Chapter 18 Siege of Xuchang

"What?" Li Dian, who had just entered the city gate cave, was shocked to see this scene. Bastard, who made you do this? Are there tens of thousands of brothers outside? After Li Dian came to his senses, his first reaction was to be furious and roar at the soldiers who closed the door.

"I made them do this!" At this time, Cao Qian's voice came. Li Dian and Yu Jian looked back in astonishment, but they saw that Cao Qian had been waiting for them for a long time. Li Dian's lips trembled, and finally said, "King Wei, isn't this the death of tens of thousands of brothers outside the city?"

"If not, we will all die today!" Cao sighed. There is no other way. Otherwise, Cao Wei will not be able to preserve as much living power as possible. With less than 20,000 people and horses alone, Cao Wei is really not sure that he can defend Xu Chang under the attack of Guan Yu and Zhang Liao.

The burning pile of firewood instantly burned hundreds of nearest soldiers to death, and also made Zhang Liao and Guan Yu's intention to follow into the city in vain, but it also blocked nearly 30,000 Cao troops outside the city. At this time, no matter how stupid they were, they knew that they had been completely abandoned and left alone outside the city to face the nearly 100,000 troops of Guan Yu and Zhang Liao. For a moment, the mood of confusion, fear and even despair filled the hearts of everyone in this lonely army. Even the Jingzhou Army and the Xuzhou Army were embarrassed by the sudden fire and forced to retreat.

"Your Marquis, I didn't expect Cao to be so cruel!" Zhang Liao looked at the scene in front of him and was also stunned. Guan Yu didn't say anything, but Xu Shu sighed, "Cao Qian has always been unscrupulous. Otherwise, Xu Changcheng can be broken now!" After a pause, Xu Shu said to Guan Yu again, "Your Majesty, now that the hearts of Cao's army outside the city have collapsed, you'd better bring them down first!"

"It should be like this!" Guan Yu sighed, and then ordered people to surrender loudly. Most of Cao's army are no longer hopeless. Now some people have surrendered, and most of them have wisely chosen to give up resistance. Although some people still want to resist, they have not been able to offer this final loyalty to Cao Qian, and they have been solved by their peers who are afraid of being implicated. However, in half an hour, nearly 30,000 Cao troops under Xuchang City were basically collected by Guan Yu. Guan Yu ordered Dong Xi to lead the people to escort them to the rear, and have his own relevant people to reorganize them. At the same time, Guan Yu ordered the troops to camp, surround Xu Chang, and send someone to inform Liu Bei.

In the evening of this day, Liu Bei also came to Xuchang City under the escort of everyone. Brother, Cao Shen has been besieged by me in Xuchang. However, there are still 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers and horses. If you want to attack for a while, it may not work!" After a meeting, Guan Yu also reported to Liu Bei.

"The city wall of Xuchang is dangerous, but the strong attack is unwise. Well, according to the established strategy, first besiege Cao Yan and cut off the contact between Xuchang and even Yanzhou and Hebei!" Liu Bei thought for a time. At present, Huang Zhong sent the army to attack the two counties of Zhongmou and Changshe. Chen led the army to garrison Guandu to prevent Chen Liu and Cao's army from Hebei from coming to rescue at any time. At the same time, he sent someone to contact Zhang Fei and Gao Lan in the south to see if they could completely solve Cao Ren's 80,000 troops in one fell swoop.

"Dang!" With a loud noise, the iron gun was abrutly separated from the eight-foot snake spear, and Zhang Fei and Zhang Jaw each retreated a few steps. Looking at Zhang's jaw in front of him, Zhang Fei was full of unwillingness. This guy is as cautious as Cao Ren. As soon as Wen Ping came from Nanyang, they found that the momentum was wrong and immediately turned around and ran away. Cao Ren opened the road, and after Zhangjiao Hall, 80,000 people quickly retreated to Liang County. Zhang Fei immediately chased at full speed, but failed to swallow the Cao army. He just caught up with the tail and fought a small battle. Moreover, due to Zhang's excellent performance, Zhang Fei could swallow the little tail of 20,000 people.

