"Hey......" Cao Cao looked at the depressed city and sighed: "Yunshan, how much food and grass do we have for our army?"

"Lord Wen Ruo has calculated, even if we use the most economical way, it will not be enough for our remaining army to survive this winter." Mo Wen replied with his head down.

"How can this be?" Cao Cao's face was dripping with bitterness, and he slowly walked back to the house, picked up a crumpled letter and read it......

Mo Wen knew that the letter was written by Cao Cao's friend when he was a teenager - Yuan Shao. He saw that Cao Cao's situation was critical now, and hoped that Cao Cao would defect to him - everyone present had read this letter once, and Cao Cao had read it more than once.

After a long time, Cao Cao raised his head and glanced at the generals sitting around, his voice dry, "I...... If you want to invest in the beginning, what do you think? ”

[This feeling...... Are you unwilling? recalled that he had fought in the north and south for many years, but now he fell into the situation of being sent to the fence. Cao Cao only felt that his heart was full of bitterness.

Cao Cao's words were said very slowly, and in the end he seemed to have exhausted all his strength. The next generals were all speechless, and the atmosphere was extremely heavy.

"My lord!"

"Lord, it's not easy to say defeat."

Cheng Yu and Mo Wen glanced at each other and nodded.

"Yunshan, let's talk first."

"Lord!" Mo Wen took a step forward: "Although there is a shortage of food in the world due to the locust plague, I believe that we can still survive by disbanding a part of the army; At this time, although Lü Bu occupied most of the territory of Yanzhou, Juancheng was still in our hands. As the lord said at the time, Lu Bu is a scheming person, even if he is brave, he can't reverse the overall situation, not to mention that this person is capricious and forgetful of profit. Although he helped Situ Gong get rid of Dong Thief, he was still despised by the world. As long as the army was defeated, these wall grasses in various counties and counties of Yanzhou naturally looked at the wind. Lord, in the past, Xiang Yu was young and ambitious, one hundred and two Qin Guan eventually belonged to Chu, Gou Jian was reduced to a slave under the order, lying on the salary to taste the gall, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu. The lord still has tens of thousands of people with armor, and the good ministers and famous generals are with him, why did he give up so early. Please think twice! With that, he clasped his hands into fists and knelt on the ground to make a plea.

"What Yun Shan said is good." Cheng Yu then said: "If the lord is under the command of Yuan Taishou, if we don't say it, how can the lord deal with himself?" And Yuan's public gate is known to the world, and if the lord goes, he will be ostracized by Yuan's subordinates. As Yun Shan said, we have not yet reached a desperate situation, why don't we fight with Lu Bu? Victory or defeat is yet to be known. ”

…… It was still silent, Mo Wen lowered his head, Cheng Yu bent over, and the rest of the generals looked at Cao Cao, waiting for his decision.

"Hehe......" After a while, Cao Cao's low laughter broke the silence in the field: "Zhongde is just that...... I, Cao Mengde, will actually be reduced to being preached by a child......"

Hearing this, Mo Wen's heart tightened, and he wouldn't be annoyed and angry.

"It seems that after the defeat of Yanzhou, I, Cao Mengde, have slackened."

"Lord, we are undefeated......" Xiahou interjected.

"Yuan Rang, defeat is defeat." Cao Cao waved his hand: "Although there is no victory or defeat on the battlefield, I have lost Yanzhou after all...... Gentlemen, you are willing to take back Yanzhou with me! ”

"We swear to follow the lord to the death!"

……

Although Cao Cao swept away the decline and prepared to take Yanzhou back, it was also after this winter. Now because of the locust plague, the price of food has skyrocketed...... And the merchant doesn't want to sell it - after all, this thing has a price a day, and who knows if it will rise by a few dollars tomorrow? But fortunately, Xun Yu was born in everyone, has a wide range of contacts, with a clever skill, Xun Yu pulled out a lot of food from the pockets of these misers, plus Mo Wen picked out hundreds of people to go to the mountains and forests every day to hunt game and pick wild vegetables - at this time, Mo Wen was extremely glad to have watched the famous Bei Ye's show - "Survival in the Wilderness", using modern knowledge to find a lot of food, of course, all of which are acceptable to soldiers, such as worms, termites, moths, etc., in the army, Mo Wen told the ruffians. The seeds can be eaten, but only a few "warriors" dare to swallow these. Sure enough, not everyone can stand at the top of the food chain.

