Qingzhou, Jinan, Licheng!

Cao's army advanced to Licheng, looking at the tall city and the current state of Licheng's defense, knowing that it was extremely difficult to storm Licheng.

Especially in the case of equal forces, it is even more impossible.

However, it is extremely dangerous to bypass Licheng and advance to the hinterland of Jinan.

Once the main force enters the hinterland of Jinan, the Xu Dingbu of Licheng will cut off the back road, and the cavalry will be entangled, and the main force on his side will fall into the danger of being besieged in the hinterland of Jinan in a bitter battle.

So Cao Cao is not advancing.

At the same time, he was also waiting for the news of Yuan Shao in Pingyuan County.

If Yuan Shao advanced smoothly in the plains, then it would only make sense for him to fight like this, otherwise he would never have done such a stupid thing.

"Report! The lord Taishan County replied! ”

The messenger sent to Tarzan hurried back with the letter of frustration.

After reading it, Xu Ding raised his eyebrows slightly, and said to everyone: "Cao Mengde really sent a tiger and leopard to attack Mount Tai, and the south of Mengshan was lost, but Gong and Yi blocked the tiger and leopard horse south of Zhushui, and Mount Tai is now mainly threatened by the two-way attack sent by Cao Mengde from Jibei.

All the way from Snake Hill to Juping, all the way from Feicheng to the Guishan line, straight to the county capital Fenggao. ”

"Lord, there are quite a lot of cities in the Juping area, and there are rivers and natural dangers, and the mountains are more precipitous, because there should be no problem, the only thing that may be broken by the Cao army is the first line of Guishan, if it is lost, the Cao army can directly advance to the west bank of the river outside Fenggao City, which is the most dangerous, and now half of the soldiers and horses of Gonghe have been dispatched to the south of the Zhushui line to defend the tiger and leopard cavalry, and they have to divide their troops to defend Juping, and there are not many soldiers available." Frustrated:

"Lord, we can start fighting back, we can't let Cao Cao live too comfortably."

Xu Ding knew what he meant.

If it drags on, there may be a new crisis in Taishan.

Don't wait for news of the locusts.

After estimating the time, and thinking about the recent rejuvenation of the earth and the recovery of all things, Xu Ding thought for a while and said: "Okay, come and don't be rude, inform Zilong, the sixth lieutenant army can act, take out Jibei Kingdom for me, capture Cao Cao's strategist Cheng Shu alive, and let Meng De also feel heartache." ”

After giving this order, Xu Ding said to Xu Huang again: "Gongming, you lead the left cavalry guard to move to the front line of Luoshui, and enter Luoyin to pretend to cross the river to support Pingyuan City." ”

"It's the lord!" Xu Huang took the order and left.

Xu Huang went out of the city to the east and went down the river, and in Taixian County, he was moving across the Jishui to Luoshui.

"Let's go! Let's go out of the city to fight with Meng De and kill his sharp spirit! Xu Ding, with a gun, took the generals out of the city.

Cao Ying!

Hearing the beating of the vigilant war drums, the tent was opened, and the general reported: "My lord, the Marquis of Weihai has left Licheng and threatens to fight with our army." ”

"Ahem! How could Bokang suddenly want to fight with me, there must be deception in it. Cao Cao was suspicious, so he was very suspicious of Xu Ding's motives.

In addition, he didn't dare to send someone to fight with Xu Ding.

If you can't beat it, why bother humiliating yourself.

Why do you want to fight in a group.

"Lord, Weihai Marquis also said that if the lord is afraid of fraud, he can take people across the Jishui River and challenge on the north bank of the river, if anyone can beat him, not only Licheng will give it to us, Jinan will also give it to us, and the soldiers are ......" The general also wanted to say, Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, this is another of his initial attack on the heart, go down to pass the order, the army is forbidden to discuss this matter, and the offender will be beheaded!" ”

"Whoa!"

"Lord, this is not a problem, we attacked Bokang, but we didn't dare to fight when he left the city, it was a big blow to morale, or we would attack the city directly." Cao Hong said.

After Cao Hong finished speaking, Liu Ye said: "The lord can't, there are heavy troops of Weihai Marquis in Licheng City, and the city is not easy to fight, even if we fill in all the strength of our 60,000 people, we can't attack it, let's continue to wait for the news from Mount Tai and the direction of the plain, I believe there will be good news soon."

