This fierce battle is very different from the one at the South City Gate, because Liu Qi did not order his subordinates to show mercy, and Li Dian, Le Jin and Xu Huang are precisely because they are generals, and they are worried that some newcomers will say that they will not forget their old masters, so although they are a little ashamed of Cao Hong's words of accusing them of traitors, but the offensive is even more aggressive, Cao Hong's martial arts are at most equal to Le Jin, plus Le Jin's friend Li Dian is definitely not an opponent, not to mention that there is a Xu Huang who is more powerful than the two combined?

Therefore, although he scolded and scolded, when Cao Hong saw the three generals leading his troops to flank him, he immediately knew that if he didn't flee now, he wouldn't be able to leave after a while.

Cao Hong is worthy of being a defeated general, and his years of experience in defeat make him know more about his escape than Xiahoudun. This decisiveness made even the most resourceful strategists feel ashamed.

In fact, this can only be blamed on Cao Hong's luck is too good, when the chasing army fled to the inner city with his soldiers, he was ambushed by Sima Yi's army who came to support in time, although this ambush did not bring much loss to Xu Huang and others, but they did not dare to approach for a while, for fear that they would fall for Sima Yi's tricks. Because their lord has repeatedly emphasized that this Sima Yi is cunning and deceitful, and he is young, even if he is a little worse than Cao Cao's confidant Guo Jia in terms of wisdom, but Sima Yi is insidious, especially good at political struggle, which Guo Jia is beyond reach.

Although they temporarily blocked the offensive of Xu Huang and others, Sima Yi and Cao Hong knew that now that Liu Qi's nearly 200,000 troops were attacking the city, they had no possibility of holding it at all, so after some discussion, the two unanimously decided to persuade Cao Cao to withdraw his troops.

But Cao Cao heard that three of the six generals who came to attack the West City Gate this time were his old subordinates. Ignoring the dissuasion of Sima Yi and Cao Hong, he personally led the army to meet Xu Huang, Le Jin and Li Dian, hoping to make them fight again.

He said that he knew that the surrender of the three generals to Liu Qi was forced, and that he did not care about their previous behavior, and now gave them a chance to choose again, as long as they were willing to agree. He will definitely not blame the past, and not only that, but he will also let them be promoted by two levels in their existing positions, and each of them will have an extra thousand households in terms of titles.

Cao Cao's promised conditions are not rich, but unfortunately his strength is in vain, the three generals are all like clay wood carvings, ignoring his words, not only that, but Li Dian secretly took out the bow. Shoot at Cao Cao's chest.

Cao Cao was caught off guard by Li Dian's arrow at the front door, but fortunately, a Tiger Guard soldier beside him blocked the arrow for him at the cost of his life, which saved his life.

Cao Cao couldn't help but be furious when he saw this, and pointed at Li Dian and scolded: "Li Mancheng, you are an unrighteous person, not to mention that this king promoted you in the ranks and promoted your official position step by step. Even if you later returned to Liu Qi, the king sent someone to return the favor of his family. Thou shalt not do this to this king, ought thou to do so? Could it be that the Chu military camp is full of unrighteous people like you? ”

Li Dian was the first of these three generals to surrender to Liu Qi, and at that time he was only named Zhonglang General because he successively followed his uncle Li Jian and his brother Li Quan, and was not very reused.

In the Battle of Guandu, he led the entire family to be responsible for transporting grain and grass for Cao Cao. But as soon as he came to Xuchang, he was captured by Guan Yu, who invaded Xuchang, and later defeated Guan Yu and Liu Qi got it, and he surrendered after thanking Liu Qi for saving his life.

In the eleven years since he surrendered to Liu Qi, Li Dian's position has risen rapidly. When he just surrendered, he was directly promoted to a partial general by an ordinary Zhonglang general, and then was appointed as the Hanzhong Taishou and Dangkou General after taking Hanzhong, and then he was promoted to the general of Fenwu, the Marquis of Chenggu Ting, and after Liu Qi became the king, he was moved to the right guard general from the fourth grade, and his feelings for Liu Qi were naturally much deeper than those for Cao Cao, so when he saw Cao Cao, he actually wooed himself and his friend Le Jin, who later surrendered, and another general, Xu Huang, in order to clear up the relationship and make a stand, That's when he shot the arrow.

Listening to Cao Cao's accusations, Li Dian suddenly said loudly: "You did give Li Mou a meritorious name, but I, Li Dian, won it a little bit by relying on my military merits, as for returning the family, Li is indeed very grateful, but when the first battle in Hanzhong, Li did not kill the public, Li had already violated the military order in order to repay the kindness of the public, fortunately, my master was generous, and the prince was not to blame, so that he could always serve the army and obtain today's position, Li has repaid the kindness of the public in the battle of Hanzhong, It doesn't matter if I owe it anymore, not to mention that the public and my Li Dian are each other's enemies, how dare I, Li Dian, once again abolish my private interests because of the old feelings, and don't care about the matter of supporting the Han family and crusading against the national thieves? ”

Li Dian's words were awe-inspiring and impassioned, even Xu Huang and Le Jin nodded and praised, but Cao Cao couldn't help but turn purple and furious, because although some people talked about themselves behind their backs, no one had ever scolded themselves as a national thief in front of them.

