More than a month has passed in a blink of an eye. In this month, the entire Xuzhou is operating at full capacity.

With Li Chen's generous military pay and treatment, 70,000 strong men were recruited quickly and replenished to the army. Although these strong men who had just formed an army must not be able to compare with the elite Cao army in terms of combat effectiveness, it should be enough to fight the city defense battle.

The equipment Li Chen asked the Zhen family to sell from Yuan Shu in Nanyang was also transported by water, and the horses traded with Gongsun Zan arrived a few days ago.

In this way, Li Chen has an army of 100,000, and Xuzhou City is considered to have more soldiers and more generals.

Xuzhou, the governor's office.

Early in the morning, Li Chen had a rich breakfast. There was a ham sausage from a gift pack of daily necessities. Li Chen used steamed buns to roll ham, and there was a glass of milk in front of him.

"The Palace Commander, Lu Bu's general Cheng Yan is here." At this time, Cheng Yaojin hurried in and reported.

"Let's go and see you." Li Chen drank the milk in the cup in one sip, and then said to Cheng Yaojin. Xiao Pei was in front of Xuzhou. Since Lu Bu sent his generals to come, most of the Cao army had arrived.

"Master, what did you just drink?" Cheng Yaojin asked curiously.

Li Chen replied: "Milk."

People in this era do not drink milk, so Cheng Yaojin asked curiously: "Lord, can this milk still be drunk?"

"Of course I can drink it, this milk is a good thing. After drinking it, I will strengthen my body. If you drink it every day, you might be able to beat the boy from Yuwen Chengdu one day." Li Chen joked.

Li Chen didn't know that Cheng Yaojin took it seriously when he said so casually.

Li Chen quickly walked from the inner courtyard to Yunlong Hall, and saw Cheng Yan was already waiting in the hall, and he looked exhausted.

"Greetings to the Palace Commander." Seeing Li Chen, Cheng Yan hurriedly bowed and bowed.

Although Cheng Jian was a general of Lu Bu, Lu Bu is nominally a subordinate of Li Chen, so there must be etiquette that should be there.

Li Chen's eyes sank, and he looked at Cheng Yan and asked, "But Cao's army has arrived."

Cheng Yan bowed and hurriedly reported: "Good Palace Commander, it's Cao's army that has arrived."

"Go and get the map." Li Chen waved his hand and said to the guard beside him.

"Look at the Palace Commander, the 100,000 Cao's army was led by the second son Cao Pi, and was in Qiao County. Cao Cao personally led a 100,000 army to my Xiaopei. When I came to report the news, the Cao army was less than 300 miles away from Xiaopei. The 100,000 vanguard troops, led by his eldest son Cao Ang and his third son Cao Zhi, cut in from the flanks. They should be coming to Xuzhou City, where the Palace Commander."

Cheng Yan pointed to the map and shared the information found in Lu Bu's army with Li Chen.

Li Chen looked at the map and pondered. It seemed that in Cao Cao's eyes, he was still not as important as the old opponent, Lu Bu. This guy personally led a 100,000 army to deal with Lu Bu, but asked his two sons to deal with him. This really looked down on him nakedly.

Cao Ang and Cao Zhi were just two young buds, and Li Chen did not take it seriously. Moreover, from the perspective of military generals, although his new army was not as elite as Cao's army, he had a defensive advantage. Moreover, in terms of generals, he obviously had an advantage.

Li Chen was not worried about him. On the contrary, Li Chen was worried about whether Xiaopei's Lu Bu could withstand Cao Cao's attack. You should know that Lu Bu did not have much military strength. The most important thing was that Lu Bu had a criminal record. If he could not defend Xiaopei, would he stab him back?

The old saying goes, the red rabbit among horses, the Lu Bu among people, and the painting of Fang Tian is a halberd, and the adoptive father is special.

Alas, I have to say that being Lu Bu’s ally would be frightened. If my sister-in-law hadn’t been beautiful, who would have been an ally with him?

