After hearing this, Chen Gong said seriously: "General, Cao Cao is familiar with military books, and Xun You, his subordinates, is constantly making plans. Don't they know that our army can use fire attacks? Maybe it's Cao Cao and others' plans. Generals should not be their eggs. They should still be careful and ask for it. It's not too late to send more probes to figure out the situation around them. Our army can only take tonics now, and must not make any mistakes, otherwise the consequences will be very serious."

You said that Lu Bu, a 25-year-old man, knows what kind of tricks he is. He is always played around by others. He is stubborn and self-righteous, and does not listen to others' words. He always treats Chen Gong's words as a warning to him. Except for being able to fight and kill, he is really useless, otherwise he would not have fallen into this tragic situation today.

The next day, Lu Bu left Chen Gong, Zang Ba, Hou Cheng and others to guard the city, and he led Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hao Meng, Cao Xing and others to lead the army to kill Cao Cao. From a distance, he saw that there were many flags of Cao's army in the forest. He immediately led the army to run away and set off a raging fire around the forest, but there were indeed no one in the forest, which made Lu Bu depressed. Lu Bu wanted to lead the army to directly enter Cao Cao's camp, but he did hear the sound of gongs and drums coming from the camp, which also made Lu Bu hesitate. I wonder if he should continue to kill in or retreat quickly.

At this time, Cao Hong led a army to kill him behind Cao Cao's camp. When Lu Bu saw it, he immediately led a large army to face him. Just as he was about to fight, Cao Cao's ambushed in the long dike west of the camp was dispatched. Generals such as Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Dun, Le Jin, Li Dian, Cao Chun, Xu Zhu directly killed Lu Bu's army, surrounding him.

Lu Bu suddenly lost the ambush from Cao Cao's army. The entire army was in chaos. The soldiers and vehicles were fleeing. Lu Bu himself was surrounded by several generals under Cao Cao and killed Lu Bu together. Even if Lu Bu had three heads and six arms, it would be useless. After all, there were many people in his family, and he was unable to speak alone. There was no way, Lu Bu still fought a bloody path. Escape was important. Lu Bu's bravery was really not a joke. So many generals did not surround him, so Lu Bu still let Lu Bu escape. Seeing that his general fled in panic, the soldiers of Lu Bu even farted in this battle. If they didn't escape quickly, they had to be captured, otherwise they would just lose their lives. In addition, Lu Bu himself was not very good to the soldiers himself. Once he ran away, the soldiers would definitely not work for him anymore.

Cao Cao's army kept carrying out ruthless massacres of Lu Bu's army. This was a unilateral massacre. 30% of Lu Bu's army went 20%, and only thousands of remnants were followed by him. General Cheng Lian, who was under Lu Bu's command, was shot and killed by Le Jin. Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hao Meng, Cao Xing and others followed Lu Bu closely to escape, and they could still care about others.

After Lu Bu was defeated and fled, some of his remaining soldiers fled back to Dingtao City to report to Chen Gong. Chen Gong said to Zang Ba, Hou Cheng and others: "There are currently only thousands of old and weak soldiers in Dingtao City, so they have the ability to guard the city. This is like an empty city for Cao's army. Let's protect our families and go out of the city to meet with the general."

Zang Ba and Hou Cheng were also very clear that with the two, three thousand old, weak and disabled soldiers in Dingtao City, they could not defend the city at all. Now the only way is to do as Chen Gong said. After a little discussion, they would protect Lu Bu's family from leaving the city. If they did not leave, once Cao Cao's army surrounded him, it would be difficult to even get out of the city.

Chen Gong, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing left Dingtao City and protected Lu Bu's family to flee outside the city. Cao Cao's army followed the situation and rushed into the city. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Miao also fled with dozens of subordinates and ran towards Yuan Shu in Shouchun, while his brother Zhang Chao was killed by someone in the chaos. Cao Cao's army was unstoppable and quickly controlled Dingtao City and cleared the surroundings. In a very short time, it completely recovered Yanzhou.

