The first year of Xingping, 194 AD, at the end of April.

Li Chen and general Li Siye and Guan Sheng occupied Xuzhou, and Xuzhou officials Chen Deng, Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others surrendered.

At the end of April, Cao Pi led three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to attack. Li Chen ordered the general Li Siye to lead 800 Mo Dao soldiers to defeat Cao's army's tiger and leopard cavalry and kill more than a thousand enemies. At this point, the myth of Cao's army's tiger and leopard cavalry was completely destroyed.

The old god falls, and the new god ascends the throne.

Mo Daoping has become the most beautiful boy in this era.

In general, although Li Chen has not occupied Xuzhou for a long time, he has also shown his fangs.

May, early month.

Li Chen set up Yunlong Hall in Xuzhou and claimed to be the commander of the palace. He began to issue a list to recruit soldiers, and his military salary was 30% higher than that of Cao's army, and countless responded at the moment.

The recruitment sites in Xuzhou were crowded with young men.

This is an era of separatist rule and civil wars. There is no national justice in this era. Joining a soldier means exchanging life for money. As long as the money is given in place, the bullshit Cao and Yuan army will be completely ruined.

Seven days later, recruiting sites everywhere were surging from the crowds, and the door was deserted.

Although Li Chen recruits soldiers with high military salary, the same is true for high military salary. Yunlong's army only recruits strong men in their prime, and Li Chen will not accept any old and weak or veterans.

"Lord, I'm afraid the recruitment matters in the past few days are coming to an end." In Yunlong Palace, Chen Deng stood respectfully next to Li Chen and said.

"Yuanlong, can the recruitment be smooth?" Li Chen looked at Chen Deng with his forehead and asked softly.

"Although there are many people who have come to the enlistment these days, not many people can meet our requirements. After seven days, only a total of 12,000 soldiers were recruited." Chen Deng remembered all the soldiers' enlistment situation, so he naturally said that he could just speak.

With more than 1,200 new recruits, Li Chen has nearly 30,000 troops under him. Although it is not worth mentioning compared to Cao Cao's 300,000 troops, Li Chen also knows that he will not be fat in one bite. Recruiting soldiers and horses cannot be achieved overnight.

"The soldiers are in the spirit but not in the number of them. Ten thousand two thousand soldiers are enough. Let's suspend the recruitment tomorrow." Li Chen nodded with satisfaction and said to Chen Deng.

"No." Chen Deng replied, and then asked again: "Lord, how to allocate the new soldiers this time?"

Li Chen paused for a moment and said, "In this way, first replenish General Zang's troops to 20,000 people, and then replenish the remaining troops to General Guan."

Now Guan Sheng is responsible for training the bandit army brought by Li Chen from Yunlong Mountain, while Zang Ba is still responsible for training the former subordinates of Xuzhou camp. Now Guan Sheng is leading about 5,000 people, while Zang Ba has more than 12,000 subordinates.

It is meaningful that Li Chen replenished his troops in this way, and he allocated eight thousand people and Zang Ba and four thousand people and Guan Sheng. In this way, the ratio of the soldiers under them was basically one to one, and the veterans had a slightly extra new recruits. In this way, the veterans could bring new recruits and exert their combat effectiveness as quickly as possible.

As the lord, Li Chen thought so, but as a strategist, Chen Deng did not think so.

In Chen Deng's view, Guan Sheng was a veteran under Li Chen's command, and Zang Ba was a surrendered general. Moreover, Guan Sheng now has few soldiers and Zang Ba has many soldiers. Therefore, the replenishment of this army should first supplement Guan Sheng and Zang Ba. In this way, the new and old forces in Xuzhou City can be balanced.

"Lord, if you don't add General Guan to 8,000 and General Zang to 4,000. In this way, it will make the soldiers under the two generals equal." Chen Deng pondered.

Li Chen naturally understood what Chen Deng meant. Chen Deng was a strategist and he emphasized the way of balance, balancing the Yuanyun Longshan forces with the Xuzhou forces.

However, Li Chen used the way of kings and domineering, whether it was Guan Sheng or Zang Ba. It was all his deployment. What Li Chen had to do now is to let these soldiers play the greatest role. As for who has more soldiers and who has fewer soldiers, this is not important to Li Chen.

"Don't doubt the employer, no doubt the person. Yuan Long, do what I said." Li Chen nodded to Chen Deng and said.

After hearing Li Chen's words, Chen Deng was stunned. After all, he was still narrow-minded. The lord is indeed a person with great ambitions.

"No." Chen Deng recovered from his senses, saluted respectfully, and then withdrew from Yunlong Palace.

At this time, Cao Pi's 30,000 troops were stationed in a valley a hundred miles away from Xuzhou City.

Since Li Siye defeated the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Cao Pi hated and feared Xuzhou City. He knew that it was probably not that easy to conquer Xuzhou with his 30,000 troops.

At this time, on the mountain road less than ten miles away from Caojun camp, the sky was filled with dust and black flags were waving, and about five thousand black-armored heavy cavalry exuded a breath of coldness all over their bodies, like a demon god walking out of hell.

The cavalry was in the middle of the cavalry, with a large flag of Cao, and under the large flag of Cao, two young black armored men were running side by side. One of them was tall and cold in appearance, while the other was handsome and slightly thin.

These people are all Cao Cao's back. The one with a pretty face is Cao Cao's eldest son Cao Ang, and the one with a strong figure is Cao Cao's nephew Cao Anmin.

Cao Cao launched a 300,000 army to attack Xuzhou this time, but the mobilization of these 300,000 troops was not possible overnight.

So he first launched a large army of 100,000 to lead the army, and ordered his eldest son Cao Ang to lead the entire army, his second son Cao Pi as the vanguard, and his third son Cao Zhi as the grain transport officer.

Now, Cao Ang heard that his younger brother Cao Pi had lost the battle in Xuzhou City. He quickly handed over the infantry to Commander Cao Zhi, and led five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to support him first.

"Report..."

"The second young master, General Cao, and the eldest young master led five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to support him. The army is less than ten miles away from the camp."

At this time, a scout came to report.

Cao Ang's arrival was like a sleepy person, so someone gave him a pillow. Cao Pi suffered a defeat and was thinking about how to get back the losses he suffered, but was worried about his lack of strength. Cao Ang came and brought a total of five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry.

Not long after, Cao Ang led his troops to arrive, and Cao Pi and Cao Ang brothers joined forces.

"Brother, you are here." Seeing Cao Ang, Cao Pi immediately met him.

Although Cao Cao was very powerful at this time, he was still in a stage of struggle. Therefore, there was no such kind of brothers fighting against the walls of power among the Cao brothers.

Not long after, Cao Ang, Cao Pi, Cao Ren and Cao Anmin gathered in the tent, and Cao Ren told Cao Ang and Cao Anmin about the incident when Li Chen defeated Cao's army that day.

Four people sat around in the big tent. Cao Ren told the situation that day, while Cao Ang and Cao Anmin listened carefully to Cao Renwei.

When Cao Ang heard Li Siye breaking three thousand tigers and leopards with eight hundred knives, he frowned and seemed to be in deep thought.
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