Can I get to the other side?

Seeing Zhao Yun coming, Xu Huang was immediately shocked.

He had seen Zhao Yun's martial arts in the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation. Although he was not as amazing as Lu Bu, he was not a match for him alone.

But now Zhao Yun was already in front of him, and there was no other way except to fight him. Turning around and running away would only lead to a more miserable death.

So Xu Huang also grabbed a long spear from the hand of a soldier beside him and went forward to fight Zhao Yun.

At this moment, more and more warships approached the city wall, and the Han soldiers hidden in the ship tower also swarmed out and climbed onto the city wall!

There were hundreds of Han soldiers climbing the city wall at the beginning, so this place fell first.

"Light the wolf smoke and send a signal quickly to let the army rush to help!"

Gao Shun chopped down three Cao soldiers with a sharp blade, and then ordered the deputy general behind him.

There are still many defenders in the city. They can't take Xiangyang City alone, so they must ask for support quickly.

"Yes!"

The deputy general nodded heavily, and then asked the Han soldiers on the boat to light the wolf smoke. Soon a straight beam of smoke swirled out and went straight up to the sky.

Although the wolf smoke is called wolf smoke, it is not actually made entirely of wolf dung. It is generally fueled by poplar, red willow, rhubarb, Achnatherum, white calamus, camel grass, licorice, dry reed, saxaul and other combustibles, which are more widely used in the army.

Ten miles away from Xiangyang City, the Han Navy ships.

Zhuge Liang, who had been waiting for the signal, also noticed the rising black smoke and immediately realized that Zhao Yun and his men had successfully captured the city.

So he immediately said to Zhou Yu and Lu Bu: "Wen Gong, General Zhou, immediately order the army to set off, all warships go downstream and head to Xiangyang City!"

"Yes!"

Not long after, the mighty Han Navy followed the Han River and cut through the waves to Xiangyang City.

…

At this time, on the other side.

Cao Ren, who was leading the remnants of Cao's army to flee to Xiangyang City on land, also noticed the wolf smoke rising in the distance.

"What's going on? Why is there a wolf smoke in Xiangyang City?"

Cao Ren was surprised when he saw the black smoke rising in the sky, and raised his hand to stop the army.

Wolf smoke is usually used in the army to ask for help or warn.

Could it be that Xiangyang City has been attacked by the puppet army?

The more Cao Ren thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. After all, they were traveling by land, while the puppet army was traveling by water, and their speed was much faster than them.

But why did the puppet army move so quickly? Just after a fierce battle with them, they chose to attack Xiangyang City downstream?

However, he had no time to think about the reason, and ordered: "Speed ​​up the march! Hurry back to Xiangyang City to help!"

In any case, the current situation in Xiangyang City is definitely not optimistic, and he has to go back quickly.

But at this time Xiahou Yuan said: "General, the puppet army destroyed the dike and released water, and Xiangyang City is close to the Han River, so it must have been flooded."

"Now we have no boats, even if we rush back, we can't get back to the city, how can we rush to help?"

They gave up the boats to avoid pursuit.

This also made it impossible for them to return to the city now.

Cao Ren's expression froze when he heard this, and then he remembered that there was no boat at the moment. Could he let the army swim back to the city?

"Let's go and see first!"

After some thought, Cao Ren decided to go to the vicinity of Xiangyang City to see the situation first, whether the Han army had already launched an attack on the city.

So they continued to move forward.

Cao Ren chose a relatively high place and looked at the situation in Xiangyang City. He soon noticed that there were more than a dozen warships docked next to the city wall of Xiangyang City.

The wolf smoke rose from one of the warships.

But what surprised him most was that these warships were not the warships of the puppet army, but the warships of the Jingzhou Navy!

As an experienced general, Cao Ren understood what was going on immediately after seeing this, and immediately became furious and said, "This group of cunning villains, shameless traitors! How dare they pretend to be our army to seize the city!"

He finally understood why the puppet army was going to attack Xiangyang City so soon, just to pretend to be Cao's army and then sneak into the city!

From the current situation, I'm afraid they have succeeded!

For a moment, Cao Ren was extremely anxious, and he wanted to fly back to Xiangyang City immediately to kill all those shameless puppet soldiers.

But now he could do nothing, he could only watch here and pray that Xu Huang, who stayed behind, could lead his troops to kill the enemy.

"General, look over there!"

At this time, Xiahou Yuan suddenly screamed.

Cao Ren looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a number of puppet army warships sailing down the upper reaches of the Han River, and the target was Xiangyang City!

Seeing this scene, Cao Ren felt his eyes go black, and the whole person almost couldn't stand steadily, and there was only despair in his heart.

