Although Cao Ren and Han Hao, who were in Changyuan and Yan County, had few soldiers, they were able to defend the city and actively defended themselves, and did not allow Lu Bu and Zhang Liao to succeed.

Zhang Liao can be said to be a small soldier and horseman, and he did not do his best and thought a lot in his mind, so his attack was slow.

Lu Bu attacked fiercely and sent his powerful generals Cheng Lian, Song Xian, Hao Meng and others to lead troops to advance to inspire morale. They could not break through Cao Ren's defense and could not break through the city after three days and three nights of battle.

On July 30, reinforcements arrived.

Xi Zhong took Guo Peng's military order, brought Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and 10,000 elite troops to Puyang.

Cao Cao was overjoyed and immediately discussed with Xi Zhong, asking Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to bring 3,000 troops to support Changyuan County and Yan County. Then Xi Zhong and Cao Cao took the remaining 4,000 troops to defend Puyang and guard against Yuan Shao's movements.

So Guan Yu led three thousand elite troops to Changyuan County, entered the county town, and strengthened his defensive power.

The addition of the three thousand new forces greatly inspired morale. Cao Ren ordered Guan Yu to lead his army out of the city and destroyed the eight mounds that Lu Bu ordered to cast, which frustrated Lu Bu's attack.

On the other hand, in Yan County, Zhang Fei led his army to arrive 3,000, strengthening the defense of Yan County. Seeing that there were only 5,000 Zhang Liao outside the city, he led his army out of the city to challenge Zhang Liao.

Seeing that Zhang Liao was quite powerful, Zhang Fei invited him to fight to decide the outcome by himself. Zhang Liao happily agreed. The two fought with spears, and the battle lasted for dozens of rounds without any distinction. After exhaustion, they withdrew their troops at the same time and agreed to fight again tomorrow.

After three consecutive days, Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao fought one-on-one in the open space outside the city. Seeing Zhang Liao's personal guard and Han Hao in the city were very worried, but they could not stop the two from fighting one-on-one.

Lu Bu could not fight, but Zhang Liao had no intention of fighting. The attack was blocked across the board, which was far less smooth and happy than Gao Shun's side.

Lu Bu was very annoyed and asked Wei Xu to send the powerful men to the battlefield, expanding his army to 25,000, occupying an absolute advantage in military strength, but he still could not break through Changyuan County.

Under Cao Ren's defense with almost no weakness, the powerful general Lu Bu felt a little powerless.

Lu Bu's powerlessness sets off Cao Ren's awakening.

It seems that under such a high-pressure environment, Cao Ren awakened a certain will and a certain feeling.

He only felt that a city wall was in hand and he would be impeccable. No matter what method Lu Bu used to defend the city, as long as there were enough soldiers, he could counterattack.

The arrow rain shot out one after another, the rolling wood and stones smashed down one after another, and the golden juice poured down one after another, and various means emerged one after another, making Lu Bu's superior force like a decoration.

Cao Cao supervised the production, manufacturing and transportation of the war-related materials in the rear, without any mistake.

The sufficient supplies and food gave Cao Ren enough confidence to waste it with Lu Bu, but Lu Bu felt that he did not have enough time to continue with Cao Ren.

So Lu Bu personally took the battle with a large shield to inspire morale and led his army to attack Changyuan County. The intensity of the siege suddenly increased. A whole daytime attack finally filled the trenches outside the city, and a large army flocked to him.

Just now seeing the dawn of victory, Lu Bu was driven away by the hot golden juice.

Cao Ren had prepared a lot of hot golden juice, but when Lu Bu's army rushed under the city wall, he poured down.

At that moment, the entire battlefield was filled with a strong aura of grain reincarnation.

Lu Bu couldn't stand it anymore and had to retreat to the base camp. He roared in the military camp and was furious, scolding Guo Peng and his subordinates for being shameless.

Lu Bu was lucky, but he was fumigated. A considerable number of Lu Bu's soldiers were scalded by gold juice, and there was no cure. Soon after, they died of festering all over.

The sufficient food and grass gave Cao Ren the confidence to use a lot of gold juice.

Every day, the rice fields that the soldiers in the city discharged were collected as strategic materials and used as a way to defend the city. Anyone who dared to urinate or defecate anywhere would be whipped.

Although the smell is bad, I get used to it after smelling it.

Cao Ren now feels that this thing is really a powerful tool to defend the city.

As long as this thing was smoking on the city wall, the soldiers of Lu Bu’s army did not dare to approach the city wall to build a ladder, and only dared to hide in the distance to shoot arrows, and could not truly shake the city defense system.

