After listening to the conversation with Zhang Liao, Chen Deng already knew Liu Bei's thoughts, and Liu Bei, like Cao Cao, did not take Lu Bu in his eyes. It is no wonder that in their eyes, Lu Bu is just a reckless man, with a body of martial arts, he is only suitable for charging into battle, but he can't stop a suitable monarch.

The reason why Liu Bei funded Lu Bu was just to let him hold Cao Cao! In his opinion, Lu Bu will be destroyed by Cao Cao sooner or later, and it is impossible for him to grow stronger. In fact, staying here will indeed be the result.

In the Central Plains, especially here, it is the territory of the family, and they have been intertwined here for thousands of years. He is very generous to those he approves, but he is quite repulsive to outsiders. Take Puyang City as an example, although the people here are afraid of Lu Bu, they don't take Lu Bu seriously, and they mostly shirk and deliberately delay the things that Lu Bu explained.

Chen Deng was going to see Lu Bu and suggested that he leave Yanzhou and return to Bingzhou, only in Bingzhou could he give full play to Lu Bu's greatest advantages! Accumulate strength in Bingzhou, and one day you can return to the Central Plains.

Cao Cao led the army to Puyang City, and the army walked for five days before coming to the vicinity of Puyang City. Cao Cao set up camp thirty miles away from Puyang City, and then beat drums to gather generals to discuss how to defeat Lü Bu.

There was not much time, and everyone came to the big tent, Cao Cao looked left and right and said: "Today has arrived at Puyang City, how do you think I should use my soldiers?" ”

The strategists Cao Cao brought with him on this expedition were still Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, so he looked at the two after he finished speaking. Guo Jia's eyes were lowered and he didn't mean to speak, but he thought about it a little and thought that he had something to say.

Sure enough, Cheng Yu thought for a while and said: "Lord, that Puyang City has been strengthened by Lu Bu, and now it is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you forcibly attack the city, I am afraid that the loss will be too large, so I think that this Puyang City cannot be attacked but can only be outwitted." ”

Cao Cao nodded after hearing this: "Zhongde Ji will be released?" ”

"This ...... Lord, I think that Lu Bu has not occupied Puyang City for a long time, and there must be people in the city who do not submit to his rule, so we can make people contact the people in the city to think that they should be internal, and open the city gate at the critical moment to let my army enter the city, then the city can be destroyed! ”

"Well, what do you think of Zhongde's plan?" Cao Cao felt that it was feasible, but he also wanted to hear the opinions of others.

"My lord, the last general thinks that this plan is slightly inappropriate!" At this time, a military attache at the end of the line stepped forward and spoke. Cao Cao saw that this person was Yu Ban.

Yu Ban came from Dongjun to escort grain and grass for the army. Cao Cao beat the drums to gather the generals, so he also rushed to the big tent. Cao Cao saw that it was him, and immediately smiled: "Wen Ze will tell me what's wrong." ”

"It's the lord, I think it's very difficult to succeed in this plan, if it's only Lu Bu alone, it's fine, but his military advisor Chen Gong is also a resourceful person, he will definitely prevent someone from colluding with the outside, so our rash action will only expose the people who resist in the city, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation!" Yu Ban bowed his hand after speaking, and then retreated to his place.

Cao Cao also felt justified after listening to Yu Ban's words, he looked at Guo Jia again, Guo Jia saw that Cao Cao seemed to smile and said: "Lord, Zhong De and Wen Ze are both right, then Chen Deng is indeed resourceful, but he is only one person after all." As long as the idea holds him up and makes him have no time to take care of him, then use Zhongde's strategy! ”

"According to your words, how can you hold it up?" Cao Cao asked Guo Jiadao.