The whole territory. Cao Cao immediately built the city to calm the people and stabilize the people's hearts, but after the statistics were released, most of the old Cao was disappointed. The territory occupied by Lu Bu was less than 30% of the remaining people, especially those large and small households, basically all escaped, and some were only old, weak, sick, and disabled people who could not escape. After hearing this, Cao Cao sighed. He also knew that the people who escaped had basically gone to the jurisdiction of our Bingzhou.

Cheng Yu said: "Lord, this time Lu Bu and Chen Gong rebelled, which made us lose a lot. Not only were the people running away, but the people around were almost robbed by Lu Bu's army. If you want to return to your original level, it would probably not work in just a few years."

After hearing this, Xun You shook his head and said, "It's difficult. Even if you spend a few years of hard work, you can't recover. The people who escaped will definitely not come back. Now a large area of ​​land is deserted and no one will cultivate it."

After hearing this, Cao Cao was also in a heavy mood and said helplessly: "Yes, the land is deserted now and there is no people farming. This is our biggest problem at present. Everyone should give more ideas and see if there is any good way to make the abandoned arable land use."

Liu Fu thought for a while, looked up at Cao Cao, and said worriedly: "Lord, I have a way to solve the problem of abandoned arable land. I am afraid that the lord will blame you if you say it."

After hearing this, Cao Cao smiled and said, "Yuanying, if you have any solutions, let everyone listen. No matter whether it is good or bad, are you considering it for me?"

Liu Fu looked up at Lao Cao and said, "Lord, our army has more than 300,000 troops, but its general quality is low and its combat effectiveness is not very strong. This is a waste of money and food, and it is not well trained. It is better to use some soldiers as military garrisons, let them farm during busy farming and train during slack farming. Although it will affect the training level of their soldiers, it is indeed difficult for us to raise so many soldiers. If we divide some fields for soldiers to plant, this will not only increase food, but also quickly enable them to form combat effectiveness during wartime, and let them be second-line troops. When wars occur, they can quickly form army."

After hearing this, Cao Cao thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Yuanying, your solution is good. It not only solves the problem of our army's shortage of food, but also guarantees the strength of our army. It is really a good idea. If I reward you, how can I blame you?"

In the following days, Cao Cao immediately streamlined his soldiers and drew more than 100,000 soldiers for military garrisons, while the rest of the soldiers were regular soldiers. This solved the current food shortage in some ways and also solved the problem of large areas of land being abandoned. Of course, the combat effectiveness of soldiers who are used as military garrisons cannot be guaranteed, and they are only slightly stronger than ordinary people. If they encounter a war, the soldiers who are in this wave of military garrisons cannot solve any problems, but Cao has no better way now, so he can only deal with it in this way and solve the current problems first.

However, Lu Bu was walking with the remnants of defeated generals, and his generals slowly gathered together. Chen Gong, Zang Ba, and Hou Cheng also protected everyone's families and found Lu Bu. Lu Bu said to everyone: "Don't be discouraged. Although our army does not have many soldiers now, we can still fight with Cao Cao's army. After we have a rest, we will go to Dingtao City."

After hearing this, Chen Gong shook his head and said with a wry smile: "General. Now Cao Cao has recovered Dingtao City, and his power is far greater than our army. With a strong morale, and a city is supported. If our army goes to Cao's army to fight to the decisive battle, it will be useless to touch the stone with eggs. Our army will not find any cheaper, and even lose all the troops. The most important problem for us now is to find a plot of land to establish ourselves, solve the problems of being at the back, and then consider the decisive battle with Cao Cao's army."

After hearing this, Lu Bu said, "Public Terminal, who do you think we will go to now? Big Bear in Bingzhou and I have a deep hatred. He will definitely not take us in. Yuan Shu in Shouchun had gone to join us, but he would not take us in."

Chen Gong thought for a while and said, "General, Liu Bei is now, Liu Xiande has newly led Xuzhou. He and Cao Cao are also incompatible. If we go to him, it will enhance his strength. Then Liu Bei will definitely take us in. As long as he takes us in temporarily, we will grab Xuzhou in the hands of the hand, it will be easy and can be handled without any effort."

After hearing Chen Gong's words, Lu Bu led his remaining defeated generals to Xuzhou, and they did not dare to stay any longer. After all, they would be killed by the followers of Cao Cao's army at any time. Once they were entangled by Cao Cao's army, it would be difficult to escape again.
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