Song County, Qiaozhou, is in a mountain col thirty or fifty miles away from the city father.

Now it is the end of August of the third year of Yong'an, and the maple leaves on the mountain have begun to turn red, although they have not yet experienced frost and wind, they can still see the flowing Zhu Dan along the meridians on the back of the maple leaves.

Xun You picked up a maple leaf that had fallen on the ground and climbed halfway up the mountain, looking at the city that had given birth to two genius military strategists, Wu Zixu and Zhang Liang, from a distance, with all his attention and his eyes not blinking.

Although he couldn't see anything, and although the entire outline of the city father was hidden from the back of the mountain in front of him, all this didn't seem to affect Xun You's elegance.

Since the beginning of August, after the main public soldiers went down to Yiyang, he quietly led his troops to Xinyang, which is separated from a mountain in Song County, Qiaozhou, and was accompanied by Zhao Yun and his wife, Xu Huang, Huang Zhong, Li Dian, and Lu Xun and Liao Hua. Of course, this kind of occasion is naturally indispensable to the lord Wang Li and Zhou Cang, Guan Hai and Baima Yicong around him.

In fact, compared with Cao Cao, the advantage of the lord is too obvious.

When the lord sent troops to Runan and had not yet set off Yiyang, the huge army division and the Diting battalion, which were scattered all over the states and counties, had already begun to operate frantically.

Therefore, they knew one step earlier than Cao Cao that Zhang Yan had come to Xuzhou with the Black Mountain Army, and he was hiding on the shore of Weishan Lake; Therefore, they also made a bold deduction based on Yuan Shu's other identity and the current situation in Huainan County.

In the northeast of Huainan County, Liu Xuande, the assassin of Xuzhou, is waiting for the Dan, and Huaiyuan is an important town in the northeast of Huainan; In the south of Huainan County, Sun Wentai, the fierce tiger of Jiangdong, and Lujiang County Shou Lu Kang occupied Qichun, eyeing the tiger; And in the north of Huainan, the other old man Cao Mengde has led the generals to occupy Chendi, and is preparing to go to Qiaozhou day and night.

Similarly, in the west of Huainan County, the lord went down to Runan to swallow Yiyang in the tenth month, and the Shouchun from Yuan Shu was only limited to Anfeng County, and Anfeng County only had one general Chen Ji with the same name as Chen Qun's father. If the lord once he marched east to Ke'anfeng, Yuan Shu would be embattled and attacked on his back, and he would no longer be able to escape the ascension to heaven.

Therefore, if Yuan Shu wants to survive and continue to complete his great cause, he can only find a way to escape from Shouchun.

And there is only one place in the direction of his escape, and that is north! or occupy Qingzhou through Xuzhou, reach an alliance with his brother Yuan Shao, or connect with Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army of the Yellow Turbans; Or through Xuzhou, Qingzhou across the sea directly to Liaodong, and Gongsun Du to compete for territory, heavy

Zhendong Mountain.

At this time, the lord received a flying report from the Jizhou Hall of the Diting Camp: Zhang Yan led the Montenegrin Army to abandon the Jizhou base camp and go straight to Xuzhou.

So, they formulated a series of plans, intending to stab Yuan Shu in the back and give him a fatal blow. So, the lord left Guo Jia, Fu Zhu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others in Runan and Yiyang, and then personally led Zhao Yun and others to appear here.

While thinking about it, a scout Pegasus came to report: "Military division, as expected by the lord and military division, the guards under Yuan Shu's account and Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army have all gone north, planning to fight Cao Cao at the city father!" ”

"Yes!" Xun You nodded, retracted his gaze from afar and turned to the scout, "Does the lord know?" ”

The scout hesitated, took out a token from his bosom and handed it to Xun You and replied: "After the lord heard the news, he had already led General Zhao Yun and his wife and Huang Zhong to go to the city father in person, leaving only three generals in the city, Li Dian, Lu Xun and Liao Hua. When the last general came, the three generals asked the military division to come down the mountain to take charge! ”

Xun You took the token and smiled bitterly: "The lord is afraid that I will admonish, so he will sneak away quietly and cut it first, right?" Whether it is Yuan Highway or Cao Mengde, they are all heroes. Now that he has gathered in the city father, he has long attracted the attention of the world.

