Cao's army continued to attack Xuzhou. Xuzhou became more and more critical under the continuous attacks of Cao's army. However, the possibility of Cao's army breaking through Xuzhou within time is not high. After all, Xuzhou's city is strong, and Tao Qian's command has 60,000 soldiers vowed to defend the city to the death.

While Cao's army was rushing to attack Xuzhou, the 10,000 soldiers led by Liu Bei had already crossed the Yellow River. However, Liu Bei did not drive towards Xuzhou, but turned east to Qingzhou.

Two days later, Liu Bei led his army to Qingzhou, and Qingzhou Governor Tian Kai personally led his troops to greet him.

Before entering the city, Liu Bei explained his purpose. Liu Bei held his fist at Tian Kai with a deep face and said, "Now Cao Cao is attacking the Tao envoy, and he is killing the people. Bei leads his troops to rescue him! It's a pity that Bei is alone and may be difficult to defeat the Cao thief, so he wants to ask the governor and Bei to rescue the Tao envoy!"

Tian Kai thought: If Cao Cao eliminated Tao Qian, he would turn his troops eastward, and his Qingzhou would be in danger!

As soon as he thought of this, Tian Kai clasped his fists to Liu Bei and said generously: "Tao Envoy is a kind gentleman, Cao Cao's move is really too much! Kai is also willing to lead his troops to rescue Tio Envoy!"

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this. What he was most worried about was that no one was willing to go with him to rescue Tao Qian. If that were the case, his trip would be really dangerous!

Liu Bei and Tian Kai put their arms into Qingzhou City. That night, Tian Kai held a banquet in the backyard of the governor's mansion to entertain Liu Bei.

Early the next morning, Tian Kai ordered 30,000 elite troops and personally led his troops to leave Qingzhou with Liu Bei.

The two led an army of 40,000 to the south and happened to pass through the Beihai.

The two originally planned to invite Kong Rong from Beihai to Xuzhou to rescue, but they saw two armies fighting in the melee under Beihai city from afar. One of them was wearing a Kong flag and wearing green armor, and the other was wearing messy clothes and wrapped in yellow turbans on his head. This was clearly a remnant of the Yellow Turban Army.

At this moment, a general of Kong Rong's army took the lead and rushed into the Yellow Turban Army as if he was in a no-man. The soldiers of Kong Rong's army followed the general and attacked the Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army was defeated and retreated step by step.

Liu Bei immediately drew out his two swords and said to Tian Kai next to him: "Brother Tian, ​​let's kill you and help Brother Kong with your help!"

Tian Kai nodded and said, "That's right!"

Then the two of them led their soldiers from behind the Yellow Turban Army to cover up and kill them.

At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army was struggling to resist the frontal attack of Kong Rong's army, and was surrounded by Tian Kai and Liu Bei's army from behind. They were killed and the entire army was dispersed.

The general of the Yellow Turban Army fled out with the chaos and happened to meet Liu Bei.

Seeing that Liu Bei was not astonishing, this man immediately took a knife and killed Liu Bei.

He deserved the trouble of this Yellow Turban General. He ran to Liu Bei's place just a few steps in front of the horse, but he actually fell off his feet and threw him down.

Seeing this opportunity, Liu Bei immediately jumped up, and the two trusted generals Jiang Yue and Liu Yan also surrounded each other from both sides.

As soon as the Yellow Turban General got up, he was blocked by three weapons.

The army on both sides chased and ran on the wasteland, and the Yellow Turban Army was killed so that corpses were everywhere, wolves and pigs rushed.

The battle lasted only half an hour before it came to an end.

Tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army were basically destroyed, of which about 15,000 were captured.

At this time, Liu Bei and Tian Kai rode away at the general of Kong Rong, and the general also rode towards the two of them.

After a moment, the three met in the middle of the battlefield.

"Let's go to Liu Bei (Tian Kai, Taishi Ci)!" The three of them clasped their fists together. Then the three of them laughed and said, "Good luck to meet!"

"Where are the two adults leading the army?" asked Taishi Ci.

Liu Bei replied: "I heard that the Tao envoy of Xuzhou was besieged by Cao Cao, so I specially led my troops to rescue!"

Taishi Ci nodded, but said nothing. After a pause, Gan Ning said to the two: "You might as well follow me into the city to see Taishou Kong!"

Liu Bei and Tian Kai clasped their fists together and said, "That's what you mean!"

Then the two followed Taishi Ci and rode into Beihai City. Kong Rong, who had been watching the battle on the city gate, had already gone down to the city gate to wait.

As soon as Liu Bei and Tian Kai entered the city gate, Kong Rong stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "The two generals are very grateful!", his tone was full of gratitude, and he bowed deeply to the two.

