Cao Zhi's attitude directly included Chen Deng among his own people, which moved Chen Deng, who had seen Cao Zhi for the first time. He immediately spared no effort to express his support. With their family's power in Xuzhou, being able to serve as Cao Zhi's internal support for attacking Xuzhou will be an absolute important support.

But at this time, Guo Jia, Jia Xu and others raised the issue of Liu Bei that they had been worried about. Cao Zhi had information on the bloody edict of clothing, and Liu Bei was also involved. But he was lucky. After signing the letter of the letter, Dong Cheng and others were exposed before they could be sent to Xudu. So Liu Bei should be a little worried about gains and losses now, and he was not sure about Cao Zhi's attitude towards him next.

After Cao Zhi pacified the conspiracy of Xu Du Dong Cheng and others, he began to pretend to be confused and pretend not to know that Liu Bei was involved in the conspiracy to attack him. Not only did he instruct Xun Chen to stabilize Liu Bei, he also sent Xun You to Xiaopei recently, and showed Liu Bei the plan to deal with Lu Bu without reservation. At the same time, he was also a contact person and announced an order to discuss with Liu Bei specific to send troops to attack Lu Bu.

But Guo Jia and others were worried about whether Liu Bei would turn against each other. Now, with the support of Cao Zhi, Liu Bei has obtained the vast territory of Huaiyin again. Even if he does not join forces with Lu Bu or temporarily turns against him, he will run away and go to the Huaiyin area. He will join forces with Yuan Shao or Sun Ce there, which will cause great trouble for Cao Zhizhao.

Therefore, they advocated that Cao Zhi let Chen Deng stay in Guangling, so that he could monitor Liu Bei and prevent Sun Ce from crossing the river from attacking and expanding.

Cao Zhi accepted their suggestion and appointed Chen Deng as the prefect of Guangling, and was in the southeastern end of Xuzhou to curb both sides.

Chen Denggao returned to Xia Pi happily. Of course, Lu Bu had to ask him how he could do the seal and ribbon of Xuzhou's governor?

Because Chen Deng became a new high-ranking official, he was a little lost all the way, but forgot to think about how to deal with Lu Bu. He just spoke with his words and said what he had seen and heard in Xudu and Cao Zhi had given him the prefect of Guangling.

Lu Bu was originally an impatient person, but when he heard that even Chen Deng was given an official position, he felt so sad that he felt so sad.

"What about me?"

Faced with Lu Bu's repeated questioning, Chen Deng saw that he could no longer avoid it, so he could only say: "Deng has a heavy trust from his lord, and the Xuzhou Mu incident has not been completed..."

"What? It's not done... You bastard, you and your father are clever and polite, and advised me to break off contact with Yuan Shu and to cultivate with Cao Zhi. Now you, father and son, have their own nobles, but they don't help me get the position of Xuzhou Mu. Do you want to shake me?"

The furious Lu Bu slapped the table and drew his sword again, trying to kill Chen Deng to vent his hatred.

At this critical moment, Chen Deng's father Chen Gui arrived. Facing the angry Lu Bu and the sharp sword that was lying on his son Chen Deng's neck, he asked Lu Bu without changing his face: "The lord is a hero, why do you see things so unclear?"

Lu Bu couldn't stand the agitated and the opinions he gave to him in person. When he heard Chen Gui's words, he immediately paused the movement in his hand, stared at the big bronze bell's eyes, and turned around angrily to question Chen Gui: "How can I see things unknown?"

Chen Gui shook his head, sighed, and said nothing. But Chen Deng, who was still threatened by Lu Bu, spoke.

"I saw Cao Gong and told him that when he was feeding him, he should feed him with meat, so that he would not be fed by him! But Cao Gong said, otherwise, I would wait for Lu Bu to raise an eagle. He raised an eagle to catch foxes and rabbits. If the foxes and rabbits were not caught, they dare not feed them. If they were fed, they would flap their wings and fly, and if the eagle was hungry, they would use it for me." Chen Deng's words were calm and his words were burning. There was no false element in Lu Bu on his face.

Faced with Chen Deng's words, Lu Bu said "Oh!", put down the long sword in his hand, raised his hand and said, "He really said that? Cao Zhi... he said... what did he say?"

While Chen Deng was happy, he continued to say without changing his expression: "Then I will ask Cao Gong, who are the foxes and rabbits that my lord wants to hunt? Cao Gong gradually closed his smile and said to me that Yuan Shao of Jizhou, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, Liu Zhang of Yizhou, Zhang Lu of Hanzhong, and Sun Ce of Jiangdong are all the targets that the lord wants to hunt!"

"He really said that?" Lu Bu asked suspiciously.

"How dare you deceive your lord!" Chen Deng continued to say unswervingly.

"Hmph!" Lu Bu placed the sword on the ground, turned around and took a few steps away. Although Lu Bu was a little disappointed with the passage Chen Deng reposted, he felt that Cao Zhi was still reasonable, so he sighed to the sky and said, "Those who know me are Cao Zhi!"

Just as Lu Bu's sigh echoed in the halls of Xia Pizhou Prefecture, before it had dissipated, Cao Zhi's army began to gather at the Sishui River in Xuzhou.

That guy Chen Deng had already gone to Guangling for more than February, and during this February, he withdrew all his family and property in Xia Pi and instigated a group of Xuzhou officials. After the matter became clear, Lu Bu, who woke up, was so angry that he wanted to curse his mother, he could not find Chen Deng and his son. Soon after, news came that Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling, was loyal to Cao Zhi and joined the ranks of attacking Lu Bu.

