In that old man, he did not respond according to what Zhang Fei taught him, but loudly warned Cao Cao and told Cao Cao that he had not seen Guan Yu Guan Yunchang at all, but was just tied up by Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei couldn't stop this old man from talking for a while, but as a result, Cao Cao naturally made it true, and he was deceived by Zhang Fei.

Cao Cao was so depressed that he almost vomited blood, and he asked Zhang Fei angrily: "Zhang Fei! Cao has always treated you and Yun Chang with courtesy, why did you deceive Cao? Guan Yu is not in Xiaopei at all, and the others are in Xuzhou. You deceived Cao and said that Guan Yu was still in Xiaopei, what were your intentions? ”

"Ha Luha, what are your intentions? And say I cheated on you? What a joke! Zhang Fei smiled and said: "We are friends and foes, you are pretending to care about my second brother, what does this matter to me Zhang Fei?" I didn't ask you to send Dr. Langzhong, nor did I ask you to retire? Hmph, I attacked for a day yesterday, I wish I could kill us, and I also attacked for most of the night last night, so I came to show favor to Zhang today? Do you want me and my second brother to take refuge in you? Ha Luha, I think about your heart wrongly, I really want to thank you for a day of truce, and when I have this day, I Xiaopei City's preparations for defending the city have been almost done. Not convinced? If you are not convinced, you will come to attack the city, stupid! ”

Zhang Fei's expression was a little frivolous and proud.

Well, being able to deceive the scheming Cao Cao and win a day's work for himself did make Zhang Fei feel a little proud.

Cao Cao woke up at this time, yes, his current situation is not good, time is everything, if he can't defeat Liu Bei in a short time. Recapture Xuzhou, in case Yuan Shao also attacks him at this time, then he will be in danger. Amusing. I actually wasted a whole day in this Xiaopei City.

Well, originally, he launched an attack on Xiao Pei Cheng early in the morning, and I am afraid that he would have taken Xiao Pei down a long time ago. However, now he actually fell for Zhang Fei, and for a person who was not in Xiaopeicheng at all, he wasted a good fighter.

Cao Cao was angry and angry. Pointing at Zhang Fei under the city, he couldn't speak. I have never tried to have this moment, which makes Cao Cao so angry and hates Zhang Fei so much. I can't wait to kill Zhang Fei immediately.

Well, if he was deceived by a scheming person, Cao Cao would have admitted it, but. This Zhang Fei in front of him. But the recognized brave and unscrupulous puppet can actually play him around.

"Zhang Liao! Right away! I want to attack the city for me immediately, even if it is an overnight siege, I must take Xiaopei City, I must not let Zhang Fei escape, I will catch him, I will delay him to death! Cao Cao turned his head and yelled at Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao was also a little depressed at the moment. Although, he cares about Guan Yu without falsehood. However, he didn't want his feelings to be deceived. Although he didn't really want to fight Zhang Fei, he had to obey Cao Cao's orders at this moment.

Knock knock!

The battle bean raged, Cao Cao's army quickly assembled, and all kinds of siege equipment slowly pushed out of the barracks.

Those have building troop wagons, there are trebuchets and so on.

Cao Cao's generals, divided into multiple routes, launched a fierce attack on the surroundings of Xiaopei City.

Zhang Fei didn't expect that Cao Cao's attack would be so fierce. He originally thought that no matter what, with the city wall, he could withstand Cao Cao's attack, at least, there should be no problem in holding Xiao Pei for one night.

It's a pity that Cao Jun's siege this time is not like Yu Ban and Li Dian a few days ago.

Cao Jun's tall building chariot was also close to the city wall, and countless Cao soldiers jumped directly onto the city wall. Moreover, what made Zhang Fei feel a little frustrated was that people like Xu Huang, Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Yu Ban, Li Dian, and a large number of generals who Zhang Fei could not name, and even the original generals of Lu Bu and the generals who took refuge in Cao Cao were directly involved in the siege of the city. When they were the first to attack the city, they mixed in with Cao's soldiers and killed the city.

Zhang Liao didn't see it, he probably deliberately avoided Zhang Fei and attacked the city from the other side.

This kind of siege method, Liu Yi has already used it, using the general's martial arts, directly seizing a section of the city wall, opening a gap, stabilizing the position, and then, the ordinary sergeant, frantically attacked.

