Under the city of Qi County.

As the sun set, Jia Xu was alone on a dirt slope, watching hundreds of soldiers who were responsible for cleaning up the battlefield to clean up the corpses there. Looking at the endless corpses, Jia Xu actually had a rare smile on his face.

No one knows why Jia Xu likes to watch dead people so much, not even he himself is very clear. Maybe it's very rewarding to see so many people being killed by themselves. Poisoner Jia Xu, the world has always called him that, and he is proud of such a name. Guo Jia's strategy was still relatively successful, with hundreds of thousands of prisoners and surrendered troops, and nearly 50,000 died in the battle of Qi County alone. However, the Xuzhou army is really the elite of the world, the city wall of Qi County is not high, and it collapsed a lot not long after being smashed by a thunderbolt, so they left three times their own enemy army. Although for the purpose of consuming troops, the equipment of these Hebei troops is not very good, but even so, the combat power of the Xuzhou army is also considerable.

Jia Xu can look at the dead calmly, and Cao Ying has no such leisure. After only two days of recuperation after the war, Cao Ying quickly led his army into Beihai. At the same time, Zhao Yun of Donglai and Song Xian of Yangcheng had also led their troops to Beihai and waited for Cao Ying's arrival to fight to the death.

"Yide, Gongtai, both of them are outstanding people in the world, why do you want to raise troops to block the imperial army, how is this move different from rebellion?" Under Beihai City, Cao Ying is a serious and authentic person. Although he knew that Zhang Fei and Chen Gong were not the ones who surrendered, these scenes had to be explained.

Zhang Fei was about to scold, but Chen Gong was already the first to speak: "Cao Mengde, you murderer bullying the Son of Heaven and killing the emperor is the biggest rebellion. Today, I will say that Chen Gong still has a breath of air, and I will deal with you to the end! The voice was high-pitched and clear, and the defenders were all angry when they heard it, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Cao Ying shook his head when he heard this, and stepped back first. At this time, Liu Ye stepped forward and told Cao Ying that the moat in Beihai was too wide, and the thunderbolt was not needed. "Then call the battle first, and if you don't fight, you will attack the city directly!" Cao Ying waved his hand. As soon as the words fell, Xu Chu was already the first to step forward and shouted: "Zhang Feipifu, climb out of the city quickly, and fight with your grandfather Xu for three hundred rounds!" ”

"Huh?" Seeing Xu Chu calling for battle, Zhang Fei remembered that the fierce battle four years ago was also itching, and he was about to go down to the city to fight, but Zhao Yun on the side hurriedly stopped: "Third general, you are the assassin of Qingzhou, and you are in danger of Qingzhou's safety, how can you risk yourself?" Wait for the last general to go and kill this guy to help the momentum! Hearing this, Zhang Fei looked at Zhao Yun with a firm face, and nodded.

The sound of "Dangdangdang" continuous blade strikes sounded like fried soybeans, and two shadows, one black and one white, started a fierce battle under Beihai City. Xu Chu's Shanjun knife opens and closes in one move, and the moves are ruthless, and if you change to an ordinary person, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take more than five moves. But Zhao Yun is not an idle person, although Xu Chu is fierce, but Zhao Yun is not the slightest behind, often in the time when others can only shoot one, Zhao Yun has already stabbed three or four shots, as long as Xu Chu attacks too fiercely, he will take advantage of the weakness and fall into passivity, and the two of them will be killed at the moment.

"General Yan, what do you think of this battle?" Cao Ying knew that it was difficult for a fighter of this level to be famous with his own eyes, so he hurriedly asked Yan Liang, who was on par with Xu Chu in martial arts. The latter sighed for a while and said slowly: "It is unpredictable to win or lose within three hundred moves, if it exceeds three hundred moves, General Xu will be more auspicious." Wen Chou, who was beside him, also nodded, fully agreeing.

"Dang!" After more than 400 rounds of fighting, seeing that Xu Chu's movements were a little slow, Cao Ying hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Zhao Yun didn't care much about himself, and snorted coldly and returned to the city to prepare to defend it. Cao Ying didn't seem to care very much, and immediately sent troops to attack the city immediately. A group of Hebei troops, who had just been recruited, carried sandbags and rushed to the moat to start filling the river. The defenders naturally would not let them be so relaxed, all kinds of bows and arrows, ballistas opened fire one after another, and the Hebei army, which was only wearing leather armor or even cloth clothes, was shot and fell to the ground from time to time, but the successors still rushed up.

