Yu Ban successfully rescued Cao Ren and Le Jin from the heavy siege, and Cao Ren and Le Jin both breathed a sigh of relief, and they were also grateful to Ban.

"Captain Yu, why are you here?" Cao Ren asked.

Yu Bandao: "The lord ordered me to come and tell the general, so that the general can wait for the lord's order in Gaoping County, and he must not act without authorization." I hurried to catch up, but I didn't expect to be a step too late. I heard that the general was besieged in Guangqi County, so I led my troops to come to the rescue. ”

"Alas!" Cao Ren sighed heavily, "It's all because I didn't see the situation clearly and acted rashly, which led to such a fiasco, I am ashamed of the lord and those soldiers who died in battle, I ...... I ......"

As he spoke, Cao Ren felt a burst of excitement in his heart, and suddenly pulled out his long sword, wanting to swing the sword to kill himself.

Seeing this, Yu Ban blocked Cao Ren's long sword with the iron spear in his hand, and said sharply: "The general is the humerus of the lord, and the lord is also extremely dependent on the general, so he handed over the 30,000 troops to the general's command." Unexpectedly, the general actually wiped out the army. The general is guilty, even if he wants to die, he should ask for the guilt in front of the lord, and the lord will send it down, at this time you committed suicide, who will bear the responsibility for this crime? ”

"I'll take it! The generals chose to send troops because they were bewitched by me, everything is my fault, and I should bear the responsibility for this crime! Le Jin said loudly.

Yu Ban sneered and said, "He is the main general, you are just a subordinate, if there is no order from the main general, how can you mobilize 30,000 troops?" It is not too late for you to argue before the lord. ”

Cao Ren and Le Jin's faces were gloomy, and their hearts were even more uncomfortable.

With an army of 30,000, there are only more than 100 remnants left at this moment, how can they explain to Cao Cao?

"My lord, there are pursuers behind!" Yu Ban's subordinates said suddenly.

Cao Ren, Le Jin, and Yu Ban looked behind at almost the same time, but saw Zhang Yan chasing after him from behind with more than 800 cavalry.

Le Jin said: "Captain Yu, you escort the general to go first, and I will stay to stop Zhang Yan for a while!" ”

Yu Ban sneered: "You have been injured in many places, and there are only more than 100 soldiers with you, and they are all injured, just rely on you, how long can you stop it?" Or you escort the general to go first, I'll stay! ”

Le Jin heard the sarcasm in Yu Ban's words, so he said angrily: "Captain Yu, you can't help but look down on people too much, right?" I'm happy to ......."

"Stop talking nonsense and go! You remnants are not needed here! Yu Ban said with a cold face.

Le Jin wanted to say something, but was grabbed by Cao Ren, shook his head at Le Jin, and said: "We are indeed the remnants of the defeated army, let's leave it to Captain Yu Du here, let's go back to Gaoping County first." ”

Although Le Jin was unhappy, he still went with Cao Ren and led the remnants of more than 100 cavalry away.

Yu Ban reined in his horses, took the five hundred cavalry behind him, stayed in place, and waited for him.

Zhang Yan led his troops to chase after him, and saw that Yu Ban suddenly stopped with the cavalry, blocking his way. Seeing that Yu Ban had few soldiers, he waved the long sword in his hand, took the cavalry behind him, and rushed towards Yu Ban without the slightest intention of slowing down.

Who knows, Yu Ban and the others suddenly turned their horses' heads and ran away.

Zhang Yan rushed to catch up, and he was about to catch up, but he didn't expect that hundreds of arrows suddenly shot out from the woods on both sides.

Arrows rained down, Zhang Yan and others were defenseless, and more than 100 cavalry under his subordinates were shot to death.

At this time, Yu Ban and the others suddenly reined in their horses and turned their horses' heads, and Cao Bing on both sides of the road also kept pouring out, all shouting loudly.

For a while, arrows rained down, and Cao Bing poured out in a steady stream, about two or three thousand people.

Zhang Yan saw that Yu Ban had no fear, it seemed that Yu Ban had already laid an ambush here, although he was unwilling to let Cao Ren and Le Jin escape, at this moment, in the face of Cao Bing, who suddenly killed, he had to retreat quickly.

Yu Ban saw Zhang Yan retreating, and did not chase after him, and with his order, he immediately turned his horse's head, took all his subordinates, and began to retreat.

Zhang Yan retreated for several miles, and seeing that there were no pursuers behind him, he hurriedly reined in his horse, and then thought about it, and felt that something was wrong, so he led the cavalry back to the ambush site just now.

Cao Bing has long since disappeared, but in the woods and ravines on both sides, many scarecrows wearing Cao Jun's military uniforms have been found.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan sneered: "In the panic just now, I didn't see the situation clearly, and mistakenly thought that these scarecrows were all Cao Bing. This Yu Ban has a bit of a general's talent. ”

He no longer ordered to chase after Cao Bing, and began to return to Guangqi County, where Cao Bing, who had broken through the siege, had already been killed. On the occasion of this battle, more than 16,000 Cao's troops were killed, and as many as half of the surrendered people, and only more than 100 horsemen such as Cao Ren and Le Jin escaped, which can be described as a great victory.

After Zhang Yan returned, he gathered the army, and when he saw that there were more than 10,000 captives, he called Lü Dai to his side and said to Lü Dai: "You, Deng Yi, and Wang Bo each bring their own battalion of soldiers and horses to clean up the battlefield here, and then escort these captives back to Pengcheng, and detain them in their cells, and then deal with them when I come back." ”

"Whoa!"

