The sharp north is roaring, approaching spring, everything is gradually recovering, the cold wind outside the city of Xiapi is bleak, and the weeds that withered last year are slightly verdant and gradually glowing with vitality.

Someone in later generations once said that in Xuzhou, there were more than 50 large-scale conquests in the past dynasties, and it was difficult to discuss the twists and turns of right and wrong.

In this rich land of Huaibei, the battle of Xiapi of Cao Cao's expedition to Lü Bu was one of the more famous than 50 large-scale conquests in Xuzhou.

The melodious sound of trumpets sounded on the desolate earth.

This penetrating long note flickered far and near, one after another, and resounded throughout the wilderness.

Standing on the White Gate Tower, you can see the camp of Cao Jun located in the southwest corner of the city, countless military flags are displayed, and dense and boundless black spots are constantly emerging from the camp.

Of course, the 30,000 army did not all live together, Cao Cao sent Xiahoudun at the west gate, Yu Ban at the north gate, and let the partial division Xu Huang attack Juan County, Yuanwu and the two places, garrison in the north, to guard against Zhang Liao's reinforcements who were serving as Lu Xiang in Lu at this time.

If Lu Bu listened to Chen Gong's suggestion, personally led the cavalry out of the city and set up camp in the field, and was at odds with Xiapi, cooperating with Zhang Liao, Zhao Shu, Li Zou and other soldiers and horses outside, maybe there was really a chance to repel Cao's army.

But it's a pity that he didn't do it, resulting in most of Lu Bu's main forces now in the city, and Yuan Shu didn't send reinforcements to help him, Zhang Liao was watched by Xu Huang, and Lu Bu was already isolated at this moment.

The sun hangs high, and when the temperature is relatively low, this bit of sunlight is as pale as a little flame in the darkness, and it does not bring any warmth to people, but only makes it more and more cold.

Cao Cao personally led an army of about 15,000, plus Liu Bei's pitiful 1,000 men and horses, mighty and mighty, like a tide, surging towards the Xiapi City, outside the south gate, that is, about a mile away from the White Gate Tower, began to form a procession.

Their formations were all lined up in a phalanx, the front row was a column of spearmen, the rear was complete with all kinds of troops, and the officers at all levels arranged everyone's positions in an orderly manner, and in just over ten minutes, the 15,000-strong army had already lined up in line, showing the extremely superb military quality of Cao's army.

And farther away, located in the northwest of Xiapi City, a dam has been artificially cast at this moment, and this year the flow of Surabaya is not as much as in previous years, but after the water is stored, the moat and the river pool for water storage have been filled.

The water downstream is close to drying up, and the water upstream is all gathered outside the city of Xiapi. Three years ago, the river was littered with corpses, but now it is a flowing river.

Cao Cao rode on horseback, staring at the city standing in the cold wind in the distance, slightly chilling, without any warning or warning, he waved his big hand and said to the heralds on the left and right: "Dig a canal and flood the city gate for me." ”

"There is an order, dig a canal!"

"There is an order, dig a canal!"

"There is an order, dig a canal!"

The herald rode his horse and galloped in the wind, and the sound continued to spread in all directions.

Xiapi is located in the east of Surabaya, the terrain is relatively low, Cao Cao sent people to block Surabaya, and then dug the original flow of water to Xiapi, and stored water for several days.

In fact, at this time, the water had already overflowed, and through the moat of Xiapi City, the city was flooded with a shallow puddle.

But at this moment, after the dam was suddenly dug out, it was like a loud bang in the sky, and the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and in the face of Lu Bujun on the city gate changed greatly, the monstrous water rushed towards the city, as if to destroy the entire city.

However, the ability to store and discharge water and flood water in ancient times is far less than that of the industrial age, and under the influence of extreme weather in recent years, there have been droughts everywhere in the country, so except for the very special situation of Guan Yu flooding the Seventh Army, most of the so-called flooded cities are just pouring water into the city.

It is impossible to create a terrible flood that destroys all the walls and wipes out all the people and houses. Therefore, the huge waves of the river rolled in, which was terrible to look at, but it only formed a huge layer of water on the ground and began to sink into Xiapi City.

