The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 363
Because Lu Heng compares Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, the imaginary enemy is definitely Cao Cao rather than Yuan Shao. Anyone who knows the Three Kingdoms will regard Cao Cao as his first opponent. Before Cao Cao rises, Yuan Shao is the main force to attract firepower. The only way is to destroy Cao Cao first. Selected.

With this analysis, standing still and waiting for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to decide the winner seems to be the most profitable, and it seems safest to destroy Cao Cao with Yuan Shao, but at this time Yuan Shao has been seriously injured, and the remaining strength is not his own. hit opponent.

No matter which plan you choose, all the counselors believe that the victory in Xuzhou must be consolidated first, and the battle reports of the east route will be sent to Lu Heng regularly. The latest time, it was Yang Yanzhao who sent Jiang Qin's Haijiao camp to replace the sea ship with Tai Shici and Fengqi camp. Li Xuan attacked Chen Yu's hometown Xihai from the sea, while Yang Yanzhao attacked Sheyang where Chen Deng was stationed.

In this way, it is a bit blind. It does not mean that one more army cannot be sent to Guangling, but it is superfluous. With Yang Yanzhao and Zhao Puzhi, it is more than enough to solve Guangling. An army will make Yang Yanzhao, Zhao Pu and others feel that Lu Heng doesn't trust them.

In addition to Guangling, Zhao Yun set out to take down Pengcheng and Xiaopei. Lu Heng looked left and right on the map, but there was no place to fight. Donghai County bordering Xiapi was stationed by Changxi. This person took refuge in Yuan Tan. It is not easy to make enemies for the time being, which makes Lu Heng a little depressed, so he can only send more scouts to the Taishan Army to see if Yuan Tan can't take down Zang Ba, and send troops northward by himself.

A few days passed in a flash of time. First, it was the news from Zhao Yun that Pengcheng and Xiaopei were successfully captured. Pengcheng was originally controlled by the Taishan Army. Cao Cao did not have any garrisons and only sent civilian officials to govern.

While fighting Yuan Tan, Zang Ba naturally withdrew from Pengcheng Kingdom when he saw Lu Heng dispatching troops and did not dare to fight on two fronts. Prefect Xiaopei was a diehard Cao Cao loyalist. One day, the troops were insufficient and the city broke down and committed suicide.

For such a loyal person, Lu Heng admired him very much and ordered a generous burial!
On the other hand, Tai Shici sent someone to report that Xihai had already captured Chen Cong alive, and captured Chen's family of thirty or so members. Now that Li Xuan is guarding Xihai, the Chen family has a large population. After the battle, he sent people to detain him to Xiapi. At the same time, Tai Shici said that he led the Leiqi Battalion to hunt down and kill Chen Yu to rescue Chen Deng's army.

Lu Heng is very satisfied with Tai Shici's handling. The old and young of the Chen family are important, but not as important as the Guangling battle. Everything has its own priorities. Lu Heng personally wrote a letter for Jin Yiwei to hand over to Tai Shici, saying that This matter is innocent but meritorious, and it should be done properly. After taking Guangling, someone will escort the Chen family together.

A few days later, Taishici's battle report and Chen Yu's head were sent together. Yang Yanzhao sent his father Yang Ye and Taishici to attack Chen Yu's army and smashed them.

From then on, except for Sheyang, which was defended by Chen Deng, all the other areas in Guangling County were owned by Lu Heng. Chen Deng knew that surrender would be a dead end and prepared to defend Chen, while Yang Yanzhao used trebuchets to smash the city day and night. The Battle of Xuzhou The dust has finally settled, just waiting for Sheyang City to be destroyed.

As for Zang Ba and Yuan Tan of the Taishan Army, they also fell into a stalemate. Zang Ba steadily collected all the troops and food and grass and hid them in the Taishan County Government. , Just like Guandu, Yuan Tan's army was stuck and unable to move forward.

Let Tian Feng's various schemes and temptations just leave the city, and he is determined to be a coward, as if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are making a decision.

Let's not talk about Lu Heng's affairs in Xuzhou, and turn our attention to the main battlefield of Guandu. It is true that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao have faced off for more than two months in Guandu. The gap, Cao Cao has fallen into an absolute disadvantage.

In the beginning, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought and defended each other in Guandu, but Cao Cao lost more than he won. Lu Junyi, Han Qiong and Yan Liang gave Cao Cao a headache. First, the jade unicorn Lu Junyi killed Wang Zhong, and Han Qiong seemed unconvinced. He also desperately killed Lu Zhao, and caused Cao Cao to lose two generals in a row.

This caused Cao Cao to hide in the Guandu camp to wait for the opportunity to fight, and then the two sides began a tragic offensive and defensive battle. Yuan Shao first used his strength to dig a wall, and then built a well to shoot down the soldiers of Cao Ying. Cao Cao's army was completely suppressed. He had such a temper that he had to carry a shield even when he went to the latrine, otherwise he would be accidentally shot by Yuan Shao's archers, and the morale of the army was very low.

In the absence of Liu Ye, Xun You proposed to hear that Lu Heng in Jiangdong was good at using catapults. Although our army is not good at this, it is still feasible to build catapults to smash the opponent's earth wall.

Cao Cao took it very seriously, and started to build catapults against Yuan Shaojun's daily arrow rain. Without Liu Ye, the power of Cao Cao's catapults was greatly reduced, and the sights were also very poor, but they couldn't stand Yuan Shao's many people. Hit something.

In this way, the morale of Cao Cao's army gradually improved. As time went by, from quantitative to qualitative changes, Yuan Shao's Jinglan formation was finally broken. Even so, the casualties were heavy.

When one move failed, Yuan Shaojun made another move. This move was to dig a tunnel just like Zhang Pu's, which is commonly known as the "stubborn army". He personally rushed to the front line with a pickaxe, shovel, etc. shirtless, digging hard.

However, Cao Cao used his troops and his old ways. He was clear about such a traditional method of attacking the city and pulling out the village. He had ordered people to place large water tanks full of water in the blind spots of the four corners of Dazhai.

The water in this water tank can not only store water for the village, but also test whether there are diggers digging tunnels. Violent ripples on the surface of the water indicate that someone is digging underground, which can serve multiple purposes.

A general had reported Cao Cao a long time ago, but the latter kept his composure at first, and when Wangmen was about to dig into the camp, he ordered his digger army to dig the hole and throw in the wet branches that had burned red for a long time. Wangmen and most of the diggers All the soldiers were smoked to death in the cave.

In this situation, when Cao Cao received the Xuzhou snowflake-like appeal letter and battle report, his face was very ugly!
Lu Heng and Cao Cao were at odds because of Lu Bu's situation. Cao Cao expected that Lu Heng would definitely send troops, and he might even unite with Yuan Tan. He also deployed heavy troops accordingly, and sent Yu Jin, who had the second strongest defense ability, to garrison Xiapi, Jiancheng City, Xuzhou. In addition, the Chen family, who is also bloody and bloody, and the Taishan army, who occupy a dangerous place, think that they are impenetrable.

(End of this chapter)