When Lü Bu heard that Cao Cao's army had returned to Xuchang, he was afraid of deception, so he sent people around to investigate, and when it was finally confirmed that Cao Cao had really returned to Xuchang, Lü Bu also lost the opportunity to pursue Cao Cao. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He is now thinking about how to recapture the heightened and reinforced Huai'an City, Cao Cao left Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu in Huai'an City to garrison it is self-evident, fools know that Cao Cao is letting Xiahou Yuan defend Lu Bu from Guangling to the north at the same time, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack, otherwise Cao Cao does not need to leave Xiahou Yuan at the same time to leave Cheng Yu to assist, and Xiahou Yuan is best at running thousands of miles and taking the enemy by surprise to win.

Lu Bu and Chen Gong and others discussed for a few days, but they couldn't come up with a plan to capture the city, Xiahou Yuan had 5,000 troops in his hands to defend the city, and Lu Bu had no more troops in his hands than him, and it was tantamount to a pipe dream to capture the strong city with the same force, if he didn't take Huai'an, Lu Bu could only go west to borrow Yangzhou if he wanted to go north to Xuzhou. His army was in a stalemate with Xiahou Yuan at White Horse Lake.

A few days later, Xiahou Yuan received a letter from Jiangdong, Xiahou Yuan opened it, and happily asked Cheng Yu, who was building a house in the city, to come back to discuss.

"Sir, look." Xiahou Yuan handed the bamboo slip to Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu took a look at it and said happily: "Sun Ce crossed the river to attack Guangling, and Lu Bu will retreat in a few days." ”

Lü Butun's army looked at Huai'an at Baima Lake, making Cheng Yu restless, Lü Bu's prestige was too prosperous, so Cheng Yu and Xiahou Yuan were cautious and at the same time very worried about being attacked by Lü Bu to break through Huai'an and go north to the hinterland of Xuzhou.

"Our army can pursue Lu Bu's army while Lu Bu is retreating!" Cheng Yu continued, how could he let Lu Bu go south safely, as long as he dragged Lu Bu south, it would be better for Sun Ce to take Guangling than for Lu Bu to use Guangling to recuperate.

"Didn't sir say that there has been heavy rain recently? How to chase in the rain? Xiahou Yuan said worriedly. In order to give the soldiers a place to hide from the rain, Cheng Yu was busy building houses. It was very difficult for the army to march in the heavy rain, and thousands of people trampled the roads into mud, and it was very difficult to advance, not to mention the baggage of the horses.

"This is a God-given opportunity, Lu Bu categorically would not guess that our army would pursue in the rain, and it would definitely not be guarded against, our army could defeat Lu Bu's army in one fell swoop, and then return to Guangling under the banner of Lu Bu's army, and open the city of Guangling, Guangling will be at your fingertips."

Xiahou Yuan listened to Cheng Yu's strategy and was very reluctant, so that he could kill Lu Bu by surprise when he was defenseless. Marching in the rain itself is a taboo for soldiers, a soldier is easy to be infected with wind chill in the rain, wind chill is a very terrifying infectious disease, a soldier may infect the entire battalion, now there is Zuo Ci from Shu to obtain ginger to treat wind cold, Xiahou Yuan is not very worried about the soldiers infected with wind cold. Second, the line of sight of the march in the rain is blocked, and the wet body affects the combat strength of the soldiers.

"Then how do we know when Lu Bu will withdraw his troops?" Xiahou Yuan asked.

"We can send an envoy to the Lu Bu military camp to find out the news."

"How?"

"Now that the battle for Xuzhou has ended, General Cao Chun has been in the hands of Lu Bu for several months, and when the prime minister left, he told us that we redeemed General Cao Chun, and now is the time."

"I have a staff member named Du Xian under my account, who can speak well, has a straightforward personality, and is not afraid of ghosts and gods, so he can find out Lu Bu's entire plan." Xiahou Yuan proposed. Ordinary people can't restrain the fear of Lu Bu in their hearts at all, let alone find Lu Bu to find out the news in person, Xiahou Yuan thought of Du Xian, who was serving under him.

"Okay, this matter should not be slow, lest Lu Bu get the news and lead the army south, and our army will lose more than it gains if it misses the pursuit."

Lu Bu and others were discussing countermeasures, and suddenly someone came to report that Xiahou Yuan's envoy had arrived, Lu Bu didn't know what Xiahou Yuan's intention was in sending the envoy, so he sent someone to take him into the camp, he had no intention of getting up, Xiahou Yuan was originally hostile, and Lu Bu, the person he sent, was too lazy to pay attention.

