Wang Xiu received news from Chen Gong from Qingzhou that Lu Bu had agreed to take Cao Bao's daughter as his concubine, which meant that the secret alliance between Lu Bu and Cao Bao had been reached.
Cao Bao secretly sent someone to send his daughter away. Although he was a little reluctant to let go, when he thought that he was about to become the lord of Xuzhou, he couldn't help but smile.
In recent days,
Zhang Fei's spies only found some vague information, but there was no clear evidence that Cao Bao and others had the intention to rebel.
But Zhang Fei always had some worries in his heart, "It's too quiet... so quiet that it's even a little weird!" Zhang Fei was walking back and forth in his room, and besides him, there were also Sun Qian, Mi Zhu and Jian in the room. Yong three people.
These three are already Liu Bei's most capable civil servants and advisers.
They are all graceful people, so if they are allowed to go out to brag and communicate with each other, it will definitely be done properly, but if they are allowed to serve as staff to discuss major military and aircraft matters, it will really be a bit difficult for them.
Chen Deng was the only one who was proficient in military affairs. Liu Bei had to exclude him from his inner circle because he focused on the interests of his family more than the group.
Like the early Boss Cao, although Liu Bei is now the Xuzhou Shepherd, this does not make him fall in the eyes of those famous families. For the children of aristocratic families like Chen Gui and Chen Deng, it does not matter who is the Xuzhou Shepherd, as long as he meets the requirements Just the interests of their family will be fine.
"General Zhang, please stop shaking back and forth, it makes me dizzy!" Jian Yong waved his hands and said to Zhang Fei.
"Xianhe, Zizhong, Gongyou, you guys make up your mind for me!" Zhang Fei came to the three of them and said.
"Judging from the information collected so far, although Cao Bao and others are secretly dissatisfied with their master becoming Xuzhou Mu, there are no clear signs of rebellion?" Sun Qian asked doubtfully.
"The Cao family's business operations have been very frequent recently, but I can't see what they really did." Mi Zhu also told some unusual situations from his own news channels.
Zhang Fei felt that things were not that simple. Despite his own ability, he really couldn't figure out the key to it.
After a while, Zhang Fei let out a helpless laugh and said, "Cao Bao's grandson can really endure it. I humiliated him in front of so many officials, and he didn't show any signs of it."
"General Zhang, you are still a little reckless." Jian Yong gave a small criticism at the right time.
But Zhang Fei smiled nonchalantly and said, "Xianhe, you are too timid. Cao Bao is just a loser. What can he do with the one or two Thousand Birds under his command?"
Jian Yong shook his head and stopped talking. After thinking for a while, Mi Zhu suggested:
"General Zhang, I think we should remain unchanged in the face of all changes.
At the same time, we need to send someone to report the situation in Xuzhou to the lord, so that the lord can preserve his strength secretly."
After hearing Mi Zhu's words, Jian Yong couldn't help but said in agreement: "Yeah, just show it off, there's no need to really fight Yuan Shu to the death for Cao Cao, right?"
Zhang Fei felt that what they said made sense, so he said: "Then I will do what you said first. I will write a letter to my eldest brother now!"
Zhang Fei did what he thought of. He quickly took out the high-end new paper he bought from n dealers at a high price from the cabinet, and then spread it on the table.
Picking up the pen, Zhang Fei was thinking about what to write with his eldest brother Liu Bei when a burst of noise suddenly came from outside his mansion.
"What's going on? Why is it so noisy outside?"
Zhang Fei put down his pen and opened the door of the house to see what was going on.
Just then, a panicked guard ran over outside the mansion.
After seeing Zhang Fei's figure, the bodyguard rolled up to him, pointed outside and said: "General Zhang is in trouble! Cao Bao has raised an army to rebel!!!"
"What?!" Zhang Fei stared angrily upon hearing this.
He knew that something was wrong with Cao Bao, but he didn't expect that Cao Bao would be so decisive in revolting.
"That's not right. The grandson only has one or two thousand people. How can he have the courage and confidence to rebel?" Zhang Fei thought about it and felt something was wrong. He grabbed the soldier's arm, pulled him in front of him and asked:
"Tell me, how many people does Cao Bao have?"
The soldier was pinched so hard by Zhang Fei that he kept pointing at his arm and said: "Bang, break, break..."
Upon seeing this, Zhang Fei quickly released his palm and urged: "Speak quickly!"
The soldier rubbed his arms and replied: "You can't see very clearly, but the soldiers led by Cao Bao are densely packed outside the city. There are at least 20,000 to 30,000 people!"
"Twenty or thirty thousand people???" Zhang Fei was startled when he heard this, and thought to himself: "The entire garrison of Xuzhou is only 20,000 people in total. Where did Cao Bao get so many soldiers?"
They were all old brothers who had been following him since the crusade against the Yellow Turbans. Zhang Fei didn't think that the personal guards would lie about this kind of thing. He asked: "Which gate did Cao Bao attack from?"
"North Gate! We only have a thousand defenders at the North Gate. It is estimated that the city gate has been lost by now!"
Although Xuzhou has 20,000 garrison troops, at least half need to be stationed in various places. The garrison troops left to guard Xiapi City are less than 10,000 men.
All four city gates require people to garrison them, and with the rotation of soldiers on duty, a city gate does not actually have many people left when there is no fighting on weekdays.
How could a thousand people withstand Cao Bao's sneak attack of tens of thousands?
"Damn it!" Zhang Fei cursed, turned and rushed back into the room, and said to the three nervous-looking scribes in the room: "Third gentlemen, Cao Bao has rebelled. He has 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers under his command. Xiapi City was suddenly attacked.
It's probably impossible to defend under the attack.
Before they come into the city, I will lead my personal guards to escort you and your eldest brother’s family to leave first.”
Mi Zhu, Jian Yong, and Sun Qian knew that the situation was urgent and did not dare to hesitate at all, so they followed Zhang Fei and left his mansion.
"Whoever catches Zhang Fei will be promoted to two ranks and receive a reward of five hundred!"
"Capture Zhang Fei alive!"
"Capture Zhang Fei alive!"
"kill!"
Zhang Fei wanted to go to Liu Bei's house to find Liu Bei's family members, but as soon as he left the house, he was surrounded by densely packed enemy troops rushing towards them!
Jian Yong was shocked and said: "Ah! Was the city gate breached so quickly?"
"There must be Cao Bao's internal agents in this city. He doesn't need to attack the city gate at all!" Mi Zhuqiang calmed himself down and asked Zhang Fei: "Third General, what should we do?"
Zhang Fei only had more than 200 personal guards around him. He mounted the black horse brought by the personal guards, turned around and said to Jian Yong and the others: "Follow me and fight out!"
After saying that, before Jian Yong and the other two could complain, Zhang Fei shouted "Drive!" and rushed out!
There are eighteen special people in Zhang Fei's bodyguard, named "Eighteen Riders of Yanyun".
Holding a Zhangba snake spear and a black horse under his crotch, Zhang Fei was followed by eighteen Yan generals on horseback, leading the way.
There is no doubt about Zhang Fei's combat prowess. Wherever the snake spear passed by, the enemy's troops and horses were shattered, killing the soldiers Cao Bao "borrowed" from Qingzhou were frightened!
Jian Yong, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu and other officials and soldiers who met on the road followed Zhang Fei and others and fled quickly towards the nearest east city gate.