The news of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's escape was soon learned by the princes, and Yuan Shao was furious when he heard it: "Zhuzi'an dares to bully me? Gongsun Zhan, who are these people around you? ”

Gongsun Chan was also very angry when he learned that Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were running, and when Zhang Fei was in this crisis, it was indeed an unkind and unjust move for Zhang Fei to leave, and Gongsun Chan said: "The previous alliance mainly punished Zhang Fei's crimes, this Zhang Fei must be holding a grudge so he didn't leave it too late, this kid is really inappropriate to do this, but we still think of some effective compensation methods that are more practical!" ”

"Gongsun Taishou is reasonable, Zhang Fei can only declare failure when he leaves the second plan, and now we only have the third way to go!" Cao Cao came out to persuade.

Yuan Shao then said: "Just like you said before, use the earthwork industry to dig and go straight to the tiger prison? ”

"Exactly!" Cao Cao said calmly.

Yuan Shao stroked his beard, an anxious expression appeared on his face, and he sighed: "This is the only way to do it for now, but to do so, we need to be cautious and come up with a specific and feasible operation, and we must not let us lose more than we gain!" ”

"Don't worry about it at the beginning, I have already thought of the specific method, and it will definitely not hurt the vitality of my army!" Cao Cao laughed.

Yuan Shao nodded after hearing this: "You will be personally responsible for the specific affairs, and the rest of you will assist Meng De in this matter!" ”

All the princes commanded and said in unison: "No! ”

Cao Cao was authorized to supervise this matter, and he and his generals began to plan the details of the specific implementation, Cao Cao quickly assigned the task, and the generals took the order

Cao Cao quickly put the way of earthwork on the agenda, and after investigation, he decided not to raid from the front of the Tiger Pass, but to break through from the side of the Tiger Pass, and Cao Cao decided to choose to excavate on the south side of the Tiger Pass. The south is the side of the Tiger Pass, where the city defense is relatively short, and the garrison is naturally a little weak, and there is a dense forest growing here, which is easy to cover the excavation, and the reason why Cao Cao chose the way of earthwork to excavate is also to take a fancy to the favorable terrain here.

Cao Cao explored the terrain. Chose the best location, then arranged Cao Ren, Yue Jin two people to lead the troops to excavate, of course, this excavation chose to be carried out at night, Cao Cao also told the two: "It must be carried out quietly, the excavation personnel are all equipped with black clothing, all are lightly armed, and at the same time to collect a variety of branches to cover and camouflage, must be foolproof!" ”

Cao Ren and Yue Jin received the order and began to act, and the two also made a division of labor. Cao Ren led a team to excavate, Yue Jin was responsible for covering, the whole operation was carried out, the excavation site was only 500 meters away from the Tiger Prison Pass, this night Cao Ren led his corporals to have more than 100 people quietly marched to the south of the Tiger Prison Pass, everything was carried out carefully and orderly, Cao Ren's brothers were all in black clothes and black pants, holding digging tools in their hands. Cao Ren and the warriors crawled in the woods, and then watched the movement of the tiger prison in the moonlight

At this time, the tiger prison was closed and torches were still lit. There are many guards, and the guards are strict, Cao Ren saw that the time was just 9 o'clock in the evening (9 o'clock in the evening), Cao Ren said to the sergeants: "Don't be in a hurry to do it first, wait for the third watch before acting!" And the sergeants lay down in the woods, and watched the movement.

Cao Ren and his sergeants rested in the woods until the second half of the night. Cao Ren watched the movement of the tiger prison again, but saw that the tiger prison was still lit at this time, but there were fewer guards, but the guards were still strict. So he didn't wait any longer, he beckoned his soldiers to start acting on the spot, Yue Jin saw that Cao Ren had done it, so he arranged for people to cover it, they used all kinds of branches prepared in advance as cover, and the front was covered tightly, from a distance it was a forest, under the cover of the branches, Cao Ren commanded the sergeants to start digging, Cao Ren commanded the sergeants to first go big and wide, and then dig deep and dig into a tunnel, and use this way to dig forward, digging straight through the tiger prison, So as long as Cao Ren and the others open the opening from here, they can quietly carry out underground operations, and continue to dig forward from the ground, as if they are unaware.

On the one hand, Cao Cao arranged for Cao Ren to carry out civil work, on the other hand, he asked Xiahou Xuan, Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan and others to take turns to lead troops from the Tiger Prison Pass to take turns to challenge, of course, this is just a show, as long as there is a large army in the Tiger Prison Pass, they will retreat one after another, and they are not allowed to fight, and several people take turns to call each other for the battle.

