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At the moment when the general led the army to rush and kill, the general knew the power of the general and did not dare to face the battle, so he had to turn around and retreat to the valley, and met Cao Cao on the way. Then the general went into the valley alone, Cao Cao instigated the general to lead the crowd to besiege and kill the general, and he himself sneaked into the plank road again with four personal soldiers, and then took advantage of the general's generals to rush out of the valley with a bang when the generals under the general's command were eager to ask for help from the general. ”

After Cao Zhen finished speaking, Li Li stared at him with a gloomy face, as if he was considering whether to kill him with a single sword.

"Lord, what Cao Zhen said should be right, please spare his life for the time being. Besides, such people are not worthy of the lord's personal action, let alone die under the sword of Jin Qi! ”

Seeing that his lord still had the intention of killing Cao Zhen, Guo Jia looked at Cao Zhen with a cold expression, and his eyes were full of disdain.

"The person Cao Zhen said who stood at the mouth of the valley and encouraged Cao Jun to rush and kill, but I had noticed it before. It's just that I didn't know that he was Cao Cao at the time, and I thought he was a veteran of combat experience, so I didn't take it to heart. Now after Cao Zhen said this, I never expected that person to be Cao Cao.

If Yi Qiē is really as Cao Zhen said, and the middle-aged veteran is really Cao Cao, then he is not hiding in the second batch of Cao troops who rushed out of the valley at all, but the first batch. It's just that Cao Thief is treacherous and fickle, and when he broke through the valley, he did not immediately rush to the official road to fight, but stayed in the valley and waited for the soldiers behind. When the second batch of Cao troops rushed out to fight with our army. He always hid behind, and after the soldiers in front tore through the defensive battle formation of our army, he immediately broke out of the encirclement under the cover of his own soldiers. Flee to the south of the official road. ”

After a pause in his voice, Guo Jia's face was full of remorse: "This scene was seen by Weichen with his own eyes, and he also doubted the identity of the middle-aged veteran at that time, but he was blinded by his armor of an ordinary foot soldier, and the battle was stalemate at that time, the fighting was fierce, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the enemy and our armies fought together." I really can't take care of a veteran over 40 years old. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be Cao Cao! Looking back now, Wechen regretted it. I let Cao Cao escape from my eyes, and I didn't know it.

Alas, no wonder Xu Shao once said: Cao Mengde is a capable minister who rules the world and a traitor in troubled times, and now it seems that he is a traitor. That's true! ”

"Bonghyo doesn't have to blame himself so much. Didn't even I, Li Li, be deceived by the Cao thief? Before that, I must have met Cao Cao, and even passed by him, but I didn't know him, so much so that he slipped away from me. ”

After comforting Guo Jia softly, Li Li put away the war knife around Cao Zhen's neck, and looked at him with a very unkind look: "Come on, take this thief into custody for the time being." It will then be disposed of. Remember, all captured Cao generals were to be held in solitary confinement. No one is allowed to say a word to them, and those who violate the order will be beheaded! ”

"No!" The brothers He Man and He Yi immediately handed over Cao Zhen to their own soldiers, and then pleaded guilty to Li Li, claiming that the two brothers did not investigate for a while, and mistakenly took Cao Zhen for Cao Cao, which was the crime of bullying the king, and it was difficult to escape the suspicion of leading the army, and they were willing to be punished.

Li Li shook his head lightly and waved his hand to show that they didn't have to care, and naturally punished them for it.

"According to the previous arrangement, the generals will lead their troops to search and arrest separately, I hope it will be too late!"

"No, I'll obey!"

In response to the promise, Huan Fei, Li Zhi, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, He Man and He Yi and other generals each led their troops to set off, trying to surround Feiyundu, extending around with Feiyundu as the center, arresting Cao's soldiers and searching for Cao Cao.

Seeing the crowd leaving, Li Li suddenly remembered something, and immediately turned his head to look behind him: "Where is Meng Qi?" Feng Xiao can know where Meng Qi went? ”

"Ugh!" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, turned his head to look around, and sure enough, he didn't see Ma Chao's figure; "It's ??? Oh yes! When the reinforcements arrived, General Meng Qi had been fighting here, and when the reinforcements arrived, Cao's army scattered in panic and fled to the south of the official road regardless of the situation. General Meng Qi saw that there were not many Cao troops around the valley, so he took more than 100 personal guards and cavalry to chase along the official road, presumably ten miles away at this time. ”

"The official road to the south, ten miles away?" Li Li sighed when he heard this: "Feng Xiao just said that he saw a middle-aged veteran who was consistent with what Cao Zhen said was also fleeing south, which happened to be in the same direction as Meng Qi's pursuit. Judging by the hour and the speed of the foot soldiers, if the middle-aged veteran Feng Xiao saw was Cao Cao, then was he also on the official road ten miles away at this moment? ”

"Huh?" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, and immediately reacted: "What the lord said is very true, the direction in which Meng Qi led his troops to chase is the way the middle-aged veteran escaped. It's just that after the official road goes five or six miles to the south, there are quite a lot of forks, and most of the mountain paths are stepped on by fishermen along the river. However, it is late at night, and the mountain path is extremely difficult to navigate, so if you want to get rid of our army's pursuit, taking the official road is undoubtedly the first choice. ”

"So Meng Qi is very likely to catch up with Cao Cao?" Li Li said suspiciously.

