"Lord!" Wu Dun, who was covered in blood and his hair and armor was scattered, knelt on the ground and cried bitterly as soon as he came in.

"General Wu, why are you so sad?" When Liu Bei saw Wu Dun's embarrassed appearance, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, and hurriedly asked.

"My lord, the former Cao Ying suddenly sent 150,000 troops to attack the Lu State. General Sun Guan refused to surrender and led the army to defend the city, not wanting to be that Changxi, but secretly opened the city gate with Cao Ying, and the Lu State was lost. General Sun fought desperately and died at the hands of Xiahoudun. Of the 15,000 defenders, only the last general led hundreds of people to come to Xuzhou to report the news. Now Cao Ying's troops are moving south and have surrounded Peiguo. Wu Dun couldn't stop crying when he said this.

"Changxi!" Liu Bei also gritted his teeth rarely, then looked at Wu Dun who was still kneeling on the ground, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up and said: "General Wu is fortunate to be able to escape, but poor Sun Zhongtai is ......" Speaking of this, Liu Bei also shed tears.

General Sun said that Chang Xi was recommended by him, and he didn't want to turn his back on the lord today. He asked his confidant to be shameless to see his lord again, so after he fought to the death, he asked the last man to report to Xuzhou. After Wu Dun said this, tears were already raining down.

"Send the order down, and order someone to go to find General Sun's body and bury it." Liu Bei asked people to take Wu Dun down to rest again, sorted out his emotions, turned back to Lu Su and said: "I don't want Mr. Guoying to say this, Cao Ying's soldiers have committed Yuzhou, and they want to personally unify the army and fight Yuzhou with Cao Ying, recapture the city, kill the traitor Changxi, and avenge General Sun!" ”

"It's okay for you to say this, but I don't know if the defenders of Peiguo can support it. If Cao Ying captures Peiguo, there must only be one or two generals left to guard Peiguo and Lu, and even if the Jun's soldiers are here, they will not be able to fight the main force of Cao's army, and they will be powerless. Lu Su said cautiously.

"Pei Guo has General Guan and 20,000 elite soldiers, and Mr. Jian Xianhe is there, so he shouldn't have fallen so quickly. Besides, if the Lu State is lost and the Cao soldiers invade the territory, General Guan will not sit idly by. Zhao Feng thought about it and put forward his own opinion.

"This is not bad, I mean, I will send 80,000 troops to rescue Peiguo." Liu Bei synthesized the opinions of Zhao Feng and Lu Su and quickly made a decision. Finally, he took a look at Lu Su and said: "Mr. is like a god, and he is really talented." Today, Mr. Feng first offered wine to the military division, and then he was rewarded after he made a meritorious service. ”

"Thank you, my lord!" Lu Su also thanked him, and since then he has also become a member of Liu Bei's group.

The next day, Liu Bei personally led an army of 80,000, together with Zhang Fei, Zhao Feng, Zhao Yun, Song Xian, Wei Xu, Chen Zhi and other six generals, with the new military division to sacrifice wine Lu Su, from Pengcheng to Peiguo to rescue Guan Hai, and at the same time recover Lu State, leaving the generals Gao Shun Wu Dun and Mi Zhu and a group of civil officials to stay in Xuzhou.

Not to mention that the people of Xuzhou came to take revenge, at this time, in the city of Runan, Yuzhou Mu Guan Yu was also angry after learning the news, and he was eager to immediately raise troops to fight to the death with Cao Ying.

"Father, please calm your anger, my father is sitting in Runan to prevent Liu Biao, how can he move lightly?" Guan Ping on the side hurriedly admonished. "Hmph, how dare Liu Biao Lao Er violate my boundary? I mean, Ping'er, you and Wen Chang stayed in Runan, and I led an army of 50,000 to rescue Peiguo. The rest of the ministries are in their own positions, in case Cao Ying and Liu Biao! After Guan Yu finished arranging, he didn't wait for everyone's opposition and quickly operated.

