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

Thinking of this, Cao Ren immediately started his plan.

Jiang Wei looked at Guo Huai. He was not wrong about him. Guo Huai was definitely someone who was not weaker than himself.

Jiang Wei did not feel jealous at all about this, but rather felt somewhat fortunate.

In Cao Cao's camp, Jiang Wei finally understood the situation.

Cao Ren has some wisdom but it is not very high. The Xiahou brothers are very capable and can become generals in the army. As for Xu Huang, his martial arts skills are about the same as those of the Xiahou brothers, but his strategy is only slightly higher than Cao Ren.

If things continue like this, it won't be long before the entire army will have to rely on him alone.

But Jiang Wei was still a little worried about letting him command the entire army alone.

Now that he had Guo Huai, whose ability was no less than his own, Jiang Wei felt much more relaxed.

Soon Cao Ren's plan began to be implemented.

The Xiahou brothers led their army to attack the city with all their might.

Deng Ai felt a lot of pressure and immediately ordered Zhong Hui to send troops.

According to the previous plan, Zhong Hui directly sent out 15,000 troops, leaving 5,000 to guard the city, preparing to launch a surprise attack on the camp of the Xiahou brothers.

However, while on the road.

Zhong Hui immediately ordered the army to stop.

"General, what's wrong?"

A deputy general looked at Zhong Hui with some curiosity.

They have been fighting like this all the time and there have been no problems along the way, which has also caused the army's vigilance to be reduced a lot.

"Something is wrong around here. Get ready to fight."

When the soldiers heard this, they were a little confused. There was no one around, so who were they preparing to fight?

However, although they had some doubts in their hearts, they still followed Zhong Hui's orders.

The shield soldiers are at the outermost edge, followed by the infantry, and finally the archers.

A small number of cavalry gathered around Zhong Hui, looking around vigilantly.

Just as they were curious about what would happen next, an arrow suddenly shot out.

The target of this arrow was Zhong Hui in the crowd.

Zhong Hui just dodged it by turning sideways, but even so, his arm was still scratched.

Immediately afterwards, countless Wei troops rushed out from the front.

Seeing this scene, the deputy general on the side suddenly admired Zhong Hui.

Obviously, if the army had moved forward a little further, it would have been surrounded by the enemy. At that time, none of them would have been able to escape. At least now they still had a choice.

Seeing these people, Zhong Hui made a rough calculation. The other side had at least 20,000 people, while he only had 15,000. The enemy's leading general was still Cao Ren. Although his fighting ability was not as strong as that of the famous generals, it was more than enough to deal with him, a quasi-famous general.

After comparing the gap between the two sides, Zhong Hui made a decision to retreat directly.

This is the best way to preserve our manpower.

Cao Ren did not expect that Zhong Hui would react so quickly and had no intention of fighting him at all.

In desperation, Cao Ren could only order a pursuit.

However, Cao Ren was still a step slower than Zhong Hui.

Zhong Hui successfully led his army into the city, closed the city gates and blocked Cao Ren outside.

Cao Ren only had 20,000 men, so it was impossible for him to attack the city.

In desperation, Cao Ren could only wait outside the city for Zhong Hui to come out on his own.

Deng Ai, who had never waited for Zhong Hui's reinforcements, guessed that the other side must have found a way to restrain them, so he simply stopped waiting for reinforcements and began to defend with all his strength relying on his own strength.

However, in just one day, only more than 10,000 of Deng Ai's 30,000 men were left.

Looking at the soldiers on the city wall, lying on the ground with injuries and looking very tired, he sighed.

At this rate, the city wall will be breached tomorrow.

Deng Ai looked towards Jiaozhou in the distance.

"My lord, when will the reinforcements arrive? If you don't come, the city will be undefendable."

Early the next morning.

The sound of Wei army attacking the city was heard.

All the generals who were sleeping would quickly get up, pick up the weapons at hand, and prepare to defend the city.

After fighting for a day, the Xiahou brothers had some guesses about how many people were still on the city wall. They all knew that today would be the final decisive battle.

To this end, the Xiahou brothers took everyone and started to attack the city directly.

This time, the Xiahou brothers attacked the city together, and in just a quarter of an hour, all of them climbed onto the city wall.

With the Xiahou brothers around, the generals of the Wei army were like people with their blood pumped up, rushing towards the city walls desperately.

Facing the black and crowed Wei army, Deng Ai and his men were already somewhat demoralized.

