Xuzhou, under the city of Pi.

expelled Ji Ling and successfully opened the way to retreat, and now Chen Gong and the others can only wait for Lu Bu's return.

With the current number of troops in the city, it is simply not enough to divide the troops to respond, even if Chen Gong is in a hurry, he must stay here.

Still, he didn't do nothing.

Taking advantage of the time when Lu Bu did not return, he ordered the soldiers to do some tricks on the ground on both sides of the main road outside the city.

In fact, it's still the tried-and-true pitfall.

Only this time, the pit was dug one person high.

There is one every few steps, and there are many sharp trees buried in the pit, as long as you fall into it, you will inevitably be pierced through.

The main road in the middle is about ten horses parallel to each other. And the whole trap array stretched out for about a mile.

While doing this, Chen Gong constantly sent sentinels to the south, on the one hand, to estimate the time when the enemy army would arrive, and on the other hand, to inform Lu Bu to act according to the plan.

……

The trap was about to be completed before it could be used, for only an hour later, smoke and dust were raised from the south.

Chen Gong nodded at Cao Xin and Wei Xu, and the two of them took all their only subordinates out of the city, even the new recruits.

They marched along the main road, and when they reached the end of the trap, they separated from the left and right, and lay in ambush in the forest at the edge of the city.

Chen Gong ascended the tower and put on guard with the few remaining recruits in the city.

The sound of hooves was getting closer, and Chen Gong could already clearly see that Lu Bu, Gao Shun and others were galloping with their subordinates with all their might, and not far behind them was Yuan Shu's vanguard cavalry.

Chen Gong couldn't help but sweat for his own soldiers and horses. Because a large part of the soldiers and horses brought out by Lu Bu were infantry, they who retreated two hours in advance were still caught up by all the cavalry.

And for the rest of the distance, Chen Gong really couldn't be sure if they could escape.

If at the current rate, the enemy cavalry is more than capable of catching up before they enter the city.

Of course, Lu Bu also knew it, but he couldn't stop now, even if his men and horses had been stretched into a long column due to running with all their might, he couldn't wait.

When it is near, it will be under the city.

Now Lu Bu can already see the Chen Palace on the head of the city, but the scolding behind him is also louder.

Lu Bu felt that it should be almost there, so he nodded at the generals.

A few steps before the trap formation, Lu Bu and Gao Shun led the trapping camp to the left, while Yang Feng led his small cavalry to the right.

Song Xian, Cheng Lian, and Han Xian urged the infantry to quickly enter the city.

After Lu Bu saw that the infantry had basically passed, he greeted and personally led the trapped camp and Yang Feng's cavalry to rush towards the enemy cavalry.

Yuan Shu's cavalry saw Lu Bu rushing over, thinking that he had gained confidence when he arrived at the city, so he quickly stopped his horse and adjusted his formation to prepare for the battle.

But Lu Bu suddenly turned left when he was still fifty paces away from the enemy, turned around and ran down the city again.

He was only trying to slow down the enemy's cavalry, so that all the foot soldiers could enter the city safely.

The commander of Yuan Shu's cavalry was the general Liu Xun.

Although this person is very strong in soldiers, he has a bad habit, that is, he will not take the lead.

The disadvantage of this style is that the soldiers will not sacrifice their lives for him, but there are also certain advantages, that is, there is no commander in front, and these cavalrymen have strong autonomy and are good at adapting.

Therefore, they did not rush to pursue, but assembled at the horse.

However, this made the trap unable to function.

Lu Bu was naturally anxious in his heart.

A thought flashed in his heart, and he motioned for Yang Feng and Gao Shun to enter the city with all the soldiers and horses.

Yang Feng hesitated a little, but saw Gao Shun next to him smiling at him.

Gao Shun instantly understood what Lu Bu meant! Is this the tacit understanding between the manager and his subordinates?

Yang Feng had to admire this wordless trust, he didn't think much about it, he rushed behind him and waved, and all the cavalry followed the trapped camp into the city.

At this time, Liu Xun had already come to the front of the team, and as far as he could see, in front of the moat suspension bridge at the end of the main road, only Lu Bu and his red rabbit horse were standing.

"What does that mean?" Liu Xun touched the beard on his chin and asked.

"Look at Lu Bu's fearless posture, I'm afraid it's fraud." One of the horsemen replied. Although they were dissatisfied with Liu Xun's practice of sparing his life, they also had to admit his ability in command.

"Hmm." Liu Xun also saw some clues.

"Whoosh!"

"Ahh

Suddenly, an arrow came, Liu Xun was in front, and the reaction flashed quickly, but the subordinates behind him were unlucky.

This arrow was aimed at Liu Xun, so it didn't hurt the vital point of the subordinate, but because of its full strength, it still shot through the man's arm.

It turned out that Lu Bu saw that the other party intended to withdraw, so he put down the halberd, took out the horse bow, and provoked an arrow.

"Lu Bu Xiao'er!" Liu Xun straightened up, took two steps forward with his horse, and shouted: "People say that you are brave and good at fighting, what's the matter? Is it just a rat who puts dark arrows? ”

"Along the way, looking at Your Excellency's style, it must be Liu Xun, the 'Hidden Head General' under Yuan Shu's account, right?"

was said by Lu Bu, Liu Xun's face was a little unbearable, "Phew! Back then, he was able to do it before the Bishui Pass, but today he can only play his tongue fast! ”

Of course, Liu Xun could also hear the subordinates behind him snickering, but at this time, he couldn't break his morale to blame his own people, so he had to send all the fire to Lu Bu.

