The Huainan heroes were entrenched in the local area for many years and were deeply rooted. It was difficult to hide the Cao army's every move from them. Therefore, Xin Bin, who was in the Wanshan Camp, learned that Cao Cao personally led the army to attack, was only two days later than Lei Yuan. Lei Yuan had not returned to the camp yet, so Xin Binyi arranged a messenger to pass it to Lei Xiu, who led his army to Lu'an.

When Lei Yuan was busy rectifying his team and began to enter the depths of the continuous mountain, Lei Xiu received this urgent letter.

The letter was written by Lei Xu, with only a few lines. The content was very simple. It only said one thing: Cao Cao's army gathered, and the troops in the Mount Camp had evacuated quickly. The troops were either fighting, defending, or leaving, all decided by Lei Xiu. Lei Xiu was recognized as the heir of the Lei clan, and he also led the elite troops gathered by the heroes of Huainan. He had this qualification and responsibility.

The letter was now held in a ball by Lei Xiu and threw it on the ground inadvertently. It was immediately picked up by the guard who was packing up all kinds of documents and threw it into a fire.

Lei Xiu walked outside the city tower and saw the Cao army stationed in the north of the city strongly, with armor shining with sunlight, spears and spears like forests, and its tents and arrays from east to west, endless, towering the flags and standing in the middle. Looking into the distance, you can see the trees being cut down, which are making various siege equipment; and the sound of drums and horns flowing into your ears one after another, as if the surging water on the banks of Lu'an City was continuous day and night. In a trance, even the ancient city that had been standing for thousands of years under your feet was shaken by this momentum.

Cao's army entered Lujiang five days ago. According to Lei Xiu's judgment, the total number of troops was nearly 30,000.

According to the initial plan, Lei Xiu immediately gathered the flags of the various Haoyou teams, and flew in various cities and villages in Lujiang with great fanfare, making an attitude of relying on his strength and intending to resist to the end. This attitude scared the Cao army for two days. However, when Cao's army dispatched heavy troops to various places and removed the forts and manors that were inclined to Jianghuai Haoyou people one by one, Lei Xiu did not have enough strength to rescue them, and had to retreat first after several contacts... So, his weakness was exposed.

The Cao army was full of momentum without any scruples, but Lei Xiu had to retreat step by step. In a few days, all he could control was left was Lu'an City. In a small place, there was a lonely city, with few soldiers and few generals, and the whole army was in turmoil. Mei Gan advised him to evacuate as soon as possible two days ago, but he was unwilling to accept it. He thought he could defeat the enemy and retreat gloriously; although he had given up on this idea, he still wanted to persist for a few more days, at least to prevent this military operation from being embarrassed.

However, this is a luxury. In the past two days, because the Cao army was heavily distributed, the troops used by Cao's army to threaten Lu'an were slightly weakened. But tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the army led by Cao Gong himself will arrive. Lei Xiu can confirm that this is the last chance to evacuate.

"The villages east of Shaobi are now gone. At the latest tomorrow night, the Cao army in Shouchun will return and surround us again." Lei Xiu's deputy, He Song, who once served as the leader of his personal guard, said: "But fortunately, the army led by Cao Gong has not yet..."

"His grandma, shut up. Saying this is annoying!" Lei Xiu cursed: "You don't know that this morning, Hou Chi caught a Duma of Cao's army in front of the formation and came back. According to the guy's instructions, someone light cavalry attacked Cao Gong's team two days ago, which made Cao Gong slow down the marching speed... Otherwise, he would have already arrived in Lu'an City today!"

"Is there such a thing actually? Who did it? This is simply..." He Song was shocked.

"How could I know?" Lei Xiu looked calm and left the city and walked down the corridor. He said to himself: "It's time to leave. If you don't leave, you can't leave."

