Cao Hong saw that Lu Bu's army was defenseless, so he immediately attacked. Li Dian hurriedly stopped it and said, "Earlier, General Cao Ren broke into Luoyang, which seemed to be defenseless, but was ambushed, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army. Caution is needed now. Cao Hong looked at the peaceful and orderly Nanyang City under the morning light for a moment, and said: "The whole city is as usual, there is nothing unusual, it is not like there is an ambush. Moreover, now that Lu Bu's army is all in the east, there is no possibility of enemy troops here. A subordinate general said impatiently: "General, let's rush in!" If the other party finds out and we close the city gates, it will be much more difficult to seize it! Cao Hong thought so, raised his right hand, and raised his voice: "All armies listen to the order and raid and seize the city!" The generals agreed in unison. Li Dian hurriedly persuaded: "General, it's better to spend some things than to be too reckless!" ”

Cao Hong was furious and shouted: "It seems that you are so timid, how can you fight? He immediately ignored Li Dian's bitter advice and led the army to rush towards Nanyang City. Li Dian couldn't, so he had to follow.

Fifty thousand horsemen swept down to the city like a storm. The people at the gates of the city fled in all directions, and the shouts rang out in a chaotic manner. At the city gate, the soldiers hurriedly turned their wheels to raise the drawbridge. Cao Hong, who was in the lead, and more than 100 other Cao army soldiers fired arrows at the city. A rain of arrows roared, and several soldiers at the head of the city were shot to the ground. Seeing this, the other soldiers fled in a hurry. These city defense soldiers who were temporarily recruited from the local area were really too weak in combat power.

Cao's war cavalry rushed onto the drawbridge, brandishing long knives and howling towards the city gate, like a raging tide, like a group of tigers galloping. Seeing this, the city guards who were closing the city gate did not close the gate anymore and dispersed in a hurry.

Cao's cavalry rushed into the city gate, killed the city defense army, and ran to the four gates and the government by separate roads. The city defense army was rushed to pieces.

Cao Hong personally led more than 10,000 cavalry to chase and kill the city defense army to the square in front of the palace. The city guards rushed into the alleys. Cao Hong raised his right hand, more than 10,000 war horses stopped, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves disappeared at once, and the scene suddenly became quiet. Cao Hong looked around and saw that there was a government office located in the north of the square, and the other three sides were private houses, lined up one after another, with various flags on the shops on the street, and five streets scattered around the square, leading to all parts of the city.

Cao Hong glanced at the government office in the north, and immediately led people away.

Ay! It seems that Nanyang has fallen! Zhang Lang is also too careless!

Suddenly, countless figures flashed above the surrounding houses, bending bows and arrows at Cao Jun in the square; At the same time, a large number of soldiers appeared on the five streets, who cut off the passages with heavy reluctance horses.

The soldiers of the Cao army were taken aback when they saw ambushes all around. Before they could react, arrows rained down all around, and the cavalry of the Cao army turned on their backs. Cao Hong hurriedly shouted: "Evacuate!" Evacuate! The cavalry turned their horses' heads and galloped away in the direction they came, braving the rain of falling arrows, and people were shot to the ground, screaming incessantly, and the sound of heavy objects falling one after another.

The front army rushed into the street, not to mention that the street had been put on the rejection of horses, and for a time people turned over on their backs, and the screams and neighing of horses became a whole. The rejection of horses has already put the street stage, and this time there are many fallen cavalry horses, and they are even more impassable! The cavalry in front hurriedly reined in their horses, but the cavalry in the back didn't know the situation in front of them, and still rode their horses and galloped, as a result, more than 10,000 people and horses were all crowded in a small area, and they couldn't be disassembled for a while!

At this time, the rain of arrows on the top of the capital continued to fall, and the cavalry of the Cao army, who had nowhere to hide, fell one after another. Some Cao cavalry bent their bows and arrows to return fire on the roof, but the effect was very bad.

At this moment, the main gate of the government office that was originally closed suddenly opened, and thousands of sergeants with four or five meters long bamboo poles poured out, lined up in formation, flattened the bamboo poles, and rushed towards the cavalry of the Cao army. Seeing this, Cao Hong was taken aback, and hurriedly pointed at those people and shouted, "Stop them!" "Even hundreds of horsemen turned their horses, brandished their long knives and shouted and rushed forward. However, when they rushed four or five meters in front of them, they could no longer get close, and they were picked off by the opponent's long bamboo poles.

Thousands of Lu Bujun, armed with bamboo poles, lined up in a long spear formation and kept advancing. Cao Jun kept rushing in, but he couldn't break through at all, and he only ended up with blood and falling off his horse.

On the top of the city, arrows rained wildly, and in front of him was a forest of bamboo poles. Cao Jun had nowhere to flee and could not break through, and watched one by one fall in a pool of blood.

Seeing that Cao Jun was about to be killed and wounded, Cao Hong was in a hurry and shouted: "Everyone abandon the horse!" All the soldiers turned over and dismounted, overturned the obstacles in front of them, and galloped away. The Lu Bujun behind him did not pursue, but chased with bows and arrows, shooting down many Cao soldiers who were fleeing.

Cao Hong led thousands of remnants of the defeated army and rushed towards the city gate. When he was fleeing, many Lu Bu troops suddenly appeared on the roofs on both sides, sending out a wave of dense arrow rain towards the street, and the unprepared Cao army immediately fell more than 100 people! Cao Jun had no intention of fighting, divided into several parts, and ran wildly into the streets and alleys.

Cao Hong and hundreds of others ran and got lost. Came to a clearing. The clearing is surrounded by houses, and a path passes through the edge of the clearing, with an empty flat to the north and a muddy pool of water to the south. There is a huge verdant willow tree at the entrance to the alley ahead.

Cao Hong stopped, and so did the soldiers. The footsteps were gone, but there was a sharp wheezing. Cao Hong looked around and asked the people around him, "Where is this?" Everyone shook their heads.

Just as Cao Hong was about to lead people to leave from the alley in front. Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps in the alley ahead. Cao Hong and the others were shocked and hurriedly prepared for battle. Immediately, a large group of people rushed out of the alley in front. Cao Hong and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw someone coming. It turned out that the group of people who rushed out turned out to be Li Dian and hundreds of them.

The two sides converge in one place. Li Dian hurriedly said: "We are in ambush!" Cao Hong nodded, looked behind Li Dian, frowned and asked, "There are only so many people around you?" Li Dian nodded, and said with a sad and indignant face: "We encountered an ambush near the North City Gate, first arrows rained from all directions, and then their cavalry rushed from all directions, our army was caught off guard, and suffered heavy casualties, and the rest could only take care of themselves and flee in all directions, and there were only so many escapes left here that followed me." Then he said, "It's not a pity for me to die." I'm only worried that this is only part of the trap against our army! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Cao Hong asked puzzled.

Li Dian pondered: "The other party has obviously guessed the possible actions of our army, so they have set up an ambush in advance. But there's a problem. ”