Xiahoudun led 3,000 soldiers to launch a charge to the hillside, but was defeated by Lu Bu and the troublesome soldiers.

Back in front of Cao Cao, he told Cao Cao the whole process of the battle.

After listening to Xiahoudun's story, Cao Cao's brows were tightly locked, and his face was very ugly.

Judging from the situation in which Lu Bu led the troops to counterattack, they were not affected at all because of the lack of food and grass.

Cao Cao couldn't help but feel a little upset.

Motioning for Xiahoudun to retreat and rest first, he asked Guo Jia, "What does Fengxiao think about this?" ”

Guo Jia replied: "Judging from Lu Bu's counterattack, their grain and grass should still be sufficient, and the soldiers are not hungry because of lack of food. ”

"I said that Lu Bu knows the demon law, otherwise how could he bring so little grain and grass, he can actually eat it for a month, and so far the soldiers have not been tired of war due to lack of food."

"My lord." Guo Jia replied: "Let's not talk about whether Lu Bu understands demon law or not, the most important thing at the moment is that we have to send scouts first to find out if he has any other way to transport grain and grass up the mountain." ”

"Do you suspect that he has opened up grain and grass in other directions?" Cao Cao said unconvincedly: "If she really opened up the grain route, our scouts should have discovered it a long time ago, and it would not have been a return by now." Feng Xiao should remember that Lu Fengxian had returned to his youth overnight earlier, if it weren't for the demon law, how did he do it? ”

Guo Jia also had a solemn face.

He didn't say anything, but he somewhat agreed with Cao Cao's statement.

Lu Bu's performance in recent days is indeed very strange, he first returned to his youth overnight, and after conquering Yuan Shu, he repeatedly took out new weapons, which made people unguardable.

Especially the rumored Air Force, although Guo Jia did not see it, he was convinced of its existence.

After all, not only on the battlefield, but even some people have said that soldiers soaring in mid-air can be seen in the sky of Pengcheng almost every day.

If one person says something, it may be a rumor, and if two people say it, it will make people wonder, and when three people say the same thing, even if the thing itself is fictional and exaggerated, most of them will be believed.

If hundreds of people, thousands or even thousands of people spread the same thing, even if they don't want to believe it, they have to believe it.

There is never groundlessness, and even rumors can be punctured in a very short time.

The rumor that Lu Bu has an air force under his command has long been rumored, and no one has ever tried to expose it when this statement is spread.

It can be seen that the Air Force does exist, but if it is not on this battlefield, it is not what Guo Jia knows.

"Regardless of whether he has a demon spell or not, I still think that the lord should send a scout to investigate first." Guo Jia said: "If Lu Bu really has a demon method, we will think of other ways to deal with him." If he didn't have a demon method, wouldn't our own family speculate here to boost his momentum and invisibly affect the morale of his own soldiers? ”

Regarding Guo Jia's statement, Cao Cao still agrees.

He nodded and said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao thinks so, then follow Fengxiao." How many scouts to send and where to place them are all decided by Feng Xiao. ”

"Thank you, lord, for making it happen." Guo Jia immediately thanked Cao Cao, and then retired and said: "I will retire first, arrange the scouts out, and then present to the lord when there is a response." ”

Looking at the hill where Lu Bu was stationed, Cao Cao's face was very bad, and when Guo Jia retired, he just nodded silently.

Guo Jia stepped back and came to the side to greet the guard: "Come on." ”

The guard stepped forward.

"Send fifty scouts to go around the mountain along this mountain to see if Lu Bu has deployed a secret passage to transport grain in the meantime." Guo Jia gave an order to the guard.

The guards agreed, and were ordered by Guo Jia to wait in peace.

It didn't take long for fifty fast horses to leave the barracks and run towards the hill where Lu Bu was stationed.

On the hill, Lu Bu, who had just returned, also looked at Cao Jun.

A fight with Xiahoudun made him feel that this battle was not easy to fight.

Let's not talk about how brave Xiahoudun is, no matter how brave he is, he will not be his opponent.

Only those soldiers he brought.

Seeing that the defeat was decided, the soldiers of the Cao Army brought by Xiahoudun were not chaotic at all, and they could still maintain an orderly formation while fighting and retreating.

With such discipline and battlefield consciousness, Lu Bu asked himself that it was absolutely impossible for his soldiers to do it.

Frowning, Lu Bu looked at Cao Cao's military camp in the distance.

"Chu Hou." Sun Ce came to his side and asked him, "How did the soldiers of the Liberation Soldiers fight just now?" ”

Without looking back, Lu Bu's gaze remained on Cao Cao's camp: "This time we are really in big trouble." ”

"What does Chu Hou mean......" Sun Ce didn't understand what Lu Bu meant too much, and Lu Bu didn't say what he said too clearly, so he couldn't help but ask.

Lu Bu turned his head to look at him, smiled slightly and said, "I don't mean anything else, I just think that this battle will be very difficult to fight, and it will be more difficult than we imagined." ”

"Please also ask Chu Hou to make it clear," Sun Ce arched his fist and asked Lu Bu to make his words clearer.

