Chapter 237 Xu Shu defected to Uncle Liu

At this time, Liu Bei led his army to besiege Xuzhou with Cao Cao. He was responsible for the siege of the east gate of Xuzhou City, while Cao Cao himself was responsible for the siege of the west gate of Xuzhou City. Xu Huang and Cai Yang, the super fierce generals under Cao Cao's command, were responsible for the military affairs of the siege of the south gate and the north gate of Xuzhou City respectively.

Due to Cao Cao's strict sealing and locking news, the outside world does not know the fact that Cao Cao's side seriously injured six super generals in the battle with Lv Bu in Xuzhou. If this news is known to the outside world, Yuan Shu in Huainan will definitely command the army to attack Cao's army in the first place.

Since Cao's scattered troops surrounded Xuzhou City on all sides for two months, Lv Bu himself did not go out of the city to meet the enemy. He just shrank the city and relied on the city and the people's heart to resist Cao and carry out passive defense. This reality shows that Lv Bu was really seriously injured by Guan Yu. Otherwise, with Lv Bu's irritable temperament, could he stand the enemy's siege on all sides?

For the battle between Cao Jun and Lv Bu, Xu Shu guessed such a result based on the current situation. According to his observation of Liu Bei, he felt that Liu Bei was a figure worth following: before, he also heard that Liu Bei was also a noble blood of the royal family. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei under his command were even more invincible generals, especially Guan Yu, who could seriously injure the invincible Lv Bu, although he injured Lv Bu in an ambush battle. This can also show Guan Yu's strong strength...

In order to thoroughly explore whether Liu Bei was worth following, Xu Shu entered the barracks and met Liu Bei. Naturally, Liu Bei was a sergeant and warmly received Xu Shu. After a while, Xu Shu and Liu Bei admired each other and stayed with Liu Bei's kindness. Xu Shu stayed with Liu Bei for the time being to help Liu Bei make suggestions and deal with various obvious and potential crises.

With the assistance of Xu Shu, Liu Bei is like walking at night with a torch and a guiding lamp. Xu Shuyue and Liu Bei have a deep friendship. The more he feels that Liu Bei should be a hero who tries to turn the tide. Although Liu Bei's power is shabby and weak at this time... Some people will ask: Why doesn't Xu Shu choose to go to reality. What about Cao Cao, who supports Emperor Xian? This is related to Xu Shu's own preferences: Xu Shu doesn't like Cao Cao, who has always had a bad reputation. Between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, he would rather choose Yuan Shao than Cao Cao, because Yuan Shao's birth and reputation are better than Cao Cao Cao.

Liu Bei is sincere and kind to people, heroic, does not humble to get along with the powerful, and gets along with the weak. Therefore, Liu Bei's ability and quality are destined to attract and gather talents in the future, and they are also Xu Shu and other characters. Although this kind of character is sometimes pedantic and rigid, looking at people with colored glasses, but loyal It's commendable, and loyalty is guaranteed!

The pragmatic Cao Cao is able to attract talents with talents and all kinds of skills, while Yuan Shao, who is hypocritical, can only gather hypocrites who are famous, deceive the world, real villains and so on. Generally, he is an upright person. There is no good life around Yuan Shao...

Of course, it is precisely because Liu Bei is living in the cracks of the separatist forces of various princes at this time, without showing the mountains and no water. Therefore, Xu Shao, who is famous for his wife, can't see Liu Bei's potential for the time being. Of course, Xu Shao still vaguely feels that one of the three forces competing for hegemony in the world in the future, one of them must be a royal family. Dear*. Cao Cao, whom he like, belongs to the official family, while Sun Quan of Jiangdong is the origin of a local hero*. If it weren't for troubled times, these two * people are doomed not to dominate and lead an era...

People with a little bit of historical common sense can see this, but Xu Shao's understanding is fundamentally different from those people. With his own insight, he has identified the two forces that will compete for hegemony in the world in the future: one is Cao Cao in Gangzhou, and the other is Sun Quan in Jiangdong. In other places, the overlords are just clowns, and the rabbit's tail can't grow...

This year, in the land of China, the common enemy of the princes and hegemons in various places: the decline of the Xiliang Legion, the first legion in the world, has not returned to peace. The frequent battles of these local princes to seize territory and fight against competitors have brought deep disasters to the people.

