After receiving Yuan Shao's letter asking for help, Lu Bu also had a headache.

It's not that Lu Bu didn't do his best, under the pressure of Chen Gong, Lu Bu also completely gave up his illusions and began to attack wholeheartedly, but the offensive was very unsmooth.

Because of Lu Bu's own preferences and the special environment of Bingzhou, the main force of the Bingzhou army is basically cavalry, and the eight million troops dispatched this time are all iron cavalry.

It stands to reason that eight million elite cavalry, which is also quite a large force.

However, while the cavalry has great mobility and destructive power, it also has quite obvious weaknesses - such as the lack of ability to storm cities.

Although the Shang army advocated attacking, it did not mean that they would not defend the city.

On the contrary, because of the generally high popularity of the city and the excellent ability to manufacture equipment, the Shang Ji army was very strong in defending the city, and it was not inferior to Liu Beijun, who was famous for his good defense.

With Gaoliucheng as the core, relying on the surrounding defensive fortresses, with tens of thousands of catapults, magic arrows, magic cannons, etc., the northern line was laid out as solid, and Lu Bujun tried several times, but finally returned in vain.

Because of the congenital weakness of the state, the financial resources of the state army have always been relatively poor, and the relationship between the state army and the Shang army was harmonious, and they were able to buy large equipment such as the burst torch stone car from the Shang army at a relatively favorable price, which also further hit the local equipment manufacturing capacity of the state.

Now that Lu Bu has broken with Shang Ji, it is naturally impossible for Shang Ji to sell him siege equipment, which directly leads to the collapse of Lu Bu's army's ability to attack fortifications, so that Lu Bu has eight million iron cavalry in his hands, but there is no way to take a mere Gaoliu City.

Not only siege equipment, Bingzhou also imports a large amount of grain from Shangji here every year, and now the eight million army Chen soldiers are outside, people eat horses and chew, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is an astronomical amount.

So even without Yuan Shao's letter for help, Lu Bu was very anxious.

After being bombarded back by the intensive artillery fire of Gaoliu City again, Zhang Liao couldn't stand it anymore, and took the initiative to find Lu Bujin and said: "Lord, it's not okay to go on like this, we are all cavalry, and we have wasted the mobility advantage of the cavalry in vain by fighting the enemy under Gaoliu City, and it is completely the strength of our own short attack." ”

Lu Bu waved his hand a little irritably, and said helplessly: "How can Wen Yuan not know what he said?" But the enemy army is stubbornly defending the city gate and not coming out, so what can we do? ”

"Lord, why don't we go around."

"Bypass?" Lu Bu glanced at Zhang Liao, then came to the side of Yutu, pointed to the location of the Lulong Fortress in Youzhou and asked, "Does Wen Yuan mean to bypass Gaoliu City and attack the Lulong Fortress directly, cutting off the connection between the Youzhou Corps of the Shang Army and the Pingzhou headquarters?" ”

"The lord has a wise eye, and Liao is exactly what he means."

Lu Bu looked at it again and again, and then sighed and said, "It's easy to say, but it's easier said than done?" ”

"Lulong Fortress is an important pass, and then it has been reinforced many times by Shang Ji, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an iron wall, we are a surprise attack on Lulong Fortress, and it is impossible to take Lulong Fortress in a short time.

In addition, Wen Yuan has thought about it, we are allies with Yuan Benchu, Cao Mengde and others, but are they trustworthy? Our army has penetrated deep behind enemy lines and cut off the grain and grass transportation lines of the merchant army, and the merchant army will certainly include us as a key target for attack. At that time, Cao Liu Yuan and others will do their best to help, so that Shang Ji has no time to return to help, but if they have bad intentions, we will go behind enemy lines alone, and we will die without life.

If Shang Ji were desperate to attack our army with all his might, our eight million troops would really not be enough for him to clean up. ”

Because Lu Bu has the best relationship with the Shang Ji army and has the closest contacts, Lu Bu is relatively more aware of the combat effectiveness of the Shang Ji army.