Although it was hard, Cao Jun finally survived this winter of lack of food.

This year, Sun Ce finally made up his mind and gave the jade seal that his father had fought hard to save his life to Yuan Shu, who had just been defeated, and Yuan Shu, who got the jade seal, naturally gave Sun Ce 3,000 soldiers and horses without hesitation and expressed Sun Ce as the captain of Zhichong. With his father's old subordinates and the team he had gathered in the past three years, Xiaobawang began his journey to sweep Jiangdong.

This year, Yuan Shao continued to defeat Gongsun Zhan, but due to a fire in the backyard, he suppressed bandits for a year and did not take advantage of the situation to defeat Gongsun Zhan.

In the spring of the second year of Xingping (195 AD), Cao Jun, who had spent the winter of lack of food, stretched out his sharp fangs against Lü Bu.

"Now that Lu Butun is in Puyang, it is useless for us to attack by force, I want to attack other places, what do you suggest?" Cao Cao unfolded the map and asked the crowd.

"If we want to break Lu Bu, naturally we can't capture a small county, so it takes time and effort." Xun Yu looked at the map: "How is Dingtao County?" Dingtao is a big city, and Lu Bu will definitely not ignore it. ”

"That's fine, who is its guard?"

"Wu Zi is a scribe, I don't know what his talent is."

"Wen Ruo, Juancheng is my foundation, and it will be handed over to you; Miaocai, Zilian, you help Wen Ruo to guard Juancheng; Zixiao, Yunshan, Yuan Rang, Wen Qian, Wen Ze, you and others will follow me to conquer Tao. ”

"Yes!"

"What? Did Cao Cao send troops to the south? Chen Gong looked at the intelligence in front of him and bowed his head and was silent.

"How? What does the public station know what Cao Mengde wants? Lu Bu asked on the side: "Why don't we wait for the storming of Juancheng?" ”

"Although Cao Mengde is ruthless, he will not show such flaws, and Juancheng will definitely be heavily guarded." Chen Gong frowned: "If my expectations are good, Cao Mengde wants to attack Dingtao, and I also ask the lord to send troops to help." ”

"So I will go out with a large army."

"My lord." Chen Gong hurriedly persuaded: "You can bring 10,000 troops, and the rest will stay in Puyang to prevent Cao Thief's voice from attacking the west." ”

"The non-public station said that the cloth was negligent." Lu Bu suddenly realized: "In this way, I will take Gao Shun and Hou Chengchi to help Dingtao, and Puyang will be handed over to you." ”

"The palace will live up to the trust of the lord."

Five days later, Dingtao City.

"Damn, this Wu Zi is really a literati?" Mo Wen looked at the dense city defense in Nancheng: "This guy is really condescending if he doesn't go to the town to guard the border pass." ”

"Fortunately, we took advantage of his unpreparedness a few days ago and quickly took Beicheng." Xiahoudun patted Mo Wen's shoulder: "He can't defend Nancheng for long." ”

"yes." Mo Wen sighed: "What about the lord?" ”

"Lord, it's the third time I've gone to persuade that guy to surrender...... I guess it's still no play. ”

"The lord is thirsty for talent......"

"yes."

"Captain Mo, General Xiahou!" An officer ran over.

"Mancheng, what's the matter?" Mo Wen glanced at the person who came and asked.

"The lord called for the troops to be collected and returned to the camp immediately." Li Dian said breathlessly.

Looks like there's trouble! Mo Wen and Xiahoudun glanced at each other.

A quarter of an hour later, Cao's army camped

"Lu Bu is here!" Cao Cao pointed to the map: "This time, I will wait for work and prepare to meet here!" ”

"Then this Dingtao won't attack?" Xiahoudun asked on the side.

"Don't attack, Lu Bu is the point!"

The result is naturally no suspense, the number of soldiers, the spirit of soldiers, and the number of generals are overwhelming, not to mention that one side has already prepared, even if Lu Bu is unstoppable on the battlefield, he will not be able to save the fate of defeat. Lü Bu fled back to Puyang with the remnants of the defeated army, and Wu Zi also took advantage of the situation to recover the whole city of Dingtao, and then held on. Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu, and when he saw that Dingtao was difficult to attack, he immediately returned to Juancheng.

