Gao Gan stomped his feet in remorse, after Qinghe paid such a heavy price, they attacked too early, before Xiahou Yuan had not put all his troops into the street fighting, and the residents of Qinghe were completely entangled, they launched an attack, and as a result, Xiahou Yuan had the opportunity to rush out of the east gate with 5,000 soldiers and fled in the direction of Xu Chu. Let his plan to completely annihilate Xu Chu's army fail.

After briefly appeasing the residents of Qinghe, he wanted to find the aftermath of Qinghe Taishou, and it was the people who cried and pointed him to the location of this Taishou, which was just a puddle of meat, and could only be identified from the unique hierarchical official robes of Youzhou This is this conscientious old lady.

After reining in the old lady and his subordinates, Gao Gan said as if he was depressed: "The entire officials of Qinghe County have all died here, so I can only ask Mr. to stay here with some of the men and horses to deal with the aftermath, and I will take 15,000 cavalry to pursue Xiahou Yuan." ”

Frustration nodded: "The general is resourceful, as long as you don't take the enemy lightly, you are in no danger, leave me 5,000 cavalry, I will deal with the aftermath here, and at the same time guard against the enemy that Cao Cao may send again in the future, but please rest assured that with these 5,000 cavalry in hand, Qinghe County is our Lu family's army." ”

With the resourceful Mr. Fu Zhu here, 5,000 cavalry, and all the Qinghe people who have the same hatred for the enemy, Qinghe County is absolutely insurmountable by Cao's army.

"I'll leave now, but please rest assured, once the Cao army comes to attack Qinghe again, as long as Mr. insists for three or five days, I will come back." Then Gao Gan took 15,000 soldiers without hesitation and waved his army east.

Yuancheng was attacked by Xu Chu, although he also encountered the same strong wall and clear field as Xiahou Yuan, and also encountered the resistance of the defenders of Yuancheng, but he did not encounter the embarrassment of Xiahou Yuan's grain and grass, because he had the support of several workshop owners and families.

The so-called homeland is difficult to leave, the so-called foundation is difficult to give up, this is the mentality of these families who have lived here for hundreds of years, people can be withdrawn, but the houses and fields can not be removed, Cao Jun will come over, and the family business will be burned into a blank land, and the family business of hundreds of years will be wiped out, although the lord promised to give everyone a certain compensation, but it is definitely a drop in the bucket, and it can't compensate for everyone's losses anyway. Especially now, when the summer harvest is imminent, seeing that the summer grain is about to enter the warehouse, how can it not be distressing to lose it in vain?

There are also the factories and workshops that have been built, where the bulky equipment cannot be moved, and the huge losses caused by the daily shutdown also make these people feel painful.

So they decided to unite to form a chamber of commerce and send a representative to ask Cao Jun for negotiations.

For such a request, Xu Chu smiled proudly at the time, human greed is nothing more than that, even if Lu Peng takes them like a mountain, but in the face of huge interests, they also choose to keep what they have in their hands, which is actually to destroy Lu Peng's plan, which is a very good thing.

So Xu Chu politely received the representatives of these families, and these families were also generous, promising to provide Xu Chu's army with enough grain and grass in exchange for Xu Chu's not destroying the property of these families, and at the same time donated a sum of money to Xu Chu, using this money and grain in exchange for Cao Jun not to slaughter the people and not to burn the people's homes.

Xu Chu understands the mentality of these people, because he knows that the conditions for these families to negotiate with him are tantamount to funding themselves in disguise, and with Lu Peng's temperament, if his side wins this time, it will be fine, as long as Lu Peng wins, Lu Peng will definitely counterattack. So these people take out a sum of money, in exchange for not slaughtering the people in this area, destroying the villages and towns in this area, once Lu Peng returns victoriously in the future, these people can conditionally ask Lu Peng for forgiveness for their crimes of being the enemy, their excuse is that they are keeping the homes of the people in this area, and according to Lu Peng's mentality of loving the people, Lu Peng will definitely forgive them.

For the thoughts of these people, Xu Chu of course pushed the boat down the river and made a good favor.

Xu Chu's consideration is threefold, first, this time he sent millions of troops to confront Lu Peng with hundreds of thousands of decisive battles, and the victory was only five or five points. But this time, he suddenly split into seven ways to enter Lu Peng's territory, completely breaking the balance of confrontation, the balance of victory has been seriously tilted to his side, and there is no doubt about defeating Lu Peng, the most optimistic ending is to drive Lu Peng to the grassland this time, and his own side includes Lu Peng's original three states, so that the unification of the world will no longer be a suspense.

Since this place will fall into his own pocket sooner or later, then if he smashes this place, it is equivalent to smashing his own family, killing these people is also equivalent to killing the people under his rule in the future, in Xu Chu's simple thoughts, this place is already his own, there is no need to smash his own things, that is a loser.

In the face of the money and food sent by these business representatives, this is the best of both worlds, so why not do it?

So Xu Chu generously showed his magnanimity and accepted the conditions proposed by the other party, so both parties were happy.

No longer worried about food and grass, and with a huge amount of money as a reward for the soldiers, Xu Chu issued a generous reward to reward the soldiers for their attack on Cloud City.

Originally, the defenders of Yuncheng were arranged by the trial and Lu Kuang, as long as he held out for five days and did his best to consume the enemy's strength, the trial and Lu Kuang would rush to reinforcements with 8,000 soldiers.

Persist for five days, the defenders of Yuncheng definitely have this confidence, but just when he was recruiting troops and horses to complete the task, the situation suddenly changed, because the defenders of Wancheng suddenly destroyed the entire plan and led the troops forward, as a result, the whole army was annihilated, so that the important Wancheng did not have a single soldier, there was no way, Lu Kuang could only take his mobile troops to guard Wancheng and fill this huge hole, so his own reinforcements would not appear.

After the painful choice, the defenders of Yuncheng decided to let the civil officials take the people who had already evacuated to Yuncheng to retreat north into Wei County again, and they once again cleared the walls of Yuancheng, leaving only ten days of grain and grass, and 5,000 soldiers to defend Yuancheng.

When Xu Chu came to Yuancheng with an army of 20,000 people with sufficient grain and grass, Yuancheng had already become a barracks, although there were only 5,000 soldiers, but these soldiers fought with a certain heart of death.

At that time, Xu Chu faced Yuancheng, which was guarded by only 5,000 people, and expressed his scorn for them, under the attack of his own army, he could go down to Yuancheng in one day, even if the walls of Yuancheng were clear, he had enough food and grass, what were he afraid of?

Thus, the defensive battle of Yuancheng officially began.

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