Speaking like this, it is impossible for anyone to understand what Lu Bu said.

"I led the relief troops and encountered the enemy halfway up the mountain." Lu Bu said: "I don't want to say how strong the enemy is, all I can say is that when they have been defeated, the main general did not give any instructions, and the soldiers actually consciously set up a retreat array, fighting with us while retreating outside the mountains and forests. When we chased us out of the mountains and forests, the enemy army soon came to respond, and knowing that it would be no good to continue fighting, I immediately withdrew with my soldiers. ”

"Chu Hou discerns the situation." Sun Ce said: "If I lead the soldiers to rush down the mountain, I am afraid that I will be killed all the way to Cao Cao's military camp." ”

"You only noticed that I judged the situation and withdrew the soldiers as soon as possible, why didn't you notice the more important?" Lu Bu asked him.

Sun Ce was stunned when he was asked, and he asked Lu Bu, "What is more important than what Chu Hou said?" ”

"Even if they are defeated, they can still be in order, and they will be able to put up a retreating array and fight with us." Lu Bu asked, "If it is replaced by a trouble-relieving soldier, do you think it can be done?" ”

"I guess ......" Sun Ce frowned and said to Lu Bu: "With the current trouble-relieving soldiers, it is impossible to do it at all. ”

"Even you yourself said that it is impossible to do it with the current annoyance relief soldiers, if the other party judges us, what will they think?" Lu Bu asked Sun Ce again.

Sun Ce was at a loss and didn't know how to respond.

"The Relief Soldier is the elite that I once handed over to you to practice, but when I went to the battlefield just now, I realized that this elite is not as strong as I imagined, at least the discipline shown by the enemy when retreating is not something that our Relief Soldier can do." Lu Bu turned his head to look at Sun Ce: "What is elite?" The Elite doesn't just require that it can be destroyed in an instant when attacking. For the elite, what is more important is that when the situation on the battlefield is not in our favor, they can maintain good discipline and calmly withdraw from the battlefield without the slightest chaos. ”

Looking at Cao Cao's military camp again, Lu Bu said: "Our trouble-relieving soldiers are not yet elite, but the enemy army we are facing is the real elite. That's why I said, this is not a good fight. ”

The two were talking, and Zhao Yun walked over.

When he arrived at Lu Bu's side, he whispered, "Chu Hou, just now I found that an enemy scout was going around the hill to find out something. ”

"What else can they look for?" The corners of Lu Bu's mouth twitched slightly: "They are just investigating whether we have a secret channel to transport grain and grass." ”

"A dark passage for transporting grain and grass?" Sun Ce next to him said in surprise: "We followed Chu Hou, and we didn't know that there was such an existence. ”

"Not only do you not know, but I don't know either." Lu Bu smiled and said to the two of them: "Just let them investigate, don't pay attention to it." ”

"What Chu Hou said is that there is nothing to investigate anyway." Sun Ce said with a smile: "I don't know what Cao Cao will think after they check it and return it to Cao Cao." ”

"Cao Cao's expression must be very good-looking." Lu Bu said: "Ever since he came here, he has been worrying about something. I pondered it carefully, he must have been worried about whether I understood the demon law. ”

"Demon law?" Sun Ce and Zhao Yun glanced at each other.

Zhao Yun said: "We have followed Chu Hou for so long, and we have never seen the demon method used, how could Cao Cao have such a funny idea?" ”

It's not that his thoughts are funny, but that when people encounter unexplainable problems, they will choose to use something beyond existence to give a reason for these unexplainable phenomena. Our military rations have been eaten for a month, and the officers and men have not been affected by the lack of military rations. You know, we don't have much baggage to carry up the mountain. Any scout with a little battlefield experience can judge how long the military rations they carry can be eaten. How could Cao Cao know that the soldiers we were carrying were not the military rations he knew, but the ones that were completely beyond his knowledge. I have never seen it, I have never eaten it, and I don't know the wonderful use of this military ration. If it were yours, how would you explain it? ”

Sun Ce looked at Zhao Yun, and Zhao Yun also looked at Sun Ce.

Zhao Yun replied: "What Chu Hou said is indeed reasonable, if it were me, I would definitely find a past explanation for this matter on the grounds that the other party's master knows the demon law." ”

"So, we don't care about how they probe. What we have to do is to stabilize this hill and not give Cao Cao the slightest chance to march. Lu Bu then instructed Zhao Yun: "Zilong, tonight, the air force is Cayenne attacking. Take all the existing oil bottles with you and throw them into Cao Cao's military camp from mid-air. We have been fighting each other for so long, and we have to let Cao Cao see our air force. Otherwise, he is always there to guess, and I am also tired of panic for him. ”

Zhao Yun bowed and saluted: "Don't worry, Chu Hou will definitely make Cao Cao look good tonight." ”

**************************************************

The scouts sent by Guo Jia explored the hill where Lu Bu was stationed for a whole day.

They probed four or five times throughout the day.

At first, the scouts found nothing.

