Cao Cao's troops have always been strong.

Even at this time, the Cao army still had an army that could be put into the battlefield. However, the Jingzhou army and the Jiaozhou army probably had no spare energy.

The power of the Jingzhou Army was used to control Xiangyang City and the huge surrounding areas. It had to collect tens of thousands of surrendered troops and maintain the supply of food and fodder to the front line in the mess after the flood; while the Jiaozhou Army was exhausted from fighting for a long time and could fall down and sleep at any time. Their rear team at Jiming Mountain did not have time to arrive at the battlefield.

But when Ma Dai heard that Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu were approaching, he did not feel any tension.

Instead, the followers immediately furious and said to each other: "Go and look for it quickly! Go and look for it quickly! Hurry up, don't leave Cao Cao!"

Dozens of horses scattered their horses, some looked up at high places, and some went back to find an officer Cao's army to question him.

Ma Dai did not participate.

If Cao Cao fled here according to the words he said just now, there were very few people around him. At this time, what he needed was not commanding the battle, but searching the mountains and seas before the Cao army brigade passed by and finding Cao Cao's whereabouts.

Ma Dai didn't think he was better than his companions in this area. After all, there were several Qianghu hunters who could live in the mountains with bare hands and empty hands, and their vision and smell were very good.

When the followers scattered, Ma Dai slightly turned his horse back and stopped on the pontoon bridge. At this time, on the east side of the Qingshui River, successive Liangzhou knights arrived one after another. Ma Dai asked them to release the rumbling diving and urging their successors to come here to ensure that the pontoon bridge is fully controlled, and then collect the pine torches to prepare for military operations after dark.

This pontoon bridge is made of many boats and boats, and then laid wooden boards and nailed with large iron nails. It was temporarily made and built very roughly. The wooden boards are a little concave and convex, and the connection is not firm. The pontoon bridge is also shaken, and sometimes it almost overturns.

The horse Ma Dai was riding at this time was the Northland horse he captured in the pursuit battle. It was smaller than the Liangzhou horse, but very strong. This horse was rarely close to the waters and was not familiar with the knights, so every time the pontoon bridge swayed, he would pedal his four-legged horse and nervously wanted to leave.

Ma Dai tightly clamped his legs tightly with the horse's belly, and heaved and fell with the horse's back. At the same time, he stroked the horse's hair over and over again, and slowly made a low and rhythmic breathing sound as the movements on his hands.

As long as it is a well-trained war horse, they prefer regular sounds. Whether it is the neat footsteps or the clapping rhythm, they can quickly relax them. The same is true for this horse. It tilted its head and listened to Ma Dai's breathing, and instantly no longer cared about the ups and downs under its four hooves.

The sky began to dark.

A cavalry collected several torches and hurriedly ran up the floating bridge and asked, "Do you want one?"

"No need, go find Hulu and others on the embankment and give them the torch... It's getting dark, you can find them with them! Hurry up!" Ma Dai waved his hand.

"Okay, okay." The follower rode over impatiently.

The Hulu Ma Dai mentioned was a Hu shepherd slave who had been with him for many years. What was the original name of such a lowly person? Ma Dai was too lazy to remember, but only knew that he was born in Lu Shuihu. However, the previous year, Hulu had already married, had children and settled a house in Jiaozhou, and bought a manor, so he named Hulu.

At this time, at the dam gap on the west side of the Qingshui River and the Wanshui River beach on the east side, there were all the figures of Cao's defeated soldiers.

They saw Ma Dai standing at the bridge with his elite cavalry, and they didn't dare to approach him. But there were people coming from behind them one after another. The people on the east thought the west coast were safe, while the people on the east coast thought the west coast were safe, so they pushed each other forward.

As a result, the people in front of them cursed and were pushed to the bank of the Qingshui River, but they did not dare to approach the floating bridge. They would rather stand in the waist-length water and look around in a daze. Even if Ma Dai's subordinates rode on the horse and stepped on the water splash, they went back and forth between them to see their faces and clothes, they did not respond.

However, some people were probably defeated and irritable. They suddenly beat each other and even pulled out swords and slashed, regardless of the fact that the people around them were their original comrades.

There were more and more defeated soldiers. Cao Xiu and Cao Zhang's troops would also arrive soon, and the two sides of the Qingshui River would be in chaos immediately.

Ma Dai angrily called the two followers beside him: "You can also bring people to search!"

"General, if this is the case, there will be insufficient staff to guard the bridge."

"Look at the appearance of these defeated soldiers, do you dare to cause trouble? We have been defeated by both sides of the east and west, so what's the use of them taking the bridge?" Ma Dai cursed: "The overall situation has been decided. Even if Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu come here, what else can they do? Go and search! What I want is Cao Cao, not this broken bridge!"

Seeing that the target was approaching, but he had no idea how to capture it, Ma Chao was a little irritable.

At this time, he did not take Cao Xiu and Cao Zhang's soldiers seriously at all.

Ma Dai is a veteran of the battlefield who started his own army. He knows the mentality of the soldiers best. The soldiers have eyes and ears, and can see and hear by themselves. When they come to such a battlefield, they will never have any fighting spirit when they see their army being driven like dogs and sheep.

Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu's troops came, and they just came.

Cao Xiu set out from Lumen Mountain, probably hoping to have a chance to escape without any hesitation, while Cao Zhang tried to find his father who had gone to in the vast army.

This is really interesting.

Ma Dai never expected that one day he would hear that Cao's army was coming, but he would be so indifferent.

As early as nearly twenty years ago, the Cao army had hundreds of thousands of troops occupying the Central Plains. If we don’t talk about military strength, equipment, training, combat experience, general’s talents, and huge logistics support capabilities, we will be above the world’s heroes.

