It was too late to find out that he was trapped. In order to arrive in Nanpingyang as soon as possible to ambush the reinforcements of Xuzhou, the elite Cao army led by Xiahou Dun rushed north at a speed of nearly a hundred miles a day. It had been two days since he left. Even if the boss Cao immediately sent a fast horse to send orders, the elite Cao army could not expect to return to the battlefield of Xiaopei in less than three days, and there was still the danger of being robbed by the Xuzhou army as a slaughter and robbery. Regarding this, boss Cao could conclude that the treacherous and vicious poison of Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao's poison would never miss this opportunity to severely damage his elite.

It was too late to withdraw troops. Not to mention that there was a Xuzhou army in Xiaopei City that could launch a pursuit. The distance between Cao's camp and Liu County was only fifty miles away. The number of Xuzhou cavalry that had gradually surpassed Cao's army could easily reach it. Moreover, Cao's team also had to carry precious supplies and food to withdraw troops. The retreat speed was absolutely not fast, so even the Xuzhou infantry who came into battle lightly could definitely catch up with Cao's army. He grabbed Cao's tail and beat him up.

So there was no other way. After careful discussion with a group of strategists, Boss Cao decided to take a bet. While sending a fast horse to summon Xiahou Yuan back, he was preparing to use his existing troops to deal with the Xuzhou army and win time for elite rescuing. However, when discussing how to survive this dangerous period of conception, several strategists had serious differences. Guo Jia and Cheng Yu suggested that they should defend themselves and use the fortifications to resist the main offensive of Xuzhou and gain time for elite rescuing; Xu Shu had completely opposite opinions and advocated going out to fight and instead of defending to win time.

"Prime Minister, you must not defend it. The code will be passive and it is not very meaningful." Xu Shu analyzed to Cao Laoda: "Our army's Xiaopei camp is not as good as Guandu camp. Guandu camp is a solid camp that our army only built in more than half a year. Xiaopei camp is just an ordinary camp with simple fortifications. The surrounding terrain is very open, and there is no dangerous pass to defend except for the left Sishui River. If you are conservative and persistent, you will not only fall into a passive and beaten place, but it will also be difficult to defend successfully. During the attack of the enemy, if there is a slight mistake, the enemy will break into the camp and set fire, the consequences will be unimaginable, so you must not defend it. You can only use attack instead of defense."

Although Xu Shu's analysis was reasonable, Cheng Yu still looked at Xu Shu suspiciously and said, "Although Mr. Yuanzhi's words are reasonable, most of our elite troops have already gone north. There are only four main teams of Dian Wei, Li Dian, Zhang He and Cao Chun, which are more than 15,000. The rest are either second-line auxiliary soldiers or baggage laborers. It is useless when they go to the battlefield, and their overall combat effectiveness is greatly affected. If there is a slight mistake in fighting in the camp, the consequences may be even more difficult to imagine, right?"

Hearing Cheng Yu's words, the boss Cao who used despicable means to get Xu Shu was also a little suspicious. He couldn't help but glance at Xu Shu, but Xu Shu was silent and said calmly: "If Mr. Zhongde insisted on defending, Shu would never object, but Shu personally still thinks that our army should go to fight, and persistence is useless. Please think carefully about the Prime Minister and Mr. Zhongde. The Taoist thief made a clever trick and finally tricked our army into splitting the troops. How could he miss this once-in-a-lifetime offensive opportunity? How could he not take advantage of the situation and attack our army's camp with all his might?"

Boss Cao put away his doubts, nodded, admitting that Xu Shu's words were true. Xu Shu observed his expression and said calmly: "But if our army takes the initiative to fight, the situation will be completely different. If nothing unexpected happens, our elite troops will be able to return from Xipingyang, two hundred miles away at the fastest three days and four days at the latest. The pottery thieves will inevitably be eager to fight. After a marching from Pengcheng to Xiaopei, the elite physical strength of the pottery thieves will inevitably be affected. Our army seizes the opportunity to fight immediately and wait for the effort to work. It may not be impossible to defeat the strong with the weak and defeat the masses with the weak."

