On the road to Taihe City, Lu Bu and Pang Tong were slowly advancing.

The resistance of the Cao army was very strong, and it was scattered to use various geographical advantages to block, it would have only taken one day to march to reach Taihe City, but now Lu Bu and they have been walking for almost three days, and they have not yet arrived at Taihe City.

"Damn, Cao Jun's miscellaneous pieces are really troublesome!" Lu Bu's heart is not very good.

Many of the soldiers and horses led by Lu Bu are wolf riders from Bingzhou, and the speed of marching has always been extremely fast, and Lu Bu is going crazy at the speed of marching like now.

"Fengxian, don't nag. How many times have you nagged along the way. Pang Tong, who was beside Lu Bu, was a little irritable with Lu Bu's nagging.

"If you kid don't like it, you can go back. Why do you want to follow Ben on the expedition! Lu Bu was a little dissatisfied with Pang Tong's complaints.

Originally, when Huang Zhong asked Lu Bu to attack, Lu Bu hoped that Jia Xu would follow, but Pang Tong volunteered to follow Lu Bu out, and Huang Zhong finally agreed.

It's not that Lu Bu hasn't cooperated with Pang Tong, and they have worked together to win the city before. But after Lu Bu and Jia Xu got along for a long time, they felt that Jia Xu's style of acting was more in line with their own appetites, and they rejected Pang Tong. Of course, Jia Xu's appearance is much more pleasing to the eye than Pang Tong. Lu Bu himself is a beauty controller, and he is also a little uncomfortable looking at Pang Tong's ugly face all day long.

This certainly has implications.

"Hehe, Fengxian, you said yours, I won't mind in the future." Pang Tong said with a lick of his face.

Pang Tong's position in Liu Yujun is now very embarrassing. In terms of talent and ability, Pang Tong is no worse than Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi. According to reason, Pang Tong should be on a par with Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi. But in fact, Pang Tong was not as good as Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang under Liu Yu. I think Sima Yi has long commanded a group of soldiers and horses, and Cao Cao has fought several times, and his reputation is prominent. Needless to say, Zhuge Liang, the commander of the conquest of Jiangdong, beat Sun Ce to shrink in the corner of Jiangdong, this record alone, Zhuge Liang is enough to go down in history.

What does Pang Tong have? Except for the series of warships made in the Battle of Red Cliffs, which can be said to be a conspiracy, there is not much credit. Every time he thought of this, Pang Tong was very unwilling. Why can Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi get along with each other, but he can only follow behind?

This time, Pang Tong followed Huang Zhong's side as a staff officer and gave advice, just to fight for himself and prove that he was not inferior to Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.

However, Cao Cao's strength was strong, and Rao is Pang Tong thought of many strategies, but they were gradually disintegrated, resulting in a confrontation between Huang Zhong and Cao Cao for a long time.

This time, Liu Jun was able to march on a large scale and achieve victory, or Jia Xu adopted the strategy of Darkening Chen Cang, joined Huang Zhong, and beat Cao Jun by surprise.

This has nothing to do with Pang Tong.

Without military exploits, Pang Tong seized the opportunity to come out with Lu Bu and fight for it himself.

Lu Bu felt Pang Tong's kindness, and also understood Pang Tong's situation, and said, "Shiyuan, I will know that you have been upset and irritable recently, and you feel uncomfortable watching Zhong Da and Kong Ming continue to be used by His Majesty. ”

Pang Tong looked at Lu Bu in surprise, and then felt that he didn't usually notice it, and was noticed by someone in his heart. Pang Tong was worried that even Lu Bu could see it, and the others were not all clear?

Looking at Pang Tong's surprised appearance, Lu Bu said indifferently, "Ben will understand your feelings very well, your current appearance is exactly the same as when he was evil-eyed and Ben Jiang made war exploits." ”

With such an explanation, Pang Tong was a little relieved. It turned out that Lu Bu had experience, no wonder it could be seen.

"Feng Xian is really powerful, you can see it like this." Pang Tong said a little ashamedly.

Lu Bu picked up his Fang Tian painting halberd, carried it on his shoulder, and said, "In the imperial court, which of us is not constantly fighting for military merits. Although the general is invincible in the world, he also cares about this feat. This general just wants to be the first person in the military feats! Let's not think too much about it now. Spend some time thinking about how to get to Taihe City quickly, take Taihe City, and don't be looked down upon! ”

Lu Bu is very eager for military merit, he has proven himself to be the most powerful military general in the world, no military general in the world is his opponent, as long as he is willing, he can kill all the opponents in front of him with a little time. The chaotic world slowly became calm, and there were only a few princes left who fought against Liu Yu, such as Cao Cao and Sun Ce, as long as Cao Cao was taken, the time for the unification of the world would be fast. Lu Bu knew that he had to take advantage of this shorter and shorter time to fight for his military exploits and strive for the greatest glory and wealth for his children.

