Lu Xiu rode his horse and went straight to Guan Yu, and suddenly saw a strong man coming from the side, with his hair scattered, only wrapped in a turban, holding a halberd in each hand, and rushed over in a daze.

Lu Xiu was overjoyed, this guy didn't look like a master, he was probably a rookie, and he just used him to show his might, so he could show his means in front of the general.

Zhou Cang hurriedly went into battle, and he was completely unprepared, and he was already in front of the enemy's formation in a blink of an eye, even if he was born in the Yellow Turban Army and experienced a hundred battles, he was also confused for a while.

Hurriedly staggered the short halberd in his hand, parryed and killed the long knife, and the two horses staggered. Zhou Cang was sure in his heart, this person's strength was nothing more than that! Hit the horse and turn around, and stab him under the horse with one move.

Looking back at the male god Guan Yu, I saw that he was nodding slightly, with an approving look on his face, and he couldn't help but feel encouraged.

copied the double halberd, flaunted his might in front of the two armies, and shouted arrogantly: "Cao Cao has raised some rice buckets, which rice bucket will come to send him to death?" ”

When Xu Chu's left and right generals heard that this person was so rude, they were all indignant, and they all asked for battle, and they were determined to crush this enemy general.

Xu Chu raised his hand to signal the silence left and right, and lost a general when the battle began, obviously the enemy general is not a mediocre hand, how can there be another mistake! He lifted the war hammer, jumped out of the battle formation, and killed Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang struggled to resist a few moves, but he was hit by Xu Chu's war hammer and flew his weapon, so he could only ride his horse and flee back into the formation.

Cao Jun moved back to a city, morale rose, and the drums were urging little by little, which provoked the war horses to move forward step by step.

Xu Chu wielded the war hammer, boosted morale, shouted and killed, and the war drums rang out in one piece, which was heartbreaking!

At this moment, I suddenly saw a green shadow, leaning over and dragging the green dragon knife, riding a jujube red horse, and killing by the sun, like a god descending into the world.

Xu Chu secretly said that it is not good, the enemy came by daylight, and his vision was blurred, how to crack the enemy's moves?

There was no plan for a while, so he could only round the war hammer and protect the top of his head, and suddenly a chilling aura came from under his ribs, but it was Guan Yu Qinglong Dao slanting upward, and it was already close at hand!

Xu Chu is really a tiger general, his face does not change when he encounters a surprise attack, he is not chaotic in danger, and he can block the war hammer in his hand, and he can come first, blocking Guan Yu Qinglong Knife, and bursting into countless fires.

Guan Yu's knife dragging skill is a trick, never vain, tried and tested, only this trick can often take people's lives and kill the enemy with one move.

Today, he was cracked by this person, needless to say, he was horrified in his heart, and he kept attacking in his hands, slashing the enemy's head with a knife.

Xu Chu blocked left and right, defending up and down, it was a move backward, frightening step by step, and being taken advantage of, coupled with Guan Yu's elegant knife technique, he felt that there were light sword shadows all around, and he was panicked for a while.

The two fought for fifty rounds, Xu Chu finally gave up and was defeated, Guan Yu took advantage of the situation to wave his army to chase and kill, chasing out more than ten miles, until Jiulong Mountain, afraid of being ambushed before retreating.

Although Guan Yu had a small victory, because Xu Chu took the initiative to retreat, he did not gain much. He didn't dare to move for a while, so he ordered the army to garrison Xiao Zhen and guard the barrier on the west side of Xuzhou.

However, it was said that Zhang Fei was stationed in Pei County, worked hard for several days, dispatched all the materials to defend the city in place, strengthened the city gate and city wall, added more than ten arrow towers, and ordered people to install horse faces outside the city wall, which greatly increased the defense space.

Satisfied, he looked forward to the arrival of Cao Cao's army soon.

However, Cao Cao's forward general Xiahoudun burned and looted all the way, and when he walked to Feng County, he didn't take a step forward and camped on the east bank of Wenshui, confronting Zhang Fei of Pei County.

