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"Is that?" Cao was not very accepting of this explanation, because the diligent and studious boss Cao not only noticed that crows like to eat rotten meat, but also knew that a scout used to judge the enemy situation during reconnaissance, which is to judge whether there are ambushes in the woods or whether there are teams walking in the forest. So after a little calculation, Cao Cao arranged a team of scouts to probe northeast for reconnaissance, and told him that the reconnaissance must be expanded to the east of the military water, just in case Xun Yu and the generals of the Cao army felt that Cao's move was a bit too cautious, but he did not object.

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In fact, compared with the Northeast threat that only showed a little clue, Boss Cao should pay more attention to some of the threats from the front, that is, the threats from Ye County, because in Ye County, there is also a new cottage who is not very willing to work for Liu Biao, but he is also very unfamiliar with Boss Cao. Although Boss Cao has known Pang Tong's existence from Xu Shu and Mao Jie, he has also listened to Xu Shu's boast about the Wolong Feng Chu, because Zhuge Liang of Wolong has not shown any outstanding performance so far, Boss Cao doesn't care much about Pang Tong's threat. As a result, this naturally gives Pang Tong the opportunity to legitimate the disciples of Mr. Shuijing.

At the beginning, Pang Tong was a little lazy but didn't want to take action, but Liu Pan refused to give up after the defeat in the middle of the dynasty, and was ready to go out of the city to fight Cao's army again. As a result, Pang Tong didn't want to take action, so he quickly stopped Liu Pan and said, "Major General should not fight. Cao thieves are treacherous. There are many powerful generals under his command. There are many who can compete with General Han Sheng. Moreover, Cao thieves have already determined to break through the siege and go north. The top and bottom are united and share the same hatred for the enemy. The morale is very high. If the major general goes rashly, he will be defeated by Cao thieves. At that time, he may not even have the chance to retreat to Ye County to defend the city."

After saying that, Pang Tong added another sentence in his stomach, "It's nothing to do with me whether you can return to Yecheng, but if you really can't come back and Cao Zhe takes Yecheng as a victory, I'll be in trouble. Either the head falls to the ground or be carried by Cao Zhe to escape to Sili in Guanzhong. I don't want to go to such a ghost place!"

"Mr. Shi Yuan's words are reasonable," Liu Pan said in a difficult situation: "But if our army does not leave the city to fight and passively defend the city, what if Cao thief takes the opportunity to break through the Shui River?"

"As a matter of fact, he is still staring at the treasures in the Cao thief team." Pang Tong murmured in his heart, and then said lazily: "If the major general wants to defeat the Cao thief, there is no way. The major general can arrange for your deputy Yang Ling to come forward to surrender, and ask for an internal support to lure the Cao thief to attack Ye County's city at 3 o'clock tonight, and then you can take the opportunity to defeat the enemy."

"Teed Cao's thief to sneak attack Ye County?" Liu Pan was very happy at first, and then said: "Although Mr. Shiyuan's plan is magical, it still doesn't work. Ye County is a small city, and there is no urn city in all four gates. It is extremely difficult to ambush. If you are not careful, you may lead the wolf into the house. Will Cao's thief really kill into the city?"

"Major General, do you think Cao's thief will be fooled?" Pang Tong made an exaggerated expression and shouted: "Major General, why don't you think about who Cao's thief is? How could you hide it from Cao Mengde's eyes if you send someone to surrender? Tong dares to bet with the head of the Xiang Shangren bet no matter what excuse we use to surrender to Cao's camp, but it is also a conspirator of surrender as soon as he entered Cao's camp, Cao's thief immediately understood that we were using the surrender plan!"

"Ah?!" Liu Pan, Huang Zhong and others widened their eyes first, and then Liu Pan exclaimed again: "Mr. Shi Yuan, since the deception plan cannot be hidden from Cao Zhe's eyes, why do you still want me to send someone to defraud the surrender?"

