The first year of Xingping, 194 A.D., at the end of April.

Li Chen and the generals Li Siye and Guan Sheng occupied Xuzhou, and Xuzhou officials Chen Deng, Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others took refuge.

At the end of April, Cao Pi led 3,000 tigers and leopards to attack. Li Chen ordered the general Li Siye to lead 800 Mo sword soldiers to break the tiger and leopard cavalry of the Cao army, and kill more than 1,000 enemies. At this point, the undefeated myth of Cao Jun's tiger and leopard riding was completely shattered.

The old gods have fallen, and the new gods have ascended to the throne.

Mo Daobing has become the most beautiful boy in this era.

In general, although Li Chen did not occupy Xuzhou for a long time, he also showed his fangs.

May, the beginning of the month.

Li Chen was in the Xuzhou Liyun Dragon Hall and claimed to be the palace marshal. began to recruit soldiers, and his military salary was three percent higher than that of Cao Jun, and there were countless responders at one time.

All the conscription points in Xuzhou are crowded with young and strong men.

It was an era of division and civil war. In this era, there is no national righteousness, being a soldier is to exchange your life for money, as long as the money is in place, what bullshit Cao Jun and Yuan Jun are all fucking broken.

Seven days later, the recruitment points everywhere were surging from crowds to crowds.

Although Li Chen's military salary is high, it is also a high requirement for high military salary. The Yunlong Army only recruits strong men who are in the prime of life, and Li Chen will not accept any of them from the old and frail or veteran soldiers.

"Lord, I'm afraid that the recruitment matter is coming to an end in the past few days." In the Cloud Dragon Palace, Chen Deng held a roster in his hand and stood next to Li Chen respectfully and said.

"Yuanlong, can the recruitment go smoothly?" Li Chen looked at Chen Deng with his forehead and asked softly.

"Although there are a lot of people who have applied for the job these days, there are not many people who can meet our requirements. In seven days, a total of 12,000 soldiers were recruited. Chen Deng remembered all the soldiers' enlistments, so it was natural to come as soon as he opened his mouth.

With the addition of more than 12,000 recruits, Li Chen's army is nearly 30,000. Although it is not enough to mention Cao Cao's 300,000 army, Li Chen also knows that he can't become a big fat man by eating one bite. Recruiting is not something that can be done overnight.

"There are more soldiers than many, 12,000 soldiers are enough, so let's suspend conscription tomorrow." Li Chen nodded with satisfaction and said to Chen Deng.

"No." Chen Deng responded, and then asked, "Lord, how to distribute the source of recruits this time?" ”

Li Chen paused for a moment and said, "In this way, first replenish General Zang's headquarters to 20,000 people, and then replenish the rest of the troops to General Guan." ”

Now Guan Sheng is responsible for training the bandit army that Li Chen brought from Yunlong Mountain, while Zang Ba is still responsible for training the old department of the Xuzhou battalion. Now Guan Sheng is about 5,000 people, and Zang Ba has more than 12,000 men.

Li Chen's replenishment of troops in this way was profound, allocating 8,000 people with Zang Ba and 4,000 with Guan Sheng. In this way, the soldiers under the two of them are basically the ratio of veterans to recruits is one to one, and the veterans are slightly redundant recruits, so that the veterans can bring the recruits to the fastest combat effectiveness.

Li Chen, as the lord, thinks so, but Chen Deng, as a strategist, doesn't think so.

In Chen Deng's view, Guan Sheng is a veteran under Li Chen, and Zang Ba is a demoted general. And now Guan Sheng has fewer soldiers and Zang Ba has more soldiers. Therefore, Guan Sheng should be supplemented first, and Zang Ba should be supplemented first. In this way, the old and new forces in Xuzhou City can be balanced.

"Lord, otherwise, add 8,000 to General Guan and 4,000 to General Zang. In this way, it is also possible to make the soldiers under the command of the two generals equal. Chen Deng groaned.

Li Chen naturally understood what Chen Deng meant, Chen Deng was a strategist, and he paid attention to the way of balance, balancing the forces of the original Yunlongshan and the forces of Xuzhou.

However, Li Chen used the way of Wang Ba, whether it was Guan Sheng or Zang Ba. It's all his deployment, what Li Chen has to do now is to let these soldiers play the best role, as for who has more soldiers and who has fewer soldiers, it doesn't matter to Li Chen.

"There is no suspicion in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people. Yuanlong, do as I say. Li Chen nodded at Chen Deng and said.

Hearing Li Chen's words, Chen Deng couldn't help but be stunned, in the end, he was still too small. The lord is indeed a man with great ambitions.

"No." Chen Deng relieved himself, saluted respectfully, and then withdrew from the Cloud Dragon Palace.

At this time, in a valley a hundred miles away from Xuzhou City, Cao Pi's 30,000 troops were stationed here.

Since being beaten by Li Siye and riding the tiger and leopard, Cao Pi has hated and feared Xuzhou City. He knew that if he wanted to break through Xuzhou with his 30,000 army, he was afraid that it would not be so easy.

At this time, on the mountain road less than ten miles away from Cao's military camp, the dust was full of black flags, and about 5,000 black-armored heavy cavalry exuded a breathtaking cold air all over their bodies, like a demon god who came out of hell.

In the middle of the cavalry, a big banner with the word Cao waved in the wind, and under the big flag of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing, two black-armored generals were in parallel. One of them was a burly man with a grim complexion. The other is handsome-looking and slightly emaciated.

This person is Cao Cao's back, the one with a delicate face is Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang, and the burly one is Cao Cao's nephew Cao Anmin.

Cao Cao raised an army of 300,000 to attack Xuzhou this time, but the mobilization of these 300,000 troops could not be completed overnight.

So he first raised an army of 100,000 as the first, and ordered his eldest son Cao Ang to lead the whole army, the second son Cao Pi to be the vanguard, and the third son Cao Zhi to be the grain transport officer.

No, Cao Ang heard that his younger brother Cao Pi had lost the battle in Xuzhou City. Hurriedly handed over the infantry to Commander Cao Zhi, and led 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry to support first.

"Report ......"

"The second son, General Cao, the eldest prince led five thousand tigers and leopards to come to support, and the army is less than ten miles away from the camp."

At this time, a scout hurriedly came to report.

Cao Ang's arrival was simply a drowsy for Cao Pi, and someone sent a pillow. Cao Pi suffered a defeat and was thinking about how to recover the losses he had suffered, but he was worried about his lack of strength. Cao Ang came, and brought a full 5,000 tigers and leopards to ride.

Not long after, Cao Ang led his troops to arrive, and Cao Pi and Cao Ang brothers joined forces.

"Big brother, you're here." Seeing Cao Ang, Cao Pi immediately greeted him.

Although Cao Cao was very powerful at this time, he was still in a stage of struggle after all. Therefore, there is no such power struggle between the Cao brothers against the wall.

Not long after, Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Ren, and Cao Anmin gathered in the big tent, and Cao Ren told Cao Ang and Cao Anmin about Li Chen's defeat of Cao Jun that day.

In the big tent, four people sat around. Cao Ren told the story of the day, while Cao Ang and Cao Anmin listened carefully to Cao Renwei.

When he heard that Li Siye had broken three thousand tigers and leopards with eight hundred Mo swords, Cao Ang's whole person was furrowed, and he seemed to be in deep thought.