Jizhou

Yecheng is Yuan Shao's seat in Hebei, and it is also the largest city in the four states of Hebei, and its prosperity and geographical importance are naturally needless to say, just the city wall that is as high as ten zhang and the deep and wide moat fully explain everything.

However, today, the first important town in Hebei has lost its former prosperity, replaced by the shocking shouting and killing and the collision of swords, and from time to time there are bursts of unconcealed cries and screams, which are filled with a bit of blood-stained tragedy.

At this moment, on the high and thick city wall of Yecheng, there are countless soldiers wearing armor and climbing up the ladder, even if the city wall is stained with the blood of the forerunners everywhere, even if the city wall keeps smashing hot boiling water and boulders, even if there are one after another companion corpses under the moat, no one of them retreats, because they know that if they dare to take half a step back, the governor will definitely cut off their heads with a big knife as soon as possible, and the dozens of headless corpses with different heads under the city are the best witnesses. Half a day ago, the corpses were still their companions.

There is a glimmer of life in the advance, and it is possible to get promoted and make a fortune by attacking the city wall, and if you retreat, you will be 100% beheaded by your boss on the spot, such a helpless situation forces the soldiers to step forward with their lives, raise soldiers for a thousand days, and the soldiers who attack the city eat the food and salary of the government on weekdays, but it is time to return with their lives.

Cao Cao was leading his henchmen to the city to oversee the army at this time, looking at the bloody scene in front of him, his eyes were still unwavering, like a pool of stagnant water without any fluctuations, as if it was not a person who died in front of him, but a fly.

"Our soldiers have been attacking for seven days in a row, but they have not been able to take Yecheng, this Yuan Shao, I always feel that he has become stronger after the defeat." Xiahoudun, who was on the side, looked at Cao Jun's badly injured condition and couldn't help but sigh. He originally thought that after Fang Guandu's victory, Yuan Shao should not even have the strength to resist, but he didn't expect that the other party would use the remaining remnants to carry their hundreds of thousands of troops for so long.

"If I had had had such a performance earlier, I wouldn't have been defeated in my hands, but now that I have no troops, I just woke up, but I was just dying!" Cao Cao's eyes were still calm, but he replied lightly.

"Meng De, let me and Dian Wei Xu Chu go to the city in person, in this way, the casualties of the brothers may be smaller, maybe they can directly kill the city!" Xiahoudun looked at the defenders on the city wall, which were not too dense, and said a little nervously.

"After many days of fierce attacks, Yuan Shao's remnants should not be many, you guys are going into battle" Cao Cao glanced at the top of the city wall, and was about to agree to come down, but behind him was a spy on horseback who hurriedly ran over with a letter.

"My lord, General Cao Ren of the Central Plains sent someone to send an urgent report!"

"Huh? Zixiao sent an urgent report at this time? Hearing that the information was sent by Cao Ren, Cao Cao instinctively felt a little uneasy, but he quickly opened the letter and read it roughly, and in the next second, Cao Cao's originally calm and waveless expression immediately disappeared without a trace, replaced by a sense of anger that could not be suppressed.

"Mengde, what's wrong with you? Could it be that Zixiao couldn't stop that Huang Zhong and sent someone to ask us for help? Xiahoudun on the side noticed the change in Cao Cao's face for the first time, and asked with some concern.

"Xuzhou is completely lost!" Cao Cao crumpled the letter in his hand into a ball, forcibly held back the roar that wanted to roar in the sky, and suffocated the depression in his heart before exhaling lightly.

"What?" Xiahoudun's face also changed, and then he said with a little resentment: "What the hell is that guy Zixiao doing, it has been less than a month before and after, and he actually lost Xuzhou, which is too 、、、."

Xiahoudun originally wanted to say that it was too useless, but in the end he held back, although the Cao family and the Xiahou family have different surnames, but the two families have been married for more than a hundred years, and the relationship has long been inseparable, and it can basically be regarded as a family, Xiahoudun naturally doesn't want to go too far behind Cao Ren of the same sect behind his back.

"No, don't blame Zixiao for this, there are capable people under Lu Xuantong!" Cao Cao shook his head lightly, with a bit of melancholy. Although Cao Ren's loss of Xuzhou made him very angry, he really didn't have the idea of blaming Cao Ren, Lieutenant General Gain's letter made all the causes and consequences clear, and the enemy's various degrees of planning, even he might fall for it, let alone Cao Ren.

"Capable people? Who is it? Xiahoudun asked suspiciously.

"Jia Xu, Jia Wenhe!" Cao Cao replied. After that, seeing that Xiahoudun was still puzzled, Cao Cao said again: "This Jia Wenhe is the military advisor sent by Lu Xuantong to Huang Zhong, when Zixiao Town guarded Xiapi, Huang Zhong couldn't attack it for a long time, Jia Wenhe offered a plan to let Huang Zhong lead the army to feint Yuzhou, but left thousands of people and horses to hide in Xuzhou, Zixiao didn't know the inside story, and transferred all the troops to Yuzhou, and then Jia Xu immediately used the Mi family as the internal response, and took the remaining thousands of soldiers to easily take down the empty Xiapi!" ”

"This?" Xiahoudun scratched his head and asked, "In other words, Zixiao has fallen for the other party's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?" ”

"It can also be said that Jia Xu's strategy is too subtle, if Zixiao does not go to Yuzhou, then Huang Zhong's feint attack may become a real attack, and Yuzhou will not be protected at that time, unless you can gain insight into the enemy's internal situation in advance and divide your troops to defend Yuzhou, so that it is possible to keep Yuzhou and Xuzhou at the same time." Cao Cao said with a sigh. Na Jia Xu was not well-known in the world before, but if he can come up with such a clever strategy, he must be a genius in the world, but unfortunately this kind of genius is Lu Xuantong's subordinate, and it is really depressing to take away his Xuzhou.

"So what do we do now? Do you want to send some more people to support Zixiao to recapture Xuzhou? Xiahoudun asked about business.

When Cao Cao heard this, he was silent for a while, and finally shook his head: "No, since Xuzhou has been lost, it will take a lot of effort to regain it, so let's temporarily give it to Lu Xuantong. ”

"However, if we don't ask, what if Huang Zhong and Jia Xu are still not greedy enough to attack the two states of Yu and Yan again?" Xiahoudun was a little worried.

"No, most of Lu Xuantong's army is in Jiangdong, and Huainan County only has 50,000 horses, which is just enough to guard a Xuzhou, if he is still greedy enough to want Yu Yan and Yan Prefectures, he will disperse the limited forces, but it will make them passive, not to mention, although Zixiao lost Xuzhou, but the army is still there, and he has suffered a loss, presumably Zixiao will be more cautious, and it should be fine in a short time!" Cao Cao gritted his teeth and said. Although he didn't have any bottom in his heart, but at this moment, he could only trust his own judgment, after all, at this point, he couldn't send troops back to support him anyway, otherwise if Yuan Shao was given a breath because of this little omission, then his strategy on both the north and south sides would become passive, and he would fall into an even worse situation.

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