Cao Ren, Li Dian, Gao Lan and others led the defeated generals to flee in the night, like a dog with a broken family. The wind blew away from the forest and the grass roared nearby, which made them frightened and frightened, and suspected that the enemy was chasing him. In the early morning, the group fled to the mountains and forests near Hanyang. Looking towards Hanyang, they saw a team of troops wearing Cao's armor and holding Cao's flags, heading to Jiangdong through the floating bridge.

Li Dian said in a deep voice: "Not good! They must have been for Jiang Xia!"

Cao Ren felt dizzy in his head and said anxiously: "We must rush back to Jiangdong as soon as possible!"

Gao Lan frowned and said, "What can we do even if we return to Jiangdong? The main army has been wiped out. Except for Chaisang, there are 20,000 infantry troops and Chaohu, there are no available soldiers at all! But Lu Bu can lead nearly 300,000 troops to advance eastward. Even if we rush back to Jiangdong, we can't stop Lu Bu's attack at all!"

Cao Ren was furious and shouted angrily: "What is your intention to destroy your own power with such ambition?"

Seeing Cao Ren getting angry, Gao Lan was shocked and hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "God General calms down. The General is just a fact. How dare I have any intentions!"

Cao Ren snorted.

Li Dian advised: "General, don't be angry. General Gao Lan just said his opinion, and there was nothing else! The situation is now dangerous, and we should work together!" Cao Ren said decisively: "We must rush back as soon as possible, and it's better to rush before the enemy captures Jiangxia!"

Li Dian and Gao Lan thought this was impossible, but they didn't dare to say it. Li Dian said: "There is no way to cross the river here. Let's swim up to see if we can find a boat to cross the river." Cao Ren nodded. Hundreds of people left and turned toward the upstream, relying on the protection of forests.

...

Zhang Lang adopted Zhuge Ruoxue's strategy and used the spies lurking in Xiangyang to use the trick of surrendering, so that He Kui, Li Gui, and Qiu Jiu pretended to surrender to Cao's army. Because the three of them were once Cao Ren's generals, Cao Ren and others had no doubts at all. They thought that the time to seize Jingzhou had come. Then He Kui and others determined the time to attack Jingzhou. Cao Ren's army crossed the river and attacked two fortresses in Shiyang, Hanyang, and He Kui and others followed Zhang Lang to Nanyang.

When he arrived in Nanyang, He Kui personally went to Cao's army camp to convey fake news to Cao Ren. At the same time, the soldiers of the Tiger-Wing Army from two fortresses in Shiyang, Hanyang deliberately gave up the fortress and retreated along the Xiangjiang River. This army of more than 20,000 did not actually go far, but hid in the mountains near Xiangjiang River and waited for the opportunity to counterattack.

Cao Ren and others thought that the retreat of Lu Bu's army was due to the loss of Nanjun, so they led the main force to advance into Nanjun with confidence, but took it but entered the fall of Zhang Lang and Zhuge Ruoxue.

That night, Lu Bu's army launched at the same time in Nanjun and Shiyang, Hanyang. Cao's army was caught off guard. The Cao army left in Shiyang, Hanyang, and the 100,000 naval army and 50,000 naval army were wiped out. More than 100,000 Cao Ren's army led by He Kui into Nanjun became a turtle. The fierce battle overnight, without any suspense, Cao Ren's army was wiped out.

After Zhang Lang annihilated Cao Ren's main army, he left 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Wings Army to guard the Nanjun and guard the prisoners, and then led Zhuge Ruoxue's 250,000 troops to advance eastward. In the early morning, the army arrived at the left bank, and after a while, the army crossed the Yangtze River through the floating bridge to the east bank. Then the army advanced towards Jiangxia. An hour later, the army drove to the city under Jiangxia. At this time, the battle flag of the word "Lu" had already floated on the top of Jiangxia's city. It turned out that before the army arrived, a vanguard unit disguised as Cao's army and tricked the city gates and seized Jiangxia, who had only more than a thousand people guarding it. When Lu Bu's army entered the city, the thousand Cao troops guarding the city surrendered without any resistance.

The army did not stop in Jiangxia, leaving five thousand troops to guard the army, and the main army advanced along the Yangtze River toward Chaisang.

Xiangyang.

Wei Yan hurried into the lobby of the governor's mansion, rushed to Zhuge Liang who was sitting on it and reported: "Sir, good news, the lord led your army to destroy Cao Ren's main force in one fell swoop and cross the Yangtze River!" Then he handed the battle report he had just received to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang took the battle report, read it once, and said happily: "Okay! Jiangdong will be determined by one battle! Jiangdong is already our treasure!"

Wei Yan said with some emotion: "I didn't expect Miss Ruoxue to be so powerful. She destroyed more than 200,000 main forces of Cao Ren in just one's hands!"

Zhuge Liang smiled, put down his defeat, raised his head and ordered: "Just 600,000 lords of grain were transported to Xiangyang Port. Go and tell them not to unload the ship, the grain was transported directly along the river to Jiangxia." Wei Yan held his fists and ran down the promise.

Zhuge Liang stood up, walked to the door, looked at Zhang Lang's faint white clouds in the sky, and sighed with a smile on his face.

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Cao Ren and his group finally crossed the river from near Baling County. The group wanted to enter Baling County to eat something, but when they came to the suburbs, they suddenly found that the battle flag of the word "Lu" was hanging on the top of the city in Baling County. Everyone was panicked and did not dare to enter the city. They walked around the city from a small path and advanced towards Chaisang. At this time, the county magistrate in the city discovered their incoming Cao army, and immediately sent people to report to Jiangxia, while sending hundreds of civilian troops in the city to pursue it.

The civilian army caught up with Cao Ren and his party in the mountains and forests east of Baling County, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides. How could the civilian army be the opponent of Cao Ren and hundreds of arrogant soldiers? After only a moment of battle, the civilian army was defeated and rushed to pieces!

Cao Ren and others did not chase after him. Cao Ren counted the number of people and found that only a dozen people were killed or injured, but Gao Lan disappeared! Cao Ren was very surprised and asked loudly, "Where is Gao Lan?"

Everyone looked around but didn't see Gao Lan's voice. Someone said, "Is General Gao Lan left behind?" Another said, "How is this possible? Everyone has been together all the time!" Li Dian walked to Cao Ren and whispered, "Gaolan is Yuan Shao's surrendered general. Unlike us, now that we are poor, he is very likely to leave us and go to Lu Bu!"

Cao Ren opened his eyes and said furiously: "This bastard!"

Li Dian hurriedly said, "General, we have to leave here quickly!" Cao Ren nodded and called everyone to go on the road. The group led a few wounded soldiers to rush along the thorny mountain road, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The defeated civilians fled into the city, all talking about the bravery of Cao's army. The county magistrate was frightened and quickly ordered the city gate to be closed, and at the same time ordered all the civilians and the middle-aged men in the city to go to the city wall to guard the city wall. Everyone in the city was trembling and extremely nervous.

After half a month of hard trekking, Cao Ren and his group finally arrived near Chaisang.
Chapter completed!