Chapter 221: Cao Cao enters Xiangyang City
The ancient road was fast, the thunder swept out, and Duan Dahu led three thousand iron cavalry to raid Xiangyang!
Burning Xinye, Zhao Yun was ordered to block the east gate, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each ambushed to block the first wave of Cao Cao's army, and let Duan Dahu take Xiangyang City by surprise, this is Zhuge Liang's strategy.
Liu Bei was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to abandon the people of Xinye, so he took the people to Xiangyang City overnight.
Zhuge Liang himself went to Jiangxia and contacted Liu Qi to send troops to defend Xiangyang.
Duan Dahu rushed, and Zhuge Liang's parting words came to his mind: "Lord, Cao Cao came to conquer Jingzhou with an army of 500,000, and this battle is bound to win against Jingzhou." And whether Jingzhou can hold it depends on who is in Xiangyang. Now the youngest son Liu Cong is the lord of Xiangyang, and Cai Mao, Kuai Liang, and Kuai Yue are all greedy for life and afraid of death. Once this happens, Jiangdong will also be in danger! The world's three-point plan will come to naught, and in the future, the world's surname will be Cao and not Liu. ”
However, in the face of Cao Cao's menacing, Sun Quan of Eastern Wu did not make any moves, but chose to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
In this battle, the victory or defeat is in Xiangyang!
The flying horse rushed to the city of Xiangyang at noon, only to see that the city gate was closed. There was also silence on the towers, and not even half of the guards were visible.
Duan Dahu immediately slashed his sword and shouted: "Where is Cai Mao, come out of the city and fight with me!"
At this time, he already had deep internal strength, but this sound shook the crows above the city tower, and there was a bleak scene. But in the end, no one answered.
Duan Dahu was furious, and he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and ordered loudly: "All the soldiers, follow me to attack the door!"
At this time, a cannon was heard, and the battle flags on the city tower were lined up, but a big "Cao" word was written on it. One of them was dressed in red clothes and red armor, and laughed loudly: "Brother Xian, you are late, Xiangyang City has been taken by me!"
Duan Dahu was startled, and when he looked up, the person standing on the city wall was Cao Cao.
"Brother Cao, how can you get ahead of me?" Duan Dahu asked in amazement. It's just that this is like a family affair, but it doesn't look like a pre-battle negotiation.
Cao Cao was extremely proud, and laughed: "I sent Xu Chu Hao Cao Ren to take the avenue and attack Xinye head-on. In fact, I had already taken the trail to Xiangyang City three days ago, and Liu Cong had already handed me the letter of surrender, but unfortunately the clever calculation was like Zhuge Kongming, and it was also kept in the dark. I had already expected you to attack Xiangyang, but this time you fell for my calculations!"
Duan Dahu scolded: "Liu Cong, you are a child, you gave your father's life's foundation to others in vain, don't you know that Liu Biao also rode into Jingzhou alone?"
Cao Cao shouted: "Brother Xian, don't waste your strength, what should happen today? It's better to surrender to me, if you promise, I will give you half of the country, let you live in Jingzhou forever!"
Duan Dahu shouted: "Bring the arrows!"
The soldiers behind him hurriedly handed over the strong bow, Duan Dahu drew a full bow and an arrow towards the city tower, and the soldiers only heard the sharp roar of the long sword, castrating like a meteor, brushing Cao Cao's cheeks, and shooting a large banner of Cao Zi to the ground.
This arrow was shot ten feet away!
Cao Cao was shocked: "What are you going to do?"
Duan Dahu said: "Big brother, I use this arrow to explain to you that I will never return to your army." This world is full of your Cao character banner, and I will also break it with one arrow and fight for the world with you!"
After all, Cao Cao was a hero in the world, so he was not angry but happy: "Okay, have ambition! This is the Duan Dahu I know!"
He then asked, "Generals, who is willing to go out to fight against the anti-thief Duan Dahu for me?"
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Shinno.
East Gate.
Zhao Yun held the sword in his left hand, the sword was like a dragon, and a sword carved a lightning bolt on Xu Chu's hairy chest, Xu Chu resisted the sword, did not retreat but advanced, and threw Zhao Yun out.
Zhao Yun leaned against a big tree, and the big tree broke off from it. But she just used her long sword to get on the ground, and she immediately jumped up, her body was as fast as lightning, and when she passed through Cao Ren's soldiers, the sword light flashed around, killing four more people in an instant. In the next moment, she was already standing at the east gate.
Straighten your spine and the sun is cold.
"General Xu Chu, I have been taught. Zhao Yun said coldly. She rolled over her horse and ordered, "Withdraw!"
The five hundred soldiers were already stunned, and without any hesitation at this time, they retreated behind Zhao Yun.
Cao Hong was furious: "Generals, follow me and kill this little white face!"
Cao Ren stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Don't chase, what are you chasing?" I didn't see a bloody battle between her and General Xu, and she still had spare strength!"
Cao Ying and a group of soldiers went out of the east gate and gathered the soldiers. Three out of ten soldiers were burned to death in Xinye City, although Cao Ren felt depressed, he still comforted everyone: "Although I fell into the tricks of the thieves this time, the main force still exists, I will wait for a rest, rectify the soldiers, and kill Liu Bei and others!"
At this time, it was already the fourth watch, Cao Jun and everyone trampled on each other, and was chased by Mi Fang and others led by the army, they were already sleepy and tired, and they were anxious, and at this time they arrived at the edge of the White River on the edge of Xinye City, and a group of people rushed up frantically, drinking water and feeding horses, and they all escaped from their doom, and they all laughed.
Suddenly, the earth shook, as if a mountain was collapsing and the ground was cracking in the distance, but it was like ten thousand horses galloping, and the sound was terrifying. Everyone didn't know what was going on, and they all froze on the ground.
One of them suddenly pointed to the white line in front of him and shouted, "General Cao, look!"
Cao Ren followed the soldier's index finger and saw that there was a tide in the upper reaches of the White River, which seemed to have caused a shocking wave, and was rushing towards the place where everyone settled.
Cao Ren's face changed greatly, and his face suddenly turned like ashes, and he muttered: "It's over, it's all over......"
The waves came in an instant, the water was monstrous, and the invisible force knocked down the soldiers and blew them into the darker distance. There were a few screams in between: "Help, I can't swim!"
Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei.
Most of the soldiers in the north can't swim.
Cao Ren rode on his horse, leading the soldiers to flee to the slow water, and the horses that only ran gasped for breath before they stopped.
It turned out that Zhuge Liang ordered everyone to bland and rob the camp at night, just to give Cao Ren a false impression that the soldiers and horses of Xinye City had retreated. Therefore, Cao Rencai led his troops to chase after him until he reached Xinye City. But he secretly ordered his henchmen to hide in the homes of ordinary people, and set fire to it at night, when they withdrew, Xinye City was already full of dry firewood and oil, and when the west wind was fierce at night, Xinye was burned to the ground, and naturally countless Cao soldiers were burned.
He deliberately left the east gate for Cao Ren and others to escape, so that Zhao Yun could go upstream and break the Baihe embankment, and when the soldiers had just escaped from the fire, they drowned many Cao soldiers.
In this way, the 100,000 soldiers and horses led by Cao Ren all the way, seven out of ten, all crying fathers and mothers, have long lost half of their fighting spirit.
However, at this time, a pig-killing leader stopped in the middle of the road and shouted violently: "Yanren Zhang Yide is here, Cao thief is coming to take his life!"