Cao Cao only felt a chill in his back and began to regret his impulsiveness.

Zhang Guangneng broke into his army camp alone in the middle of the night, proving that between him and Yuan Shu, it was definitely not what Zhang Miao said.

As for what happened, he wanted to know, but was too embarrassed to ask.

was worried about his suspicion, which completely buried Zhang Guang's good impression of himself.

"Brother Zhang Guang, I'm suspicious, I'll go back to Xuzhou, and when things over there are done, I'll come back and talk to you in detail."

"Xiaoman, since you're here, don't worry, let's give Yuan Shu a set."

"Really? Haha, I know that Brother Zhang Guang is the most powerful. ”

Cao Cao snorted to hide his embarrassment, but Zhang Guang didn't care about this.

After this incident, Zhang Guang has completely given up his illusions about Cao Cao.

In the future, between him and Cao Cao, it will be a mutual use.

"Let's go, the old rule, one guest and one jar of wine."

Zhang Guang ignored Cao Cao's hesitation and speculation in his eyes, and turned back to the city.

Cao Cao gritted his teeth, and finally ignored the dissuasion of Cao Ren and others, and took Xun Yu to follow up the city.

"Sun Lao Er, four bowls of mutton noodles, four jars of wine."

"I don't drink, I'm going to find Pang Tong and them." Dian Wei turned to leave.

After entering the city, there is no need to worry about Zhang Guang's safety.

"Brother Zhang Guang, this, the siege of the city, it is indeed my suspicion."

"Xiaoman doesn't need to explain, Chen Liucheng is originally yours, you can surround it if you want, let's talk about Yuan Shu."

Zhang Guang brought Yuan Shu to Chen Liu to woo himself, and he planned it, and said that Yuan Shu's 100,000 food and salary was 1510.

"Are you saying that Yuan Shu had already started to beat me Yanzhou's idea?"

"That's right, if my calculation is correct, in March after the next year, he will lead an army to attack Chenliu."

"This waste, he really dares to beat my Yanzhou idea, see when I am free, and go to kill him." Cao Cao poured his wine violently.

"Xiaoman, do you remember what I told you about Xuchang?"

"Of course I remember, you mean, I can take the opportunity to capture Xuchang? But what about the war in Qingzhou and Xuzhou? ”

Zhang Guang stretched out his hand to Cao Cao and asked for his hand-drawn map, pointing to Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

"Qingzhou, no matter how hard you contribute, you are helping Yuan Shao fight the world."

"Xuzhou, you have captured several city-states bordering Yanzhou, enough is enough."

"You let Xiahou Yuan close the front, Qingzhou will be handed over to Yuan Shao to toss by himself, Xuzhou, don't take the initiative again."

"And the 150,000 soldiers and horses you brought, pretending that Qingzhou and Xuzhou were defeated and had to return to help, after the hurried march out of Chenliu County, they were stationed in place, waiting for Yuan Shu to go north to attack Chenliu."

"Yuan Shu will naturally know about your coming to besiege Chen Liu, thinking that the two of us have already broken up, and we must be impatient to lead our troops to attack."

"At that time, you don't have to come to save Chen Liu, take a detour south, go straight to Chen County, and then take Xuchang, at that time, Yuan Shu is panicked, and he will definitely flee in all directions, and the entire Yuzhou will be your Xiaoman."

"Yuan Shu has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, can you hold on to this little force?" Cao Cao was a little worried that Zhang Guang would not be able to keep Chen Liu.

"Don't worry, within a month, Chen will have food left, and Yuan Shu can't help me."

"One thing, you have to pay attention, not only do you not use it to save Chen Liu, Zhang Miao and Xiahoudun also ask them not to come to save Chen Liu."

"Why?" Xun Yu on the side asked.

"Because." Zhang Guang originally wanted to tell his calculations, but after thinking about it, he didn't tell the truth: "Just let them take care of themselves."

"Brother Zhang Guang, what are your requirements for giving me such a big gift again this time?"

"Do you want Zhang Miao's life?"

Cao Cao smiled bitterly, could it be that Zhang Miao just came to frame him, and he knew about it?

"Forget it, just kidding, I want Chen Liucheng, including all the villages below, to be governed by me Zhang Guang independently."

"No problem, Chen Liucheng in the future will be your Zhang Guang, you can govern how you want, and at the same time, you don't need Chen Liucheng to pay a grain of military food and a penny of taxes, and the food and salary of 20,000 people in the Ninth Army will be allocated to you half a year in advance."

"So, thank you Xiaoman."

Cao Cao and Xun Yu left Chen Liucheng and returned to Cao Ying outside the city.

Xun Yu told Cao Ren, Li Dian and others about what Cao Cao and Zhang Guang were talking about in the noodle restaurant.

"Big brother, is Zhang Guang's words credible? What if he takes advantage of the time when we leave Chenliu County, unites Yuan Shu to occupy Chenliu City, and then takes advantage of our southward attack on Chen County, and quickly captures Chenliu County and Dongjun? ”

Cao Ren still couldn't believe Zhang Guang.

"Even if what Zhang Guang said is true, why can't we let the two generals, Xiahoudun and Zhang Miao, save Chen Liucheng?"

"There is also Chen County, Yuan Shu went north to attack Chen Liu, and he will definitely leave heavy troops to garrison Chen County and other places, how can it be so easy for us to capture?"

"Xun Yu, what do you think?" Cao Cao still thought of asking Xun Yu at a critical time.

"This matter is difficult, the safest way is, of course, to wait for Yuan Shu to attack Chen Liu, and then we and Zhang Guang should cooperate to eliminate Yuan Shu's army in one fell swoop."

"Only kill Yuan Shu a little bit of soldiers and horses, a little unwilling."