At this time, we should not change the most to respond to all changes, without the support of Taishan County and Pingyuan County, even if Jinan Kingdom is directly given to us, it is hot to hold, not only useless, but a great harm. ”

Cao Cao bowed slightly: "Ziyang is right, Bo Kang is the most calculating, the meat he threw out is not delicious, and he will be poisoned if he eats it, I won't fall for him." ”

Liu Ye looked relieved at this time, Cao Cao was still very stable, thinking of Xu Huang's department who was out of the city, Liu Ye continued: "The left cavalry guard of Weihai Hou suddenly dispatched, I am afraid that something big has happened in Pingyuan County, according to the time calculation, Yuan Shao should also take Pingyuan City, or at the critical moment of taking it." ”

"Yuan Shao didn't talk much about Pingyuan City, he just told us to break through Licheng as soon as possible, who knows what he was doing? I'm also worried that Berkang's left cavalry guard wants to go around behind our army, and then attack our army camp from the north and south. Cao Cao said jokingly.

The left cavalry guard is also called the Shenji battalion, equipped with a water crossbow machine, as well as a variety of rapid-fire weapons, and is a cavalry background, it is not impossible for Xu Ding to let them attack the battalion to break the formation, especially Xu Ding is willing to cross the river to challenge, the intention is very strange.

Liu Ye said: "That lord may be Yuanlong's side, there is a major situation in Taishan County, Weihai Hou is starting to be anxious, and he is ready to use counterattack means to end this battle as soon as possible, so as to withdraw his troops."

We must be careful of his night attack and strengthen our vigilance! ”

After nightfall, Licheng sent troops and horses across the river to attack the camp, but it was quickly recognized by Cao's army.

This further corroborated Liu Ye's speculation, and Cao Cao had to strengthen the defense of the camp and deal with Xu Ding's attack.

Of course, there is one point that Cao Cao and Liu Ye are puzzled about.

How did Xu Dingbu, who attacked the camp, let the Bingma River cross the river, because his spies who were placed in Hebei to monitor the surface of the river were all killed quietly last night.

Just when Xu Ding on the side of Li Cheng frequently made small moves, someone from Wu Xiu City, who was far away in Hanoi, also made a move.

Dong Zhao said to Lu Bu when he distributed grain and grass to Zhang Yang and Lu Bu: "General Lu, this may be the last time I will send you grain and grass." ”

Lu Budao: "What does Mr. Dong mean by this? ”

Dong Zhao said: "General Lu, you also know that the great drought in Kwangtung has lasted for eight months, and everything cannot grow after successive droughts, and I have no food to eat in Hanoi, and I could have lasted until midsummer, but recently Yanzhou and Jizhou attacked Qingzhou, and the waterway was cut off, and the grain we asked for from Weihaihou could not be brought in, not to mention that you still have to ...... Ay! ”

Lu Bu's old face was red, he didn't know what Dong Zhao meant, Hanoi was already short of food, and the grain was still purchased from Xu Ding, and now that he was here, he had to share some food, which increased Zhang Yang's burden.

This is a hint that you should not stay in Hanoi for long.

Zhang Yang very tactfully persuaded himself to leave.

Hanoi has always been a rich land, the land is fertile, and Lu Bu is stupid and understands that Hanoi cannot really lack food.

"Let Uncle Zhi be embarrassed, when our army rests in a few days, I will leave, and I won't cause trouble for him." Lubra said with the lower half of his face.

In fact, Lu Bu was very insecure after entering the land of Kanto, Yuan Shu's actions made him very chilled, and now that he thinks about it carefully, he also feels that something is wrong in Guanzhong, and he feels that he is being calculated everywhere.

So after coming to Hanoi, he was not at ease, but was very wary of Zhang Yang, for fear that this former colleague would kill him and annex his own soldiers and horses.

Dong Zhao asked, "I don't know where General Lu wants to go?" ”

"Where to go? I haven't thought about it yet. Lu Bu shook his head slightly, and said uncertainly: "It's been so many years since I came out, and I suddenly want to go back to Bingzhou." ”