On August 24, after Wang Hou survived seven days of fear, Xudu's army finally descended on Xiao County and approached Xuzhou.

On the official road outside Xiao County, the heavy tiger and leopard cavalry is exactly like the heavy cavalry in the movie, carrying the cavalry halberd, with a kind of heavy cavalry unique leisurely but majestic posture with the war horse swaying forward, the infantry followed by is also neat, and the worst also has a set of leather armor, the long halberd of Sen Ran is like a shaking forest as densely flashing with cold light, the number of this force is not much, only about 31,000 people, but it is the core of the army accumulated by Cao Cao for many years, They are all made up of large family tribes and professional infantry.

Cao Cao's total strength is drawn out of 200,000, but of which 150,000 to 160,000 are all composed of half soldiers and half bandits of Qingzhou soldiers, before Cao Cao avenged his father Cao Song when he attacked Xuzhou, although he did not restrain military discipline because of anger, but the Qingzhou bandits themselves were not restrained, and the ferocious and irritable was also an important reason, locusts swept away from Jiao County to Pengcheng for hundreds of miles, and it is said that the corpses of the people were killed and Surabaya was blocked.

But such a brutal army was beaten stupidly by Lu Bu's Bingzhou Iron Cavalry in the two battles after returning to Yanzhou.

Then conquest Zhang Xiu, the first to collapse was the Qingzhou soldiers, fighting Yuan Shu, the first to make a fuss about a lack of food was the Qingzhou soldiers, just Xiahou was a station, the battlefield was unconstrained, and the first to collapse was the Qingzhou soldiers, so at the beginning of this battle, Cao Cao made a great military attempt, and there was no need for Qingzhou soldiers! Even the people are young men recruited from Yanzhou.

"The last general will meet the prime minister! The last general lost his division's defeat and vented the spirit of our army, please punish the prime minister! ”

After all, the defeat was lost, no matter what the reason was, it was the fault of the people, and the big camp was set up on the edge of Xiao County, and the Xiahoudun led Wang Houle to go to bear the guilt, and the scar on the face was deliberately re-glued to the face with rice soup, no wonder the armor full of sword dust traces was taken off and never maintained, Xiahoudun was a servant of the wind and dust, kneeling on the ground in embarrassment, and knocking the steel helmet as a clang.

Although this matter has nothing to do with himself, but this kung fu is not close to when it is close, Wang Hou also followed behind and knocked his head blindly, to pick it up from the time, Cao Cao is also counted as a Chinese ancestor of many generations, and he has nothing to lose when he is in the wrong grave.

On the other end, Liu Bei is also dressed similarly, and his clothes have been kept from the battlefield to the present, and even splashed with blood, Guan Yu, who has a red face next to him, is almost, Zhang Fei is even more miserable, the blood-red bandage on his thigh is heavily entangled, and he has crutches in his hand, he is also lucky, the bullet did not hit the bone, otherwise Zhang Fei would have had an amputated cripple in four passes, five horses and six Zhang Feizhong!

On the side, Liu Bei still looked honest and benevolent, and followed the intercession there with a bitter face.

"Prime Minister forgive sins! It was really the Guanxi thieves who were too fierce and invincible, and they were scattered by the Lu thief cavalry, which caused General Xiahou to retreat! Ask the prime minister to deal with it lightly! ”

Xiahoudun is a cronie among his cronies, and Cao Cao basically knows how to fight the defeat, looking at him with an embarrassed look, Cao Cao is helpless to wave his sleeves.

"Get up! The sin is unforgivable but excusable! This defeat will be recorded first, in the battle against the Lu thieves in Xuzhou, you will fight hard to make meritorious service and make meritorious contributions! ”

"The last general obeys!"

The matter is over, although it was expected, but Xiahoudun still breathed a sigh of relief, stood up with a few Lejin, and retreated into the train, but this Wang Hou did not retreat, but bowed again.

"Prime Minister, the lower official pays the order, the lower official collects 190,000 stone of autumn grain in Liang State, and 70,000 strong men, and the filial piety of all counties in Liang State has contributed a lot in this recruitment.

Pike has a line that if you do your best, you will get money! Wang Hou is just a river to tear down the bridge, who works hard he remembers it clearly in the small book, of course, those who don't contribute also remember it clearly, so meritorious and rewarded, next time he finds someone to help, there will be someone to help!

Listening to his report, Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction, this is the most appropriate arrangement of his expedition logistics in recent years, the soldiers consume one pound of grain a day, more than 6,000 war horses consume ten pounds of bran a day, and the people are half a pound a day, 190,000 stone is enough for three months of food, and Wang Hou also ordered the autumn grain of Jiao County Chen Guo to be imported to Xiao County one after another, even if the war drags on for three months, it is not a shortage of food, so that people take over the credit book, Cao Cao said with a smile.

"If you have merit in this trip, you will also write it down, and when you return to the dynasty after the victory, you will be rewarded for your meritorious deeds!"

"Prime Minister Xie, can the minister remove his order and hand it over to the military advisor Guo Saijiu!"

It doesn't matter to Wang Hou whether he is rewarded or not, now he is quite nourished, what he is most urgent is to quickly rest and sleep well, if he does not have to go to Xuzhou to fight, it would be better, however, Cao Cao smiled and said in amazement.

