"If Chaoxian County is not lost, how can it be cornered? The lord brought grain and grass and escaped into Chaohu, Lu Bu is an army of 100,000 and wants to get benefits, you still have reason to lose grain and grass, right? Xu Gan drew his knife in his hand and said angrily. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Enough!" The situation was critical, Zheng Bao had no idea, and when he saw the two arguing, he shouted angrily: "Is there any other way?" ”

Ding Wen remembered the olive branch that Chen Gong handed him, and proposed: "Lu Bu is weak, why don't you serve him?" ”

"Joke! Lu Bu is weak and still serves him, do you have any brains? Lu Bu is not in the army, it is Zhang Liao, the general under Lu Bu, who pursues our army, do you want the Lord to vote for Zhang Liao? The lord is the lord of one party, does he still have to be below a reckless man like Zhang Liao? Xu Gan directly rejected Ding Wen's proposal.

If Zheng Bao is under Zhang Liao, then doesn't a person like him under Zheng Bao even have a foothold in front of Lu Bu's tent?

Ding Wen means that Lu Bu is weak now, and now he is working for Lu Bu, and in the future, Lu Bu will grow his power, and their status will naturally rise, and they will be refuted by Xu Gan and speechless.

Zheng Bao saw that he was cornered, but he made up his mind to dominate the side with his own momentum: "Fight to the death with Lu Bu!" Right here! ”

"My lord." Ding Wen and Xu Gan persuaded at the same time.

"Why not? The ancients said: The mourning soldiers will win. Now Lu Bu has invaded our realm and forced our army to a desperate situation, and there is no way to retreat, so it is better to decide the outcome in a battle. Zheng Bao was short of food and grass, and decided to fight to the death: "Ordered the whole army, and said that if Lu Bu broke our army, he would slaughter the city for three days." ”

"But Chen Gong is scheming, and his subordinates are worried..."Ding Wen was interrupted by Zheng Bao before he could finish speaking.

"Lu Bu's army is only 20,000, and the strength of our army is almost the same, and the whole army may not be invincible to resist to the death."

"It's not as good as Beijie Yuanshu." Ding Wen said again.

Zheng Baodao: "Our army's grain and grass can't wait for Yuan Shu's reinforcements, and Yuan Shu may not send troops to help, so it's decided." General Xu sent people to Zhang Liao to issue a war letter, and the decisive battle will be fought at noon tomorrow. ”

Xu Shu received the envoy sent by Zheng Bao, and after reading the battle book, Xu Shu said: "Go back and tell Zheng Taishou that he wants to fight a decisive battle, which is exactly what I want." The situation on the northern front of our army is unknown, and we also want to fight with Lord Zheng quickly. Go back and tell him to line up tomorrow and see how so-and-so can break him. ”

Sun Kang sent the envoy out of the camp and reflexively came back to reproach Xu Shu: "How can the military advisor reveal the battle on the northern front of our army to Zheng Bao? ”

Xu Shu said with a smile: "The two armies are fighting, and they are real and false. In fact, Zheng Bao can also guess that the battle on the northern front of our army is unfavorable, and I use the real situation to paralyze Zheng Bao, Zheng Bao must think that our army will fight him in a decisive battle tomorrow. ”

"The military advisor doesn't plan to fight him?"

"The two armies clashed hard, and the casualties were too great, how could I take this decision. Zheng Bao thought that tomorrow would be a decisive battle, and tonight he would definitely not prepare for our army to rob the camp. You go and tell General Zhang Wenyuan that it will be dark to rob the camp. ”

Xu Shu suddenly thought that Lu Meng was leading troops to ambush Zheng Bao in the middle of the road, and now Zheng Bao asked for a decisive battle, and the ambush was useless: "Send someone to find Lu Meng, when Zheng Bao's camp was on fire tonight, he led his troops to attack from behind." ”

"This place is not far from Chao County, do you want General Gao Shun to bring troops to assist?" Sun Kang asked.