But they still didn't give up, since Lu Bu's food couldn't be eaten no matter how much he ate, and there was only so much baggage he carried, the only explanation was that there must be a secret passage nearby to send the grain to the mountain.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Lu Bu to make it impossible for the grain and grass to be eaten at the end of the time, but he could still let the soldiers fill their stomachs.

The undying scouts walked around the mountain several more times.

They rummaged through almost every suspicious place.

However, the so-called grain route was not found......

Although they didn't believe that there was no grain road on the hillside, the facts were in front of them, and the scouts could only bring back the results of their investigation to Guo Jia.

After getting the results from the scouts, Guo Jia did not immediately report to Cao Cao.

He invited Xun You aside, and the two of them whispered about it in the open space of the barracks.

"The scouts really didn't find a secret way to transport grain and grass up the mountain?" Xun You said suspiciously: "According to the baggage that Lu Bu brought up the mountain before, it shouldn't be like this at all......

"I don't think so." Guo Jia replied: "But this is the case, our scouts have not found any signs that he has secretly opened a secret passage near the hillside, and no enemy grain trucks have been found in the various places leading to Xuzhou. ”

"There is no food, and there is no secret tunnel to deliver food." Xun You asked Guo Jia: "Could it be that Lu Bu really has a demon law?" ”

"That's hard to say." Guo Jia replied: "Back then, Zhang Jiao could scatter beans into soldiers, but now why is it impossible for Lu Bu?" It's just that I always feel like there's something in it that can't be explained......"

"What else could there be that couldn't be explained?" Xun You replied: "Except that he knows the demon law, I can't think of any other more reasonable explanation. Or do you report it to your lord first, and see what he says......"

"The lord has long believed that Lu Bu understands demon law." Guo Jia said: "That's what I'm worried about. If he thinks so, it will definitely shake the morale of the officers and men of the three armed forces. ”

"Feng Xiao can talk to the lord alone." Xun You said: "These things, it is impossible to hide them from the lord, after all, it belongs to the military situation, if you deliberately cover up the facts in order not to let the lord know, the sin is not small." ”

Guo Jia nodded: "Gongda is right, I'll go and report to the lord." ”

"There is labor and filial piety." Xun Yu gave up.

Guo Jia said goodbye and left.

Since he calculated that Lu Bu should have no food and grass, Cao Cao would look at Lu Bu's army stationed on the opposite hill in the barracks every day.

The battle flag was still fluttering in the wind on the hill, and Lu Bu still didn't seem to be in the dilemma of lack of food.

Looking at the hill full of battle flags, Cao Cao's face was very ugly.

The Cao family scouts were very experienced, and it was impossible for them to judge how much grain and grass the wrong enemy had.

But Lu Bu's grain doesn't seem to be able to be eaten anymore.

No matter how he thought about it, Cao Cao couldn't figure out what method he used to make it impossible to eat all the grain and grass.

When he was full of trouble, not knowing how to find out how much food Lu Bu still had, Guo Jia came to his side.

"My lord, the scout I sent to investigate the situation has returned." Guo Jia said: "They brought back the news that they had not found a secret channel to transport grain and grass near the hill.

"No secret passages?" Cao Cao asked in surprise.

"Nope." Guo Jia's answer was exactly what Cao Cao didn't want to hear.

"Did you ask the scouts to check it a few times?" Still not too desperate, Cao Cao asked him.

"The scouts I sent out are all experienced, and they have searched four or five times without discovering any secret passages, but they still haven't found anything." Guo Jia said: "Actually, the lord doesn't have to care too much about this matter, I always feel that although Lu Bu did not dig a secret passage on the side of the mountain, he must have other ways to transport grain and grass to the mountain." ”

"What can be done?" Cao Cao asked, "Could it be that they will dig a secret passage underground?" ”

Speaking of this, Cao Cao's eyes lit up.

Seeing what he was thinking, Guo Jia hurriedly asked, "Does the lord think that Lu Bu will hollow out this mountain and deliver grain and grass to Xuzhou all the way to the mountain?" ”

His question confused Cao Cao: "Why do you want to go all the way to Xuzhou?" ”

"Has the lord heard that the grain and grass are being transported from the direction of Xuzhou?" Guo Jia asked again.

Cao Cao suddenly didn't know what to say.

The scouts he sent out recently were all searching for Lu Bu's food and grass supplies.

However, no matter how much the scouts searched, they could not find out how the grain and grass were delivered to the mountain where he was stationed.

"What do you mean......" Cao Cao asked suspiciously, "It is impossible for him to hollow out the mountain?" ‘

"Does the lord think he will?" Guo Jia did not answer, but asked rhetorically.

Hollowing out the mountain, the project is very huge.

Xuzhou did not send even a single grain over, if Lu Bu really opened a road underground, such a long distance would take two or three years to complete in less than a year.

It took so long that even if he was digging a tunnel, he couldn't hide it from everyone and let everyone know it.

"What does Bong-hyo mean is that there is no way to dig out of the ground?" Guo Jia's words could not be more clear, and Cao Cao asked with a very ugly face.

"I don't want to say that, but I think so." Guo Jia replied.

