Lu Bu led the army to concentrate all his strength against Yuan Shu this time, although he achieved a great victory, but it led to the emptiness of the forces on the northern border, Lu Bu did not expect that this would become a fatal negligence, and now Chen Gong, the most relied on strategist in Lu Bu's army, thought of this, but he thought that it was the righteousness of his own war with Yuan Shu now, and believed that Cao Cao would not dare to sneak attack his own side at this time anyway, plus Yuan Shu mobilized more than 100,000 troops before, the pressure on his side was very huge, Knowing that the transfer of troops from the north to fight is actually equivalent to drinking water to quench thirst, but he can't manage so much.

But at this time, Cao Cao had secretly mobilized an army of 50,000, and under his personal leadership, he came to Taishan County, taking advantage of Lu Bu's victory in the battle and being defenseless, he directly led the army to launch a sneak attack on Xiapi.

It was Cao Cao's new military advisor Sima Yi who came up with this idea for Cao Cao, although this Sima Yi was young, he was full of wisdom no worse than Cheng Yu, Guo Jia and others, especially good at conspiracy and trickery, which can be said to be a bad stomach.

In fact, Sima Yi was originally from Wen County, Hanoi, but due to the war, he moved to Liyang with his brothers at home, this is Yuan Shao's territory, originally this is a very safe place, but since Yuan Shao was defeated in Hanoi, it has become unsafe here, although Pei Qing did not take advantage of the victory to attack Jizhou, but both Cao Cao and Gongsun Zhan aimed here, which made Sima Yi feel that sooner or later there would be a war here, it was better to move back to Hanoi, He believed that with his talent, he would soon be appreciated by Pei Qing.

However, what is surprising is that although Hanoi Taishou Xun You admired Sima Yi's talent very much and recommended it to Pei Qing, he never replied, and even Xun You didn't know what Pei Qing meant, but Xun You knew that Pei Qing must have his purpose in doing this, so he didn't dare to arbitrarily appoint Sima Yi to the official position.

Sima Yi stayed here for a while, and when he saw that Pei Qing didn't pay attention to him at all, he knew that he had no chance to be an official under Pei Qing, so he had to secretly leave Wen County and go to Luoyang to see Cao Cao.

Xun You actually knew about Sima Yi's departure, but he felt that he had spoken out of his mouth before, and he didn't let Sima Yi be reused, and he felt a little ashamed of Sima Yi in his heart, so he turned a blind eye and let Sima Yi leave.

Sima Yi soon became famous after returning to Luoyang, Cao Cao sent someone to summon him into the office, but he repeatedly refused, and finally Cao Cao threatened Sima Yi's family, Sima Yi had to agree to work for Cao Cao, and the two talked freely, Cao Cao was pleasantly surprised to find that Sima Yi was a gradual strategist, and immediately felt joy in his heart, and immediately worshiped Sima Yi as a military advisor and entrusted him with important tasks.

This time the plan to attack Xuzhou is Sima Yi's first calculation, and at the same time, this strategy has also been approved by Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, only Xun Yu is a little hesitant, but he can't stop Cao Cao's determination, because Cao Cao knows that he has a grudge against Pei Qing and Lu Bu, if he doesn't take the initiative to deal with Lu Bu, I'm afraid that he will form a situation of being caught between Pei Qing and Lu Bu in the future, and then he will be too passive, since this is the case, then he might as well take the initiative directly and eliminate Lu Bu first, which will not only reduce a threat, can also strengthen his own strength and gain greater certainty in the decisive battle with Pei Qing.

Therefore, Cao Cao immediately launched an operation, with lightning speed to capture the Lanling and Tan counties of Donghai County, because Lu Bu was defenseless, Cao Cao's army on the way into no one's land, the counties and counties that passed through the wind surrendered, knowing that the army came to Xiapi City, Lu Bu woke up like a dream, and hurriedly led the army to resist.

