Fighting a war is about money and food and grass, and let's see who can fight in the end. Anyway, even if he fails, Xuzhou is still the Tao family, and Yanzhou will no longer have the surname Cao!

Yu Ban saw that Tao Ying was back, and hurriedly came out to greet him. Seeing Tao Ying's unhappy face, Yu Ban could already guess almost in his heart.

Tao Ying asked Yu Ban to strictly guard the military camp to prevent Cao Cao's sneak attack, and at the same time sent an order to Xu Sheng, asking Xu Sheng to attack Lanling. After asking Xu Sheng to mobilize troops, Tao Ying personally wrote a letter to Liu Bei in Tan County, in which Tao Ying wrote that Liu Bei should send troops and join forces with himself to eliminate Cao Cao in one fell swoop.

As long as Cao Cao retreats, when the time comes, the Langya and Donghai County occupied by Cao Cao will not be wanted at all, and they will all be returned to Liu Bei. Lead the troops back to Pengcheng by yourself, and don't take an inch of land! After the messenger set off with the letter, Tao Ying became more and more angry the more he thought about it, so he wrote another letter and sent it to Huben.

Cao Cao had already gathered the generals, Cao Ren led the army back to Yanzhou, at this time in the Tiger Ben generation, Cao Cao still had less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, of which Lanling Cao Chun led 5,000 troops stationed in Lanling. Xiahoudun led 10,000 troops to be stationed in Huben, and after the defeat of Lejin, Cao Cao allocated him another 5,000 soldiers and horses, and asked him to be stationed thirty miles east of Huben to prevent Liu Bei's military horses.

Cao Cao had already recruited the generals to his side, and there was a map of the Tiger Ben generation next to him, and Tao Ying's soldiers and horses were already drawn on it. Cao Cao pointed to the map of Tao Ying's camp and said: "Tao Ying's camp is forbidden to be guarded, and I asked the messenger to estimate his strength, which is slightly as much as 30,000. The eastern Lanling was led by his second brother Xu Sheng, and there were nearly 30,000 people. Although Tao Ying has a lot of soldiers, but his soldiers and horses have no actual combat experience, and the generals are young, when Lejin leads the troops to attack Tan County first, so that Liu Bei does not dare to send troops, Xiahou Yuan leads the troops to attack the ban! ”

"Then what should Xu Sheng do if he comes to help?"

Xi Zhicai thought for a while and said, Yu Ban is not stupid, not to mention that they have three times as many soldiers and horses as themselves! After Xi Zhicai finished asking, Cao Cao thought for a moment and then said: "Let Cao Chun's cavalry go out of the city to meet Xu Sheng, Xu Shengfang is twenty years old, I have not heard of his name, and he is not Cao Chun's opponent!" ”

As soon as Cao Cao finished his mission, a letter was shot down on the city wall from outside the city, and the soldiers in the city hurriedly picked up the letter and sent it to the place where Cao Cao lived.

A melodious long cry: "Report ......"

Then a soldier ran into the hall, then knelt on the ground and presented a letter. Seeing that it was a piece of paper, this paper seemed to be only used by Tao Ying, so Cao Cao laughed: "The little hairy boy still wants to negotiate terms with me, I will show him, and he will naturally come to beg me!" ”

After Cao Cao finished speaking, he opened the paper, and only wrote on the paper: "Cao thief, if you use soldiers, I will swear to the sky and fight with you endlessly!" ”

Cao Cao was speechless after reading the letter, hesitated for a long time, and sat down on the stool again with a puff. All the generals looked at Cao Cao, Cao Cao handed the letter to Xi Zhicai, and Xi Zhicai also frowned after reading the letter.

The second son was able to predict the future, and Cao Cao wanted to fight with him, and then negotiate the conditions. But Tao Ying made such a poisonous oath, which made Cao Cao feel from the bottom of his heart that Tao Ying could do anything.

Xi Zhicai persuaded beside him: "Lord, I think it's better to promise him for the time being, when we put down Lu Bu's rebellion, it's not too late to come back and clean him up!" ”

The other generals objected when they heard Xi Zhicai's words: "Lord, I am willing to lead the troops to break through the forbidden camp in one fell swoop, and capture Tao alive and be discouraged by the lord!" ”

Tao Ying's letter was accompanied by a letter from Cao Ren, who was halfway through an ambush by Lü Bu's Gaoshun army, suffered heavy damage, and asked Cao Cao to return to Yanzhou quickly.

