"Not good! Leping is in danger! ”

"Quick, pack up your things immediately and go back to Leping!"

General Cao, who was ambushing near Luoshui, sensed that something was wrong at dawn, and when he learned that the spies sent out had not heard from him for several hours, he immediately reacted, leading his troops back to help Leping, and sending people to notify the ambush soldiers along the other way.

General Cao didn't think about whether this would be a ploy by the Ming army to lure the snake out of the hole, but he did it anyway, but he sent a lot of spies to explore in the direction of Leping first.

Leping, Zhang Xiu and Xu Huang fell into a fierce battle, the Ming army gradually increased, and the advantages of Cao's army gradually decreased, and now they are in a disadvantageous position.

Li Ru under the city gradually felt a little more anxious in his heart: the ambush army on the edge of Luoshui must have noticed that something was wrong, and even now he was on his way! If you can't win Leping as soon as possible, you will fall into an unfavorable situation!

"Han Feng!"

"Strategist, the last general!"

"You lead 3,000 horsemen to that small valley five miles to the southeast, but when you see Cao Jun coming, let them go, wait for them to attack, and then attack from behind."

"It's a military advisor!"

"Tai Shi Xiang!"

"The last general!"

"Bring eight hundred crossbowmen and two hundred sword and shield soldiers to the woods north of the city to ambush them, and do not act rashly. If Cao's army arrives, Han Feng still can't be defeated, or if there is an ambush again, then go out, shoot with a bow and crossbow, and don't fight in close combat! ”

"Yes, Strategist!"

After making the arrangement, Li Ru's heart was a little calmer, staring at the head of the city, seeing that he had completely gained the upper hand, he ordered without hesitation: "Leave 20,000 to guard against a sneak attack by the Cao army, and the rest of the people are divided into four ways, three of which will intercept the rest of the city gates, capture the routed soldiers, and the remaining one will be directly pressed up and take Leping in one fell swoop!" ”

"Yes, Strategist!"

Immediately the 20,000 men were divided into four ways and went out as they were commanded.

"Kill~"

Five thousand people pressed up, and the momentum was extraordinary.

"Not good!"

Xu Huang struggled to repel Zhang Xiu with one blow, glanced at the city, and saw thousands of Ming troops swarming over, and couldn't help but be anxious: General Cao, why haven't you come yet?

After fighting for a long time, Xu Huang couldn't help but feel a little tired, and looked at Zhang Xiu, who was still full of energy, he knew that he had lost, although it was a narrow defeat, but it was also a fiasco!

"Death~"

Zhang Xiu's eyes flashed, and he took Xu Huang's throat. Xu Huang was shocked, it was too late to retreat at this time, so he could only block it with a horizontal knife.

But this was enough, I saw Xu Huang raise the blade sharply up, deflect up with the tip of the gun, and at the same time lower down, which was able to dodge this sudden shot.

"Bang~"

It's just that the armor on his head was stabbed and flew out, and his bun couldn't help but be a little scattered.

"Xu Gongming, your strength is very strong, but now that the general trend is gone, why don't you surrender here?"

Zhang Xiu put away his gun and stood up, not taking advantage of the situation to attack again, but persuaded: "And seeing that there are endless people under my lord's command who can fight well, there is no shortage of advice, and a group of sergeants are even sworn to serve their lives, isn't this wise lord better than that Cao thief?" ”

Xu Huang was silent.

Seeing that there was a drama in this secret way, Zhang Xiu's face eased, and continued: "Look at what the Cao thief did, except that he was not as angry as Dong Thief, what is the actual difference? Don't talk about the far, just say the near, Cao thief wasted the lives of thousands of people on the white horse, and planted a plague to plot against Ming Gong. If it weren't for Ming Gong's destiny, it would have been his way. ”

"Huh? What do you mean? ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Xiu was a little confused.

"What do you mean by your white horse?" Xu Huang frowned.

"You don't know?"

Zhang Xiu reacted, and then carefully explained the matter of the white horse.

After a long time, Zhang Xiu finished speaking, and without waiting to ask again, there was a sudden change in the city.

"Kill the past and repel the Ming army~"

"Kill~"

Zhang Xiu turned his head to look, and a big "Cao" character appeared in front of him, and his eyelids and green muscles jumped, thinking that Cao Cao had come in person. But after a closer look, I found that it was different, this Daxu was smaller and less refined than Cao Cao's Daxu at that time, and the most important thing was that there were not many Cao troops attacking.

"This is not Cao Cao!"

Zhang Xiu instantly made a judgment in his heart, but he forgot that there was a fierce general beside him, and he was a fierce general who fought with him before this.

It's just that the bizarre thing is that Xu Huang didn't make a move, but glanced at him lightly and looked out of the city.

