Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 148 Defeating Wan City (2)

The next day, Cao Cao personally led the troops to the east of the city and ordered the soldiers to pile up firewood and soil bags in the northeast corner.The soldiers immediately reported the news to Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu. They came to the east gate together with Jia Xu, and saw Cao Cao gesticulating there. Liu Biao said, "Cao Cao definitely wants to attack from here. We should deploy troops from various places to strengthen the defense."

Zhang Xiu shook his head and said: "This is Cao Cao's plan to attack the west by attacking the east. He deliberately deceived me and attracted troops here. I guess Cao Cao should attack at the west gate." Cai Mao deeply agreed with Zhang Xiu's views. "Cao Cao has been deceitful since he was a child, so be careful to be deceived by him."

Jia Xu didn't speak, but carefully checked Cao Jun's movements, then went to the other three gates and came back and said: "Liu Shijun, General Zhang, this is indeed Cao Cao's plan." When Zhang Xiu and Cai Mao heard this, their eyes widened immediately. Liang, it seems that he was right.

"However, Cao Cao is treacherous, and he used the trick of making a big splash. You see, he deliberately created momentum at the east gate, and showed that his troops were weak at the west gate. It seems that he wanted us to invest our troops here, but Neglecting the defense of Ximen. His purpose is to attract our attention and suspicion. If you look closely, you will find that there are many soldiers lying on the ground in Ximen, so that we will be more determined. This is Cao Cao's tactic. In fact, this is A loophole deliberately left by Cao Cao."

"What you said is really true. There are indeed soldiers. How can this be a flaw?" Zhang Xiu asked.

"Hehe, Cao Cao is also a hundred secrets. Let's take a closer look. Since they are soldiers, why are there birds falling? So these soldiers must be fake, just to lure us into a fool!" Jia Xu said.

Liu Biao stroked his beard and said, "I expected Cao Cao to be like this. In your opinion, how should we deal with it?"

"We can use our strategy. Please Liu Shijun to go to the west gate and set up the banner of General Zhang, and plant the banner widely as a suspicious soldier. General Cai will set up Liu Shijun's banner at the east gate and patrol the top of the city. General Zhang will set up an ambush at the top of the city. , will be a success.”

"Wonderful!" Liu Biao rushed to the Simon proudly.Cai Mao muttered to himself, let me act as a cover. Doesn't this mean that our Jingzhou soldiers are not as good as your Zhang Xiu's soldiers?Even so, Cai Hao and Zhang Xiu acted according to plan.

Cao Cao saw that the flag of Jingzhou was replaced on the top of the city at the base of the city, and he looked carefully that Cai Mao was standing on the top of the city. After further inquiring, he found that the west gate had been replaced with the flag of Jingzhou.Joyful in my heart: "This plan is successful." Ximen was ordered to bluff and launch a feint attack, and Cao Ren and Yu Jin stormed the east gate.

It didn't take much time for Cao Ren's men to climb up the city wall. Seeing that nearly a thousand people had gone up, Cao Ren was about to go out in person.I only heard the sound of drums at the top of the city, shouting to kill and shaking the sky, my soldiers fell down the city with a crackle, and a man on the city was stabbing or sweeping with a tiger's head gun. Cao Jun had no power to parry and was already surrounded.

Cao Ren hurriedly asked Cao Cao for instructions, and Cao Cao had already seen that the banner on the top of the city had been replaced with a big character Zhang, and Cai Mao didn't know where he went.Cao Cao sighed: "This plan has been seen through. There is already an ambush in the city. It is useless to attack the city. Let's retreat."

When retreating, many soldiers were shot to death by random arrows from the city. Cao Cao lost nearly 2000 soldiers.Cheng Yu was ashamed, "Master..."

Cao Cao interrupted Cheng Yu: "It has nothing to do with you if this plan fails. I underestimated Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao." When the siege failed, Cao Cao had no choice but to negotiate with Xun You to retreat.Cao Cao was worried that Zhang and Liu would pursue him, so he ordered Cao Ren and Zhu Ling to break off, and the army retreated.

