Zhang Yu advanced slowly, attacking the state of Lu in Yuzhou.
Cao Cao ordered the surrounding troops to support Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu also ordered the troops from Qingzhou and Jizhou to come.
The armies of both sides are assembled here.
More and more troops are coming.
Zhang Yu ordered the rear army to build more siege equipment.
Soon, Cao Cao discovered this problem. Zhang Yu is going to fight him here.
This is a very serious matter.
Cao Cao was about to hand over Xu Chang to Cao ang, who came back. He personally led the important civil and military officials to rush there.
At this time, even if Cao Cao wanted to avoid it, there were already more than 200000 troops there. Unless these 200000 troops were put in danger, he could only send more troops in the past.
Zhang Yu also transferred Tai Shici.
Cao Cao constantly received intelligence on the road, and he was also urgently mobilized on the road.
On the way, Cao Cao held a meeting and said, "Zhang Yu's sudden decisive battle with us is really unexpected."
"What can I do, gentlemen?"
The situation is critical. Of course, Cao Cao is very anxious.
Zhongwenwu is also helpless.
"Lord, although we have a city wall to defend, that county can only hold more than 200000 troops. We used to fight with Zhang Yu outside the city." Cheng Yu said.
Cheng Yu's words made people think deeply. After a while, Xun you said: "Zhang Yu is rich and powerful, and has strong mobilization ability. They have transferred part of the troops from Qingzhou and Jizhou. Once the war starts, our follow-up troops may not be able to keep up."
At this time, more than 200000 soldiers and horses passing by were already under Zhang Yu's army. Zhang Yu surrounded the city, which was a bloody battle to the end. Outside the city, it was a decisive battle.
Zhang Yu expanded his army to two million, with soldiers and horses in his hands.
In fact, Zhang Yu doesn't want to launch a decisive battle when the soldiers are not mature, but the information Ma Yunlu gives him really makes him have to.
Ma Teng and others actually wanted to use the power of the Roman Empire to fight for hegemony, that is, they began to hoard food and grass.
According to Zhang Yu's estimation, it will take two years for them to complete their preparations, but it is difficult to unify China, let alone two years, five years or even ten years.
Therefore, Zhang Yu decided to launch a decisive battle, consume his own inside information, and complete the unification ahead of time.
The army has moved to the periphery of the capital of the state of Lu. Zhang Yu has set up a camp there and is not in a hurry to attack.
It will be a decisive battle.
Qingzhou killed most of the soldiers and horses, and some of the soldiers and horses from Jizhou also came. Half of the soldiers and horses were directly dispatched from new Beiping.
Shenyang City also left only 30000, and then enlisted the surrounding militia to participate in the defense.
At this time, there was no threat from the north of Shenyang City, so Zhang Yu dared to let these troops out.
All the troops gathered.
Cao Jun was preparing nervously in the capital of the state of Lu.
They received Cao Cao's order and knew that there would be a decisive battle here.
If you can't escape, or if you can't escape, the loss will be greater. Zhang Yu will continue to go south and West, and continue to look for the chance of decisive battle, so if you can't avoid it, fight.
In history, Cao Cao fought a decisive battle with Yuan Shao for two years.
At this time, it depends on who has a good plan or is well prepared.
Zhang Yu is not Yuan Shao, not so easy to deal with, Cao Cao personally, with the army north.
Cao Cao brought more than 100000 troops and mobilized several troops from around.
However, most of his troops are transferred to the western front, which is also relatively tight.
It's not so easy for Zhang Yu to mobilize troops, and it takes a certain amount of time.
When Cao Cao was in the big account, everyone thought it hard to deal with him.
Xu you said, "Meng De, let's go to sun CE for help and let him attack Jiangdong. Otherwise, this war will be hard to fight. The important thing is that we will be extremely weak after the war."
Cao Cao nodded and said, "yes, but sun cezhi is in Jingzhou, and Zhang Yu still has a lot of troops in Jiangdong, and Cai Mao is in charge. I'm afraid that sun cezhi won't agree easily."
Most importantly, what will Cao Cao pay?
This time, it's not a simple help, but a corresponding cost.
"Meng De, Zhang Yu's army can be more than 500000. If he can fight with us, then his enemy will be us. He can recover quickly. However, if he can fight for 500000, there may be loopholes everywhere and other vassals will take advantage of it." Xu you said again.
Indeed, Zhang Yu is not the only enemy around Cao Cao.
At least the Xiliang army in Luoyang has a certain strength, and Jingzhou can attack them. Once Cao Cao is really weak, even sun CE, a potential ally, may attack him.
"Well, then the king will send for help." Cao Cao felt that there was not much hope. The question was what they would do to impress sun CE.
It is obviously impossible for sun CE to send troops in vain.
Cao Cao made all kinds of preparations while marching along the road.
Zhang Yu has already built half of his camp and sent his cavalry around the capital of Lu every day.
In addition, Ling Cao trains around the barracks, and the newly recruited troops still carry out relatively high-intensity training.
If we can't fight these days, we can't be idle these days. We still have to train our troops.
Zhang Yu's army slowly gathered. By this time, there were already 350000 troops.
"Stop training and besiege the city in three days." Zhang Yu calculated that the troops on the road would probably arrive one after another after they launched the attack, to fill the consumption of their forces.
At this time, there were only 50000 Fusang troops in Zhang Yu's army, 200000 Fusang troops were in the west line, and tens of thousands of other troops were still training in the rear, but they had already set out.
After three days, the soldiers had enough rest, so they surrounded the city.
The city is surrounded. That's the battle of hundreds of thousands of troops.
Zhang Yu personally led 200000 troops, assisted by Ling Cao.
The army surrounded the city.
However, Zhang Yu is still in no hurry to attack.
He sent people around to build a defense.
Yes, the siege also needs to build a defense, but the defense is not the army in the city, but the army that Cao Cao is about to arrive.
Cao Cao's troops came from other places one after another.
The armies of both sides are assembling.
Zhang Yu didn't prepare much to build a defense. Anyway, he didn't want to fight Cao Cao under the city. His army would naturally intercept their troops in the distance.
Building defense is just to prevent accidents.
People all over the world are looking at each other. The two princes want to fight a decisive battle.
It's a little sudden.
Once again, the world is changing.
Zhang Yu surrounded the capital of Lu, while Cao Cao had a few days to go.
The army can move quickly, but not too fast. It is easy to be ambushed.
At this time, Zhang Yu is ready.
"Ling Cao, you will lead the siege. It's a principle. You are not afraid to die many people. You should try your best to kill the enemy. This battle should make Cao Cao completely weak." Zhang Yu said.
Zhang Yu and Cao Cao can only fight fiercely.