It's just that now that he has Emperor Han Xian in his hands, Cao Cao is a little inflated, and finally chooses the plan of sending troops immediately. Cao Cao made this choice after listening to the opinions of his subordinates. Not only is it because the majority of people agree with Guo Jia's second suggestion, but he now firmly believes that the destiny of heaven is on his side, and locusts or something will not cause him much trouble.

Therefore, Cao Cao immediately sent Xiahoudun as the vanguard and led the elite cavalry, preparing to attack Liu Bei's army in Pengchengguo and prevent the other party from harvesting crops.

It's just that Liu Bei is more capable and decisive than ever this time.

As soon as he got the news, Liu Bei immediately recruited all the people who were harvesting grain in front of him, and he also ordered people to set fire to the straw and crops that had not yet had time to be harvested or transported. At present, he concentrated all his manpower near the county seat of Pengcheng County, and tried his best to harvest the nearby grain before the forward army of Cao's army arrived in Pengcheng County.

These ungrown grains are naturally inedible for people, and with the inspiration provided by Jin Jue, Liu Bei really had to use all these things as feed and feed them to the pigs.

Therefore, after Xiahoudun led 3,000 cavalry to hurriedly enter Pengcheng Kingdom, his eyes were full of bare wasteland with no trace of yellow-green visible, and further on, there was a large area of scorched earth.

Xun Yu sat in Xu County, and mobilized in the center to respond to Cao Cao's troops. Cao Cao led his generals, as well as Jia Kui, Guo Jia and Xun You, together with an army of 50,000, followed behind Xiahoudun, and soon entered Xuzhou.

When he saw the field that had been burned to the ground, "Alas......! Jia Kui sighed and said, "Lord, it seems that the news has indeed leaked out in advance." Liu Bei did this, not to prevent any locust plague at all, but to clear the wilderness, just so that after our army entered Xuzhou, he would not think of anything! ”

This look, as long as you are not stupid, you can see it.

Cao Cao nodded solemnly, turned his head and asked, "Fengxiao, how is Liu Bei's defense in Pengchengguo?" ”

"Lord, the current situation is very strange, before, Guan Yu controlled Peng Chengguo. Half Peiguo and half Pei, but until now, the situation found by Tanma is very strange. Except for Pengcheng County, all the people in the other counties have run out. However, Guan Yu built a very strong camp outside the north gate of Pengcheng Kingdom, and judging by the opponent's posture, it is very likely that he will choose to confront our army head-to-head outside the city. Guo Jia replied.

"Fengxiao, since Guan Yu didn't choose to defend the city, why did he build a camp outside the city? If he just can't hold out in the big camp, isn't he afraid that our army will bypass Pengcheng County and directly attack Donghai County or Xiapi Kingdom? What do you think? Cao Cao looked at the camp built by Guan Yu from a distance, frowned, and asked in confusion.

"My lord, according to the news from Donghai County, the general named Chen Zhi under Liu Bei is not easy to follow, he also gave up all the areas west of Chengxian County, and built a long fence outside the west gate of Chengxian County to guard the entire Donghai County. And that group of Taishan thieves were unwilling to send troops to help our army, and they refused to give way, so Yu Ban still couldn't break through the opponent's defense.

If the lord wants to bypass Peng Chengguo and directly attack Xia Piguo, what if Guan Yu suddenly ignores our army and directly attacks Yanzhou? If you want to leave a group of men and horses to watch Guan Yu, it will inevitably thin out the strength of our army to attack the Pi Kingdom. By the way, his subordinates also heard bad news that the new Taishou Changba of Langya County, who was appointed by Liu Bei, seemed to be secretly sending troops to assist Chen Zhi in defending Donghai County. Guo Jia told Cao Cao the latest news he had gotten one by one.

Of course, Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou will not only send a large army, but the other way is led by Ban and Xiahou Yuan, and the target is directly aimed at Donghai County. However, at this time, it showed that Jin Jue had sent Liu An as an envoy and had seen Zang Ba and others.

Even if the Sun Guan and Sun Kang brothers had the heart to serve Cao Cao, the other leaders just didn't agree to bet now. Judging from the situation of the princes of all parties, Yuan Shao is undoubtedly the strongest, and Liu Bei is not ranked among them at all. However, if Cao Cao needed them to send troops to help eliminate Liu Bei, how could he deal with Yuan Shao in the future?

This is the original words of Zang Ba to answer the Sun brothers at that time, and several other leaders also mean the same, if Cao Cao can defeat Liu Beijun independently, it is not too late for Zang Ba and others to take refuge in Cao Cao, at that time, Cao Cao will face his strongest opponent - Yuan Shao, and he will not blame the Taishan thief for not helping this time.

As for Changba, he clearly agreed with Zang Ba's opinion, after this guy received the beauties sent by Mi Zhu, as soon as Mi Zhu's letter for help arrived, he secretly sent two-thirds of his soldiers and horses to assist Chen Zhi in defending Donghai County.

Even Lu Su and Xu Shu didn't expect Changba to be so bold this time.

In fact, how did they know that Changba was so desperate for his beauties, if Cao Cao was in power, this wife lover might not be able to unload and kill the donkey afterwards, could Changba not be afraid?

"Damn little cripple!" Cao Cao was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and scolded Jin Jue angrily, not Changba.

The reason is very simple, with the help of the inducement of the defeat of Nanyang, Jin Jue deliberately stinked the reputation of himself and Cao Cao, and the first force affected was the Taishan thief, the same lustful Changba, not Zhang Xiu, who had a deep hatred with Cao Cao. Jin Jue is young, and the most people in the world hear is just laughing, but Cao Cao is different, he holds a lot of power, and he has the history of killing famous people and taking away his wife's record, so that some scholars who have the same preferences as Changba dare not come to Cao Cao.

No matter how much you curse, you can't change the current situation, whether to go head-to-head with Guan Yu, or to separate a part of the people to see Guan Yu, the whole army will go around and directly attack the Pi Kingdom, and in the end, Cao Cao will make his own decision.

"Yuan Rang, how many soldiers and horses do you need?" Cao Cao pondered for a moment, turned his head to look at Xiahoudun, and asked.

Obviously, in Cao Cao's view, the entire Pengcheng Kingdom has become a scorched earth, and there is no benefit to fighting with Guan Yu here.

"Big brother, five thousand people are enough." Xiahoudun replied very confidently.

This time, Cao Cao sent troops, and there were a total of 50,000 people along the way, while Yu Ban and Xiahou Yuan had a total of 10,000 people. Xiahoudun only had 5,000 men, in order to maximize the strength of Cao Cao's attack on the Pi State.