Under the cover of Chen Dao, Liu Bei quickly broke out of the encirclement and ran towards the east.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei saw that their eldest brother had run away, and they also knew that it was basically impossible to reverse the defeat now.

As a result, they also abandoned their opponents and prepared to break out.

It has to be said that in such an environment, the general's personal abilities are infinitely magnified.

The surrounding Cao army tried to intercept Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but they were killed by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei indiscriminately, cutting a bloody path.

Zhao Yun and others wanted to pursue, but were intercepted by Guan Yu and others' soldiers.

By the time Zhao Yun and the others had defeated the soldiers within a few breaths, Guan Yu and the others had opened a distance of more than thirty feet from Zhao Yun and the others.

In such a chaotic battlefield, the distance of more than thirty feet is like a natural chasm, insurmountable.

Helpless, Zhao Yun and others had no choice but to give up chasing Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They knew that as long as Liu Bei's army was wiped out, even if Liu Bei could escape, how far could he escape?

Xuzhou is so big, no matter how hard Liu Bei escapes, he will be caught. Without the cover of the army, Liu Bei is just a tiger without teeth.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yun and others, with their own soldiers, began to attack Liu Bei's army.

This battle lasted for a full day. After more than 50,000 of Liu Bei's 150,000-strong army were wiped out, the remaining people chose to surrender.

Boss Cao didn't want to cause more killings, so he ordered the army to start accepting prisoners, counting the losses, and cleaning the battlefield.

At the same time, Boss Cao asked someone to write a program memorial about the Battle of Jianping and send it to the emperor.

As for himself, after counting the prisoners, he rested for three days and then began to lead the army to occupy the entire territory of Xuzhou.

During these three days, Boss Cao was not idle all the time. He knew that Liu Bei had escaped on the battlefield, so he sent people to follow Liu Bei to see where he had gone.

Now that the news has come back, Liu Bei returned directly to Xiapi City. Then he threatened the aristocratic families in the city and helped him defend the city.

Among the aristocratic families in Xiapi City, the Mi family is the main one.

Mi Zhu, the head of the Mi family, married his sister to Liu Bei in order to catch up with Liu Bei.

This made the Mi family become the most powerful family in Liu Bei's camp. It can be said that the fate of the Mi family has been tied to Liu Bei.

Therefore, when Liu Bei asked the Pi family to help defend the city, the Mi family directly suppressed the entire family and raised 30,000 men for Liu Bei.

In this way, Liu Bei pieced together things and asked him to gather an army of 60,000 to defend Xiapi.

However, before he could organize his army, Boss Cao led an army of 200,000 to surround Xiapi.

This time, Boss Cao has thought about it. There are only five rebel princes in the world, and Liu Bei is the weakest now. This is the best time to eliminate Liu Bei.

As long as Liu Bei is destroyed, there will be no big threat within Yanzhou. If Yuan Tan and Yuan Shangyi of Qingzhou are eliminated, then there will be no enemies in the entire Central Plains.

Now, Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are still seizing power in Qingzhou and have no time for him to take care of them.

Sun Ce from Jiangdong has just returned to Jiangdong. It is impossible to attack Xuzhou again in a short time...

This is a good opportunity for Boss Cao to eliminate Liu Bei. As long as Liu Bei is eliminated, the Han Dynasty and the princes will completely change their offensive and defensive positions.

As a result, after Boss Cao arrived outside Xiapi City, he asked Xiahou Dun to lead his men to attack the city before going down to the stronghold.

However, I have to say that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were really strong. Even though they led only a ragtag group of servants, they still defended Xiahou Dun's attack.

Boss Cao was not in a hurry. Seeing that the attack failed, he ordered Xiahou Dun to withdraw.

Now the advantage lies with Boss Cao, he can take his time.

However, Liu Bei was not a simple person. In the next ten days, Liu Bei, the lord, came to the city in person to fight with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Greatly boosted our own morale

, and actually let him stay.

This time, it was Boss Cao's turn to frown. He didn't expect that Liu Bei was so tenacious and could stop him for more than ten days with just those rabble.

Now, Boss Cao also received news that Sun Ce from Jiangdong and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang from Qingzhou saw that they could not attack for a long time, and they seemed to have some ideas.

Boss Cao knew that if he could not defeat Liu Bei within a short period of time and within ten days, then Sun Ce, Yuan Tan, and Yuan Shang would definitely send troops.

By that time, the situation in Yanzhou, and even the entire Central Plains region, will once again deteriorate.

At this time, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Guo Jia jointly suggested to Boss Cao that he should divert the Yi and Si rivers to flood Xiapi.

Boss Cao is also a ruthless person, although he knows that the consequence of flooding Xiapi is that the Xiapi area will become a marshland.

But in order to quickly defeat Liu Bei and prevent the entire Yanxu states from falling into the flames of war again, he could only sacrifice Xiapi.

Therefore, Boss Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to be responsible for digging the Yi and Si rivers and diverting water from the rivers to flood Xiapi.

Xiahou Dun happily accepted the order and took 30,000 people directly to the upper reaches of the Yi River and Si River to prepare for excavation work.

Seeing Xiahou Dun leading people to the upper reaches of Yi River and Si River, Liu Bei naturally knew what Boss Cao wanted to do.

But no matter how he asked Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to attack the enemy formation, they wanted to destroy Cao Jun's arrangement, but how could Boss Cao let him do so?

He had already asked Zhao Yun, Tai Shi Ci, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu to block the city gate and intercept Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

At the same time, he ordered that as soon as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei left the city, Cao Ren and other generals of Cao's army would attack Xiapi City.

It seems to be telling Liu Bei that as long as you send Guan Yu and others out, they will attack Xiapi by force.

After rushing back and forth twice, Guan Yu and the others did not rush out.

Liu Bei knew that it was too late to destroy Xiahou Dun's excavation of river water.

He could only order the city to prepare and wait for the flood to come.

Xiahou Dun took 30,000 people with him, so their excavation work went very smoothly. The aqueduct was dug in just two days.

Following Boss Cao's order, Xiahou Dun opened the water gate. In an instant, the turbid river water rushed towards Xiapi City along the diversion canal that Xiahou Dun had dug in advance.

But when Liu Bei looked at the river rushing towards him like thousands of troops and horses, his face turned pale. He knew that this time, he really couldn't escape.

The surging river water hit the solid city wall of Xiapi City. Although Liu Bei reinforced it in advance and sealed the city gate, it also blocked the first impact of the flood.

However, although the first wave of impact caused great damage, it was not the most terrifying. It was necessary to change the channels of the Yi River and the Si River this time, causing the river water to continuously hit the city wall.

[In view of the general environment, although the outside of the city wall of Xiapi City is covered with large bluestones, the inside is still made of accumulated earth.

As the river water soaked, the soil inside the city wall became soft and could no longer bear the weight of the large bluestone.

One afternoon after being soaked in floods for three days, the wall of Xiapi City finally collapsed.
Chapter completed!