"Liu Xun, listen to me!" Lu Bu hung up the horse bow, raised the halberd in his hand again, and said loudly: "In front of the Bishui Pass, I alone blocked hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of the Kwantung Coalition Army, but now you have a few thousand people, and I, Lu Fengxian, really don't pay attention to it!" ”

As he spoke, he took the horse a few steps forward, stopped horizontally, drew a line on the ground in front of him with a halberd, and said: "Yuan Shu is a scheming person, a person who is greedy for small profits, it is conceivable that his generals are all waste!" I'm here today, and if you can get through it, I'll take it away!" ”

After Lu Bu said this, a burst of cheers suddenly erupted from the city.

It turned out that Chen Gong already knew what he was thinking when he saw Lu Bu letting everyone into the city. So he hurriedly ordered people to transfer a few teams of soldiers and horses entering the city to the top of the city, and applauded Lu Bu at the right time.

Since you want to provoke the other party, you naturally can't lose in momentum.

It's just that Cheng Lian and the applauds are all recruits, while Song Xian and Yang Feng ordered all the veterans to hide behind the wall battlements, holding hard crossbows and longbows, ready to release arrows at any time.

I have to say that many times, even the calmest person can no longer keep his sanity when he is humiliated in public.

"Kill me! Those who get Lu Bu's head will be rewarded heavily! Liu Xun yelled and rushed out for the first time.

It was rare for the cavalry behind him to see him so heroic, so they naturally hurriedly rushed out.

Liu Xun's cavalry, when they adjusted their formation just now, had already formed several horizontal rows.

After he gave the order, the middle team went first, and the two sides naturally slowed down, so that the whole formation became a wedge.

It's just that the flanks are a little slower, and if they are allowed to advance like this, the cavalry in the first two rows will not advance again after the first two rows fall into the pit.

Chen Gong also knew that this would be the case, so he immediately ordered his subordinates beside him to raise flags and signal the ambush to attack.

A rain of arrows shot out of the forest on either side, followed by a sudden burst of shouts.

The subordinates beside Liu Xun saw the dust and smoke rising on both sides, so they reminded Liu Xun that there was an ambush, but Liu Xun was also a little red-eyed at this time, "Just move forward!" Lu Bu is in front, take him down, Xuzhou is at your fingertips! ”

As mentioned before, Liu Xun's cavalry all have a strong sense of autonomy. According to the scale of the rain of arrows and the dust and smoke, the men and horses on the two wings probably estimated that the ambush soldiers would not be less than 3,000, so they instinctively began to move closer to the middle.

Of course they didn't know that this was a wicker array that Cao Xuan couldn't put down since he tasted the sweetness.

In fact, it was still the 800 recruits who were building momentum, and after an experience, they were all familiar with the road.

It only hurt the brothers of the Divine Bow Camp because the most critical problem was before them—there were not many arrows.

Although the last time after driving Ji Ling away, Cao ordered the recruits to recover the arrows fired, but it was only three out of ten.

This time, they used almost all of their money.

In order to create the illusion that there were many ambushes, they had to shoot three arrows at once.

After three rounds of upward firing, in order to save the last arrows, they could only put away their bows and shout with the recruits.

However, this has already served its purpose.

The frightened cavalry began to adjust their formation and turned into a long line, and this was exactly what Lu Bu and Chen Gong hoped for.

Liu Xun didn't think about the enemy's plan at this time, and in his eyes, he only had Lu Bu who was arrogant in front.

Just as he was running to a place only a horse away from Lu Bu, a rain of arrows from the city also shot down.

The cavalry had to slow down to guard against the arrows that fell from the ground.

At the same time, the city gate of Xiapi was opened again, and Gao Shun led the cavalry of the trapped camp to cooperate with Yang Feng, and rushed out again and crossed the drawbridge.

But they did not rush forward to kill, but stopped about ten paces away from Lu Bu.

Now that Liu Xun is face to face with Lu Bu, he stabs Lu Bu in front of the door with a gun.

After all, he is a general under Yuan Shu, and Liu Xun's martial arts are also exquisite.

The speed of this shot was indeed beyond Lu Bu's expectations, but it was not irresistible.

Lu Bu was standing on his side, and when the spear stabbed him, he leaned back and held the barrel of the gun with his halberd.

Seeing him like this, Liu Xun stopped the stabbing and pressed down on the barrel of the gun with both hands.

It's just that he miscalculated the difference in strength between himself and Lu Bu.

Lu Bu clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and slowly got up with this waist strength alone, holding up Liu Xun's gun.

When Liu Xun was surprised, he hurriedly drew his gun, slammed it on the top of his head, and directed it towards Lu Bu's heart.

Lu Bu was faster than him this time, and swung the halberd backwards with his right hand, shaking Liu Xun's gun away, and then, he immediately exerted his strength inward and brought the halberd back.

It's just that he didn't want to take Liu Xun's life, so the painting halberd was given away by an extra foot.

In this way, it was only the halberd rod that hit Liu Xun's shoulder.

But even so, it's not something Liu Xun can afford.

He fell off his horse, and his spear fell to the side.

At this time, the cavalry behind him were all suppressed by the crossbow arrows in the city and could not move forward, and Lu Bu's painted halberd was pointing at Liu Xun, if he wanted to take Liu Xun's life, it was only at the snap of his fingers.

But Lu Bu took back the halberd and traced it again along the line drawn before, and at the same time, said to Liu Xun in a cold voice:

"With your abilities, you are not worthy of this realm. Go back and tell Yuan Shu that I have no intention of being an enemy of him, and if he still wants to be the emperor with peace of mind, don't come to Xuzhou to trouble me! Otherwise, he would have lost more than just these cavalry. ”

Liu Xun was about to fight back, but he heard the cavalry behind him constantly screaming.

He hurried back, only to find that his men had begun to dodge on both sides, forced by the arrows from the city.

And what awaited them was the abyss that Chen Gong had already dug before.