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Man Chong said contemptuously: "Who is Ma C? The unknown man and his plan is not good enough to be greedy for the wealth and honor of the Central Plains. He ignored his father Ma Teng's life and death, and implicated his biological father and was defeated by his Wushou. His foundation was taken back by the Xiliang army. He was floating outside and he was not sure where he contacted a group of Yellow Turban Remnants. He was stirring up trouble again. Do you know that those Yellow Turban Remnants were originally a group of mobs, and they were all

How big a storm can arouse such a defeated general who was driven out of Yanzhou? Even General Zhang led the iron cavalry into our Yanzhou, and his general was strong and powerful. But just General Yu, who was under the command of my prime minister, led a sentry and horse to stop the general. The horse was far inferior to General Zhang. How could my prime minister take him as he wanted? Therefore, I am afraid that there is no chance for General Zhang to serve in my prime minister."

Zhang Xiu smiled slightly and felt that he didn't think that Man Chong said it was very nice, and he was very confident that he didn't take the horses seriously. But in fact, what about it? In fact, Cao Cao is now walking on thin ice. If he doesn't do it well, he will fall into the ice hole. Maybe Cao Cao concentrates all his strength and dealing with horses and the others will not be a problem. But if there are any twists and turns outside, then Cao Cao will be really finished, so he will send an envoy to lobby around the surrounding princes. He doesn't want to mix the gold songs, and I'm afraid he is worried that he will be a hush and beat the rabbits, and he will solve them by the way.

However, Zhang Xiu didn't care too much. Although he wanted to take this opportunity to establish some merits for Youzhou, this was the premise that he did not reveal his true identity. The princes did not pay attention to him. Now that Cao Cao had noticed himself, he would not have a very obvious opportunity to take him. In addition, Youzhou's strategy was also to watch the tiger fight, so Zhang Xiu did not really plan to mix the gold songs, so he agreed to Man Chong's request. Zhang Xiu did not have any pressure, so Man Chong returned with satisfaction.

After receiving the rewards from Sima Fang and Man Chong, Cao Cao finally had no worries. During the first visit of the horse, the little soldiers and horses squeezed out were trained. Cao Cao kept the troops to guard Yanzhou and asked Cheng Yu, Cao Ang, Cao Chun to stay in Xudu and stay in the court. Cao Cao ordered 100,000 troops and horses, and personally took Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Chu, Xizhicai, Xu Huang, Yu Jin and other generals to Rongyang to fight the horses.

At this time, the horse was still busy without knowing anything. At the beginning, with the help of Liu Bin, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans of Yang Fengyu were collected through Zhu Feiyan. Although the command was not very flexible, it still swept through Cao Cao's territory with the large number of troops. However, with Cao Cao's strategy of clearing the walls, it became increasingly difficult to replenish the supply of horses and horses. Moreover, due to Cao Cao's firm walls and clearing the fields, the intelligence agencies there in Youzhou were also unlucky. As the public was evacuated by Cao Cao, the horse also lost its spy. Finally, after the horse swept through Cao Cao's ten small counties one after another, there was no capture. The horse's troops were dissatisfied again.

In desperation, the horse was forced to divide the troops that had now formed a scale of 500,000 into eight-legged troops. Among the eight-way troops, Jiao Ting, Wu Kui, Yan An, Che Bao, Kui Mulang, Wang Biao, and Zhang Deshou, the seven men commanded 50,000 troops. Within a hundred miles of the Ma army, they sought food on their own and followed the horses. The horse led Yu Du Yang Feng and Pang De Ma Dai from his own headquarters, and a total of 150,000 troops continued to advance according to the scheduled route.

However, at this time, the horse did not hold the hope of breaking through Chen Liude. As a military general's family, he had a bad temper, but he was definitely not a military idiot. Although the horses had broken through many small counties along the way, they did not confuse the horses and horses fully understood that the breaking of these small counties was one of the people-sea tactics that he had piled up with the other. The defense of those cities was poorly prepared and improperly commanded. Later, the cities where Cao Cao had firmly cleared the walls and cleared the fields could be regarded as empty cities that Cao Cao had abandoned to him.

