Xu You sneered: "Do you want the lord to surrender?" ”

Sima Yi said to Cao Pi: "Yu Qi and Lu Bu are fighting for uncertainty in the north, it is better to abandon this hopeless battle, and put your strength into a hopeful direction, and what you lose in the north will be recaptured from the south!" Everyone present was stunned. Sima Yi's eyes flashed with a deep light, and he said his plan.

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Lü Bu's three cavalry units captured the three counties of Hanoi, Chaoge, and Wei respectively. At the same time, the main force led by Zhang Lang surrounded Liyi in Yecheng north of Liyang, and in a fierce battle, the Cao army of Liyi's subordinate was annihilated, and Liyi escaped with only a dozen cavalry soldiers. After Zhang Lang completely annihilated the troops of Koyi Yi, the army rolled north, and a few days later it entered the city of Jizhou.

Jizhou City, a famous and prosperous metropolis in the world, was once the base camp of Yuan Shao, and now it is an important base for the Cao family to rule the north. In terms of scale and trade, Jizhou City can definitely be compared with Luoyang and Xuchang, but it is slightly inferior in terms of population. Located on the Great Plain of Jizhou, it is majestic and precipitous, and can be called a giant city, which is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. Now sitting in Jizhou is an important general of the Cao family, Cao Xiu, who led 15,000 elite soldiers and 100,000 militia to guard Jizhou.

When Lu Bu's army came to the city, the alarm bell in the city immediately rang in unison, the regular army and the militia rushed up to the city wall, the swords were unsheathed, the arrows were wound, and the herald in the city galloped along the street, shouting: "The whole city is under martial law, and the idle people will return home immediately!" The whole city is under martial law, and the idle people will return home immediately! ……”

Cao Xiu hurriedly climbed the city gate tower surrounded by his subordinates, and looked out of the city, only to see Lu Bu's army and horses overwhelming, battle flags surging, swords and guns like a forest, and he couldn't help but be surprised. An adjutant general next to him said to Cao Xiu with a white face: "I just got the news that the Liyi Department was broken through by Lu Bu's army at the Baima Ferry, and then it was completely annihilated in Yecheng, and the life and death of Liyi are unknown." ”

Cao Xiu snorted coldly and sneered: "How can the defeated generals under Yuan Shao be Lu Bu's opponents!" ”

The adjutant general said: "General, with the strength of our army, I am afraid that it will be difficult to hold Jizhou, so we should hurry up and ask for help!" ”

Cao Xiu immediately ordered: "Send an envoy to Dongjun for help, and at the same time send someone to ask General Zilong to lead the army to help." The lieutenant clenched his fists and ran down.

At this moment, I saw a majestic general dressed in leather armor and painted oil paint fly out of the enemy formation, and Le Ma shouted: "I am Shamoke, the commander of Wuxi under the command of the general, who dares to come and send him to death!" ”

Cao Xiu was furious, "Little barbarian, An dare to be rampant!" He turned his head and asked the generals around him: "Who dares to fight?" Immediately, a subordinate general named Deng Pu hugged his fists and said: "The last general is willing to cut off the head of this fang and sacrifice it to the tent!" Cao Xiu was overjoyed, "If the general is stunned to kill this barbarian, I will ask for credit for the general in front of the lord!" ”

Temple's rush down the wall. The gates were wide open, the drums of war rang out, and Temple's gun urged his horse to gallop out of the gates. When he came to the front of Shamoko, he pointed his spear at Shamoko and shouted, "I am ......" Shamoko was already holding a mace and screaming and rushed up. Temple was taken aback, and didn't bother to report to his home, so he urged the horse to meet him.

The two horses intersected, and Temple raised his gun to assassinate him, but Shamoko was faster than him, and the mace had already been chopped off on the head. Temple's face changed, and he didn't have time to dodge, only to hear a pop. Temple's skull bursts, and plasma splatters fall off the horse.

The soldiers of the Cao family on the city wall were shocked. One of the generals exclaimed: "This barbarian is so powerful! Cao Xiu frowned, and then asked the generals: "Who dares to fight?" The generals looked at each other, and at this time, Shamoko shouted outside the city: "What a waste! I thought the Cao family's generals were so powerful? It's a sake bag and a rice bag at all! Lu Bu's army burst into laughter. Cao Jun was filled with righteous indignation, and a general ran down: "I'll fight him!" "That general's name is Zhang Cheng, and he is also one of Cao Xiu's subordinate generals.

Zhang Cheng rode out of the city gate with a gun and horse, without speaking, without pausing, and went straight towards Shamoke.

Shamoko became excited, and urged the horse to meet him with a mace. The two sides staggered back and forth for several rounds, Zhang Chengli was timid, shook a shot, and hurriedly turned his horse's head and fled back. Shamoko did not allow him to escape, and immediately rode his horse after him, shouting, "Coward, don't run! Zhang Cheng ran even more panicked, and Shamoke couldn't catch up at all.

Seeing this, Zhang Lang immediately bent his bow and took an arrow, aiming it at the back of Zhang Cheng's neck. With a whoosh, the arrow turned into a phantom, and in the blink of an eye, the arrow penetrated Zhang Cheng, who was fleeing for his life, and the blood and water were marked, Zhang Cheng screamed miserably, and fell on his side. Seeing this, Shamoko, who was chasing, immediately reined in his horse.

The soldiers of the Cao army on the city wall saw that they had broken again, and they were all pale and silent.

Shamoko continued to shout and challenge under the city. Seeing that no one dared to fight, Cao Xiu suppressed his anger and ordered all armies to hold the city tightly and not to fight.

Zhang Lang saw that Shamoke had been scolding for more than a quarter of an hour, but the other party had no reaction, knowing that the other party was too timid to fight again, so he recalled Shamoke and ordered the army to retreat ten miles to the village.

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Luoyang Governor's Mansion, Huang Yueying looked at the military report that had just been delivered, and her beautiful face showed a look of joy. Put down the military newspaper and bow your head in thought. The staff summoned Ma Teng and gave him an order, and Ma Teng took the order and ran down. Isn't Ma Teng guarding and merging the state, how can he be here? It turned out that when Luoyang was in danger that day, Huang Yueying sent someone to send a letter of help to Ma Teng, and after Ma Teng received the letter for help, he immediately left 50,000 soldiers and horses to continue to guard the state, and he led another 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Yingyang Army to aid Luoyang. After Ma Teng led his soldiers and horses to Luoyang in the starry night, he didn't expect that Cao's 200,000 troops were actually bluffed away by Huang Yueying's empty city plan. Ma Teng and the others admired Huang Yueying so much that they threw themselves to the ground.

After Ma Teng received Huang Yueying's order, he immediately gathered 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command and left Luoyang to go north and join the state.

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After Lu Bu's army came to Jizhou, he was not in a hurry to attack, and the army surrounded Jizhou, and there were generals who challenged it every day. At the beginning, Cao Jun still had generals to fight, but after losing several generals, Cao Jun never fought again. No matter how Lu Bujun scolded and challenged, Cao Jun just closed the city gate and couldn't hold out, with a posture of making up his mind to defend the city.

After seven days in a row, the heavy siege equipment that Zhang Lang was waiting for finally arrived, two hundred specially modified heavy catapults, two hundred swarm of fire bee vehicles, and in addition to these equipment, there were hundreds of craftsmen who came with the equipment.

When the siege equipment arrived, Zhang Lang no longer worked with Cao Jun and ordered the army to attack the city. On this day, Lu Bu's army poured out of the nest and started a war on three sides, east, west and south, and two hundred heavy catapults were all concentrated in the direction of the south gate of the main attack, lined up in two rows.