In the end, Cao Cao did not heed Guo Jia's advice and decided to send troops to Xuzhou.

Gao Shun was left behind in the Dongjun town of Yanzhou, and his trapping camp was originally established with a strength of 1,000 troops, and after this period of development, there are now a total of 1,500 Xiaorui. Although the quality of the newly recruited 500 soldiers is not as good as that of the previous veterans, they have also undergone hellish rigorous training, so their combat power is also first-class. In this attack on Xuzhou, Cao Cao called all the 1,000 veterans of the trapped camp and put them under the command of Xiahou Yuan, leaving only the 500 recruits for Gao Shun to continue to practice.

Cao Cao has been the pastor of Yanzhou so far, and he has continued to fight hard to raise troops and horses, with a total of 70,000 troops at this time. In this attack on Xuzhou, Cao Cao launched an army of 50,000 in one fell swoop, and ordered Xiahou Yuan, Zhao Yun, and Le Jin to lead 20,000 people as the front, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong to lead 20,000 people as the central army, Xu Rong, Li Dian, and Yu Ban led 10,000 people as the rear army, and Guo Jia, Xi Zhicai, Liu Ye, Man Chong, Lu Qian and other strategists joined the army.

As for the rear of Yanzhou, Xiahoudun and Cheng Yu led 3,000 soldiers to guard Puyang, Gao Shun and Xun Yu led 3,000 soldiers to guard Dongjun, Mao Jue and Xun Yu led 3,000 soldiers to guard Chenliu, and the remaining troops were led by some little-known dragon sets, scattered and guarded in the rest of Yanzhou's large and small counties.

Gao Shun was still upset at first because Cao Cao didn't take him to Xuzhou, but he was immediately relieved. Because he quickly figured it out, staying in Yanzhou might also have military achievements to be gained. You must know that Lu Bu took advantage of Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou and the rear air defense was weak, and suddenly attacked with the help of Chen Gong and Zhang Miao. At that time, if Lu Bu's offensive can be held, the credit will be no less than the bloody battle on the Xuzhou front. It's just that the trap camp that he worked so hard to bring out was easily assigned to someone else's command, although this is only a temporary secondment and will be returned to her sooner or later, but this still makes Gao Shun unacceptable.

In fact, Cao Cao still wanted to take Gao Shun with him on this expedition, after all, the combat power of the sinking camp under his command should not be underestimated. Although a thousand veterans were transferred to Xiahou Yuan, the trapping camp was brought out by Gao Shun, and it was difficult to ensure that there was no inconvenience in command when the sudden change of generals occurred, resulting in a loss in combat strength.

This time, Gao Shun was not allowed to go with the army, largely because of his sister-in-law. Since Cao Cao promised Cao Ming to help match her with Gao Shun, then Gao Shun must be given a chance. The so-called opportunity does not mean that he is given the opportunity to get close to Cao Ming, but that he is given the opportunity to get close to his father Cao Song. Although he is the pastor of Yanzhou, he is the supreme ruler of a state, and the father of Yanzhou cannot interfere in political affairs. But in his own family, the eldest patriarch is still Cao Song, and Cao Ming's marriage is a family affair, which is completely decided by Cao Song. Only when Gao Shun is really recognized by Cao Song can it be possible between the two. Otherwise, no matter how much you love your little sister, if your father doesn't agree to it, you can't set a marriage for your sister on the charge of unfilial piety.

Therefore, only let Gao Shun and Cao Song get acquainted. Bringing Gao Shun to Xuzhou, even if he is the first in the army, it is impossible for him to be promoted to a particularly high position all of a sudden, so his military exploits are just a shallow concept in Cao Song's eyes, and there is no promotion for this marriage. Instead of this, it is better to let Gao Shun stay in Yanzhou, so that he can have more opportunities to intersect with Cao Song, so that he can accumulate more and more impressions in Cao Song's mind, so that the effect is more practical. As for the attack on Xuzhou, Cao Cao had super confidence in his military strength. Although the combat power of the trapped camp is somewhat reduced, its number is only one thousand, and it is unknown how much of a role it can play in terms of the 50,000 army, and even if the strength of the trapped camp decreases, the decline will not be great, at least it can definitely be called the name of the elite. Cao Cao firmly believed that with the strength of the army under his command, he would definitely be able to conquer the entire Xuzhou.

