Chapter 450 Arrogance Before the Battle

Tao Qian lay half-lying, silent for a while and said: "Cao Mengde is not willing to give up now, the people of Xuzhou are suffering, General Zhang is very powerful, please help me retreat from Xuzhou."

Zhang Yu was not used to this kind of official accent, so he simply said: "Hold Xiapi until Cao Cao's food is exhausted, it's all right, but I'm busy with work, and I can't afford it."

Zhang Yu said it very simply, Tao Qian is dead, and the anger in his heart has not yet come out.

Hearing Zhang Yu say that he has no profit and can't get up early, Tao Qian's expression changed, and his mind didn't react for a while.

In the end, Tao Qian looked constipated, and said helplessly: "General Zhang, Benzhou Mu understands what you mean, I, Xuzhou, will not treat you badly."

"That's the best, Taozhou Mu, let's make a price, I'll help you defend the city, how much will I pay per day." Zhang Yu said immediately.

Zhang Yu could be said to be pressing every step of the way, and directly asked Tao Qian to make an offer.

Tao Qian is a man of culture, how could he think of such a philistine as Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu didn't want to be like this either. One was that he was so angry with Xuzhou that he caused so much loss to his troops, and the other was that Tao Qian would not live long, so there was no need to have a good friendship with him.

In the end, the two parties reached an agreement, and Tao Qian gave Zhang Yu a labor fee of 500,000 yuan a day.

In addition, loss is calculated separately.

Zhang Yu agreed, and then went to defend the city.

After Zhang Yu left, Tao Qian was so angry that he wanted to curse.

"This Zhang Yu really doesn't know what's good and what's wrong. Benzhou still wants to entrust Xuzhou to him. I didn't expect him to be so short-sighted and such a philistine." Tao Qian said angrily.

After hearing this, Mi Zhu hurried forward and said, "Master Zhou Mu, don't get angry, you haven't recovered yet, Xuzhou is still waiting for you to take charge of the overall situation."

"Ugh."

Tao Qian sighed deeply.

Tao Qian himself is not in good health, and the most important thing is that Xuzhou has no heirs.

He knew the abilities of his two sons, now Xuzhou was surrounded by enemies, with their two sons, no one could stop this enemy, handing Xuzhou over to them would only kill them.

"No one in Xuzhou, no one in Xuzhou." Tao Qian cried.

Mi Zhu quickly comforted him, and then Tao Qian let some important officials in, and then explained the deal with Zhang Yu, asking them to cooperate with Zhang Yu.

Everyone was helpless, as if they really couldn't keep this Xuzhou by themselves.

However, generals such as Cao Bao and Mi Fang were still very upset.

Zhang Yu took over the command of the army, but the actual control of the army is still in their hands, and Zhang Yu can only command them temporarily.

After Zhang Yu agreed, he led the people up the city wall.

"You retreat one after another and ask Cao Mengde to come up and talk." Zhang Yu roared at Cao Jun who was attacking the city after he got to the top of the city.

It was nothing at first, and it didn't have any impact on Cao Jun.

But after a quarter of an hour, Cao Jun actually retreated.

"This is Zhang Yu, who can stop Cao's army from attacking the city with a roar."

"I heard that the lord has given Xuzhou to him."

"Can he stop Cao Jun? Can we survive?"

The appeal of ordinary soldiers is often simple, that is to survive.

The appearance of Zhang Yu gave hope to many Xuzhou soldiers.

After all, Zhang Yu has a bad reputation.

Cao Jun really stopped attacking, which made them admire Zhang Yu very much.

After Cao Jun retreated, he formed a formation behind and waited.

About half an hour later, Cao Cao appeared under the city accompanied by several generals.

"Brother Zhang, Mr. Cao is here, what advice do you have?" Cao Cao approached the city wall, but he was still out of range of the archers.

"Let's discuss something with you. Taozhou Mu hired me to guard the city for him. You are destined to be unable to attack this city. Why don't we cooperate?" Zhang Yu said loudly.

As soon as these words came out, everyone felt very strange, what exactly Zhang Yu was going to do.

Cao Cao's face remained unchanged, and after a pause, he said, "Okay, then, brother Zhang, please talk about how to cooperate."

"It's very simple, you just surround like this, don't attack the city, and retreat after you run out of food, so I make money, and you don't have to lose a lot of soldiers and horses, and consume a lot of food and grass." Zhang Yu said.

"This Zhang Yu is quite shameless."

"This is Zhang Yu."

"Zhang Yu really takes himself seriously."

"This Zhang Yu is really arrogant, what does he use to block us, although his soldiers and horses are very powerful, but that's all."

General Cao Jun quit and cursed outside the city.

And the people on the top of the city also looked dumbfounded.

Can you still do this?

Zhang Yu said that if you don't fight, you won't fight?

Cao Cao didn't answer, he was thinking about the problem.

Although Zhang Yu's words were arrogant and ignorant, Cao Cao had to pay attention to the connotation revealed.

If Tao Qian really hired Zhang Yu to defend the city, then Zhang Yu would have command power in his hands, and the army might still be the same army, but the combat effectiveness displayed would definitely be different.

In addition, Zhang Yu asked Cao Cao to retreat after running out of food. Cao Cao and his army were indeed short of food, and there was not much food. Did Zhang Yu really know this situation or was he lying to him?

Cao Cao dared not take any risks.

Zhang Yu did know that there was not enough food and grass in Cao Cao's army. In history, he conquered Xuzhou and returned without success. The lack of food and grass was an important factor.

"Brother Zhang, you are a businessman, so it doesn't seem to do me any good." Cao Cao said with a smile.

Seeing Cao Cao's appearance, Zhang Yu shrugged helplessly, and then said: "It's not that it's bad, even if it's not good, it's not bad, just consider it a help."

Zhang Yu is just talking nonsense, help, and bring hundreds of thousands of troops to help Zhang Yu.

Everyone wanted to hit Zhang Yu after hearing this, Zhang Yu can be shameless to this extent.

Cao Cao was actually both helpless and angry.

I brought hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Xuzhou, but Xuzhou was not defeated, and now it is not good to lose troops and generals.

But Zhang Yu came with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, not to mention other things, Zhang Yu had already received benefits before working.

However, Cao Cao was helpless. In reality, it was really difficult for him to capture Xuzhou.

In the end, Cao Cao didn't give Zhang Yu any answer, and led his troops to retreat temporarily.

Zhang Yu was arrogant on the top of the city, which made Xuzhou's soldiers very excited.

It turned out that Zhang Yu could really "repel" Cao Jun with a few words.

"Haha, my lord, you are really good. Just a name alone can scare off Cao Ah." Dian Wei said happily.

Zhang Yu didn't answer, only he knew it wasn't arrogance, but a fight with Cao Cao.

Zhang Yu did this on purpose, in order to make Cao Cao ignorant of his hole cards and unable to figure it out.

Cao Cao is suspicious and will definitely consider many aspects at this time.

And Zhang Yu made a nonsense, which made him unable to grasp Zhang Yu's true intention.

But one thing is certain, that is, if Zhang Yu really takes over the command, they will have to increase a lot if they want to break through Xuzhou.

Cao Cao didn't say a word when he went back, and then locked himself in the big tent.

He invested too much in this war, and he was really unwilling to give up like this, but if he continued to fight, Cao Cao didn't have much confidence.