Becoming stronger from cutting Hu and Cao Cao

Chapter 479 Prepare for an ambush.

Yuan Shao sent someone to summon Tian Feng, and handed over the imperial decree to Tian Feng to have a look. Everyone knew that Cao Ah had lied to him that this was a trick.

After thinking for a while, Tian Feng said to Yuan Shao: "Prince Jin, this matter should not be delayed, since Cao Ah Man has already obtained the imperial edict, then we can follow the trend."

"I think so. Isn't General Gao Lan's rear army coming? Let's ask General Jiang to secretly tell Ma Teng the news, and then we will set up an ambush. At that time, Cao Cao will definitely send a general to rob him."

"In this case, we can take the opportunity to intercept and kill one of the generals Cao Ah Mou. If the general under his command is killed, Cao Ah Mou will kill Ma Teng and his son in a fit of anger. At that time, we can say that we will kill two birds with one stone."

After Tian Feng's analysis, Yuan Shao felt that this matter was very reliable, so he just did it.

Yuan Shao immediately made a decision and said, "Just follow what the military adviser said, and we will do it like this."

After making up his plan, he just waited for Gao Lan's rear army to arrive.At the beginning, Yuan Shao stayed with Gao Lan to rectify Gongsun Zan's Youzhou soldiers. Now that the Youzhou soldiers were rectified, Gao Lan came to support them with the grain and grass collected from Youzhou.

After all, Cao Cao is not a fool. If he wants to get Cao Cao to take the bait, at least the news must be true.

Three days later, Gao Lan's rear army was not far from the Yanjin battlefield.Gao Lan brought Yuan Shao a lot of food and grass this time, the most important thing is that he brought [-] horses and [-] elite soldiers.

Yanjin Ferry.

Cao's army camp.

"Father, brother Jiang sent someone to deliver a letter." Ma Tie said, and handed the letter in his hand to Ma Teng.

When Ma Teng opened the letter, he was immediately overjoyed.Jiang Yiqu not only agreed to serve Cao Cao, but also gave them Gao Lan's marching route.After Ma Teng took the letter, he hurried to meet Cao Cao.

Cao's army camp.

Chinese army tent.

"King Wei, Jiang Yiqu has sent you a letter." Ma Teng said, handing the letter to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao took the letter and read it, and he was overjoyed immediately.What made Cao Cao most envious was the five thousand horses brought by Gao Lan.

Cavalry is the most powerful arm in this era, with [-] horses, which means that [-] new cavalry can be formed.

The [-] horses originally belonged to Yuan Shao, if Yuan Shao got it, he could form [-] cavalry.However, if Cao Cao robs the five thousand horses, then Cao Cao can form five thousand cavalry.

Calculated in this way, Cao Cao has five thousand more cavalry, and Yuan Shao has five thousand less cavalry. After rounding, wouldn't it mean that Cao Cao has ten thousand more cavalry than Yuan Shao.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao can't be excited.

Of course, excitement is excitement, and Cao Cao is not a fool.Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, so he must send someone to investigate.

Cao Cao immediately sent out scouts, and after investigating Gao Lan's marching route according to the letter, he found that the contents of Jiang Yiqu's letter were indeed true.After confirming the authenticity of the matter, Cao Cao immediately began to deploy troops.

Cao Cao fell into Yuan Shao's strategy at this time, but he still doesn't know.Although it is said that Cao Cao has a counselor Guo Jia, but Guo Jia is a counselor, and he is not a fortune teller, so it is impossible to know everything.

The counselor has a good brain, and he can see what is illogical in everything, or what is sensible and common sense.

However, if everything is in line with logic and common sense, it is impossible for a counselor to predict the enemy and take the lead in everything.

Yuan Shao's plan was very clever, and Han Sui and others were also included as internal support.Cao Cao's trick is really worth it.

Cao Cao stood in front of the map, which had already marked Gao Lan's marching route.After Cao Cao looked at it for a long time, he said to the crowd: "If you want to kill Gao Lan, I think the Hulugukou is the most suitable."

"Look at the entrance of the calabash valley. Once we block the two ends, Gao Lan will become a turtle in a jar. Moreover, the slopes on both sides of the calabash valley are gentle, suitable for cavalry to charge."

"There is a block at both ends, and our cavalry rushes down. I look at Gao Lan, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to support it for half an hour."

After Cao Cao said this, all the generals nodded again and again, thinking that what Cao Cao said was very reasonable.

In fact, there is another reason why Cao Cao chose the mouth of Hulu Valley as the ambush location.The mouth of the gourd valley is blocked at both ends, so people can't run away, and neither can the horse.

You know, Gao Lanke still brought [-] war horses, and Cao Cao was very greedy for these [-] war horses.

If it was an ambush on flat ground, after Cao Jun charged, I am afraid that after Yuan Jun was dispersed, the horses would also be dispersed.Cao Cao was very greedy for these horses, so he must not let the horses run away.

"King Wei, we are now confronting Yuan Shao. The soldiers want to bypass Yuan Shao and go behind them to ambush Gao Lan. Then it is not easy to have many troops, so we need to use elite soldiers." Cao Ren cupped his hands and said.

"Li Dian, Le Jin listens to the order!" Cao Cao ordered immediately.

"The last general will listen to the order!" Li Dian and Le Jin out responded.

"Order you two to lead 5000 troops each. Li Dian blocks the mouth of the valley, Le Jin blocks the bottom of the valley, and block Gao Lan at the mouth of the calabash valley." Cao Cao ordered.

"No!" Li Dian and Le Jin all agreed.

After arranging to block the front and rear troops, Cao Cao ordered again: "Where is Cao Hong?"

"The last general is here!" Cao Hong responded.

"I ordered you to lead five thousand tiger and leopard riders to ambush on the gourd valley. After Li Dian and Le Jin blocked Gao Lan, you led the tiger and leopard riders to rush down from the hillside. You must completely defeat Gao Lan. Department." Cao Cao issued orders again.

"No!" Cao Hong replied.

Cao Hong's five thousand tiger and leopard riders are Cao Cao's trump card troops.It can be seen from this that Cao Cao is so greedy for the five thousand war horses brought by Gao Lan.

You know, a good horse is hard to find.An army of 30 to [-] like Cao Cao is only a mere [-] to [-] cavalry.Moreover, many of these cavalry horses are old horses that have been in service for many years.

In this world, only Youzhou and Liangzhou can produce good war horses. However, Liangzhou is Ma Teng's territory. Although Ma Teng surrendered to Cao Cao, it is impossible to say that he will give all his war horses to Cao Cao.

Therefore, for Cao Cao, he is very short of horses now, and it is indeed worthwhile to design an ambush Gao Lan for these [-] horses.

It's just that Cao Cao doesn't know, but this is a plan.In the battle at the mouth of Hulu Valley, Cao Cao was afraid that he would suffer heavy losses.

After the task was assigned, Cao Jun began to act after dark.These [-] Cao Jun soldiers bypassed the Yuan Jun camp in front and marched quickly towards the established goal.

However, what Cao Cao didn't know was that their every move could be said to be completely within Yuan Jun's expectations.

Ju Yi, Gao Lan had already led a full [-] army and set up a complete set early on, just waiting for Cao Cao to drill into it.

(End of this chapter)