The city gate was broken, and Xu Rong waved his army into the city and captured Puyang. Immediately, he personally led the cavalry to chase and kill the fleeing Yuan soldiers along the way, and chased them for more than 60 miles, and then withdrew the army. After the battle, more than 4,000 enemy soldiers were killed, more than 10,000 people were captured, and the enemy's main general, Chun Yuqiong, was also captured alive.

Lu Bu held Chun Yuqiong, who was tied up sturdily, in his left hand, and Yuan Tan's head in his right hand, and came to Xu Rong excitedly, and said loudly: "General, Chun Yuqiong was caught by me!" This is Yuan Shao's son's head! ”

When he was in Luoyang, Xu Rong was only a commander in the Northern Army, but Chun Yuqiong was one of the eight captains of Xiyuan. The disparity in the status of the two sides is no less than the difference between clouds and mud. Seven years have passed, and a small commander in the Yue Cavalry Battalion of the Northern Army is now a general of the imperial court, with tens of thousands of troops under his command. And the right lieutenant of the year has become a prisoner under the stairs.

Chun Yuqiong's wine was already half awake, he fell to the ground, and said mournfully: "General Xu, for everyone's sake, just spare me this time!" ”

Xu Rong looked at Chun Yuqiong on the ground, waved his hand, and said, "Push it out and cut it!" ”

Chun Yuqiong struggled desperately and begged loudly, but after a while, someone put her head on the plate and presented it. When Lu Bu saw it, he burst into laughter again. Xu Rong has a strong temperament, and since he sent out the army, he has killed two Taishou and seven county orders, and now killing one more Chun Yuqiong is like crushing an ant to death.

He said to Lu Bu: "Hang the heads of these two people on the city wall, so that the people in the city can take a good look at what kind of fate will happen against the imperial court!" ”

The soldiers took the order and left, and after a while, another soldier came in and asked, "The county commander and the county lieutenant have been arrested, what should I do?" ”

Xu Rong was more ruthless than Chen Cheng, and he also had the heart to help the general deal with these people, so he ordered: "Just like before, all the officials in the city will be executed!" The soldiers collected their weapons and armor and sent them to serve in front of the army! ”

The meaning of "sending them to serve in front of the army" is to use these people as "pawns on behalf of horses", let them do all the hard work and dirty work, do the most, eat the least, and use them up to death. Chen Cheng temporarily retained the surrender county orders, and only those who raised troops to fight against them would kill the officials headed by them and then exile their families.

Xu Rong doesn't care about it, as long as there is no "eating pot pulp to welcome the king", they will all be treated as traitors. From the county order downwards, all the way to the quick hand of the officials, they were either killed or incorporated into the army.

The army stopped at Puyang for a day of repair, and after leaving hundreds of men to defend, it continued to advance. Chun Yuqiong and Yuan Tan, who had been blowing cold wind side by side on the city for a day and a night, were put into a wooden box, let a few captives take them, and send them to Yuan Shao on a fast horse.

Yuan Shao, who was sitting in Changyi, had been worried since he heard that Chun Yuqiong had been defeated and that the whereabouts of his eldest son Yuan Tan were unknown. When he received the express delivery from Xu Rong, and when he saw the familiar face, he screamed even more, and he fell to the sky. The people on the side rushed up in a hurry, pinching the people in the pinching, pouring water, and after working for a while, they woke up Yuan Shao, who had passed out.

Yuan Shao, who woke up leisurely, couldn't help but be furious when he saw the two heads on the table, he broke away from everyone's support, pulled out the sword on the shelf, and shouted frantically: "Xu Rong dares to kill my son, I must capture this person alive, and then cut it with a thousand knives to vent the hatred in my heart!" ”

He held the sword in both hands and slashed it hard, with a "click" sound, and the desk in front of him was split into two parts.

Yuan Shao shouted: "Where is Ju Yi?" ”

The judge on the side replied: "General Ju Yi said that Xuzhou can be left overnight, so it is not appropriate to withdraw the troops, and it is not too late to withdraw the troops and come back after setting foot in Xuzhou!" ”

Ju Yi relied on the courage of the soldiers under his command, and he has always been rebellious and rude. In the past few years, because this general was needed to fight against Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao endured it, but now that even his eldest son has been killed, Ju Yi is still so arrogant, which makes Yuan Shao, who was already angry, even more angry.

He said with a gloomy face: "Send someone to pass the order again, let Ju Yi leave Xia Pi alone, and bring the troops back immediately!" ”

Xiapi was broken once by Cao Cao's method of attacking with water, and later Liu Bei sent someone to repair Xiapi City, and the defense was stronger than before. If the water is released again, the city also has a countermeasure. Ju Yi took the elite soldiers of Jizhou, overturned the 50,000 army under Liu Bei on the plain, and besieged Guan Yu in Xiapi City.

However, Guan Yu is now a world-famous master of defending the city, and he is guarding the city with more than 10,000 people. Chen Cheng had previously given Liu Bei another two thousand war horses, half of which fell into Guan Yu's hands. Therefore, Guan Yu has a very strong cavalry in his hands, and he will take the cavalry out from time to time to launch counterattacks, and beat the Jizhou army to the ground.

Xuzhou was slaughtered by Cao Cao once, and those places in the west, such as Pengcheng and other places, did not have the city walls repaired and did not have enough population. After Ju Yi led the army to call, Liu Bei simply gave up the place to the west and withdrew the main force to the area of Xiapi, preparing to fight a defensive counterattack here.

