"Looks like he killed a fake governor."
Cao Cao led his army back to Xudu. After a period of rest and reorganization, he conquered Zhang Xiu again and returned to the court victoriously.
The waves of wheat are rolling and the land is golden. Cao Cao leads the army and marches on the golden field. He ordered the three armies to behead anyone who trampled on the wheat fields. Suddenly, several sparrows flew over the horse's head, startling Cao Cao's horse and trampling the wheat field. Cao Cao pulled out his sword and was about to kill himself, but the generals dissuaded him. Cao Cao said: "Although he is exempted from the death penalty, his hair should be cut off instead of his head."
Cao Cao's army passed by Feishui. Cao Cao remembered that during the initial campaign against Zhang Xiu last year, he killed General Dian Wei, his eldest son, his beloved nephew, and Cangguan Wang Jie here.
When Cao Cao returned to Xudu, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate Lu Bu, his confidant, but he was also afraid that Yuan Shao, Zhang Xiu and others would take the opportunity to attack Xudu, making it difficult to make a move. Counselor Guo Jia believed that although Yuan Shao's troops were numerous, they were not intimidating, and pointed out the basis for Yuan Shao's ten defeats and Cao Cao's ten victories; and Xuzhou Lu Bu was actually Cao Cao's serious concern, so Lu Bu should be captured first, and then Yuan Shao.
Cao Cao adopted Guo Jia's strategy and sent an envoy to write to Liu Bei, asking them to eliminate Lu Bu together. Liu Bei wrote back to Cao Cao, promising to be the vanguard when the army was raised. Unexpectedly, on the way back, the messenger was captured by Chen Gong, who had already been under Lu Bu's tent. Lu Bu was furious when he heard the news, and sent troops to Xiaopei to question Liu Bei. While Liu Bei asked his brothers Guan and Zhang to fight against Lu Bu's vanguard Zhang Liao, he also sent Jian Yong to Xudu to ask for help. Cao Cao listened to Guo Jia and Xun You's advice and sent troops to Xuzhou.
Cao Cao's vanguard Xiahou Dun encountered Lu Bu's subordinate Gao Shun on the road. Gao Shun could not resist and was defeated. In Gao Shun's formation, Cao Xing secretly fired a cold arrow, which hit Xiahou Dun's left eye. Xiahou Dun shouted loudly, pulled out the arrow with his hand, saw that the eyeball was also taken out, and shouted: "How can we throw away the father's sperm and mother's blood!" Then he took the eyeball into his mouth and swallowed it, pulled himself together, and stabbed Cao Xing to death. .
At this time, Liu Bei, who had little strength, had been defeated by Lu Bu and met Sun Qian while fleeing. Sun Qian persuaded Liu Bei to temporarily surrender to Cao Cao as a plan for future success.
In Xuzhou City, Chen Deng and his son saw that Cao Cao's troops had arrived, and they cleverly used strategies to make it easy for Cao Cao to capture Xiaoguan, Xuzhou, and Xiaopei in succession. Lu Bu was defeated and his troops retreated to Pi.
In Xiapi City, Chen Gong helped Lü Bu to stop Cao Cao and offered a plan to defeat Cao Cao. However, due to the love between Lü Bu and his daughter, he listened to the woman and missed the opportunity. Lu Bu was helpless and wanted to marry Yuan Shu for help. Yuan Shu agreed to send his daughter first and then send troops. Lu Bu tied his daughter on his back and broke out several times, but was killed by Guan and Zhang. Lu Bu's fighting spirit suddenly disappeared and he drank and had fun with Yan all day long. One day, Lu Bu saw in the mirror that he was hurt by alcohol and sex, and his face was haggard. He was shocked and ordered the entire army to stop drinking. Anyone who violated the rules would be killed. Hou Cheng, the general of the army, lost and recovered fifteen good horses. He felt deeply for Lü Bu and sent him some fine wine. Not wanting to be beaten fifty times, Hou Cheng was so angry that he stole Lv Bu's red rabbit horse and presented it to Cao Cao. Song Xian and Wei Xu agreed to use the white flag as a signal to respond to Cao's army's attack on the city. Lu Bu was exhausted by Cao Cao's fierce offensive and fell asleep quietly during the break in the siege. Song Xian and Wei Xu took this opportunity to tie up Lu Bu and opened the city gate to welcome Cao Cao into the city.
On the White Gate Tower, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others met Lu Bu, Chen Gong, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others. Gao Shun said nothing and calmly refused to surrender and died; Cao Cao wanted to persuade Chen Gong to surrender, but Chen Gong despised Cao Cao's evil intentions and died with his chest raised; Lu Bu humbly begged to surrender to Cao Cao, but was killed by Liu Bei's words; and to Zhang Liao, whom Cao Cao proudly opposed, was treated as a guest by Cao Cao because of the intercession of Liu Bei and Guan Yu. He personally released his bonds and drank to calm his shock.
Shao Zhen took advantage of the darkness to go on a killing spree again, and after clearing out all the city's main guards, he heard a report from the military advisor system, saying that he had killed the Jiaozhi prefect and received 80,000 Chinese coins.
