The four gates of Shouchun were Cao Ren, Xiahoudun, Xiahou Yuan, and Le Jin, and Cao Hong's mission was to protect Cao Cao's safety. Hearing that Cao Cao gave him the task of capturing Shouchun City, Cao Hong was slightly stunned. However, as one of Cao Cao's most trusted generals, Cao Hong immediately roared and dragged his big sword to Shouchun City.

The sound of drums shook the sky, and Cao Hong rode his horse across the moat and jumped up the long ladder. At the head of the city, a thick log smashed down on the head, and Cao Hong's eyes were quick, and a knife was slamming on the wood. Hearing a loud "boom", the timber flipped over in mid-air and hit a long ladder next to him, and when the long ladder was smashed to pieces, the four or five Cao soldiers who were climbing on the long ladder screamed and fell down. There was a burst of exclamations on and off the city.

This time he knocked off the wood, and Cao Hong's arms were also numb, but he gritted his teeth and continued to crawl towards the city. By the time the soldiers and people at the head of the city reacted from the shock just now, Cao Hong had already climbed to the half-waist.

A few people who reacted lifted a push rod, resisted the long ladder, and pushed it out with all their might. Seeing that the long ladder had gradually left the city, he suddenly heard Cao Hong shouting, and the big knife was a little on the city wall, jumped into the air, and stepped heavily on the long ladder again. With a "bang" sound, a puff of smoke and dust rose from the city, and the long ladder was re-erected on the city, and Cao Hong had already climbed a few steps up.

Seeing this, a group of soldiers did not care about the threat of the crossbowmen of the Cao army under the city, and leaned out of the arrow stack. I only heard the sound of a bowstring, and more than a dozen feather arrows shot straight at Cao Hong. Cao Hong danced the knife with one hand and threw the feather arrows into the dust. Suddenly, I saw him shake his body, let out a muffled snort, and was hit by an arrow in his left shoulder.

The crossbowmen of the Cao army under the city let out a burst of exclamation, and they all raised their heads and shot towards the city, suppressing the archers on the city head, and covering for Cao Hong. Cao Hong took this opportunity to continue to climb towards the city, and he was only two steps away from jumping up to the city. At this critical juncture, Cao Cao's rear army suddenly became chaotic, and countless cavalry swept in with billowing smoke and dust, and soon cut Cao's army into several pieces, but it was the Han army reinforcements that arrived.

Cao Hong, who was about to jump to the top of the city, suddenly heard the war drums stopping, and knew that something was wrong, so he quickly turned around to look. He stood high and looked far away, only to see smoke and dust billowing behind Cao Jun, and he couldn't help but be surprised by how many cavalry were rushing over.

Cao Hong's mission is to protect Cao Cao, if Cao Cao is finished, even if they capture Shouchun City, what is the use? Thinking of this, Cao Hong couldn't care about climbing up anymore, jumped down from the long ladder several feet high, rolled on the spot, turned over on the horse, and rushed to and fro. At this time, Cao's army was already in chaos.

Cao's army, which was dominated by infantry, was suddenly attacked, and there was no time to form an effective formation to block the impact of the Han cavalry, so he had to hold his head and run around.

Cao Cao couldn't care about beating the drums, so he hurriedly threw the drumsticks and hurriedly got on his horse. His heart was now full of remorse. If you ignore the deception of the full favor from the beginning, maybe you have captured Shouchun City by now. If Cao Hong had been used earlier, or if the Han reinforcements had come two steps later, everything would have changed. But there are not so many ifs in the world, and Cao Cao can only flee now.

Cao Hong rode back to the west bank of the moat, saw Cao Cao's handsome banner at a glance, and hurriedly galloped over, just as he met Xiahoudun.

Xiahoudun said loudly: "It's urgent, it's important to savior the lord first!" ”

Cao Hong snatched the handsome flag, arched his hand towards Xiahoudun, and said: "The general quickly takes the lord to the south, and he will go to lure the enemy away!" ”

Cao Cao already understood Cao Hong's intentions, and hurriedly stopped: "Zilian, no!" ”

Cao Hong pulled the reins and said loudly: "There is no flood in the world, and there can be no justice!" ”

After speaking, Cao Hong pulled his war horse and ran north. Seeing that Cao Cao was still watching, Xiahoudun hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Cao Cao's horse's head and said, "Lord, go quickly!" ”

When the cavalry of the Han army saw Cao Cao's handsome banner, they really rushed north in a swarm. Since the reinforcements appeared, Man Chong has been using the clairvoyant mirror to keep an eye on Cao Cao's movements at the head of the city, and seeing that the Han cavalry was led away by Cao Hong, he was so anxious that he stomped his feet, but he was helpless. The four doors are blocked, and you can't get out, let alone pass on the news.

There were not many cavalry in Cao's army, but now they have fought with Yuan Shao for a year, and after several losses, there are less than 3,000 tigers and leopards left, but they are all battle-hardened warriors. The incident happened in a hurry, and many tigers and leopards did not know the inside story, but only knew to follow Shuai Qi. Therefore, more than 2,000 horsemen were gathered around Cao Hong, more like escorting Cao Cao to escape. Cao Hong had the intention of dividing a part of his troops and horses to protect Cao Cao, but he himself had lost Cao Cao's location, so he had to be followed by these cavalry.

After receiving Liu Xin's order, Xu Huang left Yan Yan and 50,000 infantry and 10,000 ironclad cavalry to use the strong camp set up by Lu Yi as a position to defend Yuan Shao in Yecheng. 300,000 Yuan prisoners of war were also held here, and after careful screening, they were released in batches. In addition, Guan Yu's department was transferred south from Neihuang to besiege Liyang. The rest of the generals killed Benhu Prison together to encircle and annihilate Cao Cao.

