The Nameless of the Common Clans

The next day, just after dawn, the darkness had not completely retreated. Chen Mo's camp gate was wide open, and troops quickly lined up outside the camp. Han Fu was escorted to the front with a decadent face.

"My lord, I know my crime, and my crime is unforgivable. I only ask you to spare my family~" Seeing Chen Mo waving the flag on the gate, Han Fu, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly shouted hysterically towards the gate.

"Behead!" Chen Mo did not answer, nor did he want to answer. No matter what the reason was, it would not be good to have the people he trained tied up others to deal with him. Han Fu must die, and as for his family... Even if Chen Mo did not pursue it, I am afraid they would not survive!

The soldiers in charge of beheading saw the flag waving, and fiercely swung the butcher knife in their hands, and the big head was chopped off in front of the battle.

"Go to war!" Chen Mo walked down from the gate, got on the carriage, and said loudly.

"Woo~Woo~Woo~"

The desolate horn sounded throughout the wilderness, and Chen Mo's army began to march towards Cao's camp. The flags were half rolled up, the light was cold, and there was not much noise, but there was a feeling of mountains collapsing and the sky falling.

"What does Chen Mo mean?" Cao Cao had not yet received the news of Cao Chun's defeat. When he learned that Chen Mo's army was out together, with a decisive battle, he couldn't help but feel suspicious. Now it is far from the time to decide life and death, and the time to decide the outcome, why did Chen Mo suddenly make such a posture?

"Could it be that Zihe succeeded?" Xiahou Yuan's eyes lit up. Wasn't it because Yuan Shao was forced to fight Chen Mo in a hurry because the food and grass were destroyed? Now if Cao Chun succeeds, Chen Mo will be desperate and it is not impossible to end the battle as soon as possible.

Cao Cao frowned. If so, how could there be no news? He looked at Guo Jia.

"Report~" Guo Jia was about to speak, but saw a general running outside the tent, bowing and saying: "My lord, urgent report."

"What's the matter?" Cao Cao asked, calling the other party in.

"Kaifeng, Chenliu, Yongqiu and other places lit beacons one after another last night. An urgent report came from Zhongmu. At five o'clock in the morning, several cavalry bypassed Zhongmu. Ask if it is our cavalry!" The general bowed.

Cavalry?

Cao Cao frowned when he heard it. All the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had been sent out. How could he have cavalry now?

"Not good, Zihe is in danger!" Cao Cao's face suddenly changed as his mind raced. He stood up and said: "Quick, send scouts to find out the whereabouts of Zihe immediately!"

"Yes!"

"My lord, Chen Mo has led his army to attack. Should we fight?" Xiahou Dun looked at Cao Cao and said.

Cao Cao pondered for a moment and nodded, "Of course we have to fight."

Although he thought it was unlikely that Chen Mo would attack in a hurry, the other party was about to come to the door, so he couldn't weaken his momentum at this time.

"Generals, listen to my orders!"

The generals stood up quickly.

"Yu Jin, Xiahou Yuan!" Cao Cao looked at the generals in the tent and shouted in a deep voice.

"I am here!" Yu Jin and Xiahou Yuan stepped out of the line and bowed.

"You two will each lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard the left and right wings of the central army. The rest of the generals will lead their own soldiers and horses to the central army and be dispatched by me!" Cao Cao stood up and said.

"I will obey your orders!"

"Go to war!"

"Yes!"

Soon, the soldiers and horses of each camp of Cao's army quickly left the camp and quickly assembled outside the camp. Looking at the aggressive Chen Mo army coming from afar, Cao Cao frowned slightly. The momentum of the Guanzhong army really deserves to be an elite division.

"Fengxiao, do you think Zixiao succeeded?" Cao Cao stood on the carriage, looking at the mighty battle formation of Chen Mo's army in the distance, and suddenly asked.

Guo Jia smiled and said, "Our army has a high chance of success, so my lord, don't worry."

Of course, even if it fails, this battle must be fought now, and in Guo Jia's view, the possibility of failure is greater, otherwise Chen Mo would not have sent so many cavalry to harass Cao Cao's rear without scruples, but Guo Jia couldn't say this, because it would shake Cao Cao's confidence. Even if Cao Cao has this guess now, what Cao Cao needs now is confidence, and Chen Mo's arrangement is also problematic. If Cao Chun fails, Chen Mo can just drag it out and use cavalry to harass the grain road and compete with them in consumption. In terms of consumption, Cao Cao is the one who can't afford it. In Guo Jia's view, Chen Mo's sending troops at this moment must have problems, even if the grain and grass are not burned, there are still problems.

In short, this battle is exactly what Guo Jia wants.

Chen Mo's archers had already lined up in front of the formation. When Cao's army was about to enter the enemy's range, the army slowly stopped, and rows of archers quickly formed arrow formations.

"Attack!" As the officers at all levels conveyed the order, the archers on both sides stopped, the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen began to advance in two directions, and at the same time the archers began to draw their bows and arrows.

With the general's order, waves of arrows flew up in an instant, interweaving into dense arrow rain in the air, and then fell from the sky with a scream of death.

The sword and shield soldiers on both sides skillfully raised their shields and formed a shield formation. Some of the arrows that fell from the sky were bounced off by the shields, while others penetrated the shields fiercely. Casualties began to appear, but the soldiers who rushed to the front continued to move forward indifferently. The death of their comrades in battle could not scare them.

