Three Kingdoms: Heir of Wolong, my father-in-law is Guan Gong

Chapter 251: Detecting Suspicious Soldiers Jiang Ji and Predicting the Enemy (26 Pursuit)

While Liu Ye was traveling to Xudu, Cao Pi received another battle report from Xu Huang's eldest son, Xu Gai.

Knowing that Guan Yu walked around Nanxiang City and left without any injuries, although Cao Pi praised Xu Huang and Xu Gai on the surface, he sighed in his heart:

Xu Huang is not as good as Zhang Liao after all.

Among the five good generals, Cao Pi liked Zhang Liao the most.

Eight hundred tigers marched across the river, and one hundred thousand Wu soldiers returned in fear.

Dare to fight, dare to fight, and are not afraid of life and death.

In comparison, Zhang He and Xu Huang were inferior to those who boarded the battle first.

What Cao Pi was thinking was: If Xu Huang personally led troops to encircle and suppress Guan Yu, instead of Xu Gai leading troops to encircle and suppress Guan Yu, Guan Yu might be captured alive.

Cao Pi didn't show the sigh in his heart. He promoted Xu Huang, a miscellaneous general, to General Right and Marquis of Yang County, in order to win over the old generals left by Cao Cao.

Cao Pi was not stupid enough to say that Xu Huang was inferior to Zhang Liao in front of Xu Gai.

Think carefully about the current situation.

Cao Pi left Cao Xiu and Xu Gai in Luoyang.

Cao Xiu was kept because he was afraid of a dispute between Cao Xiu and Cao Ren, and Xu Gai was kept to appease Xu Huang.

Even after losing Yongliang, Cao Pi reviewed the defeat.

Liu Bei's camp used common tactics: alienation and division of troops. Cao Pi's camp often made mistakes: civil and military discord, general discord.

Cao Cao experienced too many betrayals, so he deliberately cultivated the arrogance of the powerful generals in the army.

Cao Cao would like to see disharmony between the civil and military forces and between the generals; if the civil and military generals were in harmony, Cao Cao would not be able to sleep.

Cao Cao had great prestige, so he could use his personal prestige to temporarily bring peace between the civil and military generals; Cao Pi already lacked prestige and had repeatedly lost Yongliang, so it would be difficult for him to use his personal prestige to bring temporary peace between the civil and military generals.

Among them, the clan generals are the most difficult to restrain.

Cao Pi's military orders were often dismissed as "the general will not accept foreign military orders".

Since prestige could not be used to solve the problem, Cao Pi had to use means.

Although Cao Xiu was very unconvinced, Cao Pi did not allow Cao Xiu to go to Wancheng, so it was useless for Cao Xiu to go to Wancheng.

Cao Ren had long wanted to suppress Cao Xiu's arrogance.

Cao Pi also sent a messenger to Tongguan, asking Zhang He of Tongguan to closely watch the mobilization of Liu Bei's troops in Chang'an.

Jingbei was so important that even if Cao Ren supervised a hundred thousand people, Cao Pi could not sleep peacefully.

In an era of inconvenient communication, wars often change unexpectedly.

As soon as Cao Pi took action, there was a new war incident in Nanyang.

After Guan Yu made a surprise attack on Li County, he relied on the mobility of the cavalry and ran to Xi'e the next day.

Although the Western Hubei defenders were well prepared, Cao Ren was still very angry.

Xi'e is less than thirty miles away from Wancheng!
This was almost a provocation to Cao Ren, almost shouting at Cao Ren's head: "Come on, catch me!"

Cao Ren indeed sent troops.

However, the cavalry sent by Cao Ren was killed by Guan Yu!
Three thousand cavalrymen surrounded Guan Yu's 500 cavalrymen, but Guan Yu killed them all!

Guan Yu even turned around and crossed Cao Ren's 3,000-step cavalry twice!

General Cao, who was in charge of the army, was stunned when he was defeated and returned to Wancheng.

Guan Yu could clearly kill General Cao, but he let General Cao go again.

Only then did Cao Ren dare to believe that it was Guan Yu who was crossing the rear.

In this land of Jingzhou, who else besides Guan Yu could be so rampant?

There is no way that Guan Yu can fight back and forth against an outnumbered enemy.

When Cao Ren personally led his troops to chase Guan Yu, he couldn't even catch Guan Yu's shadow.

