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As soon as Yanzhou was in chaos, Lu Bu led 5,000 men and horses from his headquarters, 7,000 troops from Chen Liujun of the Zhang brothers, and 5,000 soldiers and horses funded by Chen Gong, Xu Yan, and Wang Kai, totaling 17,000 men and horses, to kill Puyang.

Puyang is not only Cao Cao's military and political center, but also his most important rear and military food base. If you can take Puyang, you can give Cao Cao a heavy blow, and if you can annihilate Xiahou Dun's department at the same time, it will cut off Cao Cao's arm. To achieve this, Chen Gong presented Lu Bu with a plan to lure the snake out of the hole. When Lu Bu heard this, he applauded the attack.

When Lü Bu led his army to Lihu on the north bank of Pushui, Puyang, a hundred miles away, was already ready to defend against the enemy under the leadership of Xiahoudun. At this time, Puyang had 5,000 soldiers and horses, including 2,000 elite soldiers, and Lu Bu had nearly 20,000 horses, and the real soldiers were only 6 or 7,000. In the battle of defending the city, the enemy was three times larger, and Xiahoudun had full confidence.

However, he never expected that after Lu Bujun left Lihu. With a false shot, he did not kill Puyang, who was heavily armed in Jiancheng, but turned around and went north, crossed the Guzi River, and pointed directly at Zhencheng.

Xiahoudun was shocked when he heard the news, you must know that at this time, there were only more than 1,000 guards in Zhencheng, and the guards were Sima Xun Yu of the other department, Xun Sima was long in the governance and short in the army, facing more than ten times the enemy. How to resist it? If it was just like this, although Xiahoudun was shocked, he would not lose his color, what really made him lose his color was that all the relatives and children of the lord, including all the relatives of the Cao family, Xiahou family and other generals, were all in Zhencheng.

That is, if Zhen Cheng is breached by Lu Bu - this is almost certain. Including the lord, all the relatives of the senior generals and strategists of the Cao army will fall into the hands of Lu Bu. It's absolutely fatal!

At this moment, Xiahoudun had no choice.

When Xiahoudun led 4,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to rescue Zhencheng, Lu Bu killed a horse gun. The two sides passed by in Xiancheng, between Puyang and Zhencheng. Went their separate ways - Xiahoudun successfully rushed to Zhencheng in the east, preserving Cao's relatives and Zhencheng, Cao Cao's important foundation in Yanzhou. And Lu Bu also successfully killed Puyang in the west, with an absolute superiority in troops. Force the defenders to surrender and take this important town of Yanzhou in one fell swoop.

Chen Gong's plan to lure the snake out of the hole was perfectly achieved.

Xiahoudun, who had lost his heavy land, could only build a camp on the side of the Yellow River twenty miles northwest of Zhencheng. and Zhen Cheng are each other's horns to resist Lu Bu's army.

At this time, Lu Bu was faced with two choices: one was to concentrate his forces to attack Xiahou Dun and cut off Cao Cao's arm. The first is to send a small number of soldiers and horses to stop Xiahoudun. The main army rushed to Renchengguo, 500 miles away, to capture the two cities of Kangfu and Gaoping, cut off the way back to Cao Cao's army, and after its food was exhausted, it would collapse without attacking.

Lu Bu's generals Zhang Liao and Gao Shun all supported the latter option, but Chen Gong, Xu Yan, Wang Kai, Hao Meng, and Wei Yue supported the former choice, and the rest of Cheng Lian and Cao Xing held a middle attitude.

Lu Bu hesitated for a long time, and from the military perspective of his many years of fighting, what Zhang Liao and Gao Shun said was a long-term plan, but the opinions of the local forces represented by Chen Gong and others could not be ignored. Moreover, Chen Gong made great contributions to the successful capture of Puyang this time, and his reason was also very sufficient: as long as he defeated and annihilated Xiahou Xuan's department, Zhencheng would naturally be like a treasure in his pocket. In this way, Cao Cao's vitality will be greatly damaged and will no longer be a problem. And what Zhang Liao and Gao Shun said is also reasonable: Cao Mengde is a snake's head, and his head is cut off and his body is stiff, how can he give up his head and hit his body?

After repeated weighing, Lu Bu had a flash of inspiration, and he actually came up with a ruthless move for him to kill two birds with one stone.

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Along the Yellow River, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and in a deep ditch overgrown with weeds and dense shrubs, there are more than 20 people sitting or standing. The scorching sun scorched the earth, and although the weeds and terrain covered it, the sunlight could not reach the body directly, but the scorching heat still made people restless and restless.

