Nightfall, west of the city, savage crossing. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Cao Bao sat on a piece of bluestone panting, turned his head to look around, looked at the people and horses that gradually gathered around him, his eyes were cloudy, and he sighed silently in his heart: "Wenhou, it's not that I, Cao Bao, am disloyal, but now that this trend has gone, the Cao family still has to live in Xuzhou, and can no longer offend Cao ****." ”

Soon, several other generals also quickly gathered over, and the moment they saw Cao Bao, several people were slightly stunned, and then nodded tacitly and quietly came over.

"Brother Cao, Wen Hou hasn't arrived yet?" A military general stepped forward, looked at Cao Bao and asked softly.

This time, Lu Bu's strategy was to break up the whole into parts, and the generals above the rank of lieutenant in the army, each of whom would treat dozens to hundreds of people, first use the strategy of exhausting the army to confuse the enemy's heart, and then break through the siege when it was the darkest and most tired before dawn, and then assemble at the wild man's crossing thirty miles west of the city.

However, this was only an order for most of the soldiers, and the meeting place that Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and Hao Zhao received was in the opposite direction.

Most of the generals in the army have already given birth to two hearts, this point, Lu Bu knows in his heart, if he is replaced by his predecessor, he will definitely not be able to make this decision, more than 7,000 soldiers and horses, he will throw it away, but now Lu Bu does not have the slightest burden, Xiapi can no longer be defended, staying, it is a dead end, but if you leave, there is no city, what to use to support these 7,000 men and horses?

What's more, the army's mind has changed, the soldiers are centrifuged, and with so many people, Lu Bu is a live target, not only will there be no benefit, but these 7,000 people will become a burden to Lu Bu and drag Lu Bu into the quagmire.

"The prince is going through the south gate, but they are all cavalry, so they should be there soon." Cao Bao said as he looked around at the same time, and for some reason, he suddenly felt a little flustered.

"Send someone to take a look, is Wen Hou here?" Seeing that most of the 7,000 people had gathered, but Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Gaoshun, and the young general of Mingjiao Hao Zhao, who had recently been promoted by Lu Bu, did not appear, which made Cao Bao's uneasy feeling even stronger.

"Yes!" A henchman nodded when he heard this, turned over his horse, and galloped towards the outside of the savage crossing, this time Lu Bu's side took away most of the war horses, and Cao Bao's side added up to several people, and the number of war horses was less than three hundred.

"Huh~" In the night sky, a little cold light flashed away under the moonlight, and the soldier who had just turned over and got on his horse screamed miserably and fell off his horse.

"Not good!" Cao Bao was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly stood up.

"Haha, thief Lu Bu, don't come and die soon!" A cracking sound sounded like thunder, even if it was far away, it still shook Cao Bao's eardrums.

"Zhang Fei!?" Cao Bao only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he almost fainted, he never thought that it would be this goods, you know, when Zhang Fei lost Xuzhou, Cao Bao played a great role in it, if it weren't for his secret communication with Lu Bu, Xuzhou would not have changed hands so easily.

The moment he saw Zhang Fei at this moment, Cao Bao had only one thought in his heart - run!

Regardless of whether he reported the news or not, Zhang Fei would never reason with others.

Under the cover of night, Zhang Fei didn't see Cao Bao's appearance clearly, but just rode his horse and coiled outside the savage crossing, holding the Zhangba snake spear, and constantly led the men and horses to rush to kill the military formation.

"Lu Bu, shrinking turtle, if you are a man, come out and fight with the third master and me for three hundred rounds!" Zhang Fei stabbed a general to death with a spear, sat on horseback, his eyes were round, looking in all directions, and a loud shout shook the surrounding soldiers on both sides of the enemy and dizzy, but there was no Lu Bu figure.

"Third brother! Don't bark! Liu Bei led the men and horses to kill from the other side, where the double-strand sword passed, the surrounding soldiers were terrified, and they came to Zhang Fei's side, frowning and said: "I saw it just now, Lu Bu is not in the army." ”

"Not in the army?" Zhang Fei was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Lu Bu looked at the Lu Bu army that was already in chaos in front of him, and his face became a little gloomy: "Lu Bu, you have given up on these people. ”

"What!?" Zhang Fei's eyes widened in surprise, thousands of people said to give up, when did Lu Bu become so kind?

"That's it!" Liu Bei shook his head, a gloom flashed in his eyes, it seems that this battle has really touched Lu Bu, with Liu Bei's understanding of Lu Bu, if it was Lu Bu before, he would never be so decisive, for the first time, Liu Bei was a little more jealous of Lu Bu.

"Big brother!" Guan Yu came over with men and horses, looked at Liu Bei from a distance, and held a military general in his hand: "I didn't find Lu Bu, but I found this guy." ”

"Cao Bao?" Zhang Fei's eyes were sharp, and he saw Cao Bao with a gray face and a dirty face, who was carried by Guan Yu on horseback, with a big mouth and two rows of white teeth that looked particularly eye-catching in the night.

"Xuande Gong helped, it was me who reported to Prime Minister Cao Cheng!" The moment Cao Bao saw Liu Bei, he hurriedly struggled and begged, he knew that among the three brothers, Liu Bei was still more reasonable and the most useful to speak.

