Cao Cao nodded with a little comfort. "Yuan Zhi, how far is Wuling from here?"

Xu Shu thought for a while, and replied: "There are still about ten miles of land!" ”

Cao Cao pondered: "With Zhuge Liang's resourcefulness, he will definitely not return to Wuling County!" The order is given, and the whole army will immediately march towards Wuling County! ”

Xu Shu nodded thoughtfully, clenched his fists and promised: "Yes!" ”

"By the way, immediately send a flying pigeon to Chang'an, Ziyi, and Junyi, and tell them about the situation here, so that they don't be in a hurry!"

Just when Cao Cao and the others were under siege, they sent urgent flying pigeon messages to Chang'an, Tai Shici, and Zhang He respectively.

Xu Shu nodded and retreated.

About an hour later, Cao Cao led the remnants of the Second Legion to the outside of Wuling County.

"Your Majesty, do you want to attack the city immediately?" Ma Chao couldn't wait to ask for instructions.

Cao Cao glanced at Xu Shu beside him.

Xu Shu frowned and thought, "Your Majesty, you might as well wait!" ”

Cao Cao's heart moved and nodded.

About two quarters of an hour later, just when Ma Chao was waiting impatiently, the city gate opened by itself, which made Ma Chao stunned.

Xu Shu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it seems that this Wuling Taishou is not a stupid person!" ”

Cao Cao nodded understandingly.

A middle-aged man in official uniform walked out of the city gate surrounded by a group of people, looking at the outfit of that group of people, they should also be officials in the Taishou Mansion.

A group of people trembled and came to Cao Cao's army, and the middle-aged man led by him immediately focused his eyes on Cao Cao's body under the yellow flag. Knelt down and bowed: "The criminal minister Wu Jia greets His Majesty the Emperor of Great Wei!" ”

Followed by. The ministers behind him also knelt down and bowed together, and everyone's heart was uneasy. I don't know what my fate will be.

Cao Cao glanced at the people kneeling in front of him, and shouted, "Get up!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Everyone hurriedly thanked and stood up, everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look up at Cao Cao and them, looking very frightened.

The middle-aged man named Wu Jia, holding a boxy mahogany box in both hands, walked towards Cao Cao tremblingly, and when he was about three steps away from Cao Cao, he was stopped by a Wei soldier.

Wu Jia was startled, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty." This is the official seal of Wuling County! ”

Cao Cao nodded at the Wei soldier, and the Wei soldier immediately took the official seal from Wu Jia's hand, opened it and saw that it was indeed the official seal, so he presented the official seal to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao picked up the official seal and looked at it, and asked the Wei soldiers to put it away.

Cao Cao urged the war horse to come to Wu Jia, Wu Jia felt the breath of the war horse close at hand, and couldn't help but be afraid in his heart, and the whole person was lying even lower.

"Don't be afraid. Get up and speak! Cao Cao said in a harmonious voice.

Wu Jia promised, stood up tremblingly, and stood with his head bowed.

Cao Cao smiled: "Lead the way!" ”

"Yes!" Wu Jia hurriedly promised.

More than 30,000 Wei troops entered Wuling City under the guidance of Jing Han officials led by Wu Jia, and the defenders and officials in the city who laid down their weapons gathered at the city gate. Waiting for Wei Jun's treatment, everyone was nervous, not knowing what their fate would be.

The procession marched down the street. The originally bustling main street was now deserted, without a single pedestrian. The doors and windows on both sides were closed, and a thick atmosphere of unease permeated the city.

Cao Cao frowned. He understood the thoughts of the people in the city, who had been ruled by Liu Biao, Liu Qi and his son for more than ten years, and they were very resistant to Cao Cao.

Of course, fortunately, Liu Qi withdrew from Wuling and took the initiative to abandon these people, which still greatly reduced the people's loyalty to Jing Han, which can be regarded as a good influence.

As for Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang and others who escaped, Cao Cao was not in a hurry, the entire Wuling had already been surrounded, whether it was Jiangling, Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang, all of them were ruled by the Wei army, and the Yangtze River was full of Jingzhou sailors of the Wei army, Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang were only able to conjure wings, otherwise, it was only a matter of time before they were caught.

What's more, even if they can't be caught, they will not even have their territory, what waves can they make, you must know that the form at this time is not the same as the Three Kingdoms in history, dare not be Liu Zhang or Sun Jian, will they be willing to enter their territory with an emperor?

Of course, for Liu Qijun's Xiaoqiang, as well as Zhuge Liang's prevention, Cao Cao still sighed in his heart, he found that since he raised his army, he had never beaten someone who was so good at escaping.

After the city, Cao Cao divided his soldiers into five parts, four of which were stationed in the southeast, northwest and four gates, and the other was stationed in the county guard's mansion, and 20,000 Cao army prisoners were escorted to a compound on the side of the county guard's mansion.

At about the same time that Cao Cao led his army into Wuling City, Tai Shici and Zhang He successively received an urgent flying pigeon from Cao Cao, and the two were shocked, immediately abandoned the original plan, and led the Third Army to rush to the direction of Wuling City immediately.

However, soon after, the two received a second copy of Cao Cao's flying pigeon biography, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they learned that Cao Cao had escaped and routed the besieging Jing Han army.

Then the two of them followed Cao Cao's newly promulgated plan to attack other cities in Wuling, and Tai Shici led 20,000 of them to attack Rongcheng directly, break the city, and then lead the army westward to take Chenyang!

At the same time, Zhang He led an army of 30,000 to attack Yuanling, broke the city, and then attacked Qianling, Qianling surrendered without a fight, and then Zhang He led the army to turn south to attack Youyang.

On the last day of May, the combined forces of Zhang He and Tai Shi Ci began to storm the remnants of the Jing Han army that retreated to Chong County, and the tragic battle lasted for five days, and the city walls were full of scars and corpses.

In the end, the Jing Han army could not resist the onslaught of the Wei army and collapsed, and the remaining more than 10,000 people protected Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang Junchen from the east gate, and fled to Xiaoling in panic!

More than 10,000 Jing Han troops fled to Xiaoling, but they were already sleepy and tired, and at the same time, everyone was terrified and did not know what was wrong.

At this moment, bad news came from the scouts again, and the 10,000 light cavalry of the Wei army were already close at hand.

In desperation, Liu Qi left a general behind the break, and at the same time left behind these infantry troops without war horses, and he and Zhuge Liang and others led the remaining 3,000 horsemen to flee towards the last city of Tang.

More than 10,000 cavalry launched a tsunami-like attack on Xiaoling, but due to the lack of siege equipment, although the difference in strength was huge, more than 10,000 Wei cavalry were unable to attack Xiaoling. (To be continued......)