Shortly after midnight, Liu Bei and others broke through from the ancient city.

Cao Cao also guessed that Liu Bei was likely to break through, after all, there were only a few thousand people, and they were besieged by tens of thousands of horses in this small ancient city, and if they didn't break through, there would be only a dead end.

He imagined the direction of Liu Bei and others to break through to the west or south, after all, to the west could go to Nanyang, and to the south could go to Jiangxia, to which Jingzhou belonged, so he focused his troop deployment on the south and west.

However, Liu Bei's breakthrough direction was the opposite of Cao Cao's guess, he did not choose to break through to the south or west, but chose to break through to the east.

To the north of the ancient city, the Cao army camp.

"Prime Minister, Liu Bei really broke through, but they are breaking through to the east, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are two generals who came out of the east gate with men and horses, no one can stop them, our army's strength in the east is relatively weak, and I don't know if we can stop these two!" Le Jin hurriedly walked into the tent and reported to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao, who was holding a bamboo slip, listened to the shouts and noises coming from afar, got up and walked outside the tent to look into the distance, and in the dark night, he could only see a little fire moving in the distance.

He thought for a while and ordered: "Order Xu Chu, Xu Huang and others to personally lead people to intercept them, and they must block Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Liu Bei must be behind them, block them, and you can block Liu Bei!" ”

"Yes!"

At this moment, there was a battle going on in the field two miles away from the ancient city, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the men and horses like no one, and the Cao soldiers who were blocking the front were hacked to death, and countless camp tents were overturned and set on fire.

But more and more Cao troops were coming up from the left and right sides and from the front under the command of the officers, and the speed at which Guan Yu and Zhang Fei advanced became slower and slower.

"Oh, Xu Zhu is here, the butcher of Zhuojun is going to be rampant!" There was a sudden shout from the front, and a fierce man with a big knife in his hand rushed towards Zhang Fei.

"Thief bird, die!" Zhang Feixu was furious, and rushed towards Xu Chu without stopping, and the spear in his hand stabbed straight with a move, fast and ruthless.

"When" Xu Chu swept away, and then slashed Zhang Fei with a backhand.

Zhang Fei leaned back to dodge, and the spear swept towards Xu Chu's waist, and Xu Chu returned to the knife to block.

The two fought each other without a win, Zhang Fei had been rushing forward, and the sergeants behind him also followed, but at this time he had been stopped by Xu Chu and could not move forward, and the sergeants behind him had to stop and fight with Cao Jun who rushed from around.

Over there, Guan Yu was also stopped by Xu Huang and Le Jin, who also lost his speed, and all the sergeants behind him were besieged by the dense Cao army.

Liu Bei, who was following behind, and the strategists knew that it was going to be bad as soon as they saw this situation, and being trapped here was a dead end!

How good is that?

Liu Bei organized his troops to try to break through from all directions several times, but the effect was not great, and there were occasional breakthroughs, but Cao's army was quickly organized by the officers to block the way.

Seeing that more and more of his own soldiers had died around him, Liu Bei was anxious, and at this time, there was a sudden shout of killing in front of him, and the Cao army in front of Liu Bei and the others was in a commotion, and the formation was also dispersed, and they fled to both sides.

Liu Bei looked again, and saw that the cloak on the body of a general was stained red with the blood of the enemy, and this person came over with hundreds of men and horses, it was Zhao Yun.

"The last general is late, and I ask the lord to forgive my sins!" Zhao Yun gasped slightly, hugged his fists.

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "Zilong came at the right time, have you ever been injured?" ”

"Don't worry, the last general has not been injured!"

Sun Qian next to him hurriedly said: "Lord, this place is not a place to talk, so let's hurry up and make a good move!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, quickly send someone to inform the second and third brothers, so that they can't fall in love with the war, and follow me and leave the Cao army quickly!"

"No!"