"It's easy! The lord can order people to write more letters to his family, and then tie them to arrows and shoot them into the city! The state army followed Lu Bu's southern expedition to the north and did not return home for the New Year, presumably at this time it was extremely homesick, and with a letter to the family to arouse the homesickness of the soldiers and even the generals, then Lu Bu's army was unstable. Thinking about it, Chen Gong will definitely have a headache when the time comes, and he will have no time to monitor the people in the city anymore! ”

"Very good, just follow the plan of filial piety, and tomorrow I will be a celebrity according to the plan!" Cao Cao said overjoyed.

The next day, Cao Cao ordered someone to tie the written strip of cloth to the arrow, and then shot it into the city of Puyang. As a result, there was chaos in Puyang City, although Chen Deng had been aware of this problem before and made some preparations. But he still underestimated the homesickness of the soldiers.

In just one afternoon, Zhang Liao, Cao Xing, Hao Meng, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng all came to look for him, and they didn't dare to go to Lu Bu to tell him about it, so they all came to find Chen Gong. This can make Chen Gong's head big, he knows that it is Cao Cao's plan, but there is no way to deal with it, only to let the generals appease his subordinates! Of course, this is also a stopgap measure, and it will not work for a long time.

As a last resort, Chen Gong met Lu Bu again, and said: "My lord, this Puyang City may not be long in coming, and we need to make plans here!" ”

"Wentai, what are you talking about! There are still 20,000 wolf riders under a certain hand, the eight strong generals are there, and there are city wall arch guards, so what can Cao Cao withstand me? Lu Bu pouted when he heard this.

"Lord, now Cao Cao has aroused the homesickness of all the soldiers with a letter to his family, and now the morale of the army is still unstable, and now our army will be defeated if we start a war!"

"Huh! Wentai said it is too absolute! Want me Lu Bu to have a red rabbit under his crotch, a painting in the palm of his hand? Who is my opponent in this world! As long as I can defeat General Cao's army, the morale of the army will definitely be restored, and the morale of the army will not be weakened! ”

"Lord ......"

"Well, I know you've got a lot to do! Go get busy! You don't have to worry about the affairs of the army! Lu Bu didn't let Chen Deng finish speaking, and waved his hand to let him leave. Chen Deng stomped his foot, turned around and left the Taishou Mansion, and Lu Bu behind him was entangled with a group of beauties.

Lu Bu always thought that his bravery could suppress everything, but Na Cheng thought that his most trusted subordinate betrayed him. Cao Cao's letter from home made Lü Bu's army unstable, but before Cao Cao could send someone to the city to contact the people who resisted Lü Bu, someone in the city sent someone first.

It turned out to be Lu Bu's subordinate general Hao Meng, who saw that Lu Bu only cared about his own pleasure and ignored the homesickness of the soldiers, and he was very disappointed in Lu Bu at the moment. Therefore, he made people sneak out of the city and go to Cao Cao's camp to ask for surrender.

Cao Cao was overjoyed and gladly accepted his surrender. also agreed with him that the city gate opened by Hao Meng would enter the city on the night of the third day. For that night it was his turn to guard the gates again.

spent three days peacefully in this way, Lu Bu went out of the city every day to call for battle, but Cao Cao was not a fighter for him. Although Lu Bu was annoyed, there was nothing he could do.

Finally waited until the evening of the third day, Hao Meng opened the gate of Puyang City as promised, and Cao Jun immediately entered the city. Lu Bu woke up in his dream and immediately got up and led the crowd to resist. How do you know that at this time, the family in the city made people set fire to the Taishou Mansion, Lu Bu took care of his family and did not dare to fight, and took Zhang Liao Cao to protect Chen Deng and his family and escaped from Puyang City, leaving Gao Shun alone with 800 trapped warriors.

Finally escaped, Chen Gong counted the number of people, 20,000 wolves rode out of more than 5,000 people, and 800 trapped warriors were left with 380 people. Among the eight strong generals, only Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Cao Xing, Wei Xu and Cheng Lian were left. Song Xian and Hou Cheng were captured by Cao Cao. The matter has come to this point, and Lu Bu is disheartened. He finally followed Chen Gong's suggestion to go north and merge the state, and led everyone straight to Yanmen Pass.