"Xu Chu, Li Dian, Zhang He, you guys stop Zhao Yun together." Cao Cao ordered in panic.

This is the most powerful general in the world after Lu Bu. He led three thousand flying dragon cavalry in Xia Pi and rushed in and out of his 200,000 army. This is a peerless general who can take his head from it. How could Cao Cao not panic?

Although Xu Chu, Li Dian and Zhang He besieged, Zhao Yun was not afraid and fought with Xu Chu, Li Dian and Zhang He. Not only did he not lose the upper hand, but he instead fought against the three of them, and he was really brave and invincible.

More than 400 flying dragon cavalry also killed and injured other Cao soldiers.

After nearly a quarter of an hour of fighting, after seeing Cao Cao fleeing far away, Xu Chu, Li Dian and Zhang He abandoned Zhao Yun and chased Cao Cao.

Zhao Yun did not pursue him, and killed more than a thousand Cao's soldiers in a big battle, but the flying dragon cavalry lost less than 30 cavalry, all because he was waiting for his leisure and the Cao's soldiers had no desire to fight.

Cao Cao fled to Huarong Road and was intercepted by Wei Yan again.

Fortunately, Wei Yan's military strength was limited, and although he killed Cao's army, Cao Cao finally broke out under the protection of Xu Chu, Zhang He and others, and hundreds of cavalry and rushed to Xudu.

This is really a battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, with only two or three hundred remaining soldiers fleeing back, not only in a mess, but also in a miserable state.

Fortunately, it was because Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, and Guo Jia did not have to take Cao Cao's life in their hearts. The last few ambushes were just to scare Cao Cao, making Cao Cao even more frightened. He was full of soldiers. Even if he was asked to escape back to Xudu, he would still have a shadow in his heart. His spirit was hit hard and he could not recover for a long time.

...

In the Battle of Red Cliff, Cao Cao was defeated and the coalition forces won a great victory.

All 730,000 Cao's army were defeated, only a few generals including Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong, Xiahou Shang gathered 20,000 to 30,000 remaining troops or fled to Jiangling and Xiangyang, or fled to Hefei.

In short, let alone those surrendered troops in Jingzhou, Cao Cao first led a 400,000 army from Xudu to fight south, and then added 50,000 and 450,000 troops and horses in his unit, all of which were reduced by nearly 440,000, and his vitality was greatly damaged.

Cao Cao originally had 800,000 troops, but now there are only 350,000 and 60,000 left. In addition to the 100,000 troops defending on the front line of Luoyang and Hongnong, the four prefectures in Hebei, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Huainan, and northern Jingzhou, and many counties, there are only 250,000 troops and 60,000 troops left to defend. Cao Cao was absolutely seriously injured.

"After the defeat of Chibi, my vitality will be severely damaged. Liu Yu, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan will definitely divide our land. The 100,000 troops in Luoyang and Hongnong areas must not be moved. Hefei in Huainan County and Xiangyang in Jingzhou Nan County are all important places. If Huainan County is lost, Xuzhou and Yuzhou will be threatened by Sun Quan. If Xiangyang in Jingzhou Nan County is lost, the entire Jingzhou will not be protected. Moreover, the bridgehead for my southern expedition will not exist. Now, it should be to prevent Liu Yu from going out in Guanzhong from going east and defending Xiangyang and Hefei as the three major things." Cao Cao was a hero. Although he suffered a crushing defeat, he was still rational and not completely depressed.

"Cao Ren, if you guard Xiangyang, I will hand over all Jingzhou to you. If you can guard it, you cannot guard it. If you cannot guard it, I will allow you to preserve your strength and give up Jingzhou. Hefei in Huainan County is more important than the entire Jingzhou. Li Dian and Yu Jin, you two, will not be able to retreat even if you lose your lives. You must defend it to protect Xuzhou and Yuzhou." Cao Cao ordered the deployment one after another.

"Cao Ren, Li Dian, Yu Jin received the order." The three generals left.

