"Huan'er, don't make trouble. If you want to wait to enter Xuchang City, let's be intimate in the imperial city."

After muttering, Deputy Director Tao, who had only slept for less than two hours in two days and two nights, tilted his head and leaned against Tao Ji and fell asleep. Tao Ji was anxious and quickly shook his brother again and shouted: "Second brother, wake up, wake up, Cao thief is here! Cao thief's army is here!"

"Is Cao's army coming?" Deputy Director Tao suddenly opened his triangle eyes, and his sleepiness suddenly swept away. He jumped up and looked south. Seeing that a red fireworks had indeed risen in the dark night sky. It was indeed the Xuzhou scout who was monitoring the movements of Xuchang. Deputy Director Tao did not hesitate and immediately shouted: "As the original plan, the Gentleman Army attacked, the infantry came out of the camp and blew the wake-up call! Order the entire army to get up and prepare for the battle!"

As the promise was singing, the Gentleman Army, who had already ridden on war horses, rushed out of the camp immediately and rushed to the south to restrain the delay in the advance of Cao's army. The three thousand infantry soldiers who had not slept overnight also quickly lined out of the camp, took torches to the open area outside the camp gate to prepare for war. At the same time, the horn of getting up was whistled, and the night patrol soldiers ran back and forth to light the bonfire, and the torches and fire plates were illuminated, calling on their sleeping companions to get up and prepare for war, busy but not messy, and soldiers were not scared at night, which gave people the feeling of being elite in a hundred battles.

It was also at this time that Deputy Director Tao, who was soaking cloth in cold water to wipe his face, remembered a big event and hurriedly asked the guard next to him: "When is it now?"

"Report to the lord, the first hour of Mao has just passed." The guard holding the copper basin replied.

"Just just passed the first hour of Mao?" Deputy Director Tao was stunned and forgot to wipe his face. He exclaimed: "It will dawn soon. Cao Zhe robbed a bird camp?! What is the purpose of Cao Zhe chose to attack at this time?!"

After exclaiming, Deputy Director Tao's eyes turned and immediately woke up again, and smiled and said, "It turns out that he wanted our army to have no chance to have breakfast. Fighting with an empty stomach affects its combat effectiveness. Sure enough, he is very traitorous. Fortunately, I am also prepared..."

The sound of the trumpet continued to echo. The main soldiers of Xuzhou who had sufficient rest got up and put on armor, checked their weapons and equipment, excreted physical waste, rushed to the camp's hollow space in a hurry, and then took out dry food under the orders of the supervisors of each battalion, and supplied constant boiling water for meals for 24 hours. Then they lined up in an orderly manner. Behind the three thousand friendly troops who had been arranged, they gathered in an array. According to the request of Deputy Director Tao, a crane wing formation with both offense and defense was set up with a backdrop of the camp, and prepared to fight calmly. Thirty new weapons were also pushed out of the battalion, pushed to the forefront of the position, and sent heavy troops to protect them.

At this time, Jia Lao Poison, Liu Ye, Shi Yi and others also came to Deputy Director Tao, congratulations to Deputy Director Tao for his success in his tricks and finally lured Cao's army out of the city to fight. Jia Lao Poison reminded carefully: "Lord, although our army has successfully lured the enemy, Cao Mengde must have been determined to die to burn the boat, and he must have spent a lot of effort to boost morale and boost the morale of the army. The situation is extraordinary, and our army does not have the advantage of military strength. Please be careful in this battle and do not underestimate the enemy at all, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Mr. Wenhe said very well." Deputy Director Tao nodded, rubbed his fingers and thought: "It seems that I have to think of a way to restore the morale of Cao Zhe's team first..."

At the same time, five miles south of Xuzhou Daying, the Gentlemen Army had already fought with the Cao army. Because they could not retreat to the camp and attack the front of the Cao army, Tao Ji also cleverly chose to arrange the Gentlemen Army to detour and attack the flanks of the Cao army with bows and arrows. This did have a certain effect. The shooting killed and injured many Cao soldiers and caused chaos on the Cao army's flanks. In response, the eldest daughter Cao, who was mentally prepared, immediately ordered, "Continue to advance at full speed, fight back with a strong crossbow, and delay the little man army a little, and there is no need to worry about casualties!"

The order was conveyed. Cao's army continued to move forward on its flanks, ignoring the casualties caused by the bows and arrows of the Gentlemen's army, and just fought back against the Gentlemen with a strong crossbow with a longer range as much as possible, so that the Gentlemen's army would not dare to be too rampant. Then, they brought all the injured companions who could be brought with them, continued to strode forward, raced against time to attack the Xuzhou camp, and tried their best not to give the Xuzhou army too much time to respond.

