Xuzhou, Pengcheng.

In the original history, Chen Deng, as an internal response, played a pivotal role in the entire process of Cao Cao's attack on Xuzhou Lu Bu. Although the current situation has changed to a certain extent, the important role played by Chen Deng has not changed much.

Zhang Liao guarded Pengcheng, Gao Shun guarded Xiaopei, and Lu Bu sat in Xuzhou, and the three cities fought each other and supported each other, which seemed to be a good strategic layout, but in fact, Chen Deng transferred Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, the two people who had followed Lu Bu for the longest time, were the most loyal to Lu Bu, and they were also the most capable of fighting, away from Lu Bu's side, directly dividing Lu Bu's direct combat power.

Then, Chen Deng then said, "Xuzhou City (Tancheng) is a place where enemies are attacked on all sides, and if Xiaopei and Pengcheng are broken, they will attack Xuzhou, so Xuzhou is in danger." The general should think of retreating first, it is better to make the general Deng and Dai temporarily guard Xuzhou and aid the two generals Zhang and Gao, and the general will move the money, grain, soldiers and horses to the city of Pijian. If Xuzhou is besieged, the general has soldiers and food in Xiapi to help Xuzhou, and if it is not good, he can also defend Surabaya for a long time, and sit and wait for Xu Du to change". Chen Gong originally raised objections to this, but it was a pity that Lu Bu did not listen to Chen Gong's dissuasion.

According to Chen Deng's intention, the main purpose of sending Lü Bu to Xiapi was to first cut off the connection between Lü Bu and Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, and then further isolate Lü Bu, that is, to make Lü Bu trapped in the lonely city of Xiapi. And Cao Cao's time to conquer Pengcheng was also just right, and Lu Bu knocked Pengcheng down on the way to Xiapi. At this time, Chen Deng secretly informed Cao Cao, hoping that Cao Cao could find some excuse to postpone the offensive, but made Lu Bu feel that he could not fight with Cao Cao urgently, and gave Lu Bu a little time to calmly transfer all the money and grain in Xuzhou to Xiapi, so as to complete the siege and isolation of Lu Bu.

Cao Cao adopted Chen Deng's suggestion, and in this case, it was inferred that the army marched lightly all the way, and the lack of grain and grass after the capture of Pengcheng was the most convincing excuse that could not make Lu Bu and Chen Gong suspicious. Therefore, when the grain team led by Lu Ren and Cao Hong slowly and leisurely arrived in Pengcheng, Cao Cao was still in Pengcheng. Otherwise, with Cao Cao's style of using troops as "fast as the wind", Lu Ren and Cao Hong would have to meet Cao Cao at least after arriving in Tancheng.

It's just that when he approached Pengcheng, Lu Ren was always a little worried, because Lu Ren didn't want to see something that happened in history in Pengcheng, but it was something he didn't want to see and it was difficult to stop.

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At the gate of Pengcheng, Guo Jia has been waiting for Lu Ren and Cao Hong's grain team under the pavilion. Waiting for the grain team to approach, Guo Jia rushed to Lu Ren's car, laughed and lifted the curtain and rushed inside to call: "Brother Yihao!" It's been a hard journey! I've been waiting for me so hard! ”

Lu Ren glanced at Guo Jia, and threw a bamboo tube over with his backhand: "Go, go, your old Guo will sit here dryly and wait for me?" Waiting for this, right? ”

Guo Jia took it casually, and after taking a big mouthful, he wiped his mouth and smiled: "Lu Yihao, who knows me!" To tell you the truth, the wine I collected in Pengcheng tastes nothing compared to the ones you brew......

Lu Ren jumped out of the carriage, looked at the gate of Pengcheng with a little worry, pulled Guo Jia over and asked carefully: "Hey old Guo, Cao Gong didn't have ...... There's no Tu Peng City, right? ”

Guo Jia frowned slightly, looked at Lu Ren for a few moments, and then shook his head and said, "No." Not to mention that the lord will not do this now, even if he has this intention, with Liu Xuande here, the lord will not be able to issue this order. ”

Lu Ren was not interested in listening to the latter words, he just needed to know that Cao Cao did not slaughter the city. A big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and Lu Ren let out a long sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face: "Lao Guo, tell me how you earned Pengcheng's?" ”

Guo Jia smiled: "Little tricks, little tricks, nothing to say." It's a pity that he couldn't catch Zhang Liao, and the lord has always wanted to surrender this general...... Well!? At this point, Guo Jia suddenly saw Zhang Liao who was being held in the prisoner cart of the grain team, and his jaw almost hit the ground: "Ah!? What's going on!? ”

Zhang Liao also saw Guo Jia in the prisoner car, and arched his hand to Guo Jia with a gloomy face and ignored it.

Guo Jia pulled Lu Ren's sleeve with his hand for a long time in shock, lowered his voice and asked, "Hey, hey, what's going on?" Why did he get caught by you? ”

Lu Ren pursed his lips: "It's none of my business!" It was caught by Zilian...... It's a long story, so let's talk as we go. ”

When he said this, Cao Hong walked to the side of the two, and after hearing Lu Ren's words, Cao Hong's face was a little strange, but he didn't say anything, just found an opportunity to pull Lu Ren away and whispered: "Mr. Lu, do you really want to give me all the credit?" ”

Lu Ren responded: "Can this still be fake? I'm just making some money anyway...... No, no, no, it's just a matter of earning some hard work and returning to work. Besides, even if I can't get back to work, it's useless, I'm actually quite comfortable mixing in my cute village, and it's nothing to mix for two more years, so you have to earn more military merits......"

