Speaking of Pengcheng, you may be relatively unfamiliar, but if you talk about Xuzhou, it is estimated that more than 2,000 years after the founding of the city, the Chinese army once fought with the Japanese invaders here. Here the east of the Huaihai, the west of the Central Plains, the south of the Jianghuai, the north of Qilu, the geographical location is extremely important.

Pengcheng has a long history, and Emperor Yao established the Great Peng Kingdom here, becoming one of the "Five Bos" of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Pengcheng was originally Songyi, and later belonged to the Chu State and was called Western Chu. In the twenty-third year of the reign of King Qin, the land of Chu Huaibei was all in Qin, and Qin placed Pengcheng County, which belonged to Surabaya County.

In the twenty-eighth year of Qin Shi Huang, Yingzheng patrolled Pengcheng to salvage Jiuding, and sent thousands of people into Surabaya but did not find it. In the second year of Qin II, Qin Jiali Jingju was the fake king of Chu and joined the army in the east of Pengcheng. In the third year of Qin II, Xiongxin, the king of Chu Huai, migrated from Xuyi to Pengcheng and ordered Liu Bangxi to enter Guanzhong.

In the first month of the first year of the Han Dynasty, the princes respected the king as the righteous emperor, Pengcheng once existed as the capital of the Chu Dynasty, and in April of the same year, Xiang Yu established himself as the overlord of Western Chu, governing the nine counties of Chu, and still took Pengcheng as the capital. In the sixth year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang took his younger brother Liu Jiao as the king of Chu, and ruled the 36 counties of Xue County, Donghai and Pengcheng, with Pengcheng as the capital. Later, Pengcheng was the capital of the two Han and Chu kingdoms and the Pengcheng kingdom of all dynasties.

After Xuzhou Mu Taoqian fell seriously ill, with the rebellion of Zang Ba, Pengcheng fell into war. But with Lü Bu's unexpected occupation of Pengcheng and his confrontation with the Qingxu coalition army, this thousand-year-old city became stable.

But everyone knows that this stability is temporary, and the next battle is indispensable.

"Newspaper—"

The loud voice of Cao Xing, the leader of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, suddenly came, and before anyone arrived, Lu Bu and Chen Gong, who were discussing the current situation around the stove, raised their eyes. found that in addition to the general on duty, Cao Xing, who came in a hurry. The generals Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Cheng Lian, Hou Cheng, Wei Xu, Hao Meng and others who commanded the battalions also followed. Let's go in and see you.

Chen Gong, who could see the change at a glance, hurriedly stood up, but Lu Bu, who was holding a wine glass, was still sitting on the couch, looking at Cao Xing with an anxious face unhappily, and asked loudly: "Why are you so flustered?" ”

Cao Xing hurriedly handed over his hand to report: "The banner of Liu Zijian, the general of the chariot cavalry, suddenly appeared on the main flagpole in the center of the Qingxu coalition army camp outside the east gate, and hundreds of cavalry of the Qingzhou Army walked around the city incomprehensibly, without any flags, and stopped from time to time. Pointing at the city head occupied by our army from beyond the range of the bow and crossbow. ”

"Because the mist has not cleared, we can't see the appearance of these hundreds of horsemen clearly, and after discussion, we unanimously believe that the enemy commander Liu Zijian is likely to be among them."

Lu Bu was startled, threw away the wine glass, and Huo Ran stood up: "Prepare the horse-"

"Slow!"

Chen Gong stopped Lu Bu, who was out of shape, and turned to Cao Xuan with a solemn expression: "General Cao, do you really see that Liu Zijian's banner suddenly appeared in the enemy camp outside the east gate?" ”

Cao Xing had great respect for Chen Gong, and politely clenched his fists and replied: "I can see clearly, the eye-catching pattern on that fiery red flag is unique. It is indeed the special banner of the general Liu Cun. ”

Zhang Liao also took a step forward: "That's true, a five-star shield surrounded by half a circle of ears of wheat and two crossed swords. It is the unique general flag pattern of General Liu Zijian, although it is three miles away, it can still be seen clearly when standing on the tower of the East Gate. ”

"This big flag was suddenly raised an hour ago, that is, at the beginning of the light snow (just after nine o'clock in the morning), more than 100 enemy horsemen peeping around the city also rushed out of the enemy camp outside the east gate after the big flag was raised, and it is estimated that they have reached the southwest corner outside the city wall at this moment."

