Chapter 245: Lu Bu, who is afraid of death
Cao Cao did not expect that Lu Bu's sneak attack. This time he attacked Xuzhou mainly to deal with Tao Qian. Cao Cao felt that Tao Qian was not worth worrying at all. At this time, Guo Jia was ill, and Xun Yu is now the Shangshu Lang, and his position in the court was of great importance and could not get out of here. Cao Cao only took Cheng Yu to conquer Xuzhou.
Cheng Yu's intelligence is between Chen Gong. Although he thought that Lu Bu would be worried, he also knew that Lu Bu had always been profit-oriented and would never do risky things like attacking Cao Cao. However, he did not expect that Tao Qian had made such a great decision and gave Lu Bu such great benefits. He did not expect that Chen Deng, who was not as intelligent as Cheng Yu, actually tried his best to promote Lu Bu to send troops to help, and analyzed the best attack time.
Why is the attack tonight the best time? It is mainly because Cao Cao ordered the soldiers to have a good meal and have a good rest. He used a move to attack the east and west. On the surface, he used heavy troops to defend Lu Bu, but in fact he planned to throw all his troops into Xia Pi early the next morning. Once the battle was successful, he would become the lord of Xuzhou directly, and other counties would definitely surrender. As for Lu Bu, Lu Bu, who had the power of a whole state, was not his opponent. Now there was only one Langya Kingdom left, which was even more unfair.
However, Cao Cao only created the appearance of heavy troops' defense, because his focus was always in the direction of Xia Pi. The camps he sent in the direction of Langya seemed to be crowded, but in fact, many of them were empty flags and camps, and even scarecrows behind the walls were mostly scarecrows.
Such appearance is just to scare Lu Bu, but it can't scare Chen Gong and Chen Deng at all.
After some thought, these two people believed that Cao Cao's move was just a bluff. His most fundamental intention was to capture Xia Pi and completely control Xuzhou. Only after taking control of Xuzhou would he turn around and deal with Lu Bu, thereby pacifying the entire Xuzhou in one fell swoop.
After hearing this, Lu Bu remained silent and was a little undecided, but saw Chen Deng say lightly: "If the general hesitated and gave Cao Cao a chance to breathe, you will also have nothing in the end. As the saying goes, wealth and honor are in danger. If the general wants to become the governor of Xuzhou, he still has to take a risk, not to mention that today's danger is not a big risk."
After hearing this, Lu Bu's face was unstable. He thought for a moment and then gritted his teeth and decided to launch an attack immediately. He ordered Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to lead three thousand soldiers to enter the Cao army camp from left and right, and give Cao Cao a warning first.
Although Lu Bu said that, in his heart, Gao Shun and Zhang Liao were actually asking him to test the truth and reality first. He decided to continue to march, rescue, or escape according to the situation.
These two are both cruel characters. After hearing the order, they immediately led their soldiers to Cao's camp.
In an instant, only the shouts of killing were heard shocking the earth. The soldiers in Cao Cao's camp were panicked. They had no idea how many people came to the other party, nor did they know where the enemy was. So they fled in all directions, even killing each other, trampling on each other, and countless people died.
"Kill!" In this battle, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun's toughness and courage were revealed. They rode one by one step, killing the enemy's blood, crying and calling for their parents, hating their parents for less than two legs. For a moment, they could only hear screams of endless screams, just like hell on earth.
Cao Cao was naturally not here at that time. The guards of the camp was Xu He, the general of the Yellow Turban Army. After surrendering to Cao Cao, this man was deeply trusted by Cao Cao and was very arrogant and domineering in the army. Except for the Cao and Xiahou brothers, others did not take it seriously at all.
However, Xu He was the first to escape in this battle. After hearing the news that the camp was attacked, he did not organize resistance, but fled immediately because he knew that his camp seemed to be crowded with people, but in fact there were only about 10,000 people, and he could not stop the enemy's fierce attack at all.
Cao Cao's Qingzhou army soldiers were fine in fighting, but their military discipline was too bad, and no one could restrain them except Cao Cao. When so many people, including the chief general Xu He, heard that they were attacked, immediately ran away, leading to the great defeat of the entire camp. Some of them were indeed standing there and unmoved. When they got closer, they were indeed scarecrows.
In fact, Xu He didn't know that he thought he was small, but the number of opponents was actually even smaller. This attack was just Lu Bu's tentative attack. However, Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were really two fierce men. They forced the tentative attack into a crushing attack situation, and the result was naturally a one-sided victory. Fortunately, Xu He escaped. Otherwise, although he had 10,000 people under his command today, he could only become the other party's prisoner in the end, and even if he was unfortunate, he might even lose his head directly.
Cao Cao's camp was several miles away from the place where Xu He was stationed, but after all, it was at night. He soon knew about such a big noise in Xu He's camp. However, when he realized that he had led his army to rescue, he found that many people had fled to him. After Cao Cao asked for a brief investigation, he immediately turned pale and ordered people to capture Xu He, but he no longer knew where Xu He was going.
Now that the camp has been broken, it is meaningless to rescue it. In this case, Cao Cao had to gather the defeated soldiers and then order the soldiers to strengthen their garrisons to prevent the enemy from attacking his headquarters camp.
In fact, Cao Cao hoped that the other party's general would become angry and attack his headquarters directly, because the soldiers in the headquarters had been awakened and had made arrangements. As long as the other party came, many of them must be left unanswered.
It’s a pity that the other generals were not fooled at all. Lu Bu originally wanted to continue to expand the results of the battle, but saw that Chen Deng and Chen Gong both opposed it strongly. Lu Bu knew that suppression was the victory of today’s battle, which was entirely due to the guidance of these two wise men. Now that they both persuaded each other, Lu Bu also attached great importance to such opinions and did not continue to catch up.
In fact, this all stems from Lu Bu's nature of fear of death. Originally, Lu Bu was more afraid of death. According to historical records, when Hao Meng made Lu Bu's rebellion, Lu Bu did not dare to fight or stay in his own right. Instead, he ran to Gao Shun's camp to take refuge. Later, thanks to Gao Shun's timely and decisive handling of the rebellion and killing Hao Meng, it finally did not cause any greater disaster.
In reality, Lu Bu achieved great success in practicing Fang Tian Painting Ji, his martial arts improved greatly, and his self-confidence began to expand, but his nature of death still remained unchanged.
Of course, from another perspective, it is wrong for Lu Bu to not order a chasing, because Cao Cao had already been prepared. If he chased Cao Cao's camp at this time, he would definitely be defeated in this battle.
Chapter completed!