Although he was trapped in the demolition house, there was such a large reinforcement of the demolition team............ Oh wrong, it should be that although they were trapped in Xiaopei City, but Lu Su led a large group of infantry to reinforce Xiaopei Battlefield Such a big movement, Liu Bei's three brothers could still see it clearly on the city wall, and after discovering this, the three friends of Taoyuan were inevitably worried, and Guan Yu, who still had a very serious arrow wound on his body, also said directly to Liu Bei: "Brother, it's probably not a good strategy to go on like this, taking advantage of the strength of our army to fight, brother or take an idea as soon as possible, whether to abandon the city and break through?" If it is delayed for a long time, our army will consume too much in the defense of the city, and it will only be difficult to break through again. ”

Liu Bei hesitated, knowing that Guan Yu's words were true, there are still more than 3,000 troops in Xiaopei City, if you abandon the city at any cost and break through, then there should be some hope that the breakthrough will be successful, but if it is delayed any longer, the limited strength will be consumed in the battle to defend the city, then the self-army will not be able to break through even if it wants to.

After hesitating and hesitating, after thinking again and again, Liu Bei was still reluctant to give up Xiaopei Jiancheng, which was rich in grain and grass and had dangerous terrain, shook his head and said: "It is too early to abandon the city at this time, but you can insist on making calculations again and calculating the distance, if Lu Wenhou sends troops to rescue, there should be news within three days." If the reinforcements do not arrive after the third day, it will not be too late for our army to make calculations. ”

Guan Yu nodded and stopped talking, but Zhang Fei next to him said dissatisfiedly: "Why does my brother trust that three-surnamed slave so much?" Lu Bu villain, how can he be trusted? Expecting him to send troops to rescue us and others, isn't it a dream in vain? ”

Liu Bei was silent again, and only after a while did he say: "I have not failed Wen Hou, and Wen Hou will not live up to me." ”

Zhang Fei sneered loudly and scoffed at Uncle Liu's naivety and naivety. But at this time, the Xuzhou army camp five miles away suddenly moved, the Xuzhou army that had been standing still for eight days suddenly dispatched more than 4,000 people, strode to Xiaopei City, and set up a position outside the siege fortifications, Liu Bei brothers hurriedly commanded the army to prepare for the battle, but they were surprised to find that this Xuzhou army was actually based on the long shield first, and the bow and crossbow were arranged behind the shield to put on the defensive, and at the same time, ten strange wooden carts were pushed to the front of the formation, lined up to aim at the Xiaopei city wall.

Seeing this scene, Liu Bei's three brothers were inevitably confused, and Liu Bei was also puzzled in his heart, "How can Tao Ying Xiao'er take the lead with a long shield and take a defensive position, does he want to attack the city, or do he want to prevent our army from attacking out of the city?" Also, how could his thunderbolt be so far away, a full three hundred steps away from the Xiaopei City Wall? The thunderbolt that the Mi Zhu brothers helped me imitate can only hit a hundred steps at most? ”

……………… Also suspicious was the Xuzhou Wenwu under Tao Ying, seeing that Tao Ying let the long shield bow and crossbow take the front to take a defensive position, Zang Ba, Chen Zhi and Tao Ji and others were inevitably puzzled, and they all rushed to Tao Ying to ask, "Childe, we obviously don't have much time, why are you still on the defensive?" Do you think that Liu Bei still has the courage to go out of the city to die? ”

"If I don't take the defensive, what if the enemy comes out of the city and smashes our trebuchet?" Tao Ying replied with a smile.

"But we don't have time!" Zang Ba said anxiously: "We only have one day, even if ten trebuchets continue to throw stones, they can't destroy the Xiaopei city wall." ”

"Who says we don't have time?" Tao Ying suddenly laughed and said, "Brother Xuan, please rest assured, and the generals can also rest assured, we still have plenty of time." ”

"We still have plenty of time?" The generals in Xuzhou were all dumbfounded, not knowing what Tao Ying meant by this?

