Chapter 52 Liu Biao died and lost Jingzhou Cao Liu Sunnan fought against Chibi 2

In addition to using Sima Yi, Cao Cao also recruited a group of civil servants and generals. Cao Cao, who was well-prepared and had enough soldiers, had only one idea in his mind at this time, which was to go south with a large army to unify the country.

Cao Cao's military attitude towards the Southern Expedition was different. The generals rubbed their hands one by one, and they all wanted to show their skills and make new achievements. Wenchen suggested that Cao Cao continue to rest his troops and support the people and wait for the day. Xun Yu advised Cao Cao, "Now that the people are determined, the lord should sit on half of the country, obey the will of the people, govern in all directions, and put sergeants in the border areas. If this can be done, Liu Bei, Liu Biao and Sun Quan do not dare to attack, and civil strife will arise. At that time, the lord waved his army to the south and could fight a war.

Xiahou Dun heard the words and said, "I recently heard that Liu Bei practices soldiers every day in Xinye, and Sun Quan broke the momentum of Huang Zu to catch up with Liu Biao. At this time, he does not want to be a future trouble, but he can take advantage of the early plan before he sits early."

Cao knew that what these two people said basically represented the two views of Wu. Although Xun Yu's plan was safe, he did not know when to wait, but what Xiahou Dun said was exactly what Cao was worried about. The ancients generally did not live long. Now Cao Cao is more than 40 years old, and he also wants to see the world unified in his lifetime. So he didn't listen to Xun Yu's words and decided to send troops to fight against Liu Bei first.

The decision to make the Southern Expedition is not Cao Cao's arrogance, but Cao Cao's confidence to calm the south in one fell swoop. In fact, Cao Cao's mentality is very easy to understand. As long as he has played strategy games, he can understand it. This is like a player occupying half of the territory and resources, while the other half of the territory is still in a state of splitting forces. At this time, the players who have an absolute advantage naturally want to eliminate the remaining forces and win the game as soon as possible, instead of waiting for the six forces to fight to attack, because the game can be over.

Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to be the governor, Le Jin, Li Dian, Xia Houlan and Han Hao as deputy generals, leading 100,000 troops to attack Xinye Liu Bei first. In Cao Cao's view, 100,000 horses are already several times that of Liu Bei, which can completely crush Liu Bei.

Xun Yu saw that Cao insisted on sending troops to persuade him, "Liu Bei is related to the two generals, and Zhuge Liang is the military division. Yuan asked the general not to underestimate the enemy if he goes."

Xiahou Dun said, "Liu, Guan and Zhang are just defeated generals. Zhuge Liang's unknown village man is like grass mustard. How can he be afraid! I would like to capture Liu Bei alive, capture Zhuge alive, and dedicate their heads to the Prime Minister.

Cao Cao Zhuang said with a smile and said, "I will wait for your good news to comfort my heart." Xiahou Dun heard Cao Cao's words and led the troops straight to the new field.

However, it is said that since Liu Bei has been treated like a teacher by Kong Ming, Kong Ming has tried his best to help Liu Bei train soldiers to teach arrays. In the past, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei trained soldiers mainly to train physical fitness and fighting skills, while Zhuge Liang's trainers stressed the prohibition and cooperation with the army. There is no difference between the two training methods. It can only be said that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's training focuses on individual combat ability, while Zhuge Liang's training focuses on legion cooperation.

Zhuge Liang stressed that practicing the formation is also a guide based on the situation, because there are two parts of soldiers and horses under Liu Bei's command, one of which is a veteran who began to follow Liu Bei from Xuzhou, and the other is a recruit recruited by Xinye. Those veterans have been imprisoned all year round, and Zhang Er has been trained and experienced countless bloody battles. There is no room for improvement in physical fitness and skills, but the cooperation of the battle array can be improved. However, it is unrealistic for those recruits to improve their physical fitness and skills in a short period of time. Zhuge Liang asked them to abide by military discipline and cooperate with each other, but they can quickly form combat power and not escape from the battle.

