Seeing that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were forced to retreat, Xiahou Yuan did not order to stop archery, but changed the target to the Danyang soldiers in Xuzhou.

The combat power of the Danyang soldiers is indeed good, and in other parts of the battlefield, when a Cao army falls, it often has already harvested the lives of two Xuzhou soldiers. In front of the Danyang soldiers, it was the opposite, and it was almost necessary to pay the price of the sacrifice of two Cao soldiers in exchange for the head of a Danyang soldier.

The rain of arrows in the sky poured towards the Danyang soldiers like locusts, and every moment someone fell with arrows. And Cao Jun, who was originally fighting with the Danyang soldiers, took advantage of the situation to retreat a short distance to avoid being accidentally injured by his own archers.

Seeing the fierce arrow array of the Cao army, the Xuzhou army also began to shoot back with its bow under the command of the military general Cao Bao. It's just that the Xuzhou archers are usually lax in training, and their archery skills are not as good as the archers behind Xiahou Yuan, and they are unfortunately on the side of the headwind at this time, so the damage caused to Cao Jun is minimal.

"Trap the camp, attack!" Seeing that the Danyang soldiers had successively lost nearly half, Xiahou Yuan also sacrificed the 1,000 trapped soldiers who were the last killer of the Cao army.

"The will to fall into battle, I am invincible!" Under the screams of Wang Zhong, the commander of the trapped camp, the bodies of the 1,000 trapped soldiers instantly exuded a chilling murderous aura and high-spirited battle intent.

"The will to fall into battle, I am invincible!" A thousand soldiers shouted in unison, and the momentum was enough to make the Xuzhou army on the battlefield tremble.

"Hmph, bluffing, it's just a bunch of wild dogs that only know how to bark!" Tao Qian's lieutenant, Tao Qian's nephew Tao Yi saw that his army was intimidated by a force of only a thousand people on the other side, and couldn't help but be annoyed and shouted loudly.

But it turned out that he was the wild dog who only knew how to bark, and as soon as the trap sergeant entered the Danyang formation, he immediately showed his strong and unmatched combat effectiveness.

If the Danyang soldiers were in the heyday of morale, they might still be able to entangle with the trapped camp for a while. However, the previous rain of arrows made the fighting spirit of the Danyang soldiers plummet, although the number of Danyang soldiers was already quite large, although there have been many losses so far, but the troops still have a great advantage compared to the trapped camp. However, at this time, under the finger of a thousand trapped spears, the courageous Danyang soldiers could not resist even for a moment, and fought and retreated, leaving only the corpse of their own robe along the way.

"Kill!" Wang Zhong, the commander of the trapped camp, took the lead, and the spear in his hand was protruding left and right, and he had killed several Danyang sergeants one after another.

Wang Zhong's martial arts are not bad, perhaps for those fierce generals, his marksmanship can only be regarded as second-rate, but for ordinary soldiers, his marksmanship is already very powerful. Gao Shun admired his bravery, so he specially reported to Cao Cao and awarded him the post of captain.

"Thief, take your life!" Tao Yi rode his horse and rushed towards Wang Zhong and shouted loudly.

Tao Yi saw that the situation had taken a turn a few times before, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart. Although he usually doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, he still has the most basic common sense. He knew very well that once this battle was defeated, he was afraid that in a few days, Xuzhou would change hands.

No matter what, this battle cannot be lost! Only by defeating Cao's army in the field first, can the Xuzhou army occupy more advantages in the future defense battles, and at least maintain the morale of its own army.

Now that the morale of the Danyang soldiers has been broken, and the fighting spirit of the trapped camp is booming, even if the fight continues in this way, even if the whole army is wiped out, the vitality of the Danyang soldiers may be difficult to recover. Now there is only one way, and that is to make the morale of the trapped camp also suffer a big blow, and the best way is to kill the generals. If possible, killing Xiahou Yuan is naturally the best ending, but this difficulty is not ordinary, the other party is a heavy general of the Cao army, and the surrounding layers of personal guards are tightly guarded. In this case, there is only a second best thing, and if you can kill the captain who is trapped in the camp, you should be able to achieve a certain effect.

