The Three Kingdoms are invincible

In January of the first year of Xingping (AD 194), Cao Cao ordered Xun Yu, his uncle and nephew Xun You to sit in Xuchang, and took charge of all affairs in the city on his behalf, while he himself led an army of [-] to attack Xuzhou.

Wherever the army passed, it was like a broken bamboo, and no one could stop it.Soon, Cao Jun had already attacked outside Pengcheng.

Pengcheng is said to be the place where the Yellow Emperor established his capital in ancient times.Later, when Chu and Han fought, this place was also the place where Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, set up his capital.

In 205 B.C., Liu Bang and the 56 allied forces of the princes took advantage of Xiang Yu's expedition to capture Pengcheng in one fell swoop.Xiang Yu was furious when he learned about it, and he only led 56 elite Xingye back to chase, and defeated the [-] army in one fell swoop with the momentum of thunder.During this battle, the Chu army beheaded tens of thousands of allied soldiers, causing the Sui River to be blocked.In the end, Liu Bang only led more than ten riders to break through the siege, and his father, wife and concubine and other family members were all captured by Xiang Yu.This is the famous Battle of Pengcheng in history.

Liu Bei's general Guan Yu was standing on the tower of Pengcheng at this time, looking back at this legendary city.Guan Yu has a strong temperament, although facing Cao Cao's [-] army, he has no timidity in his heart, but is proud.

Although there are only [-] defenders in the city, Guan Yu is still full of confidence.In the past, Xiang Yu defeated many with less and defeated enemies ten times larger than himself. What he can do, he can also do. This is Guan Yu's self-confidence that has swelled to the extreme.

"Although there are many soldiers in Cao's army, there is nothing to be afraid of, but they are all bidders for selling their heads." Looking at the slightly nervous soldiers around him, Guan Yu laughed and said loudly.

Looking into the distance from the top of the city tower, a black line could be seen faintly floating in the sky.As time passed, this black line became clearer and clearer, and gradually evolved into neat military formations.

Cao Jun... finally came!

—————————————————————————————————— Cao Cao led the army to march five miles outside Pengcheng, Qi Qi stopped, Wait for Cao Cao's next order.A strong killing spirit emanated from the battle formation, even the defenders far away on the wall of Pengcheng could fully feel it, and were quite frightened by it.

After all, not everyone is Guan Yu, and most soldiers don't have his arrogance that treats the enemy like dirt.

Guan Yu saw the slightly terrified expressions of the soldiers, so he could only "hum" twice to himself.Although Guan Yu was arrogant, he despised scholar-bureaucrats and valued soldiers.He will look down on literati and despise those generals who are timid before the battle, but although Guan Yu is not happy with the timidity shown by ordinary soldiers under such an absolute gap in strength, he will not discriminate against those soldiers because of it .

Of course, there is a limit to fear.If the soldiers were really afraid of the battle and even retreated and fled, then no matter how much Guan Yu valued the soldiers, he would never mind letting the supervising team raise their weapons to attack those deserters.

However, if this is the case, the morale of our own army will not be very useful now.Guan Yu thought to himself, he must find a way to boost morale.

Just when Cao Cao was about to give the order to attack the city, he suddenly saw the gate of Pengcheng slowly open.

Cao Cao couldn't help being very surprised. Could it be that the defender of Pengcheng knew that there was no hope of defending the city, so he decided to surrender?

Slowly appearing from the city gate, there is only one figure riding alone.I saw that the visitor was nine feet tall, with a face like a jujube, a long beard and a beautiful beard, and an extraordinary bearing. If it wasn't Guan Yu himself, who was he?

Unexpectedly, it was Liu Bei's righteous brother Guan Yu who was guarding Pengcheng, but why did he go out of the city alone?It is expected that no matter how arrogant Guan Yu is, he will never be so confident that he can single-handedly defeat [-] troops.

Seeing Guan Yu's figure getting closer and closer to his army, Cao Cao resisted the urge to let the army come forward to capture him, waiting to see what purpose Guan Yu had.