Therefore, in any way, Cao Cao can rest assured that Gao Shun will remain in Yanzhou. What's more, Yanzhou really needs someone to stay, don't you see that in addition to Gao Shun, Xiahou Dun, who has the highest prestige in the Cao army, also stays to serve as the guard.

Before leaving, Cao Cao also deliberately hinted at Gao Shun: "Visit my father more." ”

It's just that Gao Shun had the previous misunderstanding, how to listen to Cao Cao's words, how to have a strange meaning, plus some resentment, on the surface he agreed respectfully, but Cao Cao just left, Gao Shun immediately took this sentence as the wind in his ears. It's a big deal to visit Cao Song every few days to deal with it, and when Cao Cao asked afterwards, he said that he was busy with training, and presumably he wouldn't be too entangled in this kind of thing.

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Tao Qian heard that Cao Cao led an army of 50,000 to attack Xuzhou, and on the way, the large and small county towns were lost one after another, and he was not frightened. On the one hand, Tao Qian hurriedly sent Chen Qian to negotiate peace, and on the other hand, he ordered Sun Qian to immediately go to Beihai to ask for help.

Chen Qi looked at Cao Ying, but returned in vain. And Beihai Kong Rong has just recently eliminated the thief army led by the Yellow Turban Yu Dang Guan Hai with the help of Liu Bei, and he doesn't have much spare strength to support Xuzhou, but under Sun Gan's bitter pleading, Kong Rong finally scraped together 5,000 people with Liu Bei to rescue Xuzhou.

Outside Xiapi City, the war drums sounded in the sky, Cao's army entered Xuzhou, which can be said to be invincible, and Xiahou Yuan's 20,000 former troops have now fought all the way to Xiapi City. As long as Xiapi City is breached, then Xuzhou will completely become Cao Cao's bag.

Tao Qian did not adopt the strategy of defending the city at first, but chose to fight with Cao Jun outside Xiapi City for a while. On the one hand, he was confident in the combat power of the Danyang soldiers, and more because he saw that Cao Cao's army had not all arrived at the moment, and now there were only 20,000 Xiahou Yuan's front army outside Xiapi City, so he had the idea of fighting with it. As long as Cao Cao's front army is defeated for a while, then the morale of the other party can be greatly reduced, and when Cao Cao's army and the front army converge, his situation can also be slightly better.

The officers and men of the two armies, under the impetus of the drums of war, frantically strangled together. On the battlefield, human life is as cheap as ants. Maybe one moment you've just chopped off the head of an enemy soldier, and the next moment a wooden spear will pierce your chest.

At this point, where did Tao Qian dare to have any reservations, and the Danyang soldiers had all been put into the battlefield to resist the flood of Cao's attack.

Kong Rong and Liu Bei's reinforcements had already arrived, only to see Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two tiger generals, taking the lead and rushing into the chaos. Where the horse passed, only the corpse of Cao Jun was left in one place, and it was a mess.

With the support of the Danyang soldiers and the Beihai reinforcements, the situation on the battlefield was barely stalemate, and it did not fall to the side of Cao's army.

For the two generals who rushed to kill in the chaos, Xiahou Yuan naturally knew them, and he had killed the enemy together as a friendly army before, so he had a deep impression of his martial bravery.

"Archer, shoot!" Xiahou Yuan's right hand pointed in the direction where Guan Zhang and the others were, and gave an order to the archers behind him.

Xiahou Yuan knew that he must curb the momentum of these two people as soon as possible, otherwise, once he was killed by these two people, the next battle would not be easy to fight.

The archers were given the order to fire a volley at Guan and Zhang.

Seeing this, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei didn't care about killing the enemy, and hurriedly danced the Qinglong Yanyue Knife and Zhangba Snake Spear in front of them, knocking down the flying arrows to the side.

On the battlefield, bows and arrows are undoubtedly the most effective weapons of destruction. Especially for an enemy like Guan Zhang, it is far better to send fifty soldiers to surround them than to send fifteen archers to shoot them from afar.

The last time I chased Dong Zhuo, fortunately, the other party also set up an ambush in a hurry, and all the equipment was not ready. If the Xiliang army was equipped with crossbows, sasswood, and rolling stones at that time, then the losses of the coalition army would have increased significantly, and perhaps there would have been losses among the generals.

And now there are hundreds of archers shooting arrows at Guan Zhang and the others, even if the two of them are highly skilled in martial arts, how can they cope with the arrow array that rushes into the sky, they can only wave the weapons in their hands to block the arrows while retreating.