Cao Hong said helplessly: "Mr. Lu! This kind of thing can't be hidden, and when I see the lord for a while, please don't talk nonsense, if you have military merits, we still have half of it! ”

Lu Ren frowned, shook his head with a bitter face, and of course these could not hide Guo Jia's poisonous eyes.

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Just like Cao Hong said, there are some things that you Lu Ren can't hide even if you want to hide and let go. As soon as Cao Cao heard that Lu Ren and Cao Hong's 3,000 grain team had caught Zhang Liao by mistake, he immediately went to untie Zhang Liao in person and persuaded him with good words. It was only because the situation was different, that is, that Lu Bu was not dead, and although Zhang Liao was very grateful for Cao Cao's actions, he refused to surrender immediately...... Or to be precise, Zhang Liao was unwilling to be an enemy of Lu Bu. Cao Cao was quite appreciative of this, just like his subordinate Xu Huang was also like this at the beginning? can show loyalty in this way, Cao Cao is too late to be happy with such a general.

Zhang Liao had a good relationship with Guan Yu, so Cao Cao invited Guan Yu to be a banquet to treat Zhang Liao, and then naturally asked Zhang Liao how he was captured. As for Zhang Liao, he was completely planted in Lu Ren's hands, so after saying a few words, Lu Ren couldn't run away if he wanted to, and he was reluctantly credited with a great credit. In addition, it was the telescope that made Zhang Liao inexplicable, and Cao Cao's face changed the same after trying it. As a tyrant who has been on the battlefield all year round, Cao Cao certainly understood the meaning of this thing, and immediately called Lu Ren to his side:

"Yihao, this thing is willing to be bought with a lot of money, are you willing to endure the pain and cut your love?"

Lu Ren was speechless for a long time, and in the end, what could he do except nod his head in agreement? But fortunately, the cost of this telescope is not too high, mainly because of the cost of those natural crystals and the cost of polished lenses, Lu Ren still made a lot of money in general...... At least Lu Ren was comforting himself like this: "When can I get the colorless transparent glass piece out, I will hand it over to Mi Zhen to specialize in the production of this thing, and then resell it to Cao Cao and his generals, a body of 300 gold I believe that the person who buys a lot of it will kill him!" ”

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There were many words and annoying, only saying that after Lu Ren and Cao Hong's grain team arrived in Pengcheng, Cao Cao immediately pointed his troops at Xiao Pei. As for Lu Ren and Cao Hong, Cao Hong, who was able to fight, was transferred to the front line, and Lu Ren, who could not fight, stayed in Pengcheng to take charge of the turnover of the Xuchang successor grain team. There is no way, it seems that Lu Ren can only do this now.

But then again, Xuzhou, which was originally a pretty good place, stayed in the hands of Lu Bu for two years, which is really no different from a sexy beauty being imprisoned by a pervert for two years. This is fortunate that there is a person like Chen Gong who can properly stop Lu Bu's excessive behavior, so Peng Cheng will not be tossed to the point of being full of holes, otherwise God knows what Lu Bu will be ruined into.

But even so, the people's economy and economic situation in Xuzhou are not optimistic, and there needs to be a person who is good at managing the government and securing the people to take care of it. At this time, among Cao Cao's entourage lineup, it seemed that only Lu Ren was the most suitable for this, so when Cao Cao inquired about everyone, everyone's eyes were thrown on Lu Ren's body.

Lu Ren stayed in Pengcheng to take care of internal affairs for the time being, but said that although Gao Shun on Xiaopei's side can fight, he can't play conspiracy and tricks, not to mention that Cao Cao obviously has Guo Jia and other think tanks, and there is also a Chen Deng in secret? In Lu Ren's view, Gao Shun's stunt is "siege", but he encountered Cao Cao's "virtual reality", Guo Jia's "ghost scheme", and Xun You's "hundreds", it is strange that he does not faint out of Xiang when he hands it over, unless it is Zhao Yun's "hole investigation...... It's a bit of.

In short, it only took six days for Cao Cao to arrive at Xiaopei, and Xiaopei was declared lost, and Gao Shun finally led hundreds of soldiers to reluctantly break through and retreat to Tancheng.

And Lu Bu was still in Xiapi during the few days of Xiaopei's battle, and when he received the news, Cao Cao's vanguard rapid troops had already rushed to the city of Tancheng. Lu Bu's guards who stayed in Tancheng originally wanted to hold on and wait for help, but how could they stand the Infernal Affairs that Chen Deng played in the city? Looking for an opportunity to open the gate of Tancheng, Cao Cao's troops rushed to the city, and Tancheng was lost. As for Lu Bu who was still on the way to Tancheng at that time, he received the news from the soldiers who escaped from the city, even if Lu Bu's intelligence was low, he knew that it was no longer meaningful to rush to Tancheng now, so he could only return to Xiapi stupidly.

Now let's look back at Lu Ren who is in Pengcheng. To be honest, Cao Cao's original decision to bring Lu Ren to fight was just to let Lu Ren follow the soy sauce paddling, and Lu Ren himself was very clear about this. However, Lu Ren didn't dare to be too sloppy about the tasks assigned by Cao Cao, and if he really provoked Cao Cao, there was no good fruit to eat, so Lu Ren was also doing things seriously in Pengcheng.

pacify the people, maintain law and order, resettle displaced people, and turn over grain and grass...... Lu Ren has been in politics for several years, and he has always done this kind of thing, and now he is certainly doing it clearly. What surprised Lu Ren was that he didn't expect that his reputation among the people was actually very good. With the blessing of his "prestige aura", Cao Cao Group's "digestion" of Pengcheng has also been carried out exceptionally smoothly......