Yuan Tan's troops followed less than ten miles away. With a cannon, the ambushed troops came out. Lu Kuang on the left and Lu Xiang on the right. The two brothers intercepted Yuan Tan. The two were assigned to the rear and knew that Yuan Tan must have something.
Action, so ambushed on both sides of the road.
Yuan Tan told the two of them: "When my father was still alive, I did not neglect you two generals. Why do you follow my brother to force me now?"
After hearing this, the two of them dismounted and surrendered.
Yuan Tan said: "You don't have to surrender to me, surrender to Prime Minister Cao."
So the two followed Yuan Tan back to the camp. Yuan Tan waited for Cao's army and took the two generals to meet Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was very happy and married his daughter to Yuan Tan as his wife, allowing Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to be the matchmaker.
After the ceremony, Yuan Tan asked Cao Cao to attack Jizhou immediately. Cao Cao said: "I can't keep up with the food and grass now. The quarantine officer worked very hard during the transportation process. I first build a bridge on the river to open up the passage for our transportation of food and grass, and then
March towards Jizhou.”
So Yuan Tan was assigned to guard the plains. Cao Cao himself retreated to Liyang with his troops, and was granted the title of Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang as the marquis, and followed the army to listen to him.
Guo Tu saw Cao Cao's intention and advised Yuan Tan: "Cao Cao's marriage to his daughter is probably not sincere. Now he rewarded Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang and brought it to his army, which is winning over Hebei.
Generals will definitely become a disaster for us in the future. The lord can send someone to add two military seals and secretly send someone to them, so that they can serve as our inner supporters. When Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shang, we will take the opportunity to plot against Cao Cao."
Yuan Tan followed his words and secretly gave two general seals to Erlu. The two were not under Yuan Tan's control and secretly went to see Cao Cao and told him about this matter at the same time.
Cao Cao laughed and said, "Yuan Tan secretly gave you the general seal, to let you be the inner supporter. After I broke Yuan Shang, I will rebel against me. You can take it away first, I have my own opinions."
Cao Cao thought for a moment, changed his original idea, and became murderous to Yuan Tan.
Yuan Shang and Shen Pei discussed and said, "Now Cao Cao transported the grain to Baigou and would definitely come to attack Jizhou. What should we do?"
Shen Pei offered advice: "You can issue an order to allow Yin Kaitou, Changzhou, Wu'an, to open the food passage of Shangdang, and let Ju Su's son Ju Hu guard Handan. As our support, the lord advances to the plains and quickly attack Yuan Tan.
, defeat it, and then defeat Cao's army again."
Yuan Shang was very happy and left Shen Pei and Chen Lin to guard Jizhou, and sent two generals, Ma Yan and Zhang Yan, as vanguards, to raise troops overnight to attack Pingyuan County.
Yuan Tan learned that Yuan Shang's troops were very close, so he rushed to send people to report to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao said: "I will definitely be able to take Jizhou this time!"
While talking, Xu You came from Xuchang. He heard that Yuan Shang was attacking Yuan Tan and went to see Cao Cao. He said, "The Prime Minister is guarding here, and there is no action. Are you planning to wait for the thunder to kill Yuan Tan. Yuan Shang and the other two.
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Cao Cao was confident and smiled and said, "I already have a plan." So he sent Cao Hong to lead his troops to attack Yecheng first. Cao Cao led a team of men to attack Yin Kai.
When the troops were at the city, Yin Kai led his army out to fight. Cao Cao pointed at Yin Kai and said, "Where is Xu Chu?"
He came out and drove his horse to take Yin Kai straight. Yin Kai was caught off guard and was killed by Xu Chu with a knife. The rest of the people ran around.
Cao Cao directly surrendered, strengthened his troops, and then led his troops to attack Handan. Juhu advanced to welcome him. Zhang Liao came out to fight. The two of them fought. In less than three rounds, Juhu couldn't bear it and quickly retreated backwards.
The two of them had not very far apart, so Zhang Liao quickly took out his bow and arrow and shot it. Ju Hu was dismissed.
Cao Cao commanded the others to cover up the killing, and the other party was defeated and ran away.
After dealing with foreign aid, Cao Cao led his army to the city of Jizhou. Cao Hong was already under the city at that time. Cao Cao ordered all the soldiers to surround the city, build a mountain of earth, and then secretly dig some tunnels into the city to attack.
Shen Pei sticks to the city, his laws are very strict. Feng Li, the guard of the East Gate, made a joke on the patrol after drinking, was severely scolded by Shen Pei. So Feng Li holds a grudge and sneaks out of the city to surrender Cao Cao.
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Cao Cao asked about any strategy to break the city, and Feng Li replied: "The soil inside the Tumen is thick, so you can dig the tunnel and enter."
So Cao Cao ordered Feng Li to bring three hundred heroes to dig tunnels overnight into Jizhou City.
After Feng Li surrendered to Cao Cao, Shen Pei went to various places in the city to count the soldiers and horses every day. That night, at the Tumen Pavilion, he saw that there were no lights outside the city. Shen Pei speculated: "Feng Li will definitely bring his troops and horses to the city.
Dig tunnels into this place," and quickly sent elite troops to transport stones to hit the gate. The door was closed, and Feng Li and the three hundred heroes died in the tunnel.
After Cao Cao suffered a loss, he no longer had the idea of attacking through the tunnel. He retreated to the Huanshui and waited for Yuan Shang to return.
Yuan Shang was attacking the plain at this time. He heard that Cao Cao had already captured Yin Kai and Ju Hu, and the army had besieged Jizhou, so he brought his troops to go back to rescue.
General Ma Yan said, "When we go back from the main road, Cao Cao will definitely have ambushed troops. You can walk from the small road and exit the Fushuikou from the west mountain to rob Cao's camp. You will definitely relieve the dilemma of Jizhou."
Yuan Shang followed this suggestion and led the army to lead the front, allowing Ma Yan and Zhang Yan to break the rear.
There was a gap and I went to Cao Cao to report the situation. Cao Cao laughed and said, "If he returns directly from the main road, I may have to hide. If I come back from the Xishan Road, I can capture him in one battle. I expected that Yuan Shanghe and the city would be fired.
Let the city come out to respond, and I can divide my troops to attack." After saying that, he separated the troops and made a battle plan.
Yuan Shang left the entrance of the Fushui River, went east to Yangping, and stationed in Yangping Pavilion, only 17 miles from Jizhou.
Yuan Shang asked the soldiers to pile up some firewood, and at night he prepared to burn it as a secret code. He sent the chief clerk Li Fu to pretend to be the governor of Cao's army and came to the city of Jizhou to shout the gate.
Through his voice, Shen Pei recognized that the person was Li Fu, put him in the city and said, "Yuan Shang is now in Yangpingting, waiting for the reception. If the soldiers and horses in the city come out, raise the torch as an order." Shen Pei nodded and let
We also prepare some hay in the city, prepare fire protection, and maintain communication.
Li Fu said: "There is no food in the city, so the elderly, weak, sick and disabled can be sent outside the city to surrender. The Cao army will definitely be inadequate. At this time, we will follow the people out of the city to sneak attack Cao's army."
Shen Pei thought this idea was good and decided to implement it like this.
So both sides determined the contact code and prepared sufficient firewood. The nurse sent someone to organize the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people to implement the plan in detail, and Li Fu helped.