Compared with the Cao army's all-round crushing advantage, the Jiangdong people could only defend themselves by relying on the river, and what Xuande Gong did was probably to brag about the courage of Xiong Hu of the two generals Guan and Zhang. As for his brother Ma Chao, he was actually extremely afraid of it without saying it.

However, from when did Cao's army's advantage become smaller and smaller? Was it the Battle of Guanzhong three years ago? Or earlier?

Ma Dai did not participate in that war and had no intuitive feeling. When he was young, he followed his elder brother Ma Chao to Guanzhong, so he had no idea about equipment, training, and logistics? In this chaotic world, millions of people could not survive. As long as he shouted, he could call out countless desperate Qiang and Hu people or Han people. He could rob them with a knife, and he could take them to fight, loot, and drive them into the most vicious beasts. Those who survived ten battles naturally became officers.

This is how Ma Chao's army came about, and the army of the Qu generals in Guanzhong was generally like this. No one thought there was any problem.

When Ma Chao was defeated to Hanzhong and Brazil was defeated by Lei Yuan, Ma Dai vaguely felt that this would not work.

But he didn't dare to talk to Ma Chao, and he didn't dare to give advice to Ma Chao. So he chose the most decisive way, so he simply left Guanzhong and Liangzhou far away to see if there were any different army and whether there were any legendary king troops who could wipe out the world.

Now it seems that the Jingzhou Army and the Jiaozhou Army are quite imposing as the royal army. I heard that the Yizhou Army is not bad either.

Today, Ma Dai was the vanguard of the entire army and achieved such a brilliant record. Even if his brother Ma Chao was resurrected, he might not be able to do it. But is this Ma Dai's courage better than his brother?

Of course not.

This is because the equipment, training and logistics support of the Jiaozhou army are better than that of the Cao army! It is because the soldiers of the Jiaozhou army enjoyed generous treatment and had strong expectations for the prosperous Han family, and were willing to dance to the family to save the world! It is because the Hanzhong King's regime is becoming more and more like the founding of a new dynasty. This regime, regardless of military and political affairs, exudes vigorous vitality from the inside out!

Ma Dai's heart was surging.

"What are Bo Zhan thinking?" someone suddenly asked around him.

Ma Dai turned around suddenly and saw Lei Yuan riding his horse. Behind him, a large group of infantry and cavalry were waiting to pass by the pontoon bridge.

The main force of the Jiaozhou Army has arrived.

Ma Dai quickly pulled his horse and gave way to the infantry and cavalry.

"Send someone to search for Cao Cao! I'm waiting for the reply!" Ma Dai said to Lei Yuan with shame: "General, when I came, I only caught Cao Cao's entourage, but they fought fiercely to die, and I couldn't... Cough cough, Cao Cao couldn't run far, he should be hiding nearby, we are still looking for it, it's almost!"

Lei Yuan looked at the sweat that suddenly emerged from Ma Dai's forehead, then looked at the increasingly chaotic scenes around him, and chuckled twice.

He patted Ma Dai's arm: "It doesn't matter if you can't find it."

"What?"

"I originally thought that Bo Zhan, you will go back to Liangzhou after this battle. If you have the merits of capturing and killing Cao Cao, you can do it. If you can't find it, you will lose one point of your own merit, and I don't care." Lei Yuan smiled and said, "Even if you escape... the overall situation in the world has turned over, what can he do?"

Ma Dai was stunned for a long time.

His spirits were so high that he had been in full swing all day, and his body, which was so nervous that he almost exceeded the limit of the human body, suddenly relaxed at this time.

Yes, this battle is enough to overturn the overall situation of the world, and it is not an exaggeration to overestimate its impact. Even if Cao Cao runs away, what if? After all, everything has changed! This world is no longer the original world!

Ma Dai smiled relaxedly.

He bowed to Lei Yuan and saluted: "What the general said is."

After a pause, he said angrily: "But I still have to look for it. General, you give me another two hundred light cavalry. I will carefully read this embankment!"

“Haha, OK.”

Lei Yuan pointed to a small school and asked him to lead someone to follow Ma Dai's command.

Ma Dai carefully explained the area he suspected and immediately sent the school to the front.

When he came back from the horse, he suddenly asked, "General, have you ever thought about what would you say to Cao Cao if you caught him?"

Lei Yuan raised his head and closed his eyes. After a long time, he shook his head: "I don't know, I haven't thought about it."

The sky became dimmer and the number of defeated soldiers running around was increasing. Some people reported that Cao Xiu's troops had not yet approached the battlefield and had fallen apart, and Cao Xiu himself did not know where he went.

Ma Dai sent more people to search, but no good news came.

At this time, four or five miles away from Lei Yuan and Ma Dai, several figures wearing dark gray hooded robes sometimes walked along the shadows below the embankment, sometimes approaching the forest and exploring the movements around. The leader was tall, with a yellow beard exposed under the hat.

He dragged a short and fat man beside him, and said in a deep voice: "All arrangements are made. Let's go a hundred steps north and there will be a Clipper to pick you up!"

The short and fat man was drowsy and silent.

Beside them, the lost defeated soldiers walked on their own, and no one paid attention to them.

But on a section of embankment close to Dengcheng Camp, Guan Yu, with more than a dozen entourages, was silently watching the location of their mooring cranes. The terrain was complex and the trees were everywhere, but if you were interested in exploring, it was not difficult to find the cranes and the boatman who were anxiously exploring on the ship.

Zhou Cang gritted his teeth: "June, I will only bring ten people over, take off the ship and wait for the rabbit. I will be able to capture Cao Cao alive and offer it to the steps!"

Guan Yu remained silent.
Chapter completed!