"Can't you just spend it?" Cao Cao asked Guo Jia, "Don't Feng Xiao think that what should we do to make it happen?" ”

"Of course." Guo Jia said: "I think it's time for the lord to attack the hill. ”

"They're on top, we're on bottom." Cao Cao shook his head: "If you forcibly attack, I don't know how many soldiers will die." ”

"Although we can't find any trace, I believe that Lu Bu must have a solution to the military rations." Guo Jia asked Cao Cao, "Doesn't the lord want to know, how did he carry so little baggage, but he can still fill the stomachs of the soldiers until now?" ”

Cao Cao really wanted to know how Lu Bu managed to leave no traces and keep the soldiers from running out of military rations until now.

He frowned and asked Guo Jia, "How do you think we should attack the mountain?" ”

"Did the lord notice that the four sides of that hill are not very steep?" Guo Jia pointed to the hill where Lu Bu was stationed and said to Cao Cao: "No matter which direction our army attacks, once they can't support it, they will flee from the other side. ”

"And what are you going to do?" Cao Cao asked him.

"Dig a deep trench in front of the mountain and bring water from the vicinity here." Guo Jia said: "Build a moat for them, leaving only one exit to evacuate. There is a river isolation, and we can also set fires under the mountains. Since it is across the river, we can set fires down the mountain. At that time, why do you need the lord to lead the army to fight on the mountain? As long as the fire is together, I still don't believe that Lu Bu will not go down the mountain. ”

The strategy proposed by Guo Jia is really the most suitable method for attacking Lu Bu at the moment.

Cao Cao immediately instructed Xu Chu next to him: "Zhongkang, pass on my military order and let the soldiers open a river around the hill." The depth of the flow is at least four people, and the width must be the distance that the war horse cannot jump over in the air. When the excavation is completed, and then the water from the nearby river is diverted there, I want to see what else Lu Fengxian can do to deal with this. ”

************************************************

Guo Jia proposed to Cao Cao to dig a river around the hill.

Cao Jun immediately made a move.

Countless Cao soldiers gathered at the foot of the mountain, sweating like rain to dig the river.

On the hillside, Lu Bu and the generals looked at the Cao army under the mountain.

Zhuge Jin walked over: "Marquis of Chu, Cao Cao seems to be going to open a river around the hill. ”

"I can see it." Lu Bu nodded: "He wants to use the river to block us on the mountain first, and then put a fire at the foot of the mountain." With the river sheltering, the fire could not have spread to all around, nor would it affect Cao's army. We don't want to go down the mountain, we have to go down the mountain. ”

"What should I do?" Sun Ce asked Lu Bu, "Could it be that you are waiting for them to do this on the mountain?" ”

"Of course not." Lu Bu smiled slightly: "He can do whatever he wants?" Do you still think that this is the former Xiapi? He thinks so, I'm not Lu Bu in Xiapi City for a long time! ”

"Zilong." Lu Bu said to Zhao Yun on the other side: "The Cao army will be very tired when they dig the river today, and they will be very tired at night, and it is a good time to burn their barracks." ”

"I see." Zhao Yun agreed, and then asked Lu Bu, "Will all the air forces attack, or only a part?" ”

"If you want to attack, of course you will attack all of them." Lu Bu said: "Burn them first, let Cao Cao know that not everything is up to him." ”

"That's right." After giving the order, he said to Zhao Yun again: "Remember to drop a few more oil bottles on Cao Cao's tent." ”

"Don't worry, Chu Hou, I understand." Zhao Yun agreed.

During the day, Cao Jun was digging a river channel at the bottom of the mountain, and Lu Bu on the mountain did not react.

The river doesn't open up in a day or two.

Surrounded by hills, it is impossible to open a river channel without a month or two.

Lu Bu was really not in a hurry to deal with those Cao troops under the mountain.

What's more, at night, as soon as the oil bottle was thrown, I don't know how many Cao Jun would die in the fire.

And Hebei has to rush to compete with Cao Cao during the day?

Lu Bu was not in a hurry or impatient, and he had no intention of dealing with Cao Jun, but Cao Cao was very anxious when he looked at the soldiers of Cao Jun under construction.

It was not clear how many days the grain and grass in Lu Bu's army could support, so he could only hope that the drinking road would be excavated and set fire to the mountain.

As long as the fire burns, either Lu Bu will be burned to death, or he will have to go down the mountain to face Cao Cao.

Although the number of soldiers brought was not large, only more than 40,000 people, Cao Cao was very confident in them.

All 40,000 soldiers were Tiger Guards.

The Tiger Guards are warriors of a hundred battles, and they are extremely disciplined, and no matter whether they advance or retreat, they will not show even the slightest confusion.

Whoever encounters such an army is having a nightmare that may never wake up.

Cao Jun soldiers dug all day, but they dug some deep pits at the foot of the mountain.

These pits surround the hill, and if you connect them in a line, you can make a deep ditch.

Connecting a pit into a ditch is not as simple as digging a pit, and it is simply impossible to do it without ten days and half a month.

It was getting dark.

