Outside Fancheng, Cao Jun's camp.

This time Cao Cao attacked Fancheng, adding the hatred of the previous fiasco, Zhang Xiu originally wanted to stage a surrender strategy, where would Cao Cao be fooled, and immediately tore up the book and killed the messenger, and let the fast horse carry the body of the messenger back to the city.

Zhang Xiu knew that Cao Cao was going to put him to death, and while thinking of a perfect plan with the military advisor Jia Xu, he stepped up the defense of Fancheng.

During the day, Cao Cao's army attacked in turns, and the four city walls were damaged, especially the west city wall, and a few places were not discovered by the shade of the woods.

"Meng De, in fact, there is no need to invest so many troops here in Fancheng this time, in case there is a change in Shouchun, we can't respond to it!" Xiahoudun looked at the simple map made of cowhide and said to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao disagreed: "The situation here in Fancheng is not easier than Shouchun, Shouchun has several coalition forces to contain Yuan Yao, although he has hundreds of thousands of troops, but he can only shrink into the city and dare not come out, Zhang Xiu is not here either, he and Liu Biao agreed to attack and defend together, if we make such a mistake again, it will not be just as simple as defeating the army!" ”

Xiahoudun snorted coldly: "It's really rare to finally admit that you will be wrong!" ”

"I'm also human, and if I'm human, I make mistakes!" Cao Cao set his eyes on the dense Zhang Xiu people in Fancheng, "But I really thank God for giving me such a chance to correct my mistakes, and now Cao Mengde has no chance to lose anything!" ”

"The lord is wrong with this!" Xun You came in from outside the tent, holding a letter in his hand, "If the lord doesn't act, he will lose some of the people's hearts!" ”

Cao Cao took the express report and unfolded it, looking happy and worried: "Yuan Yao's nest Shouchun has been breached?" What, it was Sun Ce and Lu Bujun who broke through? Now Liu Bei is the Taishou of Jiujiang? ”

Xiahoudun looked at Cao Cao's expression becoming more and more wrong, and also turned behind Cao Cao to look, and was also surprised: "Is Sun Ce's strength already so powerful now?" ”

"Lions can't compete with each other!" Cao Cao muttered, looking at Xun Yu with a calm expression, "What good advice does Gongda have?" ”

Xun You smiled: "Any good suggestions now are secondary, if we have been pinned down here, when Liu Biao's army comes, we will be even more unable to get out!" It's like a person whose left and right arms are cut off at the same time, can he still live? ”

Cao Cao raised his eyebrows slightly: "Gongda means withdrawing?" ”

Xun You nodded: "The sooner you withdraw, the better, who can guarantee that Yuan Yao didn't send a letter to Liu Biao to sneak attack our rear?" ”

Xiahoudun smashed his fist on the case: "Do you want to be so cheap Zhang Xiu, this kid?" ”

Xun You shook his head: "Of course not, before leaving, you have to give him some hardship!" ”

In Fancheng, Zhang Xiu, who has been guarding the city for many days, is full of fireworks at the moment, but he can't bother to freshen up, he discussed with Jia Xu: "We let Cao Cao suffer so much at the beginning of the year, and killed his general Dian Wei and his nephew, no wonder he won't accept our surrender!" ”

Jia Xu smiled: "What is expected, what is the lord worried about him?" ”

"Mr. Loss can still laugh!" Zhang Xiu looked at Jia Xu's calm expression and was speechless for a while, "We only have the land of Fancheng now, and it has been attacked by Cao Cao for several days, the city wall is broken and destroyed, and the defenders have been killed and wounded countless times, so even the grain and grass can't be supported for long, but I heard a detailed report that Cao Cao captured a large number of Yuan Yao's men and horses, and obtained countless grains, grass, horses, and equipment. ”

Jia Xu was still smiling: "Since the lord sent a detailed work to find out these things that are very good for Cao Cao, why didn't he find out about things that are very bad for Cao Cao?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Xiu raised his eyes to look at Jia Xu, he knew that this unfathomable figure in front of him could come up with a brilliant plan even when he was in a desperate situation, "May Mr. teach me!" ”

Jia Xu said: "Although General Zhang Xian was beheaded, the spirit of our army was not completely frustrated, not to mention that when Cao Cao sent his troops, I had sent a letter to Liu Biao, Liu Biao and the lord are dependent on each other, and must know the reason that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, according to the days, at this moment must have brought reinforcements on the road, the lord can only drag Cao Cao for a while, and when Liu Biao's reinforcements arrive, then the two phases will be sandwiched, so that Cao Cao can be severely damaged, so that he will not be able to look west to Fancheng for at least a long time, otherwise he will only see the success or failure in front of him, and do not know the long-term opportunity, although there is a small victory, there will be far worries!" ”

Zhang Xiu understood: "What does Mr. mean?" ”

Jia Xu thought for a while, and said loudly: "I saw Cao Cao around the city in the city and watched for three days. He saw the color of bricks and soil in the southeast corner of the city, the old and the new, and most of the antlers were destroyed, and he intended to attack from here, but he went to the grass on the northwest and deceived me into making a noise, and wanted to coax me to withdraw my troops to defend the northwest. ”

Zhang Xiu suddenly realized: "What does Mr. mean, is it to plan the plan?" ”

Jia Xu smiled and said nothing.

