"Cao Chun, your soldiers have already surrendered at night, and there is only one way for you to die if you struggle again!"

Xu Sheng pointed at Cao Chun and said proudly, but Cao Chun shouted with a weapon in his hand, "Who are you?" Why should I send you down? If we have the ability, let's fight it alone! ”

Xu Sheng raised his eyebrows, before leaving, Tao Ying asked him not to fight Cao Cao head-on, Tao Ying said that Cao Cao is difficult to defeat, Cao Cao is not a god, Xu Sheng does not believe in evil, this battle, he did not lose many men and horses to knock down the dilapidated Lanling.

"Hugh is going to be strong, my eldest brother is in Huben to make peace with Cao Cao, you don't have to die."

At any time, it is better to kill the other party than to capture the other party alive, so Xu Sheng wants to capture Cao Chun alive here, and after he goes back, he can rub Cao Cao's sharp qi fiercely.

Seeing that the matter had come to this, Cao Chun let out a long sigh and dropped his weapon. Xu Sheng gestured left and right, and the two soldiers were busy holding ropes and were about to tie up Cao Chun. As soon as the two soldiers arrived at Cao Chun's side, Cao Chun suddenly picked up his waist knife and killed Xu Sheng's personal soldiers with two knives, and then rolled to the side of the crowd with a roll, and after a few more knives, three or four crossbowmen fell to the ground.

The other crossbowmen just wanted to shoot him, but he was surrounded by his own people, and they couldn't fire their arrows at all, and the front was full of crossbowmen, and the pikemen behind couldn't squeeze in, and a massacre began. Cao Chun was also very brave, and the crossbowmen had no weapons, and when he killed thirteen crossbowmen in a row, the pikemen behind stabbed in.

Cao Chun dodged the spear and rolled into the crowd again, and several more pikemen were hacked to death. Xu Sheng jumped down from his horse and yelled, "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" ”

The soldier quickly flashed a way, and Xu Sheng rushed towards Cao Chun with a long knife. With a knife cut over, Cao Chun hurriedly set up the knife to block it. The two fought in front of everyone for more than ten rounds, without winning or losing. Xu Sheng would not be able to defeat Cao Chun for a while, and he was afraid that if he was accidentally injured again, his morale would be damaged, so after more than a dozen rounds, Xu Sheng sold a flaw and jumped out.

The surrounding crossbowmen had already surrounded Cao Chun, and Xu Sheng pointed at Cao Chun and shouted, "I respect you for being a man, and I don't want to kill you today." If you surrender, you will be left with your life, if you do not surrender, let you die in this Lanling today, after you die, you will build a pavilion here, engraved with your name, so that you will be spurned by the people of Xuzhou for generations! ”

After Xu Sheng finished speaking, Cao Chun raised his knife and was about to cut Xu Sheng again, and an arrow was swooped, hitting Cao Chun's back. Cao Chun endured the arrow wound and was about to kill Xu Sheng again, another arrow shot at his leg, and Cao Chun knelt on the ground with a puff.

Several soldiers went up and put their spears against Cao Chun's body, and another soldier went up and knocked down his knife and tied Cao Chun up with a rope. After tying it up, a prisoner cart had already been pushed over, and Cao Chun's generals who had already paid more than ten yuan under him were loaded in the prisoner cart.

After recovering Lanling, the northern county seat, in a week, the soldiers were a little tired, Xu Sheng ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up until dawn. After dawn, Xu Sheng walked in Lanling City, where the houses were all burned by the fire, and there were pieces of ruins everywhere. As far as the eye could see, except for the soldiers walking around, the city was bare and there was not even a single tree.

The sun is scorching the earth, Lanling has experienced the scourge of Cao soldiers twice, and the people have moved to Pengcheng to flee. Not to mention Lanling, even hundreds of people in the Langya Kingdom in the north have migrated south and fled to Xiapicheng or Pengchengguo. Now most of the places under the control of Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian are not safe, and the people have heard that the Xiapi Kingdom and Pengchengguo occupied by the second son of the God of War have distributed land to the common people, and some ordinary people in villages that have not suffered from the war have also moved their families to Pengchengguo.

