"Oh?" Although Cao Cao knew that Gao Yi's sudden arrival today must be something, he never thought that it would be related to what Guo Jia was going to say today, if it weren't for the previous conversation, he would really doubt the relationship between Gao Yi and Guo Jia, thinking like this, Cao Cao looked at Gao Yi suspiciously, wanting to hear what he would say.

"There's something I've hidden from you, senior brother, forgive me for telling you the truth now!" Gao Yi smiled and said, "I secretly got Guan Hai's men and horses to Yangzhou, and also let Tai Shici break into the Yangzhou assassin Liu Xuan, and then I want to use the power of Sun Jian's son Sun Ce to expel Liu Xuan's forces from Yangzhou!" ”

Cao Cao was surprised, naturally Gao Yi actually told this shocking secret in front of everyone like this, but he still frowned and said: "Yangzhou's spies have come to report, hasn't Sun Ce already taken refuge in Yuan Yao?" Mingyang: What is your purpose in doing this? ”

Gao Yi said with a smile: "It seems that senior brother, you only know one thing and don't know the other, Sun Ce is not a person who is willing to be subordinate, he took refuge in Yuan Yao, just to show others, and it is also so that he will not have to worry about attacking Liu Yao in the future, because if this is not the case, he will not be able to get out of Yuan Yao's control, and now he is too young, Sun Jian's old department may not be convinced, so he ......"

Saying this, Gao Yi looked at Cao Cao and said, "Yangzhou there, I have to go again, although Liu Miao has no ability, but Sun Ce also has no war management, let Guan Hai take refuge in him, of course, there is a price, that is, he and we have to reach a secret alliance, you must know that Liu Biao is Sun Ce's mortal enemy, if you can contain Liu Biao and Yuan Yao because of this, at least senior brother, you have nothing to worry about in the south, right?" ”

"Good!" Cao Cao was amazed this time, and he held Gao Yi's shoulder and said happily, "Mingyang, you have done me a great favor, I don't know how to thank you!" ”

It could be seen that Cao Cao was really happy, Gao Yi looked at him with a smile, and then blurted out: "We are senior brothers, your business is my business, what else does senior brother say thank you!" ”

Cao Cao's body was shocked, senior brother, is it?

No.

He looked at Gao Yi with a gleam in his eyes: Are you really doing this for me? Or is there some other conspiracy?

But then he shook his head, is he a little too suspicious, because no matter what way you look at it, he has no loss!

"Okay, just do what Feng Xiao said, and transfer half of the troops from the hands of the guards from all over the country to be led by Yuan Rang, and go to Chenliu to station!"

"No!"

Chen Liu, Yongqiu.

Zhang Chao, whose face was full of muddy river, looked desperately at Cao Cao's dense army outside the city, and smiled bitterly.

Zhang Chao's subordinate general said on the side: "Lord, isn't Cao Cao's army already out of grain and grass?" Why haven't you quit yet? ”

Zhang Chao sighed and said, "There is only one possibility, the rest of Yanzhou has been captured by Cao Cao, so he has so many troops to attack us!" ”

The general said: "This, lord, Zhang Miao Taishou and General Lu Bu have all been defeated by Cao Cao?" ”

Zhang Chao was about to speak, when the little soldier hurriedly ran over: "Lord, Cao Jun is preparing to attack again!" ”

"Huh! Is Cao Cao determined to succeed here? Zhang Chao looked speechlessly at the enemy soldiers who were constantly charging with shields in the distance outside the city, they rushed towards the foot of the city wall one by one without fear of death, although they were quickly repelled by their own subordinates at the head of the city, but obviously, the fool could see that Cao Jun was consuming his own defensive strength.

"Zhang Chao'er, open the door and surrender quickly, my lord said that he would leave you a whole corpse!" It was Xu Chu who was shouting under the city, and he was leading a group of soldiers in heavy armor to beat drums and curse the formation.

"Don't try to trick me into fighting!" Zhang Chao said angrily, "I already have a few reinforcements arriving in a few days, and you have no food and grass, do you want to starve to death here if you don't retreat?" ”

"Coward!" Dian Wei also commanded the siege on the other side and scolded at the same time, "The turtle with a shrunken head is really a manly man in vain!" ”

Zhang Chao's face was flushed, but he had nothing to say, so he shouted to the soldiers around him: "Give me a good stand, support until the reinforcements arrive, and there will be nothing to do!" ”

At this time, a soldier timidly asked Zhang Chao: "Lord, Zhang Miao Taishou and General Lu Bu were both defeated by Cao Cao, is it possible for them to send troops to save us?" ”

"Presumptuous! How dare you disturb the morale of the army! When Zhang Chao's subordinates heard this little soldier say this, they were immediately furious, drew their swords in their hands, and wanted to assassinate this little soldier who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, "The lord said that if there are reinforcements, there will be reinforcements, do you have any questions?" ”

The sword did not reach the body, but was stopped by Zhang Chao, the general saw Zhang Chao holding the hilt of the sword sadly, looked at the wounded soldier in front of him, stepped forward and gently stroked the wounds with his hand, and then solemnly pulled the somewhat droopy armor for the little soldier and said: "Little guy, how old is this year?" ”

When Xiao Bing saw Zhang Chao's behavior, he thought he was going to kill himself, and couldn't help but tremble and said: "Back to the lord, I am nineteen years old this year, and today happens to be my birthday!" ”

"Where are you from?"

"Back to the lord, my home is in Guangling Gaoyou!"