Lu Bu is greedy for money and lustful, the most difficult to satisfy and the easiest to satisfy. Only Liu Yu satisfied Lu Bu with peerless beauties and huge military power and high-ranking official positions. Liu Yu's generosity made Lu Bu very loyal. Because Lu Bu wants to take refuge with other princes or go it alone, he can't reach everything and status he has now, and his brain is not bad, how can he mess around.

In addition, Diao Chan is a virtuous helper, and often tells Lu Bu to understand the sense of proportion and not to touch Liu Yu's bottom line. With his wife and children in Luoyang to check and balance, Lu Bu focused on destroying the enemy.

Pang Tong was encouraged by Lu Bu, and arched his hand and said, "It is in line with the meaning of the next, Fengxian, now let's go to Taihe City quickly." ”

"Soldiers! Speed up, we're going to have dinner in Taihe City tonight! Lu Bu shouted.

The soldiers of Liu Jun made a high voice, they were also upset and irritable by the constantly harassing Cao Jun, and they were preparing to kill and vent the depression in their hearts.

In fact, Cao Jun's harassment can only go so far, the distance between Taihe City and Lu Bu is not much, and if he sends troops to harass again, it will not have much effect.

The defender of Taihe City was Li Tong, who was a rare good general in Cao Cao's army. In terms of dealing with Liu Jun, Li Tong is very experienced, and the previous harassment action was arranged by him, and he dragged the 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Lu Bu for so long. It's a pity that there is no comparison in strength, Li Tong only has less than 5,000 soldiers and horses now, and there are reinforcements from Xu Huang.

Cao's army is now losing and retreating, morale is low, and under the advantage of defending the city, the soldiers are also panicking. Liu Jun burned Xinyang City before, so once Taihe City could not be captured for a long time, Liu Jun would not take the initiative to burn Taihe City?

Thinking that this would be the result, the morale of the Cao army stationed in Taihe City was pitifully low.

Li Tong was also very troubled. He was absolutely loyal to Cao Cao, and in the face of the most powerful enemy, he would resist to the death. In the current situation, Li Tong didn't know how long Taihe City would be able to resist when Lu Bu's army of 50,000 came.

Li Tong didn't have much time to worry about, and Lu Bu led the army to Taihe City. Li Tong immediately picked up the weapon in his hand and came to the city wall.

Lu Bu had already set up a position for the soldiers and sent a knight to Taihe City a stone's throw away.

This is to persuade you to surrender.

With Lu Bu's character, he would not do such a thankless task of persuading him to surrender. But Pang Tong insisted on this, if the persuasion was successful, it would reduce the casualties of the army and increase more troops, which was definitely a great achievement.

Lu Bu complied with Pang Tong's intention and sent people over to persuade him to surrender.

"Listen to the guards of the Cao army, my general ordered you to open the city and surrender, Wang Shi is benevolent and righteous, spare you from death! If you resist, don't leave a single one! The knight kept shouting at the Cao soldiers in Taihe City.

As soon as he finished speaking, Taihe City responded to him with a round of arrow rain.

If you want Li Tong to surrender, there is no door.

This means that a pleasant chat is not possible.

Lu Bu is very happy to see such a tough guard, such a hard bone will make Lu Bu a little interested, he will use the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand to make him understand the fate of refusing to surrender.

Under Lu Bu's order, Liu Jun immediately began a fierce attack on Cao's army. The soldiers of the Liu army were all harassed by the Cao army before, and they were full of combat effectiveness when attacking the city, and they rushed forward one by one.

On the other hand, on Cao Jun's side, the momentum is different. Many of the soldiers of the Cao army were newly recruited strong men, and their number accounted for as much as half, and these recruits went to the battlefield without much training days, and some of them were directly driven to the shelves. The veterans of the Cao Army were calm, but the inexperienced recruits trembled one by one in the face of the murderous elite soldiers of the Liu Army.

Liu Jun only used one attack wave to take Taihe City.

When the city was broken, Li Tong led the remnants of the defeated army to evacuate quickly.

Lu Bu and Pang Tong entered Taihe City very arrogantly.

"Shi Yuan, I have said it, there is no need to persuade you to surrender at all, this time the attack will be taken down." Lu Bu kept counting Pang Tong.

Pang Tong's face is not very good-looking, he has been educated by a rough person like Lu Bu, and his face as the number one scholar in Nanzhou is about to be lost.

