Chapter 262

"What?"

Gongsun Zan, Zhang Miao, and others heard this and looked up at the flags on the city wall.

"Hiss!"

Discovering that the flags had indeed changed to Su Xuan's, everyone gasped.

"No way? Hasn't this Hulao Pass already been captured by General Su Xuan?"

"This is impossible! How long has it been? We arrived as fast as we could, how could they have captured Hulao Pass so quickly?"

"But what about the fresh blood stains in front of the city gate and the pile of corpses?"

"Why are we guessing here? Send someone to shout and ask, won't we know?"

"That's true!"

Immediately, Cao Cao sent a scout to shout.

"Are those General Su Xuan's subordinates in the city?"

"That's right!"

"Then has this Hulao Pass been captured by General Su Xuan?"

"Yes! I am Zhao Zhao Zilong from Changshan, a major general under General Su Xuan. My lord has given instructions that you can enter the city! I will order someone to open the pass right now!"

"Creak! Creak!"

After speaking, Zhao Yun waved his hand, and the messenger immediately passed down the order. Soon, the city gate was opened.

And the scout also hurriedly rode back to Cao Cao and the others, reporting the situation truthfully.

"Hiss! It really was captured! This is too powerful!"

"Indeed! It's like listening to a myth!"

"Are the troops under General Su Xuan really this elite?"

"Could it be an enemy trap?"

"...."

Facing the exclamation and hesitation of these lords, Cao Cao thought for a moment, led the army forward, arrived at the distance of an arrow shot from the pass, looked up, and happened to see Zhao Yun's face.

He had no more doubts in his heart and couldn't help but laugh at Zhao Yun: "General Zhao Zilong! How have you been? Is Su Boyuan here?"

Zhao Yun heard this and replied immediately: "After we broke through the pass, most of the enemy troops had already led their army to retreat from the west, and they also burned quite a bit of grain and fodder;"

"My lord has already led the army to pursue them!"

"It is estimated that it will take some time to return!"

"Does General Cao want to enter the pass?"

With Zhao Yun's strength, he naturally heard the discussions of those lords a thousand meters away.

He also wanted to see if these lords had the guts to come in.

"Haha! Naturally!"

Cao Cao heard this, laughed loudly, waved his hand, and ordered: "Go! Follow me into the pass!"

"Big brother! Should we be a little careful? Let me lead the army in to take a look first!"

Cao Ren, who was beside him, couldn't help but step forward to advise.

He felt that Cao Cao's decision was too reckless.

What if it's a trick?

Perhaps Zhao Yun has already been captured and persuaded to surrender by the enemy?

Better safe than sorry!

"Nonsense!"

Cao Cao heard this, glared at him, and said: "I trust Su Boyuan, and I also trust General Zhao Zilong!"

"Let's go! Follow me into the city!"

Saying this, he took the lead in approaching the pass, soon crossed the moat bridge, and entered the city gate tunnel.

They entered the pass smoothly all the way.

They didn't see any traps, only quite a few of Su Xuan's soldiers guarding the pass.

"General Cao! Zhao Yun greets you!"

At this time, Zhao Yun came down from the pass and cupped his hands at Cao Cao from afar.

At this moment, the hearts of Cao Cao, Cao Ren, and the others were completely put at ease.

"Haha! General Zhao Zilong, you are too polite!"

Cao Cao smiled kindly, dismounted, stepped forward, and asked: "I didn't expect you to really capture this Hulao Pass in this short half-hour;"

"It's simply unbelievable. How did you do it? Can you tell me? I'm very curious!"

"That's no problem!"

Zhao Yun didn't refuse and immediately recounted the process of the siege to Cao Cao roughly.

Of course, this was a combat process that had been artistically processed.

It omitted the deeds of forcing the enemy to surrender, capturing a large number of prisoners, and money and grain after they broke through the pass.

Instead, it fabricated the process of the enemy seeing the pass was broken, immediately burning a large amount of grain and fodder, and leading the army to flee from the other side of the pass.

"Is that really how it happened?"

Even so, Cao Cao still looked amazed: "Su Boyuan is amazing! His personal guard battalion is also amazing!"

"To be able to break through the city in such a way;"

"A surprise attack of hundreds of meters, following the enemy into the pass—it's simply a stroke of genius!"

"However, the general guarding the pass was clearly also a fool;"

"Also, among those Xiliang troops that Hua Xiong took to challenge and then fled, there were probably some heavyweight figures;"

"Otherwise, the enemy general guarding the pass couldn't have risked opening the pass at such a time."

Hearing Cao Cao's analysis, Zhao Yun was also a little surprised.

He thought: "This Cao Cao is quite amazing! To be able to analyze this point based on such tampered information."

However, on the surface, Zhao Yun smiled modestly: "Not at all! Not at all! This time it was just good luck! If it were General Cao, you probably could have done it too!"

"In the end, it was still the enemy general who was too careless and stupid!"

Cao Cao nodded noncommittally: "Perhaps!"

He knew that there must be a problem with this.

If the enemy general guarding the pass were really this incompetent, Hulao Pass would have fallen long ago!

However, he wasn't the type of person to get to the bottom of things, and he didn't say anything more.

Seeing that Cao Cao had entered the pass and was safe and sound, the lords outside the city couldn't sit still.

They led their troops into the pass one after another.

They also discovered the incredible parts and couldn't help but ask Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun naturally used the same old set of lies to fool them.

And he didn't care whether these people believed it or not; as long as he believed it himself, that was enough.

As for those who were pestering and wanted to get to the bottom of it, Zhao Yun directly released a portion of his aura, scolded them with a cold face, and these people felt fear and didn't dare to ask more for the time being.

Until Lord Yuan Shao and Lord Yuan Shu led their troops to arrive.

They surrounded Lord Yuan Shao and Lord Yuan Shu one after another, told them the doubts in their hearts, and wanted to incite the two to ask Zhao Yun about the secrets.

"A bunch of idiots, what other reason could there be? Of course, it's because the troops under Su Xuan are very powerful!"

"They actually want to go and pressure Su Xuan? They're simply tired of living!"

Lord Yuan Shu sneered in his heart.

Do these people really think Su Xuan is a nice guy who is easy to talk to and easy to bully?

Once they suffer, he believes these people will understand how stupid their behavior is.

Therefore, he didn't intend to remind these people.

In fact, he wished these people would provoke Su Xuan's subordinates more; when that time came, Su Xuan would definitely not swallow his anger.

He imagined that there would be a good show to watch then.

On the contrary, Lord Yuan Shao seemed to have been really moved by these people and went directly to Zhao Yun, wanting to get to the bottom of it!

— Author's Notes —

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