When Guan Yu arrived one mile in front of Cao Jun, he reined in his horse and shouted to Cao Cao: "Guan has heard that Cao Sikong's troops are full of tigers and wolves, so he is here to invite you to fight. I don't know if Cao Sikong will dare to fight. ?”

Invitation to fight?Why, Guan Yu still wants to rely on the defenders in Pengcheng to fight himself to the death?

"Dare to ask the general, how do you want to fight? Do you want to fight against the [-] troops behind me alone?" To be honest, Cao Cao admired Guan Yu quite a lot.Ever since the opponent warmed the wine and killed Huaxiong at Sishui Pass, Cao Cao had been fantasizing about taking him under his command.

"One fights against the formation, and the two fight against the general." Guan Yu said unequivocally, "For the battle formation, you and I each send 1000 people to fight. For the generals, Cao Sikong can send any general under his command to fight against Guan himself. fight."

Cao Cao was startled, he didn't expect Guan Yu to have such an idea.Of course he knew the purpose of Guan Yu's actions.The morale of the defenders in the city will naturally not be high with a large army pressing down on the border. Guan Yu wants to use these two battles to win a small battle among a thousand soldiers first, and then let him go out and kill his subordinates. If there is only one general, the morale of the defenders in Pengcheng will increase several times immediately.

"Okay, I agree!" However, Cao Cao had no reason to refuse Guan Yu's challenge.Although our own army is strong, there are 1 people in Pengcheng after all, and there will inevitably be losses if we attack by force.The principle Cao Cao believes in is to do everything possible to minimize the loss. Guan Yu's request to fight against the generals is exactly what he wants.In terms of battle formation, Cao Cao believed that with a force of [-] soldiers, there would be very few opponents in the world who would fall into the camp.In terms of fighting generals, although Guan Yu is brave, Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, Dian Wei and others under his command are by no means ordinary. Although there is no guarantee of victory over the opponent, it is not a problem to draw a tie.You know, Guan Yu is like a god in Liu Bei's army.If there is a general in his own army who is as powerful as him, it will definitely make the Pengcheng defenders feel uneasy.In this way, the record of one win and one tie in these two fights will lower the morale of Pengcheng's defenders to another level, allowing him to capture Pengcheng more easily. Why not do it?

Of course, if Guan Yu was not one mile away from his own army, and he might not be able to catch up if he fled later, Cao Cao would have ordered Guan Yu to be captured a long time ago.

Now that the agreement has been made, the first battle will soon begin.Gao Shun had already made preparations early on when Cao Cao agreed to the fight. He knew very well that in a battle of thousands of people, Cao Cao must send his own camp.At this time, when Cao Cao gave an order, he immediately led a thousand soldiers trapped in the camp to line up in front of the Cao army, waiting for the enemy to appear.

Soon, 1000 enemy troops also came out.Surprisingly, the commander-in-chief of the enemy army was not Guan Yu, but a young general about the same age as Gao Shun, who was also around 25 years old.

"The last general, Chen Dao, is ordered by General Guan to lead the Baixuan troops to battle!"

Perhaps the name Chen Dao was just a little-known guy to the rest of Cao Ying.But when Gao Shun heard the word "Chen Dao", his heart trembled.Gao Shun, who is familiar with the original history, knows very well that the talent of this Chen Dao in front of him must not be underestimated. He eventually served as the general of Shangzheng in Shu Kingdom, and his status was comparable to that of Zhao Yun.As for the elite troops under Chen Dao's command, they were the number one elite troops in the entire Shu Kingdom.

Zhuge Liang once mentioned this in a letter to his brother Zhuge Jin: "When you arrive at the governor, the first emperor's tent will be white, and the west will go to the army."

The translation of this sentence into the vernacular is: "Chen Dao is commanded by the Baiyan soldiers under the tent of the first emperor, and they are the most elite troops in the West (Shu Kingdom)."