The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

So in order to preserve his strength, Cao Cao had to retreat. He had to evacuate to a safe place, rely on the remaining cavalry, and fight these yellow scarf thieves in a wide area. At that time, it was hard to say who would win and who would lose.

That's why Cao Cao ordered to retreat.

The cavalry retreated fairly quickly.

After Cao Cao gave an order, they began to run. To get out of the battle, they only needed to pull their horses and cross the crowd.

But not all people can leave the battle. After all, there are still some people who are entangled by the yellow turban thieves and cannot directly leave the battle. Even if they leave, they will definitely bring damage.

The battle lasted less than a stick of incense, and Cao Jun began to retreat in a bustling manner.

About 500 people retreated from the ambush site and ran back.

But just after Cao Cao relaxed a little, thinking that his men had already escaped from the ambush point, the 2000 troops Liu Zheng dispatched rushed out from the jungle on both sides at this time, blocking Cao Jun's retreat.

Chapter 30 One Shot

"Come on! Kill all these officers and soldiers!"

Pei Yuanshao led more than 2000 yellow scarf troops hidden here and rushed out from both sides, holding their spears, and rushed towards Cao Jun.

These Cao troops had just narrowly escaped death, and their morale had not recovered at all. Instead, some of the morale they had accumulated was wasted because of the retreat. When they were attacked again at this time, they naturally panicked even more.

Even if Cao Cao tried his best to control the formation at this time, he could no longer control the situation. The cavalry here, in a panic, had already started to flee in all directions, and they had no fighting spirit at all.

Looking at the fleeing army, it was obvious that they were defeated. Cao Cao stood under the official path and sighed. Although there were [-] cavalry around him at this time, the [-] cavalry had to face thousands of yellow scarves here. Thief, Rao has always been confident and understands that this is unlikely.

Cao Cao saw Liu Zheng in the crowd, his eyes were dark. When he was in Quyang City, he had already concluded that the appearance of Liu Zheng would definitely become a serious problem for them. Now it seems that this promise made Cao Cao I am more convinced.

"This battle has changed, all soldiers, evacuate immediately!"

Cao Cao didn't intend to continue fighting at all. The soldiers who had no fighting spirit were no longer the opponents of the Yellow Turban Army, so he could only choose to retreat at this time.

After all, these people under his command were not his own troops, but Hu cavalry soldiers from the Fifth Northern Army School that Huangfusong had transferred to him.

He was temporarily ordered to command these troops to pursue the Yellow Turban Bandit, but the result now caused him a great headache.

It was difficult for Cao Cao to mobilize Huangfusong's cavalry. In addition, he was not familiar with these cavalry, and it was difficult to command them. Now that he was ambushed, Cao Cao was naturally quite embarrassed. Tiger and leopard rider, he doesn't want to waste all of them here.

So Cao Cao made a decisive decision and immediately chose to retreat with the remaining hundreds of cavalry.

With Cao Cao and Cao Hong opening the way, Pei Yuanshao's 2000 men were naturally impossible to stop, but when Liu Zheng arranged for Pei Yuanshao and the others to intercept the pursuers here, he did not intend to let them destroy the fleeing pursuers.

The purpose was just to further damage the morale of the pursuers, to deplete their fighting spirit again, and only think about him escaping.

It now appears that this goal has been achieved.

And after Liu Zheng took Xu Huang, Zhou Cang and others to the core battlefield, Liu Zheng didn't think much about it, his eyes kept scanning back and forth on the battlefield.

There is only one purpose, which is to find out where Cao Ren is.

Liu Zheng remembered that revenge clearly.

This time when he met Cao Ren again, he would not let Cao Ren go.

This guy Cao Ren has always followed Cao Cao and acted as Cao Cao's guard. After all, Cao Cao is just a cavalry captain and has not yet become a posterity. High official position.

Compared to Cao Cao, Liu Zheng focused his attention on Cao Ren at this time, holding a javelin in his hand, and rode his horse to approach Cao Ren.

"Son Cao Ren! Suffer death!"

With a whoosh, Liu Zheng threw the javelin in his hand into the distance and threw it away.

Although there was a long distance, Cao Ren had already followed Cao Cao and started to retreat outside the ambush circle. Liu Zheng was worried that Cao Ren would run away before he could catch up.

That's why he threw the javelin in his hand when he was so far away and he was not very sure.

Liu Zheng's words came loudly. Although it was far away, Cao Ren seemed to hear his name.

