In the Taishou Mansion of Kaiyang City, Chen Deng, who was in the dust, sat there anxiously waiting for Tao Qian's arrival.

Since he and Zhang Yan planned how to annihilate Cao Ren's army, he separated Zhang Yan and rode a fast horse alone, and went straight to Tancheng.

When he arrived in Tancheng, he learned that Tao Qian led the army to Kaiyang, so he rode a horse to Kaiyang.

However, at this time, Cao Jun had already exhausted the water in Kaiyangwei, let alone Chen Deng, and not even a single mosquito could fly in.

There was no way, Chen Deng had no choice but to hide outside Kaiyang City, watch the changes, not only to avoid Cao Jun's scouts every day, but also to find opportunities to enter the city.

Kung Fu didn't take a lot of effort, Chen Deng waited outside for two days, and finally waited for an opportunity tonight. He took off a set of clothes from Cao Jun, who was killed in battle, mixed with Cao Jun's team of soldiers cleaning up the battlefield, and then hurriedly ran to Kaiyang City while no one was paying attention.

For this reason, he was almost shot by the soldiers defending the city.

If it weren't for him to identify himself in time, and the soldier's archery skills were not very good, I am afraid that he would have died a long time ago.

He finally entered the city, but he was met with an incomparably cold reception, and the soldiers in the city saw that he was coming from Pengcheng alone, and their resentful eyes were enough to kill him a thousand times, ten thousand times.

But no matter what, he still arrived at the Taishou Mansion, as long as he explained everything to Tao Qian, I believe Tao Qian would definitely understand.

Just when Chen Deng was thinking about how to explain everything to Tao Qian, Tao Qian walked in from outside, and when he saw Chen Deng sitting there with a disgraced face, he said coldly: "Yuanlong has come from afar, and this mansion has lost its welcome!" ”

Chen Deng heard the implicit anger in Tao Qian's words, which was deliberately ridiculing him. He didn't take it to heart, immediately stood up, and bowed to Tao Qian: "Yuanlong greets Tao Envoy!" ”

Tao Qian walked straight to the center of the hall, sat down, and said angrily: "Do you still know that I am an envoy? Kaiyang City was surrounded by Cao's legions, and it was in danger, I asked people to give Zhang Yan three orders in a row, asking Zhang Yan to lead the army to come to the rescue, but where are Zhang Yan's others? Even if he doesn't come, he should always send reinforcements, right? For three whole days, in three days, from Pengcheng to Kaiyang, even if it is only ten miles per hour, it should be there, right? ”

Chen Deng knew that Tao Qian was angry for this, he had already made peace with Zhang Yan, Zhang Yan led his troops to annihilate Cao Ren's army, and then took the opportunity to sneak attack Yanzhou and come to encircle Wei to save Zhao, then Cao Cao would inevitably lead the army to save Yanzhou, and the siege of Xuzhou would naturally be solved.

But Jihua couldn't catch up with the changes, how did he know that Cao Cao besieged Kaiyang City so impassable, only allowed to go out, but not allowed to enter.

Yesterday, Zhao Yu, the Taishou of Guangling, personally led the reinforcements to Kaiyang, but before he arrived at Kaiyang City, he was defeated by the Cao army, and even Zhao Yu himself was beheaded by the Cao army.

The rest of the reinforcements from all over the country were afraid and did not dare to approach Kaiyang City again, so they hid far away from Kaiyang City ten miles away, watching from the wall.

In fact, Chen Deng had already arrived at Kaiyang City the night before, but because Cao Jun blocked Kaiyang City to death, he couldn't get in, so the news naturally couldn't get in. Tao Qian in Kaiyang City has never seen Zhang Yan arrive, so he naturally thinks that Zhang Yan is unwilling to send troops to rescue, and it is normal to be angry.

Seeing that Tao Qian was so angry, Chen Deng hurriedly clenched his fists and explained: "Tao Envoy, things are not what you think, in fact, they are ......"

"My lord, the Cao army has begun to attack the city again!" Suddenly, Cao Bao broke in from outside, panicked, and directly interrupted Chen Deng's words.

After Tao Qian heard this, he stood up directly, ignored Chen Deng, and rushed straight to the outside of the hall, shouting at Cao Bao: "Send someone to inform Zang Ba quickly, let him guard the West Gate, he must defend it to the death, and inform Zang Ba that the reinforcements will arrive soon, so that he must insist on the arrival of reinforcements no matter what." ”

"Whoa!"

As soon as the words fell, Tao Qian walked out of the hall, Cao Bao followed, and in the entire hall, only Chen Deng was left.

Chen Deng also knew that he was no longer popular, but in order to clear up the misunderstanding and the overall situation, he still followed out cheekily and shouted: "Tao Envoy Jun...... Tao Envoy Jun ......"

It's a pity that Tao Qian didn't care about Chen Deng, got into the carriage and went to the north gate, and ignored Chen Deng.

After a while, Tao Qian, accompanied by Cao Bao, came to the north gate, and there were bursts of shouts from the Cao army outside, the sound was like thunder, rolling into the ears, deafening, which showed the high morale of the Cao army.

As soon as Tao Qian got out of the carriage, a stray arrow flew down to his feet, which surprised him and made him even more palpitating.

Cao Bao hurriedly led people to escort him, raised his shield, put it on the top of Tao Qian's head, and walked up to the city tower with Tao Qian.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

Countless arrows were shot from outside the city, and the defenders in the city had no power to fight back, and they couldn't raise their heads because they were suppressed by the rain of arrows, and they hid behind the battlements.

Tao Qian climbed the city tower, and before he showed his head, there were many stray arrows flying, but fortunately, Cao Bao and others were well protected, all of them were blocked by the shield and fell at his feet.

