Lu Bu, God of War of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 440 The Siege of Xuzhou
"Kill me." At this moment, someone shouted loudly.Immediately after Jia Xu, several generals rushed out together, and then the soldiers rushed towards Hulao Pass like a tide, and it didn't take long for them to attack Hulao Pass.

"What's going on?" Xiahoudun shouted angrily as he rushed out of his station, surrounded by a group of soldiers, and looked at Hulao Pass, which was already in chaos.

"General, something is wrong. Zhang Miao and Lu Bu are coming in. General, let's go quickly." At this moment, a person staggered towards him. Yu Jin's face was covered in black and gray, and his exhausted expression was obviously flustered.

"Lv Bu? Damn it, let's go." Upon hearing the news of Lu Bu's entry, Xiahou Dun's face turned pale. Thinking that Cao Cao was not in Yanzhou now, and Zhang Miao was colluding with Lu Bu, Xiahou Dun felt a surge of heat in his heart.

"Don't hesitate, general, this little one will protect the general from the encirclement." Seeing Xiahou Dun's expression, Yu Jin hurried forward to dissuade him.

"Let's go." However, Xiahou Dun also understood that the situation at this time was beyond his control, so he just coldly hummed the word "go" and fled towards the city gate surrounded by a group of soldiers.

"Where is Zhang Miao? I want to kill him." Xiahou Dun rushed to the door, but just in time to see Zhang Miao's men and horses guarding the door, so he shouted, and charged forward with his horse and knife.But there was no trace of Zhang Miao. It turned out that Zhang Miao had already hid himself when he saw Xiahou Dun coming to kill him, and dared not see him.

"General, you should not stay here for a long time. You will have time to kill Zhang Miao." Seeing that Zhang Miao was nowhere to be seen for a while, and Zhang Miao's men and horses at the door all scattered and fled at this time, Yu Jin stepped forward and said, Zhang Miao must be no more than a small person, Lu Bu It is their archenemy.

"Zhang Miao, I will take your head sooner or later." Hearing the shouts of killing behind him, Xia Houdun could only yell and gallop away.Only then did Zhang Miao come out from his hiding place and raised his sleeves to wipe off the sweat from his head.

On the Xuzhou City Tower, Tao Qian dragged his body and looked at Cao Cao's army outside the city tremblingly under the support of Chen Deng, with tears flickering in his old eyes from time to time.

"I, Tao Qian, have been in charge of Xuzhou for many years. I thought I was upright and honest, worthy of the emperor's grace, and worthy of the people of Li people, but unexpectedly, I did a foolish thing, which brought disaster to the people of Xuzhou. Yes. I have owed the emperor's grace, and I am ashamed of the people of Li." The generals stood behind Tao Qian, listening to Tao Qian's words, they didn't feel that they were crying secretly, and the hand holding the knife handle couldn't help but tighten it tightly. sword.

"My lord, this time it's all because of Cao Cao's treachery. He wanted to take the opportunity to occupy Xuzhou. How can it be said that he caused the disaster." Hearing Tao Qian's self-blame, Chen Deng tried to persuade him.

"At this point, my lord should relax and let everyone work together to surround Xuzhou. On the surface, Cao Cao came here to deal with the lord, but in fact, what he really saw was to occupy Xuzhou. The lord still needs to take care of his health. Only the lord Well, the people of Xuzhou can feel at ease." Seeing that Tao Qian still couldn't let go, Chen Gui who was on the side also stepped forward to persuade him.

"Hey, Xuzhou City is just for your troubles." After hearing Chen Gui's words, Tao Qian also understood that the most urgent task is not to investigate the cause of the matter, but to set up a plan to keep Xuzhou City.

"Yes." Under Tao Qian's influence, all the generals quickly nodded in agreement, then turned and left to preside over the defenses of Xuzhou City.

At this time, Cao Cao stood in the middle of the army and looked at Xuzhou City. Behind Cao Cao, two tall banners were erected, and there were two huge characters written on each of them, which were "revenge" and "revenge".

"Duke Cao, the army is ready to stand up, and we can launch an offensive immediately." At this time, Xia Houyuan stepped forward and bowed to Cao Cao.

"Order the army to attack, and I will attack Xuzhou within three days." Looking at his mighty and majestic subordinates in front of him, Cao Cao said calmly but vigorously.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Cao." At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded, and a figure came in front of Cao Cao. This person was none other than Guo Jia, Cao Cao's most trusted advisor.

"What's the matter with filial piety?" Cao Cao didn't expect that someone would dare to block his military orders, and was about to get angry, but when he turned around and saw Guo Jia coming, he slightly suppressed his anger and asked.

"I just got the news that there is a group of people coming from the northeast. It seems that there are as many as ten thousand people. Presumably they are here to help Tao Qian." Guo Jia stepped forward and saluted Cao Cao.

"Hehe, but what do thousands of people count?" Cao Cao just smiled lightly at the news Guo Jia brought, although Cao Cao didn't expect that someone would send troops to help Tao Qian at this time and fight against him, but it was just Cao Cao didn't care about the words of tens of thousands of people.

"Cao Gong, please take a look." At this time, I saw smoke and dust billowing from the northeast of the road. It turned out that the more than ten thousand people were divided into two groups here. Among them, Xuzhou City charged away.