Fortunately, Tao Ying finally stopped selling Guanzi this time, and first nodded to Li Ming, the captain of the pro-soldier next to him, Li Ming understood, and immediately asked people to bring a middle-aged man in his thirties, dressed as a scribe in a Confucian shirt and scarf, holding a one-foot square wooden box in his hand, with a mediocre appearance and nothing special. Then Tao Ying pointed to the middle-aged man and smiled at the generals: "Everyone, I won't hide it from you when the matter has come to this point, in fact, in order to avoid falling into the dilemma of our army fighting on two fronts, I have already sent someone to secretly visit Lu Wenhou. This Mr. Song Kai and Song Bei'an are the envoys sent by Lu Wenhou to reply to our army. ”

"This gentleman is a messenger sent by Lu Wenhou?" Zang Ba and the others were all surprised and delighted, and hurriedly saluted, and couldn't wait to ask Song Kai: "Mr. Bei'an, my son-in-law asks for a peace strike, what is Lu Wenhou's reply?" ”

"Generals, rest assured, my lord has already agreed to Tao Gongzi's request." Song Kai's answer made Zang Ba and others overjoyed, Song Kai held the wooden box and said with a smile: "In fact, my lord has found out that something is wrong since the battle in Liuxian County, and suspects that our army has been killed by Liu Bei's thief, so he immediately ordered General Zhang Wenyuan to withdraw from Xuzhou, and after Tao Gongzi's secret envoy arrived in Shanyang to meet my lord, under the confrontation between the two, my lord Lu Wenhou finally understood that Liu Bei and the thief deliberately pulled our army into the battlefield of Xuzhou, creating an opportunity for Liu Bei to fish in troubled waters. Therefore, my lord not only agreed to make peace with your army, but also decided to personally raise troops to the south and join forces with your army to attack Xiaopei. ”

After that, Song Kai opened the wooden box in his hand again, revealing the head of a middle-aged man, and said with a smile: "In order to prove the sincerity of our army and your army to join forces to attack Liu, my lord has cut off the head of Sun Gan, the messenger of Liu Bei's thief, as a gift to Tao Yinggongzi. Tao Gongzi, generals, please take a look. ”

"Good! Wen Hou is wise! Zang Ba, Tao Ji and Chen Zhi cheered together, all smiling, and all complained that Tao Ying's appetite had been hung to the point of being too much - such good news has been concealed until now.

"Generals, it's time to understand why I'm not in a hurry, right?" Tao Ying asked with a smile, and when he saw the generals in Xuzhou nodding in shame, Tao Ying turned to Song Kai and said: "Mr. Bei'an, I bother you to go to Xiaopei City and inform Liu Bei of the thief, and then I will order the siege of the city." ”

Song Kai agreed, hurriedly held Sun Gan's head, put on a white flag, and hurried to Xiaopei City, Xuzhou generals were all overjoyed, scrambling to surround that Song Kai out of the battle, and went to the nearest place to witness Liu Bei's painful reaction when he heard the bad news. Only Lu Su was confused, and as soon as the generals walked away, they tentatively asked Tao Ying: "Childe, didn't you keep saying that joining forces with Lu Bu is to seek skin with the tiger?" Why did you change your mind again this time? ”

"I can't help it." Tao Ying spread his hands helplessly and said: "Our army is not strong enough to prevent Lu Bu from reinforcing Liu Bei, so I have no choice but to lose money and avoid disasters and buy Lu Bu with a large sum of money and grain." ”

"That son-in-law only needs to temporarily stabilize Lu Bu, why do you want to ask Wen Hou to send troops to reinforce our army, isn't the son-in-law afraid of luring wolves into the house?" Lu Su asked suspiciously. Tao Ying didn't answer, just looked at Lu Su and smiled, Lu Su kept turning his triangular eyes, and after a long time, he patted his head and said suddenly: "I'm really confused, what kind of person is Childe, how can he make mistakes?" ”

……………… At the same time, under Xiaopei City, seeing a scribe with a white flag in his hand coming out of the Xuzhou army, Liu Bei, who was up and down in his heart, was suddenly overjoyed, and said that Tao should want to surrender or negotiate, and quickly ordered not to release arrows, and let the Xuzhou envoy go straight to Xiaopei City, and couldn't wait to stand out of the city, ready to negotiate with the envoy in person. After Song Kai walked to Xiaopei City, he also bowed to the city, and said politely and loudly: "The sergeant in the city reported to Xuande Gong, and said that Song Kai was under the command of Yanzhou Lu Wenhou and was ordered to visit Xuande Gong. ”