Otherwise, Tao Qian would definitely be shot as a hedgehog.

Tao Qian saw the flames outside the city, and the dense Cao army rushed towards here like ants, and the shouts were even more terrifying, making him tremble.

Look at the defenders in the city again, the morale is low, everyone's face is lifeless, and they are even more timid, not daring to fight to the death with the Cao army.

Tao Qian was furious, pulled out the sword in his waist, and didn't care about the rain of arrows of Cao Jun, he walked directly in front of a military Sima and yelled at this military Sima and shouted: "Get up!" Rise up and command your soldiers to fight back and fight back! Shoot a Cao soldier to death, and the mansion will reward ten gold! Shoot an officer of the Cao army to death, and the government will reward you with 100 gold! ”

Under the heavy reward, there should be brave men. However, the battle, which lasted for three days, had exhausted the Xuzhou soldiers.

The Cao army outside the city took turns attacking the city day and night, and the soldiers could get enough rest, but the Xuzhou soldiers in the city had to defend all of them, and there were heavy losses, not to mention taking turns to rest and defend the city.

The Xuzhou soldiers were all tired, they were all insensitive, and they were no longer indifferent in the face of Tao Qian's heavy reward.

"Tao Envoy Jun, it's not that we don't want to work hard, but Cao Jun is too strong. Besides, if your life is gone, what do you need money for? The military Sima sneered and said to Tao Qian.

After Tao Qian heard this, he was immediately furious, waved the long sword in his hand, and stabbed at the heart of the military horse, the military Sima screamed miserably, and then he died, and the blood continued to emerge from the body, dyeing the already red battle clothes even more crimson.

Tao Qian cut off the head of the Sima of that army, braved the rain of arrows from Cao Jun, raised it high, and said with an iron face: "If there is a person who defends but does not fight, the end will be the same as him!" Whoever dies in battle has a bereavement pension; Whoever kills a thief has a great reward; As long as we are united, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome! This government vows to live and die with this city! ”

Seeing that Tao Qian personally supervised the battle, the Xuzhou soldiers even killed the people who defended but did not fight, and they were immediately motivated, and they took risks one after another and began to counterattack the Cao army under the city.

But after all, the Cao army was numerous, and the Xuzhou soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted, but they gradually felt powerless, and they had not been able to pose too much threat to the Cao army.

"Cao Bao!" Seeing this, Tao Qian immediately shouted behind him.

Cao Bao hugged his fists and said: "The end will be!" ”

"Now that it's imminent, you won't bring your troops to war, and when?" Tao Qian said angrily.

Cao Bao said: "But if I leave, what will happen to the adults?" In case ......"

"Leave me alone, quickly lead people to the battle, if Kaiyang City is lost, the first person Cao Jun will kill is me, anyway, it is death, why not die more tragically!"

As soon as the words fell, Tao Qian pushed aside everyone's guards, rushed to the vicinity of the battlements with his long sword, and stabbed to death a Cao soldier who climbed up from the ladder with his long sword.

Although Tao Qian is old, he still has some strength, and at this time he suddenly regained the blood and strength of his youth, although he was sick, he still took the lead, wanting to arouse the resonance of Xuzhou soldiers.

It's a pity that the Xuzhou soldiers are close to collapse, even if Tao Qian personally participates in the war, the Xuzhou soldiers are powerless. Cao Bao led the only remaining 500 Danyang soldiers into battle and fought a bloody battle with Cao's army at the head of the city.

At this time, Chen Deng came to the city tower and saw that Tao Qian also participated in the battle, and his heart was moved, he hurriedly picked up a long sword and rushed to Tao Qian's side to protect him secretly.

"Whoosh!"

A feather arrow flew from the darkness and flew directly towards Tao Qian, who was raising his sword to slash Cao Bing, not noticing this feather arrow at all.

Chen Deng's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly rushed forward, throwing Tao Qian to the ground, allowing Tao Qian to escape.

"Tao Envoy-kun, are you alright?"

"Don't think I'll be grateful to you for saving me. You are in the same boat as Zhang Yan in Pengcheng, since you don't send a single soldier to support, it is really hateful, angry, hateful, and killable! Tao Qian pushed Chen Deng away and said angrily.

Chen Deng hurriedly explained: "Tao Envoy, don't get excited, the reason why Zhang Yan didn't send troops and horses to support is because of ......."

"Reinforcements are coming...... Reinforcements are coming...... Reinforcements are coming......"

Suddenly, there were bursts of shouts from the city tower, one after the other, and Chen Deng's words were interrupted.

When Tao Qian heard this, he immediately stood up and looked out of the city, but saw that there was a soldier and horse coming from the northeast, reflecting the bright firelight, and he clearly saw that the army was under the banner of "Liu Xuande of the Plains".

The leader rode a white horse, with big ears, slender arms, and a long sword in each hand, rushing to the front, slashing at the Cao soldiers at will.

And the leader was surrounded by four knights.

One of the two on the left has a leopard's head and ringed eyes, a swallow's jaw and a tiger's whiskers, a face like black charcoal, and a snake spear in his hand; The other was sword-eyed, beardless, handsome, and holding a gentian gun in his hand.

One of the two people on the right has a face like a heavy jujube, a beard two feet long, red phoenix eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, and holding a green dragon glaive knife; The other was thick-eyed, broad-faced, and majestic, holding an iron spear, a large bow hanging from his waist, and six halberds stuck in his back.

The five knights raised their swords and spears at the same time, rushing left and right in the Cao army, as if no man's land, and behind them were closely followed by thousands of soldiers and horses, with various banners, with the words "Beihai Xiangkong" and the words "Qingzhou Thorn Shitian".

This military horse, under the leadership of the five knights who rushed to the front, was like a sharp knife, directly inserted into Cao Jun's camp.