In fact, even if it was far away in Zhao Yun's village, the rolling smoke could be clearly seen rushing upwards. When Cao Ren received the news, he had already discovered that he could already see the smoke at this distance. Cao Ren could imagine how big the fire was.

Without any hesitation, Cao Ren chose to withdraw his troops. Once the camp was burned, it was not as simple as building another camp. The military camp was easy to build, but the food and supplies could not be replenished in a short time. The army had no food and supplies, so a mutiny was almost inevitable.

In order to avoid greater losses, Cao Ren had to withdraw his troops.

"General! Withdraw!" In the camp, several young generals looked at Cao Jun who had retreated like a tide and said excitedly to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun's eyes were already attracted by the thick smoke rising from afar. Without saying a word, he ordered all his troops to go out of the camp. The Cao army's formation was not in chaos at this moment, and Zhao Yun did not dare to rush forward rashly, but he felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he ordered five hundred troops and hugged them far behind Cao's army to see if there was a chance to expand the results of the battle.

Jiang Xiong, who was above the river, obviously also discovered the movements of Cao's army. He did not go ashore, but only commanded the fleet to harass and shoot arrows along the coast, while monitoring the movements of Cao's army.

Shortly after Cao Ren retreated, he met the defeated army fleeing from the direction of the camp. There were also Lu Lingqi, Wei Yue and Wei Yan in the back, chasing the defeated soldiers slowly. When he saw Cao Ren's army, he did not directly kill him. He just had a distance, like a hunting beast, quietly waiting for the moment when his prey showed its flaws.

If the other party’s three armies have no food, they will definitely have flaws if they wait.

Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan knew something was wrong, so they attracted several defeated generals and said sternly: "Why did the camp be destroyed? Where is Wen Qian?"

"Return to the general!" Several defeated generals said bitterly: "The Mocheng people suddenly broke out from the back camp of our army. The last general didn't know what was going on. When General Le led us to arrive, the food and supplies had been ignited by the thieves, and General Yue was also captured by a female general on the other side. He didn't know his life or death."

"Female general?" Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan looked at each other after hearing this. Others didn't know who the female general was, but they knew each other's identity very well. But the girl was already so powerful back then?

"Yes, that female general is quite brave. Many generals of our army were killed by her." Several defeated generals still had a look of lingering fear on their faces at this moment, obviously they were afraid of being killed.

"I'll kill her!" Xiahou Yuan's eyes were a little angry, and he looked at the pursuers behind him. He could vaguely see the figure in white robe and white armor. He took a knife and wanted to kill him!

"Retreat the army." Cao Ren grabbed Xiahou Yuan and shook his head and sighed: "The foundation has been lost, the morale of the army has been in chaos. If you don't leave at this moment, these soldiers and horses will probably be broken here. What kind of face do you and I have to meet the Prime Minister?"

Xiahou Yuan tightened the knife, stared at Lu Lingqi's direction, and finally closed his eyes helplessly, nodded silently, and began to command the troops to retreat to Jiangling.

Lu Lingqi, Wei Yue, Wei Yan met Zhao Yun later and hung behind Cao's army to look for fighter opportunities. Unfortunately, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan were not ordinary generals after all. Even though they retreated at this moment, their formation could be maintained. The four of them followed for a day and a night but failed to find the fighter opportunity. The next day, Cao's army retreated into Huarong County and strictly guarded them. Zhao Yun and others had no chance to withdraw their troops and returned to Mocheng.

Cao's army suffered not much loss in this battle, but with Xiahou Yuan's defeat, Le Jin's defeat and the loss of siege, Cao Cao's 10,000 troops were allocated to Huarong to recruit defeated soldiers and count the troops, the remaining troops were less than 6,000, which was nearly half of them, which made Le Jin's general.

For the Cao army, the biggest blow was under a small Mo City, which suffered consecutive setbacks, which cast a shadow on the Cao army, which had won consecutive victories since the Battle of Guandu. Although this was nothing to the entire Cao army, it was a shame imprint in the hearts of Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren.

After the two left their troops to guard Jiangling, they returned to Xiangyang to report to Cao Cao.

"Prime Minister, please Rong Mo will fight again. This battle will definitely wipe out the Mo City!" In Xiangyang, in the governor's mansion, Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan bowed like Cao Cao with unwilling expressions.

"Mocheng, Mo family!" Cao Cao did not answer, but just knelt in front of the table, tapped his fingers on the table, and suddenly looked at Cai Mao beside him and said, "Degui."

"Prime Minister." Cai Mao hurriedly saluted.

"I asked you before, you said that this person is just an ordinary craftsman who cheated on the name of the Mo family." Cao Cao could not see any joy and anger on his face, but just asked lightly: "However, according to his filial piety and talented words, this person is quite skilled in military tactics and defeated our army's elite three times, but he is not like a talentless person. What is the explanation?"

If it is one or two times, it can be said that it is underestimating the enemy and luck, but these three times in a row, it cannot be simply underestimating the enemy. Especially this time, Cao Cao heard Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan's words and felt that there was no big problem with judgment and command, including Le Jin. However, whether Liu Yi's decision to boldly send people to attack the rear camp in the end, or the knowledgeable and good use of the people he showed before, and the reconciliation of internal conflicts, it was not something that ordinary craftsmen could do. Not to mention ordinary craftsmen, how many of these talented people can do it?

"This..." Cai Mao smiled bitterly: "Prime Minister forgives the crime. Mao has only seen this person once. At that time, this person was an ordinary craftsman, but his craftsmanship was quite good."

"Yes, his craftsmanship is indeed extraordinary. The attic seems ordinary, but it is quite pleasant inside." Cao Cao stood up, walked to Cai Mao, patted Cai Mao's shoulder and said, "It's just because of your words that I have exhausted me and lost a general, and I have even suffered three setbacks in Mocheng!"

Although Cao Cao's tone was very plain, Cai Mao could feel the anger in Cao Cao's heart from the strength of Cao Cao's patting him on the shoulder, and quickly knelt down and said, "Prime Minister, forgive me, this is Mao's fault!"

"Mocheng..." Cao Cao returned to his actions and knelt down and patted the table: "It's a useless!"

In my heart, I naturally wanted to capture Mo City, but in fact, Mo City is neither a strategic location nor much value for attacking for Cao's army. It is the kind of attack or not. Now it seems that Cao's army will need to spend a lot of effort to capture Mo City, which is really...

"Prime Minister!" Cheng Yu stepped out and bowed to Cao Cao, "At present, our army has occupied half of Jingzhou. At this time, it should be the key to appease the people. As for this Mocheng, it is only a small place. If we gather heavy troops to attack it, it is meaningless to our army. I think that we can issue an edict in the name of the emperor and order Mocheng to return General Lejin, and set up another county to Moxian and belong to Nanjun. Liu Yi made contributions to the construction of the city and could be the magistrate of Moxian. I wonder what the Prime Minister thinks?"

There is no need to attack, and this bone is not easy to chew, so it is better to comfort Mo City first and set Mo Yi as a county. It is a reward for Liu Yi, and then attribute Mo County to Nanjun. In this way, even if Liu Yi is a subordinate of Cao Cao, he can still provoke the relationship between Liu Yi and Liu Bei and Liu Qi.

Upon hearing this, Cao Cao touched his beard, nodded and smiled, "Good!"
Chapter completed!