Zhang Yan said to Xu Sheng and Chen Ying: "You take the people of the headquarters, and you all follow me." Cao Cao's 30,000 troops hoarded in Gaoping County were almost completely wiped out, and the rest of the army was in the Kaiyang area, Yanzhou was empty, we must not miss this good opportunity, we must kill Yanzhou as quickly as possible, and absolutely not give Cao's army any respite. ”

Chen Ying hurriedly said: "But my lord, the officers and men of our army have been fighting for a day and night, if you don't rest for a while, you are afraid of ......."

"When I arrive in Gaoping County, good wine and meat are waiting, and it's not too late to rest at that time!" Zhang Yan said.

So, after Zhang Yan's order, he took Xu Sheng, Chen Ying, all the cavalry and more than 8,000 soldiers, and marched towards Gaoping County at the fastest speed.

……

Cao Ren and Le Jin led the remnants of the army all the way back to Gaoping County, arrived in the middle of the night, the group was exhausted, and when they arrived at the county seat, Cao Ren sent someone to call the door.

After a long time, the city gate was opened, and a group of Cao soldiers went out to greet them.

Cao Ren rode his horse first, and when he arrived at the gate of the city, he shouted: "Why are you so slow? If there were pursuers behind me, and you were so slow, wouldn't I have been caught up and killed by the pursuers? ”

He was in an extremely unhappy mood, Le Jin comforted him on the side, and the two walked towards the city one after the other.

Suddenly, the soldiers standing on both sides of the door swarmed up, directly dragged Cao Ren and Le Jin off their horses, and killed the rest of the cavalry.

In just a moment, Cao Ren and Le Jin had become captives, and they were tied up by people, and even their mouths were gagged with hard objects.

The two men were brought before a man in iron armor and an iron helmet, and the soldier who escorted them shouted: "Kneel! ”

Cao Ren and Le Jin refused to kneel, but they were directly pressed to the ground by the soldiers, and they could only see the combat boots on the man's feet.

"Haha...... General Cao, do you know what it means to run away and a monk can't run away from the temple? ”

As soon as these words came out, Cao Ren and Le Jin were taken aback, why is this voice so familiar?

They raised their heads and squinted at the person in front of them, it was actually Zhang Yan.

Cao Ren's face was frightened, and he wanted to say something.

Zhang Yan asked people to remove the stuff in Cao Ren's mouth, and Cao Ren opened his mouth and asked, "You...... How did you get here before I did? How is this possible? ”

"The world is so big, there are no surprises. The dark clouds under my seat step on the snow horse, travel thousands of miles in a day, travel eight hundred at night, how far is it from Guangqi County to Gaoping County? Zhang Yan said with a smile.

Cao Ren said: "Even if you have a thousand horses, how can your subordinates move so quickly? ”

"Hehe, it doesn't hurt to tell you. When you led the troops out of the city, I had already quietly sent an army to make a detour to Gaoping County, and ambushed it in this vicinity, and when your army was far away, I began to attack the county seat. ”

After Cao Ren heard this, he suddenly got up and said to Zhang Yan: "I, Cao Ren, lost today, since I have been captured by you, I have never thought about living again, if I want to kill or chop, listen to it!" ”

"Courage is commendable, but I don't want to kill you now, I still want to use you to seize the whole of Yanzhou for me......"

"If you dream, I will never surrender to you!" Cao Ren shouted.

"You don't have to be so excited, I didn't say I was going to take you down. When I'm done using you, I'll send you to Hades. After speaking, Zhang Yan's face suddenly became gloomy, and he ordered, "Take it down and take good care of it!" ”

"Whoa!"

The soldier gagged Cao Ren's mouth again and put Cao Ren down.

Zhang Yan walked in front of Le Jin, sneered, and then said slowly: "As for you...... I admire your bravery, and if you are willing to surrender, I will not treat you badly......"

"Humph!" Le Jin was gagged and couldn't speak, just snorted coldly, and his eyes were full of disdain.

Zhang Yan asked people to take away the things that were in Le's mouth and asked, "What?" Aren't you going to surrender? ”

"I was born as Cao Gong's person, and died as Cao Gong's ghost, how could I surrender to you? If you kill, you will kill, don't talk about it for many miles, it's really annoying. Le Jin said loudly.

Zhang Yan sighed and said: "You are brave and brave and good at fighting, if you are willing to surrender to me, you will definitely be reused." But it would be a pity to kill you. It's embarrassing......"

There was a bit of pity in his words, but after a while, Zhang Yan changed his words and said: "However, if you don't surrender, it will be a scourge for me to keep you, in case you escape again, it will be even more difficult to arrest you in the future." What's more, you killed a lot of my Xuzhou soldiers, both public and private, I shouldn't let you live in this world anymore. ”

"Thank you, General!" Lejin Road.

Zhang Yan respected Le Jin's courage and asked the soldiers to take him aside to kill, but left him a whole corpse, and then ordered someone to bury him outside the city.

At this time, Mi Fang walked to Zhang Yan's side, hugged his fists and said, "Lord, Yu Ban is here, less than ten miles away from here." ”

"It's good to come. This person is quite talented, don't hurt his life, hurry up and let the soldiers prepare, I will give him an urn to make a turtle! Zhang Yan said happily.

"Whoa!" Mi Fang hugged his fists.