However, every time everyone's eyes swept over those two quiet and focused figures, they couldn't help but feel a good mood.

One person was neatly dressed in white, calmly kneeling on a pouch mat, holding a scroll and reading quietly, even if the beads of sweat oozing from his forehead dripped down, it could not distract him; One of them was using a strange short knife with a serrated back, intently and carefully cutting a very long arrow.

That's right, the twenty-eight people lurking here are none other than Ma Han and his ten wolf riders, as well as Li Dian and his sixteen guests.

Isn't the horse riding by twenty wolves, why are there only ten people? The answer is: the other ten people have already taken a boat to the north to Yangping to pick up Lejin's father. And Ma Han led the remaining ten soldiers, leaving to wait for the opportunity to help Li Dian.

Ma Han is actually not optimistic about such an assassination method, but he just allows Li Dian to do his best, and he can go back with an explanation, he can't do nothing, and go back in disgrace, right? Anyway, it is not difficult to pick up the father of Lejin, and it can be done by sending a white wolf horseman. And Ma Han stayed, apparently saying that he was helping Li Dian, but in fact he had other plans.

They were a group of nearly thirty people, staring at the three thousand field soldiers of Xue Lan all the way, and this support soldier was finally stationed in Xiancheng, fifty miles southwest of Zhencheng. Subsequently, Lu Bu of Puyang also came to visit Xue Lan in person, which was the first time Lu Bu saw his own driver, and the two sides finalized the resolution to jointly attack Xiahoudun.

Ma Han managed to capture a patrol commander of the Juye Army and got the news.

Lu Bu vs. Xiahoudun! Don't miss this opportunity. Take advantage of the time when you are waiting for Yangping to pick up people, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, if you have the opportunity, give both sides some eye medicine, so that the two sides can fight more lively, wouldn't it be good?

Although Ma Han wanted to fight Cao Cao, it did not mean that he was Lu Bu's ally, and the two tigers, Lu Bu and Cao Cao, bit more fiercely. The more serious the injury, the more it is in his interest. Whether Li Dian can find an opportunity to assassinate Xue Lan, Ma Yan does not know, but he really wants to find an opportunity to kill Xiahou Xuan.

Li Dian and Xiahoudun are both Cao Cao's early generals, but the nature of these two is completely different. In the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, Cao Cao's Cao Wei group. It is the most typical force that relies mainly on clans to maintain its rule.

Although Cao Cao was the first to put forward in the "Seeking Talent" that "the second and third sons are ugly and ugly, and I have to use them." "But the talents selected and the officials have nothing to do with the army, and in the army, they are in the hands of the clan generals represented by the Cao family and the Xiahou family. In terms of letting go of the use of generals with foreign surnames, Cao Cao, who is known as magnificent, is even inferior to the monarchs of Wu and Shu.

One of the characteristics of Cao Wei's operations was that he never allowed generals with foreign surnames to lead the army alone. Even if it is the so-called five good generals, there is basically no chance to lead the army alone. This situation lasted until the end of Jian'an, and the first generation of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan would take the lead and wither. No one is available, so the ban is lifted a little as a last resort. However, the policy of letting generals with foreign surnames lead the army alone has just been relaxed. It was the case that Yu Ban, who led the Seventh Army alone, was besieged by flooding and was forced to surrender to Shu...... I really don't know whether to praise or choke Cao Cao's policy.

Xiahoudun was the first person under Cao Cao. General Cao Jun. Although this person lost many battles and won few battles in his life, he eventually became the general of the general who led Cao Wei's national soldiers and horses, and his importance to Cao Cao is no less

Yu Guan Zhangzhi to Liu Bei; Zhou Yu to Sun Ce.

Each force can be divided into three kinds of people, take the Cao generals as an example: one kind of people can be pulled over, such as Le Jin, Li Dian, and Han Hao; A kind of person can be neutral, such as Yu Ban, Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, and Shi Lian; There is also a kind of person, let you do everything, you will be insulated from you in this life, this kind of person kills one by one, such as Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Cao Chun......

Killing a general of the Cao clan and the Xiahou clan is a greater blow to Cao Cao than the annihilation of 10,000 Cao troops. It is said that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers, if you succeed in sniping Xiahoudun, it is not just a matter of breaking your finger, but a broken arm!

Infiltrating the heavily guarded military camp to assassinate Xiahoudun is obviously not very reliable, and it is also too risky, but while Xiahoudun and Lu Bu are facing each other, waiting for the opportunity to snipe, it is worth a try.

