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Yanzhou, under the city of Puyang, East County.

Sigh!

"Whoosh ——— kill!"

The war horse neighed, the arrows rained down, and the shouting of killing shook the sky.

In the loud sound of "Qiang Qiang", Fang Tian's halberd was waved in the air, swinging two war knives and a spear one after another, with one enemy and three without falling behind.

The red rabbit horse moved left and right, and Lu Bu on the horseback held a halberd in both hands, stabbing up and down, folding left and right, and it was mighty.

The three generals who fought against him were also quite extraordinary, two of them were armed with knives, and one of them wielded spears, and the knives were vertical and horizontal, and the spears were sharp and sharp. The three of them rotated back and forth around the red rabbit horse, cooperating with each other, helping each other, attacking quickly and very tacitly, and the strength of the three of them fought with Lu Bu dozens of times, and they have been fighting so far, without missing the defeat.

And the identities of these three generals are already self-evident, they must be the generals under Cao Cao.

At present, the battle for Yanzhou is at a critical moment, and Cao Cao led a large army to attack Puyang, the county of Dongjun.

This city was once the place where Cao Cao started his home, and he has lived here since Chen Liu's army. Since then, he pacified the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou, led the Yanzhou herd, fought hard and grew step by step, and even became the second largest princely force in the Central Plains after Yuan Shao of Jizhou. It was such a city that carried Cao Cao's ambitions, but when he led his troops to attack Xuzhou last year, he was attacked by Lu Bu, captured the county in one fell swoop, and then swept through the counties of Yanzhou, forcibly seized Cao Cao's rear foundation, and wanted to drive him out of Yanzhou.

Just when Cao Cao was at the end of his rope. The Great War of Divisions broke out. Yuan Shao of Jizhou united the princes of various towns in the Central Plains to meet the alliance in Hanoi County, and then formed an alliance army to unite the forces of the princes to defeat Li Li of Xiliang. This is undoubtedly a great opportunity for Cao Cao, who is in a desperate situation. It can not only prevent Lu Bu from continuing the pursuit, but also take the opportunity to raise troops and regroup, waiting for the opportunity to recapture Yanzhou.

Surprisingly, the battle of Sili, which lasted ten months, ended in a crushing defeat for the alliance of princes, and Xiliang Li Li won a complete victory. This is really a tiger that can't be beaten, but it is injured by a tiger. The princes of all towns in the Central Plains were all defeated, with heavy casualties. So that after the defeat, he fled from the division in a hurry. In this rare Central Plains War in a century, there were two people who benefited from the war, one of them was Xiliang Li Li of the winning side, and the other was Cao Cao.

Postwar. When the other princes rushed for their lives. Cao Cao retreated to Henan County with an army of 60,000 in a hurry, and then stationed troops on the border. The reason why he profited in the Battle of Sili is not that he collected many soldiers and horses, on the contrary, he also suffered heavy losses in the confrontation with the Xiliang army; What he really benefited from was that on the way to Henan County, he accidentally obtained a large amount of money and grain that Yuan Shao had secretly hoarded at the mouth of the valley north of Feiyundu.

And these money, grains, and baggage are the strategic materials that Cao Cao needs the most. It was also his true intention to participate in the alliance in the first place. Because his Dongjun nest was taken by Lu Bu, he fought with Xuzhou Tao Qian for several months. As a result, the grain and grass were exhausted, and only then was he defeated by Lu Bu. Therefore, after the foundation of Yanzhou was lost, Cao manipulated more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but because he had no food and grass, he was chased by Lu Bu's army and fled in all directions. Subsequently, his original intention of participating in the alliance of princes was to obtain grain and grass, and to feed his army of 100,000 with the grain and grass of the allied army, and after surviving the crisis, he counterattacked Lü Bu and recaptured Yanzhou.

Facts have proved that he Cao Cao's life should not be extinguished, or that the sky will not destroy Cao. In the battle of Feiyundu, the most elite 60,000 Qingzhou soldiers under his command were all wiped out, but in the battle of Loudiyuan, he got his wish and collected 50,000 soldiers and horses. When the allied forces of the princes were defeated and fled, he led his army to withdraw from the battlefield ahead of schedule, but intercepted 200,000 stones, grains and grass and a large number of ordnance and baggage that Yuan Shao had hidden privately at the crossing of the Yellow River north of Feiyundu. Subsequently, on the way back to Luoyang, he led his troops to collect a lot of grain, grass and weapons, and these materials were his greatest reliance on the immediate counterattack on Lü Bu without resting, laying a solid foundation for the recapture of Yanzhou.

Compared with Cao Cao, Lu Bu suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Sili. At the beginning of the alliance, he had a total of 70,000 infantry cavalry, and after the defeat of Loudiyuan, he finally fled back to Yanzhou with only more than 20,000 cavalry. Fortunately, these men and horses who escaped from Si Li alive are all veterans who have followed him for many years, and their combat effectiveness is undoubted, including the wolf cavalry that he relied on to become famous.

However, Lu Bu never expected that as soon as the Sili War ended, Cao Cao led a large army to attack Chenliu, and with the help of Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao, the soldiers were bloodless and captured Chenliu County in a few days. What Lu Bu didn't expect was that Xun Yu, Cao Chun and other remnants of the Cao army, who had been cowering in the small city of Dong'e for nearly a year, were unstoppable after receiving the grain and grass supplies sent by Cao Cao.

Under the enemy's abdomen and back, Lu Bu's troops were not enough, and he was caught off guard. It really is: the front door fights the tiger, the back door enters the wolf, the situation is becoming increasingly grim and precarious.

