Hundreds of officers and soldiers quickly approached the city wall. The leading general observed the situation on the city. Seeing that there were neither sentries nor anyone passing by, he immediately ordered several soldiers to shoot the hook onto the city. A few light sounds were heard, and it seemed abrupt in the quiet night. The general used gestures to stop the officers and soldiers, and then he observed the movements on the city. Seeing that the sentries in the distance did not notice the movements here, he immediately waved his hand, and the officers and soldiers immediately pulled the rope and climbed up to the city.

The officer led dozens of officers and soldiers to the top of the city first. Then the shadow cover quickly rushed towards the sentries near the city gate tower. Several sentries were gathered together to talk, talking and laughing, and they didn't notice that the enemy was approaching them at this moment. Suddenly, a sentry opened his eyes and shouted behind the sentry opposite: "Who?" The other sentries were shocked. Before they understood what was going on, Lu Bu's officers and soldiers rushed forward and waved their long swords to slash and kill! Several sentries were caught off guard and were chopped down in a pool of blood before they could react.

Immediately afterwards, the city gate was opened. Seeing this, Zhao Yun immediately said to the general beside him: "You are the general who stays outside the city. If you see the rockets in the city fly up, you will immediately lead your army into the city and encircle and annihilate the enemy with me! If you don't see the rockets, you must not move arbitrarily and stay outside the city to meet our army!" The general held his fists and agreed. Zhao Yun waved his dragon gall spear and shouted: "Enter the city!" Tens of thousands of war cavalry rushed up immediately and poured into the city from the wide open city gate.

In Zhuge Mengxue's mansion, Zhuge Mengxue was about to go to bed. Suddenly, he heard a huge shout outside the city. He was shocked and quickly got up and put on his dress to leave the bedroom. As soon as he came out, he met Zhuge Ruoxue who had just run out of the bedroom and shouted, "Ruoxue!" Zhuge Ruoxue rushed to Zhuge Mengxue's side and said anxiously, "Sister, have you heard it?" Zhuge Mengxue nodded, looked outside the mansion, and frowned, "This sound is very wrong, it seems that the enemy's large army has come in!" Zhuge Ruoxue frowned and said, "How could this happen?!" Zhuge Mengxue said in a deep voice: "It seems that we have all underestimated that Zhao Yun!"

At this moment, a maid ran over in panic and shouted in urgency: "It's not good, it's not good! Miss, the second lady, Lu Bu's army is coming in!" Although the two sisters had already predicted it, they were still shocked when they heard the maid's words. Zhuge Ruoxue asked hurriedly, "Where is Kong Ming?" The maid said: "Young Master has already rushed to the military camp!" At this moment, the shouts outside turned into thrilling

Zhuge Ruoxue couldn't help but say joy: "This must be our army's counterattack!" However, not long after, the huge killing sound seemed to completely cover the other side, and the huge killing sound was approaching quickly! Zhuge Mengxue and Ruoge Ruoxue both changed their faces, and Zhuge Mengxue said: "No! I think our army could not resist and was defeated by the enemy!!" When the maid heard this, she panicked and shouted, "We, let's run away quickly!"

Zhuge Ruoxue shouted angrily: "Will you run to the street to die at this time?" Zhuge Mengxue nodded and said: "Ruoxue is right. At this time, we cannot act rashly." Then he said to the maid: "Tell the servants not to be afraid, and immediately close the front and back access controls and stay at home and wait. We will definitely not have any trouble." The maid responded and ran down quickly.

Zhuge Ruoxue pointed to a high pavilion not far away and said, "Sister, let's go to the attic to see the situation in the city!" Zhuge Mengxue nodded, so the two sisters rushed to the attic. This kind of attic was specially used for viewing the scenery in ancient wealthy families, and was often more than ten meters high. Therefore, as soon as the two sisters arrived at the attic, most of the city views came into view!

"Sister, look!" Zhuge Ruoxue pointed to the main street not far away and shouted. Zhuge Mengxue had also seen it. At this time, on the street not far away, countless cavalry were rushing and rushing, while the army on the other side was collapsing. The scene was like a surging torrent raging on the street, sweeping everyone wherever they passed! A huge rumbling sound was accompanied by the screams and shouts of countless people! The scene was tragic. Obviously, the cavalry had completely controlled the situation, while the officers and soldiers on the other side were being ruthlessly killed!

This was the first time that the two sisters saw a real battle. The heroic and cruel scene brought them great shock. They couldn't help but look pale and their bodies were trembling uncontrollably!

At this time, Zhuge Liang was still trying to make his final efforts, but the counterattacking army failed to cause any obstacles to the opponent. Instead, he suffered heavy casualties and failed to break up in front of the opponent's tsunami-like rush. Seeing that the defeat was settled, Zhuge Liang quickly ordered a full retreat to the west, but he himself had no time to return to his mansion. With the support of Ma Su and others, he ran towards the west gate.

