Ma Chao's cavalry marched all the way east after beating Wancheng, and if anyone found out about this at this time, they would definitely be able to see that his destination was Xiakou, which was held back by less than 30,000 horses led by Xu Huang at this time.

Wancheng is not much different from Xiakou, but it is also hundreds of miles, Ma Chao is led by all the cavalry, so he can reach Xiakou within three days, and faster than Ma Chao's cavalry, Zhao Yun's letter went from the waterway, and it can appear in Zhou Yu's hands in less than two days.

Two days, in Liu Feng and Sima Yi confronted Shangyong, Cao Zhang led the army to slowly move to Shangyong, Ma Chao led the cavalry all the way to the east in the process of slowly flowing, two days later, Zhao Yun's letter really appeared in the hands of Zhou Yu in Xiakou City.

Because Zhou Yu was sent to Xiakou by Liu Feng, it was really a little far away from Sima Yi's real destination, Shangyong, so Zhou Yu didn't know the result of the battle in Shangyong before, and he didn't get the news that Deng Ai was defending Cao Zhang's attack in Wancheng, all he did was to have several battles with Xu Huang outside the city.

Zhou Yu has not done his best in the battle, and in the case of the unknown outcome of the Shangyong battle, in order to be able to confuse Sima Yi, Zhou Yu did not find a way to kill Xu Huang's less than 30,000 horses.

And Xu Huang was not much less than the defenders in Xiakou City because his own troops were not much less, so he was not afraid of Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.

But the letter that Zhou Yu received today will obviously change the lifeless situation here, Zhao Yun introduced the events of Shangyong and Wancheng to Zhou Yu in detail, and showed in his heart the reason why he sent Ma Chao's cavalry to Xiakou, Zhou Yu looked at it, and he was also smiling Lian Lian bow, this time what he wanted in his heart coincided with Zhao Yun's strategy, the arrival of Ma Chao's 10,000 cavalry was obviously able to liberate Zhou Yu, who had been imprisoned in Xiakou.

"General Meng Qi is here, it's just the right time, the day when Xu Huang shows off his might outside my Xiakou City, tomorrow will come to an end!"

Zhou Yu read the letter and handed it to Lu Xun at his side, and said with a smile behind him, Lu Xun hurriedly looked at the letter carefully, these days, Zhou Yu was trapped in this mere place of Xiakou and did nothing on the frontal battlefield, his temper was already very short-tempered, and today's letter completely changed his expression, Lu Xun was still very curious.

After seeing it, Lu Xun's face was also happy, although Zhou Yu and he are both good at using strategy, but what is lacking in this Xiakou City is a person who can fight with Xu Huang on the frontal battlefield, and because of this, Xu Huang always shouted under the city after finding out the situation in the city, clamoring to fight with the guards in the city, Zhou Yu could only order the defenders to hold out, he and Lu Xun were really unable to fight with Xu Huang on the battlefield.

But this time, what Zhao Yun mentioned in the letter was to suggest that Zhou Yu and Lu Xun should cooperate with Ma Chao in the city and outside the city, and use strategies to take down Xu Huang's more than 20,000 Wei troops, and then completely remove Xu Huang's barrier that held Xiakou, so that Zhou Yu and a considerable part of Xiakou's defenders could be liberated, and then set a strategy according to Liu Feng and Sima Yi's situation in Shangyong, otherwise only Liu Feng would be left, and Pang Tong and Wei Yan would lead 50,000 defenders to defend in Shangyong, which was really a bit difficult.

Zhao Yun's move turned the pieces into a whole, on the one hand, he uprooted all the forces that Sima Yi used to contain the defenders, and then combined the forces liberated from them into one, so that Sima Yi formed a certain advantage in the formation, at least it could make him unable to concentrate on attacking a city, and finally be able to reverse the overall situation, it is unknown.

"Send the cavalry who are familiar with the terrain of Jiangxia, after leaving the city, bypass Xu Huang's belonging, and wait for General Meng Qi in the direction of Wancheng, if General Meng Qi arrives, let him first station the cavalry in a place where Xu Huang will not be discovered, and then enter the city to discuss with me!"

Zhou Yu calculated the time, and found that with the marching speed of the cavalry led by Ma Chao, he would be able to reach Xiakou in a day or two, so he hurriedly sent cavalry to meet him, he was afraid that after Ma Chao arrived, he saw the sergeant led by Xu Huang and directly started a war with him, in that case, even if he went to support from the city, the damage caused was not something he wanted to bear, after all, every casualty at this time had to be carefully calculated, since the strength was their disadvantage, what they had to do was naturally to try their best to reduce this disadvantage.

A day later, Ma Chao, dressed in civilian clothes, was quietly invited back to the city by the cavalry sent by Zhou Yu, and the two only discussed secretly in the secret room of Zhou Yu's mansion for less than an hour, and Ma Chao left alone in a hurry, obviously, time is very urgent at this time. But after Ma Chao left, from the other side of Xiakou, a team of people and horses also slowly walked out of the gate of Xiakou, and they didn't know where they were going.

Less than half a day after Ma Chao left Xiakou City, Xu Huang, who had not appeared outside the city for almost two days, began to lead his soldiers and horses to the outside of Xiakou City to call for battle, and what he said before the battle was just some clichés, which greatly belittled Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.

The person who called the battle scolded for almost half an hour, Xu Huang saw that there was still no movement in the city as always, and knew that Zhou Yu would probably not go out of the city to fight with him, after all, the task given to him by Sima Yi before was only to contain the defenders of this Xiakou, and he was waiting for Sima Yi's news with peace of mind, so he was already about to start preparing to retreat into the camp.

But just when Xu Huang was a little interested, he only heard a loud bang at the city gate of Xiakou, and it was suddenly opened, Xu Huang looked at it, and the first person in the middle was a silver helmet and silver armor, holding a sword, it was Zhou Yu!

"Zhou Yu'er, since you have become a turtle with a shrunken head, why do you dare to go out of the city to die today?" Xu Huang pointed at Zhou Yu with the big knife in his hand and asked sharply.

Zhou Yu snorted coldly when he saw this situation, and then said: "Who will be sent to death, it is not yet known, since you are here to call for battle, you will go to the open place outside the city, what if I fight with you at that time?" ”

Zhou Yu is famous for his resourcefulness, how could Xu Huang not know, he did not rush to answer after hearing this, but looked back at the situation outside the city, thought about it again, and then shouted to Zhou Yu: "Since this is the case, follow me!" Look at me to kill all of you first, and then take your Xiakou, and then all the land of Jiangxia will fall into my hands! ”

As soon as the words fell, Xu Huang turned his horse's head and led the sergeants under his command to walk out of the city, but the direction he went was the direction in which he set up camp, in the camp, Xu Huang also left 10,000 soldiers, which was his strong backing, so in Xu Huang's mind, he led Zhou Yu to a place a little closer to his camp, and Zhou Yu didn't use any tricks.