Lu'an City is not big. Most of the residents in the city fled. Some of the leftover food rations were plundered and they were only starved to death. At this time, the soldiers under Lei Xiu were able to move around the city, but their number was not large, and they were not enough to defend the city under the fierce attack of Cao's army. Just now, Lei Xiu ordered all the soldiers who could fight to stand by on the inside of the east gate, leaving only the seriously injured and the old and weak at the top of the city, holding flags and bluffing.

When Lei Xiu walked down the city wall, he could see soldiers holding long swords lined up in long horizontal lines, and in the back row were a large number of soldiers holding spears.

These are the elite forces gathered by the Jianghuai tycoons for the rear. Many of them participated in the battle to intercept Zhang Xi. After many confrontations with the Cao army, they had severely lost their troops. Most of the people who could stand in front of Lei Xiu had broken armor and broken swords, and were injured in varying degrees of weight.

More than 200 cavalrymen immediately rode to the side of the infantry, including Lei Xiu's close followers. When Lei Xiu saw Lei Xiu approaching, they came forward with their horses.

Lei Xiu shook his head: "Wait a little longer."

The sun gradually sets westward, and he stands in the shadow of the city tower, motionless.

The autumn wind blew up the fallen leaves on the rooftops of the city, floated by the shining blades and armor, and slowly fell down; the war horses neighed uneasyly, and the soldiers occasionally whispered, turned their heads, and still looked at their heroic young generals with confidence. Although the situation was getting worse and worse, Lei Xiu's bravery and good fighting were enough to intimidate them, making them firmly believe that they would win in the end.

The footsteps sounded, and dozens of strong-looking guards surrounded the plums and turned out from the road below the city wall. The plums were fully armored and the edge of the helmet was pressed very low, covering his sallow complexion; his footsteps were very steady, but his arm was resting on the shoulders of a guard. Lei Xiu could see that because he was too hard, blue veins rose on his wrist.

When Mei Gan came to her side, Lei Xiu lowered his voice: "How is it? Can you persist?"

"No problem. Don't try to pull me down," Mei Gan said viciously.

Lei Xiu's mouth moved and he laughed dryly, which was a response to Mei Gan.

He has always disliked Mei Gan's gloomy and cunning personality, but at this moment, Mei Gan is the leader of a wealthy clan who personally led the troops to support him. No matter how he is on weekdays, he has to be more polite. He sighed: "It's a pity that Su Zhi is not here. If he is here, he might have a better idea, and you, the old man, don't need to go to your life."

At this time, he felt that he strongly needed that resourceful and decisive brother.

Meigan didn't answer, but just sneered twice.

As he spoke, the sky gradually fell into darkness. The torches lit by the soldiers were unstable in the rustling cold wind. The armor gradually became cold, but Lei Xiu felt cold sweat seeping out of his palms, wetting the layers of cloth tied to the hilt of the knife. For many years, he was the most brave soldier among the heroes of Lujiang. He fought in the battle and never knew what fear was. But at this time, his decision not only concerns his personal life and death, but also the lives of thousands of soldiers, but also closely related to the entire battle situation, and to the tens of thousands of people who depended on the right people of Jianghuai... What he needed at this time was not only bravery and fearless, but no matter how strong a person was, he could not help but shake his mind at this time.

A young school lying on the ground raised his head and reported: "The sound in Cao's camp has gradually stopped, and it should be that it is starting to bury the pot and make rice."

Lei Xiu nodded and glanced at the plum Gan.

Mei Gan waved his hand: "You guy has the final say in the marching and war."

Lei Xiu plucked his horse on his body and waved his hand to signal.

The soldiers who were already ready pushed open the city gate gently. First, they opened a gap for only one person to dodge. Several soldiers sneaked out for a while and came back one after another, and gestured to Lei Xiu to represent safety. So the soldiers guarding the door slowly pushed the city gate open.

The city gate made of thick wood pressed on the door shaft, making a squeaking and hoarse sound. The sound echoed in the dark door hole. Although the Cao army in the distance could not hear the sound, everyone still held their breath, as if holding their breath, which could reduce the chance of being discovered by Cao army.

