Half an hour later, more than 40,000 old and weak women and children who had been forcibly driven out of Pengcheng were brutally plundered and abused by the officers and soldiers under Lu Bu's command.

Hundreds of people who did not want to leave their homes were killed on the spot, thousands of women were brutally ravaged, all the burdens that the people hastily packed were ruthlessly taken away, and tens of thousands of old people and children were driven out of the city by the inhumane barbarian army with only thin clothes or a rag.

The actions of Lu Bu's army not only aroused great hatred among the people in the city, but also made the officers and soldiers of the Qingxu Alliance waiting in line outside the city furious.

Liu Cun, Gongsun Pei, Mi Zhu and others who received the urgent report put down all the affairs in their hands and hurried to the east gate to pick up the innocent people who had been hurt, Liu Cun's heart was full of guilt and resentment, looking at the old and weak women and children in ragged clothes in front of him, and listening to the tragic cry that shook the sky, Liu Cun's determination to get rid of Lu Bu and eliminate his jackal army became more and more firm.

It wasn't until nightfall that 40,000 old and weak women and children were driven out of the city by the wolf-like army of Lu Bu.

During the entire expulsion operation, the two armies had no contact, and Lu Bu, who did not want to discredit himself and was unwilling to leave Liu Cun to seize the handle, rarely adopted Chen Gong's opinion, strictly restrained the bold generals under his command, and forbade anything that might cause conflict.

Because of this, the Qingxu coalition army led by Liu Cun was able to smoothly integrate the 40,000 suffering people into the camp and properly settle them, and hastily arranged 20,000 cavalry, four firearms battalions, and six crossbow soldiers in the southeast and northeast directions. But under the severe pressure of Liu Cun and the generals of various ministries. In the end, they returned to their respective barracks.

After dark. Lu Bu once again set up a banquet in the occupied city government, carnivaled with his generals and took the opportunity to carry out pre-war general mobilization, and the worried Chen Gong couldn't persuade him, so he had to look at Lu Bu and the generals who were full of interest and raised a glass to drink, and secretly shook his head and sighed.

Until this time, Lu Bu still didn't know that he had fallen into the trap that Liu Cun had painstakingly wove into.

Of the more than 30,000 men who were forcibly left in Pengcheng as people's husbands, almost all of them shed tears, and almost all of them had strong resentment in their hearts. Coalition spies who had been lurking in the city for a long time began to come into play. By inciting public anger, secretly organizing people who dare to die as internal responses, and plotting against the defenders of Pengcheng who surrendered to Lü Bu, they will try their best to weaken the defense of Lü Bu's army, and will suddenly launch civil strife at a critical moment.

In the Qingxu coalition army camp five miles outside the east gate, the atmosphere was also warm.

Liu Cun finally looked forward to Mu Heng, a proud disciple who had transported 200 carts of gunpowder from Zhushan day and night, and after a short rest, he distributed all the gunpowder to the soldiers of the four firearms battalions, while more than 3,000 skilled craftsmen were still fighting at night, nervously making trebuchets for throwing medicine bags.

After a belated dinner, the commanders of the coalition forces stationed around Pengcheng gathered in Liu Cun's tent. Facing the huge combat map that had just been made by the Military Service Department and hung high, he waited intently for the commander Liu Cun to arrange the combat mission.

Liu Cun finished discussing with Gongsun Zhan, Wang Qi, Lu Pei and others. After sorting out his thoughts a little, he put down the teacup, picked up the baton, strode to the front of the map, slowly glanced at the energetic generals and colonels, and began the final arrangement before the battle:

"In order to completely annihilate the Lu Bu army that has done all kinds of evil and achieve the goal of deterring all the rebel forces in the world, our current formation and the blockade formation in the west and south directions need to be slightly changed...... The cavalry brigades of all divisions of the Langya Army will be used in a centralized manner and will be under the unified command of General Wang Qi and General Yan Shen. ”

"Next, I will tell you the specific troop adjustment plan in detail, I hope you all remember it for me, and there must be no mistakes!"

In Liu Cun's adjustment for half an hour, the 70,000 foot soldiers of the Xuzhou army led by Mi Zhu and Mi Fang remained in place, continued to maintain a thick blockade formation, added dense wooden piles and shallow ditches, mobilized crossbowmen and 500 large bed crossbows, blocked the two city gates north of Pengcheng, and sent 3,000 cavalry to protect the firearms battalion hidden in the infantry array.

As for the pikemen, crossbowmen, sword and shield soldiers, and three artisan battalions belonging to the three divisions of the Langya Army, a total of 60,000 soldiers will be concentrated and used, and Zhang Rao, a general who is good at defense, will be under the unified command of Zhang Rao, who is good at defense, and will immediately go to the designated area early tomorrow morning, and use the rapid construction method of ignition and then rapid excavation, dig a three-meter-deep, five-meter-wide, and four-mile-long blocking trench within three hours, and use the excavated soil and snow water to build a four-mile-long defensive wall, completely blocking the road for Lü Bu's army to break through to the south.

The 20,000 light cavalry led by Wang Qi and the 5,000 heavy cavalry led by Yan Shen will line up outside the east gate tomorrow morning, take the initiative to challenge the enemy in the city, make every effort to contain the enemy's forces, and cooperate with other parties to build new defensive and blocking fortifications for friendly forces.

Zhao Yun's personal guard battalion, Lejin's second division, Zhai Yue's fourth division infantry brigade, and Yan Shen's third division infantry brigade, a total of 35,000 cavalry, drove to the temporary camp ten miles west of the city overnight to take over the defense of the 20,000 soldiers of the Xuzhou army, and then slowly advanced to Pengcheng, occupied four highlands in the west of the city, and quickly built blocking fortifications.

The next morning, without waiting for Lü Bu to send people out of the city to give Liu Cun a war letter, the 25,000 elite cavalry led by Wang Qi and Yan Shen had gathered outside the east gate of Pengcheng, 5,000 horsemen and two horses, all wrapped in the heavy cavalry in the dark armor in the middle of the formation, 20,000 well-equipped light cavalry on both sides, the black pressure occupied a large area as long as five miles wide and four li, and the strong killing atmosphere shook the officers and soldiers of Lü Bu at the head of the city, and their mouths were dry, and their faces changed suddenly.

Lu Bu and Chen Gong, who received the urgent report, hurried to the tower of the East Gate City, and together with the generals and colonels who came one after another, they carefully looked at the Langya cavalry who were waiting under the city.

After seeing clearly the armor wrapped around the big war horses of the Langya cavalry, and the cavalry wearing heavy armor and holding a three-zhang spear standing solemnly under the horse, everyone, including Lu Bu, couldn't help but let out bursts of inhalation, only to feel that their hearts were beating faster, their spines were chilling, and their original fighting intent disappeared in an instant.

"Did Bongxian notice the cavalry on both sides? You see, all of them are equipped with Takahashi saddles and double stirrups, and more than 20,000 cavalrymen are all wearing the new armor and wrought iron helmets of the Langya Army, and the waists are all equipped with new scimitars and expensive Langya riding bows, and all the war horses are fat and strong, whether it is weapons and equipment or horses, they are far above our army! ”

Chen Gong reminded Lu Bu in a deep voice, and at the same time, he was also reminding all the generals and colonels not to go out of the city to fight with their opponents in a momentary anger. The best way to defend the enemy is to defend the city and wait for the opponent to attack. (To be continued......)