The north wind blew off the goose feathers in the sky, and Hua Fei stood alone under the bright red lone lamp, staring at the dark night sky outside the Burrow. His eyebrows were tightly locked, and his lips were closed for a long time.

Zhang Demei, who was dressed in close-fitting black clothes and showed her proud figure, happened to serve a bowl of soaked eucommia wine, and wanted to nourish his body.

Suddenly, he frowned and pondered, but he didn't dare to make a sound and gently stopped his steps, and stood quietly with the wine waiter aside, only for fear of disturbing his thoughts.

The news from Liu Biao is too important for the relationship between the battle situation. After a long time, Hua Fei turned the slightly cool Buddha bead in his palm, "Alas! He sighed.

Zhang Demei saw him wake up from his contemplation, and called softly: "Fly!" What's in your heart, why do you sigh for a long time? ”

Hua Fei turned around when he heard the sound and saw her standing behind her with a delicate wine. Nai Zhanyan smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, it's just an occasional feeling." When did you come, why didn't you call me, you stood for a long time, right? ”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to help her take the wine. Zhang Demei smiled, but dodged away, walked to the edge of the table with a curling face, and put the wine on the table.

Looking back at him, he feigned anger and said, "You once told me that if one sorrow is shared by two people, it will be reduced to half sorrow. Now you have a heart in mind, but you will not speak to me. Come to think of it, it must be your heart that looks down on me. ”

Hua Fei groaned slightly when he heard this, and said: "I don't look down on you, but Bing Yuan believed that Liu Biao refused to send troops to help, and I was afraid that you would be worried." ”

When Zhang Demei heard this, she opened her cherry mouth and shouted: "Why doesn't Liu Biao send troops to help?" Didn't we make an offensive and defensive alliance with him? ”

Hua Fei let out a long sigh and said, "It's me who missed it." ”

Zhang Demei's eyes widened and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Hua Fei said with a smile: "Although Liu Biao and we have the righteousness of an alliance, it would be too much to let him send troops to help us defend Runan like this!" ”

Zhang Demei stretched out her hand, lightly combed her hair, blinked her eyes twice and said, "What's the explanation?" ”

Hua Fei said: "Help us defend the land, if we lose, he will naturally suffer heavy losses." And even if he wins, what good will it do him? ”

"yes!" Zhang Demei lowered her head and said in contemplation, "This kind of thankless work, replace it with me, uh......"

At this point, she suddenly paused, raised her head and opened her eyes wide, staring at Hua Fei sharply left and right. Crisp voice argued: "If it's me, for you, even if it's a thankless thing, it will definitely be done!" ”

Hua Fei saw that she was anxious to distinguish it, and smiled dotingly: "It's a pity that Liu Biao is not you!" He would never do such a useless thing. ”

Zhang Defu said angrily: "However, if he betrays the alliance like this, he is not afraid of being ashamed of being ashamed and laughing?" ”

"Of course not!" Hua Fei waved his hand and said bitterly, "Whether it's internal instability; or the barbarians of Yanwuling are restless; This is enough for him to act as an excuse that he really can't get away from helping him, so why be afraid of people laughing? ”

Saying that, he paused slightly, turned the Buddha beads and said: "Besides, Liu Biao sits on the eight counties of Jingxiang, and you are a candidate, how many people dare to laugh at him?" ”

When Zhang Demei heard this, he was silent. After a while, he said quietly: "Why don't we give him some gifts?" ”

"Gifts?" Hua Fei shook his head with a smile and said, "Liu Biao has a noble status, what gift can impress him?" Besides, I, Runan, have nearly a million mouths right now, waiting to be fed. And how can I give him a gift? ”

When Zhang Demei heard this, she looked at Hua Fei with a worried face, and said sadly: "Liu Biao refuses to help, and the enemy army is so powerful. There are still more than 200,000 troops, and there is a possibility that they will increase at any time. ”

As she spoke, she paused slightly, lowered her head and said, "Moreover, there are many fierce generals in the enemy army, and our army is weak and has no foreign support. But how should it be? ”

Hua Fei knew that she was working hard and was unwilling to let her worry about it anymore. Nai stretched out his hand and stroked her slightly cool pretty face, and said softly: "Weakness is only because of more wins!" Don't worry, I've got you covered. It won't take too long, I will naturally think of a way to let Liu Biao willingly send troops to help. ”

This night, the lights in Hua Fei's burrow continued all night long. He Man, who was on duty at night, took turns to take over basins of cold water from the hands of his guards.

