Chapter eight hundred and thirtieth IX and the general attack order
Chen Gong said at this moment, "Other things can be discussed in the public opinion, but this matter is no longer discussed in the public opinion. I am afraid that the more council the people will become more and more confused. Lord, you should... be arbitrary!"
Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong in confusion, feeling that Chen Gong seemed to have something in his words, but he couldn't figure it out for a moment. So after pondering and thinking, he still called Chen Gong Tai Chi and said, "What you said is also reasonable, but... this matter... in short, you still have to make a decision tomorrow..."
However, Lu Bu did not expect that just as soon as he finished speaking, Mao Hui stood up and shouted in a daze: "Lord, tell me the truth. If you are willing to fight, you have to fight, and if you are unwilling to fight, you have to fight. The road to surrender will not be able to go through!"
Lu Bu looked at Mao Hui in surprise and asked back, "What does this mean?"
Without waiting for Mao Hui to explain, Xu Xi had taken out a bag from behind, sucked in front of Lu Bu, and then opened it. Lu Bu looked closely and jumped up in shock.
It turned out that a human head was rolled out from the bag, staring at him. The original owner of this head was nothing but Hou Xie's head.
"You, you..." Lu Bu was so angry that he understood why these people were more confident in speaking tonight. They even killed Cao Zhi's arrival and Hou Xie, who was sent to the scene. The road to surrender was not working, and Lu Bu really had no chance to discuss "submission and war" again!
When Lu Bu was angry and stood up, pointing at Chen Gong and others about to scold him, Chen Gong, Xu Xi, Mao Hui pulled out his swords and threw them on the ground with a "clang" and knelt down again, saying, "We will kill the envoy Cao Zhi without authorization. We know that it is a serious crime. We do not ask for pardon, so let the lord fall in love with you!"
Lu Bu was once again angry. He looked at the head of the bloodless head, then looked at the three swords, and his mind suddenly became blank...
##########The cold wind was cold, and the dead leaves were rolling up and whistling in the low altitude, and the sky finally cleared. In an empty field northwest of Xia Pi City, hundreds of flags were as red as blood, like the waves of blood, flying.
The neat sound of hooves sounded in an orderly manner, and teams of knights in sharp armor lined up in line, gradually forming a torrent of steel, rolling and galloping in the wind.
The cheers like tsunamis lasted for a long time. Cao Zhi, the commander of the Cao army, stood up with a straight back and saw the neatly tidy troops under the stage without any expression. When his eyes saw one, even more enthusiastic cheers burst out. After a week of patrol, Cao Zhi slowly raised his hands and then fell down!
The cheers around suddenly stopped like a knife. On the faces that were widening, they looked at the idol in their hearts with eager eyes. The venue of millions of people was no longer any sound except the neighing of war horses and the rushing wind that swept the flag.
Today is the day to verify the results of Cao Zhi's strategy of "subjugating the army rather than fighting, and pulling the city without attacking!". Today, Lu Bu should have a reply letter. If there is no letter, then there will be only Hou Xie's body. Whether the battle in Xuzhou can be ended early is today.
Cao Zhi’s prediction of this problem was thought about it all night last night. After he calculated it, he concluded that the probability of Lu Bu surrender was quite high!
Not only did Cao Zhi extend an olive branch to Lu Bu for peace and to relieve his past grudges, he also sent Diao Chan back intact. Facing the 150,000 troops outside the city, Lu Bu had no foreign aid to find. Cao Zhi thought about how Lu Bu would surrender.
Cao Zhi really hopes that Lu Bu can make a wise choice now. Surrender will be beneficial to both of them and will be beneficial to Cao Zhi's current dilemma.
Cao Zhi received an urgent case from Sun Ce's troops to raid Guangling yesterday evening. Sun Ce actually wanted to take advantage of the stalemate between him and Lu Bu, and to come to Xuzhou to get his share of his pie. Fortunately, Chen Deng prepared in advance, and Sun Ce's surprise attack did not achieve much results, but it might be possible in the future.
Cao Zhi made adjustments overnight and sent Cao Hong and Xiahou Dun to help Chen Deng, making sure they defend Guangling. But this made Cao Zhi more urgent to end the war between Xuzhou and Lu Bu as soon as possible, so as to adjust his current strategic deployment to a greater extent.
The war unexpectedly expanded, the rear suffered natural disasters, and the army was in urgent need of food and supplies. These problems immediately plagued Cao Zhi even more urgently, making him eager to accept the "peace negotiation". Cao Zhi even thought about temporarily agreeing to Lu Bu as the position of Xuzhou Mu in exchange for a temporary strike.
But Cao Zhi is not a god, and it is even more impossible for everything to come true. Hou Xie's arrogance and Chen Gong's release from prison all led to his plan failure. However, he still couldn't see through many things at this time. Guo Jia and others may have reservations about this plan, but it is not good to pour too much cold water on Cao Zhi at this time.
From dawn to now, the soldiers of Cao's army have begun to go out to camp to gather. I will wait and see that Lu Bu in Xia Pi City will choose to surrender to end their battle in this annoying rainy season. Or is it that they will fall into a hard battle again in this season when the spring breeze is gradually rising?