"Gaoyou, it's a good place!" Zhang Chao muttered, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

The little soldier knelt on the ground and trembled: "The villain said the wrong thing, please punish the lord!" ”

"I'm the one who deserves the punishment!" Zhang Chao suddenly became excited, and two tears flowed down, "I am the one who brought you to a point of no return, and if you want to die, you should die!" Saying that, Zhang Chao suddenly stabbed his sword backhand at him, and the other soldiers shouted one after another.

"Congring" There was a sound of weapons clashing, Zhang Chao was stunned and the long sword was knocked to the ground by another sword, he looked up at the person who prevented him from looking for a short sight, and smiled bitterly: "Chen Rong, why do you want to stop me?" ”

Chen Rong, dressed in Confucian clothes, stepped forward angrily and picked up Zhang Chao's sword and shouted, "Jingming, what are you doing?" When our Hebei Four Friends first got married, they said that they wanted to live and die together, have you forgotten? ”

"I haven't forgotten, Chen Rong, let's go, Cao Cao said that he will be massacrated after the city is broken, while the siege outside the city is not tight now, it is still too late for you to leave!" Zhang Chao said excitedly.

Chen Rong pulled Zhang Chao off the city wall and reprimanded him loudly: "It's not a desperate situation yet, do you want to give up on yourself like this?" ”

Zhang Chao said weakly: "I received a secret letter yesterday, and now the entire Yanzhou is Cao Cao's, only me, Yongqiu, Lu Bu went to Xuzhou to join Liu Bei, and the eldest brother also led the defeated army to Yuan Yao, how long can we hold out in a lonely city?" ”

Chen Rong said: "Then break through, let's also go to Liu Bei or Yuan Yao, after all, you still have some prestige in Guangling, if you can break through, you may not be able to make a comeback!" ”

"It's useless, Chen Rong, you don't know, when Lu Bu and the eldest brother broke through, Cao Cao didn't have enough troops to cover them, but now it's different, Cao Cao firmly occupies the place where we must go south, he didn't catch the eldest brother, he will definitely not give up on me, besides, the eldest brother entrusted his family to me, and now they are all in Yongqiu City!"

Chen Rong frowned and said, "Yes, Meng Zhuo didn't expect that Lu Bu would be defeated so quickly, and he didn't expect Cao Cao to attack Chen Liu, so he didn't have time to take his family with him!" ”

At this time, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly shouted in amazement: "The enemy has retreated!" ”

"Retirement?" Zhang Chao and Chen Rong glanced at each other in surprise, and then immediately climbed the city wall to take a closer look, and sure enough, Cao Jun was retreating in a panic.

"What's going on?" Zhang Chao was puzzled while ordering the generals around him to pat the probe horse and go to investigate first.

Seeing that Cao's army had retreated far away, a few scouts opened the city gate and went out of the city.

After a short time, all of these scouts came back intact and reported to Zhang Chao: "Lord, the investigation is clear, Cao Cao suddenly fell seriously ill, so he had to order a hasty retreat!" ”

"That's great news!" Chen Rong was overjoyed and said: "In this case, I will go to Dongwuyang and borrow some soldiers and horses from Zang Hong, Jingming, didn't you say that Yuan Shaozheng and Cao Cao would not send reinforcements, and the only reinforcement that could be relied on was Zang Hong?" Now that Cao's army is withdrawing, we can also have enough time to move in to rescue the troops! ”

"Then there will be work!" Zhang Chao gave Chen Rong a deep look.

"Jing Ming's words are serious, our four friends in Hebei are originally a combination of good and bad, life and death! Wait for my good news! ”

"Blessing and misfortune are one, life and death are shared?" Zhang Chao looked at Chen Rong's departing back and muttered.

At this time, the maid suddenly came to report: "Second master, the eldest lady is about to give birth!" ”

Zhang Chao was shocked and said: "Why is my sister-in-law going to give birth at this time?" ”

"Ahh Zhang Miao's wife, Liu, was on the bed in the room at this time, with large beads of fine sweat all over her body, her clothes were soaked, and several maids and midwives were busy, receiving hot water and handing towels for a while.

"Madam, you have to hold on, hard!"

"Ahh Liu Shi felt as if he was about to be paralyzed, but he still had to gather strength little by little to cooperate with the midwife, the mattress in her hand had already been crushed by her, and the corners of her mouth were also bitten, and traces of blood were overflowing, "Meng Zhuo, Meng Zhuo, where are you?" ”

Zhang Chao came to the door of the room, listening to Liu's heart-rending screams, his heart was also painful, today is his sister-in-law's day of giving birth, but his eldest brother is thousands of miles away, at this moment, what Liu wants to see most must be his husband by his side to encourage him and comfort himself, right? But in fact......

"Wow......" After finally another rush again, there was a cry of a baby born in the room, Zhang Chao was surprised and delighted, "How is it, how is it?" ”

"Congratulations, ma'am, it's a big fat boy!" The midwife came to Liu with a baby wrapped like a dumpling in her hand and smiled.

"Show me!" Liu Shi seemed to be in prostration, but he still sat up and said.

A few maids had already opened the door for Zhang Chao, and he came into the room to see that Liu was so happy that he was holding the child in his arms and kissing and looking, Liu saw Zhang Chao coming in, and he did not shy away from it, pointing to the child to Zhang Chao: "Second uncle, look, how similar it is to Meng Zhuo!" ”

"It's none of your business here, let's all go out!" Zhang Chao said to the maids and midwives, "Go to the account room to receive the reward!" ”

"No! Thank you, sir! The maid and the midwife thanked each other and walked out of the room.