"General Yu Ban!"

"General! I'd rather die than surrender! ”

"That's right! General Yu, you can't surrender, I'll fight to the death to find a bloody road, general, go quickly! ”

The soldiers of Cao Jun are still quite loyal to Cao Cao. This also has to be attributed to the simplicity of the thinking of the Han people in this era. Their requirements for life are so low that if they treat them a little better, they will be grateful.

In this era of the Three Kingdoms, the most important thing is to receive the grace of dripping water, and to repay the character with a spring. In the chaotic war years, the people in the Central Plains were indeed able to survive better thanks to Cao Cao's rule, so many of Cao's soldiers wanted to be loyal to Cao Cao. In many cases, they are often able to give their lives in return for the gift of life. Such stories abound in this Three Kingdoms era.

What's more, these Cao army soldiers, they did not benefit from Cao Cao's rule, but their family was favored by Cao Cao, so even in the face of the mortal situation of being surrounded and killed by the New Han army, it is very rare for the Cao army to surrender, which is indeed essentially different from the military horses of other princes.

The soldiers of the Cao army are not not strong or elite, but they are subject to the blows of the New Han Army everywhere, and they have not been able to give full play to their combat effectiveness at all. Therefore, many Cao soldiers and soldiers, when they heard Yu Ban's order to let them lay down their arms and surrender, they were really extremely sad and angry, reluctant, and unwilling.

In addition, Cao Jun's military discipline is also quite strict, even if they are a little panicked and a little frightened now, they can still maintain a certain degree of battlefield discipline and structure. Fighting back may not be able to inflict some damage on the New Han Army.

But. Yu Ban looked at the overall situation, he knew in his heart that no matter how hard his army struggled, it would only increase casualties, and it would be impossible to rush out at all. Nowadays, except for surrender. He could no longer think of a way to keep the soldiers of Cao Jun who followed him alive.

"Enough!" Yu Ban's eyes were red, and he shouted: "Listen to the order!" The whole army laid down its arms and surrendered, this is an order, and it is also the last order that a certain ban has given you! Lay down your arms and surrender! ”

"General...... Wow......"

Some of the sergeants cried as they cried with their weapons in their hands.

"Listen to the New Han Army, a certain is a general under Prime Minister Cao Cheng, and the lord of Xiangcheng will be banned, and now I announce that I will surrender to your New Han Dynasty. Don't kill our Cao army soldiers indiscriminately! ”

Yu Ban stood up straight, threw the weapon on his body to the ground, and walked over to the New Han army that was killing in front of him.

"General......

Cao Bing, who was behind the ban, shouted in unison, at this time, many soldiers still wanted to be angry and desperate, but they saw a hula. Yu Ban was surrounded by the soldiers of the New Han Army who rushed over and took control of him. Those Cao soldiers were sad and helpless. angrily threw away their weapons, but no one knelt down and begged for mercy, all of them straightened their waists angrily, and everyone stared fiercely at the soldiers of the Xinhan Army who came forward to escort them.

Qin Jie and Wei Yan arrived and happened to see Yu Ban's surrender. The two generals looked at each other. They each nodded, and ordered their soldiers of the New Han Army not to kill the Cao soldiers who had laid down their arms and surrendered, and to take those Cao soldiers into custody first.

"General Yu Ban, don't come unharmed? I knew it was so. Why bother in the first place? However, don't worry, since you have led the army to surrender, our Xinhan army will naturally treat the prisoners preferentially, and will not do anything to you. For the time being, let's first grieve General Yu. Qin Jie and Yu Ban had fought each other, and he admired Ban's martial arts a little, so he couldn't help but come forward to take a face with Yu Ban and comfort Yu Ban.

"Humph! Defeat is defeat, I have nothing to say, I just hope that you can treat my Cao army soldiers seriously. As for Yu, if you want to kill or rip off, you can release as you like. Yu Ban didn't appreciate it, and snorted coldly.

"Hehe, General Yu Ban, you are too careful." Qin Jie naturally didn't say too much to Yu Ban, turned around and ordered: "Come on, General Ban will guard it alone, hmm...... There is no need to be bound, Qin believes that General Yu Ban will not leave his subordinates and flee alone. ”

"Yes!"

……

Seeing Yu Ban being escorted away, Qin Jie couldn't help frowning, and said to Wei Yan beside him: "General Wei, why do I feel that something is not right?" ”

"Oh? What's wrong? Didn't Cao Jun surrender now? We should now take control of the whole city as soon as possible. In addition, send someone to the north of the city to inspect the situation and see how General Ma Chao and the Cao army who came to reinforce the army are doing, and we will have to send troops to support it immediately. Wei Yan's lines were thick and he didn't think much about it.