Li Chen thought back and looked at Cheng Jian and asked, "What is Xiao Pei's situation? You are sure to defend the Cao army's offensive."

Cheng Yan calmed down and clasped his fists and said, "Report to the Palace Commander, my lord said that. Although I, Xiaopei, is not enough, I, will not retreat even if I fight to the end."

Upon hearing this, Li Chen looked at Cheng Yan, but was worried in his heart whether Lu Bu could believe Lu Bu's words.

After sending the information, Cheng Yan hurriedly left again. The battle of Xiaopei may break out at any time, and he must return to Lu Bu's side as soon as possible.

After Cheng Yan left, Li Chen looked at His Highness and asked, "Everyone thinks Lu Bu's words are trustworthy."

At this time, Liu Bowen stood up and said, "According to the information of the Jinyiwei, Lu Bu has been recruiting soldiers these days. Lu Bu is not as rich as the palace coach. It is said that in order to help Lu Bu collect the money needed to recruit soldiers, his wife Yan took the family's female family to sell jewelry and jewelry. In this way, Lu Bu should not intend to give up Xiao Pei."

As soon as Liu Bowen finished speaking, Chen Deng also stood up and said, "Lord, Chen Gong, Lu Bu's adviser, Chen Gongtai, Chen, has always looked down on Cao Cao. I thought Lu Bu would not surrender to Cao Cao and turn the blame on us."

Both of his advisers thought that Lu Bu was temporarily trustworthy, so Li Chen felt relieved. Even with the newly recruited recruits, Lu Bu had only more than 10,000 people under him. It was somewhat a bit of a dream to rely on him to block Cao Cao.

However, Li Chen felt that with Lu Bu's courage and Chen Gong's plan, it should not be difficult for him to help him block Cao Cao for a while. He annihilated Cao Ang and Cao Zhi's vanguard troops as quickly as possible, which greatly narrowed the gap between the two sides.

Li Chen planned this way, and Cao Cao also planned this way. As the saying goes, three times surround him and ten times attack him. How could Cao Cao not understand such a simple truth?

From this point of view, Cao Cao ordered Cao Zhi and Cao Ang to lead a 100,000 army to Xuzhou not to capture Xuzhou City, but to keep Li Chen away from helping him rescue Lu Bu.

Xiaopei happened to be next to Cao Cao's food route. Because of this, Cao Cao had to place a large number of troops around the food route to protect the food route. Otherwise, if Lu Bu's cavalry assaulted, it would be very likely that Cao Cao's food route would be damaged.

It is precisely because of this that Cao Cao first set his target on Lu Bu. The 100,000 army led by Cao Cao was ten times that of Lu Bu. Even if Xiaopei City was strong and thick, Cao Cao was sure to attack.

Although Lu Bu was brave, Cao Cao also had the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang who had just joined him. The scene of the three heroes fighting against Lu Bu at the 18th princes who fought against Dong and the three heroes at Hulao Pass were still vivid in my mind. With three brothers here, at least one scene would be staged under Xiaopei City, the three heroes fighting against Lu Bu.

In attacking Xiaopei, Cao Cao's generals only left three generals, Xu Chu, Cao Ren and Yu Jin. Like the Xiahou brothers, Dian Wei, Xu Huang and other generals followed Cao Ang and Cao Zhi's army to Xuzhou.

This time, in order to defeat Cao Cao in Xuzhou, he was very popular.

Among the warlords in the world today, Yuan Shao occupied the four prefectures, which was the largest territory. Although Cao Cao occupied the three prefectures, he had the strongest military strength. Although Yuan Shu had a small territory, he was all rich and had the richest financial resources. Sun Jian occupied the ancestral land of Jiangdong, with Jiangdong waterways crisscrossing, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, so he should be the most stable territory.

Now if Cao Cao takes Xuzhou, he will also occupy the four states, and he can be ranked first in the world with his troops and territory.
Chapter completed!