"Zhao Botao, you deceive people too much!"

The person who roared was none other than Cao Hong. With this roar, the gift box on the table was also kicked away by him and rolled to the ground. The rest of the people in the big tent looked intently, but they saw that inside the box was actually a woman's clothes, red skirt and white jacket, silk and satin, this dress is really good workmanship.

Gently picked up the letterhead scattered on the ground, and after reading it, he couldn't help but be angry. This Zhao Feng spoke a little bit of Yin. Not to mention that Cao Hong is an impatient person, even if he is replaced by himself, he may not be able to calm down. Zhao Feng's letter was very short, in which he told Cao Hong, I am now leading an army of 100,000 to the north to rescue Xingyang, if you bring seeds, come out and fight me to the death. If you don't have a seed, just huddle in the camp and don't go to war, put on this beautiful dress given to you, and go back to be a boudoir lady!

"Zhao Botao is so hateful, I will kill him!" Cao Hong said hatefully. After finishing speaking, he didn't understand his hatred, and directly slammed his fist on the table, and suddenly smashed a big hole in a solid wood table. In the tent, Xiahou Ba, Man Chong, Yu Ban and others also looked at each other.

"The general is angry! Now that Zhao Botao is coming to save Liu Bei, we will wait for him to enter the Xingyang realm first, and then let General Zhang and General Xu lead the army to cut off his back road, and wait for Zhao Botao to completely fall into the encirclement, and then annihilate him in one fell swoop! Man Pet thought for a moment.

Although Cao Hong's surname is short-tempered, he is not a brainless person after all. This strategy was arranged by Cao Ying before leaving, and he would naturally abide by it. It's just that now Zhao Feng stimulates him so much, even if the encirclement has not yet been fully formed, once Zhao Feng stands in front of him, he will still not hesitate to fight with him. At that moment, Cao Hongqiang suppressed the anger in his heart, and while ordering the suspension of the attack on Xingyang City, he sent scouts to listen to Zhao Feng's news, and asked Zhang Jaw and Xu Huang to send troops as soon as possible, and then attack from both sides to defeat Zhao Feng.

"Big brother, why didn't Cao Jun attack the city today?" At the head of the devastated Xingyang City, Zhang Fei, who had just finished a day of defending the city, also asked tiredly. Beside him, Liu Bei was not as calm as he always was, and his face was full of dust and dust. Being trapped in Xingyang City for more than a month has really made Liu Bei very difficult. Except for a few carrier pigeons accompanying the army, Liu Bei didn't know anything about the outside. Just a few days ago, all the carrier pigeons ran out, and Liu Bei completely lost contact with the outside world. So even his eldest nephew of the emperor had just been killed, and he didn't know anything about it. Of course, he didn't know that it was not Cao Ying himself who led the troops to besiege him under the city, but Cao Hong.

"I think it should be General Zhao's reinforcements that have arrived, so Cao Ying has just stopped fighting and is ready to fight General Zhao to the death. Three generals, General Wenyuan, you can gather military horses and prepare to break through! Seeing this scene, Chen Gong thought carefully for a long time, and then said cautiously. Liu Bei nodded, Cao Ying used soldiers to be cunning, maybe he had other intentions this time, and he still needed to be careful.

"General, there is more than an hour of travel ahead, and you can enter the Xingyang Realm. The scout came to report that Yongning's jaw division had gathered and was ready to cross Luoshui to help in the battle. General Zhou Tai had already led his troops to fortify the riverside and should be able to hold it back for a few hours. As for Xu Huang, General Wang sent someone to report, saying that Xu Huang had been stumped by his design, and he would not be able to come to help in the war for two or three days! ”

During the march, Guan Ping said in detail to Zhao Feng. As he said, at present, Zhou Tai led 5,000 soldiers from the navy army, preparing to rely on Luoshui to snipe Zhang Jaw, and Xu Huang was also convinced that there was a problem with drinking water after treating the sick soldiers in the army, and immediately ordered the whole army to dig deep wells to get water, and not to drink the stream water that Wang Ping had discharged. But Rao is so, if he doesn't raise it for a few days, the army will not want to conduct a large-scale field battle. And in the past few days, Wang Ping naturally won't let them get better, and every time he attacks Xu Huang's camp, there is almost no pause. Xu Huang had no choice but to order the soldiers who were quite comfortable in their actions to guard Dazhai in shifts.

