Ji Ling knew that talking more would be useless, so he immediately waved his hand and said, "Give me the order to attack the camp. We must take the camp back today."
Lei Book and Chen Lan responded hurriedly and led the soldiers towards the camp.
"Kill!"
"Ahhh!"
Cao Jun was well prepared. When he saw Yuan Shu's army rushing over, the archers hiding behind the fence immediately drew their bows and fired arrows, launching a long-range strike.
Whoosh!
"Ahhh!"
Countless soldiers of Yuan Shu's army were hit by arrows and fell to the ground under the baptism of arrows.
The rest of the people ignored the fallen soldiers and continued to stride towards the camp.
"Kill!"
"Ahhh!"
The two armies fought fiercely in front of the camp, and the fighting was extremely brutal.
Yuan Shu's army wants to take back the camp, but Cao's army is not willing to go. Why should he give away so much food after finally getting it?
Although Ji Ling also wanted to take back the camp, it was a pity that Yuan Shujun's soldiers had fought hard all night and had traveled such a long way. They were already tired, their horses were exhausted, and they were exhausted.
The soldiers of Cao's army were waiting in the camp. They had eaten in advance and rested for a while. It was a time when they were full of energy.
The most important thing is that after a night of fierce fighting, Yuan Shu's army and Liu Bei's army suffered heavy losses. It was already beyond their power to crush Cao's army with their numbers.
An hour later, Yuan Shujun, who had a slight numerical advantage, gradually fell into a disadvantage.
Cao Cao was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately sent out his generals to attack separately.
Dian Wei and other fierce generals attacked, and in just a moment, they defeated Yuan Shu's army, which was already exhausted.
Ji Ling saw that the soldiers were showing signs of collapse, knew it was not good, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops.
"The entire army retreats."
When the tired and hungry soldiers of Yuan Shu's army heard this order, they immediately gave up their opponents, turned around and ran towards the direction of their formation.
Seeing this scene, Cao Cao was overjoyed and roared, "Charge the whole army and defeat Yuan Shu's army today."
"Kill!"
"Ahhh!"
Yuan Shu's army was defeated and returned. Cao Jun took advantage of the victory and pursued him for more than ten miles before withdrawing his troops and returning to the camp.
…
Ji Ling looked at the defeated soldiers around him, feeling sad in his heart. He couldn't help but roar, "Cao Mengde, a villain like you dared to sneak attack on the camp. This general must avenge you."
Chen Lan stepped forward with an ugly look on her face, "General Ji, the army is short of food now, so we still have to find a way to get some food for everyone."
Hearing this, Ji Ling sighed and turned to look at Lei Book, "General Lei, what are the losses of our army?"
Lei Book hurriedly handed over his hand, "I'm afraid half of it has been lost."
Hearing this, Ji Lingqi roared angrily, "Hateful."
When he came out of Huainan, he brought 50,000 troops and horses. He thought he could capture Xuzhou, but he never expected that he had already lost half of them in just one battle last night.
The most important thing is that all the baggage is lost and the whole army is short of food. This is the most fatal thing!
Ji Ling gritted his teeth and said, "Send a few teams of soldiers and horses to go around to collect food."
After hearing this, Chen Lan hesitated for a moment, said nothing more, turned around and ordered the soldiers to collect food.
There are still more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and it is almost impossible to go to the villages to raise food for the army.
However, he also knew that there was nothing he could do now, so he could only deal with it for a while.
Ji Ling turned to look at Lei Book and asked slowly, "General Lei, in your opinion, what should I do next?"
Lei Book thought for a while, "Logically speaking, we should take back the camp and grab the food now, but it's a pity that Cao Mengde was prepared and had many soldiers and horses. He was afraid that our army would not only be unable to get back the food, but would be damaged in it. That wouldn’t be good.”
Ji Ling and Lei Book usually had a good relationship, so if he had anything to say, he would say it directly without taking it into consideration too much.
After Ji Ling heard Lei Bu's words, he thought for a long time and nodded, "That's true!"
Lei Book asked tentatively, "General Ji, why don't we withdraw our troops?"
Hearing this, Ji Ling was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "If we withdraw our troops like this, we will definitely be blamed by our lord after we return, and you and I will not be able to bear the blame!"
Lei Book shook his head, "General Ji, in the past we had to deal with Liu Bei, so the troops he brought were naturally enough, but now that there is another Cao Mengde, it is normal for him to be defeated."
Hearing this, Ji Ling's heart moved. He looked at Lei Book and said slowly, "General Lei, you are right. Our army should indeed withdraw."
…
At this moment, Liu Bei felt a little cold and a little sad.
I finally managed to accumulate some troops and horses, but they were defeated again!
When we came here, we brought a total of 15,000 troops. However, after the corporate battle, only more than 7,000 people are left.
However, Liu Bei was one of the overlords of the Three Kingdoms after all. Although he failed, he was not discouraged and immediately called everyone to discuss.
When everyone came to Liu Bei, they were very excited when he proposed this idea, and their faces were a little hot.
At that time, I thought I would win this battle and take the opportunity to suppress Cao Mengde, but who would have thought that things would turn out like this, and it would be my own side that would suffer the most.
Liu Bei looked at the red faces of everyone and knew what they were thinking, and waved his hands, "Everyone, don't mention the past things again. Now that our army has been defeated and the situation is dangerous, why don't you think about how to act in the future?"
Although everyone heard Liu Bei's question, no one dared to answer this time, or was too embarrassed to answer.
If you really make a mistake, it will really harm people!
Zhang Fei had no scruples and said loudly, "Although our army suffered heavy losses, Ji Ling is not much better. Why don't we take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack and catch them off guard."
Liu Bei ignored Zhang Fei's suggestion, turned to look at everyone, and asked again, "Everyone can speak freely sometimes, but you must not be restrained."
Even though he said this, no one was willing to speak.
When Liu Bei saw this, he couldn't help but frown slightly. Just as he was about to speak, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the distance, and a spy came running from a distance.
"Report!"
"Yuan Shu's army has retreated, and Cao's army has occupied Yuan Shu's army's camp."
When everyone heard the news, they couldn't help but be stunned, and they didn't react for a while.
Jian Yong was the first to react, stepped forward, grabbed the spy who was delivering the message, and asked loudly, "What did you say? Yuan Shu's army retreated, and the camp was occupied by Cao's army. Is it true?"
"It's true. When Yuan Shu's army retreated from here, Cao's army had already occupied the camp. Later, Yuan Shu's army tried to take back the camp, but was defeated by Cao's army and has now retreated."
When everyone heard the affirmative answer, they immediately looked at each other with disbelief in their eyes.
