After a peaceful night, when the dawn broke through the sky, the deafening sound of drums and trumpets woke up Yu Ban, who had been tossing and turning all night and could not sleep peacefully.

Yu Ban is still very young, as a child of a poor family, he has been studious since he was a child, he hopes to get ahead one day, at the age of twenty, because he has made some fame in his hometown, he married the daughter of a local township doctor. After that, he entered the county as a small official, and a few years later, that is, when the Jibei Prime Minister was conscripted, he joined the army despite the opposition of his father-in-law's wife.

After a few years, he was all about making achievements, and the days of returning home were numbered, and his parents died early, and there was no one in the family, and he didn't have much affection for his wife who had not had children for several years of marriage.

Although he has worked hard all these years, the result is only from a military commander, climbed to the army, until in the battle of Xuchang, he won Cao Cao's favor and was promoted to the military commander, and in the battle of Xuzhou, because he followed Xiahou Yuan as the vanguard, he won more than a dozen undefended county towns in Xiapi all the way, so he was promoted to the captain of the trap again, and was awarded the command of 2,000 soldiers and horses.

It was not until this time that Yu Ban finally saw the dawn, thinking that the opportunity for his contribution had arrived, but in a blink of an eye, the dawn dimmed. At present, he is trapped in an empty camp and surrounded by heavy troops outside, although Yu Ban boasts of his outstanding talent, he has even half a point of holding on or breaking through.

He chatted with Li Dian for a long time last night, and the two chatted until midnight before breaking up. For the current predicament, Li Dian obviously has nothing to do, this time he is actually staying behind as Yu Ban's deputy, plus under the city of Xuzhou, his uncle and cousin have died in battle, so that Li Dian has some hatred for Han Lie in his heart, although he knows that the initiator of this battle is his own lord, and it has little to do with Han Lie, who is passively guarding the city.

"The enemy has attacked the fortress." When Yu Ban rushed to the gate of the camp in armor, Li Dian's slightly emaciated body still appeared somewhere.

"I just observed that Han Lie's army has at least 12,000 people, and now Dazhai is surrounded on all sides, and all the sergeants are carrying firewood, it seems that the Han army is preparing to attack." Li Dian's eyes also have a dark circle, not only did he not sleep well yesterday, but he also did not sleep well during this time.

"Brother Mancheng, if you stay, you will die, you and I will immediately gather troops and horses, break through separately, and maybe there will be a glimmer of life." Yu Ban is definitely not a person who is willing to wait for death, because his dreams and ambitions have not yet been realized.

"Okay, Wen Ze take care." Li Dian hesitated for a moment and said, "The cavalry is one and a half." ”

"Well, take care." Yu Ban nodded solemnly, and the two immediately gathered their soldiers and horses respectively, and before Han Lie's soldiers and horses attacked, the two led the soldiers and horses, and rushed out from the east and west directions at the same time.

The abnormal movement in the Cao army's camp did not hide from Han Lie, the camp surrounded by all sides, the gathering of soldiers and horses, it was impossible for him to turn a blind eye.

As soon as Han Lie received the news, he immediately ordered: "If the enemy breaks through, there is no need to fight, resist a little, let it go, and then follow and pursue all the way." ”

Zhang Fen, who was under the tent, was full of doubts, and passed Han Lie's military orders to the generals, until he reached Zhao Yun's camp, and Zhang Fen, who couldn't help it, asked: "General Zhao, why did the lord let you let the enemy break through the siege, instead of stopping the enemy, and besieged and killed on the spot?" ”

The moment Zhao Yun received the military order, he understood Han Lie's meaning, and immediately said with a smile: "Cao's army is surrounded, the desire to survive is strong, and breaking through the siege will inevitably fight to the death, at this time, if our army is hard to fight with it, it must be a bloody battle, even if it wins, the loss is not small, on the contrary, let the enemy rush out, and then follow and kill, the enemy is busy fleeing, naturally has no heart to fight, and second, when they leave the encirclement, their morale will inevitably decay by three points, so that our army can achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost." ”

"Thank you General Zhao for your advice, the kid has been taught." Zhang Fen was stunned at this time.

