Chapter 153: The whale swallows Xuzhou
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In another time and space, Wang Yun used the beauty trick to successfully confuse Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo, and separated them, if this trajectory continued, Guo Bi and Li Dao would raise troops to attack Chang'an, as a result, Lu Bu was defeated and left Chang'an, fled to Yuan Shu for refuge, Wang Yun committed suicide, and the Son of Heaven fell into the hands of Li Dao and Guo Bi.
Because Lu Bu was not treated well by Yuan Shu, he ran to his brother Yuan Shao's territory to seek a way to survive, and then joined forces with Yuan Shao to hit the black mountain thief Zhang Yan hard, unfortunately, Lu Bu helped Yuan Shao to cripple Zhang Yan, but he was disliked by Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao secretly sent troops to eradicate Lu Bu.
Lü Bu also escaped by luck because he had insight into Yuan Shao's tricks in advance, and ran to Chen Liutai's guard Zhang Miao, where Lü Bu met his diehard Chen Palace, and the two hit it off and encouraged Zhang Miao to attack Cao Cao's base camp.
It must be known that at this time, Cao Cao was attacking Xuzhou with all his strength under the pretext of avenging his father, although Xuzhou Tao Qian was an old fox, but he was old, and he was not the opponent of Cao Cao, who was better than the blue.
Forced to be helpless, Tao Qian sent a request for help to several of his old friends, except for Beihai Kong Rong and Youzhou Liu Fu pretended to send a little general, no one came to the rescue, oh, by the way, and Liu Bei, who was also eyeing Xuzhou's big fat meat, like Cao Cao.
Liu Bei borrowed Zhao Yun and a thousand soldiers from Gongsun Zhan, and then took the second brother, the third brother and the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to rescue Tao Qian.
At this time, the chickens and dogs slaughtered by Cao Cao in Xuzhou were not left, and tens of thousands of fresh troops in Xuzhou were also severely damaged by Cao Cao, and there was only a little war in Xuzhou City. plus Liu Bei's soldiers. If you want to keep Xuzhou. It is simply impossible to defeat Cao Cao, a hungry wolf who was already hungry.
God bless our Uncle Liu Huang, Lu Bu met Chen Gong, a desperate but bad strategist, and they took advantage of Cao Cao's siege of Xuzhou to sneak attack Cao Cao's lair, Yanzhou.
Yanzhou was Cao Cao's base camp, and once lost, Cao Cao and his tens of thousands of troops would be left homeless. It's hard to say whether you can eat or not.
With the help of Chen Gong, with the courage of his subordinates, Lu Bu almost defeated the entire Yanzhou in a few days, and Cao Cao was left with only three lonely cities, which were in danger!
Cao Cao didn't dare to stay longer, pushed the boat down the river, sent a favor to Liu Bei, and he quickly returned to Yanzhou with a large army and fought with Lu Bu.
Liu Bei picked up a bargain. Let the soldiers and civilians of Xuzhou admire him, and Tao Qian also gave Xuzhou to Liu Bei. was pretended to be shirked by Liu Bei, but there was no way, Tao Qian had no choice but to let Liu Bei be in the army in Xiaopeitun to defend Xuzhou.
Not long after, Tao Qian was seriously ill, and he couldn't do it, so he gave back to Xuzhou to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei sternly refused, Tao Qian had no choice but to give up, knowing that Tao Qian was really going to die, he gave back to Xuzhou to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei accepted it pretendedly.
But this is the normal historical trend, in this time and space, Lu Bu did not accompany the black-bellied bad old man Wang Yun to play beauty tricks, but destroyed Wang Yun's plan, sought a way to survive in the cracks, transcended time, provoked the beam in advance, and became a prince.
In the Guanzhong mixed like a fish in water, the force is getting stronger and stronger, the front of the army is directed at Xiliang, once the annexation of Xiliang, it is conceivable that another super force was born.
Lü Bu avoided the Central Plains, stayed in Guanzhong, plotted against Xiliang, set his sights on Hanzhong, went all the way to the south, and laid down Xichuan, the correctness of this strategic policy is self-evident.
