Outside the north gate of Puban, just when the Han army waited for a day without waiting for Xu Huang's army to leave, and the morale of the army was quite lazy, the city gate suddenly opened.

After all, it is the end of April, the sun is blazing, and they are standing outside the camp all day, and the soldiers will definitely be very tired.

Xu Huang was waiting for this time, Zhao Yun felt that he should be solemn first, let the soldiers surround him and survive these few days, and after Shen Chen came back, he basically had no chance to escape.

But Xu Huang decided to flee eastward to the north, pretending to go out from the east gate, and then when the enemy came out to engage them, he suddenly went north, joined the main force and fled.

Ordinary generals may really be deceived by him, if Xu Huang comes over at that time, Zhao Yun immediately orders an attack, and at the same time sends someone to send a message to the soldiers of the other three city gates, so that when they come over to join the siege, Xu Huang can leave immediately.

That is, Zhao Yun was still alert, he sensed that something was wrong, and he didn't give an order for a long time, seeing that Zhao Yun was not fooled, Xu Huang didn't hesitate, and after approaching the forest, he immediately turned around, thinking that even if he didn't delay the Han army, at least he could make the Han army not come over so quickly.

Soon the Cao army in the northern city of Puban swarmed out of the city, and the Han army outside was suddenly noisy, and someone shouted: "Assemble, hurry, assemble!" Someone shouted, "Herald, go." Someone else shouted: "It's finally out, kill it!" ”

For a while, the command was a little out of order, some of the Han army wanted to gather, and some of the Han army wanted to attack, but the more unified thing was that they all sent heralds to deliver letters outside the south and east of the west city, which was simply to shake people.

In this case, the Han army outside the North City Gate suddenly became a mess.

It makes sense to choose to line up in place, because when there is no array, you will definitely not be able to beat it. It also makes sense to choose to kill the past, because their mission is to drag Cao Jun.

But no matter what, the formation of the Han army was not assembled at the first time, resulting in the strength of the Han army not working together.

This situation may occasionally be encountered even by the most elite troops, and even if the main general is general, sometimes it is useless, just like Cao Cao was in Wancheng back then.

However, the difference is that Cao Cao was attacked by a sneak attack that year, and the Han army had a little problem with the command and dispatch and did not adjust it in time.

The main reason is that the more than 10,000 Han troops in Beicheng are divided into two parts, one is Ding Libu, who wants to form a formation first, and the other is Bai Shoubu, who saw Cao Jun coming out and was afraid that they would escape, so he wanted to intercept it as soon as possible.

After Cao's army left the city, he immediately fled to the northeast, Bai Shou rode on horseback, and immediately shouted to the soldiers to charge, and the Han soldiers of his part suddenly rushed over, but were attacked by a rain of arrows, resulting in a failure to intercept.

When he left the city, Xu Huang had already told Zhou Sheng, Lu Jian, and Yang Ping, who were in charge of leading the team, that the Han army was surrounded on all sides, and when they saw them leaving, they would definitely choose to come up and entangle, even if they used their lives, they would want to leave them behind.

The purpose of this is to allow the Han troops at the rest of the city gates to support them as soon as possible, so when they evacuate, they must not fight with the Han army, and leave as soon as they can.

After all, once the two sides are entangled, even if it is only delayed for less than half an hour, they will face the encirclement of 40,000 Han troops.

At this time, the Cao army followed Xu Huang's teachings, and several rounds of arrow rain first shot back the soldiers of the Bai Shoubu, and then made a loud noise, ordering the cavalry to gallop all the way to the northeast plain without stopping.

They were all one man and two horses, the man in front controlled the horses, and the man in the back shot indiscriminately with bows and crossbows, the actual lethality and accuracy were very low, and a few rounds of arrow rain almost did not cause any deaths except for more than twenty unlucky people who were injured.

But it's really bluffing.

Bai Shoubu was not prepared, nor did he immediately form a shield in formation, and did not dare to play with the rain of arrows, so they retreated one after another.

However, soon Bai Shoubu regrouped and launched an offensive, after all, the Cao army retreated close to 20,000 people, tens of thousands of war horses, and all kinds of messy accidents could happen.

Some of them were crowded together and fell down, some fell because two people were overwhelmed by the horses, and some were even thrown down by the horses.

After all, not every Cao soldier is good at riding horses, and there is only one pair of stirrups, and the people in front have stirrups, and the people behind can only clamp the belly of the horse, especially when they need to use a bow and crossbow, it is easy to fall down.

For a while, the retreat of the Cao army was also chaotic, and the order was not very good.

After seven or eight minutes, Ding Libu finished assembling and immediately rushed over to attack Cao's army from the flank, coupled with the harassment of Bai Shoubu, the entire battlefield was in chaos.

Some of Cao Jun's troops wanted to leave, some wanted to repel the enemy, and some hesitated and didn't know what to do.

