Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 135 The Battle of Puyang (2)

After arriving in Hanoi, with the consent of Lu Bu, with the help of Zhang Yang, eight hundred elites were carefully selected to reorganize the camp. Although there was still a big gap from Gao Shun's standard camp, Gao Shun felt that he could barely fight. It was a great success.

Gao Shun watched from behind and shook his head, expressing his dissatisfaction.The soldiers still lacked training and were not skilled in cooperating. Fortunately, Lu Bu had already broken up the opponent's position, and the opponent did not know his own details to achieve the current effect.If the camp is still at this level in the future, and the opponent pays attention to it and strictly guards against it, then there is a danger of destruction.

The camp is a joint operation of multiple arms. The archer is in the center and is responsible for shooting the distant enemy or the opponent's commander; the sword and shield soldier protects the archer with a shield on the outside; Make the opponent lose their combat effectiveness, and after stabbing someone, the sword and shield hand is responsible for making up the knife.On the periphery are two cavalry, responsible for attracting or shocking the enemy.

This was a hard time for Cao Cao. First, the formation was broken up, and now the team has been disrupted and the system cannot be concentrated. The generals under him were all separated and fought on their own. Coming up, Cao Jun completely gave up resistance and fled for his life in embarrassment.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Cao Cao took off his shawl, turned his claws, Huang Feidian, and wanted to run away. In a hurry, he fell off his horse and burned his left hand. This was the second time he was injured after being shot by Xu Rong's army. Sima Louyi, one of Cao Cao's subordinates, hurriedly dragged Cao Cao onto his horse again, protecting Cao Cao and fleeing for his life.

Lü Bu led the cavalry through Cao's camp, looked back at his men and laughed, "Bingzhou Haoerlang, come back with me." Then he turned his horse's head and charged back to Cao Jun. Zhang Liao led a group of troops to follow Lv Bu, Hao Meng and Cheng Lian each Lead a team to outflank the two wings respectively.

Cao Cao escaped from the sea of ​​flames quickly by relying on the yellow flying lightning of his claws. He saw Lu Bu coming from a distance holding a painting halberd. Cao Cao was frightened out of his wits.On the rise of Lu Bu's killing, he saw a man riding a horse with disheveled hair and stopped him with a painted halberd. Cao Cao almost fell off the horse again.

"Cough, do you know where Cao Cao is?" Lu Bu shouted loudly, pointing at Cao Cao with his painting halberd.

"The one riding the yellow horse over there is Cao Cao." Cao Cao said vaguely, pointing eastward without looking up.

"Get lost!" Lu Bu retracted his halberd and rode his horse eastward.Cao Cao patted his paws vigorously, and Huang Feidian ran wildly.

After running a few steps, Lu Bu suddenly woke up.Didn't that man ride a yellow horse just now? That horse doesn't look like an ordinary horse either.Okay, Cao Mengde, I was almost deceived by you.Lu Bu hurriedly turned the horse's head, at this time Lou Yi had already followed, he desperately wanted to entangle Lu Bu, but Lu Bu stabbed him under the horse with a halberd.Lu Bu still wanted to chase Cao Cao, but it was a pity that Huang Feidian was a BMW that was not inferior to Chitu. After being delayed by Lou Yi, Cao Cao ran away desperately, but he couldn't catch up if he tried to catch up again.

Lü Bu's army followed behind, and Cao's army was defeated. At the time when there was no way to go to heaven and nowhere to go, the brigade led by Cao Hong finally arrived, caught Cao Cao and blocked Lv Bu.Lu Bu saw that the opponent still had a lot of soldiers and horses, and his men were a little tired, and they were far away from Puyang, so he ordered to stop chasing and return to Puyang.Cao Hong did not dare to pursue, but protected Cao Cao, gathered up the remnants of the defeated generals, set up the camp again, counted them, and lost thousands of people.

Lu Bu returned to Puyang after a great victory, and ordered to reward the three armies.Brothers Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao smiled and praised Lu Bu for his bravery and invincibility. This battle has yielded a lot of weapons, armor, and banners.Lu Bu said it was a pity that he was run away by Cao Cao, otherwise Yanzhou would be settled in the first battle.

However, Chen Gong walked back with a mournful face and said, "General, this year Yanzhou suffered from severe drought, almost no crops, and locust plagues broke out in various places, and it has spread to Puyang."

Lu Bu frowned, "How much food does our army have?"

"The army only has half a month's food left..."

Lu Bu was furious: "Why didn't you say it earlier!"

At the planned celebration banquet, Lu Bu smiled happily to reassure the army.Lu Bu ordered Chen Gong to take people around to collect grain and grass, and he himself took people to collect grain from the big households in Puyang City. The largest household, Tian, ​​pretended to be poor under Lu Bu's force, claiming that he had no surplus food in his family, and only took out more than a dozen Shi Grain dealt with Lu Bu, and at the same time remembered that Lu Bu sent people to secretly contact Cao Cao, and was willing to respond internally, on condition that the safety of his family and property be guaranteed.

Lu Bu went to Cao Cao's camp every day to fight, hoping to win the battle quickly. Cao Cao held his breath this time, digging deep trenches and building roadblocks to prevent the camp from going out.After ten days, Lu Bu's food and grass were about to run out, and the soldiers who had surrendered began to be distracted and wanted to join Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao's army was also short of food, they had accumulated some grain after garrisoning the fields, and grabbed some grain from Tao Qian in Xuzhou, so Cao's army was a little better than Lu Bu's army.This little bit determines the outcome of the two armies.

Severe drought and locust plagues caused no crops in Yanzhou. Some places started killing each other for a little rations. The weak either starved to death or began to eat human flesh.

Yuan Shao of Jizhou extended a helping hand to Cao Cao, but Yuan Shao proposed that Cao Cao take refuge in him and send his family to Jizhou. Although Cao Cao's father, younger brother and their family members died, his wife Bian and son Cao Ang , Cao Pi and others are always by my side.Cao Cao was hesitant to Yuan Shao's suggestion. Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's subordinate, strongly opposed it, and repeatedly told Cao Cao that the food shortage was only temporary. Lu Buduo insisted that one day is victory.There is a shortage of food in the army, and I have to find a way to solve it myself, and I am willing to bear some consequences.

Cheng Yu personally led troops into the mountains in the name of hunting, and used the dried meat as animal meat as army rations.Cao Cao was filled with sorrow and sorrow. The bark and grass roots in the mountains were all dug up for food. How could there be any wild animals in the mountains.

Chen Gong couldn't help complaining everywhere that Lu Bu didn't listen to his plan at the beginning, and that's why he got to this point.Finally, Lv Bu’s food and grass ran out, and his soldiers began to defect, but Lv Bu sent his generals to patrol the camp, but they were repeatedly restrained. Cao Cao took the opportunity to gather troops to counterattack Puyang, and Tian Dahu made trouble in the city. Lü Bu could not hold Puyang, so he had to move his troops to Shanyang to search grain.However, he was also harassed by the militia formed by the local big families. These militias fought desperately to keep their hometown. According to the fort, Zhang Liao killed the big family Li Jin, and Lu Bu's army suffered a lot of losses.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Miao wanted to join Yuan Shu, but was killed by his subordinates on the way, and presented his head to Cao Cao; Zhang Chao defended himself, but was attacked by Cao Cao, and the three clans of the Zhang family were slaughtered.The prefectures and counties of Yanzhou returned to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao regained Yanzhou.

(End of this chapter)