Liu Bei admires Zhuge Liang's training method, but Guan and Zhang Er generals don't think so. They feel that Zhuge Liang's battle arrays are all fancy shelves. Although they are neat and beautiful, they have no practical value. Zhuge Liang did not explain to the two, but just stepped up the training.

On this day, he visited Malaysia and reported: "Cao Cao sent Xiahou Dun to lead 100,000 troops to the new field."

Zhang Fei has always been belligerent. Hearing Cao Bing's arrival, he smiled at Guan Yu and said, "This time, you can let Kong Ming go to meet the enemy and see what he can do."

As soon as the voice fell, Liu Bei sent someone to summon the two to discuss the matter. Liu Bei met Guan and Zhang Er and said, "How can Xiahou Dun lead the troops to meet the enemy?"

Zhang Fei said, "Kong Ming can be a 100,000 army, and his brother will send him there."

Liu Bei heard Zhang Fei's strange words and stared at him and said, "Zhi Ce all depends on Kong Ming. You still need two virtuous brothers. If you shirk it, I won't let you fight."

Although Zhang Fei asked Zhuge Liang to fight, he was looking forward to fighting with Cao Jun. As soon as he heard that Liu Bei would not let himself fight, he was honest at that time.

Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to discuss again. Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "Master, don't panic. It's not difficult to defeat Xiahou Dun in this battle, but the two generals Yunchang and Yide have to listen to my orders."

When Liu Bei heard the words, he handed over all the flag and arrows to Zhuge Liang and told them to obey the order. Zhang Fei said to Guan Yu, "Let's see how he dispatches. The strategy works."

Guan Yu opened his eyes slightly and said, "If this battle is won, if it is defeated... Humph."

Zhuge Liang looked at their expressions but didn't care, and said, "There is a mountain on the left of Bowang, called Yushan. On the right is Lin, called Anlin. Two places can ambush troops and horses. Yunchang can lead a thousand troops to ambush in Yushan..."

The generals in the account listened to Zhuge Liang's faction that even Liu Bei would lead troops to war, but Zhuge Liang was fine. Guan Yu asked, "We all went out of the city to meet the enemy. What did the military division do?"

Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I only sit and guard the county seat."

Zhang Fei sneered when he heard the words and said, "I'm going to fight, but you sit around at home, so comfortable!"

Liu Bei reprimanded: "Don't you hear the strategy and win thousands of miles away? The two virtuous brothers must not violate the order.

Although the generals did not know Zhuge Liang's ability, they had to listen to Liu Bei's military order and lead their own troops to prepare. Zhuge Liang also ordered Sun Qian and Jian Yong to prepare a celebration banquet, and specially set the opening time for the morning of the day after tomorrow, as if the battle would be won tomorrow. Now even Liu Bei felt that Zhuge Liang was a little too much, but he still followed Zhuge Liang's instructions.

However, it was said that Xiahou Dun led troops to the front of Bowang City. Suddenly, he saw the dust flying in front of him. Obviously, there were soldiers and horses coming, so he ordered people to set up a position to meet the enemy, which made Li Dian and Lejin suppress their feet. When Xiahou Dun hit the horse forward, he couldn't help laughing when he saw the soldiers and horses in front of him.

Li Dian asked, "Why did the general laugh?"

Xiahou Dun said, "I still think that Zhuge Liang is so good. Now, the front soldiers and horses are all old and weak, with uneven armor, and I fight against the enemy like pigs, dogs, tigers and leopards. Catching Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang alive today, how can I not laugh? After saying that, the horse moves forward.

Chen, who led the troops, came to see Xiahou Dun coming out and said, "You should have killed it for no reason, but my lord is not willing to kill. If you retreat quickly, I won't wait for you to die."

Xiahou Dun saw that Chen led more than a thousand old and weak soldiers and dared to shout in front of him. He smiled angrily and said, "You follow Liu Bei like a lonely soul!"