"Cao Ying, this is not hesitating casualties!" After filling the river for more than four hours, Chen Gong saw that Cao Jun had killed and injured nearly 10,000 people, but he didn't mean to stop at all, and he was also a little surprised. Even if he is resourceful, he can't figure out that one of the main purposes of Cao Ying's dispatch of troops this time is to consume these prisoners.

Beihai City was already precipitous, and after Zhang Fei and Chen Gong occupied it, they worked hard to manage it, using Zhao Feng's soil and cement firing method to strengthen the city wall, and with hundreds of ballistas, it is naturally more difficult to attack now. At present, there are 50,000 defenders in Beihai City, including 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and Chen Gong estimates that it will not be a problem to hold out until the reinforcements from Xuzhou arrive. When the reinforcements from Xuzhou arrived, Cao Ying had to retreat under the cooperation of the inside and the outside.

Cao Ying looked at the fierce battle of Beihai City, and Gu Jing Bubo's expression made it impossible to see what he was thinking. In the first battle of Guandu, he defeated Yuan Shao's 500,000 people with an army of less than 100,000, and captured nearly 200,000 prisoners alone. With this battle, it is enough to make him famous in the annals of history. But Cao Ying is by no means satisfied with just leaving a name, what he wants is to achieve a real hegemony.

Not to mention that Cao Ying was full of ambition, Shouchun at this time, after learning that Cao Ying's soldiers had committed Qingzhou, Liu Bei and others were very surprised, and Wei Yan, who guarded Langya County, and Gao Shun, who guarded Taishan County, also confirmed the news successively. Liu Bei hurriedly summoned Zhao Feng and Guan Yu to come to the discussion, and after learning that Cao Ying actually led an army of 300,000 to invade Qingzhou, Liu Bei did not dare to slack off, and even wanted to personally send troops to rescue Zhang Fei. However, Pang Tong and Lu Su both thought that at present, Jiangdong was initially decided, and the people's hearts were not stable, so Liu Bei should not move lightly, and it was better to let Guan Yu lead the army to attack. After many persuasions from everyone, Liu Bei also gave up the idea of personally leading the troops, and asked Guan Yu, Zhao Feng, Pang Tong and others to lead 80,000 troops from Xuzhou and Yuzhou to rescue Qingzhou, and at the same time let Gao Shun and Wei Yan attack Yanzhou from Taishan County to force Cao Ying to return to the army. Zhao Feng, Pang Tong and Lu Su discussed for a long time, and they all felt that Cao Ying's sudden large-scale invasion of Qingzhou was strange at this time, but now Qingzhou had to be saved, but they didn't know what he would do next. However, no matter who they were, they didn't expect the real purpose of Cao Ying's march.

Under the city of Beihai, after two days of high-intensity river reclamation, the moat of Beihai was finally filled, and the price Cao Ying paid for this was nearly 20,000 killed, while the Beihai defenders lost no more than 1,000 people, and they were basically suppressed and shot by Cao Jun's bow and crossbow fire.

"Lord, visit Malay to report, Liu Bei took Guan Yu and Zhao Feng as generals, led an army of 80,000 to rescue Beihai, and now the reinforcements have arrived in Langya!" That morning, when the siege was going on for about an hour, Cao Hong hurried to the road.

"Got it." Cao Ying's expression did not change at all, and he was still very calm. "Lord, do you want to continue the siege now?" Guo Jia asked meaningfully. Cao Ying smiled faintly and said, "One more day or two, it's almost over!" ”

"What, there is no Cao Jun blocking ahead?" Zhao Feng was stunned when he heard the scout's report. Not only him, Guan Yu, Pang Tong and others were also confused for a while. At present, their reinforcements have reached the territory of Yangcheng and entered the territory of Qingzhou. Cao Ying is a master of the art of war, so naturally he doesn't even understand the simple truth of encircling points and sending reinforcements.

"Could it be that Cao Ying wants to set up an ambush?" Zhao Feng guessed. Pang Tong shook his head when he heard this: "This is all plains, as long as our army sends more scouts to inspect, even if there is an ambush, it will not work." ”

"Could it be that Cao Ying wants to fight us to the death?" Huang Zhong stroked his beard and groaned, and Pang Tong didn't think so: "Cao Ying just fought with Yuan Shao, if he fights to the death with us, then even if he wins, it will be a miserable victory, and he can only cheapen Yuan Shao for nothing." ”

"In any case, it's better to rush to Qingzhou first. Even if Cao Ying has done everything possible, we should be careful to deal with it without mistakes! Guan Yu snorted coldly, Zhao Feng really couldn't think of anything wrong, so he could only send more scouts to inquire about the news, just in case.

