With the intention to die, he no longer cared about the soldiers who were about to be killed or injured. He ignored his own safety and just wanted to die with Wang Ling. He actually forced Wang Ling to take a few steps back to restore some decline.

Quan Cong became more and more courageous as he fought. Just when he was about to push forward again, he heard the sound of gold ringing suddenly from Cao Wei's rear.

Although he didn't know what happened, Wang Ling quickly got rid of Quan Cong and led his men back.

Quan Cong thought he was doomed this time, but he didn't expect that the Wei army actually retreated at the last moment, and he quickly took the opportunity to retreat to his own army.

He raised his eyes and saw that the Wei army not only did not attack them again, but they continued to close their wings, as if they wanted to retreat.

If it were normal times, Quan Cong would not miss this great opportunity and would definitely lead his army to counterattack.

But when he looked around, he saw that most of the soldiers he had brought over had fallen to the ground. There were only less than a hundred of them relying on each other to defend themselves, and everyone was still injured.

Self-protection is not enough, so how can we have the energy to counterattack?

So he could only watch the Wei army retreat in an orderly manner.

After a while, Zhu Huan arrived with his rear army. Seeing the situation in front of him, he was shocked. After seeing Quan Cong, he felt a little relieved and asked, "Is Zi Huang okay?"

"I'm fine. I just didn't expect Cao Cao to be so cunning. He showed weakness several times in the past, but it was out of pride for us, and then he actually set up an ambush here. I was careless and was trapped in a heavy siege, and almost the entire army was wiped out."

Quan Cong was surrounded by his cronies. After seeing Zhu Huan, Quan Cong breathed a sigh of relief and knew that he was finally saved. At the same time, a look of shame appeared on his face.

The ambush by Zhu Lu and Wang Ling finally allowed the Wu army to slow down their pursuit and gave Cao Xiu a chance to breathe.

However, although the pursuers at the rear were frightened, the scouts soon sent word that Wu troops were in front of him on the left and were planning to circle in front of him.

"He must be going to Wuqiang to cut off our retreat!"

Cao Xiu immediately thought of the joints involved.

After all, when the army came, Wu Jun had planned to ambush at Wuqiangkou, but he was discovered by himself and could not succeed.

It seems now that they still don't give up.

"Wu Lu actually wants to prevent our horses from returning north?"

Cao Xiu's face turned pale. This feeling of knowing what the enemy was going to do, but having no way to do it, made him know what despair meant.

I saw that he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and he was panicked and confused. "The stone is our escape. If Wu Lu takes the lead, I will die without a burial place!"

"Why did the general say such depressing words?" The confidants on the left and right persuaded him, "Wu Lu took a detour to the front. The route he took was a small road. There will definitely not be too many people there."

"Moreover, the small road is far and difficult, so they may not be faster than us. If we travel on the main road, although the army has been damaged, most of it is still there, so why should we be afraid of them?"

"Yes, yes! As long as we can reach Jia Shi before them, we can return to Yangzhou from there."

Cao Xiu couldn't care less about resting, so he quickly climbed onto his horse and continued to run for his life.

It's just that the running ahead has consumed too much of Wei Jun's physical strength, and their steps have already become heavy and slow.

The Wu army on the right front had gradually moved away from them and ran in front of them.

The Wu general who was sent to cut off Cao Xiu's retreat by cutting off the rocks was Pan Zhang.

Pan Zhang was a fierce general in Soochow, with only a few thousand soldiers and horses under his command, but the ban was strict, and a few thousand men could be used as ten thousand men, so he was specially singled out by Lu Xun and sent to cut off Cao Xiu's retreat.

After Pan Zhang confirmed that he had bypassed Cao Xiu's defeated army, he relied on his familiarity with the terrain and headed north.

When he vaguely saw the dangerous terrain of Jia Shi, he was overjoyed. As long as he could hold on to this mountain pass, he would be able to make immortal achievements!

"All troops move quickly!"

He took the lead and prepared to go and occupy the pass.

Unexpectedly, when we reached the foot of the mountain, we suddenly realized something was wrong.

There were actually many flags on the mountain, and there were faint figures of people.

I could only hear the "dong dong dong" sound of drums coming from the mountain, and Wei troops began to form formation at the mountain pass.

"No! Cao Xiu originally had a garrison here!"

Pan Zhang quickly asked the entire army to stop.

The Wei army quickly completed their formation and began to slowly advance forward. At the same time, there were more and more flags on the mountain.

The general of the Wu army was shocked. If Cao Xiu really had a garrison here, then his light army came in a hurry, and his physical strength was not enough. In addition, the opponent was waiting for work, and he was afraid that he would suffer a big loss.