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Xuchang, Prime Minister's Mansion. Cao Cao was talking to Xun Yu, Guo Jia and others in the hall. An officer rushed over and presented a bamboo slip bag and said, "Prime Minister, General Cao Ren sent someone to send an emergency military report!"

Cao Cao immediately took the bamboo slip bag, opened the bag, took out a roll of bamboo slips, threw the bamboo slip bag back to the officer, quickly spread the bamboo slip bag and looked at it, unable to help but exclaim: "It's true as Fengxiao expected! Lu Bu put a big trap for Liu Bei!" When everyone heard this, they all felt moved. Xun You couldn't help but hold his fists and said: "Prime Minister, what's the situation now?" Cao Cao smiled and said: "How can the outcome be better if he was ambushed by Lu Bu's tiger and wolf army! Liu Bei's 400,000 army was killed by the 200,000 Lu Bu's army in Hefei and almost wiped out all the troops! Liu Bei's life and death are unknown! Lu Bu is leading the army westward to Jingzhou!" Xun You couldn't help but exclaim: "Liu Bei was defeated so miserably?!"

Guo Jia, lying on the soft bed, clasped his fists at Cao Cao and said, "Prime Minister, please immediately order the two princes Cao Ang and Cao Zhang to lead their troops to attack Jiange!" Because Guo Jia judged in advance, Liu Bei was very likely to be defeated in this battle. Therefore, as early as before the war, Cao Cao sent Cao Ang and Cao Zhang's two sons to secretly lead an army of 100,000 to Hanzhong, preparing to raid Jiange with lightning speed when Liu Bei was defeated! However, Cao Cao naturally would not put all the bargaining chips aside. In fact, when he secretly sent his two sons to Hanzhong, he secretly dispatched troops to strengthen the forces of Xiaopei and the eastern part of Yanzhou. If Lu Bu was defeated by Liu Bei, he would immediately mobilize the army of Xiaopei and Yanzhou to raid eastward and capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop!

After Zhao Yun captured Xiangyang in one fell swoop, he did not pursue the west, because the north bank of the Han River was currently under the hands of Cao's army, and general Cao Ren was leading an army of 50,000 to station troops in Wancheng. Zhao Yun had few troops in his hands. If he still pursued the west, he was afraid that Cao Ren would take the opportunity to lead his army south to capture Xiangyang. If that happens, he would be a loser!

It is said that Zhuge Liang and others fled in a hurry, fleeing all the way to the southwest, and stopped when they knew Linju County. This Linju is located south of Jingshan, dozens of miles southwest of Xiangyang, and is located on the west bank of Jushui, so it is named Linju. In terms of its geographical location, between Zigui and Xiangyang, it is the only way to retreat from Xiangyang to Sichuan from the direction of Xiangyang.

Zhuge Liang was shocked and immediately ordered Ma Su to check his troops. Not long afterwards, Ma Su replied: "Sir, there are only five or six thousand soldiers left! Another general Wei Yan disappeared. I heard that he was captured by Zhao Yun alive..." Zhuge Liang frowned and couldn't help but say sadly: "I didn't expect that Zhuge Liang would suffer such a great defeat! I am really ashamed of my lord!" Ma Su said: "Sir, don't blame yourself! This great defeat is not the fault of my lord. If the lord had not listened to the gentleman's hard advice and insisted on using troops to Lu Bu, how could he have suffered such a great defeat? Alas! Two years of achievements can be said to be ruined!"

Zhuge Liang asked, "Is there any news about the lord?" Ma Su shook his head, "No! I'm afraid..." Zhuge Liang immediately shouted, "Don't guess!" Ma Su responded.

At this time, an officer rushed in outside the door and said with his fists: "Military advisor, the lord is back!" Zhuge Liang was overjoyed and rushed out. As soon as he left the hall, Liu Bei came in with Guan Yu, Zhang Ren, Pang Tong and Mi Fang and others. Everyone except Mi Fang looked very embarrassed.

Zhuge Liang hurried forward and said, "Lord!..." Liu Bei sighed when he saw Zhuge Liang, and grabbed Zhuge Liang's fist, and said with infinite regret: "I regret not listening to Kong Ming's good advice, which led to our army's defeat!..." Zhuge Liang shook his head quickly and comforted him: "Lord, don't be depressed! Although we have suffered huge losses, there is still Xichuan and nearly 100,000 troops. We can still make a comeback!" Liu Bei regained some confidence, nodded, and said, "What Kong Ming said is very true! We can make a comeback!"

Pang Tong came forward, clasped his fists with shame and said, "Kong Ming, I, I really have no shame to see you!" Zhuge Liang patted Pang Tong on the shoulder and comforted him, "Don't say anything! Let him go over the past matters!..." Pang Tong nodded gratefully.

Zhuge Liang invited everyone into the hall, Liu Bei sat down on the upper head, while the others sat on both sides of the hall.
Chapter completed!