Chapter 9: The Fall of a Hero

There are blockages in front and pursuers behind. This Huarong trail is filled with the smell of death.

Cao Cao was so destined that he never expected that Guo Jia would lead his army to appear here and be the best ambush on the route back to Jiangling!

There are many doubts, and Cao Cao had no time to think.

Why did Guo Jia expect that he would lose? Why could he calculate his defeated escape route so accurately?

The opportunity to abandon the opportunity to sweep the Central Plains from the north was already unexpected, not to mention that the situation in Chibi was expected to be as good as expected!

If Cao Cao won, if the Sun and Liu coalition did not set up camp in Chibi, if Cao Cao had a boat to meet him by the Han River, he would not have gone on Huarong Road, but would have gone around the Han River and fled on a boat.

Facing the Sun-Liu coalition forces defeated Cao Cao, who had never felt desperate for his 300,000 troops, cold sweat slid down his slightly old face at this moment.

Life is hanging on a thread!

Guo Jia's army, which was blocking the way not far away, did not flock to him.

Guo Jia led his horse to advance slowly, and the crossbow soldiers beside him held a strong crossbow and aimed at Cao's army. Cao's army was already within range, waiting for Guo Jia's order.

There was no way to advance or retreat. Cao Cao was running for his life. The soldiers behind blocked the retreat. If they wanted to retreat, they would probably be too late and could not escape from Huarong Road. The pursuers of the Sun and Liu coalition forces behind him would also arrive.

Cao Chun, Le Jin, and Li Tong were protecting Cao Cao, holding the weapons tightly, as if they were determined to fight to the death.

Cao Cao waved his hand to ask the three generals to retreat. He knew very well that Guo Jia wanted to kill him, even if he had ten generals around him, he would not be able to escape.

When he rode out, Cao Cao still did not show any weakness at all. After calming down, he looked cold and cruel.

After leaving the battle alone, Cao Cao faced Guo Jia less than twenty steps, and beside Guo Jia, strong crossbows exuded a cold murderous aura and pointed them at Cao Cao.

"Guo Fengxiao, if you let me leave today, I promise that Jingzhou is yours and the Central Plains is yours. I retreat to Hebei and never go south."

Cao Cao stared at Guo Jia, who was expressionless at the moment. His proposal was very practical and tempting. It was not like vernacular. Guo Jia could even use Cao Cao as a hostage to make Cao Ren give up Jiangling. Then Jingzhou belongs to Guo Jia. With Jingzhou, Guo Jia could double-team the Central Plains from Jingzhou and Guanzhong. Cao Cao could not defend it even if he wanted to defend it. Therefore, his proposal to retreat to Hebei was nothing more than to reduce the loss of Guo Jia's conquest of the Central Plains. He was based on practical considerations.

Guo Jia did not draw his sword, and he held the reins with one hand, and only a piece of dyed red silk was stored in his other hand.

"King of Wei, I won't let you go. Jingzhou is mine, and the world is mine sooner or later. I am not interested in your conditions."

Guo Jia's tone was cold, his eyes were like a pool of stagnant water, and his waves were unremitting.

Cao Cao suddenly laughed to the sky and sneered mockingly!

"Guo Fengxiao, you are too naive! If you kill the orphans, the descendants of the Cao family will take revenge on you wildly! Your ally Sun Zhongmou today will ignore you and swallow Jingzhou? Do you want to capture the Central Plains? Can you block Cao's counterattack and Sun Quan's sneak attack?"

Cao Cao had completely removed those premature prides. After calming down, his analysis of the situation was to the point.

Guo Jia and Sun Quan formed an alliance, and that was Cao Wei’s powerful force!

With the defeat of Chibi, and Guo Jia's army now appeared in Jingzhou, it is obvious that Guo Jia's power will develop into the top princes in the world in the future. So how could Sun Quan not have a sense of crisis? The nominal alliance between the two will become very fragile.

