Deng Yi was not surprised to hear that Nanye soldiers had entered Yanzhou in the city. After all, Li Ru had already deduced that the three families had already divided their troops to take Sanzhou, so they led their troops out of the city to fight Nanye. Now that what the soldiers under the city said is consistent with Li Ru's assertion, Deng Yi also believes eight points.

Believing eight points is not the same as believing it all, Deng Yi heard Li Ru repeatedly emphasize that Nan Ye was clever, and Xu Chang could not afford to be mistaken, so he asked carefully: "Do you have any evidence for Chen Liu's soldiers?" ”

The tooth general who claimed to be Zhou Shun under the city said: "The last general has a letter from General Zhang Ji as proof. In addition, we also met a horse riding a Xuchang probe on the road, and I also came with me, and the general knew as soon as he asked. With that, he called a soldier beside him.

Deng Yi carefully identified by the light of the torch and found that the soldiers under the city were the scouts he sent when he went out of the city to investigate the enemy situation a few days ago. So he asked, "How is Chen Liu's situation?" You can come one by one. ”

When the soldier heard Deng Yi's question, he replied: "The general sent me to Yanzhou to investigate the enemy's situation, and several cities on the road were captured by the Jiaozhou army and horses and changed their banners. The villain did not dare to enter the city and went all the way north. When he arrived outside the city of Chenliu, he saw a large army besieging the city. The villain didn't dare to step forward, so he looked in secret. It happened that General Zhou was breaking through at night, so I stepped forward to inquire about the situation in the city, and I came here with General Zhou. ”

Deng Yi listened to what the soldiers said in a clear manner, and there was no doubt in his heart, so he ordered the soldiers to open the city and let the people and horses enter the city. Gao Shun, who is alias Zhou Shun, couldn't help but smile when he saw Deng Yi Kaicheng, patted the shoulder of Cao Jun's horse, and glanced back at Zhou Cang behind him, and saw that Zhou Cang also had a smile on his face.

It turned out that Deng Yixing went to the boundary that day and sent scouts out of the city, and these scouts scattered to Yanzhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou to explore. Among the three states, Yanzhou is the closest, and several horsemen arrived at a city closest to Xuchang, and saw that the city was still under the banner of Cao Ying, so they entered the city to inquire about the enemy's situation, but they were caught by the guards of Jiaozhou in the city, which was the trap set by Guo Jia.

Several Cao soldiers were not executed after being arrested, but were sent back according to Guo Jia's plan, and handed over to Gao Shun and Zhou Cang, who had been lying in ambush outside the north gate of Xuchang, and at the same time sent a forged letter.

Gao Shun and Zhou Cang knew what to do as soon as they saw Tanma and letters. The two interrogated several Cao soldiers one by one, and killed two dishonest ones, and then they subdued the Cao soldiers in front of them to scam the city, and they succeeded in one fell swoop.

Outside the north gate of Xuchang, there was also a huge Stonehenge thrown by thunderbolt carts in the city, so the Cao soldiers who were trapped in the camp and pretended to be scattered outside the city into a large area, and they had to pretend to be wounded soldiers and walk slowly, dragging and dragging for a long time and could not enter the city. Deng Yi saw that the soldiers and horses under the city were delaying, and the general Zhou Shun blocked the city gate and lined up the whole army, so he couldn't wait any longer, so he took a few deputy generals to go down the city wall, wanting to know the details of Chen Liu's stay as soon as possible.

Gao Shun didn't wait for Deng Yi to walk down the city, so he led Zhou Cang and dozens of soldiers from the trapped camp up the stairs to greet him, looking extremely deferential. Deng Yi was very satisfied with Gao Shun's performance, so he stood on the top of the ladder and waited for Gao Shun to come up, so as not to lose the general's demeanor.