At the forefront were more than 35,000 Han light cavalry, led by Zhang Fei and Zhang He, all the way to the Tiger Pass, only to learn that Cao Cao had broken the siege. So the two led the troops to follow the trail of Cao Jun and went straight into the territory of Runan.

At this time, Runan had been captured by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao did not leave many soldiers and horses to garrison, but plundered the grain of the county officials and the people in the city, and had fled to the southeast.

Zhang Fei and Zhang He knew that the troops in the southeastern counties were empty, so they didn't dare to stay longer, so they immediately came in the starry night and were colliding with Cao's army to besiege Shouchun City. The two immediately divided their troops into two ways and rushed over to kill Cao Jun and disperse them. Suddenly, Zhang Fei saw Cao Cao's handsome banner, couldn't help shouting, and raised his snake spear to chase after him.

Along the way, there were also many remnants of the Cao army who tried to block the offensive of the Han cavalry, but without exception fell under the hooves of the Han light cavalry. Soon, Zhang Fei caught up with the fleeing Cao cavalry.

The tiger and leopard rider is the elite of the Cao army, and the war horses ridden are all grassland horses that Cao Cao bought from Xianbei at a great cost, and they are equipped with copycat stirrups, and their riding skills are not far behind even compared with the nomadic tribes on the grassland.

However, no matter how brave the tiger and leopard cavalry is, it cannot compare to the cavalry of the Han army. The two sides fled and chased, and the distance gradually narrowed, and they had entered the range of the Han cavalry. The cavalry of the Han army put away their sabers, bent their bows and arrows, and the sound of "whooshing" broke the air endlessly, and from time to time Cao soldiers fell off their horses, and in a blink of an eye, they were trampled by countless iron hooves, turning into a mess of meat and mud.

The cavalry of the Han army pursued closer and closer, while the tiger and leopard cavalry that followed Cao Hong became less and less. In the midst of the madness, many of the tiger and leopard horse-mounted stirrups hanging under the saddle also began to fall off because they could not withstand the bumps, and some soldiers even fell off their horses because of this. This is the difference between a copycat and a genuine version, and the research institute has done a lot of work in order to study how to make the stirrup and the saddle closely combined.

As soon as the stirrups fell off, the riding skills of the tiger and leopard rider immediately dropped a notch. And I'm used to using stirrups, and now that I suddenly don't have stirrups, I'm even more unaccustomed to it. At this critical moment, the Han cavalry had already caught up, and the snow bright swords were waving, ruthlessly harvesting their lives.

The copycat stirrups of Cao Hong's mount also fell off during the run, but his riding skills were very good and were not affected too much. He knew that it would be useless to flee any further, so he simply threw away the handsome flag, turned his horse around, and brandished his broadsword to meet the Han army.

Zhang Fei was chasing closely, and suddenly saw Cao Jun throwing a big flag, and a general waved a knife to kill, and couldn't help shaking his spirits, and shouted angrily, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which shook the ears of the soldiers of the two armies were buzzing.

With the power of this roar, Zhang Fei had already rushed over on horseback and stabbed Cao Hong with a spear. Cao Hong hurriedly raised his knife to meet each other, and the two intersected, and the two fought together. Although Cao Hong's martial arts are excellent, he is not Zhang Fei's opponent, and he also has a feather arrow inserted in his left shoulder, and there is a pain from time to time.

After fighting for five or six rounds, Cao Hong felt cowardly, slashed falsely, and turned around to jump out of the circle. Where was Zhang Fei willing to let him escape, he shouted loudly and stabbed with a spear, hitting Cao Hong's heart. Cao Hong's body shook and he dismounted. Zhang Fei rushed forward, and another spear stabbed Cao Hong in the throat and took his life.

In a moment, the more than 2,000 tigers and leopards were also killed, but Cao Cao was nowhere to be seen. Zhang Fei exclaimed: "Fooled! Quick, kill back! ”

So, more than 10,000 cavalry turned back and killed back. At this time, the mountains are full of Cao Cao's rout, where to find Cao Cao's figure? Zhang Fei had to lead his subordinates to chase down and kill those Cao army routs. It didn't take long to make a fuss, and there were shouts of killing all around.

It turned out that Huang Zhong also received an order from Liu Xin, ordering Wei Yan to stay in Puyang City, and he led the other horses to rush back to the original station, just in time for this battle. More than an hour later, Xu Huang led a large group of infantry troops to arrive and immediately joined the battle group.

The vicious battle outside Shouchun City was killed until it was getting late, and more than half of the 200,000 Cao troops were killed and wounded, and countless people were killed. Cao Ren and Le Jin all died in the chaos, and only Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Yuan took advantage of the chaos to flee and did not know where to go.

At this time, Man Chong finally cleared the obstacles blocking behind the four gates of Shouchun and welcomed the army of Xu Huang, Huang Zhong and others into the city.

Among the generals, Xu Huang had the highest status, and he took over the supreme command as a matter of course. On the one hand, he sent people to clean up the battlefield and collect prisoners, and on the other hand, he sent dozens of rangers to explore the whereabouts of Cao Cao and others.

Suddenly, the big drum outside the Shouchun County Ya was beaten. This is Liu Xin's innovation, and a large drum is set up outside the yamen of each county to allow the people to beat the drum and cry out their grievances. Hearing that the people were beating the drums, the county magistrate must be promoted to the council member immediately, otherwise he will be punished for dereliction of duty.

Hearing the sound of the drum, Man Chong frowned, arched his hand towards Xu Huang, and said: "There is a general here today, and the lower officials dare not be self-dedicated, and they also ask the general to be promoted to the director." ”