"Sir, what are your orders?"

"The situation is a little unusual."

Before he finished speaking, a stone passed over the top of the city and hit the door of the foyer above the city gate.

The stone was covered with withered grass, and the fire was raging. After rolling into the foyer, it immediately caused a small fire, but Chu Ge immediately commanded the men to put out the fire.

"Today's Xiapi dog attack was very messy."

"Yeah?"

Xia Houlan glanced at the hallway, which was still smoking, and asked Cao Peng: If it is still messy, what does it mean to not be messy?

"Don't ask me, I just feel that there is no pressure on Xia Pi Dog's attack."

Logically speaking, after a night's rest, the Xiapi Army's attack should be very violent.

However, judging from the current situation, Cao Peng did not feel the suffocating sense of oppression yesterday or the day before yesterday. It must be said that the Xiapi Army's attack was not fierce. Judging from the density of their arrow formations and trebuchets,

The words seemed to be more vicious than the previous two days.

The problem is that the soldiers of the Xia Pi Army seem to lack that kind of fearless temperament.

Every time they got close to the city, they would be shot with arrows and quickly retreat without any intention of charging.

This made Cao Peng feel that the Xiapi Army was trying to cope. Moreover, the stones thrown by the trebuchet seemed dense, but the lethality was far less than the previous two days. Previously, 50% of the stones thrown by the Xiapi Army could be concentrated

The top of the city, or flying over the top of the city. But today, it seems to be less than 30%. Many of the stones began to fall before they could fly to the top of the city. Most of the stones fell directly outside the west city gate.

Is it possible that there is something wrong with the trebuchet?

"Prepare to launch!"

Seeing the Xiapi army swarming in again, Wang Xu shouted an order.

"slow!"

Cao Peng suddenly stopped him, causing Wang Xu and Xia Houlan to look doubtful.

Sometimes, men's sixth sense is also very keen. Cao Peng took a shield and stood on the top of the city to block the incoming arrows, and carefully observed Pi Jun's actions. Gradually, he frowned...

The Xiapi Army approached slowly, but before the tower could counterattack, they stopped and began to retreat. In other words, did they not intend to attack by force?

"did you see that?"

Xia Houlan and Wang Xu can also be regarded as battle-hardened figures.

They had not noticed this before, but now that Cao Peng reminded them, they immediately saw the clues.

"Xia Pi Dog, is it possible that he wants to consume our arrows?"

Wang Xu mentioned a possibility.

But Xia Houlan immediately retorted, "It's impossible... If we wanted to consume the arrows, we didn't attack them just now, they should have rushed up."

Raising his head, Cao Peng looked at the blue sky, and after a moment he suddenly shouted.

"No, they are going to run away!"

"run?"

"They are preparing to retreat..."

Xia Houlan and Wang Xu looked at each other, not knowing why.

At this time, there was a sound of gongs in the Xiapi Army's camp, and the Xiapi Army retreated with the sound of gold.

Cao Peng couldn't explain the reason, but he vaguely felt that there was something wrong with Xia Pijun's abnormal behavior today.

In his previous life, Cao Peng was also influenced by model operas, so he was deeply impressed.

There is a movie in the model drama called "Southern Conquest and Northern War". There is a plot in it. When one side is preparing to retreat, they start firing artillery randomly. There are no targets in the mountains and plains. The scene in front of you is similar to that in the movie.

How similar?

But why did the Xiapi Army retreat?

Cao***……

It must be Cao Cao who sent troops!

Although Cao Peng couldn't remember exactly which year Cao Peng killed Lu Bu, he remembered that killing Lu Bu seemed to have happened after his third conquest of Wancheng. Now, the third battle of Wan has ended.

, then the next step is to attack Xuzhou.

Counting the days, the autumn harvest has ended.

Xu Du is working in the fields this year and has a good harvest, so Cao Cao does not need to worry about the shortage of food and grass... Then the conquest of Lu Bu is imminent.

Yes, that can only be the case...

Cao Peng suddenly figured out the key and couldn't help but punched the battlements with excitement.

Chen Gong, do you think you stole the chicken this time but lost the rice? You wanted to attack Haixi, but you lost your troops and generals under Quyang City?

"Pass my order to Pan Zhang, Zhou Cang, Deng Fan and others to recruit two hundred elite soldiers.

Ziyou, you should also rectify your troops and mobilize a hundred elite soldiers to wait for dispatch...Wang Xu gathered his troops and prepared to defend the city."

"Sir, what are you going to do?"

"The Pi dogs are trying to escape, how can I just let them go?"

"But……"

"Don't ask why, just listen to my orders."

"Here!"

Now that Cao Peng has issued a military order, Xia Houlan and others cannot continue to stop him.

Cao Peng scooped a bowl of water from the bucket and drank it all in one breath... Cao Peng was also very uncomfortable after being attacked by Chen Gong for two days. Now, the war has turned for the better! Cao Peng finally

How could Cao Peng miss such an opportunity to send troops to Xuzhou?

"Pursuit?"

Zhou Cang and others looked at a loss after listening to Cao Peng's order.

They looked at the smoke rising from the Xiapi Army camp outside the city, and looked at Cao Peng with some confusion.

"I don't know how to explain it to you, but I am sure that the Pi dogs have begun to retreat. If we catch up now, we can beat the drowned dogs..."

"But, they are obviously making rice!"

Zhou Cang pointed to the military camp outside the city, which meant: Look at the smoke, how could it be that the troops were withdrawing?

"How about I take someone down to investigate first?"

Xia Houlan hesitated for a moment and said softly.

Cao Peng knew that if he didn't convince these people, he might not try his best to attack. He thought for a while, nodded and agreed...

Immediately, Xia Houlan led fifty elite soldiers, hung them from the top of the city, and approached the Xiapi barracks.

Cao Peng said: "Let's go down too."

"But……"

"Ziyou has already gone down. If anything happens, we can also respond. We will wait under the city. If there is no one in the barracks, we will pursue immediately; if there are still soldiers and horses guarding the city, we can also quickly board the city. By the way,

I can also take care of Ziyou."

Zhou Cang and others exchanged glances and agreed to Cao Peng's idea.

More than two hundred people were hung from the top of the city. When Cao Peng landed with his feet on the ground and was about to order his men to form a formation, Xiahoulan appeared at the door of the Xiapi Army barracks.

"Sir, it's an empty camp, it's an empty camp!"

"***..."
Chapter completed!