Zhang Fei stood at the head of the city, looked around every day, and finally waited impatiently, pointed in the direction of Fengxian, and cursed: "Grandma's Xiahoudun, he should also pick up ants on the road to Peixian, if you fight so hard, you are not a person!" ”

He shouted at Yamen General Liao Hua again: "You take a few soldiers and go to investigate and find out what they want, whether this battle will be fought or not?" ”

The two armies were not far apart, and Liao Hua came back soon after he went: "Third General Qiyu, I was ordered to explore the forward battalion of the Cao army, and found that the enemy army was washing the horse water, and did not take us seriously. ”

Zhang Fei was furious: "Cao Nu dares to despise me so much, wait for me to take his camp!" ”

Chen Zhi, the deputy general of the army, persuaded: "The three generals are angry, the enemy besieges but does not attack, and the defense does not advance, it must be that they are not sure to capture the city. ”

Zhang Fei shouted: "The decisive battle will be the decisive battle, I'm afraid he won't succeed?" ”

Chen Zhi said: "The general is naturally not afraid, but the enemy took advantage of the general's absence to steal Pei County, how to explain it to the governor when the time comes?" It must be known that Dian Wei, another forward army, has not yet appeared, and I don't know where he is. ”

Zhang Feiyuan's eyes widened angrily, smashed a city brick with one punch, and muttered: "This battle is really suffocating!" ”

Liu Bei was studying the military situation with everyone in the camp, and he really couldn't figure out Cao Cao's intentions in using troops. Suddenly, there was an urgent report of the military situation: Cao Cao led the main army to cross Surabaya to the east, and successively captured Rencheng and Teng County, which were weakly defended, and the troops pointed directly at Xiapi!

Liu Bei sat on the couch in surprise and asked everyone: "Cao Cao avoided the truth and made a reality, and the main force reached his henchmen, how is this good?" ”

Jian Yongdao: "Cao Cao set up two suspicious soldiers, pretending to attack Pei County, attracting our army to gather in the southwest of Surabaya, but he took the opportunity to cross east and steal the two counties of Rencheng and Tengxian. Today's plan is to defend Xiapi first, otherwise if Xiapi is lost, our army will be cut in two, and the north and south cannot take care of each other, and the general situation is in danger! ”

Liu Bei pondered for a while, and felt that it was very reasonable, so he decided to personally lead the troops, pour out of the nest, and reinforce Xiapi.

However, everyone overlooked a key figure, and that was Dian Wei! As one of the three vanguards, Dian Wei disappeared from the battlefield as if he had never appeared.

At this time, Dian Wei had just crossed Jiulong Mountain and arrived in the southwest of Xuzhou, behind Guan Yu. After a month's trekking through mountains and rivers, he finally completed the instructions of Guo Jiajun's division and inserted an elite infantry of 5,000 people into the enemy's hinterland.

This infantry soldier was different from the other armies, all of them were tall and strong, all of them were well-armed, and each of them was fully armoured. It was Cao Cao who saw the power of the trapped camp and created a new class, and Cao Cao called him the Tiger Battalion.

The Tiger Camp was led by Dian Wei and directly governed by Cao Cao, and this time there was only one goal, that is, to take Xuzhou City.

Dian Wei still remembered that Guo Jia offered a plan at that time: "The Ming Duke has a strong army, which can be divided and combined, and if it is divided, it will lure the enemy to run tired, take the county lightly, and if it is combined, it will kill all the way and break the city." No matter which strategy is taken, Ming Gong will definitely win. ”

Cao Cao remembered the strength of Liu Guanzhang and the three of them in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, and felt that hard fighting was not a good strategy, so he chose a plan to divide the troops.

Three-way forwards, Xiahoudun and Xu Chu each brought 20,000 to attract the enemy's main force on the north and south lines, and Dian Wei led the Huben battalion to cross Jiulong Mountain, bypassing Peixian and Guan Yu's army, and penetrating directly into the city of Xuzhou.

Cao Cao led 100,000 troops to cross Surabaya to harvest and defend the empty city, and the ultimate goal was to lure out Liu Bei's army to defend Xuzhou.

If Liu Bei doesn't come, he will fall, and if Liu Bei comes, Xuzhou will be empty, and it is the time when Dian Wei uses force!

