The inevitable melee combat still took place outside the city of Xiangyang. Liu Biao, who had already been alarmed by the huge sound of the Shenwei cannon, and a group of civil and military officers in Xiangyang City, stood on top of the reinforced watchtower on the west gate of Xiangyang City, looking at the two armies that had collided together in the distance with a solemn face and a complicated expression.

Liu Biao asked Lu Meng beside him softly: "Ziming, now that the tens of thousands of troops of the Cao army are all pressing, the Tianyi army is obviously at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, can it really resist?"

Lu Meng knew that there was his friend Lu Xun in the Tianyi army who was fighting bloodily outside the city, and Lu Xun came here to rescue himself to a large extent, so he also pinched a cold sweat in his heart. He replied to Liu Biao: "At this time of crisis, I also ask the governor to put everything first, and allow Jiang Xu to lead two thousand iron guards out of the city to fight!"

Liu Biao knew that this was not the time to hesitate and feel distressed, so he nodded and agreed to Lu Meng's request. Although he liked and trusted the two thousand iron guards led by his nephew Liu Pan very much, and really didn't want to send this strong and loyal army to death, but seeing that the Tianyi army was desperate for himself outside the city without saying anything, he was afraid that he would not be able to explain to King Pingxi afterwards.

Lu Meng made it clear that the army outside the city was the descendant of the Han army that Zhao Xing had formed for himself in the Western Regions, and it could be described as the "Imperial Forest Army" of King Pingxi. The king of Pingxi is willing to send his "Royal Forest Army" to the front line, and you Liu Biao are reluctant to send your iron guard out to support?

Not long after, Jiang Xu and Su Fei, two generals, led two thousand neatly draped Jingzhou iron guards out of the west gate and rushed straight to Cao Cao's rear army.

When the soldiers in Xiangyang City were busy mobilizing, the Cao army and the Tianyi army outside the city were already fighting together. Cao Cao's vanguard generals each led a long spear and halberd soldiers, and attacked the gaps in the main van formation that had been blown up by the thunderbolt car, vowing to tear these gaps open and widen them so that the army behind them could join the battle group.

At this time of crisis, Zhao Gang had already handed over the command to Lu Xun, and he himself had rushed from the position of the Chinese army to the area where the battle was most fierce in the front army. Zhao Gang's personal martial arts are not very strong, and can only be regarded as ordinary in Zhao Xing's military general system, and the reason why he can take the high position of leading an army alone is that he learned the true biography of Zhao Xing's leading troops and commanding the army. In this regard, he is very similar to Li Tiezhu of the Dragoon. The two did not rely on single martial arts to leave, but relied on their brains to play tricks to command the army to fight.

Of course, although Zhao Gang's martial arts are not high, it does not mean that he is afraid of death and does not dare to charge to fight on the front line. At such a critical juncture, as long as he stood behind the soldiers and shouted a few energetic words, it would play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army and boosting morale.

In fact, Zhao Gang did this at this time. He seemed to have heard Cao Hong's irritable voice not far from the car formation, and he kept shouting to his soldiers: "Brothers, show your blood and courage! The head is no bigger than a scar, even if it is sacrificed, there is still our ranking in the Crouching Tiger Martyr's Garden, I am afraid of a ball!"

"Kill, my head is off and I'm afraid of a ball, and I vow to kill Cao Jun without leaving any of them!"

"Kill, we are the brave and fearless Tianyi army, we can't disgrace King Pingxi......"

Cao Hong, who had already killed the red-eyed, shouted outside through a car formation: "Brothers, kill me! Break through these Iron Kings in front of us, and we can let the despicable and shameless Tianyi Army taste our power!"

When the two armies were fighting fiercely, Cao Cao, who had been observing the situation on the battlefield, suddenly found that the west gate of Xiangyang City behind him had been put down. Although the Cao army was pressed on the whole line, it would definitely not forget the city of Xiangyang, so there were still 10,000 soldiers left behind in the rear army. Seeing a group of soldiers suddenly coming out of the city, Cao Cao's eyes jumped a few times, and he hurriedly ordered the rear army to meet the whole line, and in any case, he had to stop the troops who were copying the back road this time.

The two thousand Jingzhou Iron Guards led by Su Fei and Jiang Xu were originally carefully selected dead soldiers from the 200,000 Jingzhou army, and Jiang Xu, who was in charge of training, was satisfied with both their individual combat strength and their will to fight. They were wearing the high-grade armor that Lu Meng had specially dispatched from the Crouching Tiger Equipment Institute of the Jin Kingdom, and they used the most sophisticated and durable individual weapons, which could be described as a force armed to the teeth, and their combat power was very considerable.

Looking at the nearly 10,000 Cao troops who surrounded them, Jiang Xu and Su Fei were resolutely not afraid, and shouted: "Brothers, rush with me!", and rushed over like a tiger into a wolf pack.

Outside the city of Xiangyang, the ruthless fighting continued, every moment there were people injured and fell to the ground, every piece of land was stained red with blood, and the soldiers of the Tianyi Army who had already killed the red-eyed Tianyi Army had long forgotten what fear and fear were, and they mechanically followed the training actions they received in the training regiment at the beginning, while protecting the vital parts of the body, they shot the crossbow arrows in their hands at the enemy, stabbed the spears in their hands at the enemy, and slashed the long knives in their hands at the enemy......

Jiang Xu and Su Fei, who rushed out of the city, were also brave and resolute, and they actually forced the surrounding Cao army to retreat continuously with 2,000 soldiers, which made Cao Cao feel a huge threat.

A battle that began in the morning and continued into noon, and it was still indistinguishable. The number of wounded and dead soldiers on both sides is increasing, and there have been nearly 10,000 casualties on the side of the Tianyi army, and even the military advisor Lu Xun can't help but rush to the position of the front army to cheer for his corporals.

The Jingzhou Iron Guards who rushed out of Xiangyang City really lived up to expectations, and at the cost of nearly a thousand soldiers, they were about to kill the rear army of the Cao army, and the number of Cao troops who died under them reached 4,000.

Cao Cao, who had a blue face, was about to dispatch Xu Chu to lead his tent guards to join the battle group to resist the Jingzhou army, when he suddenly saw Pan Feng, the general who was originally stationed at the south gate, come over and report with a anxious face: "General Qiqi, the whereabouts of the army have been found twenty miles outside the south gate of Xiangyang, and Huo Jun's department, which is suspected to have returned from Changsha, is about to arrive!"

Cao Cao, who had been enduring the headache, listened to Pan Feng's report, and suddenly felt that there were 10,000 golden needles in his brain, and he was unconscious. The strategists Xi Zhicai and Jiang Ji, who accompanied Cao Cao, hurriedly helped Cao Cao into the carriage, and then instructed Xu Chu and Pan Feng and other generals: "Immediately send an order to the three armies to withdraw to Deng County from now on, the battle of Xiangyang has no hope of victory!"

Although he was very unwilling in his heart, Xu Chu was also a person who knew how to advance and retreat, he could see that if he wanted to defeat the Tianyi army today, he was only afraid that he would have to pay a heavier price, and if Huo Jun happened to come from the south to join the war group, he was afraid that the army would face the danger of life and death. So Xu Chu immediately held the general's token, hurriedly went to all parts of the battlefield to announce the military order, and organized the troops participating in the battle to gradually retreat north.