As we stride and charge, the tragic military songs echoed in the Cao army, "The vast sea, kiss my home. The rolling dust, my garden! The bright world, the man's blood! The vast sky, bless me, the great man! The vast sky, bless me, the prime minister! The vast sky, bless me forever victory! The vast sky, bless me forever victory!”

The military song was loud, sad and angry, and sonorous, with strong steps, flags fluttered, swords and guns were like forests, and heads were like seas. The last 28,000 Cao soldiers held their heads and chests, rushed like dragons under the rain of arrows that came from time to time, and continued to advance like a tide. Those who were hit by arrows were staggering and continued to move forward. The ones who were hit by the arrows also staggered and continued to move forward until the blood was exhausted and their strength was exhausted. They fell helplessly on the charge road. The spear in their hands did not fall, the flag did not fall, and the mouth was bleeding, but they were still singing vaguely, "...The bright world, the man is passionate! The vast sky, bless my great man! The vast sky, bless my prime minister......"

In front of such a stubborn and tough enemy like a single-celled creature, even though it was already recognized as invincible in the world, the Junzi Army had a sense of fear for the first time. Tao Ji, who led the team, was even more worried, "The Cao thief team is so stubborn and desperate, and his morale is so high that the second brother only uses half of his strength to fight... Are you sure to win?"

Wearing heavy armor and carrying necessary weapons and supplies, almost all infantrymen. There were countless minor and serious wounded people in the team, as well as the harassment and destruction of the Gentlemen. Ten miles away, Cao's army only walked for more than a moment, and almost did not fall behind on the way! Just when Cao was proud of his soldiers, the 20,000 Xuzhou army that had already left the camp and had been arranged in full swing. The troops were firmly in the camp, calmly, and torches were like seas, which made the open area south of Xuzhou Daying. The first three thousand Xuzhou infantry who had not slept overnight had already withdrawn from the camp and rested and shouldered the important task of protecting the camp under the mercy of Deputy Director Tao.

"The team of pottery thieves reacted so quickly?"

Boss Cao was shocked and immediately realized that his army had lost the best opportunity to attack chaos. While he was hesitating whether to launch a charge immediately, a cavalry ran out of the Xuzhou team opposite him, and quickly ran to Cao's army with a white flag and a torch, shouting: "Meng Degong, my lord gave you a chance to establish a firm position. Come in line, we will never take advantage of others' danger!"

"Bah!" Boss Cao spat a heavy mouthful of thick phlegm, disdaining the Xuzhou army, who boasted that he never took advantage of others' danger, can the world be better at taking advantage of the situation than the Xuzhou army?

"Prime Minister, morale can be boosted and not released." Xun You reminded next to him: "Because our army is very morale, we should attack immediately!"

Boss Cao nodded and was about to order a general attack, but the Xuzhou cavalry opposite him shouted: "Meng Degong, my lord is for your own good. You are charging now. You will only suffer! Take a closer look. What is in front of our army?!"

Boss Cao looked up from a distance in a conditioned manner. Taking advantage of the gradually brightening sky, Boss Cao also saw twenty two-wheeled carts covered with straw mats in front of the Xuzhou Central Army. At this time, the Xuzhou soldiers next to the two-wheeled carts also lifted the straw mats on the cart, revealing twenty wooden pillars thicker than sea bowls. The tail of the wooden stake was inserted obliquely to the ground, and the top was facing the sky, not knowing what it was. Then the Xuzhou knight opposite shouted again: "Meng Degong, look carefully, what will happen if you launch a charge now!"

After shouting, the Xuzhou knight immediately raised the small white flag and torch in his hand over his head at the same time. Xuzhou soldiers next to a cart in the distance immediately burned the tail of a wooden pillar with torches. When Cao was inexplicably surprised, he suddenly saw the top of the wooden pillar spewing out of the fire, and then a loud thunder sound suddenly came, as if a thunder exploded on the formation. Then countless small iron horns and small round stones fell to the ground in front of Cao's army more than 500 steps away, as if there was a rain of stones. In the middle of the Cao army, the whole army was shocked, and the neat shouts of Xuzhou soldiers sounded from the Xuzhou army again, "Invincible! Invincible!!"

