In the front, Yuan Shu's army forcibly attacked the fortification, and in the rear, Huang Zhong and Pan Feng led the army to sneak attack from the inside. Chen Deng understood that the general trend had gone, and directly chose to withdraw the army.

Chen Deng knew that once Tongguan was lost, the entire Si Li would already be naked in front of Yuan Shu, and it would be useless to retreat to Hangu Pass or Luoyang, and it would be the best choice to retreat directly to Hujiao Pass and defend this Yanzhou gateway.

The Tiger Pass is not far from Yanzhou, once Yuan Shu's army invades, the soldiers of Yanzhou can quickly arrive in a short time when the situation of the Tiger Pass is urgent, and it is extremely convenient for both logistics and support.

After Chen Deng left a small group of soldiers to resist the enemy's delay, he directly led the remaining more than 2,000 soldiers to rush out of Tongguan and rush east. As for Cao Xiu, the substitute ghost who bears the consequences of his scheme, Chen Deng no longer has the slightest hope that he will survive. Although Cao Xiu's sacrifice was really wronged, and what he did was really excessive, he would never kill himself because of his shame. With Cao Cao's open-mindedness and cherishing talents, he will understand his decision and will not punish him too severely.

Although Chen Deng was tricked, he didn't feel that his skills were inferior, and he had no choice in that situation where the disparity in strength was so great. As early as when Cao Xiu left the city, he vaguely felt that all this could happen, but even if there was only a glimmer of hope, it was better than sitting back and watching perish. He felt that Xun Yu and Xi Zhicai would choose to fight to the death in that situation.

Cao's army retreated in a hurry, while Yuan Shu led his army to take Tongguan directly. Liu Bei also led the army to directly eliminate Cao Xiu's army, as for Cao Xiu, he was not outstanding in civil and military affairs, and he was directly beheaded by Guan Yu under Guan Zhang's dead eye. After eliminating Cao's army, Liu Bei only straightened up for a moment, and then hurried to Tongguan and asked Yuan Shu to pass the pass.

Yuan Shu, who took Tongguan, did not break his promise, and directly let Liu Bei, who had only more than 20,000 remnants under his command, go out of Tongguan, without any delay and additional conditions.

After Liu Bei passed the pass, he was still not careless, and asked Zhang Fei to lead the large army to rest and recuperate before marching to Yuzhou, while he led the elite pro-military battalion to Yuzhou under the protection of Guan Yu.

Yuan Shu stood on top of Tongguan and looked at Liu Bei's distant figure from afar, his eyes were inexplicable.

"Is the lord worried about letting the tiger return to the mountain?" Fa Zheng, who was on Yuan Shu's side, asked.

"No, I'm worried about whether Liu Bei can deal with Cao Cao." Yuan Shu said lightly.

"Xiaozhi, our pace should be quickened. I can't wait any longer, next year we will take the Central Plains, and this troubled era should also end. ”

"It seems that the Han world can't satisfy the appetite of the lord!" Fa Zheng said with a smile.

"If it's just for a big man, why would he set up such a big situation and raise troops in Jiangdong, a land outside the country?" Yuan Shu said disdainfully: "The Han world is not in my eyes at all, since the day I occupied the solid foundation of Yangzhou, taking the world is just a matter of exploring for something." The land outside of this Han is what a certain heart wants. ”

"Does the lord want to become the martial artist of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty?"

"Expanding the territory and preaching education is a certain ambition."

"What's next for the lord?"

"Next..."Yuan Shu closed his eyes and lowered his head, as if he was in deep thought, and muttered: "I will go back to Jiangdong first and wait for Chan'er and them to give birth, and rest for a month... No, two months, and after that..."

Fa Zheng thought that he could hear Yuan Shu's strategic layout for the next period of time, but when he heard these words with full expectations, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

On the city wall, a world overlord has no ambition and falls into the longing for his wife and concubine's mansion, while the strategists around him are messy in the wind.

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Yanzhou, when he learned the news that Tongguan had been lost, Xun Yu, who was dealing with government affairs in the Yanzhou Assassin's Mansion, froze in place as if he had become a statue, and he didn't even notice that the brush in his hand had fallen.

"Alas!"

After a long time, Xun Yu sighed lightly, slowly picked up the brush that fell on the ground, and slowly placed it on the case. Instead, he took out a scroll from under the table and slowly spread it out, this is a miniature map of the thirteen states of the Great Han Dynasty, which looks very simple, except for the key cities and levels, as well as some important terrain, none of the details are revealed.

"The Land of Six States!" Counting from Jiangdong all the way to the west and north, until the place of Sili, a total of six states, the vast territory made Xun Yu feel desperate: "Of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, the Yuan Highway occupies nearly half!" ”

Although Si Li has not yet been captured by Yuan Shu, Xun Yu knows very well in his heart that Si Li can no longer hold it, and it will be a matter of time before he loses it.

Zhong Xuan said extremely unscrupulously on the side: "Wen Ruo, the situation is like this, I don't think we have any need to fight, just surrender." With Yuan Highway as a person, when the time comes, we can still be reused and be more idle, how good is it? ”

Xun Yu directly turned a deaf ear to Zhong Xuan's two-faced words, quickly wrote a letter, summarized this information and his own analysis, and directly handed it over to the herald to rush to Qingzhou to give Cao Cao.

"Wen Ruo, don't you think my proposal is good?" Zhong Miao couldn't help but complain again: "In the land of six states, more than seventy percent of the world's population, land and population, tell me how to fight this battle?" ”

"It's man-made, and we only need a decisive battle to turn the tide." Xun Yu said lightly.

"Still turning things around? You should worry about the little emperor in the palace first, don't let this naïve little ghost do too much, otherwise I'm afraid this Xuchang City will be stained with blood again. Zhong Xuan complained.

I have to say that the prestige of the Han is really not covered, Liu Cheng, who had just come to Xuchang and was almost cumin, is now only a little more than a month, and he is surrounded by people again. Countless people who wanted to speculate, die-hard Han families, those who were short-sighted or had ulterior motives gathered around Liu Cheng. Some of them were directly rewarded by Liu Cheng as a hundred officials in Cao Cao's absence, and now it seems that another small court has been established.

If it's just like this, it doesn't matter, it's just a small court, and it's not a big problem to let this group of people accompany Liu Cheng to play the game of the house. But Liu Cheng didn't know what it meant to die, and after the initial test did not suffer any resistance and blows, Liu Cheng became even more aggressive, and directly extended his hand to Cao Cao's military generals in Xuchang, and even wanted to get involved.

Fortunately, Cao Cao had long been worried about this, and most of the generals who stayed in Xuchang were Cao clan relatives, and there was basically no possibility of betrayal, so Liu Cheng had nothing to gain except for eating a soft nail. But all this has been seen by many people, and Liu Cheng's behavior of making trouble in the rear regardless of the overall situation in the emergency situation of the war at the front really made many people feel disappointed, disdainful and even resentful.

After Xun Yu heard Zhong Xuan's words, the corners of his mouth were slightly bitter. Liu Cheng's meanness and ignorance and sloppiness once again broke Xun Yu's heart, you must know that the supreme person in charge who was arranged by Cao Cao to garrison Xuchang at this time was him! Liu Cheng acted like this, should he turn a blind eye or should he stand in Cao Cao's position and deal with it ruthlessly? Liu Cheng completely put him on the fire to roast.

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