But Cao Ren returned to his own formation. In his opinion, Liu Bei's pursuit was inevitable!

Cao Ren's troops were also linked together. He commanded the army to prepare for the battle, but Liu Bei's army then chased after him and rushed forward.

His plan to win in chaos was disappointed again, which was equivalent to losing another time, Fang Xin Li Dian's words.

After all, Cao Ren is the main general and his ruling is not bad. Since he knows that he has wronged Li Dian, he naturally needs to correct it.

He immediately sent someone to invite Li Dian and restored Li Dian's position as deputy general in the name of discussing military information.

Cao Ren recalled the entire process of this battle formation and speculated that he was about Li Dian:

"Liu Bei and Guan, Zhang, and Zhao are brave, but they are only very skilled in military tactics and have never been acquainted with military formations. Now the eight-gate golden lock formation I have set up is broken by them, and they can stop the pursuit in time and avoid the outnumbered fighting situation. From this we can see that there must be those who are capable in Liu Bei's army!"

Li Dian pondered for a while, agreed with Cao Ren's judgment, and said to Cao Ren:

"Since Liu Bei has a military advisor and is involved, Zhang Zhizhao Zhiyong seems to be in a hurry to repel us now. Obviously, his skills are more than that! Although I am here, I am very worried that Fancheng will be attacked by Liu Bei."

As a general who has led troops for many years, Cao Ren dared to come out in full swing, and was to deceive Liu Bei's generals who were brave but not wise. Now that Liu Bei has a military advisor, he is naturally worried that Fancheng will be defeated. The soldiers he left behind were only hundreds of soldiers, and they were only stationed in the military camp and there was no city defense at all.

But Cao Ren had sent troops for several days and mobilized many troops. He still had the advantage of military strength. He returned in vain and felt unwilling to accept it!

Cao Ren thought again, if Liu Bei's military advisor was really planning to him, even if he rushed back now, it would be too late and would be useless.

Cao Ren is also a decisive person, so he simply did not do anything and decided to bet again, and then said to Li Dian:

"General Li made sense, but even if he returns to the sky, he may not have time to stop Liu Bei's army from attacking Fancheng. We might as well give him a robbery tonight. If he wins, he will make plans; if he fails, he will retreat immediately to Fancheng."

When Li Dian heard that Cao Ren was going to take a dangerous robbery, he thought of the complex terrain beside the mountain and quickly stopped him:

"The general must not rob the camp. This is Liu Bei's territory. He has the advantage of the territory and must be fully prepared. Our terrain is not familiar with us, so we can launch a sneak attack at night. The moon is dark and the wind is high, and it is easy to be taken by Liu Bei's army."

Cao Ren sighed and said leisurely: "I have been with the Prime Minister for many years. It is a must to rob the camp at night. I know that it is dangerous. If we are all so suspicious, how can we use troops?" Li Dian was speechless when he heard this!

Cao Ren then refused to listen to Li Dian's words. He led the main force as the front team and asked Li Dian to lead thousands of elite troops as the back. At the second update of the night, Cao Ren led the army and quietly went to rob Liu Bei's camp.

Xu Shu stayed to explore the horse and monitor the movements in Cao's camp, so he chatted with Xuande and Ma Su in the village. The sky soon became dark. The horse and came to report that after nightfall, the camp was quiet and there was no movement.

After listening to the report of the horse explorer, Xu Shu waved his hand to ask the horse explorer to retreat, turned to Ma Su and asked, "You Chang, what do you think Cao Ren should do?"

Ma Su has been following Xu Shu, but he has gained a lot of knowledge. He knows the military situation between the two sides well and deduces the changes in the battle situation. When he saw Xu Shu asking, it was difficult to hide it or not, so he answered truthfully:

"In my opinion, Cao Ren was discovered by Brother Yuanzhi to break through the eight-gate golden lock formation, and his fighting formation was also defeated. Moreover, we can resist the temptation of expanding the results of the battle and restrict the pursuit of the troops. This is not something that ordinary people can do. He should be alert to Brother Xu. Since he has not withdrawn his troops to rescue Fancheng, he is lucky. If he wants to be surprised, he will come to rob the village tonight."

Xu Shu nodded and said, "Good!" as if he agreed with Ma Su's judgment.

When Liu Bei heard Ma Su's words, his eyes lit up and deliberately asked Ma Su, "Why do you want to fight?" Ma Su lowered his eyes and refused to answer.

Xu Shufu smiled and said, "I have already prepared a solution for it. When I chose this place to intercept Cao Ren, or even selected the location for the camp, I was already prepared for the enemy to attack and rob the camp at night!"

Xu Shu had already made a plan and whispered with Liu Bei. Liu Bei called Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun and several generals to split the secretly.

By the second update, night birds on the side of the mountain were startled. Cao Renbian had just touched Liu Bei's camp and saw fires around the village burning.

When Cao Ren saw this, he knew that Liu Bei was prepared and urgently ordered his troops to retreat, but it was still too late. The fires around him became prosperous, and many soldiers were buried in the sea of ​​fire.

Cao Ren led the defeated soldiers and retreated quickly. Zhao Yun led two thousand troops from the side to cover up, which just blocked Cao Ren's way back to the camp.

Cao Ren had no time to withdraw his troops and return to the camp. Liu Bei led his troops to chase him, but in desperation, he hurriedly looked at the Beihe River and left.

Cao Ren led his troops to the riverside and wanted to find a boat to cross the river. Another army and horse arrived on the bank. He was the leader of the general, Zhang Fei.

Seeing that Cao Ren could not leave, he had to turn over and fight to the death. Although his martial arts were not as good as that, Cao Ren still stopped Zhang Fei and gave several generals time to find the ferry.

The ferry was originally controlled by the soldiers Cao Ren. When he saw Cao's army retreating, he quickly rowed over to ferry people.

Cao Ren was entangled by Zhang Fei and could not escape. Just then, Li Dian led the troops and arrived, resisted Zhang Fei, and protected Cao Ren and others to get off the boat and cross the river.

Although Zhang Fei was brave, he had only one thousand soldiers and horses under his command. He was unable to break through the defense line of more than ten thousand Cao's army, and did not dare to approach too much. He only shouted and fought around.

Under the hazy moonlight at night, it was unclear that Cao's soldiers heard the shouts of killing. They didn't know how many soldiers and horses Liu Bei had arrived. They dived and climbed boats to cross the river first to escape. The soldiers from the north were not familiar with the nature of the water and mostly drowned in the water.

Cao Ren and Li Dian crossed the river, and their food and supplies were lost. There were 25,000 men and less than 10,000 left.

After the two gathered the remaining soldiers on the shore, Cao Ren was unsure and did not dare to stop. He led his men and horses to Fancheng at night.

Fortunately, although it was night, I could see the road clearly under the hazy moonlight. In addition, Cao Ren's army was not slow because of the importance of escaping.

The shouts of killing behind gradually faded away, and Cao's army finally got rid of Liu Bei's army's pursuit, and Cao Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It was already dawn, and you could see the city walls of Fancheng from afar, and the flag "Cao" on the top of the city was still fluttering in the wind.

Just as he was about to get home, Cao Ren's soldiers all accelerated their speed and wanted to go to the city for a meal...

The people neighed and the horses shouted. After the large group of soldiers approached Fancheng, in broad daylight, the south gate of Fancheng was closed, and there was no movement in the city. Cao Ren and Li Dian looked at each other and felt a bad feeling.

There is still an arrow from the city gate. Li Dian was about to speak, but this time Cao Ren did not need Li Dian to remind him and directly ordered the team to stop moving forward.
Chapter completed!