Cao Cao was really seriously injured. Xiangyang was on the front line. Cao Cao could only send more than 10,000 troops and more than 10,000 troops surrendered to Jingzhou, and 30,000 soldiers to defend Xiangyang. As for Hefei, the same troops could send 20,000 troops to defend, which was the last force Cao Cao could send out.

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Red Cliff.

In the great victory of the coalition forces, Cao's army was 730,000 troops. Due to the fire of the water camp, warships were burned to death, drowned in the river, or trampled on each other, about 130,000 to 140,000, about 170,000 to 180,000, about 200,000 escaped, about 60,000 were captured by Liu Bei's army, about 60,000 prisoners, about 150,000 prisoners of Sun Quan's army in Jiangdong, and Liu Yu was too few soldiers and did not bring much food and grass. Instead of capturing more than tens of millions of people, it would be better not to have a single prisoner.

The victory of the Battle of Chibi undoubtedly recaptured Jiangxia County.

Jiangxia County was originally Liu Bei and Liu Qi's territory, so it should be returned to Liu Bei and Liu Qi. However, Jiangxia is a bridgehead to enter Jingzhou. If you want to go to the Xiangyang and Jiangling area of ​​Jingzhou, you must obtain Jiangxia County.

I know if I want to

It is said that Zhou Yu could not return Jiangxia County to Zhuge Liang and other Liu Bei's army to occupy it.

Zhang Fei's violent temper almost broke out with the Jiangdong Army, but fortunately Zhuge Liang stopped him in time. Zhuge Liang also knew that Zhou Yu could not return all Jiangxia County, so he only proposed to station the southern part of Jiangxia County, and to transfer Zhou Yu to station the northern part of the central part.

"The lord has few soldiers. Even if he possesses all of Jiangxia County, he will not be able to attack Jiangling, Xiangyang and other Cao troops defend heavily. It is better to take advantage of the Jiangdong to seize Jiangling and Xiangyang to seize the four counties of Wuling, Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang in the southern part of Jingzhou first." Zhuge Liang said to Zhang Fei and other generals.

Wei Yandao, "Send someone to Jianye to ask the lord to return quickly."

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "When this is the case, Wei Yan will let you protect your lord and return quickly from Jianye."

Wei Yan received the order to lead 500 soldiers to Jianye at night.

At the same time, Zhao Yun and Guo Jia ignored Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang's battle against Jiangxia County. After the Battle of Chibi, they went directly to Jianye to prepare to escort Liu Yu back to Guanzhong.

Jianye.

When Jianye heard the great victory in Chibi, everyone in Jianye was happy. Sun Quan was happy and ordered to reward the three armies, and a big banquet was also held in Jianye City to celebrate.

Sun Quan sat in the main seat, Liu Yu and Liu Bei sat in the first seat on the left and right.

Liu Bei was tasteless. As soon as the good news came, he wanted to leave Jianye and return to Jiangxia, but was kept by Sun Quan on the grounds of a celebration banquet. The celebration banquet lasted for three days.

Cao Cao was defeated by Chibi and his vitality was severely damaged. Now is the best time to capture Jingzhou, but he wasted his time eating a celebration banquet here.

However, Liu Yu's mood was different from Liu Bei. He was not planning Jingzhou, but Yizhou, but Yizhou still needed some deployment, so he could just order Man Chong to do it. It would be fine if he postponed it for ten days and half a month before returning to Guanzhong.

Liu Yu danced with Sun Shangxiang every day, traveled around the mountains and rivers and had fun, and was trapped in a gentle land and was not happy to think about Shu. Sun Quan did not mention how happy he was. He hoped that his younger sister Sun Shangxiang's gentle land would wipe out Liu Yu's heroic ambition, and even more wished that Liu Yu would stay in Jiangdong and not return to Guanzhong.

After the three-day celebration banquet, Liu Bei resigned to Sun Quan again.

Sun Quan was not stupid, and Zhou Yu also sent a secret message, asking Sun Quan to keep Liu Bei in Jianye as much as possible, and it would be better to wait for him to capture Jiangling and let Liu Bei go after Xiangyang. So Sun Quan used many excuses to try to keep Liu Bei, but he would not let Liu Bei leave Jianye anyway.
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