Ma personally led the elite troops of his headquarters to attack a small county where Cao Hong defended, but let Ma deeply understand that it is difficult to attack the city. Now his subordinates are a group of mobs. Fighting a small city is nothing, but if he attacked a strong city like Chenliu, the intelligence given to him by the spies in the past few days showed that Chenliu City was high and thick, the city defense facilities were complete, and it was the foundation of Cao Cao's family. He had many soldiers, horses, food and grass, and his old rival Cao Hong and his brother Cao Ren were defending there with his own mobs, and he would never be able to conquer them at that time.

Therefore, the horse wanted to bypass Chen Liu according to the strategy formulated by Zhu Feiyan for himself, break through the Qingzhou that occupied Cao Cao from Sili from the past, and connect it with Liu Bin's territory to obtain military support from Youzhou. Wait for his money and food to be in hand, fully rectify the mobs and make equipment to attack Cao Cao at that time. However, the horse never expected that he wanted to let Cao Ren and Cao Hong go around from Chen Liu, and intersperse from Rongyang to Qingzhou, but Cao Ren, Cao Hong did not want to let the horse go.

After Cao Ren was captured by Lu Bu in Guandu, Cao Cao redeemed it. Although Cao Ren was very satisfied with the steps given by Zhao Yun and Lu Bu and were very grateful to Zhao Yun and Lu Bu, Cao Ren was also upset and depressed by the gossip he heard after he came back. He felt that his failure had damaged his reputation. Therefore, Cao Ren was given the order to protect Chen Liu this time. He was eager to make a great contribution and revitalize his reputation. So the horse wanted to let Cao Ren go, but Cao Ren would never let the horse go. Then Cao Hong said nothing. Although Cao Hong had fought with the horse blood and blocked the horse's attack, the horse had to hide in the deep mountains, but Cao Hong lost more and few times, Cao Hong regarded it as a shame and humiliation by Cao Hong. Cao Hong had long been incompatible with the horse's power.

So Cao Ren and Cao Hong hit it off, they all waited for the horse to arrive, and gave the horse a great deal, but now Cao Ren and Cao Hong's horse exploration report Cao Ren, Cao Hong, and the horse's troops were about to bypass Chenliu and turn to Rongyang Cao Ren. Cao Hong refused to do it at that time. Isn't this the opportunity to make meritorious service and run away like this? Cao Ren and Cao Hong immediately ordered the troops to attack the horse.

Deputy General Li Dian comforted him: "The general and the prime minister have an order to keep us in Chenliu and not be wrong. Now the general attacks without authorization, which may violate the Prime Minister's order." Cao Hong pointed at Li Dian angrily at the time and cursed: "You guy, can you want to suppress me with the Prime Minister? Do you know that the Prime Minister is a trivial matter of my brother. How can the Prime Minister blame us?"

After all, Cao Ren has some strategy to stop Cao Hong and turned to Li Dianyan and said, "No, you will say: I will be outside and the king will not accept the order. The Prime Minister ordered my brothers to come here to stay here. That was because Ma was about to attack Chenliu. If you are afraid that Chenliu will make mistakes, Cai ordered my brothers to come here to stay here. Now Ma Xiaozhe is afraid that our brothers will be famous and move around Chenliu and the Prime Minister is far away in the capital and does not know. If our brothers don't know how to adapt to food.

How could a good opportunity be missed? He only made the army of Ma Xiaozhei grow stronger? It should be noted that the horse thief's behavior was all about the remnants of the Yellow Turban style. The way the locusts passed by without leaving any grass, and they carried out good people and the people. In just a short time, they carried out more than 100,000 people in the people, so how could this be safe if this thief did not eliminate the world?" Li Dian shook his head and persuaded him: "If the general leaves the city to pacify the thief, what if the thief takes the opportunity to rob Chen Liu of the city and lose something?"