A month later, Cao Cao took Xiahou Yuan with him, Mo asked, and Xiahou Yuan attacked Juye.

"Lu Bu's courage is unstoppable, but his subordinates are too useless." Xiahoudun carried a general: "This is that Xue Lan, an incompetent person." ”

"That Li Feng is also a gutless rat, he abandoned the city and fled when he saw that the situation was wrong, and finally surrendered ......immediately after being caught up," Mo Wen interjected on the side.

"Yuan let be brave!" Cao Cao was overjoyed: "In this way, you can deal with Lu Bu with peace of mind." ”

"Juno has been lost?" Lu Bu looked at the sentry in front of him: "What about Xue Lan Li Feng?" ”

"Back to the generals, the two generals did not escape from the city...... Nine times out of ten, they fell into the hands of the enemy. The sentry replied.

"Gongtai, how is it good? In order to arrive as soon as possible, we only brought more than 1,000 cavalry. I don't want Xue Lan and Li Feng to be incompetent, and now Juye has fallen into the hands of the enemy......" Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong with an embarrassed expression.

"It's okay, there is an army in the east, and the lord can retreat first, and then transfer the army to counterattack." Chen Gong replied calmly.

"Okay, just follow the policy of the public station."

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"Lu Bu has retreated,......" Cao Cao looked at the abandoned camp in front of him with a regretful expression.

"Lord, I just checked, Lu Bu only brought more than a thousand people this time." Mo Wen came to Cao Cao.

"There are only about a thousand people...... It turned out to be cavalry. Cao Cao narrowed his eyes: "So those two guys are useless, kill them." ”

"Lord, now that the field has been broken and Lu Bu has retreated, where should I attack?" Mo asked from the side.

"Don't attack anywhere else." Cao Cao looked into the distance: "Tell Yuan Rang, Miaocai, defeat Lu Bu first." ”

"Yes."

Dongyi

"Haha, Cao Mengde actually chased all the way?" Lu Bu laughed, looking arrogant, "I'm going to die." ”

"My lord, you can't underestimate the enemy." Chen Gong persuaded on the side.

"Gongtai is at ease, I have 20,000 soldiers and horses, and Cao Mengde is no more than 10,000. How is he my opponent? Lu Bu laughed proudly: "Now I will be ashamed." ”

[Hey...... I still see that something is wrong to remind him, and he won't listen to any more things he says now. Chen Gong sighed secretly.

A few miles outside the camp of the Lu Bu army, on the mound

"There are so many Lu Bu soldiers?" Cao Cao looked at the Lu Bu military camp in the distance: "If you break it, you must use a trick." ”

“…… The lord has a clever plan again? Xiahou Yuan behind him asked.

"Let's go back to camp first."

In the big tent of the Cao army, the generals sat around.

"Yunshan, you take more than a thousand subordinates to guard the camp, Lu Bu has ambushed my troops several times, so naturally he doesn't dare to march easily, and the rest of the people follow me to cut the grain outside the city."

……

On the second day, in front of Cao's military camp.

"Mancheng, are you afraid?" Zhang Meng stabbed Li Dian on the side: "Do you think that Lu Bu will attack directly?" ”

"How can Lu Bu see through the master's scheme?" Li Dian was full of confidence: "You see the captain standing in front of the camp with confidence, what are you afraid of?" ”

"Yes." Zhang Meng touched his head and laughed.

[I won't attack it, Lu Bu's IQ shouldn't be that high. Mo Wen, who was guarding the camp gate, looked at Lu Bu's army hundreds of meters away, his palms were full of sweat.

At this time, Lu Bu looked at the Cao Jun camp in front of him with a puzzled expression.

"There don't seem to be many people in this camp." Lu Bu looked at the sparse guards around the camp, "What tricks did Cao Mengde play?" ”

"Lord, no matter what tricks Cao Mengde has, just try it!" On the side, Song Xian volunteered: "With the last general's 5,000 soldiers and horses, the last general should break through the Cao army camp." ”

"There are many tricks of Cao thieves, and there must be something strange in them, so don't take them lightly." After looking at it for a long time, Lu Bu still chose to withdraw his troops.

Night.

