On the road to Taihe City, Lu Bu and Pang Tong were moving slowly.

Cao's army's resistance was very strong, and they used various geographical advantages to block it. They could only reach Taihe City in one day, but now Lu Bu and the others have been away for almost three days and have not arrived in Taihe City yet.

"Damn, Cao Jun's miscellaneous messes are really troublesome!" Lu Bu's heart was not very good.

Many of the soldiers and horses led by Lu Bu were Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and they had always marched very fast. With such a marching speed, Lu Bu was going crazy.

"Fengxian, stop nagging. You have been nagging all the way." Pang Tong, who was beside Lu Bu, was a little annoyed by Lu Bu's nagging.

"If you don't like it, you can go back. Why should you follow me to go to war!" Lu Bu was a little dissatisfied with Pang Tong's complaints.

Originally, when Huang Zhong asked Lu Bu to attack, Lu Bu wanted Jia Xu to follow him, but Pang Tong volunteered to follow Lu Bu, and Huang Zhong finally agreed.

It’s not that Lu Bu has cooperated with Pang Tong, and they have worked together to win the city together before. But after Lu Bu and Jia Xu got along for a long time, he felt that Jia Xu’s behavior was more in line with his appetite and rejected Pang Tong. Of course, Jia Xu’s appearance is much more pleasing to Pang Tong. Lu Bu himself is a good-looking person, and he feels a little uncomfortable when he looks at Pang Tong’s ugly face all day long.

This must have an impact.

"Hehe, Fengxian, you said yours, I won't mind." Pang Tong said licking his face.

Pang Tong's position in Liu Yu's army is now very embarrassing. In terms of talent and ability, Pang Tong is no worse than Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi. Logically speaking, Pang Tong should be on par with Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi. But in fact, Pang Tong was not as good as Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang under Liu Yu's command. Sima Yi had long been in command of a group of troops and had a prominent reputation with Cao Cao several battles. Needless to say, Zhuge Liang was the head coach who conquered Jiangdong and made Sun Ce hide in a corner of Jiangdong. With this record alone, Zhuge Liang was worthy of being famous in history.

What does Pang Tong have? Apart from the serial warships created in the Battle of Red Cliff, they have not made much contribution. Every time they think of this, Pang Tong is very unwilling to accept it. Why can Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi be able to make a fortune, but he can only follow behind?

This time, Pang Tong followed Huang Zhong as a counselor and gave advice in order to make a sigh of relief for himself and prove that he was not inferior to Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.

However, Cao Cao's strength was strong, and even though Pang Tong thought of many strategies, it gradually collapsed, resulting in a confrontation between Huang Zhong and Cao Cao for a long time.

This time, Liu's army was able to advance on a large scale and win, but Jia Xu adopted the strategy of secretly seizing Chen Cang, and joined Huang Zhong to catch Cao's army off guard.

This has nothing to do with Pang Tong.

Without military achievements, Pang Tong seized the opportunity to come out with Lu Bu and fight for it himself.

Lu Bu felt Pang Tong's kindness and understood Pang Tong's situation, and said, "Shi Yuan, I will know that you are upset recently. Seeing Zhongda and Kong Ming constantly being valued by His Majesty, you feel uncomfortable, right?"

Pang Tong looked at Lu Bu in surprise, and then felt that he had not noticed it and was noticed by someone. Pang Tong was worried that even Lu Bu could see it, but the others were clear about it?

Looking at Pang Tong's surprised look, Lu Bu said indifferently: "I will understand your feelings very well. Your current appearance is exactly the same as when I was jealous of the evil man, I will make military achievements."

After explaining this, Pang Tong felt a little relieved. It turned out that Lu Bu had experience, no wonder he could see it.

"Fengxian is really amazing, you can see it in this way." Pang Tong said a little ashamed.

Lu Bu picked up his Fangtian Painted Riven, carried it on his shoulders, and said, "In the court, which one of us is not constantly striving for military merits. Although I am invincible in the world, I also care about this military merit. I just want to be the number one in military merits! Let's not think too much now. Spend some thoughts on how to quickly reach Taihe City and take down Taihe City, and don't be looked down upon!"

Lu Bu was very eager for military merits. He had proved that he was the most powerful general in the world. None of the generals in the world was his opponent. As long as he was willing, he could take some time to kill all the opponents in front of him. The chaos in the world gradually calmed down, and only Cao Cao, Sun Ce and others were left. As long as Cao Cao was won, the time for the world to unify was soon. Lu Bu knew that he would take advantage of this shorter and shorter time to fight for military merits and win the greatest glory and wealth for his children.