Guo Jia was still indifferent. When the morning breeze blew, Guo Jia suddenly threw the blood-stained white silk in his hand towards Cao Cao, and took off with the wind to Cao Cao. Cao Cao caught the white silk with one hand. When he opened it, he saw that the four big words with heavy blood color were shocking.

Destroy Cao and support Han!

He recognized his handwriting as Xun Yu, who had experienced ups and downs with him and assisted him in the rise of the Central Plains!

Cao Cao's eyes were full of ferociousness, holding the white silk tightly in his hand, raised his head and roared at Guo Jia, "Guo Jia! Are you humiliating Gu? You told Gu! Gu was wrong? Is there anyone in this world who can support the Han Dynasty? Gu cannot, you cannot, Sun Quan cannot, and that hypocritical and ambition Liu Bei will not! Who among the princes in all directions is not for their grand career? Gu does not regret Wen Ruo, it is Wen Ruo's stubbornness, it is him who did not see the situation in the world clearly!"

Faced with Cao Cao's questioning, Guo Jia closed his eyes and refused to respond.

Indeed, Cao Cao's inner pain was no less than Guo Jia's fault. He had to kill him. The decision was made by the hero in front of him. The Cao family could not be a loyal minister, the Guo family could not be a loyal minister, and the princes in the world could not be a loyal minister. It was not that they were unfaithful, but that the Han Dynasty royal family had no ability to rule the country at all!

Opening his eyes, he was still indifferent. Guo Jia suddenly raised his hand and uttered a word coldly.

"kill."

The crossbow soldiers received the order and the arrows were fired at once!

Cao Cao was less than twenty steps away from Guo Jia, and his powerful crossbow shot, and his arrows were like locusts, and the sound of breaking through the air came.

Holding the piece of white silk tightly, Cao Cao was caught in an arrow, and the war horse fell down. He fell to the ground. Behind him, Cao Chun, Le Jin, and Li Tong were also shouting in horror.

"King of Wei!"

Cao Cao fell off his war horse, and many arrows penetrated his body, and blood stained the ground red. In the end, Cao Cao's eyes were only two words exposed by the white silk in his hand.

Destroy Cao!

At the end of life, blood was overflowing from Cao Cao's mouth, but he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "I will not regret it!"

The King of Wei died!

The hero Cao Mengde was buried at the hands of Guo Jia on Huarong Road after his defeat in Chibi!

The Emperor's Death!

Cao Chun, Le Jin, Li Tong saw Cao Cao being shot by countless arrows and fell off his horse and stopped moving. The three of them roared into the sky, their eyes were so loud that they were so angry that they rushed towards Guo Jia, holding weapons, completely ignoring the rain of arrows.

"Dog thief, you will die for me!"

The three generals rushed straight to Guo Jia, and as soon as they slapped the horse, they all fell off the horse. Like Cao Cao, they were shot by a powerful crossbow at a short distance and died.

The Cao army behind him rushed up like a wave, but people kept lying in pools of blood.

Because Huarong Road was narrow, the crossbow soldiers retreated after radiating. After shooting nearly a thousand Cao troops, the opponent approached Guo Jia less than twenty steps. The crossbow soldiers retreated and replaced Dian Wei's tiger guard Xiong, who was angry and stepped forward to confront him.

The strong soldiers passed by like ants, Guo Jia was condescending, and his eyes were fixed on Cao Cao since he was dismissed.

There is a complexity that no one knows.

Once upon a time, the corpse in front of me was the person Guo Jia wanted to serve.

Once, he fantasized about assisting the hero Cao Cao to complete the great cause of unifying the country.

Once, he thought he could change this era with Cao Cao.

Fate is impermanent, and things in the world are helpless.

Guo Jia now looks back at the situation twenty years ago. He knows deeply that even if he works as a substitute for Cao Cao, he will never be able to achieve his ideal.

In the class struggle between poor families and gentry, Cao Cao was in the Central Plains and was in charge of the emperor and ordered the princes. In the cracks, he could not make too many enemies, so he could not ban the gentry class. Over time, he could never change it.

