Liu Yong deliberately did not let the sergeant replace the banner of Cao Jun, nor did he let people show up, and all of them rested in the city, waiting for Cao Hong's arrival. This appearance is the most indistinguishable from reality, and Cao Hong can only come to explore. Liu Yong and Guan Yu both knew that he would not come with 20,000 people, so they made a simple arrangement to peel off another layer of skin on Cao Hong's body.

"Retreat!" Cao Hong saw that something was wrong and immediately ordered.

"Kill!" Suddenly, a force of men and horses blocked the way from the rear, and the first general shouted: "Zhou Cang is here!" Don't wait for it to come down soon! ”

Cao Hong's face changed greatly, it seemed that Liu Yong not only wanted to take Kunyang, but also wanted to keep himself here, and he was horrified. He only brought 5,000 men and horses, and it seemed that behind Zhou Cang, who rushed over, there were no less than three or four thousand men and horses, and he only felt that his scalp was numb, and he immediately ordered the whole army to break through.

Liu Yong smiled at the head of the city, the smile on his face was bright and happy, and he turned his head and said: "Yun Chang, it's time for you to go out, you don't have to leave Cao Hong, but you must make Cao Cao feel distressed!" ”

Guan Yu knew Cao Hong's status in Cao Cao's heart, he was the tiger general of the old Cao family, and the defeat of Cao Hong was also a resounding slap in the face to Cao Cao, and he immediately took the order.

Cao Hong broke through the siege while constantly checking the movement in Kunyang City behind him, and suddenly a sergeant rushed to report that Guan Yu opened the city and killed it, Cao Hong's heart was full of bitterness, how could he be so careless, he had to come to investigate in person, but the matter had come to this point, he could only make 3,000 people fight to break off, block Guan Yu, and lead 2,000 people to rush in one direction.

Zhou Cang blocked in front of him, Guan Yu chased behind him, and Cao Hong's 5,000 men and horses were able to stop and keep retreating. Fortunately, many of Cao Hong's subordinates were veterans of Cao Cao Chen's army, loyal and loyal, and had gone through countless battle formations of all sizes, and their combat power was good, otherwise they would have been defeated long ago. Cao Hong's heart aches, these are all old brothers, one less one dies, and today I am afraid that all of them will be buried here.

The more Cao Hong thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, he launched a ruthless attack, fought with all his might, the long knife in his hand flew up and down, and the enemies in front of him fell one by one, and they were about to break out of the siege, and suddenly blocked the way, it was Guan Ping.

"Cao Hong, since you're here, you have to leave without a few words, don't you think it's too rude?" Zhou Cang sneered.

Listening to the neighing and desperate screams of the soldiers behind him, Cao Hong's heart was cold, not only did he not stop, but he urged the war horse under his crotch faster, and rushed straight to Guan Ping, as if he wanted to rely on the war horse to collide. Zhou Cang was also taken aback, where had he ever seen this kind of tactic, but he was determined not to let Cao Hong break through easily, and suddenly held the ghost head knife tighter in his hand, and also urged the horse to rush forward.

"Boom!" Just when the two horses were staggered, a huge weapon collision sound sounded between the two, Zhou Cang rushed out obliquely, crumbling, but Cao Hong did not stop, leading the people behind him to break through and escape.

Waiting for the horse to stop, Zhou Cang's heart was shocked Mo Yan, he didn't expect this Cao Hong to have such a huge force, at the moment when the two weapons met, he only felt a huge force coming along the barrel of the gun, and immediately regretted it, his hands suddenly hurt from the tiger's mouth, and he knew that the tiger's mouth was cracked when he looked at it.

Looking at the back of Cao Hong in the distance, Zhou Cang was very happy, the spear in his hand was made of fine iron, otherwise, he was afraid that he would have broken the gun into two, and his back was drenched in cold sweat.