When the Cao army at the head of the city saw Xu Huang stop, some of the soldiers who were close to him also stopped, and some of the soldiers were at a loss, and the rest were soldiers who were focused on Cao Cao.

A scuffle broke out in the city.

"You don't care?"

Zhang Xiu naturally didn't really forget Xu Huang, just took the opportunity to test it, and the result was very good. Sensing the changes in the city, Zhang Xiu raised his eyebrows and asked.

Xu Huang's eyelids sank and he didn't reply. Zhang Xiu understood and once again set his eyes on Cao Jun outside the city.

This Cao army was different from the past, the offensive was very fierce, and it actually fought with the Ming army with great success, and did not fall behind at all.

"Who is this?"

Xu Huang was silent for a moment and said, "Cao Ren! ”

"Who?"

Zhang Xiu was shocked and said, "It's him!" The thief would have sent him here? Is it for the general? ”

Xu Huang hesitated for a moment and said, "Maybe." He knew about Cao Ang's death back then, but the inside story was not very clear.

In the end, he asked about the previous incident and said, "Is the plague of the white horse really the work of the prime minister?" ”

Zhang Xiu smiled in her heart, knowing that Xu Huang was really moved. turned his head, stared at Xu Huang, and said solemnly: "Do you think I, Zhang Xiu, am a liar?" If it wasn't done by Cao Thief, would it be Ming Gong? If it is the Ming Gong, why is there no plague elsewhere? You must know that Ming Gong is the first time to Hakuba! ”

Xu Huang didn't think of this, but he always had some disbelief in his heart, and he always had the idea of what to do, but now his body couldn't help but tremble, if it weren't for the fact that his mind had been sharpened over the years, I'm afraid it would be......

"Kill~"

Another shouting and killing sound came from a distance, Zhang Xiu was shocked, and thought that another Cao army had arrived, and when he looked up, he saw thousands of Ming troops killing from behind Cao Ren's army.

"The military advisor is smart!"

Zhang Xiu was not so simple, he immediately saw that this was his subordinate, and immediately thought that this must be Li Ru's arrangement.

Xu Huang's brows furrowed slightly, not that he was worried about Cao Ren, but that he was still thinking about Zhang Xiu's previous words.

Cao Ren attacked fiercely, but he didn't see a large army in the city coming to respond, and he saw a large number of Ming troops faintly at the head of the city, so he secretly said: Is it too late for me?

Thinking of this, there was a shout of killing from behind, Cao Ren didn't think much about it, and immediately gave the order to retreat.

"Withdraw!"

I have to say that Cao Ren was indeed decisive, the ambush led by Han Feng and Li Ru's front and back attack had not yet fully formed, and he took advantage of the loophole and escaped directly.

Li Ru stabilized the army, but ordered Han Feng to drive him from behind, but he didn't move lightly. At this time, he was already sure that another Cao army would inevitably come, but it just depended on whether the Cao army who had retreated just now would notify him, but no matter what, he had to guard against it. There are only 5,000 Cao troops, and they are already quite powerful, if the 10,000 Cao troops are like this, they have to be prepared.

However, turning his head, Li Ru found that something was wrong with the city, and without hesitation, the whole army pounced.

Not long after, the east gate of Leping was "breached", and most of the Cao army was captured, or it should be said that he gave up resistance.

The city gate was lowered, and the Cao army arrived all the way, and was shot from behind by Tai Shixiang's crossbowmen who were ambushed in another place, leaving more than 3,000 corpses to retreat in disarray.

Leping Mansion Office.

"What do you want?"

Zhang Xiu sat in the first place, Xu Huang sat on the left, and Li Ru on the right.

"Huang's family is still in Xudu, I hope General Zhang can open the net and let Huang go back to pick up his family." Xu Huang made such a request very unceremoniously.

"This ......"

Zhang Xiu was a little sitting, hesitated for a moment, and said: "This is not something that embroidery can decide, but it should not be a problem to embroider it with Ming Gong." ”

Xu Huang nodded and fell silent.

Li Ru suddenly asked: "In today's battle, the sergeants under Li Mouguan Cao Ren's account are very different from ordinary Cao Jun, I don't know if General Xu knows the reason?" ”

"This ......" Xu Huang thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Huang really doesn't know." ”

Li Ru bowed his head slightly when he heard this, but his eyes flickered, and he didn't know whether he believed it or not.

Not to mention these, when Zhang Xiu sent Xu Huang's request letter to Gongsun Du, Li Ru also quietly sent a letter over, and the content of it was the difference between the army led by Cao Ren.

Today, Han Feng drove Cao Ren away, but fortunately he only drove him away, otherwise he would have suffered a big loss. Rao is like this, he was suddenly killed by Cao Ren, Han Feng's losses were not small, and even he himself was slightly injured.