At this moment, Wei Yan was indeed encircled.

Although Cao Cao retreated, when he fled, he had 5,000 people with him.

These 5,000 people are all the Central Forbidden Army led by Han Hao, and their strength is stronger than Wei Yan's soldiers and horses.

Moreover, these forbidden troops were stationed around the government from the beginning, but there was no fire around the government, and they retreated with Cao Cao along with the fire, so their combat effectiveness was not affected by the fire.

Wei Yan caught up with Cao Cao, and Han Hao asked the elite cavalry to protect Cao Cao and Sima Yi and other civil officials, and personally led the army to resist Wei Yan.

Although Han Hao is not famous, his courage is not weaker than Zhang He, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and others among the five good generals.

Han Hao and Wei Yan fought together, guns and knives exchanged, and the fight was evenly matched.

5,000 soldiers and horses on each side also started fighting.

The generals of both sides had no leisure to command the soldiers to fight, but the combat effectiveness of the Cao soldiers was slightly superior.

At this time, only a burst of restless sounds could be heard from the south, but after Xu Huang broke through the encirclement, he sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to help.

The deputy general learned that Wei Yan and Han Hao were fighting in the front, so he led his troops and horses to surround Wei Yan from the rear, and the strength of Cao's army was three times that of the Shu soldiers.

In the shouting of killing, the sword light and sword shadow, blood splashed everywhere, the Cao army was overwhelming, and the strength of the forbidden army was strong, the Shu soldiers could not resist, suffered heavy losses, and they couldn't break through.

"Run!"

"Catching up!"

At this time, there was a greater movement in the south, and listening to its scale, I was afraid that there were tens of thousands of people.

Vice General Xu Huang was overjoyed when he heard this, and shouted at his soldiers and horses: "General Xu Huang has already led his troops to break through, it must be General Xu who led his troops to arrive, don't panic, Wei Yan can't escape today." ”

At this moment, it was indeed Xu Huang who led his troops to arrive, but it was not a normal march, but an escape.

In the rear of Xu Huang's army, Zhang Ren, Zhao Yun, Lin Xiao and other generals led more than 10,000 horses, all holding torches to chase after them.

Cao Bing was frightened and did not dare to fight, but just ran all the way.

The morale of soldiers and horses is like this, even if one out of ten people is afraid and wants to flee for their lives, it may affect the whole army and lead to the rout of the whole army.

This is also the basis for winning more with less.

These tens of thousands of Cao soldiers were not all afraid, but went with the flow.

Even if it was Xu Huang, Cao Zhang and other generals had to run with the soldiers and horses.

The deputy general was overjoyed when he saw Xu Huang, and shouted loudly: "General, Wei Yan has been surrounded by me, and I will quickly help the troops and kill Wei Yan." ”

"Don't fight, go!"

However, Xu Huang did not lead his troops to help, but asked the deputy general to lead his troops to retreat.

If he could stop the soldiers under his command from fleeing, naturally there was no reason to let Wei Yan go, but he couldn't stop the soldiers' escape and rout, as long as there was a fire in the rear, the soldiers' footsteps didn't dare to stop at all, how could they fight?

Even if they converged with Han Hao's forbidden army, it would be useless, the soldiers and horses were in chaos, Zhang Ren led his troops to rush up, and Han Hao's forbidden army had to follow.

The deputy general was stunned, now that there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, why should he give up Wei Yan?

The adjutant soon understood Xu Huang's intentions.

I saw that in the dark night, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses brought by Xu Huang, many people rushed to the chaotic army that was fighting in a panic.

"That's our own people, don't rush up!"

"Get out of the way!"

Xu Huang roared angrily, but he couldn't stop the soldiers running around.

"Kill!"

Zhang Ren led the army in the rear, and the soldiers and horses held torches, and the flames soared into the sky.

"It's not good, it was Liu Bei who led a large team of men and horses to arrive and retreat quickly!"

Seeing the intensity of the firelight, the adjutant general only felt that Liu Bei led a large group of men and horses to arrive, and hurriedly retreated with the soldiers.

"Let's go!" Han Hao was also startled when he saw the fire in the rear, and hurriedly forced Wei Yan back and led the soldiers and horses to retreat.

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The scuffle is finally over.

Cao Cao retreated in defeat and retreated to Keigu, and Liu Bei had already dealt with the affairs of Nanzheng at this moment, and led his troops north to Baozhong.

At this moment, the praise has been burned by the fire, and its army is encamped outside the city, and in the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Ren reports to Liu Bei what happened.

"After the war, we cleaned up the battlefield, and there were still many Cao troops in the city who did not have time to escape, and a total of more than 28,000 Cao soldiers were captured and killed. Our army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, including 3,000 in General Wei Yan's department. ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he slapped the table, looked at Wei Yan and shouted, "Wei Yan, you are guilty!" ”

"The last will be convicted!" Wei Yan knelt on the ground, there was nothing unconvinced on his face, he divided his troops to chase Cao Cao, taking Cao Cao was naturally a great achievement, and failing to take Cao Cao led to Xu Huang's breakthrough, which was a big crime.

Wei Yan had already thought of this consequence, but he was full of adventure and was unwilling to give up the credit for capturing Cao Cao.

Success or defeat is like this, the skills are not as good as others, no wonder others.

Zhuge Liang pointed at Wei Yan and shouted: "I set up this plan, I wanted to capture Cao Cao, even if Cao Cao couldn't capture it, I could also let Cao Cao lose more than half, and then I couldn't compete with the lord for Hanzhong." And you, Wei Yan, are greedy for great merit and ignore the overall situation, so that Cao Jun broke through.

Now Cao Cao still has more than 70,000 people, and he will not withdraw his troops easily, and when the time comes, our army does not know how many soldiers will die on the battlefield, and you will be responsible for your death. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yun hurriedly interceded for Wei Yan and said: "It's not a military advisor, Wei Wenchang pursued Cao Cao, and he just wanted to decide the victory or defeat in a battle, even if he was wrong, but for the sake of his loyalty, it was better to spare his life." ”

"Yes, military advisor, please spare General Wei's life."

The generals knelt down and pleaded.

Although Wei Yan is a little arrogant and domineering on weekdays, these generals are not people who watch from the sidelines and do not save them when they see death.

Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang and said, "Military advisor, now is the time to employ people, let's spare his life and allow him to make meritorious contributions." ”

Zhuge Liang nodded at Liu Bei, looked at Wei Yan and shouted: "Since the lord is interceding for you, then it's okay, if it weren't for your bravery, I would kill him." However, capital crimes can be avoided, living crimes cannot be escaped, the law in the army cannot be abolished, and mistakes must be punished. Drag Wei Yan down for me and give me a heavy responsibility for thirty military sticks to set an example. ”

"Thank you, my lord, for the grace of the military advisor not to kill." Wei Yan hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him.

Immediately, Wei Yan was pulled down by the soldiers, but after a while, there were bursts of screams outside the big tent of the Chinese army.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang will continue to discuss things.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Ren, nodded approvingly: "General Zhang really deserves to be the first general in Xichuan, he defeated Cao's soldiers with fire and reversed the situation, if it weren't for General Zhang, Zilong, Zhonghu, Wei Yan and more than 10,000 soldiers and horses would have been wiped out here." For the time being, write down the credit, and after winning Hanzhong, you will be rewarded. ”