Hou Cheng and the others looked at Chen Gong and Lu Bu nervously, not knowing if they would give the order to go out of the city to challenge, thinking that they would soon have to fight against a well-equipped enemy army that was five times their size, everyone couldn't help but feel extremely worried.

Gao Shun, who has a sturdy figure and a face like a knife, secretly regretted that if it hadn't been snowing for days and the weather was unusually cold, and he was ordered to withdraw his trapped camp from the camp outside the east gate to the city, he would definitely be able to take this opportunity to meet the world-famous Liu Cun for a while, at least he would not let more than 100 cavalry enemy troops calmly peep around the city, and the adverse impact of this situation on the morale of the whole army was too great.

"What do you think?"

Lu Bu, who had raised his glass early in the morning, finally realized that the crisis was coming.

Chen Gong weighed for a moment: "If Feng Xian is interested, we might as well go to the East Gate Tower to see what is going on, and at the same time send someone to send a gift to the enemy camp outside the East Gate, and invite General Liu Zijian to meet and talk, what does Feng Xian think?" ”

Lu Bu was slightly stunned, and then he was arrogant: "Very good!" A certain family will go out of the city for a while to meet Liu Zijian, who is famous all over the world, to see what he has to say about my occupation of Pengcheng, haha! ”

Chen Gong immediately persuaded: "Feng Xian, don't be like this, no matter what, before occupying Pengcheng, we have always been good friends with Liu Zijian, even if we reach the situation of meeting each other, we can't lose the courtesy, after all, he is a chariot general and Jizhou pastor appointed by the imperial court, with morality and a famous teacher." ”

"In this case, no matter what method he chooses to solve the problem of Pengcheng's ownership, in the end he will be recognized by the people of the world, so we should negotiate with him as much as possible, and don't talk about fighting lightly until it is absolutely necessary, even if it really starts, we have to let him do it first."

Lu Bu smiled and said with disdain on his face: "Now that my 40,000 male divisions are firmly occupying the towering and thick Pengcheng, with at least enough grain and grass for at least a year, plus the intact and well-stocked armor and weapons in the city, what can Liu Zijian do even if he has hundreds of thousands of troops?" Does he have what it takes to break through the city in this cold winter? ”

When the generals heard this, they suddenly found that they were too jealous of Liu Cun's reputation.

Thinking of the 40,000 elite soldiers they possessed, the mountains of grain and grass, the captured armor and weapons that could equip 50,000 horses, the arrows and arrows of up to one million, and the advantages of having no less than 30,000 young men in the city, all the generals were suddenly swept away and their spirits were greatly lifted.

At this time, Chen Gong asked a very inappropriate dejecting sentence in Lu Bu's opinion: "How is Pengcheng compared to Yecheng?" ”

Lu Bu was really a little annoyed: "The reason why Liu Zijian took Yecheng lightly is nothing more than relying on the early layout of the battle, taking advantage of the fact that Yuan's original army went north and Yecheng's troops were empty, and he used the ghost trick of combining the inside and the outside, as for the rumors that the so-called summoning the rolling thunder and destroying the hundreds of zhang city walls in the east and west of Yecheng, etc., are all nonsense!" ”

"If Liu Zijian really has this ability, let him try again, and summon the rolling thunder to collapse a few sections of the city wall of my Pengcheng...... Haha, hahaha! ”

The hall burst into laughter, but Chen Gong shook his head and sighed: "No matter what, let's go out and have a look first." ”

"That's exactly what I wanted!" Lu Bu readily agreed, quickly put on the golden armor, put on the golden helmet, and under the support of the generals, he rode his horse to the East Gate Tower. (To be continued......)