The previous article was revised: Cao Bao's official position is General Bi, not a lieutenant.

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The gate of the wealthy family was closed, and Cao Bao was even more cautious at this time, asking the two soldiers behind him to push the door. After pushing the door open, the yard was empty.

Cao Bao waved his hand and led the soldiers into the yard. At this moment, the windows of the wing rooms on both sides suddenly opened at the same time, and arrows shot out like locusts. In a burst of flesh-wrenching sounds and screams, Cao Bao's army fell down like wheat waves.

In an instant, more than a thousand soldiers under Cao Bao were killed or injured! Cao Bao, who was determined to carry out the beheading operation, quickly ordered in the chaos:

"Don't worry about these archers, you can just follow me and go directly into the main room!"

After saying that, Cao Bao immediately led the front row of soldiers to rush towards the main room. As soon as he climbed the steps, he saw that the window of the main room suddenly opened, and there were archers standing inside, with arrows on the strings, aiming at Cao Bao and others outside the window.

At the same time, the pupils of the soldiers under Cao Bao's men suddenly expanded. With the light, the arrows in their pupils were as dense as rain! It immediately caused a large number of soldiers rushing in front to fall down!

Cao Bao reacted very quickly at that moment. He grabbed a soldier and blocked him. After a round of arrows, the soldier was shot like a hedgehog and was thrown under the steps by Cao Bao.

Even though Cao Bao had low IQ, he knew that he was ambushed at this time and quickly ordered the entire army to withdraw from the yard.

Before his order was issued, a sudden shout of killing outside the courtyard gate suddenly erupted, and the Qingzhou soldiers following Cao Bao's army had already launched a raid! In a blink of an eye, Cao Bao's army's corpses were lying outside the courtyard gate!

Originally, Cao Bao's morale was low. He had just been ambushed and was now attacked from both sides. After two twists and turns, the only little fighting intention of Cao Bao's army was disintegrated and they were all panicked.

The next moment, the door of the main house was pushed open to both sides by the soldiers inside. Wu Fan stood in front of Cao Bao with his elbows crossed his elbows. On both sides were the generals Hua Xiong and Xia Hou Yuan respectively!

It seemed like an order. Just as the door of the house opened, the archers in the courtyard immediately stopped shooting, and the Qingzhou soldiers outside the door no longer raided.

However, in just a few minutes, more than half of Cao Bao's soldiers had been killed or injured, with less than 2,000 remaining, most of them still wounded.

Wu Fan looked at Cao Bao and the soldiers around him with panic expressions, and said:

"It's a great pleasure to have friends coming from afar. I hope my greeting will not miss the courtesy of the host and the guest."

In a faint tone, there is a lot of irony.

Cao Bao could hear that Wu Fan was mocking him for being stupid and ignorant and unable to use troops. His face changed at the moment, but he still insisted on saying:

"Victory and defeat are the luck! Today is just God is not doing beauty, otherwise you will have died under my fire attack!"

Wu Fan looked as if he knew it later, turned to look at the soldiers on both sides and said:

"Did you hear it? He said he wanted to attack with fire, it was so terrible. How smart is this to come up with such a terrible plan?"

The soldiers burst into laughter.

Cao Bao was humiliated repeatedly, and was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He pointed the iron fork at Wu Fan and said angrily:

"You! But Wu Fan, the vanguard of Cao's army?"

Wu Fan turned around and looked at Cao Bao, and said:

"I'm not here to go. Please sign up for your own surname."

Cao Bao said loudly:

"I am the general Cao Bao under the tent of Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou! Wu Fan, it is said that you have some skills, how dare you play a few moves with me?!"

Wu Fan laughed and said:

"Want to fight with me? You don't have the qualifications yet."

Then Wu Fan looked at Hua Xiong and Xiahou Yuan and said:

"Do you two have this interest?"

Xiahou Yuan was about to answer and go to meet him, but Hua Xiong had already taken the iron spear in his hand and rushed out of the house and took Cao Bao straight.

Seeing that Hua Xiong was coming quickly, Cao Bao thought he was quite good at it, and he didn't retreat. He shook the iron fork in his hand and came up to meet him.

Both of them did not hurt each other in the first round, but when Cao Bao stabbed out the iron fork in the second round, Hua Xiong dodged sideways, swung his right one-handed horizontal gun from under the iron fork, and hit Cao Bao's belly.

