Chapter 505: Liu Bei aids Xuzhou
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It's been three days, Cao Bao is pacing anxiously around, the other party's general Cao Ren always looks lazy, swaggering over every day, scolding outside for a day and driving back, today is still as usual, seeing that the sun is approaching dusk, Cao Bao just wanted to watch the other party return to the camp, gritted his teeth and the idea of "endure it" has not yet come out, and the other party is suddenly in chaos.
"What, someone is attacking the camp? The enemy reinforcements are coming so soon? Withdraw quickly, don't care about those baggage!" Cao Ren's face changed greatly, and he commanded the chaotic army to hurry back, and after a while, there was no shadow, leaving only scattered grain, grass, banners, and other baggage, which looked very dazzling under the reflection of the setting sun.
Cao Bao was a little dumbfounded.
Wait, wait, seeing that an hour has passed, are the reinforcements really coming: "Brothers, let me go out of the city to chase!"
Thousands of people couldn't hold it back, the city was cut off for two days, and the grain transport team in Tancheng has been blocked outside the city.
"General, it seems that there is also the enemy's baggage left in front. ”
"Brothers, everyone will break through the enemy camp in one go, and kill the enemy back to their hometown with reinforcements!" Cao Bao's army carried the loot all the way and chased it all the way.
At this time, it was already dark, Cao Bao called on everyone to light torches, and did not realize that in front of a wood, each sergeant was carrying heavy loads at the moment, Cao Bao also put two bags of grain on his horseback, and was just about to call on the army to continue marching, and suddenly a scout came to report: "General, Cao Ying is in chaos, and the enemy army is fighting with an unknown army." ”
"What is the trend of victory and defeat. After all, it is a military matter, and Cao Bao does not dare to be too careless.
"I don't know. ”
"Probe!"
"Yes!"
After a while, the second team of scouts reported: "The enemy has abandoned the camp and left, and the friendly army claims to be a subordinate of Qingzhou Tian Kai." ”
Cao Bao was overjoyed and immediately ordered the whole army to march.
In the darkness, thousands of people approached the new city of Xiangcheng in disarray: "I am General Cao Bao, I was ambushed by the enemy just now, open the city gate quickly, and the chasing soldiers will come soon!"
The soldiers defending the city saw that the torches were vaguely like Cao Bao, and hurriedly ordered the door to be opened.
The opposing army was halfway in, and suddenly shouted: "The lord has an order, not a single person will be let out of the city, men, women and children, not a single one will be left!"
As soon as the words fell, the sound of killing rang out, and Xiangqian New City suddenly became a purgatory on earth.
At that time, the Cao army had surrounded the city on all sides, and those who were lucky enough to get out of the city gate were chopped into meat paste, and the rest of the people had to fight to the death, which also caused the Cao army to lose a lot of people.
Cao Bao saw the flames in the city from afar, and he didn't care about the pain of the arrow on his back, and ran back with hundreds of defeated soldiers under his command.
Just now marching into the depths of the forest, he just realized how a mere Tian Kai could defeat Cao Cao, and suddenly out of nowhere came a large number of ambush soldiers, a burst of random arrows and then another sword halberd and spear slashing, causing most of his army to be killed and wounded, he also escaped after killing a bloody road, fortunately the other party did not chase after him.
Approaching the city, before he could open his mouth to call the city gate, the soldiers defending the city actually spoke first: "Is it General Cao Bao? Just now, an enemy army came to attack and was repelled by us, so we will open the city gate immediately!"
Cao Bao had already held his breath, and he didn't think much about it before entering the city gate.
"Put!" In the dark, I don't know who gave an order, and the Xuzhou soldiers in front of the city gate were shot into hedgehogs by flying arrows from all directions.
Cao Bao only woke up from a dream at this time, dozens of people protected him and killed him again, Cao Bao's psychological defense line was completely defeated, and he couldn't take care of anything, he only knew that he ran to Tancheng, and it didn't take long to meet Mi Fang who came to answer, he saw that there was no one behind him, thinking of the instructions of Lord Tao before leaving, he was terrified, and he was about to kill himself when he raised his sword, but Mi Fang was angry and stopped.
"It's really cheap for you to die now, come back with me and wait for the adults to fall!"
After nearly 20 days of marching, Liu Bei's 5,000 men and horses finally arrived outside Xuzhou City.
Kong Rong and Tian Kai had already camped outside the city, received them, and said that a few days ago, Xianglong Xincheng had fallen by, and Liu Bei sighed when he heard it: "Tao Gongzu is a benevolent gentleman, and he doesn't want to suffer this innocent wrong. ”
Kong Rong said: "Cao's army is powerful, and Cao is a person who is good at using soldiers, we can't fight rashly, first observe its movements, and then enter the army." ”
Liu Bei said: "There are 5,000 men and horses, although the army is prosperous, I am afraid that the lack of food will not last, I am willing to kill Cao Ying with my younger brother, and take the opportunity to enter the city to meet Tao Envoy Jun to discuss." ”
Kong Rong said with a smile: "It's okay, I ordered the sergeant to set up more antlers outside the village, and lurk crossbowmen inside, and hold on without fighting." ”
After settling everything, Liu Bei led the army to the east of the city, just set up camp, not long after, an army came clamoring, only to see the horse army infantry like a tide, when the first member of the general Le Ma shouted: "Where are the madmen, dare to go down here!"