This is the disadvantage of not having a unified command of the generals.

In fact, Xu Huang also knew this, but he had no choice, his idea was to lead the Han army who opened the other doors and then cut off the queen personally, and as the main general, he must be responsible.

As a result, Zhao Yun did not send a signal for a long time, resulting in the Han army not being led to the east gate, the Han army at the north gate did not move, and the Cao army did not have him to command, so naturally the Cao army present did not form a unified order.

However, fortunately, Xu Huang's death order before leaving was to evacuate quickly, so even the Cao army, who went to repel the enemy, quickly turned his horse's head and fled after a bow and crossbow.

As for those who were entangled, they were not so lucky, at least three or four thousand Cao troops were intercepted by the Han army, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides.

Soon a large number of Cao troops were gone, thousands of Cao troops and thousands of Han troops were entangled on the battlefield, and there were hundreds of nearly thousands of unlucky Cao soldiers who lost their hooves for various reasons, some were trampled to death, some were thrown to death, and some were covered in blood, and they were in chaos.

After more than a quarter of an hour, twenty minutes, and less than half an hour, thousands of Cao troops galloped from outside the east gate, and it was Xu Huang's troops who were responsible for attracting the attention of the Han army.

Xu Huang first went out of the east gate four or five miles to the outskirts of the forest, and then went to the north gate, the Han army camp was a few miles away from the north gate, and the place where they fought was not in the Han army camp, but in the northeast, so it was still more than ten miles away from there, and it was too late.

When he arrived, the adjutant general said anxiously: "General, our people are entangled. ”

Another lieutenant said, "Take advantage of this opportunity to go." ”

"Me"

Xu Huang hesitated for a moment, his side was all cavalry, running faster, Zhao Yun was still eating ashes behind, taking advantage of the fact that the people in the north were stopped by these thousands of Cao troops and slipped away, at least he could take nearly 20,000 people back.

From a rational point of view, this is indeed correct, but looking at these soldiers who get along day and night, they are all living people, and if they are not brought back, I am afraid that my conscience will be uneasy.

Just hesitating, the sound of the earth-shattering shouting and killing behind is getting closer and closer, although people can't outrun, but they have to stay away after all, Zhao Yun's troops are out of the nest, and they are less than five or six miles away from their position, and if they delay for a few minutes, they may have to be caught up in less than ten minutes.

"Let's go!"

He could only give the order to move on.

At that moment, thousands of Cao Jun immediately wanted to bypass it from the side.

At this time, the part of the Cao army that was fighting with the Han army saw Xu Huang passing by, and immediately shouted: "The general wants to abandon us and go?" ”

"The general wants to abandon us?"

"The general wants to abandon us?"

The heart-rending call made Xu Huang feel painful, but he did not stay, but left quickly.

Watching him go farther and farther, the remaining Cao Jun fell into despair.

But it didn't take long for the Cao army to leave, Xu Huang's Daxu actually returned, and he took hundreds of guards to the battlefield and roared: "I, Xu Huang, will never abandon my soldiers." ”

With that, he rushed over.

At this time, he was still wounded in the left shoulder, holding a big axe in his right hand, and joined the battlefield with a shout, and killed several Han soldiers in an instant, and after relieving the entangled Cao army, he urged them to leave quickly, and never continue to fight with the Han army.

Soon, with a round of killing, with the help of the pro-guards, hundreds of Cao soldiers were rescued, so that they could immediately get on their horses and leave.

After about half an hour, Zhao Yun's troops had already arrived, and at the same time arrived at the Han army on the other side of Xicheng, and tens of thousands of Han troops swarmed in, pouring into the rolling torrent to devour them.

Someone shouted while fighting: "The general goes first!" ”

"You go!"

Xu Huang brandished a big axe and shouted loudly.

In fact, most of those who were left behind were relatively unlucky soldiers, who mostly fell from their horses, or were shot by the crossbows of the Han army, and their horses were killed, and they became foot soldiers.

If they ran directly regardless of the attack of the Han army, they would definitely be attacked by the Han army behind their backs and had to be forced to resist.

Now that Xu Huang is rushing to kill in the crowd and relieving some Cao troops, these Cao soldiers can choose to drop their weapons and flee directly without worrying about being attacked from behind by the Han army.

Xu Huang also didn't do too deep entanglements, he often left immediately after saving people, and it didn't matter if he didn't kill the Han army, he was afraid that once he was too deeply entangled with the enemy, he would be entangled and couldn't get out.

"Where to go!"

At this time, a white horse and silver spear veteran entered the battle.

The veteran has a resolute face, wearing a white cloak, and is very eye-catching in the army, although he is old, his kung fu is not slow, the tip of the gun is like a silver dragon roaring, and a few bright red blood flowers burst out in the crowd in an instant.

"Zhao Yun!"