Guo Jia asked Cao Cao: "Lord, do you want to continue at night?" ”

"Continue, of course." Cao Cao said: "Yuan Benchu's two armies should have also set off, they are not dealing with Lu Bu, if they are beaten to Pengcheng first, what is the point of us fighting Xuzhou?" ”

Cao Cao decided to continue digging the canals at night, and soon another group of Cao troops replaced the ones who had sweated during the day.

At the foot of the mountain, Cao soldiers carried torches and dug canals.

Looking down from the mountain, the torches raised by Cao Jun are like stars at night, brightening the lights reflected under the mountain.

"Cao Cao really hates to destroy us immediately." Looking down the mountain, a smile appeared on the corner of Lu Bu's mouth, and he said to the people beside him: "If he knew, everything he was doing now would be of no use to us at all, I don't know what he would think." ”

"Chu Hou, when will the Air Force attack?" Zhao Yun had already waited until he was a little impatient, and asked Lu Bu.

Lu Bu replied: "Wait a little longer, they have changed people, and those who have returned to the barracks have not slept yet." When they're all asleep, it's not too late for us to do it. ”

Seeing that the soldiers of the Cao army digging the river had changed, Lu Bu still did not plan to attack immediately, and Zhao Yun and the others were also a little anxious.

Looking at the Cao army, who was busy at the foot of the mountain, Zhao Yun and Sun Ce, the two generals, couldn't rush down immediately and kill them on the spot.

Especially Zhao Yun, he glanced at the Cao Jun military camp a little farther away from time to time, with a strong desire in his eyes.

Zhao Yun was waiting for Lu Bu to order the air force to leave, while Sun Ce could only wait on the hill to watch.

After waiting for nearly an hour, the night grew thicker.

Lu Bu looked up at the sky.

The moonless night sky was filled with stars, and the twinkling starlight and the dancing fire on the ground reflected each other, as if they were greeting each other.

"Zilong, get ready to go." After a while, Lu Bu finally came up with such a sentence.

Zhao Yun, who had been impatient for a long time, received the order, and immediately responded, turning around and beckoning the soldiers to prepare to attack the Cao army camp.

The order was issued, and the officers and men of the Air Force found their respective flying equipment.

The air force officers and men who used the gliders tied their crossbows and oil bottles to the sides of the gliders, and they themselves held the handlebars and waited for the order to take off.

The soldiers who boarded the hot air balloon put an oil bottle in it and lit the stove that provided heat to the hot air balloon.

The stove burns, and the hot air balloon quickly inflates.

Due to the pull of ropes on the ground, they did not take to the skies.

Zhao Yun ran back to Lu Bu's side and said to him, "Qi Chu Hou, the soldiers are ready. ”

"Herald soldiers, tonight we are just burning Cao Cao's military camp, not to fight them in a decisive battle." Lu Bu said: "Everyone threw the oil bottles they carried into the enemy barracks, and immediately withdrew, and they were not allowed to fight. ”

Zhao Yun received the order and quickly ran to convey Lu Bu's order.

In a few moments, countless gliders soared into the air on the mountain, and twenty hot air balloons also rose into the air.

The speed of the glider was extremely fast, and they flew towards the Cao Jun barracks, and the hot air balloon following behind had not yet flown off the hill.

Since becoming the commander of the Air Force, Zhao Yun has also learned to control the glider, and his control skills are quite good.

Flying at the front, Zhao Yun stared at the Cao Jun military camp that was getting closer and closer.

Behind him was a glider with no end in sight.

Twenty hot air balloons fell far behind.

Getting closer and closer to Cao Jun's barracks, Zhao Yun controlled the glider and flew up a little more.

When he flew over the Cao Jun barracks, he picked off the oil bottle hanging on the wing and threw it to the ground.

The oil bottle fell to the ground, shattered, and the oil splashed everywhere.

In fact, when they flew away from the hill, Cao Cao had already seen it.

Under the night sky, gliders in the sky, like countless huge bats, flew above Cao Jun's operation.

Looking at this scene, Cao Cao's mouth opened slightly.

Guo Jia had previously told him that Lu Bu had an air force under him.

Having never witnessed it with his own eyes, Cao Cao never believed that people could fly into the sky.

The glider that covered the night sky in front of him completely broke the suspicion in his heart, and the flying and Lu Bu air force in the night made Cao Cao even more convinced that he knew how to witchcraft.

"Lord, they really have an air force!" Guo Jia came to Cao Cao's side, pointing to the glider soaring in the night and the hot air balloon slowly flying towards the barracks.

"I see it." Looking at the sky in astonishment, Cao Cao's mouth was slightly open, and while responding to Guo Jia, his eyes were still looking at the gliders and hot air balloons that were hovering above the barracks.

"I've only heard that there are, but I didn't expect there to be so many." Guo Jia was also very surprised by the scene in front of him.

"Lu Bu has this kind of killing weapon, how can we deal with him in the future?" Cao Cao, who came back to his senses, asked Guo Jia with a flustered expression.

"Don't worry, there will always be a way." Guo Jia responded.

As he responded, the gliders hovering over the barracks began to retreat towards the hill.

The twenty hot air balloons also fired arrows with fireballs at the barracks.

Thousands of gliders, 2,000 oil canisters thrown into the barracks, and counting the hot air balloons, the barracks were full of splattered oil.

