ps: (The official crossing on the data map in the hand is in the south of the Yellow River, and it is set to Cao Ying's here, ignoring the real official ferry location in the game or in history for the time being, everyone should think that the official ferry here is a ferry near the Yellow River on the Puyang side of Cao Ying~) Last time, Peng Cheng, which was surrounded by Cao Ying's more than 100,000 troops, suddenly erected a black military flag on the head of the city when Cao Ying led the army to prepare to attack the city. Cao Ying didn't recognize what the flag represented, but after being reminded by Xiahou next to him, he was horrified to find that the flag was his sworn enemy, and the flag of Lu Bu of the state army!!

This can scare Cao Ying a lot, think about the tens of thousands of cavalry sent by Lu Bu to Yanzhou turned Yanzhou upside down, if those cavalry who were supposed to retreat to Yuzhou, but were ordered by Lu Bu to come to Xuzhou to obstruct their plan to capture Xuzhou, then it would be really difficult for them to capture the already strong Pengcheng under the harassment of those cavalry!

Cao Ying frowned, and said softly with a gloomy face: "Let's suspend the siege and listen to what they have to say." ”

Fang Qiong glanced at the red-clad Cao Ying who was a few hundred steps away, took a deep breath and shouted, "Cao Ying, Cao Mengde!" Do you know that you will be in for a great disaster? ”

Cao Ying sneered and replied loudly: "I only know that you people are about to be separated, but I don't know what is wrong with me Cao Ying!" ”

"Do you think that if you take the tiger prison, everything will be safe? Our lord Lu Hussar sent troops to capture Nanyang of Yuan Shu, and led 300,000 cavalry (fraud) through Yuzhou, and now Puyang has been captured! If you don't go back to Yanzhou now, I'm afraid that if you don't take Xuzhou, you won't be able to keep your Yanzhou! I know you may not have received a letter from Yanzhou, but it doesn't matter, in order to let you go back and fight him to the death as soon as possible, my lord has already sent the forbidden talisman of Puyang! Look at the arrows!! Fang Qiong hung the brocade box containing the forbidden talisman on the arrow, and bent his bow and shot an arrow into the open space more than a hundred steps away!

Cao Ying glanced at a sergeant behind him, who slapped his horse and took the brocade box. Cao Ying didn't take the brocade box, and said directly to the sergeant: "Open the brocade box, I want to see if what the man in the city said is true or false!" ”

The sergeant opened the brocade box, but saw a piece of brass Tiger Talisman lying quietly in the brocade box, Cao Ying looked at it carefully, only to feel dizzy and dizzy, as if the world was spinning, but he recognized that the Tiger Talisman in the box was the talisman that he personally handed over to Yu Ban!

"Lord!"

"Big brother!!"

With the help of everyone, Cao Ying slowed down a little weakly, and then said softly: "Puyang has been lost, Yanzhou is in danger!" If Yanzhou is lost, we will be homeless!! Pass my military order, slowly return to the camp, and retire tonight! ”

"Do you want to prevent Tao Qian in Xuzhou City from chasing after us when our army is retreating?" Cheng Yu asked softly.

"The Xuzhou army is weak and outnumbered, as long as there are 5,000 sergeants left, it can be guaranteed." Cao Ying closed his eyes tightly and replied in a weak voice.

"Send the lord back to the camp, and go and ask the army to come over."

Watching the black Cao Jun slowly retreat, Fang Qiong also breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Cao Ying would be hot-headed, and he would fight Yanzhou to capture Pengcheng in Xuzhou. In that case, with the tens of thousands of defenders in the city alone, it would not be so easy to defend Xuzhou City before reinforcements arrived.

"Hahahaha, it's really back! Cao Ying really retired from the army!! ”

"Xuzhou is saved!"

"We won !!"

Looking at the cheering Xuzhou sergeants at the head of the city, Fang Qiong thought with some schadenfreude: "If these people knew that after Cao Ying left, Xuzhou would face the peep of Yuan Shu and Yuan Highway, who had a lot of soldiers and food compared to Cao Ying, but they didn't know if they could still laugh.