Zhang Demei went out in a hurry in the second half of the night. After a while, he helped Hua Tuo carry a big gourd in the medicine box, and hurriedly returned with snow.

Before Hua Tuo entered the door, he heard the sound of 'banging' water in the house. When I entered the door, under the bright red light, I saw Hua Fei's face flushed, and a trace of white smoke loomed above his head.

Seeing this situation, Hua Tuo hurriedly opened his mouth to speak. But he was caught off guard, and He Man, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly stretched out his big hand and covered his mouth with a handful.

Hua Tuo was furious, his eyes widened, and his whole body struggled. He Man dragged away from the door of the burrow, and Zhang Demei gently covered the door again.

Here, He Man lowered his voice as much as possible and shouted at Hua Tuo: "Shhhhhhhhhh When the lord is thinking about things, he is most afraid of being disturbed. I'll let go of my hand for a while, you must lower your voice to speak, do you understand? ”

Hua Tuo's face was flushed, he blinked at him twice, and screamed twice in his mouth, signaling that he understood. He Man glanced at him again, and then let go of the big hand that was tightly covered.

"Shhh...... Uh" Hua Tuo, who was about to roll his eyes, hurriedly opened his mouth wide, and took a long breath of cold air into his stomach.

Suddenly, the jumping halberd pointed at He Man, and opened his mouth to scold.

But he hurriedly changed his fingers, covered his mouth, and turned his head to look at Hua Fei's room. Rolling his eyes twice, he turned his head to He Man and lowered his voice and scolded.

"Mother's! You are stupid and big, you cover Lao Tzu's mouth, then at least you have to leave a nostril for Lao Tzu to breathe, right? You fucking covered Lao Tzu's mouth and nose, what kind of breath did you tell Lao Tzu to take? ”

He Man blinked a pair of bull's eyes, first looked down at his huge palm, and then looked up at Hua Tuo's face. After thinking about it, he stretched out his big palm and covered Hua Tuo's face again.

Hua Tuo was startled and hurriedly dodged to avoid it. But I heard He Man say: "I'm sorry for Huayi Cao!" Your face is really not big enough, I will cover the porcelain with this palm, don't be surprised! ”

"Mother! Do you think everyone is like you, with a big face? ”

Hua Tuo helplessly rolled his eyes at this fool. But he heard a delicate voice and asked, "Huayi Cao, is he okay?" ”

Hua Tuo turned around when he heard the sound, and saw Zhang Demei twisting his hands into each other's clothes, but with a pair of big red eyes, he was looking at him nervously.

"Tsk! I said, Demei, don't you have your own medical skills? Looking at the appearance of the lord, it is obviously because of the excessive use of the brain, and the qi and blood in the brain are constantly running, which produces too much heat. ”

Saying that, Hua Tuo covered his hands lightly and continued: "This is why your face is red and your head is full of white smoke, just these signs should not be difficult to see with your medical skills?" ”

Zhang Demei ignored this, only stamped her little feet and asked urgently, "What are you talking about?" I'm asking you if there's anything you can do to get him better soon? ”

Hua Tuo rolled his eyes, spread his hands and said, "What else can be done about this?" Either let the lord stop thinking about it first, or just keep using ice water wipes like him to cool his head. ”

As he spoke, he glared at He Man and whispered, "Stupid big man, why don't you go and help the master change the water, what are you still standing and watching?" Do you know how to heal, and what are you doing here? ”

He Man shrunk his neck, turned around and hurried away. And Zhang Demei couldn't do anything after discussing with Hua Tuo. had to ask Hua Tuo to rest nearby, but he kept guarding Hua Fei, who was flushed.