Glancing back.

At the moment when he turned his head, the javelin flew towards Cao Ren in an instant.

Cao Ren's pupils widened in an instant, and he hurriedly tried to dodge.

But the javelin was right in front of him, and he couldn't avoid it, so he could only grab it with his hand.

Trying to catch the flying javelin with his own hands.

However, the strength of the javelin thrown out by the flying shot has been greatly increased, so it can't be grasped directly by manpower.

Just when Cao Ren stretched out his hand to grab the javelin, the javelin pierced his hand instantly.

With a puff.

The huge force of inertia penetrated Cao Ren's palm.

Then Cao Ren fell off his horse.

Let out a painful scream.

Cao Ren was also lucky.If he hadn't reached out to grab the javelin.Perhaps the javelin would have pierced directly through his chest.

"Zixiao!"

Cao Cao turned his head immediately after hearing Cao Ren's scream.But he found that Cao Ren had been shot and fell to the ground.

He yelled in horror, and immediately turned around.He rode his horse back to Cao Ren's side.

"Kill! Brothers, the enemy army has been defeated and it's time for revenge!"

Seeing this, Liu Zheng immediately yelled, signaling the Yellow Turban Army around him to kill Cao Jun.

After Cao Cao heard Liu Zheng's words and realized that the Yellow Turbans were getting closer to them, his expression changed drastically and became more gloomy.

"Get on your horse, you can't stay here for long, you will lose if you stay for a long time, and evacuate here first!"

Cao Cao grabbed the injured Cao Ren and quickly left with him.He didn't want to leave Cao Ren behind.After all, Cao Ren is his second brother.

Cao Ren endured the pain in his arm, was pulled onto the horse by Cao Cao, and then followed behind Cao Cao, broke through the encirclement and left.

When Liu Zheng and others came to kill him, Cao Cao had already led some of his best troops, broke through the encirclement, and killed to the edge of the battlefield.

Liu Zheng looked at the back of Cao Cao's escape. Although he had some regrets, Cao Cao was Cao Cao after all. With his current strength, it was impossible to capture Cao Cao, even if he had more troops than Cao Cao.

But it is not so easy to capture Cao Cao alive or to kill Cao Cao.

As long as Cao Cao leaves, there will be no possibility for the remaining official cavalry to escape. What Liu Zheng wants more is to kill these official cavalry.

You only need to kill the cavalry of the officers and soldiers, and those officers and soldiers will have no pursuit weapons, and it will be difficult to chase Liu Zheng and others.

At that time, the sky will be high enough for birds to fly, and the sea will be wide enough for fishes to leap. Liu Zheng can go wherever he wants.

After half an hour.

The entire official road was in a mess.

The fighting has stopped, Cao Jun has already fled here, and all that is left is a place of corpses and the smell of blood.

Liu Zheng rested under a big tree. Although he didn't suffer any injuries in the battle just now, his physical strength was still exhausted.

"Pei Yuanshao, have you got the statistics on the battlefield? How many brothers did we die?"

"Hui Qushuai, we didn't have many casualties, but more than 400 brothers died and more than 700 were injured. But none of the injuries were too serious, and we could barely move."

"What about the enemy army?"

Chapter 31 Spoils of War

Liu Zheng's question brought a smile to Pei Yuanshao's face immediately.

"Qu Shuai, this time we made a lot of money!"

Pei Yuanshao had a smile on his face, as if he was very satisfied with his performance in this battle.

As soon as Liu Zheng heard Pei Yuanshao's words, he immediately became interested. Although he had already realized something, he still wanted to hear Pei Yuanshao's talk about how he made so much money.

"See those war horses?"

Pei Yuanshao turned around, raised his hand, and pointed to the resting place of the large yellow scarf army.

At that position, some war horses were surrounded, led by reins, and tied to tree stumps. Looking around, there were not a few of them, at least hundreds of them.

Four hundred war horses!

These horses were all snatched from the soldiers of Cao Jun when they fought Cao Jun just now. Except for some of the horses that were too injured to be released, they were slaughtered directly and the meat was distributed to the Yellow Turban Army. All the horses that could run were preserved by Pei Yuanshao.

Counting some of the war horses in Liu Zheng's team before, Liu Zheng now has more than [-] war horses under his command.

With [-] war horses, Liu Zheng can train a powerful cavalry squad just by giving Liu Zheng some time.

