Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 234 Soldiers encircle Xuchang
"What?" Li Dian, who had just entered the city gate, was shocked when he saw this scene. "Bastard, who told you to do this? There are tens of thousands of brothers out there?" After Li Dian came to his senses, his first reaction was to jump into a rage and yell at the soldiers who closed the door.

"I asked them to do this!" At this moment Cao Cao's voice came, and Li Dian and Yu Jin turned around in astonishment, only to see that Cao Cao had been waiting for them for a long time.Li Dian's lips trembled, and finally he said: "King Wei, wouldn't this trap tens of thousands of brothers outside the city to death?"

"If not, we will all die today!" Cao Cao sighed.This is also an unavoidable solution. Otherwise, Cao Cao would not be able to preserve as much vitality as possible.Relying on Man Chong's less than [-] troops, Cao Cao was really not sure that he could hold Xuchang under the attack of Guan Yu and Zhang Liao.

The blazing pile of firewood burned to death hundreds of soldiers who were closest to the city in an instant, and also shattered Zhang Liao and Guan Yu's plan to follow them into the city, but also blocked nearly [-] Cao's troops outside the city.No matter how stupid people are at this time, they will know that they have been completely abandoned and left alone outside the city to face Guan Yu and Zhang Liao's nearly [-] troops.For a moment, feelings of bewilderment, fear and even despair filled the hearts of everyone in this lone army.Even the Jingzhou Army and Xuzhou Army were embarrassed by the sudden fire and were forced to retreat.

"Junhou, I didn't expect Cao Cao to be so ruthless!" Zhang Liao looked at the scene in front of him and said in amazement.Guan Yu didn't make a sound, but Xu Shu sighed: "Cao Cao has always used unscrupulous means. If he didn't, Xuchang City would be destroyed today!" , let’s take them down first!”

"It should be like this!" Guan Yu sighed, and then ordered people to come forward and surrender loudly.Most of Cao Jun has given up hope. Now that some people have surrendered, most of them have wisely chosen to give up resistance.Although some people still wanted to resist, they were dealt with by their colleagues who were afraid of being implicated before they could offer their last loyalty to Cao Cao.In just half an hour, nearly [-] Cao Jun under Xuchang City were basically recruited by Guan Yu.Guan Yu ordered Dong Xi to lead people to escort them to the rear, and he had relevant personnel to reorganize them.At the same time, Guan Yu ordered all the troops to set up camp, surround Xuchang, and sent someone to inform Liu Bei.

In the evening of this day, Liu Bei, under the guard of the crowd, also came to the city of Xuchang. "Brother, Cao Cao has been besieged by me in Xuchang. However, there are still [-] to [-] soldiers here, and it may not be effective if you want to attack for a while!" After a meeting, Guan Yu also reported to Liu Bei.

"Xuchang's city wall is dangerous, but it's unwise to attack by force. Well, let's follow the established strategy, first encircle Cao Cao, and cut off Xuchang and even Yanzhou's connection with Hebei!" Liu Bei thought for a while.Immediately, Huang Zhong was sent to lead the army to capture the two counties of Zhongmou and Changshe, and Chen Dao led the army to station in Guandu to prevent Chen Liu and Cao Jun from Hebei from coming to rescue at any time.At the same time, send someone to contact Zhang Fei and Gao Lan in the south to see if they can completely eliminate Cao Ren's [-] army in one fell swoop.

"Dang!" With a loud noise, the Hun Tie Spear and Zhang Ba Snake Spear separated, and Zhang Fei and Zhang Jai each reined in their horses and retreated a few steps.Looking at Zhang Jaw in front of him, Zhang Fei was full of unwillingness.Just like Cao Ren, this guy is a cautious person. As soon as Wen Pin came over from Nanyang, they realized that the momentum was wrong, and immediately turned around and ran away.Cao Ren opened the way, Zhang Jai was behind the palace, and 8 people hurriedly retreated to Liang County.Zhang Fei immediately pursued at full speed, but he couldn't swallow this Cao army in one gulp, he just caught up with the tail and fought a little.Moreover, due to the excellent performance of Zhang Jaw, Zhang Fei could not swallow this small tail of 2 people in one gulp.

