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Yuan Shang was still with Cao Cao after all, and he was calculated by Jia Xu last time, if it wasn't for Cao Cao's timely reinforcement, he would have almost been wiped out by Lu Bu's entire army, Yuan Shang was really afraid, even if he had mustard in his heart, he didn't dare to be too far away from Cao Cao at this time.

"Last night, our army wanted to dig a tunnel to attack Yecheng, but we didn't want to be noticed by Jia Xu, and it fell short, but it's a pity that those 800 soldiers were lost." Cao Junshuai's tent, Yuan Shang complained to Cao Cao with a discouraged face, last night he wanted to dig a tunnel into the city, the inside should be outside, open the city gate, who knew that Jia Xu found the clue, directly dug a ditch to introduce the water source in the city into the tunnel, 800 soldiers were drowned alive in the tunnel, so that Yuan Shang's plan was stillborn.

Cao Cao nodded silently, Jia Xu he had dealings, when he conquered Wancheng, Zhang Xiu first surrendered and then rebelled, so that Cao Cao lost the general Dian Wei, the eldest son Cao Ang, to be honest, Yuan Shang will lose to Jia Xu Cao Cao is not strange at all, if he succeeds, Cao Cao will wonder if there is fraud in this.

"Now the strength of the virtuous nephew and our army is still superior to Lu Bu." Cao Cao groped for the table, looked at Yuan Shang and said, the advantage of strength is also the only advantage they can get to the table to talk about now, the field battle Lu Bu comes and goes like the wind, and the big battalion will give up if he says to give up, without dragging the mud and water, which also gives Cao Cao a headache.

"At the moment, we must limit Lu Bu's cavalry, otherwise it will be difficult for us to win this battle." Cao Cao said in a deep voice.

"How easy is it to say?" Yuan Shang said with a wry smile when he heard this, Lu Bu's cavalry battle is unparalleled in the world, how to limit it?

"It's not impossible." Cao Cao spread out the map and said with a smile: "Lu Bu used to crisscross the grassland, and in order to deal with Hu Qi, he once created a method, which is called trapping a horse pit. ”

Yuan Shang nodded, and then frowned: "It's just that if it is extremely difficult to besiege Lu Bu with a trap, he won't give our army a chance to set up a trap outside his camp." ”

Lu Bu is not a fool, how can he let them calmly surround themselves with a trap? There are a large number of cavalry cruising outside every day, Mo said that digging a trap outside his camp, as long as the Yuan Cao coalition army has any movement, it will not be able to escape the monitoring of Lu Bu's scouts.

"What the virtuous nephew said is not good, Lu Bu may not be able to limit it, but Yecheng can." Cao Cao pointed to Yecheng and said: "Our army can have a deep ditch barrier, build three camps to defend against Lu Bu, and then set up a trap outside the city, and then wave troops to attack the city, if Lu Bu wants to come to the rescue, there is a trap pit, you can gather Lu Bu and annihilate it, if Lu Bu does not come, then Yecheng has no foreign aid, and our army can calmly attack the city." ”

In this way, the role of the superior forces of the Yuan Cao coalition army can be brought into play, and at the same time, Yecheng can be used to contain Lu Bu's range of activities, whether it is to break through Yecheng or gather and annihilate Lu Bu, no matter which point is achieved, this battle can be regarded as a victory.

The method was clumsy and time-consuming, but it was the only way Cao Cao could think of at the moment to minimize Lu Bu's mobility and fully exploit his own military superiority.

"This ......" Yuan Shang frowned slightly, the consumption of those three villages alone is not ordinarily large, I am afraid that even if Lu Bu does not make trouble, it will take a month to complete, not to mention that if Lu Bu sees their intentions, how can they let them build it so easily?

"That's all we have for now." Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shang and said in a deep voice.

Yuan Shang nodded silently, it is better to have a way than no way, but the matter of building three villages naturally fell on him, after all, in the end, it was Yuan Shang's who fought this Yecheng in the end.

