Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 221
"Assemble the three armies, we will attack Puyang tonight!"

It turned out that the Tian family in the city sent someone to tell Cao Cao that Lu Bu was cruel, and he was willing to open the gates of the city in the name of raising fire in Zishi, and let Cao Cao enter Puyang City.

In the evening, Cao Cao summoned the three armies and announced: "At midnight tonight, fire will be raised in the city as a sign. We will lead the army to kill the city, and then we can take Puyang City!"

Xi Zhicai stepped forward to dissuade him and said, "My lord, since there are people to respond internally, why not send a general to lead the troops there. If there is fraud in the city, then the lord will not be in danger!"

"No, if I don't take the lead, will that person still be willing to move forward? I have made up my mind, so I don't need to say more about my ambition. I will go to the city by myself at midnight tonight, and you will meet me outside the city, Zixiao!"

Cao Cao said to Cao Ren.

"Here!"

Cao Ren said to Cao Cao.

"The rest of the generals, join me in robbing Puyang!"

"Here!"

At midnight, Cao Cao led his army to the west of Puyang City.Quietly wait for the Tian family in the city to raise the fire as a sign.

Suddenly, someone held a torch on the head of Puyang City and shook it three times, and then the city gate creaked and opened a gap.

"The city gate has been opened, if you don't enter the city now, when will you wait! Go!"

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao took the Yitian sword in his hand and took the lead in killing the city.

"Drive! Drive! Drive!"

Cao Cao led his soldiers and horses straight to the Puyang county government office.

But the more Cao Cao ran, the more he felt something was wrong, "Why is it so quiet in the city? Could there be some bluffing?"

Thinking of this, Cao Cao hastily reined in his horse, and said to the generals beside him, "Quickly retreat! I'm afraid there may be fraud!"

"Ok?"

Before the generals could react, they saw the lights all around suddenly brightly lit, and the shouts of killing shook the sky, everyone shouted: "Catch Cao Cao alive, don't let Cao Mengde run away!"

All the generals around Cao Cao hurriedly divided up their troops to block it, only Xu Chu was left to protect Cao Cao and went straight to the north gate. , Turning to the east gate again, I saw Lu Bu dancing with his halberd and leaping his horse, killing all directions, he jumped off his horse in a hurry, squatted on the ground, and covered his face with his hands.

"Cao Cao!"

Lu Bu came over and patted Cao Cao's helmet with Fang Tian's painted halberd.

Cao Cao thought that Lu Bu had recognized him, so he closed his eyes and thought, "My life is over!"

But I didn't expect Lu Bu to recognize him, and continued: "Where is it?"

Cao Cao took a long breath, and then said: "Cao Cao is at the south gate! The one who wears a red robe and rides a yellow horse is Cao Cao!"

"Come here, tie this person up for me!"

After Lu Bu finished speaking to the soldiers around him, he rode a red rabbit and went straight to the south gate.

Lu Bu's soldiers said that after Cao Cao was tied up, they were going to release Cao Cao and leave. This is a general who brandished a big knife in his hand and killed one of Lu Bu's soldiers.

The two who came were not others.It was Huhou Xu Chu and Li Dian.

After Cao Cao was rescued, his back was completely soaked. If he had known that if it hadn't been dark just now, Lu Bu would have found him, and his life would have been lost.

Xu Chu and Li Dian protected Cao Cao all the way, and rushed towards the east gate. At this time, the east gate of Puyang City was already on fire and heavily guarded.Cao Cao looked up to the sky and sighed: "It seems that this Puyang City is the place where I, Cao, will be buried!"

Xu Chu shouted loudly: "My lord, why did you say that? Today, I said that I would risk my life and escort my lord out of the city!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Chuyi immediately began to remove his armor. His muscular upper body was naked and he only wore a heart armor. Then he rolled off the saddle and picked up a large shield from the ground. He held the shield in one hand and the nine ears and eight rings in the other. Elephant trunk knife, walk forward.

Seeing Xu Chu's bravery, the soldiers of Lu Bu's army on the city gate shot Xu Chu with arrows.

Xu Chu held up the shield in his hand, facing the rain of arrows, and strenuously moved forward.

He rushed to the center of Lu Bu's army, and then turned over dozens of Lu Bu's soldiers with a shield, abandoned the shield and held a knife, and slaughtered all directions. All the killed Lu Bu's soldiers ran away with their heads in their hands.

Only then was Cao Cao able to break out of the siege, and when he returned to the barracks, he saw Xu Chu was still naked from the upper body, had been shot several times, and had arrow wounds on both arms.

Cao Cao pulled Xu Chu and said, "If it wasn't for Zhongkang, how could I break out of the encirclement?"

After finishing speaking, I will reward Xu Chu a lot!

Seeing Cao Cao's defeat, Xi Zhicai said to Cao Cao, "My lord, why don't you use your plan and pretend that your lord was burnt to death, and the whole army will be in mourning. Ambushes around the barracks, and lure Lv Bu to fight, even though Chen Gong is scheming, You can’t see through this trick either!”

Sure enough, Lu Bu led his army to kill and was surrounded by Cao Cao's army. Cao Cao led his army to kill nearly ten thousand of Lu Bu's army.The two sides fought several more games, each with losses.

Due to the great battle between Cao Cao and Lü Bu, coupled with the sudden rise of locusts, which devoured all the grains, Dongjun had [-] grains of rice, and the people ate each other.

"My lord, now that our army is short of rations, I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover the counties and counties in Yanzhou that were occupied by Lu Bu!"

Xun You said to Cao Cao.

"In that case, then you go down first, I'll figure out a way!"

Cao Cao said to Xun You.

Thinking late into the night, Cao Cao suddenly called a confidant named Cao Zhen, and said to him, "Cao Zhen, you are my right-hand man. I have a very important matter to entrust to you now, but I don't know you. Can you do it!"

Cao Zhen looked at Cao Cao and said, "My lord, it's okay to say what's the matter, I, Cao Zhen, will definitely take care of him for my lord!"

"Now our army is short of rations and rations. I want you to organize a secret organization to obtain rations for me!"

Cao Cao lowered his voice and said to Cao Zhen.

"Could it be that the lord wants me to rob the house? Don't worry, the lord, I will definitely be able to do this well, and guarantee to get enough rations for the lord!"

Cao Zhen said to Cao Cao.

"No, no, what I'm talking about is not asking you to be that bandit, but to dig the grave and take out those funerary objects for me to use as military supplies!"

Cao Cao corrected Cao Zhen and said.

"Okay! It's not impossible to do this, but I need some good hands. These people need to be selected from the army!"

Cao Zhen said.

This Cao Zhen was born in a collateral branch of the Cao family. He has been idle since he was a child, stealing chickens and dogs, and is good at gambling, and often loses everything. However, he has a good relationship with Cao Cao. Cao Cao knows many secrets about him, and among them is this kid at night. He went to dig other people's graves with a few bastards, and then took out the funerary objects and sold them in another place. He used the money to gamble, and then dug again after losing all. Moreover, he also robbed many large tombs, and got A lot of money.

But after Cao Cao raised his troops, this kid has been with Cao Cao and got rid of those bad habits, but now Cao Cao needs this person to rob tombs for him to get money.

(End of this chapter)