Lü Bu had 100,000 troops to defend against Cao Cao.

Wen has Chen Gong's advice, Wu has his own peerless force, plus the six strong generals under his command, and he is on par with Cao Cao for a while.

It coincided with the locust plague in Yanzhou, and the people had no harvest, and there was even a tragic situation of cannibalism among the people.

The armies of both sides can only withdraw their troops and prepare for another battle next year.

At this time, Jingzhou was quite peaceful, and since Sun Jian's death, Liu Biao has no great enemies.

However, as Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty was welcomed into Xuchang by Cao Cao, the Wei general Zhang Ji was unwilling to stay under Cao Cao, so he led his troops and horses to Wancheng and used Wancheng as a stronghold.

Because of the problem of territory, Zhang Ji fought with Liu Biao.

In the fourth year of the first peace, it seemed that all parts of the Han Dynasty were in the midst of war, and they did not strike until they entered the winter.

Since Cao Cao returned to Xuchang, he began to reorganize his troops and horses, preparing to capture Lü Bu in one fell swoop in the coming year.

At this time, Liu Xie, who had come to Xuchang, suddenly found that his environment did not seem to have changed much, although Cao Cao was respectful to himself on the surface, but the political affairs under his command were still sent to the state minister's mansion, and they would not be sent to the court at all.

The hundreds of officials in the DPRK and the DPRK are just a formality, and there is nothing to discuss at all.

With nothing to do, Liu Xie was ready to revise his year name and revise it in the first month of the fifth year of Chuping.

Therefore, the fifth year of the first peace is actually the first year of Xingping.

In March of the first year of Xingping, Cao Cao launched another attack on Lü Bu, and the two sides fought a great battle in Chenliu.

Although Cao Cao won the battle, it also paid a lot of price.

After repairing the soldiers and horses for several days, after receiving the supplies from Xuchang, Cao Cao sent troops again and confronted Lü Bu in Dongjun.

The two brothers, Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao, sent troops to support, but they were ambushed by Cao Ren's army and were forced to evacuate after losing 5,000 soldiers and horses.

Because of the locust plague in Yanzhou, there was a shortage of food and grass in Lü Bu's army, and deserters began to appear.

Cao Cao took the opportunity to send letters to the city to persuade the soldiers to surrender.

Seeing that his army was unstable and had no reinforcements, Lü Bu decided to fight Cao Cao to the death.

At this time, Cao Cao was already in an advantage, and he was not in a hurry to attack the city at all, but waited for Lu Bu to come out of the city.

So there was a big battle between the two sides in the field.

In the end, it ended in Cao Cao's great victory, during which the tiger and leopard cavalry named by Cao Cao himself performed particularly well, breaking up Lu Bu's formation several times, and even wounding Lu Bu.

Lü Bu was forced to retreat to Dongjun.

At this time, Zhang Miao's support also arrived, and although his army could not support Lu Bu, it sent a lot of grain and grass, so that Lu Bu had the strength to fight again.

So Lü Bu defended the city, and Cao Cao's army could not attack it for a long time.

The two sides have once again entered a period of confrontation.

Lü Bu did not dare to go out of the city, and Cao Cao had no choice but to do so, and after several attempts, Cao Cao gave up the siege and built a camp thirty miles outside the city to besiege Lü Bu.

Lu Bu believed that Cao Cao's army had a large number of people, and the daily consumption of grain and grass must be a lot, so he must not be able to stay for a long time.

Cao Cao was also troubled by this, so he found Xi Zhicai and other strategists to discuss the matter.

"Lu Bu is brave, but at this time he is a trapped beast, and it is really inappropriate to attack strongly."

Xun Yu was the first to speak.

"Lord, my subordinates have a plan, I wonder if the lord is willing to try?"

Suddenly, Xi Zhi spoke.

"What is the wisdom of Zhicai, come quickly."

"That Lu Bu is already trapped, he will not dare to rush into the army, we just need..."

After listening to Xi Zhicai's words, Cao Cao frowned slightly, but quickly made up his mind.

"It's a feasible plan."

Cao Cao immediately said forcefully.

Then Cao Cao began to assign tasks to the generals, and when the generals were ordered to leave, Cao Cao sat back in his position, and touched the hilt of the "Heavenly Sword" with his left hand, and his heart was very worried.

This Heavenly Sword was obtained by Cao Cao when he subdued a million Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and he also obtained a sword called Qingyu, which Cao Cao usually only wears.

"Isn't the lord afraid?"

Xi Zhicai looked at Cao Cao with a smile.

"Zhicai's plan is indeed dangerous."

Xun Yu was also frowning on the side, he actually didn't approve of Xi Zhicai's plan.

Xun Yu's use of soldiers pays attention to the word "positive", lifts righteousness, defeats the ministers who do not use justice with righteous soldiers, follows the teachings of ancient books when fighting, and does not go through strange doors and crooked roads.

Although it seems pedantic, it is also invulnerable and does not leave the slightest flaw for the enemy.