But now Cao Cao really has no way, because Huang Zhong, Gan Ning and Wen Ping in the back also led the army to rush over, and when an order was given, I saw ten thousand crossbows fired together, and Cao Jun was killed by crossbows one after another.

Seeing this, Cao Cao changed even more, and just wanted to accuse a few more words, but when he saw Xu Chu rushing forward to protect Cao Cao's war horse, he immediately rushed to the direction of the east gate.

Subsequently, Sima Yi and Cao Hong also evacuated one after another and followed Cao Cao.

In the process of retreating this time, Cao Hong was naturally the unshirkable queen of the palace, but he knew that among the ten thousand armies, if he didn't have more eyes, he was afraid that a hundred lives would not be able to be saved, so as soon as Cao Cao retreated, he immediately dismounted, changed into the costume of a small soldier, and then quickly left under the command of his own soldiers.

The soldiers of the Cao army, who had been abandoned as meat shields because the army had left in a hurry, were bloody, because they were then slaughtered by the Chu army.

In an instant, I saw rivers of blood flowing, corpses piling up like mountains, and the entire battlefield became a slaughterhouse and a meat grinder, which made those Wei soldiers tremble in fear and have long lost any fighting spirit.

Where can these soldiers care about their loyalty between life and death? Seeing that the robe around him was frantically slaughtered by the wolf-like Chu army, he was already so frightened that he threw down the weapon in his hand without thinking much, raised his hands high, and shouted at the same time that he was willing to surrender.

According to the military discipline established by Liu Qi, as long as the enemy army was willing to surrender, no one was allowed to kill and bully at will, so although these Wei soldiers filled the roads and prevented them from following the path to pursue Cao Cao.

Although they knew that this was mostly due to the tricks of Cao Cao and Sima Yi, the six generals could not care about chasing Cao Cao anymore at this time, but sent people to accept the surrender of the Wei army.

Cao Wei's soldiers were piled up here with more than 20,000 people, just accepting their surrender, cleaning up weapons and various supplies, and then registering these soldiers and sending them to various camps for most of the night.

Huang Zhong and they did not send people to chase Cao Cao, this is not to say that the pursuit of Cao Cao is not important, first, because the surrendered soldiers blocked the road and have missed the best time to catch up, and second, because there are other people who are pursuing Cao Cao, and in addition to trying to weaken Cao Cao's strength, they also have the task of consolidating the city defense and stabilizing people's hearts.

Although Cao Cao could not be left behind, and the losses of the most elite Tiger Guards, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Sima Yi's army around Cao Cao were also very small, even negligible, but Huang Zhong, as the main general, did not have the slightest look of loss on his face, because in fact, this time they could be regarded as having gained a lot.

Thirty or forty thousand soldiers with rich combat experience were recruited at once, although it was difficult for them to build a loyal and brave army that could be reassured in a short period of time, but as long as time passed, they would inevitably be built into an elite soldier in a hundred battles, so compared to chasing and killing Liu Qi, the integration of troops does have a more important meaning.

Huang Zhong ordered the weapons of the surrendered troops to be temporarily sealed, and then gathered them together, entered Cao Cao's camp in Puyang, collected the materials left by Cao Cao in the camp, and sent troops to occupy the Taishou Mansion of Dong County and some other key departments, and controlled the entire Puyang City in one fell swoop.

At this time, Li Dian was surprised to find that no matter how he searched, he did not find any trace of Liu Qi's army, and the entire Puyang City was currently only composed of their six-member generals of the Western Route Army and Zhang Fei's South Route Army.

But seeing that Huang Zhong was not in a hurry, he smiled at Le Jin, Xu Huang, Gan Ning and other generals who also had this question in the tent: "Man Cheng, princes, and don't worry, the lord has explained to the general before, the reason why his army is not in the city is because there is another important matter, the lord said that he will give Cao thief a big gift today, as for what the specific gift is, the general does not know, but presumably the princes are very clear, the lord has always been unsure of the battle, this time it will be so, I believe that Tong Guò this time the arrangement, The Lord will definitely surprise Cao Thief. ”

Li Dian and the others saw that Huang Zhong didn't know much about this matter, but seeing that there was a strong sense of confidence in his words, they naturally knew Liu Qi's consistent style very well, so they naturally didn't say anything more, and then arched their hands to Huang Zhong, and then went to the designated position to defend according to Huang Zhong's arrangement.

At the same time, they couldn't hold back the doubts in their hearts, wondering what kind of design their lord was doing this time, and what kind of surprise could he bring to Cao Cao? (To be continued......)