"Lu Bu's messenger? How did Lu Bu's envoy get out of Tao Ying'er's team? Liu Bei was shocked, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, and hurriedly returned the salute to Song Kai, and said loudly: "Mr. Song, it is Liu Bei below, dare to ask Mr. Wen Hou to send Mr. here, what advice do you have?" ”

"Xuande Gong, there's bad news for you." Song Kai said unhurriedly: "In view of the fact that the alliance between the Duke of Xuande and our army is with bad intentions, my lord Lu Wenhou has decided to sever all alliances with your army!" The envoy said that at this point, he will come to announce on behalf of my lord that from now on, your and our armies will no longer have anything to do with each other, and they will never come to each other! ”

"What? Lu Bu broke off the covenant with me?! Uncle Liu Huang was struck by lightning, and suddenly the world swirled, and he almost fainted on the spot, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei next to him were even more furious, and immediately scolded Lu Bu, Zhang Fei also scolded: "The three surnamed slaves are really unrighteous and unrighteous!" ”

Song Kai opened the wooden box in his hand again, revealing the head of Sun Gan in the box, and said loudly: "Xuande Gong, this is what Tao Yinggongzi will show you by the way, in order to repay Tao Yinggongzi's virtue of giving grain, my lord has beheaded Sun Gan, the messenger of Xuande Gong's request for help, and gave the head to Tao Yinggongzi as a gift." ”

"Gongyou-!" Although it was quite far away, Uncle Liu Huang still recognized at a glance that the head in the box was Sun Qian, and immediately burst into tears. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei next to him roared like thunder, and together they ordered to release arrows, to shoot the messenger of Lu Bu, a shameless villain, to avenge Sun Gan, but unfortunately Song Kai had already prepared, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately pulled out his legs and fled, and even ran away, scolding while running, "Liu Bei annihilated the thief, my lord really didn't misunderstand you, the two countries are fighting, don't kill the envoy, you even kill the messenger, my lord knows it, and he will definitely not give up with you!" ”

Fortunately, this Song Kai had long known that Liu Beijun might turn his face and kill the envoy, and he escaped quickly and was finally not killed by Liu Beijun's random arrows, while Guan Yu and Zhang Fei jumped like thunder on the city wall, scolding Lu Bu's ancestors for the eighteenth generation, and they had to raise troops out of the city together to fight to the death with the Xuzhou army, but fortunately Liu Bei held them to the death - now Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have arrow wounds on their bodies, and they are going to fight a decisive battle with the Xuzhou army that is in strict battle and has fortifications to cover, not looking for death?

"Brother, I have long said that Lu Bu Xiao'er is repeatedly untrustworthy, and it is not good to form an alliance with him, is there anything wrong with the words of the younger brother now?" Zhang Fei asked Liu Bei angrily.

Liu Bei had no face to refute Zhang Fei's accusation, but choked with tears: "I regret not listening to the words of my virtuous brother Jin Yu, even if I die, I have no shame to see Gongyou." ”

"Third brother, it's too late to say anything now, and you can't completely blame the eldest brother, the main thing is that Lu Bu'er is capricious and forgetful of profit." Guan Yu excused Liu Bei, then turned to Liu Bei and said: "Brother, since Lu Bu has betrayed the alliance, if our army continues to hold on to Xiaopei, it will only sit and wait for death, so it is better to make a good plan as soon as possible." ”

Uncle Liu Huang continued to hide his face and cry bitterly, thinking quickly in his heart, "Continue to hold on?" Or abandon the city and leave? Kong Rong and Tian Kai's reconciliation envoys, I don't know if they can arrive in time? ”

When Uncle Liu Huang was thinking quickly on the Xiaopei city wall, the Xuzhou army here, Tao Ying finally issued an order to throw stones to attack the city, ten Xiangyang cannons were loaded with a huge stone projectile weighing one hundred and fifty kilograms, and then cut the rope that tightened the throwing arm, the heavy object basket at the lower end of the throwing arm fell violently, the stone bullet was thrown by the lever principle, and flew to the Xiaopei city wall three hundred steps away, two of the stone projectiles accurately hit the Xiaopei West Gate City Tower, and in the earth-shattering huge cracking sound, the brick and wood structure of the Xiaopei City Tower collapsed, Countless Liu Beijun crossbowmen who were buried alive in the building, and the hoarse screams and screams immediately echoed on the Xiaopei city wall.

