Chapter 945 Retreat to Jiangxia

"Send an order to the entire army not to attack without permission, lest the enemy take the opportunity to disrupt the situation." Zhang Jia said in a deep voice.

The enemy attacked at night, so they must have been well prepared. Once the army was ordered to attack, they might fall into the enemy's trap, so Zhang Jia ordered the entire army to stand firm and not attack without permission.

The night was dark. Although countless torches were raised above the Xiliang military camp, the situation of Cao Jun could not be clearly seen. He could vaguely see countless figures of Cao Jun outside the camp, while the sound of war drums was still rumbling. The sound sounded, and it seemed that he would launch an attack at any time, but he still refused to rush over.

"Cao's army surrounded and refused to attack. I'm afraid they have set a trap outside and are just waiting for our army to rush out." Zhang Jia said in a deep voice.

Fazheng nodded: "It makes sense. Our army will stay in the camp and not go out to see what these Cao soldiers want to do."

As a result, tens of thousands of Xiliang troops stood on the camp together, holding torches, motionless and adapting to changes.

After the Xiliang army waited like this, nearly two hours passed. Cao Jun's drum beat gradually weakened, but they still refused to attack. Rao is an elite member of the Xiliang Army. He has not slept for such a long time and has been staring outside. He can't help but feel a little nervous.

"What's going on?" Zhang Jia muttered.

"No, something seems wrong." Fazheng frowned, turned to Zhang Jia and said, "General, the enemy doesn't seem to be alive!"

"What?"

Zhang Jaw immediately ordered Li Yan: "Li Yan, you lead three thousand elites out of the camp to see what is going on with the enemy. Don't worry, once the two armies fight, I will naturally send reinforcements to support you."

"Here!"

Li Yan shouted loudly, immediately led three thousand elite soldiers, opened the gate of the village and killed them all.

To prevent the enemy from committing fraud, the three thousand Xiliang soldiers marched slowly. However, when they reached Cao Jun's formation, Li Yan was stunned.

He walked forward slowly and stabbed out with a sudden thrust. The tip of the spear broke through the thatch and stabbed him to the core.

"A straw man?" Li Yan gritted his teeth and said.

It turns out that the tens of thousands of "Cao Jun" in the eyes of the Xiliang Army are not the real Cao Jun at all, but a group of straw men! No wonder the enemy's war drums were beating so loudly, but they didn't attack the camp no matter what. It would be amazing if the straw men could attack the camp.

"Report to the general, the enemy is just a bunch of straw men!"

After hearing Li Yan's reply, he opened his jaw and naturally became angry: "Damn Cao Ren, how dare you tease me!"

"No, General!" Fazheng's expression changed: "Go to Cao Ying to investigate, quickly!"

Zhang Jaw also realized something, and hurriedly sent another troop to investigate outside Cao's camp.

The Xiliang army cautiously went to Cao's camp, holding a large shield as high as a person in their hands. They were afraid that Cao's army would be rained down by arrows, so they all grabbed the shield and carefully went to Cao's camp.

But strangely enough, even after entering the land of one arrow, Cao Jun did not see a single arrow coming towards him. Although these Xiliang troops were strange, they couldn't help but speed up their pace and rushed to the front of Cao Jun's first line. They crossed the ditch, moved away the antlers and horse guns, and then rushed through the second line of Cao's army in the same manner, but no one could stop them.

"Protect!"

A Xiliang soldier shouted loudly, but Cao Jun did not respond at all.

"Come on, knock down the camp door!" Army Sima told a dozen Xiliang soldiers.

"rush!"

These Xiliang soldiers rushed over with force. After a while, they knocked open the gate of Cao Jun's camp and immediately grabbed the shield.

However, there was no one in Cao Jun's camp.

"Sima, it seems that all the enemy troops have fled."

"That's it, send someone quickly to inform the general!"

After they notified Zhang Jia, Fazheng sighed and said, "I should have thought of it a long time ago. Cao's army was obviously smaller in strength than ours, but they attacked our army sneakily at night. Of course, they didn't really intend to complete the victory in one battle, but I expected that the general was cautious by nature and would not leave the camp to attack them, so I escaped at night."

This was Man Chong's plan for Cao Ren. He sent troops to attack Zhang Jia's camp at night. Zhang Jia was a cautious man, so he would not send troops to attack Cao Ren's army.

The tied up straw men will make the Xiliang army mistake them for Cao Jun, so that Cao Jun can take advantage of the situation and escape, which is really a good strategy.

"No wonder Xiao Nao, the enemy's strategy is really based on my character, haha." Zhang Jia waved his hand mockingly.

"General, since the enemy has fled, although he failed to claim full credit, he finally forced Cao Ren back and rescued Jiangling City." Fa Zheng said eloquently: "There are three major things to do now. First, The first was to report the military situation to the general, the second was to send people to Jingnan to ask Governor Gao how the war was going, and the third was to send out sentry cavalry to inquire about the movements of Cao Ren's army."

"Well, I'll send someone to do it right now." Zhang Jia nodded.

On the same day, Zhang Zha immediately sent sentry cavalry all the way north, galloping along the post station to Luoyang to report the military situation to Liu Ye.

At the same time, scouts were sent south to inquire about Gao Chong's military situation. After learning that Gao Chong had defeated the Sun family, pacified Jingnan, Sun Quan surrendered, and even Jiaozhou Shixie was willing to surrender, he was naturally overjoyed.

"Haha, Gao Chong has made a great contribution, and the general will definitely reward him heavily." Zhang Jia couldn't help laughing.

"Yeah, I didn't expect that our army fought in Jiangling for a long time without success, but the high governor conquered Jingnan and subdued Jiaozhou. It is really a great achievement." Fazheng also said with emotion.

On the Yangtze River, more than ten thousand Cao's troops rode in fleets of ships of different sizes, drifting with the current.

"Unexpectedly, the military operation carefully planned by the Prime Minister failed. Liu Xuande was dormant, but he was missed." Cao Ren sighed.

It has been four years since Liu Bei was appointed as the governor of Yuzhou by Liu Ye. During these four years, Liu Bei has been quiet. Unexpectedly, this time he has accumulated a lot of experience and suddenly rushed out with 30,000 Yuzhou troops who had been trained. Xiahou Dun was defeated and retreated to Shouchun, so Cao Cao could only retreat because of this. After all, if Liu Bei occupied Huainan, it would be equivalent to dividing Cao's territory into two parts, north and south, which would be dangerous.

"It's a pity that this time the Xiliang army won a great victory and captured Jingnan. Its strength has increased. Our army may face a tough battle next." Man Chong said solemnly.

"Bo Ning is saying that the Xiliang army will take the initiative to attack?" Cao Ren frowned.

"Not necessarily when, but soon."

Man Chong said slowly: "The only heroes in the world are the Prime Minister and Liu Yuqing. This is what the Prime Minister said personally. Now that the situation in the world cannot be clearer, with the two emperors of the East and the West standing side by side in the world, Liu Yuqing, as a member of the Han Dynasty clan, will definitely not sit back and watch this happen. If this situation occurs, I am afraid that this victory will be used to launch a full-scale war against our army!"