Huarong Road, how were the defeated generals of the Cao army the enemy of the Tiger Guards under Dian Wei? The heavy infantry advanced layer by layer and suppressed the Cao army and retreated, blood flowing into a river and corpses were everywhere on the ground.

Behind the narrow road, Cao's army began to flee. When they entered Huarong Road, they were about to escape, but turned around and fled back to escape.

Guo Jia did not let Dian Wei lead the army to pursue him. The heavy infantry's pursuit ability was obviously slightly inferior, and there would be someone to deal with the remaining soldiers.

He ordered someone to take Cao Cao's body, Guo Jia turned his horse's head and came to Xu Chu, looking at Xu Chu with a strong fighting spirit, and said, "Everything will be done as planned when he went to war. Zhongkang, be careful, Liu Bei's three generals, Zhang and Zhao, and Zhuge Liang, are definitely not comparable to ordinary people. If Zhou Yu and Liu Bei advance and retreat together, they should not fight hard and retreat back to Jiangling to meet me."

Xu Chu held his fists and took the order with a serious expression, and then led the Wudang Feijun to the dangerous mountain road on both sides of Huarong Road. Deng Zhi and the archers, with the assistance of the Wudang Feijun, also climbed up to the upper forest on both sides, and hid it with the help of the mountain forest terrain.

Guo Jia led the army back and rushed straight to Jiangling!

An hour later, Zhou Yu led Jiangdong generals and Liu Bei's troops to Huarong Road.

As soon as he stepped into Huarong Road, the corpses on the ground were all trampled to death by horse hooves.

Zhou Yu was furious, and the other generals were also full of righteous indignation.

In order to escape, Cao Cao actually ignored the lives of soldiers!

"Grandmaster, Cao's thief may have fled back to Jiangling."

Lu Meng showed regret on his face, and the god-given opportunity to kill Cao was missed like this.

Zhou Yu also sighed to the sky, but his face was calm and said solemnly: "Continue to chase! Cao's army was defeated and his morale was low. We will take advantage of the victory to pursue Jiangling."

Liu Bei, who was standing aside, said hesitantly: "This, Grand Governor, Jiangling has 100,000 powerful soldiers. It may not be easy for us to besiege Jiangling."

The Jiangdong and Liu Bei group only had 70,000 pursuers, and there were 100,000 Cao's army in Jiangling. The Sun and Liu coalition forces rushed to chase each other overnight and rushed to chase after him. When they arrived at the city of Jiangling, they were sure that they were exhausted and could not fight again.

Zhou Yu did not go to see Liu Bei and said lightly: "If the emperor is afraid of the thief, he can leave by himself."

This obviously had a bit of contempt. Zhou Yu was not concerned about the number of troops in war, but was in a position of power.

Cao Cao fled in panic. Even if he arrived in Jiangling, he would definitely be uneasy and could not give him the opportunity to regroup. He fought in one go. The best choice was to fight.

"Governor-in-chief should not underestimate people. Isn't it just killing Jiangling? I'll accompany you to the end."

Zhang Fei and Zhou Yu faced each other forward-looking, holding the snake spear, raising their chests and heads, looking fearless.

Zhou Yuhun didn't care and ordered the entire army to enter Huarong Road and continue to pursue Cao Cao.

Suddenly, noise came from the front.

Zhou Yu ordered the entire army to stop and then sent a scout to inquire.

Zhuge Liang looked around the surrounding terrain and found that this place was a natural setting site!

But did Cao Cao have ambushed with troops? Obviously not.

Cao Ren from Jiangling could not have received news of Cao Cao's defeat so soon and came to Huarong Road to cut off Cao Cao's rear.

A lot of Cao's army fled ahead, and it was in chaos. Zhuge Liang looked at it and became even more suspicious.

Cao's army fled forward, why did he come back?

Zhou Yu ignored those and ordered a rush.

These Cao troops who were forced back by Guo Jia are still dead.

After clearing out these Cao Cao's remaining soldiers, Zhou Yu led his army to continue to advance.

The Sun and Liu coalition troops walked out of Huarong Road safely and safely to Jiangling.

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