"This time I was able to force the Cao army back, but thanks to the strong help of Lu Hucai, Tao Qian was sick and could not go to Luoyang in person to thank Lu Huqi for his great kindness, and he could only talk to Lu Hucai's messenger here on behalf of millions of soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou to express his gratitude." During the celebration banquet, Tao Qian raised a glass of wine in front of him and thanked Fang Qiong.

Fang Qiong waved his hand: "Tao Thorn Shi doesn't need to be so polite, my lord is a hussar general in charge of the imperial court's conquest, Cao Ying went out to fight in Xuzhou without showing the Son of Heaven, it is because he does not put the current saint in his eyes, he is a person who is unforgivable." What's more, Cao Ying, for his own selfishness, actually slaughtered the people of Xuzhou to avenge his father, Lu Hussar was furious when he heard this, and it was imperative to send troops to Yanzhou. ”

Tao Tingshi sighed: "If there is chaos today, it really makes him feel at ease to have Lu Hussar punish him." ”

Fang Qiong smiled: "Now that the siege of Xuzhou has been resolved, I don't know about the Mi clan, the history of Tao Thorn"

Tao Qian heard Fang Qiong's direct advance of this matter, it was not good to continue to pretend to be confused, as long as he made a sudden realization and said: "Mi's matter, hahahaha, you see, it is not good for the old man to remember his surname when he is old, if it wasn't for the reminder of the honorable envoy, the old man would have almost forgotten about this matter." ”

"It doesn't matter, it's not good to remember your surname when you're old, it won't hinder a big deal, as long as Tao Tingshi is not confused now and can make the right decision." Fang Qiong said with a smile.

Tao Ping and Tao Qian, the two brothers next to Tao Qian, were staring at Tao Qian, and they later consulted with Tao Qian many times, and Tao Qian had already decided to fall on this agreement on the grounds that Lu Bu's Bingzhou army did not do its best when the reinforcements from Qingzhou arrived.

But last night, Tao Qian suddenly summoned the two of them to tell them about Lu Bu's invasion of Yanzhou and even the capture of Puyang, and clearly told them that he had made a decision about it, and the Mi clan allowed them to leave on their own according to the previous agreement, in exchange for Lu Bu's good impression of Xuzhou, just in case Lu Bu captured Yanzhou and sent troops to attack Xuzhou.

"No problem, the Mi clan can leave Xuzhou with the envoy at any time." Tao Qian seemed to be very casual, and in the unwilling, jealous, and resentful eyes of his two sons, he agreed that the Mi clan could leave Xuzhou.

"In this way, on behalf of my lord, I would like to thank Tao Thorn Shi for his kindness. When I meet the lord, I will personally tell the lord about this matter, and I think the lord will not forget the integrity of Lord Tao Qian. Fang Qiong bowed and saluted

Dividing line

However, it is said that Cao Ying retreated from Xuzhou and returned to Yanzhou, and swept away the villages he encountered along the way, leaving 20,000 horses to defend the newly captured Mengyin and other counties, and the rest of the army all returned to Yanzhou.

is different from the outcome of Cao Ying's sneak attack by Lu Bu in history, when Lu Bu attacked in history, there were only tens of thousands of displaced Bingzhou troops in the whole army, and there was only Chen Gong alone. At that time, there were still Xun Yu, Xun You and other wise people in Yanzhou who died for Cao Ying, so that Lu Bu at that time could only achieve some small results around Puyang in more than a month, and some important prefectures and counties were not taken down.

But now it's different, Lu Bu is well prepared for this time. First used the jade seal to summon Nanyang, and then entered Yanzhou from Yuzhou, inheriting the great advantage of the sudden surname of the invasion of Yanzhou in history. Then he used the sergeants of the Jinyi Battalion to kidnap the two sons of the Tian family of Puyang, and forced him to trap him in the palace to make the Puyang dragons leaderless, and then opened the city gate through the soldiers of the Jinyi Battalion lurking in Puyang, and inherited the advantage of attacking Puyang before Cao Ying returned.