Guanzhong, Xiliang, Hanzhong, Xichuan, this is equivalent to having a small half of the world, retreating can be defended, and advance can be attacked.
And the Central Plains, although the place is large, but there are so many heroes, it is unimaginable, almost every day in the war, north of the Yellow River, Yuan Shao, Zhang Yan, Gongsun Zhan, Liu Fu.
In the small Shandong, there are Cao Cao, Kong Rong and Zang Ba (also representing Tao Qian), and further south, Tao Qian, and then Yuan Shu.
The situation in the south is much better, and the people are mostly living peacefully, mainly because the warlord leaders are not enterprising.
It is conceivable that at this time, Sun Jian, the fierce tiger in Jiangdong, hung up, and his son Sun Ce and the old department all took refuge in Yuan Shu, which made the entire Jiangdong in an extremely weak state, and Yan Baihu and others were all wine bags and rice bags.
If Liu Biao had a long snack, sent a strong team, and took advantage of the situation, he could have taken Jiangdong, but Liu Biao was confused, staying in Jingzhou, and moving his buttocks, he would be troublesome.
In this time and space, Lu Bu did not harass Cao Cao's base camp Yanzhou, but was attacking Xiliang.
The process of history has also been pushed forward, Cao Cao saw that Lu Bu suddenly rose strongly, almost couldn't sleep at night, couldn't eat, and had a black face all day long, if he knew that the strategists, generals, and bodyguards who originally belonged to him were pried away by Lu Bu, he would definitely vomit blood on the spot.
Cao Cao, who was unwilling to lag behind, opened his eyes and closed his eyes to consider how to develop the momentum, for this reason, the Yellow Turban Army in Shandong was unlucky, and after their main force was defeated and incorporated by Cao Cao, the small Yellow Turban Army that escaped was still a little complacent, and as a result, it didn't take long for them to be found by Cao Cao and wiped out in one fell swoop.
It is difficult to find the shadow of the Yellow Turban Army in the whole Shandong, the Yellow Turban Army is gone, Cao Cao is anxious again, how can he go further, he can't just wait.
Here I would like to say that Cao Cao's strategic policy is to nourish the war with war, and through war, to develop his own strength.
The big fat meat in the north, Cao Cao couldn't even think about it, with his current strength, as long as he stepped on the Yellow River, he would be chopped off immediately.
Beihai Kong Rong, Cao Cao has coveted it for a long time, but Kong Rong has the name of a saint on his head, he is a great Confucian in the world, Cao Cao does not dare to start easily, the teacher is unknown, he will only be spurned, which is not conducive to his future development.
The long-awaited Cao Cao finally waited for an opportunity, when his old father passed by Xuzhou, he was killed by Tao Qian's subordinate Zhang Min, and the scheming Tao Qian also walked back and touched a powder keg that had been gathering momentum for a long time.
Cao Cao, who was overjoyed, immediately led tens of thousands of troops to Xuzhou under the banner of avenging his father.
For a while, the whole Xuzhou chickens flew and the dogs jumped, and Tao Qian hurriedly convened the generals to discuss countermeasures. also ran to Tao Qian's territory early. Cheating to eat and drink. Tao Qian didn't drive Liu Bei away, after all, Liu Bei's three brothers also have some ability, maybe they will come in handy at some point, and he also knows that these generals of his are all at the level of wine bags and rice bags.
As soon as Cao Cao came over, Liu Bei felt that it was time for him to appear, and he couldn't just eat and do nothing.
Tens of thousands of Cao troops did not go straight to Xuzhou City, but burned and looted in the six counties of Xuzhou. Clean up the military and civilians in all borders, make Xuzhou an isolated city, and the purge policy also puts everyone in Xuzhou in danger for the military and civilians.
Tao Qian didn't let Liu Bei's three brothers perform at first, but let his chief general Cao Bao (straw bag?) With tens of thousands of troops in Xuzhou, Cao Bao was killed by Cao Cao and almost couldn't even return home.
Tens of thousands of Xuzhou's main forces were destroyed, and the gray-haired Tao Qian fainted on the spot, and after waking up, he hurriedly wrote to several of his old friends for help, and ordered to stick to Xuzhou City and wait for rescue.
