The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 291 Chapter 290
290 go in circles
"Report-"

One of the scouts ran into the big tent with a long voice, and as soon as he entered the big tent, he knelt down on the ground with a "plop", clasped his fists towards Cao Cao who was directly in front of him, and said, "My lord, Hanoi urgently reports! "

After speaking, the scout took out a secret report from his bosom, held it in his hand, raised it above his head, and dedicated it to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao combined the two proclamations he had just read, threw them on the table, and immediately walked forward, took the secret report from the scouts, opened it, read it quickly, and frowned immediately, as if It is a big "Chuan" character!

"Quickly send Guo Jia and Xun You to the big tent!" Cao Cao immediately raised his head and said to Dian Wei who had been standing beside him.

Dian Wei said "Here", strode out of the big tent, and ordered the two soldiers at the door to call Guo Jia and Xun You to come.

Not long after, Guo Jia, Xun You, and Dian Wei entered the big tent together, and paid homage to Cao Cao together, saying, "See my lord!"

"Exemption!" Cao Cao took the secret report and handed it directly to Dian Wei, saying, "This is a secret report from Xiahou Dun. You two should read it first. After reading it, come up with a countermeasure immediately!"

Guo Jia and Xun You saw Cao Cao's gloomy face, and heard that the tone was not very good. They knew that this secret report was not a good thing, so after opening it, they read it quickly, and then both of them frowned tightly. .

The secret report was sent by someone sent by Xiahou Dun. The letter said that Tai Shici led an army down the river and sent people to Jiguan to lure the enemy. The guard Cao Xiu underestimated the enemy and led his army to battle. , and was headed by Taishi Cixiao.Cao Xiu's more than 7000 soldiers all surrendered to Tai Shici, and are now under the command of Hao Zhao.

In addition, Tai Shici took several cities in a row with lightning speed, and approached the city of Huai County, the county town of Hanoi, and fought alone with Xiahou Dun.

Xiahou Dun led the army out of the city to meet the enemy, leaving only a few in the city. Unexpectedly, the prefect of Hanoi wanted to turn against him, gathered the servants of the rich families in the city, killed the defenders, closed the city gate, refused Xiahou Dun to enter the city, and shot Xiahou Dun with bows and arrows. army.

At that time, Xiahoudun was fighting Taishici. Wei Ke's counterattack caused the army's morale to be in chaos.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Xiahoudun had to temporarily retreat to Wude County. Unexpectedly, Taishici took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the county magistrate of Wude County led the army and people in the city to rebel against Xiahoudun, and cooperated with Taishici again. However, Xiahoudun suffered some losses and his morale was low. Had to continue to retreat.

Xiahou Dun then turned to Xiuwu County, killed the county magistrate, county lieutenant, and county government servants, and then occupied Xiuwu County to defend Taishici.

Tai Shici chased after him and arrived at Xiuwu County a quarter of an hour later than Xiahoudun. However, because Xiahoudun had already occupied the city and he did not bring siege equipment, he had to temporarily station outside the city to confront Xiahoudun.

But who knows, Taishi Ci's reputation in Hanoi County is very high. When the people in the city learned that Taishi Ci led the army to kill them, they spontaneously organized and attacked Cao Jun's soldiers guarding the city gate. How could the exhausted Cao Jun expect this to happen? As a result, the city gate was opened by the people, and Tai Shici took the opportunity to lead his army into the city.

Xiahoudun had no choice but to lead his army to escape again and retreat to Huojia.But on the way, he was attacked by the ambush army led by Jia Kui, the prefect of Hedong, and Tai Shici chased him again. With more than 2000 remnants fled to the Yellow River.

As a result, Tai Shici really got the trick, and Xiahou Dun was able to get rid of Tai Shici. After arriving at the Yellow River, he immediately sent someone to notify Cao Cao on the south bank of the Yellow River, asking for support.

Since Cao Cao arrived in Henan, he has been standing still. He thought that there were [-] troops of Xiahou Dun and Cao Xiu in the rear, and he did not massacre the city, and he did not commit any crimes with the people. He thought that this would stabilize the rear.Unexpectedly, he still failed to escape the torture of fate.

After reading the secret report, Guo Jia and Xun You both felt that the situation was serious, so they said to Cao Cao in unison: "My lord, Hanoi is our army's retreat, and Xiahou Dun is a general of our army, so we have to save him. Tai Shici is in Hanoi It is too rampant, if the lord does not personally go out to fight and cut off this scourge, there will be endless troubles."

Cao Cao asked, "What about Henan?"

Xun You said: "Zhang Yan is at war with Yuan Shao. The main forces of the two sides are dueling. It will be difficult to tell the winner for a while. Both sides have no time to take care of our army. As for the Henan side, our army has been standing still. The enemy has few troops, so they must not dare Disturbance, it is better for our army to retreat [-] miles tomorrow, leaving the generals to garrison, bluffing, the enemy may not be able to discover the secrets. But the lord can choose elite soldiers, sneak across the Yellow River, go to Hanoi, and completely defeat Tai Shici , In this way, as long as the rear is stable, our army can sit back and relax on the front line."

Guo Jia hastily cupped his hands and said, "My subordinates also have the same opinion."

Cao Cao thought for a while, and felt that Tai Shici was very harmful in Hanoi, and that Hanoi was his way of retreat. Tai Shici ran rampant in Hanoi and defeated the two generals Cao Xiu and Xiahou Dun in a row, which undoubtedly cut off his retreat.

