The news of Liu Yu's dispatch of troops soon reached Cao Cao's ears.

Cao Cao immediately made up his life and must capture Nanpi City before Liu Yu's army arrives and capture Liu Bei alive.

As a result, the Cao army's offensive was as fierce as before, putting huge pressure on Liu Bei's army, who was defending Cao's army here.

Yuan Shao didn't know what Cao Cao promised, so he also increased his offensive together.

Liu Bei's army fought on both sides in Nanpi City. Although there were strong cities to defend, there were still a large number of casualties.

As the number of casualties continues to increase, the control over the city has become much smaller.

Finally, on a dark night, someone climbed over the city wall and ran out.

The one who ran out was not someone else, but a servant from the Zhang family in Nanpi City.

The Zhang family of Nanpi had been involved in the riots in Nanpi City before. They wanted to take the opportunity to open the city gate, but Jia Xu designed it to be a bunch of them.

As a result, many dead soldiers and tribe members died.

Jia Xu suggested that Liu Bei eliminate all the aristocratic families involved in the riot. Liu Bei was kind and unwilling to commit more killings. So he ordered the release of these aristocratic families.

The Zhang family was one of the leaders of these aristocratic families. Although Liu Bei no longer pursued the riot, he had not returned any of the people they had arrested before. Moreover, he also seized the food from their warehouse from these aristocratic families.

The hatred of killing people and robbing food is irreconcilable.

The Zhang family hated Liu Bei to the core because of this.

Afterwards, although the people from the Zhang family pretended to be obedient, they kept looking for opportunities to contact Yuan Shao outside the city.

Today they finally found a chance to send a servant out of the city.

After the Zhang family's servants left the city, they ran all the way outside Yuan Shao's camp.

When the soldiers guarding the camp heard that he had run out of Nanpi City, they immediately took him to the central army's tent.

After meeting Yuan Shao, the servant took out a letter from his close-fitting clothes. This letter was written by the head of the Zhang family in the city to Yuan Shao.

The letter describes the situation in the city in detail, and agrees that at midnight tomorrow, all the people in the city will be summoned to launch a surprise attack to occupy a city gate and welcome Yuan Shao's army into the city.

The next day during the day, Yuan Shao's army stepped up the pace of siege, which put Xu Huang on the top of the city under great pressure.

He could only use all his strength to get involved with Yuan Shaojun desperately.

The battle continued until the sun set, and Yuan Shao ordered the troops to withdraw and return to the camp. On the top of the city, Xu Huang looked at Yuan Shao's retreating army and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At midnight, the Zhang family sent people to the city as promised, and then cooperated with the people of other aristocratic families to open the north gate of Nanpi City.

When Yuan Shao's army, who was hiding outside the city, saw that the opportunity came, they immediately launched the army and rushed directly into Nanpi City.

After entering the city, Cao's army fought all the way and only rushed to the prefect's mansion.

Liu Bei was woken up in his sleep. Before he could get angry, he heard the shouts of killing outside and was stunned.

"Lord, the enemy is entering the city, come with us!" The personal guards said anxiously when they saw Liu Bei being stunned.

"How did the enemy army enter the city? What happened to the others?" Liu Bei grabbed the arm of his guard and asked loudly.

The personal guard didn't know how to answer, and just wanted to find a reason.

At this time, the "thump" footsteps sounded.

Zhang Fei rushed into the house with a bloody snake spear.

"Brother, the enemy is powerful, follow me out of the city." Seeing that Liu Bei had already stood up, Zhang Fei immediately spoke.

"Third brother, what's the situation outside? Is there someone from the military advisor there?" Seeing that it was Zhang Fei, Liu Bei was overjoyed and asked quickly.

"Gongming has already gone there. Brother, please follow me quickly!"

"Okay." Liu Bei said as he got up and started dressing.

At this time, the city had already been in chaos. Apart from the Xin family, other aristocratic families almost came out to help the Yuan army who had entered the city attack Liu Bei's army.

It caused Liu Bei's army to be attacked from both sides, and I don't know how many enemies there were in the dark.

Fortunately, Zhang Fei protected Liu Bei and appeared in time, so he stopped the riots and then killed a wave of people.

After meeting Xu Huang and others, Liu Bei sighed and said, "Go out of the city and go west!"

To the west of Nanpi City is the sea. Liu Bei knew that there was a fleet waiting for him on the way, so he had to retreat, so he had to go on.
Chapter completed!