Just after night, Tao Ying led the troops not to return to Tan County, but instead set up camp in a small town more than 20 miles outside Tan County. The two agreed that if Cao Cao attacked Tan County, Tao Ying would lead his troops to attack his rear, and if Cao Cao attacked Tao Ying, Liu Bei would lead his troops to attack his flank, so that he could not be connected end to end.

After Liu Bei returned to the city, the city fell into a carnival again, and Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh. Seeing Liu Bei sighing, Zhang Fei opened his round eyes and said, "Why is the eldest brother sighing? With our brother here, Cao Cao will come once, let's fight him off once! ”

Liu Bei drank a glass of wine and didn't say much. After dark, in the city of Huben, Cao Cao was sitting on a chair and losing his temper. When a fine ceramic wine jar was smashed to the ground by Cao Cao.

"Hmph, Liu Bei villain also! Secret arrows sneak up on me! ”

Cao Cao scolded and scolded, and the strategist next to him persuaded: "It's good that the lord has nothing to do, the soldiers have slowly come back in the past two days." Let's organize our troops and horses and then attack the city! ”

After the strategist finished speaking, Cao Ren persuaded beside him: "Lord, our army is newly defeated, and the enemy army will definitely not be guarded, so it is better for me to lead another army of soldiers and horses to attack the city at this time, and I will definitely be able to break Tan County!" ”

Cao Ren was Cao Cao's most outstanding military exploit and was deeply appreciated by Cao Cao.

After Cao Ren's suggestion, Cao Cao thought about it, and went again this time, if Tan County was drunk to celebrate the achievements, it would not be so difficult to attack the city. So Cao Cao was ruthless, so he allocated Cao Ren's 20,000 troops to attack Tan County, and he himself stayed in Huben to recuperate.

Although those arrows did not hit Cao Cao, the war horse threw him out, and his leg hit a stone, and he is still lame, as if a bone was broken.

Cao Ren led his troops to Tan County overnight, but found that there was another camp more than 20 miles away from Tan County. Cao Ren, who knew the art of war well, knew that this was a corner fight, and it seemed that the enemy had already taken precautions, so Cao Ren had no choice but to lead his troops to be stationed outside the city.

Time passed day by day, and Cao Ren fought a tug-of-war with Liu Bei and Tao Ying in Tan County for half a month, and both sides were damaged, but both sides were still vigorous.

Before I knew it, the time was the end of June, Tao Ying calculated the time, Cao Cao was going to fight with Lu Bu in Puyang in August, so Cao Cao would definitely retreat in the next few days!

Therefore, Tao Ying sent a message to Pengchengguo, asking Chen Deng to guard Pengchengguo, and Li Dian, Zhao Yun, and Xu Sheng led Pengcheng and nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses from Xiapi to help!

Surrounded by Tao Ying are some young generals, except for Yu Ban, no one seems to be over twenty-five years old, and the youngest Li Dian is only twenty years old!

After the order was issued, some soldiers went to Pengcheng and Xiapi to pass the order, at this time Zhao Yun and Xu Sheng had already arrived in Pengchengguo for two days, and Chen Deng was still on the way to Pengchengguo.

Xu Sheng discussed with Yan Gan, and left 3,000 soldiers and horses for Yan Jian to lead the town to guard Pengcheng, and then let all towns, counties and villages be under martial law, and in order to prevent a sneak attack in Yuzhou, Yan Jian ordered the counties and towns and townships under Pengcheng to recruit township Yong to defend the city.

Who wants to lose the land that they have finally won? Xu Sheng led 30,000 soldiers and horses from Pengcheng towards Wuyuan, and the number of villagers recruited by Yan Jian in Pengcheng suddenly increased to nearly 20,000!

What is the concept of twenty or thirty thousand towns? That's all the soldiers and horses of many princes!

However, these villagers did not gather together, but concentrated in the town and county town to defend. As a result, the large-scale construction of the entire Pengcheng State was suspended, and nearly 10,000 captured prisoners were also imprisoned in various counties.

Zhao Yun and Li Dian went to Xiapi State, took the tiger charm and mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses from Xiapi State to come to Tan County, in order to prevent the soldiers and horses of Tan County from attacking south, Chen Gui also recruited more than 7,000 troops in Xiapi State to resist the soldiers and horses of Donghai County.

As the days came, Cao Cao sent 10,000 generals such as Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin to assist in order to quickly capture Tan County.

An army of 20,000 troops was stationed outside the city, and after Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan discussed for a while, the two decided to attack them separately before attacking the city. So at the beginning of July, Cao Ren decided to launch a big war, and whether or not he could capture Tanxian was all in one fell swoop.