When Liu Bei heard this, he didn't speak, just looked at him, but Zhang Fei on the side was furious when he heard this: "Okay, you are a repeated villain, you betrayed my eldest brother to vote for Lu Bu, and now you see that Lu Bu is lonely, and you come to betray him again, leaving you in the world is also a scourge!" ”

"The third master spares his life, Xuande Gong, save me...... Ah~" Without waiting for Liu Bei to speak, Zhang Fei had already rushed forward and stabbed him with a spear.

"Big brother, it seems that Lu Bu is already vigilant, seeing through the antipathy of these people, he will plan and use these people to attract Cao Cao's attention, take the opportunity to escape, and break his arm to survive." Guan Yu rode his horse to Liu Bei and said in a deep voice: "Now that Lu Bu is afraid that he has escaped, he wants to kill him, I'm afraid it will be difficult!" ”

Without the drag of the large number of men and horses, if it is just a small group of cavalry, Lu Bu has to leave, even if it is Cao Cao, it will be difficult to kill Lu Bu again.

"Go back and report to Prime Minister Cao Cheng." Liu Bei nodded, there was not much frustration in his heart, he was ambitious, in his heart, he regarded Cao Cao as the enemy of this life, although he had a grudge with Lu Bu before, but the enemy of the enemy is a friend, since Lu Bu has run away now, there is no chance of cooperation in the future, as for catching Lu Bu, let Cao Cao have a headache.

"Collect the troops!" Guan Yu nodded, and began to command Cao's army to rein in the defeated army, and slowly moved in the direction of Xiapi, and Liu Bei also sent cavalry to report the news to Xiapi Cheng first.

Even if Liu Bei didn't delay, when the news reached Xiapi City, it was already too late.

Xiapi City, which originally belonged to Lu Bu's Taishou Mansion, has now become Cao Cao's temporary residence, listening to the information sent back by his subordinates, Cao Cao's face sank like water, and he shook his head and smiled for a long time: "I didn't expect that I, Cao Mengde, would have been placed by Lu Bu all my life, haha." ”

"Prime Minister, Lu Bu, Yu Huye, full of wolf nature, now that he has been able to get out of trouble, he will definitely wait for an opportunity to retaliate in the future, and he should take advantage of the great loss of his strength to send troops to encircle and suppress it, so as to prevent future troubles." Cheng Yu frowned.

Cao Cao nodded, and then shook his head again, although Lu Bu is brave, but in Cao Cao's opinion, if it is said that it is a big trouble, it is a bit exaggerated, of course, if he can, Cao Cao is absolutely willing to kill Lu Bu, but now......

Handing a bamboo slip to Cheng Yu, Cao Cao sighed lightly, Xiapi was broken, Xuzhou was exhausted, and he didn't have time to continue playing hide and seek with Lu Bu.

"Yuan Shu sent troops?" Cheng Yu was stunned.

"It happened a few months ago, when we were conquering Xuzhou, and we didn't have time to pay attention to Yuan Shu." Cao Cao nodded, also a little upset, everything has not gone well in the past two years, first Zhang Xiu was dissatisfied with Cao Cao's occupation of his aunt Zou's family, and rebelled, which not only made Cao Cao lose his eldest son Cao Ang, but also lost Dian Wei, a general.

Yuan Shu was already the emperor in Shouchun years ago, when Cao Cao wanted to fight Xuzhou, he could only suppress the matter, but now he can't suppress it, Yuan Shu's tumor is even more openly against Yingchuan, if Yuan Shu knocks Xuchang down, then the world will be even more chaotic.

In addition, Yuan Shao in the north ruled the land of the four states, as if it was already the weather of the northern overlord, although Cao Cao now also occupies the three states, but the foundation is unstable, in addition to Yuan Shu and Zhang Xiu, there are also Jiangdong Sun Lang who is also ambitious, and he wants to start a war with Yuan Shao, this Sun family lion also has to be guarded against, Lin Lin finally came down, his Cao Cao's current situation is also quite dangerous, and if he takes a wrong step, he will lose all the games.

Cheng Yu was silent when he heard this, Yuan Shu was the emperor, this matter is not dealt with in time for Cao Jun, it will not be long before those princes who have a wait-and-see attitude will stand on their own.

Although now the princes have become a separatist, but at least everyone is still nominally a Han courtier, Cao Cao at this time if he fights Yuan Shu, he can stand on the righteousness, the princes who help Yuan Shu, is the enemy of the world, and the heroes will fight for it, but if Cao Cao does not act here, let Yuan Shu be called the emperor, then for a long time, it is equivalent to recognizing the fact that Yuan Shu is the emperor, and when the princes call the emperor one after another, Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to make the political strategy of the princes difficult to perform, at that time the pattern of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, for Cao Cao, It's not just about disadvantages.

"Retire." Cao Cao sighed, although he failed to kill Lu Bu, he was a little regretful, but Xuzhou had been taken, and the original strategic goal was achieved, as for Lu Bu, Cao Cao was ready to let the Chen family father and son deal with it.