"Very good, in this way, we can solve Cao Hong first!" Zhao Feng understood the current situation. At this time, Guan Ping also sighed: "It's a pity that General Gan is now trapped in the camp of the Guandu Water Division, otherwise, with his 30,000 water army, once he is stationed in Luoshui, he can naturally block all the jaws." After Pang Tong rebelled, his cousin Pang Lin was also promoted to the governor of the water division. Gan Ning, the original governor of the navy, was placed under house arrest in Guandu. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Qi still had 10,000 sailors under him, Zhou Tai would have to rely on infantry to fight against Zhang Jaw this time.

"But although General Zhou has a sailor, he doesn't have a single warship, how can he resist Zhang Jaw?" Ma Zhong, who came with the army, was also puzzled.

"Hehe, Dexin, you don't know this. Even if Youping didn't have a special warship, he didn't have a warship first, and secondly, Cao Ying's northern soldiers basically couldn't fight in the water, and they couldn't even swim. Even if Youping is not good, it can still be done to stop them! Zhao Feng said with a smile. This can be regarded as Cao Ying's negligence this time, Zhang Jaw is stationed in Yongning, and if he wants to come to surround him, he must cross Luoshui; Xu Huang was stationed in the Songshan camp, but he was completely dizzy by the Flying Army. If it weren't for that, if these two partial teachers were added together, they wouldn't be able to bear it.

The army marched forward at full speed, and in a short time, it had already reached the Xingyang realm. After getting the news, Cao Hong was also gearing up to fight to the death. However, to his surprise, the scouts had not found any news about Xu Huang and Zhang Jaw's two deviant teachers. As a last resort, Cao Hong had to send a messenger again to urge the two people.

The news of Zhang Jaw and Xu Huang is unknown, but Zhao Feng has already come to the door. Cao Hong really wanted to continue to hold on and wait for Ma Qi to make plans again. But Zhao Feng didn't give him a chance to breathe, and as soon as he set up Dazhai, he sent Niu Jin to lead 500 people to Cao Hong Dazhai to scold the battle. Of course, this is not a simple scolding. Before scolding, Zhao Feng personally guided him. taught Niu Jin all his scolding words to Niu Jin. Zhao Feng remembered that in history, Cao Hong was scolded by Ma Chao so much that he couldn't hold it back, and refused to stick to the battle with him, and as a result, he lost Tongguan. Now with his more lethal words, it is estimated that Cao Hong will come out to fight himself in less than half a day.

"Bang!" In the camp of the Cao army, Cao Hong threw a tea bowl in front of him to the ground and shattered it. "Come on, gather the generals with me and go to fight Zhao Botao to the death!" After hearing clearly what Niu Jin was scolding, Cao Hong was already angry.

"The general is angry, let's wait for General Zhang and General Xu's partial division to arrive in Xingyang, and then fight Zhao Botao!" As Cao Ying's civil official, Man Chong stayed to watch Cao Hong, and he had to come out to speak at this time. Cao Hong didn't mean to calm down at all when he heard this, "This Zhao Botao insults the lord so much, how can I, as a courtier, sit idly by." If so, how can I, Cao Hong, be regarded as a descendant of the Cao family! Cao Hong roared angrily, full of favor was waiting for the organization's words to persuade him, but he didn't want to ban it, but hurriedly came in and said: "General Cao, the big thing is not good, General Wenlie just couldn't bear the insults, and he went out to fight without authorization, and Zhao Botao was captured!" ”

"What?" Cao Hong suddenly had a big head again. At this time, in Zhao Feng's barracks, looking at Cao Xiu, who was tied up by five flowers in front of him, but still unconvinced, Zhao Feng was also in a good mood.

