Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

How could it appear? I don’t know if there are passers-by nearby.

It is obvious that this group of bandits deliberately let these passers-by go. This could only happen if the two groups were together.

"Huang Gai is really amazing. He even thought of such an identity and asked his soldiers to disguise themselves as city robbers."

Zhang Liao couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"General, what about us?"

"Pass the order down, kill those who are pretending to be ordinary people, and let those bandits go. Zhou Yu and others must know the news about Huang Gai, but they can't know it so easily."

"Yes!"

Soon, Tiefutu rushed out and killed the two disguised civilians, and then searched the letter from them.

After reading the above letter, he was quite satisfied with the 50,000 people stationed outside the city.

The so-called bandits hiding in the dark thought that Zhang Liao had not discovered them, so they quickly passed through the Iron Pagoda's defense line and rushed towards Longbian City.

It didn't take long for these people to arrive at Longbian City.

Zhou Yu met these spies in person.

When he saw what was in the letter, he immediately brought the letter to Sun Jian.

"My lord, our guess is correct. Liu Bei's goal is Xiyu County. We must go there quickly to support him."

When Sun Jian saw the letter, he immediately became suspicious. After all, there had been no news for more than ten days. How could there be news all of a sudden? And it was a letter from Huang Gai asking for help?
However, when Sun Jian learned that these spies were disguised as bandits, Sun Jian nodded.

Disguising as a robber is actually a good idea. After all, who can associate a robber with a messenger?

"Gongjin, you take 20,000 cavalrymen. These are our last cavalrymen. Hurry to Xiyu County. If you encounter any obstacles on the way, don't worry. Just find a way to break out. As many people as can reach Xiyu County alive will do."

"Yes!"

Zhou Yu also knew the seriousness of the matter.

The two cities, Longbian County and Xiyu County, are each other's support cities and are relatively close to each other, so they can support each other.

But if the middle is cut off, then these two counties will be easily defeated.

Soon Zhou Yu led 20,000 cavalrymen and left the city.

The news of Zhou Yu's departure was soon seen by Gu Rubing's spies, and the information was delivered to Gu Rubing.

"My lord, Zhou Yu has already left the city according to our plan. Wen Yuan should stop him halfway. What should we do?"

Gu Rubing laughed out loud when he heard this. Zhou Yu's current behavior was still within his calculations.

"We must take advantage of Zhou Yu's absence and the lack of any famous generals in Longbian County as quickly as possible to capture Longbian County. Immediately send a message to everyone to attack the city with all their might and try to capture Longbian County within three hours."

"Yes!"

As Zhang Ren left, a sneer appeared on Gu Rubing's lips.

"Sun Jian, Sun Jian, you could never imagine that my goal from the very beginning was Longbian County."

Zhou Yu led 20,000 cavalrymen and sped up his journey.

Soon, Zhou Yu felt that something was wrong with the situation around him. It was obvious that someone was ambushing here again.

However, Zhou Yu could not care less. This time, he brought cavalry, and they were all light cavalry with extremely fast speed. As long as they ignored the ambushes around them and rushed forward in one go, the enemy troops ambushing around them would definitely not be able to stop them.

However, although Zhou Yu had good intentions, the reality was very cruel.

Zhou Yu suddenly felt that the mount under him suddenly fell down.

Immediately afterwards, screams were heard from the people around.

Only then did Zhou Yu see that there was a big hole on the road below them, which was camouflaged with branches and hay.

Zhou Yu stepped directly on his mount and, with the help of the rebound force, jumped out of the pit before the horse fell.

Many cavalrymen didn't react in time and fell into the big pit. There was a pile of bamboo spikes at the bottom of the pit. No one, no matter whether it was a war horse or a soldier, would survive if they fell into the pit.

After the cavalry in the front row fell down, the cavalry behind them finally reacted and stopped.

At this time, Zhang Liao, with the Iron Pagoda, also rushed out from the surroundings.

"Zhou Yu, surrender quickly. The lord said that if you surrender, you can be spared."

"Zhang Liao, I will fight you."

After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he went straight to the side, mounted a warhorse without soldiers, and commanded all the cavalry to start charging towards the Iron Pagoda.

Originally, according to Zhou Yu's idea, he should ignore Zhang Liao's ambush.

But there is really no way out in the current situation.

