After defeating the Wu army on the city wall, the Wei Fourth Army was demoralized and immediately moved along the city wall back to the two flanks of Huanggai.

Huang Gai's subordinates could no longer resist, and fought and retreated.

The Fourth Legion of the Wei Army and the Wuhuan Legion joined forces to cover the kill, and fought until they reached the vicinity of the Zhishu in the center of the city, where the soldiers of both sides launched a fierce bloody battle.

The Wei army finally defeated the Wu army after paying a considerable price, and the Wu army's will to resist has basically been completely destroyed, and the city is full of panicked and erroneous Wu troops, some soldiers took off their robes and discarded their weapons, and rushed into the homes of the people nearby, while Huang Gai, who was not lightly injured, fled towards the east gate under the cover of a rout.

The Wei army launched an encirclement and suppression of the Wu army, which had lost overall coordination, in the whole city, while Ma Chao led more than 10,000 Wuhuan cavalry to gallop out from the east gate to chase Huang Gai.

The remnants of the Huanggai army, who had fled from the East City Gate, were soon met by an army of Wuhuan cavalry that had already been ambushed, and after a quick and fierce battle, this remnant army broke through the interception of the Wuhuan cavalry at the cost of losing half of its men and horses.

Ma Chao led the cavalry to chase all the way down to the Huai River, only to see Huang Gai being sent to a canopy boat by more than a dozen personal soldiers, and nearly a thousand remnants of the army were wandering on the shore without knowing what to do.

As soon as the remaining Wu army saw the pursuers coming, they subconsciously put up a defensive formation, but everyone was pale and frightened.

Ma Chao immediately cut through the Wu army's front non-stop, and chased after the canopy boat that was hurrying off the shore.

When Ma Chao galloped to the shore, two of Huang Gai's subordinates roared and met him, only two rounds. The two fell under Ma Chao's blades.

Ma Chao immediately stood on the shore, looking at the canopy boat that had left more than a dozen paces. Unwilling, he stuck the dragon spear on the ground. Untied the strong bow, released more than a dozen arrows in a row according to the canopy boat, glared and scolded: "Huang Gai, you shrunken turtle!" ”

Ma Chao, who couldn't pursue, had to turn the horse's head with his blade, only to see that the more than 1,000 remnants of the formation just now had been killed.

Ma Chao threw the matter of collecting the captives to a Wuhuan general, and he himself returned to Niu Mu with a large army.

When Ma Chao returned to Niufu, the remnants of the city had been wiped out, some of the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, and some of the soldiers were still searching for the Wu soldiers who had been caught in the city. However, they did not break into the people's homes, although they knew that many remnants of the Wu army must have taken refuge in the people's houses.

Ma Chao went straight to the office, and Zhang He, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly greeted him, with a hint of surprise in his tone: "General, we found a person in the wing!" ”

"Who?" Ma Chao handed the blade to a personal soldier and asked casually.

"Zhou Tai!"

Ma Chao was stunned for a moment, glared and said: "It's the Zhou Tai who used the trick to almost wipe out our sailors and make our army deflated!?" ”

Zhang He nodded, and when he was about to speak, he couldn't help but be startled when he saw Ma Chao clenching his fists and walking towards the wing room violently. Hurriedly caught up, stopped Ma Chao, and asked in surprise: "General, what are you?"

Ma Chao said angrily: "If you don't slaughter him." It's hard to get rid of the hatred in the heart of the general! ”

Ma Chao said and continued to walk towards the wing.

Zhang He blocked Ma Chao and said urgently: "General, Your Majesty will never agree to you doing this!" ”

Ma Chao was stunned for a moment and snorted coldly. glared and said, "Your Majesty, I will naturally explain it!" Get out of the way! ”

Zhang He shook his head with a resolute expression. Ma Chao was furious and swung his fist at Zhang He. Zhang He subconsciously dodged to the side.

Ma Chao didn't pay attention to Zhang He anymore, and strode towards the wing where Zhou Tai was, Zhang He was in a hurry, and hurriedly chased after him, chased outside the wing, and saw Ma Chao kick the door open with a very violent kick and break in.

Zhang He couldn't help but curse secretly, and hurriedly rushed in, only to see Ma Chao holding the poor old doctor and asking, "Why is Zhou Tai so virtuous?" ”

The old doctor was so frightened that he couldn't say a word, Zhang He breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly went up, and said, "General, Zhou Tai has been seriously injured in the previous battle!" ”

Zhang He said, his body intentionally or unintentionally separated Ma Chao and Zhou Tai, Ma Chao let go of the old doctor, turned his head and was about to take a look at Zhou Tai lying on the bed, but saw Zhang He standing between himself and Zhou Tai with a nervous face, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and asked, "Zhang He, what are you doing here?" ”

Zhang He hurriedly hugged his fists and said, "General, you must not mess around!" Otherwise, none of us will be able to account to Your Majesty! ”

Ma Chao pushed Zhang He away, came to the bed, lowered his head, looked at Zhou Tai, who was still unconscious, touched his chin and said regretfully: "Such a half-dead look, it's really disappointing!" ”

Ma Chao was speechless, and he shook his head and left the wing.

Zhang He let out a long breath, wiped a handful of cold sweat, and secretly said that it was so dangerous!

Seeing that the fierce and vicious Ma Chao finally left, the old doctor couldn't help wiping the cold sweat on his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief, but he was suddenly grabbed by Zhang He and asked urgently: "Is Zhou Tai still saved?" ”

The old doctor couldn't help but be stunned because of what happened just now, and hurriedly nodded and shook his head, Zhang He couldn't help but say angrily when he saw this: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Zhang He said as he lifted his hands upwards vigorously, and the doctor's feet lifted off the ground.

The old doctor pointed to his neck with a painful look on his face, Zhang Ling understood, put it down, and urged: "Say! ”

The unlucky old doctor hurriedly said: "Although General Zhou Tai's injuries are serious, they are not incurable!" However, there are a few important herbs that are not available in the city! ”

Zhang He had an idea, and thought about where the military medical officer didn't have any medicinal materials, so he hurriedly took the old doctor to find the military medicine doctor.

The next morning, Ma Chao left Zhang He to defend the strategic place of Niufu, and he led the main force of the Fourth Army and the Wuhuan Army to march towards the east of Shicheng, at this time, a Wu army has established a defensive line on the Huai River more than ten miles west of Shicheng.

The Wei army arrived on the west bank of the Huai River and immediately launched an attack on the Wu army, and the Wu army, which hastily organized a defensive line, could not resist the fierce offensive of the Wei army, and in the evening of the same day, the entire defense line completely collapsed.

The Wei army crossed the Huai River in the darkness of the night and arrived at the foot of Shicheng before dawn, and the person in charge of defending Shicheng was Sun Jian's fourth son, Sun Kuang, who was only a weak scholar, but he vowed to fight the Wei army to the end in Shicheng City.

However, at this time, there were less than 30,000 troops in Shicheng, many of whom were still defeated and defeated with Huang Gai, could they hold on? (To be continued.) )