Chapter XVII

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Cao Chun looked at the Lu Bu military camp outside the west gate that he was defending, and tried to think about what strategy Lu Bu would use to attack Pengcheng from Lu Bu's point of view. Lu Bu's troops are only two thousand, he is very confident that Lu Bu can defend Pengcheng with any tricks, but he is not reconciled, his talent has not yet been recognized, he must show it, otherwise he will be buried forever under the light of other clansmen, and there will never be a day.

He had to be a blockbuster. Now that Lu Bu has sent him to the door and given him a chance, he can't give up.

Seeing that Lu Bu's troops were busy making the cloud ladder, Cao Chun faintly had a strategy to capture Lu Bu alive, but he was still not at ease, afraid that there would be a trace of omission in the strategy and lose Peng Cheng, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of anything else that he hadn't considered, so he decided to discuss it with Chen Gui, so he sent a personal guard to invite Chen Gui, who was busy in the county office.

Cao Chun came to the gate from afar to greet Chen Gui: "The last general can't pay full salutes in armor, please don't blame Han Yugong." ”

Chen Gui politely pushed Cao Chun and took the lead towards Cao Chun's camp, Cao Chun frowned.

The two sat down separately, and Cao Chun asked, "Does Han Yugong know what strategy Lu Bu will use to break my Pengcheng?" ”

Chen Gui was not optimistic about Cao Chun, in his eyes, Cao Chun was promoted by Cao Cao's nepotism, and said heroically: "This is a plan to attack the west." I have already made arrangements, just waiting for Lu Bu to attack the city. ”

Cao Chun was furious when he heard this, he was the guard of Pengcheng, Chen Gui, a Pengcheng commander in charge of people's livelihood and politics, actually ignored him to such a point, and began to meddle in the defense of the city without even saying hello, you can imagine how much he neglected Cao Chun, if there is really a son, there must be a father. Cao Chun forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart: "A certain also has a plan. Why don't we both write it into the palm of our hands? ”

Cao Chun's face was faintly murderous, but he couldn't really kill Chen Gui, so he decided to move back to the first game, so he proposed.

"Just what I want." Chen Gui took the pen presented by Cao Chun's hands with one hand, turned around and wrote in the palm of his hand.

After the two finished writing, Chen Gui wanted to see Cao Chun's joke and said, "Let's let go at the same time." ”

I saw two words written in the hands of the two of them - "Cao Hong".

Chen Gui saw the words in Cao Chun's palm, and couldn't understand how this useless straw bag could see that Lu Bu would use Cao Hong as an internal response to steal Pengcheng land, and what was even more rare was that Cao Chun actually acquiesced to Cao Hong's approach, instead of sending someone to control Cao Hong and wait for work. Then there must be a back move, that is, he wants to capture Lu Bu like himself.

"The world doesn't know the talent of the public, and the old man is stupid, please don't blame the general." Chen Gui also put away his contempt for Cao Chun at this time, and bowed down.

"Now that Han Yugong has joined forces with a certain person, Lu Bu will not be able to escape death if he is invincible." Cao Chun then pretended to ask to see if Chen Gui had really arranged it: "Can there be Cao Hong's defense tonight?" ”

It turned out that the big families would send people to help defend the city: "It was supposed to be tomorrow, he and Tao Cheng privately changed defenses, and he was stationed at the south gate tonight." ”

"God help me!" Cao Chun was overjoyed, and then said: "We have put more flammable materials such as sulfur, oil, and firewood in the urn city, and dug more horse pits in the streets near the city gate, and the pits are filled with water. ”

After the two discussed, they went to prepare, just waiting for it to get dark and close the net.

Lu Bu took Chen Yu and Lu Qiling to choose a hill to watch the west gate defended by Cao Chun, and a column of soldiers at the west gate was busy carrying rolling logs and boulders, with a posture of guarding the south gate, Lu Bu was not sure whether Cao Chun had seen through Chen Gong's strategy for a while, and turned to Lu Qiling and ordered: "Qiling, dare to take the first credit for the city?" ”

Lu Qiling was riding on horseback boredly, fiddling with the branches on the ground with her crescent halberd, and when she heard her father's inquiry, she turned over and dismounted, kneeling on one knee: "I wish to go." ”

"Battlefield battle, sword without eyes, you must promise me to come back alive." Lu Bu weighed it again and again, if Chen Gong's strategy to contact Cao Hong was not used, then the most suitable person to steal the city would be Lu Qiling.

After receiving Lu Qiling's assurance, Lu Bucai continued: "You immediately go to the camp prostitutes and select twenty strong women, and tell them not to keep quiet, otherwise they will kill their husbands and children." Take them into the city from the north gate, pay more attention to the west gate defended by Cao Chun, if the West Gate is transferred to the south gate, you will raise a fire on the west gate tower at the second watch time agreed between me and Cao Hong, and lead twenty people to open the drawbridge and the city gate. If Cao Chun does not mobilize his troops to the south gate, you must not act rashly, hide in the city, and only wait for me to leave with the army, and then go out of the city to converge. ”

Lu Bu's arrangement was decided after a long period of consideration, and now that there are few soldiers and generals, there is no room for mistakes, once Cao Chun sees through the plan, the little people who have just gathered will be lost here. Sending Lu Qiling to lead a group of women into the city in disguise will not be strictly investigated, from ancient times to the present, but no strong city was captured by women, the world looks down on women at all, women in this era are not small, with strong limbs and a tiger's waist. Moreover, it is safer to enter through the north gate than the west gate and the south gate on the crest of the waves.