On the third day of the twelfth month of winter, Cao Bao of Xuzhou received a letter from Liu Bei. After learning of Liu Bei's defeat, Cao Bao scolded like thunder, Hua Fei's cunning and Liu Bei's incompetence.

However, in Liu Bei's loyal letter, the words of the last paragraph also caused Cao Bao to think deeply.

"Hua Fei is my confidant in Xuzhou. If the tripartite alliance is at this time, except for Huafei, Huafei will slow down in the future, which will inevitably bring huge disasters to Xuzhou! Bei begged the lord to draw out elite soldiers again, and come to help prepare to kill this fang, so as to solve the trouble of this henchman. ”

Cao Bao felt that Liu Bei was very reasonable, if Hua Fei slowed down, then he would be the initiator of the tripartite alliance's attack on Runan County. Undoubtedly, it will be the heaviest jealousy of Huafei.

Thinking of this, Cao Bao waited to order the dispatch of additional elite soldiers to help Liu Bei destroy Hua Fei. But suddenly, I thought that there were not many elite soldiers in Xuzhou, and if I transferred it to Liu Bei. Then in his Cao Bao's hands, wouldn't he have no soldiers available?

And when Cao Bao was suffering from gains and losses, Yuan Shu, who wanted to taste some fishy smell, ordered Ji Ling under his command to lead his troops across the river and return to Huainan to help him find the 'antidote' for insomnia nearby.

As the saying goes: "What kind of general can bring out what kind of soldiers." "The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, Yuan Shu is not right, but Ji Ling is not right, and the soldiers brought by the two of them are naturally not good goods.

As soon as they crossed the river, the Beishan area of Huainan sounded in an instant, a miserable cry; angry roars; and helpless cries.

Ji Ling himself robbed one first, and the eldest girl who was water Lingling was plundered again, turning Huainan and Nanshan into a hell on earth......

And on this day, Hua Fei, who had subsided his fever, finally formulated a tactic after ruling out various ideas. First, there were several riders and two riders, carrying Hua Fei's handwritten letter to Liu Biao, and rushed to Xiangyang City at an expedited speed of 800 miles.

Subsequently, Lu Su led the Cao people to mobilize the strong men among the villagers to make some contributions to the family and the township.

And the chief generals of the major military towns in Runan also received orders from Hua Fei before and after. Zhang Demei was first ordered to go south to Yingshang County with Wu Xu, preparing to replace Chen Dao, and then transfer Chen Zhi to return to Gushi.

Xu Chu was also replaced by He Man, and he was ready to return to Hua Fei's side to listen to orders. At the same time, the eight Tuntian soldiers under Hua Fei's command, each divided into half of the troops, and prepared to secretly converge towards Gushi County.

Tai Shi Ci and Lu Zhu were ordered to select those who were good at riding among the troops, and increased the cavalry force to 7,000 people. Xu Sheng's naval army was also ready, and he was ready to go down the river at any time and wait for orders before Gushi County.

Chen Deng was ordered to closely monitor the movements of Cao Cao's army on the east bank of Yingshui, who had just eaten the entire Yingchuan County, and if he found any signs of something wrong, he had to report the news to Hua Fei immediately.

On the fourth day of the first month, Lu Su organized 20,000 young men and went to the eight Tuntian barracks under Hua Fei. The Tuntian veterans selected by the eight departments were immediately ordered to be pulled.

On the fourth night of the first lunar month, Chen Zhi picked up his gun and got on the horse, and Xu Chu waved his sword and rode quickly. Yingshang Town, the strength of the defense of Yuan Shu was sharply reduced by half.

On the morning of the fifth day of the first month, the flag of Gushi County was unfurled, and the army gathered. Xu Sheng was ordered to go south along the river, and Hua Fei personally led the three generals out of the city and crossed the river to the east. (To be continued.) )