But at this time, Lu Bu's army was sent to resist Yuan Shu, although the news of the victory in the frontline battle came, but the fighting army was on the way back, and there were only 5,000 people stationed in the city, although these 5,000 people were elite, how could they compare to Cao Cao's 50,000 army?

This time, in order to ensure that the army can capture Xiapi in time, Cao Cao specially brought his best general Le Jin, who is good at attacking the city, plus Dian Wei, Yu Ban, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Xiahou Xuan, Xiahou Yuan and other generals, before the siege, Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to make hundreds of large siege equipment overnight, and after the siege order was issued, Cao Cao personally beat the drum in order to boost morale, those generals under his command saw this, all fought bravely, the number of Cao's army was already large, and the battle was so brave, although Lu Bu was heroic, But how can they withstand the onslaught of so many people? Just insisted on a meal, Xia Picheng was conquered, Lu Bu saw this, and had no choice but to urgently flee with his wife Yan and Chen Gong and others.

However, Chen Gong was very unfortunate in the process of escaping, his war horse itself ran slowly, and was injured by a stray arrow, and threw Chen Gong off the horse with a scream, and threw Chen Gong into a smash, and when Lu Bu found out about this scene and turned around to save it, Chen Gong had been caught up by the pursuers behind, and then became Cao Cao's prisoner.

Lu Bu was extremely shocked when he saw this scene, he knew that he couldn't do anything, so he had no choice but to run away on horseback, but fortunately, his red rabbit horse ran fast, coupled with his excellent martial arts, no one dared to do it, and he was able to escape smoothly.

Cao Cao saw that he had escaped from Lu Bu, and he was very uneasy, and hurriedly ordered the deployment of defense, and at the same time, in order to avoid the people in the city from collaborating with the enemy, he directly ordered the slaughter of the city, so in an instant, the entire Xiapi City immediately fell into a catastrophe, and the officials and soldiers and civilians in the original city were all killed, and it became a hell on earth.

Soon after his escape, Lü Bu came to Huailing City, where Zhang Min was stationed, and after meeting Zhang Min, he briefly explained the matter, and then asked Zhang Min to immediately lead his army to Xiapi to help him recapture Xiapi, and his tone was quite impatient.

Zhang Min didn't really take refuge in Lu Bu, he was now dissatisfied when he saw that Lu Bu was going to deprive him of his military power, but he didn't show it, but pretended to be respectful, and persuaded Lu Bu to rest for a night first, and wait for the army to set off early tomorrow morning to attack the city, but it was just a night's work, and Cao Cao couldn't hold what he should not be able to hold.

Lü Bu was now tired and hungry, and he saw that his wife Yan was also very tired now, so he agreed, and prepared to rest for the night, and wait until the next morning to lead the army to recapture Xiapi.

However, what is unexpected is that in the process of drinking and banquet that night, Zhang Min and his soldiers took turns to toast Lu Bu, and actually drunk Lu Bu, just when Lu Bu was unconscious, Zhang Min sneered and ordered Lu Bu to be tied up strongly.

Originally, Zhang Min wanted to kill Lu Bu, but later he thought that even if he killed Lu Bu, he would still not be able to get out of the crisis, so he sent a messenger to see Cao Cao, told Cao Cao the news that he had captured Lu Bu, and explained to Cao Cao that he was not in charge of killing Cao Song before, but on Tao Qian's order, as long as Cao Cao promised to forgive him for his past mistakes and allow him to divide the East China Sea, then he was willing to hand over Lu Bu, otherwise he would only lead an army of 50,000 to fight to the death with Cao Cao, and at that time the two sides would kill each other, You can only let others benefit.

Cao Cao was originally worried that Lu Bu would get away, but now when he heard the news, he was immediately overjoyed, and immediately agreed to Zhang Min's request, and promised that as long as Zhang Min was willing to hand over Lu Bu, he would not write off the previous grievances, and he was willing to express Zhang Min as the assassin of Yangzhou, let Zhang Min temporarily live in Donghai County, and wait until he defeated Yuan Shu in the future, and then handed over this Yangzhou to Zhang Min.