"Hmph, hum!" After sneering twice, the Xuzhou cavalry opposite turned their horses and ran back to their own flag formation to hand over the order. The earth-like boss Cao and the Cao army soldiers were stunned on the spot. They are still immersed in the horror of the debut of Xuzhou pine cannons, to be precise, they are very pitiful pine cannons. Deputy Director Tao made these pine cannons, the biggest purpose of the pine cannons was to scare the enemy, and prepare to use them suddenly when the war was in a stalemate, completely hitting the enemy's morale and encouraging the fighting spirit of the army. They never expected that these primitive wooden cannons could really kill and eliminate many enemies.

Although the actual power is very pitiful, whether the chamber will explode every time it is launched depends on luck, but this is enough. The range of more than 500 steps and the loud noise like thunder were enough to strike Cao's army from a high morale to a terrifying level. One shot was shot. Not only did the Cao army look like earth, but the morale was greatly discharged, and the boss Cao was even more frightened. Subconsciously dispelled the plan to attack immediately and ordered: "Carry the array, set the crane wing formation 600 steps away from the pottery thief team, and firmly grasp the position."

The order was conveyed, and the Cao army immediately followed the order. Zhang He and Zhang Liao, the two most powerful teams with the strongest combat power, spread their wings, and the remaining teams quickly moved closer to Cao and laid a tight phalanx. The guns and halberds outside and bows and crossbows inside. They were fast but orderly, showing good battlefield discipline. However, after seeing this, Deputy Director Tao and Jia Lao poisonous creatures were not worried but happy, and they laughed together. Then Liu Ye bowed to Deputy Director Tao and said, "Congratulations to the lord for his successful intimidation. Cao Pirate's aura was frustrated! In the battle on the back, Cao Pirate did not dare to arrange charge formations such as fish scales or arrows. He chose a crane wing array with both offense and defense. This shows that Cao Pirate was already timid in his heart and did not dare to hold confidence in victory."

"It's not enough, I must hit Cao Zhe's spirit hard again." Deputy Director Tao smiled, then rode his horse first, and the civil and military generals and officials around the left and right quickly followed, and the stars surrounded Deputy Director Tao, who was outrageously despicable, came out of the formation, ready to answer with Boss Cao in front of the formation.

At this time, Cao's army had already established its position. Seeing the flag gate of Xuzhou army open, Deputy Director Tao, who was surrounded by the generals, came out of the battle. Boss Cao hesitated for a moment, and also led a group of civil and military officials to slap out of the battle. He went to the front of the battle to answer Deputy Director Tao. At the same time, in order to attack the morale of the enemy and boost the morale of his own army, Boss Cao shouted fiercely as soon as he came out of the battle: "Tao Ying traitor! Don't you really want me to lead the army to fight? Now I'm here. I want to see. In the field, you can do something else in addition to sending villains to harass guerrillas!"

As the sky got dark, the hippie face on Deputy Director Tao's face was vaguely visible, and he laughed cynically and said, "Meng De, don't be so swollen and fat. If I hadn't taken the initiative to divide the army into two and use half of my strength to lure you to fight, with your courage, you dare to go out of the city to fight with our army? But it's a pity that you fell into a trap. Our army's division was already returning to the battlefield at full speed to help, Meng De. You'll be cut off soon! You're done! Hahahahahahaha..."

"I'm afraid you're a thief who's swollen and fat. I'm afraid you're a thief?" Boss Cao laughed loudly and said, "Our army has already discovered the detailed work. Your division of troops crossed Yingshui last evening. Even if they had wings, they might not be able to fly back."

"Meng Degong. You said this to deceive the poor soldiers under your command, and you can't deceive me!" Deputy Director Tao said with a laugh: "If you said that my division of troops arrived in Yingshui last evening and set up camp for rest, maybe I would still be worried, but unfortunately, the order I gave to the partial division was that after arriving in Yingshui, I was not allowed to cross the river and immediately return to the Xuchang battlefield! My division of troops had a total of 10,000 cavalry. According to time, they would be less than twenty miles away from you."

"My lord really doesn't blush when he lies. Are you worried that Cao thief will monitor the movements of our army's partial divisions? He clearly ordered Xu Huang's team to return to the rescue after arriving in Xiangcheng?"

The only one who knew the inside story, Jia Lao Poison muttered in his heart, and the soldiers of Xuzhou all showed joy and increased their confidence. The boss Cao was furious and said, "Okay, I want to see when your partial master can return to the battlefield in Xuchang. I hope that your 20,000 rabies can persevere until they return to the rescue."

