Cao Cao agreed to Yang Xi's conditions, and Yang Xi began to explain his plan.

"Lu Bu has eight strong generals, now Hao Meng and Cao Xing are dead, and there are Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng are in the city, I have already found out, Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng have long had a complaint about Lu Bu, and the prime minister only needs to secretly and write three people, each giving some benefits to woo, but at this time the official is not worth much. Then the prime minister can dig two rivers, Surabaya and Yishui, flooded Pi, there is no place in the city, and Lu Bu is inferior to his subordinates to his wife and concubine, ensuring that the three of them will be dissatisfied at that time, and tie up Lu Bu to surrender, even if they can't tie up Lu Bu, with the ability of the three of them, open the city gate and welcome the prime minister into the city, which is a breeze. ”

Hearing this, everyone finally understood what Yang Xi meant, flooded Xiapi, and then thought about the location of Xiapi City, as long as two rivers were dug up, it could indeed be done.

But Cao Cao did not make a decision immediately, but after another discussion.

"Fengxiao, how is Yang Xi's plan?"

Guo Jia said: "If it is true as he said, Wei Xu and the three of them can win over, but it is a clever plan, and they can get three generals and some soldiers and horses, but the lord is cheap." ”

Cao Cao said: "Immediately order someone to investigate this matter with Chen Deng and other officials in Xuzhou." ”

Cao Cao arranged this matter, and then asked everyone how Yang Xi was.

Guo Jia said: "This person seems to be cynical, but he is a strange person. Guo Jia didn't understand what Cao Cao meant, but the answer was another aspect.

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei, and Liu Bei had no choice but to reply: "This person has a furrow in his chest, and he will never live under others for a long time. ”

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei and nodded silently, agreeing with Liu Bei's words, and silently thinking in his heart when to get rid of Yang Xi.

Since the first day of the battle, Lu Bu knew that he had few soldiers and was not suitable to go out of the city to face the battle, so he just closed his doors. Cao Cao really ordered people to start digging up Surabaya and Yishui, and the water flooded Pi.

Lu Bu doesn't care about the feelings of others, he is happy in the city with Diao Chan every day, someone asks what to do, Lu Bu only replied, I have a red rabbit horse, walking on the ground in the water.

His subordinate soldiers marched in the water day and night, and Lu Bu just let it come and go.

Sun Ce saw that the city was flooded, so he had to retreat ten miles back to the village, Cao Cao wanted to attack Sun Ce, but Yang Xi did not participate, Cao Cao had to give up.

Yang Xi felt that there was no need to fight Sun Ce to the death, when the time came, he could naturally fight without blood, Sun Ce was just governing the place for himself.

Every year, the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce recruits troops in the second half of the year, and it is also in full swing at this time, and there are thousands more people who sign up this year than last year, but the number of places is only nine thousand, and many people have to wait for next year.

Da Qiao stayed in the camp for more than a month, and he was a little bored, so Yang Xi ordered Tian Han to personally lead two hundred guards to escort Da Qiao back to Jiangxia.

Cao Cao besieged the city for two months, Lu Bu could not hold out, and there was not much surplus grain in the city, but Cao Jun, Chen Deng raised grain and grass in the back, and the city was in crisis. In desperation, Lu Bu sent a letter to Yihe Taishou Zhang Yang for help.

Zhang Yang and Lu Bu have always had a good relationship, but they knew that they were invincible to Cao Cao, so they sent Wang Dong to support him from afar.

When Lu Bu came out of Luoyang, he took refuge in Zhang Yang, and the two were iron brothers.

When Cao Cao heard that Zhang Yang had sent troops to attack him, he was naturally in a hurry, but within a few days, Zhang Yang was killed by his subordinate Yang Ri. After a false alarm, Cao Cao felt that he couldn't delay it any longer, this time it was Zhang Yang, and in case it was Yuan Shao next time, it would be a big deal.