"Why are you afraid?" Cao Renhu looked at Li Dian and asked Li Dian without fear: "The art of war says: I will lose before I win, but I am not timid. It is the prime minister who has taken on our heavy responsibility. I dare not be careless." If Li Dian answered like this in the past and was so disrespectful, let alone Cao Hong with a bad temper, even Cao Ren had already turned against Li Dian, but now Cao Ren suffered a great loss in Zhao Yun and Lu Bu's hands. His arrogance has long been tempered. Cao Hong suffered a great loss in the hands of horses. Cao Hong also knew that he was not a match for horses. Therefore, Li Dian quoted this in military books and really reminded Cao Ren and Cao Hong.

Cao Ren and Cao Hong looked at each other and saw the unwillingness in each other's heart, but they both felt that Li Dian was right for a while, both of them had no idea. However, Cao Hong was good at martial arts, and Cao Hong knew that he would definitely not be able to beat the horse, so Cao Hong really had no idea.

However, Cao Ren was good at military formations. Although he was defeated by Zhao Yun and Lu Bu, Zhao Yun also said that it was because he did not put all the formations. Through Cao Hong's experience of fighting with horses twice, Cao Ren also believed that horses were just brave men. Although horses were brave and good at fighting, they attacked and fought wildly when siege. It can only be said that although horses knew some ways to lead troops, they had limited knowledge. So Cao Ren also wanted to use his own skills to fight and see how what he had learned in actual combat.

However, Li Dian's dissuasion of Cao Ren was not useless at all. Although Cao Ren still wanted to take the initiative, Cao Ren was much calmer and began to think about the significance of his battle? Should he go to fight? If he went to fight, how should he fight? If he met the horses and horses? So how could he win? So what if he lost? Therefore, after pondering for a while, Cao Ren said to Li Dian: "It is reasonable to say that the horses are rebellious. The horses and traitors are in chaos. The Prime Minister's soldiers and horses are scattered everywhere. It is useless to pull troops to quell the chaos in a short time. The Prime Minister's walls and clear the fields. He sent us to defend Chenliu just to lead the horses here, avoid major riots and consume the horse's military rations to exhaust their soldiers and then attack. Now the horses are walking around me, Chenliu, and the bandits are dispersed and harm our entire territory. If we do not take the initiative to lure the enemy, it will be very harmful."

Seeing Cao Ren's determination, Li Dian said, "The general wants to leave the city to pacify the thieves, so he can stay a guard of Chenliu." Cao Ren pondered for a moment and said, "It's better if this happens. I will divide my troops to encounter an enemy outside. The weak troops can attack and destroy them. If they encounter most of the enemy, they can lead them back to Chenliu, making it difficult for them to escape. However, in this case, Chenliu will have a bloody battle. The military strategy says: If you can't defend the lonely city, you will have reinforcements. If the city without aid, you will be conquered. Even if I keep you to protect Chenliu, if the horses and thieves will rise to be surrounded here, and the Prime Minister's reinforcements will not know when they arrive. Chenliu will have any mistakes. Instead of doing this, what do you think?"

Li Dian thought carefully and thought that what Cao Ren said made sense, so he bowed and said, "Abide by the general's order." So Cao Ren divided half of his troops to Li Dian and Le Jin, and left Chenliu's original defender 20,000 troops to Li Dian. Le Jin himself only brought his brother Cao Hong and his subordinates to lead 50,000 soldiers to block the horse's troops along the way. Cao Ren and Cao Hong learned from the previous defeat. He was cautious. The 50,000 army actually sent out 3,000 people to explore the horse. The range of the horse's warning range was sixty miles.

Hard work pays off. The horses that Cao Ren had carefully scattered out on this day were finally rewarded. The horses came to report that they were away from Cao Ren. There was a bandit soldier stationed there forty miles away from Lijiazhuang. Cao Ren was very happy and asked: "How many bandits are gathered there? Is the warning strict?" The horses replied: "The general, Lijiazhuang, is about 50,000 thieves, and there is no warning or defense."