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"What's going on?" In the advancing Xuzhou army, Liu Bei stopped and asked a sentry who had just returned.

"My lord, Cao Ying is now leading the army to attack Peiguo. General Guan Hai held the city and had not yet fallen. On the Lu side, Cao Ying left the general Li Dian to lead 8,000 men and horses to garrison. In addition, Cao Ren, the general of the Cao army, led 20,000 people to the front army to block the way. The sentry hesitated for a moment when he said this, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Cao Ying captured the Lu State and ordered the slaughter of the city again!" ”

"Cao Mengde, you murderous demon!" Liu Bei said hatefully. "Big brother, wait until I go and cut off Cao Ying's old man's head for you to sit on as a stool and urinate in a pit!" Zhang Fei was also furious, in fact, everyone in Xuzhou was indignant: this Cao Ying slaughtered the city, he was really addicted to slaughter.

"Full speed ahead!" Liu Bei is not afraid of ambushes, this area is all plains, and he can only rely on cavalry to ambush. And this time, I also brought almost all the cavalry, who is afraid of anyone if I really want to be pinched.

Not to mention that Liu Bei led the army to advance with all his might, at this time, under the city of Peiguo, Cao Ying was still making his last efforts to persuade him to surrender: "General Guan, Mr. Jian, the two of you resisting the imperial court soldiers and horses are actually a big rebellion." If you don't want to open the city and surrender soon, when will it be? ”

Guan Hai and Jian Yong at the head of the city glanced at each other, or the latter, who was a literati, was more eloquent, and said loudly at the moment: "Prime Minister Cao Cheng is an official of the imperial court, and General Zhiguan is the Yuzhou pastor of the imperial court, and the same is true of General Guan, the prime minister of Pei Guo. Why is there an unknown teacher who has come to invade my borders, and is he not afraid that the world will laugh at your Excellency repeatedly? ”

"I don't know in Jian Zhi, the yellow turbans in Yuzhou were raging before, and Guan Yu, as the state pastor, incorporated them into the army. As the prime minister of the imperial court, Cao personally led the army to requisition in order to avoid banditry. "Cao Ying is a serious way.

Damn, that's all right? Jian Yong and Guan Hai looked at each other, and finally Guan Hai said in a loud voice: "Prime Minister Cao Cheng is really suspicious, I Guan Hai used to be a yellow scarf, Prime Minister Cao Cheng, if you have the ability, fly up to the city to arrest me!" After speaking, the arrows were fired at the head of the city, and the guards around Cao Ying hurriedly raised their shields to block him and escort him to safety.

"Siege!" Cao Ying also knew that persuasion was useless, so he had to order the siege of the city. Peiguo only has 20,000 defenders, and in addition to Cao Ren leading people to guard against Liu Bei in the east, he still has no less than 100,000 troops on hand, so he must be able to easily take Peiguo.

A group of Cao soldiers carrying large shields set up ladders and rushed towards Peiguo. At the same time, rushing the car, the well lanthanum also started one after another. The siege warfare in the era of cold weapons is like this, no matter how clever you are, if the other party is determined to stick to it without fighting, you can only rely on the big head soldiers to fill it.

"Put the crossbow!" After Guan Hai saw that the other party entered the firing range, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to use a big killing weapon. Suddenly, there was a sound of "snort", and nearly a hundred ballistae on the tower of Peiguo City did not start together, but were divided into two batches to shoot arrows alternately, so that the firepower would not stop.

After this ballista was designed and improved by Lu Hao and Zhao Feng, it is now the first city defender in Xuzhou City. After Liu Bei saw the lethality of this thing, he immediately ordered mass production. The previous Guangling offensive and defensive battle Zhang Liao was just a small test, and now the entire slightly larger city of Xuzhou is equipped with a large number of ballistas, and those giant arrows are used, and they are replaced by cutting bamboo, so Guan Hai is now using it without sparing.