Under the breakthrough led by Zhao Yun, Liu Beijun broke through all the way, rushing out of more than two miles in a row, seeing that the Cao army in front of them was becoming more and more sparse, just when they thought they were about to break out of the encirclement of the Cao army, a large number of Cao troops suddenly appeared in front again.

These Cao troops were in a neat and dense formation, all armed with shields and spears, and Zhao Yun and the others were subjected to a strong main force here, no matter how high his force was, he still failed to break through the enemy's dense formation after killing dozens of people in a row.

Just as Liu Bei and the others were blocked again, the Cao army behind them and on both wings quickly pounced again, and the encirclement formed again.

"Attack-" Behind Cao Jun, Zang Ba waved his sword and pointed forward.

Cao Jun advanced in an orderly manner, compressing the scope of the encirclement, which made Liu Beijun's mobile space smaller and smaller.

Seeing that his side was surrounded again, and the sergeants around him died one after another, Liu Bei couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar: "Could it be that Liu Bei is going to die here today?" ”

At this moment, a large number of Cao troops in the northeast fell without warning, followed by a large number of horses' hooves and bowstrings, and wave after wave of arrows rained down on Cao Jun, and the originally dense formation became like a tattered sieve in an instant.

Zhao Yun saw that there was a problem with Cao Jun's formation, and immediately raised his spear and shouted: "Rush out with me!" ”

"Rush-" Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also roared at the same time, and rushed out with the sergeants behind them shouting to kill the enemy.

As the sound of countless horses' hooves gradually approached, the ground kept shaking, and the Cao Jun sergeants knew that it was a cavalry rushing over from the flank, and they had no intention of dealing with Liu Beijun again, they just wanted to leave quickly.

A cavalry rushed into the Cao army, which had become loose but defenseless against the rear of the flank, with unrivaled momentum and speed.

After making a half-circle, the cavalry rushed towards the position of Zang Ba, the general of the Cao army.

"General, it's not good, this cavalry from nowhere is rushing towards this side, the soldiers have lost their fighting spirit, leave quickly, if you don't leave, you will be rushed by the enemy!" Adjutant General Yin Li hurriedly said to Zang Ba.

Zang Ba looked at the cavalry that rushed over and withdrew very unwillingly, if it weren't for this cavalry coming from the rear to kill and break up the Cao army's formation, Liu Bei and the others would definitely die tonight!

In the dark night, Qin Feng was not familiar with the deployment of Cao's army in this area, and he was also worried that he and the two thousand cavalry were trapped here and could not get out.

In the second half of the night, Qin Feng took his men and horses to rest in a mountain forest, arranged secret sentries around, and sent scouts to investigate nearby, trying to contact Liu Beijun.

A day ago, he received a report from a scout, saying that there were only 3,000 defenders in Runan City, and most of Zang Ba's men and horses had gone south, and he guessed that Zang Ba's men and horses should have attacked Xincai, because there were 3,000 men and horses garrisoned by Zhao Yun there.

When Qin Feng arrived at Xincai with 2,000 cavalry, he found that Xincai had no defenders, and when he was looking for someone to investigate, he learned that Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei had gone to the direction of the ancient city with 3,000 men and horses.

Qin Feng guessed that maybe Liu Bei and Guan Yu were not dead, but he didn't know whether the news was true or false, so he immediately rushed over to the direction of the ancient city with his men and horses, and encountered a large battlefield on the way, full of Liu Beijun's corpses, and it was obvious that Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei were ambushed by Cao's army.

Then Qin Feng continued to march in the direction of the ancient city with his men and horses, and did not arrive near the ancient city until night, and found that a large number of Cao troops were besieging the ancient city, so he hid nearby with his men and horses and sent people to investigate the news.

Later, it was discovered that there were defenders breaking through from the ancient city, and Qin Feng knew that the people in the ancient city were either Liu Bei, Guan Yu, or the two of them, so he led people to break through the Cao army's army formation and relieve the siege for Liu Beijun.