At night, Tanma flew to report to Cao Cao, saying that Zhang Xiu had withdrawn his troops in the northwest corner, shouting to defend the city, but the southeast was very empty. Cao Cao was overjoyed and said: "As expected! Pass the order down, do what you want! ”

"No!"

The moon was dark and the wind was high, Lu Qian and Yu Ban each led their elite soldiers, quietly climbed up the moat, cut off the antlers, and saw that there was no movement in the city, so they made noise and rushed in, and were about to open the city gate to lead the main force of the Cao army outside the city in, but suddenly a cannon sounded, and many ambushes came out of nowhere, and Lu Qian was immediately shot by a random arrow, and was protected by the army and retreated.

Yu Ban is a little miserable, his men and horses came to climb the city wall, at this moment in ambush, although his men fought to the death, but in the dark, the people and horses were not clear, and they were scrambling to retreat, everyone didn't care about fighting at all, compared to the city wall, Zhang Xiu had already led the strong soldiers to chase and kill, and for a while, Yu Ban's men and horses were lost more than half.

"Damn! It is better to die in battle than to die in vain! Yu Ban watched the people around him fall one by one, these are the elite soldiers he personally trained, the orders are strict, Qiu has not committed any crimes, but now he is going to die innocently and tragically, Yu Ban Tiger looked at him with tears in his eyes, pulled out his sword, and shouted: "War, war, war!" ”

"Fight, fight, fight!" His soldiers all stopped retreating, and each turned to glare at Zhang Xiujun, who had killed their good brother and comrade-in-arms.

"Huh? It's kind of interesting! Zhang Xiu came out with a gun, and saw that the other party was just a general with a small head but a dignified face, and said to the deputy general next to him with a smile, "It seems that he wants to die very much!" ”

"Hahahaha!" Zhang Xiu's lieutenant laughed along, laughing at the forbiddenness.

"General, you retreat first, let's resist Zhang Xiu!" The soldiers who were forbidden said one after another.

"Let my soldiers die in my place? No way! Yu Ban slashed and killed the swarming enemy soldiers, the splattered blood drenched him into a bloody man, he looked at Zhang Xiu not far in front of him and said sharply, "I want to return General Dian Wei's revenge to you twice!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Xiu only said a good word, and then rushed out with a gun, the pear flower gun in his hand was full of cold light, and it came straight to the forbidden place, Huo Huo was like a weaving light, dazzling people.

Yu Ban was not afraid, raised his hand to separate the embroidered spear with a sword, but was shocked by the strange power of the other party and almost let the long sword go, almost at the same time, he also felt that his hand was wet and sticky and slippery.

He knew that the tiger's mouth was cracked.

Zhang Xiu sneered: "You can catch my shot, yes, it's a character!" ”

Yu Ban also sneered, he clenched his long sword: "If you can catch one shot, you can catch two shots, three shots, countless guns......"

"I can't help myself!" Zhang Xiu attacked again, and the spear swam suddenly, like a spirit snake coming out of a hole, and the afterimage was sufficient, making it impossible to distinguish which move was real and which was false.

Yu Ban was shocked, looking at Zhang Xiu's move, he didn't know how to parry for a while: "The Gun King of the Northland is worthy of his name!" ”

"Puff puff puff ......" Yu Ban was ready to die, but was attracted by the sound of several gunblades piercing his body, he looked up, it turned out that several guards rushed over, blocking the shot for Yu Ban, but paid the price of his life.

"You-"

"General, retreat quickly, you are no match for him! Tell the lord that we are all good! The soldiers who were strung together clung to Zhang Xiu's weapons and shouted hoarsely.

"That's good, but I'm not leaving!" Yu Ban felt that his throat was choked, he held the long sword tighter, and actually rushed towards Zhang Xiu! "Zhang Xiu, I won't let them die in vain!"

"Huh?" Zhang Xiu wanted to pull out the spear, but was held by the soldiers of Yu Ban, and couldn't help but be furious, so he simply didn't use weapons, and directly faced Yu Ban with his bare hands.

The two met, there was no suspense, Yu Ban's sword was knocked away, and after being punched twice by Zhang Xiu in the chest, the whole person flew towards the outside of the city wall.

"General Yu Ban......" When the Cao Jun in the city and under the city saw it, they all exclaimed in unison.

Suddenly, a figure flew into the air, supported by the forbidden waist, and slowly landed.

Yu Ban originally thought that he would inevitably fall to death, but he was accidentally saved, and after seeing the appearance of the person who saved him, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Mr. Xi Zhicai, you are not dead?!" ”

Sure enough, it was Xi Zhicai, to be exact, it was Su Ze, who had been pretending to be Su Mu for many years, he was wearing tattered clothes, but at this moment, his expression was rare and solemn, staring at the various wounds on Yu Ban's body and frowning: "Are you tricked again?" ”

One word after another, full of bitterness!

Yu Ban shook his head: "It's no big deal, it's just that a little bit of people have been damaged, Zhang Xiu is too powerful!" ”

"Yes!" Su Ze sneered, "I haven't taught him a lesson for a long time, let him suffer a little today!" ”

Su Ze said and looked at the city, Zhang Xiu's familiar figure came into his eyes, although it was a hazy night, but the two peerless masters could feel each other's breath.

There are too many new and old hatreds between him and Zhang Xiu, as early as in Chang'an, if it wasn't for Zhang Xiu to get in the way, it was already Su Ze who was sitting in Cao Cao's seat now.