After the beginning of spring, all the Cao army soldiers standing outside the city felt that the wind had become softer, and the gorgeous central army flag gently blew on this rare beautiful day in half a month.
Cao Zhi immediately went to the curtain. He had already finished the inspection and inspection for two hours today. Cao Zhi felt a little tired. It might be because he didn't sleep well last night, or it might be because he came out to patrol the camp in advance today.
The weather is very good today. In the sunshine, Cao Zhi is so far away from Xia Pi City that he can still clearly see the Lu Jun flag flying on the Baimen Tower.
"Lord, let's go up to Sihe Cliff? You can see more clearly there!" Guo Jia had already seen that Cao Zhi was in a difficult mood today, so he proposed to go up to the commanding heights of Sihe Cliff outside the southern city and wait for the result of Cao Zhi's day and night thinking.
"Yeah! Let's go!"
Cao Zhi waved his hand gently, and a team of cavalry started first, went out of the frontier and turned left, heading straight for Sihe Cliff. Cao Zhi's Dian Wei and hundreds of personal guards were escorted, and he rode his horse together with Guo Jia and Xun You and slowly walked up Sihe Cliff.
The river cliff can really see the situation on the Baimen Tower, and Cao Zhi immediately came up without feeling cold. When he leaned over to look at the Sishui River, he found that the river surface that had just begun to spring had attracted Ou Lu. It should be said that seeing this scene can arouse poetry.
But at this time, Cao Zhi not only did not have this mood, nor did he have that artistic conception.
Cao Zhi's every move was seen in Guo Jia's eyes, and Guo Jia couldn't help but frown. With his wisdom, he discovered Cao Zhi's impetuousness. As a person who is about to, or is already governing the world, it shouldn't be right to have such impetuousness!
"Gongda, Fengxiao, spring has come, Xudu's plum blossoms are blooming damnly?" Cao Zhi suddenly said to the two strategists beside him.
Xun You, who had been thinking about it, immediately understood Cao Zhi’s meaning when he heard this. He looked at Guo Jia, who was halfway through Cao Zhi’s body, and said, “Does your lord want to go back to appreciate the plum blossoms?”
"Haha...those who know me...that dongdong..."
Before Cao Zhi could finish talking about Xun You knew his thoughts, he heard the gongs and drums in Xia Pi City, which immediately attracted Cao Zhi and others' attention.
The sound of gongs and drums represents the announcement of major matters by the defenders in the city, and Cao Zhi also knew that the time to decide whether he could return to Xudu to appreciate the plum blossoms has arrived.
There was no loud scolding, no noise, or even a letter of letter expressing meaning. Cao Zhi, standing on the Sihe Cliff, saw the heads of the Baimen Tower, and the generals in high-level generals and Xuzhou officials in official uniforms all went up to the city tower, facing Cao's army, Cao's camp outside the city, and Cao Zhi and others on the Sihe Cliff.
At this time, because both sides were quite far apart, they could not see the specific faces of both sides. But both sides felt as if they had seen each other's faces clearly and stood quietly for a while. Lu Bu knew that Cao Zhi was looking at him outside the city, and Cao Zhi also knew that Lu Bu must be standing on the White Gate Tower. Both sides were very nervous about the choice and result at this moment, and the troops of both sides held their breath at this moment. In such a huge battlefield, there was no sound at all.
Suddenly, a rope tied to the Baimen Tower was dropped down. When the rope was exhausted, the object hanging in the air in Xia Pi City was swayed left and right.
"Oh..." When the Cao army soldiers under the city saw this scene, they shouted, and then someone saw clearly that it was a headless corpse. Then they whispered to each other, "Who is this?"
Cao Zhi was farther away than those soldiers, but when he saw something thrown from the Baimen Tower, he realized that it was Hou Xie's body, it was an expression of Lu Bu's failure to surrender and a sign that he could not return to Xu Du to appreciate the plum blossoms.
"That's Hou Pengxiang..."
Finally, some Cao army soldiers recognized the identity of Headless Hou Xie. One passing through ten, ten passing through hundreds. After a while, all Cao army soldiers understood that a new round of hard battles in this spring were about to begin.
Dian Wei heard the stormy discussion of the soldiers under the cliff. He rode his horse around the river cliff and returned to Cao Zhi who was trembling with anger, and bowed and asked, "Lord, I will check immediately if that is Hou Pengxiang?"
"No...no need!" Cao Zhi stopped trembling. After saying this, he became straight and his anger suddenly rose, indicating that he had ended the plan. While admitting his failure, he gritted his teeth and said to Dian Wei: "Transfer to Yu Jin, and order the troops to start attacking... and take down Xia Pi City without leaving any grass!"
"Abide by the order!"
On the Sihe cliff, Cao Zhi ordered, the horses were neighing. After several riders agreed to the orders, they quickly rushed out, shouting and waving the flags in their hands. The flags on the front were clearly printed with the "Doumuxiu" on the front.
The "Doumuxie" order flag was to take over the signal flag of Yu Jin, the general of the South Road again. The floating flag jumped down from the top of the cliff. Then there were the order flags of other generals. In a short while, they rushed straight to the east and west directions outside Xia Pi City.