Chapter 49 Nanguanghua sent troops to Nanman Cao Mengde pacified Hebei (41

Liu Bei can cross the boundary of Sili and go south to Jingzhou not because of his strength, but because Cao Cao's army is concentrated in Bingzhou, and the rest of the people and horses are also stationed in Yanzhou to prevent Yuan Mai from taking advantage of the opportunity to enter. Liu Bei just crossed the border and did not plunder the county and pass. Naturally, there was no pressure all the way.

Cao Cao gritted his teeth when he learned that Liu Bei had been walking from his own hands again. But at this time, the delay is not to chase Liu Bei, but to attack Hebei. Cao Cao had to let Liu Bei go for the time being and continue to capture Bingzhou.

As soon as Liu Bei left, Bingzhou was empty, and Cao Cao occupied the whole territory of Bingzhou without much effort. Xin Ping, who planned to reap the benefits of fishermen in Jizhou, heard Liu Bei abandoning the city. Cao's strength was intact. He also hated it and gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.

After Cao Cao got Bingzhou, his army was divided into three routes and began to attack the three states of Ji, Qing and You. Xin Ping did not dare to divide his troops and defend Ye City. Cao Cao personally led the main force to besiege the city to relieve the pressure on the other two people.

Under the city of Ye, Cao Cao's army built earthy mountains around the city and secretly dug tunnels to attack it. Xin Ping dares not neglect the design and stick to it. The laws and regulations in the city are very strict, and the guard will be severely punished if he slacks down a little.

Feng Li, the guard of the East Gate, was criticized by Xin Ping for his drunken inspection. Feng Li held a grudge and sneaked out of the city overnight to surrender Cao Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed when he saw someone coming to vote and asked about the plan to break the city.

Feng Li said, "The interior of the door is thick, and you can dig a tunnel to enter."

The so-called Tumen is a secret exit outside the city gate, and the location is only clear to the guards in the city. Making a gate is usually to cut open the dark door of the inner city wall, and the five or six-inch wall outside the city should not be worn. In this way, the location of the door can not be seen outside the city. Once the battle situation is urgent, the defenders in the city can quickly chisel open the door to raid or withdraw troops. Because more than half of the wall is missing at the gate, the wall is thin and thick. If you dig a tunnel, you can enter the city as long as you dig five or six inches of the wall.

Cao Cao ordered Feng Li to attract 300 strong soldiers and dug tunnels overnight. However, Xinping in the city is not a fool. Because of the strict inspection in the city, Feng Li was informed by Xinping as soon as he disappeared, and he went to the city to see the army every night.

That night, on the Tumen Pavilion, Xin Ping found that there was unusual silence and no lights in Cao's camp outside the city, so he said, "Cao Cao must do something tonight. Feng Li may lead troops into the tunnel." After saying that, he ordered the elite soldiers to transport stones to close the door, so that Feng Li could not go out. He also ordered the soldiers to throw down the rolling wooden ring stone from the Tumen Pavilion, smashing the tunnel, and blocking Feng Li's way.

Feng Li and 300 strong men could not enter, retreat, and all died in the soil. Cao Cao broke many sergeants, so he gave up his plan, but intensified the siege.

Xin Ping was besieged by Cao Cao for many days, and there was little grain in the city, so he made a plan. On this day, a white flag was raised on the city and wrote, "The people of Jizhou surrendered."

Cao Cao laughed and said, "There is no food in the city. Teach the old and weak people to surrender, and then there will be troops. One is to reduce the loss of grain and grass in the city, and the other is to attack me. After saying that, he ordered the Xiahou Dun brothers to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses each and ambushed the two sides of the city gate. Cao Cao personally came to the city under the protection of Cao Hong and Xu Chu.

Sure enough, a moment later, when the gate opened, the people helped the old and the young and came out with white flags. The people came out, and the soldiers and horses in the city came out and rushed straight to Cao Cao's army. Cao Cao ordered the general to shake the flag, and Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan went out to kill each other and kill the soldiers and horses sent in the city.

Cao Cao saw the opportunity and wanted to enter the city in the chaos, so he waved his flying horse to chase the defeated army to the edge of the city. At the suspension bridge, the crossbows on the city were like rain, and an arrow was shooting into Cao Cao's helmet, almost reaching the top. Cao Hong and Xu Chu hurriedly rescued Cao Cao and went on strike twice.