On the other hand, Cao Cao led the army around the north of the Tiger Prison Pass under the escort of Li Dian to pretend to inspect, constantly patrolling the city, and appeared in the north several times to attract the attention of the army in the Tiger Prison Pass

Guan Yu saw the Kwantung Army coming to challenge every day on the Tiger Prison Pass, for fear of fraud, he did not dare to go down to the city to fight, and let the challenge of the Pass be ignored, and then there was a sergeant report that Cao Cao often conducted surveys in the north of the Tiger Prison Pass, Guan Yu was quickly vigilant after hearing this: this Cao Cao has always been suspicious, good at using suspicious tactics, he patrols the North Gate every day, must be thinking about breaking through from the North Gate, but the North Gate City Defense is strong and not easy to be breached, it seems that this is his explosive technique again, Guan Yu, who is familiar with the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", clearly remembers one of the chapters called" Jia Wen and the Enemy Decisive Victory" mentioned Cao Cao's trick, it seems that Cao Cao is playing some tricks this time, Guan Yu quickly became vigilant.

Guan Yu quickly realized Cao Cao's conspiracy, he pondered: Cao Cao must be attacking the east and the west again, he inspected the north gate, there must be something strange in the direction of the south gate, Guan Yu thought of this, so he led the soldiers to the south gate to check, but when he came to the south gate, he didn't see anything abnormal, Guan Yu then told Zhang Liao: "You must keep an eye on this side at night, show me strictly, don't increase the troops!" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Liao wondered: "The general doesn't see any abnormalities here, why do you want to do this?" ”

"If you want to do it, you will do it, you must keep an eye on me, if something really happens here, you will be asked!" Guan Yu issued a military order to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao looked down but didn't see any movement below, he was puzzled, he really didn't know why Guan Yu wanted him to guard an empty door? But since it was his immediate boss who spoke, how could he take it lightly? Although Zhang Liao was a little puzzled, he still carried out the orders to the letter, and he carried out the instructions step by step, and he was absolutely faithful

Guan Yu asked Zhang Liao to stare at the south gate, and he began to think about the direction of the main gate, the direction of the main gate has repeatedly been challenged by Cao Cao's generals, and it is a challenge in turn, which must also be strange, but these people alone challenge can not see through the tricks, they come to a general every time to call the formation, this is obviously a bait, is luring themselves to fight, if they go to war, what will be the situation? Could it be a trap? It's like Zhang Fei's greasy battle before?

As the saying goes, "you have to bow down if you don't know this", every general of Cao Cao came to challenge him and scolded him, "Guan Yu, can you come down and fight with me?" "Guan Yu Pifu is coming down and fighting?"

"Guan Yu, come down and eat me a shot!" Guan Yu has always regarded himself as a strong man, how can he suffer such a great humiliation? Guan Yu originally suppressed his anger, thinking that this was a deliberate provocation, and if they went to war, he was afraid that he would be killed again, but if he didn't fight, they insulted him like this, which really made Guan Yu lose face in front of all the sergeants.

After careful consideration, Guan Yu decided to fight, first, to win back face in front of all the sergeants; Second, go down to explore the truth and reality, if you really calculate yourself like before, then Guan Yu will definitely not chase and fight, but will take it after driving the enemy away. After Guan Yu calculated like this, he decided to open the city gate and no longer be patient, he jumped his horse and danced his sword to kill outside the city, and the provocative general at this time was Xiahou Xuanye!

Xiahoudun scolded under the city, but unexpectedly really put Guan Yu on the fight, Guan Yu can no longer bear it, he led his eighteen warriors to rush out of the Tiger Prison Pass, Xiahoudun saw Guan Yu violently from the Tiger Prison Pass couldn't help but be surprised, Guan Yu slapped the horse and danced the knife to take Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun hurriedly responded to the battle, the two horses intersected without ten, Xiahoudun sold a flaw and ran away, Guan Yu did not chase and let Xiahoudun escape

Guan Yuzhan ran away Xiahou Yuan and led the eighteen warriors back to the Tiger Prison Pass again, Guan Yu just wanted to unload the armor at this time came the news again that Xiahou Yuan was killing again, Guan Yu couldn't help but be angry after hearing it, and rushed out of the city to fight Xiahou Yuan again, Xiahou Yuan was also shocked when he saw Guan Yu rushing out, he hurriedly responded to the battle, there were more than ten Xiahou Yuan did not dare to fight and turned his horse back, Guan Yu did not chase after him, and led his eighteen warriors back to the city again, Guan Yu was about to dismount and return to the city, and then the news came again Cao Hong led his men and horses to come to fight, Guan Yu was furious and led the red rabbit horse to rush out of the city gate again, and the two fought, Cao Hong fought with the first two for more than ten times and then turned the horse back, Guan Yu simply stayed there and waited for the next one to come to challenge.

Guan Yu lined up with eighteen warriors, standing outside the city gate, and after a while, he saw Xiahoudun leading his men to kill again, but to Xiahoudun's surprise, Guan Yu was waiting for him there without moving, Xiahoudun couldn't help but be surprised, he patted his horse and danced his spear and rushed forward to drive with Guan Yu's general, and Xiahoudun pulled his horse back again. (To be continued.) )