Chapter 33 Yuzhou Soldiers

"Lord!" Wu Dun, who was covered in blood and his coat, knelt down and cried as soon as he came in.

"General Wu, why are you so sad?" When Liu Bei saw Wu Dun's awkward appearance, he suddenly had an ominous foreboding in his heart and hurriedly asked.

"Lord, it was said that Cao Qian suddenly sent 150,000 troops to attack the State of Lu. General Sun Guan refused to surrender and led the army to defend the city. Unexpectedly, Changxi secretly opened the gate of the city, and the State of Lu was lost. General Sun fought to the death and died at the hands of Xiahou Dun. Of the 15,000 defenders, only the last general led hundreds of people out of the siege to come to Xuzhou to report. Now Cao's soldiers are going south and have surrounded the State of Pei. Wu Dun was soeping when he said this.

"Changxi!" Liu Bei also gritted his teeth in a rare way. Then he looked at Wu Dun, who was still kneeling on the ground. He quickly stepped forward and helped him up and said, "It's lucky that General Wu can escape, but poor Sun Zhongtai..." Speaking of this, Liu Bei also shed tears.

"General Sun said that Changxi was recommended by him, but he didn't expect to betray the Lord today. He asked his confidant to be ashamed to say goodbye to the Lord, so after fighting to the death, he asked Xuzhou to report the news. After Wu Dun said this, he was already in tears.

"Go down the order and order someone to look for General Sun's body and bury it." Liu Bei asked people to take Wu Dun down to rest again, sorted out his emotions, and turned back to Lu Su and said, "I don't want Mr. Guo Ying to say this. Cao Yan's soldiers have invaded Yuzhou. I want to personally unify the army and Cao Qian to fight in Yuzhou, recapture the city, kill the traitor Changxi, and avenge General Sun!"

"It's not impossible for you to say this, but I don't know if the defenders of Pei can support it. If Cao Shen had captured the State of Pei, he would only leave one or two generals to guard the State of Pei and the State of Lu. At that time, even if the king's soldiers came here, they would not be able to fight with the main force of Cao's army in vain. Lu Su said cautiously.

"The state-owned general and 20,000 elite soldiers, and Mr. Jian Xianhe should not fall so quickly. What's more, if the State of Lu is lost and Cao Bing violates the border, General Guan will not sit idly by and ignore it. Zhao Feng thought about it and put forward his own opinion.

"This is not bad. I mean that I will send 80,000 troops to rescue Peiguo." Liu Bei synthesized the opinions of Zhao Feng and Lu Su and quickly made a stand. Finally, I looked at Lu Su and said, "My husband expected everything to be like a god, and if there is a great talent. Now I will first offer Mr. Feng to sacrifice wine to the military master, and then make contributions, and then reward him.

"Thank you, Lord!" Lu Su also thanked him. Since then, he has also become a member of Liu Bei Group.

The next day, Liu Bei personally led 80,000 troops, together with six generals, including Zhang Fei, Zhao Feng, Zhao Yun, Song Xian, Wei Xu and Chen Dao, and took the new military division to sacrifice to Lu Su. From Pengcheng, he killed Pei to rescue Guan Hai. At the same time, he recovered the State of Lu, leaving a group of civil servants such as Gao Shun, Wu Dun and Mi Zhu to stay in Xuzhou.

Not to mention that the people in Xuzhou came to revenge. At this time, in Runan City, Muguan Yu of Yu of Yuzhou was also fury after learning the news, and he couldn't wait to immediately raise troops to fight with Cao Qian.

"Father, please calm down your anger. Father sits in Runan to prevent Liu Biao. How can he move gently?" Guan Ping, who was beside him, hurriedly said. Humph, how dare you violate my border? I mean, Ping'er, you and the head of the article stay in Runan, and I will lead 50,000 troops to rescue Peiguo. The rest of the departments should have their own positions to prevent Cao Jian and Liu Biao!" After Guan Yu finished the arrangement, he also operated quickly without waiting for everyone's opposition.