"Not necessarily. General Gao Shun has nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command, and the actual combat strength is less than 1,000 people. As long as Zheng Bao's hoarded materials in Chao County are kept, it will be enough for my army to consume for a few months. ”

Sun Kang went to Zhang Liao's camp to report the news, and while walking, he felt that these cultural people were more dishonest than the other, and he clearly promised that people would line up for a decisive battle tomorrow, but instead launched an attack when others were unprepared, which was too unkind.

Zhang Liao received Xu Shu's military order and immediately arranged for the deployment of the camp at night. The two armies fought to the death and did everything, and there was no objection to Xu Shu's arrangement.

The envoy reported back to Zheng Bao, and Zheng Bao saw that Zhang Liao accepted tomorrow's decisive battle, and his heart was steady, and he was afraid that Zhang Liao would see through his lack of food and grass and delay him. Since Zhang Liao is willing to fight, Zheng Bao still has a chance to fight.

"Bury the pot and cook early, let the soldiers rest early, maintain their physical strength, and fight tomorrow." Zheng Bao gave the order and began to prepare for tomorrow's fight.

After dinner, the generals and generals called the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss tomorrow's strategy to break the enemy.

In the afternoon, Zhang Liao sent Sun Kang with a group of soldiers to lurk near Zheng Bao's camp from the trail, and only waited for it to get dark before killing and setting fire. Zhang Liao himself quietly led his soldiers from the main road for twenty miles, ten miles away from Zheng Bao and pretended to set up camp.

The camp is fake, but burying the pot to cook is real. If you want soldiers to kill the enemy, how can you let them go into battle on an empty stomach.

After dinner, Zhang Liao ordered the soldiers to prepare and wait until it was dark.

Zheng Baozheng and a group of generals were really discussing what battle formation to use tomorrow to restrain Zhang Liao's army, and suddenly there was a lot of noise in the camp, and a heat wave came to the face.

Zheng Bao was about to ask the soldiers what had happened, when a shout came from outside: "The enemy has robbed the camp..."

Zheng Bao thought that he would be able to distinguish the winner tomorrow, and the big village under him was just a temporary shelter from the wind and rain, and even the fence was very short and loose, he didn't expect Zhang Liao to be so shameless, and he said that he would fight tomorrow's decisive battle, and just take advantage of his unpreparedness to rob the camp.

Sun Kang led the soldiers from the side of the village to easily turn into the camp, as soon as he entered the camp, Sun Kang ordered the soldiers to set fire to all around, and set fire to many places before alarming the enemy.

Zheng Bao's soldiers were defenseless when they saw the enemy attacking, and they panicked until they were ignited in many places. At this time, their main general was still discussing the military in Zheng Bao's big tent, and the soldiers had no one to command, had no intention of resisting, disturbed each other, and each dropped his weapons and fled for his life.

Zhang Liao led the vanguard to wait outside the camp gate and saw a fire in the camp. Pull out the antlers, kill into the village, and go straight to the big tent in the middle of Zheng Bao to kill. When encountering the enemy army, they swarmed up and killed all the Zheng Bao soldiers who resisted.

Zheng Bao was about to organize the soldiers to counterattack, and saw that Zhang Liao led the soldiers to drive straight in, and he had already killed him in front of the big tent.

"Lord, go quickly. I've fallen for the enemy's tricks again. Ding Wen was hit again, he couldn't bear the blow, and after screaming, his eyes turned black, and he hit his head on the ground and died.

Xu Gan didn't care about Ding Wen's life and death at all, seeing that Zheng Bao couldn't stand the blow of defeat and wanted to die with the enemy, Xu Gan led a group of generals around him to escort Zheng Bao to the camp and then turned out of the village, leaving a battalion of 20,000 chaotic soldiers to contain Zhang Liao's army.

Zhang Liao led the vanguard of only two or three thousand people, if the whole army is dispatched will be discovered by the enemy, the real army is still a few miles away, Zhang Liao in the chaotic army can not discern where Zheng Bao is, can only lead the soldiers in the chaotic camp left and right, no one dares to stop, the enemy army surrendered one after another.

Xu Gan took Zheng Bao and other twenty or thirty generals out of Dazhai, went straight to the direction of Chaohu, and just walked out of seven or eight miles, he ran headlong into the thousand people led by Lu Meng.