At that time, let alone these officers and troops now, even if there are thousands of officers and troops coming, with a cavalry squad, Liu Zheng will have nothing to fear.

Hearing Pei Yuanshao's words, Liu Zheng's face was also happy.

"Are these horses snatched from Cao Jun?"

"Well, Shuai Qu, weren't you still worried that we didn't have enough horses? Haha, Cao Jun sent us here. He really wanted to doze off, so the enemy sent us pillows!"

At this time, Pei Yuanshao was obviously happier than Liu Zheng. After all, Liu Zheng had just promised him to be the commander of the cavalry squad just before.

Now that with these war horses, his cavalry squad can be expanded in a short period of time, how can he not be happy?

And Liu Zheng was equally happy at this time, these cavalry were an important capital for him to deal with the official army in the future.

"Okay, that's great, Pei Yuanshao, I will leave these war horses to you for temporary management, and to cooperate with Xu Huang, we must choose some warriors who can ride horses. These days, at least train them first. When we settle down, we must be in the short term. In time, get this cavalry squad up first!"

Liu Zheng gave Pei Yuanshao an order.

Pei Yuanshao nodded happily, and quickly agreed.

At this time, Xu You, who had been busy counting the casualties, came over at this time.

"Shuai Qu, it's almost time for us to rest, and it's time for us to set off, we shouldn't stay here for long!"

At this time, more than half an hour has passed since the battle just now, although the first wave of pursuers by the officers and soldiers has been repulsed by Liu Zheng and the others.

But this does not mean that the official army will not have a second wave of chasing troops.

Liu Zheng didn't know when the battle in Runan City would end, but he knew clearly that that battle was not a protracted battle. Since that guy Bocai would be betrayed by He Yi, he would definitely be defeated in a short time , Naturally, there is not much time left for Liu Zheng.

Once the battle in Runan City is over, Zhonglang General Huangfusong and Zhu Jun will turn to deal with him, the remnants who fled into Runan City.

And Cao Jun's new defeat, after retreating, will definitely not go far, and he must have gathered with Huangfusong and Zhu Jun. After learning of Cao Cao's defeat, he will definitely organize a wave of stronger troops to come.

If you continue to stay here, the risk factor will increase greatly.

"Xu You, where are we going next?"

Although Liu Zheng already has a place in his heart, he still wants to listen to Xu You's opinion. After all, Xu You is now the only counselor by his side. Listening to his opinion may give Liu Zheng more choices.

When asked by Liu Zheng, Xu You fell silent for a while.

After a while, Liu Zheng responded.

"Does Shuai Qu want to continue to grow his power, or do he want to cultivate temporarily?"

"Is there any difference?"

"This will determine where you go next."

Asked by Xu You, Liu Zheng also fell silent, lowered his head and thought for a moment.

"Where should I go to strengthen myself, and where should I go for temporary cultivation?"

Liu Zheng paused for a moment, and then began to question carefully.

Xu You may have thought that Liu Zheng would ask such a question, and immediately explained to Liu Zheng.

"If Qu Shuai wants to strengthen himself, I recommend Qu Shuai go west to Nanyang. If Qu Shuai wants to cultivate temporarily, he should go east to Jizhou."

Xu You's words made Liu Zheng narrow his eyes slightly, which was exactly what Liu Zheng was thinking.

Nanyang is the site of Zhang Mancheng, the envoy of God, and one of the three main battlefields of the Yellow Turban Army. After the defeat of the Yellow Turban Army in Yingchuan and Runan, Nanyang is the most important battlefield.

If Liu Zheng entered Nanyang with his current power, he would definitely be able to be called a powerful party, and he could also rank high in the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army.

Waiting for the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army and the official army to fight, to recruit some soldiers and horses from other Yellow Turban remnants, or to pull the people near Nanyang into the team, Liu Zheng's strength, within three months, will definitely be able to reach tens of thousands. Thousands of people.

But if you enter Jizhou, you will really be recuperating.

After all, Jizhou is the main altar of the Yellow Turban Army, which is Zhang Jiao's territory. The officers and soldiers don't do much there, and the fighting is not too frequent. After Liu Zheng passed by, he certainly doesn't need to participate in the battle often. He can give him some time to train soldiers and horses. .

But in the same way, because Jizhou has already been seriously infiltrated by Zhang Jiao's old Taoist, if Liu Zheng goes to Jizhou, it will be difficult to grow himself quickly.