"General, Cao Hong is running away!" Wang Shuang and his men met Ye Zheng and said with shame.

"After saying that it is also a general under Cao Cao's command. Now he can defeat him so easily, it is because the other party is despising the enemy. You still want to capture him alive." He patted Wang Shuang's shoulder. Ye Zheng did not care about Cao Hong's escape at that time. The purpose of this battle was to win the Hulao Pass. As long as he took down Hulao Pass, it would be a victory. In the game with Cao Cao, it would be equivalent to taking the lead. As for taking Cao Hong... Of course, he doesn't mind if he has a chance, but if he cannot, there is no need to force it. An extremely large battle, especially the current battle involving the entire world pattern, is definitely not something that can be controlled by one person.

If Cao Cao loses Cao Hong, his personal feelings will naturally be painful, but to enlarge the situation, Cao Hong is really nothing. There are also many famous generals in Guanzhong, but as long as Ye Zhao is here, no one's sacrifice, including Ye Zheng, is absolutely impossible.

Of course, this is also an absolutely rational statement, but in fact, it is not impossible for Ye Zhao or Cao Cao to be blinded by hatred and anger, and to make a wrong decision.

"Now, cooperate with General Guan to arrange the defense of Hulao Pass. This place is important to Cao Cao and our army. It should not be ignored. Scouts should be sent outside the pass, and the thieves should not be allowed to take advantage of the opportunity!" Ye Zheng said with a smile.

"Here!" Wang Shuang took the order away with a little depressed mood. Ye Zheng could see it openly, but for Wang Shuang, who also made his debut in the Central Plains battlefield for the first time, he was not as openly as Ye Zheng. If he could capture and kill Cao Hong, then Wang Shuang would be famous all over the world.

After Ye Zheng occupied Hulao Pass, he began to reorganize his arms and improve his city defense. On the other hand, Cao Hong escaped from Hulao Pass, but he met the support personnel sent by Cao Cao.

"Zi Dan? Why are you here??" After revealing your identity, Cao Hong was overjoyed when he saw the leader of this group of people and hurriedly stepped forward to pull the people to the deity.

The person who came, named Cao Zhen, and his courtesy name was Zidan, was Cao Cao's adopted son. He had both martial arts and strategies. Although he was an adopted son, his father Cao Shao was also a member of the Cao clan and a member of the Cao clan. Because of his early death, Cao Zhen can be said to be raised by the generals of the Cao family, so his relationship is naturally good. Cao Zhen is also successful. Among the younger generations of the Cao family, he is not the strongest, but he is also the top one.

"I am on the order of my uncle to serve as a vanguard and come to support my uncle!" Cao Zhen looked at Cao Hong with a little surprise and said, "Uncle, this is..."

Upon hearing this, Cao Hong's face flashed with embarrassment, and then he said in angrily: "Stop talking, the boat capsized in the gutter and was attacked by the Ye family's thief with a ghost trick, so..."

"Hulao Pass is lost!" Cao Zhen stared at Cao Hong with an incredible look on his face.

"Yes." Cao Hong nodded a little disappointedly. No matter what the reason was, Hulao Pass was indeed lost in his hands. This is undeniable. Even if Cao Hong was unwilling to do so, he could only nod in a dark face.

"Well Ye Zhao is really so powerful?" Cao Zhen looked at Cao Hong with confusion. Cao Hong's ability was not the best, but among the current generals of the Cao army, if it comes to commanding the army, they are still in the ranks. After all, they have been fighting for so many years and have rich experience. It has only been three days since Cao Hong heard the news. Cao Cao sent Cao Zhen as the pioneer and came to support him first. Cao Zhen also stepped up his march along the way. Unexpectedly, he was still one step late.

"No... it's not Ye Zhao!" Cao Hong said with a dark face: "The one who attacked the city is Ye Zhao's son, Ye Zheng!"

After a while, Cao Zhen could not see Cao Zhen talking. Cao Hong looked up, but saw Cao Zhen looking at him with a look of you teasing me. Seeing Cao Hong's appearance, Cao Zhen quickly put away his expression and said, "Ye Zheng, that son of Ye Zhao? If my nephew has not remembered it correctly, then Ye Zheng is not eighteen now, right?"

"I'm not guilty of his conspiracy." Cao Hong said with a dark face.

Cao Zhen was speechless when he heard this. On the battlefield, wasn’t it just a conspiracy? Do you still expect the enemy to fight you upright? Even if the enemy is willing, Cao Cao wouldn’t. You should know that Cao Cao likes to use strange things, and there is no problem in this itself.

"By the way, Zidan, how many people have you brought this time?" Cao Hong suddenly looked at Cao Zhen and said.

"The 10,000 Pioneer Army wanted to help my uncle stabilize Hulao Pass first, but who knew..." After looking at Cao Hong, Cao Zhen didn't say anything. The truth was sometimes hurting his self-esteem.

"Ten thousand?" Cao Hong thought for a moment and shook his head dejectedly. Ten thousand soldiers were not enough. He had seen Ye Zheng's camp yesterday, and it was at least 20,000 military camps. Now he has the help of Hulao Pass and the city is helpless. With ten thousand soldiers, it is impossible to find the place. With Ye Zheng's courage, it is probably difficult to deceive him out of the city.

