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Chapter 38 Recruitment

When Sun Ce and his friends attacked Guandu, Chen Mang had ordered Huang Zhong to send troops to Luoyang. With Zilong cutting off the Yanzhou passage, Cao Cao's territory was instantly cut into three pieces, making his troops unable to obey his arrangements.

Early the next morning, Chen Mang personally led his troops from Nanyang and led a 100,000 army to attack Xudu.

The vast army set out and arrived at Xiangcheng at noon that day.

Cao Cao also had to deal with Sun Ce in the north. His troops were too short. In desperation, he brought Le Jin and Xiahou Yuan to support him, and took a stance of being strictly guarded and defending the city.

Chen Mang stood under the city gate tower, staring at the city wall full of guarding the city equipment, and said to Sima Yi: "Cao Cao is clearly not going to fight. Zhongda, do you have a clever plan to defeat the enemy?"

Sima Yi said: "Lord, now we have the advantage of our troops and food. We only need to besiege them for a few months, and when Huang Zhong and General Zilong free up their hands, Cao Cao will have no choice."

Chen Mang squinted his eyes: "Zhongda, your plan is not working. This battle will be fought for several months. Not to mention how much food and grass is consumed, the people of Yuzhou may all starve to death."

Sima Yi was slightly stunned and frowned and said, "If you want to fight quickly, you will have to attack hard, just lord, so our soldiers will probably suffer a lot of damage."

Chen Mang smiled slightly and said, "Zhongda, why don't I go and persuade Cao Cao to surrender. Maybe he will agree when he sees your lord, my lord is full of domineering spirit."

Sima Yi smiled and said, "Don't joke, lord, how could Cao Cao surrender..."

Chen Mang took out a letter from his arms and shook it in front of Sima Yi. Sima Yi glanced at the envelope, and the three big words "Supreme" were suddenly in sight.

Seeing that Chen Mang was prepared for a long time, Sima Yi said laughing and crying: "Lord, you are so whimsical..."

Before he could finish his words, Chen Mang had already left the team alone and rode his horse towards the city.

Sima Yi was stunned and hurriedly said to the commander of the personal guard camp beside him: "Commander Chen, go and protect the lord!"

The commander said calmly: "No, if the lord needs support, he will give us an order."

In a blink of an eye, Chen Mang had already arrived at the moat and shouted to Cao Cao on the wall: "Meng De! I am here to send a letter of surrender. Put down the suspension bridge and open the door to welcome me in!"

Cao Cao was so angry that his blue veins jumped up on his forehead, thinking to himself, letting you in, how could I have the fate to do so, and shouted: "Shoot the arrow!" The arrows shot towards Chen Mang under the city!

Chen Mang waved a ball of silver light from his three-pointed two-edged sword in his hand, knocking down the arrow flying in front of him, shouting: "Cao Mengde, do you understand the rules? When the two countries are fighting, come and envoys if they don't kill them!"

Cao Cao shouted angrily: "Cheng Zhe, who are you? If you fall into my hands, I will definitely put you in bed and eat meat to relieve my hatred!"

Chen Mang said happily: "Cao Mengde, since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous!"

Cao Cao was about to continue cursing, and suddenly heard Chen Mang shout loudly: "Take it!"

The next moment, Cao Cao felt a strong push from behind him, and his body was uncontrollably stormed under the city wall!

The moment he turned around, Cao Cao saw his son Cao Pi falling down with him, with a sense of determination on his face. His mind suddenly turned blank and he stared at him in disbelief...

Almost at the same time, Chen Mang had already jumped high from the horse's back, and caught the two people who fell from the city. He had to the point of the water, and his body folded in the air, and flew back to the horse's back with the force.

After capturing Cao Cao without any effort, Chen Mang shouted to the top of the city: "I have captured Cao Cao, and I will not surrender yet, so when will I wait!"

Faced with this sudden change, Xiahou Yuan and others were stunned and speechless, not knowing what to do.

Cao Cao was brought in by Chen Mang. Looking at Cao Pi, who was sitting in front of Chen Mang with a look of relief, he finally realized what was going on just now. He danced in the air and shouted at Cao Pi in anger: "You evil son! How dare you secretly collude with Chen thief and murder your biological father! He evil son!"

Cao Pi said calmly: "Father, the situation is now hopeless. If you hold on, it will only increase casualties. The Ming Wang is kind-hearted and promised to spare the lives of our Cao family and others, and to be able to become an official in the court in the future. With such generous treatment, you will be surrendered."

Cao Cao was so angry that he laughed: "I surrender? I surrender..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Mang released an internal energy to seal his mute hole, his eyes shiny, shouting to the city wall: "You all heard it, Meng De has descended! Put down the suspension bridge!"

Xiahou Yuan looked at Chen Mang in amazement, and then looked at Cao Cao, who was full of grief and angry but kept silent...

It’s completely impossible to see that the eldest brother is surrendering!

"well!"

At this moment, Le Jin beside him sighed and advised: "General Miaocai, please open the city gate. This battle cannot be fought. The Central Plains has been suffering from wars for many years, and the soldiers do not want to fight any more."

Xiahou Yuan frowned and looked at Le Jin, then looked at the miserable soldiers above the city. He opened his lips, and finally sighed helplessly and ordered: "Open the city gate and welcome the Ming King into the city!"

The soldiers of the Cao army were relieved and hurriedly opened the city gate and slowly lowered the suspension bridge.

Sima Yi looked at Chen Mang's feat of cavalry alone in surrendering Cao's army from afar, and the shock on his face could not melt for a long time.

This was his first time fighting with Chen Mang. Even though he wanted to break the sky, he didn't expect that the battle would end in this way.

The courage and strategy that Chen Mang showed just now shocked him. If it were him... no, no one would have succeeded, right?

Seeing the soldiers in the guard camp slowly moving forward, Sima Yi came to his senses and sighed slightly in his heart. He felt that with Chen Mang one day, his Sima family would probably never have a chance to make a comeback.

As Chen Mang's army entered Xiangcheng, the soldiers in Cao's camp put down their weapons and surrendered one after another, and accepted Chen Mang's reorganization.

Cao Cao and other senior officials were also taken into custody, and Chen Mang took him straight to Xu Du, and easily took Xu Du off.

At the same time, the news of Cao Cao's arrest was spread by Chen Mang, which severely damaged the morale of Cao's army in other places.

With a low morale, someone had already chosen to surrender. Xiahou Dun and Sun Ce from Guandu received the news. The two sides tacitly stopped the battle and waited for the news from Xu Du.

One day later, Cao Pi led his troops to persuade Xiahou Dun to surrender, and the entire Yuzhou was brought under Chen Mang's command.
Chapter completed!
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