"The lord wants to storm Simon?" Chen Yu saw Lu Bu's arrangement, he was already dissatisfied with the extreme, and tried to suppress the anger in his heart, he originally thought that Lu Bu's troops at the west gate was the idea of attracting Cao Chun, so that Cao Chun could concentrate his troops at the west gate, and secretly fold to the south gate at night to cooperate with Cao Hong to seize the city. LΓΌ Bu's army was stationed at the West Gate, and Cao Chun withdrew his soldiers from the West Gate unless he was really stupid, so that LΓΌ Bu could attack the city.

Lu Bu saw that Chen Yu was dissatisfied, but his heart calmed down, Chen Yu is talented, even he, Chen Gong, and Zhang Liao feel that the best strategy is to cooperate with Cao Hong to seize the South Gate, so with the wisdom of Cao Chun and Chen Gui, it is not difficult to see that the most advantageous strategy for Lu Bu's army is to let Cao Hong respond internally, and only need to ambush a large number of people at the South Gate, and then Lu Bu will suffer heavy losses, which is why Lu Bu insisted that Chen Gong set him up with three strategies, the best strategy is easy to be recognized, then take the next strategy, Cao Chun will not calculate that Lu Bu will be stupid to have the best strategy, He used the lower strategy to storm the west gate he was guarding, and flexibly played the role of the upper strategy.

"Zixiao, as the saying goes, first seek defeat, and then seek victory. We have less than 3,000 available troops, and more than 1,500 troops are troops surrendered by Lu Gang and Cao Hong's troops, which may mutini at any time, and the remaining less than 1,000 collected rout troops have just been defeated, and the army's morale is unstable. Once these two troops and horses are in short contact, they may surrender to the enemy at any time, but the peasant soldiers who do not pass through the battle formation are more reliable. In this way, how can I bet on Cao Chun's strategy like a pig? I'd rather give up on taking the city than take a chance. If Cao is innocently stupid and concentrates his forces at the West Gate, I will pull out the camp and go to Xiaopei tonight, and let the Cao thief chase after Xiaopei. Lu Bu patiently explained to Chen Yu. In this era, not only the lord chooses the minister, but the minister also chooses the lord.

"The subordinates are dull, but the lord is far-sighted. I'm going to persuade my father. Chen Yu heard Lu Bu's explanation, and was shocked into a cold sweat, if Cao Chun saw through it, it seemed that the Lu Bu tribe, which numbered as many as 3,000 people, would fall apart in an instant, and the value of taking Pengcheng was not great, but it was just to anger Cao Cao, and when Cao Cao's army came back, he would still not be able to hold Pengcheng. Chen Yu hurriedly went to explain to Chen Gong, Chen Gong was upright, to put it bluntly, he was brainless, he didn't know how to be flexible, and he thought that what he decided was right, if Lu Bu insisted on storming the West Gate, Chen Gong would have no way to stop it, but this would only make the soldiers more and more centrifugal.

One watch time.

Lu Bu ordered the whole army to march south for three miles in the dark, and the pennant torches in the camp would not be extinguished.

On the city wall of the West Gate, Cao Chun saw that Lu Bu's camp was very quiet, put down a basket, and a scout came out of it, went straight to Lu Bu's camp, inspected a circle and saw no one, turned around and went back to Pengcheng.

After Lu Bu heard the creaking sound of the drawbridge again, he smiled at Chen Gong and said, "Cao Chun is in the middle of the plan." ”

Cao Chun didn't send someone out to inspect Lu Bu's camp, and Lu Bu wasn't sure if Cao Chun had seen through the strategy to unite with Cao Hong, and now the camp was empty, and Cao Chun had seen through Lu Bu's desire to storm the West Gate, so he could only say that Cao Chun was too wicked, or too stupid. LΓΌ Bu sent Chen Gong with 500 people to lurk outside the south gate, dig more horse pits, and raise more torches at the second watch, pretending to attack the city.

Not long after, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao sneaked back to the West Gate with their men and horses. Chen Yu was left with a few people to take care of Gao Shun and the seriously injured soldiers in the camp.

Lu Bu saw that there were many torches on the head of the city, and from time to time there were people shuttling back and forth with torches, making loud noises, and columns of soldiers stood motionless on the city tower, holding torches and looking out of the city.

"Could it be that Cao Chun is really as stupid as a pig?" Lu Bu secretly commanded in his heart.

Lu Bu wanted to give up the siege several times, and took the soldiers to Xiaopei, seeing that the cooked ducks were about to fly away, he was very reluctant, and after observing for a long time, he found that except for the torches of the soldiers who were patrolling back and forth, the torches held by others were like sticking to the wall, motionless.

Just this time, a torch on the city tower waved three times, which was the code agreed between Lu Bu and Lu Qiling.

"Kill!" The shouts of killing rose from the castle tower.

In the evening, Lu Qiling watched in bewilderment as the soldiers defending the city carried straw men up to the city tower; As soon as she watched, Lu Qiling, who was in the dark, saw the soldiers guarding the west gate retreating in a row towards the south gate, and she knew Cao Chun's plan. He set up a straw man on the west gate tower, misleading the Lu Bu army outside the city, and the large army withdrew and ambushed at the west gate to wait for Lu Bu's plan.

Lu Qiling estimated that the Cao soldiers at the west gate had already arrived at the south gate, and only then did they touch the city tower and launch an attack on the unprepared Cao soldiers.

"Enemy attack... "Before the drumming soldiers commanded by Sima at the city gate could react, Lu Qiling snatched the spear and stabbed him to death.