The rockets landed on the barracks, and the flames were stained with oil splattered on the tents and the ground, and the fire quickly ignited.

The entire barracks was engulfed in flames in an instant, and the soldiers of the Cao Army, who had already slept, were also awakened by the sound of oil cans falling from the sky.

The air force launched the offensive quickly and withdrew even faster.

When the hot air balloon launched the rocket, many Cao soldiers ran out of the camp tent.

They ran out of the tent and before they could react to what was happening, rockets with flames fell from the sky.

The rocket ignited the fuel, and both Cao Jun, who had already run out of the tent and had not had time to run out at all, were swallowed up in the flames.

Cao Cao, who was still watching the soldiers digging the canal not far from the hill, was already stunned when he saw the military camp engulfed in flames.

When everyone who followed Cao Cao saw this twilight, while their hearts were pounding, they were also secretly glad that they did not stay in the barracks......

The raging flames engulfed the barracks, and the miserable howls of countless people were heard in the flames, and many figures could be vaguely seen running back and forth in the firelight.

The people who were engulfed in the flames had no ability to determine the direction at all, and they could only run around with their instincts.

Intuition in times of crisis often pushes people to death.

One by one, the running people fell, and only a few people with burning flames escaped from the barracks.

The nearby Cao Jun hurriedly stepped forward and threw out the flames on their bodies.

The Xuzhou Army, which had been passive, finally launched a counterattack.

And this counterattack actually took Cao Cao's entire military camp.

**********************************************

On the hill, seeing the success of the air force, Lu Bu instructed Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, call the troublesome soldiers, and rush down with me." ”

He then shouted to Zhuge Jin: "After Zilong returns, let him lead the soldiers except the air force to kill us down the mountain." ”

Sun Ce, who had long been eager to try, received the order and how could there be any delay, so he agreed and followed Lu Bu down the hill.

The air force burned Cao Cao's barracks, and the soldiers on the hill were very uplifted when they saw it from afar.

Lu Bu gave the order to attack, and the Xie Fu soldiers immediately followed him and Sun Ce down the mountain.

Zhao Yun flew back to the mountain.

He had just unloaded the glider, and Zhuge Jin ran in front of him: "General Zhao, the Marquis of Chu and General Sun have led the troops to relieve the troubles and have gone down the mountain, and he ordered General Zhao to lead the troops except the air force to go down the mountain to respond." ”

"Thank you, General Zhuge very much." Zhao Yun thanked him and shouted: "Except for the Air Force, the other officers and soldiers will go down the mountain with me." ”

The black-pressed Xuzhou army shouted, and rushed down the hill behind Zhao Yun.

When Zhao Yun led the Xuzhou army down the mountain, Lü Bu and Sun Ce were already engaged in battle with the Cao army under the mountain.

Lu Bu held Fang Tian's halberd in his hand, shuttling back and forth among Cao's army, and everyone he met, whether it was a general or a soldier, all fell to the ground.

During the vertical and horizontal exchanges, he could no longer remember how many Cao generals he had killed, and the soldiers were already countless.

Sun Ce, who was holding back his strength, rushed down the mountain as if he were in a no-man's land, although he was not like Lu Bu who shuttled among the enemy troops like the wind, but in a moment, he also killed many Cao troops.

Cao Cao was still trying to command his soldiers to rush and kill, and there were shouts of killing on the hillside.

The Xuzhou army led by Zhao Yun poured down like a tide.

Realizing that the situation was not right, Xu Chu, who had always been by Cao Cao's side, shouted: "Lord, I can't hold it here, let's go!" ”

thought that as long as the river channel around the hill was dug, Lu Bu would be able to break through, but Cao Cao thought that the military camp was actually burned by Lu Bu's air force at night.

I don't know how many soldiers died in the fire.

When Lü Bu led the Xuzhou army to rush down the hill, Cao's army rushed to the battle, although the soldiers of the Tiger Guard Army had strong combat ability, they were caught off guard and still suffered a big loss.

Xu Chu persuaded Cao Cao to withdraw, but of course Cao Cao refused.

He gritted his teeth and shouted, "If you want to go, you can go, I won't go anywhere!" ”

Lü Bu had already led the Xuzhou army to control the initiative of the entire battlefield, and if Cao Cao did not leave, he would probably become a prisoner of his ranks.

In an anxious mood, Xu Chu shouted: "Lord, I'm sorry!" ”

After the shouting, he carried Cao Cao and ran to the war horse with him on his back.

Running to Cao Cao's mount, Xu Chu put him on the horse's back, glanced back, and slapped the horse's buttocks hard.

Before Cao Cao could come back to his senses, the war horse was already neighing, raising its four hooves and galloping forward.

Xu Chu glanced back, he was about to get on his horse, and happened to see Sun Ce rushing towards this side.

Seeing Cao Cao fleeing, Sun Ce hurriedly chased after him and collided with Xu Chu.

Stepping forward, Lu Bu stopped Sun Ce's way: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Cao Cao's dog thief is in front, I'll go and get his head." Sun Ce shouted: "You man, if you want to save your life, get out of the way!" ”

"With me here, how can you hurt my father-in-law?" Xu Chu burst out and pounced on Sun Ce.