Cheng Yu had nothing to say. After pondering for a while, Boss Cao suddenly laughed: "Although Mr. Yuanzhi made sense, one thing was wrong. Our army's strength was still above the pottery thieves. How can we defeat the masses with few? How can our army's elite warriors who have experienced many battles be compared with Xuzhou raids? Therefore, it is not considered as a matter of defeating the strong with weak!"

Xu Shu lowered his head slightly and signaled that he would agree with Boss Cao's analysis. Boss Cao stood up with his hands and waved his hand and said, "It's decided to use attack instead of defense. Many scouts sent to closely monitor the movements of the main force of the Xuzhou bandit army. It is estimated that the Xuzhou bandit army will arrive at Xiaopei around noon tomorrow, so that the army will be ready to fight before noon. Once the team of the pottery bandits starts to cross the river, they will immediately send troops to fight."

"No." Xu Shu accompanied Guo Jia and Cheng Yu to sing No. 1, and then hummed in his heart: "I'm attacking him halfway, and it's true that the traitor is! But don't think too beautifully. With the treacherous thief as the treacherous thief, how can you not beware of you Cao's move? But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who you and the treacherous thief win or not. I just need to wait and watch the show."

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In order to restore the soldiers' physical strength, after arriving in Liu County, Deputy Director Tao arranged for the second-tier team to watch on duty, so that the elite team could take the time to rest, and arranged for auxiliary troops to make steamed buns and other marching dry food that could be carried with them overnight, so that the army could have the opportunity to continue fighting immediately after arriving on the battlefield. Then Deputy Director Tao took the time to discuss the advance plan with Jia Lao Poison.

As Xu Shu suspected, Jia Lao Lao told Deputy Director Tao straight to the point: "Our army is not afraid of Cao's army closing the camp and defending the enemy. He only needs to worry about Cao's army attacking us halfway, and take advantage of our army's opportunity to cross the river to soak water in the north, which will swell our army's spirit. Therefore, according to Xu's opinion, our army must cross the river at the ferry next to Xiaopei City, send an elite force to clear the way, and then order Cao Xing and Yin Li to lead the army out of the city to cover it to resist the possible raids that Cao Cao may launch. Then divide a cavalry team and cross the river fifteen miles upstream of Xiaopei, so that Cao Cao could not favor the two ferries and prevent our cavalry from attacking him behind him, so he did not dare to raid."

When Deputy Director Tao heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately arranged for Gao Shun, the team that was always stationed in Liu County to serve as the vanguard. He rushed to the Shui River first. Gao Dazhan camp flags lined up to cover the main force to cross the river. He ordered Cao Xing and Yin Li to lead the army out of the city and work with Gao Shun to protect the Xiaopei Ferry. Finally, Zhao Yun and two generals Zhao Yun led 4,000 cavalry to cross the river upstream of the Shui River. He also told Zhao Yun to act when he saw the opportunity. If he should cover the main force, he should retreat. Never be greedy for merit and make a frustrated move. Zhao Yun, who is serious, solemnly agreed and kept the arrangements of Deputy Director Tao in mind.

The river crossing tactics proposed by Jia Lao Guo to Deputy Director Tao were very effective, and Cao's army was ready for a surprise attack. However, after discovering the Xuzhou army's crossing arrangements from the scout reconnaissance, Cao Boss was concerned that he didn't have many good cards to play, especially the serious lack of high-speed maneuvering cavalry. Once he was attacked by the Xuzhou cavalry team led by the powerful general Zhao Yun, the consequences would be unimaginable. At the same time, the camp led by Gao Shun was not a hard bone to chew. So after thinking about it, Cao finally gritted his teeth and gave up the tactical plan of attacking it halfway!

He tentatively advised him to launch a surprise attack. Seeing that Cao was unmoved, Xu Shu had to change his words and said, "Since the Prime Minister had no intention of sending troops to attack, then Shu still had a plan to defeat the enemy. When he was in Xuchang, he had carefully studied the characteristics of the military use style of the pottery thieves and discovered a weakness of the pottery thieves. The Prime Minister might as well grasp this weakness to defeat the enemy."

"Oh, what are the weaknesses of the Taoist thieves using military forces? Mr. Yuanzhi, please tell me." Boss Cao asked quickly.