The two groups of people, like two torrents rushing in opposite directions, quickly collided with each other after being baptized by the rain of arrows, and the sound of fighting began to resound throughout the fields.

The two commanders, Chen Mo and Cao Cao, kept adjusting the formation. Both of them were considered the top commanders in the world, and they would not make too many mistakes. Such a huge battlefield seemed chaotic, but in the eyes of the two, they had their own rhythm. This was a game. On the battlefield of more than 100,000 people, neither Chen Mo nor Cao Cao could control everyone precisely. As Chen Mo said, in such a battlefield, when the combat power of both sides was similar, it depended on which commander made fewer mistakes.

For both Cao Cao and Chen Mo, this was the largest and most difficult war they had fought since they led their troops to fight. While trying to avoid making big mistakes themselves, they also had to capture the mistakes of the other side. To win, they not only had to find the mistakes of the other side, but also issued a series of deployments in time for the mistakes.

But at the level of the two, even if big mistakes occurred, they would quickly make up for them, and would not give the other side a chance to seize the opportunity, so the battlefield was stalemate.

The opportunity was fleeting, and both of them were trying to seize the fleeting opportunity, while trying to avoid big omissions on their side.

This battle lasted from early morning to dusk, and neither of them could do anything to the other.

"My Lord, the camp has been rebuilt!" Xu Shu came to Chen Mo and smiled.

"Okay!" Chen Mo nodded and said with a smile: "Sound the horn to withdraw the troops!"

His main purpose of sending troops was not to defeat Cao Cao. It would be difficult to defeat Cao Cao in a battle of 200,000 troops unless Cao Cao made obvious mistakes.

What he wanted was to get closer to Cao Cao, keep an eye on Cao Cao, and prevent him from evacuating, so as to hold the main force of Cao's army here tightly. Just as Guo Jia guessed, Chen Mo fought this battle just to waste time with Cao Cao. As long as the rear food supply was cut off by Ma Chao and others, Cao Cao would definitely lose. Chen Mo could not waste his troops with the other side. He only needed to drag Cao Cao here tightly. This battle would win!

Ding ding ding~

With the crisp sound of the horn, the Guanzhong army began to retreat, and at the same time, Han Qiong and Zhang He's left and right wings began to cover the retreat of the central army.

On the Cao army side, seeing Chen Mo retreat, Cao Cao naturally had no intention of fighting again. Today's battle had fully demonstrated that it was difficult for him and Chen Mo to determine the winner in a short period of time when the forces were similar. Seeing Chen Mo retreat and no opportunity to take advantage of, he had to retreat back to the camp.

"What does Chen Mo mean?" After a big battle, Cao Cao found that Chen Mo had set up the camp at his doorstep after both sides withdrew their troops. He felt a little depressed. Did Chen Mo fight this battle just to build the military camp at his doorstep?

Cao Cao believed that Chen Mo would not do such a meaningless thing. Since he did this, he must have a purpose, but what was it?

Guo Jia shook his head and did not speak. He had some guesses, but he could not say them in front of everyone.

Cao Cao understood and looked at the generals and said, "Generals, go back and pay close attention to the other side's movements."

"Yes!" The generals bowed and left.

After Cao Cao led Guo Jia down the gate, he went straight back to his own tent, asked Xu Chu to guard the door, and then brought Guo Jia in.

"Feng Xiao was about to say something, but do you know why Chen Mo did this?" Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia and said in a deep voice.

"Probably!" Guo Jia nodded and said hesitantly.

"Feng Xiao has something to say, but you can say it." Cao Cao saw Guo Jia's serious expression and said in a deep voice.

"General Zihe may have met with an accident." Guo Jia pondered and said, "Chen Mo is making such a big move today, not to fight with our army, but to keep an eye on our army and prevent our army from retreating!"

A gloom flashed across Cao Cao's face, and he was a little irritated: "Three thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, none of them can come back?"

"I don't know, but if not, it can't explain why Chen Mo spent so much effort to set up the camp outside our camp." Guo Jia did not explain this, because he didn't know the specific situation, but reversely inferred that if Cao Chun succeeded, what Chen Mo had to do now was to defeat Cao Cao as soon as possible. At the beginning of today, Guo Jia also had this idea, but Chen Mo's withdrawal was too decisive in the end, and it was a bit unreasonable for the other party to go to such great lengths just to move the camp.

But if Cao Chun was defeated, and his army was probably annihilated, then all this would make sense. Chen Mo sent the cavalry to the rear to raid his own food supply route, and the main force would hold back Cao's army here. It would not take long, only half a month. Now the food in Cao's camp is exhausted. If the food supply route is cut off by Chen Mo, their nearly 100,000 troops may immediately be in danger of mutiny. Chen Mo did this just to be able to react as quickly as possible.

Although it is a bit unbelievable, Chen Mo's approach now can only be explained in this way.

"Bang~" Cao Cao hammered the table, closed his eyes and said nothing, and the tent fell into an unspeakable depression and silence...

I found a Chinese doctor to prescribe a medicine, saying that I drank too much during this period, and the dampness could not be dispersed. Anyway, I didn't understand it very well. It's a little late, please forgive me.