On this day, the winter day that had not been seen for a long time finally revealed that smiling face in the east, which was so red and bright that it made people miss it. The majestic ice wall shines with a thousand dazzling rays of light under its illumination.

Hua Fei was dressed in cloth clothes, holding Buddha beads in his hand and standing high on the ice wall, looking at the combined forces of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Ce in the east.

At this time, the ice wall was already covered with sharp horse rejection arrays; Behind them are deep ravines; The neatly equipped sword, shield and spear elite soldiers, under the leadership of the tiger generals Tai Shici, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, Wei Yan and Wu Xu, lined up in front of the pass, just waiting to fight.

After the closure, there were many thatched houses, cloth curtains fluttering in the wind, and Hua Tuo led his subordinates, who were already waiting to treat the wounded.

By Hua Fei's side, Xu Sheng led the archers to be idle, basking in the rare sunbathing in this harsh winter.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Ce, and rode out to watch the ice wall built in one day.

Cao Cao squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, and then immediately sighed: "Huafei shaft! How many people are like this? ”

When Liu Bei heard this, after a little thought, he immediately whispered: "The wisdom of this son is close to a demon, if you don't take advantage of his weak strength to get rid of it, it will be a big trouble for the henchmen of the two Ming Princes in the future!" ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he snorted coldly.

Sun Ce turned his head silently, and looked absentmindedly towards the Huainan region in the southeast.

He didn't know that at this time, in today's Shu County of Lujiang in later generations, there was a magnificent young man with peerless wealth, so that the boy packed up the piano and sword books, and walked towards Huainan with his big sleeves fluttering.

In Danyang County, there are also middle-aged strong men who shouted after receiving his letters: "The Sun family is fortunate to have a son, and I should help my uncle." ”

After receiving the letter, the Jiangdu Yi scribe also rose up and said: "If a person has no faith, he does not know what he can do!" Since there was an appointment the day before yesterday, a certain person invited friends to go to Huainan on the same day to help Sun Lang! ”

At one time, the heroes of the three parties moved together and came to Huainan.

At this time, under the vast and magnificent city of Xiangyang, outside the quiet east gate, suddenly the sound of horses' hooves was urgent, and the sentry soldiers were anxious to wait and see the city.

"Hey! Listen to the people in the city, we are under the command of the prince of Runan Taishou Hua, and the prince of the palace ordered me to hurry here for 800 miles overnight. ”

Hearing this, the soldier leaned over the battlements and said, "If you have something to say, say it quickly!" ”

"Today, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Ce led 180,000 allied troops, and they have reached the border of Jingzhou in the east of Wuyang and west of Langling. For the sake of the alliance, my lord Hua Fei will do his best to block the enemy army for Jingzhou and win a day. ”

In the midst of the shouting, the envoy stretched his neck and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then continued in a loud voice: "If a day later, there is still no arrival of reinforcements from Jingzhou, my lord will lead the army to retreat. Your Lord can bear the consequences, and don't blame them for being unpredictable. ”

After the messenger finished speaking, he rode his own horse and went east. When the guard received such important information, he was so shocked that his liver jumped non-stop, and he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, so he shouted hurriedly and reported it.

"What? Hua Fei wants to retire from the army! Liu Biao, who had not yet gotten up, heard the alarmed report of the guards, and was so frightened that he pushed on the two soft balls on Mrs. Xinnacai's body, turned over and rolled down from the brocade couch.

In the exclamation and complaining of Mrs. Cai, she hurriedly put on her clothes and walked out; Bian raised his voice and shouted: "Someone! Give this wait, quickly go and invite the Kuai Liang brothers, Cai Mao and others, and come to discuss the matter immediately. ”

Before the morning of the same day, Liu Biao, who was given a ruthless order by Hua Fei, hurriedly ordered people to transfer Jiangxia Huangzu after convening his subordinates to discuss, and raised the elite troops of the Xiangyang headquarters, with a total of more than 60,000 people, and hurried to the two mountain passes to ensure the peace of Jingzhou.

The west wind rises, the clouds drift, the east sun is hidden, and the snow drifts again. Hua Fei, who was in the middle of the two mountain passes and above the ice wall, saw Cao Cao coming out of the battle, so he shouted at the gate.

"Mengde, don't come unharmed! You and I are already old friends, why bother to fight and kill every time we meet, why don't you get off the horse and enter the customs, I invite you to drink a cup of hot tea, let's talk about life? ”

"Phew!" When Cao Cao heard this, he wanted to spit on his face, and said in his heart: "This thing is embarrassed to mention such an invitation?" Lao Tzu dismounted and entered the customs, waiting for you to open the knife? ”

Thinking of this, he immediately raised his whip and pointed at Hua Fei and said loudly.

"Hua Pengzhan you take advantage of your tongue, what is the meaning of drinking tea? Manly husband, if you want to drink, drink the piercing wine. If you have a kind of time, you will come down, and Cao will invite you to drink in front of the two armies and talk to you about life. ”

Hua Fei was bent on delaying time so that the fleeing villagers could go away. Hearing the sound, he raised his hand and said "haha" and laughed back.

"Good! Since Meng Degong invited, I will come to the appointment, but you don't want to be reluctant to drink good wine, and only fool me with that light as watery goods. ”

"Huh?" When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but widen his thin eyes, looked at Liu Bei and Sun Ce with a look of loneliness on his face, and asked softly, "This vertical son is not afraid of death?" How dare you agree to my invitation? ”

Sun Ce waved his hand and complained irritably: "You don't care if he is afraid of death, if he dares to come, I will only stab him under the horse with one shot." ”

But he could hear Hua Fei shouting in the cold northwest wind.