However, Xi Zhicai's strategy tends to be "strange" and "dangerous", and his plan for Cao Cao is that the sword is biased, and the middle is infinitely powerful, and if it is not hit, it will definitely die.

"Don't worry, how can I, Cao Mengde, be afraid of that Lu Fengxian."

Seeing that Xun Yu was worried about himself, Cao Cao calmed down instead, and he no longer had the same worries as before.

"This is the Lord of the Enlightenment."

Xi Zhicai was very satisfied with Cao Cao's trust in himself, and couldn't help but praise himself.

"That's how you are the master."

Xun Yu couldn't help but sigh, but he didn't sigh because of Cao Cao's trust in Xi Zhicai, but because of Cao Cao's courage.

For the next two months, Cao Cao did not attack Lü Bu again, but sent scouts to wander outside the city from time to time, as if looking for anyone to leave the city.

Lu Bu saw that Cao Cao no longer attacked him, and he was also happy, except for the first days when he went up to the city wall from time to time to inspect, and now he almost drinks and has fun in the mansion every day.

"Then what did Cao Mengde do today?"

With the help of wine, Lu Bu rarely climbed the city wall and asked the generals defending the city about Cao Cao's movements.

"Cao Cao went out of the camp today and came to inspect the outside of the city, as if he was looking for a flaw in our army, and he looked at it for more than an hour, and then returned to the camp again."

The general who defended the city today was Cao Xing, and he reported everything he saw to Lu Bu.

"Haha, no coward, just attacked a few times, but didn't dare to attack, Cao Mengde is just a wasted person, I think their grain and grass can support a few days."

After speaking, Lu Bu went back to his house.

Recently, Lu Bu found another beauty, that person is the wife of his subordinate Qin Yilu, the country is beautiful and fragrant, and Lu Bu likes it very much.

Qin Yilu joined his command because he admired Lu Bu, and when he heard that Lu Bu had taken a fancy to his wife, he actually gave his wife to Lu Bu.

The time came to July of the first year of Xingping, when Cao Cao had besieged Lü Bu for three months.

Recently, Lu Bu has been having fun with the Crepe Clan every day, and he has even forgotten that there is Cao Cao's army outside the city.

I knew that a soldier covered in blood had come to report it.

"What happened, did Cao Cao attack the city?"

Lu Bu stood up suddenly, and the drunkenness suddenly dissipated.

"The small one is Zhang Miao's corporal soldiers, Cao Cao's army has continued to capture the counties and counties of Yanzhou in the past three months, and Yanzhou has fallen into Cao Cao's hands at this time. Lord Zhang Miao died in battle, and Lord Chen Gong was nowhere to be found. ”

"What?"

Lu Bu grabbed the soldier's collar in disbelief.

"Cao Cao's army has been camped outside the city, how can he still have the strength to attack Yanzhou."

But Lu Bu's words were destined to go unanswered, because the soldier who came to report the news was already dead, and he may have died after he finished saying that.

"Come, bury him."

Seeing that this man came desperately to report the news, Lu Bu did not treat him badly, but Lu Bu never believed that Cao Cao dared to disperse all the troops under his nose.

"Pass on Cao Xing, Hou Cheng."

Lu Bu immediately called the generals who were guarding the city during this time.

"Is there any change in Cao Cao's army?"

After the two arrived, Lu Bu immediately asked the two.

"It's the same, it's the same as usual."

The two glanced at each other, not knowing what was wrong with Lu Bu, and they would actually call the two of them to ask about Cao Cao.

"Smack~~~"

Lu Bu slapped the table hard, and the table shook violently, as if it would fall apart at any moment.

"Cao Cao has already occupied the entire territory of Yanzhou outside Dongjun, and you still tell me that Cao Cao's army has not moved?"

"Cao Cao's army is indeed unchanged, and his military camp is almost the same as when he first set up camp."

Hou Cheng said to Lu Bu that although he didn't know where Lu Bu got the news, the facts he saw were indeed like this.

"Really?"

Lü Bu trusted Hou Cheng very much, and he was one of the earliest generals to follow him.

"Lord, I dare to swear by my master's hair, Cao Cao's military camp is indeed not abnormal."

At this time, Lu Bu was a little suspicious, Hou Cheng shouldn't lie to himself, could it be that the soldier lied? But it doesn't look like it.

"My lord, that Cao Mengde is scheming, and his subordinates are even more strategist, and I am afraid that there will be fraud during this period."

Hou Cheng said to Lu Bu again.

"Hmph, our army has not been out of the city before, and it is not easy to know the authenticity, so I immediately sent a scout to check."

After speaking, Lu Bu immediately ordered the scouts to go to check Cao Cao's military camp.

Because Cao Cao's cavalry and scouts would also be dispatched during the day, Lü Bu's scouts did not set off until night.

When it was time to get closer to the child, the scouts finally returned to the city.

"Enlighten the lord, the camps of the three armies of Cao Cao's army are all brightly lit, and there are sentinels patrolling from time to time, not empty camps."

