The Lu family's battle had almost come to an end when Ma Chao captured Lu Qiling.
Originally, Zhang Liao and Zhang Xiu's forceful attack on the Lu family had reached a stalemate.
With the arrival of Ma Chao's reinforcements, the morale of Ma's army was even higher.
Especially when Ma Chao used Lu Qiling's life to blackmail Zang Ba into issuing a surrender order, Zang Ba watched more and more Ma's troops swarming in the west of the city, and finally had no choice but to surrender.
When Gao Shun, Li Yan, and Wei Yan led the enemy camp and the Ma family infantry, they arrived at Lushi carrying siege equipment.
They looked around and saw only the figures of Ma Jiajun cleaning the battlefield.
"It seems that life for Yuan Shu and Lu Bu is not easy."
Ma Chao was lying high in the small town of Lu.
After listening to Gao Shun, Li Yan and Wei Yan describe the resettlement situation of the victims these days, Ma Chao praised the three A few sentences.
Then, focusing on the battle situation, Youyou said: "And it seems that our life is not comfortable at the moment."
Originally, according to Ma Chao's plan, he wanted to lead the victims into Nanyang County at the most opportune time.
When Yuan Shu and Cao Cao were fighting to the death, he wanted to stab Yuan Shu in the butt.
Even if he could not get the entire territory of Yuzhou, That would at least capture the entire territory of Runan County and part of Yingchuan.
From this, after having enough land to support the victims, they can still strangle Cao Cao and extend his claws to the west.
Unexpectedly, Yuan Shu, a weirdo, could deal with Cao Cao with peace of mind.
He was so stupid that he even asked Lu Bu to come to the west to conquer Liu Biao.
Liu Biao was also lucky.
He caught up with his work of rescuing the victims and threw Lu Bu's burden to him.
For Lu Bu, Ma Chao has no pressure at all.
After all, Lu Bu has grown a lot.
But he made a fatal mistake when he sent troops, that is, he thought that Yuan Shu would be as important to him as Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo were.
Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo were just warriors.
When dealing with Lu Bu, they mostly used it in a defensive and defensive manner.
But Yuan Shu was different.
Yuan Shu was the fourth and fifth prince and came from a famous family.
In Yuan Shu's eyes, warriors like Lu Bu were just used as minions.
And if Lu Bu dares to show any disobedience, Yuan Shu will definitely spare no effort to restore his reputation and prestige.
In Yuan Shu's mind, Lu Bu was not a world-famous general at all.
In his heart, he only has himself with the glory of the fourth generation and the fifth generation.
And everything he did was first of all to protect the shining golden hat on his head.
At this time, Lu Bu marched without authorization.
Although he captured Wancheng in Nanyang, he almost controlled a county in Nanyang.
But Ma Chao expected that Yuan Shu would not only not praise Lu Bu for this, but would instead scold Lu Bu for his unauthorized march.
This is generally the case in the world.
One wrong step and every step is wrong.
Lu Bu is just a wolf struggling in this world.
He broke free from the shackles on his body and released the animal nature in his body.
But his vision has not yet penetrated the fog of chaos in the world.
But it was precisely because he failed to see through this crucial point that Ma Chao felt like he had a lump in his throat and was extremely uncomfortable: The war situation has been stalemate so far, and Ma Chao has only comforted less than 30,000 victims in the Hangu Pass and Luxian areas.
Even though the attack has now After Lushi, at most 50,000 or 60,000 disaster victims can be resettled.
The difference from my original plan is really huge.
The only way to solve the problem is to drive straight in, complete the attack, and completely occupy the entire territory of Nanyang.
Only then can the Ma Jiajun completely get rid of the shackles of the victims, and then go into battle lightly.
At the right time, they can tear off a piece of Yuan Shu's body.
But the problem lies precisely with Lu Bu.
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Ma Chao can concentrate all the resources in his hands and kill Lu Bu easily.
But he needs time, and the last thing Cao Cao left for Ma Chao was time.
On July 6, Yuan Shu learned that Liu Xiang was defeated at the hands of Cao Cao, and when he ordered Lu Bu to return to Fengqiu but failed, he dispatched troops from Runan to rescue him.