Snipe Xiahoudun! Even Ma Qiang, who has been in battle for a long time and has repeatedly killed celebrities of the Three Kingdoms, can't help but be enthusiastic.

After visually inspecting the terrain around Cao's camp, Ma Han demarcated the most suitable area for the battlefield in combination with the direction in which the army of Lu Bu and Xue Lan was most likely to attack. Then, according to the number of soldiers and horses of the Cao army, the per capita area was calculated, as well as the position where the main general was always present during the battle in this era, and roughly estimated the position of the Xiahoudun general flag when the two armies were fighting.

In the end, Ma Han found a speechless sniper point based on the number of points obtained—a 20-zhang high dirt slope 800 meters away.

Eight hundred meters! Six hundred and fifty steps! It's so rebellious!

It is true that the effective range of the Pupil Bow can reach that far, but shooting far is not the same thing as shooting accurately. Although Ma Han's archery skills have improved a lot recently, this distance against the sky, sniping a specific target, that is also called an impossible. Even if God helped, Xiahoudun appeared there on time, the weather was sunny and windless, and he was able to evade the Cao army's sentry and shoot this arrow along the way. The probability of final success, according to Ma Han's own estimates, will not exceed 20%.

However, this kind of good thing with small risks and large returns, even if there is only a two-percent chance, is worth a try.

Ma Han had never sniped such a distant target before this-the time when the fire burned Kebineng's tooth tent, although the range was more than a kilometer, it was just an aimless scattering. However, because of the experience of shooting twenty arrows in a row, Ma Han has a certain understanding of the requirements for long-range firing.

Ultra-long-range arrows are different from the general one, first, they must be long enough to maintain a stable flight for a long time; Second, the portion is appropriate, not too light, not too heavy; The third is the use of special three-wing feathers, which can keep the arrow in a spiral state when flying in the air, which is the most stable flight state and can maximize the hit rate.

Among the two types of arrows that Ma Han always has, the pure iron heavy arrow is obviously not good, and the flying arrow is slightly lighter, so he can only make a special arrow on the spot. Although this special arrow is very demanding, it is not easy to make by hand, and it is time-consuming and laborious, but if it is just an arrow, it is still no problem - sniping, whether it succeeds or fails, Ma Han only has one chance to shoot.

Suddenly, in the grass, a thin figure jumped down, and knelt down to Li Dian in the sound of everyone pulling out their blades: "Report to Gongzi Dian, a group of soldiers came to the west, it seems to be Lu Bu's Puyang soldiers." ”

Ma Han stopped the sharpening arrow in his hand, Li Dian put down the bamboo slip in his hand, glanced at each other, and stood up.

They walked along the deep ditch for a while, climbed over two dirt slopes, and looked out through a gap several feet above the ground. Sure enough, I saw about dozens of soldiers, dragging weapons, under the supervision of a group of Cao Jun sentry horses, came to the gate of Cao Yingyuan, and knelt down together.

"We are all sergeants under the captain's account, guarding Puyang, Lu Bu besieging the city, the enemy is outnumbered, and we have to surrender. Today, taking advantage of the lax vigilance of the thief army, he fled with his brothers, and he is willing to return to the command of the school captain and beg the school captain to be included! ”

"Beggar Lieutenant Collection!"

Ma Han and Li Dian looked at each other in surprise, it was actually a Puyang deserter - no wonder they were so surprised, because in the past few days, they had only heard that the sentry had brought back Zhencheng and Cao Ying from time to time when deserters appeared. A weak enemy faces a strong enemy, and it is normal for deserters to appear. But there are also deserters in Puyang, and they fled to Cao Ying, which is rare.

The so-called Captain Zhichong in the mouths of these deserters refers to Xiahoudun, who leads the Eastern County Taishou with the Captain Zhichong, and most of the civil officials call him Taishou or Envoy, while his subordinates call him the Captain.

So, how will Xiahoudun treat these Puyang soldiers who have fled?

Soon, the gate opened, and a team of Cao soldiers rushed out, confiscating all the weapons of the Puyang troops, but they were not tied up and escorted into the camp.

Ma turned his head and asked Li Dian: "If Mancheng is Xiahou Yuanrang, what will he do?" ”

Li Dian heard the meaning of Ma Han's words, and said without hesitation: "When this is an extraordinary time, I will personally bow down and comfort him to inspire those who follow." ”

"Well said!" Ma Hao stroked his palms and smiled, holding the special arrow in his hand that was nearly completed, aiming at the sunset sun, his eyes narrowed-

Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun! Finally let me find your way! (To be continued......)