612, Yuan Shu broke through
This time, the strategy led by Zhu Wei and with Chen Deng as the key person was implemented very smoothly.
Chen Deng pretended to come to Zhu Wei's army as Lu Bu's envoy, which was just the right time for Zhu Wei to have more detailed discussions and communication with Chen Deng.
So Zhu Wei clearly knew that Yuan Shu would ask Lu Bu to bring a small number of guards into Shouchun City to discuss the breakout of the siege the morning after tomorrow, and Yuan Shu would kill Lu Bu in the city at that time.
Subsequently, with the help of Chen Deng, Yuan Shu controlled the generals left by Lu Bu outside the city, and then Chen Deng controlled Lu Bu's soldiers and horses as cannon fodder, and broke through with Yuan Shu's army and marched to Xuzhou.
In this way, with this clear time information, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's side naturally prepared to ambush the action, and when Yuan Shu's breakthrough army entered the trap, they could capture Yuan Shu in one fell swoop.
As for the place of the trap ambush, Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei had already found a suitable place during the tripartite talks, that is, in Quyang County, northeast of Shouchun City.
This Quyang County is located in the west of the North China Plain, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, is a semi-mountainous county, the terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and it is commonly known as "six mountains, one water and three fields".
In the county, you can find a lot of terrain suitable for ambushes, such as the V-shaped valley originally formed by the river valley and many cliffs and steep cliffs, so it can be completely the death place for intercepting and killing Yuan Shu's army.
So at the same time that Yuan Shu booby-trapped Lu Bu and annexed Lu Bu's army, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao also quietly sent troops to Quyang County to ambush, and each assigned the location of the ambush.
On the morning of May 27, 198 AD, Yuan Shu successfully tricked Lu Bu into Shouchun City.
Everything was as planned by the plan, and on the morning of this day, Lu Bu took Gao Shun and three hundred soldiers of the trapping camp unsuspectingly, and entered Shouchun City under the introduction of Chen Deng, preparing to discuss with Yuan Shu the specific plan for a joint breakthrough.
As a result, Lu Bu and Gao Shun, together with three hundred soldiers from the trapped camp, were tricked into an alleyway in the Yuanshu Palace in Shouchun City, and after Chen Deng left under the pretext of leaving first, the portals on both sides of the alley were firmly blocked.
Immediately, an ambush arose on the walls of the two or three stories high, and for a time crossbow arrows and feather arrows rained down, and oil canisters filled with fire oil were also thrown into the alley, and soon the flames burned in the alley, which was only three or four steps wide.
Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and the three hundred soldiers of the camp were defenseless, even if they were wearing leather armor and helmets inlaid with iron plates, and had large shields and small shields in their hands to protect themselves, they could not resist the flames caused by the ignition of the fire oil by the rockets.
No matter how strong Ren is Lu Bu's force, and no matter how strong the soldiers of the trapped camp led by Ren are Gao Shun, they have no power to resist in the face of such a death.
However, in half an hour, Lu Bu and Gao Shun were almost shot like hedgehogs, and the other soldiers in the camp were either shot to death, or burned to death and choked to death.
In this way, after Lu Bu's death, Chen Deng took Ji Ling, a fierce general beside Yuan Shu, and pretended to be a soldier trapped in the camp to return to Lu Bu's army from Shouchun City, and then Chen Deng used Lu Bu's name to summon Chen Gong, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing into the account, and then they were all easily captured before they could react.
On the spot, Chen Deng announced the death of Lu Bu and Gao Shun, and asked Chen Gong, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing to surrender, but in addition to Chen Gong's disobedience, intending to shout a warning, and being hacked to death by Ji Ling, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing all surrendered.
In fact, I want to say here that Lu Bu's so-called eight strong generals actually do not include Gao Shun, because the status of Gao Shun and Chen Gong is actually above Zhang Liao, Cao Xing and other eight strong generals in Lu Bu's army.
Therefore, Gao Shun and Chen Gong are Lu Bu's absolute henchmen, even if Gao Shun's temperament makes Lu Bu dislike, and in the later period, he will be marginalized by Lu Bu and have the intention of removing the military power, but Gao Shun's status in Lu Bu's army at the beginning can be second only to Lu Bu's, and he has independent military power to lead the army, so Gao Shun can lead the camp of the strongest army in Lu Bu's army.
As for Chen Gong, he took Lu Bu step by step from despair to the current position of the lord of Xuzhou, although after Lu Bu owned Xuzhou, he was also arrogant and unwilling to listen to Chen Gong's opinions, but Chen Gong's identity position was still there.
This is also the reason why Gao Shun and Chen Gong refused to surrender after Lu Bu's death in the original history, because they were the real high-level Lu Bu's henchmen.
As for the other eight strong generals, even if they are characters like Zhang Liao, they are only a cavalry lieutenant under Lu Bu's account, that is, a cavalry general, and without Lu Bu's general order, he has no independent right to lead troops.
Of course, Chen Deng was very clear about the situation in Lu Bu's army, so he first let Gao Shun die in Shouchun City with Lu Bu, and then asked Ji Ling to kill Chen Gong, who had more influence on Lu Bu's army.
Then the remaining three people, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing, were originally just ordinary generals in Lu Bu's army, and they had no direct military power, so naturally there was no threat.
In this way, no matter whether the three of them are completely convinced in their hearts, but under the threat of their lives, they can naturally only give in.
Although it is a pity that Gao Shun and Chen Gong died, it is indeed difficult for them to betray Lu Bu and switch to others, and for the implementation of the whole plan, Zhu Wei will not stop Chen Deng from attacking them.
All of this was actually the plan designed by Jia Xu, Lu Su, Zhou Yu and others when Chen Deng was on Zhu Wei's side, just to give Chen Deng a greater chance to control Lu Bu's army.
Now Chen Deng, with the assistance of Ji Ling, coupled with the cooperation of Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing, has successfully controlled Lu Bu's soldiers and horses.
Of course, Chen Deng did not directly convey the news of the death of Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Chen Gong and others, if this news spread, he was afraid that Lu Bu's army would collapse immediately, so Chen Deng still borrowed Lu Bu's name to issue a military order, and then mobilized Lu Bu's army to prepare to break through.
At the beginning, Chen Deng was also as planned, pretending to send a signal to Zhu Wei and Cao Cao that Lu Bu would respond internally, and seemed to focus the attention of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's troops in other directions.
As a result, Chen Deng and Lu Bu's army really easily broke through the camp set up by Zhu Wei and Cao Cao on the periphery of Lu Bu's army, which was regarded as breaking the siege of Shouchun City by Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's army.
Then Yuan Shu, who had already seen this scene on the east gate of Shouchun City, was also excited to bring nearly 80,000 elite troops to break through together.
However, in Yuan Shu's breakthrough army, he brought a lot of money and treasures hoarded by carts and carts, and Yuan Shu's harem beauties, his generals, and Wenchen's family members, at least nearly 10,000 people followed the breakthrough.
This inevitably made the scale of Yuan Shu's breakthrough very large, and the speed of this breakthrough was naturally completely unfast......