I'm afraid it will be a total rout!"

"Now we can only send a fierce general to lead troops to cover the rear, so our army can retreat."

Cao Cao didn't want to use the retreat to lure the enemy now, because this Liu Bei was too treacherous, and the high towers opposite could see the situation in the camp clearly.

He immediately indicated that his army was too small, Yue Jin's injuries from last time hadn't healed, and his ten thousand cavalry could cover the rear.

Ding Yuan Shao almost cursed loudly. Cao Cao sent cavalry, I'm afraid it was to run if the situation was not good!

"Gao Lan, you lead twenty thousand troops, you must block Liu Bei's pursuit."

Gao Lan was unhappy in his heart. Wasn't this asking him to die?

(agfh) However, military orders were like mountains.

"Understood!"

As for the laborers, Ding Yuan Shao couldn't care less; he wanted to take the elites back to Jizhou.

That night, taking advantage of the night,

Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao led the elites and ran toward Henei.

Then came the other troops.

Liu Bei also received the news.

He didn't order the whole army to attack. It was pitch black, and Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao might have set an ambush on the road. Maybe he would be ambushed, which would be a loss that outweighed the gain!

"Order the soldiers to rest well, and pursue Ding Yuan and Cao's defeated army early tomorrow morning!"

"Understood!"

Ding Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were mostly infantry, and they had run hundreds of miles, so they couldn't run that fast.

At the same time, Liu Bei sent many scouts to report the situation of Ding Yuan and Cao's army in time.

With wind and snow, the whole Hedong was a vast expanse of white.

The main army left the camp.

Gao Shun and E Huan led the infantry to defeat Gao Lan's rear-guard team and surrounded them tightly.

Cao Cao's cavalry saw that the situation was not good and ran very fast!

Liu Bei personally led sixty thousand cavalry to pursue and kill all the way!