Cao Cao ordered people to restrain the body of Cao's army on the battlefield and buried Cao Anmin. He didn't care about resting and rushed to Zhending overnight.

This was in ancient times, and the transportation was not so developed. There were not many roads that could allow 300,000 soldiers and civilians to pass quickly, so if the Heishan Army wanted to reunite with Li Mu, Zhending County was the only channel.

Because of this, Cao Cao didn't need to think much about it and chased forward along the official road in front of him, so he could catch up with the Black Mountain Army.

From the body of Cao's army left on the battlefield, the Heishan military and civilians should have been around for about a day. It took about one day to go from here to Zhending County. In other words, the Heishan military and civilians should have arrived at the city of Zhending.

Although Zhending is a small city, Cao Ren led a 50,000 army to station here. Cao Cao thought it would be no problem to block the Heishan Army for one or two days.

Cao Ren is also one of the best among the generals who can stand alone under Cao Cao. Therefore, Cao Cao still trusts Cao Ren very much and feels that he can block the way for the Black Mountain Army in Zhending.

Cao Cao raised 300,000 troops this time, and the food, grass and weapons consumed can be said to be endless. The purpose of this war was to capture the Black Mountain Army and subdue the 50,000 to 60,000 veterans.

You should know that Cao Cao had fought against Yuan Shao for several years, and then fought with Lu Bu and Li Chen. These battles have almost won the family fortune that Cao Cao has accumulated over the years.

Nowadays, for Cao Cao, the biggest problem is the huge difference in the proportion of veterans and new recruits in the army.

These tough battles caused heavy casualties in Cao Cao's army, while the newly recruited troops were all new recruits. Even after training, it was actually very useful.

The gap between new recruits and veterans is not just in physical fitness and military quality, but in will. Soldiers who have not experienced several battles baptized, their will is very weak.

Such new recruits are okay to fight a good battle, but when they fight a tough battle, it is very likely to cause things like Yingxiao.

When the ratio of new recruits and veterans in an army is huge, it is difficult for this army to have strong combat effectiveness.

Therefore, the purpose of Cao Cao's battle was to see the 50,000 or 60,000 veterans of the Black Mountain Army. As long as he could earn this veteran and supplement his own army, his new recruits and veterans would reach a very healthy ratio.

This duck that had reached the mouth, and Cao Cao said that he could not let him fly. At this moment, Cao Cao had made up his mind to compete with Li Chen for the Black Mountain Army.

At this time, on the official road to Zhending County, there were dust and flags waving, and I saw endless black-armored soldiers everywhere.

Since Cao Cao crossed mountains and ridges and took the mountain road to support him, most of his army was infantry, with only two thousand leopard cavalry supporting him.

Two thousand leopard cavalry were supporting the surroundings, and there were a total of 70,000 to 80,000 on the front. These troops were all infantry, and most of them were new recruits. Therefore, the marching speed was not very fast.

Under the banner of the central army, a group of tall and large generals surrounded the short Cao Cao.

Finally, I understood why Cao Cao asked Dian Wei and Xu Chu to be his bodyguards. These two were big. You should know that Xu Chu and Dian Wei were both men who were more than two meters tall and big and thick. Cao Cao was short and only 1.6 meters tall.

Xu Chu and Dian Wei surrounded Cao Cao, and others could not see Cao Cao at all. On this battlefield, Xu Chu and Dian Wei were not afraid of the trap.

Although Cao Cao was short, he was a military giant and a political giant.

"King of Wei, it's too slow for us to walk like this. We have to let these new recruits go faster, otherwise the daylily will be cold when we catch up." Xu Chu muttered beside Cao Cao.

"No, no."

"Only when we maintain this marching speed, the soldiers can preserve their physical strength. Only when we reach Zhending can we directly enter the battle. If we march quickly, when we arrive in Zhending County, the soldiers will be exhausted. How can we fight a war?"

Cao Cao laughed and said, above his head was the central army's flag. The front of the flag was the character Wei, and the reverse side was the character Cao.

"King of Wei, what if we let the Black Mountain Army run away at this speed?" Xu Chu asked with some dissatisfaction.

"Haha! Haha! Haha!"

"Cao Ren is my humeral general. How can I not be able to defend it in Zhending County?" Cao Cao laughed loudly.

"Report..."

Cao Cao's laughter had just stopped, and a fast horse ran towards him in front of him.

"Report to the King of Wei, a large number of our defeated soldiers were found in front of us."

The scout dismounted and knelt on one knee in front of King Cao Cao of Wei and said.

At this time, in the woods not far from Cao Cao's army, many soldiers wearing Cao's armor were sitting under the trees to rest. These soldiers were looking like defeated soldiers, one looking more embarrassed than the other.

These defeated soldiers naturally escaped from Zhending County. Cao Ren's troops were under Cao Ren's army. When Cao Ren evacuated, it was midnight. It was dark and Cao Ren was defeated. So when he left, he only collected more than 10,000 troops, and the rest of the Cao army soldiers ran to their own.

It was dark and I couldn't see the road clearly at night. Many soldiers were running along the flat official road, so I happened to meet Cao Cao.

"How could there be defeated soldiers?" Cao Cao couldn't help but feel angry with an unknown premonition.

"Go and summon a few defeated soldiers to come and ask where they are?" Cao Cao hurriedly ordered the scout. The scout in charge of the way was ordered to leave. In about one stick of incense, he brought several Cao's defeated soldiers to come.

"Greetings to His Highness the King of Wei." Seeing Cao Cao, these defeated soldiers were defeated.

Cao Cao looked at the soldiers and saw that these people were really embarrassed. At this time, the armor on their bodies had been lost. They only turned the underwear inside the armor. They didn't know where the weapons in their hands were left, leaving only the helmet with twisted heads on their heads.

"Whose soldiers are you?" Cao Cao asked.

"Report to His Highness the King of Wei, we are General Cao Ren's soldiers?" The defeated soldiers replied.

"What, could Zhending County be defeated? Are you deserters?" Cao Cao said angrily.

"Your Highness of the King of Wei, we are not deserters, we are defeated soldiers. Zhending County was not defeated. Zhending County was lost. General Cao Ren had long known where to go." These Cao soldiers defended.

The deserter is different from the defeated soldiers. The deserter runs by himself, and this is a matter of killing. But the defeated soldiers are different. The defeated soldiers are because the main general runs away and he has to run away.

At this moment, Cao Cao's face turned into a pig's liver. He just said that Cao Ren could hold on to Zhending, but in a blink of an eye, he heard the bad news that Zhending County had been lost.
Chapter completed!