Forced into desperation, Lü Bu was in a hurry to seek medical treatment, and even sent Wei Xu to Chang'an with generous gifts to ask Li Li for help, hoping that the Xiliang army would be dispatched and Chen Bing Chen would stay at the border, forcing Cao Cao to withdraw his troops and return to help. But he would never have imagined that Cao Cao, who had been advancing all the way, was also worried that the Xiliang Army would suddenly send troops, so he had to send an envoy to Chang'an with heavy gifts to meet Li Li against his will, and once again mentioned the "Hangu Alliance", hoping to renew the "front edge" with Li Li, an "ally".

Li Li, on the other hand, very enthusiastically received the envoys of both sides, accepted the gifts and the money, and then agreed to their requests, but in fact he did not move, and sat back and watched them fight bloodily and bleed. Li Li's move made Lu Bu, who was in danger, furious, but helpless. However, the Western Liang army did not move, but it was in Cao Cao's hands, so that he could rest assured that he could boldly use his troops on a large scale, attack and fight hard, in an attempt to exterminate Lü Bu or drive him out of Yanzhou in one go.

Less than two months after the end of the Sili War, Cao Cao's army marched east and west, flanking Lü Bu in front and back, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and the battle was victorious, and most of the lost territory of Yanzhou was recovered one after another. Compared with the rapid advance of Cao's army, Lu Bu was defeated again and again, cities were lost one after another, and counties fell into Cao Cao's hands one after another.

To this day, Lü Bu personally guarded Puyang City, and all the soldiers and horses under his command shrank to Dongjun, in an attempt to fight a decisive battle with Cao Cao's army under Puyang City.

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There seems to be providence in the dark.

The Battle of Puyang came as scheduled, and the start time turned out to be about the same as the Battle of Chencang.

The difference is that the Battle of Chencang began at night and ended early in the morning, while the Battle of Puyang began in the early morning and lasted for several days, but the victory was still undecided, and the fierce battle was in full swing.

The sky was overcast, and gusts of south wind swept by, rolling up the dust, causing the sky above Puyang City to be gray, but it did not rain for a long time. (At this time, it was raining in Liangzhou, and it had been raining for two days in a row, and even the rain was still continuing.) ）

"Boom, boom, boom——— click!"

Under the city of Puyang, Lu Bu, who had been closed for several days without fighting, finally led the army out of the city to meet the battle today.

At the beginning of the war, Lü Bu went out to challenge but no one responded, and when he led the wolf cavalry to fight against Cao Cao's war cavalry, he unexpectedly encountered Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu, and started a fierce battle.

Up to this time, Lu Bu was as brave as ever with one enemy and three enemies, and fought fiercely with Cao Hong for more than 70 rounds, and the winner had not yet been decided.

"In the past, Li Thief once said: Lu Bu is the tiger of the world. Now it seems that although Li Thief is cunning and cunning, his vision of people is extremely accurate. Lu Bu's gang suffered repeated setbacks in the hands of the generals under the command of Li Thief, and he thought that he would sink and collapse, but he didn't expect him to be so brave, and the three of Zixiao joined forces to help him. If Lu Bu is not removed, my Cao Cao will never have peace! ”

In the rear of the Cao army, Cao Cao was wearing a dark red robe, black armor, and a dark cyan war horse under his crotch, which was somewhat similar to Xu Chu's mount, the Great Green Dragon. At this moment, he reined in front of the formation, squinting a pair of deep little eyes and coldly watching Lu Bu and Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu fighting fiercely, seeing that eighty rounds had passed but the outcome was still undecided, he couldn't help but groan with deep feelings.

On both sides of him, on the left are Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, Man Chong and Mao Jue and other civil servants and strategists, and on the right are Cao Chun, Cao Zhen, Le Jin and Cai Yang and other military generals. Now, most of the counties and counties of Yanzhou have returned to Cao Cao's hands, and the civil and military generals he accepted have also regrouped together, and they are full of talents, and the civil and military lineup is far stronger than in the Sili War.

Although Cao Cao spoke in a low voice, a word still came into Xun Yu's ears. Immediately, Xun Yu's expression changed slightly, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes, thoughtful. At this time, he had learned that his fourth brother Xun Chen was captured and served under Li Li, and was quite valued by Li Li, and was appointed as the Taishou of Hongnong.

In this regard, Xun Yu didn't have too many ideas, but was happy to see it happen, because this is the usual method of the family, and he never puts his eggs in one basket. What's more, his fourth brother Xun Chen was not originally under Cao Cao, but under Yuan Shao's account, and now he has switched to Li Li, which is more promising, at least very beneficial to the future development of the family.

However, what really surprised Xun Yu was that his lord Cao Cao inadvertently quoted Li Li's words and seemed to appreciate Li Li. This made Xun Yu secretly surprised, and he couldn't help but be touched in his heart, and he thought of many things.

I don't know when Cao Cao stopped calling Li Li's name directly, but replaced him with Li Thief. It is not difficult to see how deep the feud between Cao Cao and Li Li is. Because of this, Xun Yu never mentioned Li Li's name in front of Cao Cao, and often used Li Thief as his name. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao always thought about Li Li in his heart, but this kind of worry may not be a good thing. But at this moment, Cao Cao's words fell into Xun Yu's ears, but it was a different taste.

"Why did the lord mention the Li thief at this time? Lu Bu is brave, the world knows that Li Thief's words are just picking up people's teeth and wisdom, what a word. ”

Cao Cao turned his head to look at Xun Yu when he heard this, and said solemnly: "Wen Ruo's words are wrong. Lu Buyong is the best in the world, and no one has always looked at him, but in front of Li Thief, he is a different face, consciously restraining his heart, without a trace of arrogance, and seems to be very afraid of Li Thief. Yes, it doesn't matter what others say, but Li Thief's comments on Lu Bu are worth pondering??????

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