"What resignation?"

"It's not! Prime Minister, weren't all Cheng Yu Cheng Shangshu waving Guo Jia Guo sacrificial wine in charge of logistics and military quartermasters? ”

Wang Hou was dumbfounded, but Cao Cao, who heard this, shook his beard, and said with a smile again: "What Tuqiu said is very true!" Passed on the order of the prime minister and ordered Wang Hou to be the transfer envoy of Xuzhou! Later, the military academy lieutenant Yin belonged to Zhao Yan's department and was assigned to you, and the county officials along the way listened to your orders! So, rightly so! ”

"Lord Wang! Those who can work harder! Guo Mou thanked him a lot! ”

Following Cao Cao's side, Guo Jia was still smiling and smiling, and then hugged his fist, but Wang Hou was bitter in his mouth! But the military order is like a mountain, where does he dare to refuse at this time, under Cao Cao's smile, Wang Hou can only bow down again and again.

"Xie ......, Prime Minister Xie!"

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Thank you for your eight generations of ancestors!

In front of Xiao County, more than 30,000 soldiers lined up in a spacious and mighty array, the banner was like a forest, the momentum was like a mountain, like an ancient giant beast entrenched in the field, and in front of the point in front of them, Mr. Cao was also full of armor, like a god descending from heaven to hold high the sword of Yitian offered by Wang Houxin, roaring excitedly.

"Ask for a thief on behalf of heaven! Set foot in Xuzhou! ”

Cao Cao's personality charm was undoubtedly revealed, and with his roar, tens of thousands of soldiers in the entire Xiyuan also raised their weapons in their hands with high morale, followed by the same exciting roar.

"Ask for a thief on behalf of heaven! Set foot in Xuzhou! ”

The shocking roar echoed on the Chinese Plain, and the mountains in the far distance seemed to be shocked, no wonder the heroes and heroes all threw themselves into the field, fighting bloodily for rights, and there was nothing more satisfying than this man's ambition?

But when Cao Cao was handsome, Wang Hou was as tired as a grandson, under his sweaty command, more than eighty millstones were buzzing there, thousands of people were constantly sifting the blackened flour with dustpans, and some people were holding brooms to pick up the wheat bran and collect it, and put it together with wheat husks, which were the horse feed that would be fed to the horses on the battlefield, and more people were panting and carrying the grain buckets to the small boats docked by the river.

Three days later, the army is about to go out, Wang Hou has to prepare the army for five days of dry food within these three days, and the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass first, as a pioneer officer, Xiahoudun has led the cavalry to set off today, in Xuzhou for the army to seize the first foothold, Wang Hou's grain transport team also has to grab time to hoard grain in these strongholds, to provide food for the army to pass by, don't look at him does not have to carry the grain by himself, but the command is not an easy job, or the future generations of supervisors, the manager's salary will be more than a thousand!

And the ancients were really much more stupid than the modern people in later generations, and when these 70,000 people were summoned, Wang Hou was almost busy vomiting blood.

I really have to pay it back when I come out! Wang Hou was lazy in Xu Du, and he repaired the fake, and he had to return it at this time!

In Zhao Yun and Cao Hongjie, who had no conscience, just pointed to a pavilion chief who combined wheat bran and flour with his nose and scolded him, and sent him out again.

"Is there a labor protection bureau? I want to complain! I'm going to sue the black-hearted boss!! Treat people like cattle! ”

"The King Seeks !!"

"Here we go!!"

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Wang Hou's hard work was not in vain, on the first day of September, the morale-filled Cao Jun carried bags full of dry food and pickles, and launched an attack on Xuzhou lightly, along the Surabaya all the way down, five days, easily arrived at the important town of Xuzhou, and it was also the gateway of Lu Bu, when the overlord of Chu once set the capital of Huaiyang, Pengcheng!

On the other hand, Liu Bei also carried Wang Hou's steamed steamed buns, and led the two generals of Guan Zhang and the armor and weapons mixed from Mr. Cao to return to Peiguo, Cao Cao's momentum of large-scale attack had already shocked the two generals of Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, they abandoned Xiao Peicheng in advance, retreated in the direction of Liuxian, and also diverted to Pengcheng, in Liu Bei's deliberate procrastination, he took back Xiao Peicheng without blood, and collected the old department and pulled about 5,000 people, and also followed Mr. Cao's ass to Pengcheng and followed.

In terms of the whole strategy, Cao's army was like a rainbow, and easily surrounded Pengcheng, a military stronghold in Xuzhou, but Lu Bu, who had always been fierce, was as if he was dumb when he dealt with Cao Cao, who was pointing directly at him, and instead of increasing his troops with a soldier, he retreated Zhang Liao Gaoshun's troops back dozens of miles again, shrunk to the vicinity of Picheng under the old nest, and directly abandoned this Huaishang Jiancheng.

Everything seems to be conducive to the development of Cao Cao's side, however, even such an empty city that is close to emptiness still drags on Cao Jun's sixteen days!!

On September 22, Wang Hou also rushed up with the rear team and the team of Minfu Zhuangding, just in time to witness the last attack launched by Cao Jun on Pengcheng!

"That's stupid!!"