This plan is interlocking, so that Liu Bei has to take care of it, and he is going to perish step by step.

The war in Xuzhou is in full swing, but Luoyang is calm at the moment.

Lu Bu overthrew Wang Yun by thunderous means, and finally held all the military and political affairs in his hands, although some officials expressed their dissatisfaction and resigned and left, but after all, there was no turmoil, Luoyang was in order, and everything went together.

Lu Bu appointed himself as prime minister, summoned Huang Sheng, the governor of Henan, to be in charge of civil affairs in Kwantung, and summoned Ma Teng to Beijing as a guard to guard the palace, appointed Yan Song as Shang Shuling, Jia Xu and Chen Lin as the left and right servants, and respected Cai Yong as the secretary. He also recalled Kong Rong, the Qingzhou assassin who was defeated by Yuan Shao, to Jingzhong as Shaofu.

On this day, everyone dispersed, leaving only Huang Sheng, and Lu Bu thought that it was with his advice that he was able to break the Black Mountain Army effortlessly.

Lu Budao: "Now the Eastern War is in full swing, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are fighting Xuzhou, Yuan Shao has captured most of Qingzhou, Sun Ce has crossed the river and passed through Jiangdong, Yuan Shu is plotting against Liu Bei, it seems that he intends to Yanzhou, how do you think we should develop in the future?" ”

Huang Sheng smiled and said: "How do the prime ministers think the above princes are stronger than the prime minister?" ”

Lu Budao: "It's all inferior to me. ”

Huang Sheng said again: "Then they are better than the prime minister together?" ”

Lu Bu said: "It's much stronger than me. ”

Huang Sheng asked again: "Does the prime minister have any worries behind him?" ”

Lu Budao: "Although the Qiang people are brave, but they are just a small trouble, the Huns have been attached to the Han for a long time, and they are no longer brave, so there should be no trouble." ”

Huang Sheng smiled: "In this case, what worries does the prime minister have? Isn't it true that they attack each other and weaken each other exactly what the prime minister wants to see? The prime minister only needs to accumulate thick and thin, train soldiers and horses, and enrich grain and grass, so as to wait for the opportunity. ”

Lu Budao: "What is the timing? ”

Huang Sheng said: "When a certain party is about to succeed, look down on the world." ”

The next day, Lü Bu appointed Ma Chao as the general of Pingqiang, and Pang De, Ma Dai, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian as deputy generals to conquer the Qiang. Guo Yan was appointed as the Taishou of Shangjun and Li Wei as the Taishou of Shuofang, and jointly defended in case the Xiongnu attacked.

During this period, Lü Bu learned from later generations, changed the military system, set up an operational counselor's department, systematized the officer system, established a supervising army, strengthened military control, and a series of measures, which achieved remarkable results.

It is said that Liu Bei led the army to Xiapi, and the army was properly arranged, and Cao Cao's army was already in the city.

The 100,000 army was dressed in linen and filial piety, and two white flags were erected in the army, one side was written to take revenge, and the other side was written to eliminate adultery and punish evil. In front of the 100,000 soldiers and generals who were dressed in plain clothes, everyone in Xiapi shuddered!

Liu Bei shouted to the city: "Brother Cao's father died in Xuzhou, it was an accident, not what I wanted, brother wants to take revenge, just enter the city, take my head, why implicate the people of Xuzhou?" ”

Cao Cao said angrily: "The big-eared thief will succeed, and when I slaughter all the people and animals in Xuzhou, I will eat your flesh and drink your blood to sacrifice my father's spirit in the sky!" ”

Liu Bei hid his face and wept, and said, "Brother Cao is so hearted, won't he be scolded by the world?" Pity me tens of thousands of living beings in Xuzhou who died under the butcher's knife, Liu Bei is incompetent, powerless to rescue, and shameless to live in the world! ”

As he spoke, he was about to jump off the city wall, but Mi Zhu, Mi Fang, Jian Yong and others hurriedly dissuaded him, and it took him half a long time to gradually calm down.

