"The enemy army actually sent troops to attack at the same time. Now our army is surrounded by three sides, which is really troublesome."

Xi Zhong's face was full of anxiousness.

Cheng Yu said, "Lord, now our army retreats quickly. While the enemy has not yet fully pressed up, we quickly retreat to Pingyu County. There are still 20,000 defenders in this city, and the food and grass are enough for our army to support them for three months. The city walls are tall and strong, so that we can protect ourselves."

Cao Cao's eyes sterned, but he turned a decisive line: "No, continue fighting, anyone dares to retreat and kill without mercy."

Everyone was stunned: "Lord, this..."

"No need to say it." Cao Cao's eyes were extremely firm: "The other party can set up such a big situation and hide it from the world. There is no other person except Xun You. It must be that he deliberately used the wife's child to give birth to a child, and returned to his hometown to take care of me on the spot, which made me careless. In fact, he had contacted all the generals secretly and set up a secret bureau. With this person's wit, how could he have thought that our army would choose to retreat to Pingyu under such a situation?"

Cheng Yu and others suddenly realized: "What the lord means... on the way back to Pingyu, there must be an ambush?"

Cao Cao nodded, then waved his hand: "Attack with all your might, be sure to capture Zhu Ye and Gao Shun alive, our army has a way out."

With his order, the original spear, big sword and other soldiers retreated one after another, replaced them with rope covers and large nets, and teams of them stepped forward.

Xiahou Dun, Dian Wei and others also temporarily retreated to rest for a while and recovered some energy.

After several hours of fighting, the surrounding plants and trees had already been trampled on the ground. Many not very thick trees could not withstand the repeated chopping and fell down. The originally dense forest had become a little sparse at this moment, so the soldiers' movements were more convenient.

"call……"

"Swish..."

Large nets and rope condoms rushed towards Zhu Ye and Gao Shun.

"Whatever you want..."

Zhu Ye waved his hammers impatiently, but the big net and rope cover were very tough and soft, and it was the nemesis of his hammers.

Soon, his double hammers were entangled by a large net and could no longer be swung.

At this time, another net fell from the sky. Zhu Ye pulled out his sword with a "clang" and split the big net with one sword. However, he was seriously injured. After several consecutive violent movements, he could no longer help but spurted out another mouthful of blood.

On Gao Shun's side, the situation was much better because of the Han Wushun who had just come in to resist. The five thousand Han Wushun was full of energy and angry. Not only did he protect Gao Shun properly, but he also launched a counterattack, forcing the cavalry and infantry of the Cao army step by step to retreat.

Cao Cao was a little angry and shouted, "Come on and shoot arrows!"

After all, the Cao army had the advantage in its military strength. At this moment, they surrounded Zhu Ye, Gao Shun and others, all of them were surrounded.

"Bow pull..."

Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan stood on both sides and ordered in unison.

"Hurry, the Han Wuzhan formed a formation..." Gao Shun also ordered at the same time.

The Han Wuzhe originally had dozens of people in groups to form a square array. At this moment, they quickly combined the two square arrays in one place. One of them raised the heavy shield over the top of his head. In a blink of an eye, these square arrays turned into square iron barrels with tight stitches.

"put……"

With the orders issued by Xiahou Yuan and Huang Zhong, tens of thousands of sharp arrows flew into the sky at the same time and then quickly landed.

"Ding Ding Ding..."

"Dongdongdongdong..."

The rain of arrows hit the heavy shield and made various sounds, but it could not penetrate the heavy shield and injured the Han soldiers hiding there.

After several rounds of arrow rain, Gao Shun and others were not injured at all, which made Cao Cao a little impatient.

"Lord..." Guo Jia stepped forward and said, "There are lush plants and trees here. Although the enemy's heavy shield can block the bow and arrow, it cannot block the fire attack..."

Upon hearing this, Cao Cao's eyes lit up: "You are right. I'll send the order to throw the dry grass and branches around him at the enemy's formation, and then throw the torch out. I want to burn them alive."

In this woods, everything is missing, but the dead branches and grass are not allowed to fall.

The Cao army soldiers picked up the surrounding branches, broken leaves and shrubs, and threw them at the "iron box square arrays" in the middle of the encirclement.

Not long after, countless dry branches and leaves were piled up in the encirclement.

"Take the torch."

Cao Cao shouted loudly, and thousands of torches were thrown out at the same time.

"boom……"

These dead branches and leaves suddenly ignited a raging fire after seeing the torch. The flames that soared into the sky soon wrapped the Han army in it.

"Ah...it's on fire..."

"Put the fire quickly..."

Faced with such a fire attack, even the Han soldiers who were well-trained and extremely strict military discipline could no longer bear it. They all withdrew their formations, slapped the fire on their bodies, and fled in scattered places, and some even rolled on the ground.

Cao Cao's expression relaxed: "I'll use a filial piety to defeat the enemy. I'll send orders to defend the encirclement. Everyone wet their bodies with water, and prepare more water buckets. As long as the fire burns near the encirclement, they will be put out immediately. If the enemy tries to break through, they will be killed immediately."

"Ahem... Damn... This time, I...ah...ah...ah...ah...ah, I'm going to turn into a roast pig..."

Zhu Ye completely lost his strength and half-kneeled on the ground, constantly inhaling smoke and dust, causing him to cough and become increasingly exhausted.

Many Han soldiers, without caring about it, tried to break out of the encirclement, trying to jump into the stream and destroy the fire on their bodies, but they all died at the hands of Cao's army, and no one could rush out.

"General...Mo Jiang...Hehe...Mo Jiang fights to death, and he will also escort you out..."

Several generals raised Gao Shun and prepared to break through.

Gao Shun reached out and patted them weakly: "It's useless..."

At this moment, a loud shout echoed throughout the world: "Cao thief, how dare you hurt my brother?"

Then, everyone felt golden light flashing in front of their eyes. Cao Cao's eyes widened and exclaimed: "Zhang Yong arrived so quickly, hurry up, go and intercept him..."

Cheng Yu said hatefully: "The fire is really too big. Although it burns out the enemy's morale, it blocks our sight and covers our ears. Even Zhang Yong's army is approaching."

Xiahou Dun reacted the fastest, and as soon as he lifted his weapons, he prepared to lead the cavalry to intercept them.

However, he had just turned around and before he could run a few steps, he saw a golden light appearing in front of him.

"not good……"

He shouted inwardly, lifted his weapon and waved it forward.

"Ding Ding Ding..."

After several consecutive crisp sounds, Xiahou Dun suddenly found that there were several shallow gaps on the tip of the spear in his hand.

"It's a good knife."

While he was amazed, several figures rushed towards him again.
Chapter completed!