So Cao Cao gathered the crowd to discuss, and Yang Xi said: "The prime minister just waits, within half a month, there will be changes in the city, and then Lu Bu will fight to the death in the end, and the prime minister can be ready to deal with it." ”

Cao Cao had no choice but to continue to wait, but he said that in the city of Xiapi, the grain and grass were in short supply, and there was a shortage of oil and salt, and the people in the city did not eat salt for half a month, and they were all weak, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers also dropped to the freezing point.

Another trouble is that the soldier's feet were soaked in water for two months, and symptoms such as erythema, blisters, and itching appeared early. In addition, it is now winter, a few degrees below zero, who can stand it, there are sick and frozen to death every day, Zhang Liao and other generals really can't stand it, so they all ask Lu Bu.

Lu Bu knew that the city fell into despair, decided to desperately break through, that night, the city gate was opened, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, Gao Shun guarded the house, led 3,000 people out of the south gate, and the others each led 12,000 troops, and rushed out to the other three gates.

Cao Cao's spies had already found out the situation, and each general was in place to kill Lu Bu.

Guan Zhang and the two led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, and met Lu Bu, Zhang Fei patted the horse to fight, Lu Bu picked up, and in the middle of the fight, Guan Yu patted the horse to help, Lu Bu intended to break through, and did not dare to fight, and Xu Huang led the army to surround it, and the governor of Lu Bu could not do anything, and retreated to the city.

The other three military horses, only to attract pursuers, were just out of the city gate, they were blocked, so they had to retreat to the city, and when Sun Ce learned the news and led the army to rescue, there was no sound for a long time.

Yang Xi knew that the war was on these two days, so he led his army to the city and joined forces with Cao Cao to wait for the final share of the benefits.

Let's say that Lu Bu retreated to the city, but he was a little puzzled, why his own soldiers were much lower in combat power, three thousand soldiers and horses on weekdays, even if it was one or two thousand, was not afraid, why was he killed two or three hundred as soon as he fought today.

In the end, Zhang Liao informed Lu Bu that there was a shortage of salt in the city for half a month, and Lu Bu sighed: "The sergeant does not eat oil and salt for half a month, and even the food of the people in the city has been robbed, but a certain person is still enjoying himself with his wife and concubine every day, drinking and having fun." Spread my military order, from today onwards, no alcohol is allowed, and those who violate the order will be beheaded. ”

Lu Bu knew that this was the last struggle.

At this time, someone found the horse of Hou Cheng, one of the eight strong generals, Hou Cheng was happy, so he invited someone to drink, Lu Bu was furious when he learned it, and ordered someone to arrest Hou Chengdao: "A certain just ordered that drinking alcohol is prohibited, but you knowingly committed a crime, someone came, and dragged Hou Cheng to behead." ”

Hou Cheng was shocked, and the wine suddenly woke up, but some generals knelt on the ground and pleaded for mercy, so that they were spared death, and only beat fifty military sticks.

Hou Cheng returned to the camp, Wei Xu and Song Xian came to visit, Hou Cheng said: "Lu Bu just spoiled his wife and concubine, and he **** drank and had fun, but he didn't put the lives of our soldiers in his eyes. I have a letter from Prime Minister Cao, you and I captured Lu Bu together, how about voting for Prime Minister? ”

When Wei Xu and Song Xian heard this, they turned their heads to look at each other, and also took out a letter from their bodies and said: "I have this intention for a long time, but I don't want my brother to have it, why don't you do it tonight?" ”

The three of them then agreed to tie up Lu Bu tonight and open the city to welcome Cao.

Wei Xu and the three of them discussed and decided, and that night they led soldiers and horses, stole and killed the guards in Lu Bu's mansion, and entered the mansion. Lu Bu's heart has been broken recently, how can he be vigilant, he was still in a dream, so he was tied up, and when he woke up, Fang Tian's halberd was already in Hou Cheng's hands.