At two o'clock in the morning, the moon had already set in the west and the stars were lonely at night.

On early spring night, the cold is in full swing. Aside the burning bonfires, countless soldiers are holding weapons and sitting back to back to sleep. In the night, one or two neighing sounds of war horses may sound, but there is also a different sense of peace.

Zhao Yun held a map and looked at something carefully in the fire, showing a thoughtful expression from time to time.

Someone walked behind Zhao Yun with a slight touch and put a fur cloak on him.

"It's Ah Zheng!" Zhao Yun turned around, saw the person clearly, and said softly, "Who came back?"

"Just come back just now!" Zhao Zheng lowered his voice and refused to disturb the sleeping soldiers. "Commander, you should take a rest too!"

"It's okay!" Zhao Yun waved his hand, then asked with concern, "What's wrong with A Ying?"

"The internal injury is very serious, but I have already asked the doctor to prescribe medicine. I left Zhao Chong to take care of A Ying and rushed back first!" Zhao Zheng and Zhao Chong are both Zhao Yun's clan brothers, and they are also one of the few survivors in the Zhao Yun clan after the war in Hebei.

"If it weren't for Ziyun (Xia Hong)'s rescue, A Ying would have been hardly able to escape. This time, A Ying was too reckless. With his martial arts, he was no match for Xu Chu at all.

Even if I were me, I would not dare to say that I would defeat Xu Chu!" Zhao Yun sighed and said with regret.

"Isn't the commander better than Xu Chu once?" Zhao Zheng said in a little surprised.

"That's also a narrow victory. After a few days, Xu Chu's skills seemed to have improved again. If you fight him again, the outcome will be unpredictable..." Zhao Yun's eyes suddenly became sharp, "But since he hurts A Ying, I will not give up with him!"

Standing up, Zhao Yun stretched his waist. He patted Zhao Zheng on the shoulder and said, "A Zheng, you have been tired for a day, go and have a rest first, and I'll go around here!"

Knowing that he couldn't persuade Zhao Yun, and he was really tired, Zhao Zheng nodded and walked away.

Taking off the fur cloak from his body and put it aside, Zhao Yun lowered his steps, walking among the sleeping soldiers.

Occasionally, some soldiers who woke up wanted to get up and salute, but Zhao Yun raised his hand to stop him.

After watching the soldiers, Zhao Yun came to the place where the horses were stationed to observe the feeding of the war horses.

After walking around, it was almost three o'clock. After a yawn, Zhao Yun was waiting to find a place to take a nap when a rapid sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the darkness.

Knowing that something important would happen, Zhao Yun cheered up and walked quickly towards the direction where the sound of horse hooves came.

A scout rushed over and happened to meet Zhao Yun. The cavalry flew down and knelt down on one knee and said, "Commander, emergency military information. Cao's army moved..."

"You will inform General Huang Zhong now and ask him to rectify his troops immediately and prepare." After hearing the scout general's information report, Zhao Yun raised his sword eyebrows slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he immediately ordered.

"No!" The scout got on his horse again and galloped away.

"Blow the trumpet, rest and stop, the whole army is ready to attack..."

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"Kill!" As the shouts of killing were shouting all over the sky, groups of wind cavalry roared and roared away, and the extremely sharp swords ruthlessly reaped life.

The Cao army soldiers arranged in dense formations, tenaciously and resolutely endured the impact and killing wave after wave. They were like rocks standing on the bank of the river. I remained unmoved by the rushing river water.

The fierce battle officially unfolded the moment the Fengqi Army intercepted Cao's army from the side.

Unexpectedly, the Cao army, who were fighting and retreating, had an astonishing will to resist. The wind cavalry attacked again and again, but they were unable to defeat them.

After rushing for a while, Zhao Yun felt something was wrong. The tough-willed Cao army in front of him didn't seem to be preparing to retreat at all. It seemed to be fighting the Wind Cavalry Army to the death.

and……

"Commander. Something is wrong..." Zhang Yi rushed over and said loudly to Zhao Yun. "The Cao army here is all infantry, and he did not see the cavalry of the Cao army. I just met Ziyun (Xia Hong), and he also said he did not see the cavalry of the Cao army..."

After Zhang Yi said that there was another doubt in the center, Zhao Yun's expression changed slightly. After thinking for a moment, he said anxiously: "I'm fooled, it's a trick to escape from the shell! Cao Cao must have used the retreat of the infantry as bait to lure our army to pursue him. He and the cavalry retreated from another road..."

"What?" Zhang Yi said in disbelief, "There are less than 15,000 infantry here, so Cao Cao was willing to throw it away like this!"

"Cao Cao has always been decisive in his actions, and there is nothing he can't let go..." Zhao Yun frowned and said, "And the cavalry retreated first, which is actually a relief for these Cao's infantry. If they really can't stand it, they can escape west into the mountains..."

"Commander, what should I do next?"

Zhao Yun pulled his horse to look at the killing battlefield around him, and suddenly made a decision: "German side, we can summon the first song and chase Cao Cao. Although we may not be able to catch up, we must give it a try! Let Cao Cao retreat to Wancheng so quickly is quite unfavorable to the general's plan!"

"Commander, it's too dark, I'm afraid it's not that easy to chase!" Zhao Zheng, the captain of the personal soldiers, reminded.