"Cao Ah deceived me too much!" Lu Bu slapped the table in front of him: "Take advantage of my unpreparedness to destroy my field, what a villain!" Tomorrow I will avenge this. ”

"The lord is angry." Chen Gong persuaded on the side: "Gong feels that something is wrong. ”

"What's wrong?" Lu Bu stared at Chen Gong with a pair of red eyes.

"This ...... Gong only felt that Cao Mengde's move was very strange. ”

"The public station is suspicious, and we will see tomorrow."

……

The next day, Cao's army camp was still lax guards, and Lu Bu also received news that there were suspected soldiers and horses in ambush near the wheat field.

"I'm mad at me!" Lu Bu immediately turned red when he saw this situation: "Flatten this camp with me!" The people in the village, the chickens and dogs are not left! ”

Immediately, brandishing Fang Tian's halberd, he rushed to Cao Cao's camp first.

When the guards in front of the fortress saw the army coming, they immediately turned back to the camp. When Lu Bu saw this, his heart was indeed as I expected. [Cao Apu, I want you to have nowhere to camp today. 】

Countless Lu Bu soldiers poured into the camp, but there was basically no resistance, and Lu Bu rode into the big tent, only to find it empty......

[Groove cake, it's a plan! ] Lu Bu's head went blank.

"I've got it." Cao Cao saw the fire in the camp, stroked his palms and laughed.

"Damn!" Cao soldiers surrounded him continuously, and Lu Bu brandished his halberd to block the spears that kept stabbing from around, and his heart was in despair: "Could it be that I, Lu Fengxian, really died here?" ”

At this time, there was the sound of horses' hooves around, and Lu Bu followed the reputation and found that the person who came was his general - Zhang Liao.

"Bong first, let's go!" Zhang Liao broke into Cao's camp with an iron horse, killed all the way to Lu Bu, and shouted at Lu Bu, who was determined to die.

Lu Bu, who was on the spot, was stunned at first, and then ecstatic, and followed Zhang Liao to kill outward......

That night, Lü Bu fled back to the camp in embarrassment, counted the number of people, but found that there were only more than 4,000 soldiers left in the army at this time - 2,000 of them were left behind in the camp.

And Cao Cao had a perfect insight into Lu Bu's psychological state after the defeat, and pursued him overnight. Lu Bujun was like a frightened bird, fleeing for his life. Cao Cao saw that Lu Bu was running fast and couldn't catch up with him, so he was ready to take down Dingtao first.

Outside the camp, Cao Cao looked at Dingtao City on the horizon and asked the surrounding generals:

"Although the defender Wu Zi is a literati, he has the ability to defend the city, and it is useless to storm it, what are your best plans?"

"Lu Bu was newly defeated and left overnight, and now the counties and counties are estimated to not know this news, maybe we can use this to make some articles." Mo Q replied.

"What does Yunshan mean to open the city gate by fraud?" Cao Cao's eyes lit up, "It just so happens that there are a large number of Lu Bu sergeant armor in the army, you can give it a try, Yunshan, are you willing to go in person?" ”

"Dare to disobey!"

A quarter of an hour later, Mo Wen changed into the broken armor, took Li Dian with him, and dozens of Zhang Meng's right-hand men rushed to Dingtao City.

"Who are you waiting for?" The soldiers in the city asked.

"I am the commander of General Lu." Mo Wen replied, "Don't open the door yet!" ”

"Wait a moment, I'll report to Lord Wu."

After a while, a scribe stood at the head of the city: "Since you are a subordinate of General Lu, why did you come here?" ”

"The general was defeated, retreated overnight, and in the chaos of the army, we were separated from the general, and we were without food for half a day, and I hope that the adults will reward two mouthfuls of food." Don't ask to be sad.

Wu Zi saw the congealed blood scabs on Mo Wen's faces and the armor full of knife marks, and there were several wounded soldiers, which did not seem to be fake, so he let them into the city and ate with them......

That night, Mo Wen, who was squinting, suddenly opened his eyes, took out a dagger from his waist and slashed the throats of the two sleeping soldiers next to him. The other sergeants who were pretending to be asleep saw that their boss had begun to move, and they stood up one after another and began to kill the enemy troops around them. Before long, there were only a few of them alive in the camp tent of Nuoda.