"How is that possible? How is it possible to hit so far?! ”

When Liu Bei's three brothers were stunned, another stone bullet fell from the sky and smashed into the ranks of soldiers near the left of the three brothers, five or six Liu Beijun soldiers were smashed into meat sauce on the spot, but the stone bullet was still unsipated, smashed into the city wall and hit the ground five feet, bounced up again, and hit two Liu Beijun soldiers who had no time to escape, smashed the hip bones of one soldier, and broke the legs of another soldier, two Liu Beijun soldiers cried and screamed, and the rest of Liu Beijun's soldiers were all scattered, screaming and running in all directions, In a panic, some soldiers fell off the city wall, and the mouths of the three brothers Liu Bei were completely open to the root of their ears, and they were in disbelief to the extreme.

At the same time, several other stone bullets also flew over, three of them smashed into the side of the city wall, smashing the brick and earth structure of the city wall into three large pits a few feet deep, another smashed into the moat, splashing several feet high, the other two smashed to the edge of the moat, smashed a section of the embankment, and one crossed the city wall, flew directly into Xiaopei City and hit a private house, smashing the private house through the beams and beams, collapsed on the spot, desperate screams and screams, but also echoed in Xiaopei City and the city wall at the same time.

After the first round of stone bombing, Tao Ying slapped his horse and boarded the anti-horse wall, laughed at Liu Bei from a distance and said, "Big-eared thief, it's strange why my thunderbolt is farther than yours, right?" To tell you the truth, the fake sketch of the thunderbolt that Mi Fang stole from you was deliberately stolen by Mi Fang! In order to surprise you today! This time, we're going to settle the old accounts and the new accounts together! Soldiers, continue to throw stones at me and smash Xiaopei's dirt fence! ”

"No!" The Xuzhou soldiers who were indulging in the Xiangyang cannon suddenly agreed, scrambling to load and throw stones, and another round of stone bullets roared out one after another, smashing into the poor Xiaopei city wall again, and a new round of crying and screaming voices also echoed in Xiaopei City's head again, and Uncle Liu Huang smashed his fist on the arrow stack, and scolded with a pale face, "It's a plan!" Tao Ying's thief has been preparing to deal with me for a long time! No, I have to try to break through quickly, otherwise, once Xiaopei is broken, Tao Yingxiaoer will not let me go if anything! ”

……………… When Tao Ying laughed and returned to command the flag array, Song Kai, the envoy of the Lu Bu army before, was also carried in front of Tao Ying - although this unlucky guy escaped quickly, he was still hit by an arrow in the buttocks. Tao Ying looked at his injuries and saw that there was no major problem, so he smiled and said: "It's okay, I didn't shoot the vital point, you can be cured, go down to heal the injury, rest and receive the reward, don't go around telling fortunes and divination in the future, follow me in the future, I will reward you with a clerical official position and help me act with the paperwork." ”

"Fortune telling?" The Xuzhou generals next to him were all confused, and just wanted to ask Tao Ying how this Song Kai changed from a messenger of the Lu Bujun to a god stick in the rivers and lakes, but Song Kai was overjoyed and saluted Tao Ying again and again to thank him, and held Sun Gan's head in front of Tao Ying, and asked respectfully: "Son, what should I do with this head?" ”

"It's useless." Tao Ying didn't go to pick up the head, but said with a smile: "But don't waste it, now the food is precious, and the wheat dough coated with paint can still be eaten, smashed along with Jian Yong's head, and handed it over to the gang to boil the batter." ”

"A human head made of wheat noodles?" Zang Ba was shocked, and quickly grabbed the human head to take a closer look, but as soon as the human head was started, Zang Ba immediately found that the weight of the human head was wrong, and when he looked closely, he found that the human head was indeed made of dough, but the person who kneaded the dough had good skills, and it looked like he had carefully applied the paint, so it really looked like a human head that had been cut off from a distance - by the way, the trick of using noodles to make human heads to coax ghosts has not yet been invented, and according to normal development, it should have been invented when Zhuge Liang conquered the southern barbarians and crossed the Lushui.