"The Taoist thieves are afraid of fighting in formation." Xu Shu pointed out incisively: "Since his debut in the first year of Xingping, the Taoist thieves have claimed to have won every battle without any defeat. However, every battle is like to use surprise troops to take advantage of opportunities, or to bribe them, or to deceive defeat and lure the enemy, or to forcefully crush them all by relying on many soldiers and generals. They have never had the experience of fighting in formation with enemies of equal strength. Especially in the Battle of Liyang that year, the Taoist thieves fought with the famous Huainan general Zhang Xun. In order to prevent Zhang Xun from forming the array, the Taoist thieves used their military strength to continuously send troops to harass Zhang Xun's team, without giving Zhang Xun the chance to establish their position. This shows that the Taoist thieves who have never had the experience of fighting in formation obviously avoided their weaknesses."

After carefully recalling the Xuzhou army war in his impression, combined with Xu Shu's analysis, a fierce light flashed in the triangle's eyes, he nodded and said, "Mr. Lao Yuanzhi has been bothering and fucking me."

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In fact, soaking in water is not a large river. Winter is a dry season. Finally, Gaoshun's team and Xiaopei defenders had already built twenty floating bridges on the river. Therefore, the main force in Xuzhou had not taken much time to cross the water across the river and stood firm on the north bank. Zhao Yun also successfully crossed the river from the upper reaches and came to meet the main force. Seeing that he had successfully crossed this small checkpoint, Deputy Director Tao asked about the situation of Cao's camp in ease. After learning that the Cao army had always been in a camp ten miles north, Deputy Director Tao immediately left the rear army to camp west of Xiaopei, and personally led more than 25,000 elite main forces to fight in front of Cao's camp.

The horses discovered the movement of the Xuzhou army. After Fei reported to Lao Da Cao, Lao Da immediately left Cao Chun to guard the camp, and personally led 20,000 troops to fight with generals Dian Wei, Li Dian, Zhang He and others. He learned from Zhang Xun's lessons from Liyang. He immediately arranged the formation only three miles away from the camp. On the way, a crane wing formation with extremely high requirements for the head coach's tactical command ability was arranged, allowing Li Dian to lead the army to the left wing, Zhang He and others to lead the army to the right wing, and Cao himself led the generals Dian Wei and others to take charge of the central army, waiting for the Xuzhou army.

Xuzhou's horse probe also reported Cao's army's movements to Deputy Director Tao. Deputy Director Tao, who likes to take advantage of the same trick, wanted to use the same trick again and sent cavalry to come forward to harass and destroy it first, but Jia Lao poison advised: "Lord, don't take risks. Cao Cao went out of the camp to form a road for three miles. Obviously, he aimed at the weakness of your inability to fight in formation, and he would be prepared for the raid of our cavalry. If the lord sends cavalry to attack, he will definitely hit Cao Cao's thoughts. Moreover, our ordinary cavalry is not as mobile and flexible as the gentleman's army. Once he encounters a slum, it will be difficult to get out."

Deputy Director Tao nodded and said, "But Mr. Wenhe, you also know that fighting in a dignified array is exactly my weakness. Cao Zhe is also experienced in many battles. I am afraid that our army and Cao Zhe team will suffer a lot of losses?"

"It's okay." Jia Lao Poison shook his head and said with a smile: "Although Cao Cao captured your weakness, his elite troops have already gone north, so in his crane wing formation, the elite troops must be arranged on both wings. As long as our army designs to bite his two wings, and then take the opportunity to attack his simple-minded central army team, our army will have a stable chance of winning in this battle!"

With a cordial smile, Old Jia poison came to Deputy Director Tao's ear and whispered his bad idea. Deputy Director Tao smiled and quickly summoned General Wei Yan to whisper to him. Wei Yan took the order. Deputy Director Tao then issued an order to arrange a crane wing formation during the march. Xu Huang's team was on the left, Wei Yan's team was on the right, Deputy Director Tao led the infantry in the middle, and Zhao Yun's cavalry team was arranged by Deputy Director Tao in the open area behind the formation for mobility, so that the entire army could move slowly and approach the battlefield slowly.

