Xu Zhu led the most elite 3,000 infantry of the Cao army and approached Xinye step by step.

If he can be the first to rush into Xinye City, it will be regarded as a great achievement, although Xu Zhu has no brains, but the news of Liu Bei's escape has almost spread all over Cao Ying. Therefore, Xu Zhu repeatedly urged his subordinates to speed up. Just when there were about thirty miles of land left in Rixinye. He stopped.

The reason is very simple, at this moment, Huang Rui and Huang An brothers are leading 4,000 soldiers, divided into four teams, and the red and yellow flags are clearly colored left and right, and they are calmly marching in the direction of Xinye.

Xu Zhulema saw that it was the enemy army, but the enemy troops from here and there were still so calm? This time Xu Zhu was not impulsive, a few years ago, Xiahou Tang had suffered Liu Bei's loss, although Xu Zhu was not very smart, but in this situation he still decisively stopped the troops. Send a sentinel to ride a pegasus to report to the main general of the striker, Cao Ren. When Cao Ren heard this, he shook his head again and again, and asked the sentry to tell Xu Zhu: "This must be the enemy's suspicious strategy, so you can move forward boldly with confidence." I should urge the front soldiers and horses to have a round with General Xu in Xinye City earlier! ”

The sentry cavalry reported back to Xu Zhu, Xu Zhu was annoyed, but unfortunately at this time the enemy had left for about half an hour, and there was no way to catch up, so he had to continue to lead the troops forward, and soon fell to Bowangpo, this place Xu Zhu has never come, and Xiahoudun will never forget it for the rest of his life. Xu Zhu's army chased after him but found that he was alone, so Xu Zhu wanted to rush to Xinye City before sunset.

Suddenly, there was a lot of bragging on the mountain, Xu Zhu looked up and saw that it was the two young generals who played with him before, and at this time, one left and one right led the troops in Shantou laughing: "Xu Zhu stupid, Xu Zhu stupid!" Xiahou Yuanrang was burned before, and now it's Xu Fool's turn! ”

These lines are all designed in advance, Xu Zhu is a kind of person, you have to fight with him face to face, he is not ambiguous at all, but now at the bottom of his slope, the enemy army is on both sides, he has no object to kill, he is suddenly annoyed and angry, is looking for the way uphill, but saw the rolling wood and stones on the mountain attached to the small and down, Xu Zhu's subordinate soldiers are not able to prevent serious casualties.

In the middle of the ring, Xu Zhucai led his subordinates to rush up the hill to compete with Huang Rui and Huang An. As soon as Xu Zhu rushed up, the two of them immediately led their troops to run wildly, leaving Xu Zhu in place and annoyed: "Rabbit cubs, we knew this was the case, grandpa, I killed you a piece of armor before!" “

However, he was also addicted, Huang Rui and Huang An ignored his scolding and retreated according to the established plan.

Cao Ren and Cao Hong, who were behind, heard the sound of fighting and immediately urged their subordinates to speed up the march, and they came to Bowangpo after a while. Looking at this place where Xiahoudun almost died, the two brothers were also emotional.

Over there, Xu Zhu reported the battle situation to Cao Ren in a disgraced manner, and was ambushed by two young generals, and a small half of the 3,000 people were lost. However, Cao Ren didn't blame Xu Zhu, after all, it was Cao Ren who made the decision, and Xu Zhu had reported it. Cao Ren's judgment was right, but he thought that Bo Wangpo was in front of him, and his opponent was Liu Cong.

It was getting late, Cao Ren sent the sentry cavalry to spy around, and soon the sentry cavalry returned, Xinye City was actually an empty city, it seems that Liu Cong's information is true, Xiahou Dun must have hurried through Xinye to pursue Liu Bei, so he ordered the sergeant to enter the city.

When the generals came to the city, they found that the four gates were wide open, and there was no one in the city, and it was difficult to find even ordinary people and livestock. However, this is also just right, suitable for the Cao army to be stationed.

At that moment, Cao Ren instructed the generals: "Our army has traveled all the way, and it is already exhausted at this time, so I will stay today, immediately bury the pot and cook, rest well, and welcome the prime minister's army!" ”：

In Cao Ren's opinion, no matter whether it was Liu Bei or Liu Cong who ambushed Xu Zhu in the evening, he was the governor of a small force, and it was safe for his 30,000 horses to enter Xinye. Although some men and horses have been lost, as long as the defense of Xinye is strengthened tomorrow, the city wall is strengthened, and when Cao Cao arrives, Xinye City will be a natural military camp.

Cao Ren's 30,000 horses were the vanguard troops, and they naturally walked faster than the large army, and they were already tired and hungry at the moment. Cao Ren and Cao Hong also found a place to rest in the Xianya. In the past month or so, although I have not encountered many enemies, it has been harder than any other expedition in the past.

