Chapter 173 Cheating both sides

Wenpin followed Dr. Ren's gaze towards the hill, and sure enough he saw the flag waving behind him, and roughly someone's figure camping behind it.

But somehow, Wenpin always felt that something was wrong...

"Doctor Ren!"

"Here! General!"

Wenpin was extremely cautious, pointed to the hill and asked: "Didn't you say that Liu Bei fled in a hurry and gathered the remaining troops here? Why is this camp so clean and tidy?"

It turned out that the layout of the camp was too rigorous and could not be completed in a short time. No wonder it aroused Wenpin's suspicion.

Looking at this familiar way of setting up camp, Dr. Ren immediately understood that a certain obsessive-compulsive general named Yu insisted on showing off his skills here, but now Wenpin saw the flaw.

"General Wen!"

Shi Ren's expression became ferocious: "My lord has been a soldier for half his life, so he still knows how to set up camp!"

"Besides! Although my lord has not won many battles, hasn't he lost too many? From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to Qingzhou, then to Xuzhou, and then to Runan! No one can compare with how to deal with the consequences after a defeat.

My lord! General Wen, just learn from it!"

Wenpin: "..."

After a long moment of silence, Wenpin squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Liu Xuande... is really quite powerful!"

"That's right!"

The proud look on Dr. Ren's face made Wenpin slowly cover his chest.

"Liu Xuande is lucky to have a soldier like you..."

"Must drop!"

"..."

Taking advantage of the lack of blood supply to Wenpin's brain, He Yan... ah, no, it was Baoshi Ren who pointed to the camp ahead: "General Wen, then I go over and call Liu Yuzhou to come see you?"

"Um."

After receiving the order, Dr. Ren immediately rushed towards the camp, but after a moment, Dr. Ren returned to Wenpin dejectedly.

"General Wen, Liu Yuzhou personally led troops to explore the military situation near Xinye, but he is not in the camp. Why don't you wait here for a while?"

Wenpin frowned and said, "Not in the camp? What about Sun Qian, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang?"

These people all followed Liu Bei to visit Liu Biao, so Wenpin had an influence on them.

"They were all scattered by Cao's army!"

Dr. Ren responded to this offer without blushing.

"It was precisely because Liu Yuzhou didn't see the other people that he risked his life to save others in the direction of Xinye regardless of his own safety!"

Wenpin yelled: "Nonsense!"

After finally escaping, how could there be any reason to continue fighting in? Didn’t Liu Xuande have a lot of experience in escaping? Why didn’t he even understand this little truth?

"Liu Xuande is such an old fool! Humph!"

Especially when Wenpin thought of Cao Jun's cavalry wandering in the south of Xinye, his whole body went numb: "No! I have to find Liu Xuande!"

"General Wen!"

Shi Ren pointed at the endless wilderness: "If you want to find Liu Yuzhou now, you will undoubtedly be looking for a needle in a haystack. It's better to stay here and wait for Liu Yuzhou to arrive."

Xinye is basically surrounded by plains. Once you encounter an enemy, it's basically a direct hand-to-hand fight.

Under such harsh combat conditions, Wenpin hesitated again and again, but ultimately did not order the pursuit, but instead left his troops stationed here.

In order to express his goodwill, Wenpin also specially allocated his military rations to Liu Beijun, who was resting next to him, so that they could replenish their physical strength.

When Shiren learned about this, he immediately took hundreds of soldiers from the camp to Wenpin's army to express his gratitude and praise his colleagues in Jingzhou for their benevolence and righteousness.

"There is no need to thank you. After all, they are all under Liu Jingzhou's command. You still need to restore your combat strength as soon as possible and coordinate with our army to fight!"

Dr. Ren repeatedly said yes, and took these soldiers to the side of Wenpin's rear army to have a meal with Wenpin's army.

Wenpin chose to camp here, but his mind never relaxed, and he kept looking in the direction of Xinye City.

"You said that Cao's army used the ant attack method to attack the city, so Cao's army must have suffered heavy losses... It stands to reason that taking Xinye is the limit, and there is no way to sweep away the remaining troops around him. Why did Liu Bei not come back after he left? ?”

Dr. Ren had already returned to Wenpin. After looking at the sky, he said to himself: "It should be soon!"

"Hurry to what?"

"Almost there."