"That's weird."

After listening to the scout's report, Lu Bu began to doubt, could it be that the soldier who reported the news was really fake, so why was he?

Could it be that Cao Cao wanted to lure him out of the city?

No, Lu Bu quickly rejected this idea, if Cao Cao wanted to lure him out of the city to fight, then he should show weakness first, and not just send a soldier.

There is also a situation that the soldier said is true, so where did Cao Cao get so many troops?

In the end, Lu Bu, who really couldn't think of a way, decided to use the simplest and rude method, that is, to let the whole army and soldiers identify the appearance of the messenger.

Although this person did not say where he was from or which army he came from, but now that Lu Bu's army is basically from the army under Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, it is very likely that someone under his command knows him.

If no one knows each other, then the probability that this person is under Cao Cao's command has increased.

So the soldier who had just been buried was dug up again, and the soldiers under Lu Bu's command began to identify the man's appearance one by one.

The result surprised Lu Bu very much, this person was really Zhang Miao's soldiers, and several of his subordinates were in the same village as that person.

After they were interrogated separately, the answers they received were basically the same, indicating that they were not lying, and that the soldier who reported the news was not lying.

So Lu Bu called those scouts again and asked them in more detail about the situation of Cao Cao's camp.

But the result was the same as the first time, they saw soldiers patrolling in the barracks on Cao Cao's left and right flanks, as well as in the rear camps.

At this time, Lu Bu remembered the matter of cooking smoke from the stove again, and wanted to ask how the cooking smoke of Cao Cao's army today was different from the past, and came to the conclusion that Cao Cao's army had not left.

At this time, Lu Bu felt that his head was about to explode, whether Cao Cao sent out the army (Lu Bu did not believe that Cao Cao would suddenly have an extra 100,000 troops), or whether this was just a ploy by Cao Cao to lure him out of the city.

"My lord..."

Suddenly, a scout whispered.

"What's the matter?"

Now Lu Bu is in a very bad mood, how can he have a good face.

Seeing Lu Bu's appearance, the scout suddenly swallowed when he wanted to speak.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, he finally said to Lu Bu: "Although I saw that the tents were brightly lit and there were soldiers patrolling from time to time when I was exploring the Cao army camp, the Cao army camp seemed to be a little too quiet, and I didn't hear the noise of the soldiers at all. ”

"You're saying there's no one in those tents? Cao Cao's camp is actually just an empty camp? ”

Lu Bu naturally heard what the man wanted to say, no matter how well-trained the soldiers were, it was impossible not to make the slightest sound.

The barracks were also forbidden to make loud noises at night, and it was simply impossible to prohibit them from speaking at all.

At this time, all the clues seemed to be linked, Cao Cao's army was already an empty village when it was encamped, and the so-called cavalry, scouts, and Cao Cao's irregular patrols of the city walls were just tricks, and his army had already gone to other places in Yanzhou.

"Quickly reorganize the army, Cao Mengde actually dares to tease me like this."

Lu Bu suddenly felt that he was playing, but he didn't think about how he would not find out about it until now if he wasn't addicted to alcohol.

"Lord, you need to be cautious in this matter, this may be an ambush set by Cao Cao."

Just as Lu Bu was about to send troops, Hou Cheng said on the side.

Hearing Hou Cheng's words, Lu Bu calmed down, now he is at a disadvantage, if Cao Cao's camp has no soldiers, then he can successfully capture Cao Cao, and even if Yanzhou is lost, he can get it back step by step.

But in case this is Cao Cao's ploy again, then there is no place for him to turn over.

"Cheng Lian and Wei Xu, order the two of you to be the vanguard, lead an army of 10,000 to raid the Cao army camp, and I will personally suppress the formation for you."

"Yes."

In the end, Lu Bu still didn't dare to take the risk and decided to test Cao Cao first.

Cheng Lian and Wei Xu led 10,000 troops and rushed straight towards the Cao army camp.

Just as he was about to arrive, suddenly the golden drums in the Cao army camp sounded in unison, and countless soldiers rushed out.

On both sides of the camp, an army also rushed out, and the banners were "Cao" and "Le" respectively.

The two generals signed up for themselves, and they were Cao Ren and Le Jin.

"Withdraw, withdraw."

Seeing that they were ambushed, Cheng Lian and Wei Xu directly ordered the withdrawal of troops, and it seemed that there was a lot of shadow in the previous battle.

"Lord Qi, the main force of the Cao army is still there, not an empty camp."

Cheng Lian reported to Lu Buyu.

"Can you see the ambush of the other side?"

"Cao Ren and Le Jin each led two or three thousand soldiers and horses, and the Chinese soldiers and horses couldn't see clearly."

Wei Xuyu reported.

"Did the soldier lie?"

Lu Bu was a little confused, is Cao Cao's troops still there?

"Lord, in my opinion, Cao Cao's main force may not really be here."

Hou Cheng reported to Lu Buyu.