"Zhang Junyi, from Beihai to Runan, have you only run away for so many years?" Since you can't wipe out your opponent today, fighting with each other is also to make the third master feel better about his addiction.Zhang Jai snorted coldly and didn't say anything, he just tried his best to order the soldiers to retreat.However, at this moment, he also had a surprised expression on his face, because he saw Gao Lan who was hurriedly driving his horse.

"Aren't you safe and sound, Junyi?" After Gao Lan arrived in a hurry, his first words were reminiscing about the old days.Zhang Jaw's expression changed a few times, and finally he sighed: "Thanks to Jingzhong's concern, Zhang Jaw is fine. It has been six years since we left Beihai. I don't know how Jingzhong is doing now?"

"Little brother, everything is going well, but brother, now Cao Cao has been trapped in Xuchang, and sooner or later he will be captured without a fight. Brother is talented and learned, don't go against the sky with Cao Cao!" Gao Lan hesitated a little, but he still tried to persuade him.Zhang Jai was not surprised when he heard the words, he just waved his hand and said: "Brother's kindness, I appreciate it, but I Zhang Jaw is deeply favored by the king of Wei, how can I turn my back on it. Today you and I are the masters. Although we have to meet each other on the battlefield, we can only do it." Everyone is at peace."

"Brother!" Gao Lan was about to persuade him, but when he heard the noise from Cao Jun's former army who had already retreated, Zhang Jai was stunned.At this moment, Zhang Fei's arrogant voice sounded again: "Zhang Jaw, do you think Wen Zhongye and I are the only ones who will attack you? Cao Ren retreats east, brother Ji has been waiting there for a long time!"

"What, Ji Ling?" Zhang Jaw was really unexpected this time.Although he and Cao Ren were very vigilant, as soon as they realized that the other party wanted to flank them, they immediately retreated to Liang County.But did the [-] army withdraw as soon as they said they would withdraw? They had already penetrated deep into the hinterland of Runan. Although they had accelerated their withdrawal as soon as possible and avoided Wenpin, they were still blocked by Guan Hai and Ji Ling who came from Peiguo up.

"Cao Ren, let him die!" Looking at Cao Ren in front of him, Ji Ling knew that this was a big fish, and overjoyed, he quickly pulled Guan Hai to deal with Cao Ren together.Cao Ren is good at defending the city, but his martial arts are only average. Ji Ling and Guan Hai can't lose to him one-on-one, and now they have the upper hand in two-on-one.Seeing that the fight lasted up to thirty more rounds, Cao Ren was about to die on the spot.

"General Cao, let's go!" Suddenly, a silver spear came and blocked Guan Hai's sword that was slashing at Cao Ren's forehead.Cao Ren, who had survived the catastrophe, looked back, but saw that the one who saved his life was Zhang Xiu who was ordered to stay in Liangjun, and he led his Xiliang iron cavalry to support him.Guan Hai and Ji Ling's 3 men were all infantry. Although the Xiliang iron cavalry only had more than 2000 points, they were actually forced to rush in through a bloody road.

"Let's go!" Cao Ren didn't dare to fight, he gritted his teeth and felt that he was calling everyone to run away.Ji Ling and Guan Hai were about to fly away when they saw the duck with its beak, so they didn't agree with it, so they chased desperately, but they saw Zhang Xiu standing in front of them.Ji Ling snorted coldly, then swung the three-pointed two-edged knife in his hand, and slashed at Zhang Xiu.Zhang Xiu looked at the knife, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes. With seven or eight shots in a row, Ji Ling couldn't stand it.Guan Hai wanted to go after Cao Ren, but seeing that Ji Ling couldn't hold back, he quickly stepped forward to attack.With two enemies and one, the battle will be tied.

"It's so powerful!" Ji Ling became more and more frightened as he fought. Zhang Xiu's martial arts were so high, I'm afraid no one could defeat him except Guan Yu and his level.Now I have to help Guan Hai, so I can barely make a tie.Once the two were entangled by Zhang Xiu, Cao Ren ran away, and now he was in a panic.