No matter how tightly the gates were closed, they could not resist the infiltration. Soon the water level in the city, which was only shallow, began to rise wildly, overflowing the toes, overflowing the instep, overflowing the ankles, and finally, even the calves were submerged by the insanely rising water level.

Many people know that beriberi is due to a lack of vitamin B1, but vitamin B1 is widely found in vegetables, fish, and whole grains, such as corn, the staple food of the Han people at that time, which is rich in vitamin B1 and other nutrients. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Han people do not actually get beriberi.

However, under normal circumstances, if a person's feet are soaked in water for a long time, the skin will be soaked and there will be a large number of bacteria in the water, which will quickly cause people to contract beriberi. The whole foot will be soaked, swollen, and pus, and this is the most terrible part of the flooded city.

Especially when Lu Bu placed a large number of troops in the city, when the water level began to spread and rise in the city, many people instinctively began to run towards the city walls and high ground, but the place was so big, there were many people, and it was crowded everywhere.

For a time, there were mourning voices in Xiapi City, and the morale of the soldiers had almost fallen to the bottom before they had even started fighting.

"Damn!"

Lu Bu stood at the head of the city, watching the water flow into the city, gradually submerging the city, and angrily slammed it on the female wall, he really regretted why he didn't listen to Chen Gong at this time, if he had taken people out of the city earlier, he would have been able to launch a surprise attack.

Left and right said: "General, the city has been flooded, if it continues like this, I'm afraid we won't even have a place to stand, everyone will be trapped and die in the city, it is better to open the city gate and rush out!" ”

"Rush out?"

Lu Bu hesitated for a while, every time he was like this, he looked forward to the future when he started a battle, and often missed the opportunity.

At this time, the West City Gate suddenly made a noise.

Hou Cheng, Song Xian, Wei Xu and others had long been dissatisfied with Lu Bu, and took advantage of the siege of the Cao army to suddenly rebel, tied up the Chen Palace guarding the west city gate, and opened the city gate.

Located in the west gate is Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun half a year ago rushed to the aid of Liu Bei, and Gaoshun Zhang Liao battled, in the battle by Cao Xing put a cold arrow, shot blind in one eye, at this moment saw Lu Bujun city gate open, thought that the enemy was going to rush out, immediately shouted: "Ready to kill with me!" ”

"Kill!"

Cao Jun's shouting of killing shook the sky.

Fortunately, Hou Cheng and others hurriedly shouted: "We surrender, we surrender!" ”

Hulala, two or three thousand people ran out of the city, and they all ran to the front of Xiahoudun and knelt down to surrender.

Looking at these soldiers of the Lu Bu Army, who had no military will to fight, and surrendered out of the city, they all of a sudden gave the Cao army who was ready to fight to rectify it.

Fortunately, although the battle was not completed, Xiahoudun immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to break the city, so he issued a military order: "Kill in the city!" ”

"Rush!"

"Woooooooo

"Knock knock!"

The melodious sound of trumpets and war drums sounded in unison.

Xiahoudun wrapped his left eye with a cloth, and his right eye looked at an extremely narrow line of sight, but he had been used to it for half a year, clenched the big knife in his hand, and galloped into the city first.

Originally, it was only Hou Cheng and a small number of other defenders of Xicheng who opened the city and surrendered, but after Cao's army entered the city, the entire city was suddenly chaotic.

In front of him, the city was broken, and a large number of Lu Bu troops in the city dropped their weapons one after another and fell to their knees in the puddle.

Seeing this situation at this moment, Lu Bu, who was at the South City Gate, almost had a mouthful of old blood about to spit out, and said angrily: "Hou Cheng and other thieves misunderstood me." ”

"General, the general trend has gone, let's go quickly."

The left and right are loyal, and hurriedly persuaded: "Flee back to the state, maybe there is hope." ”

Lu Bu laughed miserably: "Where is there a place for me in this world, you cut off my head and surrender to Cao Cao." ”

"General!"

I can't bear it left and right.

"Then tie me up and go to Cao Cao."

Lu Bu sighed, now that the soldiers are in the city, there is only one way out by surrendering.