In addition, the bravery of the Xiahou brothers made it even more difficult for Deng Ai's soldiers to hold on.

On the city wall, Deng Ai and his men fought and retreated.

An hour later.

All four walls were contributed.

Deng Ai and his men were forced to engage in street fighting.

However, once street fighting breaks out, it means certain defeat, with basically no ability to turn the tables, and failure is only a matter of time.

Seeing victory in sight, the Xiahou brothers excitedly participated in the street fighting themselves.

With the addition of the Xiahou brothers, Deng Ai's army was defeated even faster.

Originally the night before, Deng Ai calculated that as long as he commanded properly, he should be able to hold out for another day. Unexpectedly, he did not manage to hold out for even a day.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer soldiers blocking his way and the Xiahou brothers were getting closer and closer to him, a trace of despair flashed in Deng Ai's eyes.

Just as Deng Ai closed his eyes in despair, waiting for death to come.

A voice suddenly appeared.

"Don't panic, Zhang Liao is coming."

As the voice fell, Deng Ai heard the sound of horse hooves in the distance and bursts of shouts and screams.

Deng Ai opened his eyes and saw Zhang Liao and his Qinglong swordmen rushing towards him.

Wherever he passed, the Wei army screamed in agony.

When the Xiahou brothers saw Zhang Liao coming, they immediately swung their swords. This was the best chance to kill Deng Ai. If it was gone, how long would they have to hold on until the next opportunity came?

However, just when the two men's swords were about to fall on Deng Ai, the Yellow Dragon Hooked Sickle suddenly appeared and directly blocked the swords in their hands.

Then Zhang Liao shook it hard.

The Yellow Dragon Hook Scythe directly knocked the two men's weapons away.

Zhang Liao immediately stood in front of Deng Ai.

"Shi Zai, you go command the battle, I'll take care of this."

"Okay." Deng Ai nodded.

The Xiahou brothers knew that since Zhang Liao had stopped them, it would be impossible to get rid of Deng Ai.

As for wanting to kill Zhang Liao, that was even more impossible.

Although the Qinglong swordmen were a little worse off without Zhang Liao's command, it was only a matter of time before they could wipe out all the Wei troops in the city under Deng Ai's command.

Seeing this, the Xiahou brothers could only retreat quickly because they didn't know how many reinforcements were behind the Qinglong School's swordsmen.

After seeing the Xiahou brothers leave, Deng Ai came to Zhang Liao with some fatigue.

"General Wenyuan, I really want to thank you for arriving on time this time."

"No need to thank me. We were here to support you. On the way, the Lord learned about your situation and immediately asked me to bring the Qinglong School Swordmen to support you. Fortunately, we arrived in time, otherwise, our losses would be huge."

Deng Ai nodded.

"General Wenyuan, I wonder how many reinforcements the lord has and how long it will take for them to arrive?"

"According to the speed of the lord, it should arrive in one day. The lord brought 30,000 reinforcements this time, but the lord seems to have transferred some troops from Liangzhou, so they should arrive soon."

"Ok."

When Deng Ai heard the number 30,000, he was somewhat disappointed.

Thirty thousand people are indeed a lot, but for a battlefield like this, thirty thousand people can only defend the city and have no way of taking the initiative to attack.

As for Liangzhou.

There are only 50,000 soldiers and horses in Liangzhou. Even if they can give me some soldiers and horses, how many can they give me?
Twenty thousand is the limit.

These 20,000 people plus 30,000 people make only 50,000 people in total. Facing such a meat grinder-like battlefield, what use can 50,000 people be?

Although Deng Ai thought so, he did not say it out loud.

Zhang Liao could be said to be a general who had fought in hundreds of battles. How could he not understand what Deng Ai was thinking?

I could only smile helplessly at this.

"Don't worry. Although 50,000 people are not many, they are enough to defend the city. As for outside the city, there are still me and the Qinglong School Swordsman. As long as there is my pressure outside the city, there will be no problem."

Deng Ai was very clear about Zhang Liao's strength, and he could often achieve great results with very few people.

"Then we can only count on General Wenyuan. But please go check on Zhong Hui more often. I am under so much pressure here, and Zhong Hui did not dare to come to support me as we agreed. I am afraid that Zhong Hui is also entangled in some troubles. When we attacked the city just now, I did not see Cao Ren. I am afraid that Cao Ren is with Zhong Hui."

Zhang Liao nodded, but even if he went to support Zhong Hui, he had to wait for Gu Rubing to arrive with reinforcements before he could leave.