No matter how slow the distance is, it will be a moment later. After arriving at the battlefield, the Xuzhou army, which was trained every day, quickly set its grounding five hundred steps away from Cao's army. Deputy Director Tao led the generals to cross the formation from the flag gate. Boss Cao, who was a little impatient, also led the generals to cross the formation. The two groups of people stood opposite each other, and then Boss Cao immediately yelled. "Tao Ying, I promised you to be a wood from Xu Yangzhou in front of the emperor. Why did you connect with the rebel Yuan Shao to rebel? The troops have arrived today. Should I surrender early? When will I wait?"

"Fuck!" The extremely uneducated Deputy Director Tao opened his mouth and cursed: "Cao thief, you are called the Han prime minister, but you are actually a Han thief! The crime is more than Mang Zhuo's right! You dare to have the face to falsely accus others of rebellion?! I am wearing an edict to fight the thief, so I will return my brother to the death, so I can fight with confidence!"

The Tao Shang would be under house arrest in Changyi City, so of course Mr. Cao could not hand over it. So Mr. Cao could only shout: "Where is my eldest son Cao Ang? Where is he?"

"Don't worry, he is very safe now." Deputy Director Tao, who also put Cao Ang under house arrest in Xuzhou City, replied loudly, "After I capture you alive, your father and son will be reunited together!"

After speaking loudly, Deputy Director Tao raised his whip and pointed at the sky. The trolls behind him raised the banner, and the 25,000 Xuzhou army immediately yelled neatly, "Plant Cao's camp! Capture Cao's thieves alive! Capture Cao's camp! Capture Cao's camp! Capture Cao's camp! Capture Cao's camp! Capture Cao's camp!"

"Looking for death!" Boss Cao was furious. He wanted to order his generals to fight against the generals, but Guo Jia next to him grabbed Boss Cao and whispered: "Prime Minister, most of our powerful generals have gone north. Don't fight against the generals at will. Pay attention to the left wing of the pottery thief."

Boss Cao quickly went to see the right wing of the Xuzhou Army, but saw Deputy Director Tao arranged an infantry team of about 5,000 on the right wing. The soldiers were joking and shouting loudly. Some people shook their weapons and shouted loudly. The flags were tilted and the team was scattered. It was a sharp contrast with the Xuzhou Army's central army, which was in a strict formation. Boss Cao was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered Li Dian, who was beside him to lead the elite troops of his army to attack the weak Xuzhou army. Li Dian took the order and ran away.

Using the primitive telescope, he saw the old acquaintance Li Dian running towards the left wing of Cao's army from afar. Deputy Director Tao was also secretly happy and deliberately waved his hand to stop the entire army from shouting, and then sent Xu Chu to fight, asking Cao's army to fight. The confident boss Cao stopped Dian Wei's impulse and shouted loudly: "Tao thief, you are a despicable villain who likes to hurt people in secret arrows. I won't fight with you, I will fight with you!"

After the roar, Boss Cao waved his whip and as the war drums sounded, the five thousand left-wing team led by Li Dian immediately shouted and rushed towards the infantry team on the opposite Xuzhou right wing that looked extremely easy to bully at first glance. The Xuzhou infantry team, which seemed to be rookie, was also very helpful to Deputy Director Tao. They immediately became panicked. The soldiers shouted and ran around and failed to form a formation.

Seeing this scene, Li Dian's team naturally charged more with confidence and tried hard to speed up their pace. Boss Cao laughed loudly and said, "Tao Thief, it seems that your ability to manage the army is far less than your ability to steal the chickens and dogs. It is like such a mob, who dares to..."

Boss Cao's crazy laughter came to an abrupt end, because Boss Cao suddenly saw that the rookie team on the right wing of the Xuzhou army was yelling and running around in a panic, and the Yanyue Formation, which required extremely strict requirements for the powerful generals and brave men! The dangerous crescent indentation was also facing Li Dian's storm team! The formation was changed quickly and the army was so strict that it was no less than the elite troops under Boss Cao's command!

Immediately afterwards, the neat military singing echoed in the rookie team, "Why do you say you are not clothes? You are with me! Wang Yu raised his troops, repaired my spear, and shared his hatred with me......"

"I've been trapped again!" The eldest son Cao's face changed, and a thought flashed quickly in his heart, "That elite soldiers of the pottery thief have been replaced? The camp of the camp first or the Langya soldiers? It's not right. The banner of the camp first and the banner first is clearly in the central army of the pottery thiefs. The elite soldiers of the Langya soldiers under Zang Ba should be in Qingzhou..."

