Three Kingdoms: Cao Ying's mastermind, from nine to five

Chapter 277 Xu Bowen is like a demon, winning a thousand miles away
"escape!"

"Evacuate immediately! The fire has already ignited and cannot be extinguished!"

"How did Chen Dao attract the enemy, and why did he cause such a big fire!?"

"Bastard, when I return to the barracks, I will behead him and beat him with thirty army sticks!"

"Withdraw immediately, take off the armor, find nearby branches to put out the fire, and put out the fire!"

"The fire is too big! Three generals, we can't get out!"

"Woooooo! I can't get out, my mother is still waiting for me to go back!"

"Who is crying!? I beheaded you on the spot! Don't say such words! Although the fire is huge, it can't be burned on the road. I took off my armor and urinated on my robes, covering my mouth and nose, Find a way out!"

"There is a source of water near here!"

At the critical moment, Zhang Fei's mind was still turning quickly. He knew that the horses were running wildly now, and their instincts were out of control.

But it is impossible for the rest of the people, they need to run with their own legs if they want to go out, and those with fast feet may be able to go out.

Zhang Fei's ambush was close to Cao Ren, so the escape distance was far away, not as good as his second brother Guan Yu, who may have gone out by now.

After all, his ambush was at the end, and he was responsible for cutting off Cao Ren's rear, while Guan Yu was blocking it head-on.

Of course, the two were confident that they could kill Cao Ren and the other generals in front of the chaotic army, and then take their heads and kill them on the spot.

But it was impossible now. Zhang Fei knew that if he rushed out, he would not have to suffer from the smoke from the fire, but in the battle, the [-] warriors under his command would have no way out.

You can't take them all to die, and you can't let the eldest brother and the second brother feel sad when you die. You can still find a way out of the fire, because there seems to be a water source on the side.

"General! The fire in the west is not strong!"

"Okay! Let's go immediately, everyone will follow me, the fire is still very big, they can't come to chase and kill!"

"How many people were killed and injured!"

"I don't know, I don't know, three generals, there is no way to count it now, there are already many."

"Hey! Let's go now, I've given my life to go back. As long as I go back this time, I promise I won't drink alcohol for a month, and I won't beat you in anger!"

Zhang Fei was so anxious that his beard and beard were curled a little from the scorching heat.

His speech was not as fierce as before. Zhang Fei was a reckless person who dared to fight with his life, but he was not a brainless person, and he always remembered his friendship with his eldest brother and second brother.

You must not die first.

Otherwise, how should the two righteous brothers deal with themselves.

He just wants to go back now.

"go!"

Under Zhang Fei's shout, he tried his best to lift one of them up. The recruit who was crying and had no idea of ​​escape, almost dragged him along. Someone else was infected by this emotion, and immediately got up to keep up, and followed closely behind.

Thousands of people kept changing directions on the way to retreat, looking for a way towards a place where the fire was not very large.

……

In about half an hour, the monstrous fire had spread to more than ten miles away, almost the entire hillside was enveloped in a sea of ​​flames.

Those who escaped immediately reported the number of casualties. Liu Bei arrived with his own trilogy, and when he saw this, he yelled loudly, which attracted Guan Yu's soldiers and horses to join him.

"Big brother! Big brother! Don't stay here for long. Once the fire dies down, Cao Ren must march in immediately! He must even try to find ways to hunt down the remnants of our army. Please return to the city immediately! Stay in Xinye, maybe there is still a chance!"

"In the hinterland of Nanyang, from today onwards, we should guard the city to the death, gather the people in the city, collect wheat and grain, and use it for the city defense. We have already lost the ability to defend the city!"

"Where's Yide?"

Liu Bei was flustered and looked behind Guan Yu's army, but he didn't see Yide. "Second brother, where is Yide? He was ordered to ambush Cao Ren's rear army. Once the fire spreads, he will be the most difficult to escape!"

"Could it be that there is no audio yet?"

"Get on the horse immediately, enter Bowangpo to find Yide!"

Liu Bei took a hard look at the flames, and immediately chose to get on his horse, not daring to neglect him in the slightest. All the lieutenant generals around him rushed over to hold him back, "You can't do this! My lord! Don't be impulsive!"

"My lord, think twice! This fire is too big, Bowangpo can't get in!"

"How can there be a fire! Why is it like this!"

Liu Bei threw off the obstruction of these people and held Lu's saddle edge with one hand, ready to mount at any time, but he was very eager to ask angrily.

In his opinion, this strategy is definitely not bad. After he arrived in Xinye, he kept checking the terrain. According to the fact that Bowang Slope has a lot of reeds, overgrown with weeds, and no one takes care of the vegetation, he came up with the plan of attacking with fire.

In addition, it is easy to store water near the Baihe River. Once they march across the river, they will surely be able to be washed away by the flood. Unexpectedly, Cao Ren's insight into everything collapsed.