The city is easy to defend but difficult to attack because of the defense of the city wall, but the flood allows the puppet army to drive the boats directly to the city wall.

Now it will be extremely easy to attack the city!

In addition, another group of puppet soldiers have pretended to be them and climbed the city wall. The situation in Xiangyang City is now extremely bad!

"General, what should we do now?"

Xiahou Yuan was also anxious. He also knew the danger of Xiangyang City, but he didn't know what to do.

Cao Ren stared at Xiangyang City in the distance, his eyes changed repeatedly, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Let's retreat!"

It was only a matter of time before Xiangyang City was breached.

The defenders inside were also trapped.

They were doomed.

Now they could only lead the troops to retreat and quickly pass the news back to stabilize the subsequent defense line.

In this battle, they suffered too much loss.

He originally thought that he could rely on the Han River and Xiangyang City to hold off the enemy for several months or even longer, but he did not expect that he would fall in less than half a month.

After taking one last deep look at Xiangyang City, Cao Ren turned and left.

…

At this time, in Xiangyang City, people were shouting to kill Zhentian.

After the west city wall was broken, a large number of Han soldiers hidden in Jingzhou Navy warships boarded the city wall.

It didn't take long for the other walls to be occupied one after another.

Although Xu Huang got rid of Zhao Yun's entanglement and fled into the city to mobilize troops for defense, the reinforcements of the Han army had also arrived.

A steady stream of Han troops jumped from buildings and ships onto the city wall, and at the same time entered the city and fought with the defenders in the city.

But now that Xiangyang City is surrounded by floods that have not subsided, the defenders in the city have no way to escape. They can only fight stubbornly under the leadership of Xu Huang and fight against the trapped beasts.

But as more and more Han troops entered the city, the situation of the defenders in the city became more and more unfavorable. After holding on for several hours, they finally could no longer resist and chose to lay down their weapons and surrender.

As a guard, Xu Huang was captured alive by Zhao Yun.

Xiangyang City, West City Wall.

Zhao Yun escorted Xu Huang over, clasped his fists towards Zhuge Liang and said, "Commander, the city of Xiangyang has been destroyed, and the enemy general was captured alive by me. Fortunately, he did not disgrace his life!"

Although he had just experienced a big battle, Zhao Yun was in excellent condition and did not show any signs of fatigue, and he still spoke with great vigor.

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and smiled at the words: "Zilong is so brave that no one can match him except Duke Wen."

Zhou Yu was surprised when he saw Xu Huang being tied up by Wuhua Da. Xu Huang was a famous general under Cao Cao, but he was captured alive like this.

The imperial court's powerful generals are indeed as strong as the clouds.

Xu Huang was tied up at this time, but he still refused to admit defeat and yelled: "You shameless traitors! Using such despicable means to seize the city is no different from the rats from Jiangdong!"

"If you want to kill me, then kill me. Don't humiliate me!"

With these words, Zhou Yu next to him suddenly darkened his face, tightened his grip on the sharp blade at his waist, and had the urge to go forward and kill this guy with a sword.

But Lu Bu went up and gave Xu Huang a slap in the face, glared and cursed: "I'm giving you face? How dare a defeated general make such a noise?"

"I'm going to kill you, but I have to take you to see His Majesty first and wait for His Majesty to take action!"

"Come here, gag him, take him down and keep him under guard!"

After Lu Bu gave the order, he stepped forward and blocked Xu Huang's mouth, and then took him away.

Then he looked at Zhuge Liang and couldn't help complaining: "This time the limelight of Xiangyang City has been taken by Zilong. I failed to make any achievements. Does the military advisor have any opinions on me? Otherwise, why don't you let me What about taking action?”

Xiangyang City was captured without him taking any action, without any chance to show off his power.

This is His Majesty's personal expedition.

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He also wanted to perform well.

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "You can't kill a chicken with a sledgehammer. It's just Xiangyang City. We don't need Duke Wen to take action. Duke Wen will have the opportunity to attack Cao's thieves next."

"Besides, Duke Wen is now on the third floor of Lingyun Pavilion and has won the trust of His Majesty. These achievements are of little significance to Duke Wen, so let's give them to General Zilong."

Lu Bu has always been a soft-spoken man, and after hearing what Zhuge Liang said, he felt it made sense, and his mood improved.

"The military advisor's ability is indeed very good. He is much better than Sima Zhongda. Even the official position is not as good. He only knows how to talk."

Lu Bu laughed and praised, "If someone respects me, I will respect him. This is one of Lu Bu's life creeds."

But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

"What Mr. Wen said is absolutely true. With my little ability, I cannot compare to Zhuge Shangshu."

