Two days later, Cao Ren and his 8,000 cavalry units, as well as Xuchang military officials, arrived in Dongping on the same day.

The person in charge of escorting military funds was Guo Jia. Considering that Guo Jia's military advisor skills were quite good, it might be of great use in the future, Wu Fan asked Guo Jia to stay and exercise in the upcoming battle in Puyang.

Correspondingly, Wu Fan sent Zhang Zhao, a capable political minister, back to Xuchang, and asked him to work with the left-behind personnel in Xuchang to continuously develop Xuchang's military and political indicators.

During this period, Cheng Yu returned to the military camp from Xiaopei and brought the expected news: Liu Bei agreed to Cao Cao's alliance request for three months, and had sent Zhang Fei to lead his troops to Pengcheng to prepare to resist Sun Jian's army northward.

Cao Cao was very satisfied with this and immediately drew out a thousand gold and gave it to Liu Bei's army 8,000 rations, so that he could recruit troops and fight against Sun Jian, and at the same time he was also showing kindness.

As the saying goes, the fisherman fights with the rush and clams, and the fisherman gains profit. With Wu Fan's advice, Cao Cao quickly took over himself as the fisherman.

Since the battle situation in Xuzhou has developed in a predetermined direction, the next step is naturally to take back Puyang!

However, Puyang City has been governed by two prefects of Wu Fan and Xiahou Dun, and the city defense has been in full capacity. When Wu Fan was in office, he dug the moat again, making it wider and deeper, making it easier to defend and difficult to attack.

In other words, if Chen Gong and Zhang Miao had not won the city gate before, Lu Bu's army would have won the victory over Puyang so easily.

Originally, the siege party suffered a lot of losses in the siege. After comparison, it is naturally best to avoid direct siege. Cao Cao discussed with the generals and decided to lead the Lu Bu army out of the city to fight a field battle. As for the candidates to lure the enemy to attack...

Cao Cao originally wanted to assign Wu Fan, who was both wise and brave, to lead his army, but Xiahou Dun, as the prefect of Puyang, was naturally in the most urgent mood in this battle and took the initiative to ask himself to take on the task of luring the enemy. Cao Cao thought about it and agreed to Xiahou Dun's request, but asked Wu Fan to lead a team of troops to respond in the rear to prevent any accidents.

Cao Cao personally led all the troops to stop more than ten miles from Puyang City. After the main force of Lu Bu's army left the city, he then rushed forward.

After the plan was completed, it was already night. The generals walked out of the central army's tent and went back to their respective barracks to rest. The next morning, they ordered the soldiers to have a full meal. Then, Xiahou Dun led his subordinates Cao Hong, Yu Jin and his troops to go first, and Wu Fan led Guo Jia, Hua Xiong, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Ren and eight thousand cavalry as a response.

(Additional introduction to Cao Ren's attributes. As an important general under Wu Fan, I have never had the opportunity to introduce it before, so I will add it here)

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Name of military general: Cao Ren. Article: Zixiao

Age: 23

Type: General

Faith: Loyalty and righteousness

Character: Tough and courageous

Drinking: Expertise

Care: Martial Arts

Material desire: no desire

Rule: 90

Force: 90

Intelligence: 60

Politics: 53

Charm: 80

Fame: 335

Loyalty: 100

Intimacy: 0

Relationship: None

Personal skills: construction, public security, recruitment, encouragement, surprise attack, stop movement, gathering energy, arrogance, three-stage, spiral, wine fortune

Leading skills: struggle, struggle, advance, assault, fire arrow, attack together

Affiliation: Cao Cao

Official rank: General of the rebellion (fifth rank)

Dongping was less than thirty miles away from Puyang. Wu Fan and Xiahou Dun echoed each other and soon arrived at the city of Puyang.

The Lu Bu army in Puyang City had already learned the news from the siege, so infantry and archers climbed the city walls one after another, while cavalry guarded near the city gate hole and were ready for battle.

After arranging an array of more than a thousand meters across the city, Xiahou Dun ordered a team of soldiers to fight at the city. After a long time of shouting and cursing, there was no sign of leaving the city. Xiahou Dun was so angry that he went to the city to shout and curse himself, but there was still no effect.

Unexpectedly, he looked up and saw Chen Gong at the battlement of the city wall comforting the generals to calm down. Xiahou Dun was angry and scolded:

"Chen Gong, you are a righteous man! Meng De treats you well, but does such a traitor. How do you live in the world?!"

