Imperial Power Of Han Dynasty - Chapter 985

Chapter 985

“Father, father!”

Cao Taixing rushed to Cao Ren holding a letter, and said to him: “Father, a letter came in from outside the city, please take a look.”

“Oh? It was shot in from outside the city? Bring it to me and see.”

Cao Ren reached out and took the letter from Cao Tai. After spreading it out, his brows suddenly stretched out.

“Father, is there any good news?” Cao Tai asked Cao Ren’s brows stretched out immediately.

“Not bad!” Cao Ren said with a smile: “Wen Lie has led Chai Sang’s 20,000 navy division to come, ready to accept the retreat of our army.”

“That’s great!”

Cao Tai was excited for a while and calmed down again: “However, there are so many people in Xiliang navy master, and 20,000 people may not be able to respond.”

“It’s okay, Wen Lie has already said in the letter.” Cao Ren explained: “When tomorrow night is ugly, he will send a division to attack the Xiliang army from the east to attract the attention of the enemy, and then he will personally appear in the main force. To the west, our army will retreat from the west.”

“This letter was shot into the city, but the enemy was not aware of it. It should be able to withdraw if it was operated properly. After Jiangdong, our army can regroup and fight the enemy again.”

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The next day, when the night is ugly.

The Xiliang Army Water Village was quiet at this moment. Except for the personnel on duty, most of the Xiliang Army soldiers were already in sleep.

“Ok?”

Governor Gaochong of the navy division of the Xiliang Army suddenly opened his eyes and woke up from his sleep, only to hear the noise in his ears, and was naturally awakened. As a general, it is inevitable to experience an overnight attack, so his nerves are extremely keen, and he wakes up as soon as he hears any noise.

“Come here, come here! What’s the matter?”

“General Governor, the enemy is attacking our army from the east at night. Lieutenant Zhu is currently leading the battle against the enemy!”

“The enemy’s night attack?”

Although Gao Chong just woke up, his brain was thinking fast.

Cao’s army was small, and he launched a surprise attack at night, apparently to catch Cao Ren’s retreat at night.

Gao Chong’s empathy: What would you do if you wanted to respond to your own army when you were at a disadvantage?

After thinking about it for a while, Gao Chong ordered: “Order the navy to be divided into two, half go to the east to attack the enemy, and the other half immediately surround Jiangxia City. In any case, Cao Ren will not be able to break through.”

“Here!”

To the east of the Xiliang Water Village, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, and the fire light reflected the surface of the water red. Cao Jun and Xiliang Army were fighting together. Because he didn’t know how many people the enemy had come, Zhu Huan, who was cautious by nature, did not order the navy team under his command to attack, but stayed at the camp.

At this time, the large reinforcements sent by Gao Chong had arrived.

“School Lieutenant Zhu, the chief governor has ordered the whole army to attack!”

“The command of the chief governor?”

Zhu Huan nodded: “Well, since the general governor has ordered, the whole army will attack!”

“Kill!”

The east gate of the water village slowly opened, and tens of thousands of Xiliang navy masters slammed out in a violent manner, shaking the sky.

“The enemy is out!”

Zhu Shi frowned and said: “Let’s fight and retreat. You must buy enough time for Cao Annan.”

On the other side, the main navy led by Cao Xiu has arrived outside Jiangxia City.

“uncle!”

“Wenlie, haha!”

Cao Ren was naturally overjoyed when he saw Cao Xiu and stepped forward and hugged him.

“Brother, it’s been a long time.” Cao Tai arched his hands to Cao Xiu.

“Haha, don’t talk nonsense, brother virtuous, let’s get out first and talk about other things.”

Cao Xiu laughed, and then preached: “The warship comes over and retreat immediately!”

Nearly 20,000 Cao’s generals in the city burst out, and they boarded the warships, preparing to retreat with them.

“The enemy is going to retreat, don’t let them go!”

But at this moment, there was a scream of killing from the south, and in the dark night, countless warships held high torches and charged towards Cao Jun.

“what happened?”

“I’m afraid that the enemy army has seen through my strategy, but fortunately, the army has already boarded the warship, and now our army retreats!”

Cao Xiu immediately shouted: “The whole army retreat, hurry!”

Hundreds of Cao Jun warships, immediately full of sails, retreated towards the east.

“Catch up, don’t let the enemy army go!”

Huang Zhong yelled, and tens of thousands of navy officers rushed towards Cao Jun navy officer and chased him.

The purpose of Cao Xiu leading the army to Jiangxia this time was not to fight with the Xiliang navy, but to respond to Cao Ren’s retreat. Now that Cao Ren and tens of thousands of Cao troops have been picked up on the warship, Cao Xiu naturally does not intend to continue to struggle with the Xiliang navy. Instead, retreat quickly.

However, the distance between the Xiliang navy and the Cao Jun navy is constantly getting closer, because Cao Jun’s warship is full of people, carrying twice as many people as usual. With more people, the speed of the warship It inevitably slowed down, so the distance between the two armies was always getting closer.

“Annan, Zhennan, the enemy is catching up, what should I do?”

Cao Xiu frowned and said, “You go up and stop the enemy.”

The two captains named by Cao Xiu were naturally a little reluctant. No one knew that going up to intercept the enemy was a life of nine deaths. Who would want to die?

“Why, you are not willing?” Cao Xiu said coldly.

“Yes, I am willing.” The two captains did not dare to go against Cao Xiu’s wishes. This is because Cao Jun’s military system is very special. In order to prevent soldiers from rebelling, Cao Cao uniformly assigns wives to soldiers without wives (the real country sends girlfriends), and at the same time connects the soldiers’ family members to Pengcheng, in order to prevent these soldiers from turning into battle. .

With the ties of family, these soldiers naturally did not dare to go against Cao Xiu’s wishes, otherwise his family would be in bad luck.

Ever since, two captains led dozens of warships and thousands of soldiers, greeted Huang Zhongjun.

“Haha, such a small number of people dare to stop our army, really do not live or die!” Huang Zhong laughed, and immediately commanded the soldiers, horses and soldiers to encircle Cao Jun in two directions.

Cao Xiu immediately commanded the navy to retreat to the east. Two Cao Jun captains led dozens of warships and Huang Zhongjun to fight together to buy time for Cao Xiu and others to retreat.

With two captain Cao Jun blocking them, Huang Zhongjun’s warship was inevitably blocked, so Cao Xiu and others were able to retreat safely. However, Huang Zhong was not a fool. While some of the horses were separated to besiege the two Captain Cao Jun, the rest of the horses continued to chase behind Cao Xiujun. Therefore, Cao Xiu had to separate the horses continuously to block Huang Zhongjun’s pursuit and lost more than 30 ships. The battleship, more than four thousand people, finally got rid of the enemy’s pursuit.

After the army and horses that attracted the attention of the enemy in the East Road, Cao Jun lost a total of more than 6,000 people, but he rescued Cao Ren’s 20,000 horses. Therefore, there are more than 30,000 people in the army, but the fighting strength still exists.