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Beneath a tall broad-leaved tree, the merchants who had escaped into the forest had their hands tied, their mouths stuffed with cloth strips. They lowered their heads, and occasionally peeked at the surrounding Xuzhou Army soldiers. These few people were all unlucky, not long after they escaped into the forest, they were caught by Zhang Fei who rushed over, if not for the fact that they were all from Xuzhou and were so full of flattery, they would have already lost their heads.

Zhang Fei was riding on a tree branch that was five to six feet off the ground, and was staring at the official road below. A troop of several hundred cavalrymen were riding along the public road, preparing to pass through the forest. Zhang Fei recognized Leader with a single glance, and his heart filled with rage. If not for his brother Liu Bei having other plans, he would have rushed out to take revenge for last night!

Zhang Ping nervously licked his lips, leaned close to Zhang Fei and whispered: "Brother, do you want to rush out?"

Zhang Fei hesitated and slowly shook his head. Currently, Lv Bu was on the other side of the forest, but he did not know that even though he was not certain that Lv Bu was behind him, he did not want to act rashly.

The forest was extremely dense, completely covering the figures of Zhang Fei and the rest. Furthermore, they had all come from the other side, so they did not leave any footprints on Zhang Liao's side. Right at this moment, the sound of tree branches snapping came from within the forest, followed by the sound of someone rolling down from the hillside, pouncing in front of Zhang Liao.

The surrounding soldiers were shocked, a few of the personal guards quickly rushed forward, pressing the man who was rolling down onto the ground. Zhang Liao looked down and saw that the man was dressed like a merchant, with his hands tied together and a cloth stuffed in his mouth. He quickly got the man to take the cloth off so he could ask a question.

On top of the mountain forest, Zhang Fei was dumbstruck. He turned his head and asked the guards in a low voice, "What happened? Why did that fellow suddenly get lost? "

Those janissaries' faces were full of fear and guilt. One of them said softly, "Just now, I was staring at the enemy and did not notice the activity of these businessmen. I did not expect that the guy would roll down while we were unprepared.

"What's the use of punishing you and the others!" Zhang Fei groaned, pointed at the few merchants and roared: "Kill them!"

If it was another time, Zhang Fei would have understood what the fellow who was rolling down was thinking, but the situation was urgent, he did not have the mind to bother with such a small matter, but in order to vent his anger, he still ordered his comrades killed. In any case, the lives of a few insignificant ants were not in his eyes.

Several soldiers came forward and beheaded the businessmen under their terrified and pleading eyes.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was already on alert and Zhang Liao had already started to ask the person who rolled down, Zhang Fei knew that Xing Zang would reveal himself soon, so he waved his hand and shouted: "Follow me and get out of here!" As he spoke, he jumped onto his warhorse and took the lead to rush downwards.

The two thousand elite soldiers shouted loudly, and followed Zhang Fei down the mountain forest.

Zhang Liao had just asked two questions, when he heard sounds of killing from all directions, and then a large group of Xuzhou Army soldiers rushed out. He did not even bother to ask about the person and quickly shouted: "There's an ambush, quickly retreat!"

The terrain here was narrow, making it unfavorable for the cavalry to fight. Furthermore, Zhang Liao did not know how many soldiers were lying in ambush here, for the sake of safety, he did not want to fight with the enemy on the spot.

Normally, Zhang Liao would personally train them, and occasionally, Lv Bu would also personally train them. As a result, although this troop of cavalry was small, their position in the Bingzhou Army was even higher than Gao Shun's xianzhen camp. All of them held their weapons tightly and prepared to fight. After hearing Zhang Liao's orders, they turned their horses around and followed Zhang Liao.

Even though they were charging from the top to the bottom, due to the tree branches and leaves blocking, the speed of the war horses in the forest couldn't be faster. When Zhang Fei reached the official road, the Bingzhou Army Cavalry at the back were already more than ten steps away from him. Without any hesitation, he galloped his horse and caught up. The big black horse under him was a high quality horse, and quickly caught up to the Bingzhou Army Soldiers behind. Seeing Zhang Fei had caught up, the few Soldiers all turned around and rushed towards him.

Zhang Fei originally had no place to vent his anger, now that he saw that a few mere guards dared to stop him, the anger in his heart grew even stronger. Just then, a Bingzhou Army soldier leapt off the horse's back, fearlessly pouncing towards Zhang Fei, the ring head knife in his hands hacking down onto him.

Zhang Fei sneered, the spear pierced the man's heart like lightning, the man screamed miserably and died, the ring head knife in his hands powerlessly falling to the ground. Zhang Fei's arms trembled violently, attempting to throw the corpse onto the ground.

Ka-cha! * Not only did Zhang Fei not shake the corpse off the ground, he had even broken the spear in his hands. Originally, the length of the temporarily borrowed spear had met Zhang Fei's requirements, but the shaft of the spear was made of wood, he treated the spear as his own, and did not expect to break the spear shaft using too much force.