Chen came to be furious when he heard the words, and the horse came to fight with a gun. The two horses intersect. Chen came to be defeated and left, and Xiahou Dun chased after him from behind. Chen was defeated for more than ten miles, returned to the horse and fought several battles, and was defeated again. Seeing this, Han Hao patted his horse forward and said to Xiahou Dun, "Chen is here to lure the enemy. I'm afraid there will be an ambush."

Xiahou Dun smiled and said, "I know, but why am I ambushed on all sides?" After saying that, continue to catch up.

When Cao's army chased to Bowangpo, suddenly there was a drum sound, and Liu Bei led a thousand soldiers to kill him and fought with Cao's army. Xiahou Dun saw that Liu Bei's soldiers were also old, weak, sick and disabled, and couldn't help laughing at Han Hao: "What can I do with such an ambush? I won't give up until tonight.

After the two armies fought for a moment, Liu Bei was defeated and ran away with Chen. At this time, it was late, thick clouds, no moonlight, and the night wind was very strong. Xiahou Dun only urged the army to kill and capture Liu Bei alive, and he didn't know where he was.

While chasing, Li Dian and Le Jin paid attention to the terrain and found that there were reeds on both sides. They were shocked and hurriedly caught up with Xiahou Dun and said, "The road here is narrow and the trees are mixed. It should be a fire prevention attack."

When Xiahou Dun heard the words, he woke up and hurriedly ordered the army to close, but the 100,000 troops marched late at night. How could they be collected for a while? At this time, I heard the shouting of killing behind me, and a fire rose to the sky, and the reeds on both sides burned. It turned out that Guan Ping and Liu Feng each attracted 500 sergeants to set fire here.

The reeds are flammable. In an instant, they became a sea of fire in all directions. The night wind was strong, and the fire was more fierce. Cao soldiers and horses trampled on each other, and countless people died. Xiahou Dun went on fire but was blocked by Liu Bei and Chen. The two armies fought for a while, and Cao soldiers rushed out of the sea of fire, leaving only one of the tiger and leopard to escort Xiahou Dun to break out of the encirclement.

Li Dian and Le Jin saw the bad momentum and did not follow Xiahou Dun, but retreated to Bowang City. Unexpectedly, as soon as he came out of the sea of fire, an army of fire blocked the way. As the first general, holding the Qinglong Yanyue knife, it was Guan Yu. The second general knew that he was invincible, and after a scuffle, he grabbed the road.

Xia Houlan and Han Hao wanted to save the grain and grass, but they saw that the grain and grass vehicles were burned. When they were about to leave, they were killed by Zhang Fei's led by soldiers. Zhang Fei waved eight snake spears to fight against the two generals alone, and stabbed Xia Houlan under the horse without ten. Han Hao's liver and gallbladder broke off the path.

Liu Bei's generals fought for one night and did not collect their troops until dawn, killing Cao's corpses all over the field and blood flowed into a river. Xiahou Dun lost more than half of his horses and dared not fight again, so he picked up the remnants and returned to Xuchang.

Guan and Zhang Er returned with victory and met halfway. They couldn't help laughing and said, "Kong Ming's prophet is comparable to Guanghua's national teacher."

When the generals collected their troops to the bottom of the city, they saw Zhuge Liang leading Sun Qian, Jian Yong and other literary ministers to welcome them. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei disarranged to see each other, and they were all convinced by Zhuge Liang's magic tricks. Liu Bei ordered to reward the soldiers with the grain and fodder he had received, and then returned to the city to celebrate his achievements. The banquet prepared in advance was just right, and the soldiers and the people were happy.

After the celebration banquet, all the generals talked about how to kill Cao Jun in this battle. Only Zhuge Liang's face was sad, and Liu Bei couldn't help saying strangely, "Why don't you like it?"

Zhuge Liang said, "If Xiahou Dun is defeated, Cao Cao will personally lead the army. Ten times the enemy can still fight, but a hundred times the enemy is not a plan to win.