At the same time, the fighting on all fronts is in full swing. Except for Xiao Pei, who was quite struggling to defend the city, the other battle conditions were as he expected, and the progress was very smooth.

Yan Ming guarded Jiuli Mountain, found that there were already enemy guards, did not rush in, although the other party came to fight from time to time, but according to Zhang Lang's meaning, according to Zhang Lang's intentions, according to the mountain down the village, occupy important places, ignore the other party's provocation, only defend not attack, and beat the drum three links every night, Cao Bing just stopped when the drum came out, and returned to the village to rest for a few minutes, and beat the drum three links, making Cao Bing suspicious and miserable.

The 40,000 troops led by Li Dianlejin and Xia Houyuan had just entered the territory of Tengjun for only ten miles, and they did not expect that the Xuzhou soldiers would arrive one step first, and they were ambushed by Tai Shici and Zangba, and suffered a lot of losses. The Cao army wanted to go to war, Tai Shi Ci avoided it, the Cao army pulled out the camp and went north, and the Tibetan overlords arrived. The two armies are like hide-and-seek, Xuzhou is hidden, and Cao is looking for it. This made Xia Houyuan as dry as thunder, causing the soldiers to advance at full speed, but they were not familiar with the geography along the road, and they were ambushed from time to time, and they were robbed, and the army marched very slowly.

Under the protection of Tai Shi Ci and Zangba, Gao Shun and his wife did not have any worries, and began to storm the Lu State with all their might, striving to break the city in the shortest possible time, and then approached Dongjun. Although the defenders of the Lu State had 5,000 guards and were guarded by generals, they were in danger in the Gaoshun*-like offensive, and they made people rush to Fengjun overnight.

At this point, everyone knew why Zhang Lang only left Gao Shun to guard Langyao County, and he was able to capture Lu State, which was clear at a glance.

In fact, Zhang Lang also understands the history books so boldly to use Gao Shun. In terms of command ability, he is the only general under Lu Bu who leads the troops. There are 700 "trapped in the camp" under his command, and "every attack is broken". In the third year of Jian'an, Lü Bu and Liu Bei turned against each other and sent Gao Shun to lead an army to attack Liu Beijun in Xiaopei. Even Liu Beijun, who had Guan and Zhang, was unable to resist the charge of the 'trapped camp' and was defeated. Gao Shun occupied Xiaopei and immediately defeated Cao Ying's reinforcements led by Cao Ying's number one general, Xiahou Xuan. In terms of force, before Xiahou drew his arrows, he had fought with Gao Shunli for forty or fifty times.

And he is not only so, but also a brave and loyal general. He was a general who was incorruptible, lived a simple life, and was good at restraint. It was born and died with Lu Bu. In the third year of Jian'an, Cao Ying went east to conquer Lü Bu, besieged the city for three months, Lü Bu rebelled and left, and the generals opened the city and surrendered, including Lü Bu's most trusted brother-in-law - Wei Xu. After Lu Bu was captured, Zhang Liao saw that the general trend had gone, and led his troops to surrender, Zang Ba fled alone, and Gao Shun was captured by the generals.

Zhang Lang gave this famous general who had a short life, had no ambition, and died young, to give a new historical stage, and let him do his best under his own talents and dominate the world.

It is said that Cao Ying was furious when he saw that the overall front had not made the slightest progress, and ordered his sergeants to attack the city with all their might, and ordered Li Dianle to stop attacking Tengjun and fully support Lu State. Liuxia Houyuan led 10,000 elite soldiers to block Tai Shici. As for the issue of Jiuli Mountain, Cao Ying thought about it for a long time, and then in the confusion of the military advisors and the people, he ordered Mao Jue's army to change the goal halfway, and guarded Jiuli Mountain with Yu Ban. His explanation was that Zhang Lang sent troops to Jiuli Mountain, but only defended but did not attack, beating drums night and night, preparing to paralyze the defenders of Jiuli Mountain, and then when they were lax, the army suddenly rushed over. Therefore, it is inevitable to increase the guard of Jiuli Mountain.

