Xu You sneered: "Don't you want my lord to surrender?"

Sima Yi said to Cao Pi: "Instead of engaging in an uncertain battle with Lu Bu in the north, it is better to abandon this hopeless battle and invest our strength in a promising direction. What is lost in the north will be taken back from the south!" People present

They were all stunned. Sima Yi's eyes flashed with a deep light and he told his plan.

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Lu Bu's three cavalry troops successfully captured the three counties of Hanoi, Chaoge and Wei respectively. At the same time, the main force led by Zhang Lang surrounded Qu Yi in Yecheng to the north of Liyang. In a fierce battle, all Cao's troops under Qu Yi's command were defeated.

The army was wiped out, and Qu Yi managed to escape with only a dozen cavalry soldiers. After Zhang Lang completely annihilated Qu Yi's troops, the army rolled northward and arrived at Jizhou City a few days later.

Jizhou City is a famous and prosperous city in the world. It was once the headquarters of Yuan Shao and is now an important base for the Cao family to rule the north. In terms of scale and trade, Jizhou City can definitely be compared with Luoyang and Xuchang, but it is smaller in terms of population.

It is slightly inferior. It is located on the Great Plains of Jizhou. It is majestic and steep. It can be called a huge city. It is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack. Now sitting in Jizhou is an important general of the Cao family, Cao Xiu, leading 15,000 elite soldiers and ten

Ten thousand militiamen guarded Jizhou.

When Lu Bu's army arrived at the city, alarm bells rang in the city. Regular soldiers and militiamen rushed up the city wall, swords unsheathed, arrows unstrung. The herald in the city flew along the street, shouting: "The whole city is under martial law, and everyone who is idle will go home immediately."

!The entire city is under martial law, and all idle people should go home immediately!..."

Surrounded by his subordinates, Cao Xiu hurriedly climbed up to the city gate tower and looked out of the city. He saw Lu Bu's army overwhelmingly covered with troops and horses, battle flags surging, and swords and spears like a forest. He couldn't help but be shocked. A deputy general next to him turned to Cao Xiu with a white face.

He said: "I just received news that Qu Yi's troops were defeated by Lu Bu's army at the White Horse Ferry, and were immediately wiped out in Yecheng. Qu Yi's life and death are unknown."

Cao Xiu snorted coldly and said mockingly: "How can Yuan Shao's defeated general be Lu Bu's opponent!"

The lieutenant general said: "General, with the strength of our army, we may not be able to defend Jizhou. We should ask for help quickly!"

Cao Xiu immediately ordered: "Send an envoy to Dongjun to ask for help, and at the same time send someone to ask General Zilong to lead his army to come for help." The deputy general clasped his fists in agreement and ran down.

At this moment, I saw a majestic general wearing leather armor and oil paint flying out of the enemy formation. He reined in his horse and shouted: "I am Samoko, the commander of Wuxi under the general's command. Who dares to come and die!"

"

Cao Xiu was furious, "How dare you, a little barbarian!" He turned around and asked the generals around him: "Who dares to fight?" Immediately, a general named Dengpu clasped his fists and said: "The last general is willing to cut off the head of this beast and offer it to the tent.

Exit!" Cao Xiu was overjoyed, "If the general kills this barbarian, I will plead for the general's merit in front of the lord!"

Dump thanked him and immediately ran down the city wall. The city gate was opened wide, and the drums sounded. Deng Pu drew his gun and urged his horse to run out of the city gate. When he came to the front of Samoko, he pointed his spear at Samoko and shouted: "I am

..." Shamoko had already rushed up with a shout and a mace. Temple was so surprised that he didn't bother to announce his home and urged his horse to meet him.

The two cavalry met, and Temple raised his gun and prepared to assassinate him. However, Shamoko was faster than him, and the mace had already been chopped off on his head. Temple's expression changed, and he had no time to dodge, and only heard a pop. Temple

His head exploded and blood splattered, and he fell off his horse.

