Liu Bei is very restrictive to Lu Bu. When Lu Bu first arrived in Xuzhou, Liu Bei firmly pressed him in Xiaopei and did not let him do anything. At that time, Lü Bu had less than 2,000 troops, and it was the time when he was bent on expanding his military strength and reorganizing his strength, but due to Liu Bei's overt or covert interference, after more than half a year, Lü Bu's strength was still only about 2,500. Although Lu Bu was resentful, he had no choice but to send someone under the fence, and there was no other way. coupled with the persuasion of Chen Gong on the side, Lu Bu could only swallow his anger and hate Liu Bei's actions.

It was not until the news that Cao Cao was going to attack Xuzhou that Liu Bei completely loosened the restrictions on Lü Bu, and Lü Bu also took the opportunity to recruit troops and horses, and by the time Cao Cao's army conquered Pengcheng, Lü Bu had more than 4,000 soldiers and horses.

However, these soldiers and horses are still too few for Lu Bu. And nearly half of these 4,000 people are new recruits, and it may be okay to fight a good fight on the battlefield, but once they are in danger, they will not be able to achieve any climate at all.

At this time, Liu Bei let himself fight against Cao Cao, Lu Bu was not surprised at all, Chen Gong had already mentioned to him that Liu Bei suddenly no longer had restrictions on his expansion, and his intention was to let himself be a meat shield, so that he could get more time to survive in front of Cao Cao. But you must know that Lu Bu only has 4,000 people at this time, while Cao Cao has an army of 50,000!

But does Lu Bu have any other options? So far, he has only two paths to take: fight and surrender. Let him surrender to Cao Cao, with Lu Bu's arrogance, although it is not impossible, but he will do it only when the mountains and rivers are exhausted and completely cornered. And now, although the situation is dire, it is not yet a situation of complete despair. What's more, Lu Bu also has a Chen Gong under him, and Chen Gong and his people regard Cao Cao as a mortal enemy, and there is basically no room for turning around between the two of them.

Xiaopei, also known as Pei County, is also a relatively famous city in Xuzhou, and its legendary color is no less than Pengcheng. Pei County is the hometown of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and his important ministers Xiao He, Cao Shen, Fan Xu, Zhou Bo and others are also from Pei County. Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, although he was not born in Pei County, is rumored to be a native of Pei County, so Pei County has the lofty praise of "Han Tang Muyi, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty" in later generations. A city, out of two founding kings, think of what a glorious thing it is for the inhabitants of the city.

Of course, there are still more than 1,100 years before Zhu Yuanzhang was born, and today's Xiaopei is in a time of turmoil. Lu Bu is in Xiaopei City, and he wants to face Cao Cao's 50,000 army with his mere 4,000 troops!

What a slim chance of winning! I think that at the beginning, Lu Bu faced Cao Cao's army back to Yanzhou in Puyang, and the disparity in strength between the two sides at that time was far less huge than it is now, but Lu Bu did not lose, and it ended in a fiasco. And now Lu Bu's military strength is less than one percent of Cao Cao's, it can be said that in front of Cao Jun, no matter how brave and invincible Lu Bu's personal strength is, it is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.

Perhaps even Liu Bei finally felt that it was too unkind to treat Lu Bu like this at the last moment, so he ordered Chen to lead 4,000 men and horses into Xiaopei to help. In this way, there are 8,000 defenders in Xiaopei City. If 8,000 people defend the city, they will be able to hold out for a while. And Liu Bei finally expressed his meaning to Lu Bu: "If Xiaopei can't defend in the end, he will lead the army to retreat to Xiapi and fight to the death with Cao's army in Xiapi." ”

For Cao Cao, although as long as he waved his army to conquer Xiapi, it was basically equivalent to occupying the entire Xuzhou, and attacking Xiapi from Pengcheng did not necessarily pass through Xiaopei. Cao Cao could ignore Xiao Pei, where Lu Bu was located, and directly attack Xiapi. But Lu Bu, who was stationed in Xiaopei, was always a thorn in Cao Cao's heart, and prudence was one of Cao Cao's personality traits.

In addition to the above reasons, Lu Bu, Tiger Wolf, if Cao Cao abandons it and captures Pi, and Lu Bu takes the opportunity to flee elsewhere, then he may become Cao Cao's henchman again in the future. At this time, Liu Bei's reputation as a long-distance runner had not yet been revealed, and Cao Cao was not worried about it, and it was expected that he would not be able to abandon the land of Yizhou and flee after all. Therefore, Cao Cao decided to capture Xiaopei, where Lu Bu was located, before attacking Xiapi.

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"Siege ——!" Sitting on a war horse and looking at the Xiaopei city wall from afar, Cao Cao shouted.

When Lu Bu saw this scene on the tower of Xiaopei City, he only felt that it was similar, but at that time he was the one who sat on horseback and ordered the siege of the city, and the target of the attack was the city under Cao Cao's control.

As soon as he recalled the original offensive and defensive battle of Dongjun City, Lu Bu thought of the enemy general who pushed him off the city wall, and when he thought of Gao Shun, Lu Bu's face became extremely hideous in an instant.

"Hmph, since Cao Cao's guys can defend the city with thousands of people, I, Lu Fengxian, am a hundred times stronger than those miscellaneous fish, so naturally I can do it!" After Lu Bu was hideous, when his mood calmed down, he suddenly became arrogant. Shou Xiaopei is not as good as guarding Puyang at the beginning, at that time Cao Cao returned to help, all the way to recover the city, and he was finally left with Puyang, a lonely city in Yanzhou. With the rest of the cities under the control of Cao Cao and the increasing shortage of money and food for the army, a lonely Puyang city had no possibility of holding it at all, and it was only a matter of time before it was breached. It was on the premise of knowing this that Lu Bu decided to take a risk and attack Cao Jun. The current situation is very different from before, at least half of Xuzhou's territory is still in Liu Bei's hands, so there is no need to consider the situation of being isolated and helpless, just defend the city. Since that Cao General can withstand the onslaught of tens of thousands of troops with thousands of troops, how can he not do it!

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Bu's expression immediately became extremely heroic. Lu Bu is Lu Bu, full of self-confidence all the time, even if this self-confidence has no basis and swells to the extreme. He regarded Gao Shun as a miscellaneous fish, and thought that if he could successfully defend the Dongjun City with weak troops, then he could now keep Xiao Pei. But he didn't want to think about it, if that Gao Shun was really a stream of miscellaneous fish, then what could he be counted as being pushed off the city wall by him?

Moreover, the so-called time is different from the past, and Lu Bu has missed a very important point. On that day, when Cao Cao went on an expedition, he suddenly raised troops to attack Yanzhou, but because of the haste of the incident, he did not carry too many siege equipment. But at this moment, Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou, but he was fully prepared.

When he saw a large number of rushing cars and well railings appear outside Xiaopei City, Lu Bu's previous pride of defending the city with 8,000 people suddenly disappeared and was dry and quiet.

The car kept hitting Xiao Pei's city gate, and every time it hit, Xiao Pei's city gate would make a loud noise, and the defenders of the city would sound a violent tremor in their hearts.

The archers on the well railings shot round after round of bows and arrows, mercilessly harvesting the lives of the defenders of the city.

Ladders were erected, and the soldiers of the Cao army scrambled to climb to the top of the tower. On top of the city tower, the city's defense utensils such as sassaga wood and rolling stones were also constantly thrown down, setting off clouds of blood mist under the city, and the scene was tragic and abnormal.