"Oh, I said Mengde! You won't just invite me to drink, and you won't even be willing to give me a bite of meat? Seeing that it is about to snow, why don't you order the army to build a fire and set up a barbecue, and we can eat, drink, chat, enjoy the snow, and when we are happy, we will choke two little poems from him, wouldn't it be happy? ”

When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy in his heart, and it seemed that he really had a little bit of poetry.

was about to chant two poems inviting guests to invite Hua Fei. But suddenly woke up, Yu immediately whipped Hua Fei and scolded loudly: "Shaft! You gave Cao this set of delaying tactics again, really think that Cao is that kind of idiot, so deceitful? ”

"Wow!" Hua Fei pretended to be surprised and opened his mouth wide, waved his hand and said loudly, "Ah hide that you are also stingy!" I kindly invited you to tea, but you didn't come, and you said that you would invite me to drink wine, eat meat, and recite small poems, but you found such an excuse to shirk. If you are reluctant to drink and eat, you will tell the truth, and you will not be guilty of any delaying tactics. ”

"I ......" Cao Cao was forced to stop him by his words, and he was speechless for a while, only so angry that his white face bloomed red.

On the side, Liu Bei and Sun Ce saw him and Hua Fei fighting and eating turtles, they were all full of smiles but they couldn't laugh out loud, but they endured it so hard.

After a long time, the angry Cao Cao raised his voice "Haha" and laughed and whipped and shouted: "The vertical son is treacherous, Cao is in danger of you!" As he spoke, he suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Someone! Pass my orders......"

Before he finished speaking, Hua Fei suddenly shouted loudly when he saw that the situation was not good: "Wait! ”

"Huh?" Cao Cao squinted and glanced at him sideways, and said, "Shaft!" If you have any last words to explain, you can come quickly. ”

"Wow! You have to give an account of your last words. Hua Fei secretly scolded Cao Cao angrily in his heart, but Shi Shiran waved his hand when he closed it.

"Ahh I treat you kindly, but if you don't appreciate it, you just want to go to war, and if you want to fight, then you will fight. It's just that I have a word that you can hear. ”

Cao Cao pointed with the horsewhip in his hand and said, "Come quickly, don't talk endlessly over there." ”

"Humph!" Hua Fei snorted coldly and said loudly, "Above my Xiongguan, there are more than 40,000 elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and there are many fierce generals such as Tai Shici, Xu Chu, Chen Zhi, and Wei Yan to help. ”

Saying that, he paused slightly, and then continued coldly to Cao Cao: "As the saying goes, attacking the city is the bottom, although you have as many as 180,000 soldiers, but I have the geographical advantage, you want to attack, but you can be prepared for a big loss of strength, don't blame me for being unpredictable!" ”

When Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Ce heard this, Qi Qi's hearts were sudden. These three people are all veterans of the army, how can they not beat the drum in their hearts when they hear this.

Cao Cao rolled his eyes twice on the horse, then turned his head to look at the brave Fuyang Sun Ce.

Seeing this, Sun Ce was taken aback! hurriedly hugged the gun and saluted: "My Huainan army was seriously damaged in the battle west of Yingshui due to Yuan Shu's recklessness, and it really can't help much, and I hope that Cao Gong Mingjian!" ”

Cao Cao saw that what he said was true, so he had no choice but to turn his head to look at Liu Bei on the side.

Liu Bei was also startled, and hurriedly waved his hands hurriedly.

"Cao Gong, my Xuzhou army was the most seriously damaged in this battle! The first person to hit the Hua Snitch was me Xuzhou, and I Liu Bei was the first person to be knifed by him, and I almost lost my life under Chen Zhi's gun. It's really powerless to help, so I have to excuse myself, and I hope that Cao Gong will learn from it! ”

"Humph!" Cao Cao was furious, and said in his heart: "One will only shirk, and the other will cry poor, is it possible that you two old foxes want to hand over the drudgery of this siege to Cao's subordinates?" ”

Liu Bei heard Cao Cao coldly, "Hmph! He knew that his anger had risen. Nai rolled his eyes twice, and immediately clasped his fists at Cao Cao and saluted.

"Cao Gong! It is better to invite the Hua Fei fighting generals first, and the two brothers have the courage to be unstoppable, and they are willing to help Cao Gong to cut the general and establish his authority, so as to frustrate the morale of the Hua Fei defenders. ”

"That's right!" Sun Ce also said loudly immediately, "Sun is also willing to help Cao Gong kill the general!" ”

Cao Cao squinted at the two of them, and secretly scolded in his heart: "You two are pigs? This Hua Fei's command is already a fierce general, and fighting with him will not only not necessarily win, but will also fall into his delaying strategy, you two don't even know how to call this? ”

Thinking of him, he waved his hand and said, "No need! The two of them can each send 30,000 strong soldiers to attack the city together under my orders. ”

Saying that, he paused and glanced at Liu Bei, and said in a loud voice: "Xuande! If you can help me capture or kill Hua Fei, I will guarantee you as Xuzhou Mu! ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly clasped his fists and shouted: "Duke Cao's great grace, remember it in your heart!" He should do his best to help Cao Gong succeed. But he secretly said in his heart: "Wouldn't capturing Hua Fei alive help you, a tiger, with wings on his back?" As long as Lao Tzu dies Huafei, don't live Pengzhan. ”

Cao Cao was the overlord of the Tripartite Alliance, and with his order, Sun Ce ordered the Huainan Army to divide 30,000 troops and line up behind him.

Liu Bei also whispered to Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and also ordered the second general to lead 30,000 troops to join the battle group. Cao Cao saw that the elite soldiers drawn by the two were in place, so he immediately called for it.

"Dian Wei, Cao Hong, Le Jin and other generals will each lead a large army, listen to my orders, and prepare the whole army to capture the pass!" (To be continued.) )