Lu Bu's smile suddenly froze on his face. He slowly turned around, looked at the person coming behind him, and said with a dry smile: "Gongtai, when did you come here?"

Chen Gong looked at him coldly and said expressionlessly: "Your Majesty sent me to ask about the situation of the war. Unexpectedly, I didn't hear about the situation of the war, but I heard Duke Wen's evaluation of me."

"It seems that I talk too much on weekdays, which makes Duke Wen impatient. Later I went to ask His Majesty to transfer the Bingzhou Army."

At this time, Lu Bu's toes were almost digging through his boots. Hearing this, he quickly stepped forward and said with a smile: "What I just said was just nonsense. Don't take it to heart."

"In my heart, your ability is no less than that of a military advisor."

Chen Gong sneered and said: "It turns out that in Duke Wen's heart he is no less than a military advisor, but in fact he is still inferior to a military advisor. I understand what Duke Wen means, but he still dislikes my lack of talent."

Lu Bu was dumbfounded and quickly explained: "No, I didn't mean that. Don't talk nonsense..."

Chen Gong stopped talking to Lu Bu and said to Zhuge Liang: "Military advisor, how is the current situation of the battle?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said: "Xiangyang City has been destroyed. The flood will subside in a few more hours. You can ask Your Majesty to take a boat to Xiangyang City for a while."

"When the flood recedes, I will send troops to search for traces of the Jingzhou Navy."

Chen Gong nodded, then ignored Lu Bu who kept tugging at his sleeves in an attempt to quibble, and took the boat back to recover.

"Gongtai, Gongtai, Gongtai!"

"Don't leave!"

Lu Bu stood on the city wall and watched the ships go away, shouting continuously.

Seeing this, Zhuge Liang burst into laughter, and he and everyone else walked down the city wall and entered the city.

…

Changsha, Governor's Mansion.

In the study, Cao Cao was watching the battle reports coming back from the front line, with heavy dark circles on his face.

When the war started, the number of things that needed to be dealt with doubled; the intelligence that the situation was deteriorating constantly came from the front line, which kept him awake at night, causing him to suffer from insomnia.

"The imperial court has begun to attack Yangzhou. With the war on the third front, the situation is becoming increasingly unfavorable."

Cao Cao sighed and rubbed his sore eyebrows.

At the same time, the war on the third front was extremely stressful for him. The capital in his hands was not as strong as the imperial court, and even with the support of major aristocratic families, he could only barely support it.

Fortunately, the front line of Jingzhou has been set up. It will not be easy for the imperial army to attack at the moment. He has time to take Yizhou.

As long as Yizhou captures his pressure, a lot of pressure will be relieved. At that time, he can advance, attack, retreat, or defend. At the worst, he can retreat to Yizhou.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao felt a little more relaxed.

"My lord, you haven't slept all day and all night. You'd better take a rest first and don't hurt your body."

Xu Chu on the side couldn't help but said that he couldn't stand watching Cao Cao without rest.

"I'm not sleepy. Give me another bowl of strong tea."

Cao Cao shook his head and said that although he was extremely tired physically, he still couldn't sleep, not to mention it was still daytime.

Xu Chu hesitated for a moment and had to accept the order with a sigh.

And just when he was about to leave, Cheng Yu suddenly hurried into the study, his face full of eagerness.

"My lord, something is wrong! The puppet emperor's army, they, they have already attacked Xiangyang City!"

Hearing these words, Cao Cao was instantly horrified.

The brush in his hand also fell to the ground.

Cao Cao's sleepiness disappeared immediately because of these words, and he immediately became more energetic. He stared at Cheng Yu and asked word by word: "What did you say?!"

Cheng Yu had a heavy look on his face and said: "General Cao Ren just sent a message back, saying that the puppet army defeated the Jingzhou Navy with a water attack. All the warships were destroyed, and there were only tens of thousands of soldiers under the leadership of General Cao Ren." Escape."

"General Xiahou Shang and the 10,000 troops ambushed on both sides of the Han River were flooded, and their lives and deaths are unknown; Xiangyang City was captured by the puppet army a few days ago. The situation of General Xu Huang is also unknown, but I'm afraid..."

Cheng Yu didn't say any more, but everything was left unsaid.

The city is broken, and as a defender, you will either die in battle or be captured. What other fate can there be?

After listening to Cheng Yu's words, Cao Cao stood stunned for a long time.

There was only one thought left in my mind.

Xiangyang City...is broken.

After a while, Cao Cao fell straight down.

"My lord! My lord!"

Cheng Yu and Xu Chu were shocked when they saw this, and quickly went up to help him, and at the same time called for help.