As a hero, Cao Cao's mind is not comparable to ordinary people, he has lost three games in a row, and even after several lives and deaths, he can still laugh and optimistically say to the generals: "I missed Lu Bu's plan and almost died, but if I didn't die, the heavens would not accept me, I had a destiny, and Lu Bu would be defeated!" ”

Finally, Cao Cao thought of a plan for himself, and cheated to death!

Cao Cao lured Lü Bu to attack by deceitful death, and he made ambush arrangements in advance, and when Lü Bu led the army into the camp, he ambushed his troops in all directions.

Lu Bu really hit the plan.

"Haha, Lu Buxiu go!" Cao Cao's generals besieged Lü Bu.

After a big battle, Lu Bu was defeated and returned to Puyang, and Cao Cao pulled back for a while, and his morale recovered a lot.

In the months that followed, the two armies faced each other several times, and Cao Cao gradually began to turn the tide, but Cao Cao still could not take Puyang.

In that year, the locusts suddenly rose, the hungry people were all over the field, and there was even a tragic situation of cannibalism among the people, not only Cao Cao could not collect grain and grass, but Lu Bu also could not collect grain and grass, and the two armies had no food, so they had to temporarily withdraw their troops, and the Yanzhou War came to an end.

Xuzhou, after more than half a year, Tao Qian was overly worried some time ago, and finally became seriously ill and died.

He saw that Cao Cao was not completely defeated by Lu Bu, and Lu Bu had begun to show decline, and he had a hunch that Cao Cao would eventually defeat Lu Bu and repeat Yanzhou, and then Cao Cao would definitely attack Xuzhou again.

Tao Qian was determined that Liu Bei must take over Xuzhou, and he felt that only Liu Bei's benevolence could keep Xuzhou and bring peace to the people of Xuzhou.

So, Tao Qian dragged the sick body and asked Xuzhou to Liu Bei, and said that if Liu Bei still refused to lead Xuzhou, he would die without turning a blind eye.

Liu Bei gave in again, coupled with the persuasion of Xuzhou officials such as Lu Zhu, Liu Bei finally took over Xuzhou and became the new Xuzhou pastor after Tao Qian.

At this moment, Liu Bei suddenly became a state pastor with six counties from a small county order, and Liu Bei's whole person was almost about to float, just like a dream.

Tao Qian recommended Sun Qian to Liu Bei, and Chen Deng was assisted by two wise men, and then died of illness.

Juancheng.

When Cao Cao heard that Liu Bei took over Xuzhou and became the new Xuzhou pastor, he almost couldn't believe his ears, and couldn't help but be furious: "I haven't avenged my revenge, and Liu Bei can sit in Xuzhou without half an arrow!" I will kill Liu Bei first, and then whip Tao Qian's corpse, and then resentment with snow! ”

"Order, order all the soldiers and horses, I want to attack Xuzhou again!" Cao Cao ordered angrily.

In fact, Cao Cao had no choice, Yanzhou suffered a locust plague, could not collect grain and grass, the army rather than sit in the empty Juancheng, it is better to attack Xuzhou, if it can be taken, take Xuzhou's money and grain population, and there is hope for recovering Yanzhou.

Xun Yu stopped: "Lord, don't be impulsive. Although Tao Qian is dead, there is Liu Bei to defend him, and the people of Xuzhou have obeyed Liu Bei, and they must help Liu Bei fight to the death as they helped Tao Qian, and Liu Bei has Zhang Fei under his command, and a general like Guan Hai is more difficult to deal with than Tao Qian. The lord wants to attack Xuzhou, it is useless to send fewer troops, and it is easy to be taken advantage of by Lu Bu if he sends more troops, and Yanzhou will be completely lost. ”

After a pause, Xun Yu continued to strategize: "Now that the Yellow Turban has risen and occupied the two counties of Runan and Yingchuan, it is better to send an elite army to attack the two counties." He Yi, Huang Shao, etc., who occupied the two counties, plundered the states and counties, and there were many yellow turban thieves such as gold silk, grain, and so on, and the rabble was easy to break; At that time, he broke and took his money and food, and had to support the three armies, on the other hand, Lu Bu was only in Yanzhou, which was full of locust plagues, and Lu Bu could easily break it. ”

When Cao Cao heard this, after some analysis, Xun Yu still made sense, and said happily: "Just listen to Wen Ruo's words." ”

Immediately, Cao Cao left Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and half of the soldiers and horses to guard Juancheng and other places, and he took the other half of the soldiers and horses to attack Runan, Yingchuan and other places.