"Child Zhang Xiu, give me a knife!" Suddenly there was a roar, and a big knife came over, but it was Sun Fu from the former army who saw that both of them could not fight against Zhang Xiu, so he simply came over and attacked.Zhang Xiu didn't care, Bai Niao Chaofeng Spear's exquisite moves emerged endlessly, and it was still more than enough to fight three against one.

"Retreat!" But Zhang Jai got the help of Zhang Xiu and began to command the rear army to retreat together.Seeing that Cao Ren escaped due to several accidents, Zhang Fei was very upset now. With a roar, he directly swung his army to Zhang Xiu's side, but left the army to Gao Lan's command, and tried his best to deal with Zhang Xiu first.

"Thousands of troops break!" Accompanied by a roar, Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear pierced Zhang Xiu's back. After forcing Sun Fu and the other three to retreat, he crossed the spear in his hand and took Zhang Fei's move forcefully.

There was a loud sound of "Dang", Zhang Xiu felt that he had never taken such a heavy move, Sun Fu and others saw Zhang Fei coming, knowing that Zhang Xiu had lost today, they hurriedly dispersed to chase Cao Ren without mentioning it.Zhang Xiu was in a hurry, but Zhang Fei in front of him was a rare and powerful enemy in his life, if he didn't pay attention, he would die on the spot, so he should concentrate on dealing with the enemy in front of him.

"Go to hell!" Zhang Fei gritted his teeth, Zhang Ba Snake Spear attacked more and more urgently, and also faster and faster, Zhang Xiu was tired of parrying, so he gritted his teeth and stabbed the belly of the black horse under Zhang Fei's crotch.Zhang Fei was in a hurry, and quickly counterattacked to block the move, saving his beloved horse's life.

"Shameless!" Zhang Fei yelled angrily, but saw that Zhang Xiu was about to turn his horse's head and run away. At this moment, he heard a roar and looked down. It was Pei Yuanshao, the commander of the infantry, holding a big knife and doing his best. Cut to the front legs of Zhang Xiu's mount.

With a cry of grief, the horse's leg was chopped off by Pei Yuanshao.The present report came quickly, Zhang Xiu wanted to plot against Zhang Fei's mount, but Pei Yuanshao plotted against him.With Zhang Fei's character, he would have disdained such plotting, but today Zhang Xiu is shameless, and it doesn't matter if Pei Yuanshao is behind.In fact, with Pei Yuanshao's martial arts, he couldn't catch Zhang Xiu's five moves in a one-on-one fight.But this trickery caused Zhang Xiu to stumble.

"Bastard!" Zhang Xiu, who fell off the horse, was about to deal with Pei Yuanshao, but he didn't prevent a gust of wind from behind, so he dodged quickly, but it was a step too late.

"Ah!" With a scream, Zhang Xiu was pierced through Zhang Fei's shoulder blade from behind by Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear, and then Pei Yuanshao's big knife chopped off from the front, and Zhang Xiu's head flew into the sky. "General, do you still want to chase Cao Ren?" Pei Yuanshao asked after wiping the blood off his face.

"Chasing, chasing to Liangjun, as long as you can kill one more!" Zhang Fei said viciously, and then drove his horse forward to pursue, and Pei Yuanshao quickly assembled his team to follow.As soon as Zhang Xiu died, his Xiliang iron cavalry was naturally defeated, and Ji Ling and others had already gone to pursue them. In the end, although Cao Ren and Zhang Jai led most of the people to flee back to Liang County, Zhang Fei still ordered them to bite him hard. After taking a bite, about 2 people were left behind, of which [-] were killed.

In the 12th year of Jian'an, in the late summer of 207 AD, Liu Bei and Cao Cao fought in Yuzhou.Liu Bei saw through Cao Cao's tactic of feigning surrender, and used the tactic to concentrate his superior forces, defeated Cao Cao and Cao Ren successively, and besieged the former in Xuchang.

(End of this chapter)