Don't look at Gao Shun's usual words, he always has a strained face, but he is really unambiguous at critical moments. Seeing Deng Yi waiting in front, he hurriedly took two steps and bowed with a smile: "The last general has seen the general!" ”

Deng Yi, as a general of Jingzhou, did not have a high status among the Cao army, and few people respected him so much on weekdays, so he said with a smile on his face: "General Zhou has worked hard all the way, I don't know what the situation is like for Chen Liu?" Where is Mrs. Zhang's letter? ”

Gao Shun replied: "Chen Liu has been besieged by Nanye's army for many days, and he is in danger. When the last general left the city, just in case, he ordered Qu Chang to carry letters. After that, he turned back to Zhou Cang and said, "Gao Cang, quickly submit the letter." ”

Zhou Cang answered behind his back, took out a letter from his arms, took two steps forward and bowed to Deng Yi. After Deng Yi took the letter, he couldn't help but look at Zhou Cang, he didn't look at it carefully when the night was dark under the city just now, and he was close at this time, and suddenly found that Zhou Cang was tall and strong.

Deng Yi's first reaction when he saw Zhou Cang was to sigh secretly: "What a tiger general!" But then he found that Zhou Cang was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while. So he asked, "Who are you?" Have we ever seen it? ”

Zhou Cang was not nervous when he heard Deng Yi's suspicions, but grinned, showed a mouthful of silver teeth and said: "The last general is a native of Xiqi Village, Pinglu County, Guanxi, and he does have a relationship with the general. ”

Deng Yi and Zhou Cang were not fellow villagers, and they couldn't remember where they had met, so they asked, "Oh? Where have I seen it? ”

Zhou Cang took a step forward and got closer to Deng Yi and said, "The two armies have seen each other before!" After saying that, he stepped forward, his ape arm was lightly relaxed, and he strangled Deng Yi's neck. Zhou Cang twisted his thigh-thick arm hard, and broke Deng Yi's neck, making a "click~" sound. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Cang threw down Deng Yi's corpse, pulled out two halberds from behind his back and threw them, and beheaded the two deputy generals behind Deng Yi who wanted to do it, and then he roared: "I am Zhou Cang, the commander of the personal guard under the command of the national teacher, Deng Yi is dead, why don't you come down early!" ”

said that it was too late and that it was fast, Zhou Cang's move was only instantaneous, and many Cao soldiers had already died before they could react. Gao Shun and the trapping camp had already prepared, and rushed forward to hack to death all the deputy generals and cronies behind Deng Yi. The camp of the city also swarmed up to seize the city.

Before Cao Bing at the head of the city could react, he was rushed up by a group of killing gods. Gao Shun took the lead with a steel sword, and there was no enemy among Cao's soldiers. The trapping camp is one of the best elites under Nan Ye's command, the armor and weapons are all superior, everyone is brave, everyone is vying for the first, attacking instead of defending, and fighting desperately.

In order to disguise and deceive Deng Yi, Zhou Cang did not bring a double halberd to the city, and wanted to take advantage of Deng Yi's reading of the letter, but he didn't expect to be noticed by Deng Yi, so he could only do it in advance. Now that he has also thrown out his two small halberds, and seeing that Gao Shun led the troops to the city to kill people, but he had no weapons in his hands, he was in a hurry to scream, so he simply lifted Deng Yi's corpse, grabbed Deng Yi's two ankles with both hands, and picked them up when he saw someone.

There are no three soldiers and horses besieging the city outside the north gate of Xuchang, and the defending Cao soldiers are originally few, and most of them are old and weak soldiers, where can the enemy be too good for the trapped camp led by Gao Shun and Zhou Cang? In particular, Zhou Cang's corpse of the guard Deng Yi looked like a mad demon, which made Cao Bing even more frightened, so they knelt on the ground and asked for surrender.

Gao Shun and Zhou Cang did not delay when they saw that Cao's soldiers had surrendered, leaving 300 soldiers to collect and surrender Cao's soldiers to occupy the city gate, and led 700 soldiers to rush to Taishoufu. Most of the less than 10,000 defenders in Xuchang were distributed in Simen, and a small number stayed in the government to support the Quartet. Deng Yi and Cao Bing at the north gate were all blocked in the city, and no one escaped the net, so no one notified the defenders of the palace to support. Gao Shun and Zhou Cang arrived at the government unimpeded all the way.

Cao Bing, the gatekeeper in the Taishou Mansion, heard the movement outside the door, and just opened the door to check, he saw a person break through the door and fly in. The two guards were startled and looked down to see that it was a corpse that flew through the door. The corpse had long been unrecognizable and inhuman, but from the armor, it was the general Deng Yi.