The Yellow Turban Army has always been synonymous with the rabble, and it seems that there are many people, but in fact, even if there are 120,000 Yellow Turban Army, 350,000 elite soldiers can easily break it, but in the rest of the month, Cao Cao destroyed He Yi and Huang Shao, and took Runan and Yingchuan counties, and Cao Cao also recruited Xu Chu, a fierce general who recruited soldiers and horses to resist the Yellow Turbans in the process.

At this time, Cao Cao not only got money and food, but the captured Yellow Turban soldiers could also be selected and filled into the army, and he also got a fierce general Xu Chu, and his strength increased a lot.

Cao Cao's squad returned to Juancheng, and now that he had enough grain and grass, he once again planned to defeat Lü Bu and recover Yanzhou.

Compared with Cao Cao's east and south of Runan, Yingchuan to raise soldiers, Lu Bu was not so good, and he had to go out to Yanzhou to look for grain, which gave Cao Cao an opportunity to take advantage of.

Cao Cao took advantage of Lu Bu's absence, Yanzhou was empty, the whole army attacked, 100,000 troops and increased the general like a cloud, and soon connected several counties of Yanzhou, when Lu Bu rushed back to Yanzhou, only Puyang, Dingtao and so on were returned to the hands, and Cao's army was in Puyang.

Cao Cao took Xu Chu and Dian Wei as the vanguard, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan as the left army, Li Dian and Le Jin as the right army, and Cao Cao led the Chinese army by himself.

Inside Puyang City.

Lu Bu was furious and wanted to personally lead his troops out of the city to fight.

Chen Gong knew that Cao's army was strong this time, and it was definitely not the best strategy to fight hard, so he immediately persuaded: "The general must not go to war, but stick to it first, and wait for the generals of other counties such as Dingtao to gather and discuss it." ”

Lu Bu didn't listen, and roared angrily: "Why is I Lu Bu afraid that he Cao Cao will come?" Don't say much about the public station! ”

Then he led his troops out of the city to confront Cao's army.

Lu Bu scolded with a halberd: "Cao Cao's traitor, taking advantage of my absence, attacked Yanzhou, dare not come out to fight me!" ”

Cao Cao smiled, didn't even bother to refute Lu Bu's remarks, and only said to the generals around him: "Who is going to fight Lu Bu?" ”

"I'll let Chu go get his head." After saying that, Xu Chu flew out.

Cao Cao smiled: "Xu Chu is heroic. ”

At the beginning, Xu Chu fought with Dian Wei for hundreds of rounds without winning or losing, and Cao Cao had high hopes for Xu Chu.

Xu Chu and Lu Bu fought fiercely, and the two soon fought for 20 rounds, although they did not distinguish between victory and defeat, but those who had a certain vision could see that Xu Chu had begun to fall into the disadvantage, and it was estimated that there would be dozens of 100 rounds, and Xu Chu would be defeated.

When Cao Cao saw this, he said: "Lu Bu is really not a one-man opponent, but the generals in my hands are like clouds, and Lu Bu only has one person, how can he be undefeated?" ”

Yan Luo, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Dian Wei, Le Jin, Li Dian five generals came out, plus Xu Chu, and the six generals besieged Lu Bu on the left and right.

Lu Bu was suddenly tired of parrying, and turned his horse back to Puyang.

Returning to Puyang City, what Lu Bu never expected was that the Tian clan who had pit Cao Cao with him last time, saw that Lu Bu was defeated, and Cao's army was strong, and the Tian clan actually betrayed Lu Bu again and returned to Cao Cao, he put away the drawbridge and did not let Lu Bu enter the city.

Tian said to Lu Bu: "General Cao forgives me for my sins, and I have surrendered to General Cao." ”

Lu Bu was dumbfounded, he couldn't enter the city before, and Cao Cao's army of more than 100,000 people chased him later.

Helpless, Lu Bu could only give up Puyang, lead the army and fight and retreat.

On the other side, Chen Gong noticed that the Tian family had betrayed and Puyang was difficult to protect, so he hurriedly opened the east gate, protected Diao Chan and waited for Lu Bu's family to go out of the city, and fled to Dingtao with Lu Bu.

After Cao Cao recovered Puyang, he led his army to continue the attack on Dingtao.