"No, no, I remembered, that, Yu Ban and Li Dian, the two Cao generals, will basically act together, but now the battle has been fought for most of the day, but we have all captured Yu Ban, but we have never seen Li Dian. This seems a little unusual. ”

"Oh? General Qin, you didn't say that Wei really didn't pay attention. You say, will Li Dian be in the official center? ”

"Government Center...... Well, isn't there still a full favor? Not good! Let's hurry back and take a look at the official office first. I guess there will be some variables in this. Qin Jie's face changed, he thought of a possibility, quickly patted the horse, turned around and led a military horse back to the official office.

Outside the official office, the battle situation was also quite fierce, and the bows and arrows of both sides flew wildly, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

The New Han army attacked several times, but they were all beaten back by the Cao soldiers in the official office, and many soldiers were killed and wounded.

However, the soldiers of the New Han Army did not know that these 30,000 or 40,000 Cao troops trapped in the official office, when they were in danger, they once again divided most of the men and horses to defend them, and the other half of the men and horses continued to withdraw from the secret passage in the official office.

When Qin Jie and Wei Yan came back, Cao's army had already been defeated, and the two generals directly killed them.

However, none of the Cao soldiers who stayed behind to defend were willing to surrender, and all the New Han troops who were killed in the official office were killed. It is not too big in the Xiangcheng official office, and Cao Bing's corpses are piled up.

In addition, in a rockery in the back garden of the official office, the secret exit was found, but it had been destroyed by Cao Jun. The soldiers of the New Han Army were digging desperately, intending to dig through and pursue the fleeing Cao soldiers along the secret road.

Qin Jie and Wei Yan stood at the entrance of the secret passage, and they both felt a little pity that they actually let Man Chong, Li Dian and other Cao generals escape. In addition, two will be estimated. Cao soldiers also fled a lot, so that although they captured Xiangcheng in this battle, it was not perfect.

In the end, the two generals did not let people continue to dig through the destroyed secret passage, but directly led the army out of the city to support Ma Chao.

However, speaking of which, it is indeed quite fortunate that Man Chong and Li Dian were able to lead about 100,000 Cao troops to escape from the secret passage. Because, the exit of their secret passage is not too far from the north of Xiangcheng City. It should have been noticed by the New Han Army and led the army to a wall, so I am afraid that the Cao army's men and horses would have to be trapped and die in the secret passage, at least most of the Cao soldiers would be difficult to escape.

This, mainly the reinforcements from Yingchuan, did not meet Man Zhong and Li Dian at the exit of the secret passage as planned. Because Xia Houen, the general of the Cao army who led the army, he had not yet killed within three miles of Xiangcheng, and he had already been attacked by Ma Chao's army. Xia Houen, who was reused by Cao Cao. A little proud, I saw Ma Chao leading a cavalry army to fight. Especially when I saw Ma Chao's military horses, there were only tens of thousands of people. He wanted to fight with Ma Chao with his own martial arts.

As a result, he and Ma Chao couldn't fight Sanhe, and he was almost stabbed under the horse by Ma Chao. Surprised, Xia Houen took the road and fled, but his army was directly killed by Ma Chao's cavalry. Xia Houen saw that the Xinhan army was brave, so he had no choice but to lead the army to flee back. Of course. In order to rescue Xiangcheng, Xia Houen led his army to sneak from the mountains in the north, and the road was difficult, and now, he had to flee back. Naturally, they will not flee to the mountains to the north, but to turn and flee back from the plains to the east. Fortunately, the 100,000 troops and horses led by Xia Houen were mostly cavalry, so that he could escape with his life.

However, Chen Zhi's military horses were restrained and attracted by Yu Ban's attack, and his control over the north of the city was not so tight. In this way, after Ma Chao's military horse was caused to the northeast by Xia Houen, the north of Xiangcheng City became a vacuum invisibly.

After Man Zhong and Li Dian led the army to escape from Xiangcheng through the secret passage, they found that no one noticed them at all, so they quickly led the army to flee for their lives in the mountains.

In this way, when Qin Jie and Wei Yan learned about the situation of Cao's army, and then joined Chen Zhi and went out of the city to pursue, Man Chong and Li Dian had already led their troops to flee far away and fled into the mountains and forests in the north. This made it difficult for the New Han Army to pursue for a while.