On July 6, 194, it was still a little scorching in the north, and the morning weather was slightly cool, but when the wind blew, the hot wind made the soldiers want to run to the shade of the trees to cool off, or to run to the river to bathe.

Before the smoke of the early morning cooking had dissipated, Cao Ren's camp suddenly thundered with war drums, and nearly four large battalions outside the north gate of Tan County sent troops to Tan County.

Seeing that a large number of Cao soldiers came to attack the city again like a tide, Guan Yu wanted to tell Liu Bei in the city, but Zhang Fei said disapprenously: "Second brother, Cao Cao has attacked the city like this I don't know how many times, we don't have to be afraid of him, and we don't need to alarm the eldest brother!" ”

Zhang Fei instructed the soldiers to climb the city wall, the soldiers aimed their bows and arrows at the outside of the city, Guan Yu also urgently lit the beacon fire on the city, after a beacon tower built on the city tower burned, puffs of smoke rushed straight into the sky, and the smoke was even seen far away in the sky.

Seeing that a signal had been sent in the city, Tao Ying hurriedly sent a thousand soldiers to attack Cao Ren's camp. Yu Ban hurriedly mounted his horse and led the soldiers to kill Cao Ren's camp. Yu Ban originally wanted to attack Cao Ren's rear, so Cao Ren had to retreat. But I didn't want Yu Ban to just kill Cao Ren's camp, and in the originally empty Cao Ren camp, an ambush of soldiers and horses suddenly came out, it was Xiahou Yuan's military horse!

Seeing that there were ambush soldiers, Yu Ban hurriedly led the troops to retreat. Xiahou Yuan led the troops in hot pursuit, especially when Xiahou Yuan saw that it was Yu Ban's banner, and he rode alone towards Yu Ban.

Yu Ban led the elite soldiers to face Xiahou Yuan head-on, Xiahou Yuan's sword skills were exquisite, and the two met for a while. Xiahou Yuan scolded Yu Ban for being a traitor, and actually surrendered to Tao Ying.

Yu Ban persuaded: "Don't be obsessed, the lord of my family is the master, and Pengcheng under his rule has undergone earth-shaking changes!" ”

Xiahou Yuan slashed in the air and threatened: "Wen Ze, if you capture Tao Ying and come back now, the lord can still spare you the death penalty!" ”

The two beat and scolded, but neither of them wanted to die. As soon as the soldiers and horses on this side fought, there was a lot of pressure on both sides, because Tao Ying also brought elite soldiers, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were 50,000 elite soldiers selected from the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, so it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

Just when Yu Ban and Xiahou Yuan were anxious, Cao Ren's army, which was going to attack the city, suddenly turned from outside the city to outflank Tao Ying's camp. Most of Tao Ying's soldiers on the left flank were soldiers from Cao Cao's surrender, and when they heard of Cao Ren's name, the soldiers almost fled without a fight.

Seeing that Tao Ying was surrounded outside the city, Zhang Fei laughed out loud in the city: "Hmph, wait for this day for a long time!" Later, when Cao Ren broke his military horse and killed Tao Ying, we will go out of the city to fight Cao Ren! ”

Guan Yu also looked out of the city with his long hair and was silent, at this time Liu Bei was discussing things with everyone in Tao Qian's mansion, there was a fight outside the city, Zhang Fei controlled the soldiers, and no one dared to come back to complain.

Seeing that Cao Ren led hundreds of cavalry to continuously attack his left flank soldiers and horses, the left flank soldiers fled in all directions, and suddenly more and more soldiers lost their weapons and began to flee with them. Tao Ying wanted to let the soldiers on his right come over to resist Cao Ren and let Yu Ban withdraw to the camp first, but he didn't want to suddenly kill a soldier and horse behind him, who was the leader, Tao Ying didn't see it clearly, only saw them waving a big banner with a musical character.

"Could it be that Lejin is also here?"

Tao Ying was a little worried, and the Lejia army on the opposite side came all the way. first set fire to Tao Ying's camp, and then killed the soldiers recruited by Tao Ying in the East China Sea. The two armies had just fought less than half a pillar of incense, and Tao Ying's right horse was also torn by Le Jin, and the army came together, and Tao hurriedly retreated.

Yu Banwang, who was in charge of attacking Cao Ren's camp, saw that his family's camp was on fire, so he hurriedly asked the soldiers to surround Xiahou Yuan, and led his soldiers and horses to kill behind him.

After Xiahou Yuan brandished a big knife and slashed five soldiers to death in a row, Tao Ying's soldiers and horses were afraid of his bravery and did not dare to move forward. Xiahou Yuan led the soldiers and horses in pursuit, and even Yu Ban's elite soldiers were defeated, and Yu Ban could only lead the rout towards Wuyuan.