These injured Cao Jun soldiers were all veterans who had been on several battlefields. After the panic, they all knew that with their two legs, they could not outrun the war horses.
Soon, amid the roar of a military commander, everyone gradually became quiet.
"Brothers, we can't run away. They belong to men. Let's fight them."
"Yes, Marquis Li Jun is right. This is a forest and they can't break in."
"Li Junhou, I support you."
Those injured soldiers were all soldiers who dared to fight. Knowing that they were running, they immediately aroused their anger and shouted loudly, preparing to fight to the death with the Bingzhou cavalry.
Ta-ta-ta!
Just when everyone was holding weapons and hiding behind the big trees, preparing to fight, the powerful Bingzhou cavalry had already rushed to the edge of the woods.
"Stop!"
Following an order, the Bingzhou cavalry stopped not far from the woods.
Cheng Lian clapped his horse forward and shouted, "Listen, people in the woods, I am not here to fight you this time, but I just want to tell you that you have been abandoned by Cao Cao."
Cao Jun's soldiers in the woods were originally suspicious of this matter. They were startled when they heard the noise outside. After a while, buzzing discussions began to come from the originally silent woods.
"Really, are we really abandoned?"
"Impossible. The Lord wants us to go first because he wants to take care of us. He will never abandon us."
"If they didn't abandon us, why haven't we caught up yet?"
"Let me just say, this thing is very strange. It turns out that we have been abandoned by them."
Li Junhou looked a little ugly as he listened to the discussion behind him. He knew that he couldn't let them talk anymore, otherwise he wouldn't be able to fight, and he might collapse.
"Brothers, don't listen to their nonsense, the Lord will not abandon us."
Cheng Lian looked at Li Junhou with some pity and said loudly, "You guy, your brain is not working well. Cao Mengde's army has already left by another fork in the road. Are you still thinking about whether they can come to pick you up? Really?" ridiculous."
After hearing this, cold sweat broke out on Li Junhou's forehead, and he wanted to defend himself, but even he believed it himself, so how could he defend himself?
Cheng Lian said loudly, "You are all wounded soldiers. I am here this time not to deal with you, but to tell you that you have been abandoned.
In addition, I would also like to tell you that I'm afraid you have nothing to eat. If you are willing to leave with us, then come out quickly. Although there is nothing good, you will definitely not be hungry. "
When the Cao soldiers in the woods heard these words, they breathed a sigh of relief and started talking quietly again.
Cheng Lian stood outside the woods and waited for a while. When he saw that no one had answered yet, he became impatient and said loudly, "Is there anyone who wants to come? If you don't want to, then you can stay here, we are about to leave." .”
Having said this, Cheng Lian took a deep breath and roared.
"Now, I will count dozens. If you don't come out, you will fend for yourself."
This mission is not a mandatory mission. If anyone is willing to come out, Cheng Lian doesn't mind taking them away, but if they don't come out, Cheng Lian won't attack them.
Cheng Lian slowly counted there. Halfway through the count, someone finally couldn't stand it any longer. He threw down his weapon and slowly walked out of the woods.
"General, I am willing to go with you."
"And I, for abandoning us, it's too hard for us to become human beings. I want revenge."
"Yes, why were we injured? It was not for everyone, but we were thrown away like garbage. I can't swallow this breath."
"revenge."
With a few people setting an example, more and more people came out of the woods.
Zhang Laosan stepped forward and pulled Lao Qi who was standing there in a daze, "Why don't you leave quickly? What are you waiting for?"
Lao Qi's eyes widened, "Third brother, do you want to surrender?"
Zhang San smiled bitterly and said, "Cao Jun no longer wants us, and now we have no food. If we don't surrender, are we waiting to starve to death!"
Speaking of this, Zhang San, who was usually very calm, flashed a cold light in his eyes, "Old Qi, we worked hard for Cao Jun and suffered such serious injuries. Not only did we not get rewards, but we were abandoned by him. In this tone, we It must come out.”
Lao Qi was an honest person and couldn't stand this kind of thing. Hearing these words, he immediately nodded, "Okay, we surrender, and we will seek revenge from them later."
Li Junhou watched more and more people walking out of the woods. He was angry at first. After a long time, he listened to the discussions of the soldiers. He suddenly sighed, threw down his weapons, and followed everyone out of the woods.