Therefore, Cao Cao made a decisive decision and left Xun You, Xia Houyuan and [-] soldiers to stay here, while he led Guo Jia, Cao Zhen, Guo Huai and other generals, as well as [-] troops, to Hanoi.

Cao Cao secretly led his army out of the camp that day, crossed the Yellow River at dusk, and arrived at the border of Hanoi.

Xiahoudun, who had been waiting for this section of the river early in the morning, saw Cao Cao personally leading the army, and immediately rode his horse. When he reached Cao Cao, he reined in the horse, jumped off the horse, knelt down in front of Cao Cao, beating his chest and stamping his feet. Said: "My lord, the last general did not guard Hanoi well, please punish me, my lord!"

Cao Cao waved his hand at Xiahou Dun, his face was expressionless, and he didn't mean to blame at all, he just said slowly: "Put your guilt and meritorious service!"

"Thank you, my lord, for not killing me!" After hearing this, Xiahou Dun immediately thanked him.

At this time, Cao Cao was employing people. Xiahou Dun was not only a general in the army, but also his confidant. If it was left in the past, he might punish Xiahou Dun, but at this stage, letting him commit crimes and make meritorious deeds is the best punishment.

Cao Cao joined forces with Xiahoudun, and asked Xiahoudun about the situation again, and learned that Tai Shici never came to the river once, but only sent a small group of scouts to visit once, and there was no news after that.

Xiahou Dun had few soldiers, so he didn't dare to send people to wander around, so they all stayed on the bank of the Yellow River, twisted into a rope, and ate and slept with the soldiers.

Cao Cao received very little news, so he sent 500 elite scouts to inquire in all directions in a fan shape, while he was stationed on the bank of the Yellow River with the army, waiting for news.

At this moment, Tai Shici, Jia Kui, Wei Ji and others all gathered together. They failed to capture and kill Xiahou Dun yesterday. According to Jia Kui's speculation, Xiahou Dun may have informed Cao Cao of Taishi Ci's sweep of Hanoi. Kui concluded that Cao Cao would inevitably lead an army across the river to Hanoi with the aim of destroying Tai Shici.What's more, they might join forces with the Black Mountain Army to deal with Tai Shici.

In short, Tai Shici's situation is very dangerous.

Therefore, Tai Shici asked Jia Kui and Wei for advice. Jia Kui said that Cao Cao had a strong army and was very good at using troops, so he should avoid his edge.

Jia Kui suggested that Tai Shici lead the army to transfer and let Tai Shici go to Henan.After all, the south of the Yellow River is the real main battlefield, and you can also coordinate operations with your own reinforcements to exert the maximum strength of the army.Staying in Hanoi can only sit and wait to die.

Tai Shici felt that Jia Kui's suggestion was very desirable, so he led the army to Heyang overnight, and asked Wei Ji to lead the whole family to transfer with him, while Jia Kui led his troops to Jiguan to block Cao Cao's idea of ​​going to Hedong.And stick to Jiguan, waiting for the news of the army's counterattack here.

Wei Ke was unwilling to leave, fearing that the people in Hanoi would be massacred by Cao Cao. Jia Kui told Wei Ke that Cao Cao would not kill innocent people indiscriminately. Cao Cao's territory.

Wei Ji was skeptical, so he reluctantly led his family and moved to Heyang with Tai Shici.

Just as Cao Cao was crossing the Yellow River north, Tai Shici and Wei Qi had already led the army to Heyang.

It was Hao Zhao who was stationed in Heyang, and the more than 7000 soldiers of the Cao army were taken to Henan by Tai Shici.

Tai Shici and others crossed the river by boat from Heyang. After more than an hour of crossing the river, the army finally arrived at Mengjindu. At this time, Cao Hong, who was stationed in Henan City, knew nothing about Tai Shici's arrival.

Tai Shici made a decisive decision, led all the cavalry in the army, disguised as Cao Jun soldiers, and approached the city of Henan with lightning speed.

Cao Jun was unprepared, thinking it was the arrival of reinforcements, he opened the city gate and let them in, but was defeated by Tai Shici, and Taishi Ci's reinforcements also arrived one after another. Seeing that the situation was not good, Cao Hong abandoned Henan City. They retreated all the way to the east and joined forces with Xiahouyuan and Xun You who were near Hulao Pass.

When Cao Cao arrived in Hanoi, he found no trace of Tai Shici, and Jia Kui led his army to occupy Jiguan, cutting off the road leading to Hedong.

Therefore, Cao Cao guessed that Tai Shici might have arrived in Henan, so Cao Hong would be in danger.So he left [-] soldiers and horses for Xiahou Dun, and sent people to Shangdang, let Cheng Yulai be the prefect of Hanoi, and serve as Xiahou Dun's military adviser. Seeing Cao Hong leading the defeated army coming from the west, after inquiring, he realized that he was attacked by Tai Shici.However, fortunately, Cao Hong's soldiers and horses did not lose much.

Tai Shici and Cao Cao went around in circles, which made Cao Cao look at Tai Shici with admiration.

Now [-] troops gathered in one place, all under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao. Cao Cao continued to watch the changes here, waiting for the news of the battle between Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan's army, but taught the soldiers to secretly build siege equipment.

(End of this chapter)