Cao Ren was stunned when he heard this. He heard from his brother Cao Hong. The original troops of the horse were not afraid of death. It was an elite army that was enough to prove that the horse still had some talent to lead troops. Now even if the horse was leading a group of mobs, the sentry should have everyday alert? At this time, his troops did not have any warning, what is this? Is this troops of the horse a lure the enemy troops, and the other troops were hiding in the distance waiting to surround him? After thinking about this, Cao Ren's cold sweat immediately came down. Cao Ren hurriedly sent an order: "The army retreated forty miles."

Otherwise, it would be easy to be complicated by this smart person's problem. In fact, the horse has no idle intention at all. Cao Ren's horse at this time just wanted to run quickly, just to arrive in Qingzhou as soon as possible, and to obtain assistance from Youzhou as soon as possible. The severe military ration pressure has long crushed the horse and held 500,000 troops, but because there was not enough military ration and he was not tough and could not command as he wanted, which made the horse depressed.

At this time, the troops stationed in Lijiazhuang were disobedient to the leadership of Ma. The troops led by Kui Mulang, a unit that was divided by Ma. Since Kui Mulang was separated from the Ma army, it was really: the sky was high and the birds were flying, and the sea was wide and the fish were swimming, and then he was happy to burn, kill and rob the road. The military rules of Ma were not obeying Kui Mulang's mind. What a size of a 500,000 army? His troops were not fighting with Cao Cao, but passing by. Who dared to touch this without eyes? He didn't expect that Cao Ren would dare to touch this and was scared by his unscrupulous actions.

However, if Cao Ren was really scared away by Kui Mulang, even if Kui Mulang became famous, Cao Ren would not plan to look up in his life. Unfortunately, although Cao Ren was scared, Cao Ren was not the one who came alone. Cao Ren was a naughty person. He was very angry. When Cao Hong heard that Cao Ren wanted his troops to retreat forty miles, Cao Hong stopped doing it. What happened? The bandits only had 50,000, and they were not alert to put the advantage and not take it. What were we doing?

Cao Hong stood up in a hurry and shouted, "Wait." After stopping the commander, Cao Hong turned around and asked Cao Ren, "Brother, the enemy is right in front of us. This is a great opportunity for our brother to make achievements. Why did Brother retreat? "Cao Ren sighed, "Brother, why don't you want to stand if you have any credit? However, setting up sentries is the basics of military strategists. According to what you said, the troops led by the horse were well-known and brave, it can be seen that the horse also knew some military tactics. Therefore, even if the troops brought by the horse now were loose, he sent out a few sentries. It is always no problem. Now no warning is so abnormal. It is obvious that there is a fraud. This must be a trap. Waiting for our brother to come and get into trouble. Brother, I will retreat forty miles and find another strategy to defeat the enemy."

Cao Hong laughed and said to Cao Ren, "Brother is too cautious. Even if the horse is so cautious, the horse's soldiers are now all the remnants of the Yellow Turbans. Now they have been carrying countless people. The people have just put down their hoes for a few days. How could they guard the military discipline? I wonder when the Prime Minister's brother pacified the Yellow Turbans and Muye, weren't the Yellow Turban thieves who were not prepared for all? And if they wanted to know if there were ambushers there, they sent more explorers to investigate. Now our unknown soldiers retreated forty miles. If those thieves really had no guards, wouldn't we be laughed at as timid? Where are you and I wise?" Cao Ren heard that it was a reason, so he sent ten teams of explorers to investigate thirty miles around Lijiazhuang.

It doesn't matter if this inquiry is made, but they found two troops, and each of them is 50,000 troops, and they are about twenty miles apart from the Lijiazhuang troops. There is no warning, and the three troops cannot be contacted once a day. When Cao Ren heard this, Cao Ren was confused. What is this posture? There are troops covering each other, but it is wrong, but there is no warning. The troops are not in contact with each other. What are you thinking about? Traveling in a group? When Cao Hong learned about it, he laughed and said, "How about brother? I just said that these mobs, what do you think without warning? Don't you think all three troops are like this? It's up to us brothers to make contributions. Brother, don't hesitate to miss this village, but there is no store." To be continued)
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