After Cao Cao escaped from Lu Bu, he gathered some of the remaining defeated soldiers and retreated towards Luoyang.

When I came, I brought ten thousand elite soldiers and was full of energy.

There are only a few thousand soldiers gathered now, and the battle loss rate has reached 90%, which can be said to be a crushing defeat.

The generals of the Cao army were still very lucky. Although they were defeated by Lu Bu, none of the important figures died.

However, these generals were in poor condition, and they were all covered in broken armor.

Cao Cao smiled at the generals:

"Although Lu Bu is brave, he can't help all the generals. It can be seen that your force is comparable to Lu Bu.

We lost this time because of the lack of cavalry. When we train elite cavalry in the future, we will definitely win in one battle!"

After hearing Cao Cao's words, the generals felt very ashamed.

How could their force be compared with Lu Bu? It's not so popular.

But now everyone is already miserable, and the lord can really boost morale by saying this.

Cao Ren rode his horse to follow Cao Cao. His helmet had long been lost, his hair was scattered on his body, and his appearance was quite embarrassing.

Cao Ren complained to Cao Cao:

"Lord, did the military advisor Guo Jia not expect that we had such a big defeat during this trip?"

Cao Ren had long been a little dissatisfied with Guo Jia, a scholar who had no power to tie up a chicken.

However, Cao Cao highly praised Guo Jia's wisdom on weekdays, so he didn't have much to say.

But when Cao's army suffered such a great defeat, where did Guo Jia's wisdom be reflected?

It is time for the elder brother to realize Guo Jia’s true face on paper.

Cao Cao said lightly:

"I discussed with the military advisor before going to war.

The military advisor had told me that he would lose this battle.

And it was a big defeat, a crushing defeat!”

What's the thing?

Cao Ren suspected that he had heard it wrong.

He thought Cao Cao would be furious after hearing his words, and would definitely dismiss Guo Jia after returning to the army.

Unexpectedly, my elder brother made such a remark.

Cao Ren didn't understand why he had to send troops even though he knew he would be defeated in a miserable way?

Is Guo Jia’s head broken or his lord’s head broken?

"Brother, why... is this?"

Cao Ren's eyes showed a look of confusion.

Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren's expression and suddenly laughed:

"You are filial to me, you are a good player in leading troops to fight.

But in terms of operational planning, you are far inferior to Fengxiao.

If you tell you too much, you don’t understand. You just need to know that it will be very beneficial to us if you win this defeat."

Cao Ren thought for a long time, but still didn't know where the benefits were.

When Cao's army arrived near Xingyang, they could not walk anymore.

In order to escape the pursuit of Lu Bu's army, the soldiers did not sleep all night and had not yet entered the water and rice, so it was not easy to hold on until now.

There was really nothing to eat, so Cao Cao asked the soldiers to kill horses to fill their hunger.

At this time, the soldiers didn't care about the war horses anymore, and they slaughtered the war horses and put them on the fire to barbecue.

After a while, the aroma of barbecue kept drilling into the noses of the Cao army soldiers.

These soldiers were already hungry and were chewing with barbecue.

"Brother, have some meat."

The clan’s brother Cao Hong handed Cao Cao a piece of roasted horse meat and stuffed a wine bag into Cao Cao’s hands.

Cao Cao ate meat in big mouthfuls and drank a few more sips of wine, and felt a little comfortable.

Looking at the dock outside Xingyang City, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing.

The soldiers were a little panicked when Cao Cao laughed.

Since Chenliu's rebellion, Cao's army has never suffered such a crushing defeat.

Everyone is so miserable, why can the lord laugh?

Xiahou Dun asked carefully:

"Lord, why are you laughing when we return home in a crushing defeat?"

Cao Cao shook his head and smiled while drinking:

"I'm not laughing at others, but I'm really laughing at Liu Bei's incompetence and Li Ru's wise man.

So what if Lu Bu is invincible in the world? Why don’t you let me escape?"

Cao Cao pointed to the nearby mountain dock and said:

"The terrain here is dangerous and can hide tens of thousands of soldiers.

If Li Ru really had a strategy and had 20,000 elite soldiers here, wouldn’t we surrender?

Do you guys think what I said is correct?

Ha ha ha ha……"

"The thief army will accept the order!

Zhang Fei, a man from Yan, is here!"

Before Cao Cao's laughter stopped, a loud shout rang out from the dock.

The generals were shocked and looked in the sound. They saw flags shaking in the docks on both sides, shouting shocked the sky, probably because they had hidden tens of thousands of soldiers!

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!!"

The sound of war drums sounded from the dock, and the soldiers under Liu Bei had already been holding back their might and wanted to kill them.

The soldiers rushed down from the mountain under the leadership of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Wei Qi and other generals and rushed straight to Cao's army!

Cao Cao's smile stiffened on his face.

It's over, I'm so cold this time.

This face was slapped, and it was a bang.

With the scale of Liu Bei's ambush, even if his 10,000 troops were not defeated by Lu Bu, they would not be able to fight.

Not to mention that there are only a thousand remaining soldiers left, and there is no room for resistance.

"Cao Thief! Eat your grandpa Zhang's spear!"

Zhang Fei took the lead and rushed towards Cao Cao excitedly.

"Lord, get on the horse! I'll resist this black guy!"

Cao Hong stood up nervously and rushed towards Zhang Fei with a knife.

"Zi Lian, be careful!"

Cao Cao was quite moved. If Cao Hong could stop Zhang Fei for a while, he might have really escaped.

"when!!"

Zhang Fei swept across the snake spear in his hand and knocked Cao Hong away directly.

"puff!"

Cao Hong sat on the ground and vomited blood. He was obviously injured by Zhang Fei's huge force and lost his combat power.

Cao Cao was completely confused.

He knew that Cao Hong was not Zhang Fei's opponent, but he didn't expect that this guy couldn't even hold on for a single round.

The generals of the Cao army also hurriedly stood up to fight, but in their current state, they were not the opponents of Liu Bei's army?

Especially Zhang Fei, there was only Cao Cao in his eyes, and he stabbed Cao Cao with a snake spear!

"Bang!"

Cao Ren, who was in a mess, fought to withstand the blow.

"If you want to hurt my lord, you need to step over my body of Cao Zixiao!"

Zhang Fei grinned and smiled:
To be continued...