Li Dian and Le Jin led 20,000 to quickly prepare to go north to Lu State, but they were entangled by Tai Shici's 10,000 Xuzhou soldiers on the way. And regardless of victory or defeat, Tai Shici's goal has been achieved. In desperation, Cao Jun had no choice but to take a detour to Rencheng. Xia Houyuan and his 10,000 Cao soldiers were blocked by the Tibetan Ba in Tengjun and were not allowed to take half a step.

After blocking Cao's army for a week's fierce siege of the city, Xiaopei City began to change, the city walls were full of pimples, countless blood stained the stone walls on the wall dark red, and there were arrow scars everywhere, and they were incomplete. The corpses under the city were piled up, and the Xiaopei garrison was sharply reduced from the original 34,000 to about 25,000. And Cao Ying also paid a heavy price, losing nearly 20,000 lives in this battle and countless wounded. It can be seen the tragic extent of this battle.

At this time, Zhang [***] Yang Rong led hundreds of useless soldiers to Xiaopei Street, and in the midst of the people's anxiety and fear, they fought a propaganda war in the 21st century, so that the people in the city knew that this battle was related to the safety of the lives of 100,000 residents in Xiaopei City, and mobilized from top to bottom. The people had already heard that after Cao Ying's army won the city, they slaughtered as much as possible, all of them were united unprecedentedly, and the local big families also made their own diners help from time to time, and to the people, down to the villagers, but all the strong people threw themselves into it. The elderly, weak, women and children, although they could not go to the front line, carried out rescue and supplies in the rear.

Zhang Lang not only fought day and night on the front line, but also ate meals with the soldiers, he was really tired, and he found a place to sleep casually, and he never let his treatment become superior because he was a general of the three armies. It was Zhang Lang's attitude towards himself and the soldiers that made the Xuzhou Danyang soldiers return to their hearts, use them like flexible arms, fight hard to kill the enemy, and never retreat.

In such a cruel war, the Danyang Army of the Xuzhou Army became more and more refined, and the more courageous it became, there was no boredom and uneasiness at the beginning, and those who could survive were less vain and more calm after such a baptism of war. After that, it gradually became an elite force that fought in all directions and ran rampant all over the world. At the same time, some very potential soldiers and some capable soldiers were also excavated in the war, and Zhang [***] Han Juzi memorized it. It will be reused in the future.

However, the most worrying thing finally appeared, the moat water was gradually thirsty, Wenshui had been cut off by Cao's army, and it was possible to carry sandbags to bury it at any time, and Xiaopeicheng's arrows, stones and other defensive tools were almost exhausted, and Cao's army continued to attack day and night. And Xiao Pei's side didn't have a chance to repair the broken wall. If it goes on like this, I believe Xiaopei won't be able to support it for a few days.

Just when Xiao Pei was sad and Zhang Lang was not worried, the battle finally came to the favorable side, Gao Shun and his wife led 10,000 Xuzhou soldiers to forcibly capture Lu before Li Dian and Lejin reinforcements arrived, and then pretended to feint to attack Dongjun in full swing. And Cao Yuanjun learned that the Lu State had been lost, so they had to retreat to Rencheng to prevent Tai Shici and Gao Shun from attacking in front and back.

When Cao Ying learned the news, he was furious, and his eyes only flashed with an unpredictable look.

Although Xi Zhicai's face was surprised, he also said very calmly: "My lord, the enemy has few soldiers, and he is still willing to use this blood to contain our army to aid Lu, it can be seen that the Xuzhou army is quite focused on attacking Lu, but it wants to use this to open up a breakthrough to invade our East County, this move is quite ruthless, because once the East County is lost, our army will be like a rootless." ”

Xun You didn't expect the Lu State to lose so quickly, and said with a worried expression: "Zhang Lang's move is obviously a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and borrow troops to fight in Dongjun to force our army to retreat." ”

After pondering for a while, Cao Ying said slowly: "It will take about a few days for our army to break through the city. ”