When Sun Ce saw him coming, he also carried a weapon to kill him.

The two of them killed more than ten rounds, and there was nothing they could do with each other.

Just as they were in the middle of their killing, groups of Cao troops swept towards them like a flood.

The roll is the soldiers of the Cao Army who have lost their main general and have lost their will to fight.

When they collided, Xu Chu and Sun Ce were defenseless, and they were immediately scattered.

The torrent of Cao Jun swept Xu Chu forward, and Sun Ce stopped after slashing and killing five or six Cao Jun.

Lu Bu rushed to Sun Ce's side with a group of trouble-relieving soldiers.

He asked Sun Ce, "Did Bo Fu see Cao Cao?" ”

Sun Ce replied: "I saw a man helping Cao Cao onto his horse, and he fought with me, and was just swept away by Cao's army. ”

While the two were talking, Zhao Yun also rushed to them with a spear and a horse.

also experienced a fight, and Zhao Yun's silver armor and white robe were stained with blood.

Coming to the two of them, he said to Lu Bu and Sun Ce: "I saw Bo Fu and Xu Chu fighting just now, and I was about to step forward to help, but I was stopped by Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin. killed the two of them, but when they looked again, Xu Chu was gone. ”

"It turns out that it was Xu Chu who fought with me just now, and his martial arts are really good." Sun Ce praised: "If I have another chance, I really want to have a good competition with him." ”

"Cao Cao hasn't gone far yet, Bo Fu and I will chase after him with the trouble-relieving soldiers." Lu Bu instructed the two of them: "Zilong leads the troops to take Dangshan County first, and when Bofu and I come back, we will take the city adjacent to Xuzhou." ”

Sun Ce and Zhao Yun agreed.

Zhao Yun led his soldiers to turn around and attack Dangshan County, while Sun Ce followed Lu Bu to chase Cao Cao.

The Annoyance Relief Soldiers have already experienced two battles, and in the previous one, they did not have much advantage, and the morale increase was not very obvious.

In tonight's battle, the air force first burned the Cao army's barracks, and then Lu Bu led them to rush down the mountain and break through the Cao army's defense line at the bottom of the mountain.

After several days of confrontation, Lu Bu broke the enemy in a battle, and the morale of the soldiers suddenly rose, and they worked harder when they chased and killed Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was put on the back of the horse by Xu Chu, and Xu Chu didn't wait for him to react, so he slapped the buttocks of the war horse fiercely.

The horse was in pain and took Cao Cao to gallop all the way, and it was not easy for him to pull the reins of the horse.

Cao Cao, who was pulling the reins, had not yet stabilized his emotions, and a team of people rushed towards him quickly.

Seeing that group of people, Cao Cao turned around and wanted to escape, but a voice stopped him: "Lord, it's me, Yu Ban!" ”

Hearing the shout, Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief.

He turned around and shouted to Yu Ban: "Wen Ze, I'm here!" ”

Yu Ban came to Cao Cao with a team of Cao Jun: "The last general is too late to protect the lord, please forgive the lord!" ”

"Don't tell me anything about forgiveness." Cao Cao said to the ban: "You hurry up and send me back to Xudu first." ”

Yu Ban agreed, and with this team of soldiers, escorted Cao Cao to gallop in the direction of Xudu.

Along the way, they met Guo Jia and others who had fled, and gathered the fleeing old troops together.

Lu Bu and Sun Ce chased all the way, killed a lot of Cao Cao's army, and saw that they had lost the trace of Cao Cao, and they also knew that if they continued to move forward, Cao Cao's power was even more powerful, so they had to give up the pursuit.

Restraining the horse, Lu Bu looked ahead, and said unwillingly: "I actually let Cao Cao run away, I don't know how much trouble it will cause in the future." ”

"Previously, the Marquis of Chu was ready to retreat to Jianye, and it was already unexpected to defeat Cao Cao here." Sun Ce said: "Since he has already run away, let's simply take down all the surrounding cities." In the future, Cao Cao will attack Xuzhou again, or if we attack Xudu, Pengcheng will not be on the periphery of the war. We don't have to go to the enemy's territory to fight at the expense of the near and far. ”

"Bo Fu is right, since he sent these places to us, it is not appropriate for us not to want them, it is inevitable that Cao Cao's kindness will not be resisted, so let's take it down first." Lu Bu said: "When there is a war in the future, using these places as a springboard, we will have a lot less trouble." ”

"Chu Hou is right." Sun Ce asked, "What now?" Do you want to chase some further? ”

"Cao Cao has disappeared without a trace, and it is not interesting to chase any further." Lu Bu said: "Let's go back first, wait until Zilong takes Dangshan County, and settle the air force first." ”

Lu Bu and Sun Ce turned around and walked back with the soldiers of the Liberation Army.

They were about to come to the hill where they had been stationed, and saw some Xuzhou soldiers busy burying the corpses.

Zhuge Jin was waiting for them.