In fact, Yu Ban and Li Dian's subordinates, staying wisely is a dead end, and there is still a glimmer of life in the breakthrough, the originally weak morale is also burning all of a sudden because of the desire to survive.

"Kill, kill......"

In order to survive, the soldiers of the Cao army, under the leadership of Li Dian, roared and rushed out of the camp, and rushed towards the heavily defended Han army outside the camp gate.

Yu Ban Li Dian led the army to break through in two directions, respectively Tai Shi Ci and Zhou Tai guarded the direction, when receiving the military order, Tai Shi Ci understood Han Lie's meaning, so let the whole army retreat thirty steps, and the whole army replaced the archers to stand by.

As a result, as soon as Li Dian rushed out of the camp, he was hit head-on by Tai Shici, more than 1,000 horses, and nearly 200 sergeants fell in a pool of blood just by taking a look.

Li Dian, who leaned over the horse, didn't care about the foot soldiers at this time, and led the five hundred cavalry in the team, taking advantage of the alternate efforts of the archers, carrying guns and horses to rush out, and when the sergeant of Tai Shici's department shot the second round of arrow rain, Li Dian, who once again lost hundreds of soldiers, took advantage of the situation to lead more than 700 people to rush out.

"All the soldiers have lost all their burdens, follow me in pursuit, and be sure to destroy this enemy." Tai Shi Ci saw that he had intercepted more than 500 Cao troops with only a dozen wounded, and he was in a good mood, so he immediately stepped on his horse and raised his gun and shouted.

"Whoa." All the troops under the tent took off their armor one after another, and rushed out with a single sword in hand.

On the other side, Zhou Tai, although he failed to comprehend Han Lie's military orders for a while, he was a loyal and brave person, and he carried out the military orders meticulously.

In the face of the breakthrough of the forbidden department, although Zhou Tai failed to arrange the whole army to meet with bows and arrows like Tai Shici, he only symbolically blocked the foot soldiers who rushed out first, and attacked the cavalry phalanx led by Yu Banqin mercilessly.

In the face of the encirclement and interception of thousands of soldiers and horses under Zhou Tai's department, the foot soldiers who rushed out of the forbidden department did not return to the reinforcements that were surrounded by the forbidden cavalry, but fled in a hurry.

And Yu Ban, who was under siege, faced with the onslaught of Zhou Tai's troops, and under the anger, he couldn't help but sigh that he had miscalculated, knowing that the cavalry would become the target of the key blockade, it was better to pretend to be a soldier to break through.

"Brothers, the one wearing the feather helmet is the general of the Cao army, and the person who kills this thief will be rewarded with a thousand dollars." When Zhou Tai rushed into Yu Ban's cavalry phalanx with his sword, he saw Yu Ban wearing a helmet in the military formation from a distance, and immediately shouted.

"The one who wears the feather helmet is the general of the Cao army!" As Zhou Tai's words fell, the officers and soldiers of the Red Flame Army on the battlefield roared angrily to spread the news.

"Damn...... in a hurry, led the cavalry, rushed left and right, but never managed to kill Zhou Tai's formation, but more and more troops poured in from all directions, and the first to arrive at the scene was Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun, who was holding a gentian gun and a thousand miles of horses under his crotch, was dressed in a silver helmet and white robe, as if he had entered a no-man's land, and with just one face, he rushed into the enemy formation single-handedly, and the Cao soldiers who rushed up all the way were all stabbed off their horses.

"The enemy general is gone, and Jiujiang Zhoutai is here." Yu Ban was in the military formation, and saw Zhao Yun, who was rushing like a flock of dragons and tigers, and in the cold, he pulled his horse and left, but unexpectedly hit Zhou Tai's knife edge.

