Chapter 209: Stop Xu Huang

Xue Bing looked at the spy in front of him and asked in surprise: "What did you say just now? Did you find Xu Huang's soldiers?" After saying that, he asked again anxiously: "How can you see clearly? Is it true that Xu Huang is the general who leads the army?"

The spy suddenly changed his expression when he heard what he had reported.

The spy couldn't help but feel uneasy, but the general asked, but he had to answer. He had to say respectfully: "I can be sure that the commander of the army is Xu Huang! In addition, Cao Hong seems to be in this army."

When Xue Bing heard this, she slapped the case in front of her and heard a bang, which shocked Zhang Fei, who had just walked into the door.

Zhang Fei looked strange, looked at Xue Bing, then looked at the soldier, and asked, "Why is Zihan so excited?"

As soon as this statement was spoken, Xue Bing's attention was immediately diverted.

He raised his head and saw that Zhang Fei was coming. He hurriedly stood up and said, "Yi De is here!" While saying that, he waved to the spy and ordered: "Explore again, be sure to give the movements of the Cao army to this general clearly and not to miss any suspicious points!"

When Zhang Fei saw Xue Bing ordering the soldiers, he stopped asking questions and waited until the soldier left the door, and then said, "I wonder what news Zi Han got? Why are he so angry? Could it be that Cao Jun was using some tricks?"

Xue Bing shook his head and pointed to the Beidi County on the map in front of him and said, "Xu Huang's troops have passed Beidi County!"

"What?" This time, it was Zhang Fei's look of shock, and suddenly stood up, rushed to Xue Bing not far away, shouted, "Can you find it accurate?"

Xue Bing said: "I sent several batches of horses to explore. I think there will be a definite news after a while. But, I can report that the horses are always in return. I think it is accurate to find Xu Huang's troops."

When Zhang Fei heard this, he widened his eyes and shouted: "What is this guy Wen Chang doing? Many soldiers and horses under him can't even trap Xu Huang!" He looked very angry, thinking that if Wei Yan was on his side, he would definitely be criticized by Zhang Fei.

Xue Bingze said, "This is no wonder Wen Chang. It should be noted that although Wen Chang received the order of the king and led troops to encircle and suppress the remnants of Cao soldiers in Yongzhou, he was still responsible for occupying the northwest of Yongzhou.

If Xu Huang was determined to escape, he could do it with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command. What's more, according to what the explorer said, Xu Huang seemed to have joined Cao Hong's troops in one place."

He didn't say that Cao Hong was fine. When he mentioned Cao Hong, Zhang Fei became even more angry. He then shouted, "I still said that Wen Chang accidentally let Xu Huang go! Why can't even Meng Qi surround Cao Bing? He actually asked Cao Hong, the waste, to escape!" But when he left Xiliang, Ma Chao was still chasing Cao Bing, so he spoke like this.

After hearing this, Xue Bing had to shake his head helplessly. He no longer bothered to explain. But he knew in his heart that Cao Hong could escape from heaven because of the vast territory of Xiliang, which was very troublesome to occupy. Ma Chao was busy occupying Xiliang.

There was no time to chase him, which allowed Cao Hong to meet with Xu Huang smoothly.

Otherwise, with the tens of thousands of elite Qiang cavalry under Ma Chao, they would chase and kill a defeated Cao soldier. How could Cao Hong escape to Xu Huang so easily?

For a moment, there was no sound in the room. Zhang Fei had just yelled a few times, and was panting heavily at this moment, as if he was very dissatisfied with Ma Chao and Wei Yan's release of the enemy. Xue Bing lowered his head and thought carefully about what to do.

"Xu Huang and Cao Hong's two generals were united, but they only had more than 10,000 troops left, and they also traveled a long distance.

It must be extremely tired! If you lead an elite soldier out from the middle of the way at this time, even if you can't kill all the two of them, at least one person can be eliminated!"

It turned out that Xue Bing's summary based on the battle situation so far in this Northern Expedition is that this Northern Expedition has achieved great success, not only seizing the two prefectures of Yongliang, but also giving Liu Bei's power the capital to march into the Central Plains.

He got rid of the dilemma of being able to stay in the ground. At the same time, while strengthening his own strength, he also greatly weakened Cao Cao's power.

Not to mention losing the two states of Yongliang, the losses of the troops alone reached nearly 200,000. Moreover, not all of these 200,000 troops were killed in battle. A large part of them became prisoners of Liu Bei's army.

The other part became deserters. When the war ended, these deserters would further strengthen Liu Bei's strength. They either became the people under Liu Bei's rule, or became soldiers from Liu Bei's territory.

Even if he was in the north, Cao Cao, who had half a big Han Dynasty, had not had a total of 200,000 yuan to consume him like this. It can be said that if the war ended with the current situation, Liu Bei's side could be considered a great victory.

However, Xue Bing now wants to further attack Cao Cao's forces. That is, while destroying most of Cao Cao's Yongliang troops, he should kill and injure Cao's generals as much as possible.

He believed that if a famous general of Cao's army could be eliminated, the attack on the Wei forces would be no less than that of his 100,000 troops.

Originally, Xue Bing thought to himself that Xu Huang and Cao Hong were trapped in the Yongliang area, and he would definitely die. However, he did not expect that today, the two of them would lead some soldiers and horses to escape from the siege and run to the edge of Yongzhou.

