In Shouchun City, Cao's army rotated day and night, holding the city, and I don't know how many times it blocked the Wu army's attacks.

However, Xiahoudun was far away in Xuzhou and could not support for a long time, but the Wu army outside the city continued to support, with countless equipment, catapults, rushing cars, etc., all lined up under the city, and the morale of the Wu army was high.

Cao Ren, Cao Xiu, and Zang Ba led troops to attack the camp several times, but they were all defended by the Wu army, and Cao Xiu attacked Zhou Yu's camp and was almost captured, and Shouchun was in danger.

Seeing that the defenders were losing more than half of their morale and their morale was low, Cao Ren discussed countermeasures with the generals, and if they did not try to retreat from the enemy, they would be trapped in the city by Zhou Yu.

Cao Xiu suddenly said: "When the prime minister was leaving, he left a pair of tips, saying that when the soldiers came to the city, they would be opened, why not watch it?" ”

"yes, I almost forgot about it!" Cao Ren slapped his head and hurriedly rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find the tips.

At the beginning, Cao Cao left Shouchun and left a bag, but everyone didn't care, there was a Hefei defense line, how could the Wu army attack Shouchun?

Now Zhou Yu has repeatedly used strange tactics to march from Guangling, bypassing the water, and the Hefei camp has lost its role and caught Cao's army off guard.

Cao Ren found the bag, opened it and looked at it, and sighed: "The prime minister is an unknown prophet, and he is really a god and a man!" ”

Cao Xiu hurriedly asked, "What is the prime minister's plan?" ”

Cao Ren kept it a secret, and ordered tonight to make dinner on the fifth watch, and tomorrow the generals will lead their men and horses, abandon the city, and only plant flags all over the city to bluff.

Cao Xiu was shocked: "I have been waiting for half a month, how can I give up easily?" Huainan is lost, and the Central Plains is in danger! ”

Zang Ba hugged his fists and said: "We are ordered to guard Huai, losing Hefei is already a big crime, if you give up Shouchun again, what face do you have to see the prime minister?" Fight to the death! ”

Zhu Ling and other generals also asked for orders, willing to defend Shouchun and wait for reinforcements, everyone knows that once this place is abandoned, there is a natural danger of the Huai River, and it is difficult to get it back.

Cao Ren shook his bag and said in a deep voice: "This is the prime minister's order, who dares to disobey?" ”

The generals were surprised, they couldn't imagine that Cao Cao's trick was to give up Shouchun, what kind of unpredictable prophet is this?

However, with this general order, everyone was relieved, at least they would not be questioned for abandoning the city, so they went to prepare.

Cao Ren left Cao Xiu and Niu Jin alone, and instructed them to break off the defense.

Outside the city, Han Dangzheng was inspecting the east gate, and suddenly found that Cao Jun came out of the north gate and was busy reporting to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu climbed the arrow tower to observe, and from here, Shouchun City was in full view, which was also one of the reasons why Cao Ren was beaten and had no power to fight back.

Han Dangyan said: "A team of Cao Jun just walked out, with people and horses carrying packages, and their whereabouts are very suspicious. ”

Zhou Yu's eyes were slightly cold, he looked at it for a moment, pointed to the city and sneered: "A few days ago, the Cao army defended the city, and I didn't see so many flags in the city, but now it is full of flags, but no one patrols, it must be Cao Ren who sees that Shouchun can't hold it and is ready to retreat!" ”

Han Dang was overjoyed and said: "In this case, take advantage of the victory and chase him and kill him!" ”

Zhou Yu laughed and said, "A certain person has this intention! ”

Liu Qi took Hanzhong and attacked Yizhou, invincible, Zhou Yu was unhappy when he learned the news, and he had long wanted to take Huainan and take advantage of the situation to take the Central Plains in the coming year, and he was impatient at this time.

Zhou Yu got off the arrow tower, and immediately ordered the account to be raised, ordering Han Dang and Huang Gai to lead an army each, and Chen Wu, Ding Feng and other generals followed to respond, outflanking Cao's army from the east and west wings of Shouchun, and not allowing him to retreat with his whole body.

The drums of war sounded, the Wu army went out in two ways, the Cao army was also prepared, the east gate Zang Ba, the west gate Cao Ren met the enemy, each led the troops to block the Wu army, and the north gate Cao army swarmed out, competing to withdraw.

Cao Ren and Han Dang fought more than ten times, seeing that Chen Wu arrived in the rear, no longer in love with the war, led the troops to withdraw directly from outside the city, and the east gate Zang Ba was even more defeated by Huang Gai, defeated and left, Cao Jun abandoned the city and fled.