########"Dongdong..."

With the sound of shocking drums, on December 15, the second year of Jian'an, Cao's army officially began to force cross the Sishui River outside Xiapi City, and launched an invasion against Lu Bu and Xuzhou.

Lu Bu stood on the Baimen Tower and was furious. He regretted it because he believed the Chen father and son, but he still did not learn from his repeated regrets. When the Cao army's vanguard crossed the river, Chen Gong spared no effort to suggest to Lu Bu: "Lord, hurry up, take advantage of the fact that the Cao army's vanguard crossed the river, and concentrate his troops and fight out of the city, so that the Sishui River beach becomes a nightmare place for Cao's army!"

Lu Bu's advice to Chen Gong was just looking at the vanguard of 20,000 Cao's vanguard in front of Sishui Beach. Seeing the flags of many famous generals of Cao's army fluttering in the wind on the river beach, Lu Bu finally chose not to obey Chen Gong's advice and led his troops out of the city to meet the enemy. Instead, he adopted a conservative approach and insisted on the city and did not leave.

His explanation to Chen Gong and other subordinates was: His strength was not as strong as Cao Zhi. He attacked rashly and took a small advantage, he would also lose his troops and generals. Lu Bu could not afford to lose at all now.

Ten days later, more and more Cao's troops crossed the Sishui River and began to encircle Xia Pi City in an orderly manner. At this time, Chen Gong once again spoke to Lu Bu: "The lord quickly leads cavalry to station outside the city to echo the defenders in the city, so that the Cao army will not encircle Xia Pi City too tightly. Not only will they not be under such pressure, they will have a lot of room for movement, and they will also have the opportunity to actively attack Cao's army's food route to restrain Cao's army!"

Chen Gong believed that Cao's food and supplies line were the life gate of Cao's army. As long as it was effectively attacked, it would at least give Cao's army a full drag. This was also true in modern military theory, but this time it was Lu Bu's wife. The beautiful and coquettish Diao Chan made a suggestion to Lu Bu. She was worried that Lu Bu would leave Xia Pi City. If Chen Gong held a grudge against Lu Bu's distrust of him during this period and launched a rebellion, she and Wan'er might become gifts from Chen Gong to Cao Zhi.

When Lu Bu thought of his charming Diao Chan and his graceful daughter, who were sent to Cao Zhi's bed by Chen Gong, he was even more worried about leaving Xia Pi City and stationing outside the city. He also felt that Chen Gong must have secretly hated him. If Chen Gong wanted to launch a mutiny when he was not in the city, the consequences would be extremely serious.

Lu Bu refused to use Chen Gong's plan again, and personally led his troops to station outside the city, and still defended Xia Pi City with unchanging responses to changes.

Chen Gong heard that Lu Bu did not accept his suggestion because of Diao Chan's words. He was so angry that he snatched Zang Ba's sword on the spot and wanted to kill this hateful ** who bewitched Lu Bu and missed the fighter. But in the end, he was stopped by Zhang Liao, Zang Ba and others and advised him not to hurt everyone's feelings at this critical moment, causing their group to be in harmony and break up.

Although Chen Gong was really angry this time, under the persuasion of Zhang Liao and others, his years of self-cultivation could still make Chen Gong endure the anger and get lost. However, the feelings of comrades hurt by women's words are the deepest and most difficult to heal and make up for. This is not only Chen Gong's feeling, but also Zhang Liao, Zang Ba, who had been in love with Lu Bu for many years, had this feeling.

When a crack appeared within the Lu Bu group, the 150,000 troops crossed the river for more than half a month, and Cao Zhi finally arrived at the city of Xiapi with the subsequent heavy armored troops of the catapult.

After Cao Zhi entered the camp, the first strategic piece of information he heard Guo Jia report to him was: Lu Bu missed the opportunity to attack their food route!

Cao Zhi laughed and said to the left and right generals, and the adviser said, "It would be unreasonable for this Lu Bu to not perish. If he really divided his troops outside the city and continued to attack our food route, it would be difficult for us to form such an encirclement!"

"Yes, now our army is close to the position on Sishui. Just consolidate the position and advance steadily. Lu Bu is also arguing that Lu Bu is among the people. Alas, such a good fighter plane has been missed like this. It's really... Tsk tsk, I don't know if it's our luck or if Lu Bu's eyes are dazzled!"

This evaluation is the words of another Cao Zhi military advisor Xun You. After successfully completing contact with Liu Bei and mobilizing Liu Bei and Cao Zhi to join forces to attack Xia Pi, Cao Zhi was left in the army by Cao Zhi and served as the military advisor for the conquest of Lu Bu and Cao Zhi this time.

"The fighter jets are fleeting, we cannot make the same mistake. Order the three armies to immediately encircle Xia Pi City from east, west and south, the tighter the better!" Cao Zhi said calmly.

"yes!"

Cao Zhi's next tent was a strategist, and the generals responded in unison.

In the next three days, the Cao army would tighten the encirclement of Xia Pi City, and look out from Baimen Tower to the east, south and west of the city. There were Cao's camps everywhere. The nearest Cao's camps are now almost stuck to the moats of Xia Pi City. If the weather is clear, the Cao's flag can be seen clearly, and the daily commands trained by Cao's army can also be heard from time to time into the ears of the Xia Pi City defenders.
Chapter completed!