Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 438

With a thud, Cai Mao felt as if he had been hit by a siege hammer in the chest, and the huge force hit Cai Mao who was wearing heavy armor until he vomited a mouthful of blood on the spot, fell to the ground and passed out.

Seeing this, Xu Shu, who was watching the battle behind Deng Ai, immediately urged his horse and rushed forward. Before the two lieutenants could react, he had already come to Deng Ai's side, bent down, lifted Cai Mao up, and threw him behind the horse.

When the two lieutenants finally realized what happened.

Xu Shu has brought Cai Mao back to the Xuzhou Army's formation!

"Damn it! Let go of my general quickly!" A lieutenant general wielding a sword yelled angrily, and immediately whipped his horse, causing the horse to speed up suddenly.

He rushed towards Xu Shu quickly.

Deng Ai sneered, and Su Tie's golden gun stabbed out like a golden dragon, piercing through the back of the lieutenant general in an instant.

Then he exerted his strength and directly killed the deputy general in front of the formation!
Seeing this, the remaining lieutenant general dared to step forward to die?

Cai Mao had already been captured, even if he risked his life, it would be useless, so he might as well take this opportunity to return to the camp as soon as possible.

Take the rest of the Jingzhou army and retreat, wait until the Yizhou army and Cao Cao's army arrive, and then make a calculation.

Thinking of this, the lieutenant quickly turned his horse's head and whipped his whip, and rode his horse back towards his own army.

The soldiers who were still struggling to maintain their position saw that the defeat was certain when one of the three generals was captured and one died. How could they continue to stay where they were and wait to die?

Immediately shouted, like a tree falling and a monkey scattered, the three thousand soldiers brought by Cai Mao immediately fled to the rear, throwing away their helmets and armors along the way, only regretting that the legs their parents gave him were missing two legs.

Deng Ai rode on the Futu warhorse, looked at the lieutenant who was desperately fleeing, narrowed his eyes slightly, took out a compound bow from behind, and aimed at the back of the lieutenant.

After spotting the position, let go of the bowstring!

There was a crash!

The fleeing lieutenant was still thankful that he had successfully distanced himself from Deng Ai.

A full three hundred steps away, even with the best hard bow, it is impossible to hit him.

Just when he was rejoicing, a sharp pain hit the back of his heart!
The deputy general lowered his head in disbelief, but he saw an extremely sharp arrow piercing his back and armor, and came out in front of him.

"how can that be?"

The lieutenant general murmured a word, a large group of blood froth gushed out from the corner of his mouth, and he rolled over from the horse and fell to the ground.

"The general is dead! The general is dead!" At this moment, the soldiers staying behind in the entire Jingzhou camp completely lost control.

One by one, they howled and fled away into the distance desperately.

Deng Ai originally wanted to lead troops to continue chasing and killing, but was stopped by Xu Shu.

"Senior brother, why don't you let me continue to hunt and kill?" Deng Ai asked suspiciously, but he still obediently stopped the soldiers and horses under his command.

Xu Shu smiled and said: "It's not that I don't want my junior brother to get the full credit, it's just that letting these defeated soldiers go is more effective than killing them. You must know that the Cao thief united three groups of soldiers and horses, and now we have only defeated two groups. There is still a way to go.”

Hearing Xu Shu's words, Deng Ai immediately reacted: "These defeated soldiers will surely encounter Yizhou's army on the way when they flee back. When the Yizhou army knows the news, their morale will definitely be unstable! It will be much easier to deal with it then. Already!"

Xu Shu nodded slightly when he heard the words, and looked at his junior brother with admiration in his eyes.

In fact, apart from this reason, there is another point that Xu Shu didn't say clearly.

If those thousands of defeated Jingzhou soldiers fled back, no matter whether the generals of the Yizhou Army accepted them, killed them all, or accepted them and let them flee in all directions.

In the end, it is inevitable that they will form a bridge with Liu Biao.

If they are accepted, no matter whether they are active or passive, Liu Biao will definitely doubt whether the Yizhou army took the opportunity to annex my army.

Suspicious of Liu Zhang.

And if they refuse to accept it, then it is almost inevitable that the soldiers of the Yizhou Army will see the tragic situation of displacement faced by the Jingzhou Army, who are also low-level soldiers.

Not to mention, even if the generals of the Yizhou Army were generous, they would directly accept these defeated soldiers into the army.

It is difficult to say whether this group of troops who have been defeated by the Xuzhou Army are mixed with the Yizhou Army. It is difficult to say whether they can have much positive effects, but the negative effects are definitely sufficient.

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"Xu Changshi, General Deng, you won the first battle, you really made us old people feel ashamed!"

Under Qiaojun city, Liu Yan and Han Hao had already learned the news of Deng Ai and Xu Shu's return to the army through scouting horses, and hurried out of the city ten miles to meet them.

Although Xu Shu and Deng Ai are both Yuan Tan's disciples, they also know that these veterans in the Hebei Army are not people who can be underestimated. Among other things, although Liu Yan and Han Hao have not received much attention under Yuan Shao's command.

But being able to serve as a handsome minister in a state is enough to prove the ability of the two, and it may be insufficient to govern and defend a state.

But it is quite possible to govern and defend a county or even several counties.

Not to mention, Liu Yan and Han Hao fully supported Yuan Tan's order in this battle.

With this kind of affection, Xu Shu and Deng Ai were polite to Liu Yan and Han Hao, and they came out of the city to greet them in person.

Xu Shu and Deng Ai got off their horses immediately, and said to Liu Yan and Han Hao: "The two generals are so polite, it really makes us brothers and sisters very frustrated."

Seeing Xu Shu and Deng Ai not only didn't take credit for it, but they were so polite to themselves.

Liu Yan and Han Hao felt a warm current in their hearts, and they admired Yuan Tan even more.

Liu Yan immediately said: "You two don't need to be so polite, Qihou has already set up a celebration banquet for you two in the city, just wait for you two to come back, let's take a seat together, you two, please!"

When Xu Shu and Deng Ai heard the words, they both had a bit of joy on their faces. They followed Han Hao and Liu Yan into Qiao County, and went straight to the government office of Qiao County Sheriff who had been converted into a temporary military council hall.

"I've seen you before!" As soon as they entered the main hall, Xu Shu and Deng Ai were the first to kneel down and bow down. Yuan Tan had already learned about their victory through system notifications.

But he didn't know the specifics, so he smiled and waved his hands, signaling the two to sit down and talk first.

After they both sat down, they asked with a smile: "Yuan Zhi, Shi Zai, I wonder what the gains were in this battle? Have you ever captured Cai Mao?"

Hearing Yuan Tan's question, Xu Shu and Deng Ai looked at each other, and Deng Ai immediately made a gesture, signaling Xu Shu to speak.

Xu Shu stood up without hesitation and said: "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life. Thanks to Shi Zai's courageous killing of the enemy, our army smashed the Jingzhou army's main camp and burned several miles of the company's camp. The Jingzhou army threw away their helmets and armor, and Shi Zai was even captured alive. Cai Mao, killed two generals of the Jingzhou army in a row."

"Oh? Shizai, well done! In this battle, Cai Mao was captured. In this battle to defeat the Jingzhou Army, you, Deng Shizai, should be the leader!" Yuan Tan laughed, nodded, raised the wine glass in his hand, and looked around. He gestured around and said, "Come on, gentlemen, to celebrate that we have defeated the coalition forces of the two princes, let's drink this cup to the brim! Drink to win!"

(End of this chapter)