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Bei, Tian Kai quickly dismounted, helped Kong Rong up, and said humbly: "When we see this situation, how can we not help us! The prefect really doesn't need to be so polite!"

After both sides said a bit of thanks and humble words, they went to the prefect's house together.

Kong Rong immediately held a banquet in the prefect's mansion to thank the two of them.

During the meal, Liu Bei took the opportunity to invite Kong Rong to Xuzhou to rescue Tao Qian. Kong Rong agreed after thinking for a while.

The next day, the three armies left Beihai and drove to Xuzhou in a mighty manner. Tian Kai was still 40,000 troops. Taishi Ci led 20,000 elite troops under Kong Rong, while Liu Bei's troops turned into 20,000 troops, and his generals became three. It turned out that Liu Bei took the opportunity to recruit more than 10,000 more powerful men in the Yellow Turban Strokes, and took over the Yellow Turban Strokes General Guan Hai. Guan Hai was the Yellow Turban General who led the Yellow Turban Army to attack the Beihai before.

Just as Liu Bei and his 80,000 troops were heading south, Cao Cao outside Xuzhou was restless and worried. At this time, Cao's army had not attacked the city for two days.

Cao Cao paced back and forth in the big tent, and his strategists and generals stood quietly on both sides, their eyes moving with Cao Cao's movement.

"So many days! I have sent so many fast horse scouts, is there no news at all?" Cao Cao suddenly stopped and asked.

Guo Jia coughed twice, then shook his head and said, "No news is coming back!"

Cao Cao felt a little panicked, he was really worried that something would happen in Yecheng.

No! You can't delay like this anymore! Cao Cao frowned and thought so.

Cao Cao immediately ordered: "Send the order and the entire army will give up attacking Xuzhou! Start and return today!"

Hearing this order, Guo Jia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, Cao Cao had no choice but to decide to withdraw his troops. He originally planned to return to his army after capturing Xuzhou, but the fast horse scouts sent to Yecheng were as unreliable as mud bulls entering the sea. The same was true for the scouts sent by Yanzhou. This made Cao Cao not sleep well for many days. In addition, Xuzhou could not capture him for a long time, Cao Cao finally couldn't resist the worries in his heart and ordered the withdrawal of his troops.

Xuzhou resisted Cao's army for nearly a month, and the whole city was exhausted, but reinforcements were not seen for a long time.

"Yuanlong, why haven't Yuan Gong's reinforcements arrived yet?" In the governor's mansion, Tao Qian's face was covered in fatigue and fear. At this moment, Chen Deng was the only one beside Tao Qian.

Chen Deng quickly replied: "Lord, don't be anxious. Calculate the time, Yuan Gong's army should be coming soon!" Although Chen Deng said that, he had no idea at all.

He paused and continued: "Even if Mr. Yuan's army cannot arrive in time, lord doesn't need to worry! Because the general's campaign against Beijun has long been rushing to attack Yecheng. As long as we persist for a few more days, I believe Cao Cao will have to retreat!"

Tao Qian sighed and nodded, "Can you only have to rely on the Northern Army!"

At this time, General Cao Bao suddenly ran in with a happy look on his face.

"Lord, Cao's army has withdrew!" Cao Bao even forgot the salute and said hurriedly.

Tao Qian stood up suddenly and asked in disbelief: "What? What did you say?"

"Lord, Cao's army has withdrawn! I sent a scout to investigate, Cao's army has retreated to the north!" Cao Bao reported again.

Tao Qian was overjoyed and said, "It's great!" Then he quickly walked to the gate, knelt down, looked up at the sky, raised his hands high, and said loudly: "The sky has eyes!"

Chen Deng, who was standing beside him, was also very excited, and was constantly wiping his tears.

Chen Deng and Cao Bao helped Tao Qian up, and Tao Qian shouted loudly: "Go! Go to the city gate tower and take a look!" As he said that, he walked out first, looking excited.

On the way to the city gate tower, the three of them saw many people cheering. Tao Qian felt empathy.

After a while, the three of them came to the city gate and saw that the soldiers who were originally exhausted showed relief. When the soldiers saw Tao Qian coming, they saluted Tao Qian one after another.

Tao Qian leaned against the wall and looked at it, and saw that Cao Jun camp not far away seemed to have really left the village empty.

"Why did Cao's army retreat? Could it be that Yuan Gong's army arrived?" Tao Qian suddenly...

Yen asked.

Cao Bao shook his head, "No! There is no trace of Yuan Gong's army!"

At this time, Chen Deng, who was standing by, guessed: "Maybe the Northern Army of the Conquest has already broken through Yecheng, forcing Cao Cao to retreat!"

Tao Qian showed a sudden look and nodded happily, "I'm afraid this is the reason!"
Chapter completed!