"Huh?" Cao Ying saw a huge arrow as thick as a spear shot from the top of the city, and the momentum was even more condescending, and his soldiers were often directly shot and nailed to the ground, or three or four people were strung together, and the thick wooden shield was shot through like tissue paper, and he couldn't help but go crazy.

"What the hell is this?" Cao Ying saw that the first wave of attacks could not be defeated, and asked in horror. The people around looked at each other, and when they conquered the country of Lu before, they were all in response to it, and they couldn't see the power of this ballista. Now Chang Xi is guarding against Liu Bei with Cao Ren, so no one can answer his questions.

"Pei Guo has this sharp weapon, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to conquer in a hurry!" Cao Ying muttered, but there was a little hairiness in his heart: according to his and Guo Jia's plan, he wanted to take Pei and Lu with a thunderous momentum, so he divided 20,000 troops and let Cao Ren go down to the east to block Liu Bei's reinforcements. But now Guan Hai has this weapon to defend the city, I'm afraid that he won't be able to take it for ten days and half a month. And in ten days and half a month, Cao Ren blocked Liu Bei's army with 20,000 horses and horses on the plain, and no matter how good he was at defense, it was difficult to resist.

And once Liu Bei's army kills Peiguo, he can only retreat to Lu State at most, and this cut-off plan can only be half successful. "Lord, I have a plan to quickly take down Peiguo." At this time, a black-clothed scribe on the left stepped forward and admonished.

"Oh, what's Wenhe's plan?" Cao Ying saw that it was him, and hurriedly asked. He is none other than Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe, who just ran over with Zhang Xiu.

"Although Peiguo's bow and crossbow are strong, I have heard that Liu Bei regards himself as benevolent, and we can gather the people of the surrounding villages to drive the people to attack the city. If the defenders can't bear to attack, we can take the opportunity to take the city; If we kill the people, it will inevitably be chaotic in the army's mind, and crossbow arrows will also be consumed. Jia Xu said without any emotion.

"Huh?" Cao Ying was noncommittal, and Guo Jia and Xun You on the side had already hurriedly spoken out to stop him. "My lord, this must not be done. If you use this trick to take away Peiguo, it will be difficult to win the hearts of the people here. Guo Jia said. Xun You directly reprimanded Jia Xu: "Jia Wenhe, the former Lu State has surrendered, why do you still want the prime minister to slaughter the city?" Today you are going to drive the people to attack the city, are you really thirsty for killing? ”

"There are also hundreds of thousands of people in the country of Lu, if they are slaughtered, wouldn't we be able to be copied at any time when we are attacking the city here, just in case we have to do so." Jia Xu said disapplausively, the name of the poisoner should be worthy of his name. Although the surrounding generals such as Xiahoudun and others were also murderous, they couldn't help but feel a chill when they heard this.

"Lord, it's better to let the last general call the battle, if you can provoke Guan Hai to fight the general, as long as you kill him, it will be easy to break the city." Xu Huang saw that several strategists were arguing, and hurriedly stepped forward to propose a compromise plan.

"It's okay, Gongming is careful!" Cao Ying was also a little hesitant, and agreed to Xu Huang's proposal at the moment. So Xu Huang led the people of the headquarters to scold, but after scolding for an hour, Guan Hai simply shrank his head and did not come out. The last time he saw the martial arts of Cao Jun's generals in Xuzhou, he knew that he was mostly defeated and invincible, or he still stuck to the city.

"Siege!" Seeing that Xu Huang had returned in vain, Cao Ying continued to give orders to attack the city, but he still did not immediately adopt Jia Xu's strategy, and Guo Jia and the others were also slightly relieved. For a while, the sound of killing under the city of Peiguo shook the sky, bows and crossbows and giant arrows flew sideways, and the jar filled with fire oil was thrown down, broken and ignited, and suddenly there was a smell of burnt meat.

At the same time, Liu Bei and Guan Yu's two reinforcements, the former had arrived in Caoren Dazhai, and the latter had also arrived in Liang State to meet the defender Mi Fang there.

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