When the soldiers in Cao Cao's army saw Liu Bei's righteousness, they were all impressed, and they all whispered, and the army was in turmoil for a while.

Cao Cao was about to storm Pi, but was stopped by Guo Jia.

Guo Jia said: "Liu Bei is good at using the method of bewitchment, which can best win people's hearts, and at this time, the morale of our army is damaged, and it is not suitable to attack." ”

Cao Cao said: "According to the opinion of filial piety, what should I do? ”

Guo Jiadao: "Now under the strategy of our army, Liu Bei has gathered troops in the areas of Xuzhou and Xiapi, and the defense of his northern counties is weak. Why didn't the Duke of Ming divide his troops to take the East China Sea and Langya two counties, so that most of Xuzhou fell into the hands of the Duke of Ming, and then it became a siege, and then ordered Dian Wei to attack Xuzhou, Liu Bei would be in chaos, so that he could break the enemy in one fell swoop, and get twice the result with half the effort! ”

Cao Cao heard Guo Jia's plan and sighed: "Feng Xiao really has the ability of gods and ghosts, Deqing, my luck is also!" ”

Subsequently, Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin to lead 20,000 troops each, divide their troops to attack the two counties of Donghai and Langya, and then come to converge after breaking the city.

He led an army of 60,000 and retreated five miles and set up camp to stand by.

Chen Liu, too guarded mansion.

Zhang Miao and Chen Gong sat opposite each other, both of whom were partners of Cao Cao who made his fortune early.

At this time, he was sad for the same thing, Zhang Miao wiped his tears and said: "Wenli is generous by nature, treats people well, is the pride of the world, and his articles and conduct are models for my generation, but it is a pity that he ended up like this, which makes people feel cold,"

Chen Gong said: "That's right, I tried to persuade Cao Cao, but I still can't protect Brother Wenli's life, I'm really ashamed of my brother!" ”

Zhang Miao said: "Don't blame yourself in the public platform, Cao Cao is now in power, and he has long stopped putting you and me in his eyes, and you have done your best." ”

Chen Gong said: "Cao Cao's expedition to Xuzhou this time, slaughtering nearly 100,000 people, passing through villages and towns without leaving a living, has already provoked the anger of the heavens and people, how does the virtuous brother plan, do you still have to follow Cao Cao to the end?" ”

Zhang Miao said: "Now the princes, the strongest ones are only Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, although Cao Cao is cruel, but he will not harm me for a while, but Yuan Shao has an enmity with me, and he will be revenged, where can I go?" ”

Chen Gong approached Zhang Miao and whispered: "Why don't you take refuge in the imperial court, the name is justified, and Lu Bu is strong, Cao Cao can't help it!" ”

Zhang Miao said: "We have attacked Lu Bu in the alliance, how can he tolerate me?" ”

Chen Gong said with a smile: "Brother Xian, let me introduce you to someone." ”

When he spoke, he clapped his hands, and a person came in outside the door, dressed as an official, and it was Dong Cheng, the uncle of the country.

Chen Gong recommended Zhang Miao and said: "This is the uncle Dong Cheng who came on the orders of the emperor. ”

After everyone finished saluting, Zhang Miao asked, "Why did Uncle Guo come?" ”

Dong Chengdao: "I came for Yanzhou on the orders of His Majesty!" ”

Zhang Miao was puzzled: "How do you say this?" ”

Dong Cheng said with a smile: "Your Majesty knew that Taishou would be dedicated to the imperial court as early as a few years ago, and ordered me to come to receive it. ”

Zhang Miao was shocked and said, "How does the emperor know what will happen in the future?" ”

Dong Chengdao: "It's all what the prime minister expected. ”

Zhang Miao exclaimed: "Isn't the power of the prime minister like a ghost? ”

Chen Gong said: "This matter seems logical now, Cao Cao is treacherous, he will not be able to win the hearts of the people, and sooner or later he will provoke the anger of the heavens and people, but the prime minister can see through it in advance, and predict what will happen later, there are indeed ghosts and gods." ”

Dong Chengdao: "That's right, Your Majesty didn't dare to believe it when he first heard about it, but he still sent me to answer you. ”