Before the two armies of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao converged, even with Liu Bei's ability, they had to temporarily avoid their front. This avoidance was directly avoided to Xiapi.

After Chen Cheng and Cao Cao's army were still testing each other, Xu Rong had already advanced wildly, killing from Puyang to the vicinity of Juancheng. After repelling Liu Bei's army, Qingzhou Mu Gaogan was ordered to seize Dongjun, and there were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses near Juancheng. Everyone in the world paid attention to Chen Cheng, but they didn't expect Xu Rong to come so quickly, so he was caught off guard.

Lü Bu took the lead in charging into battle, and more than 10,000 Yuan troops were easily defeated, and fled forty miles eastward. Then Xu Rong arrived with the main force, and the two sides fought a big battle near Fan County. The battle began at about 11 a.m. and lasted until more than 4 p.m.

Xu Rong used his soldiers like a god, broke the soldiers and horses of the senior cadres, killed and captured more than 10,000 people, and the senior cadres retreated to Qingzhou with the remnants of the defeated army. The Zang Bajun who insisted on Mount Tai took the opportunity to kill and cut off the retreat of the high-level army. After a scuffle, Gao Gan escaped with more than 1,000 horses, and the army under his command was completely defeated.

Subsequently, the Zang Bajun took the opportunity to invade Qingzhou and other places, and robbed many of the cities that had just been recovered by Gao Gan.

At this time, Chen Cheng had already led his soldiers and horses to Yongqiu, and lived in the city that was slaughtered by Cao's army. Yongqiu is Zhang Chao's hometown, Zhang Menggao heard that after his brother Zhang Miao committed suicide, his family members were also killed by Cao Cao, so he led and resisted Cao Cao for a long time.

Since the Cao army returned to Yanzhou, it was Zhang Miao's and Zhang Chao's brothers who resisted the most fiercely, so Cao Cao did not keep his promise, and after Zhang Miao's death, his family was slaughtered. After Yongqiu was breached, Cao Cao ordered the slaughter of everyone in the city, and sent soldiers and horses to capture the in-laws of the Zhang clan in the countryside and wipe out the three clans of the Zhang family.

When Chen Cheng led the soldiers and horses over, the corpses inside and outside the city had not yet been cleaned up. It was he who ordered the soldiers to dig several large pits outside the city, and then buried the corpses of the decaying maggots. After a few days of busy work, there is still a strong smell of corpses in the city, reminding people of what brutal things have happened here.

When Chen Cheng's army stayed in Yongqiu, Cao Cao led a large army to Xiangyi. Xiangyi, like Yongqiu, was a city built on the edge of a river, so it was rich in products and had a large population, and it was easy to obtain food and grass supplies.

Cao Cao has always been haunted by the fact that he was defeated by Chen Chengzhou two years ago, so that he wanted to flee to Yuzhou incognito. Although he didn't say it, it didn't mean that he was relieved. When he was in Yuzhou, Cao Cao knew that one day, he would meet Chen Cheng.

Both sides have the ambition to annex the world, and both have extraordinary abilities and skills, so the battle is something that cannot be avoided. In order to deal with Chen Cheng, Cao Cao has collected a lot of information about Chen Cheng in the past two years, from the style of using soldiers, to the concept of governance, from ordinary words, to marrying a few concubines and having a few women, Cao Cao is all clear.

Even, Cao Cao also tried his best to get a lot of "Chen Xue" books, and in addition to governing the army and the people, he worked hard to study these new types of learning. And he not only studied by himself, but also vigorously promoted it under the rule of Yuzhou, and sent a set to Yecheng for his sons to study.

When he was in Luoyang, Chen Cheng once thought about working with Boss Cao, but Cao Cao refused at that time. You can't just say you're going to do it together, and you can do it together, right? There must always be an assessment process, and after the assessment, there is a trial, and only after the trial can you enter the main topic.

But who would have thought that within a few days, Chen Cheng would fight with He Jin with a battalion of thousands of Yue cavalry. Then, this guy ran away directly to Xiliang. At that time, Cao Cao felt that people like Chen Cheng would definitely have to do a lot of things when they went to Xiliang, which was full of anti-thieves.

Sure enough, soon, Chen Cheng subdued the Xiliang heroes all the way, entered Guanzhong, captured Sili and Bingzhou, and finally reproduced the deeds of "Chu Overlord Breaking Han Gaozu" in Pengcheng.

After such a long period of research, Cao Cao already understands Chen Cheng's character better than most people in this world, and better understands what Chen Cheng is thinking and what he is going to do. Now, Chen Cheng finally came out of Guanzhong with a large army again.

Cao Cao is completely ready, and he is going to pick up the defeated prestige again in the land of Yanzhou!

Although the overlord is brave, he still has to have a siege after all!

All important cities in Yuzhou have been guarded by generals. As long as Chen Cheng is defeated on the frontal battlefield, then the temporary harassment of Yuzhou is not worth mentioning at all. As long as he wins in Yanzhou, then Chen Cheng can only retreat to Guanzhong!

The question is, can we win?

Cao Cao said confidently: "Of course you can win!" ”

He said to the generals and strategists under his command with great ambition: "There will be five dangers, and Chen Chengzheng has committed the last one, which is why he will fail!" Of course, the war could go on for a long time. But as long as you defeat them, all problems will be solved! ”