The original advantages in history were inherited by Lu Bu one by one, and some disadvantages in history Lu Bu also turned them into advantages: first of all, Xun Yu and Xun You's uncle and nephew, who originally defended Yanzhou for Cao Ying, were recruited into the court as officials by Lu Bu's edict.

Then Lu Bu used the war horses he had collected from Xianbei, the Southern Xiongnu, the Xiqiang rebels, and the Xiliang Dong Zhuo for more than ten years, and cooperated with the good warriors of Shangzhou to form the largest cavalry force to attack Yanzhou today.

In the end, Lu Bu's strategists with the army this time are not only Chen Gong, Huainan Lu Su Lu Zijing, Xiliang Jia Xu Jia Wenhe, these two super first-class strategists in addition to Chen Gong Chen Gongtai, who performed very well in the battle of Yanzhou in history, against Cao Ying, who now only has Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, Lu Bu's chances of winning have exceeded five or five!

When Cao Ying returned to Jiyin County, Yanzhou, Li Dian, the general who was responsible for guarding Jiyin, was a little panicked and reported Lu Bu's 'achievements' during this period to Cao Ying:

Of course, when the state army captured Puyang, it took advantage of the fact that the news had not yet spread, and led tens of thousands of cavalry to attack the Guandu camp by land in the starry night. According to the report of the rout, the official Du Shou General Xia Houde and Liu Ye, who joined the army, were both captured alive, and their lives and deaths are still unknown.

After the state army captured Guandu, opened up Puyang - Guandu - Mengjindu - Luoyang this waterway grain road, Lu Bu gained a firm foothold in Puyang, sent troops to storm the Dongjun town guarded by General Xiahou Shang, the last general just wanted to send troops to aid General Xiahou Shang after getting the news, but when the last general arrived thirty miles away from the east county city, he encountered the defeated army of General Xiahou Shang.

According to the report of those defeated troops, and the state army took thousands of heavily armored warriors as the pioneers, those people were all wearing heavy armor and holding fine iron heavy shields and hundred-forged war knives, ordinary bows and arrows could not hurt them at all, even if it was a strong crossbow defending the city, but it could only knock away those soldiers, but under the protection of those fine iron heavy shields, it still could not pierce them!

General Xiahou Shang did not check for a while and was killed by these heavily armored soldiers on the city tower, and the soldiers in the city of Dongjun were outnumbered, and the city was broken after only half a day of resistance. General Xiahou Shang led the remnants of the army to fight in the streets of Dongjun City, and barely lasted for a day or two before being captured alive by a general with a white horse and silver spear, and the thousands of remnants of the army under his command saw that General Xiahou Shang was captured, so they scattered and fled.

Now the Bingzhou army stopped in the city of Dongjun, and arranged for the sergeants to use the grain and grass transported from Luoyang to begin to relieve the hungry and displaced people in Puyang and Dongjun, and there was no further offensive for the time being. ”

"What! The two brothers, Xiahoude and Xiahoushang, were all captured alive?! Is that true? "Xiahoude and Xiahou Shang are both cousins of Xiahoudun, among which Xiahou Shang is known as a general, as soon as he heard that both of them were captured by the Bingzhou army, Xiahoudun seemed to be burned by the fire, his eyes were round, (he had not yet become a one-eyed dragon~) 'Whew, Whew' was dressed roughly, so it seemed that as long as the sergeant of the Band State Army appeared in front of him, he could immediately tear them to pieces!

"Quiet!!" Cao Ying rubbed his somewhat sore temples, and a cold drink made Xiahoudun immediately change from a fierce beast to a sick cat.

