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754. Cao Ren retreats

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    As long as Cao Ren's retreat is blocked, Cao Ren will be unable to attack.  Even if he wanted to attack, his soldiers couldn't.

    Cao Ren looked around and saw that the spy's voice had not been lowered on purpose. The surrounding soldiers had heard the news that the retreat was cut off, and as they whispered, the news continued to spread. All the soldiers who heard the news had dull expressions on their faces.  , morale quickly declined.

    With soldiers in such a state, even if Cao Ren ordered them to do so, they would not be able to muster the energy to attack.  They are not fools. With their escape route cut off and surrounded from two sides, they have nowhere to escape.

    In this state, it is enough that the soldiers did not break up. It is simply impossible to let them continue the attack.

    Even the soldiers who went to test the attack quietly retreated back. Although they could not hear what was said behind them, they were also very panicked because of the general's lack of command and the strange atmosphere in the air.

    Cao Ren was not in the mood to pursue these soldiers for retreating without an order. Now his head hurt and he was thinking about what to do next.

    According to Cao Cao's wishes, Cao Ren abandoned Yongzhou and went to places outside Chang'an. He gathered the soldiers from those places and joined forces to attack Tongguan from both sides.  Because Liu Zhe in Tongguan only had more than 20,000 troops, he could not support the full attack of more than 100,000 troops on both sides.

    However, a sneak attack by Liu Zhe frustrated Cao Cao's plan. Cao Cao attacked Liu Zhe with all his strength for two days and suffered countless losses. As for Cao Ren, he had to spend several days before he was ready to attack the city again.

    After making preparations, he led his troops to the front of Tongguan City. Cao Cao on the other side was already attacking. But when he was preparing to attack, he received the bad news that Weinan had been captured.

    The back road is cut off, and Weinan is only more than a hundred miles away. With the speed of the cavalry, it can be reached in half a day. If we attack now, Cao Ren is sure to capture Tongguan within half a day, but Cao Ren does not have this confidence.

    Looking at the frightened expressions of his men around him, Cao Ren really had no confidence, and even doubted whether they would listen to his orders to attack the city.

    The current plan is for Cao Ren to retreat to Huayin City, stick to Huayin City, and wait for rescue.

    Weinan was captured, and he returned to Chang'an. To the north was the Wei River and to the south was Huashan. The only places Cao Ren could go to were Huaxian and Huayin between Weinan and Tongguan. Huaxian had been almost abandoned by Cao Ren, and only Huayin was the most important to Cao Ren.  Good place to go.

    Fortunately, in order to attack Tongguan, Cao Ren had stored a large amount of supplies in Huayin City. The army retreated into Huayin City and was trapped, but would not starve to death.

    Cao Ren hoped that he could rely on holding on to Huayin and wait for Cao Cao to capture Tongguan and rescue him, otherwise his tens of thousands of soldiers would be finished.

    "Click, smoke." Cao Ren gave the order with difficulty.

    Two plumes of smoke rose into the sky, and Cao Ren closed his eyes in pain. He betrayed Cao Cao's trust and failed to cooperate with Cao Cao, leaving Cao Cao to face Liu Zhe's full defense alone, causing heavy losses.

    "Cao Ren, what, are you leaving?"

    Liu Zhe appeared on the city wall at this time. Seeing that Cao Ren was preparing to retreat, he shouted loudly: "Don't worry, sit down and have a cup of tea before leaving."

    After hearing this, Cao Ren wished he could not just spit out a mouthful of blood to kill Liu Zhe. Liu Zhe's behavior was too abominable.

    Cao Ren roared at Liu Zhe: "Liu Zhe, just wait for me."

    Liu Zhe said with a half-smile, "Do you want me to see you off?"

    "Damn it!"

    When Cao Ren heard this, he was shocked. Liu Zhe's words reminded him that if he retreated, Liu Zhe would lead his soldiers and horses to "farewell" him behind, and the consequences would be disastrous.

    "Burn these all."

    Cao Ren pointed to the various siege tools that his soldiers had worked hard for several days to make and brought here, and ordered the soldiers to burn them.

    "All burned?" the people around asked in surprise, with a look of reluctance on their faces. These were all made by hard work and overtime in the past few days, but they have not been put to use yet.

    Cao Ren nodded and confirmed: "Burn them all."

    He wanted to block these siege tools on the road to prevent Liu Zhe from following him out of the city and making a sneak attack while he was retreating.

    "The entire army retreats"

    Looking at the raging fire behind him, Cao Ren painfully ordered the entire army to retreat.

    Cao Ren's guess was indeed correct. Liu Zhe did want to lead his troops to see Cao Ren off when he retreated. However, when Liu Zhe saw that Cao Ren's rear army was heavily defended, and Cao Ren piled abandoned defense tools on  Road burning is used to block roads.  Liu Zhecai gave up the idea of ??pursuing him.

      Then, Liu Zhe ordered: "Send someone to clear the road, send out scouts to see where Ziyi is, and ask him to come and join him quickly."

    The one who attacked Weinan was 70,000 troops and horses led by Tai Shici, and the other group was troops and horses led by Huang Zhong, who went south from Niyang to attack Chang'an.

    Tongguan is in urgent need of reinforcements. Even though Liu Zhe seems to be relaxed now, in fact he is not relaxed at all.

    Cao Cao's strong attack for several consecutive days made Liu Zhe's soldiers feel uncomfortable at all, and the casualties were not small.  After a few days, as Cao Cao guessed, Liu Zhe's soldiers were almost at the end of their strength.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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