December 30 is the traditional Chinese festival - Chinese New Year's Eve, which is a very important festival in the Central Plains, such as drumming to expel the 'plague ghosts'.

However, the people on the battlefield don't have the time and interest to celebrate the festival, especially for Cao Cao, just the information that comes in one after another is enough for him to have a headache, where is the idea of celebrating the festival?

"Report ......"

"Speak!"

"Lord Qiqi, the Qingzhou Army launched a full-scale attack on Fengqiu City in the early morning two days ago, the army is huge, go all out, it should be a must-win! General Li was not afraid of danger, and Shi Leng's arrow raid was clear, and he led the whole army to fight among the strong prisoners! ”

The fast horse entered the city and went straight to the city to defend the mansion, and the news brought by Cao Cao was relieved, and what he was most worried about was that Li Tong saw that the situation was not good, and moved the city to the enemy. But he was reluctant to put his henchmen such as Le Jin and Li Dian, who were good at defense, on the front line to consume, so he had to do it as a last resort, but he was inevitably apprehensive in his heart.

Li Tong's talent and martial arts Cao Cao all know, as long as this person is willing to work hard, even if he can't block Wang Yu's soldiers, he can also cause a lot of consumption to the Qingzhou army.

Cao Cao didn't expect Li Tong to create a fighter plane for him, at this time he led the army to garrison Junyi, and it was the combination of Xiahou Shang and Zang Ba who built the reserve defense line.

Before Cao Cao could express his opinion and make arrangements, he heard another commotion outside, accompanied by the sound of hurried horses' hooves, and someone shouted loudly and approached quickly.

"Report ......"

"Speak!"

"The Qingzhou Army's offensive was extremely fierce. The arrows cover the sky and the sun, the shouting of killing shakes the sky, and the soldiers at the head of the city suffer heavy casualties, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold on! General Li ordered his subordinates to risk their lives to break through the siege and report it. I'm afraid that the seal will not be able to hold on for three days, please prepare as soon as possible! ”

“……”

The council hall suddenly became quiet, even a needle falling on the ground can be heard, Fengqiu City is indeed not as good as Luoyang and Puyang, but it is not muddy and papery, there are 5,000 elite soldiers in the city, and the city relies on the geographical advantage, at most only two city walls need to be held, which can't stop the Qingzhou army for three days?

Cao Cao's brows furrowed tightly, before the battle. He had already anticipated the difficulties of the battle. But he couldn't have imagined it. It's so hard!

The cavalry battle was just a surprise at the beginning, and it was a little cheap for the recruits of the Windwind Army...... Said to be begging. In fact, it was only a one-to-one battle loss ratio, after the Battle of Youzhou, the Hurricane Army expanded nearly twice, and about half of the soldiers were recruits, taking advantage of them, which was not a great record at all.

When the Qingzhou side gradually strengthened its strength, after the war, the battle loss ratio of the two sides was nearly three times!

Of course, Cao Cao was unwilling, but as Guo Fengxiao said, strong soldiers are fought. Instead of being trained, his expectations for the tiger and leopard riding are too high, and it is inevitable that he is too precious, and he has not dared to put it into the most fierce battle, and the tactics seem rigid, and his personal combat strength is also inferior.

He endured this breath, did not rush into battle, gave up face, asked for help from all the allies, and even made a fierce move that was likely to shake the morale of the army at the beginning of the war.

However, no matter how he tossed and turned, there was no way to delay even the advance of the Qingzhou army, Rao is Cao Cao was as determined as iron, and he would also feel flustered and hesitant.

In desperation, he issued another order, convened all the civil and military forces, and held a military meeting to discuss countermeasures. The ministers are all in Chenliu City, but the generals are a little troublesome, and many people are outside the army, and they have waited for more than an hour before they can be considered to have arrived.

As a result, Cheng Yu had just finished reading the latest information, and before everyone could recover from the shock, the updated information came again!

"Report ...... Lord Qiqi, the big thing is not good, the city of Fengqiu and Fengqiu has been breached! "Cao Cao didn't just throw Li Tong to Fengqiu, his strategy was to defend and counterattack, and spread sentinels around Fengqiu, in order to grasp the battle situation in time. These scouts did their duty, and reported back as soon as they had the latest news, but Cao Cao suffered multiple blows.

"What!?" Cao Cao stood up in shock, his lips trembling a little. The previous piece of information had already made him understand that the situation was not good, but he always felt that there was still a buffer time of a day or two, who would have thought that Fengqiu City would be broken like this.

"Where is General Venda now? Was the city breached on the same day? How did the war really work? Guo Jia didn't care about overstepping his bounds, so he took a few steps forward and asked quickly.

"Returning to the military division, it wasn't that day, the city was broken before noon, and the Qingzhou army also had a lunch in the city, and it was immediately kicked out after eating!" I don't know if he was tired or frightened, the messenger's mental state was very poor, and he remembered that he hadn't answered the previous question of the military advisor after finishing a sentence.

General Li's father and son were killed on the spot...... The subordinates were too far away, and they didn't look carefully, at the beginning, the Qingzhou army concentrated hundreds of crossbows, thousands of bows and crossbows, as well as oars, ladders and other equipment, and then it was to enter the army, and the ballistae began to shoot in turns at a distance of three hundred steps, and the head of the city could not raise their heads at all, and they approached with crossbowmen, and they fired in turns......"

The messenger's account was a bit inconsistent, but no one cared at this moment, and everyone including Cao Cao was shocked and shocked, and he listened to whatever he said.