There is a trap ahead. If one wants to pass through it, nearly a thousand people may have to die. These nearly a hundred people are nothing for twenty thousand people, but the problem is that no one wants to be one of these nearly a hundred people.

Using war horses to fill this big hole would be a waste of time. During this time, Zhang Liao would have killed countless people.

And no one knows whether there are other traps behind this big pit.

The best way now is to withdraw and make long-term plans after returning.

However, if they wanted to break out, they had to break through Zhang Liao's encirclement.

Zhou Yu gritted his teeth and launched a charge with 20,000 cavalrymen.

Zhang Liao sneered at this, then rushed forward with the Iron Pagoda.

However, when the two sides fought, Zhang Liao was surprised to find that all of Zhou Yu's cavalry actually avoided them and rushed behind them.

At this time, Zhang Liao also noticed the smile on Zhou Yu's lips.

"be cheated!"

Zhang Liao cursed himself for being careless, then turned his horse around and began to chase Zhou Yu, and cut off the entire cavalry team in the middle.

However, it is impossible for 500 people to completely stop 20,000 cavalrymen.

Soon, a gap appeared in the Iron Pagoda's barrier.

Although these cavalrymen were not as strong as the Iron Pagoda, they did not want to fight at all. The order they received from the very beginning was not to fight if they encountered the enemy.

Seeing those cavalrymen rushing out of his encirclement, Zhang Liao suddenly felt neither amused nor helpless.

The Iron Pagoda was a heavy cavalry, and its speed was definitely inferior to that of the light cavalry, so Zhang Liao simply gave up the pursuit.

However, looking at the backs of Zhou Yu and the others as they left, Zhang Liao suddenly became hesitant. Did he win or lose this battle?

Won? I didn't kill that many of them, but I lost, and they ran away!

In the end, Zhang Liao smiled helplessly. Anyway, his blocking mission was completed.

Zhang Ren and Zang Ba each led their own troops to attack the city from the two southeast gates. After two hours, Sun Jian began to feel he could no longer hold on.

Without the help of famous generals, it would have been very difficult to defend the city with just these ordinary soldiers. Now with the assistance of the Taishan tiger bandits, these soldiers defending the city were in great pain.

Sun Ce on the side couldn't help but wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped by Sun Jian.

Sun Jian knew that Gu Rubing had not used any legendary generals because he was waiting for an excuse for them to use them first.

Only if someone breaks this unwritten rule, Gu Rubing will completely let go of himself, their war will end soon, and they will be the ones to fail in the end.

"Be prepared to retreat at any time."

"Father, we..."

No one knows what Xiyu County is like now. If Xiyu County is lost and they are also lost, doesn't it mean that they will be forced to leave the Central Plains again? Now that they have offended Gu Rubing, they can't even keep Kuaiji County.

"Okay, now we are in a difficult situation. We don't have many options in the current situation."

Just as the two were talking, a deputy general came up to them.

"King, the enemy has already climbed up the city wall at the south gate. They will soon be unable to hold on. General Ma Zhong requests support."

"Support? I would like to provide support, but I don't have anyone to support him now. Tell Ma Zhong that no matter what, he must defeat the enemy. Once the South Gate is lost, I will kill him first."

"Yes!"

Sun Jian watched his deputy general leave. He knew that without reinforcements at this moment, the fall of Longbian County was inevitable. However, at this moment, no reinforcements could arrive. It would take at least seven days for his follow-up troops to arrive.

"Withdraw!"

Sun Jian said these two words somewhat helplessly.

However, at this moment, the north gate opened wide.

Zhou Yu rushed in with more than 10,000 light cavalry.

With the addition of more than 10,000 people and Zhou Yu, the pressure on the South Gate where Ma Zhong was located was suddenly reduced.

Soon the South City Gate, which had been controlled by the Taishan Tiger Bandits, was recaptured.

Ma Zhong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At least this time I managed to save my head.

When Zang Ba saw Zhou Yu appear, he couldn't help but prepare to step forward and fight with Zhou Yu.

In the distance, Gu Rubing, who was watching the battle, also saw Zhou Yu rushing in. He knew that Zhang Liao did not defeat Zhou Yu as he had imagined, and let Zhou Yu escape with most of his men. So he simply ordered the troops to retreat.

Hearing the sound, Zang Ba immediately led his men away from the city wall.