"Childe, what the hell is going on?" Zang Ba, Chen Zhi and the others were even more surprised, and hurriedly asked Tao Ying again.

"It's simple, heart-to-heart tactics." Tao Ying replied with a smile: "Lu Bu is a well-known repeated villain, Liu Bei will never really trust him, so I sent someone to pretend to be Lu Bu's envoy to negotiate with Liu Bei, and announced the severance of the alliance with Liu Bei on behalf of Lu Bu, so that Liu Bei did not dare to count on reinforcements, and then suddenly used advanced trebuchets to attack the city, completely destroying Liu Bei's determination to defend the city, and forcing Liu Bei to abandon the city and break through." ”

Zang Ba, Chen Zhi and the others were completely dumbfounded, and after a long time, Zang Ba stammered and asked Tao Ying: "Childe, will Liu Bei believe the thief?" ”

"I will believe it." Tao Ying said with a smile: "Liu Bei is suspicious of the thief, and when he sees Sun Gan's fake head and hears the words of the fake messenger, he must believe it and believe that Lu Bu betrayed him, and he will no longer count on Lu Bu's reinforcements." ”

"But what if Liu Bei doesn't believe it?" Zang Ba insisted.

"Brother Xuan Gao, don't worry, I bet, Liu Bei will definitely believe it!" Tao Ying put away his smile and said solemnly: "Brother Xuan, if someone says that you rebelled and betrayed Xuzhou, then I will immediately let Zhongkang and Shuzhi kill this person, because I believe that you are definitely not the one who betrayed!" In the same way, if someone says in front of me that Shu Zhi and Zhong Kang betrayed me, then I will also ask Brother Xuan Gao to cut this person down immediately, because I know that Zhong Kang and Shu Zhi will never betray me! But Liu Bei is different, don't say that Lu Bu, a well-known repeated villain, is his righteous Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, he doesn't fully believe it, because he is different from me, I treat people with sincerity, he treats people with deception, and he treats people with himself, I can trust you, but he won't trust anyone! ”

"Childe ......." Zang Ba, Chen Zhi and Xu Chu were all a little moved, and Tao Ying patted them on the shoulders one by one, smiled and said, "Brother Xuan, Uncle Zhi, Zhongkang, you are all my siblings, so I believe in you." And Brother Xuan, do you know why I refused to attack the city a few days ago? ”

"Why?" Zang Ba asked.

"There are two reasons, one is that I am waiting for Lu Bu's reaction." Tao Ying took Zang Ba's hand and replied sincerely: "As for the second, I am unwilling to let Brother Xuan Gao and your soldiers sacrifice needlessly, siege warfare has always been the battle with the greatest casualties, since I only need to wait until the rear army led by Zijing arrives, I can easily break the city with trebuchets, why should I let your soldiers sacrifice in vain?" Your soldiers are also soldiers of Xuzhou, sacrifice them, I feel more distressed than you! ”

"Childe ......." Zang Ba clenched Tao Ying's hand hard, and the corners of his mouth twitched for a long time before he said more seriously: "Childe, from now on, if anyone dares to say a word that is unfavorable to Childe, the last general will also cut him immediately and cut him with his own hands!" ”

"Brother Xuan, I'm sure you'll do this!" Tao Ying shook Zang Ba's hand and replied as if it were true.