"This is no problem. Tracking is the specialty of Crazy Wolf. No matter how dark it is, it will not be difficult for him! As long as he is, he will definitely find Cao Cao's retreat route..." Zhang Yi said.

"That's it!" Zhao Yun knew that the time was urgent and had no choice but to hesitate. He immediately decided, "Defang, please call the first song quickly and then call the Langfeng brothers."

"Commander, what should I do here?" Zhang Yi wanted to leave, but suddenly looked back and asked.

"I'll leave it to Brother Han Sheng and Er and Sanqu here!"

"Woo~~Woo~!" The loud horn sounded violently, rushing towards the dark night sky...

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A cavalry was moving rapidly towards the north.

As Zhao Yun guessed, Cao Cao divided his troops into two, used the retreat of the infantry as bait to lure the enemy's attention, and then covered the retreat of the cavalry.

In order to prevent the action from being noticed, Cao Cao ordered each cavalry to wrap a cloth towel on the horse's hooves to eliminate the sound of the hooves. At the same time, the cavalry did not light a torch when they retreated.

It was not until more than ten miles to withdraw that a few torches were lit so that they could march quickly.

While galloping on a horse, Cao Cao couldn't help looking back and looked southwest, although it was impossible to see anything in the night.

"Prime Minister Don't worry, General Le Jin is our general, and has experienced many battles, and this is our hinterland. Even if General Le can't hold on, it should be no problem to escape without any trouble.

"Jia Xu, who was riding on the side, saw Cao Cao's expression and movements clearly with the firelight, knew what Cao Cao was worried about, and comforted him, "The most important thing at the moment is to rush back to Wancheng first and try to resolve Zhang Fei's serial tricks!"

"Huh~~!" Cao Cao sighed slightly angrily.

He said with sadness, "If it weren't for the flooding last year and the plague caused the five states including Yanyu to lose food, how could this battle end in such a situation? Could it be that even God was helping Liu Bei?"

"Prime Minister, Xu thought this matter was not about fate. It was only due to humans!" Jia Xu turned his head while fighting the horse, "Last year, Jing and Yang states also suffered from natural disasters of waterlogging, just because Liu Bei's governance was well prepared.

Only by responding in a timely and appropriate manner can the losses be minimized. If we can also make these preparations in advance, losses can be completely avoided.

The so-called destiny is ultimately an illusory thing, and the Prime Minister doesn’t have to worry about it at all!”

In fact, since October last year, some remarks have been circulating in the Central Plains and Hebei prefectures and counties - Taoist Cao Cao acted against the will of heaven and acted against heaven, which made people angry.

Continuous floods and plagues are disasters caused by God to punish Cao Cao. As long as Cao Cao is in power for one day, the anger of heaven and earth will not dissipate, and even greater natural disasters will inevitably come in the future.

If you want to avoid natural disasters, you can only overthrow Cao Cao.

If these rumors were in normal times, Cao Cao would have disdained them at all. But there was a natural disaster, and it was obvious that the losses of Liu Bei and Cao Cao were greatly different, which invisibly increased the credibility of the rumors.

Especially the people who suffer from natural disasters, they believe in this. The people's dissatisfaction with Cao Cao is increasing day by day. If measures cannot be taken to ease the people's hearts in a short period of time, large-scale rebellion and rebellion may be inevitable.

And this is also one of the reasons why Cao Cao was eager to resolve this war.

However, the progress of the war so far has ruthlessly proved one truth--hazard will lead to failure!

Cao Cao nodded, but said nothing.

"Although the current war is not going well, as long as the southwest incident begins, the situation will turn around!"

When Jia Xu mentioned that "the incident in the southwest has begun", Cao Cao was slightly motivated and asked in a deep voice, "Wenhe, how is the progress of things in the southwest?"

"Although I haven't received any news these days, according to the previous plan, the incident happened in these days!" Jia Xu was reporting, but the cavalry rear squad suddenly heard a noise.

"What's going on?" Cao Cao vaguely felt something was wrong and asked anxiously.

"Prime Minister..." Cao Zhen rushed over and said with a slightly anxious expression, "The sound of horse hooves came from behind. It is very likely that the Fengqi army has caught up with him. The last general has sent a scout to inquire."

"It actually came so fast?" Cao Cao was slightly surprised, "How did Zhao Yun come to the ground with such a dark sky?" Although the Cao cavalry lit more than a dozen torches, the faint fire could not reach much.

I'm afraid it won't be seen five miles away, and the cavalry of Cao's army lit the torch after nearly fifteen miles away.

"Prime Minister, I don't know how many enemies come. In order to ensure safety, you should take some people to retreat first. The last general leads the army to block the pursuers!" Cao Zhen advised anxiously.

"General Zidan said very well!" Jia Xu nodded and agreed.

"Since that's the case, I will leave 3,000 cavalry for you to stop the enemy!" Cao Cao knew that he could not hesitate and made a quick decision, "Then Zhao Yun is fierce and good at fighting, and is not easy to resist. Zhongkang, you also leave a support to Zidan."

"promise!"

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Xuzhou, Pengcheng, County Magistrate's Office

Guan Yu urgently summoned Zhuge Liang, Wei Yan, Gan Ning and others to discuss the difficulties faced by the army.
Chapter completed!