Early the next morning, Yuan Shang began to order people to dig two hundred steps away from Yecheng to build a village, and at the same time began to dig a large number of traps around the city.

Lu Bu got the news, came to watch, saw this moment, naturally it is not difficult to understand what these people want to do, immediately waved troops to attack and obstruct, Jia Xu in the city also cooperated with the attack in a timely manner, but Cao Cao was obviously ready, not waiting for Lu Bu to approach, the strong bow and crossbow that had been prepared were put on Lu Bu's side, Gao Lan, Yue Xi, Xiahou Xuan, Xu Huang The four fierce generals personally swept the formation, and Mao Jue, Man Pet and others were responsible for the deployment, plus the trap pit that had been dug around, if Lu Bu's troops rushed into the trap pit, they would shoot it with crossbow arrows, if they left, Nor does it pursue.

Jia Xu ordered Ma Dai to go out of the city several times to try, but he was also beaten back, and even almost was seized by Yue Xi The city gate, after several times to no avail, Lu Bu had to temporarily withdraw and think about countermeasures.

"Lord, why don't we build a few stockades!" Xiong Kuohai looked at the soldiers of the Lian army who were showing off their might on the opposite side, and he was not angry in his heart, and turned his head to Lu Budao.

"No way!" Lu Bu didn't speak, but Li Ru had already shook his head and said: "That's just to help Cao Mengde build a village, our army is all cavalry, not good at defending the city, if you live in the wall, you will lose your advantage." ”

Lu Bu's biggest advantage is the mobility of the cavalry, coming and going like the wind, which is unguardable, and now Cao Cao takes this step-by-step strategy as a camp, and it is a trap and a ravine, and the requirements for trapping a horse pit are simple, plus these camps, within a month, Yecheng can be isolated from Lü Bu, and Cao Cao only needs to send a group of crossbowmen to completely block Lü Bu's cavalry.

"What then?" Xiong Kuohai said in a muffled voice, this feeling of watching the other party step by step put himself in a desperate situation but there was nothing to be done, a bit like waiting for death.

Is there really nothing that can be done? Of course not, as long as Lu Bu chooses to withdraw now, this move will naturally collapse, but Yecheng has no possibility of recapturing, this battle, fighting for not only territory, but also luck, once Lu Bu retreats, the luck of the Yuan family has little to do with Lu Bu, Cao Cao can take advantage of the situation to occupy Jizhou, and then go to Luoyang to block, Lu Bu can be stuck to death, cut off Lu Bu's population to help.

Of course, if Lu Bu is willing to wait for ten or twenty years to develop the population, Cao Cao may have already decided to be the overlord, and then I don't know how long this war will last, and Lu Bu may only rely on time to consume the heroes of the world.

"Order the soldiers of the three armies to march in a team of 100 people, cruising on the enemy's side, but the enemy dares to approach the edge, they will shoot with bows and arrows!" A touch of coldness flashed in Lu Bu's eyes, he didn't want to retreat, and he couldn't retreat, this was a battle of luck, retreating was equivalent to losing the opportunity to dominate the north, whether it was him or Cao Cao.

As for Yuan Shang, from the moment Yuan Tan died in battle, he was already doomed to tragedy, and it was impossible for either Cao Cao or Lu Bu to let Yuan Shang leave the battlefield alive.

"Whoa!" Xiong Kuohai hurriedly went down to give orders, and soon, Lu Bu brought 30,000 slave soldiers and iron cavalry in a team of 100 people scattered, constantly cruising on the periphery of the coalition army, once the coalition army wanted to expand the barrier, a large number of cavalry would swarm in, with bows and arrows to shoot the coalition troops who dared to leap into the thunder pool.

"Keep building!" Cao Cao watched all this expressionlessly, and after the foundation was laid, the outline of a camp with a height of one zhang at the bottom protruded.

