On the city wall of Xiayang City, Fan Chou held the city wall with both hands and looked at Li Yijun, who was camping five miles away, and kept thinking about whether to lead the army out to kill a wave while the enemy's foothold was not stable. After only half a look, he finally gave up on this rather tempting idea, because he couldn't see any flaws in the enemy.

Although Fan Chou has a more impulsive personality, he also knows how to take things seriously. At least for now, defending Xiayang City is much more important than defeating the enemy in front of you.

"Calculating the time, the envoys sent out should almost arrive in Gaoling, but if General Duan's reinforcements want to arrive here, I'm afraid it will take a while......" Fan Chou kept thinking in his heart.

Just thinking about it, he suddenly saw more than a dozen soldiers coming out of the enemy camp, "You want to come to curse the city?" Fan Chou thought a little painfully, he hated this kind of thing the most, because every time he couldn't help it, he still had to forcibly endure the feeling, which was quite unpleasant.

"Let's see if we can shoot those guys." Fan Chou ordered, but there was no hope. After all, the other party is not stupid, and it is impossible to go within the range of fire.

As Fan Chou expected, the dozen or so Li Yijun soldiers stopped when they came out of range, and began to shout at the city, "Dong thief has been killed......

The first sentence at the beginning made everyone, including Fan Chou, stunned. They looked at the city in amazement, listening to the shocking words, until a "snap" sounded and a soldier's weapon fell to the ground, and everyone came back to their senses.

"This is rumor-mongering! It's an inferior tactic of the enemy! General Li and General Ma were deeply favored by the Taishi, and Wang Situ was the most favored person of the Taishi, how could he betray the Taishi......" Fan Chou shouted loudly to the soldiers on the city wall, trying to dispel the impact of this incident on them.

It's just that it seems that Fan Chou has long expected this to happen, so the city quickly remembered a burst of shouts, "My general knows that you will definitely not believe it, so you can go and inquire in person......

"Ask a fart! Give me arrows! Fan Chou shouted angrily when he heard this, and when he heard this, the archers on the city wall mechanically pulled their bows and arrows, but the arrows they shot didn't have any power at all, and they all flew crookedly for a while, and then fell directly to the ground, and they couldn't even get close to the enemies who were still shouting.

"Bastard!" Seeing this, Fan Chou scolded angrily, but he also knew that these soldiers did not mean to do so, which made Fan Chou unable to open his mouth even if he wanted to scold. After all, if they were really scolded or even directly questioned, the blow to morale would not be something that the current Xiayang defenders could withstand.

"Defend the walls for me! If the enemy moves, report it to me at once! Fan Chou ordered his lieutenant, and then quickly descended the city wall. Although it is not a good time to leave now, there is no way, Fan Chou must immediately do something more important to confirm the authenticity of this matter.

Although he hoped to believe that it was just a rumor, it was fabricated by Zhao Yun in order to capture Xiayang City, but deep down, Fan Chou faintly felt that they were not lying.

Duan Xuan suddenly transferred 20,000 troops from here, Lu Bu suddenly attacked Xia Yang and Wenxi at the same time, and Li Yi's army was preparing to go south to Si Li...... These things happened almost simultaneously without warning, and even if Fan Chou didn't like to use his brain, he could feel the strange connection revealed in these things.

And in the camp of Li Yijun.

"I think Fan Chou is ready to send someone to inquire about the situation now, right?" After Zhao Yun saw Fan Chou's figure disappear from the city wall, he smiled with a relaxed expression.

"But this time and again, even if you send fast horses day and night, it will take several days, I don't know if there will be any variables," Zhang Liao said with some concern......

"If my expectations are correct, I'm afraid that Duan Xuan, who is in Gaoling, has already taken refuge in the imperial court." Hearing the words of the two, Xu Shu on the side said in a deep voice.

"Huh?" Hearing this, Zhao Yun and the two of them shook their heads at the same time, but then reacted, "Not bad!" Gaoling is less than a hundred miles away from Chang'an, and once the news of Dong Zhuo's murder comes out, unless Duan Xuan plans to fight to the death with the imperial court, the only way out is to take refuge in the imperial court. Zhao Yun groaned.

"So...... I'm afraid that the simmering reinforcements are already on their way to Xiayang. Zhang Liao said in a deep voice when he heard this, his expression was very grim.

Once Duan Xuan's reinforcements arrived in Xiayang, it would be absolutely foolish to take Xiayang with only their little strength. And at that time, even if the defenders in the city were convinced that Dong Zhuo was dead, they would not be able to bring them any blow.

"Hehe, don't worry, if you want to rush to Xiayang, it will take at least ten days or so. After all, that simmer not only has to rush to support, but also has to beware of Fan Chou defecting to ......us after getting the news," Xu Shu said with a smile when he heard this, with a hint of relief between his words.

"Well, what Yuan Zhi said makes sense." Zhao Yun and the others pondered for a moment before saying again, "However, it seems that we shouldn't have been waiting here. ”

"That's nature." Xu Shu nodded in response.

Immediately, Zhao Yun ordered the soldiers in front to start persuading them to surrender, one saying that Duan Xuan had completely given up on them, the other saying that Ma Teng had captured Gaoling and killed Duan Xuan, and at this time he had led the army to attack this side, and then mentioned the benefits of surrendering...... As soon as it came down, it was said that the defenders of the city were in turmoil.

Fan Chou didn't know how to deal with this situation at all, and could only pray that the soldiers sent out would bring back the news he wanted to hear earlier. Especially when the enemy's reinforcements arrived again, Fan Chou didn't know what to do. Because Li Yijun's performance undoubtedly strengthened the authenticity of Dong Zhuo's death, otherwise, how could they do such a reckless thing? Fan Chou knew very well that this army was definitely not from Bingzhou, but was recruited by Na Lu Bu in the territory.

A few days later.

Fan Chou sat in the hall of the mansion, countless fragments of wine jars scattered on the ground, his eyes were dull, and his face was full of tiredness. During this time, just to boost morale, Fan Chou had already put a lot of effort into it, and fortunately, the enemy outside the city did not take the opportunity to attack, otherwise Fan Chou really didn't know if it was possible to hold it with the low morale in the city now.

At this moment, a rush of footsteps came, and after a while, Fan Chou saw a soldier running in with a panicked face, but it was the spies sent by Fan Chou to inquire about the news in the Gaoling area before.

Seeing his appearance, Fan Chou asked directly without waiting for him to speak, "Has Taishi really been killed?" His tone was calm, as if he was just asking a very ordinary thing.