Although Zhang Fei has more than 20,000 men, but scattered on the city walls around Xiaopei City, in terms of troops, the combat strength of the generals, far inferior to Cao's army, although he Zhang Fei is brave, it is impossible to do everything, and he can no longer easily kill the Cao army that attacked the city as he did a few days ago.

It is also obvious that Xu Huang and the Xiahou brothers are clearly coming to Zhang Fei, and they have no friendship with Zhang Fei, so naturally they will not show mercy.

Seeing that the defeat was decided, Zhang Fei had to order all the sergeants to move closer to the west of the city, and after he got rid of the battle, he immediately rushed to the entrance of the secret passage.

There were still thousands of people desperately digging the secret passage, and Zhang Fei ordered that if the secret passage had not been excavated, an exit should be dug to the wall immediately, so that the sergeant could escape from the exit immediately. The secret of this secret passage is afraid that it will not be able to be kept, and there are sergeants who have hurried behind him, and Cao Bing will definitely chase after him.

In the entire Xiaopei City, shouting everywhere to kill the heavens, Zhang Fei couldn't care too much, entered the secret passage, and fled desperately with the sergeant.

Coming out of the secret passage, it happened to be not far behind Cao Cao's camp, only about two miles away from Cao Cao's camp.

Fortunately, Cao Cao didn't know for a while that there was a secret passage in Xiaopei City, so he didn't let the soldiers in the barracks go around.

The soldiers who escaped first did not flee first, but were waiting for Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei didn't have time to count how many soldiers there were, so he fled with them to the southwest. It is not possible to flee to the direction of Xudu, and it is possible to encounter Cao Cao's military horses at any time, so the only way to go southwest is to enter the area around Yingchuan Runan.

Zhang Fei's 20,000 or 30,000 horses, and those who fled with Zhang Fei were actually only 10,000 people. This is mainly due to the fact that thousands of people were originally sent to dig a secret passage to escape so many people.

For the rest, thousands of people and horses were killed by the Cao army on the city wall, less than 10,000 people, seeing that they were surrounded by the Cao army, and they could not escape from the secret passage with Zhang Fei, so they were helpless. They surrendered one after another.

The entrance to the secret passage was still discovered by Cao Cao.

When he saw that Zhang Fei had escaped, he was unwilling. Ordered a military horse to pursue Zhang Fei along the secret road.

However, it was Cao Hong who was pursuing, and he chased for dozens of miles, and the sky was already dark. Moreover, he saw that Zhang Fei still had a lot of people, and he might not be able to kill or capture Zhang Fei if he caught up. Unless it is Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Xiahou brothers and others who come together.

Therefore. Seeing that it was difficult for him to catch up, he had to stop the pursuit, of course. still sent a small number of people to keep an eye on Zhang Fei's whereabouts. He returned to Xiaopei and reported to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was in Xuzhou and heard that Zhang Fei had fled far away. Naturally, it was impossible to send a large army in pursuit. Let alone. The direction in which Zhang Fei fled was on the north road of Xuzhou, which means that Zhang Fei is unlikely to pose any more threats to him. The only thing that worried Cao Cao was that he was afraid that Zhang Fei would flee to his rear to make trouble. He thought about it and immediately sent several generals to let them lead the army to chase Zhang Fei overnight, and at the same time. Urgently report to all parts of Yuzhou and Yangzhou, and order the defenders of various towns and cities. Prevent Zhang Fei from attacking their town.

Cao Cao was not too nervous about Zhang Fei's escape into the Yuzhou region, because it was impossible for him to develop a brave and unscrupulous general like Zhang Fei. If Liu Bei had fled to those areas, Cao Cao would have needed special attention. Therefore, for Zhang Fei, he felt that he only needed to send military horses to continue the pursuit, which would make Zhang Fei panic, and it was unlikely that he would attack the city and seize the land behind him.

I have to say that the people of Xuzhou have more or less agreed with Cao Cao's rule, after Cao Cao's army recaptured Xiaopei City, the people in the city actually welcomed Cao Cao's army, and some representatives of the people sent a lot of labor supplies to Cao Cao's army. These circumstances made Cao Cao's depressed heart a little comforted.

In fact, whether it was Tao Qian before, or Liu Bei and Lu Bu, who ruled Xuzhou first, their policy was not as clear as Cao Cao's, at least, Tao Qian, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei, they all had their own selfishness, and they all wanted to develop according to Xuzhou and dominate.