The officers and soldiers of the Cao family on the city wall were all shocked. One general exclaimed: "These barbarians are so powerful!" Cao Xiu frowned and asked the generals: "Who dares to fight?" The generals looked at each other in shock.

At that time, Samoko shouted outside the city: "What a waste!"

I thought the generals of the Cao family were so powerful? They are just like wine and rice bags!" Lu Bu's army burst into laughter. Cao's army was filled with indignation, and a general ran down: "I will fight him!" The name of the general was

Zhang Cheng was also one of Cao Xiu's generals.

Zhang Cheng raised his spear and rode out of the city gate, without saying a word or stopping, and went straight towards Samoko.

Shamoko became excited and urged his horse to meet him with a mace. The two sides fought back and forth for several rounds. Zhang Chengli was timid and frightened, and with a false shot, he quickly turned the horse's head and ran away. How could Shamoko tolerate him?

He ran away and immediately chased him on horseback, shouting: "Don't run, coward!" Zhang Cheng ran even more panicked, and Shamoko couldn't catch up at all.

Seeing this, Zhang Lang immediately bent his bow and nocked an arrow, and aimed an arrow at the back of Zhang Cheng's neck. With a whoosh, the arrow turned into a phantom. In the blink of an eye, the arrow penetrated Zhang Cheng, who was running for his life, and blood flowed out.

After marking out, Zhang Cheng screamed and fell over. Shamoko, who was chasing him, saw this and immediately reined in his horse.

The officers and soldiers of Cao's army on the city wall all turned pale and silent when they saw that another general had been killed.

Shamoko continued to shout and challenge outside the city. Seeing that no one dared to challenge, Cao Xiu suppressed his anger and ordered all the troops to guard the city and not go out to fight.

Zhang Lang saw that Samoko had been yelling and scolding for more than a quarter of an hour, but the opponent had no response. Knowing that the opponent was too timid to fight anymore, he summoned Samoko back and ordered the army to retreat ten miles to the stronghold.

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At the Governor's Mansion in Luoyang, Huang Yueying looked at the military report that had just been sent, with a look of joy on her beautiful face. She put down the military report and lowered her head to think. She ordered her staff to summon Ma Teng and gave her instructions. Ma Teng accepted the order and ran away.

Go down. Isn’t Ma Teng guarding Bingzhou? Why are he here? It turns out that when Luoyang was in crisis that day, Huang Yueying sent someone to Ma Teng

After sending a letter asking for help, Ma Teng immediately left 50,000 soldiers and horses to continue to guard Bingzhou, and he led another 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Yingyang Army to rush to Luoyang. After Ma Teng led the soldiers and horses, they traveled all the way to Luoyang at night.

Unexpectedly, Cao Jun's 200,000-strong army was bluffed away by Huang Yueying's empty city plan. Ma Teng and others admired Huang Yueying so much that they fell to the ground.

After receiving Huang Yueying's order, Ma Teng immediately gathered 50,000 troops under his command and left Luoyang to go north to Bingzhou.

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After Lu Bu's army arrived in Jizhou, they were not in a hurry to attack. The army surrounded Jizhou, and generals came out to challenge it every day. At the beginning, Cao's army still had generals coming out to fight, but after losing several generals, Cao's army

No more fighting. No matter how Lu Bu's army yelled and challenged, Cao's army just closed the city gate tightly and refused to get out. It looked like it was determined to hold on to the city.

After seven consecutive days, the heavy siege equipment that Zhang Lang was waiting for finally arrived. Two hundred specially improved heavy catapults and two hundred fire bee carts. In addition to these equipment, there were also hundreds of craftsmen who accompanied the equipment.

After the siege equipment arrived, Zhang Lang stopped working with Cao Jun and ordered the army to attack the city. On this day, Lu Bu's army came out in full force and fought on three sides: east, west and south. All two hundred heavy catapults were concentrated at the south gate of the main attack.

Direction, line up in two rows.
Chapter completed!