"If Duke Meng De wants to defeat each one, then come and I will accompany you to the end." Deputy Director Tao did not show any weakness and sneered, "But to be honest, I really admire Duke Meng De. He has a good time to go out of the city to fight. He does not rob the camp late at night, and chooses to attack in the early morning, and attack our soldiers before breakfast before breakfast, forcing our soldiers to fight with your full army to fight with your empty stomach! It is indeed a scheming and a good means!"

"Of course." Boss Cao laughed smugly and said, "Of course, you need to use some extraordinary means to deal with traitors like you! How about it, pottery thief, you should be hungry too, right? Do I want me to give you some time to make fire and make meals?"

"Thank you, no need." Deputy Director Tao smiled and took out a cloth bag, took out something big as a bowl from it that Boss Cao had never seen before, put it in his mouth and took a bite, chewing it while saying, "I have dry food, and I can eat and talk to you."

"March dry food?" Cao Dada was stunned for a moment. In this era, there was no dry food in marching. However, in this era, the dry food in marching was either dry jerky as hard as iron or dead wheat flour cakes that were harder than stones. They could not be eaten without cooking. At least they had to be soaked in cold water for a period of time, otherwise they would not be able to bite. For example, the dry food that could be easily chewed in Deputy Director Tao, Mr. Cao had never seen it, nor had he heard of it.

"Mr. Meng De must be very strange? Why can I eat my dry food directly without soaking or cooking it?" This time, Deputy Director of the Tao was proud and simply smiled: "Why should Meng De Gong try it too? This thing is called meat buns, which are very delicious regardless of hot or cold. Come on, send a bun to Meng De Gong."

Smiling, Deputy Director Tao handed the cloth bag in his hand to a guard and asked the guard to ride the horse to deliver the cloth bag to the front of Mr. Cao. Mr. Cao hesitated for a moment, and finally ordered people to go forward and take the cloth bag, and then took out a bowl-sized grayish white object from the bag, weighing about ten taels, which was very soft, but it was definitely made of wheat noodles and had been processed and cooked. When Mr. Cao, who had only eaten dead noodles, was surprised at why the cooked wheat dough could be so soft. Deputy Director Tao shouted again: "Meng Degong, put it aside, there is filling inside."

Boss Cao hesitated for a moment, but still pulled away the buns in his hand and found that there was indeed a meat filling made of chopped green onions hidden in the wheat noodles. Even though it was already cold, it was still extremely soft and the meat was fragrant. At this time, Deputy Director Tao smiled and shouted again: "Meng Degong, try it, keep it satisfied. I have invented several types of dry marching foods, so counting this kind of buns is the best taste."

"Oh, by the way, I will tell you something. After our army divided the troops, I will give the next order to each of our soldiers to receive two such meat buns each meal, but not as a meal. I will eat the supper I received during breakfast and the breakfast I received during dinner. I also specially told the supervisors of each battalion to strictly supervise and secretly put ten sticks on the food in advance! What is the purpose of my arrangement? With Duke Meng De, you will not understand, right?!"

"Teithie!" Boss Cao cursed helplessly, picked up half of the meat bag, took a bite and chewed it in his mouth, as if he was chewing the flesh and blood of Deputy Director Tao. The meat bag was soft and delicious. It was extremely delicious. Boss Cao tasted like chewing wax.

"All the initiatives were offset by the pottery thieves, what should I do?"

Quickly planning the next plan, Boss Cao subconsciously took another bite of the meat bun made of fermented old noodles, but at this moment, Deputy Director Tao suddenly screamed. "Meng Degong. Why did you really eat it? Your meat bun is the poisonous bun I used to use for the rats of medicine, and there is arsenic in it. Spit it out quickly! Spit it out quickly!"

"Poisonous?!" Cao's army was panicked, and Boss Cao was also shocked. Subconsciously, he opened his mouth and vomited. Xun You also sent a water hyacinth to rinse his mouth and complained: "Prime Minister, Tao Thief is a famous despicable villain. How can you eat his food?"

"Hahahaha!" Deputy Director Tao laughed again and said, "Don't worry, you're having fun with you. Why don't you think about how the meat buns taken out of my dry food bag can be poisoned? Am I not afraid of taking the wrong ones and eating them by myself?"

"Hahahahaha!" Xuzhou team burst into laughter, but Boss Cao was furious and threw the water hyacinth, yelling: "Who is the one who captures the pottery thief with me?!"

"I'm willing to go!"

