In the second year of Xingping (A.D. 195), Yanzhou, Shanyang County, ten miles outside Juye City.

In Cao Jun's big tent, except for Cao Cao himself at this time, the rest of the civil and military generals were embarrassed. As for the reason, it is naturally because of a certain "military master".

Duan Xuan held the wine jug in his hand, taking a few sips from time to time while looking at the map intently.

Xiahou Yuan and the others next to him were all made unintentional by him, and only the sound of his mouth was left in his head.

"General Cao Ren, how many days have we besieged the city?" Duan Xuan suddenly asked.

"It should have been ten days." Cao Ren reluctantly drove the "tsk" drinking sound out of his head and responded.

"Lord, he should be coming soon." Duan Xuan put down the wine jug, his expression suddenly became serious, and he turned to Cao Cao and said.

Cao Cao nodded, got up from his chair and said to everyone: "The generals will listen to the order, except for Cao Ren and Cao Hong, who are still in charge of besieging the city, the rest of the soldiers and horses are all deployed outward. This time, it is necessary to eliminate Lu Bu. ”

Since Lu Bu escaped last time, he had begun to hide his whereabouts, and Duan Xuan deduced that he must be recruiting soldiers and horses to restore his strength.

And a month ago, Lu Bu finally reappeared. It's just that he no longer fought Cao Cao head-on, but took advantage of the mobility of the cavalry to plunder one county and immediately retreat with his baggage and move to the next county.

Cao Cao didn't have any good ways to deal with this.

The super combat effectiveness and mobility of the wolf cavalry in Bingzhou are obvious opponents among the princes' soldiers and horses, and if you want to defeat this army, you must use several times the number of troops. However, tens of thousands of troops pursued more than 10,000 cavalry, and the consequences can be imagined, which is nothing more than being led by the nose, but they have never been able to catch up.

If the troops are divided and stationed in the counties, regardless of whether they can survive the battle, the consumption of grain and grass alone is enough to drag down half of the prefectures and counties.

Faced with this dilemma, Duan Xuan boldly proposed to besiege the city and attract the enemy.

And the targets he chose were Xue Lan and Li Feng who were stationed in Juye.

The reason why this place was chosen is that Juye County is on the border of Shanyang County, and once it loses, it can quickly withdraw to Cao Cao's own sphere of influence; The second is that when Lu Bu retreated, the second general was desperately defending here, so that he could escape smoothly, and with Lu Bu's temperament, he would never give up on the two of them.

As a result, Cao Cao's army of 100,000 surrounded Juye like an iron bucket, but did not attack the city.

Xue Lan and Li Feng naturally knew each other's intentions, but they didn't have any way, because they couldn't get in touch with Lu Bu anymore.

A county town, 30,000 horses, food consumption is far beyond imagination. What's more, because of the previous conquest of Xuzhou, there is basically not much grain in the whole territory of Yanzhou, so in fact, on the eighth day, the defenders of Juye have already begun to kill horses for food.

……

In the middle of the night, while everyone was asleep, there was a cacophony in the barracks.

The generals who were woken up by the heralds endured their anger and came to Cao Cao's tent, and at a glance they saw the person who was tied up and held in the middle - Li Feng.

"Huh? My lord, this man is here to assassinate you? Duan Xuan saw that he had captured the enemy, and he was completely sleepy, and he immediately got up.

"Zhicai," Cao Cao turned his head and responded, when there were many people, he still called Duan Xuan "Zhicai", "If they have such courage, how can they be besieged for ten days without going out of the city to fight." General Lee was just going to deliver the letter. ”

As he spoke, Cao Cao shook the letter in his hand and said, "You might as well guess why he entered our army's camp at night." ”

"What else can I do, it's nothing more than to ask Lu Bu for help." Cao Ren glanced at Li Feng with disdain.

"I'm afraid that the general is wrong this time," Duan Xuan smiled at Cao Ren and turned his head to look at Cao Cao, "Lord, he's going to stop Lu Bu." ”

Cao Cao nodded approvingly, "Yes, he must have wanted to inform Lu Bu that he had come to this point." ”

After hearing this, everyone gasped: it was so dangerous, and it almost fell short.

As the saying goes: A soldier dies for his confidant. General Lee, so daring. Cao Cao smiled and said to Li Feng, "The general values righteousness, Cao admires, but I don't know what you want to do now that you have become a prisoner of the ranks?" If thou wilt surrender to me, I will spare thee life. ”

"Phew! Cao Cao, don't tease me! If you want to kill, you will kill, why bother. Li Feng's eyes widened and he glared at Cao Cao angrily.

"Alas! ~~~" Cao Cao turned around, sighed and waved his hand.

In less than a stick of incense, Li Feng's head was presented.

At the same time, the soldiers on patrol also hurried in.

"My lord, the cavalry has been rushing from the east, and the speed is extremely fast, it seems that they are not here to help."

"He's still here." Duan Xuan smiled at Cao Cao, and walked out of the big tent quickly.

……

Lu Bu came this time and didn't bring many people. He didn't want to clash with Cao Cao head-on, but only hoped to break through the encirclement and rescue the second general, and then quickly evacuate.

Therefore, he only brought Cheng Lian, Wei Xu and 8,000 cavalry with him to the rescue.

But this time he encountered a problem: Duan Xuan ordered someone to make four layers of antlers. The purpose of this was to prevent the enemy's cavalry from charging and leaping.