Liu Biao was overjoyed to see Cao Cao's retreat at the top of the city, and excitedly went to Zhang Xiu: "Cao Cao left in defeat, his morale was gone, we should pursue and we will surely win."

Zhang Xiu didn't speak, just looked at Jia Xu.Jia Xu said: "It's impossible to send troops. Cao Cao is good at using troops. Even if he retreats, there must be rear troops in ambush."

"Cao Cao's new defeat, our army's morale is high, and we are not afraid if there are rear troops. I heard that the general is brave and invincible. He is known as the spear king of the Northland. Is it possible to be afraid of Cao Cao?"

Liu Biao's words aroused Zhang Xiu's fighting spirit, and he rectified his troops and horses to fight out of the city together with Cai Mao.As Jia Xu expected, the chasing army was ambushed by Cao Ren and Zhu Ling.

Cao Ren was full of anger, but he could find a place to vent his anger, and rushed into the Zhang-Liu coalition army with a big sword in his hand, while Zhu Ling wanted to secure the top spot in the surrendered general, so he worked very hard.

Seeing an ambush, Cai Mao refused to fight with all his strength, and led his troops to retreat. Zhang Xiu had no choice but to retreat along with him.Cao Ren concealed the killing for a while, but did not dare to pursue deeply, so he returned to the army to join Cao Cao.

When Zhang Xiu and Cai Mao returned to Wancheng, Jia Xu had already been waiting outside the city. He stopped them and said, "The general doesn't need to enter the city. You can immediately lead the army to pursue again, and you will surely succeed."

Liu Biao and Cai Hao shook their heads and said, "We have already encountered an ambush, so how can we pursue it again? Cao Cao must be prepared."

Zhang Xiu also looked at Jia Xu suspiciously, and Jia Xu said, "It was Cao Cao's ambush who repelled us, so he was careless, thinking that we would not pursue again, but we did the opposite, and we would defeat Cao's army."

Liu Biao and Cai Mao still refused to agree, Zhang Xiu said: "I will listen to you, sir." After finishing speaking, he ordered his troops to chase Cao Cao again with only [-] cavalry, which Zhang Ji left for Zhang Xiu. Xiliang cavalry.After Dong Zhuo's death, the Xiliang iron cavalry finally fell into the hands of Li Jue, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji. Li Jue and Guo Si conquered each other, and there were very few Xiliang iron cavalry left under him, and Zhang Ji only had these three thousand left.

The Xiliang cavalry led by Zhang Xiu had strong combat power and attack speed, and they quickly caught up with Cao Cao. At this time, Cao Cao, just as Jia Xu expected, walked back with confidence and was unprepared. Zhang Xiu rushed to kill the team. Chaos.

Cao Cao reorganized the surrendered Yellow Turban Army into Qingzhou soldiers, once again revealing the essence of only fighting with the wind. Once defeated, he immediately bombed the camp.Yu Jin personally led troops to suppress the attack, beheading nearly a hundred people in a row to stop the decline. Cao Cao hurriedly ordered Cao Ren and Zhu Ling to return to defense.

Cao Ren and Zhu Ling fought against Zhang Xiu and blocked Zhang Xiu's pursuit. Cao Jun slowly restored order and began to counterattack.Zhang Xiu had few men, and seeing that he could not further expand the results of the battle, he accepted it as soon as it was good, and returned to Wancheng with the spoils.Cao Cao lost two or three thousand soldiers and horses. Cao Cao praised Jin and ordered him to rectify the Qingzhou army. Yu Jin also became the leader of the three generals under Cao Cao. Rectify, behead and kill rebellious elements to deter them, and drive out dull and weak. Although Qingzhou soldiers have lost thousands of people, their quality has greatly improved.

Seeing Zhang Xiu come back from victory, Liu Biao and Cai Mao regretted not going after him together, and admired Jia Xu's strategy. Xiu became more and more afraid.

Zhang Xiu found Jia Xu secretly: "Uncle, I already know why the first chase failed, but the second time I won. But I don't understand, since we have our hearts towards Cao, why uncle still pursues?"

(End of this chapter)