Sticking the blood-stained dagger back into his waist, Mo Wen glanced at the sergeant under his command and commanded in a low voice:

"Man Cheng, you take ten people and set fire to the camp; Zhang Meng, you and others will follow me to open the city gate! ”

"Yes!"

At the gate of Dingtao City, more than 30 black shadows moved slowly against the city wall...... In Dingtao City, several houses began to burn......

"Yunshan has succeeded!" Cao Cao saw the little fire in Dingtao City: "March!" ”

At the gate of the city, Mo Wen and the others killed the guards' team, and they also lost one of them, and after lifting the latch down, they sent eight people to push the gate open, while the others resisted the enemy's counterattack.

"Whew...... Boss, I don't think you're too many. Zhang Meng waved the big knife in his hand with difficulty: "Why don't you bring dozens more?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense! Will Wu Zi relax if he brings more people? How can we open the door! Mo Wen explained to Zhang Meng while resisting the stabbing blade.

"But it's a little unstoppable." In just a few minutes, two more people fell.

"Block it with your life!" Mo Wen gritted his teeth: "Otherwise, we will die here in vain, there are archers in the city, and we can't run away!" ”

The shouts of killing gradually approached, and the gate had been pushed open, and Mo Wen, who had received eight new troops, breathed a sigh of relief, looked back, and immediately shouted: "The army has arrived, don't resist!" ”

When the enemy troops on the opposite side heard this, they looked up, and they didn't realize that they were loosened - Cao Cao's army was only more than 500 meters away from the city gate at this time. Even if they could deal with the gang of Cao Jun in front of the door, they wouldn't be able to close the gate before Cao Jun arrived......

After a night of fighting, Cao Cao successfully won Dingtao, and Wu Zi did not return to surrender, so he naturally became a ghost under the knife. Cao Cao, who had captured Dingtao, sent his generals to divide his troops to attack the counties...... Mo Wen took 3,000 soldiers and horses to attack Zhongmu. It's a pity that the county guard is a coward, and as soon as Mo Wenbing arrived, he went out of the city to greet him - with a posture that I am a good citizen, and surrendering Lu Bu is also a helpless move......

And Lu Bu saw that the general trend was gone, so he took his own Bingzhou team and several Yanzhou scribes who followed him desperately to Xuzhou to surrender to Liu Bei...... Although the travelers under Liu Bei's command strongly advised Liu Bei not to take Lu Bu in, Liu Bei was very confident in his charm, and did not listen to the dissuasion of others, so he arranged Lu Bu in Xiaopei......

At this time, it was October, Cao Cao re-ruled Yanzhou, and the army gathered around Yongqiu, the last nail of Yanzhou. At this time, the imperial court finally recognized Cao Cao's status as the lord of Yanzhou and named Cao Cao as the pastor of Yanzhou...... Although it doesn't make much sense.

Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao, who guarded Yongqiu, and all of Zhang Miao's family members here, resisted very fiercely. Cao's army attacked day after day, and although Yongqiu was not lost, it was indeed precarious.

Zang Hong, Zhang Chao's good friend, heard the news, immediately mobilized troops and horses, and asked his boss Yuan Shao to support Zhang Chao...... But will Yuan Shao be embarrassed by Cao Cao at this time? You have your old friends, and I have my companions. And I'm your boss......

As a result, Zhang Chao finally ran out of ammunition after two months of death, and had no hope of committing suicide, and was then punished by Cao Cao. His brother Zhang Miao also died on the way to ask Yuan Shu.

When Zang Hong heard that his good friend had ended so badly, he was furious in his heart, and immediately turned against Yuan Shao......

In the second year of Xingping, Cao Cao recaptured Yanzhou, Liu Bei took in Lü Bu, Sun Ce defeated Liu Xuan, and successfully expanded his power in Jiangdong; There were contradictions within the Xiliang Army, first Fan Chou died, and then Li urged Guo Yan to be suspicious of each other, and finally parted ways. Yuan Shao's troops defeated Gongsun Zan in Baoqiu, and Zang Hong wanted to fight to the death with Yuan Shao for his best friend - it was just an egg hitting a stone, but it was very unpleasant for Yuan Shao......

Although fate was stirred up by a group of travelers, the general trend of the world is still moving towards the original trajectory......