Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Compared with the large-scale crossing of the river by Cao's army, the speed was slow due to the obstruction of the dense forest.

Under Li Ji's command, the 20,000 infantrymen carefully confirmed the positions of their comrades on the left and right with their hands, maintained their formation and slowly approached the dense forest from a distance, and arrived at the designated ambush position outside the dense forest one step ahead of time.

Just a quarter of an hour after the ambush was ready, torches began to appear deep in the forest.

Night marches, coupled with the fact that night blindness was prevalent due to nutritional reasons in that era.

Therefore, when walking in the dense forest, Cao's army naturally needed to light a large number of torches.

These torches not only illuminated the way forward for Cao's army, but also allowed Li Ji to see the faces of Cao's soldiers clearly.

Among the many ambushes arranged by Li Ji, Cao's army advanced slowly in a very loose formation in the dense forest, walking out of the dense forest, and approaching the ambush circle set by Li Ji little by little.

The forest is not large, and the density of soldiers in loose formation must also be considered.

According to Li Ji's estimation, most of the 10,000 troops available to Cao Cao, including Zhu Ling, have already entered the dense forest.

The ambush location prepared by Li Ji was not a dense forest from the beginning.

In the final analysis, the river at Liyang Bridge was too narrow to be relied upon for defense.

Cao Cao was always cautious in employing his troops. It is possible that he was unaware of the principle of not entering a forest.

Regardless of whether Li Ji tried to stop him or not, Cao Cao would definitely have to find out the situation in the dense forest clearly before he could lead his army into the forest with confidence.

However, the ambush set by Li Ji was not based on the geographical advantage, but on the weather.

Under the cover of night, an ambush was set outside the dense forest...

At this moment, Li Ji looked at the Cao army slowly walking out of the dense forest holding torches, and still did not move.

The later they are exposed, the more Cao's troops can be lured into the dense forest.

So, Li Ji just calmly watched as Cao's troops came out of the dense forest one by one and gradually approached the ambush outside the dense forest, but he did not give any orders.

Although the night had just enveloped the earth, the moonlight was dim and dim.

In the absence of light, you can't see a person's figure ten steps away.

One hundred people, three hundred people, one thousand people...

Seeing more and more Cao's soldiers coming out of the dense forest holding torches, they continued to advance under the leadership of a Cao general in the front.

Until, the Cao army holding torches in the front suddenly saw several blurry figures in front of them under the light of the fire.

The Cao army soldier was slightly startled, subconsciously thinking that he was dazzled, and shook the torch again, unconsciously feeling frightened.

'Is there something unclean?'

The Cao army soldiers, who had participated in the massacre many times, now inexplicably recalled those gloomy faces. Fear arose in their hearts and they subconsciously clenched their weapons.

Driven by fear, the Cao army soldier raised the torch in his hand and smashed it towards the vague figure in front of him.

The torches circled in the air, illuminating every inch of space wherever the flames passed...

The next moment, the pupils of the Cao army soldiers shrank, and they suddenly saw faces full of murderous intent, and a large flag with the word "Liu" illuminated clearly in the night.

"Bury..."

Before the Cao army soldier could come to his senses and shout out, Li Ji's raised hand suddenly fell.

"Boom!"

The war drum that had been waiting behind Li Ji for a long time suddenly sounded like thunder, and the sound could be heard from miles away.

In response to the drums of war, there were the shouts of countless ambushes that had been deployed in advance. "Kill!"

The loud shouts of countless ambushing soldiers completely suppressed the voices of the Cao army soldiers who were about to sound the alarm.

At this moment, there was no need for the Cao army soldiers to raise a warning, nor was there any opportunity to do so.

Before the Cao army soldiers could step out of the dense forest to react, a rain of arrows fell on the rear of the Cao army, and countless ambush troops showed their fangs and tore the Cao army that was deeply ambushed into pieces in an instant.

The thousands of Cao's troops who stepped out of the dense forest were caught off guard and turned into corpses all over the ground in less than a moment.

Many of Cao's troops still in the dense forest were thrown into chaos as a result. They were caught in a dilemma and felt uneasy.

"How could there be an ambush?!"

Cao Cao's expression was ferocious, and the bones of his fingers holding the whip turned white.

It was obvious that Cao Cao had already sent people to carefully check for traces in the dense forest, and he also learned accurate information about the rearguard troops from the captured Yangzhou army scouts.

Suddenly, Cao Cao's expression froze, and he recalled the scout who was captured after fainting from snake venom.

Dead spy!

Fell into a trap!
That scout was not an ordinary scout at all, but a death warrior in disguise. In order to gain the trust of Cao's army, he might even let himself be bitten by a poisonous snake.

In this way, under all the disguises, Cao Cao had a preconceived notion that he was just an ordinary scout.

What ordinary scouts seek when they join the army is nothing more than some military salary and official positions.

Why would a scout risk his life for such a small amount of military pay? It is even more impossible for him to endure the inhuman torture and tell a lie.

However, with the facts right in front of him, how could Cao Cao not understand that the man was a assassin, a spy who was willing to risk his life to pass on false information?

Just like Su Qin, a strategist in the Warring States Period, who used his life to complete the plan of using dead spies.

Just as Cao Cao was surprised, the soldiers lying in ambush outside ignited a large amount of fire starters that had been pulled by horse-drawn carriages in advance...

At one moment, outside the dense forest, there were as many as twenty such carriages with flames shooting up into the sky.

The war horses pulling the carriages had their eyes covered with black cloth in advance, and each horse had a death warrior riding on it, guiding the horses to pull the carriages towards the dense forest.

"Quick! Stop the carriage!!!"

Seeing this, Cao Cao shouted loudly, almost causing his scalp to tingle.

However, faced with the sudden ambush, Cao's army in the dense forest fell into a brief chaos.

Moreover, without letting the archers prepare in advance, it was simply wishful thinking to want to stop all the carriages from rushing into the dense forest.

Even though some of Cao's generals who were leading the troops in the front personally tried to stop them, they were able to stop only two carriages. The remaining eighteen carriages rushed madly into the dense forest until the blindfolded horses crashed into a tree and stopped.

However, this is enough.

The carriage that rushed into the dense forest was loaded with a large amount of incendiary materials, which quickly ignited the surrounding trees, making the forest inside and outside as bright as day.

At this moment, Cao Cao could clearly see the ambush troops lined up outside the dense forest, and he also vaguely saw a figure on the chariot behind the ambush troops who seemed to be fanning with a folding fan.

"Li Zikun, it's you!"

Cao Cao uttered this sentence with gritted teeth.

Although Cao Cao had long realized that Zhang Fei could not have such a mind, the vague sight of Li Ji still made Cao Cao feel cold in his heart, and his love-hate relationship with Li Ji almost reached its peak. (End of this chapter)