Chapter 245 (1/2)
Looking at the cold eyes of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the herald scolded Jia Xu's ancestor for eight times in his heart, but he still clasped his fist and said, ”two generals! It's not that Lord Jia intended to stop the two generals from attacking the city, but something unexpected happened! Now there are a large number of enemy troops in the southeast of the city. Our barracks over there have been broken down by the other side! Therefore, Lord Jia ordered the troops to withdraw immediately, otherwise the two generals and the army would be attacked by both sides of the enemy! ”
”Enemy?” Guan Yu frowned and looked at Cao's army, who had already occupied the absolute advantage of the city. Guan Yu could not willingly give up the victory he was about to win. He said to the herald, ”you go and tell Lord Jia that our brothers will take this Qiucheng right away. When the time comes, we will guard the city, and we will not be afraid of enemy attack.”
The herald hurried forward and took the reins of Guan Yu's mount and said, ”general Guan! No! There are too many enemy troops. There are hundreds of thousands of them. Even if the general captured Renqiu City, he could not resist the attack of the other side. ”
”But Guan Yu stopped talking. He knew that the herald would never lie about the military situation. What he said must be Jia Xu's judgment. Most of that was right. He glared at the head of the city with red eyes, gritted his teeth and said, ”withdraw!”
Zhang Fei immediately glared at Guan Yu and exclaimed, ”second brother!”
Guan Yu waved his hand and stopped Zhang Fei's words. He said, ”don't say more! There's nothing wrong with listening to Mr! Gong! Sun! Zan! I'll spare you one life this time! ” After that, Guan Yu pulled the reins and started to withdraw with the army. Seeing Guan Yu go like this, Zhang Fei knew that there was no other way. He immediately put the snake spear in his hand directly on the ground, pulled his mount and chased Guan Yu away. The herald was relieved. Seeing the snake spear which was deeply embedded in the ground, the herald couldn't help laughing bitterly. Of course, he didn't leave Mr. Zhang's precious weapon here. He ordered several soldiers to pull out the snake spear and carry it to him.
With the orders of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Cao's army began to retreat backward like a ebb tide. Gongsun Zan and other three generals who were still fighting at the head of the city suddenly found that the enemy troops had suddenly disappeared. Catching up and looking out of the city, Cao's army, which had been crowded under the city, retreated madly, as if there were some monsters chasing after them.
Gongsun Zan and other three were stunned. They did not understand what was going on. Although they had just made up their minds to fight with Cao Jun, they knew that the city would be lost if they only wanted half a column of incense. But why did Cao Jun suddenly give up the victory he was about to win?
Just when Gongsun Zan and his two subordinates were in a daze, a garrison ran blundering over and yelled at Gongsun Zan: ”my Lord! My Lord! Reinforcements in the south of the city! Reinforcements
”Reinforcements?” Gongsun Zan turned to look at the soldier. At the next moment, a pair of eyes lit up and immediately called out: ”yes! It's Tian Kai! It's Tian Kai's reinforcements coming! ”
Yan Gang also said with joy: ”it must be like this! Congratulations
”Come on! Come on! Let's go to the south of the city to meet Tian Kai's reinforcements! ” Gongsun Zan was in a good mood. With a wave of his hand, he took the lead in running to the south of the city.
At this time, in the south of Renqiu City, the original Cao army barracks had been occupied by zumao with his army, and now they are attacking the other three Cao troops. On the Highlands, Pang Tong and Gan Ning still stayed there looking at the whole battlefield, only to see the Cao troops in the north of the city returning to the barracks and withdrawing without stopping. Pang Tong looked at Cao Jun, who had been cleared up in a flash, with admiration in his eyes.
Gan Ning was worried and said to Pang Tong, ”Shiyuan, you'd better let me go! You can take a look. Cao's army is gone! ”
Pang Tong waved his hand with a smile and said, ”it's no use even if you go now. The commander of the Cao army is more decisive than I thought. It must be that although they withdraw to the north, they will take a detour and directly withdraw to Jizhou! Our purpose of coming this time is to stop Cao Cao from attacking Youzhou. Now that we have achieved our goal, we need not spend any more. We'd better order to withdraw our troops! ”
Gan Ning suddenly seemed to be out of breath, and his whole body was exhausted. Of course, there was no need for Gan Ning to do the work of giving orders. The sergeant behind him would do it. Pang Tong looked at Gan Ning's appearance and said with a smile: ”general Gan, don't worry. If Cao Cao wants to expand, he must seize Youzhou. We have a whole two years' time. Sooner or later you will have a chance.”