In ten days, Cao Cao almost used his life to pile out the foundation of the second camp, the two foundations were not more than a hundred zhang apart, connected by a horse trap in the middle, and continued to expand outward, Cao Cao sent crossbowmen to the top of the earthen platform, dispersed the approaching cavalry, and covered the soldiers below to continue digging the pit.

"That's not right!" On this day, Lu Bu was watching the enemy formation from a distance, looking at the earthen platform built by Cao Cao, he instinctively felt that something was wrong, ordinary camps, as long as there was Diao Dou, there was no need to bother to build such a high earthen platform, counting the Diao Dou that began to be built on the earthen platform, Diao Dou, the height of the sentry tower can even be compared with the city wall of Yecheng.

"My lord, what's wrong?" Li Ru rode his horse to Lu Bu's side, put up a pergola, and also felt that the foundation of the camp built by Cao Jun was a little too strong.

"I can't tell!" Lu Bu shook his head, Cao Cao seemed to be crazy in the past few days, which made Lu Bu faintly feel that something was wrong, at this speed, even if Yecheng was surrounded, the coalition army might not have extra troops to attack the city!

"Let a detachment of men and horses dismount as an infantry army, and give me a storming of the earthen platform in the middle, and send someone to get a few catapults to come over and bombard those camps for me."

Lu Bu always felt that there was another mystery in this camp, but he couldn't say it, because Cao Cao himself was also there, no matter what, as a prince, Cao Cao shouldn't use himself as bait.

Soon, 5,000 slave soldiers abandoned their horses and fought on foot, and Xiong Kuohai personally went into battle and launched a fierce offensive towards a Tutai, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao sent troops to resist, and the sound of fighting in the two counties rushed straight to Xiao Han.

After all, these slave soldiers are not good at foot combat, and the opponent is the elite of the Cao army who has experienced a hundred battles, although there are fierce generals such as Xiong Kuohai to help and drive morale, but the other party also has Yue Xi, Xiahou Dun, Xu Huang, Gao Lan, these fierce generals, Xiong Kuohai is difficult to defeat with four hands, and the slave army is not as fast as Cao Jun in foot combat, after a fierce battle, Xiong Kuohai was finally helpless to be killed and retreated.

A few days later, the catapult found from the nearby county town was sent to the battlefield by Lu Bu, and began to bombard the earthen platform set up by the other party, the catapult has a very long range, up to two hundred paces range, and the huge stone projectile bombarded the earthen platform, and the terrifying power killed the Cao army was terrified, but it also made Lu Bu more determined that the Cao army had a conspiracy, and the earth platform was so strong that the catapult could not collapse it! That night, Lu Bu sent a letter to Xiaoying to take him to Yecheng, wanting to see Jia Xu's opinion.

"Lord, what did Wen He say?" In the big tent, Li Ru hurriedly came to Lu Bu's side, and he hadn't closed his eyes for several nights.

"Withdraw your troops!" Lu Bu looked at the letter in his hand and frowned.

"Withdrawing troops?" Li Ru didn't expect to get such a result after waiting for a long time, but thinking about it, until now, Lu Bu's soldiers and horses have few left, but he is a little unwilling, because the soldiers and horses of the coalition army have also reached the limit after nearly a month of fierce fighting, and now the two sides are supporting the will, to see who can survive to the end.

Withdrawing the troops now is tantamount to giving up Yecheng, and most of Jizhou will be given to Cao Cao, Lu Bu is unwilling, and Li Ru is also unwilling.

"Retire!" Although Lu Bu didn't know why Jia Xu withdrew his troops, he believed that Jia Xu would not be untargeted, and he must have predicted some crisis, and if this battle continues, the best result will be a defeat for both sides.

"Let Wen He withdraw the army first, and we will cover from the side, how many soldiers and horses are there in the army?"

"Thirty thousand!" Li Ru said in a deep voice.

When Yecheng was captured, Lu Bu went out of the city with an army of 60,000, although he was a slave soldier, but this battle was too miserable. (To be continued.) )