After everyone gathered together, Cheng Lian asked again, "Is there anyone else in the woods?"
"there is none left!"
Cheng Lian didn't waste any time. He pointed at Marquis Li Jun and said loudly, "You look like their leader. I'll leave some food for you, and you can rush to Fan County yourself."
Hearing this, Li Junhou was startled and asked in a trembling voice, "General, don't you have to watch?"
Cheng Lian waved his hand and said carelessly, "You guys walk too slowly. We don't have that much time to accompany you. This road is very safe, and we are not afraid of anyone attacking you. Just take your time and find it yourself."
After finishing speaking, Cheng Lian ordered the people to leave some more food and left directly with them.
Looking at the Bingzhou Cavalry who had disappeared into the distance, a soldier came to Li Junhou, handed over a piece of cake, and asked in a low voice, "Li Junhou, the Bingzhou Cavalry has left. Do we want to go to Fan County?"
Li Junhou didn't answer his words. He took the pancake in his hand, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly. After a long time, he raised his head and looked at everyone and said loudly.
"You also heard what the general said just now. Let us go to Fan County by ourselves. We will set off after eating in a while."
A soldier said loudly, "Marquis Li Jun, since no one is watching us and we have food now, why not go find the lord?"
As soon as the soldier finished speaking, he was scolded by the soldier next to him, "Do you still have any face? You have been abandoned. Are you sick if you are still rushing forward?"
"This kid is not a good guy at first glance."
"If you don't even have a face, how can you be such a good thing!"
Seeing that everyone was angry, the soldier was so frightened that he waved his hands, "I just asked, but I didn't really want to go. Don't get me wrong."
"You are a smart kid. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will be the first to kill you."
"Brother, I don't dare anymore, just don't say it again!"
Li Junhou listened to everyone's quarrel and already understood everyone's thoughts. In addition, he was extremely unhappy at this moment. I am afraid that anyone would be angry when encountering such a thing.
After everyone rested for a while, regardless of the darkness, they supported each other and started to rush towards Fan County.
Although Cheng Lian tried his best to leave as much food for them as possible, he didn't have much food himself, so this team of wounded soldiers didn't have much food. If they didn't rush to Fan County as soon as possible, some people might really starve.
…
At noon, Cao Cao, who was on his way in a hurry, breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the news from the spies.
"Send the order and the army will set up camp."
Everyone was shocked when they heard the news.
This time Cao Cao's order was different from before.
Along the way, Cao Cao gave the most orders to stop and rest instead of setting up camp.
Stopping to rest is only temporary and will not last more than half an hour, but setting up camp is different, it will take at least a day, or even longer.
Now is the time to hurry up. How can Cao Cao issue this order?
Not long after, Cao Jun's generals came to ask for the reason.
Lu Qian looked worried, "My lord, we haven't arrived in Xuzhou yet, so we can't stop. It won't be too late to rest when we get to Xuzhou."
Cao Hong cupped his hands and said, "There are no wounded soldiers in the team now. We can still hold on for a while."
Cao Cao shook his head and said slowly, "Lü Bu has withdrawn his troops."
Although it was just a simple sentence, when everyone heard it, they were stunned for a moment, then overjoyed, and their worried hearts were relieved.
Lu Qian asked tentatively, "My lord, could it be Lu Bu's kid's trick to make a false impression to confuse us, and then make a surprise attack?"
Cao Cao waved his hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, everyone, Lu Bu has indeed retreated. There is absolutely no lie."
Cheng Yu suddenly said, "Lü Bu suddenly retreated. Is there something going on behind the scenes?"
Lu Qian's eyes lit up, "Could it be that Duke Benchu sent troops to help us?"
Everyone nodded when they heard these words.
Around Yanzhou, no one except Yuan Shao dared to enter Lu Bu's palace!
Cao Hong thought of Lu Bu's hatefulness and couldn't help but laugh up at the sky, "Haha, it will be fine. Duke Ben Chu sends troops. Little Lu Bu, let me see how you respond?"
Cao Chun suddenly said, "Lord, why don't we go back and join forces with Benchu Gong to completely eliminate Lu Bu's son?"
Lu Qian frowned, "Since Duke Benchu sent troops to deal with Lu Bu, why did he want to take Puyang away?"
When everyone heard these words, they couldn't help but become confused.
