Chapter 33: Reckoning with Each Other

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In the city, Liu Bei smiled and watched Cao Cao's army attack the city fiercely. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Originally, Peng Cheng was not Cao Cao's opponent, but it was because of his Liu Bei's intervention that Cao Cao stopped, if Xuzhou Tao Qian's soldiers and horses plus Liu Bei's soldiers and horses went all out, they might not be able to defeat Cao Cao.

It's a pity that this Liu Bei has no intention of helping Tao Qian at all, on the contrary, he is no different from Cao Cao, just a tiger descending from the mountain, and a hungry wolf hiding behind.

Liu Bei's passive sabotage, coupled with the fact that he lost all the defense maps in Pengcheng to Cao Cao, made it more and more difficult for the defenders of Pengcheng.

Finally, Cao Bao counted the number of people, and almost died of distress, just two days of siege, his Tao Qian army lost 3,000 people, including 2,000 Xuzhou troops, and 1,000 elite Danyang soldiers.

It's only been one day, if it goes on like this, how can this Pengcheng be enough to resist.

"The lord can't fight anymore!" Cao Bao looked at Tao Qian over there bitterly and said.

"You can't fight anymore, can you go out of the city and surrender!?" Tao Qian also yelled at Cao Bao with an ugly face.

"Me!" Cao Bao didn't know how to say it, the Cao Cao army outside the city seemed to know the weakness of this Pengcheng, once Pengcheng changed its defense, then Cao Cao's army would inevitably appear on the city wall.

Several of his generals also took turns to fight, and originally expected Liu Bei to be able to block the front, but who knew that in addition to the first few days, in other days, this Liu Bei seemed to be lucky, as long as he Liu Bei appeared on the city wall, then it was inevitable that this Cao Cao's army would not attack the north city gate.

So by now, Liu Bei has suffered the least.

"Resist me, if Cao Cao's army is allowed to enter the city, you Cao Bao don't have to come back to see me!" Tao Qian also showed the appearance of a lord of troubled times, Tao Qian was also a decisive person in killing, otherwise how could he change from a small official to the current feudal official of the Han Dynasty.

"Yes!" Cao Bao lowered his head, he was Tao Qian's diehard, he had long been tied to the same chariot as Tao Qian, if Tao Qian was defeated, it would not be of any benefit to him Cao Bao, so Cao Bao would definitely go all out.

"Oh, General Cao Bao, it's time to change guards!" Good luck over there, Liu Bei appeared.

Cao Bao looked at the sky, and sure enough, it was really time to change the guard.

"Thank you General Cao Bao, then hand it over to me Liu someone, with me Liu Bei here, I will definitely not let him Cao Cao cross the city wall!"

"Humph!" Cao Bao over there snorted coldly. If Cao Bao didn't know that this Liu Bei and Cao Cao were not all the way, I'm afraid Cao Bao would have to wonder if this Liu Bei was Cao Cao's spy.

Why did Cao Cao's army not attack the north gate as soon as this Liu Bei appeared on the city wall.

"Huh!" Liu Bei squinted at Cao Bao's departure, and it wasn't until Cao Bao left that Liu Bei turned around.

"Lord, this Cao Leopard can't stay!" Liu Bei's side, Jian Yong said to Liu Bei.

"Hey, how can you say that! How can this General Cao Bao say that it is also our friendly army, and now Xuzhou soldiers and horses have suffered heavy losses, but our army has very few casualties, and it should be a little tempered! Attacking friendly forces is not what our righteous division should do! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Jian Yong nodded.

"General Cao Bao is the general of the unified army in Xuzhou, and this general should die on the battlefield!" Liu Bei continued to speak with a smile.

Died on the battlefield? Jian Yong and Liu Bei have been together for so long, how can they still not understand, that is, killing Cao Bao can but must not let people seize the handle, this Cao Bao general will inevitably die in the hands of the "Cao Army".

"My subordinates know!" Jian Yong also retreated with a smile.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei, two heroes and a traitor, really have a tacit understanding, knowing that Liu Bei's soldiers and horses have changed guards, they immediately suspended the military affairs at the north gate, which made Liu Bei smile.

Cao Cao, the other city gates, also intensified the offensive.

The West Gate, which was close to the North Gate, was not so lucky, Cao Cao gathered thousands of elites and chased after the West Gate, not giving the defenders on the city wall the slightest respite.

"General, the general really can't hold it! Give the brethren a way to live! "The Xuzhou military captain of the West Gate knelt down in front of Cao Bao, they West Gate, three thousand Xuzhou soldiers, have killed more than 1,000 people, nearly half of them are finished, and the seriously injured will be deducted by hundreds, it can be said that the Xuzhou army is almost exhausted above the West Gate.

The captain of the Xuzhou Army shouted bitterly to Cao Bao over there.

"Alive? I gave you a way to live, who gave me a way to live? Who gave Peng Cheng a way to live? Didn't you see what Cao Cao did to us in Xuzhou? Cao Cao's army killed Xuzhou to avenge his father, and did not catch the culprit, so he washed the people of Xuzhou in blood to vent their anger, "Tens of thousands of men and women were killed." There are no chickens and dogs, and Surabaya does not flow. "Created a twilight human tragedy.

If Pengcheng is breached, how much better can it be?

Hearing Cao Bao's words, this Xuzhou military captain also stopped wanting to withdraw from Ximen, he gritted his teeth and teeth, his old mother, his sister, and his wife are still in the city, if Pengcheng is broken, their end can be imagined.

