The intersection where the first village is located is a considerable passage that can penetrate directly to the back of Guan Yu's army. It is not difficult for Xu Huang's main force to pass through. Once there is a mistake, the Guan Yu's army attacking Fancheng will be attacked by the enemy on the back and affect Guan Yu's entire plan.

Guan Ping didn't dare to let Xu Huang pass his interception, so he said to Liao Hua:

"If there is any mistake in the First Village, Xu Huang can support Cao Ren at any time. How can my father attack Fancheng with peace of mind? This is all based on Mianshui. Xu Huang's army is not water-free and dare not come here. I will lead the army with you to rescue the First Village."

The first village was originally a camp under the jurisdiction of Liao Hua, so he had to save it.

Now Guan Ping took the initiative to go with him because he was afraid that he would not be able to resist Xu Huang. Liao Hua was very grateful and ordered his general Meng Niu:

"You lead three thousand troops to defend the camp. If Cao's army comes to attack, don't go to fight. Then raise the fire as a trumpet, and I will lead the army back to the rescue immediately."

Meng Niu's martial arts skills are not weak, but he is not Liao Hua's old subordinate, but the bandit leader he recruited in Runan.

When Liao Hua was able to successfully recruit tens of thousands of bandits, Meng Niu made great contributions to threading needles in the middle.

After returning, because he was also from Nanyang County, Jingzhou, he was valued by Liao Hua and became the first general under Liao Hua.

Meng Niu did not disappoint Liao Hua. He performed well when leading his army to attack Fancheng and fighting against the imperial guards. He gained Liao Hua's trust and is now almost used by Liao Hua as his deputy general.

After hearing Liao Hua's words, Meng Niu patted his chest and promised:

"General, please rest assured. Sizhong Village is surrounded by water on both sides, and the land is full of ten levels of deer antlers. Even birds cannot enter. Why worry about the bandits coming to attack!"

So, Guan Ping and Liao Hua all formed the elite troops of Sizhong Village and rushed to the first garrison to fight Xu Huang.

Who knew that Xu Huang had a fake shot. When Guan Ping and Liao Hua's army arrived, they did not fight, but returned to the camp and stationed troops on the shallow mountain.

Guan Ping observed for a long time and said to Liao Hua:

"Xu Huang stationed his troops in the shallow mountain, and he would not be able to obtain the right territorial position. He could lead his troops to rob the village tonight."

Liao Hua also found that Xu Huang's place of troops was not reasonable. After all, he was older than Guan Ping. He knew that Xu Huang was a large general under Cao Cao's command. According to reason, such mistakes should not have happened. He was careful and said to Guan Ping:

"A general can divide half of his troops to rob the village, so I should guard our village."

That night, Guan Ping led a soldier into Cao's camp, but no one was seen.

Guan Ping knew that he was trapped and was about to retreat. Xu Shang on the left and Lu Jian on the right attacked two times.

Guan Ping was defeated and returned to the camp. The Wei soldiers took advantage of the situation to chase him, but Liao Hua led the army to respond and the enemy stopped the pursuit.

Xu Shang and Lu Jian, whose martial arts were not as good as Guan Ping and Liao Hua, and after they stabilized their positions, they soon began to counterattack. Xu Shang and Lu Jian could not resist and led their troops to retreat.

Guan Ping and Liao Hua turned defeat into victory. As soon as he returned to the camp to rest, he suddenly saw fire rising into the sky from the direction of Sizhong Village.

Guan Ping and Liao Hua were shocked and did not dare to divide the troops. They abandoned the first camp and came straight to Sizhong Village.

Under the moonlight, Guan Ping and Liao Hua were not marching fast. When they arrived near Sizhongzhai, it was already dawn and there was no fire in the village.

The two did not dare to advance rashly, so they sent several scouts to check in and found that the village was full of Wei soldiers.

Guan Ping and Liao Hua quietly withdrew their troops and gathered the defeated soldiers nearby to find out the inside story.

It turned out that shortly after Guan Ping and Liao Hua left, Xu Huang personally led his troops to attack, but was brought in by Meng Niu, and captured Sizhongzhai without any effort.