Wenpin just thought that Doctor Ren was talking about Liu Bei, so he didn't pay attention and just waited in the tent.

Just when Wenpin was getting impatient, the sound of early warning in the camp made Wenpin immediately come back to his senses.

He rushed out of the camp he had just set up, and without waiting for the guards around him to report the military situation to him, he climbed up to the archery tower and looked out.

I saw that in the northern wilderness, an army with the banner of "Liu" was approaching. Judging from the size, there were at least one or two thousand people!

"Could it be that Liu Bei is back?"

Wenpin was overjoyed, and all his previous complaints about Liu Bei turned into praise: "Being able to gather 60 to 70% of the soldiers in such a short period of time is indeed quite capable!"

But as the "Liu Bei Army" continued to approach, this surprise turned into fear again!

"Enemy attack!"

The "Liu Beijun" rushed straight towards Wenpin without losing any speed. The most terrifying thing was that as soon as the soldiers came within the shooting range, they took out countless big ones from their crotches. Wen Pinjun shot out.

"They are Cao Jun's crossbowmen!"

Wenpin, who had been fighting against Cao's army all year round, immediately recognized that those big guys were crossbows that were unique to the Central Plains army, and quickly got his soldiers ready to face the enemy.

At this moment, Wenpin's rear army broke into another commotion.

A moment later, a blood-stained scout came running from the rear army and said with a hoarse voice: "General Wen! That group just now is not Liu Bei's army! It's Cao's army!"

Wenpin blinked his eyes so hard that even the lines on his forehead appeared: "Cao Jun!?"

"It's Cao Jun! They are led by a general named He Yan, and they are besieging us in the rear!"

"He Yan???"

Wenpin recalled the "Liu Bei soldiers" he had seen today and shook his head in disbelief: "There is no He Yan among those soldiers as described by Dr. Ren!"

etc……

Doctor Ren?

Wenpin looked around and realized that Dr. Ren, who had been hanging around him since they met today, had completely disappeared.

"Where's Dr. Ren? Dr. Ren! Let him come to see me!"

Wenpin's mind was in a mess at this time, and it wasn't until he saw "Doctor Ren" riding a fast sail from the rear to come to him that Wenpin realized that Booshi Ren was all nonsense!

"You are He Yan!"

"General Wen, you no longer recognize me in Xinye after only a year apart. It really makes He feel very uncomfortable!"

He Yan had wiped the blood off his face and was riding on Kuaihang's back, looking down at Wenpin.

"Is it you?"

After He Yan's reminder, Wenpin finally remembered that he had indeed seen He Yan next to Cao Ren when he went to meet Liu Bei last year.

Realizing that he had been deceived by He Yan for a day, Wenpin was ashamed and angry, so he directly raised his weapon and went to kill He Yan.

"Don't hurt Lieutenant He!"

Wenpin rushed forward, and Lu Meng, who had been accompanying He Yan, also started to jump into the wolf at this time, and faced Wenpin head-on.

"Go up and kill He Yan!"

Wenpin's skills were entangled, but his mouth was not idle, and he ordered the soldiers on the left and right to continue to kill He Yan.

Fortunately, He Yan's two pendants, Xu Hu and Xu Bao, are no longer acting. They each hold a sword and shield, and they firmly protect He Yan behind them, resisting the enemy's attack.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely, another Cao army came from afar. Since then, the forces of He Yan, Xiahou Dun, and Yu Jin have completely gathered here.

Because of the previous incident of Wenpin's army, Wenpin's army camp was thrown into chaos. There was no time and opportunity to command the army. Wenpin's army was not only defeated in the battle with Cao's army, but also gradually.

Fall into disadvantage.

While Xiahou Dun was leading his troops to attack, he was always paying attention to He Yan's position.

By the time Xiahou Dun used his one eye to find the location of He Yan and others, Lu Meng and He Yan were already in a hard fight, and could only rely on some antlers and tents to resist Wenpin's attack.

"Wenpin! Die!"

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Xiahou Dun galloped towards Wenpin.

Wenpin saw that Xiahou Dun had already killed him in front of him in just a few breaths. No matter how unwilling he was, he knew it was time to retreat.

"Ming Jin withdraws the troops and leads the troops to retreat!"

A rapid and sharp sound sounded, and the Wenpin army retreated towards the south like a tide, leaving behind a messy battlefield.
To be continued...