Back then when he was fighting Lu Bu and Yuan Shu in Xuzhou, he definitely didn't have such brilliant strategies, he was well-planned and impeccable, as if he could predict in advance no matter what strategy he used, and instead set up an ambush.

Sure enough, after Guan Yu heaved a long sigh, he said in a deep voice: "Chen Dao fought with him and was defeated according to the plan. I don't know if the generals under Cao Ren's command were tempted to follow him, but soon after, the whole Bowangpo was on fire."

"It must be, Chen Dao made a mistake," Guan Yu's tone was a little low, and Chen Dao, who was not far behind with dust and blood on his face, got up immediately, with a face full of unwillingness, and said eagerly: "Impossible! Yun Chang How can the general speculate like this?"

"At that time, I led the crowd to kill three partial generals, which attracted Xu Huang to fight in person. I pretended to be defeated and retreated. He was planning to come and chase him again, but I heard with my own ears that Cao Ren stopped him."

"From the beginning to the end, Cao Ren looked at it with a sneer from a distance, without any sign of being moved by emotion at all. He really had insight into the strategies before and after, maybe he knew the layout in advance."

"Impossible," Liu Bei immediately refuted with a straight face, "During the march, only the four of us, Xianhe and Gongyou knew, how could there be internal response!"

Chen Daodeng was stunned for a moment, he was speechless in astonishment, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, the last general really went forward with all his might, and then pretended to be defeated and retreated. I really don't know how Cao Ren saw through it!"

Although his words were loud and harsh, at the moment Liu Bei was silent and Guan Yu was staring coldly, they seemed extremely pale and powerless.

But after a while, Liu Bei forced a little bit of emotion, and said in a deep voice, "Ah Dao, I'm not blaming you, you stay next to the guards day and night, how can I not know your talent for loyalty? But Now no matter how Cao Ren knows, the most urgent thing is to find Yide first."

"My lord!" Chen Dao knelt down on one knee when he heard this, solemnly clasped his fists and said, "Since General Yun Chang suspects that the last general is negligent, then I will rush in and rescue General Yide."

"If you want to go, go," Guan Yu turned to look at him, flicked his long beard slightly, and said solemnly: "Chen Dao, a certain family doesn't say whether they are in breach of responsibility or not, but right now is not the time to discuss the mood, you and I Send out an army, go into the fire to find people, and be prepared for Cao Ren's army to cover up and kill you."

"Once you find someone, come back immediately and let the elder brother take care of it here."

Liu Bei thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, no matter what the situation is, I will be here to support you."

"Okay, Yunchang will go."

"Chen is here!"

The two recruited soldiers, horses and dead soldiers. After a few words, these soldiers, regardless of life and death, followed them with shouts and rushed in along the scorching hot zone that had already been burned.

Liu Bei was very anxious outside, but he was also restless and guilty. This plan was to harm the two brothers. He thought that he would win a big victory. Gongyou and Xianhe around him also said it was a good plan.

Together with Mi Fang and Mi Zhu, after marching out to find out, they even came here specially to be surprised and praise in advance.

I didn't expect it to be resolved like this. I can't even hide it from Cao Ren, so how can I fight Xu Zhen?

Can't beat Xu Zhen, let alone Cao Mengde...

Thinking about this life, it seems that he has never won a big victory against Cao Cao. Could it be that when he met with Cao Cao, he should feel at ease and belong to Cao Cao's side, and it is the right way to take care of him?Wouldn't he be in such a situation of harming others and himself now?

It was the first time for Liu Bei to fall into the confusion of self-blame. In this autumn wind and heat wave, his mood was repeated and he felt very uncomfortable.

……

The fire burned for a full night, and the whole night was red and slightly bright. Even in the first half of the night, there was no need for torches, and they rushed into the thick smoke and marched to hunt down people.

The corpses of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses are everywhere in Bowang Slope, and there are miserable injuries, which are shocking.

Cao Ren, Xu Huang, and Yu Jin killed all night. They led their troops to chase around the fire, search for nearby water sources, and fought several times with Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses, winning countless gains.

But there were people who desperately protected him to leave. Until this morning, they killed Zhang Fei's countless brothers, but they still allowed him to escape.

"I escaped, and I can't find it."

In the early morning by the river, Cao Ren was washing his face. Hearing that the scouts had returned to report, Guan Yu had rushed Zhang Fei to pick him up, while Xu Huang was entangled by Chen Dao in another place, and it took a long time to fight back.

This battle was a great victory and gained a lot, but Zhang Fei's head was not beheaded, which is somewhat regrettable.

Cao Ren laughed, "Forget it, just shout out. After this battle is won, we will use Bowen to confuse Liu Bei."

"There are many civil and military men in the north, but Bowen is the one that Liu Bei cherishes the most. Apart from the prime minister, he is also the one who can hit Liu Bei's heart the most."