However, Cao Cao learned a lot from the practices of the New Han Dynasty, and he also saw clearly that those who won the hearts of the people won the world, so according to the actual situation of Xuzhou, he gave the people of Xuzhou some affordable policies.

Moreover, on the issue of propaganda, Cao Cao also did a good job, at least, he could make the people all over Xuzhou have clearly known that the government has such a policy. There may be some deficiencies in the implementation, but the people can see hope because of this.

Liu Bei? Don't talk about him, even if he wants to be benevolent, he doesn't have the capital to carry out such a policy. Without the full support of the local tyrants in Xuzhou, what did Liu Bei use to raise the army? If he does not stretch out his hand to the people, to whom can he stretch out his hand?

It's just that this time, Liu Bei's time to capture Xuzhou is too short, and many problems have not been exposed. If Liu Bei is really allowed to stay in Xuzhou, the people may turn against him in the future.

Xiaopei County, after Cao Cao took it from Lu Bu's hands, he had already set up a number of county officials, and these county officials, after Liu Bei recaptured Xiaopei, they fled, mainly hidden among the people in the city. Now, Xiaopei County is back in the hands of Cao Cao, and those officials are back to be built again.

In this way, Cao Cao doesn't have to worry about the future affairs of Xiaopei County, and Cao Cao doesn't even need to worry too much about cleaning up the battlefield.

Therefore, early the next morning, Cao Cao immediately set up troops and went straight to Xuzhou.

From the time when Liu Bei made a decision to defend Xuzhou and wait for Yuan Shaojun to send troops, Xiao Pei returned to Cao Cao's hands. Time, in fact, only three days have passed, strictly speaking, it is only the third day.

This is a big difference from Liu Bei's original expectation.

In just two days, Xiaopei was lost, so how can Xuzhou defend it?

After Zhang Fei lost Xiaopei, some deserters fled back to Xuzhou overnight and reported to Liu Bei.

When Liu Bei heard this, he really panicked.

When the time comes, it will be an army of 400,000. He heard from the sergeant who had escaped that Zhang Fei had escaped with the remnants of a secret passage discovered from Xiao Peicheng, and he didn't know where to go. However, there seems to be no secret road in this Xuzhou city. If he was besieged by Cao Cao's 400,000 army, where did he Liu Bei flee from?

It's too late, it's too late......

Liu Bei immediately thought that Sun Qian had no time to ask Yuan Shao for reinforcements.

Now, Sun Gan has just arrived in Yecheng, Hebei Province not long ago, and even if Sun Qian can persuade Yuan Shao to send troops, it will be a few days later. However, Cao Cao's army only took half a day to kill from Xiaopei to Xuzhou. Not even half a day.

Yuanshui can't save the near fire, what's more, even if Yuan Shao sends troops to attack Cao Cao, it will be Jian Lian to save him Liu Bei, and it is impossible to send troops from Hebei to Xuzhou to save him. Even if it is from the North Sea, it will not be possible in a short time.

Xiaopei is also a strong city, but. Zhang Fei couldn't even defend for three days, so he changed Xuzhou City? Three days or four days?

"My lord, it seems that the general trend has gone. Xuzhou can not be defended. Jian Yong had been by Liu Bei's side, and when he saw Liu Bei's gloomy and helpless expression, he reminded Liu Bei: "Lord." Now we can fight. It's only about the general and General Chen Zhi, but Cao Jun's fierce generals are like clouds, and his two fists are difficult to defeat with four hands, so I feel that the lord can't have any more thoughts about Xuzhou now. When it is broken, it should be broken, and it will continue to suffer from it. ”

"Oh? What Mr. Jian means ......" Liu Bei's heart moved. Looking at Jian Yongdao.

"I mean, it's got to this point. Lord, you have to find another way out. ”

"Oh? Mr. Jane, tell me, under the current situation, where else can Liu go? Xiapi? ”

"The lord must not read Xiapi again, how is the lord than Lu Bu? Cao Cao had the experience of attacking Picheng once, if the lord thought that he could withdraw to Xiapi and hold on to the city, then Cao Cao dug the embankment again and flooded the city, what would the lord do? Jian Yong said directly to Liu Bei: "Lord, I think, we might as well vote for Yuan Shao first." ”

"Vote for Yuan Shao? Is it okay to vote for Yuan Shao now? ”

"Hehe, there's nothing you can't do, at this time and that time, even if Yuan Shao doesn't like the lord, he won't harm the lord. When we get to Yuan Shao's place, we will find a way to provoke a big battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and when the fight is almost over, we can find an opportunity to leave. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, two tigers fighting, there will be an injury, when the time comes, are you afraid that we will not have a chance? ”

"Hmm...... Wonderful, Mr. Jane said very much. After Liu Bei heard this, he clapped his hands and said.