The speed was as fast as lightning. Cao Bao never thought that Hua Xiong would be so fast, and he was immediately photographed with a strong look.

There was a muffled sound in the tent, and the rain on Cao Bao's body splashed and bloomed like flowers. Looking at Cao Bao's body, it had already flew straight back from the steps, and after a loud bang, it fell into the group of soldiers behind him, and more than a dozen soldiers were smashed down.

Hua Xiong jumped off the steps and stood in front of Cao Bao. The iron spear in his hand flashed under the light. He was about to stab Cao Bao's throat, but Cao Bao suddenly lost his iron fork and bowed to Hua Xiong and said repeatedly:

"God of your life, General, I am willing to surrender to Cao's army!"

The soldiers behind Cao Bao had no intention of fighting again. Seeing that the main generals had surrendered, they quickly threw down their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender.

The scene in front of him surprised Wu Fan and others. If Cao Bao had any actions today exceeding Wu Fan's expectations, it was that now, he actually begged for surrender and save his life.

Just as Wu Fan was thinking about whether to accept Cao Bao’s begging for surrender, Cao Bao continued:

"I can only go to Pengcheng for twenty miles. I can earn the gate of the county town, so that the adults can easily hold Pengcheng in their hands."

This is the obvious role of highlighting oneself and want to win some successful prices for oneself.

Siege the city and seize land was the fundamental purpose of Cao's army's expedition to Xuzhou. Although Wu Fan suspected Cao Bao's sincerity in surrendering, since Cao Bao had said this, he could not remain indifferent. He nodded and agreed to Cao Bao and more than a thousand Xuzhou troops' surrender requests.

What Cao Bao said about opening the city gate means that he took advantage of the night and could not see the situation under the city clearly. He ran to the city gate and asked the city to open the city gate. Then Wu Fan led his army in.

It was already the second half of the night, and the distance between Zhaojiazhuang and Pengcheng was more than twenty miles. If you step up your march, you can still arrive in Pengcheng before dawn even if it is a rainy night.

So, after Wu Fan agreed to surrender to Cao Bao and his soldiers, he immediately ordered the entire army to set off and target Pengcheng and advance at full speed!

Before leaving, Wu Fan thought about it and called a messenger to inform Xiahou Dun, who was responsible for receiving the response: Our army has rushed to Pengcheng overnight, and General Xiahou can lead his troops to come as soon as possible. If our army takes down Pengcheng, it will be timely to go to the city to rest; if there is any change on the way, it is better to respond in time.

The messenger took the order and left.

Afterwards, Wu Fan led his troops to follow Cao Bao's more than a thousand men and headed towards Pengcheng.

Wu Fan's 20,000 troops were killed in the ambush just now, and only more than ten were injured, so the speed of the march had no effect. However, Cao Bao's more than one thousand people were different, most of them were wounded, and the speed was much lowered.

Despite this, these people arrived at the city of Pengcheng before dawn.

At this time, according to modern timing, it was around 4:40 in the first lunar month. Heavy rain continued, the sky was covered with clouds and the surroundings were pitch black.

After strangling the horse, Cao Bao smiled at Wu Fan in a flattering manner, and then led dozens of disabled soldiers to run towards the city gate.

When he arrived at the city, Cao Bao shouted loudly to the city through the moat:

"I am the general Cao Bao under the tent of Mr. Tao. I am ambushed by Cao's army and suffered heavy casualties. Please open the city gate and let our army go in and rest!"

When the soldiers in the city heard this, they immediately reported the county magistrate. Soon, the county magistrate rushed to the city and carried the rainproof lantern with a long pole to the bottom of the city. He saw that it was indeed General Cao Bao, who hurriedly asked him to open the city gate.

As soon as the city gate opened, Cao's army, who were ambushing in the dark, immediately rushed up.

However, at this moment, the sentry sent by Wu Fan ran back almost at the same time from both north and south directions to report to Wu Fan the military information he had just discovered:

"Report! General, a large number of troops were found in the north and were rushing here in the rain! The commander general is Tao Qian!"

"Report! General, a large number of troops were found in the south, carrying siege weapons, and were rushing here! The commander of the army was Sun Jian!"
Chapter completed!