It is true that Meng Niu was from Nanyang County. During Zhang Xiu's seizure of Wancheng, he was recruited as a subordinate by Zhang Xiu's chief adviser Jia Xu.

Jia Xu is very important to intelligence work and conquered many people to collect intelligence for him. Meng Niu is one of the backbones. Zhang Xiu surrendered to Cao Cao, and Meng Niu also followed Jia Xu.

Because Cao Cao was granted the title of Duke and King, he became increasingly domineering in the court, and many aristocratic families were suppressed.

These aristocratic families were unwilling to fail and secretly accumulated strength, but they did not dare to recruit private soldiers openly, so they developed family armed forces in the form of bandits.

After being discovered by Jia Xu, he naturally would not let it go. He sent dozens of people including Meng Niu to invade the bandits in various places, preparing to attack when the time is right, and cooperate with the officers and soldiers to wipe out the bandits.

When Guan Yu sent Liao Hua to contact the bandits, Meng Niu received a secret order from Jia Bing, asking him to help Liao Hua recruit the bandits, lurking within the Guan Yu army, waiting for orders to act.

This time, Jia Bing followed Xu Huang to fight and used secret contact methods to finally contact two lurking internal responders, one named Shang Hua, and the other was Guan Ping's deputy general in charge of thousands of people. He guarded Yancheng, and the other was Meng Niu, who acted as deputy general under Liao Hua.

Jia Xu invaded dozens of people among the bandits, but after the war in the past few months, these bandits acted as cannon fodder to attack the city and died a lot. Among the 50,000 troops of Guan Ping and Liao Hua, Jia Bing contacted these two people.

Xu Huang asked Xu Shang and Lu Jian to fight against Guan Ping. He led his elite troops to attack Yancheng by himself. With Shang Hua as his inner support, Xu Huang opened the city gate and easily succeeded.

When Guan Ping retreated to the Four Tombs, Xu Huang re-used the same trick and used Xu Shang and Lu Jian to guard Guan Ping. Liao Hua attracted the first garrison and led his troops to attack the Four Tombs himself.

As the main left-behind general, Meng Niu directly cleared the deer antler formation, opened the village gate and let Xu Huang enter the village, so he naturally easily took down the four tombs.

However, Liao Hua made Meng Niu the main general, and did not let him take power alone, but he still left many confidants. When Xu Huang captured the Four Tombs, he issued a warning message in time, which made Xu Huang give up on the plan to ambush Guan Ping at the Four Tombs. Liao Hua.

Both important places for troops stationed in Yancheng and Four Tombs were captured by Xu Huang. Although Guan Ping and Liao Hua lost only thousands of troops, they were almost in danger and could not continue to stop Xu Huang from rescuing Cao Ren. The two decided to retreat to Fancheng and join forces with Guan Yu first before making any reason.

Guan Ping and Liao Hua made up their minds and hurriedly ran to Fancheng Road.

Not long after, an army in front blocked the way, and was the general, Xu Huang, Lu Jian on the left and Xu Shang on the right, and former generals Shang Hua and Meng Niu also followed Xu Huang closely.

Guan Ping and Liao Hua, when they saw Meng Niu and Shang Hua appeared beside Xu Huang, they knew how the four tombs of Yancheng and the fortress were captured by Xu Huang.

Especially Liao Hua, seeing Meng Niu, who was his confidant, betrayed him, he was furious, slapped his horse and danced his sword, and took Meng Niu directly, trying to kill Meng Niu to vent his anger.

Meng Niu was a hero in this war, so Xu Huang naturally would not let Liao Hua hurt him, and Xu Shang took the lead in the fight against Liao Hua.

Guan Ping had never known why Cao Jun sneaked in in the impregnable Yancheng. Now, when he saw Shang Hua appear, he was extremely jealous and rushed over with his knife.

Guan Ping is very skilled in martial arts, but others can't stop him. Xu Huang personally took action to block the battle between Guan Ping.

The four of them divided into two pairs and fought for dozens of rounds. Guan Ping first couldn't resist Xu Huang's big axe and retreated.
Chapter completed!