"Zhang Yanyi, from Beihai to Runan, have you only run away for so many years?" Since you can't completely anniper your opponents now, it's better for the third master to fight in the mouth. Zhang Yi snorted coldly, but only commanded the soldiers to retreat as much as possible. However, at this moment, his face also showed a surprised expression, because he saw Gao Lan coming in a hurry.

"Are you all right?" After Gao Lan arrived in a hurry, the first sentence was to catch up the past. Zhang's expression changed a few times, and finally sighed, "I'm very kind to you. Everything is fine. It has been six years since I said goodbye to the North Sea. I don't know how Jingzhong is doing now?

"My little brother is doing well, but my brother. Now Cao has been trapped in Xuchang, and sooner or later he will be captured. My brother is talented. Don't go against the sky with Cao!" Gao Lan hesitated for a moment and still opened his mouth to persuade. Zhang Yi was not surprised when he heard the words. He just waved his hand and said, "I have the kindness of my brother, but Zhang Yi is deeply favored by the King of Wei. How can I turn my back on my back? Today, you and I are the master. Although we have no choice but to meet each other on the battlefield, we can only rest our lives.

"Brother!" Gao Lan was waiting to be persuaded, but he heard the noise of the former army of the Cao army that had retreated, and Zhang Zhi was stunned. At this moment, Zhang Fei's arrogant voice sounded again: "Zhang Hao, do you think only Wen Zhongye came to attack you with me? Cao Ren retreated to the east, and Brother Ji has been waiting there for a long time!"

"What, Ji Ling?" Zhang Yi was really unexpected this time. Although he and Cao Ren were very alert, as soon as they found that the other party wanted to attack them, they immediately retreated to Liang County. However, 80,000 troops were not said to withdraw as soon as possible. Although they had gone deep into the hinterland of Runan, although they had accelerated their retreat as soon as possible and avoided Wenpin, they were still blocked by Guan Hai and Ji Ling, who came from Pei.

"Cao Ren will die!" Looking at Cao Ren in front of him, Ji Ling knew that this was a big fish. With great joy, he quickly pulled Guan Hai to deal with Cao Ren. Cao Ren is good at defending the city, and his martial arts are just average. Ji Ling and Guan Hai are not inferior to him one-on-one. Now two-on-one is sure to have the upper hand. Seeing that he would fight for another 30 rounds at most, Cao Ren would be on the ground.

"General Cao, go quickly!" A silver gun was killed, holding Guan Hai's big knife to Cao Ren's forehead. Cao Ren, who escaped a disaster, looked back and saw that it was Zhang Xiu, who was ordered to stay in Liang County, who saved his life. He led his Xiliang Iron Horse to respond to him. The 30,000 people in Guan Hai and Ji Ling's headquarters were all stepmen. Although the Xiliang Iron Horse was only more than 2,000 points, they were actually asked to rush out of a bloody road and kill them.

"Go!" Cao Ren didn't dare to fall in love with the war. He gritted his teeth and felt that he greeted everyone to run away. Ji Ling and Guan Hai saw that the ducks in their mouths were about to fly away. They were reluctant to rush to chase them, but they saw Zhang Xiu in front of them. Ji Ling snorted coldly, and then waved the three-pointed and two-edged knife in his hand and chopped at Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu looked at the knife, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes. He shot seven or eight times in a row, and Ji Ling couldn't stand it. Guan Hai wanted to chase Cao Ren, but when he saw that Ji Ling couldn't stand it, he hurried forward to attack. Only with two enemies and one will the battle be tied.

"Awesome!" The more Ji Ling fought, the more he was shocked. This embroidered martial arts skill is so high that I'm afraid no one can defeat him except Guan Yu and others. Now I have to take care of Hai's help, and I just barely draw. When the two were entangled by Zhang Xiu, Cao Renke ran away, and now he was very anxious.