Seeing the two of them coming back, Zhuge Jin greeted him and said, "Qiqi Chuhou, General Zhao sent news from Dangshan County, saying that he had taken the county seat. Ask the Marquis of Chu and General Sun to go and check. ”

"Take it down?" Lu Bu couldn't believe it and asked Zhuge Jin.

When they chased Cao Cao, it was still dark.

After chasing all the way, he failed to catch up and turned back, and although the sky was already cloudy, the sun had not yet appeared on the eastern horizon.

Zhao Yun led his troops to attack the city, Lu Bu thought it would take at least three or four days, but he didn't expect them to come back, and Dangshan County had already been taken.

When he came to Dangshan City, Lu Bu saw that the battle flag of the Xuzhou Army had been changed on the city.

He was about to beckon the soldiers into the city, when countless gliders flew overhead and flew into the county seat of Dangshan.

There are still twenty hot air balloons in the sky that are swinging unhurriedly, fluttering towards Dangshan County.

************************************************

When Lu Bu and the others came, Zhao Yun, who got the news, personally went out of the city to greet them.

Behind Zhao Yun, there was also a group of officials of all sizes in Dangshan County.

The officials of the Han Dynasty all wanted to be similar in their official uniforms.

All the heroes considered themselves to be the humerus of the Han Dynasty, so in addition to the different styles and colors of the soldiers' robes, the official uniforms of the officials under their rule were roughly the same.

Coming to the city gate, Lu Bu glanced at those officials and asked Zhao Yun, "Why did Zilong take Dangshan County so quickly?" ”

"The Marquis of Chu ordered me to lead the troops to attack Dangshan, and I led the soldiers to get here, and the county order opened the city gate and let us into the city." Zhao Yun replied: "It was said that it was an attack, but in fact, it didn't cost a single soldier at all. ”

"It's still Zilong's prestige." Lu Bu smiled and said, "If I came here, I'm afraid they wouldn't do it." ”

"If Chu Hou comes, we will open the city gate earlier." The official who looked like a county magistrate behind Zhao Yun lowered his head and said, "We have all admired Chu Hou for a long time, and now it is ......really an honor to open the city gate to welcome Chu Hou."

"We passed through here before, and we didn't see you open the gates." Lu Bu interrupted him: "Cao Cao's army was defeated, you didn't want to defend the city but opened the city gate to protect your own family, disloyalty and injustice came first, but you helped me not to hurt a single soldier and enter the city, and you have more or less credit." ”

Lu Bu pinched his chin and frowned with embarrassment on his face: "Tell me, how should I settle down." ”

By the time he uttered the words "disloyalty, injustice", the officials were already frightened and their legs weakened, and some of them almost collapsed on the ground.

Glancing over their faces, Lu Bu said, "Why don't you all resign and return to the field." I will ask people to buy you a good field house, and in the troubled times, you can have a field house of your own, and stay away from the conquest, it is better than being an official here, and I don't know if I will lose my head one day. ”

"Thank you Chuhou!" The officials knew very well that Lu Bu did not kill them, he was already thinking that they had made a meritorious contribution to the city, and if they had more extravagance, maybe they would really attract the disaster of killing, so they hurriedly thanked Lu Bu.

Zhao Yun accompanied Lu Bu into Dangshan County.

On the way to the official mansion, Lu Bu said to him: "We haven't been able to catch up with Cao Cao, and there will definitely be countless troubles coming from Xu Capital in the future." Dangshan and other places are far away from Xudu, but they are very close to Pengcheng. In the past few days, Zilong has worked hard to envelop the surrounding cities. ”

"What Chu Hou said is ......," Zhao Yun asked subconsciously.

"As long as you don't need money, you can do whatever you want." Lu Bu grinned at him.

Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, then understood, and shook his head and smiled.

Lu Bu asked him to go to the surrounding cities, and he also said that as long as he didn't use money, he could do anything.

To the beauty to the official, which one is not linked to money?

The only way to get the most benefits without the need for money is to threaten.

When meeting local officials like soft-footed shrimp, intimidation is certainly useful.

If you meet tough local officials, you will inevitably have to fight.

"I have been confronted against Cao Cao for so long, I didn't expect the final battle to be won so easily." When he arrived at the official mansion, Lu Bu said to Zhao Yun: "The air force has made great contributions in this battle, and I have to reward them well when I go back." ”

"If the soldiers knew that Chu Hou had such thoughts, they would definitely be deeply moved." Zhao Yun bowed.

"We defeated Cao Cao, and I don't know what happened to the other people." Lu Bu said: "If any of the men and horses fail to stop the enemy, Pengcheng will be in danger, and what we have done before will also be wasted." ”

PS: Some people say that the chapters are too expensive, and it is necessary to explain. In the past, it was a small chapter of 2,000 words, and a thousand words were divided into five chapters and a dime. In order to avoid being lazy, now I only write a large chapter of 10,000 to 12,000 words, five cents for 1,000 words, and five to six cents for a chapter. Chapter fees are based on the number of words, and the charge per 1,000 words has nothing to do with the chapter itself. It's not that the chapters are expensive, it's just that the current chapter is equivalent to five to six chapters in the past