"Third general, Cao Ying has retreated!" Early the next morning, Wei Xu said to Zhang Fei, who had just gotten up, with an incredulous expression, who was even more stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly came to Chen Gong to discuss.

"Could it be that our reinforcements arrived, and Cao Ying knew that he was invincible, so he withdrew?" Zhang Fei thought about it for a long time and came up with such a conclusion. Chen Gong shook his head slowly, and then said in a deep voice: "Cao Ying must have another trick, but I can't see through it for a while." Three generals, you need to be careful, don't chase after the poor! When Zhang Fei heard this, he was just guarding the city with Zhao Yun, but until Guan Yu and Zhao Feng's reinforcements arrived two days later, there was nothing unusual at all.

"Second brother, did you encounter anything wrong during the march?" After meeting with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei couldn't talk about the old days and asked first. Guan Yu was also surprised by Cao Ying's sudden withdrawal of troops, but carefully reviewed his march along the way, except that he was not resisted, everything was normal.

"Could it be that Cao Ying wants to lure the main force of our army to attack Qingzhou, so as to plot Xuzhou and Yuzhou?" Zhao Feng groaned. Pang Tong shook his head when he heard this, and said in a very affirmative tone: "Yuzhou and Xuzhou are not left behind, and it is not easy for Cao Ying to capture them, so let's wait and see what happens!" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't make up their minds, so they had to temporarily garrison Beihai to adapt to the situation, and just to talk about brotherhood.

Two days later, an envoy from Xuzhou brought everyone amazing news.

"What? Liang County lost? Guan Yu was shocked when he heard this, not only him, but even Zhao Feng and the others felt incredible.

"Exactly, five days ago, Xu Huang, a general under Cao Ying, led an army of 50,000 to attack Liang County, and Mi Fang surrendered the city!" The envoy himself was a little hard to believe such a thing, and his tone was very strange. However, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei read the handwritten letter covered with Liu Bei's seal letter, and immediately understood that this was all true.

"Mi Zifang, you are Feng'er's uncle!" Guan Yu was so angry that he only said such a sentence, and Zhao Feng hurriedly admonished at this time: "Second General, it turns out that Cao Ying's real purpose is Yuzhou, and he has been plotting for this for a long time. Speaking of this, Zhao Feng is also a little unbelievable, you must know that Cao Ying killed more than 40,000 people in the attack on Qi County, and 20,000 people died in the Beihai battle, which means that the casualties of more than 60,000 people are just a cover. Cao Yingbu's bureau is really big enough and enough to make money.

"Second general, without further ado, we have to return to Yuzhou as soon as possible, otherwise the big thing will be over!" Pang Tong hurriedly said. "What if Cao Ying'er comes to Beihai again?" Zhang Fei said hurriedly.

"There are currently 50,000 troops stationed in Beihai, and it will not be lost easily, so you can immediately ask the lord to allocate trebuchets to strengthen the defense." Pang Tong continued. From Yin Li's mouth, he had already learned that Cao Ying had begun to attack the city with a thunderbolt, and he naturally had to respond with a more advanced trebuchet.

Hurriedly bidding farewell to Zhang Fei and Chen Gong, Guan Yu and Zhao Feng hurriedly led the army back to help. On the way, Liu Bei sent several messengers, and bad news came one after another.

On September 10th, Mi Fang deceived open the gate of Chen County, Chen County was broken by Cao's army, the defender Hou Cheng was killed in battle, 10,000 guards were killed and wounded more than 8,000, and only more than 1,000 people fled to Qian County.

On September 12, Mi Fang deceived the gate of Ruyin, the Cao army conquered Ruyin, the guard Hao Meng was killed by Xu Huang, and almost all the seven thousand guards were killed, and the Cao army broke Ruyin again.

On September 15, Mi Fang deceived the city gate of Runan again. After fierce battles, the defenders Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao finally lost the city, and only more than 3,000 of the 20,000 defenders fled to Anyang with them. Fortunately, when Mi Fang wanted to deceive the Anyang City Gate, he was recognized by Xu Sheng, the Taishou of Anyang. After that, Xu Huang went north to attack Xiangcheng, and under the attack of the Xuchang army, Xiangcheng was quickly broken, and the 5,000 defenders were annihilated.

By the time Guan Yu and Zhao Feng returned to Shouchun, the entire Yuzhou had lost more than half of its land. At the beginning, Guan Yu and Zhao Feng sent Yuzhou to work hard to build the land, only Qian County was designed by Xu Shu and Zhou Tai to defend it desperately, and the rest were all lost.

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