At the same time, I contacted Cao Zhen's strange behavior outside the city. The problems that Xue Bing had never understood these days finally came to light.

"Xu Huang must have contacted Cao Zhen a long time ago. Therefore, Cao Zhen held his troops without moving. His intention was not to capture cities and plunder land, but to firmly occupy an area so as to help Xu Huang and others evacuate!"

After figuring this out, Xue Bing slapped the case again and shouted, "I think so beautifully! How can I ask you to get what you want?"

This suddenly scared Zhang Fei next to him again.

Zhang Fei had been quiet here for a while and had calmed down. He wanted to discuss with Xue Bing how to act in the future, but saw Xue Bing frowning, as if thinking about something, so he did not want to disturb him. He just sat aside. After sitting for a long time, he naturally felt bored and even fell asleep.

Xue Bing suddenly came here for a while, and took a clean slap in Zhang Fei's sleepiness that had just come to an end, becoming extremely sober. He asked immediately: "What did Zi Han think of?"

When Xue Bing heard this, she realized that she was a little out of control and said, "Nothing! I just knew Cao Zhen's thoughts!" At this point, she couldn't help but snorted again and said, "You Cao Zhen, you have a good plan!" But she couldn't help but say in her heart: "I think Sima Yi's suggestion is inevitable.

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Since Xue Bing was in a state of condemnation, she remembered this in her heart. After she led her troops into Jingyang, she immediately sent people to inquire from many sources. Finally, she found out that the deputy governor of Cao's army was Sima Yi, who was famous in history and dragged Zhuge Liang to death.

When Xue Bing learned about this, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "I didn't expect Sima Yi to be in this army."

Seeing that Xue Bingyan understood Cao Zhen's thoughts, Zhang Fei asked, "What does Cao's army mean? Zihan quickly tell me!"

Upon hearing this, Xue Bing snorted: "I just want to hold our army here, and then wait for Xu Huang and others to retreat here! As for whether to advance or retreat behind me, I can't guess!"

After hearing this, Zhang Fei shouted, "It's a good plan, but unfortunately we were able to find out Xu Huang's movements.

No way, he can't let him retreat here safely!" At this point, Zhang Fei said again: "Where is Xu Huang coming? I, Old Zhang, lead a army to intercept him!"

Xue Bing had this thought in his heart, so he said, "I want to intercept it, but it's not a matter of mercy to go, so I can lead the army!"

After hearing this, Zhang Fei immediately stretched his face and said, "Is Zihan going to compete with me and Lao Zhang again this time?"

Xue Bing said: "It's not about competing for merit, but Bing wants to bring all the more than 400 cavalry this time. Yide doesn't know how to dispatch it, so only Bing himself is on his own!"

Zhang Fei said: "At worst, I don't take that cavalry to go there. There are still thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, so it's not that I have to bring those soldiers and horses."

Xue Bing shook his head and said, "Although there are thousands of soldiers in the city, the soldiers still need to guard this city. If there are too many soldiers, it is inevitable that Cao's army will take advantage of the situation. Therefore, this time, this time, he could only bring a few soldiers and horses.

"I thought about it and continued, "I want to take all the two thousand light cavalry brought by Yide."

After hearing Xue Bing's words, Zhang Fei knew what he said, "Take it away and take it away! Anyway, the cavalry cannot defend the city!" After saying that, he said, "It's a pity that the iron armored heavy cavalry did not bring it this time, otherwise he would have asked Cao's army to taste it!" However, because Zhang Fei's trip was quite urgent, all his men were light soldiers, and the iron cavalry remained beside Liu Bei.

The two discussed it for a while, just waiting for the horse to return and bring more information, so they agreed to send troops.

After a few days, the local exploring horses were sent back one after another, and the news also showed that the troops led by Xu Huang and Cao Hong were indeed moving towards Cao Zhen's army.

After learning the exact news, Xue Bing immediately took out the map and saw that the location of Xu Huang's army was not far from Jingyang. He greeted Zhang Fei and personally led more than 2,400 cavalry and a few infantry out of Jingyang and looked north...

At this time, a large army was slowly moving five hundred miles north of Jingyang. However, the flag of this army was crooked, and most of the soldiers' armor was broken. And this army was the troops led by Xu Huang and Cao Hong.

It turned out that since Xu Huang met with Cao Hong, he had more than 30,000 soldiers and horses under his command. In terms of the number of soldiers alone, he was almost the same as Wei Yan's troops. However, these soldiers and horses under his command were all defeated soldiers, and the morale alone was not on the same level.

Moreover, Xu Huang had very little food left, and Wei Yan personally led a group of troops to chase him closely, which made Xu Huang run away and fight along the way, and the soldiers in his hands continued to decrease.

After crossing the Yellow River, he only had about 10,000 soldiers left. Among them, when crossing the river alone, nearly 10,000 soldiers were lost, and thousands of them died in the water.

But thanks to the Yellow River, Xu Huang was asked to completely get rid of Wei Yan's pursuit, which made him feel a little relaxed now.

After the army had been walking for a while, Cao Hong said to Xu Huang beside him: "We will be able to meet with General Cao Zhen in another two days. But what does General Cao mean in his letter? Did Gong Ming guess it?"
Chapter completed!