Gritted his teeth, "General, our Xuzhou army will not retreat to the death, but general, give me reinforcements!" The captain of the Xuzhou military academy fought towards Cao Bao, he already had the heart to fight to the death, but he also knew that no matter how much he continued to fight, the end of the city without reinforcements would be ruined.

"Reinforcements?" Cao Bao himself didn't have any reinforcements, where did the reinforcements come from to Ximen, some of the Danyang soldiers in his hands were scattered and divided on the various city walls, and some of them had to be prepared for emergencies, how to come to the reinforcements.

"If you don't have reinforcements, you have to die, Ximen has no soldiers, you give it to me, if you die in battle, tell me, I'm Cao Bao!" Cao Bao said angrily.

"General, we can transfer the people from the North Gate!" The lieutenant general next to Cao Bao reminded Cao Bao.

"North Gate?!" Cao Bao frowned.

"General, this north gate has been less war-free, we should ask some soldiers and horses from it to support the west gate!" The vice president will continue to speak, the current north gate can be regarded as the only pure land.

Cao Cao's army and Liu Bei's soldiers and horses seem to have reached some agreement, and Qiu did not commit any crimes.

"He, Liu Xuande, how could he agree!" Cao Bao shook his head and said. This Liu Bei is already not dealing with him Cao Bao, how can he do his best, let alone help him Cao Bao.

"General, we can ask the lord to ask for support from the North Gate!" The deputy will continue to suggest.

"Difficult!" Cao Bao knew that this Liu Bei had a plan, and he originally wanted soldiers and horses and a city, but because of a mistake, he was unable to succeed.

And now, if Liu Bei wants to send reinforcements, isn't this the ass sent forward to kick others.

"General, it's better to send soldiers and horses and the city than to be destroyed in Pengcheng!" The adjutant general said again, "Besides, this matter should be considered by the lord, and we will be the generals, and we can attack the city!" Whether it succeeds or not, it's the lord's business! ”

Cao Bao couldn't help but nodded, "Okay, I'll go ask the lord!" "Cao Bao also has no choice, although asking Liu Bei to help is nothing more than drinking to quench his thirst, but what can he do.

I can finally live one more day without being dying of thirst.

Soon Cao Bao sent the request for help to Tao Qian.

Tao Qian's face was bitter, and he sighed, "Call Liu Xuande to come!" ”

In the north gate, Liu Guanzhang was still above the city, looking at the camp of the Cao army over there, the soldiers and horses of the Cao army seemed to have forgotten that there was no team at the north gate to fight towards the north gate.

"Big brother, do you say that this Cao Cao was scared by us, why no one dares to attack the city wall we are guarding now!" Zhang Fei was the first to hold back.

I finally got over a few days ago, and now I'm idle again.

"Perhaps!" Liu Bei said with a smile, whether he is afraid or not, this is what he Liu Bei wants, the more crisis Pengcheng is, the greater the value of his Liu Bei, wait for the price to sell.

"No, I'm going to the West Gate, go to the East Gate to see, there's almost a bird here!" Zhang Fei said that he was about to carry his Zhangba snake spear and go to the other two city gates to rescue.

"Come back!" Liu Bei was glaring at Zhang Fei over there, "Haven't you made enough trouble!" Liu Bei showed an annoyed look at Zhang Fei, if it weren't for Zhang Fei's private move, the first two times, he Liu Bei would have been able to get what he wanted from Tao Qian in Xuzhou, and he wouldn't have hooked up with Cao Cao like now.

"This other gate is important, but this north gate is not important, isn't it? If you are gone, what will happen to this north gate? Liu Bei righteously scolded Zhang Fei.

"Isn't there still a second brother here!" Zhang Fei didn't care about it, "Besides, big brother, we are here to help this Tao envoy, we can't eat rice!" "Liu Bei's army is stationed in the city, and all the grain and grass supplies are Xuzhou's expenses.

He Zhang Fei has not drunk a lot of good wine, more than ten years and twenty years of Du Kang wine in Xuzhou City have been taken out by Tao Qian to entertain Zhang Fei and others, especially the eldest son pottery merchant, now Zhang Fei still has saliva on the corner of his mouth, the thing called Feitian Moutai is too tempting.

"Humph!" Liu Bei snorted coldly, "Third brother, you have to use your brain in everything, there is a cloud in military law, and there is a lack of one of the three!" Only then can the morale of the city be discharged, break the enemy and encircle and annihilate it! This other city gate is more important to us, once Pengcheng is defeated, we can still leave from this north gate, if we leave the north gate, once the north gate is taken by Cao Cao's army, it is really useless to return to the sky, so the guard of the north gate is very important! Nothing happens! Liu Bei reprimanded Zhang Fei with righteous words.

"Yes, yes! I got it! Zhang Fei lowered his head and spoke.

Liu Bei said it right, half to half is not unreasonable, although he said that he was in cahoots with Cao Cao outside the city, but Liu Bei also guessed Cao Cao's thoughts.

That is, if once Liu Bei's army rescues several other city gates, he will directly send troops to attack the north gate, catch Liu Bei off guard, wait for He to take the north gate, and then deal with Liu Bei.

It can even be said that the attacks of several other city gates outside this city are all feints, and the real elites, such as Xu Chu and others, are all in the direction of the north gate. Tao Qian didn't immediately agree to Liu Bei's stinginess, which was considered to have saved him Liu Bei's life.