……………… At the same time, in Xiaopei City, the three brothers of Liu Bei, who could not withstand the onslaught of Xiangyang artillery, had withdrawn to Xiaopei City, and after rejecting Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's suggestion to go out of the city to raid the Xiangyang artillery position, Liu Bei finally made up his mind, and said with a blue face: "Second brother, third brother, Tao Ying Xiaoer's thunderbolt is too powerful, Xiaopei can't hold it, and immediately prepare to break through, and tonight at the second watch, the whole army will break through from the north gate!" ”

"Brother, outside the north gate is Surabaya, and the bridge is broken." Guan Yu reminded.

"In winter, there is little water, and the flowing water can cross the river, and then fill the river with debris, and our army can quickly cross the river." Liu Bei said coldly: "We don't have time to think about it so much, we are tired from far away with Tao Ying Xiao'er's reinforcements, and we are unable to fight, we must break through at any cost tonight, otherwise, once Tao Ying Xiao'er's reinforcements rest, Tao Ying will have to block Xiao Pei's four gates!" Zhang Fei and Guan Yu glanced at each other and nodded together.

In order to make Liu Bei feel that he was right to break through Xiaopei Chengzhu, as soon as it was dark, Tao Ying ordered to collect his troops and return to the camp, and replaced them with a new force led by Xu Sheng to guard the siege fortifications, and countless torches and a large number of bonfires were lit outside the west gate of Xiaopei, so that Liu Bei felt that he had arranged the main force of the siege outside the west gate of Xiaopei. At the time of the second watch, Liu Bei's three brothers also quietly opened the north gate of Xiaopei as planned, and the remaining 3,000 troops all went out of the city, and put all the useless sundries such as vehicles, camp tents and city defense weapons into the Surabaya water slowdown, and quickly filled up a section of the river.

Hearing the gong alarm of the patrol scout, Tao Ying immediately smiled and ordered Xu Sheng to attack the city with a wave, and easily attacked Xiaopeijian City, which was no longer garrisoned by Liu Bei's army, and blocked Liu Bei's way back to the city. And Liu Beijun has not walked out of ten miles after crossing the river, there is a Xuzhou fresh army in the east, led by Sun Guan, the general of Langya who has a deep hatred with Liu Beijun, and at the same time Xu Sheng also led the army to kill from behind, Liu Beijun was in chaos when the enemy was on his back, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were injured and unable to resist the enemy, so they could only lead the core elite soldiers to protect Liu Bei and escape, Xu Sheng and Sun Guan covered up and killed, and almost completely annihilated Liu Bei's remnants.

In the melee in the dark night, in view of the fact that Sun Guan led the army to block the northeast direction, Liu Bei, the master of battlefield life, could only lead the army to flee to the northwest direction of the upper reaches of Surabaya, and finally used the cover of night to get rid of the pursuit of the Xuzhou army, Liu Bei's soldiers had only five or six hundred people left, and most of them were wounded, and the grain, grass and ordnance were lost, and they were extremely embarrassed.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, at dawn, when Liu Beijun fled to the area of Hulu and was about to turn northeast to cast Kong Rong, but there was a team of cavalry on the other side of Surabaya, crossing the river from the shallow water, blocking Liu Beijun's way, Uncle Liu Huang was scattered, but a general carried Fang Tian's halberd to shoot the horse out of the battle, with a golden crown on his head, a hundred flowers in a robe, Tang Yi armor, a lion and a treasure belt, a fiery red rabbit horse under his crotch, and shouted with a surprised face: "Is it Liu Xuandehu who came?" ”

"Lu Wenhou?" Uncle Liu Huang finally recognized the person who came, and when he was surprised, Zhang Fei next to him slapped his horse out of the battle, stabbed Lu Bu with a spear, and shouted: "Lu Bu destroys the thief, eat me with a spear!" ”

"Bang!" Lu Bu waved his halberd to hold Zhang Fei's snake spear and exclaimed, "Yide, what are you doing here?" Sun Qian said that Tao Yingxiao'er attacked Xiaopei, I kindly raised troops to save your brother, why do you want to fight with me? ”

"Save our brother?"

Zhang Fei was also a wolf, but Liu Bei behind Zhang Fei suddenly screamed like a pig, beating his chest and screaming wildly, "Tao Ying Xiaoer!" Thief! Shameless thief! You are the world's number one shameless thief! ”

(To be continued)