Chapter 23: Lu Bu's defeat
Approaching midnight, Tian Dan first took three hundred people and quietly approached the south city gate.
There were a hundred soldiers guarding the gates, and although there were enemy troops outside the city, it was midnight at this time, and many of them were already drowsy.
Tian Dan led people to kill suddenly, and many of those soldiers were cut down to the ground before they knew what the situation was.
Although Tiandan's combat strength was average, because it was a sudden attack, they quickly killed more than 50 soldiers guarding the city gate.
He asked some of them to open the city gates, while others continued to kill LΓΌ Bu's soldiers.
Soon, the city gate was opened, and Tian Dan also lit a fire at the city gate as planned, as a code for Cao Cao to enter the city.
Cao Cao led his troops to ambush outside the city gate, and when he saw that the city gate was on fire, Cao Ren led people to attack the city first.
Li Xian knew that after the city gate was opened, he brought people to attack Lu Bu.
If they show up before the gates are opened, if there is an accident at the gates, none of them will be able to escape.
At this time, the city was already in chaos, and people from all walks of life kept running towards the south gate.
As soon as Li Xian approached Lu Bu's camp, he saw Lu Bu and Chen Gong walking towards the south city gate with dozens of people holding torches.
Because Li Xian and the others were wearing the clothes of Lu Bu's soldiers, they didn't notice anything wrong when they approached.
When Li Xian walked to Lu Bu's side, he suddenly shouted: "Thief Lu Bu, take your life." β
Holding a knife, he slashed at Lu Bu.
Lu Bu was startled and hurriedly blocked it with a knife.
Li Xian and Lu Bu usually use halberds, but halberds are mainly used by horses in war, and now they are both on foot, so the weapons they use are ring-headed knives.
Li Cai led everyone to kill Lu Bu's entourage.
Because the clothes they wore were the same, Lu Bu's soldiers couldn't tell which were their own and which were enemies, and they were dizzy when they were killed.
And Li Cai and they all had white scarves wrapped around their arms as marks, so it was easy to distinguish between themselves and the enemy soldiers.
Cheng Lian and Wei Xu were very brave, but they were also injured because they couldn't distinguish between friend and foe.
Li Xian and Lu Bu fought for a while, feeling that Lu Bu was as powerful as Guan Yu, and it was difficult for him to beat him.
But Lu Bu was still slashed twice by Li Xian's people from the side, and he couldn't tell which were his own soldiers and which were the enemy.
It was the middle of the night, and although there were torches, I could see people's faces clearly.
At this time, Cao Ren, who was the first to enter the city, also led people to kill.
When those people went out of the city to report to Cao Cao before, they had already told them that Li Xian's people would change into the clothes of Lu Bu's soldiers, and they would all have a white scarf wrapped around their arms, so they would not kill the wrong person if they attacked.
Cheng Lian and Wei Xu had already been killed in battle, and Chen Gong was also stabbed and subdued.
Seeing that the general trend was gone, Lu Bu didn't want to fight anymore, so he threw his knife on the ground and surrendered.
Cao Cao also led people to kill at this time, Li Xian handed over Lu Bu and others to Cao Cao, and he and Cao Ren led people to attack Beicheng, and there were Zhang Liao and Gao Shun's men and horses in Beicheng.
When attacking the northern city, Zhang Liao led people to express their willingness to surrender, but Gao Shun led the trapped camp to resist.
Cao Ren wanted to lead people to attack the formation, and Li Xian said to Cao Ren: "Zi Xiao is slow, Gao Shun's trapping camp is very brave, don't rush hard and cause death and injury." Let me persuade Gao Shun to surrender first, and then attack if I don't surrender. β
Li Xian has great respect for Gao Shun in history, not only because of the courage of the trapped camp he led, but also because he is loyal and has no ambition.
He asked people to shout Gao Shun out of the battle to answer.
Two men stood in front of him with shields to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on him.
He shouted to Gao Shun: "General Gao, Lu Bu has been captured, and Zhang Liao has also surrendered, you should stop making senseless resistance." General Cao was wise and brave, aiming to help the Han family, stabilize the world, and save the people. Why don't you surrender to General Cao, so as to achieve your ambition to settle the people in this life. β
Gao Shun replied loudly: "I, Gao Shun, am definitely not a traitor who is afraid of death, don't say more, if there is a kind of horse, let the horse come over and charge into battle." β
At this moment, an arrow came from the trap camp and hit the shield in front of Lee's leaning body, and he hurriedly retreated.