After a while, Du Xi stepped into the lobby and saw Lu Buzheng sitting on the main seat with a golden sword, and Chen Gongzheng was sitting on the lower side with a bundle of bamboo slips and pretending to watch, and no one in the tent paid attention to him. Du Xi walked straight to the middle of the hall and bowed to Lu Bu, who was staring straight at him, and only after finishing the etiquette did he sneer: "I have heard of General Lu's name for a long time, but when I see it now, there is no etiquette, cultivation, and words that do not match the truth. ”

Du Xi wanted to find all kinds of reasons to provoke Lu Bu, so that he could ask for the information he wanted from the angry Lu Bu, but he didn't expect Lu Bu to just nod noncommittally when he heard it, and he still looked indifferent when he was insulted to his face, and he couldn't help but look a little higher, Lu Bu's cultivation was at least much better than Cao Cao's killing people at every turn. In fact, it's just that the current ancients scolded and scolded just a few words, so that Lu Bu was used to listening to the mean insults of later generations, and these words were not lethal.

"Are you done scolding? Bring him a mat. Lu Bu didn't let Du Raid sit on the vacant seats on both sides, but asked people to put a mat in front of the steps of his main seat for Du Raid to sit on, and Lu Bu also wanted to take the opportunity to provoke Du Raid, so that he could ask about Xiahou Yuan's arrangement.

"Lu Bu! Do you want to humiliate me? Du Xun looked at the straw mat spread at his feet, and pointed at Lu Bu angrily: "Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated!" ”

"Sit down." Lu Bu ordered in a cold voice, and seeing that Du Xian still didn't sit down, he stood up, bowed his head condescendingly and said to Du Zheng: "I'm tired of talking to you with my head up, if Xiahou Yuan runs out of food, I just send you here to have a meal, you can go down and have a full meal, and then go back to where you come from." ”

Lu Bu only wanted to know how much grain and grass Xiahou Yuan had, Huai'an City was strong, so he could only besiege the city and send reinforcements, trapping Xiahou Yuan's army in Huai'an City and slowly trying to do it, Cao Cao would soon be dragged by Yuan Shao and would not be able to go south.

"Lu Bu Pifu Hugh wants to humiliate me, my general's grain and grass are ten thousand loads, how can he covet your coarse tea and light rice!" As soon as Lu Bu heard that Huai'an had thousands of loads of grain and grass, he quickly calculated in his heart that Xiahou Yuan could barely support it for three months, which was not a long time, and it was completely suitable for the strategy of besieging the city and sending reinforcements.

Lu Bu didn't believe it, and opened his mouth to sneer: "Our army burned all the grain and grass of Cao Thief, how can we say that there are ten thousand burdens? I'm afraid that my husband has been hungry for several days, and he is dizzy with hunger, so he touched my camp to fight the autumn wind, right? ”

"Humph! The general only burned the marching grain and grass, and some of it was still in Huaiyin..."Du Xun suddenly stopped talking, he reacted that this was Lu Bu tricking him, and there was no longer the lonely height just now.

After Du Xun said this, 10,000 quintals of grain and grass are still conservative figures, and it may not be necessary to have 20,000 or 30,000 quintals, and it seems that Huai'an can only slowly figure it out.

Du Raid tried hard to adjust his mentality, Lu Bu was brave and unscrupulous with the rumors, he didn't want to talk to Lu Bu, this Lu Bu had no anxious demeanor, he didn't know that Sun Ce sent troops to Guangling, Du Raid wanted to end the task as soon as possible, so as not to leak his mouth again: "This time I came to be entrusted by Cao Gong, hoping to redeem General Cao Chun, and raise my noble hand to General Zuo." ”

"Don't think about it, Cao Chun, I won't let it go, when I take Xuzhou one day, killing and sacrificing the flag is the king." Lu Bu didn't want to refuse directly, Cao Chun was a very good general, put him back and then lead the troops to attack him?

"Why should General Zuo be in a hurry to refuse, what conditions do you want to release people, just say it."

"I'm afraid that you can't be the master, there are many conditions for Cao Cao to choose, you can exchange it in Xuzhou, you can exchange it with Xu Huang, Yu Ban, Le Jin, Li Dian and other generals, and of course you can also exchange it with Cao Cao's daughter Cao Jie." Lu Bu opened his mouth and said, these conditions are not provided by Cao Cao at all, as for exchanging Cao Cao's daughter, Lu Bu is just humiliating Cao Cao by the way, he is not optimistic about Cao Cao's dwarf winter melon daughter at all, and keeping it by his side will only affect his appetite.

"It's... Can I exchange money for food? It's okay to exchange official positions for them. The conditions that Lu Bu said were not at all for Du Xi to call the shots, and he didn't even dare to think about it.

"Cao Cao is poorer than me, and the money and food that came. Offices? Forget this, you can't eat it as a meal, Cao Cao can seal it today, and you can cut it tomorrow, and I'm a Han courtier, how can I be rewarded by Cao Thief. You better go back, I will kill Cao Chun, and everyone doesn't have to worry about it. "If Cao Cao can offer Lu Bu's tempting conditions, he will not be able to exchange Cao Chun back, but how can Cao Cao agree to the conditions he offers?