Chen Gong held the fence and glanced at Xiahou Dun under the city, smiled, and said lightly:

"Everyone has their own ambitions. General Xiahou should save the energy to yell and scold, so keep it for the attack."

Xiahou Dun was not a wise general and was famous for his bravery. In front of a person like Chen Gong who could not bite and chew it, he was so angry that he turned around under the city for a few times, pointing at Chen Gong and gritting his teeth:

"You are a tyrant man! I will kill you if you take me Puyang!"

Chen Gong still looked indifferent and laughed:

"I'm standing here. Are you here to kill? From my perspective, you are just like a foolish woman, who can only show off your verbal rhetoric. If you really want you to kill the city, you won't dare to lend you ten courage."

Tip: Chen Gong, a military general under Lu Bu’s army, successfully used his skills to “tempt” Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Dun’s state became angry, and the target was Chen Gong.

The next moment, Xiahou Dun suddenly turned red, angry, furious, and screamed like thunder. He suddenly raised the whip in his hand, pointed at Chen Gong, and shouted to the troops behind him:

"All soldiers obey orders! Target, Chen Gong..."

Before he could finish giving the order, a voice sounded next to him:

"General Xiahou, don't forget our mission on this trip, keep it steady."

Tip: Wu Fan, a military general under Cao Cao's army, successfully used his skill to "calm" on Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Dun's condition became normal.

Xiahou Dun, who returned to normal, put down the whip in his hand and said to Wu Fan with some shame:

"Well, thank you General Wu for arriving in time, otherwise, you will be missed by the big thing."

Tip: General Anguo under Cao Cao (like Wu Fan, he is a fifth-rank rank, but his title is one level lower than Wu Fan). Xiahou Dun's friendliness towards you has increased from 25 to 35.

I have to say that Cao Cao is particularly good at hiring people. He knew very well that with Xiahou Dun's wisdom and character, it was difficult to complete the task of luring the enemy. However, when Puyang was taken away, Xiahou Dun was undoubtedly in the most urgent mood. Directly denying Xiahou Dun's request would definitely make Xiahou Dun feel depressed (it's not good to fight with emotion). So Cao Cao met Xiahou Dun's request and asked Wu Fan to take responsibility for the response. The purpose was to do this at this time. When Xiahou Dun could not lure him, he was hit by the enemy's plan, but Wu Fan could resolve it for him.

However, Wu Fan was not satisfied with just playing the role of the firefighting team: Since Xiahou Dun could not tempt him, let me do it myself.

After successfully stabilizing Xiahou Dun's mood, Wu Fan looked up at the city and said to Chen Gong:

"Chen Gong, a person like you, who is a simple and simple person, naturally, can hardly stand out under Lord Cao Cao's tent, and can only show off his vulgar martial artists like Lu Bu. I can understand your mood. Everyone understands people, so don't say that everyone has ambitions and such a high-sounding excuse."

These words can be said to be fleshy and harsh, and the soldiers and generals on the city couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Chen Gong. Chen Gong was even more speechless because he had previously sent troops to fight against the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, and his shame and anger were naturally even more intense.

The color on his face changed a few times, but Chen Gong had a calm personality and a literary man after all, and did not have the strong temperament of a military man, so he finally stabilized, laughed:

"Wu Fan, don't use this kind of trick to pick on your hair. I'm not happy about it? Then just attack the city!"

Wu Fan also smiled:

"I'm just telling the truth, how can I tell you? Could it be that Chen Gongtai is guilty? Forget it, I'm going to pass the message to Lu Bu on my order this time, so I'll ask this guy to come out quickly. As for your evaluation of your behavior of offering the city, I'll tell you later."

When Chen Gong heard this, he had to make another evaluation of me Xiancheng with this guy? Just ridiculing my talent in the front was enough to be tricky, but I don’t know how unpleasant the next evaluation was. Since you were passing the message to Lu Bu, then call Lu Bu up as soon as possible. I don’t want to be humiliated in front of his soldiers and generals just now.

Soon a soldier informed Lu Bu who was sitting upright in the arrow tower in the city. When he heard Wu Fan's name, Lu Bu was furious and rushed past Fang Tian Huaji and strode out of the arrow tower.

Standing at the battlement of the city wall, Lu Bu curled his lips and looked at Wu Fan under the city with his head raised and his eyes rolled down.

Wu Fanyu immediately bowed to Lu Bu and laughed:
Chapter completed!