"Zhang Xiu's child, eat me!" With a roar, a big knife came over, but Sun Fu of the former army saw that neither of them could fight against Zhang Xiu, so he came to attack. Zhang Xiu didn't care at all. Hundreds of birds and phoenix guns came out one after another, and it was easy to fight one against three.

"Withdraw!" However, Zhang Yi got the help of Zhang Xiu and began to command the rear army to retreat together. Seeing several unexpected changes that made Cao Ren escape, Zhang Fei was now seriously unhappy. With a roar, he directly waved his army to Zhang Xiu, but left the army to Gao Lan's command, trying to solve Zhang Xiu first.

"Thousands of troops are broken!" With a roar, Zhang Fei's eight-foot snake spear pierced Zhang Xiu's back heart. Although the latter was in a fierce battle, he also felt a fierce murderous atmosphere attacking him. He quickly pushed Sun Fu and other three people away, and then crossed the long gun in his hand and took Zhang Fei's move.

With a loud noise, Zhang Xiu felt that he had never taken such a heavy move. Sun Fu and others saw Zhang Fei coming and knew that Zhang Xiu was defeated today, so they hurriedly dispersed to chase Cao Ren. Zhang Xiu was in a hurry, but Zhang Fei in front of him was a rare strong enemy in his life. If he didn't pay attention, he would die on the spot. He quickly concentrated on dealing with the enemy in front of him.

"Go to hell!" Zhang Fei gritted his teeth. The more urgent the snake spear attacked, the faster he attacked. Zhang Xiu was tired of fighting. He gritted his teeth and stabbed Zhang Fei's black horse's belly. Zhang Fei was in a hurry and hurriedly turned back to separate this move, saving his beloved horse's life.

"Shameless!" Zhang Fei shouted angrily, but saw that Zhang Xiu was ready to turn the horse's head and run away. At this time, he heard a roar and looked down, but it was Pei Yuanshao, the commander of the infantry army, holding a big knife and trying his best to cut the front legs of Zhang Xiu's mount.

With a sad cry, the horse's leg was cut off by Pei Yuanshao. The world came quickly. Zhang Xiu originally wanted to calculate Zhang Fei's mount, but he was plotted by Pei Yuanshao. With Zhang Fei's surname, he originally disdained such a plot, but today Zhang Xiu is shameless, and Pei Yuanshao's plot later doesn't matter. In fact, with Pei Yuanshao's martial arts, one-on-one competition can't catch Zhang Xiu's five moves at all. However, this plot made Zhang Xiu fall into a big way.

"Bastard!" Zhang Xiu, who fell down, was preparing to solve Pei Yuanshao, but there was a bad wind behind him, and it was too late to dodge.

"Ah!" With a scream, Zhang Xiu was pierced through the shoulder blade by Zhang Fei's eight-foot snake spear from behind, and then Pei Yuanshao's big knife was cut off from the front, and Zhang Xiu's head flew to the sky. General, do you still want to chase Cao Ren? After wiping the blood on his face, Pei Yuanshao asked.

"Chasing, chasing to Liang County, if you can kill one more, you will be one!" Zhang Fei said fiercely, and then drove forward to chase, and Pei Yuanshao quickly gathered the team to follow. As soon as Zhang Xiu died, the Xiliang iron riders under his command were naturally defeated. In addition, Ji Ling and others had gone to chase them. In the end, although Cao Ren and Zhang Yi led most of the people to escape back to Liang County, they still asked Zhang Fei to bite hard, leaving about 20,000 people, of whom 8,000 of whom were killed.

In the twelfth year of Jian'an, at the end of the summer of 207 A.D., Liu Bei and Cao Wei fought in Yuzhou. Liu Bei saw through Cao Qian's fraudulent surrender plan, and concentrated his superior forces. He defeated Cao Qian and Cao Ren one after another, and besieged the former in Xuchang.

(to be continued)