"Boom!" Although Yu Ban panicked, he was by no means a vain person, in the face of Zhou Tai's slashed sword, he struggled to raise the spear in his hand, and blocked Zhou Tai's killing blow before the sword was added.

"Eat me again." Zhou Tai's eyes widened, the war horse galloped up, the war knife in his hand turned into a cold light, and swept Yu Ban again, Yu Ban, who was eager to get out, panicked, he leaned over the horse, and once again evaded Zhou Tai's killing move.

"Not down yet." However, just when Ban leaned over to dodge, the war knife in Zhou Tai's hand temporarily changed his move, forming an arc and sweeping out, directly sweeping Yu Ban off the horse.

Yu Ban, who rolled off the horse, let out a muffled snort, and was just about to get up, but the war knife in Zhou Tai's hand was cut down again: "My life is over." When he felt the cold blade coming from the back of his neck, Yu couldn't help but let out a secret sigh.

"General Zhou's men are merciful." At this moment, Zhao Yun, who was galloping on horseback, shouted loudly, but saved Yu Ban's life.

The falling blade slashed through Yu Ban's back shoulder, and although it cut through Yu Ban's armor, it was not harmed.

"General Zilong knows this person?" Zhou Taiyi's knife holder was on the forbidden neck, looking directly at Zhao Yundao.

"This person is in the battle array, commanding in battle, orderly, responding to the defeated army, and then retreating, it can be seen that he is a general, why doesn't General Zhou leave this person behind, and ask the lord's will to kill him again?" Yesterday in the battle array, Zhao Yun saw Yu Ban from afar, and admired his impression that he could still command calmly in the chaotic army, which is why he called Zhou Tai's subordinates to show mercy.

"Since it is General Zilong who intercedes, then capture this person and hand it over to the lord." When Zhou Tai heard this, he snorted coldly, and called left and right to tie up Yu Ban.

Yu Ban, who had walked away from the ghost gate, was indeed relieved, and he threw a grateful glance at Zhao Yun, and was embarrassed by the left and right sergeants to push out of the battlefield. With the capture of Yu Ban and the siege of Zhou Tai and Zhao Yun, the 500 cavalry under Yu Ban's tent were quickly wiped out.

On the other side, Li Dian, who broke through the encirclement, only ran out of more than 20 miles, because he encountered the river, the war horse could not cross the river for a while, and was followed by Tai Shici and Xu Huang's subordinates, and all of them were surrounded and killed on the bank of the river, and Li Dian was also captured due to the exhaustion of the war.

With the capture of Yu Ban and Li Dian, Cao Cao's conquest of Xuzhou was completely declared a failure.

And just three days later, the remnants of the army led by Cao Cao were ambushed by Sun Guan's department in Weishui, and Cao Cao himself was also hit by a stray arrow, almost all the troops were wiped out.

Even so, although the injured Cao Cao escaped by luck, Yanzhou, which he had worked hard for many years, learned a bad news from the people who fled from Yanzhou before the more than 1,000 remnants led by Cao Cao had not yet entered Yanzhou.

That is, Lu Bu, the lieutenant of Sili who was recommended by Yuan Shao, with the secret support of Liu Bei, and the welcome of Zhang Miao, the former Chen Liutaishou, plus the Dongjun Gong Cao Chen Palace as the internal response, led the army to occupy Dongjun in one fell swoop, and Cao Cao's family, wife and children all fell into the hands of Lu Bu.

Cao Cao, who received this bad news, Cao Cao, who had been hit by an arrow, vomited blood several times and completely fell into a coma.

Faced with Cao Cao's serious injuries and coma, the rear base fell, and only more than a thousand remnants of Cao's soldiers remained, they all fell into a panic for a while.

As the chief general in the army, the second general Cao Ren Xiahou Yuan also messed up, and was busy asking Cheng Yu for countermeasures.

"Go to Langya, Langya Xiang Xiao Jian has a friendship with the lord, the old lady Cao lived in Langya before, let's just go back; It's not too late to wait for the lord to heal from his injuries before making plans. Although Cheng Yu's face was calm, his eyes dimmed a lot, and he had a hunch that this time Cao Cao was likely to fall into a situation from which he would never recover.