"Of course it was a series of tricks to lure Cao's generals into making plans," Pang Tong said in a tone of regret: "Don't you understand such a simple truth? We sent people to surrender. After Cao's thief saw through it, how could he not have the intention to take down Ye County with a plan? If Cao's thief wants to use a plan, he will definitely have to mobilize the elite soldiers under his command. His camp will inevitably be empty. We will take the opportunity to send troops to rob the camp, so how can we succeed easily? At that time, Cao's thief discovered that he was trapped and hurriedly returned to the rescue, and we will attack Cao's thief team with the strange soldiers out of the city. It is really hard to win this battle."

Although he didn't like Pang Tong's arrogant tone very much, after listening to Pang Tong's analysis, Liu Pan was overjoyed and quickly dispatched according to the plan. He first gave up the plan to fight out of the city and ordered the army to hurry up and rest and prepare for the night battle. Then he asked another deputy Yang Ling to come forward and arranged a confidant soldier to leave the city with a letter, pretending that Yang Ling was punished by Liu Pan because of his poor combat in yesterday's war. He decided to surrender to the boss Cao and Xiancheng. He agreed to raise the fire as a call at the third update at night to open the east gate of Ye County, where he was responsible, to welcome Cao's army into the city.

As Pang Tong expected, after seeing Yang Ling's surrender, Cao Boss Cao even used his toes to analyze it and knew how miserable he was to surrender to the tiger and fall into Pingyang. Yang Ling, who was doing well in Jingzhou, would only do the wrong medicine to sacrifice the city and betray Liu Biao, who had food and territory, and went to Sili Guanzhong, who could not even have enough food to eat!

However, what Pang Tong still predicted was that although he knew that Yang Ling was just pretending to surrender and lure the enemy, Boss Cao had no intention of exposing the matter at all. Not only did he give the envoy happily, he also said that he would personally lead his army to attack Yecheng by himself, and he would definitely reward Yang Ling with great rebirth after the matter was completed. Yang Ling's personal soldiers were also very happy and quickly took Boss Cao's reply back to the city to announce the good news to Yang Ling. Looking at the back of Yang Ling's personal soldiers leaving happily, Boss Cao sneered, "Xu Yuanzhi made Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong the gods, it seems that this is the case! Since the pottery thief wanted one leg of Zhuge Liang, I will have Pang Tong's life this time!"

The Cao army was still behind and sent away Yang Ling's envoy. Cao Hong and Yu Jin and other generals protected the food, supplies and family. Finally, they passed the Wushui Pass to the north and met with the main force. The Cao army was very happy and went to the rear army to greet him and met his wives, concubines and children. At this time, Cao already had nine sons and four daughters, and the number of wives and concubines reached 12. The family was crowded with people, calling their children and daughters, and calling them was almost like a downtown area. It also allowed Cao Cao, who had been depressed for many days, to enjoy a moment of family happiness. But of course, what Cao didn't know was that this was his last family reunion.

When the family reunited, trouble gradually came to the door. First of all, it was already in the afternoon. It was too late to build a village for the Houjun to log and build a village. Therefore, Cao was forced to helplessly and had to let the Houjun build a temporary camp. The Houjun camp was camping for overnight without any weak garrison force. Fortunately, Cao's family had been used to being displaced in the past year, and no one complained. At the same time, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Cao did not let his wives, concubines and children move into the front camp for overnight, but let them camp with the Houjun camp. But in fact, the fortifications in Caojun camp were also pitifully weak.

Another trouble is that the scouts sent to the northeast. Although the scouts sent to the banks of the Hanshui River have already received rewards, saying that there was nothing abnormal until the Hanshui River, the Cao army scouts who had crossed the Hanshui River to the northeast for reconnaissance did not hear back. I don’t know if they were deserters or accidents. For this reason, the Cao eldest son, who had very weak troops, was completely helpless, so he had to send the scouts to closely monitor the situation in the Northeast to provide early warnings, and to gain a pitiful response time for the main force.