At that moment, he did not dare to neglect, and before the other party could get close to him, he led the army to retreat for several miles, and at the same time sent scouts to investigate the news.

When the Wei army saw Pan Zhang taking the initiative to retreat, they did not pursue him. They just slowly retreated to the mountain pass and stood ready.

When Pan Zhang learned about Wei Jun's actions, he suspected that the defenders who were holding the stone had already known about Cao Xiu's defeat, so it was important to defend this place.

He was unwilling to give up, and when night fell, he quietly went there with his elite soldiers, hoping to attack and seize the pass.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he and his people arrived at the foot of the mountain, they heard loud drumming on the mountain.

Pan Zhang knew he had been discovered and had no choice but to retreat again.

Jia Kui on the mountain saw that Wu Jun had no intention of attacking Jia Shi by force, so he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He only arrived an hour earlier than Wu Jun, and in these days, he had been marching from Dongguan to Dongguan without any rest, and the soldiers were already exhausted.

There were more than 6,000 soldiers, but only more than 1,000 arrived at Jiashi, not even 2,000.

The thousand soldiers placed at the mountain pass during the day were actually the majority of the troops he had on hand, and they were only tired troops who had just rested for most of an hour.

On the mountains on both sides, there were two to three hundred people making noise.

If there really was a fight with the Wu army, he might not be sure to hold the stone.

Naturally, Pan Zhang didn't know that Jia Kui had planned an empty city. News soon came from the rear on the left side that Cao Xiu's army had been traveling all night and was almost at Jiashi.

In desperation, he had to quickly evacuate overnight.

When Cao Xiu learned that the stone was being guarded, his heart felt as if he had fallen into an abyss, and his body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

It was not until the Wei army, which was trapped between rocks, took the initiative to send people to come over to meet them that Cao Wei's defeated army cheered like thunder.

Even the elite confidants who had been protecting Cao Xiu collapsed to the ground after learning that he had been rescued, and even the ceremonial guards and other items were scattered on the ground.

Jia Kui quickly brought his people to Cao Xiu and said, "Jia Kui, the lower official, has met Da Sima. Da Sima has worked hard all the way. Please move to the camp for a short rest. Food has been prepared there."

When Cao Xiu heard the words "hard work all the way", he thought Jia Kui was ridiculing him. He was immediately ashamed and angry, and his face turned purple. If it hadn't been for the darkness of night, he might have found a crack to sneak in.

Cao Xiu became angry and shouted, "I fought with Wu Lu at Shiting. If you could have arrived earlier, or attacked behind Wu Lu, or attacked on the side of Wu Lu, how could the army have ended up like this?

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"This is a big defeat because you came too late!" The more Cao Xiu said, the more he felt that he was justified. He wanted to insult Jia Kui, so he pointed to the guard of honor on the ground, "Why don't you help me pick up the guard of honor?"

Jia Kui stood in front of Cao Xiu, standing firm and motionless, and retorted, "Da Sima did not listen to others' advice, did not know the strength of the army, and led 100,000 troops and horses to die. How can it be blamed on Kui? Kuang Kui was originally the governor of Yuzhou in the country. It is not right.

Picking up those who abandoned the battle for Da Sima!"

At that time, Liu Bang had a white horse alliance with all the heroes: if he was not Liu, he would not be a king; if he was not a hero, he would not be a marquis.

In addition to consolidating the Liu family, it is also protecting the long-term wealth of all the heroes.

In the words of later generations, although this large company named Liu Han belongs to the Liu family in name, in fact, all the heroes also have shares and receive dividends, so they can be regarded as small shareholders.

The patriarch of the Liu family is the chairman of the board and occupies the majority position.

But the subordinates below often have to be the CEO, and their power is not small.

In the last four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, especially in the early Han Dynasty, the ministers of the Han Dynasty all had a sense of ownership.

Although the Cao Wei Dynasty replaced the Han Dynasty, this trend has not completely disappeared.

After all, Jia Kui was a patriarch who had followed the Cao family since Cao Cao's time. At the same time, when Cao Cao died, he supported Cao Pi as the king of Wei and quickly stabilized the situation. He can be regarded as the founding patriarch of Cao Wei.

So Cao Xiu wanted to use his power to suppress others, so how could Jia Kui fall in love with him?

Seeing that Cao Xiu actually wanted to blame himself for the defeat, Jia Kui glared at Cao Xiu and said, "When I return to Yuzhou, let's see how I report to the emperor!"

After saying that, he turned around and left.
Chapter completed!