Yuan Shu, the commander-in-chief of the personal guard, led an army of 100,000, known as the "Tiger and Benefits of 500,000", joined the Fengqiu garrison and marched towards Kuangting.
On July 10, Yuan Shu's main force crossed four rivers and arrived at Kuangting slowly like the uncle.
The reason why Yuan Shu dared to do the same as the uncle was because he expected that the raiding cavalry occupying Kuangting was only a small force of Cao's army, and he did not dare to fight against his main force.
From this, Yuan Shu developed his style along the way and spread the reputation of Wangmen.
But on July 12, everything turned out to be completely different from Yuan Shu's expectation.
When Yuan Shu was waiting for Cao Ren's main force to join Cao Cao, the two armies faced each other and started the battle according to the routine.
Yuan Shu never expected that the vanguard of the troops stationed at Kuangting was commanded by Cao Cao himself.
At this time, Cao Cao was bolder than him and took actions that made Yuan Shu unimaginable.
At noon on July 12, Cao Cao and most of Yuan Shu's troops crossed the Beiji River.
Before they could get into position, they led their cavalry to launch another surprise attack.
This timing is mastered well, which is equivalent to catching the enemy suddenly while he is still wearing his pants, and the consequences of waiting for Yuan Shu can only be caught off guard.
Cao Cao ordered Xia Houyuan to launch a rapid attack, beheading 3,000 Yuan Shu's troops and capturing countless Yuan Shu's baggage.
Yuan Shu had no choice but to retreat to Fengqiu and was surrounded by Cao's army.
On July 15th, Cao Cao used a strategy to mislead the troops in Fengqiu, falsely reporting that Cao Ren's Yanzhou army had arrived and attacking Fengqiu City with all his strength.
As for Yuan Shu, the morale of the army was shaken due to their previous defeat.
Later, it was learned that Ma Chao had sent Lei Bo's head to Yuan Shu's camp, which caused Yuan Shu's army to panic and rumors spread.
On July 17, Cao Cao personally beat drums to help the battle, and Cao's army stormed Fengqiu City.
Two tiger generals, Dian Wei and Xu Chu, were the first to board the city and cut down the Yuan family's flag.
But Yuan Shu only saw Cao Cao's army rushing towards them without fear of death.
He didn't know whether Cao Cao had really gathered the main force, let alone the number of Cao's troops.
In addition, the camp was already in chaos, and there were many fleeing and rebellious soldiers.
Yuan Shu was frightened, and as if he had booked a return ticket, he crossed the Nanji River, Bian River, and Ju River in order and returned to Xiangyi.
On July 21, Cao's army made a sudden advance and pursued Yuan Shu as far as Xiangyi.
Yuan Shu was so frightened that he thought he had attracted a mad dog before he even drank a cup of tea.
When he was still sitting in Xiangyi, he retreated to nearby Taishou City like a bereaved dog.
At the same time, the war-free card was still high, and morale dropped to freezing point.
Yuan Shu fled for his life for more than two hundred miles, and less than a third of his troops were left in the collapse.
The pursuing Cao army finally reunited with the main army of Yanzhou led by Cao Ren.
For a time, Yuan Cao's numerical advantage was lost.
Cao Jun threatened Dashou City and assumed a decisive battle to the death.
The signs of Yuan Shu's great defeat seemed to be within three or four days.
But at this time, Ma Chao spent all his strength and commanded his generals, Fengchen, who suffered from back pain, to take over all the Lu family's defenses, and reluctantly resettled 60,000 disaster victims.
Compared with Cao Jun, Ma Chao is really different.
From this, Ma Chao stood under the cloudless sky, looking at the faint purple mountain shadows deep in the blue distance, and sighed again: victims of the disaster, victims of the disaster, in order to help you, I, Ma Chao, have really done my best.
Although it is said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, at this time, it is really not the time to govern one area and benefit one place.
"Princess, princess" When Ma Chao was anxious and helpless, Ma Chao suddenly heard Chen Haojie shouting loudly: "Good news!"
"Yeah."
Ma Chao turned around and saw that it was Chen Haojie who was delivering the message.
His face darkened: What good news can you bring me with this catastrophe?