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"What's going on ahead?" In the advancing Xuzhou army, Liu Bei stopped to ask a sentry who had just returned.

"The lord, Cao Qian is now leading the army to attack the State of Pei. General Guan Hai defended the city and has not yet fallen. On the side of Lu, Cao Qian left the general Li Dian and led 8,000 people to garrison. In addition, Cao Ren, a general of Cao's army, led 20,000 people to the fort in the former army to block the way. The sentry hesitated for a moment when he said this, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Cao Chan captured the State of Lu and ordered the slaughter of the city again!"

"Cao Mengde, you murderous demon!" Liu Bei said with hatred. Brother, I'll cut off Cao's head and sit on a stool for you as a pit!" Zhang Fei was also furious. In fact, everyone in Xuzhou was indignant: Cao's slaughtering city was really addicted to slaughter.

"At full speed!" Liu Bei was not afraid of an ambush. This is a plain, and he can only rely on cavalry to ambush. And this time, I also took almost all the cavalry with me. Who is afraid of who if I really want to pinch?

It's not to mention that Liu Bei led the army to push forward with all his strength. At this time, under the city of Pei, Cao Jian was still making a final effort to persuade him to surrender: "General Guan, Mr. Jane, you two resist the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, but you are actually a great rebellion. Why don't you open the city and surrender now? When will it be?

Guan Hai and Jian Yong looked at each other at the head of the city, and the latter, as a literati, was more eloquent. At present, he said loudly: "As an official of the imperial court, when General Cao Chengguan was a Yuzhou herdsman, he was sealed by the imperial court, and so was General Guan, the prime minister of Pei. Why do you have an unknown teacher to invade my border now? Aren't you afraid that the world will laugh at you again and again?

"I don't know anything about Jianzhi. The yellow scarf in Yuzhou was rampant in the previous period. Guan Yu, as a state herdsman, took them into the army. As the prime minister of the imperial court, Cao personally led a large army to collect it again in order to avoid bandits. Cao Wei is serious. It's a serious way.

Shit, is this the right reason? Jian Yong and Guan Hai looked at each other in front of each other. Finally, Guan Hai raised his voice and said, "Cao Cheng is really suspicious. I used to be a yellow scarf. If you have the ability, fly to the city to catch me!" After saying that, the arrows on the head of the city were fired together. The guards beside Cao Yan hurriedly raised their shields to block him and protected him to retreat to the safe place.

"Attack the city!" Cao Qian also knew that it was useless to persuade him to surrender, so he had to order a siege. Pei only has 20,000 defenders. Except for Cao Ren, who led people to defend Liu Bei in the east, he still has no less than 100,000 troops on hand, which must be easy to take over Pei.

A team of Cao soldiers carrying the big shield set up a cloud ladder to rush to Pei. At the same time, Jing yan was also launched one after another. The siege battle in the era of cold weapons is like this. No matter you have all kinds of tricks, if the other party is determined to fight, you can only rely on the big soldiers to fill it.

"Rel the crossbow!" After Guan Hai saw that the other party had entered the range, he quickly ordered his men to use a big killer. Suddenly, there was a "sneer" sound. Nearly a hundred crossbow cannons on the tower of Peiguo City were not launched together, but divided into two batches of alternate archery, so that the firepower would not stop.

After being designed and improved by Lu Hao and Zhao Feng, this crossbow gun is now the first guard killer in Xuzhou City. After seeing the lethality of this thing, Liu Bei immediately ordered mass production. In the previous Guangling offensive and defensive battle, Zhang Liao was just a small test. Now the whole slightly larger city in Xuzhou is equipped with a large number of crossbow cannons. Those giant arrows are useful. If they are used up, they will be replaced by cutting bamboo. Therefore, Guan Hai is not used at all.