"How is it, General Cao Wenlie, after more than ten years, how is the general doing recently? Don't worry, I'll send someone to let you go soon! Zhao Feng ignored Cao Xiu's eyes that were about to erupt into flames, and teased himself. Cao Xiu was angry, but his skills were not as good as others and he was captured again, and there was nothing to say. was about to scold, but saw Niu Jin hurriedly come in with an excited face and said, "General, Cao Hong's guy can't hold it back, and he is going to come out for a decisive battle!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Feng was overjoyed when he heard this, you kid can't hold it back after all. Before I could pull Cao Xiu to the door to slaughter, you came out. Thinking of this, Zhao Feng also hurriedly ordered the whole army to go out, ready to fight Cao Hong.

What Zhao Feng didn't know was that at this time in Wancheng, the things he had arranged were almost the same. "Ma Youchang, Mencius, what are you doing here?" Fu Shiren, who was tied up by five flowers, asked loudly while struggling desperately. As Pang Tong expected, when he led an army of 20,000 to Wancheng, Meng Da, who had insufficient defenders, immediately opened the door and surrendered, accompanied by Ma Tan. Fu Shiren knew that Ma Liang had already walked in the united front with Pang Tong, and now when he met Ma Yan, he would be his own person. Regarding Ma Tan's invitation to a banquet, Fu Shiren, a person who is good at wine and lust, did not have any doubts and happily went to the appointment. As a result, after three glasses of wine, I didn't know what to do. When I woke up again, I found that I had been tied up. No matter how stupid he is, he knows that something is wrong.

"Fu Shiren, you are following the rebellion, I will take you down today, and when the lord comes back, I will make plans!" Looking at Fu Shiren with an unconvinced face in front of him, Ma Jian didn't want to say anything more to him, and directly ordered him to be escorted down. At this time, Liao Hua also said: "The 20,000 people brought by Fu Shiren are all Jingzhou soldiers, I have already told the captains the reason for the incident, most of them are grateful for the grace of the lord, and they are willing to go with me to help the general rescue the lord!" There are a few tenacious people who have also been killed by me. ”

"That's fine, General Yuan Jian, you can lead people to Xingyang as soon as possible to help General Zhao!" Ma Jian also urged when he heard this. Liao Hua left thousands of people to help Ma Jian and Meng Da defend the city, and he led 20,000 Jingzhou troops who had just been incorporated to Xingyang to help in the war.

At this time, under the city of Xingyang, in the wilderness, Zhao Feng and Cao Hong's army of more than 200,000 was facing each other. The number of people on both sides is about the same, but since Zhao Yun brought almost all the Xiliang iron cavalry under his command this time, and Cao Hong in order to ensure that Xu Huang and Zhang Jaw arrived as soon as possible, most of the cavalry were there. Therefore, in this battle, in terms of cavalry, Zhao Feng and they had a slight advantage.

"General Cao, do you really start a war with Zhao Botao without waiting for General Xu and General Zhang to come over?" Yu Ban thought about it, but he still felt that something was wrong. But the matter has come to this point, and even Cao Xiu has been tied to the other party's flagpole by the five flowers. To fight or not to fight, it seems that the initiative is not in their own hands.

"It doesn't matter, our troops are not less than the other party. Zhao Botao still needs to leave men in case of General Zhang and General Xu, and I would like to see what he can do to stop us. Cao Hong sneered, looking at the banner of General Zhao on the other side, the battle intent in his eyes was already burning. On the other hand, Yu Ban beside him looked a little apprehensive, and it could even be said that he was a little depressed. At first glance, it doesn't look like it's ready for war.

However, neither Cao Hong, nor Yu Ban, nor even Zhao Feng found out that at this time, a group of people and horses were coming from Guandu along the waterway of the Yellow River.

(To be continued)