Lu Zhi was defeated.

Faced with the multiple disadvantages of the two wings being broken and attacked by three groups, the army's morale was shaken, even with Lu Zhi's commander, the Xuzhou army was beaten up in a mess.

Lu Zhicheng Cao Bao's Danyang soldiers ran south with their Danyang soldiers, while Zang Ba took his brothers to escape to Zhengrong Valley.

Zhengrong Valley is located south of Ju County and is Zang Ba's old camp. After seeing the Cao army's strength, he immediately decided to escape from this muddy water and retain his strength.

Zang Ba was later able to become the leader of the Qingxu area, forcing Cao Pi to take the risk of going to the east to seize his military power. Naturally, he was not the kind of loyal person who was willing to fight for his own capital for others. However, his retreat also made Lu Zhi's troops even more difficult, and he could only retreat again and again, and soon retreated to Kaiyang.

Kaiyang, which is the Linyi in later generations, the Yishui River and Wu River cross and merge here, and finally reach Xia Pi, enter the Si River, and finally enter the Huai River.

This is also the final battlefield strategically set up by Cao Cao, Xi Zhong and others for the Xuzhou Army.

Cao Cao didn't expect this tactic of expelling the people to be so useful. Looking at Lu Zhi on the top of the city, he laughed and waved the whip, pointing at Lu Zhi and said, "Mr. Lu, I haven't seen him for many days!"

Lu Zhi snorted, ignored it, and threw his sleeves into the city, which made Cao Cao feel a little bored.

"Ming Gong, I look at the sky. There will be heavy rain within ten days. We will defeat the enemy at that time!" Xi Zhong coughed while offering advice to Cao Cao.

"Ten days... OK, I'll order all departments to build armies and attack the city to confuse the morale of Xuzhou." Cao Cao turned around and said to Cao Hong, "Zi Lian, you can lead the troops around to seek the people to disperse the morale of Xuzhou!

By the way, there are people from the Aristocratic family around Chacha. They call me to meet me and manage the place, and they also need their cooperation."

When Cao Hong heard this, his eyes lit up and bowed, "No!"

Cao Ren had a nickname in later generations, called "Qi Qian Prefect", but if you really want to talk about it, Cao Hong is more qualified to call this nickname than him.

It was recorded in historical books that Cao Cao also lamented that he was not as rich as Cao Hong, and Cao Pi was even rejected by borrowing money from Cao Hong. Cao Pi was so angry that he always held a grudge. Later, he found an opportunity to rectify Cao Hong.

The reason why Cao Hong had so much money was not only because of the common ways of making money by the powerful, but also because he liked to collect wealth during the war.

Cao Hong pulled Cao Xiu and took the cavalry and robbed them everywhere.

Raiding is addictive.

Lu Zhi, Cao Bao and others, looking at the fireworks outside the city, could only sit in the city. The most elite Danyang soldiers in their hands were also infantrymen, and they could not go out to stop Cao's cavalry.

There are too few cavalry in Xuzhou.

However, the strongest cavalry in Xuzhou is still on the road.

About fifty miles away from Kaiyang, outside Qiqiu City, countless refugees were pushing wheelbarrows and carrying money, grain and supplies, fleeing south.

A soldier appeared in their eyes? I saw this soldier walking upstream with the red flag.

"Brother? Even if it's Langya here, why are there so many people on the way?"

Zhang Fei held a spear and looked at the fleeing people everywhere on the avenue, shouting strangely.

As the saying goes, "Small chaos goes to the city?" "Small chaos goes to the countryside. From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the present, the people of the Han Dynasty have become familiar with the war and generally do not leave their hometown because of war."

Anyway, as long as the fight starts, everyone will go to the mountains and forests to hide. After you all the officials are finished fighting, everyone will go home to farm.

It is simple to say that leaving your hometown is, but when you go to a foreign land and have no land, how many other ways will you live in addition to being a tenant for others?

Moreover, not everyone can deserve tenants.

Liu Bei urged his horse to come forward, and felt strange. He got off the horse and came to a man who was leading a ox cart and bowed to him, "I am Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, the Prime Minister of Pei. I have been ordered by Duke Lu to come to Langya to fight the enemy. I don't know what the situation is now, why do you all abandon your family business and move south?"

The man heard Liu Bei claiming his official position, and hurriedly stopped and said, "It turned out that it was Duke Xuande in front of him, Liu An, a sage. I have heard of Duke Xuande for a long time. I have been lucky enough to meet him today.

The Cao people didn't know the specific situation, but I heard that Cao Cao didn't know what crazy he was, and he killed and plundered the people everywhere and drove the people to attack the city. I don't know how many people died of war. We were afraid, so we made an appointment to flee south."

"Turn the people to attack the city?" Liu Bei was stunned for a moment, then he felt the fire rise from his chest and said angrily, "How dare he Cao Mengde??"

"Brother, let's go and find Mr. Lu quickly." Zhang Fei was very delicate and could hear the danger of Lu Zhi from Liu An's words.

"Yes... go find Mr. Lu first!" Liu Bei took out a small piece of gold from his arms and stuffed it to Liu An. Then he turned over and called on the sergeant to speed up his march.

Liu An looked at Liu Bei's departure back and pinched the gold in his hand. He almost thought it was an illusion. When would the soldiers still pay money?

"Husband, let's go quickly!" A woman in the car shouted anxiously. Liu An responded and pulled the ox cart to continue to rush south.

After walking for several miles, Liu Bei found that there were more and more refugees. He was worried about the battle situation ahead and attracted all the generals and said, "Third brother, I am worried about Mr. Lu's comfort. You should take the cavalry and follow me first. Uncle, Deran, you should take the infantry slowly. If you don't decide, Uncle, you should make your decision."

The one who is called Shuzhi is Liu Bei's new general Chen Dao. Chen Dao is from Yuzhou. He is known for his loyalty and courage in history, second only to Zhao Yun, and is Liu Bei's personal general.

At this time, Chen Dao was still a young man in his twenties. He bowed and responded to Liu Zheng, and saw Liu Bei pulling Zhang Fei and more than a thousand cavalrymen to push the crowd away and run north.

Thanks to Ma Qiang's control of Qingzhou and Jizhou, the Xuzhou caravan was able to enter Youzhou to trade freely. After learning that Liu Bei had become a county prime minister, Liu Yuanqi, who sponsored Liu Bei's study back then, simply called on the whole clan to join Liu Bei and helped Liu Bei recruit many rangers and refugees. With Lu Zhi's help and Liu Bei's own accumulation in Pei State, he gathered up these thousand cavalry.

And these thousand cavalry are already the largest cavalry organization in the Xuzhou army.

There is no way, if you go further south, Sun Ce will be able to exceed a thousand cavalry after defeating Liu Yao.

Liu Bei was anxious and led Zhang Fei to run wildly. After more than twenty miles, he saw smoke and dust rising from afar and could still hear the crying.

Liu Bei took out his telescope and it was almost standard equipment for the princes of all sizes at this time.

"It's Cao's army who is pursuing the people. Third brother, let's go and save people!"

Zhang Fei responded, thrust his spear and rushed to the front with one horse.

Among the crowd, several ox carts were the most conspicuous. A big man was shouting loudly with a sword in his hand, but how could the speed of the ox cart be as fast as the cavalry? He was about to be caught up.

"I, Zhuge, Langya, and their Cao family, have no grudges, why bother to force each other?" Zhuge Xuan, holding the sword, turned around and looked back at the Cao army cavalry who captured the people, and cursed.
Chapter completed!