Cao Cao has always been able to capture fighters. He saw that Xuzhou was holding on, and knew that Tao Qian wanted to wait for rescue. How could he give Tao Qian this opportunity, so he ordered the siege of the city day and night.
In this time and space, Tao Qian and Liu Bei were not so lucky, there was Lu Bu messing around in Cao Cao's rear, which scared Cao Cao to withdraw, and all they could count on was themselves and a few poor reinforcements.
Tao Qian and Liu Bei are both first-class talents in terms of dealing with people and things, scheming, etc., but when it comes to fighting, they are blind, otherwise the former will not be bullied by Cao Cao, and the latter will not reach the age of half-age.
Liu Bei wanted to take his second and third brothers out of the city to fight Cao Cao and defeat Cao Cao, but Tao Qian was so willing, he didn't dare to take risks when he saw that Cao Cao's military might was so strong.
Liu Bei saw that Tao Qian didn't let him lead his troops out of the city for a decisive battle, he just wanted to trap the fortified city, sit and wait for death, or wait for reinforcements to come to help, how can this Xuzhou be said to be his Tao Qian's territory, Tao Qian can die for her, but he Liu Bei is unwilling.
Cao Cao's tens of thousands of troops attacked Xuzhou with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, and the city of Xuzhou was broken, only in the evening.
Liu Bei saw that he would stay and would only die with Tao Qian, so he offered to go out of the city to ask for help, taking the opportunity to avoid the disaster, and under Liu Bei's wanton request, Tao Qian didn't know which tendon he had made wrong, and agreed to give Liu Bei a team of soldiers and horses, so that he could go out of the city for help.
Before leaving, Liu Bei swore several times that he would definitely bring reinforcements back, and the righteous and awe-inspiring words said that all the people present were moved to tears.
Tao Qian also ran out of tricks, holding on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that Liu Bei could really find foreign aid and return to the city to rescue, but in fact, this was just Tao Qian's self-deception.
Liu Bei took Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and a team of elite soldiers out of the city, under the protection of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Liu Bei wanted to break out of Cao Cao's encirclement and escape with his life, it was not a difficult task.
Leaving behind Xuzhou, which was about to be destroyed, Liu Bei went all the way north, he wanted to seek refuge in Yuan Shao, seek a livelihood, and achieve development.
Tao Qian stood on the city tower, looking at Liu Bei's distant back, old tears, in his heart, silently begging Liu Bei to return with troops as soon as possible.
Beihai Kong Rong is also interesting enough, sent a team of soldiers and horses, pretending to be a momentum, to support Xuzhou, Youzhou Liu Fu also symbolically sent a team of soldiers and horses, the strength of the two combined, less than 10,000.
Such a force ran over, that is, to give Cao Cao a tooth sacrifice.
Liu Bei met the reinforcements of Kong Rong and Liu Fu, overjoyed, immediately turned around, the three armies together, and returned to Xuzhou, Liu Bei was full of hope that he could defeat Cao Cao, no matter how bad it was, he could temporarily keep Xuzhou.
Who knows, Cao Cao learned in advance that there were soldiers and horses to help, set up an ambush, and only one battle, Liu Bei and others who were killed lost their armor and ran away with their heads in their hands.
Xuzhou's hope for help was also broken, Cao Cao ordered the heads of the reinforcements to run to the city of Xuzhou, which shocked the Xuzhou soldiers and civilians, and Tao Qian vomited blood and fainted on the spot.
In desperation, Tao Qian tried to lead his troops to break through, but since Xuzhou couldn't stay any longer, he had to flee back to his hometown in the east of Xuzhou to temporarily save his life.
Cao Cao's use of troops is extremely finely calculated, which will make Tao Qian break through so easily, besides, Tao Qian does not have the protection of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's fierce brothers, as a result, Tao Qian, who intends to break through, is surrounded by Cao Bing.
Facing Cao Bing, who was as powerful as a tiger and wolf, Tao Qian looked up to the sky and sighed a few times, but unfortunately he was hit by a stray arrow, and he died on the spot due to his illness. (To be continued......)