Lei Xiu walked forward along the gate, stood at the city gate, and looked at the Cao Jun camp to the north for a while. He could vaguely see the lights in the camp and the figures of patrolling and walking around, but the voices were slightly noisier, which was inevitable when distributing food in the army. Since ancient times, the military law has been strict and beheaded at every turn. Only when eating and drinking can the soldiers be allowed to relax a little.

"Come with me!" Lei Xiu whispered the order and took the lead in setting off.

After walking a few steps, I turned back. I saw that on duty, on-site patrol, and on-site lights were still bright every few dozen steps. Those were all pretended by the seriously injured robes, and they wanted to sacrifice their lives just to hide from Cao's army for a while.

More than two thousand people sneaked in the wild. Most of the torches were extinguished. It doesn't matter if they couldn't see the road ahead clearly. Everyone followed the person in front, walking deep and shallow. All the knights wrapped the horse's hooves in advance and led the horse to walk.

I walked carefully for about four or five miles, but luckily, I didn't meet the enemy.

He Song wiped the sweat from his forehead and whispered: "I'm so lucky. After walking so far, I didn't meet the Cao army's whistle cavalry..."

Before he could finish his words, the left side of the team shouted loudly. Dozens of Cao's whistle cavalry suddenly bumped out from behind a slope, and suddenly found the sneaking team. They blew the horn while whistling. The entire team was caught off guard and their team was in chaos!

"Shut up! Shut up!" Lei Xiu cursed at He Song a few times, rode his horse with a gun, and rushed towards the place where the Cao army's whistle was running.

Not long after rushing, a rain of arrows came from the darkness ahead. Lei Xiu was caught in an arrow in an instant, rolling and falling down. Lei Xiu shouted loudly, dancing the spear like a windmill, and thrusting several arrows in succession with crackling and collision.

He raised the horse's speed to the highest level, rushed dozens of steps, and suddenly wedged into the formation of Cao's whistle cavalry.

Two cavalrymen stabbed him from the left and right sides with spears, taking the front chest and taking the lower abdomen. Lei Xiu turned sideways, dodged the spear that stabbed the front chest, and then exhaled and drove the spear that pierced the lower abdomen to one side. At this time, the high speed of the war horses charging towards each other had caused both sides to pass by. Lei Xiu lay down on the back of the horse with all his strength, stabbing back with a gun. A cavalry of Cao was shot behind the back and screamed and fell off the horse and killed him.

At this time, Lei Xiu went from cavalry to the top, and they met with each other with their hands and blades, killing and injuring more than a dozen people. After all, the number of cavalry of Cao's army was small, and he saw that more than half of the losses were lost, so he hurriedly retreated.

Lei Xiu stood up, raised his spear and swung his circle, and said loudly: "Don't panic! Keep going! Keep going!"

At the same time, Cao's army's camp obviously heard the message from the whistle cavalry. Only the sound of dull war drums came and countless torches were lit up. The originally dim camp was instantly bright as day. Under the reflection of the firelight, waves of infantry and cavalry surged out of the camp, like a huge hideous beast, beginning to stretch its long arms.

"Lu'an is definitely over." Meigan's injury made him unable to withstand the bumps when riding a horse, so his subordinates used cloth to put a cloth bag between the two horses and let him lie in the middle. With the help of his subordinates, he stood up and looked at him for a while, and lay tiredly back into the cloth bag: "Once Cao's army discovered that Lu'an was an empty city, they would immediately send troops to pursue us."

"His grandma, you're blind." Lei Xiu cursed: "The chasing cavalry has been dispatched now!"

The old plum Gan's eyes were blurred, but he could see clearly that the chasing cavalry had indeed been dispatched. The torches raised by the cavalry formed a torrent in the night. The torrent was rolling around and continued to spread, and the direction of its sweeping was exactly here!
Chapter completed!