"Yuan Rang, let's go!" The situation changed dramatically, and Xiahou Yuan pulled Xiahou Yuan up and left.

"Let go of me! I have no shame to face my lord. Just let me die here. "Xiahoudun really wanted to die, Cao Cao handed over Yanzhou to him to guard, but he was careless but gave all the troops of Yanzhou here, even if Cao Cao didn't blame him, he didn't want to live.

Xiahoudun wanted to die or live, which made Xiahouyuan angry enough, he was ruthless in his heart, and hit Xiahoudun on the back of the head, Xiahoudun fainted.

Seeing that Xiahoudun had fainted, Xiahouyuan ordered his soldiers to carry Xiahoudun and leave, and it was the royal way to leave this dangerous place first.

Xiahou Yuan ignored the pleas of other Cao Jun for help, and took the unconscious Xiahou Yuan to Puyang, the seat of Yanzhou.

"Fire and water are really ruthless." Liu Yu pretended to look at the rolling flood and sighed.

"But don't use such a strategy in the future, it will hurt the peace." Liu Yu vaguely saw many Cao Jun struggling in the water, and finally sank into the water, and his heart was a little unbearable.

"The Lord is benevolent." The surrounding soldiers all praised.

"Gao Shun, you go with the raft, how many can you save." After the flood gradually weakened, Liu Yu commanded.

Gao Shun didn't say a word, and led the soldiers to carry the raft.

Now the Cao army is no longer resisting, in the face of the power of nature, they have become very weak, and now that Liu Yu's troops are coming, they do not feel that they are enemy troops, but angels who save them.

But the number of Cao Jun is a bit large, and Gao Shun can't save so much.

This heavy rain lasted for two days and two nights, and the whole Xiangyi became a water city.

After the rain stopped, it took almost a day for the flood waters to recede.

The whole of Xiangyi was almost a dead city, with a large pile of corpses lying on the ground, all of them drowned, soldiers and civilians, men, women and children. There were no dead people, looking at the hellish scene, everyone was shivering, and I didn't know that they thought they had been soaked in water for too long and were frozen.

Liu Yu entered Xiangyi and inquired about the remaining Cao Jun and learned that Xiahou Yuan had fled as early as the flood had just arrived.

Liu Yu originally thought that he could do Cao Cao's two capable generals at one time, but he didn't expect the two of them to run so fast.

The main generals have all fled, and Cao Jun has no fighting spirit. Liu Yu did not embarrass these soldiers and scattered them to take care of them.

For the dead bodies in Xiangyi City, Liu Yu arranged for soldiers and some people in Xiangyi City to clean up. In order to prevent the plague caused by the decomposing corpses, Liu Yu decided to cremate the corpses. And the number of deaths of Cao Jun was too many, so much that Liu Yu strictly ordered the whole army not to say much, and there was no forgiveness for violators.

In fact, Liu Yu couldn't hide it even if he wanted to, Cao Cao knew the specific numbers better than him, this flood caused Cao's army to lose tens of thousands of people, and countless grains, grasses, and weapons.

The news spread, and the whole world was shaken.

The princes all felt that Liu Yu was too ruthless, and it really hurt the peace of the heavens to kill so many people in just such a water attack.

After hearing this, Jia Xu, who was assisted by Ma Chao, sighed that Liu Yu was worthy of being the master in his heart, and this ruthlessness and decisiveness were not comparable to others at all.

Cao Cao learned all this through Xiahou Yuan's battle report, and Cao Cao's eyes went dark and he fainted.

After Lang Zhong's treatment, Cao Cao was able to wake up and scolded: "Liu Yu, you are tall." A single water attack killed so many soldiers and horses. ”

Guo Jia hurriedly said: "My lord, our army must break through the blockade of Ma Chao and Pang De, attack Chen Liu, and force Liu Yu to return to the army, otherwise Liu Yu will enter the hinterland of Yanzhou, and it will be difficult to stop Liu Yu's other actions at that time." ”

"It's easier said than done. Our army and Ma Chao Pound have been in a stalemate so far. Liu Yu broke through Xiangyi, and Liu's army will inevitably be demoralized, and it will definitely drag our army to the death. Our army wants to attack Chen Liu and force Liu Yu to retreat, which is like a fantasy. Cheng Yu said very pessimistically.

Cao Cao felt the same way.

Xun You said: "My lord, what Feng Xiao said is very correct, our army must break through the blockade. And the reality is that our army is weak in offensive. In the next suggestion, the lord contacted Yuan Shao again, promising benefits, so that he could break through Guandu, and under the attack from both sides, he might be able to make some progress. ”

Cao Cao saw a glimmer of hope in his despair and said, "Gongda is right. Lone immediately repaired the book to Benchu. ”

After writing the letter, Cao Cao arranged for a messenger to bring it to Yuan Shao.

And when writing the letter, Cao Cao's mind also regained his calmness, and he calmly gave an order: "Our army will immediately start attacking Ma Chao Pound, and at any cost, we must kill Chen Liucheng." In addition, the herald Yuan conceded Miaocai, and he didn't care about their defeat this time, but he asked them to defend Puyang to the death, and they couldn't let Liu Yu get Yanzhou. As long as Puyang is kept, the orphan will reward them greatly. ”

"The lord is wise!" Everyone admired Cao Cao's composure.

Cao Cao's envoy came to Yuan Shao after a lot of hardships and handed over Cao Cao's letter to Yuan Shao.

After Yuan Shao read Cao Cao's letter, he smiled bitterly. He knew that after Liu Yu captured Yanzhou, he would be the biggest threat to himself, but he couldn't send more troops and horses, and he also had a hard time.

It turned out that Liu Yu had previously instructed Huang Zhong, Lu Bu, Dian Wei, and Zhang Yan to hold back Yuan Shao's troops to the death, so that Yuan Shao could not invest his spare troops in Guandu. The four of them did a very good job, and it can almost be said that they dragged Yuan Shao at any cost. The biggest sacrifice was Zhang Yan's thief group, which was almost half wiped out by Yuan Shao. Lu Bu suffered a lot of losses because he was besieged by Yuan Shao's generals last time, and this time he went crazy to find trouble with Yuan Shao's army. Dian Wei and Zhang Fei fought inseparably, although Zhang Fei was strong, but his soldiers and horses were not angry, and they were killed by Dian Wei several times, but fortunately, there were reinforcements, and Zhang Fei barely maintained the confrontation situation. But their sacrifice made Yuan Shao anxious, and Yuan Shao now wanted to withdraw the soldiers and horses on the Guandu side, how could he send troops and horses to Guandu again.

Therefore, Yuan Shao tactfully told Cao Cao's envoy about his situation, saying that he did not have too many troops now, and when he freed his hands, he would definitely help Cao Cao.

Yuan Shao did not send troops, and Cao Cao became embarrassed. At the same time, in order to protect Chen Liu, Jia Xu took it upon himself to ask Luoyang's frustration to send additional troops and horses to help.

After calculating the gains and losses, he did his best to deploy 10,000 soldiers and horses to Jia Xu again.

Cao Cao's pressure increased dramatically.

Yuan Shao finally withdrew all the soldiers and horses of Guandu to Hebei to strengthen the defense of his territory.

At this point, the situation of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao joining forces to create Liu Yu on all sides was broken.

The Battle of Xiangyi became an important turning point in the entire Yanzhou, or rather the duel between Liu Yu and Cao Cao.

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