On July 28, the fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky.

As if fate was teasing, after a full day of heavy rain, the rain gradually began to weaken, and finally turned into thin and hazy raindrops, scattered over Xinye City.

Xiahou Dun was wearing a black cloak, with raindrops hanging on the black iron tassel. His expression was solemn and solemn. Under his feet was the Xinye City Tower with blood still left. After two days of fierce battle, after investing nearly 20,000 elite troops, Cao's army finally broke into Xinye City. However, this does not mean that the defenders had surrendered. Gao Shun, who was unwilling to surrender, still led the remaining soldiers to fight in the streets west and south of the city.

"If you pass the order, someone who wins Gao Shun's head will be rewarded with a thousand gold!" Gao Shun's character is very clear. Xiahou Dun is very clear that this person is notorious for not eating. Even if he is captured, he can only kill him.

In the south of the city, one or two deadly and precise arrow clusters were shot out from time to time, and the triangular arrows pierced into the necks of the Cao soldiers who were searching for the search, so that they fell down weakly before they could make a sound.

"General, I'm the sixth!" A young soldier of sixteen or seventeen years old was lying behind the window with a short bow. After seeing the enemy soldiers falling down near him, he shouted excitedly.

"Cough, well done, hurry up and take advantage of the enemy around you and pull out the arrows from the body." On the left side of the boy, he was Gao Shun, who was leaning against a middle-aged general who was leaning against a wall and wrapped in a hemostatic strip on his chest.

The young man followed and ran over quickly. After the fall of the North City, Gao Shun fought and retreated, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him. In the end, only this young man who had just entered the battle formation was left. The shouts of killing gradually diminished around him. Gao Shun knew that there were not many brothers in the camp who were still alive, and it would not take long for the Cao soldiers who searched to rush here.

"Pampered by - I finally repay your kindness. If I have the fate in the next life, I will submit it to your account first; Wen Yuan, the second mistress and the lady will ask you, and I believe you will treat them well." At this time, only this thought flashed in Gao Shun's heart, and his mood was unexpectedly calm.

"Gao Shun is here!" A shout suddenly rang out.

After hearing the shouts, Shi Huan, who was searching nearby, quickly called a soldier beside him to surround him. The two soldiers who were snatching out of the corner of the wall were pierced through the throat by two sharp arrows.

"Whoever retreats will end up!" Shi Huan raised his sword and chopped a soldier who turned around and wanted to escape to the ground.

The remaining two soldiers had no choice but to shrink their bodies and thrust their swords to explore the place where the arrows were shot out. This time, they had learned to dodge several arrows in succession and quickly approached Gao Shun's hiding place.

During the battle, due to lack of experience and strength against the enemy, the young soldier was quickly forced to a dead end by the two enemies. Then he rushed forward and hugged a strong Cao soldier with his body. The two rolled to the ground together, but in a blink of an eye, the heart was pierced by the tip of the knife inserted obliquely on the ground.

"Gao Shun, you have become a turtle in the jar, why don't you abandon the knife and surrender quickly!" Shi Huan sneered and approached step by step.

Gao Shun reluctantly supported his shaking body with a knife, smiled contemptuously, and said, "If you want to take Gao's head, you have to do so much verbal trouble, even if you come here!"

"Do you think I dare not?" Shi Huan said this, but his steps stopped involuntarily.

Gao Shun remained silent. Shi Huan, who was so harsh and weak, was just a villain who bullied the weak. It was really unwilling to die at the hands of such a person!

"Gao Shun, go and die!" Shi Huan roared lowly and rushed forward.

The last Cao army soldier beside him heard Shi Huan's roar, afraid that he would end up deadly even if he was afraid of being unable to move, so he stepped forward with a knife. Gao Shun, who was unable to move due to excessive blood loss, did not dodge at all. He just used his last little effort to lift the sword rolled up by the blade, and used the enemy's rushing towards him to pierce the Cao soldier's stomach.

However, at this moment, Shi Huan seized the opportunity to rise up, and swept across Gao Shun's neck with a knife, and the powerful force suddenly swung a person's head high.

"Hahaha, it's over to trap the camp!" Shi Huan copied the fallen head and laughed at Gao Shun with his eyes wide open and his eyes closed.

After noon on July 28, the last little resistance ended with Gao Shun's death. Xinye City was finally completely destroyed. None of the 721 soldiers in the camp, including Gao Shun, survived. Hundreds of households in the city were slaughtered by Cao's army. The bloody storm of war almost turned this small border town into a hell on earth.

That night, dusk was pressing against the formation. On the walls of Fancheng, two hundred miles away from Xinye City, Zhou Yu and Xu Shu guarded here in the rain. Outside the city, an army was advancing in the heavy rain. The flags were rolled up by the rain. Only the words "Baoling Prefect Huang" could be seen from one corner.

"Han has risen!" Xu Shu stood up long.