"But if we go to Yuan Shao like this, there is a conflict with the oath of the lord's words, especially when Cao Cao's army does not arrive, I am afraid that there will be people who criticize the lord in the future." Jian Yong said a little like a little bit and stopped.

"Uh...... Alas, it's all my fault, I was wrong, I shouldn't be too anxious, I shouldn't just focus on the immediate interests, obviously I can let Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fight first, and then we will slowly take advantage, but I am reluctant to get Xuzhou, which is hard to get, to get the current situation. What can I do to save my reputation and leave Xuzhou safely to meet Yuan Shao? Liu Bei said with a look of remorse.

"Hehe, there's still a way." Jian Yong lowered his voice and said: "Lord, Jian estimates that at noon tomorrow, Cao Cao's army will inevitably reach Xuzhou, and now, at most, it will be dawn for a while." We can ...... so."

"Ha Luha, yes, wonderful! Okay, go and invite the second brother and the generals immediately. After Liu Bei heard what Jian Yong said, his mood suddenly improved.

After a while, a group of generals and strategists hurried to the meeting hall.

Everyone's expressions were a little dignified, obviously, everyone knew that Lu Dao Xiaopei had lost.

Liu Bei waited for everyone to come, and then he said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I believe everyone knows the way, Xiaopei has been taken away by Cao Cao, Liu's third brother Zhang Fei is missing, everyone knows the way, Liu and the second brother Guan Yu, the third brother Zhang Fei, married Jinlan, and swore to live and die together, now, my third brother is nowhere to be found, and I must not sit idly by, no matter what, I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death...... Well, I won't say anything superfluous, I summoned everyone here because I already have a strategy to deal with Cao Cao. This is a matter of urgency. Let me start with you. ”

"If Cao Cao's army reaches Xuzhou, plus Zhang Xiu's 100,000 army, there will be 400,000 military horses. I decided to lead an army out of the city and ambush Cao Cao's army. Liu Bei stretched out his hand and pressed it, stopping many people who were about to speak, and said: "This may be the best opportunity for us to turn defeat into victory, Cao Cao's new victory will definitely think that we can only defend Xuzhou, so in the process of their march to Xuzhou, they will definitely not think that we will ambush him." Liu Bei decided that I would personally lead an army to ambush Cao's army, and by the way, look for my third brother Zhang Fei. ”

"Lord...... This, this can't work, Cao Cao has too many military horses, and it is difficult for us to draw too many military horses to ambush now. ”

"Needless to say, Liu Bei will act when he sees the opportunity, if there is no chance to start, Liu will take the search for my third brother as the main purpose. One day, just one day, you will definitely be able to rush back. ”

"Chen arrives! Hurry up to 20,000 troops and horses, and immediately leave the city before dawn, so as not to let the people see it at dawn and cause unnecessary panic among the people. Liu Bei didn't seem to be discussing with everyone at all, and ordered directly.

"No!" Chen Zhi was Liu Bei's die-hard loyalist, so he didn't think much about it at all, and took the order to leave.

"Second brother, the rest of the military horses in Xuzhou are under your command, you and Mr. Chen Deng, Mr. Mi are optimistic about Xuzhou City, wait for me to come back." Liu Bei then told Guan Yu: "Well, after all, Xuzhou City has fallen into the hands of Cao Cao, pay attention to whether there are Cao Cao's spies in the city, and can't let the spies take Cao Cao into the city, and also, your sister-in-law is a little timid, you send some people to watch, and you can't let Cao Cao's spies take advantage of your eldest brother's absence to catch them." ”

"Big brother......" Guan Yu doesn't know what to say to Liu Bei now.

With Guan Yu's understanding of Liu Bei, I don't know what Liu Bei thinks at this moment? Liu Bei's words are full of loopholes, but Guan Yu can't expose Liu Bei's true purpose now. (To be continued......)