After Taihe City was captured, Lu Bu finished the task arranged by Huang Zhong and immediately sent someone to report back to Huang Zhong, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to repair on the spot and wait for the arrival of the large army.

The Boundary Capital City has changed its banner and is incorporated into the glorious embrace of the Shenwu Imperial Court.

In order not to disturb the people, Huang Zhong arranged the military camp outside the city. Huang Zhong paid attention to military discipline and ordered the soldiers to do nothing wrong with the people, otherwise their heads would fall to the ground. The soldiers of Liu Jun all knew Huang Zhong's temper, and they all stayed in the barracks obediently.

And Huang Zhong is more relaxed now, he and Jia Xu sit leisurely in the big tent of the Chinese army, drinking tea.

Alcohol is forbidden in the army, Huang Zhong leads by example, and usually drinks some tea.

The two old guys took advantage of the rare leisure time to communicate with each other. The two exchanged views on today's war, today's government, and the future trend.

"Mr. Wenhe, listening to your words is better than reading for ten years." Huang Zhong admired Jia Xu's views very much.

Since Huang Zhong is a general and has a great relationship with the current Emperor Shenwu, Jia Xu, who is good at self-preservation, naturally seized the opportunity to have a good relationship with Huang Zhong.

Jia Xu said modestly: "The general praised it. It is an honor to be able to enter the ears of the general. ”

has been an official in the same dynasty for so many years, Huang Zhong has more or less heard of Jia Xu's character, and he knows Jia Xu's modest words.

At this time, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun came in hand in hand, and the two of them reported to Huang Zhong the battle report that Lu Bu had taken Taihe City.

"General, what are we going to do next?" Ma Chao is an anxious person, and he cares about the next war, and it is also about his arrangement.

Huang Zhong asked Jia Xudao, "Mr. Wenhe, in your opinion, if our army takes Taihe City, how will Cao Cao react?" ”

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao both looked at Jia Xu, and in the hearts of the two of them, Jia Xu's ability was no worse than that of other top strategists.

At this time, it was time for Jia Xu to behave, of course he would not hide it, and said, "Our army takes Taihe City, and the best choice is to attack Ruyin." Ruyin City is the junction of Runan County and Anfeng County, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a place where soldiers must fight. Taking here, Cao Cao could only shrink to Shouchun City. ”

"That's a good idea! General, please give the order, I, Ma Mengqi, will immediately lead the army to kill directly to Ruyin City! Ma Chao pushed Zhao Yun behind him and hurriedly said.

Zhao Yun is face is helpless, Ma Chao has always been this character, and he rushes over to do it when there is a war.

Huang Zhong found that Jia Xu didn't seem to finish his words, so he asked, "Mr. Wenhe, I see that you still have something to say." ”

"Yes! The general is wise. Cao Cao has always been cunning. With his mind, of course, he was able to guess the route of our army's march. If the old man guessed correctly, Cao Cao estimated that he would send a large army to support Ruyin, and there were definitely a lot of soldiers and horses. But the old man was more worried that Cao Cao would have another conspiracy. Jia Xu's face became a little sinister.

Zhao Yun, who had never spoken, asked, "Mr. Wenhe, what conspiracy will Cao Cao have?" If our army is pressed, how long can Ruyin City resist no matter how strong it is? You must know that Zhong Da and Kong Ming's two lines of soldiers and horses are still restricting Cao Cao's troop deployment. ”

Huang Zhong and Ma Chao also had such expressions.

Jia Xu smiled slightly, and said to Zhao Yun, "General Zilong, with your strategy, it is estimated that Cao Cao will wake up laughing when he dreams." ”

Zhao Yun knew that Jia Xu was resourceful, and he must have seen something, so he arched his hand and asked, "Please Mr. Wenhe for advice." ”

"Wenhe, if you have something to say, just say it, why are you beating around the bush so much?" is also a faction in Guanzhong, Ma Chao doesn't give Jia Xu so much face.

Jia Xu is a little angry, everyone else respects the old man so much, you Ma Mengqi doesn't give face, do you have an ally like you?

"Look, everybody!" Jia Xu came to the edge of the map and kept gesturing. "Between Taihe City and Ruyin City is a low-lying place, and there is a water connection between the two cities. And Ruyin City is also connected by a Ci River. If our army is assembled under Ruyin City, Cao Cao will send an elite army to raid Taihe City, cut off the back road of our army, and then send a group of soldiers and horses to block the river water in the upper reaches of the Ci River, and release the water immediately after the river water surges. What do you think of the outcome? ”

When the words were spoken, everyone was shocked.

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