"Where is the brother now?" Cao Hong asked again.

"I have led a large army out of Xuchang, and now I should have arrived near Meishan." Cao Zhen thought for a while.

"You set up camp here first. The Ye family has now stationed tens of thousands of troops in Hulaoguanzhong. You can't attack forcefully. I'll go find my brother first!" Although Cao Hong still felt that Ye Zheng was lucky to break through Hulaoguan, he didn't think that the ten thousand vanguard troops in Cao Zhen's hands could be able to recover Hulaoguan. He decided to go to Cao Cao first to explain the situation. If he could take this opportunity to capture Ye Zheng's son, he would be able to be beneficial in the fight against Ye Zhao.

"Okay!" Cao Zhen thought for a while. Since Hulao Pass had been lost, it was impossible for him to take down his own troops. He went outside Hulao Pass to occupy Ao Cang and Xingyang.

Ao Cang, Xingyang and Hulao Pass form a horn. Dong Zhuo used this three cities to deal with the princes and won time for himself to migrate to the people of Luoyang. Although Ye Zheng has now obtained Hulao Pass, as long as he occupied Ao Cang and Xingyang, Hulao Pass would be isolated. With these two places as the foundation, there is also a springboard to attack Hulao Pass.

At that moment, Cao Hong and the remaining troops bid farewell to Cao Zhen and rushed towards Meishan. The next morning, before Cao Cao could move his troops, Cao Hong arrived at Cao Cao's camp and met Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was also surprised when he saw Cao Hong, frowned, looked at Cao Hong and said, "Is Hulao Pass lost?"

Cao Hong was about to complain, but Cao Cao told him in one sentence, so he could only say in disappointment: "Yes, that little thief in the Ye family is too cunning, last general..."

"Little thief?" Cao Cao sneered: "Ye Zhao has been fighting on the battlefield for many years and has repeatedly won surprises. Back then, he was Zhu Yan when he fought against the Yellow Turbans. Both veterans Huangfu Song may not be as good as him. Muye rescued the Jia, annexed Bashu, and his troops went out of Guanzhong... How many big battles have he fought over the years? What are your abilities? Call him a little thief?"

Cao Hong blushed and said, "If it were Ye Zhao, the last general would recognize it. This time, the son of Ye Zhao, Ye Zheng, who attacked the Huzhu, was cheating under the banner of his father. Later, I discovered it and used conspiracy to plot against him. It was really..."

"Stupid!" Cao Cao shouted when he heard this: "On the battlefield, everyone is trying to make plans. Not only are you defeated by a junior, but you are also making excuses?"

Cao Zhen, as a junior, had something to say, but Cao Cao had no such concerns. He heard this and cursed him, which made Cao Hong very depressed.

"Don't be angry." Xun You, a military advisor, quickly blocked Cao Cao, turned his head to look at Cao Hong and said, "General Zijian first told the whole story. Now Huzhu has been lost, and it is not time to hold him accountable now."

Cao Cao glared at Cao Hong with a little regret and said, "Tell me, how did you be defeated by Ye Zheng."

Cao Hong said the whole story with a red face and a tantrum. This was the thing he was most reluctant to mention, but he had to say it several times today, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Cao Cao, Zhong Yao, Xun You, and Cheng Yu were not wise men, and they automatically blocked the modifiers added by Cao Hong. The whole story roughly had a contour in everyone's hearts.

Just listening, everyone couldn't help but frown slightly.

After a long time, Cao Cao took a deep breath and looked at everyone and said, "This is a technique of attacking the heart. Not to mention a child sickle, even an orphan, I'm afraid it's impossible to escape the plot."

"The lord is too arrogant to look at that little boy!" Cao Hong couldn't help but say. In his opinion, Ye Zheng was just a little boy, so how could he have such ability?

"Look at it?" Cao Cao sneered: "You did a good job in the first attack. Although the Guanzhong army has many brave people, it is difficult to break through. However, in the second attack, this is to calculate that you will feel relaxed. This is not a coincidence, it is an extremely clever mind. You are not wronged when you lose."

"This..." Cao Hong was a little dissatisfied and defended: "I also ordered the soldiers to be careful of the enemy's sneak attack."

"Then what are you doing?" Cao Cao glanced at Cao Hong and said.

"This..." Cao Hong smiled dryly: "I will be running around for a day, and I am a little tired, so..."

"You already feel that after the opponent attacks once, you know that you cannot break through. You will not attack again. But you know that they will do the opposite. It is precisely because you see your mentality that you can hit it with one blow. This is not as simple as luck." Cao Cao sighed and looked at everyone and said, "This plan has a style of cultivation. If you don't want to cultivate your wisdom, your son has begun to show his might."

"Why worry lord?" Cheng Yu smiled and said, "The eldest son Cao Ang is both brave and brave, and the second son is also smart and humble. The lord and the sons may not lose to the Ye family."

Thinking of his sons, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing. As Cheng Yu said, the eldest son Cao Ang, the second son Cao Pi and Cao Zhi were all good talents, and Cao Chong, who had been called a prodigy since childhood, might not lose to the Ye family in the future. He was in a much better mood at the moment and said to everyone: "It's right. Since the Ye family has entered the Huzhu, I will go to see the Ye family and see what his son Xiuming has."
Chapter completed!