After half a ring, Guo Jia, who had been silent since Xi Zhicai's death, took the lead in speaking: "If we want to defeat Lu Bu and recapture the third brother of Puyang, Dongjun, and Guandu, we only have three months now. If we can't drive Lu Bu's army out of Yanzhou in these three months, not to mention how long our army's grain and grass can last, it depends on how fast Lu Bu is now using grain to buy the hearts of the people in Yanzhou, I am afraid that in a few months, the hearts of the people in Yanzhou will not be on our side. When the time comes, the position of master and slave will change, and we will have to withdraw from Yanzhou and find another place to live. ”

Cao Ying's eyes lit up: "Then what is Fengxiao's strategy to break the enemy?" ”

Guo Jia closed his eyes again: "Now that Lu Bu is fighting steadily, but our army is conducive to a rapid battle, it is difficult to be effective in terms of strategies at all, because most of the strategies are most afraid of the opponent's immobility." So in my opinion, it is best to use dignified and upright soldiers to invite Lu Bu to fight, if you can't win, you either abandon your weapons and surrender or retreat elsewhere to serve under the command of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, but in this life, you don't want to think about becoming a king. ”

"Bastard! What are you talking about, you sour man! I" Xiahoudun was already sullen and did not vent, as soon as he heard Guo Jia say such negative words, he suddenly became angry, rolled up his sleeves and wanted to reward Guo Jia with a few punches.

"Boom!!"

Unexpectedly, before Xiahoudun's fist was raised, Cao Ying kicked the case in front of him first, stared at Xiahoudun and shouted: "Are you the lord or am I the lord?!" Who let you be presumptuous in this without my permission!! ”

Xiahou was stunned, it was the first time he saw his eldest brother talking to himself like this, if it was the first time he saw his eldest brother showing such murderous aura to himself! Yes, it's really murderous!! His eldest brother actually revealed his murderous aura to himself! No, this murderous aura doesn't seem to be directed at himself, but the eldest brother is obviously looking at himself, is it the eldest brother

"The lord is angry, the lord is angry!" Li Dian persuaded with some trepidation.

Cao Ying snorted coldly, didn't look at Xiahoudun who was stunned in place and didn't dare to move, and didn't look at Guo Jia, who was there with his eyes closed, he flicked his sleeves and turned around and walked towards the inner courtyard

The dividing line of rage

In the inner courtyard, there were only Cao Ying, Cheng Yu, Li Dian, Le Jin, Cao Hong and other Miao Miao.

Cao Ying asked Cheng Yu softly, "Find out how Lu Bu passed through Yuan Shu's hundreds of thousands of troops, and how he passed through the land of several counties in Yuzhou and entered our Yanzhou?" ”

Cheng Yu bowed his head and replied: "It has been found out, Yuan Shu fought against Lu Bu and the two armies on the border of Nanyang County dozens of days ago, Lu Bu seemed to have given Yuan Shu something, Yuan Shu seemed to be ecstatic after getting that thing, and immediately took all the soldiers of Nanyang County back to Huainan, and Nanyang County fell into the hands of Lu Bu without spending a single soldier.

And after leaving tens of thousands of guards sergeants in charge of Nanyang, Lu Bu led tens of thousands of cavalry to integrate the southern road cavalry that fought with Yuan Shu several times, as well as the tens of thousands of east road cavalry that stirred the world upside down in Yanzhou, and crossed the land of several counties in Yuzhou with a few grains and grass. ”

Cao Ying's brows were cloudy, and he thought hard for a while before he spoke: "Didn't Yuan Shu just send a message to the world, saying that he and Lu Bu must not stand on each other?" Why did Lu Bu give him something, and he gave up the entire Nanyang County to Lu Bu? If Lu Bu used the massive amount of money he obtained from Emperor Ling and Dong Thief to bribe Yuan Shu, I wouldn't be surprised by this result, but he actually used only one thing to make Yuan Shu ecstatic? How is this possible? ”

Cheng Yu smiled bitterly: "Lord, no matter what Lu Bu sent Yuan Shu, but now that Lu Bu has entered Yanzhou, and has also captured the three hinterlands of Yanzhou, Dongjun, Puyang, and Guandu, if we can't think of any clever plan to break the enemy, we may face an embattled situation in a few months!" ”

Cao Ying raised his head, stared at Cheng Yu with bright eyes, and said: "Although what Feng Xiao said that day is not good to hear, I understand what he meant, that is, to fight to the death with Lu Bu in Yanzhou with all his strength, and to fight with Lu Bu for several months!! ”

(To be continued)