"Prime Minister Cao, let me introduce you." Deputy Director Tao, who had succeeded in his plan, laughed happily, pointed to the army that quickly changed its formation while pretending to behave, and said loudly to Boss Cao: "They are all my fellow villagers, Danyang soldiers! The Danyang soldiers who almost killed you in the mutiny back then were either their tribe or their fellow villagers."

"Danyang soldiers? How is it possible?!" Boss Cao, who had suffered from the military discipline of the Danyang soldiers, screamed in shock, and was stunned. He broke his head and could not believe that the Danyang soldiers, which are famous for their military discipline, will suddenly become so organized and disciplined.

At this time, Li Dian's team had already crashed head-on into the crescent moon of the Danyang soldiers. When the two armies were about to collide, countless short javelins suddenly flew out of the long shield wall of the Danyang soldiers, roaring at the Cao soldiers, piercing countless Cao soldiers who could not dodge to the chest. The Cao soldiers with equally strict discipline continued to charge. Suddenly, countless long spears were stabbed out from the shield wall, piercing through the many Cao soldiers who were not able to restrain their power, and the Cao soldiers' charge momentum was immediately offset.

Blocking the charge of Cao's army, the shield wall suddenly dodged to both sides. Wei Yan personally led a team of infantry to launch a counter-charge and plunged into the Cao's army's ranks. Yuejian on both sides of Yanyue also doubled inwards, surrounding Li Dian's team on three sides. A bloody battle that was extremely cruel was also launched first on the flanking battlefield.

The roar of hoarseness resounded throughout the world. The elite Cao army soldiers and the fierce Danyang soldiers waved their swords and guns to fight each other. The blood blades sounded a series of terrifying collisions. The blood flowers were as colorful as rain, scattered on the hard snow in the middle of winter. Some soldiers on both sides were cut off the sky spirit cover, and some were cut off their hands and feet. The broken limbs twitched on the cold land. The seriously injured soldiers fell to the ground and rolled and moaned, and then were trampled to death by the messy steps, stepping into meat sauce. Countless soldiers on both sides had their eyes red, their faces were covered with thick blood, but they were still yelling and chopping, embracing and fighting on the ground, rolling on the ground, and using their eyes to bite the throat.

"There is equal to each other! How is it possible? How is it possible?" Boss Cao looked straight and screamed in his heart. He couldn't believe anything. Danyang rogue soldiers, who claimed to be a one-stop single soldier and a group of insects, could actually compete with his elite team!

At this time, there was also movement in the Xuzhou Central Army. Zhao Yun's team, located at the end of the Xuzhou Army, suddenly attacked. Four thousand cavalry drew a semi-circle arc and quickly surrounded, bypassing Zhang He, a team confronting Xu Huang's team of Xuzhou Army, and quickly detoured behind the Cao army's crane wing formation.

Someone must ask, since Zhao Yun's team passed by Zhang He's team, is Zhang He a good meal? Why didn't he lead the army to stop him? Why didn't Cao order a block? There is only one reason. Five hundred steps ahead of Zhang He's team, the 5,000 cavalry led by Xu Huang were still watching Dandan. If Zhang He dared to take action and the infantry lost the cover of the formation, then as long as Xu Huang's team charges, it is possible to disperse Zhang He's team, or at least be entangled with Zhang He's team and restrain Cao's right-wing elite troops.

Seeing this scene, the elite soldiers on the left wing were already trapped and were held tightly and frowned. When they were about to order Dian Wei to lead the army back to the rear army, they suddenly woke up and looked up at Deputy Director Tao in the distance. Boss Cao couldn't help but scold, "Who said that this traitor doesn't understand formation battle? First, he deliberately created an illusion to trick me, bit my left wing elite soldiers, let the cavalry stare at my right wing elite infantry, and then sent cavalry to attack me, grasping my weak points of insufficient elite troops, forcing me to reveal my flaws and then raid! The tactics are so cunning that they don't understand formation battle?"

After cursing angrily, Boss Cao pointed at a messenger with a horse whip and shouted: "Go to Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao, who went to the rear army, and told them to block the attack of the Taoist thieves' cavalry at all costs. If the rear army is defeated, come and see you!"
Chapter completed!