Lu Bu is greedy for money and lust, and it is the most difficult and easiest to satisfy. Only Liu Yu satisfies Lu Bu with his peerless beauty, huge military power and high-ranking positions. Liu Yu's generousness makes Lu Bu very loyal. Because Lu Bu wants to surrender to other princes or work alone, he cannot achieve everything and status he has now. He is not in a bad mind, so how could he do things randomly?

In addition, Diao Chan is a virtuous assistant and often reminds Lu Bu to understand the right measure and not to touch Liu Yu's bottom line. With his wife and children checking and balancing in Luoyang, Lu Bu was all focused on eliminating the enemy.

Pang Tong was encouraged by Lu Bu and bowed and said, "It's just right. Fengxian, let's go to Taihe City quickly now."

"Soldiers! Get up and we're going to have dinner in Taihe City tonight!" Lu Bu shouted loudly.

The Liu army soldiers made a loud voice. They were also irritated by the constant harassment of Cao Jun. They were preparing to kill them to vent their depression.

In fact, Cao's harassment can only reach this point. The distance between Taihecheng and Lu Bu and others is not much. If they send troops to harass it, it will not be of much use.

The garrison of Taihe City is Li Tong, a rare good general in Cao Cao's army. Li Tong has a lot of experience in dealing with Liu's army. He arranged his previous harassment operations, dragging the 50,000 troops led by Lu Bu for so long. Unfortunately, his strength is inconsistent. Li Tong now has less than 5,000 troops, and there are reinforcements supported by Xu Huang.

Cao's army is now retreating step by step, with low morale. With the advantage of defending the city, the soldiers are in panic all day long. Liu's army burned Xinyang City before, so once they can't capture Taihe City for a long time, will Liu's army not take the burning of Taihe City?

When the thought of this result, Cao Jun, who was stationed in Taihe City, was pitifully low.

Li Tong was also very worried. He was absolutely loyal to Cao Cao. No matter how powerful the enemy was, he would resist to the death. In the current situation, Li Tong didn't know how long Taihe City could resist when he met Lu Bu's 50,000 troops.

Li Tong had no worries for a long time, so Lu Bu led his army to Taihe City. Li Tong immediately picked up the weapons in his hand and came to the city wall.

Lu Bu had already arranged a formation for the soldiers and sent a knight to Taihe City with one arrow.

This is to persuade surrender.

With Lu Bu's personality, it would be impossible to do such a thankless thing as persuading surrender. But Pang Tong insisted on this. If the persuading surrender was successful, it would reduce the casualties of the army and increase more troops, which would definitely be a great achievement.

Lu Bu followed Pang Tong's wishes and sent someone to persuade him to surrender.

"Listen to the general of Cao's army, my general ordered you to open the city and surrender. Wang Shi Renyi, spare you all! If you resist stubbornly, no one will be left!" The knight kept shouting at the Cao's soldiers in Taihe City.

He just finished saying it, and what Taihecheng responded to him was a rain of arrows.

If Li Tong wants to surrender, there is no way to go.

Such a result means that you cannot have a pleasant chat.

Lu Bu was very happy to see such a tough guard general. Such hard bones would make Lu Bu a little interested. He would use the Fangtian Painting in his hand to make him understand the consequences of refusing to surrender.

At the command of Lu Bu, Liu Jun immediately began a fierce attack on Cao's army. The Liu Jun soldiers were harassed by Cao's army before and were furious. When they attacked the city, they were full of combat power and rushed forward with their lives.

On the other hand, the momentum of the Cao army was different. Many of the Cao army soldiers were newly recruited, and their number accounted for half. These new recruits went to the battlefield without many days of training, and some of them were just driven to the shelves. The Cao army veterans were calm, but the inexperienced new recruits trembled in the face of the murderous elite Liu army soldiers.

Liu Jun took down Taihe City with just one attack wave.

When the city was broken, Li Tong led the defeated generals of the remaining troops to evacuate quickly.

Lu Bu and Pang Tong entered Taihe City very arrogantly.

"Shi Yuan, I have said that there is no need to persuade me to surrender. I will take it down this time." Lu Bu kept criticizing Pang Tong.