"That's how it should be. In the battle between the two armies just now, almost all of the cavalry of the Cao army were intercepted by our army's cavalry, and only a few cavalry escaped, and the front and rear together would not exceed five hundred cavalry, and all of them scattered and fled. In other words, more than ninety percent of the more than 4,000 Cao troops who broke out of the encirclement were infantry troops, so their escape speed was definitely not as fast as our army's war horses. Judging from this, General Meng Qi should be able to catch up with Cao Cao now, and may even have captured Cao Cao or killed him directly! ”

"Meng Qi caught Cao Cao?" With a deep groan, Li Li almost didn't have to think about it, and he shook his head subconsciously, as if he was very unhappy about Ma Chao's arrest of Cao Cao.

Guo Jia was very puzzled when he saw this: "Why is this lord?" Could it be that the lord thinks that General Meng Qi can't catch Cao Cao, or that he hasn't caught up with Cao Cao? Wechen thinks it's impossible. As far as I know, the mount under the crotch of General Meng Qi is a hard-to-find snow shadow horse personally given by the lord, I heard that this horse is one zhang and two feet long, and the shoulder height is more than nine feet, almost one zhang. General Meng Qi has such a miraculous mount, coupled with a superb martial arts skill, Cao Cao, who is only a difficult to escape, is of course easy to capture! ”

Seeing Guo Jia's very serious look, Li Li bowed slightly, as if he approved Guo Jia's remarks. However, he didn't think so in his heart, and still subconsciously thought that Ma Chao was really a little choking on Cao Cao, and it was very likely that Cao Cao would slip away from under him.

In history, in the first battle of Tongguan, Ma Chao led 100,000 Qiang people to kill Cao Cao and fled. Then Ma Chao led his troops to chase and kill Cao Jun, and at first glance he targeted Cao Cao, and then chased and killed all the way, forcing Cao Cao to cut his beard and abandon his robe. However, even so, Cao Cao finally escaped from Ma Chao.

Therefore, when Li Li learned that Ma Chao went to chase Cao Cao, his mind was immediately full of doubts: "If Ma Chao can catch Cao Cao, how can he come to the Three Kingdoms?" Is this the so-called fateful encounter? ”

"The lord still seems to have doubts, could it be that he is still worried about General Meng Qi's arrest of Cao Cao?"

"Feng Xiao doesn't need to ask too much, immediately follow me to the southern official road, I hope it will be in time!"

Before the words fell, Li Li immediately drove the golden beast and galloped. Seeing this, Guo Jia didn't say much, and led five hundred Jinqi Guard cavalry to follow with a wave of his hand.

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"Click!"

"Wait and stop, those who squat on both sides of the road will not die, and the rest will be killed!"

On the official road twelve miles south of Feiyundu, Ma Chao led more than 200 personal guards cavalry to chase and kill the Cao army deserters all the way, and successively forced down nine deserters, each deserter was more than two or three hundred, and the few were more than 100 people, all of which together captured more than 2,000 prisoners of war. Although these captives and surrendered troops were taken over by the follow-up Xiliang army, no one took over the three groups of more than 500 surrendered troops that had just caught up, and the follow-up soldiers and horses had not yet arrived, so he only left 150 personal guards divided into three teams to stay in place to take care of the surrendered troops.

Therefore, when Ma Chao chased twelve miles along the way, and finally caught up with a group of more than 300 Cao troops, there were only fifty guards around him, but he still used the old method that had been tried and tested before, shouting while riding his horse to catch up.

"I am the general under the command of the general, Ma Chao and Ma Mengqi are also, you will stand for me, surrender and avoid death, otherwise you will be told to wait for your body to be in a different place and throw your corpse into the wilderness!"

Indeed, after the fierce battle at night, the soldiers of the Cao army have become frightened birds, as long as they can save their lives, once they are caught up by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, most of the Cao soldiers will choose to surrender and live, only a very few people are still resisting, and they want to continue to flee, but they were picked off the horse by Ma Chao and his own soldiers one by one. However, for the Cao soldiers who squatted on both sides of the road and surrendered according to the order, Ma Chao did what he said and would never kill anyone indiscriminately.

Therefore, chasing all the way, Ma Chao and his party rode down more than 100 times and did not encounter too stubborn resistance. Because most of the Cao soldiers were exhausted, and they were powerless to resist, they heard that they could survive if they surrendered, and they naturally didn't want to die, so they surrendered if they surrendered, as long as they could survive.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and among the ten Cao army deserters, there is finally a group of diehards who are deaf to Ma Chao's surrender.

"The soldiers don't have to be afraid, there are only fifty thieves in Ma Chao, as long as you kill them, you can live, I will kill the thief Ma Chao together!"

Just as Ma Chao rode his horse to catch up with the middle of the tenth group of deserters, more than 100 Cao soldiers behind him immediately threw away their weapons and squatted on the side of the road to surrender after hearing the shout, but two people suddenly jumped out at the front of the team, brandishing weapons to kill Ma Chao, while loudly instigating the soldiers around him who were ready to surrender to fight back and kill Ma Chao.

"It's really courageous, since you insist on begging for death, I will give you a ride!"

In the loud cheers, Ma Chao jumped on his horse and galloped, and dozens of Cao soldiers who were still hesitating along the way saw Ma Chao so fierce, and they were so frightened that they threw away their weapons and avoided squatting on the side of the road, while the dozen or so cavalrymen at the front of the team were beating horses and galloping, and they no longer had time to care about the safety of an important person behind them.

———————————— (To be continued......)