Of course, Cao Ren knew that there was a problem with the morale of his troops, but there was still good news next, Liu Bei's escape, and his easy stay in Xinye City was the best proof, which was too useful to boost the morale of the whole army.

Maybe they were really tired, maybe they underestimated the enemy, or maybe they were careless, in short, almost all of Cao Ren's 30,000 vanguard troops fell asleep for the first time this night, and they didn't send any guards!

Naturally, what awaits them is the catastrophe that has been planned for a long time!

Jiang Wan led the troops to lay in an ambush outside Xinye City for most of the day, almost watching Cao Ren's 30,000 troops enter Xinye City in an orderly manner, Jiang Wan simply restrained his impulse, and strictly followed Liu Cong's orders, waiting, waiting, and waiting until the second half of the night.

The wind finally rose outside the city, and the soldiers who were ambushed by the other three gates got the signal and fired the ignited rockets into the castle with a brush.

Xinye City had already been tampered with by Jiang Wan, and if Cao Ren had entered the city early in the morning, he might have ordered a strict inspection, but it was already evening when he arrived in Xinye, which was another big negligence. The houses near the surrounding walls of Shinno Castle are inadvertently filled with flammable materials, and as long as they are next to rockets, they will ignite a raging fire!

Three doors and 3,000 soldiers brushed the rockets, and Xinye City suddenly burst into flames.

Cao Ren, Cao Hong and others were awakened by the cries of the soldiers, and when they put on their armor, five or six sentry riders rushed over to report: "General...... General, we've been tricked...... The enemy has placed a large number of flammable materials in the city, and at the moment they are throwing rockets into the city from the west, south, and north gates! If the general does not retreat, our army will definitely be burned in the flames! ”

Cao Ren was anxious when he heard this, these sentry horses were not different soldiers, if it was an ordinary fire, they would not be so panicked, but in the brief report of the sentry horses, Cao Ren immediately made a judgment that this fire was not an occasional act of the enemy, but a long-planned one, otherwise it would not have fired three salleys and left the east gate. Typical encirclement three lack one, this east gate must also have ambush soldiers. However, instead of being buried in the fire, Cao Ren still decided to lead his troops to break through from the east gate!

Tens of thousands of troops were ordered to retreat, and heard that only the east gate was not on fire, so they rushed to the east gate together, the generals had war horses, and they ran quickly, but those ordinary soldiers were miserable, for fear that the fire would burn themselves, no matter whether there was anyone in front of them, they threw away their armor and ran all the way, and as a result, people were crowded, people trampled on people, and it was a hundred times more serious than the trampling during the pilgrimage to Mecca. No more than one or two thousand of the 30,000 people were killed by fire, but at least more than 5,000 were crushed and trampled to death.

When he entered the city, there were less than 30,000, and he was afraid that there were less than 20,000 people who could escape from Xinye, looking at his subordinates with disgraced faces, Cao Ren was also remorseful, he was too careless, where was this done by the legendary yellow-mouthed child Liu Cong, even if the scheming Liu Bei and Xu Shu were afraid that they would not make Cao Ren so embarrassed.

Just when Cao Ren sighed, Jiang Wan had already summoned the people of his headquarters to cover up and kill him.

Cao Ren's troops had just escaped from the sea of fire, most of them had lost everything in order to escape, where were there weapons to resist, and in the face of Jiang Wan's troops who suddenly killed, they scattered one by one and fled in all directions. The remaining three ambushed soldiers saw the sound of fighting at the east gate, and they quickly gathered at the east gate, and the Cao army, which was frightened in the middle of the night by five thousand chasing soldiers, was like five thousand wolves slaughtering a group of lambs, the number was no longer important, the important thing was that the Cao army had almost no resistance, as long as they ran for their lives, they ran for their lives!

Even if Cao Ren and the others tried their best to deter them, at this moment, this group of soldiers had just squeezed out of the pile of dead people, and the one who was willing to turn around and fight, Cao Ren saw that the general trend was gone, so he led the troops to the defeated and fled. Not long after leaving, the two young generals who ambushed Xu Zhu during the day appeared again. Xu Zhu's subordinates were even more emboldened when they saw these people carrying red and yellow flags.

Cao Ren didn't know why, so he stepped forward to question Xu Zhu, Xu Zhu had to talk about the things during the day, Cao Ren couldn't help but feel cold, according to Xu Zhu's statement, there were five or six thousand people during the day, and the number of people who set fire to Xinye just now must have been quite a lot, plus the people who were chasing him just now, how many ambushes did his 30,000 people have to face? What if the enemy is 30,000 people waiting for him?