The sun is dusk and yellow, and the twilight is vast. The north wind is like a knife, and the clouds are like a flocculent. A blood-colored cloud swept across the dim sky, drawing a bloody mouth in the sky, dyeing the wings of the clouds hanging red from the sky, a snow-white lonely goose, hovering over the devastated earth, staring sadly and quietly at the Xuzhou Towers that were about to fall, and flying to the south with a mournful roar.

The famous city is in danger, and the world is lonely.

"Liu Bei ran away!" Xu Qianxue and I just arrived in Xuzhou City, and the words we heard the most were these words. A few days ago, we heard that Liu Bei had broken away from Cao Cao and occupied Xuzhou, so we came to see him first. Unexpectedly, it was such a chaotic situation.

The princes poured into each other, resulting in a miserable scene of "white bones exposed in the wilderness and no rooster crowing for thousands of miles" in the Central Plains. Along the way, we inevitably sighed.

Under the gate of Xuzhou, the crowd of people who fled in a hurry crowded around me, and everyone with frightened looks and desperate silence gathered like a gray ant array, flowing along the obscure twilight to the reckless wilderness. Even with his family and dependents, his children and daughters, his face showed endless grief and uneasiness, but no one dared to take a loud breath, as if he would attract the trampling and slaughter of 100,000 iron horsemen.

The catastrophe has come, and human life is like ants.

"Who said that the people in troubled times are the most miserable? they at least have a chance to escape, well, in my opinion, I really don't know how many miles stronger than us soldiers waiting for death!" a soldier who leaned his head against the corner of the wall, glancing at the crowd of refugees, mockingly snorted at his companion beside him.

Looking up from his tired face, the word "Xuzhou" is engraved impartially in the middle of the gate hole of the city tower, which is simple and full of vicissitudes.

Another soldier leaned over and leaned in and whispered: "I heard that the general sent by Cao Cao this time is Xiahoudun, known as a hundred victories, and his methods are extremely cruel, once he was shot in the eye by an arrow during the battle, but he said, 'Parents who suffer from the skin of the body', actually pulled out his eyes and ate them himself." If our Xuzhou falls into his hands, I'm afraid that it will be more than lucky!"

The soldier from before sighed: "Hey, Cao Cao, no matter who comes, it will be enough for us! Cao Cao is not the first time to slaughter the city, I heard that even Liu Bei has fled to Yuan Shao's side!"

The latter soldier exclaimed: "Is it? Even Liu Tingshi has fled Puyang? Then what are we still doing here?"

"Of course we have to guard!" A person who looked like a civilian official suddenly flashed around, stared at the two soldiers with a frosty face, and said solemnly and solemnly word by word, "Although Liu Tingshi is gone, we still have the arrogance of the people of Xuzhou! Besides, General Duan will definitely come to the rescue when he learns that Xuzhou is in trouble!"

I heard him mention my name, and immediately looked at it, and this person was Mi Zhu. He was originally a guest under Kong Rong, and since his sister was matched by me and married Liu Bei, he also followed Liu Bei to fight in the east and west. I was about to go up and say hello to him, but unexpectedly there was a commotion near the shoved gate.

A carriage rumbled and galloped from afar, crashing into the panicked crowd, and the coachman hurried like madness, and a whip fell on the neighing galloping horses, and the crowd retreated like a tide. Just as the carriage was about to rush through the narrow city gate, a child of three or four years old in the crowd, with fruit in his mouth, shook off his mother's shackles with one hand, and staggered towards the galloping carriage, as if to touch the flying horse's mane. The coachman could not see the young child, but the fast-paced horse that was galloping blindfolded could no longer take the reins, and the coachman exclaimed, "Get out of the way!"

At last the boy was frightened to the ground by the sudden danger, and his mouth opened in horror in the shadow of the great horse's hooves, and the fruit rolled from his mouth to the ground. The screaming crowd fell silent in an instant, leaving only the screams of the child's mother piercing the sky. The blood-colored remnant sun also flickered away at this moment, and the earth fell into a haze.

Suddenly, a figure slid like lightning across the street, flicking the hooves of the horses that had swooped down with one hand, and picking up the frightened children with the other, and before the crowd had time to exclaim, it spun back to the corner. This man was a young man, and he stood proudly, as if he had never moved half a step, but there was an extra child in his arms. The galloping horse stumbled a few paces at the same moment, and finally dragged the cart away with a staggering ride.

This person is none other than me, the boy with a big knife on his back.