Zhang Fei was startled, he immediately threw away the broken spear shaft, and casually grabbed the spear from the person beside him, then raised the reins and continued to chase after him.

Zhang Liao noticed that Zhang Fei had caught up with him, and immediately turned and rushed back. When Zhang Fei once again took action against the few soldiers behind, he immediately used his blade to block Zhang Fei's attack, and then started to fight. The two of them had gone through a tough battle last night, so they had a thorough understanding of each other. As a result, they would go all out from the start, afraid that their opponent would seize the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

In the blink of an eye, the two had already exchanged five or six blows. As Zhang Fei's hand was still holding onto the wooden spear, he did not dare clash with Zhang Liao's weapon at all.

The more Zhang Fei fought, the more frustrated he became. If it wasn't for the fact that the weapon was not suitable, he wouldn't be afraid of clashing head on with Zhang Liao, and could only barely defend against his opponent's attack. He almost did not have the chance to retaliate at all, as long as Zhang Fei attacked Zhang Liao's vital parts, Zhang Liao would directly and ruthlessly chop down the blade, which would always be able to force Zhang Fei to take back his moves.

The two of them exchanged a few more moves. Zhang Liao had the upper hand, if Zhang Fei was not able to escape in time, losing would happen sooner or later.

At this moment, Lv Bu's voice suddenly came from behind Zhang Liao: "Wen Yuan, this one will help you!"

'Lv Bu has indeed arrived! ' Zhang Fei exclaimed in his heart, since he had achieved his goal of luring the enemy, when he blocked one of Zhang Liao's blade, he turned his horse around and left.

"Ringeye Man, where do you think you're going?!" Lv Bu instantly saw Zhang Fei, who was about thirty to forty steps away, and shouted as he spurred his horse towards him.

Zhang Fei sneered, raised the reins and rushed forward.

Seeing that the general had retreated, the Xuzhou Army soldiers followed the orders and followed Zhang Fei.

Lv Bu chased after him and killed three or four enemy soldiers who were blocking his way. Just like that, when he raised his head to look, he realized that Zhang Fei was already forty to fifty steps away. With a lot of troops in the middle of him, it would be difficult for him to catch up with Zhang Fei. However, Lv Bu also hated Zhang Fei to the bones, he was not willing to let him go so easily. He immediately urged his red rabbit horse and rushed towards Zhang Fei, killing and injuring all the Xuzhou Army Warriors that were blocking in front of him. After ten breaths, Lv Bu was only less than ten steps away from Zhang Fei. It was just that he was rushing too fast, so the number of people following him were few and far between.

Zhang Liao shouted anxiously from behind, "My lord, be on guard against any ambush ahead!"

Lv Bu laughed, and did not take Zhang Liao's warning to heart. Liu Xuande had suffered a great defeat, and would definitely return to Xuzhou in a hurry, which was why he had allowed Zhang Fei's troops to ambush and block him, and Zhang Fei had already been exposed, how could there be any troops lying in ambush in front of him?

Zhang Fei turned his head to look and saw that Lv Bu was practically riding alone and had caught up to him. He was immediately overjoyed, afraid that Lv Bu would stop and wait for the other people, so he slowed down while cursing at Lv Bu.

Lv Bu was furious, he swore to himself that he would tear Zhang Fei's corpse into a thousand pieces, thus he increased his speed again and chased after him.

Zhang Liao who was at the back saw the situation and anxiously stomped his feet, he could not wait for Chen Gong's army to arrive, and led the 400 odd cavalrymen to chase after them.

In the time it took an incense stick to burn, Zhang Fei and Lv Bu had already sprinted five or six kilometers forward. There were only a dozen or so people by Zhang Fei's side left, and his other subordinates were far behind him. Lv Bu's side had even fewer people. Other than the four personal guards, there was no one else.

A mile behind Lv Bu, Zhang Liao was rushing over on horseback, ignoring the Xuzhou Army soldiers beside him. At this moment, Zhang Liao was already sure that Zhang Fei was luring the enemy, and there was definitely still Liu Bei's group lying in ambush in front of him. However, Lv Bu turned a deaf ear to his shouts, and he could only desperately chase after him.

At this time, a very strange situation had occurred on the official road. Zhang Fei was at the front riding on his horse while Lv Bu was following closely behind. A large group of Xuzhou Army's soldiers were left behind, but the cavalry led by Zhang Liao turned a blind eye to them. These Xuzhou Army's soldiers did not have any intentions of fighting, they only focused on rushing forward.

On a mountain ridge three to four kilometers away, Liu Bei looked at the rushing Zhang Fei and the powerless Lv Bu behind him, and a rich smile appeared on his face. If Lv Bu's entire army were to chase after him, he really didn't have the confidence to defeat them. But now, Lv Bu was actually so arrogant and conceited, bringing a few people with him to chase after him, he was simply courting death!

When Lv Bu reached the bottom of the mountain, he took a deep breath and gave the order to shoot.