Pang Tong's face was not very good. After being educated by a rough man like Lu Bu, his face as the No. 1 scholar in Nanzhou was almost lost.

After Taihe City was taken down, Lu Bu finished the task arranged by Huang Zhong and immediately sent someone to repay Huang Zhong, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to repair it on the spot and wait for the arrival of the large army.

Jieshou City has changed its flag and is included in the glorious embrace of the Shenwu court.

In order not to disturb the people, Huang Zhong arranged the military camp outside the city. Huang Zhong paid attention to military discipline and ordered soldiers to not offend the people, otherwise the heads would fall to the ground. All the soldiers of the Liu army knew Huang Zhong's temper and were all obediently staying in the military camp.

Huang Zhong was more relaxed now. He and Jia Xu were sitting leisurely in the central army tent, drinking tea.

When drinking was banned in the army, Huang Zhong set an example and usually drank some tea.

The two old guys took advantage of the rare leisure time to communicate with each other. The two exchanged the current war, the current government, and the future trends.

"Mr. Wenhe, listening to your words is better than reading for ten years." Huang Zhong was very impressed by Jia Xu's insights.

Since Huang Zhong is a general and has a strong relationship with the current Shenwu Emperor, Jia Xu, who is good at protecting himself, naturally seized the opportunity to get along well with Huang Zhong.

Jia Xu said modestly: "The General is a misunderstood. It is a great honor to be able to advance to the General by his humble speech."

All of them have been officials in the same dynasty for so many years. Huang Zhong has heard of Jia Xu's character, and he knows Jia Xu's humble words in his heart.

At this time, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun came in hand in hand, and they reported to Huang Zhong the battle report of Lu Bu's capture of Taihe City.

"General, what are we going to do next?" Ma Chao was impatient, concerned about the next battle, and also about his arrangements.

Huang Zhong asked Jia Xu: "Mr. Wenhe, in your opinion, what would Cao Cao react if our army took down Taihe City?"

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao both looked at Jia Xu. In their hearts, Jia Xu's ability is no worse than that of other top strategists.

This is the time for Jia Xu to show off. Of course, he would not hide it. He said: "The best choice for our army to take over Taihe City is to attack Ruyin. Ruyin City is the junction between Runan County and Anfeng County. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it is a place that military strategists must fight for. Taking this place, Cao Cao can only retreat to Shouchun City."

"That's good! General, please give an order. I, Ma Mengqi, immediately lead the army to directly kill Ruyin City!" Ma Chao pushed Zhao Yun behind him and rushed to say.

Zhao Yun looked helpless. Ma Chao always had this personality and rushed to do something war.

Huang Zhong found that Jia Xu seemed to have not finished speaking, so he asked, "Mr. Wenhe, I see if you still have something to say."

"Yes! The general is wise. Cao Cao has always been cunning. With his mind, he can certainly guess the march route of our army. If I guess correctly, Cao Cao would probably send a large army to support Ruyin, and there were definitely a lot of troops. But what I am more worried about is that Cao Cao would have another conspiracy." Jia Xu's face became a little sinister.

Zhao Yun, who had not spoken, asked: "Mr. Wenhe, what conspiracy would Cao Cao have? If our army is all pressed, how long can Ruyin City last? You must know that Zhongda and Kong Ming's two troops are still restricting Cao Cao's troops."

Huang Zhong and Ma Chao also had this expression.

Jia Xu smiled slightly and said to Zhao Yun: "General Zilong, with your strategy, Cao Cao would probably wake up from laughing in his dreams."

Zhao Yun knew that Jia Xu was very smart and must have seen something, so he bowed and asked, "Please give me advice from Mr. Wenhe."

"Wenhe, just say it just by saying something. Why are you so many roundabouts?" Both Guanzhong faction, Ma Chao doesn't give Jia Xu so much face.

Jia Xu was a little angry. Everyone respected her husband so much. You, Ma Mengqi, don’t give face. Do you have an ally like you?

"Please look!" Jia Xu came to the edge of the map and kept gesturing. "Taihe City and Ruyin City are low-lying places, and Yingshui is connected between the two cities. And Ruyin City also has a Ci River. If all our army gathers at Ruyin City, Cao Cao sent an elite army to raid Taihe City, cut off our army's retreat, and then sent a group of troops to block the river water with the upper reaches of the Ci River, and immediately release the water after the river water surges. Do you think of the result?"
Chapter completed!