In fact, it is ultimately a matter of trust. Otherwise, Cao Liu Yuan and others will contain the main force of the Shang Ji head-on, and Lu Bu will lead the elite cavalry, give full play to the advantage of mobility, and harass the rear of the Shang Ji army, not to mention that they can defeat the Shang Ji 100%, at least they can make him anxious.

"My lord, there is a messenger who asked to meet the lord, claiming to be here on behalf of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shao."

Just when Lu Bu felt tired, suddenly another guard came to report.

Lu Bu waved his hand and said, "Please let them in!" ”

Soon, the envoy group was brought in, and in terms of numbers, the scale of the envoy group was not small, there were more than ten core personnel, and Lu Bu also saw a lot of acquaintances.

"Meet Wen Hou in Xia Yuan Tan (Cao Ang, Liu Feng)."

"I'll see Wen Hou later." Gao Gan, Li Dian, and Lu Zhu followed closely and saluted Lu Bu.

"You have come from afar, and you will not be able to meet you from afar, and it is rude. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. ”

"Wen Hou single-handedly fought against tens of millions of thieves, hard work, how dare we bother Wen Hou to greet him, and ask Wen Hou to forgive him."

Yuan Tan smiled slightly and said loudly.

After the politeness, everyone sat down in turn, and Lu Bu also came to the void, and went straight to the point: "A few representatives of Meng De, Xuande, and Ben Chu came respectively, but there is a clever plan to help Ben General break the enemy?" ”

"I don't dare to say a clever plan, but the kid does have a plan here." Cao Ang got up and said respectfully.

"Oh? That would have been heard. ”

"Wenhou Rongyu, the main force of the Shang army is stationed on the front line of Gaoliu and Xinbei City, and the enemy's grain mainly comes from Ping and Yongzhou. If the grain from Pingzhou and Yongzhou wants to be transported to Youzhou, it must pass through the western Liaoning corridor, where the terrain is flat and the plains are endless as far as the eye can see, which is most conducive to the cavalry.

And Wen Hou is famous for his iron cavalry, and Wen Hou only needs to send a fine cavalry from Muzhou to cut off the Liaoxi Corridor. The Shang army was short of food, and my father, Liu Gong and Yuan Gong attacked the enemy army head-on, and it was not easy to defeat the Shang army? ”

Lu Bu looked at Cao Ang, who was talking eloquently, with interest, and said with a smile: "Zixuan, tell me honestly, did you think of it yourself, or did Meng De instruct you to say it?" ”

"Although the younger generation is stupid, they don't bother to pick up people's teeth."

The young and vigorous Cao Ang was quite arrogant, and replied directly in the face of Lu Bu's questioning.

Lu Bu suddenly smiled, sighed, and then said, "How could Zi Xuan not know about this plan?" However, the state is barren, and the soldiers are tired and tired after many years of fighting, and they want to run the western Liaoning corridor for a long time, but they have more than enough strength to do it! ”

Patting his thigh, Lu Bu's face was full of helplessness. Not to mention, the acting is really like that.

It seems that Chen Gong's years of training are not without results, at least Lu Bu's city and brain are much better than before.

Yuan Tan next to him immediately got up and said with a smile: "Wen Hou's difficult father and two uncles have long expected it, for this reason, we have specially prepared 300 million gold, 1,000 sets of divine armor, 100 dragon horses, 1 billion high-grade military rations, and 50 million stones of grain.

In addition to the grain and some finished military rations that are inconvenient to carry, they are still in transit for the time being, gold and silver, armor, divine soldiers, and war horses are outside the city, and Wen Hou can send someone to receive them now. ”

After a pause, Yuan Tan continued: "In addition, considering that it is too dangerous to go deep into the hinterland of the enemy army. Although Wen Hou's courage is unparalleled in the world, but after all, two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, and the three boys are not talented, and they are willing to go out with Yu Ban, Gao Gan, and Mi Zhu with their own guards and Wen Hou, and I hope that Wen Hou does not want to dislike us and other weaknesses. ”