"Look, my lord, there are rescuers arriving outside the city." Of course, everyone on the Xuzhou city tower also saw this scene clearly, and saw that the four generals who were the first to kill were Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Gongsun Zan. Zhao Yun.

It turned out that Liu Bei came from Youzhou with Guan Zhangzhi and Zhao Yun, but he still felt that there were too few soldiers and horses to deter Cao Cao, so when he passed through Beihai County, he asked Kong Rong, the prefect of Beihai, for help. Kong Rong was grateful for Tao Qian. Because of the benevolence and virtue, they also sent soldiers and horses, and the three parties joined forces in one place, but there were also more than ten thousand soldiers and horses.But when he came to the city of Xuzhou, Kong Rong saw that Cao Cao's army was strong and dared not move lightly, while Liu Bei led Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun directly to the front of Xuzhou City.

"Open the city gate quickly, and welcome the distant guests for me." Seeing someone coming to help out, Tao Qian immediately became excited, and quickly asked people to open the city gate to invite Liu Bei and the others in.

"Liu Bei in Xiapingyuan, although he has few soldiers, he still has a heart of justice, so he led his troops to rescue him. Please don't be offended." Liu Bei saluted Tao Qian as soon as he saw him.

"Hehe, I've heard about the emperor's uncle's reputation for a long time, and today I saw him as expected. With the emperor's uncle here, Xuzhou will be safe and sound." When he saw Liu Bei and Tao Qian, he also hurriedly saluted.

"Cao Cao came here to attack Xuzhou to do an unrighteous thing. Liu Bei is willing to write a letter to reconcile the two families. I don't know what the adults agree with?"

"Then I have to trouble Uncle Huang." Hearing Liu Bei's opinion, although Tao Qian felt that it was not feasible, but Liu Bei was a guest from afar, since Liu Bei was willing to give it a try, Tao Qian naturally had no reason to refuse.

At the same time, Cao Cao outside Xuzhou City was full of gloom, and crumpled a secret letter in his hand into a tissue.The reason is simple, Cheng Yu has sent the news that Lv Bu and Zhang Miao raided Yanzhou.

"Mr. Cao, what happened?" Seeing Cao Cao's serious face, all the generals were in shock, and Guo Jia asked quickly.

Guo Jia's question brought Cao Cao back to his senses immediately. After handing the letter that had been crumpled into a paper towel to Guo Jia, Cao Cao patted his head and said jokingly, "Haha, it's just Lu Bu who took advantage of my absence. Bei attacked Yanzhou, it seems that I have underestimated Lu Bu, but Lu Bu is just a common man who dared to attack my prefecture, it seems that this time he must be made to look good."

Originally, seeing Cao Cao's ugly expression, the generals thought that something difficult to solve had happened, but seeing Cao Cao's calm expression now, they were determined in their hearts, thinking that Cao Cao had already made up his mind.Only Guo Jia took a peek at Cao Cao, and understood that Cao Cao was just pretending to be calm and trying to stabilize the morale of the army. You must know that most of the Qingzhou army came from the Yellow Turbans. Now that Zhang Yan is suddenly making trouble in Puyang, the Qingzhou army must be unstable. What's more, the situation is unclear, and the families of the officers and men in the army are all in Puyang. If Yanzhou cannot be recaptured in a short period of time, just the fluctuating morale of the army will be enough to cause the army to collapse.Not to mention fighting.

Cao Cao met Cao Ren on his way back to the army at night, Cao Cao knew that Yanzhou was over. Only Juancheng, Dong'e, and Fanxian were saved because of Cheng Yu's design, and the rest of the counties had been taken over by Lu Bu. occupied.

Hearing Cao Ren's report, Cao Cao laughed out loud, but ordered Cao Ren to lead [-] troops back to garrison the third place, while he himself led an army to approach Yanzhou.

But he said that Lü Bu had to surrender [-] troops when he attacked Yanzhou, and knowing that Cao Cao would return to help every night, he recruited generals to discuss how to defend against the enemy.

"Cao Cao led an army of 20 to attack Xuzhou. This time, he learned that our army had defeated Yanzhou, and he would definitely run back in the starry night. I don't know if you have a good strategy to defeat the enemy?" Although Lu Bu has been in battle for a long time, Cao Cao is a formidable opponent. If it weren't for Lu Bu's plan to start a war with Yuan Shu this time, Cao Cao would not have easily attacked Xuzhou, and if it hadn't been for the internal response of Chen Liu's prefect Zhang Miao, it would be impossible for Lu Bu to attack Yanzhou so quickly and achieve such a great result. It was not easy, and Lu Bu also knew that Cao Cao was not easy to get along with, so he really wanted to hear what the audience said and brainstorm, so as to be able to stabilize the situation in Yanzhou and weaken Cao Cao's strength.

As soon as Lu Bu finished speaking, Zang Ba stood up first from the audience, bowed and said, "Now that Yanzhou is the territory of our army, how can Cao Cao be allowed to be rampant? I am willing to be the vanguard and defeat Cao's army for my lord."

"The general is talking about business. Why are you running out to join in the fun?" Hearing Zang Ba's words, Dian Wei, who was beside Lu Bu, curled his lips and gave a lecture.Although Dian Wei didn't know strategy, he knew that what Zang Ba said at this time was nothing but nonsense, and if things were just as Zang Ba said, there was no need to discuss them.

(End of this chapter)