When Lu Bu's cavalry stopped outside the besieging soldiers, he finally knew his situation—the other party had actually chosen himself as the target in the first place.

At this time, the outer camp of the Cao army, which he forcibly broke through, was already full of people and horses.

The next moment, countless arrows flew in. Lu Bu barely defended, but his subordinates didn't have such high martial arts.

Those who react quickly can still lie on the ground to dodge, and those who react slowly are directly shot by several arrows at the same time.

Cheng Lian and Wei Xu exchanged glances to each other, they both knew that this rescue was ...... Failed.

Lu Bu also knew in his heart that with the remaining 6,000 cavalry, he could no longer continue to attack.

Knocking down the arrows that flew to his side again, Lu Bu raised his head and looked at the city wall of Juye County. There, Xue Lan was shaking her head at herself, motioning for him to leave quickly.

In fact, when Xue Lan saw Lu Bu arrive, her heart instantly cooled, because it meant that Li Feng did not succeed. Then, his fate can be imagined.

Lu Bu gritted his teeth, waved his halberd, and ordered a detour to retreat.

But how could Duan Xuan let him leave so easily, in order to make Lu Bu fall into the scheme, he had to risk his life.

"Brother Lu, don't come unharmed." Duan Xuan stood on the tent of the car and shouted at Lu Bu loudly.

Lu Bu shuddered suddenly, and looked in Duan Xuan's direction with murderous eyes.

When Duan Xuan saw those eyes, he knew that Lu Bu already knew everything.

"Duan Xuan! In vain, I will treat you as a brother! I don't want you to be such a shameless person! You conspired with your master to kill my father-in-law, and today I will pay for your life! Lu Bu roared angrily.

Duan Xuan's heart suddenly had a bad premonition, and he asked with a slight anxiety in his voice, "How do you know about my master?" ”

"Humph! That rat has become the soul of my halberd, so why bother asking! ”

Hearing this, Duan Xuan only felt powerless, and then felt that the world was spinning. I finally stood firm, but I felt tightness in my chest, and with a heavy cough, a mouthful of blood spurted out.

Lu Bu naturally didn't care about Duan Xuan's physical condition, what he had wanted to do for a long time was now in front of him, how could he miss the opportunity.

The Red Rabbit Horse let out a long roar, as if he had comprehended Lu Bu's intentions, and rushed straight towards Duan Xuan like a dragon beast burning with raging fire.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! The sound of the bowstring sounded in the shouts of killing everywhere, and Lu Bu suddenly sensed the danger, hurriedly turned the horse's head, and dodged sideways.

Xiahou Yuan was originally pressing the formation by Cao Cao's side, but when he saw that Duan Xuan was in danger, he hurriedly led his horse forward, pulled his bow and arrows, and relieved him of the siege.

Lu Bu adjusted his direction and wanted to charge again, but found that in front of Duan Xuan at this time, Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, Nie Hong and others were all in a posture and ready to attack at any time.

The enemy is in front of him, and the opportunity he has been looking for is here, and Lu Bu has forgotten the original purpose of this trip.

"General!" Cheng Lian suddenly shouted.

Lu Bu was startled, and when he looked back, he found that his cavalry was constantly falling.

Lu Bu's heart instantly calmed down. He pointed at Duan Xuan from a distance with his halberd, and said angrily: "I'll spare your life for the time being, if I see you next time, I will break you into pieces!" ”

After speaking, he took the red rabbit with him, and led the remnants of the remnants of the horses all the way to the south.

Everyone didn't go after it, because just now, these soldiers nearby clearly heard Lu Bu calling Duan Xuan's name. Everyone was now looking at him with puzzled eyes.

However, Duan Xuan didn't need to worry about how to explain it to everyone.

Because the next moment, he fainted......

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The next day, Duan Xuan came to Cao Cao's big tent with a pale face.

The dripping water, coupled with the grief in his heart, makes him look completely different from the person he used to be.

"Lord...... I heard that Xue Lan let the people out of the city? ”

"Zhicai, you haven't recovered yet, so you don't have to endure coming to the military conference." Cao Cao said with some reluctance.

"Thank you, Lord. But I don't know what the lord wants to do with these people. Duan Xuan still stubbornly asked.

"Settle in other states and counties, after all, there are often wars here, and it is inconvenient to keep them."

"I saw them when I came, and I think my lord has seen them too. From the look in their eyes, I could only feel coldness and hatred. ”

"What do you mean?" Cao Cao already knew what Duan Xuan meant, but he deliberately asked again.

"If they let them go, they will definitely slander the lord everywhere, and then Yanzhou will be in chaos again. You can't put it, you can't keep it, you can only ......" Duan Xuan said, slashing his neck with a knife in his hand.

Everyone showed a look of surprise, including Cao Cao.

However, Cao Cao also knew that this was the easiest way at present, as long as he blamed Lu Bu, he would not have to worry about his reputation being damaged, and he would not have to take up time to settle down, and most importantly, he would not have to spend food and grass.

After a brief silence, Cao Cao's expression became complicated.

He stared at the tent and said with a little sadness: "Just according to the military advisor's wishes." Decree that all the people of Juye should be put to death, and not a single person should be let go. After that, the ordnance was transported to the city, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong were notified to prepare for the siege! ”