After retreating for almost four months, Liu Bei retreated southward in order to preserve his strength.

Cao Cao's 100,000 advance troops rushed all the way to pursue and kill, beating Jingzhou's soldiers and horses to the point where they were knocked upside down.

There are still 500,000 troops and horses to follow. Since there is plenty of food and grass, there will be no problem even if the war lasts for a year.

In addition to this incident, Cao Cao also transferred Zhang Liao back to fight in a guerrilla style.

In fact, Zhang Liao now only has 8,000 men, but all of them are elite and invincible in Jingzhou.

Each time they advance to a stage, they will build a small stronghold.

After seven days of massacre, they received resistance.

Zhang Liao and Xia Houyuan's nearly 20,000 cavalry were defeated by the shield formation on Hulupo!

To be honest, Guan Yu has been waiting for this opportunity for more than a year.

It can be regarded as fierce as the tip of a needle against the wheat awn!

And the formation that Liu Bei had prepared for so long would not be broken through so easily!

Xia Houyuan and Zhang Liao directly lost more than half of their men, and most of the dead were even trampled to death.

This incident also caused the soldiers to stop for a while, and Liu Bei fled directly to Jiangxia.

This incident made the people of Jingzhou extremely panicked.

After Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others arrived in Jiangxia, they joined Liu Qi.

In fact, Liu Qi's side was already in a critical situation. Liu Bei and others came, and they began to discuss.

There were not many people in the government office in Xiangyang. Liu Biao looked very old and had become very broken due to long-term hard work.

He didn't know how to solve the problem, and he couldn't see the world being unified. He felt painful and uncomfortable in his heart.

After all, they have 300,000 soldiers and horses in their territory, but they dare not go to war with Cao Cao.

It's Cai who's causing trouble!

When Liu Bei and his two brothers came here, Liu Biao had been waiting for a long time.

After entering, Liu Bei saluted and said: "Brother, I have to ask you! Are you willing to resist Cao Cao?"

"To be honest, Nanyang has already been in crisis. If we can't get help from others, we will be in dire straits! And you will become a sinner!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Cai Mao's eyes were full of fire and he roared angrily.

The reason why he waited for Liu Bei to come over was to stop him from thinking.

Otherwise, Liu Biao always thinks about fighting Cao Cao, so what!

There is simply no way to defeat Cao Cao!

It is better to surrender to Cao Cao in order to gain some benefits.

"Lord, we absolutely can't do this! This guy is a lone evil star. Wasn't Gongsun Zan defeated by him? Tao Qian was also defeated!"

"Now, he will bring disaster to us again!"

Cai Mao's eyes were extremely cold: "If we tie him up and send him to Cao Cao, we will definitely get a reward!"

There was a chill in Liu Bei's eyes: "Brother, the Han Dynasty exists in name only! We have a mortal enemy with that Cao thief! If you really surrender, how can you be worthy of my ancestors of the Han Dynasty?"

Liu Biao's gloomy eyes lit up, and his expression became much more determined: "I will definitely not surrender!"

"Lord, you are confused! There is no way we can compare with that Cao Cao. Once we start a war, we will only fall into trouble!"

Cai Mao was so anxious that he had been trying to persuade him for so long, but he couldn't resist Liu Bei's words!

"This must not be the case!"

Liu Bei's expression was full of coldness: "It's just because the big man has people like you that he becomes like this! You are a general, how can you be such a coward?"

Zhang Fei also stepped forward, pulled out the knife in his hand, and slashed at Cai Mao.

To be honest, Cai Mao was unable to resist, and was directly put to the neck by the knife.

Zhang Fei even increased his strength and cut off his head directly.

The guards rushed over and stopped Zhang Fei directly.

Liu Biao was confused, and so was Liu Bei, feeling a little depressed.

"Xuande, you are so confused!"

Liu Biao jumped up and down anxiously, his expression was very nervous, and his whole body was trembling.

Liu Bei gritted his teeth and said: "Surrendering to Cao Cao is equivalent to betraying the Han Dynasty. My third brother killed him without any wrongdoing! He was even helping the emperor brother!"

Liu Biao had nothing to say. He knew that doing this would definitely cause chaos in Jingzhou.

And Cai will definitely take advantage of it to cause trouble.

"Brother Emperor, don't you know what year it is now? If we don't have the means to be ruthless, we will be in trouble! Once we make up our minds to fight against Cao Cao, we cannot allow civil strife to happen!"

There was a hint of dullness in Liu Bei's voice: "Cao Cao is definitely not invincible! I caused Xia Houyuan and Zhang Liao to suffer a big loss half a month ago! If we work together, it is not impossible to win!"

"In this case!"

Liu Biao looked hesitant, but finally chose to believe Liu Bei and nodded seriously.

"Then let's work together to fight against Cao!"

And in this year, Jingzhou can be considered to have exerted its strength, and it can be considered that all forces have formed a city to fight to the death with Cao Cao.

The Cao army that entered Jingzhou was also repulsed, and Shengcai lost three thousand horses and various horse equipment.

Even a lot of bows and crossbows were lost.

To be honest, the crossbows produced in Xuzhou are very important to them.

Although it cannot be used to attack fortresses, it will have great advantages in guerrilla warfare.

But it finally stopped Cao Jun's pace.

They stopped at Wancheng.

Cao Cao established a military camp there. To be honest, it was already an empty city because all the people had gone to Jiangxia.

Cao Cao and the people around him were walking on the muddy path.

It rained just now, and there is still moisture in the air.

Their expressions were not particularly good, and they even had a sense of anger.

Zhang Liao and Xia Houyuan had failed before, and to be honest, they were still a little depressed. Their expressions were even ugly because of several consecutive defeats during this period.

"To be honest, there is no difference between here and before!"

Cao Cao shook off the rain and went to the government office again. All the people behind him followed him, but they were also very silent.

That's what they originally thought.

Jingzhou will definitely surrender

But unexpectedly, after Liu Bei passed by, the situation suddenly changed.

If Jinzhou is going to fight stubbornly, it was probably just a pretense to get them to relax their vigilance.

It was for this reason that Cao Cao lost 50,000 troops.

Cao Cao's eyes were also very sinister.

He also recalled Xi Yu's previous evaluation of Liu Bei.

"This man is definitely not mediocre!"

It seems that is indeed the case.

Cao Cao sighed: "It's really dark under the lamp!"

He smiled at the people on his left and right again: "This Liu Xuande is by no means a mediocre person. Although he is rather annoying, I am indeed very interested in competing with him!"

Cheng Yu sighed, and then whispered: "If this is the case, we shouldn't come out!"

"Cheng Yu, what did you say!"

Cao Cao's eyes were angry: "You say it again?"

"I, I, I didn't say much!"

"Ha!" Cao Cao sneered: "Do you think I let Liu Bei go because I was careless?"

Isn't that true?

Everyone was a little confused.

Xi Zhicai didn't know what Cao Cao was thinking, and felt that his words were a bit far-fetched.

Is this trying to forcibly establish one's own image?

Cao Cao's expression was calm: "The reason why I let him go is not because I couldn't catch him at the time, but because this guy is not enough to be afraid of!"
To be continued...