Chapter 356: Battle of Puyang (5)

In the summer of the first year of Xingping, the Kanto region ushered in a major drought, and during the autumn harvest of the same year, a locust plague broke out suddenly......

The locusts crossed the border, and no rice was left, and Yanzhou was also one of the affected prefectures; Cao Cao's army and Lu Bu's army, which was short of food, had no choice but to temporarily suspend their troops and make a truce and look everywhere for a place to find food.

In the same year, Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian died of illness, and when he was dying, he actually ordered Pei Taishou Liu Bei to take over as Xuzhou Mu, instead of his two sons, pottery merchants or Tao Ying.

The second son, Tao Ying, was filial piety and had no ambition to compete for the world, and did not object to Liu Bei's succession as Xuzhou Mu, but the eldest son Tao Shang felt resentful and incomprehensible about this move. As the eldest son of the potter, there is no outstanding talent, strength, but as the lord of the success, there is still more than enough, because the younger brother does not compete for the position, so the two brothers have always been brothers, friends, brothers, and the potters also regard Xuzhou as a bag.

It's just that now Liu Bei, an outsider, stepped in and sat on the throne of the lord of Xuzhou in a grand manner, which made the pottery merchant resentful, but the military power of Xuzhou has been taken over by Liu Bei's two righteous brothers, only his father-in-law Cao Bao still holds one-third of the military power, and at the same time, the elite recruited by his father before his death, the Danyang soldiers are also under the control of the father-in-law, which makes the pottery merchant let go of a lot of worries.

"Lord Taishan, what should you and I do?" In the Tao Mansion, a pottery merchant dressed in filial piety clothes asked Cao Bao for advice.

"Virtuous son-in-law, this is ......the only way to do this," Cao Bao whispered in the potter's ear, who nodded his head from time to time to show understanding.

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On the other hand, Cao Cao stationed in Juancheng, seeking fighters, but also because of the lack of food.

"Wen Ruo, what is the best way to solve the food shortage crisis?" In the Juancheng meeting hall, Cao Cao gathered all the generals and strategists here to discuss the matter of grain and grass.

"Just because we don't have food and grass doesn't mean that others don't have ......," Li Wei said softly, but it brought a lot of inspiration to others.

"Why don't we go to a nearby village to collect food...... No, this will only discredit Mengde. Xiahou touched his chin, and after proposing a proposal, he vetoed it himself.

In fact, An Min's words reminded Yu ...... In Chendi's Runan and Yingchuan, there were still Yellow Turban remnants He Yi, He Man and Huang Shao operating there, and these thieves usually plundered towns, prefectures, and counties, and there must have been a lot of gold and silk, grain and grass; and the Yellow Turban thieves today generally have low morale and combat effectiveness, and they only need to send trained recruits to the expedition to win. In this way, our army has three gains, one is gold, silk, grain and grass, the second is the popularity of the people and the prestige of the court, and the third is to train new soldiers, which is really a conforming move. Xun Yu waved his hand and said to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao felt that Xun Yu's construction was good, and decided to act according to the plan. Cao Cao left Li Wei and Xun Yu to defend Juancheng, Xiahoudun and Xun Yu to guard Fan County, Cao Ren and Cheng Yu to defend Dong'a, and then personally led the army east to conquer Chendi.

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For more than a month, Cao Cao leveled the remnants of the Yellow Turban in Chendi, obtained a large amount of gold silk and grain and grass, and when chasing down the Yellow Turban thief leader He Yi, he unexpectedly found a fierce general with the same martial arts as Dian Wei, Xu Chu, a native of Qian County.

Cao Cao recruited Xu Chu and his clan leaders, who agreed to lead the clan to join. Cao Cao was overjoyed, worshiped Xu Chu as the commander and served as the deputy commander of his personal guard, like Dian Wei.

After Cao Cao's class returned to Juancheng, he was surprised to find that Yanzhou had been recaptured.

It turned out that Li Wei, who was stationed in Juancheng, heard that Xue Lan and Li Feng, who were defending Yanzhou, were plundering grain everywhere, and Yanzhou City was empty of defense, so he made a plan with Xun Yu: Xun Yu was responsible for defending Juancheng, and Li Wei led the army to attack Yanzhou City, and at the same time, Cao Ren and Xiahoudun each led 5,000 men and horses to ambush on each main road, strictly preventing the two generals from reporting to Lu Bu.

When Li Wei led the army to Yanzhou City, he happened to meet Li Feng returning from plundering grain. Seeing this opportunity, Li Wei would not let go of it, and rushed to Li Feng, who was already taken aback when he saw Li Wei's banner, and then saw him rushing towards him, and immediately galloped towards the city gate in fright.

"Li Fengxiu go! Eat my move!" Li Wei's Shadow Horse was extremely fast, which was comparable to Li Feng's ordinary war horse.

"Ah!" Li Feng turned around and saw that Li Wei was already extremely close to him! Li Feng, who wanted to speed up and escape, let out a miserable scream in the next second. Li Wei had already caught up with him, and with a single move he pierced him in the back, falling off his horse and dying in battle.

Because the city gate was opening just now to take back Li Feng, but he didn't wait for the latter, but now it was wide open. Li Wei immediately rushed to the city gate and held on to it with his superb martial arts until the arrival of the front army and the destruction of Yanzhou City.