The siege was difficult to fight, and it was also the high soldiers of the Ye city wall. Even Cao had nothing to do for a moment, so he summoned the generals to discuss. Xu You presented a plan and said, "Why didn't Meng De decide to flood the water of the Zhanghe River?"

Cao Cao used his plan to send sergeants to dig 40 miles of trenches outside the city to draw the water of the Zhanghe River. One of the characteristics of these trenches is that they are dug deep on one side of the river and shallow on the side of the city.

Xin Ping smiled secretly when he saw the shallow ditch in the city: "Cao Cao wants to decide the water to flood the city of the Zhanghe River. But I don't know that the trench is deep and useless!" So unprepared.

That night, Cao added ten times as many sergeants and tried to dig the money ditch on the edge of the city. By dawn, the ditch was wide and two feet deep, and then it was flooded with water. The water in the city was several feet deep, and the grain and grass were flooded.

Ye City was short of food. As soon as the water flooded, the food was immediately extinct, and the sergeants starved to death. Seeing that the plan had been completed, Cao Cao ordered soldiers to shout outside the city to recruit people in the city.

Tens of thousands of Cao's army besieged the city and shouted: "The soldiers and civilians in the city, those who surrender will not die!" The sound shocked the world.

That night, the guard of the west gate of the city released Cao's soldiers into the city. Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan led the troops to attack, and there was no one enemy in the city. The second general rushed into the palace built by Yuan Shao, captured Yuan Mai, Xin Ping, Liu and others out of the city, and found the jade seal made by Nan Ye.

Cao Cao was not interested in Yuan Mai and Liu. He just ordered people to put away the jade seal and asked Xin Ping, "The day before yesterday, I went to the city, and the number of crossbows in the city almost killed me. Do you know that?"

Xin Ping glared at Cao Cao and said, "I just hate not being able to kill you!"

Cao Cao laughed and said, "You are loyal to the Yuan family and have to treat me like this. I don't blame you. Do you want to surrender me now?"

Xin Ping shouted, "I was born as a minister of the Yuan family and died as a ghost of the Yuan family. If you want to kill, you can kill him, but don't surrender!"

Cao Cao had no choice but to kill him. When he was sentenced, Xin Ping said to the executioner, "My Lord is in the north, and you can't let me die in the south!" After saying that, he knelt to the north and led his neck to death. Cao Cao felt his loyalty and was buried in the north of the city.

Once the foundation of Yuan's Yecheng was broken, Jizhou was all obtained by Cao Cao. Among the three states, the most difficult Jizhou has been broken, not to say the other two states. A few days later, Cao Cao got the news that Li Dian and Le Jin led the troops to break through Youzhou and kill Zhang Xun. Cao Ren and Cheng Yu led troops to break through Qingzhou and kill Yang Hong. Since then, the land of Ji, Qing, You and the four states have been obtained by Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao calmed down the four states, he went to Yuan Shao's tomb to offer sacrifices and cried very sadly. Wenwu didn't know what he meant, and Xu You asked, "Why does Meng De cry for a pseudo-emperor?"

Cao Cao said, "I don't cry about the pseudo-emperor Yuan Shao, but my good friend Benchu!" In the past, when I rose up with Benchu to fight against Dong, Benchu once asked me, 'If nothing goes wrong, what should I do?' I asked at the beginning, 'What does the foot mean?' At the beginning, I said, 'I am based on Hebei, blocking the Yan Dynasty, and the people of the desert, and going south to fight for the world. What about you?' I replied, 'I am the wise and brave man in the world, and I can do everything with the Tao.' This word is like yesterday, and now I have been lost. How can I not shed tears?

The generals sighed when they heard the words, deeply that the lord Cao Cao's ambition was high, and Yuan Shao's eyes were short-sighted. It seems that Cao Cao has today's victory and Yuan Shao has today's defeat. It was doomed as early as when the two rose up, and everything was as God's will.

After Cao's worship, Cao ordered: "Hebei residents suffered from the military revolution and are exempted from rent this year." On the one hand, he played the court and led the herdsman of Jizhou.