"Huh?" Cao Jian saw a huge arrow with a thick spear shot from the head of the city, and the momentum was strong and condescending. His soldiers were often directly shot and nailed to the ground, or three or four people were strung into a string. The thick wooden shield was shot through like thin paper, and he couldn't help but go crazy.

"What the hell is this?" Seeing that the first wave of attacks failed, Cao Qian asked in a big panic. The people around them looked at each other in front of each other. When they attacked the country of Kru before, it was a rare response from the internal response, and they could not see the power of the crossbow cannon. Now Changxi and Cao Ren are guarding against Liu Bei, so no one can answer his questions.

"Peqi has this sharp weapon, I'm afraid it will be difficult to overcome in a hurry!" Cao Qian muttered, but his heart was a little angry: according to his and Guo Jia's idea, it was to take the State of Pei and the State of Lu with thunderous momentum, so he divided 20,000 troops to let Cao Ren go to the village in the east to stop Liu Bei's reinforcements. But now Guan Hai has this sharp weapon to defend the city, I'm afraid he can't take it for ten days and a half a month. In ten days and a half months, Cao Ren blocked Liu Bei's army with 20,000 horses on the plain. No matter how good he was at defense, it was difficult to resist.

And once Liu Bei's army kills Peiguo, he can only retreat to Lu at most, and this cut-off plan can only be half successful. Lord, I have a plan to quickly take down Pei Guo. At this time, a scribe in black on the left came forward and said.

"Oh, what's Wen He's plan?" Cao Wei saw that it was him and asked quickly. He is none other than Jia Wenhe, who has just defected with Zhang Xiu.

"Although the bow and crossbow of Peiguo is strong, I have always heard that Liu Bei is benevolent. We can gather the people in the surrounding villages and drive the people to attack the city. If the defenders can't bear to attack, we can take the opportunity to take down the city; if we kill the people, it is inevitable that the army will be confused and will consume crossbow arrows. If we step up the attack, we can get twice the result with half the effort!" Jia Xu said without any emotion.

"Huh?" Cao Yan didn't say anything. Guo Jia and Xun You, who were beside him, had already hurriedly said something to stop him. Lord, this must not happen. If you use this plan to seize Peiguo, it is rare to get the hearts of the people here. Guo Jia said. Xun You directly scolded Jia Xu angrily: "Jia Wenhe, the previous state of Lu has surrendered. Why do you still let the prime minister slaughter the city? Today, you are going to drive the people to attack the city again. Are you really addicted to killing?

"There are also hundreds of thousands of people in the State of Lu. If there are countless massacres, won't we be able to be plagiarized at any time to attack the city? In case we have to do so in case." Jia Xu said disapprovingly that the name of the poisoner was well-deemed. Although the surrounding generals such as Xiahou Dun and others were also murderous, they couldn't help feeling a chill after hearing this.

"Master, it's better to let the last general call the battle. If you can provoke Guan Hai to fight, as long as you kill him, it will be easy to break the city." Seeing that several counselors showed signs of a dispute, Xu Huang hurried forward to put forward a compromise.

"Well, be careful!" Cao Qian also hesitated and agreed to Xu Huang's proposal. So Xu Huang led the headquarters to scold, but after scolding for an hour, Guan Hai couldn't shrink his head. Last time he saw the martial arts of Cao's generals in Xuzhou, and he knew that most of the battles were defeated or not, or stick to the city.

"Attack the city!" Seeing that Xu Huang returned without success, Cao Jian continued to order the siege of the city, but he still did not immediately adopt Jia Xu's strategy. Guo Jia and others were also slightly relieved. For a moment, the sound of killing under the city of Peiguo was shocking, and crossbows and giant arrows flew side by side, and the jar full of fire oil was thrown down and smashed and ignited, which suddenly filled with a smell of burnt meat.

At the same time, the two reinforcements of Liu Bei and Guan Yu, the former had arrived at Cao Ren's village, and the latter also arrived at the State of Liang to meet the general Mi Fang there.

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