Xue Lan fled from the east gate, intending to lead the army to Juye and report to Lu Bu, not wanting to be beheaded by Xiahou Dun, who was waiting for work.

Because the two main generals were dead, the soldiers of the Lü Bu army in Yanzhou City had no choice but to surrender, and Yanzhou City became the frontline city against the Lü Bu army.

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When Cao Cao regained Yanzhou, when he couldn't help but be overjoyed, Cheng Yu stood up and built a yì: taking advantage of the victory to pursue, leading the morale of the army to Puyang City.

Cao Cao obeyed his proposal, and ordered Xu Chu and Dian Wei to be the vanguard, Li Wei and Xiahoudun to be the front army, Le Jin and Li Dian to be the right army, Yu Ban and Xiahou Yuan to be the left army, and Xu Rong and Lü Qian to be the rear army.

As the vanguard, Dian Wei and Xu Chu went to Puyang City first, only to see that Lu Bu had already led the army outside the city to wait for him, and the two brothers Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao each led an army as two wings.

"Lu Bu is here!Who dares to come forward to fight?!" Lu Bu shouted arrogantly at the vanguard of the Cao army, in his eyes, except for one Li Wei, the rest of the people were all grass mustard.

"Lu Bu is so rampant!" Xu Zhongkang also !! "Xu Chu, who had just joined Cao's army, was eager to seek merit, and as soon as Lu Bu finished shouting, he immediately stepped forward to meet him.

The two fought for twenty rounds, and Lu Bu was already surprised in his heart, and at the same time shouted in his heart that there were so many fierce generals with the same strength as him, and on the other side, Xu Chu's own riding skills were mediocre, which affected his battle with Lu Bu on horseback. Twenty rounds later, Xu Chu gradually fell behind, and Dian Wei saw this and immediately stepped forward to support.

After Li Wei and Xiahoudun arrived, seeing that Dian Wei and Xu Chu were fighting with Lu Bu, the two looked at each other silently, and then immediately stepped forward to join the battle.

"Li Anmin! Ben Hou thought you were a good man, but I didn't expect you to besiege Ben Hou like this group of rats!" Lu Bu shouted after blocking Dian Wei's double iron halberd.

"If you are a martial arts competition, you will naturally not besiege you, but at this time, you are on the battlefield, for the victory or defeat of the battle, what is the reputation of so-and-so?

When Lu Bu saw Li Wei's move, he clamped the horse's belly, and the red rabbit horse immediately jumped aside to avoid this move. Nevertheless, Lü Bu's bow hanging from the horse's belly was broken by Li Wei, who then seized it.

"Damn! open it for me!" Lu Bu saw that he couldn't resist the siege of the four, and after making a false move towards Xiahoudun, he took the opportunity to get out of the siege.

Unexpectedly, Lu Bu drove his horse to the city, and the city gate was still closed.

"Open the door!!" Lu Bu shouted.

"Lu Bu, the lord of Puyang City is the only one who is Cao Gong, you might as well be captured!" On the tower of the city, a man wearing a Sichuan cotton brocade robe shouted to the city, it was Zhang De, and beside him was Tian Yi.

It turned out that after Zhang De reported to Li Wei, in order to gain Cao Cao's attention, he had been secretly recruiting dead soldiers; today, Lü Bu went out of the city to meet the enemy, and the garrison in the city was empty, Zhang De led the dead soldiers to the south gate, intending to open the city to welcome Cao's army. Unexpectedly, he met Tian Yi halfway, and the other party also had the same purpose, but the other party was to avoid being settled by Cao Cao.

Zhang De did not refuse the other party, after all, there are many people who are easy to do. That's where the above scene happens.

Seeing that Lü Bu could not enter the city, he fled to Dingtao with the defeated army, and when the Chen Palace in the city heard the news of Lü Bu's defeat and retreat, he immediately gathered troops and horses to protect Lü Bu's family and fled through the east gate.

After Cao Cao brought the army to come, under the recommendation of Li Wei, Cao Cao, in order to thank Zhang De for saving his life, rewarded Zhang De and awarded him an official to take a note, and then appointed him as one of Cao Jun's designated merchants to show his reward. When Zhang De heard that he had gotten rid of his status as a businessman, he was overjoyed and thanked Cao Cao, who wanted to kill Tian Yi, but under the persuasion of Guo Jia and Liu Ye, he forgave him for his guilt.

Liu Ye also said that he should continue the pursuit and drive Lu Bu out of the Yanzhou area. Cao Cao followed, leaving Liu Ye and Cao Ren to guard Puyang, and led the army to pursue Dingtao.

Seeing that he could no longer compete for Yanzhou, Lu Bu ordered Gao Shun to protect his family, and then abandoned Dingtao and went east to Xuzhou.

After Cao Cao recaptured Yanzhou, he expelled the people from the list and repaired the city to govern the government, and at the same time, he did not forget his previous promise to Li Wei, and played to the imperial court, showing him as the general of Zhaoyi Zhonglang.

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Jiuli couldn't find that the rank of Zhonglang General and Zhou Mu was relatively high, so he wrote it directly, if there is a mistake, please ignore it......

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