"Ah, Langya?" Cao Ren and Xiahoudun were both shocked.

"The two generals are relieved, although Langya is under the rule of Xuzhou, Xiao Jian, the minister of Langya, has never had any contact with Xuzhou Mu, so there will be no problem." Cheng Yu comforted the two of them and said: "Now the two generals immediately go to dismiss the army, leaving more than 100 loyal and reliable people, so that our goal of going to Langya is much smaller, and then send people to Yanzhou to test the situation and find the lord's family and generals." ”

"It's still Zhongde's thoughtfulness, let's arrange it." Cao Ren Xiahou Yuan, who had lost his backbone, thought about it and nodded busily.

In this way, Cao Cao, who was seriously injured and unconscious, was secretly taken to Langya, so that for several months, Yanzhou and Han Lie sent a large number of spies to find out Cao Cao's news, but they failed to learn Cao Cao's whereabouts, so that the news that Cao Cao was dead also spread.

On the Yanzhou side, after Lü Bu obtained Dongjun, he completely wiped out Cao Cao's strength, and due to Cao Cao's disappearance, the civil and military officials under Cao Cao's account either surrendered or fled, and Cao Cao's power at its peak also completely collapsed.

After occupying Lu Bu, at a celebration banquet, when facing Cao Cao's family, especially when he saw Cao Cao's good-looking wives and concubines, the lustful Lu Bu couldn't help but light up, and said with a smile: "I heard that Cao Cao likes wonderful women? When I saw it today, it was really like this, all of them looked extraordinary!? ”

"My lord, such a wonderful woman, why don't you serve in the room?" General Hou Cheng smiled with a glint in his eyes.

"Uh......" When Lu Bu moved, Zhang Miao couldn't help but say: "No, although Cao Mengde is guilty of killing celebrities and slaughtering the people of Xuzhou, what is the crime of his family, if the general bullies his family, he will be scolded by the world, and please treat the general kindly." ”

"Haha, Lord Zhang is too pedantic, these family members are prisoners for a certain person, why can't I deal with prisoners?" Lu Bu, who was a little drunk, glanced at Zhang Miao contemptuously, laughed and hugged Cao Cao's Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Huan into his arms, and made fun of him rudely in front of the full hall of officials.

"How can it be justified, how can it be justified." Seeing this, Zhang Miao angrily threw his sleeves away, glared at Chen Gong fiercely when he left, and welcomed Lu Bu into Yanzhou, Zhang Miao was persuaded by Liu Bei's advisers Zheng Tai and Chen Gong to agree, but the result caused such a situation, which made Zhang Miao very angry.

Lu Bu's frivolous behavior was also resentful of a large number of officials under Cao Cao's account who had just taken refuge, coupled with Lu Bu's cruelty and unkindness, which made the stable Yanzhou rise again.

When Han Lie received the news of Yanzhou's change of ownership, he had already led his army to withdraw from the East China Sea to Guangling. The follow-up affairs of Donghai County, he handed over all the affairs to Chen Qi to deal with, and let Xu Rong concurrently serve as the lieutenant of Donghai County, while Tao Qian was still bedridden, when he left, Han Lie went to visit him, although he was treated by Hua Tuo, but Tao Qian's vitality has been broken, and he is unable to return to the sky, although there is still a breath of air, but it is only a matter of time, and it is also the arrival of Hua Tuo that makes Han Lie completely relieved about the epidemic in the East China Sea, and he can calmly rectify the soldiers and horses and withdraw to Guangling.

And the reason why Han Lie hurriedly returned to the army was also because he received an eagle letter from Zhang Zhao of Guangling and Zhang Yao, and learned that Ji Ling, the general of the Yuan Shu faction who occupied Huainan, led the army of 30,000 troops to Tu Shui, and the front of the army was directed at Jiangdu City north of Guangling. (To be continued.) )