Cao Hong was the commander-in-chief of this siege battle, and said: "Our army has carried the flow of expenditure, and is ready to storm the city, wooden donkey, so according to this situation, within three days, Xiaopei will be captured." ”

Xi Zhicai looked calm again, and said without hurry: "Although Lu Guo is a flat country to Dongjun, there is no danger to defend, but the road is a little far, and Gao Shun's army is alone in the depths, it is not a big deal, but when our army captures Xiaopei, it is not too late to send troops to rescue." ”

Cao Ying held his hand on the long beard and said in a deep voice: "This is very good." ”

At this time, Xi Zhicai's face suddenly became a little worried, and he said with a worried expression: "It's just that I see that Zhang Lang and his people are not idle people, and they will definitely not only send out this way of strange soldiers, if the other party sends troops out of Manggu Mountain at the same time, then our army is in danger." ”

At this moment, there was a soldier who was untidy, unkempt, and had blood stains on his face, and without waiting to be reported, he rolled in and climbed in, and said hoarsely: "General Cao, the big thing is not good, Jiuli Mountain is lost, and the Xuzhou soldiers killed Juancheng." ”

Everyone in the tent was shocked when they heard the change of color. Xi Zhicai didn't have the tranquility at the beginning, hurriedly took two steps forward, and asked anxiously: "How did Jiuli Mountain fall?" ”

The soldier gasped twice, breathless and said: "Zhao Yun led the light cavalry to bypass Manggu Mountain to kill to Liang County, and the guards were defeated for a long time, and then they copied the path to kill Benqi Township, and rushed to kill the cottage guarding Jiuli Mountain from the rear, and burned all the baggage with a fire, and the Xuzhou soldiers guarding Jiuli Mountain saw that our army was in chaos, and at the same time killed, General Yu Ban was defeated and retreated. The two armies of Xuzhou met together and went straight to Juancheng. ”

"What?" Cao Ying's face turned pale, and at the same time, he understood the whole plan. Why did the defenders of Xuzhou in Jiuli Mountain only defend but not attack, but beat the war drums, it turned out that they first wanted to paralyze the army, and then guard Liang County, and the troops of Qixiang were attracted over, and then sent strange soldiers to raid, and finally attacked back and forth.

And the key to this plan is to use Cao Ying's suspicious surname Ke to attract the soldiers guarding Liang County, and then attack together.

Cao Ying's expression was downcast, and he sat on the chair completely stupidly, as if his face was full of disbelief and unwillingness. He muttered in his mouth, and said with regret: "Meng De regrets not listening to the words of the military advisor." ”

At this time, Xi Zhi showed strong courage, his face was calm, he dealt with it decisively, and said directly: "Now is not the time for the lord to sigh, so the two wings of the Xuzhou army are sandwiched between my Dongjun, not in the depths of the lone army, and its two armies echo each other from afar, and its situation is in danger, our army can only retreat to Yanzhou and say that it is in the map." ”

Cao Ying was still unwilling, and sighed loudly: "No wonder Zhang Lang is holding on without fighting, he is waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the two wings to attack, insert me into the side, pity Xiaopeicheng is about to break, Xuzhou Pingding is waiting, I didn't expect it, hey......"

Xun You had no good way at this time, so he could only agree with Xi Zhicai's idea and said: "General, Zhang Langqi is one move higher, if he goes on, Dongjun is afraid that he will lose." ”

Cao Hong's three or five big rough, a little puzzled, asked: "Why do you want to retreat, didn't Xun Yu and Liu Ye lead 30,000 troops to guard Juancheng, Fan County, and Dong'e?" Our army captured Xiaopei Xuzhou and said that it was just around the corner, and it was the same when it returned to Dongjun, isn't it? ”

Xi Zhicai shook his head and said categorically: "No, our army will have to attack Xiaopei so hard, even if it besieges Xuzhou, if the enemy army is like Xiaopei, stubbornly defending without fighting, it will be long-lasting, at this time the two wings of the army in Xuzhou, can attack the counties of Yanzhou without scruples, Mr. Xun Yu guards the strategic place in the north, there are a number of military horses, the sergeant has lost the rear, and the soldiers will have no heart to fight. ”

Cao Ying nodded silently, his expression was very complicated, and he muttered half-loudly: "Zhang Lang is such a talent, it's a pity that he can't be used by me." ”

Ban Cao was forced to order the whole army to start retreating.