No matter who of the two of them loses, the pattern of the Central Plains and even the world will undergo major changes, and the lord, as the opponent of the former robe and today, personally went to this heroic gathering and gave them a ride! Say, "How shall I stop it?" ”

"The meaning of the military advisor..."

"What's that? Since the lord has entrusted me with this time, I should follow the lord's will! Xun You patted the scout, "You can set off down the mountain, and order the three generals and soldiers Li Dian, Lu Xun and Liao Hua to divide into two roads, all the way to the north and point directly to Qiaoxian, and all the way to the south to look down on the vortex."

If the lord acts well, the two armies will immediately force near the two counties to maintain the pressure on the enemy; If the progress of the lord is blocked, he is ready to help the lord at any time! ”

"No!"

……

Wen Tianxiang of the Song Dynasty once wrote in a poem: "I didn't see General Suiyang gnashing his teeth angrily, and thirty-six people died on the same day." ”

Cao Cao was not Zhang Xun, the general of Suiyang in the Tang Dynasty, and more than 36 of the soldiers under his command died on the same day, but he also gritted his teeth angrily. Of course, whoever is scolded as an old dog, he will not be able to do the same in his heart

Cheerful, even if this person was once his robe, his brother.

"Highway, you and I have been friends for more than ten years, and you must have known about this Qingyu Sword in my hand for a long time. Now this sword has been soaked in the blood of a lot of old people, do you know who it is! Cao Cao looked at the Qingyu Sword in his hand, trying to suppress his anger.

Yuan Shu sneered and said sarcastically: "Speaking of which, I really don't know what your sword is for, didn't you lend it to General He to slaughter dogs and cook sheep back then?" ”

"Slaughtering dogs and cooking sheep? You can say that again! My sword is specially here to slaughter you, the vicious dog, the original Bian Rang, today's Yuan Highway, but they are all some chicken and dog thieves. Cao Mou is not talented, today I will also let you Yuan Highway taste the bloody smell! Cao Cao's hair stood upside down, he raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, and the Qingyu sword in his hand fell violently.

A sword out, a thousand troops move.

Although Cao Mengde is not an emperor who is a man of his word, he is also a man who makes a promise, and he follows his words. Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Xuan, Xu Zhu, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu and others rushed forward after patting their horses.

Seeing that a big battle was about to start again, suddenly, a scout with a hip war horse came straight from the west of the city along the street to the Cao army's main array, wearing two white feather dusters, and the sweat and blood on his face were gurgling.

The scout shouted on his horse while galloping: "My lord, the rich gentry He Wei and He Chaozong father and son in the west of the city have joined the enemy, and the secret passage hidden in his home leads directly to the outside of the city, and the army of Yuan thieves outside the city is constantly emerging from his house, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands..."

Before he could finish speaking, the scout was already planted upside down under his horse, with a thick and long white wolf feather arrow stuck in his back, the white tail of which had already been soaked in blood and brown, and I don't know how he managed to get here.

Cao Cao was taken aback when he heard this, but the general order had already been issued, and Xiahou Yuan and the others had already begun to gallop on horseback.

If the general order is changed at this time, not to mention the impact of the change of the order on the morale of the army, even at this moment, Xiahou Yuan and the others and the soldiers who rushed out under their command cannot be returned, otherwise the battle will be in chaos, wouldn't it be that they will send their more than 20,000 men and horses directly to Yuan Shu's mouth?

But the rapid changes of the battlefield have not given him any room to think, Cao Cao has not had time to issue the second general, the smoke in the west of the city is thick, a group of men and horses galloped from the smoke, and a horse lance in the hand of the first general pointed directly at Cao Cao.

"Cao thief, take your life!"