After being teased by Xu Chule and Cao Xiu's fight, he found that Cao Cao's army had no ability in field combat, and after that, Lu Bu felt full of evil spirits.

In addition, the Red Rabbit Horse was also hit by two arrows that day. After returning, the Chinese veterinarians in the army said that they would take him back to Hebei for at least a few months to maintain his care. This made Lu Bu even more hated and lost his calmness.

Later, he was provoked and scolded by Cao Cao. In just a few days, Lu Bu began to try to fight against Guandu camp.

This happened to fall into Cao Cao's plan. Cao Cao knew that Lu Bu was coming from afar, and was waiting for him by the steadi walls and clear fields, for fear that he would not attack the strong camp.

Although Cao Cao's army still does not build Zhuge Crossbows, even with the existing defensive equipment, it is still more than enough to fight defensive battles with more troops than Lu Bu.

After seven or eight days of stalemate, Lu Bu's army suffered hundreds of people every day, of which at least one or two hundred were killed in battle. The serious injuries were no less than four or five hundred a day. The attack intensity was not very high, but it really hurt morale.

After Cao Cao received reinforcements from Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren, the Cao army left on the other side of Yan Liang and Wen Chou was only 15,000. The combined first-line offensive forces of Yan Liang and Wen Chou were more than 80,000. In the future, the second-line reserve team directly under Ju Su, the military supervisor stationed in Tianjin and Baima, had more than 50,000 people. This time, Yuan Shao mobilized 130,000 troops.

Lu Bu had only 28,000 people in total. Originally, he thought that as long as he faced Cao Cao, there were less than 20,000 people, but now there are actually more than 40,000 people, which is simply a bad luck. Cao Cao performed very well and often gave Lu Bu a little hope of breaking the camp, but in fact there were still many reserve teams behind him. Because there were too many people, Cao's army could also fight on wheels to defend, allowing the soldiers who fought for a long time to recover their strength.

The elite and bravery of the Cao army were actually not as good as the Bingzhou soldiers who were wild and hard-working, but they could not withstand the enemy's intelligence errors. Our army was waiting for labor, which made Lu Bu suffer so much.

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In this way, the stalemate was consumed until early May. Lu Bu's army suffered a total of three or four thousand casualties, and his morale was also damaged. Lu Bu finally realized the problem and changed his strategy of attacking the camp. At the suggestion of Chen Gong, he began to build a building in the army.

The conscience of heaven and earth. Although Lu Bu's move was similar to that of Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu in history, it was really not a coincidence, because Lu Bu's motive was completely different from that of Yuan Shao.

Lu Bu did not expect that the construction of these towers would cause any damage to shoot arrows in Cao Cao's camp. The scale of Lu Bu's army was much smaller than the troops in the Battle of Yuan Shao in history, and there were less labor force to mobilize, so he could not repair too much.

When Lu Bu did this, he was mainly suspicious of the scale of Cao Cao's army, so he wanted to rely on the watchtower to monitor the enemy situation. After seven or eight consecutive days of attacks and battalions, Cao Cao's army was always so physically strong. No matter how you look at it, there would be problems. If there was no hidden reserve of the new force, Lu Bu would not believe it.

As for shooting arrows, it is only an accompanying part of surveillance.

The construction method of Lu Bujun's Liwang Tower has also been slightly improved from the tactical arrangements of similar battles in previous years. It can be seen that since the Battle of Chang'an last year, the case of "How did Liu Bei quickly and efficiently capture the Chang'an City defended by Li Jue" has been analyzed by interested colleagues.

After all, many people in Chang'an City were senior officials of the court. These people experienced the battle personally. Later, some of them followed Liu Xie to Hongnong and then to Luoyang. The base of witnesses was so huge that those who were interested in the warlords could always learn about the experiences and lessons.

Therefore, when Lu Bu set up the building, he completely followed Chen Gong's arrangements, and Chen Gong imitated the layout of the building when Zhuge Liang attacked Chang'an City last year!

Only eight tall buildings were built in the northwest and southwest corners of Cao's camp, which made Cao Cao's camp look completely visible.

In the first three days after being looked down by Lu Bu's army, in order to prevent the scale of troops in the camp, Cao Cao was indeed restrained in the dispatch, and it became more difficult to enter the reserve team's rotation battle. He could only change defensive soldiers every day while at night. And the banner of Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren must not be exposed, and they are not allowed to patrol the camp.

While observing, Lu Bujun also used hundreds of elite archers to take turns to go upstairs to shoot arrows in batches. After each person shot fifty arrows, he went downstairs to replace people. Each person shot two pots of arrows every day, one pot in the morning and afternoon, and then rested.

Cao's camp was temporarily suppressed by bows and arrows, and the casualties exchange ratio became tragic.

However, although Liu Ye was not under Cao Cao's tent, he could not offer a "thunderbolt chariot" to Cao Cao.

But because Li Su exposed the counterweight catapult car early on, even if the Kanto princes could not perfectly imitate it, it was still very easy to build a lever-type catapult car that surpassed the "Pili car", and there was no need for Liu Yexian at all.

Therefore, on the first day of being threatened by Lu Bu's watchtower, Cao Cao ordered to start making a catapult. He started to smash it in just three days. Two days after the smashing, Lu Bu's watchtower was destroyed by stones.

