"In this way, it all depends on the arrangement of the adults, there are only more than ten henchmen in the hands of the lowly position, and the rest of the people are not satisfied with the lowly position, so they must be cautious, although Guan Yu is a military general, but he is as careful as a hair." Li Handao.

Chen Jue glanced at Li Han in surprise, he didn't expect this nervous Li Han to have such a careful side, and said with a smile: "General Li don't worry, you only need to order your henchmen to guard the city gate at that time, and when the old man brings people to the city gate, you can answer them, as for the soldiers who don't obey you, you can let them disappear directly." ”

Li Han hugged his fists and said: "In this way, I will resign from my humble position." ”

"General Li, you just stay in the house and wait for tomorrow night, your family will also have an old man's arrangement, and their safety is pinned on you." Chen Qi said tentatively.

A day passed quickly, Li Han was just a small gatekeeper in the army, even if he disappeared, it would not cause anyone, and Li Han's family and Chen Qi secretly sent people to appease him, but no one noticed anything.

When the ugly time just arrived, after Li Han left, Chen Qi led 3,000 people from the joint private soldiers of the two families towards the west gate guarded by Li Han, so many people walked on the street, it was easy to attract the attention of the patrol soldiers, which was also an omission that Chen Qi had not experienced a real battle.

Li Han was already waiting anxiously at the city gate, the soldiers were very puzzled by Li Han's performance tonight, many soldiers went up to care for the greetings, were pushed aside by Li Han, waiting for the sound of fighting not far away, and the wrong soldiers, Li Han's heart was suddenly shocked, could it be that they were discovered, look at the soldiers around them, there is nothing wrong.

When the agreed banner could be seen under the light of the torches, Li Han did not hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered: "Open the city gate!" ”

"General, you can't open the city gate without General Guan's order!" A soldier spoke.

Li Han's eyes were cold, and he pulled out the saber on his waist with a sonorous sound, the sword light flashed, and the soldiers who resisted were in different places, and blood splashed all over Li Han's face, "Open the city gate!" ”

More than a dozen henchmen hurriedly stepped forward and pushed the city gate, and in the creaking sound, a crack was exposed in the city gate.

When Guan Yu learned that there were soldiers in the west of the city, he was shocked, and hurriedly got on his horse and led the cavalry to the west gate, Guan Yu was stationed at the east gate, and there was a short distance from the east gate to the west gate, even if it was a cavalry, it would take a while.

Soldiers suddenly appeared in the city and approached the west gate, Guan Yu realized that something was wrong, since the Cao army besieged Pengcheng, the city was subject to curfew, there was no order, and those who traveled privately at night were sentenced to death, and the soldiers did not have Guan Yu's order, and they could not be mobilized, but everything waited for Guan Yu to learn, and it had been half an hour.

The city gate slowly opened, and Chen Qi smiled, as if victory was in sight.

"My lord, it's not good, Guan Yu led the cavalry to kill." A soldier hurriedly walked up to Chen Qi and said.

Chen Qi grabbed the soldier and said, "How many are there?" ”

"I don't know, it's dense, it's too many to count!"

Chen Jue let go of the soldiers, and said in a firm tone: "We have an incident, we are already ready to send arrows, if we let more troops in the city come, we will definitely die, only to fight hard to welcome General Cao's soldiers and horses into the city." ”

The head of the Li family said: "Lord Chen's words are reasonable, but Guan Yu is unstoppable, what should I do?" ”

"Order a thousand soldiers to resist to the death, as long as Guan Yu is blocked for a while, we will win!" Chen Qi said.

The Cao army outside the city had already heard the movement in the city, and when they saw the city gate creaking open, many soldiers were even more excited in their hearts, holding the reins of their horses, just waiting for the general to give an order and enter the city.

Cao Cao smiled: "Pengcheng can be broken!" ”

"Xu Zhu, you lead five hundred cavalry into the city, but all the soldiers who encounter resistance will be killed, and those who surrender do not need to be ignored, and after seizing their weapons, gather together, and leave some cavalry to guard."

"No!" Xu Zhu bowed down to receive the order, his eyes flashed with murderous intent, recently, Guan Yu showed too much sharpness, so that the generals of the Cao army more or less lost face, and now is the time to save face in one fell swoop.

"Cao Ren, you lead a thousand soldiers into the city and capture the Taishou Mansion, Xiahou Yuan, you lead a thousand people to the south of the city, Xiahou Yuan, you lead a thousand men and horses to the north of the city" Cao Cao skillfully issued all the orders, and the Xuzhou army in the city had 30,000 people, and it rebounded, it still had a great power, and it had to be guarded.

In order to capture Pengcheng, Cao Cao put all the cavalry into it, hoping to defeat the resistance of the Xuzhou army in the fastest time, and it was best to occupy six city gates, besiege Guan Yu in the city, cut off Liu Bei's right-hand man, and after losing Guan Yu, you can imagine what kind of situation Liu Bei's army will fall into, and it will also make Cao's army reach the highest power.

Guan Yu fought hard, how could the private soldiers of the family be opponents, seeing that the former army was defeated and retreating, they scattered and fled.

At this time, Chen Deng had already taken over the control of the city gate, guarded by two thousand soldiers, even if Guan Yu led the army to arrive, it was not something that could be broken overnight.