Because they stayed in the north, they also cultivated the land for the landlords, and after paying the rent, they did not have enough to eat.

Xu Sheng wanted to report the battle report of Lanling to Tao Ying of Huben, but Tao Ying's envoy came to Lanling first. The envoy walked all the way, and apart from a large number of fleeing civilians on the way, Cao Bing had not seen much. Outside Lanling City, there were not even many Xuzhou soldiers, and when they saw the Xuzhou banner in Lanling, the envoy was even more excited and wept.

Rushing to Lanling, the messenger handed Tao Ying's letter to Xu Sheng. Xu Sheng opened the letter and read it, in which Tao Ying asked Xu Sheng to lead the troops back to Huben. Cao Cao was still hesitant, he wanted to concentrate all the soldiers and horses in Huben, give Cao Cao a dismount, make him surrender obediently, and then hand over all the looted money, and then send his son to Xuzhou as a hostage.

After Xu Sheng received the letter, he led nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses and 2,000 cavalry composed of surrendered troops to Huben non-stop. After two days of trekking, Xu Sheng's forward troops arrived outside Huben City.

At this time, the tiger has been besieged for two weeks, and the morale of Cao Cao's soldiers is also a little low, because Tao Ying has the soldiers shouting outside the city day and night: "Brothers and sisters in the city, Yanzhou has been seized by Lu Bu, and your family's life and death are now uncertain, you don't protect your family, but come to Xuzhou to plunder the land, this is not filial piety!" ”

The ancients valued filial piety, not to mention that their wives and children and parents were in Yanzhou. Under Tao Ying's verbal offensive, the morale of the army in the city was gradually disintegrated, and Cao Cao had a headache at this time. He has been thinking too much about things these days, and admitting defeat now is tantamount to being controlled by others, and he will never be able to attack Xuzhou in the future. However, Yanzhou is the land of four wars, and the weakest prince around is Xuzhou, and Xuzhou has also produced a god who can predict the future!

When Xu Sheng's soldiers and horses arrived at Huben, the Huben soldiers hurriedly came to pay their respects. Tiger Ben is also a small city, the soldiers shouted all the way, and when they arrived in Cao Cao's hall, Cao Cao was nesting on the bed, and all the strategists next to him were standing on the left and right.

Seeing that some soldiers were coming in a hurry, Xi Zhicai hurriedly said: "Lord, there must be a battle report ahead!" ”

Cao Cao lay on the bed and squinted, and after a while, he said, "Is it Yanzhou urging the troops, or is it Tao Ying urging the surrender?" ”

The soldier knelt on the ground and replied: "Lord Qi, there are soldiers and horses from Xuzhou all the way outside the city, and they are still ...... under the banner of Xu."

"What's wrong?"

Cao Cao was still squinting and lying on the bed, it seemed that his head had hurt even more in the past two days, and he couldn't wait to pry his head open. The soldier knelt on the ground and didn't speak for a long time, and Xi Zhicai was also urging him, and the little soldier hurriedly replied: "They captured General Cao Chun alive, and they have cut off our retreat!" ”

"What!"

Cao Cao sat up suddenly from the sickbed, the little soldier knelt on the ground and did not dare to speak, and the strategists also gasped. Which general surnamed Xu in Xuzhou, they haven't heard of a general surnamed Xu who is Cao Chun's opponent!

Seeing that the general trend had gone, it was impossible to defeat Tao Ying and go back unscathed to support the Yanzhou battlefield, Xi Zhicai said on the side: "Lord, the matter has come to this, you should focus on your body!" ”

All the strategists also hurriedly shouted: "Lord, the body is the most important!" ”

Cao Cao sighed and said, "Okay, okay, since the matter has come to this, then accept the mandate of heaven!" Cao Cao sighed, and the fate of the entire Xuzhou seemed to have changed. Suddenly made a decision, Cao Cao's headache suddenly decreased a lot. After the order was given, the soldiers began to assemble, and Cao Cao also got dressed and prepared to go out of the city again to negotiate with Tao Ying.