Tao Yi lacks a lot of things, but he does not lack self-confidence. Usually he competed with several generals under Tao Qian, when was there no time when he didn't win the final victory steadily? Therefore, this gave him unparalleled self-confidence, thinking that his martial arts were the best in the world, but he didn't think that the reason why he could win easily every time was not that others deliberately gave in to him for the sake of his lord's nephew.

"It's you who should take your life!" When Wang Zhong saw that the enemy was coming, he was not afraid at all and greeted him with a spear.

The two guns intersected, and before a few moments passed, Wang Zhong was amazed. It's not that the other party's strength is too strong, but it's too weak. Wang Zhong is different from Tao Yi, he is very self-aware, he is very clear about how many catties and taels he has, and his little strength is not worth mentioning in front of real masters. Before fighting with Tao Yi, although he had a fearless look on his face, there was still a trace of apprehension in his heart after all, after all, looking at the armor worn by the other party, it seemed to have a high status, but he was afraid that the other party was a strong general in the Xuzhou army, and it would be difficult for him to deal with it. However, after counting it, he found that it was not the case at all, and he never thought that the other party's martial arts would be so inferior.

In the fifth, Wang Zhong stabbed the spear in his hand and picked Tao Yi off the horse.

Although Tao Yi does not have any prestige in the army in peacetime, he is Tao Qian's nephew after all, and now he died on the battlefield, and the impact caused by it cannot be underestimated. Originally, although the Danyang soldiers gradually retreated under the pressure of the trapped camp, they at least retained a certain amount of rules and regulations, and there was no major chaos. But at this moment, seeing Tao Yi die, he was immediately defeated, and he was really out of control.

"Mingjin! Mingjin! On the top of the Picheng Tower, Tao Qian couldn't care about grieving for his nephew's death at the moment, and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. The Xuzhou army had been defeated, and all he could think about now was to get as many soldiers as possible to escape back to Xiapi City. After all, one more person means more power to defend the city.

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In this battle, Cao's army won a complete victory, with a total loss of less than 3,000, more than 4,500 enemies annihilated, and nearly 2,000 prisoners, which greatly reduced the vitality of the Xuzhou army.

"Wonderful talent, really good general!" Cao Cao led the Chinese army to join Xiahou Yuan two hours after the end of the battle, and he was also full of praise for this result.

"Let that old thief Tao Qian get away with it for another day, and attack the city tomorrow!" It was now night, and Cao Cao was conceited that victory was imminent, so he had no intention of attacking the city overnight.

Just as he was about to rest, a sergeant suddenly came to report, and a person claiming to be Liu Bei outside the tent asked to see him.

Liu Bei? Cao Cao knew very well that the other party was coming as a lobbyist. Since the moment when Cao Jun was like the boundary of Xuzhou, the messengers of peace have come one after another, and it can be said that there is an endless stream. As for those envoys, Cao Cao adopted a strategy of not seeing them all behind closed doors.

But for Liu Bei, it's different, not to mention anything else, just by sending troops together to pursue Dong Zhuo's old friendship, Cao Cao can't easily leave the other party out of the door.

Liu Bei faced Cao Cao and bowed his head, while Guan Yu stood aside. Liu Bei entered Cao Ying to make peace, originally wanting to come alone, but Tao Qian tried his best to persuade people to guard against it, so he brought Guan Yu with him, so that Cao Cao had some scruples even if he wanted to make trouble. Originally, Zhang Fei insisted on accompanying him, but considering that his third brother was too short-tempered, in case Cao Cao had no unfavorable intentions for him, but it was not impossible for him to have murderous intentions after being stirred up by Zhang Fei, Liu Bei finally let him stay in Xiapi City.

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PS: Wang Zhong, Fufeng people's clan, has a martial strategy. Earlier, he served as the pavilion chief, and then led the villagers to Cao Cao, and the official worshiped the Zhonglang general. When Wang Zhong was young, because of the turmoil and famine in Guanzhong, he once ate the flesh of the dead. Later, Cao Pi knew about his cannibalism, and Cao Pi made a joke about it, and specially found a skull to hang on his saddle.