Seeing that the enemy's morale was like a rainbow, they were well prepared, and the enemy troops in the city were well guarded, with the help of a think tank like Chen Gong, taking Xuzhou City seemed to have become an unattainable goal, but Cao Cao and Ma Tahu Chen did not have the slightest anxious expression. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason is very simple, one of the two of them has already figured out a way to break through Xuzhou City, and the other person already knows what kind of method Cao Cao will use to break through Xuzhou City Defense in the end.

Not long after, it rained heavily outside Xuzhou City, and the rivers in Xuzhou soared, including the river water in the upper reaches of Xuzhou City, in just a few days, the water level soared by several meters, and the water potential was huge, and many villages near the water area were already endangered by overflowing villages, and the villages fled for refuge.

Seeing this, Cao Cao and Ma Tahu Chen were overjoyed, and sent a large number of soldiers and soldiers overnight, using a large number of earthworks and boulders, to block a dam in the river upstream of Xuzhou City, and the surging water was intercepted, and on this plain, a man-made 'small lake' was formed, and a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the city of Xuzhou was placed high over the people of their city.

In fact, the players in the city and Chen Gong have long been aware of Cao Cao, Ma Ta Hu Chen's actions, the players in the city senior generals and Chen Gong have advised Lu Bu, do not place all the troops in Xuzhou City, should send a considerable part of the soldiers and horses, set up a camp outside Xuzhou City, so as to fight each other, if the other party comes to attack Xuzhou City, the army outside the city can attack from the enemy's rear to rescue, if the enemy attacks the camp outside the city, then the defenders in the city can attack the enemy's rear, Create a favorable situation for the enemy army to be attacked on both sides.

However, this suggestion was finally rejected by Lu Bu, who was naturally suspicious and worried about the possibility of self-respect or even mutiny of the troops fighting out of the city.

Lü Bujun still adhered to the previous tactics and made every effort to defend the city defense of Xuzhou.

However, Lu Bu was still aware of the danger in the upper reaches of Xuzhou City, and personally led a team of elite cavalry troops out of the city at night to attack the embankment of Cao's army in the starry night.

It's just that who are Cao Cao and Ma Ta Hu Chen? Who is not a thoughtful person, for such a critical place, heavy troops have already been arranged to protect and even ambush, just wait for the appearance of Lu Bujun.

The cavalry unit led by Lü Bu was heavily attacked by the coalition forces in front of the embankment, and suffered heavy casualties.

In this battle, although the Cao and Ma coalition forces won the battle, they also fully experienced the terrifying strength of the Lu Bu army in this battle.

The two coalition forces that were ambushed in front of the dam were at least ten times more numerous than Lu Bu's cavalry, and they were waiting for work. But even so, after Lu Bu fell into a desperate situation, he was still like a god descending from the heavens, and he fought his way out of the desperate situation.

Ma Tahu Chen knew each other, but only sent some ordinary troops to intercept Lu Bu. However, on Cao Cao's side, many generals did not believe in evil and wanted to go up to challenge Lu Bu, but Cao Cao's generals lost a lot in this battle.

Seeing Lu Bu so fierce, this strengthened Cao Cao and Ma Ta Hu Chen's determination to completely eliminate Lu Bu's forces.

A few days later, Cao Cao's army took advantage of the night to move to the high ground near Xuzhou City, Cao Cao looked at Xuzhou City, which was shrouded in the night in front of him, full of vigilance, and said to the horse on the side with a successful plan.

"The enemy army is rigid, does not know the changes, and is already bound to lose!"

Ma Tahu Chen also smiled and said: "I have ordered my troops to prepare a large number of rafts and boats in the past few days, just to break through the city, I can wipe out the enemy troops in the city!" ”

Cao Cao looked at the young face beside him, and admired the young man beside him, who was young, but the level of sophistication and shrewdness was almost the same as his own, and he was really a stranger.

"After breaking through Xuzhou City, I don't know where this Xuzhou City belongs......" Cao Cao thought for a while, and finally decided to raise this question at this sensitive time.

For the final destination of Xuzhou City and even the entire Xuzhou, this is what Cao Cao values the most. In the final analysis, what upholds righteousness and crusade against rebellion is just a superficial cover-up, and there is only one real reason why they are raising swordsmen, and that is to fight for territory!

Yanzhou under Cao Cao was a small and barren prefecture among the various prefectures and counties in the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially in terms of grain and grass, and the output of a single Yanzhou was simply not enough to support the consumption of a large number of soldiers under Cao Cao.

Therefore, for Cao Cao, the capture of Xuzhou is a strategic goal that he must achieve, and only by seizing a rich land like Xuzhou can Cao's army be able to truly gain a foothold and no longer be troubled by grain and grass.

Therefore, for a temporary ally like Ma Ta Hu Chen, Cao Cao was quite vigilant, and the other party came from afar, and worked hard to crusade against Lu Bu with him, what was the plan? Could it be that they also covet such a rich territory?

Cao Cao wanted to find out what Ma Ta Hu Chen and his true purpose was, so he asked.

Ma Tahu Chenhe suddenly understood the purpose of Cao Cao's question, waved his hand and said: "The ownership of this Xuzhou City naturally belongs to the general. Don't hide that General Cao said that in the imperial capital, the Son of Heaven has drawn up an edict to canonize you as the pastor of Xuzhou, and only wait for the victory report of the general to conquer Xuzhou and exterminate the rebels of Lü Bu to return to the imperial capital, and the order of commendation will be sent. ”

"Thank you, General, for conveying the holy will." Cao Cao hugged his hands and thanked him, and then asked, "In this case, the general doesn't want anything when he comes here?" In this way, after conquering Xuzhou City, the property, grain and grass in the city can be divided equally between our two families. ”

Hearing Ma Ta Hu Chen's words, Cao Cao was happy with some suspicion, so he promised.

"I don't want anything. It's just that there are some things, and I ask General Cao to promise me. Ma Tahu said unexpectedly.

"Oh? What's the matter? The general, but it doesn't hurt to say it. Cao Cao said.

"This time, in the crusade against the rebels of Lu Bu, I just want to repay the kindness of the saint and clear the universe for my great man. Therefore, after seizing Xuzhou City, I also ask the general not to touch the rebels in Xuzhou City, as well as Lu Bu and his generals, I will send these chaotic ministers and thieves to Luoyang City, the imperial capital, and ask the Son of Heaven to deal with it. ”

The purpose of stepping on Hu Chen's army and spending a lot of manpower and material resources to participate in the crusade against Lu Bu was finally revealed.