The soldiers defending the city were dumbfounded, and the boy was lowered from between his elbows by the boy and threw himself at his ecstatic mother on the side of the road. Wearing a hat and a cloth coat, I stood out in the crowd, just like an ordinary peasant boy who had fled, and naturally I would not attract attention. My mother came to thank me for her kindness, but I felt that I owed them something. But he had nothing to say, so he looked back and whispered to Xu Qianxue: "Let's go." ”

Xu Qianxue is also dressed plainly, her eyebrows are delicate, her posture is graceful, although she is also a cloth coat and hat, but it is difficult to hide her moon appearance. It's just that these days I have suffered with me, and I am less charming, but I have more elegant temperament and generosity.

"What a couple!" everyone gave thumbs up.

But in the blink of an eye, Mi Zhu has disappeared. I think he is worried about the city of Xuzhou, and he has no time to take care of the trivial matters of these fleeing people. After entering the city of Xuzhou, there was a lot of time, and they all turned around and looked at the city wall in the distance. In the confused night, the flags on the city of Xuzhou rolled, shrouded in a murderous atmosphere. Xu Qianxue suddenly whispered: "I don't know what happened to Uncle Liu Huang, but he is nowhere to be seen when the war is imminent, it seems that there is more luck and less luck......"

I silently and slowly turned my head to the west, which was gradually melting into ink, and my bright eyes reflected the thick inky sky, staring at the vast wilderness.

Before the people had left, suddenly there was smoke and dust outside the city, and the sound of hooves was like thunder. Xu Qianxue's expression changed greatly, and she said in a deep voice: "It's not good, I didn't expect Cao Bing to come so quickly!" Before the words fell, I saw the crowd of fleeing people who helped the old and the young to go, and in an instant, they were scattered like ant colonies rushing by a big water.

"Those Cao soldiers are killing the people again!" Xu Qianxue said. I was clenching my teeth and bleeding from my lips. "Let's see!" I said.

Outside the city gate, I saw nearly 1,000 Cao soldiers and soldiers coming onto them, all like wolves and tigers, black helmets and black armor, halberds like forests, and powerful waterfalls, the most elite vanguard troops that came from a distance, the most elite tiger and leopard cavalry in the Cao army. The procession was speeding through without a sound except for the sound of the soldiers' horses' hooves, and the discipline was astonishing.

I sighed in my heart: No wonder Cao Cao's army has been invincible all these years, just looking at these well-trained Cao soldiers in front of me, they are far from being comparable to other princes. Seeing that the Cao soldiers are more and more surrounded, and the Cao army is still pouring in a steady stream, I am afraid that if I delay for a while, the follow-up army will be killed, and it will be even more difficult to get out at that time. The people quickened their pace and disappeared into the hurried night.

The knife is unsheathed. But I can't contain my murderous spirit, it's more of a rage.

Said okay, Xuzhou must not slaughter the city. I stopped Cao Jun once that day, why not stop him again today?

Xu Qianxue's Emei thorn was already in her hand, reflecting the afterglow of the sunset.

"General Duan, hello!" At this time, I saw a one-eyed general riding a black horse in front of me.

"Are you?" I said, surprised.

"The last general, Xiahoudun!" said the general.

"It turned out to be General Xia!" I said. Only then did I remember that Xiahoudun's right eye was eaten by himself. At this time, a white cloth was wrapped around the top of his head around his right eye.

"Why is General Duan here?" asked Xiahoudun.

I snorted coldly and said, "Since you have come to slaughter the city again, how can I not come! Today, if you want to slaughter the city, you must first kill me!"

"Oh, what did General Duan say? Before coming, Prime Minister Cao Cheng specially instructed that Xuzhou City should only persuade not to hurt a single citizen. Although I brought 5,000 tigers and leopards to ride, I didn't hurt a single person along the road, and I asked General Duan to take a clear look!" Xiahoudun said hurriedly.

I looked behind him, and sure enough, I saw that the people were running slowly, lost in the army of tigers and leopards, but they were not injured. A young boy was caught in the middle of an iron horse, weeping incessantly, when a soldier lifted him onto his horse with one hand and took him to the refugees to find his parents.

"So, thank you General Xiahou!" I bowed sincerely.

Xiahoudun also dismounted and saluted.

"Who is guarding Xuzhou now?" I asked.

"It should be Mi Zhu and Jian Yong, if the information is correct, there are less than 10,000 military horses in the city. Xiahoudun said proudly: "On this city, if I am asked to attack the city, within half an hour, Xuzhou will be broken!"