In fact, the messenger has worked very hard, and the point is that this battle is not a process at all. It was more than an hour before and after, and the defenders were first beaten by the long-range pressure of the Qingzhou army, and after getting closer, it seemed to have improved a little, burning more than a dozen ladders of the Qingzhou army, and then somehow the city wall collapsed with a loud bang.

Li Tong's father and son probably died at the same time as the wall fell, so when the Qingzhou army attacked Fengqiu City and started street fighting, the resistance in the city was almost none, and the remaining recalcitrant ones were completely wiped out in less than half an hour.

In the whole battle, the losses of the Qingzhou army in terms of personnel were negligible, but the five thousand defenders were either killed or surrendered, and the whole army was annihilated.

Cao Cao and the rest of the civil and military forces were dumbfounded, completely unsure of how to evaluate this battle. Doesn't Li Tong sell his life? Don't have the skills? Surely not, if it's such a waste, how can it die on the city wall? It can only be said that the enemy is too strong and too unreasonable.

The fastest reaction was Guo Jia, he didn't just care about surprise, but accurately captured an important message: "You said that the Qingzhou army will start immediately after breaking the city, where are they going?" ”

"Cross the river and go west!"

"To the west?" Guo Jia was taken aback, Cao Cao also reacted, and immediately gasped and hurriedly took a picture to see. In fact, he doesn't need to look at it, he also knows what it means for the Qingzhou Army to self-proclaim Qiu to the west. Fifty miles to the seal of the hill is Yangwu, and about a hundred miles to the west of Yangwu is the Tiger Prison Pass!

Yangwu is just a small county town, not worth mentioning, and the Tiger Prison Pass is the world's Xiongguan, but the Qingzhou Army was too strong in the Battle of Fengqiu, who can guarantee that Wang Yu will not be able to win the Tiger Prison Pass?

Although Luoyang is located in the plain and is surrounded by all directions, the Tiger Pass is the only way to connect with the Yanzhou counties to the east. Once conquered by Qingzhou, Luoyang and Chen Liu will completely lose contact, but Qingzhou can use the power of the great victory to completely deter Zhang Yang and expand the front as a whole, and there is no hidden danger.

This is obviously to be anti-customer and force yourself to have a showdown!

"How about encircling Wei to save Zhao, how about the whole division going north and cutting off the return route from Qingzhou? The people at both ends of Zhang Yang's head are now subservient to Wang Yu on the surface, but there is no substantial restraint on both sides, and seeing that the momentum is not right, he will definitely not hang himself on Wang Yu's rope. Cheng Yu took the lead in proposing countermeasures.

"No!" Xun You shook his head and put forward his own opinion: "The hussar general is very good at using troops, and he will not be unaware of the danger of dividing troops, he deliberately waited for Fengqiu to be taken before turning to the Tiger Prison Pass, just to press the battle line forward. Now, as long as he leaves a general to garrison Fengqiu, if our army wants to go north, it must first go through a hard battle, and it is difficult to say whether it can be done before the Tiger Prison Pass is lost. Moreover, apart from the division of troops to stay behind, the hussar generals may not have no other arrangements. ”

"Other arrangements?" Cheng Yu hesitated: "Gongda refers to ......"

"Lu Bu!"

Xun You's tone was full of unquestionable taste: "It is true that the Puyang army is still in Dingtao at the moment, but Dingtao is a place of access, and the Puyang army is very good at attacking and fighting. In addition to Lu Bu, the cavalry in Qingzhou should not be underestimated, and the worst case scenario is that our army is attacked from three sides! ”

"Gongda is very worried." Guo Jia nodded and echoed: "Wang Pengju has changed his strategy, but his original intention has not changed, he just wants to force the lord to fight a quick battle and withdraw his hand as soon as possible to reinforce other battlefields." If our army gives up the strategy of fighting steadily and steadily, and uses troops at his pace, it is easy to fall into a critical situation! ”

"So what do you say you're going to do?" Cheng Yu spread his hands and said helplessly: "Can it only be that Ling Yuan can let the lone army defend the tiger prison, but everyone is watching?" Or give up Chen Liu, and the whole army marches west to reinforce it? But General Miaocai is still in Shanyang County, if he gives up Chen Liu, wouldn't it be ......"

Cao's soldiers and horses experienced fewer battles and encountered fewer weighty opponents, so that the army's combat strength was weaker than that of the Qingzhou army. Therefore, Wang Yu can divide the troops, but Cao Cao can't divide the troops, not the troops, so that he can still have some advantages on the battlefield where the main force is located, once the troops are divided, it will be passive everywhere.

Not to mention that the Qingzhou Alliance has more high-speed power troops and is stronger, and dividing troops is the way to death, so Cheng Yu didn't mention this stubble at all.

"That's what Pengju is all about." Cao Cao suddenly sighed, with a dejected look on his face, and said: "One step behind, one step behind, one step behind is better than Pengju." ”

Cao Cao saw more deeply than Cheng Yu, who didn't know that Lu Bu's soldiers and horses had been moving slowly in Jiyin, but it was actually deliberate, it was a sharp sword hanging above his head. Lu Bu can not only rush to Fengqiu, but also quickly advance eastward at any time, and flank Xiahou Yuan with Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong.

The situation has become extremely sinister, and the slightest carelessness can be a complete loss. After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't think of any good strategy, and finally he could only look at Guo Jia helplessly, and said helplessly: "It seems that I can only use that strategy...... It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity that the hard work is to marry someone. ”