Expand the head of the county.

Since Qiao Rui sent messengers to Wuping in time and Laixiang informed Cao's army that the attacking military newspaper was divided, he had been in a state of uneasy.

For some reason, there seems to be an unknown thought in my mind.

After waiting for nearly two days with difficulty, Qiao Rui finally waited for Wuping and Laixiang again for the battle report.

Unfortunately, it is not a good news, but a bad news.

Wuping and Laixiang have been lost one after another. After Le Jin first entered the city, he was awarded the title of the first sword!

Another general, Le, was also at the time when Wuping was lost and there was no time to prepare for it, Cao's army had already taken advantage of the situation to come to Laixiang again.

Same tricks, same offensive.

Facing Le Jin's leading the crowd first like a madman, Le felt the pressure of fearlessness.

After only half a day of persistence, Laixiang announced that it was destroyed!

He had no choice but to collect the defeated troops in time and fled to Chen County.

At this point, facing the offensive of Cao's army, the two lines of defense arranged behind Tuoxian became breakthroughs.

When Qiao Rui learned about this news, she was stunned and stood there for a long time without any spirit.

He was a little unacceptable.

Why?

"What kind of ability does Xiahou Yuan have? He can march for more than 170 miles in less than two days."

"Is this still something that extraordinary people can bear?"

At this moment, he received the report of Xiahou Yuan's marching speed, and Qiao Rui's cognition was really subverted.

As for Le Jin's subsequent climb to the city first, although he was brave and extremely shocking, he was just the icing on the cake.

After thinking carefully, Qiao Rui could understand that this time, the generals of Laixiang in Wuping had lost without warning, and that Cao's army used this rapid march speed to beat him a time difference.

However, now that things have come to this point, it is meaningless to pursue the matter.

He knew very well that after the fall of Wuping and Lai Township, his grain route would be completely controlled, and he would be intercepted by the Cao army garrison and lose contact with Chen County.

At this moment, even though Tuoxian faced Cao Cao's offensive, it was still as solid as a rock, but there was no need to continue to persevere.

Helplessly, Qiao Rui had to endure the pain and give up the defense of Tuoxian.

Immediately, the troops were sent to evacuate from the city with full authority and quickly led the crowd to gather and return to Chen County.

But at this time, Xiahou Yuan still took advantage of his speed.

The moment he captured Wuping and Laixiang, he personally continued to join his people and then wiped out the threat from nearby cities like a destruction, and moved ahead to the place where Yuan's army had to retreat to Chen County to set up an ambush.

After Yuan's army arrived, they took advantage of the situation to launch an attack.

During the chaos, Yuan's army suffered a lot of losses through successive defeats.

Facing the ambush from Cao's army, even though its troops far exceed that of Xiahou Yuan's army, they were still killed and retreated step by step.

Xiahou Yuan personally rushed into the formation with a knife, and his spirit of leading the way also inspired the soldiers under his command like a pillar.

Not only that, Qiao Rui was also defeated by his five-combination.

In the end, after nearly losing about 500 people, Qiao Rui's troops were able to get rid of the offensive of Xiahou Yuan's army and return to Chen County. Then, they urgently requested reinforcements from Shouchun.

After Qiao Rui's army retreated to the county town, Chen County and could not leave.

Cao Cao, who was confronting him at the foot of Tuo County, also led his troops to enter Tuo County.

Next, because Qiao Rui's army was defeated at first, the soldiers under his command were slightly afraid of Cao's army at this moment.

Qiao Rui naturally didn't dare to fight easily at this moment.

I can only sit in Chen County and wait for the help of our main force.

But the price that cannot be paid is that he completely loses the initiative.

Nowadays, the territory of Chen is almost allowed to gallop by Cao's army.

However, the time for Yuan’s army to settle in Chen State was still short, and people from all over the world were not fully dependent.

Now with the entry of Cao's army, Qiao Rui's army was trapped in Chen County due to defeat and could not leave the city to expel Cao's soldiers.

This undoubtedly made the officials in various cities and towns instantly active.

For several days, all the Chen State rebelled except Chen County, responding to the Cao family's rule.

After taking control of all the places, Cao Cao once again brought troops to the city of Chen County to encircle him.

But even so.

However, Cao Cao still did not choose to attack the city gate.

At this time, some generals were puzzled.

Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, Cao Cao gently tilted his long beard under his mouth, then showed a strong smile, and he looked at each other with a blue shirt on his side, but his face was extremely weak, showing a pathological Xi Zhicai.

Immediately, Xi Zhicai made a statement and explained to Cao Cao.

"My generals, now our army has gained a foothold in the territory of Chen State. If we attack Chen County at this time, it would not be a big problem to conquer the city with your divine power and wipe out this Yuan army."

"But then?"

After a few words fell, Xi Zhicai's eyes, which seemed to be filled with dazzling light, were full of elegance on his face, revealing a problem to the generals.

After saying that, the eight-foot-long general Cao Hong bowed and asked: "After conquering Chen County, our army will naturally take Chen State for itself and weaken Yuan's vitality."

"This is the best of both worlds, why not do it?"

"I wonder what sir meant?"

Cao Hong said with a word, asking everyone about their suspicious thoughts. At this time, the generals in the camp couldn't help but look at Xi Zhicai's body, wanting to know what he had planned.

"It is indeed a good thing to expand the territory in Chen State."

"But have you ever thought about the counterattack of the main troops of Yuan's army?"

Upon hearing this, Xi Zhicai's weak face seemed to have regained his serious expression in an instant, and he spoke directly to the generals in a deep voice.

After pondering for a while, before the generals could reply, he continued to say to himself: "If the State of Chen loses, it will cause Yuan army to give up the northern expedition to the Central Plains from here, and instead find another breakthrough."

"Will it make any sense for our army to gather here?"

"Instead, we will give up the initiative we have finally obtained and fall into a disadvantage in the situation."

"After all, the Central Plains states are vast and the breakthrough points are too dense. With our army's troops, it is impossible to stop Yuan's attack in all aspects."

"But what if Chen State is left and he adopts a strategy of siegeing but not attacking him?"

"That will inevitably make Yuan's army worried. If Qiao Rui army is not destroyed for a day, the enemy will inevitably advance north from here one after another to compete with our army."

"If we do not, if we take the initiative to abandon this army, we will definitely lose our military spirit!"
Chapter completed!