Soon all the Lü Bu troops in the city surrendered.

At that time, the moat of Xiapi was intercepted from Surabaya, and it was formed by digging a canal and circling the city.

Cao Cao sent people to block the upper and lower reaches of the moat, and after impounding the water, the upstream water was washed down, and because the downstream was blocked, the river water poured into the city.

At this moment, after Lü Bu surrendered, Cao Cao ordered the downstream canal to be dug up, and then the upstream was blocked, and the Surabaya channel was released.

As a result, due to the topography, the water level quickly began to drop, and in less than an hour, the flood waters in the city receded, and a large number of Cao troops had already entered the city and controlled the entire city.

"Xuande, how's it going?"

Cao Cao rode on horseback and said to Liu Bei beside him.

Liu Bei had long hated Lu Bu, and when he learned that he had been captured, he said happily: "Cao Gong's soldiers are like gods, and he is really the pillar of the country." ”

"Hahaha."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "Let's go, follow me to see Na Lu Bu." ”

"Yui."

Liu Bei happily followed behind him.

During this period, Liu Bei actually really wanted to follow Cao Cao to do his career.

Because just like the people of the world who were blinded, Liu Bei didn't know Cao Cao's temperament for the time being.

Although he experienced the massacre of Xuzhou, he had to choose to endure in the face of the declining Han dynasty.

Everyone knows that the current imperial court has to rely on Cao Cao in order to gain a foothold in the troubled times, and if it falls out with Cao Cao, the situation of the Han family, which was originally slightly better, will be overturned.

So to a certain extent, the current Liu Bei is actually no different from Kong Rong and Wang Lang.

They are all princes of the same land, and after losing their territory, they responded to the call of the imperial court and came all the way to defect, and at the beginning, they all loyally followed Cao Cao to do great things.

The difference between Kong Rong and Wang Lang is that after the incident of the edict, Liu Bei quickly understood that Cao Cao was a Han thief, so he defected to another Yuan Shao, who claimed to be "loyal" to the Han family and wanted to defeat Cao Cao to welcome the Son of Heaven.

On the other hand, although Kong Rong knew that Cao Cao was a thief after the edict, he was powerless, so he could only scold Cao Cao for fun all day long.

Wang Lang chose to take refuge, I am not a loyal minister of the Han family, I am a loyal minister of Cao Wei, anyway, it is just a change of emperor and a change of master, as long as it does not affect the growth of my family.

As a result, when Liu Bei went to prepare to attack Cao Cao with Liu Biao, Yuan Shao was overwhelmed and was directly defeated by Cao Cao in Guandu, resulting in Liu Bei being unable to return to the north and being forced to live in Jingzhou, and finally entered Sichuan with the help of Zhuge Liang to establish a foundation. Eight Chinese Net

And Kong Rong was killed by Cao Cao, and even the children of a few years old knew that there were no eggs under the nest, and the entire clan was wiped out.

Wang Lang's life was much better, he was ranked as the third duke, and his status in Cao Wei was superb, and later after Sima Yi got up, he immediately threw himself into the arms of the Sima family, and Queen Sun Yuanji married Sima Zhao, making the Wang Lang family one of the top families in the two Jin Dynasty, called the East China Sea Wang family.

This is almost a true portrayal of several factions in the late Han Dynasty at that time.

The family clan who only cared about the interests of the family took refuge in Cao Wei, Kong Rong Xunyu and others who were loyal to the Han family were killed, and Liu Bei, who was also a royalist, was quite prescient and understood the truth that "Shen was born inside and died, and heavy ears were born outside", and built Ji Han.

But at least for now, Liu Bei doesn't know what Cao Cao thinks, and he won't understand until Cao Cao bullies the emperor later, Liu Xie sends an edict, and then Dong Cheng, Wang Fu, Chongji, and even the pregnant Dong Guifei are killed.

Therefore, he happily followed Cao Cao to meet Lü Bu.

Compared with Cao Cao, he hated Lu Bu to the bone, and peeling and cramping could not eliminate the hatred in Liu Bei's heart.

The two quickly entered the city and came to the White Gate Tower.

