When Liu Chan prepared everything and appeared again with two daggers he found from nowhere, what he saw was not the neatly arrayed army.
The first thing I saw was the dense crowd of people.
At this moment, Liu Chan's eyes instantly became fierce.
"Ma Youchang!"
"Your Highness, forgive me!" Ma Su seemed to have expected this scene.
Just when Liu Chan opened his mouth to scold him, he knelt down directly in front of Liu Chan, as if he was willing to be manipulated by him.
Seeing Ma Di like this, Liu Chan still suppressed his anger.
"Look at the good things you've done!"
"Ma Su has been wronged, and I would like to ask His Highness to clarify that he did not forcibly order the people to leave, but only told them that we were about to leave.
It was the people of Wancheng who were worried that after we left, Cao Ren ordered a massacre of the city, so they voluntarily followed us to leave. "
"Voluntary? Is this voluntary?" Liu Chan couldn't help but sneered, "Did you tell them that if we leave, we may encounter an ambush by Cao Jun?"
"No!" Ma Di answered very simply, "We cannot tell anyone about this at this time, otherwise the morale of the army will be chaotic and we will be unable to escape."
"...You're not just trying to trick me..."
"Does His Highness want to punish Ma Su here? Or does he plan to tell all the people and soldiers here that our trip may be a narrow escape?
Your Highness! "
At this time, Ma Su had risked everything. He had his own ideas. By doing what he did today, he knew that he would be hated by His Highness.
But he feels that as long as he completes his idea, everything will be worth it.
"Your Highness, please don't be angry. Now we have been plotted by Cao Jun, but the Prime Minister must have expected it.
The navy was sent here just to meet me at the critical moment.
Therefore, as long as we can enter Qishui, everything will no longer be a problem.
And didn't His Highness want Cao Jun to see His Highness's methods before leaving? "
"I don't want to be alone!"
"...Your Highness is kind, but Cao Jun is forcing me. If we don't fight back, won't we make Cao Jun laugh?
Your Highness, don't worry, we have already made preparations in case Cao Jun really has an ambush.
What we will face will not be the panicked people and us, but the dead soldiers who have been prepared for a desperate counterattack!
As the saying goes, it is a last-ditch battle. Today, I will let His Highness see the ugliness of Cao Jun. "
When Ma Di said these words, his face was full of excitement, and Liu Chan couldn't help but frown.
Ma Su had actually proposed a last-ditch battle before.
They have loyal warriors under their command, and there is also the Hanzhong general Wei Yan who has been hiding for a long time and his elite soldiers and horses.
In addition, they also have the advantage of Wancheng and Feishui, which can be said to meet all the conditions for a backwater battle.
However, Liu Chan always felt that this strategy was a bit too risky, so he did not agree to it.
But looking at Ma Di today, it seems that in order to ensure the success of this plan, he has also buried a lot of manpower among the people of Wancheng.
Liu Chan's face became much heavier when he thought of Ma Su going out early and coming back late during this period, and how busy he was.
"The people are innocent..."
"No matter whether you are innocent or not when you are born in troubled times, this is the fate of the people in this world!"
"...."
Liu Chan was finally persuaded by Ma Su. As Ma Su said, there was nothing he could do if he didn't agree.
In the current situation, he had no choice. He could only hope that his father-in-law had made all the preparations. Besides, Liu Chan didn't know what else to do.
Taking a deep breath, a calm chuckle appeared on Liu Chan's face again.
"Open the city gate, I will take you... back to the Han Dynasty!"
After Liu Chan shouted loudly, Wancheng's city gate slowly opened. The imagined surprise attack and ambush did not appear. Until the group slowly left Wancheng, they still did not encounter any ambush or surprise attack.
This even made Liu Chan feel a little unreal, as if...all their previous guesses were wrong.
Then Cao Pi has really let them go...
He continued to move forward in fear, because there were tens of thousands of people following him, and even if most of them were young and strong, the speed at this time could not increase too fast.
The group of people headed towards Feishui slowly, and the twenty-mile road took them most of a day.
It wasn't until the sky started to get dark that they finally saw the shadow on the banks of the Meishui River in the distance.
This place is a bend in the Feishui River, forming a large angle. Looking at the Feishui River in the distance, Liu Chan's heart finally relaxed.
"Let's go and find out where the warship is. It's best to get out of here quickly."
Under Liu Chan's instructions, several scouts in the army immediately flew towards the bank of the Juishui River. But this time, before they could find the warship that should have appeared here, they were directly attacked by several troops from the side. The arrows suddenly shot out of the dense forest took away his life.
The sudden change shocked Liu Chan, thinking that what was supposed to come had finally come.
"Continue to move forward, and the soldiers will spread out on both wings to cover His Highness and the people as they enter the river first!"
At the critical moment, Deng Zhi and several other generals immediately stepped forward and quickly commanded the troops to take action. Ma Di immediately shouted loudly, and led the people and Liu Chan to continue rushing towards the Jishui River.
Dust began to fly behind them, and a flag whose words were still unclear was slowly raised behind them.
Although they couldn't see the words on the flag clearly, Liu Chan and others could guess that Cao Jun's pursuers had arrived.
"Sure enough... what was supposed to come has come!"
At this time, Liu Chan saw the chasing Cao army and the current situation. What surprised him was that he didn't panic or feel overwhelmed and wanted to surrender directly.
On the contrary, he became...much calmer.
Ma Su's eyes became brighter at this time.
"The thief Cao is treacherous and used His Highness as bait to lure us and the people of Wancheng out.
Today we are in the same boat and there is no difference between us.
Protect His Highness and protect the people. Today we will fight to the death with that Cao thief... "
Along with Ma Su's roar, bursts of noise suddenly began among the crowd of people.
Suddenly many people among the people originally led by Shen Dan began to raise their arms and shout, boosting the morale and emotions of the people, asking them to stand with the Han army, stand with Liu Chan, and resist desperately, even if they die. We can't make Cao Jun feel better either.
At this time, on a hill not far from the battlefield by the Feishui River, Jia Xu looked indifferently in the direction of Liu Chan, and then slowly spoke.
"General Cao Zhen, the situation of a last-ditch battle has been reached. You can lead General Zhang He to take action now.
Find Wei Yan and kill him! "