Xu Huang gritted his teeth, and unconsciously shrugged his left shoulder, the wound on his shoulder was left by Zhao Yun's sudden attack the day before yesterday, even if he desperately swung the big axe, the tip of the spear that followed him was also deeply memorable.

If he hadn't been fighting for his injuries to change the chance to escape, I'm afraid he would have been left behind at that time.

Now that he met the other party again, Xu Huang's voice trembled a little, not because he was afraid, but because he was angry and excited to the extreme, like a tiger meeting another tiger, and the natural hostility made his whole body tremble.

Zhao Yun rode his horse and rushed straight into the formation, shouting: "Xu Huang, surrender and avoid death!" ”

"There are only generals who died in battle, and there are no cowards who surrendered."

Xu Huang roared angrily: "Kill! ”

"Kill!"

The remnants of Cao Jun erupted into a shocking shout.

Seeing Xu Huang leave before, they were already in despair.

But after Xu Huang came back, everyone's morale was boosted to the extreme.

The two sides continued to fight, and Xu Huang raised his big axe and slashed down at Zhao Yun, letting out a wolf-like howl from his mouth.

It's not just him.

At this moment, the remnants of the thousands of Cao troops were like being possessed by a killing god, even if they died, regardless of the fatal wounds, they slashed with knives, poked with spears, and even bit with their teeth, wanting to exchange the lives of an enemy.

This fierce and fearless fighting style made the Han army, which was much more numerous than them, a little overwhelmed at the beginning, and three or five people were a little afraid of dealing with one person.

"Bang!"

The sound of violent metal collision sounded.

Zhao Yun raised his gun to parry Xu Huang's angry blow, and then turned the head of the gun, and poked out like lightning.

Xu Huang turned his head to dodge, and the big axe in his hand was quite dexterous and went up again.

Zhao Yun pressed the gun and bounced away, and the two sides quickly fought for more than 20 rounds, but at this moment, due to excessive force, Xu Huang's left shoulder wound burst again.

Under the pain, Xu Huang's original strength to slash the axe weakened a little, and the axe was crooked, not hitting Zhao Yun.

If this axe didn't change the axe momentum, Zhao Yun would at least have to parry or dodge, but if he didn't hit it, Zhao Yun didn't need to change his move, and directly probed and locked Xu Huang's throat to stab.

By the time Xu Huang reacted, it was too late to hide, so he could only watch the tip of the gun poking towards his throat, and he knew that he would die, so he closed his eyes.

But after two breaths, Xu Huang didn't feel pain, he was puzzled for a while, he opened his eyes, but saw the cold light flashing in front of him, and he only felt a pain in his head, and his whole person was thrown out and fell under the horse.

Originally, Zhao Yun keenly seized the opportunity just now, and wanted to kill Xu Huang with one shot, but when it was time to really stab out, Zhao Yun hesitated for a while.

It's not that he's soft-hearted.

But Xu Huang was injured, and his previous injury was also caused by his own sneak attack, but now he was defeated due to his injury, and he couldn't win.

Second, he could see clearly in the distance before he came, Xu Huang had already run away, but because the remaining soldiers returned, such loyalty was also admirable.

Because if it were Zhao Yun himself, he would definitely come back. He can always work for Liu Bei, not only because he is such a person, but also because Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Shen Chen are also such people.

Loyalty hangs in my heart.

Therefore, heroes cherish heroes, and they can't help but feel pity for Xu Huang's friendship that although they are their masters, they also take care of each other, so they change their stabbing to shoot and shoot Xu Huang down.

"Bang!"

Xu Huang even wore a battle armor, and with a weight of more than 200 catties, he fell off the horse heavily, and directly fell into a lot of meat, and his head was also slapped dizzy, and he actually fainted.

Zhao Yun raised his gun and roared loudly: "Xu Huang has been captured alive, those who surrender will not die, if they resist stubbornly, there will be no forgiveness for Xu Huang!" ”

"Xu Huang has been captured alive, and those who surrender will not die!"

"Xu Huang has been captured alive, and those who surrender will not die!"

The surrounding Han troops immediately shouted.

The soldiers of the Cao Army were originally relatively strong-spirited, and the combat effectiveness of only four or five thousand people was comparable to tens of thousands.

But as Xu Huang fell, the army's heart was shaken all of a sudden, especially when everyone's eyes were looking in Xu Huang's direction, but when they saw that his mount was empty, their hearts were half cold.

Suddenly, the morale of Cao Junjun, who was originally high, fell to the bottom, and the original idea of fighting to the death was gone, and they threw down their weapons and surrendered.

A large number of people fell on the battlefield, plus the Cao army who was killed in battle or trampled on, fell to death, fell off the horse and was injured and fainted, there were at least seven or eight thousand people, and there were only more than 10,000 Cao troops who ran out, and about one-third were left here!

For a time, the Han army won again!

(End of chapter)