There were many events this year, and these events affected the direction of the historical future: first, Cao Cao from Gunzhou, welcomed the dedication of the emperor to Xuchang, and the second was that Yuan Shu in Huainan was whimsical, risking the world's greatness, and openly set up a separate court to ascend the throne and immediately caused a group of attacks from the world's heroes.

Under the order issued by Emperor Xian, Jiangdong Sun's Group and Jingzhou Liu Biao joined hands to attack Yuan Shu in Huainan, while Cao Cao from Guzhou led his army to attack Yuan Shu's allied force - Lv Bu, who was in Xuzhou.

In fact, the Jiangdong Army and the Jingzhou Army joined hands to attack Yuan Shu, but the thunder and rain were small, while Cao Cao led the army to fight with Lv Bu. Of course, during this period, the Jiangdong army secretly recovered its forces to attack Jiangxia County, Jingzhou. Due to the short time of war between the two sides and the deliberate secrecy of the two sides, this battle was not known to the world. Just like the sun rain in the hot summer, it came and went quickly. Before the ground was wet, the sun rain passed.

Cao Cao led his army to attack Lv Bu. The initial position battle was first defeated and then won. Finally, he seriously injured Lv Bu with the help of an ambush. In the next siege, even if Cao Cao's side had a continuous stone-throwing machine, even if Cao Cao's side lost more than 10,000 soldiers, they still did not capture Xuzhou City as they wished. Even if Cao Cao had led an army to capture Xuzhou City before, it was really this moment, a moment.

With the determination to completely eliminate Lv Bu's forces, Cao Cao, together with Liu Bei and the local clan forces, surrounded Xuzhou City from all directions with more than 100,000 troops. With the passage of time, Cao Cao led his army to surround Xuzhou City for four months.

In the four-month siege, Cao Cao's soldiers and soldiers could bear it physically and mentally, but the fatal weakness of more than 100,000 troops also came out and exposed: that was the trouble of food and grass...

A few months later, Cao Jun, who attacked the city, and Lv Bu, who defended the city, had little grain and fodder left on both sides. Especially in the early autumn season, even if Cao Jun acted freely, he could not mobilized grain and fodder from all places. And Lv Bu, who guarded the city, was even more miserable.

The suburb of the west gate of Xuzhou City. The main camp of the Cao army will be the camp. Cao Cao and Guo Jia knelt face to face in front of the table and discussed the military situation.

"Feng Xiao, according to the general, we'd better retreat temporarily!" Cao Cao whispered to Guo Jia in the face of the embarrassing situation of dilemma. If his six super generals had been injured, Cao Cao would have captured Xuzhou City long ago, but there would be pots and dryness, and no rice! Several months have passed, and the super fierce generals under Cao Cao's command, such as Dian Wei Xu Chu and Cao Ren Da Xiahou, are still lying ** and can't walk on the ground at all.

"Cao Gong, no! Wait a little longer. After all, the life of the soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou is more difficult than us... Cao Gong, after sticking for some time, now the enemy and us are in a critical period... Cao Gong, don't worry, the final victory must belong to us..." Guo Jia's expression was calm but extremely resolute, full of unquestionable power.

Guo Jia's conclusion is not imagined out of thin air. According to Cao Chun's observation and report, the soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou have killed horses a few days ago. In recent days, some fierce Xiliang soldiers have begun to eat people...

Cao Cao looked blankly at Xuzhou City in the distance and shook his head helplessly. However, when he looked sideways at Guo Jiaqing's eyes, he was full of confidence. Cao Cao could not believe himself. At that time, he was really full of confidence in Guo Jia.

The siege of Xuzhou City has been nearly five months. In the last month, Cao Jun only ate two meals a day. As the chief general and chief advisor, Cao Cao and Guo Jia also lead by example, and also have two meals a day. With such torture and suffering, the two of them have also lost a lot of weight. In this case, the combat ability of Cao's soldiers has been greatly weakened from top to bottom... According to their combat effectiveness at this time, it is estimated that even a formal siege battle will not be launched. In this way, it is no wonder that Cao Cao can't see the dawn of victory.

In Xuzhou City, Lv Bu entered the official residence himself since he led the remaining iron cavalry into the city, and did not show up once in several months. As a result, the city defense affairs of Xuzhou were undertaken by Lv Bu's aunt Wei Xu and Chen Gong. When Cao's army stopped the tsunami-like attack, they changed their strategy according to the situation and officially besieged Xuzhou City. The battle changed from dynamic to static, and Chen Gong, who had been working hard for many days, also fell ill.