Autumn is getting shorter and the sky is getting darker at the beginning of the day. Seeing that the time is approaching, the eldest son Cao immediately called the general and sent troops. He decided to lead 6,000 troops north to attack Yecheng. He ordered Zhang Liao to take his own flag for the vanguard and sneak attack the city in a plan. Cao Cao himself led the main force to follow him, preparing to ambush the ambush that Liu Panjun must have existed.

After the arrangement, Mr. Cao personally reminded Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan remember that there is no urn city in Ye County. If the enemy sets up an ambush, he will inevitably install a gate at the end of the city gate corridor to cut off the contact between your army entering the city and the rear army. Now all the soldiers and soldiers of our army are already extremely precious. So after you open the city gate, you must not venture into the city. Just destroy the city gate and the sling, and then retreat immediately! Don't worry about Liu Pan's ambush outside the city, Liu Pan's ambush appears, and I will immediately kill you and attack Liu Pan's husband in front and behind!"

Zhang Liao clasped his fists and sang his promise, knelt down and took the flag of Cao Boss Cao, and then immediately hurriedly led two thousand front troops out of the camp. Cao Boss Cao still left Xun Yu, Cao Hong and Yu Jin, who had already blinded, guarded the camp to protect the food and grass family. He personally led more than 4,000 main forces to go out of the camp, carrying a horse mat, quietly following five miles behind Zhang Liao's team, carefully touching the east gate of Ye County twenty miles away.

After more than an hour of darkness, when the two teams of Cao's army arrived at the reserved battlefield one after another, it was almost the third update. When he heard that Zhang Liao's team had successfully lurked to the Houming outside the East Gate of Ye County, Boss Cao sneered and ordered the army to rest on the spot, seized time to recover his strength and prepare for battle. However, at this moment, Boss Cao, a capable adviser, led several followers to come hurried from the rear. Boss Cao, who was aware of Xun Yu's steady personality, was shocked when he heard the news and quickly passed Cheng Yu to the front. As soon as he met, he asked, "What happened?"

Cheng Yu looked around and did not dare to say anything. Boss Cao was even more shocked. He hurriedly drove away the soldiers around him and ordered Cheng Yu to come over and speak with his ears. Cheng Yu whispered in Boss Cao's ear: "Lord, big things are not good. You sent scouts west of the Marine River to find on the banks of the Rushui River that Yuan Tan's remnants of Xuchang had abandoned the city and was rushing towards Ye County at full speed. In the evening, Yuan Tan's former army had arrived at the Marine River and immediately set out to cross the river!"

"The remnants of Yuan Tan's army have abandoned the city? Are they still coming here?" Boss Cao was dizzy and blurted out, "Did the Tao thief chase after him?"

"I don't know" Cheng Yu said in a frustrated tone: "We found that our scout team of Yuan Tan's former army accidentally encountered Yuan Tan's former army's scout. Two of the five people died, two escaped, and one of them was captured alive and could not find a further location."

"Ah...!" Boss Cao spent countless efforts to finally press his roar back into his chest. He clenched his fists and slammed his palms. After a while, he angrily said: "It's trouble. Not only can we not confirm whether the pottery thief is chasing us, but our situation will also be exposed."

"Lord, Mr. Wen Ruo and his subordinates also think so. This time the trouble must be big." Cheng Yu whispered again: "Yuan Tan and Liu Biao have to establish a mutual protection alliance. Although the two thieves do not have the courage to really fight with the Tao thieves, they will join forces to attack our army, which is already at a loss. These two thieves will definitely be willing to take advantage of the situation. Therefore, Mr. Wen Ruo specially sent Yu to report the thief to the thief. He also asked the thief to think carefully, whether to give up the ambush plan, give priority to protecting our army, and then find another way out?"

"When is it now?" Boss Cao asked with a stern face.