Guan Yu took Zhou Cang to block the defeat of the three thousand Cao troops, rushed forward, saw Zhou Cang's appearance and knew that he had suffered a dark loss, snorted coldly, obviously very unhappy about letting Cao Hong go, and rode a red rabbit horse in a flash, chasing and killing Cao Hong! Zhou Cang's face turned red, and he gritted his teeth to urge the horse to follow.

At the moment when Liu Yong was standing at the head of Kunyang City to admire Guan Yu and Zhou Cang's pursuit of Cao Hong, a scribe was hurrying out of the north gate of Xiangyang under the escort of more than ten knights and came towards Kunyang quickly.

Three days later, the soldiers came in to report: "Lord, Jiangdong Lu Fan has come to ask for a meeting!" ”

Liu Yong and Tian Feng looked at each other and nodded with a smile: "Call him in!" ”

"Lu Fan meets the Grand Duke!" Lu Fan just entered the door and hurriedly shouted to greet him.

"It's Ziheng here! What happened one after another in Jingzhou, you must also know it, let Wu Hou see the joke, it's really ashamed! Liu Yong was ashamed of what he said, but there was half a sense of shame in his tone, it was clearly a kind of arrogance, as if it was his original intention to be attacked and defeated by Cao Cao everywhere.

Although he experienced a big defeat, Jingzhou's vitality was not damaged, and his strength was still strong, Lu Fan shook his head and smiled: "The governor said this is a bad thing, victory and defeat are common things in the army, didn't the governor occupy Kunyang City in an instant, presumably the biggest headache at this moment should be Cao Cao!" ”

Seeing that Liu Yong was noncommittal, and the time for a cup of tea had passed, Lu Fan hugged his fists and said: "I don't know what the governor thinks about the alliance that I said last time?" ”

Liu Yongzheng said: "You can form an alliance, this matter is a matter of double benefit, but I don't know what Wu Hou means?" ”

Lu Fan immediately took out a handwritten letter from Sun Quan and presented it to Liu Yong, after reading it, Liu Yong basically understood what Sun Quan meant, and handed the letter to Tian Feng, Tian Feng read it, and mocked: "Wu Hou is really calculating, let my family master resist Cao Cao fairly, but he is just containing the Cao army in Yangzhou and waiting for the opportunity to cross the river to the north, is it too unfair?" ”

Lu Fan was not surprised, and smiled slightly: "Then I don't know what the Grand Governor means?" ”

Liu Yong got up, pointed to the map and said: "It's okay to form an alliance, and I can also make every effort to contain Cao Cao's Xuchang people, so that Jiangdong has a chance to take advantage of Hefei, but Wu Hou must do two things: First, the people of Poyang County must be removed, and they can't use tricks and tricks in the back." Of course, I will also order Gan Ning to withdraw his troops. Second, Cao's army in Hefei must be defended and contained by Jiangdong, and Jingzhou must be assisted in retaking Anhui County. In addition, as for what Wu Hou said about returning the territory occupied by Poyang now, he can't agree! ”

The situation in Jingzhou is delicate at this time, and he doesn't want to embarrass Sun Quan, so it can be said that the conditions offered are very generous. Perhaps Sun Quan had long expected Liu Yong's requests, and after Lu Fan pretended to bargain, he readily agreed. Quickly took out a document and wrote the conditions of both parties, Sun Quan had already sealed, and it would take effect immediately after Liu Yong's seal.

The two sides formed an alliance, and Lu Fan was naturally overjoyed, and stayed for another day under Liu Yong's hospitality. At night, Liu Yong set up a big banquet and invited Guan Yu and others to accompany him.

After three rounds of drinking, Liu Yong said: "I am trying to seize Kunyang at the moment, approaching Xiangcheng, Xuchang is within reach, presumably Cao Cao has mobilized men and horses to guard the defense, the land of Hefei, presumably also panicked, I don't know what Wu Hou will plan?" ”

Lu Fan naturally understood what Liu Yong meant, but he was stunned and surprised: "Fan is really stupid, if it weren't for the governor's reminder, he would have almost lost a good fighter, Fan could have set off and returned to report to Wu Hou, suggesting that Wu Hou immediately send troops to Hefei!" ”