Zhang Ren also retreated with his men.

After seeing that everyone had retreated, Sun Jian couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and came to Zhou Yu's side.

"Gongjin, what's going on? Why are you back?"

"My lord, I failed. Zhang Liao set many traps on the road. He didn't want us to be able to support Xiyu County. I ordered a change of direction in time. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to bring back many people this time."

"Forget it. There is no more news from Huang Gai. I guess nothing is wrong. It is more important for us to defend Longbian City."

"Yes."

Sun Jian was really scared this time. Without Zhou Yu's help, Longbian City was almost lost. He didn't want Zhou Yu to leave Longbian City.

As for Xiyu County, Sun Jian didn't want to care about it for the time being. It had been two days since Huang Gai gave him the news and he had been at his current location, but there was no news of Xiyu City being captured. He had already suspected whether this was Gu Rubing's strategy. In fact, Gu Rubing's goal from the beginning to the end was Longbian City where he was.

Just as Sun Jian was thinking, Ma Zhong and Xu Sheng came to Sun Jian.

"My lord, our losses this time are as high as 15,000 people. Now there are still 60,000 people in the city who can fight, including the more than 10,000 light cavalry brought back by the Grand Commander."

Upon hearing about this loss, Sun Jian couldn't help but gasp.

"Liu Bei, Liu Bei, is it really worth sacrificing so many people for these two counties?"

Sun Jian looked in the direction of Gu Rubing's camp and muttered quietly.

At this time, Gu Rubing was also somewhat helpless.

After several days of siege, their own losses actually reached about 10,000 people.

Now the number of people he could mobilize, including the Taishan tiger bandits, was no more than 90,000. It would be difficult no matter how you looked at it to use these people to capture two heavily guarded county towns.

"It would be nice if the Prime Minister was here."

Gu Rubing couldn't help but sigh.

However, Zhuge Liang did not come this time, only the battle report from the front line came.

The news that Gu Rubing had dispatched troops had already been known to Liu Zhang and Cao Cao.

Now Liu Zhang has begun to counterattack against Zhuge Liang.

Cao Cao also launched a counterattack against Ba County.

In a short period of time, Gu Rubing was pulled by three forces, and the quagmire of war began again.

Looking at the information in his hands, Gu Rubing couldn't help but hesitate.

Zhuge Liang's front line was fine, after all, it was heavily guarded and almost all the legendary generals were there. Liu Zhang said it was a counterattack, but the momentum was not too strong, obviously because he was concerned about the deterrent power of those legendary generals.

But Yizhou is different.

Today, only Deng Ai and Zhong Hui are guarding Yizhou.

Cao Cao had already mobilized a large number of troops and launched a siege on Ba County where the two were located.

At the beginning, the two were still able to maintain a defensive state, but with the arrival of a large number of reinforcements from Cao Cao, including the Xiahou brothers, Cao Ren, Xu Huang and other famous generals, the two gradually could not hold on and sent a letter to Zhuge Liang for help.

But now, Zhuge Liang had lost one hundred thousand troops, including two elite troops, the Taishan Tiger Bandits and the Iron Buddha, because of Gu Rubing. Moreover, he had to face Liu Zhang's counterattack. Zhuge Liang had no choice but to allocate too many troops for support. Finally, after weighing the pros and cons, Zhuge Liang only sent Pang De and Ma Chao, two legendary generals, with 30,000 troops to provide support.

However, these 30,000 troops were just a drop in the bucket for Yizhou, so Zhuge Liang also told Zhong Hui and Deng Ai to defend if they could, or retreat if they couldn't.

With the presence of two legendary generals, Cao Cao's behavior gradually restrained.

However, Pang De and Ma Chao are still inferior to Dian Wei and Xu Chu. In terms of legendary generals, Gu Rubing is still suppressed, which is even more troublesome for the situation in Yizhou.

After seeing this information, Gu Rubing hesitated for a moment and immediately called Zhang Liao back.

Zhang Liao received the news and rushed back to the camp.

As soon as he saw Gu Rubing, Zhang Liao knelt down on the ground.

"My lord, I failed to complete my mission, which led to the failure of the siege. Please punish me."

It was only after Zhang Liao came back that he realized that it was because he let Zhou Yu's 20,000 light cavalry escape that the siege on the front line failed. (End of this chapter)