"This..." Cheng Yu was embarrassed without a clock or watch, and he could only look up at the waning moon that appeared in the sky, and replied with an estimated feeling: "It's probably only half a moment away from the third update? Maybe it's less than half a moment."

"It's only half a moment away?" At the critical moment, after a little calculation, the adventure-loving boss Cao made another gambling decision and gritted his teeth and said: "You can't give up the ambush plan, you have to gamble. If you can take advantage of the victory, we will still have hope of breaking through. If you give up at this time, we will never have hope of breaking through."

Cheng Yu actually knew that he would get this answer, but Cheng Yu didn't dare to object, but he bowed to the boss Cao and said, "Since the lord has made up his mind, Yu dares not object, but the lord asks Yu to remind him, no matter what the situation of the war is, before dawn, please be sure to return to the Grand Camp. Our camp is too weak."

Boss Cao nodded silently, praying in his heart that God would bless him. Deputy Director Tao's pursuers could arrive at the Ye County battlefield later. Otherwise, Boss Cao really didn't know that he could protect his family and broke through the siege and remembered his family and his deputy director Tao who said more than once to be his son-in-law. Boss Cao naturally thought of his four outstanding daughters. Then Boss Cao clenched his fists quietly and whispered in a low voice: "No matter what, father will not let you fall into his hands."

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"Qing'er, your younger brothers and sisters are all asleep. Go and go to bed quickly. My mother has done the other things by herself."

At the same time, in the Cao Junhou camp, Mrs. Ding, the wife of the eldest son, personally checked the sleep conditions of young children, and once again urged him, asking the eldest daughter Cao Qing, who was always with him to go back to the tent to rest, but Cao Qing immediately shook his head and refused, and insisted on serving his mother to sleep first and then go down to rest. Mrs. Ding, who knew her daughter's stubborn personality, had no choice but to listen to her daughter's advice, wash her face and wash her feet under her own service, and prepare to go to bed and rest.

It was also when Cao Qing brought Qingshui to him that Mrs. Ding found that there was blood on Cao Qing's hand and asked the reason carefully. Cao Qing replied truthfully: "Mother, the sky is getting colder. My daughter wants to sew a cold clothes for her father. She can't see clearly under the lamp, so she pierced her hand."

"You daughter" Mrs. Ding complained and felt distressed. She quickly grabbed her daughter's white and tender hands to check, and then sucked her with her own hands to do it. Then she complained: "You sew cold clothes for your father. You won't sew during the day? Do you know if you do needles and threads under the lamp?

"Daughter knows," Cao Qing replied softly, and said softly: "But if my daughter doesn't do it quickly, it will probably be too late. My daughter knows that my father's war is not going well, and we may not even find a place to stay in peace in the future. If my daughter doesn't seize the time, she may not have the chance to sew clothes for her father again in the future."

"Nonsense, your father wins every battle, no one in the world is his opponent." Mrs. Ding brags for her husband without confidence, and then said helplessly: "Apart from the traitor in Xuzhou and that shameless traitor, your father still has no choice but to do anything to him now."

"What my mother is talking about Tao Ying's traitor?" When talking about the culprit who caused her family to such a situation, Cao Qing felt like he was biting his silver teeth and said angrily: "My father didn't know what he thought back then. If he had cut the traitor with one knife, how could our Cao family have today?"

"This is the thing that your father regrets the most in his life," Mrs. Ding sighed, and then said casually: "The most annoying thing is that your father said that the traitor had attacked you more than once, wanting to force your father to give you maybe."

"He dreamed!" Cao Qing said flatly without hesitation: "Even if his daughter marrys a chicken and a dog, she will not marry that traitor!"

Mrs. Ding nodded, then suddenly laughed, caressing her daughter's little hand and said, "Actually, if the traitor had not married, Wei Mom might even advise your father to agree to this marriage. Your brother said that the traitor was just cruel to the outside but very nice to the inside, and was very handsome, and was just right with you..."

"mother!"
Chapter completed!