Surrounded by Xu Chu, Guan Yu and others, Cao Cao walked in the front, went up to the city tower, and saw that Lu Bu had been tied up by five flowers, and the soldiers of Cao's army escorted him to Cao Cao.

"Humph!"

Cao Cao snorted coldly: "Lu Bu, I have repeatedly ordered you to surrender and be loyal to the imperial court, why repeatedly? ”

Lu Bu avoided answering, but his face was tense and he didn't speak.

"Huh?"

Cao Cao frowned and looked at him: "The general of the defeated army, how dare you be rude." ”

Lu Bu said: "I treated the soldiers so kindly, but they betrayed me, and it was not a matter of war. ”

"Oh?"

Cao Cao looked at Lu Bu with a smile and said, "I heard that you are carrying your wife behind your back and fornicating with the wives of several of your subordinates, how can it be called favoritism?" ”

Lu Bu was silent, and after a while, he said, "This rope is too tightly tied, please loosen it a little." ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Tying up the tiger has to be tight. ”

Lu Bu said again: "Cao Gong got me today, I will lead the cavalry, and Cao Gong will lead the infantry, and the world can be unified." ”

"Huh?"

Cao Cao squinted his eyes and slowly stroked his beard, quite excited.

Lu Bu is brave and invincible, and he is extremely good at cavalry, he is now short of cavalry generals, if he wins Lu Bu, it can indeed greatly increase the strength of his cavalry.

On the side, Liu Bei saw that Cao Cao seemed to have a heartbeat, and he was immediately anxious, he and Lu Bu were life and death hatred, how could he let him go?

So he immediately stood up and said, "What does it matter that Duke Ming doesn't see Ding Jianyang and Master Dong?" ”

Lu Bu said angrily: "Big ears are the most unbelievable! ”

"Hmph."

Cao Cao shouted: "Hang Lu Bu to death." ”

"Yui!"

Left and right immediately take Lubra away.

Lu Bucang shouted in panic: "Cao Gong, Cao Gong, Cao Gong!" ”

As he was pulled farther and farther away, the sound was getting quieter and quieter, and soon there was no news.

In fact, Lu Bu didn't know until he died, and the reason why he was not accepted was because his capricious character hurt him.

Many people say that Liu Bei is a slave with three surnames than Lu Bu, and he takes refuge everywhere.

But Liu Bei's people who took refuge from beginning to end were only Liu Xie.

The first time I talked to Gongsun Zhan was to help my old classmates resist Yuan Shao.

The second time I talked to Tao Qian, I went to help Tao Qian fight against Cao Cao.

The third time with Cao Cao, it was actually with Liu Xie.

The fourth time I followed Yuan Shao, it was because after the edict, he knew Cao Cao's temperament, and thought that Yuan Shao was a loyal minister, but when he went to contact Liu Biao, Yuan Shao was gone.

The fifth time with Liu Biao is actually of the same nature as Zhang Xiu, and belongs to Liu Biao's guest army.

So Liu Bei has never taken refuge in anyone, either by following the imperial court, or when he was doing things for Liu Xie, Yuan Shao was forced to be displaced, and he never backstabbed the person who took him in.

On the other hand, Lu Bu.

Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Liu Bei.

Whoever takes him in is unlucky.

In addition to Liu Bei's fate, he took in one and was stabbed to death by him.

Because of this, Lu Bu's capricious reputation at that time was so bad that even Yuan Shu felt that he was not trustworthy and did not come to the rescue when Cao Cao surrounded Pi, let alone others.

Therefore, the social evaluation of Lu Bu at that time was very poor, Chen Deng said that he was "lighter than just go", Cao Cao said that he was "wolf ambition", Chen Shou commented that he was "cunning and repetitive, mercenary", and Xu Zhong said that he was "repeated and unrighteous, and he was determined to rebel against chaos".

On the contrary, Liu Bei's social evaluation at that time was very good, and no one had ever said that he was capricious, so you can know that the credibility of the two sides is not the same level at all.

Otherwise, how could Cao Cao, such an assertive and talent-loving person, listen to Liu Bei's opinion and kill Lu Bu?

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.