Cao Cao's chef

Chapter 666 Exchange Li Tong for Lu Lingqi

"What? Lü Bu!" A day later, Cao Cao received a letter from the Yangzhou Army's envoy, and realized that Lv Bu had sneaked to the Yangzhou Army's side while she was not paying attention, still through cavalry raids and night raids.

But this time, unlike her side, Lu Bu successfully defeated the Yangzhou Army led by Cao Ren.Cao Ren has already returned to Guangling County with his soldiers, and he may not be able to provide support in this battle.

"[-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers were defeated within a day?" Cao Cao couldn't believe it.

"The enemy used fire to attack!" Guo Jia reminded, "The front army opened the way, the middle army threw the oil pot, and the rear army lit the fire. They cooperated tacitly."

"The problem is that there are not many torches used by the opponent to ignite the oil. As long as the soldiers are careful, they can avoid it. At the same time, even if water is not available, the soil on the road can actually put out the fire!" Cao Cao sighed, Cao Ren was too unprepared for the fire attack .

Wang Yong didn't know how to evaluate it at this moment. In the novel, Cao Ren went south to attack Jingzhou. Xu Shu, who had just joined Liu Bei's command at that time, defeated Xu Shu with a fire attack and took back Fancheng at the same time. This was the follow-up battle of Bowangpo.

"My lord..." Sima Yi stepped forward, "According to what the envoy said, the enemy army suddenly appeared at that time, and the commander of the Cao army sent a group of soldiers to protect the rear army. That's the key to everything."

"Indeed, it's impossible to expect a group of heavy soldiers to have such a high military quality." Wang Yong also stepped forward to persuade, isn't it just the leftovers who can become the heavy soldiers and the firehead army?
"3 people are in a mess, and the soldiers outside can't help even if they want to. The fire spreads quickly, and it's too late to rescue, so we can only rescue the supplies as much as possible... The key question is, what is the night attack at night? The situation." Sima Yi quickly talked about the crux of the matter.

"It seems that there are tens of thousands of Lu Bu troops in all directions. At that time, they lacked supplies, so they could not effectively defend. In desperation, they had to withdraw temporarily. For this reason, they gave up the remaining supplies and soldiers from the wounded barracks. Only 5000 of them came back. Of course, there are more than [-] soldiers, and of course they are gradually gathering up the scattered soldiers, and at least [-] soldiers have been saved." Guo Jia replied.

"If this is not the case, then at least she will have to pay a great price for it!" Cao Cao complained directly.Because of this matter, she, the legion commander, might not be able to do it at all, but she has no idea who to replace it with.

Generally speaking, Cao Hong can do it, but Cao Ren comes down and Cao Hong goes up, which is a bit unreasonable.Now the imperial court is no longer the Cao family's monopoly, which means that others will definitely find fault with this matter, let alone the newspaper.

"My lord..." Sima Yi stepped forward, "I don't think that Lu Bu has more than [-] cavalry under his command."

"Yes, I know." Cao Cao nodded, "I have also sent people over this year to investigate Lu Bu's situation. Lu Bu did get a lot of horses, but the cavalry he formed will not exceed [-] at most. After all, there will be wear and tear in daily training. If she came to attack us before, she did not bring all the cavalry with her, then I believe it. But at most, I think the wolf cavalry should not exceed six thousand at most, and the light cavalry should not exceed four thousand at the same time!"

"There is one more thing, my lord didn't find out..." Guo Jia stepped forward, "We hardly encountered the elite of Lu Bu's army along the way! Wei Xu and Song Xian's subordinates, the elite troops were only taken away by them, the others They are all recruits! The subordinates thought that Lu Bu transferred all the elite soldiers back to Xiapi City, at least around here."

"Then how many soldiers do you think Lü Bu has?" Cao Cao asked after thinking for a while.

"At least [-] soldiers, thousands of cavalry!" Guo Jia replied, "And just defeated the Yangzhou Army!"