"That's right," Yu Jin nodded in agreement, "Right now, Liu Bei's soldiers and horses are suffering heavy casualties. He can't go out of the city to take the initiative to fight. He must stay in Xinye and wait for Liu Biao to come to help, or abandon the city and leave to find a foothold."

"Xinye is the hinterland of Nanyang. If the barrier of Jingzhou is taken down, the entire Nanyang County will be in my hands. This is equivalent to stepping into Jingzhou with one foot."

"This is the first achievement of the Southern Expedition. Congratulations, General."

Yu Jin said with a smile.

"It's not my credit," Cao Ren knew too well how the credit came about, and the news was given by Xu Zhen.

The topographic map was also given by him, and it was very detailed, and he knew the topography and strongholds of various places like the back of his hand.

Otherwise, how could it be so easy to cross mountains and ridges, fight on three fronts, and pull out the ambush strongholds of Baihe, Funiu Mountain, and Yinshan in one night. Liu Bei's defense is very cunning, and the scope is so large that it is difficult to detect.

If it wasn't for Bowen's stratagem, anticipating the enemy's opportunity...Based on my past temperament, I should have driven straight ahead to gain a firm foothold near the Baihe River, then I would have just entered the encirclement of this series of stratagems.

Therefore, this achievement should be counted as a gift from Xu Bowen. Although he once stated clearly that he would not take any of the achievements of going south, Cao Ren is ashamed to receive such a great contribution.

"The merits are attributed to Che Qi. He cracked all the strategies and taught me how to fight back."

"Why? Please tell the general, now that the war is over, it's time to tell the last general."

Yu Jin was very curious. Xu Zhen was not here, how did he know how Liu Bei used his tricks? Could it be that the secret agent of the internal spy really has already achieved perfection?
In the early years, he had already cultivated many confidants by Liu Bei's side, otherwise how could he get such accurate news.

Cao Ren's face suddenly became awe-inspiring, originally he kept secret and didn't want to say more about it, but Yu Jin was also a general of Cao, since he asked about it, he couldn't help it, he sighed and said: "Cheqi, I didn't explain it to me either. "

"Just tell me that there is a place here called Bowang Slope. The terrain is easy to be attacked by fire. If someone comes to fight and pretends to be defeated to lure me in, it means that there must be ambushes in the dense forest and grass, and they will be attacked by fire. Why don't you use it?" The fire burns first."

"This!" Yu Jin was shocked, "Why did he expect that someone would come to feint?"

"Hehe," Cao Ren shook his head with a wry smile, inserted the long knife into the wet soil, immediately stood up and stretched his muscles, and said with a sigh of relief, "I'll ask him when I see him."

"Cheqi, it's really what the prime minister said, how wise is it, how close is it to a demon?"

"I'm afraid it should be so. Who can predict the battle situation here so accurately?" Cao Ren pondered hard with his hands behind his back. I have rehearsed countless times in my heart before I can guess Liu Bei's intentions."

"Guo Junshi also has this ability, so he can often draw conclusions, but it's a pity that he doesn't make many accurate calculations."

"Okay," Cao Ren came over and pulled Yu Jin, "Advance with the whole army, set up the rear route, and order Anding's army and Wancheng's soldiers and horses to move at the same time. I want to set up a camp thirty miles away from Xinye. Now that we have enough food and grass, we are not afraid of garrisoning troops far away, and if we fight Liu Bei, if we force him again, we will also force Liu Jingsheng, who is dying of illness in Xiangyang."

"Here!"

……

At sunset in the afternoon, Zhang Fei returned to the barracks. He was exhausted from several fierce battles, and he lost thousands of soldiers overnight.

He had never been beaten so badly in his life, so he fell asleep immediately after arriving at the barracks.

It was not until late at night that I woke up on the gate tower in the city.

At this moment, Liu Bei looked at the simple map in it, and knew where Cao Ren would probably march.

Worrying.

And the expression is quite hopeless and fearful.

"They really kept shouting that?"

"That's right," Guan Yu supported Liu Bei with concern, so that he would not fall from dizziness, "according to what these generals said, Xu Bowen should have seen through our strategy thousands of miles away in this battle. This is unbelievable and absolutely impossible. .”

"So, brother, there is only one possibility. Have you ever talked to that Xu Shu about this plan?"

Liu Bei remained silent. This question put everyone in the hall into an embarrassing situation.

If he doesn't answer, that means he did.

So it may not be Xu Zhen who defeated Liu Bei, maybe Xu Shu.

"Xu Yuanzhi, no..." Liu Bei said weakly, "No, he won't betray me, I treat him sincerely...how could he..."

As Liu Bei talked, he wanted to smile easily, but his blood surged up, and his heart tightened.

It felt like it was pitch black before, and it fell powerlessly into Guan Yu's arms.

(End of this chapter)