Cao Cao hesitated again, winning more with less, did he gamble or not? If he wins, he will lose one less Shanyang County, and if he loses, he will lose the entire Yanzhou, and he will have to leave his hometown to seek refuge with others!

Tiger Ben City, until dark, Cao Cao did not move. Yu Ban asked if he wanted to attack Hu Ben, Tao Ying shook his head, if Zang Ba was here, Tao Ying would not think about it, and he would go up and kill Cao Cao directly. But Zang Ba is not there, Sun Guan and other veterans are not there, and Tao Ying also feels that he can't afford to lose.

Tao Ying didn't sleep all night this night, and Cao Cao didn't sleep all night. After dawn, the envoy sent by Tao Ying to Tan County returned, and Liu Bei refused to send troops for fear that Cao Cao would suddenly attack Tan County. But Tao Ying knew that he was afraid that he would eat their territory at that time.

Tao Ying was suddenly very disappointed in this world, everyone is so calculating, he will die here if he is not careful, or he will let tens of thousands of innocent people die as long as he is not careful.

As soon as the envoy sent to Lanling arrived outside Lanling City, Lanling City had already been burned by fire. It turned out that when Xu Sheng arrived in Lanling, Cao Chun bullied Xu Sheng's youth, so he sent cavalry to sweep Xu Sheng.

But I didn't want Xu Sheng to suddenly let the army line up, and for a while thousands of crossbowmen hid behind the shield soldiers, and when Cao Chun's cavalry just rushed into the range, a winding and circling shield Great Wall suddenly opened, and for a while, the swishing sound was endless, and the arrows in the sky were shot like locusts covering the sky.

The cavalry resisted left and right, but where could they withstand the fire of thousands of crossbowmen? After more than a thousand cavalry left three or four hundred corpses in front of the formation, the other cavalry hurriedly withdrew to Lanling.

Lanling is a small city, and Cao Cao's plundering has not yet restored Lanling. Cao Jun is here again, and the dilapidated walls of Lanling City seem to be unable to withstand a storm anymore.

Cao Ren's 5,000 soldiers and horses shrank in the city, but Xu Sheng led nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses to block the water surrounding Lanling. Knowing that they must need drinking water, Xu Sheng blocked all the rivers outside the city, and then dug tunnels outside the city every night to dig down the city. During the daytime, Xu Sheng asked thousands of crossbowmen to keep shooting arrows into the city, and the rockets fired quickly set the houses in the city on fire, and the fires burned everywhere.

The soldiers wanted to go out to put out the fire, and the crossbows and crossbows all over the ground made the soldiers who came out hedgehogs. When Xu Sheng came from Pengcheng, he carried over tens of thousands of bows and arrows made by Pengcheng. Xu Sheng is afraid of everything now, but he is not afraid of no arrows. Moreover, the arrows made by Peng Cheng are relatively straight, and the range is longer, and someone has made a catapult painted by Tao Ying.

Although the catapult was hard to transport, it was erected on the edge of the city, and stones kept being thrown at the city walls, smashing the walls one after another, and the soldiers were also smashed into a blur of flesh and blood.

Cao Chun held out in Lanling for five days, the water in the city was cut off, and the fire burned his grain and grass, and Cao Chun's morale was getting lower and lower. Cao Chun wanted to break out of the city several times, but Xu Sheng's 30,000 troops were in the way and couldn't get out at all. And in order to take revenge, the anger of the soldiers has been stimulated, everyone is desperate to fight to the death, Cao Chun's soldiers and horses have low morale and cannot win, and finally can only retreat in the city.

The people sent out by Cao Chun to ask for help were all captured by Xuzhou, and then caught outside Lanling City and beheaded on the spot. The soldiers in the city saw that there was really no chance of survival, and held out in the city for a week, without food or water, so many soldiers opened the city gate at night and ran out to surrender.

In the middle of the night, the tired Cao Chun was still asleep on a broken bed, and suddenly there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside, Cao Chun got up excitedly, but when he pushed the door open, the empty hut door was already full of Xuzhou soldiers. The three layers of the Xuzhou soldiers surrounded the hut on the outside, and they were holding bows and crossbows in their hands to aim at Cao Chun, and it was impossible for Cao Chun to hide back.

Xu Sheng came towards the encirclement surrounded by everyone, surrounded by torches, which illuminated the interior of Lanling City as if it were daylight. Xu Sheng was dressed in bright armor, and the red cherry blossoms were floating in the wind, and the joy on his face made Cao Chun stare at him with some disbelief, his eyes full of surprise.