Lu Meng and Zheng Bao met each other, and saw Zheng Bao's big cake face under the torch from a distance, and they recognized it at a glance. Seeing that Zheng Bao was like a lost dog, Lu Meng was overjoyed: "The head of the thief is in front of him, take the head of the other person and go back to receive the merit." ”

Zheng Bao saw that there were many people in Lu Meng, and it was too late to run, so he said unwillingly to the generals around him: "Let's surrender." ”

Zheng Bao and his entourage did not wait for Lu Meng to move in, they all dropped their weapons and surrendered, Lu Meng looked at Zheng Bao's head in disappointment, and could only say to the soldiers around him: "All are tied up." ”

Lu Meng escorted Zheng Bao to the distance where he shouted killing.

Xu Shu was commanding the army to surround Zheng Bao's soldiers and prevent them from escaping, and when he heard that Lu Meng was escorting Zheng Bao back to the camp, he said happily: "God help me." Bring Zheng Bao up. ”

With Zheng Bao in front of the battle, Zheng Bao's soldiers dropped their weapons and surrendered.

This battle was unexpected, Zheng Bao's 20,000 troops were killed and wounded and there were very few soldiers who fled, and after controlling the surrender, Xu Shu counted and got more than 16,000 soldiers.

Zheng Bao's camp was burned down, and Xu Shu did not send anyone to build a camp, planning to wait for the army to go directly to Chao County to rest after dawn, and chose a vacant land to interrogate Zheng Bao, who was tied up with five flowers.

Zheng Bao saw a scribe and Confucian sitting on the ground, but Zhang Liao, Sun Kang, Lu Meng and other generals stood on both sides, thinking that Xu Shu was Lu Bu, and shouted to Xu Shu from afar: "Zheng Bao is willing to surrender to the sin." ”

Xu Shu shook his head and said, "I heard that you kidnapped the people, crisscrossed the township, and did all kinds of evil. Now that the situation is poor and begging, he will also have rebellion in the future. The famous general Zhu Jun once said: 'If the thief is profitable, he will enter the war, and if he is dull, he will beg to surrender, and it is not a good plan to indulge in the enemy', so it cannot be kept. ”

Zheng Bao and Zhang Liao have met a few times, he has heard of Zhang Liao's reputation for a long time, and knows the important position of Zhang Liao under Lu Bu, so he asked Zhang Liao for help: "Why don't General Zhang lend a hand, I must remember it in my heart." ”

Zhang Liao remembered that Lu Bu was dreaming of recruiting talents, and persuaded: "The military advisor is slow, why don't you leave him to see the lord?" ”

Xu Shu said to Zhang Liao: "What the lord desires is talent, but not this kind of mediocrity. Everyone under Zheng Bao's command can surrender, but Zheng Bao and Xu Gan cannot surrender. ”

"Why is that?" Zhang Liao asked puzzled.

"These two people are a force of their own, and they have long had ambitions in their hearts, and they surrender today, and they will also rebel in the future. Let's not leave him to see the lord and give him problems. Xu Shu explained. Zheng Bao is the leader of the thieves, how can he take over these forces under his command if he doesn't kill him. If it is sent to see Lu Bu, it will not be Lu Bu who will kill it at that time. Xu Shu killed Zheng Bao at this time, and the reputation of killing the general was on him, not on Lu Bu.

Xu Shu ordered the knife and axe men to push Zheng Bao and Xu Gan to the back and behead them to show the public, shocking the newly surrendered soldiers.

The next day, Zhang Liao drove a team of nearly 40,000 people into Chao County, and the total army of Lu Bu on the south road was no less than 50,000 people, reaching the highest number of troops in history, and they did not know that Lu Bu on the north road also had more than 20,000 people from Ji Ling. Lu Bu currently has more than 70,000 people in his hands, and he has a huge momentum in a short period of time. If the grain and grass can't keep up, the higher you climb, the more painful the fall will be.

Xu Shu and Chen Gong met in Chao County and began to formulate a plan for a decisive battle with Yuan Shu.