Cao Cao finally decided to give it a go.

"Gather all the soldiers, and after dawn, quickly withdraw from Chenliu County, and scold Zhang Guang while withdrawing."

"Send someone to inform Xiahou Yuan and ask him to quickly close the battle line, and before I go back, don't take the initiative to attack anywhere."

"Inform Xiahoudun and Zhang Miao to be ready, as long as Yuan Shu starts to attack Chen Liucheng, he will quickly reinforce it."

"Tell the two of them that the last time Li Dao attacked Chen Liu, it was for Zhang Guang alone, and if they don't go to reinforcements, I won't condemn them."

"This time, if you deliberately delay again, you will be killed."

"Send more scouts to find out the news of Chen County, Xu County and other places."

Cao Cao did not adopt the stabilization strategy proposed by Xun Yu and garrison Chenliu, but planned to attack Chen County in the south according to Zhang Guang's words.

Of course, he didn't listen to Zhang Guang all, but asked Xiahoudun and Zhang Miao to prepare reinforcements for Zhang Guang.

Yuan Shu did not let Zhang Guang and Cao Cao wait for a long time, and as soon as he got the news that Cao Cao and Zhang Guang had a quarrel, he hurriedly gathered an army of 200,000 and went north.

100,000 soldiers and horses, planning to attack Chen Liu, 80,000 soldiers and horses, ambushed on the way of Xiahoudun of Dongjun to reinforce Chen Liu, 20,000 soldiers and horses, ambushed on the way of Zhang Miao in Xiangyi City to reinforce Chen Liu.

"Lord, our ambush soldiers have already fought with Xiahoudun and Zhang Miao."

"Okay, start the siege, everyone, all of you, before it gets dark today, you must capture Chenliu."

The 100,000-strong army, southeast, northwest, and four directions, all began to attack Chenliu.

I have to say that Yuan Shu's army, although its combat effectiveness is not as strong as that of the Xiliang army, its weapons and equipment are quite superior to the Xiliang army.

Siege weapons such as stone-throwing trucks hit the city wall a hundred feet away.

Moreover, there are a large number of them, and after several rounds of attacks, the city wall has been smashed on a lot of walls, but they have not been smashed through.

"Big brother, do you want to pit them first?" Pang Tong suggested.

"Well, it's okay, kill their sharpness first."

"Lord, there is a report, Xiahoudun and Zhang Miao came to aid Chen Liu in accordance with Cao Cao's military order, and they were all dumplings made by Yuan Shu's ambush soldiers." Gan Ning ran to report.

"Lord, do you want me to bring a few thousand people to reinforce them?" Zhao Zilong took the initiative to ask.

"Forget it, since they don't trust us so much, let's let them suffer a little." The reason why Zhang Guang didn't tell Cao Cao all the strategies that Yuan Shu might adopt was to see if Cao Cao would really believe in himself.

Since he, Cao Cao, still doesn't believe in himself so much, let him solve his own troubles.

"Give up the outer city." Zhang Guang ordered.

Yuan Shu ordered the army to attack several rounds of stone-throwing and crossbow attacks in succession, and found that there were not many people on the city wall.

That's it? Didn't you say that Zhang Guang's subordinates were very capable of fighting?

"The lord, Zhang Guang's subordinates seem to have run down the city wall."

Yuan Shu's subordinate general Qiao Rui returned to the middle camp to report, with a smug face.

"Lord, legend has it that Zhang Guang is a god descending from heaven, and his subordinates are all brave and good at fighting, I think it's because I haven't met the lord."

"Haha, I said a long time ago, Chen Liucheng will be broken in three days, in case of accidents, send a small group of people to hit the city gate first." Yuan Shu is still quite careful.

The four city gates were all smashed by a small group of men and horses sent by Qiaorui.

Yuan Shu saw from a distance that Zhang Guang and Dian Wei were running around on the city wall, loudly urging the few soldiers on the city wall to release arrows.

"Hehe, Zhang Guang, Zhang Guang, you have a brave Dian Wei, what can you do? War is not fought alone. ”

Qiao Rui also saw this scene on the city wall, no longer suspected that something was wrong, and even forgot the careful temptation reminded by Yuan Shu, and ordered all the soldiers to rush up, crash open the city gate, and rush into the city.

As soon as I entered the city, I found that thirty zhang away, there was another city wall, and the city gate was closed.

"What's going on? The last time I came, I didn't have any. Yuan Shu stood at the city gate outside, puzzled.

"It must be Zhang Guang who knows that our troops are strong, and he is worried that he will not be able to withstand our attack, so he has built a wall inside, whatever, just break the city gate."

Just when Qiao Rui ordered all the soldiers to attack the inner wall, a large number of archers suddenly appeared on the inner and outer walls.

Yuan Shu's army completely became a live target, and was attacked by the archers on the wall, inside and out, with countless casualties.

Yuan Shu's subordinates, who were in chaos, rushed to the gate of the outer wall.

It was at this time that many of the brick walls of the outer city wall protruding from the wall were suddenly knocked down from the inside of the wall.

Many soldiers of the Ninth Army armed with spears and broadswords, like demons, harvested Yuan Shu's subordinates.

Qiao Rui desperately protected Yuan Shu, escaped from the outer city gate, led the remnants of the defeated army who had no fighting spirit, abandoned his armor, and fled for his life towards the place where Ji Ling ambushed Xiahoudun.

"Lord, do you want to chase?" Gan Ning, Zhao Zilong and the others looked at Yuan Shu, who had fled, and wondered if they had taken the opportunity to destroy Yuan Shu.

"Don't chase it, close the city gate, let Cao Cao solve the next thing by himself, our task is to preserve our strength."