As for the digging of tunnels, after Guo Peng told them in detail about the past battle examples, Cao Ren was very concerned about this matter. He buried the pendant under the city walls on all sides, and sent people to monitor them day and night. Once he heard a strange sound, he immediately reported it to him.

Fortunately, no strange sound was heard.

Cao Ren's iron-like defense made Lu Bu powerless. Gradually, Lu Bu's aura was damaged. He stared at the not-tall city wall and began to wonder whether he could break through this place.

If Gao Shun hadn't sent him one after another, saying that he had successively conquered Jiyin County and Shanyang County, Lu Bu really felt that he could clean up and go back.

If you can’t even take down a city, why do you still act as an invader?

Aggressor, invasion is like fire!

But no matter how you attack the city or oppress it, the city just can't be taken down and just keeps insisting on it.

Lu Bu's offense was completely set and he had to stay in the north of Chenliu County, making it difficult to make progress.

At the same time, a fierce debate also arose in Yuan Shao's camp.

The cause of the debate was naturally that Yuan Shao instigated Lu Bu to go south to attack Yanzhou.

After Lu Bu really went south to attack Yanzhou, Tian Feng suggested that Yuan Shao immediately send troops south to attack the East County of Yanzhou to support Lu Bu, and join forces with Lu Bu to attack Yanzhou together.

Try to defeat Guo Peng, take over Yanzhou in one fell swoop, and turn the situation around.

Xu You and Feng Ji disagreed with Tian Feng's opinion. They just regarded Lu Bu as a pawn to restrain Guo Peng and did not really want to help Lu Bu.

They suggested that Yuan Shao immediately lead his troops north to attack Gongsun Zan while Guo Peng was busy dealing with Lu Bu.

"Lu Bu went south to Yanzhou, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The general was worried about being attacked by the north and south, so he had to try his best to destroy it. Gongsun Zan was just a dry bone in the tomb. The real threat was Guo Peng. If Guo Peng's power could be greatly weakened, Gongsun Zan would be vulnerable. I thought this was the right thing to do."

Tian Feng strongly advocated that Yuan Shao immediately sent troops south to attack Dongjun, support Lu Bu, and swept Yanzhou, making Guo Peng unable to defend himself.

Xu You and Feng Ji didn't like Tian Feng and tried their best to dissuade Yuan Shao.

Xu You said: "The general asked Lu Bu to go south to attack Yanzhou, just to let Lu Bu, the tiger to devour Guo Peng, the evil wolf. If the wolf and tiger fight, the general will get the opportunity to attack Gongsun Zan and completely pacify the rear. Gongsun Zan was trapped in fighting with his clan's old subordinates. This was the time to go north to advance."

Tian Feng was furious and said, "You have misled the general's great cause! Guo Peng is the real obstacle to the general's great cause. Gongsun Zan is just a dilapidated house on the side. With the sparse household registration in Youzhou, where can you be qualified to compete with the general for Hebei?

Guo Zifeng occupied the Qingyan Prefectures, backed by Yuan Highway, and was worry-free in the rear. Once the preparation was completed, he would inevitably go north to attack the general's Jizhou. With the strength of Jizhou, how could he compete with the Qingyan Prefectures, which had a lot of household registration? When would Guo Zifeng be weakened at this time?"

Xu You was also very annoyed.

"The general's great cause is to conquer Hebei, take Hebei as the foundation, and make the rear worry-free. Then look down on Guo Zifeng with the advantage of Hebei, and go down in one fell swoop. Now you ask the general to send troops to Dongjun. Isn't this equivalent to admitting that Lu Bu's behavior was instructed by the general? Once Lu Bu is defeated, what should he do?"

Tian Feng pointed at Xu You and his face turned red with anger.

"If the general does not support Lu Bu, Lu Bu's husband will definitely be defeated! Now that he has driven Lu Bu to attack Yanzhou, he must use Lu Bu's blood and courage to join forces to attack Yanzhou and cut off Guo Zifeng's arm. In this way, he naturally has no time to go north to invade Jizhou!"

Xu You said contemptuously: "Absurd! Gongsun Zan is eyeing me covetously. Guo Zifeng's elite troops are good at fighting. If our army is not good at fighting for a long time, once Gongsun Zan comes to his senses, he will definitely go south immediately. Then Jizhou will be the real danger!"

"Xu Ziyuan! You are delaying the general's great cause!"

"Don't speak nonsense in Tian Yuanhao! You are delaying the general's great cause!"

The two quarreled in a big way, and the conflict between the scholars in Yuzhou and local scholars suddenly intensified.
Chapter completed!