Cao Bao chased and killed Liu Bei's defeated soldiers all the way, and saw the head of Xiapi City from afar.

At this time, strange things happened, I saw that the east gate of Xiapi was wide open, and there were no banners and soldiers on the city, and Liu Bei's defeated soldiers did not retreat into the city as Cao Bao imagined, but walked around the city and scattered in all directions.

Cao Bao led his troops to chase to the city of Xiapi, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but be suspicious, and hurriedly stopped the people.

"General Cao, now that the gate of Pi City is wide open, won't it be Liu Bei's trick to set up an ambush in the city and lure me into the city?" The potter asked suspiciously. 、

"I'm wondering about this, but if it could be that Liu Bei knew that our army was strong, he abandoned the city and left" Cao Bao pondered for a moment and said: "Order the army to stand by, and send three hundred horsemen into the city to investigate first."

Three hundred light horsemen reluctantly entered Xiapi, who would be willing, if it was an empty city, it was okay, if there was really an ambush, these 100 people would be sent to death, but the military order was difficult to disobey, so they had to bite the bullet.

"General, general" About half an hour, three hundred people rushed out of the city with a shout, "Liu Bei really fled, there is no soldier in the city" The voice was full of joy.

"Great"

"Congratulations to the general, you won the first battle, and you won't have to work hard to take Xiapi"

The general next to Cao Bao hurriedly complimented.

"The general has been fighting for half a day, let's go into the city to rest quickly," Cao Lin said tiredly.

"Yes," Cao Feng also echoed: "The soldiers are already exhausted, and besides, the art of war is 'poor and not chasing', I think we might as well rest for a day, and after the rear troops keep up, we will enter Xuzhou."

"Are there people in the city?" Cao Bao still asked suspiciously: "Liu Bei is likely to hide his soldiers among the people."

"The general can rest assured" A hundred generals replied with a smile: "I have searched carefully, most of the people in the city have fled, only some old and weak women and children have not left, Liu Bei's people cannot hide among the people, the general can enter the city with confidence"

When Cao Bao heard this, his doubts disappeared a lot, so he commanded the army to enter the city, and then the soldiers did not remove their armor, the horses did not leave the saddle, closed the four gates, drove all the people in the city to the school military field, picked out a few old men, and asked carefully. I have to say that Cao Bao was put on a table by Liu Bei, and now he is very cautious.

Several people trembled and replied to Cao Bao, one of whom said: "When Liu Bei arrived in Xiapi, he summoned the people overnight and said that Xiapi could no longer hold it and was forced."

Let the people move to Xuzhou first, and bring out all the Xiapi soldiers to say that it is a decisive battle with General Cao, if you win, inform me to return to Xiapi, if you are defeated, you will not enter Xiapi City and retreat directly to Xuzhou. ”

"That night, most of the young and strong people in Xiapi fled to Xuzhou, leaving only us old bones who couldn't run, and stayed in the city with these women and children." The other old man continued.

Immediately, several people knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Eldest prince, General Cao and I were also coerced by Liu Bei's people the day before yesterday to help defend the city, I hope you won't be angry with us."

"General Cao spares his life"

"The eldest prince is gracious"

Seeing this, Cao Bao finally let go of the last doubt in his heart, whispered to the potters for a while, and went to arrange for the army to defend the city, and ordered the soldiers of the rear battalion to come to Xiapi to meet.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please get up quickly" The pottery merchant said kindly: "My father has been in Xuzhou for a long time, and now my father is unfortunately back to heaven, but Liu Xuande usurped Xuzhou, and my brothers are not allowed, Shang is also a person from Xuzhou, the enemy is only Liu Bei, and it has nothing to do with your fathers and elders. Now that Xiapi has been recovered by me, I hope that all fathers and elders will write letters to let those who fled return to their homeland."

"The Kindness of the Great Prince"

'Thank you, Princess, for your kindness'.

In the evening, the follow-up troops hurriedly entered Xiapi with grain and grass baggage, so that more than 40,000 Cao Bao had been stationed in Xiapi.

After dinner, Cao Bao carefully arranged the defense of the four gates before falling asleep tiredly.

At midnight, on the tower of the south gate, the soldiers guarding the city yawned and fell asleep together, and in a quarter of an hour someone should change the guard, and they all relaxed their vigilance at this time. A few of them complained.

"General Cao is also timid, Liu Bei has run away, and he still doesn't let us sleep soundly"

"That's it, the hell I ran for most of the day to transport grain and grass, and my legs and stomachs were tendoned."

"Be quiet, who told us not to be the elite of Danyang of General Cao, don't you see that the Danyang soldiers of other people are resting early?"

"There's no way, haven't people fought for a long time?"

"This is also called a war, 20,000 people chased people for a long time and lost a lot, and in the end the city was useless to attack, I think they are more energetic than us."

Suddenly, a fire broke out in the direction of the granary in the city, and then the fire spread rapidly, and the houses everywhere began to burn.

"It's on fire, the granary is on fire, Liu Beijun is coming to sneak attack"

"Run, Liu Bei's men and horses are in."

"The east gate has been breached, run"

All kinds of shouts spread quickly from the city, and many of Cao Bao's soldiers began to run around in the firelight, and the city defenders would quickly report to Cao Bao while dispatching manpower to extinguish the fire. Cao Bao, the potter and others also woke up from their dreams, and at first they thought that the soldiers had accidentally misfired on duty, but only after a little inquiry about the situation did they know the seriousness of the matter. At the same time, he also realized that Liu Bei's people were mixed in his troops, but he didn't figure out when he was mixed into Xiapi for a while.

Cao Bao hurriedly summoned his soldiers to organize the extinguishing of the fire, and ordered someone to send an order to increase the number of guards at four gates to prevent the enemy from joining forces inside and outside.

Xiapi, the south gate of the city gate, the military Sima Cao Cheng lazily leaned on the side of the pillar, Cao Cheng is Cao Bao's general, after the army was appointed by Cao Bao as the military Sima, at this time the south gate of the two thousand city guards were under his command, after seeing the fire, he hurriedly drew out most of the men and horses to put out the fire nearby, and there are **100 people at the city gate. Cao Cheng told them to cheer up and watch the city gate.

At this moment, a team of about 100 people hurriedly rushed towards the south gate, and a black-faced man shouted as he ran: "Run, Liu Beijun has already entered from the east gate." ”

Cao Cheng was shocked when he heard this, it was impossible, General Cao Bao had arranged two thousand people at each city gate, how could the enemy kill in silently.

In the midst of doubt, the more than 100 people had already run to the city gate.

"Hurry up and let us out, Liu Bei has already killed in," the black-faced man shouted as Cao Cheng approached. stared at Cao Cheng with a fierce look.

Cao Ben retreated and said: "Who are you a subordinate, the city gate is heavy, how can you open it casually, if you ......?"

"Poof" Before he could finish speaking, the black-faced man took out a short knife from his arms and stabbed Cao Cheng in the heart, and then kicked the corpse, and at the same time, the hundred or so people also drew their knives and slashed at the soldiers guarding the door.

"Ahh

"Poof" "Poof"

"Kill"

In an instant, fifty or sixty people were cut down to the ground.

The black-faced man shouted: "I am He Man of the Flying Dragon Battalion under Liu Xuande's account, my lord's 100,000 army has already attacked Xiapi, and you are not waiting for the time to surrender quickly." The shouts were full of breath and shocking.