On the night when Zang Ba led his men and horses to surround the remnants of Mi Fang with a great victory, Sun Guan of the northern front also successfully repelled the 15,000 men and horses of the Langya army Zhai Yue after a fierce battle, forcing the insufficient Langya army to retreat to the north bank of Surabaya.

Almost at the same time, Lu Bu, who was defeated again and again by Cao Cao's 70,000 army and suffered heavy losses, finally retreated to the junction of Yuzhou and Yanzhou, and Cao Cao, who had already expected that Lu Bu would continue to flee south to Yuan Shu, took the initiative to slow down the pace of the attack, ordered all the troops under his command to rest for a day, and planned to divide into three ways again the next morning, and storm the 30,000 tired remnants of Lu Bu and Chen Gong who were hiding in the dilapidated Chen County.

In the eyes of Cao Cao and his subordinates, Lu Bu now has no ability to launch a counterattack, let alone flee to Pengcheng, which is firmly occupied by Zangba's 70,000 troops in the east, and the only way to survive is to flee south to southern Henan or Yangzhou.

As long as he occupies Pengcheng, Liu Cun, who is fighting with Yuan Shao's army for Jizhou, has to admit that even if he is unwilling, he can only intrigue with Yanzhou after the big victory in the selection of Xuzhou Mu.

However, Cao Cao and his subordinate Wu made thousands of calculations, but they still missed Lu Bu's unruly rules and the unique vision of his advisor Chen Gong.

Forced by the extremely dangerous situation, Chen Gong and Lü Bu resolutely decided to take a risk and break a way out - leading their 30,000 horses to quietly go south ten miles while Cao's army was lax, and then suddenly turned northeast and entered Xuzhou. At that time, even if it is intercepted by the army of Zang Ba who defected to Cao Cao. It is also possible to go south again. Escape into Yangzhou, where there are no capable people.

If it really doesn't work, you can also temporarily defect to the Mi family and your old friend Liu Cun, as long as you live, you have the hope of developing and growing again.

At this time, Chen Gong and Lu Bu did not expect that their decision and rash action were so lucky, not only did they not encounter the resistance of Zang Ba's army, but they accidentally discovered the shocking news that Zang Ba's army and the Mijia coalition army were facing each other thirty miles east of Pengcheng, and Chen Gong and Lu Bu, who were overjoyed, seized the opportunity to launch suddenly. In one fell swoop, he took the wealthy Pengcheng, which was empty of troops.

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At midnight, Chen Gong led 20,000 foot soldiers, connected by ropes and spears, quietly left the desolate Chen County, slowly moved south, and soon drowned in endless darkness.

Lü Bu led 8,000 cavalry and 4,000 wounded and sick soldiers to stay in Chen County, blinding Cao's army, which was facing each other ten miles away from each other in the north and west of the city.

When the sky was getting bright, Lu Bu and 8,000 cavalry, who had finished their meal, suddenly assembled, and left more than 4,000 wounded and sick soldiers to flee south. Several scouts of Cao's army successively discovered the anomalies of the enemy troops in the city and the Lü Bu cavalry that fled south quickly, and immediately reported the situation to the generals.

Half an hour later. The two Cao armies were all launched and easily took Chen County, which had no resistance.

After learning that his old friend Chen Gong had fled south with 20,000 foot soldiers at midnight yesterday, Cao Cao, who thought he had everything under control, laughed and ordered Cao Hong to lead 20,000 foot soldiers to stay behind and guard, and then lead the army to Pengcheng, Xuzhou, 480 miles to the east.

To the east and north of Pengcheng, a large army has gathered at this moment.

Mi Zhu and Wang Qi, who led the main force of more than 30,000 coalition troops to arrive quickly, did not hesitate to give the order to attack, and defeated the Zang Ba rebels who hurriedly built blocking fortifications in nearly half an hour, and successfully rescued Mi Fang and 4,000 remnants who were covered in blood, but the cunning Zang Ba had already driven tens of thousands of Pengcheng people to rush to work day and night, and built a stable camp between the two rivers ten miles to the west, a deep ditch stretching for five miles and rows of fences erected with logs, which were blocked on the choke point of the advance of the Mi Zhu and Wang Qi coalition forces.

