Chapter 235: Lu Bu who is afraid of death
For Lu Bu's sneak attack, Cao Cao really didn't expect that this time he attacked Xuzhou mainly to deal with Tao Qian, Cao Cao felt that a mere Tao Qian was not enough to worry about, just at this time Guo Jia was sick, and Xun Yu is now ranked Shang Shulang, and his position in the court is very important, and he can't get out at all, Cao Cao only took Cheng Yu to conquer Xuzhou.
Cheng Yu's intelligence and Chen Gong are in the middle of each other, although he thought that Lu Bu would definitely be worried in his heart, but he also knew that Lu Bu had always been mercenary, and he would definitely not do something as risky as attacking Cao Cao, but he didn't expect Tao Qian to make such a big determination and give Lu Bu such a great benefit, let alone that Chen Deng, whose intelligence was no less than Cheng Yu, would also try his best to promote Lu Bu to send troops to help, and analyzed the best time to attack.
Why is tonight's attack the best time? Mainly because Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to have a full meal, a good rest, came to the east and west, ostensibly to defend Lu Bu with heavy troops, but in fact he was ready to pour all his troops into Pi early the next morning, once this battle is successful, he will directly become the lord of Xuzhou, and the other counties will definitely look at the wind, as for Lu Bu, Lu Bu, who had the strength of a whole state, was not his opponent, and now there is only one Langya country left, so it is even more worrying.
However, Cao Cao only caused the appearance of heavy defense, because his center of gravity was always in the direction of Xiapi, and the camp he stationed in the direction of Langya looked crowded, but in fact, many of them were empty banners and camps, and even behind the human wall, most of them were scarecrows.
This kind of appearance is just to scare Lu Bu, but it can't scare the two wise men Chen Gong and Chen Deng at all.
After some thought, these two believed that Cao Cao's move was just a bluff, and his most fundamental intention was to capture Xiapi and completely control Xuzhou, and only after controlling Xuzhou would they turn around and deal with Lu Bu, so as to pacify the entire Xuzhou in one fell swoop.
Lu Bu was silent after hearing this, a little undecided, but saw Chen Deng and said lightly: "If the general hesitates and gives Cao Cao a chance to breathe, you will also have nothing in the end. ”
After hearing this, Lu Bu's face was cloudy, he thought silently for a moment, gritted his teeth, and decided to attack immediately, he ordered Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to lead three thousand soldiers each, and killed Cao Cao's army camp from the left and right, and gave Cao Cao a dismount first.
Although Lu Bu said so, in his heart, he actually asked Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to test the truth first, and he decided whether to continue to march or rescue, or escape, depending on the situation.
Both of them are ruthless characters, and immediately after hearing the order, they led their soldiers into the Cao camp.
In an instant, only the shouts of killing were heard earth-shattering, and the soldiers in charge of guarding Cao Cao's camp were panicked, and they didn't know how many people were coming from the other side, and they didn't know where the enemy was, so they scattered and fled in all directions, and even killed each other, trampling and killing countless people.
"Kill!" In this battle, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun's fierceness and bravery were fully revealed, the two of them rode step by step, killing the enemy blood into a river, crying dad and shouting mother, hating dad and mother for having two legs, and only hearing the sound of screams for a while, like hell on earth.
At that time, Cao Cao was naturally not here, guarding the camp was the Yellow Turban Army General Xu He, after surrendering to Cao Cao, this person was deeply trusted by Cao Cao, and was very arrogant and domineering in the army, except for the Cao family and the Xiahou brothers, others were not in their eyes at all.
However, Xu He was the first to flee in this battle, and he did not organize resistance after hearing the news of the sneak attack on the camp, but fled immediately, because he knew that there seemed to be a large number of people in his camp, but in fact there were only about 10,000 people, and he could not stop the onslaught of the enemy army at all.
Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers are okay in fighting a good battle, but in terms of military discipline is too poor, and no one can restrain them except Cao Cao, including the main general Xu He, as soon as they heard that they were attacked, they immediately ran away wildly, driving the rout of the entire camp.
In fact, Xu He didn't know, he thought he had few people, but the number of the other party was actually less, this attack was just a tentative attack by Lu Bu, but Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were really two fierce men, and they forced the tentative attack into a crushing attack, and the result was naturally a one-sided victory, which was also fortunate that Xu He escaped, otherwise, although he had 10,000 people under his command today, he could only become the prisoner of the other party in the end, and even if he was unlucky, he might lose his head directly.
Cao Cao's camp is several miles away from Xu He's camp, but after all, this is at night, and he quickly knew about such a big movement in Xu He's camp, but when he reacted and led the army to rescue, he found that many people had fled to him.
Now, since the camp has been breached, there is no point in saving it, so Cao Cao had to collect the defeated soldiers, and then order the soldiers to strengthen the garrison to prevent the enemy from attacking his headquarters camp.
In fact, Cao Cao hoped that the other party's generals would be hot-headed and directly attack his own headquarters camp, because the soldiers in the headquarters camp had been awakened and had made good arrangements, as long as the other party came, many of them must not return.
It's a pity that the other party's generals were not fooled at all, Lu Bu originally wanted to continue to expand the results of the battle, but saw that Chen Deng and Chen Gong were all strongly opposed, Lu Bu knew that the suppression was able to win today's battle, all thanks to the guidance of these two wise men, and now since the two of them are persuaded by the same way, Lu Bu also attaches great importance to such opinions, and does not continue to catch up at all.
In fact, this all stems from Lu Bu's nature of being afraid of death, originally Lu Bu was more afraid of death, recorded in the history books, when Hao Meng made Lu Bu's rebellion, Lu Bu did not dare to face the battle at all, nor did he dare to stay in his own responsibility, but ran to Gao Shun's camp for refuge, and later thanks to Gao Shun timely and decisively disposed of the rebellion, killed Hao Meng, and finally did not cause a greater disaster.
In reality, Lu Bu has made great progress in his martial arts because of his cultivation of Fang Tian's painting halberd, and his self-confidence has begun to swell, but his nature of being afraid of death has not changed.
Of course, from another point of view, it was not right for Lu Bu not to order the pursuit, because Cao Cao had already taken precautions, and if he pursued Cao Cao's camp at this time, this battle would definitely be defeated.