The Yangzhou Legion was defeated and could not continue to go north to support. At the same time, the Yuzhou Legion was still attacking Donghai County. There was no way to solve it within ten days and a half months.

It is obviously too difficult for the Central Army to deal with 1 soldiers with 1 soldiers, especially thousands of cavalry.As far as siege is concerned, it may be a little bit reluctant to completely encircle the city. If you attack from all sides, it is estimated that the [-] people will be exhausted in less than an hour.

"Did the other party expect that we would instigate civil and military affairs in Xuzhou, so they acted ahead of time and transferred all the soldiers back?" Cao Cao couldn't help frowning. For a moment, she suspected that Wang Yong had leaked the secret to the other party, but then denied the result.

From the issuance of the transfer order to the replacement of the defenders, it took ten days and a half months to do it. At that time, they began to send troops in only three or four days. During this period, there was no large-scale military transfer in Xuzhou!In other words, the other party had just mobilized like this earlier!

"My lord, a large number may not be a good thing!" Seeing Cao Cao's embarrassment, Sima Yi immediately stepped forward, "It's like the Yangzhou Army, with [-] heavy troops, but it turned out to be a burden at a critical moment. Lu Bu's army has [-] elite soldiers, but there must be a lack of them." The officers who can command these soldiers, we only need to target the officers, and the ordinary soldiers on the other side are nothing to worry about!"

Indeed, it is also a fact that a large number of civil and military officials in Xuzhou were instigated to rebel.Even though Lu Bu's army had [-] soldiers, the generals who commanded them were very scarce, and they had Song Xian, Hou Cheng and Wei Xu as internal support.Thirty thousand soldiers will become a burden instead!

"What Zhongda said is very reasonable, indeed I am a little too nervous." Cao Cao nodded and praised him.

"As a member of the army, it's my duty to advise and counsel the Lord!" Sima Yi replied modestly.

"Forget it!" Cao Cao immediately turned his head, the dissatisfaction in his heart has been reduced a lot, and since Lu Bu is not nearby, there is no need to continue to worry about anything, "The whole army advances and arrives at Xiapi City within today!"

"No!" The four lieutenants responded one after another. In the past two days, the large army advanced quickly, and they felt a little useless.

In fact, even without the incident of the Yangzhou Legion, with Cao Cao's IQ and the help of Guo Jia and others, it will only be a matter of time before he discovers this situation.Chen Gong never underestimated Cao Cao from the very beginning, so he set a time for Lu Bu to go back and forth within two days.

It's a pity that Cao Cao didn't know this, she only thought that she was fooled, and she was very dissatisfied.At the moment, I just want to go to Xiapi City as soon as possible and meet Chen Gong well.Speaking of which, I haven't seen her for a while.

A day later, or less than a day later, in the evening, large troops arrived near Xiapi.It's just late at night, so I stationed [-] miles away from Xiapi County and rested for a night.

"Xiapi..." Cao Cao looked at this city. It is not as good as Pengcheng, but it is still a tall city. It used to be the capital of Xiapi Kingdom. After the kingdom was abolished, this is the seat of Xiapi County. Prosperity is inevitable. of.

The key point is that this is also the first city that Peng Chengguo encountered when he entered Xiapi County, which can be said to be the gateway of Xiapi County.As long as you lay down here, there is nothing to worry about in other places.At the same time, considering that Cao Ren had marched to Xiaxiang County before, then Lu Bu's stronghold, except for Xiapi, was at most only Liangcheng County in the north.

"Xiapi is the key!" Looking at Xiapi City from a distance, Cao Cao muttered slowly.It should have been like this, but now Lu Bu can't beat him, and he can still go to Guangling County, which is a very bad situation.

At this time, a man riding a long distance from afar came to the front of the army while Cao Jun was on guard.Wang Yong recognized it at a glance, it was Zhang Liao who came.

"General Cao!" Zhang Liao cupped his hands towards Cao Cao, "My lord proposes to exchange Li Tong for the Major General, how about that?"

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