On the night when Cao Jun retreated, he received the news that Lu Bu had attacked the counties of Yanzhou, and Cao Ying was shocked and said: "Yanzhou has lost, so I have no home, and I must not help it." "Pull out the troops overnight and retreat.

It turned out that Chen Gong saw Cao Ying's persuasion not to move Cao Ying, and he felt that he had no face to see Tao Qian again, so he went to Zhang Miao, the Taishou of Dongjun. Chen Gong remembered Cao Ying's various things, and his heart rose with hatred, and after arriving in Dongjun, he and Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao engaged in the rebellion of Zhonglang Xu Yan and Wang Kai. Chen Gong said to Zhang Miao: "Now the Central Plains heroes are rising, the world is falling apart, with the people of thousands of miles, Yanzhou has achieved hegemony, when the sword is drawn in all directions, to be the hero of the world, but to be subject to Cao Ying, do not feel contemptible!" Today, Cao Ying's army is crusading eastward, Yanzhou is empty, and the flying general Lu Bu is brave and good at fighting, if he welcomes it, he will take charge of Yanzhou with him, and then watch the situation in the world, see the opportunity to act, and the king will cross the four seas. Zhang Miao was overjoyed when he heard it, and from it. Chen Gong's generals stayed in Tundong County, and then Zhang Chao and other east Yingbu were Yanzhou pastors, according to Puyang. The surrounding counties responded one after another, but Juancheng, Dong'e, and Fan counties were guarded by Xun Yu and Liu Ye.

Cao Yinglian said that he would retreat back to Yanzhou and attack Lu Bu.

As a result, in the thrilling Xuzhou offensive and defensive battle, Xiaopei finally ushered in the news of victory after supporting for about half a month. There were as many as 10,000 soldiers killed in Xuzhou and countless wounded. The loss was huge, but it did not hurt the muscles and bones, and it was not to the point where it could not turn over. And Cao Ying also paid a heavy price, and in the battle of Xiaopei alone, he lost as many as 30,000 deaths.

When the news of Cao Ying's retirement reached Xuzhou, Lian Yulai's nervous spirit, and the people who were always concerned about the front-line war finally breathed a sigh of relief, chanted up and down, and poured into the streets from time to time to inform each other. Everyone is happy and smiling, and they are happier than they have won the battle. Along the road chanting Tao Gong, Zhang Lang's name is endless, that night every household celebrates together, regardless of men, women and children, singing and dancing together.

Tao Qian smiled even more, as if he was ten years younger. The civil and military attachés also put down their tight brains, and at the same time had a kind of respect and admiration for Zhang Lang. In the first battle of Xuzhou, Zhang Lang with his extraordinary courage and precise strategy, he won more with less, defeated the Cao army who came with hatred, and let it backfire, although at the last moment Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou, but that was also after Cao Ying began to retreat, which pushed Zhang Lang to a new height, plus a few years ago to pacify the bandits, undoubtedly became Xuzhou's Dinghai Shen Needle. After Cao Jun retreated, rumors began to spread in Xuzhou City, as long as Zhang Lang was there, he could ensure the safety of Xuzhou for a hundred years. And the battle against several pairs of fierce generals under Xiaopei City has become a classic conversation after the people's tea and dinner.

After Gao Shun and Zhao Yun learned that Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou and Cao Bing retreated, they each collected their troops and returned to the city, Gao Shun also returned to Xiaopei, and all the generals arrived, so the class returned to Xuzhou. So far, Zhang Langwei has vibrated Xuzhou.

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