The situation in the northeast direction is also very unoptimistic, after being conspired by Sun Guan, the fierce general Zhai Yue, who was embarrassed and angry, launched three counterattacks in a row, and Sun Guan, who had 30,000 troops with 10,000 cavalry, suffered heavy losses, and the defense line was shaky, but his own casualties soared, and finally had to retreat to the north bank of Surabaya again.

Just when Zhai Yue was helpless and regretful, he suddenly received an urgent report from Le Jin from Changxi: Yesterday evening, the generals of the Cao army, Xiahou Tang and Yu Ban, led 15,000 cavalry to occupy Xiaopei, which was empty of troops, and it was expected that the Cao army of the department was likely to divide its troops to the south and gallop to help Pengcheng.

After reading Le Jin's urgent report, Zhai Yue immediately met with the commander who sent the urgent report and inquired in detail, and learned that Le Jin had sent the information to the commander Wang Qi, the deputy marshal Yan Shen who drove to Nancheng, and Zhang Rao, the general of the army stationed in Juping City in the north, and immediately realized that Cao Cao's army in Yanzhou was likely to have defeated the forces of Lu Bu and Chen Gong, and its men and horses were moving towards Pengcheng, and the entire battle situation that had suddenly changed was no longer beyond his control.

After Zhai Yue finished discussing with his generals, he immediately sent a letter to Yan Shen stationed in Changshu asking for help, and then ordered the whole army to stop resting, build a defensive camp along the river, and maintain a confrontation with Sun Guan's army on the opposite bank.

In the evening, Zhai Yue, who received an urgent report from the scouts, rushed to the southeast corner of the camp, climbed the watchtower set up on the hill to observe carefully, and finally saw the battle flag of Cao's general Xiahoudun flying high above the general platform in the center of the enemy camp.

In the next two days, the Chen clan and several gate lords of Xuzhou openly betrayed the entire Xuzhou, and Chen Qi, Chen Deng, father and son, who had already secretly united with Cao Cao, generously sent 8,000 family members to support the Zang Ba army that was confronting the alliance forces of Mi Zhu and Wang Qi.

Zang Ba, Sun Guan and other generals forcibly recruited 15,000 soldiers among the people at the same time, and all of them joined the battlefield on the northern front in charge of Sun Guan, so that the two divisions of the Langya army, Zhai Yue and Yan Shen, and a reserve brigade that had just converged, had to stop the implementation of all counteroffensive plans and wait for the commander to make a decision.

At this point, Cao Cao's ambition to occupy Pengcheng and coerce the entire territory of Xuzhou has been exposed.

In the face of the complicated situation, the commanders of the Langya army, Wang Qi and Mi Zhu, did not dare to make any decisions, so they could only urgently report to Jinan while maintaining the standoff and mobilizing reinforcements from the rear to rush over, asking Gongsun Pei, who was in charge of the overall situation instead of the lord Liu Cun, to give instructions.

In the early morning of 16 September, when Gongsun Pei was rushing day and night to Juping, a strategic point at the junction of Cao's army and Qingzhou's army, an army that suddenly appeared southwest of Pengcheng broke the entire battle situation.

This army of more than 20,000 troops under the banner of Cao's army slowly drove outside the west gate, and successfully deceived the Chen family father and son who were appointed by Cao Cao to guard Pengcheng and the gatekeepers, and quietly attacked when the drawbridge was lowered and the city gate was opened, and the two thousand elite horsemen under the personal leadership of the commander Lu Bu suddenly rushed through the wide passage in front of the foot soldiers, and accelerated into the city gate.

In the afternoon, the entire Pengcheng was controlled by Lu Bu's army, the leader of the Chen family, Chen Qi, more than a dozen gate lords and more than 5,000 defenders died in the chaos, all the rich households, shops and warehouses were looted, and the streets and alleys were covered with the corpses of innocent people.

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