Cao Ren was very surprised that the Xiahou brothers failed in their siege.

According to his thinking, no matter how he thought about it, he would not fail.

Soon, Cao Ren understood what had happened.

Before Cao Ren could say anything, Jiang Wei immediately said with a smile: "Since Liu Bei has reinforcements, it is normal for the two generals to fail. Now let's think about what to do next."

The Xiahou brothers looked at Jiang Wei with gratitude.

Jiang Wei's words brought home the fact that they had failed in their siege.

They are not afraid of punishment, but they are mainly afraid of embarrassment.

At least this saves them some embarrassment.

After Cao Ren and his men discussed it, they finally set their sights on Fuling City, which was guarded by Zhong Hui.

The two cities are each other's support. In comparison, Yufu City is easier to attack, so they set their target on Yufu City. But now Yufucheng has reinforcements, and the best way is to attack Fuling City.

Moreover, no reinforcements could enter the vicinity of Fuling City. The city walls had already been surrounded by Cao Ren's men. Fuling City was now an isolated city.

Soon, everyone worked out a method for attacking the city.

This time when attacking Fuling City, they are sure to put all their efforts into it.

All the famous generals joined forces, and the task of commanding the army to attack the city was given to Jiang Wei and Guo Huai.

Early the next morning.

Zhong Hui guessed that Cao Ren might attack the city, but he did not expect that he would have to face an army of 50,000 and three famous generals leading the siege.

In just one hour, one of the gates of Fuling City was about to be lost.

Zhong Hui and his men tried their best to recapture the city gate.

However, Zhong Hui also lost nearly three thousand people.

Zhong Hui, who originally had a small number of troops, was now in a dilemma.

Either break out with the remaining troops, or hold on here to the end.

It didn't take long for Zhong Hui to make a decision. If he withdrew his troops, he might be able to survive, but Deng Ai would also be attacked by the enemy with all his strength.

The same thing happened. Last time I made the choice to sacrifice myself, and the same thing happened this time.

"Brothers, our reinforcements are coming soon, everyone hold on."

Upon hearing the news of reinforcements, the soldiers defending the city became excited.

However, Zhong Hui knew clearly that there would be no reinforcements. The city was surrounded by walls on all sides, so even if there were reinforcements, there was no way for them to enter the city.

at the same time.

Deng Ai stood on Yufu City and looked at the camp of the Xiahou brothers outside the city wall. It was very quiet. Although patrolling soldiers kept appearing, there was no trace of the Xiahou brothers.

And according to the Xiahou brothers' personalities, if this attack failed, shouldn't the next thing be to increase the force and prepare for another siege? Why is it so quiet this time?
Thinking of this, Deng Ai suddenly remembered something and looked suddenly at Zhang Liao beside him.

At this time Zhang Liao also reacted and looked at Deng Ai.

The two said in unison: "We've fallen into a trap."

Afterwards, Zhang Liao led two thousand Qinglong swordmen and rushed directly into the camp of the Xiahou brothers through the city gate.

However, only some patrolling guards and a few thousand soldiers rushed out.

These people were no match for Zhang Liao and were easily defeated by him.

Zhang Liao immediately understood that the Xiahou brothers might have withdrawn long ago, and their target must be the Fuling City guarded by Zhong Hui.

After Zhang Liao told the news to Deng Ai in the city, he left Deng Ai to guard the city, while he led the Qinglong swordsmen and rushed towards Fuling City.

On the city of Fuling.

A deputy general ran to Zhong Hui's side.

"General, the South Gate has been lost. We have no more reserve troops. How long will it take for reinforcements to arrive?"

The deputy general's words also attracted the attention of the people around him, and many people looked over here.

Zhong Hui hesitated for a moment, and finally stated the current situation, which was that there was no so-called reinforcement at all.

"Everyone, actually I am..."

"General, reinforcements are coming. Look, reinforcements are coming."

A soldier stood on the city wall, shouting frantically.

Hearing this, Zhong Hui hurriedly looked outside the city wall.

Sure enough, Zhang Liao was seen rushing towards the city gate with his Qinglong swordmen.

"Haha, I just want to tell you that the reinforcements have already arrived. Brothers, follow me and fight our way out. We don't want this Fuling City anymore."

Seeing Zhang Liao appear, Zhong Hui guessed that Gu Rubing's support had arrived. With support, there was no need to defend Fuling City and form a pincer attack. After all, the weakness of the pincer attack was that it was easy to be divided and attacked. (End of this chapter)