More than 100,000 soldiers approached the city of Tao.

Thinking that Lu Bu's main force was not lost, it was not easy to storm Dingtao at this time, so Cao Cao only camped outside the city with his whole army, and did not attack Dingtao.

It turned out that Cao Cao had already thought of a plan again.

He expected that there would never be much grain in Tao City, and less than half a month was when the wheat bundle was ripe, and then he would send troops to harvest the wheat bundle outside Dingtao City on a large scale, and the grain and grass in Lu Bu City would be exhausted, and he would not be able to sit still and go out of the city to snatch the wheat bundle.

Sure enough, when the time came, the wheat bundle was ripe, and there was a shortage of food in Lu Bu City, so he couldn't sit still, and led his troops out of the city to grab food with Cao Cao.

This was a conspiracy, but Lu Bu had to fall for the trick and fight with the Cao army outside the city, but the Cao army ambushed the soldiers one after another, bullying Lu Bu with few soldiers.

After a long day of fighting, Lu Bu was defeated.

Cao Cao intercepted Lü Bu's army outside the city, and sent another army to take advantage of the emptiness of Dingtao to storm the city of Dingtao.

"This battle is defeated, and we need to preserve our strength to make a later picture." Chen Gong was helpless, knowing that Dingtao was also difficult to defend, so he and Gao Shun in the city protected Lu Bu's family, and gave up Dingtao to break out of the city and Lu Bu round.

After recapturing Dingtao, Cao Cao recovered Yanzhou, and finally ended the Yanzhou War that lasted for more than a year.

Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu and recovered Yanzhou, although his strength was weakened, he still had 1340,000 soldiers and horses, and he was still recovering.

After Lu Bu defeated Dingtao, he became a lost dog again, with nowhere to stay, and at the suggestion of Chen Gong, he led more than 20,000 remnants of soldiers to Liu Bei in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei didn't want to accept Lu Bu, but after Cao Cao recaptured Yanzhou, there was a tendency to attack Xuzhou again, Liu Bei just took over Xuzhou not long ago, and although Xuzhou was rich, the population was limited, and the army was naturally limited, and there were 60,000 or 70,000 troops in the sky, which was no match for Cao Cao, and the acceptance of Lu Bu was also to borrow Lu Bu's strength to jointly resist Cao Cao.

As in history, Lu Bu was humiliated by Zhang Fei's stinky mouth in Xuzhou, and when the tiger prison was closed, Zhang Fei's 'three surnames were slaves', so that he was still ridiculed by the world, and Lu Bu almost couldn't help but do it, but after all, Lu Bu suffered setbacks, and his temperament was much calmer than at the beginning, and he finally endured it.

Liu Bei repeatedly apologized to Lü Bu on behalf of Zhang Fei, and then arranged for Lü Bu to lead the army to be stationed in Xiaopei, and promised to supply Lü Bu's army with food and grass.

On Cao Cao's side, he had just recovered Yanzhou, and it was impossible to move troops continuously, he still had to appease the people and restore order in Yanzhou.

Without Liu Ye and Lu Qian's help, Cao Cao was obviously not so easy.

A few months passed, and Cao Cao finally settled down Yanzhou, but he still did not rush to attack Xuzhou, but directed Chen Liu.

In other words, although Cao Cao's hometown is in Chenliu, Cao Cao also made his fortune from Chenliu, but Chen Liu's Taishou is not him, but Zhang Miao.

Zhang Miao has always been unaccustomed to Cao Cao, and he is even more afraid that after Cao Cao's power grows stronger, he will peep at his Chenliu County, after all, this is the hometown of the Cao family, so Lu Bu went to attack Yanzhou, in fact, Zhang Miao also instigated.

This is good, Lu Bu has been defeated, Cao Cao also has an excuse, immediately sent 50,000 troops to attack Chen Liujun, which lasted a month, and took Chen Liujun, Zhang Miao lost Chen Liujun and went to Yuan Shu.

Later, Cao Cao developed to Ruyin, Xingyang and other places, and his power not only recovered, but also became more powerful than when he first conquered Tao Qian, with more than 200,000 troops.

Just when Cao Cao was ready to conquer Xuzhou again, Liu Bei and Lu Bu were nervous and inexplicable, a piece of news came, interrupting Cao Cao's plan, Guanzhong Li Dao and Guo Yan turned against each other, and Emperor Han Xian returned from Chang'an City.

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