Before this, the Zhu Huan tribe of Dangyang, who had arrived in a hurry, had arrived here, but even so, the two divisions had only more than 9,000 people in total, and it was still quite difficult to fight against Cao's army, which was nearly three times more than it was. The joy was only revealed on Zhou Yu's face for a moment, and his eyebrows quickly condensed again. It was almost three days and two nights. Since last night, the news about Xinye City has been completely interrupted. Now it is unknown whether Gao Shun is dead or alive.

"Military advisor, has Taishi Ci not arrived in Xinye yet?" Zhou Yu's tone was a little blamed. The difficult situation Gao Shun faced is conceivable. As the closest army to Xinye, Taishi Ci was the only hope to rescue Gao Shun.

Xu Shu looked solemn, and he shook his head and said, "The road between Huyang and Xinye was blocked by heavy rain. General Ziyi is looking for another mountain road to rescue!"

After hearing this, Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "No matter what the reason is, I want him to appear in Xinye City immediately. General Gao Shun has a few shortcomings. Not only is he Taishi Ci unable to bear this responsibility, but you and I cannot explain it to the coach."

Xu Shu sighed: "Governor calms down. I'm afraid even if Taishi Ci arrives, it will be too late."

"Governor, military advisor, with my three thousand elite troops of Huang Zhong, he Xiahou Yuan would not want to occupy Xiangyang!" On the city steps, Huang Zhong strode up to the top of the city and said loudly, because his white beards were trembling slightly in the rain.

Before Huang Zhong finished speaking, a scout outside the city rushed over. When he approached the city gate, he happened to meet Huang Zhong's army entering the city one by one. Seeing that the scout could not pass for a while, he quickly took down the longbow on his back and shot an arrow at the top of the city. The arrow fell on the city wall with a "clang" sound, and was then picked up by the guards on the top of the city.

Xu Shu took it and saw a piece of book slate tied to the arrow branch. After he was untied, his face immediately changed drastically. After a while, he murmured: "At noon today, Xinye fell, and General Gao Shun was killed!"

"What did you say?" Zhou Yu looked at Xu Shu with disbelief and looked in pain. His emotions that had been suppressed for a long time could no longer be controlled. He couldn't help but yelled at Xu Shu.

Xu Shu also looked sad and angry. Gao Shun's death could have been completely avoided. If he could have detected the abnormal movements in Wancheng earlier, if he could have made a pre-judgment earlier after discovering that there was no news from He Zong, if the deployment of troops in Xiangyang was not so scattered, if—.

However, all these were not taken seriously, so after receiving the news of Cao's army's southern expedition, Gao Shun received only the four words "stay in the new world".

Zhou Yu stood up to the sky in the rain, letting the rain hit his fair face, and small rain flowers splashed on his face again and again. At this moment, Zhou Yu only hoped that the pain would come more violently.

Although Zhou Yu had led the army independently in previous battles, he was surrounded by Sun Ce and Gao Chong. This time, he became the last decision-maker. The excessive tension and heavy pressure almost made Zhou Yu's psychology close to collapse.

At this time, a lightning strike in the sky intertwined and electricity, falling straight into the surging Xiangshui, which stabilized Zhou Yu's out of control again. Indeed, scolding, criticism, and regret could not solve the current difficulties. Xiahou Dun's military offensive was obviously carefully prepared. If they fight and consume each other with conventional tactics, Gao Chongjun could only face failure.

"Governor, don't worry, please give your orders, we will all listen to you." Zhu Huan rubbed his blood-covered eyes and bowed.

With the enemy in front of him, he had always been steadfast and was the first to arrive in Fancheng for hundreds of miles on two days and two nights. Zhou Yu cast a grateful look at Zhu Huan. At this time, a moment of hesitation would bring immeasurable disasters. Gao Chong was not here, and as the governor, he should take responsibility, rather than question other people.

"Military advisor, I have a plan to defeat Cao's army!" Zhou Yu's eyes flashed after regaining his rationality.

Xu Shu said: "Governor tell me!"

Zhou Yu took a step forward and pointed to the surging river and shouted: "Military advisor, Fancheng is located at the intersection of Xiangshui and Bishui. Although the terrain outside the northern city is wide, it is quite low-lying. If we try to block the water from the upstream first and then lure Xiahou Dun camp here, we can irrigate Cao camp without any effort. If the plan is completed, we can gather 30,000 enemies."

Xu Shu nodded first, shook his head, and said, "It is good to have a general's plan, but there is still a fatal weakness. There have been heavy rains in the past few days, and the rivers in the upper reaches will also surge. It is not easy for our army to build a dam to intercept the water."

Zhou Yu said confidently: "Military advisor, the rainfall in the past two days is concentrated in the Xiangshui and the Sanshui River basin. Bishui has not been hit by heavy rainstorms. If we send an elite soldier to build a dam in the Bishui area first, as long as we grasp the time well, we can accumulate enough water so that Cao's soldiers will never return."

Xu Shu's eyes lit up and said, "Huyang is swimming in the water. We only need to order Ziyi to return and turn to the water to win the most precious time."
Chapter completed!