Zhou Yu saw it really in front of the battle, and laughed: "I have heard for a long time that Cao Zixiao is familiar with the art of war, and he is good at guarding and using soldiers. ”

At this time, all the Cao troops fled, and the defenders of the city did not see a single person, so they ordered the whole army to chase the enemy, and Cheng Pu led the troops forward to respond.

Zhou Yu ordered people to build a pontoon bridge, open the south gate, advance the city to secure the people's fortification, and prepare a banquet to celebrate the generals.

As soon as the people and horses entered the urn city, they suddenly heard a loud laugh from their heads: "Zhou Lang Xiaoer, do you know the prime minister's clever plan?" ”

Zhou Yu was shocked, and when he hurriedly looked up, he saw countless Cao troops hidden behind the wall.

"Retreat!" Zhou Yu yelled and hurriedly reined in his horse and turned back.

"Zhou Lang is leaving!" Cao Xiu bent his bow and arrows, specifically aiming at Zhou Yu to release arrows.

The three arrows flew out one after another, and Zhou Yu could not clash in the chaotic army, and was shot in the back, howling miserably.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the pro-soldiers all went to their sides to protect, rushed away from their own horses, and galloped out.

In the city, Zhu Ling and Niu Jin led the ambush soldiers to kill, and rushed straight to the chaotic Wu army, killing people on their backs, and the blood flowed like a river in the city gate, and the corpses were paved with a layer.

Cao Xiu ordered people to close the city gate early, and commanded the soldiers to chase and kill Zhou Yu, the Wu army protruded from the south gate, and the defenders outside were in chaos, trampling on each other, and the Chinese army was scattered.

Cheng Pu was chasing Cao Ren across the city, and when he heard the drums in the city, he knew that the situation was not good, and hurriedly collected troops to help.

Cao Ren and Zang Ba retreated for a while, and on the road ahead, Cao Jun who had already left the city was ambushed by the roadside, killing on both sides, Han Dang and Huang Gai couldn't resist, and the Wu soldiers were defeated again, and they were killed back by Cao Jun.

Dong Xi sacrificed his life to protect Zhou Yu, after Pan Zhang's break, the two returned to the camp, the rebels fled back, and Cao Jun followed, seeing Zhou Yu vomiting blood on the horse, unconscious, and did not dare to delay, so he had to abandon the camp and leave.

"Zhou Yu is leaving!"

"Capture Zhou Lang alive!"

Zhu Ling and Niu Jin led the elite soldiers to chase after him, and Cao Jun's eyes were full of golden light, as if the bloodthirsty wolves saw the fat sheep.

Pan Zhang saw that Zhou Yu was vomiting more and more blood, and he was anxious, and shouted: "Quickly bring the Metropolitan Governor to the vicinity for treatment, and I will come to the aftermath!" ”

Dong Xi agreed, picked up Zhou Yu, and only took more than ten people to walk from the path, Pan Zhang gathered the remnants of the army, formed a formation to resist the enemy, and fought to the death with Cao's army.

The two armies fought for a while, the Wu army became less and less, Pan Zhang suffered many wounds, and he gritted his teeth to fight to the death, at this moment, suddenly an army galloped in the distance and scattered the flank of the Cao army.

It turned out that it was Lu Meng's reinforcements who arrived, and when they saw the sound of killing here, they divided their troops to check, and when they saw that many Cao soldiers were here, they rushed over to kill.

Zhu Ling recognized that he was the Ling Tong who had been entangled with Zhang Liao in Xiaoyaojin before, and he knew that he was invincible, and when he saw the arrival of reinforcements from Eastern Wu, he persuaded Niu Jin to retreat.

Lu Meng didn't know what the enemy situation was in front of him, so he didn't dare to chase it rashly, and was about to ask Pan Zhang's military situation, but when he saw him fainting, he hurriedly ordered someone to treat him.

Cao Jun retreated, encountered Cheng Pu's men and horses and rushed to kill for a while, but Cao Ren and Zang Ba led the troops to kill, Cheng Pu did not dare to fight, collected the defeated army and retreated, only retreating to ten miles away to stabilize the position.

Seeing that the army was overwhelmed, Lü Meng asked in surprise: "Marquis Wu learned that the Governor of Dadu was besieging Shouchun and was about to break the city, and ordered me to come to help in the battle, why is he so embarrassed?" ”

Cheng Pu sighed, briefly said Cao Jun's plan, and the general shook his head when he heard it, who knew that Cao Ren was so decisive that he actually came up with a way to abandon the city and lure the enemy.

Huang Gai, Han Dang and other generals also led the defeated army to rendezvous, and everyone found that Zhou Yu was missing, and they were busy looking around.