Yuan Shu hated Liu Bei to death because Liu Bei helped Yuan Shao beat him at that time, and he has been eyeing Xuzhou, how dare Liu Bei leave Xuzhou with confidence?

Liu Ping guessed that something must have happened, so that Liu Bei concluded that Yuan Shu did not dare to attack, so he dared to lead the army to help Pengcheng with confidence.

What he didn't know was that the facts involved him.

He had previously handed over the iron he had smelted to Cao Cao, who sold it to Liu Biao due to lack of military salaries.

Although Liu Biao had no ambition and just wanted to hold Jingxiang's one-third of an acre, his territory was repeatedly attacked by Yuan Shu.

So after he got that batch of iron, he conveniently transferred it to Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu under his command, just because Jiangxia bordered Yuanshu's territory, and the two sides had conquests against each other, and Huangzu could use it.

Huang Zu is a brave warrior, two years ago when Yuan Shu attacked Xiangyang, he was defeated by Yuan Shu's generals, fortunately he ran fast, otherwise he would have died.

Huang Zu has always been obsessed with this matter.

Now that he suddenly got so much iron, he immediately built arrows and weapons, and personally led his troops to ransack Yiyang County under Yuan Shu's rule.

Yuan Shu was furious when he heard this, although his Yuan Highway was not as powerful as before at this time, he was not a Huang Zu who could be bullied if he wanted to, so he immediately sent his general Ji Ling to lead the army to conquer Jiangxia.

Liu Bei was immediately relieved when he learned the news.

Since Yuan Shu was at war with Huang Zu, and Jiangxia and Xuzhou were one in the southwest and the other in the east, separated by nearly a thousand miles, Yuan Shu must have no spare strength to attack his Xuzhou.

He immediately ordered the Mi Zhu Mi Fang brothers to guard Xuzhou, and he personally led an army of 30,000 to aid Pengcheng.

Pengcheng has been besieged for several days now, and if Pengcheng County is lost again, he Xuzhou will face Yanzhou's attack.

What's more, Peng Cheng's guard is Zhang Fei, and he can't help it.

Liu Ping sat in the big tent and pondered, but the information of this era was too slow, and it was impossible for him to know that a battle of small scale was taking place in Jiangxia thousands of miles away.

And this kind of tug-of-war happens dozens of times every year in the world, and he doesn't remember that there is a record in the history books.

So of course he wouldn't know that it was the iron he smelted that caused Liu Biao, a pig teammate, to offer an oolong assist, and actually transferred Yuan Shu's army to threaten Liu Bei at this time.

In any case, the news that Liu Bei led the army to come to aid can make Cao Ren anxious, his siege army is only 40,000 people in total, if Liu Bei leads 30,000 troops to help, he will continue to attack and be easily beaten inside and outside, that is a taboo for soldiers.

So Cao Ren hurriedly sent someone to invite Cheng Yu to discuss the matter.

At this time, Xi Zhicai was seriously ill and had sent someone back to Yanzhou for treatment, and only Liu Ping and Cheng Yu could discuss with him.

Cheng Yu hurried over, but he didn't have time to sit down, and after hearing the news, his eyebrows immediately wrinkled into a Sichuan character.

He muttered: "In this way, it will be tricky, Liu Bei's reinforcements are full of 30,000 people, if you send people to block it, you will definitely not be able to stop it if you go less, and if you go more, the defenders in the city will kill it again and again." ”

"It's hard," he said, pinching his beard and shaking his head slightly, "let me think about it for a moment." ”

Cao Ren hurriedly walked around the tent, Liu Bei's reinforcements would arrive in three days at most, he had to make arrangements early, how could he have time for Rong Chengyu to think carefully?

Of course, if he recalled the siege army at this time, it was also an option to lead the army to withdraw to Yanzhou.

It's just that this is the first time he has commanded the army independently, and he has spent so much food and grass on his burden, and thousands of soldiers have been killed and wounded, but he has returned in vain, how can he be willing?

What's more, if he can't capture Pengcheng, Cao's plan to run Xu County will fail, what face does he have to go back to see his eldest brother?

"Anyway, the city can't continue to attack and fight, so how about letting me personally lead the army and fight to the death with that Liu Bei first?"

Cheng Yu knew his intentions, and after the decisive battle with Liu Beijun, the losses would inevitably be not small, and it was probably impossible to attack Pengcheng again.

However, even if the city cannot be captured, the annihilation of Liu Bei's 30,000 army is a great achievement.

The Cao army was already more elite than the Xuzhou army, and although the number was less than 40,000 at this time, there was still a ninety percent certainty of defeating the 30,000 Xuzhou army.

He nodded slightly: "This seems to be the only way."

It's just that if the general leads all the troops to block Liu Bei, and the defenders in the city come out, won't it be a flank attack on the general?

Unless...... Some people are still feintting to attack the city, so that the army in the city does not dare to kill ......"

Cao Ren also bowed slightly, he had less than 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and he was exhausted after a few days of siege, if he wanted to annihilate Liu Bei's reinforcements as soon as possible, he must use superior forces to achieve a quick victory, and it would be even worse if he fell into a stalemate.

Therefore, all the soldiers and horses under his command need to be taken away, so how can there be any more suspicious soldiers who can be deployed to attack the city?

After all, there is still a shortage of soldiers.

There was a dreary in the tent, and no one spoke.

After a while, Cao Ren and Cheng Yu suddenly turned their heads to look at Liu Ping in unison.

Liu Ping already felt that his right eyelid was jumping too much, and when he saw those two people looking at himself at the same time, he knew that it was not good.

If there are redundant soldiers, only the 4,000 soldiers under his command who escort grain and grass have not moved.

What's more, there are 5,000 captives who have newly captured Zang Ba, adding up to 9,000 people.

"No, uncle, you're not going to let me siege the city, are you?" Liu Ping is a little weak-hearted, you can't attack 40,000 elites, let me lead this miscellaneous army to attack the city, isn't that a pit?

Although there are 9,000 people under his command, the 1,000 Tuntian soldiers are led by Han Ranran, and they can't even form a formation, let alone attack the city, which can be ignored.

Zang Ba's 5,000 people have just surrendered, who knows if they will defect?

Speaking of which, only the 3,000 people who can fight Lejin, just such a small number of troops, let alone attacking the city, Zhang Fei can't stop him from killing from the city.

"Ping'er, it's not for you to really attack the city, it's just for you to put on a siege and scare Zhang Fei from coming out."

Cao Ren also knew the composition of his army, so he persuaded: "After these few days of fierceness, the losses of the defenders in the city are not small, you see, you have 9,000 soldiers surrounded outside the city, can't you beat people and not be scary?"

How can they know the truth of your soldiers? ”

At this time, Cheng Yu also persuaded: "Yes, Prince Ping, the situation is critical, and only your soldiers and horses can be mobilized."

Now I guess there are less than seven thousand men and horses in the city, and after several days of hard fighting, the soldiers are exhausted.

You don't need to attack the city, you only need to set up 9,000 military horses outside the city, so that Zhang Fei does not dare to attack.

If you attack the city, you will be exposed. ”

Liu Ping grinned dryly, he also knew that this was the only way.

When the battle of Pengcheng had not started before, he still wanted to be safe by his father-in-law's side, but he didn't expect the situation to take a turn for the worse, and now it has become a situation where he led a group of miscellaneous troops to face the defenders of Pengcheng alone.