"Yeah, there's no reason!"
Everyone was confused. Only Cao Cao knew as clearly as a mirror. Why did Yuan Shao do this?
By now, Cao Cao was completely sure that Yuan Shao must have entered the game and knew the history, so he wanted to capture Yanzhou first.
As for the alliance with Yuan Shao that everyone said, in Cao Cao's view, this was completely impossible.
According to historical records, Yuan Shao was destroyed by himself. How could he come to join forces with him?
What's more, Cao Cao already knows that Yuan Shao already knows this history, how can he dare to join forces with Yuan Shao?
Now that Yuan Shao is powerful, as long as he wants to deal with him, he is definitely not his opponent.
Therefore, the safest way now is of course to stay as far away from Yuan Shao as possible to ensure your own safety.
Seeing that everyone was still talking, Cao Cao waved his hand, "No need to say anything, no matter what happens in Yanzhou, we will not go back."
Cao Hong was stunned for a moment, then raised his hands and said, "My lord, since Duke Benchu has sent troops to support us, we should seize this opportunity. Otherwise, if we miss this opportunity, Yanzhou will be lost in vain."
Cao Cao sighed secretly and said slowly, "Everyone just obeys the order."
At this point, Cao Cao paused for a moment and then continued, "Everyone has worked hard during this period. Let everyone have a good rest. Tomorrow morning, we will set off for Xuzhou."
Everyone saw that Cao Cao had made up his mind and had no choice but to leave.
Cheng Yu waited until everyone left and then whispered, "My lord, now that Liu Xuande has occupied Xuzhou, what should we do when we go this time?"
Cao Cao remembered the words of the game player and waved his hand with a smile, "Liu Xuande is just a nobody. He is not worthy of occupying Xuzhou. If my army goes forward, there is no telling who will give it up."
Hearing this, Cheng Yu's expression changed, "Lord, how is this possible?"
Cao Cao waved his hand and said with a smile, "Zhongde, don't worry. Although Liu Xuande occupies Xuzhou, he is not strong. Our army goes forward. If he refuses to give up Xuzhou, we can only use weapons to ask him to leave." Xuzhou.”
While saying this, Cao Cao kept sneering in his heart.
Liu Bei is not very strong. Lu Bu, who was defeated by him at the beginning, can easily defeat Liu Bei after he comes to Xuzhou. However, he has brought more troops to Xuzhou this time. Cao Cao does not believe that he will be able to defeat Liu Bei no matter what. .
It was for this reason that Cao Cao decided to go to Xuzhou.
There are many benefits to doing this. He already knows very well that both Yuan Shao and Lu Bu have entered the game, and he also knows that they were both killed by him, so they will definitely take revenge.
If it were just one person, Cao Cao would still have the confidence to fight them, but with two people, he would have no confidence at all.
Therefore, we can only leave Yanzhou temporarily and occupy Xuzhou.
Xuzhou is a place where the world is satisfied. If it is managed properly, it can recover and recruit troops. When it becomes strong, it will not be too late to take revenge.
…
Lu Bu led the army and hurried in the direction of Dong'a.
Along the way, he was worried that Wen Chou's troops would take the lead in launching an attack on Dong'a, and he was also worried that Yan Liang would attack Fan County, which kept him on tenterhooks all the way.
Although Cao Mengde was defeated, the overall situation did not improve, but became worse.
Yuan Shao's strength far exceeds that of Cao Mengde. If he really wants to be his enemy, what should he do?
Should he compete with Yuan Shao for Yanzhou, or should he voluntarily withdraw from Yanzhou?
What troubled Lu Bu even more was that no one, not even Chen Gong, could help him.
Now everything is in chaos and has no resemblance to history. Everything needs to be developed anew.
Could the original battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Mengde turn into a battle between himself and Yuan Shao?
This is the result Lu Bu least wants to see.
Fortunately, when Lu Bu's army arrived at Dong'a, Wen Chou did not send troops, and Yan Liang did not rush to take action.
As soon as they entered the city, Lu Bu ordered the soldiers to repair the city walls, prepare defense supplies, and began to pile up food in the city to prevent Wen Chou from attacking suddenly.
If Wen Chou had only one army, Lu Bu wouldn't be too worried, but coupled with Yan Liang's 30,000 troops, it really made him a little worried.
