Regarding Chen Deng's reputation, Cao Pi heard it from a word in later generations, which is called "Yuanlong Gao Lying", which is mostly used to describe the arrogance of the host and the despisy of the guests. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This allusion is also related to a person named Xu Yan, Xu Yan is a famous man in the dynasty, one day Xu Yan and Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao talked about the world's famous people in Jingzhou and said: "Chen Yuanlong's arrogance in the rivers and lakes is too heavy, and there is no inspection. ”

Liu Bei, who was attached to Liu Biao at that time, was also present, and Liu Biao asked Liu Biao: "Is this true?" ”

Liu Bei asked Xu Yan what happened, and later Xu Yan said that one day he passed by Xiapi and went to visit Chen Deng, but Chen Deng not only did not talk to him, but also lay on the high couch, without the slightest intention to greet the guests, and let Xu Yan, who was a guest, sit on the couch.

Hearing Xu Yan say this, Liu Bei said: "You are also a famous person in the country, now that the world is in turmoil, not only do you not have the idea of helping the world, but you also run blindly all day long, buying land, Chen Yuanlong has the world in his heart, what will he tell you?" If it were me, I would lie on top of a hundred-foot building, let you sleep on the floor, and still give you a low couch to sleep on? ”

Cao Pi liked this allusion very much in his previous life, in fact, he often did things like Yuanlong lying down, so when Chen Deng entered the city to see Cao Cao, Cao Pi deliberately glanced at this person from the window, and he should be less than thirty years old, with a delicate appearance, relatively thin, and nothing special. It's hard to imagine that he is a person with the arrogance of Yuanlong's high lying down.

Chen Deng brought 5,000 Guangling soldiers, as well as a lot of grain and grass, which brought strong support to Cao Cao, Cao Cao immediately ordered Chen Deng and Liu Bei to join forces, as a vanguard, through the counties of Pengchengguo, and be sure to master all Peng Chengguo before sending troops to Pi.

Chen Deng is a Xuzhou wang clan, with him out of the horse, the wealthy families of Pengcheng have been attached, less than a month, Cao Cao put Pengcheng into his control, at the same time, and Zang Ba controlled the Lang evil country Donghai County Taishou Che Xuan raised troops to take advantage of Zang Ba's army has taken the Lang evil country, Cao Cao was overjoyed, immediately put the car as a car general, leading the Xuzhou assassin history.

Since then, only the Xiapi State of the five counties of Xuzhou is still in the hands of Lu Bu, and the remaining four counties have been taken by Cao Cao.

Xiapi City is already in the territory of Jiangsu in later generations, its waterways are complex, and the distribution of wetlands is more than Pengcheng, here, the tiger and leopard riding has completely ineffective, because when they gallop their horses, only the gallop is safe, and when they get off the gallop, they will fall into some unknown wetland.

Camping outside the city is also a very troublesome process, because there are too many wetlands, there are many rivers, and it is really difficult to find a piece of land to house nearly 100,000 people, and it cannot be separated by wetlands and rivers.

After pressing the camp, Cao Cao immediately placed a heavy checkpoint near Xiapi to fully monitor the movement of Xiapi City, and asked Liu Bei to camp near Xiapi City to protect the checkpoint. Then he dug a trench around the periphery of Xiapi City, so that no one in the city could cross the trench to ask for help.

After doing these things, Cao Cao began to wait, according to Cao Pi's guess, Cao Cao wanted to wait for the climate to be colder, and then dig up the rivers of Yishui, Surabaya, and Suishui, and pour them into Xiapi City, not only to make the people in the city cold, but also to let the soldiers of Lu Bu get cold, and look like they were all killed.

It is worth mentioning that one day when the outer trench of Xiapi was not dug, Lu Bu took a team of sergeants to ride horses and hold out, because outside Pengcheng, Lu Bu's cavalry had almost died, so this time out of not more than a hundred horses, as soon as they came out, these knights scattered and fled, but because the gallop outside Xiapi City has been guarded by the Cao army, there are many wetlands in the field outside the Chi Road, and it is also written that each of the knights ran away, and they were all chased by the Cao army or killed or surrendered, only Lu Bu escaped, and later the soldiers reported that Lu Bu's horse seemed to be carrying a person.

When Xun You heard this, he immediately called the sergeant who saw Lu Bu, and immediately said to Cao Cao after asking about the figure of the horse, saying that Lu Bu was carrying a woman out of the city in the middle of the night to marry Yuan Shu nearby to ask for reinforcements, and begged Cao Cao to attack the city immediately.

However, Guo Jia advocated waiting until November, because he thought that Yuan Shu would not dare to come to help, and if Yuan Shu was to come, it would just leave him outside Xiapi City forever.

Cao Cao adopted Guo Jia's opinion and waited until November, although it was closer to the south than Xudu, but November was still cold to death, Cao Pi had already put on the robe prepared before, and on the third day of putting on the robe, Cao Jun began to move the camp to a higher place, just as Cao Pi was camping in a new place under the cold wind, when the rivers of Yishui, Surabaya, and Suishui were pulled to a mouth, the water of the three rivers poured into Xiapi, because it was too far away, so I don't know how the people in Xiapi City reacted, But it's certainly not so good.

After digging the waterway, the city of Xiapi was flooded for half a month, and from time to time people and soldiers would slip down the city from the city with hanging baskets to join Cao's army, Cao Cao was very tolerant of these people, placed them in Chen Deng's camp, and told Chen Deng to wait for him to settle these people after the battle.

Later, Lu Bu found out about this situation, so he replaced the soldiers guarding the city with his cronies, and no one came down again.

Half a month later, the water subsided, and the Cao army moved the camp to the outside of Xiapi City, because it was expected that Lu Bu's army had no strength to go out of the city and fight again, so the Cao army divided the troops into four ways and blocked the city gates on all sides of Xiapi, but they did not attack the city, and Lu Bu did not go out of the city to fight with the Cao army, and the two armies were deadlocked.

If he doesn't fight, Cao Pi's life will be boring, he can only play chess with Guo Jia, and occasionally Xun Yu will come, Xun Yu's chess skills are not a little worse than Guo Jia, and he has never won Cao Pi at all, but Guo Jia and Cao Pi come and go, but there are wins and defeats.

This day was the last day of November in the third year of Jian'an, Cao Pi was playing chess with Guo Jia, and Guo Jia suddenly said: "If Lu Bu does not surrender within three days, then he will attack." ”

"The big water went down, more than a zhang deep, after the water pushed, the outside of the city was full of debris washed out of the city, and there was a lot of corn, I am afraid that there is no food in Xiapi now, if it does not fall, they can only eat people."

"Hey, hey, hey! People eat people, there is nothing strange, when Yanzhou was in turmoil, our army was short of food, and Cheng Zhongde, who had the responsibility of transporting grain, mixed human meat with military rations and sent them to Sikong's army. Speaking of which, it was also a war with Lu Bu, and now the world has changed, and it is they who want to eat human flesh. ”

Cheng Zhongde is Cheng Yu, Cao Pi has never heard of this, but what Guo Jia said must not be false, although he did not take refuge in Cao Cao at that time, but as a confidant, he must have heard others talk about it.

While the two were talking, a tiger guard entered the account and reported: "Sacrificial wine, someone in Xiapi City threw down a halberd, which is Lu Bu's usual weapon, and shouted with the city head, saying that he had tied up Lu Bu, and Sikong invited the sacrificial wine to go to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss matters." ”

Guo Jia immediately threw his son and smiled: "Admit defeat!" After saying that, he drifted away.

Cao Pi knew that now Lu Bu was finished.