This battle began in the morning, and it was not until the evening of the afternoon that the troops were withdrawn, and Ma Chao pursued Xia Houen before returning.

According to statistics, Cao's army should have about 250,000 or 60,000 people, of which 40,000 or 50,000 were killed, tens of thousands of people were captured, and more than 100,000 horses were escaped. Of course, because many of them are the children of the people of Xiangcheng, and many of the Cao soldiers have already sneaked back to their homes, the Xinhan army wants to distinguish the Cao soldiers hidden among the people of Xiangcheng, I am afraid it will really take a lot of effort. However, none of the generals planned to find out Cao Bing among the people. At least for the time being, they don't have time to pay attention. It is necessary to wait for the New Han Dynasty to completely govern Xiangcheng in the future, and then slowly investigate clearly. Of course, even if the investigation is clear in the future, I am afraid that those Cao soldiers who fled home will not be arrested again. That doesn't make much sense anymore. Naturally, the premise is that these Cao soldiers who fled home must keep to themselves in the future, and do not do anything harmful to the New Han Dynasty, otherwise, they will still find out.

The New Han army finally captured Xiangcheng.

For a while, the intelligence flew like snowflakes everywhere, shaking the world.

Of course, for the New Han Dynasty, it was naturally a great news, and the capture of Xiangcheng was equivalent to opening a gateway to the Central Plains. The army of the New Han Army can directly kill from Xiangcheng to Yingchuan and force Xudu. In addition, the loss of Xiangcheng was like a bolt from the blue for Cao Cao's army. It's a terrible nightmare. Because, if Xiangcheng is lost, then the New Han Army can base Xiangcheng and send troops to radiate all parts of Yuzhou, directly threatening Runan City and even Yangzhou Shouchun. made the entire Cao army in the Central Plains a little panicked.

At this time, Cao Cao was in Xudu, and he had just invited Sima Hui through Sima Yi.

However, in today's situation, if Sima Hui is as wise as a demon, I am afraid that he will be powerless.

Of course, Cao Cao was unwilling, and Sima Hui was not reconciled.

Cao Cao was unwilling because he didn't want to fail, he didn't want his ambition to end here, and he didn't want to see the results of his life fighting for half a life come to an end.

Sima Huizhi was unwilling because he observed the prediction of celestial phenomena through the emperor's mental technique, which was indeed very clear at the beginning, and the luck of the world would be attributed to his Sima family. However, the sudden change in the celestial phenomena reversed many of the fortunes that seemed to be doomed, making his Sima family's luck weaker and weaker, and it was so weak that it was crumbling and about to die.

Sima Hui's heart was very clear. If Sima Yi could have been allowed to develop in the New Han Dynasty earlier, then Liu Yi would not be suspicious and let Sima Yi rise to the fore in the New Han Dynasty, then there would be no need for him to tie the luck of the Sima family to Cao Cao. But the problem is that now that he has fallen out with Liu Yi and has torn his face, he Sima Hidden Turtle can no longer hide in the New Han Dynasty.

Regarding this issue, Sima Hui has been looking for the reason for this for a while, trying to find out why Liu Yi is so defensive of Sima Yi. But no matter what he thought, he couldn't guess why. I can't understand even more, according to the celestial phenomena, during the chaos of the Han Dynasty, there was no prince of Liu Yi who dug up, why there was suddenly more Liu Yi's number one person.

In terms of Sima Hui's celestial technique, the brightest emperor star representing Liu Yi did not have it, but it suddenly appeared for no reason. Of course, a few years ago, the emperor star was still very weak, almost imperceptible, but as the new Han Dynasty slowly became stronger, the emperor star became more and more shining. This is also why Sima Hui didn't realize the threat of the emperor star at the beginning, and he didn't realize that the emperor star represented Liu Yi for a while. Otherwise, if he dealt with Liu Yi when the faint emperor star appeared, he would have more time and a greater certainty to destroy Liu Yi first, and he would not have to wait until the New Han Dynasty was in full swing to fall out with Liu Yi.

Of course, there is another reason why Sima Hui does not dare to intervene in the world's disputes. Because the art of Chinese astrology is really broad and profound, it has been spread since ancient times, if the person who has learned the art of astrology has peeped into the heavenly machine, then it must not be easily revealed, otherwise, he himself will be attacked by the heavenly machine, and the serious person will be killed on the spot.

For these legends, Sima Hui himself did not dare to question them, and he was careful all the time, so as not to be sent by heaven.

But now, Sima Hui doesn't care anymore, because seeing that the luck of the Sima family is about to die, he has to do something. (To be continued.) )