Dian Wei roared wildly and rushed towards Deputy Director Tao first. Without waiting for Deputy Director Tao's orders, Xu Chu had already raised his sword to meet him. Without saying a word, he fought with Dian Wei with fierce battles. Although Dian Wei's force was slightly above Xu Chu, he was injured. Not only was it difficult to defeat Xu Chu for a while, but he also fell into a disadvantage in front of Xu Chu's strange power. Seeing this scene, Boss Cao whispered to Xiahou Yuan next to him, and Xiahou Yuan immediately slapped his horse and rushed forward, determined to take advantage of the number of powerful generals of his own army to win a few games in the fight to boost morale.

Seeing Xiahou Yuan rushing forward, Deputy Director Tao also yelled at Taishi Ci. Taishi Ci rushed forward and also caught Xiahou Yuan's battle. Then Deputy Director Tao did not wait for Boss Cao to send a third general to the battle, and immediately ordered Ma Zhong, the captain of the personal army, "Ma Zhong, prepare for hidden arrows. The number of fierce generals in our army is not as good as that of Cao's thieves, and the generals suffer losses."

Ma Zhong nodded, took out the bow and arrow quietly, and then suddenly rushed out with a horse. The boss Cao also said that Deputy Director Tao was planning to fight with him to the end. When Cao Hong was sending Cao Hong forward to fight, Ma Zhong had already shot an arrow, hitting Xiahou Yuan's shoulder blade. Taishi Ci, who had been cooperating with Ma Zhong for the longest time, did not hesitate. He immediately slapped Xiahou Yuan on the back with a gun, smashing Xiahou Yuan's armor and spitting blood in his mouth. He quickly fled back to the flag formation in a panic.

"Shameless!" As the Cao army soldiers roared, Ma Zhong shot another arrow, and the arrowhead broke through the air and rushed to Dian Wei's face. Dian Wei was shocked and hurriedly lowered his head to avoid it. Xu Chu had already cut it with one knife, forcing Dian Wei to turn over and flee back to the flag formation on foot. Fortunately, Xu Chu was arrogant and refused to take advantage of the danger and did not chase him. Therefore, Dian Wei escaped by foot.

"Shameless! Despicable villain!" Amid the noisy roar and cursing, Cao Hong was furious and also pulled the bow and arrow, and shot Ma Zhong with an arrow. Unexpectedly, the sky was getting brighter and Ma Zhong was quick and quick. He immediately shot out an arrow. The arrowhead broke through the air and actually shot Cao Hongyu's arrow at high speed, splitting Cao Hongyu's arrow into two pieces in the air. The angry scolding of Cao's army suddenly turned into exclamations. Cao Hong himself was even more distracted and quickly fled back to his formation, saying that he would not dare to continue fighting arrows with the little monster Ma Zhong anymore. The eldest son Cao's face turned pale and gritted his teeth and wanted to break.

"Meng Degong, let me introduce you to General Ma Zhong, who is my personal captain." Deputy Director Tao smiled and said loudly: "I am my fellow Danyang and the first master of archery in our army. Before joining our army, he once shot General Zhao Yun's helmet with one arrow. After joining our army, he won General Cao Xing, the first magic arrow in Bingzhou in the archery betting battle."

With a light "bang", the handle of the horse whip in the hand of the boss Cao could not withstand the angrily grasp and was pinched into two pieces. Then, the boss Cao angrily threw down the broken whip, pulled out the sword of the traitor on his waist, pointed to the right-wing Zhang He's team, and shouted: "The right-wing attacks and attacks the enemy on the opposite side! Today, if you don't defeat the pottery thief, you will not withdraw your troops!"

"Don't defeat the pottery thieves! I will not withdraw my troops!" Amid the neat shouts, Zhang He's team went out in full swing and rushed to the right wing of the Xuzhou army opposite.

"I swear not to withdraw my troops? To put it nicely, if you dare to withdraw your troops at this time, I will kill half of your lackey with just one attack!" Deputy Director Tao sneered loudly, and then ordered: "Put the banner and order Chang Xi from the left to act according to the plan!"

The red flag was waving, and the left wing of the Xuzhou army lined into an oblique formation quickly retreated backward, as if he wanted to form a square formation to resist Zhang He's team's charge. Zhang He was secretly happy and was about to shout and order the army to accelerate the charge to attack Xuzhou. The flaws revealed by the army during the formation transformation, but as soon as his mouth opened, Zhang He suddenly widened his eyes. He opened his mouth wide and could not shout again, but could no longer close it...
Chapter completed!