The neighing of Cao's horses sounded outside the city, and Zhou Cang, who hurriedly led the army, saw this and persuaded: "General, retreat!" ”

Guan Yu said decisively: "No, as long as you defeat the soldiers in front of you and occupy the city gate, you can block the Cao army outside the city!" ”

The imagination is beautiful, the reality is cruel, no matter how fast Guan Yu's killing speed is, two thousand people will also need a while, at this time, Xu Zhu, the general of the Cao army, has already led five hundred cavalry to fight Guan Yu.

Soldier to general, Cao army cavalry elite, Guan Yu can not resist, fight for a while, lead the cavalry to retreat to the east of the city, there are 20,000 troops, as long as they can be mobilized, it is not difficult to drive Cao army out of Pengcheng.

After entering the city, the generals of the various departments acted quickly according to the established goals, and the rapid march of the Cao army, and the mastery of the terrain in the city, made Guan Yu suddenly fall into a critical situation, even if the soldiers were gathered together in a hurry, it was difficult to form an effective combat effectiveness, and under the charge of the Cao army, it collapsed.

Guan Yu still wanted to resist, but Zhou Cang persuaded: "General, most of the Cao army has entered the city, if you hold the six gates, all the soldiers will be surrounded by the Cao army, think twice!" ”

There was Cao Jun guarding the city gate in front, and a large army chasing after him, Guan Yu made great efforts to open the city gate and escape from the city.

Guan Yu was defeated and left, and when he left the city, there were only more than 5,000 soldiers and horses under his command, 30,000 when he went, and 5,000 when he returned to the army.

Depeng City, Cao Cao was overjoyed, and rewarded the three armies in the city, Chen Qi was even more powerful, and was named Pengcheng Order by Cao Cao, responsible for the affairs of the city.

Chen Qi was named Pengcheng Order, but at this time Chen Deng was still working under Liu Bei, in anger, how could Liu Bei let Chen Deng go, Chen Qi also persuaded Chen Deng to return to Pengcheng in a letter, but Chen Deng refused.

After capturing Pengcheng, Cao's army was able to wave his army and aim directly at Xiapi.

Chen Deng can be said to be deeply trusted in Liu Bei's army, as long as it is from Chen Deng's strategy, Liu Bei did not disobey, and became the new top person in the Xuzhou army, that is, Cao Bao usually saw Chen Deng, and he was also respectful, Liu Bei struggled all his life, and there were few strategists under him, and he met Chen Deng who was talented by chance, and the joy in his heart can be imagined, so he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.

Chen Deng already knew about his father's secret defection to Cao Jun, if he went to Cao Jun from Liu Bei's account like this, he would definitely not attract attention, and the strategists in Cao Jun were not like Liu Bei's subordinates, so he wanted a greater credit to Cao Cao and made the Chen family's position in Xuzhou completely stable.

"My lord, I recently heard that the Cao army was attacking very fiercely outside Pengcheng, and I was worried that General Guan would not be able to stop the Cao army, so I asked to go to Xiapi to assist General Zhang to defend the city!" Chen Dengdao.

Liu Bei did not doubt that he had him, and was about to agree, but Sun Gan questioned: "Lord Chen, there is General Zhang stationed in Xiapi, and it is expected that there is no danger, and the affairs in the city still need to be handled by adults, and if you leave now, I am afraid that something is wrong." ”

Chen Deng said: "Cao Jun violated the realm, how can the lowly position sit idly by, in the past, Cao Cao committed a heinous murder in Xuzhou, and the lowly duty is eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and I hope that the lord can be fulfilled!" ”

Sun Qian saw that Chen Deng did not seem to be a fake, and the doubts in his heart suddenly disappeared.

"Yuanlong can have this heart, it is the luck of our army, after Mr. arrives in Xiapi, he is in charge of all the affairs of Xiapi, with Mr. in Xiapi, I don't have to worry about it!" Liu Bei grabbed Chen Deng's arm and said.

"Thank you, my lord, I will do my best!"

"General Zhang has a strong personality, so I am afraid that he will not obey Lord Chen's orders." Sun Qiandao.

Liu Bei said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this, bring my double-strand sword, the third brother will definitely accept the military order when he sees this." ”

After Chen Deng took Liu Bei's double-strand sword to Xiapi, Zhang Fei really obediently gave up his military power, with Chen Deng's means, it was not easy to rectify Zhang Fei, between three words, Zhang Fei and the army were isolated, and what Chen Deng said made sense, that is, Zhang Fei was not angry in his heart, and there was no way, the eldest brother's double-strand sword was in front of him, if he didn't give Chen Deng face, there would definitely be trouble after he went back.

Zhang Fei is good at drinking, Chen Deng did what he liked, brought a lot of wine, in the name of rewarding the three armies, Zhang Fei was drunk, the Chen family was quite shili in Xuzhou, Chen Deng was a lot of henchmen in the army, and easily occupied the military power, Zhang Fei himself was also imprisoned in Xiapi City, poor a fierce general, was honest and honest by Chen Deng, who was powerless.

Guan Yu led more than 5,000 soldiers to the city of Xiapi, and saw that Chen Deng was guarding the city gate, and he was about to enter the city, Zhou Cang felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly advised.

"Master Chen, I haven't seen you for a long time, do you know where my third brother is?" Guan Yu said loudly.

"General Zhang has been transferred back to the side of the lord, and now I am in charge of the soldiers and horses, guarding Xiapi, and resisting the soldiers and horses of the Cao army, isn't General Guan in Pengcheng? What's wrong with coming to Xiapi? Chen Deng said.