He knew that Gao Shun would not surrender, so he could only attack hard.
He had bows, crossbows, shields, spears and halberds drawn from the weapons captured in the south of the city, and a hundred daredevils were recruited.
First suppressed the opponent with bows and crossbows, and a hundred daredevils wearing armor rushed to the front with a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, and the rest of the soldiers followed behind to launch a strong attack.
He and Li Cai put on their armor and led the daredevils to charge ahead, and Cao Ren led the others behind.
After a few rounds of arrow rain, he took advantage of the enemy's dodging arrows to lead the hundred daredevils to rush to the trapped camp.
Because it was night, the enemy could not see their exact location clearly, and the arrows they shot were not very accurate.
Soon, they rushed to the trap and burst through a gap.
However, when Li Xian saw Li Cai falling next to him, he roared angrily and killed even harder.
Cao Ren also rushed to the scene with people, and after a burst of slashing, more than 700 people in the camp were all killed, none of them fled and begged for mercy, and Gao Shun was injured and captured.
There were only a dozen of the 100 daredevils led by Li Xian, and the soldiers led by Cao Ren also killed more than 500 people.
Li Cai, a fellow villager who claimed to be a small man with Li Xian, also died in battle, although Li Xian didn't know anything about the past things that Li Cai said, but after a few years of getting along, they also had a very deep relationship.
Gao Shun's injuries were not too serious, and after Li Xian personally helped him bandage his wounds and stop the bleeding, Cao Ren escorted him to Cao Cao in the north of the city.
By this time, the sky was already light, and all the enemy forces in the city had been cleared.
Looking at Lu Bu and Chen Gong tied in front of him, Cao Cao sighed and said to Chen Gong: "Why is the public platform here? Have I ever treated you lightly? Why did you betray me and bring Lu Bu here? β
Chen Gong "snorted" and said: "Jun has Yanzhou, the palace has the greatest merit, but if the king values the text and despises the palace, if he has merit but is not rewarded, why should he let the palace submit?" β
"I'll give you a thousand men, isn't that enough?"
"The soldiers given by the king are all old and weak, and let the palace tun be in Dongwuyang, but Xiahoudun is in Puyang to monitor and guard, is this considered reuse?"
"Do you still want to save your mother, wife and children?"
"Gongwen rules the world with benevolence and filial piety, does not harm people's relatives, does not end people's worship, whether the old mother, wife and children can live, are all in the king's thoughts."
Cao Cao looked at Chen Gong and sighed again, Chen Gong said: "Now that the army has been defeated and captured, there is no need to say more, please kill the palace to understand military law." β
Cao Cao had no choice but to order someone to take out Chen Gong and behead him.
Lu Bu hurriedly said on the side at this time: "General Mengde, Bu didn't think about coming to attack Yanzhou, it was all induced by Chen Gong and Zhang Miao, not Bu's idea." β
Cao Cao just said lightly: "You have come here, what's the use of saying this." β
Lu Bu knelt on the ground with his legs, and said with a frightened and trembling voice: "General Mengde, the cavalry led by the cloth is unstoppable, and the 10,000 elite cavalry of Zhang Yan in Changshan are also broken by the cloth. Why don't you let General Bubang Ming lead the cavalry and help General Ming conquer the world? β
Cao Cao thought about it for a while, he had also heard about Lu Bu Changshan breaking Zhang Yan, and Lu Bu was indeed brave.
He turned to look at the generals around him and asked, "What do you think?" β
Li Xian was afraid that Cao Cao would really let Lu Bu go, so he hurriedly said: "Has the general forgotten how Jin Wu Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo died?" And Lu Bu, who even Yuan Shu refused to accept, did the general want to accept it? β
Lu Bu's face changed greatly when he heard this: "Lu Bu really surrendered to you." β
Gao Shun shouted loudly on the side: "General Fengxian, you actually kneel and beg others, it is really a shame for Shun." β
He said to Cao Cao again: "Cao Cao, Gao Shunqiu died with General Fengxian. β
Cao Cao listened to Li Xian's words, and thought to himself, Lu Bu repeated it repeatedly, who dared to guarantee that he would not be killed by him like Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo.
After he glanced at Lu Bu and Gao Shun again, he waved his hand and asked the two of them to be pushed out and beheaded.