At this moment, Cao Cao's heart was burning with anxiety. He could not wait for the soldiers to move faster.
He knew that Liu Bei should have reached the city walls by now.
If he was a few steps late, Liu Bei would have broken through the city gates.
At that time, not to mention taking down Sichuan, even winning this battle would be a problem.
Luckily, when Cao Cao arrived, Liu Bei was still attacking the city.
"Charge! Defend the city! "
Cao Cao ordered without hesitation.
Cao Chun received the order and led the Tiger Leopard Cavalry to charge at Liu Bei Army.
The Tiger Leopard Cavalry was stronger than the other soldiers. Liu Bei did not have many soldiers to defend against the main force of the Cao Army.
Now, the Ferocious Cavalry's formation had been broken apart.
At this moment, Liu Bei's attack became slower and slower.
Soon, Liu Bei realized that Li Cunxiao and the others were not the only ones fighting on the city walls.
There were also a dozen soldiers in black armor who looked like gods of war.
Their strength was not any weaker than a normal general.
Now, the soldiers below the city walls could not be replenished and the soldiers on the city walls were getting fewer and fewer.
"Big brother!"
For a moment, Liu Bei was absent-minded. He only woke up when Zhang Fei, who had no choice but to break out of the encirclement, shouted at him.
"Third brother, second brother!"
Liu Bei was unwilling but there was nothing he could do.
At this moment,
Guan Yu said anxiously.
"Big brother, let's retreat first."
"This is not the time to fight against Cao Cao's main force."
Liu Bei looked around.
Behind them, the Cao Army was everywhere.
The main force of the Cao Army had arrived.
In the end, not only did he fail to take down the city, he even lost over twenty thousand soldiers!
This made Liu Bei's heart ache.
However, Liu Bei could not understand.
Ba Shu had sent out four hundred thousand soldiers.
Logically speaking, no matter how weak these soldiers were, they should be able to hold off Cao Cao for a while.
However, there were only the flags of the Cao Army. There were no Ba Shu soldiers.
Where did these soldiers go?
Did they get wiped out by Cao Cao?
But that was impossible.
No matter how strong the Cao Army was, they would not be able to wipe out a hundred thousand more soldiers. Even if they won, they would not be able to wipe them out.
It was impossible for such a situation to happen!
However, Liu Bei did not have the time to think about this.
When the main force of the Cao Army arrived, the Cao Army's numbers were almost ten times his own.
There was no way to stop the Cao Army's attack.
Furthermore, the Tiger leopard Cavalry had already charged.
If they did not retreat, they would die.
Helplessly, Liu Bei shouted.
"Retreat!"
After that, Liu, Guan, and Zhang quickly led their soldiers and fled towards Jingzhou.
In this battle, Deng Ai managed to hold on.
Liu Bei Army had completely lost.
There was nothing they could do. Although Liu Bei was well prepared, he could not do anything to Li Cunxiao, Li Yuanba, and Qin Liangyu.
Furthermore, they had the Eighteen Horsemen of Yanyun.
They did not have the advantage in numbers. No matter what, Liu Bei had no choice.
"Wei Emperor, should we chase after them?"
Cao Chun asked when he saw Liu Bei Army retreating.
Cao Cao waved his hand and said,
"No!"
"Quickly enter the city and defend Ba Shu!"
"Ba Shu's army is about to arrive!"
Cao Chun quickly informed Deng Ai.
Deng Ai quickly opened the city gates.
The three hundred thousand Cao Army's main force started to enter the city.
In less than five minutes, Zhang Ren led the Ba Shu army over.
However, when he saw that the flag of Cao Cao's army had been planted on the city walls, he felt despair.
Cao Cao's main force had already entered the city!
Just by seeing that Cao Cao was already standing on top of the city walls, he knew that he had no chance at all.
When the Cao Army was returning to Ba Shu, Zhang Ren had already noticed that something was wrong.
After all, although the Cao Army did not have the advantage in numbers, they had already lost fifty thousand Ba Shu soldiers.
Not only did they suffer such heavy losses, but Cao Cao only lost a few thousand men.
If this continued, Zhang Ren knew what would happen when the Ba Shu border was breached and the frontline was stretched too far.
Zhang Lu in Hanzhong also wanted to replenish grain but he could not even leave the city.
This was because the Cao army had also sent a hundred thousand troops to guard Hanzhong, making it so tight that not even a drop of water could pass through!
This meant that they were fighting against two hundred thousand Cao Army!
They had twice the number of men and they were beaten to such a state...
Zhang Ren was furious.
When the Cao Army moved closer to Ba Shu, Zhang Ren had already noticed that something was wrong.
However, he could only follow the lead of the Cao Army.
At this stage, there was no other way.
In the end, Cao Cao had placed many ambushes and traps along the way.
Zhang Ren was tormented by these things and his footsteps were restricted again and again.
Hence, Zhang Ren was not able to make it in time.
When the Cao Army appeared, Liu Bei had no choice but to retreat.
This time, Zhang Ren had no chance.
The only thing he could do now was to desperately attack the city.
At the very least, there were still about three hundred and fifty thousand Ba Shu soldiers.
Moreover, when Cao Cao retreated, he removed the one hundred thousand soldiers blocking Hanzhong.
The supplies in Hanzhong could also be sent over in time. With the fifty thousand infantrymen sent by Zhang Lu, they were not without a fighting chance.
"Ziyuan, do we still have a choice?"
Zhang Ren, who set up camp at the border of Ba Shu, could not help but smile bitterly.
Wu Yi sighed helplessly.
"At this stage, we can only bite the bullet and attack the city."
"I just did not expect that the Iron Wall of Ba Shu would become the biggest obstacle to our advance."
Zhang Ren also smiled bitterly. He could not say a word.
At this time, what other choice did they have?
At the same time, in Ba Shu.
Cao Cao looked at Deng Ai with a smile and said.
"Sir, you did not deceive me."
"I did not expect you to complete such a difficult task in such a short time."
"If it were anyone else, who could do it?"
Hearing this, Cao Chun and Cao Ren lowered their heads in shame.
However, they were not jealous of Deng Ai. They only admired him from the bottom of their hearts.
In fact, the thoughts of Cao Ren, Cao Chun, and the other generals were very simple.
The strong were respected.
Although Deng Ai was very young, he had done things that ordinary generals could not do.
He was not a talented general, but a talented commander!
A talented general was hard to find in ten years, and a talented commander was hard to find in a hundred years.
This kind of talented general was even harder to find in a thousand years.
Cao Cao was also smiling.
When he first obtained Bai Feng, he was already a talented commander that was hard to find in a thousand years, or even ten thousand years.
He could foresee things and was also very strong. He was not at a disadvantage when fighting against Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
It should be known that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's strength was already unprecedented and would not be surpassed in the future.
He did not expect that Bai Feng would find such a talented commander.
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