However, Lu Bu is not willing to be outdone. Isn’t it just a catapult? Who can’t build it?

Liu Ye is now an aide under the command of King Liu He of Yan. Even if he does not belong directly to Yuan Shao in name, he has actually worked with Yuan Shao. With a talent like Liu Ye who knows some skills, Yuan Shaojun will never be worse than Cao Cao's army in reverse imitating Liu Bei's army's catapult!

On the seventh day of the fifth month, Lu Bujun's catapult car also entered actual combat, completely upgrading the form of war. Then the catapult car of both sides smashed each other, to see which talent on one side had good math calculations, adjust the ballistic quickly and accurately, and be able to calibrate the operation as soon as possible to smash the catapult car of the other side!

After bombarding each other for three days, all the wooden fences of Lu Bu and Cao Cao's camp were smashed into pieces, and all the high-rise arrow towers and whistles were finished. Later, they could only temporarily repair them with rammed earth, and all the fortifications looked shaky.

Under this circumstance, after the day's confrontation ended, Guo Jia offered advice to Cao Cao.

"Ming Gong, our camp now looks crumbling, but in fact it still has some defense. If Lu Bu launches a full-scale attack now, he will definitely suffer major casualties. But he has been reluctant to attack with all his strength because he feels that we are not at the end of our strength, or that we are not at the time to take a full-scale bet.

Especially now that Lu Bu has also used a catapult, the fortifications of both sides will definitely become ruins in the end. The longer it drags, the worse the defenses of both sides will be. It has an advantage over Lu Bu, who is the attacking side, so he will definitely drag it on.

At present, our army should create a false news that is unfavorable to us, especially when Lu Bu misjudged that our main force had left the camp secretly and went to attack other directions, making him feel that this opportunity of "our camp is empty" was very rare. It was a coincidence that he bumped into it by luck. The opportunity must not be missed, so that he would attack our camp with all his strength. As long as this situation occurs, our army can completely use more than half of the superior forces of Lu Bu's army to fight a counterattack that severely damaged and killed the main force of Lu Bu's army!"

After hearing this, Cao Cao agreed and asked Guo Jia and Cheng Yu: "How do you think this strategy of 'pretending that our army's main force is not in the camp and has other strange plans' should be implemented?"

Guo Jia was the person who proposed, so he had thought about it before coming, and answered with a response: "We can try to find out where the military rations were stored in Lu Bu and Yan Liang. Then Ming Gong led a small number of elite soldiers to pretend to go back and set fire to the enemy's backbone. Ming Gong actually led only 5,000 troops, and there was no need to lead the troops himself.

As long as we make the momentum big, Lu Bu mistakenly thinks that we have tens of thousands of main forces and will rush to burn grain. It doesn’t matter whether we can burn it or not. If we can burn it, we will slowly retreat and save ourselves. The key is to make Lu Bu feel that there is an opportunity and will not let it go. Regardless of casualties, our army’s fortifications have not been completely destroyed, we will attack our army’s camp with all our strength in advance."

It has to be said that Guo Jia's vicious plan is completely different from the Wuchao's food burning in the Battle of Guandu in history, but it is just a similar shape.

In the Battle of Guandu in history, burning grain was the main purpose. Using the camp as anvil to carry Zhang He and Gao Lan's fierce attack was only a last resort. Even if Zhang He and Gao Lan did not conquer, Yuan Shao's army actually suffered little loss of vitality. The final collapse was mainly because Zhang He and Gao Lan turned against each other in front of the formation.

Now, Guo Jia has no intention of actually burning food successfully, or even if he succeeds, it is just an unexpected surprise, because he lacks enough information at all, and does not know the specific location and defensive forces of the enemy's grain storage location, so he is not sure that he can burn it.

It is just roughly known that the grain storage site where Yuan Jun provided food to Lu Bu and Yan Liang should be located near Wuchaoze. This is also speculated based on the terrain, because Wuchaoze has a waterway connecting the Great Valley, and it enters the Bian River. There is a mature Grand Canal that has been used for more than 600 years, so it is impossible for Yuan Shaojun to store grain to rely on the canal to pass the lake.

(Note: Honggou is the canal built by the Wei State in the pre-Qin period, connecting the Yellow River and the Huai River, and crossing the Bian River and Yingchuan in the middle. The Chu River and Han boundary in the end of the Qin Dynasty. It should be called "Wang Tangqu" or "Langdangqu" at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but for the sake of convenience for everyone to identify, I still call it Honggou)

In contrast, "Teducing the enemy to attack fiercely, taking the opportunity to kill and injure the enemy's vitality, and taking advantage of the enemy's final opportunity to find the opportunity to retreat and then cover up the killing" became Guo Jia's core demand.

It can only be said that in the large battlefield of Guandu Wuchao, the strategies and tactics that the offense and defense sides are most likely to think of are similar in shape. However, the ability to use them in shapes and turn decay into magic is the most obvious skill of the strategist.

After Cao Cao asked Guo Jia’s plan, he asked Cheng Yu again.

Cheng Yu's reaction was a little slower, but he also admitted that Guo Jia's general idea was correct, but at the execution level, Cheng Yu put forward some other ideas:
Chapter completed!