Guan Yu was hiding behind him, and Cao Ren couldn't sleep well.

Before Guan Yu's matter was resolved, Cao Ren received an urgent report that the Han troops were divided into Rangxian, Anzhong, Juiyang and Wuyang.

However, it was the four generals Fu Xu, Zong Yu, Fukuang and Guan Xing appointed by Zhuge Qiao who were launching the second round of attack on Nanyang County. Before Cao Ren's new military order arrived, these four groups of soldiers and horses all returned to Xinye City.

Guan Yu's various confusing behaviors made Cao Ren even more sleepless.

"Guan Yu's cavalry came and went like flying, and it was difficult to catch their whereabouts."

"Even if the whereabouts are captured, Guan Yu will defeat him if he has few soldiers, and Guan Yu will not fight if he has more soldiers."

"It's annoying!"

Cao Ren was very angry.

Cao Ren knew very well how disgusting this tactic was.

Cao Ren used to bully people like this.

If you don't have enough soldiers, you can't defeat me. If you have more soldiers, I won't fight you.

In the plains, the cavalry's intersecting tactics are similar to "the enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy is stationed and we harass, the enemy is tired and we attack, and the enemy retreats and we pursue".

Jiang Jijian said: "General, we can't let Guan Yu be so wanton."

"You can let Xiahou Shangdu have a thousand cavalry to chase Guan Yu. Instead of fighting Guan Yu head-on, you only need to prevent Guan Yu from scaring other cities."

"Guan Yu will have to withdraw his troops in three days at most if he cannot get supplies."

"This problem will be solved."

Cao Ren adopted Jiang Ji's suggestion and immediately assigned a thousand cavalry to Xiahou Shang to contain Guan Yu.

Xiahou Shang felt uncomfortable in Wancheng, so he was naturally very happy to get the military service. It was much better to restrain Guan Yu than to stay in Wancheng and do nothing.

After Xiahou Shang left, Cao Ren discussed with Jiang Ji the combat intentions of the Han soldiers in Xinye.

"Xu Shang and Lu Jian of Rang County, Chang Diao and Zhuge Qian of Anzhong, and Xia Houxian of Juoyang each have 10,000 troops to defend the city."

"As long as we take strict precautions, the three cities will not be lost, but I still feel uneasy in my heart."

"I always feel like something has been overlooked."

Cao Ren deployed two thousand defenders in each of the seven cities of Champion, Lixian, Nieyang, Jiyang, Xi'e, Bowang and Wuyin.

They also deployed 10,000 garrison troops in Rangxian, Anzhong and Tuoyang each, 30,000 garrison troops in Wancheng, and about 5,000 to 6,000 men in the other small towns.

A total of eighty thousand people.

Eighty thousand people defended Nanyang County. Except for Li County, which was captured by Guan Yu unexpectedly, the rest of the cities were strictly guarded.

If the opponent is not Guan Yu, Cao Ren does not need to worry.

But his opponent was Guan Yu, so Cao Ren had to pay extra attention.

Jiang Ji pondered: "General, is it possible that Guan Yu just pretended to attack Nanyang County."

"Feint attack?" Cao Ren frowned.

"Guan Yu is attacking in the rear, and Guan Yu's son Guan Xing is leading the troops in Xinye."

"Nanxiang County only has Liu Feng's troops and horses spreading the message along the way. No matter how you look at it, they are mainly attacking Nanyang County."

"Is there any reason to pretend to attack Nanyang County and Guan Yu also appears in Nanyang County?"

Jiang Ji boldly guessed: "What if Guan Yu is not the general?"

Cao Ren laughed: "Guan Yu is not the commander-in-chief, who can be the commander-in-chief?"

Jiang Ji said one word at a time: "General, do you still remember that Liu Bei's son Liu Chan appeared in Fancheng?"

Cao Ren had contempt on his face: "Liu Chan is just a young man who rarely sets foot on the battlefield. How dare Guan Yu make him his general?"

Jiang Ji had a different view: "What if Liu Chan is only the nominal commander, but there is someone else commanding the troops?"

"In the old battle of Changping, King Qin ordered Bai Qi to secretly supervise the three armies."

"Xu Huang only had 20,000 troops in Nanxiang, and the people of Nanxiang were in panic because of Liu Feng's message."

"Nanxiang's defense is at its weakest at this time."

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