Liu Bei looked at the enemy's formation and said: "This person is under the banner of the word 'music', presumably it is Cao Cao's general Le Jin Le Wenqian, I heard that Le Jin is a famous general of Cao Ying, and the third brother can go up and take a moment of his majesty." ”
Zhang Fei agreed: "Order!" and slapped his horse and speared out.
The two horses intersected, the superior and the inferior were separated, Le Jin was immediately shocked by Zhang Fei's endless momentum, although every move can be received, but it seems that every move is at a disadvantage, and the other party deliberately consumes his physical strength, not to fight, the lord does not know the situation here, withdraw!
Liu Bei made a move back, and the whole army immediately took advantage of the situation to chase and kill, and he didn't go far, and suddenly saw the dust in front of him, it turned out that Cao Cao heard that Le Jin was killed by the men and horses that suddenly appeared here just now, so he led the generals to kill.
Cao Cao stood under the banner of the gate, and the generals on both sides lined up in turn: Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Le Jin, and Xi Zhicai were sitting in Xianglong at this time to confront Kong Rongtian Kai - knowing that they didn't have the courage to attack themselves, so they didn't prepare.
Zhang Fei won for a while, and the horse shouted in the open space in front of the two armies: "Yanren Zhang Yide is here, who dares to fight with me?"
Xiahou Yuan was not angry when he saw it, and waved his knife forward: "Nameless junior, dare to be presumptuous!"
Swords and guns intersected, Xiahou Yuan knew that the other party was not an idle person, you came and went, and after a few rounds of fighting, there was no victory, and it gradually fell behind, and the two armies were shocked.
"Zhang Fei has fought Lu Bu alone for more than 30 years in Xingyang, and he is struggling, I don't want Miaocai to be able to go even ten rounds under this Zhang Fei!" Cao Cao sighed secretly, and many thoughts flashed through his mind.
"Wait for me to help General Xiahou. "Le Jin galloped out, and Xiahou Yuan fought Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei shook his spirit, and the more he fought, the more he fought, the more he fell, the two of them were shocked, this Zhang Fei's martial arts were really amazing!
Cao Cao signaled to Cao Ren, Cao Ren understood, so he also stepped forward to help the battle, just rushed to Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin's side, but an arrow broke through the air, Cao Ren hurriedly dodged, this arrow shot quite friendly, and when he arrived at Cao Ren, he had no strength.
"Who is it?" Cao Ren knew that the other party must not have done his best, otherwise the arrow would have been stuck in his body by now.
I saw not far away, a person just put aside the bow and arrow, holding a halberd in both hands, fighting in the battle formation of the Cao army, in the melee without losing the free and easy atmosphere, gold saddle BMW, white robe and silver armor, graceful, demeanor, fascinating.
"The enemy general can be named!" Cao Ren asked the general with full of anger.
"Donglai Tai Shi Ci!" said indifferently, with a hint of disdain in his words.
Cao Cao's face was cloudy, because he saw that Guan Yu, who had seen that ten thousand enemies had not yet appeared!
"This Tao Qian is also really, so many people have come to protect him, I don't know if he is happy or pitiful!"
Over there, Lejin and Xiahou Yuan had already been defeated, and Cao Cao had no choice but to withdraw his troops first.
"Who are you?" Although Cao Jun retreated in a hurry, Liu Bei's face was not happy but worried.
"Could it be that Liu Yuanjun thinks I'm a spy?" Tai Shici looked at Liu Bei, who had an unkind face on the other side, and knew that he must be doubting his true identity.
"Cao Cao's power is not weak, why did Cao Cao withdraw as soon as the strong man came? How can this be explained?" Liu Bei said unhurriedly, only fools on the battlefield just now didn't know what was going on.
"Today's incident is Cao Jun's trick, isn't it?" Tai Shi Ci smiled, he couldn't explain this kind of coincidence, he could only talk about things before the truth was revealed.
"What do you mean by that?" Liu Bei continued to ask.
"There are three doubts that make the envoy have doubts and I can make the envoy not doubt them: first, if I am a spy, I will not know about the siege of Beihai when Cao Cao attacks Xuzhou; second, if I am a spy, it is not difficult to take the head of the envoy with one arrow, but I did not do this, not only did I not do this, but I came from my hometown to help Taofu Jun protect Xuzhou, so how can the envoy explain it? The enemy just wants to divide the hearts of our army in order to profit from it, at this time we should unite instead of suspicion of each other, my life is indeed not a pity, but it is a pity that the relatives and enemies are happy!"
Liu Bei was deeply impressed by Tai Shici's eloquence, and suddenly said: "I don't know what to prepare and even this!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the gate of Xuzhou wide open, and it turned out that the city saw the banner of the red flag in white characters "Runan Liu Xuande", and knew that it was reinforcements, and came to greet him.
The group entered the city in a mighty way.
Although there are few people on the street due to the war, the shops and luxuriously decorated restaurants and inns can still make people imagine the scene of ordinary life.
Tao Qian led the civil and military officials to welcome him, and Liu Bei recognized Tao Qian at a glance from among them: the oldest, the most haggard, with a wrinkled face, and his eyes were bloodshot and deeply sunken after staying up all night, but he still cheered up Liu Bei:
"I have heard Xuande's name for a long time, and now I have to come to help, it is really fortunate for Xuzhou!"
"Tao Gong has a good reputation! How dare you be? The public has been wronged in vain, and all those in the world who know right and wrong want to come to help, so why should he have an ear?"
"Xuande is too humble, he came to work hard, and invited the government to have a banquet. ”