Fan Hao admired the five-body throw, but the potter only smiled faintly and sighed: "The incident happened suddenly, in order to rush to save you, I can only take a few thousand light troops first, to deal with Cao Cao's tens of thousands of troops, if you don't play a little clever, how can you scare Cao Cao." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

It turned out that when the potter led thousands of elite soldiers and rushed here with light equipment, he encountered Fan Hao being besieged, and what surprised him even more was that Cao's army had tens of thousands of people.

The potter immediately realized that this was Cao Cao's entire division here, with his thousands of soldiers and horses, if he forcibly attacked, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to save Fan Xu, but he would also put himself in it.

Fortunately, the potter took precautions in advance and brought thousands of more flags, which came in handy at this time, creating the illusion of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses attacking, and successfully bluffed Cao Cao.

At this time, Yingbu also came with a horse, and after seeing the potter's methods, a little admiration rarely appeared on his unruly face, and he couldn't help but give his hand and said: "The lord's soldiers are treacherous, which really opens Bu's eyes." ”

What kind of person is Yingbu, that is the three major generals of the early Han Dynasty, except for a few people in Liu Bang and Xiang Yu in his life, there are few people he admires, but now he can say these words to the pottery merchant, and it is naturally very useful to listen.

The potter was secretly proud in his heart, but praised: "In today's battle, you defeated two Cao generals in a row, and retreated from the tiger idiot Xu Chu, which greatly increased the morale of our army. ”

The potter knew that Yingbu was the most proud, and he was a little greedy for fame and fortune and weak, and now that he had made such a big profit, how could he not give him benefits to win people's hearts.

Sure enough, after hearing the praise of the potter, Yingbu was already proud, and when he heard that he was going to be rewarded with fifty gold, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't close his mouth happily, and thanked the potter again and again.

The potter laughed, knowing that this plan could not be hidden from Cao Cao for long, so he led the whole army to retreat eastward, to the dangerous underground village, to prevent Cao Cao from entering Pengcheng along the river.

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To the west of Bishui, Cao Cao was leading tens of thousands of his male soldiers to retreat to Xiao County with great vigilance.

Cao Cao has been silent, and his subordinates on the left and right have also looked gloomy.

Guo Jia's exquisite and unparalleled strategy was discovered by the pottery merchants, Cao Ren and Yu Ban joined forces, but they couldn't help Fan Xu, Li Dian and Cao Hong were defeated by Yingbu, and even Xu Chu, one of the two heroes, was finally forced to retreat by Yingbu......

The self-esteem and self-confidence of these Cao Ying heroes were hit hard by the potters in this battle.

The remnant sun was setting, and the depressed Cao Jun was silently advancing under the dim sun.

"Something is wrong!" Cao Cao, who had been gloomy all the time, moved his body, as if he had suddenly thought of something, reined in his mount, and turned to look east.

Guo Jia and other civil and military officials on the left and right also stopped, looking at Cao Cao's strange expression, everyone looked at each other with a blank face.

After staring for a moment, a hint of discoloration flashed in Cao Cao's eyes, and he whipped and shouted, "The whole army stops advancing." ”

Everyone's expressions changed, and they thought that Cao Cao couldn't swallow this breath, and he didn't plan to retreat to Xiao County, but planned to turn around and fight to the death with the army of potters.

"Sikong, the morale of our army has been frustrated, and the enemy army is coming with a whole division, so don't fight out of anger." Guo Jiaqiang endured his cough and admonished.

Cao Cao ignored him and shouted: "Quickly send scouts, return to the battlefield, and carefully check the enemy's military situation for Lone." ”

The generals had no choice but to station their troops and horses in a defensive formation, and at the same time send five teams of scouts and scouts to return to the battlefield to the east.

Unconsciously that the evening was approaching, tens of thousands of Cao troops lined up in the wilderness, all of them were uneasy, brewing their will to fight, ready to fight fiercely with the chasing Tao army.

These famous generals in Cao's army were not cowards, but the potters saw through their schemes, and the Yingbu force was too dazzling, which deeply shocked them and made it difficult for them to recover their former fighting spirit for a while.

Cao Cao frowned, wrapped in a cloak, and his eyes were slightly closed.

His expression seemed to have seen through the truth, but he didn't want to believe it, so he could only wait for the scout to bring back the news.

Others didn't know Cao Cao's thoughts, but Guo Jia's pale face was colored, he seemed to have guessed seven or eight points, and embarrassment couldn't help but appear in his eyes.

Before the sun went down completely, the scouts sent out finally returned to the formation.

The leader of the team stepped forward immediately and arched his hand: "Yu Sikong, the Tao army has retreated eastward along the river, and it is fifteen miles away at this moment, and it has not taken advantage of the victory to pursue. ”

The generals on the left and right breathed a sigh of relief, glad that the potters did not take advantage of the victory to pursue.

When Cao Cao heard this information, instead of breathing a sigh of relief, his face became more and more gloomy, and his expression seemed to be annoyed by someone who had been teased.

Taking a deep breath, Cao Cao asked again, "Can you find out how many reinforcements the pottery merchant has?" ”

"According to the reconnaissance of the small ones, the number of enemy troops does not exceed five thousand at most."

No more than five thousand!?

Cao Ren and other generals present were all taken aback, except for Guo Jia, everyone's faces were instantly occupied by surprise and dazedness, with such expressions, as if they couldn't believe their ears.

How could they forget that on the battlefield not long ago, they clearly heard the earth-shattering drums, the wild dust in the sky, and thousands of battle flags, such a momentum, at least more than 10,000 soldiers and horses attacked, how could it add up to less than 5,000?

How can this be, are we all dazzled?

The shocked generals were all in a daze, looking at each other, all of them looking puzzled.

Cao Cao didn't speak, and looked at Guo Jia.

Guo Jia's pale face flashed a trace of shame, so he had to sigh lightly, and arched his hand to Cao Cao: "Jia is ashamed, he didn't see that the potter was just a Guangshu banner, and he bluffed, which caused Sikong to make a wrong judgment, please punish Sikong." ”

Guo Jia's apology is tantamount to telling the truth, and he is carrying the black pot for Cao Cao.

Cao Ren and other generals were all surprised, and everyone suddenly realized, all of them were very remorseful, regretting that they had missed a good opportunity to annihilate the potter, and they were annoyed that they were being played by the potter.

"It's not about filial piety, it's just that I underestimate the treacherous degree of this potter......"

Cao Cao, who had been silent, finally sighed lightly, he did not let Guo Jia carry the black pot alone, but calmly admitted his mistake.

In fact, this strategy of the potter merchant is not very clever, with the wisdom of Cao Cao and Guo Jia, how can it not be seen.

It was only a series of changes at that time, which happened too suddenly, breaking Cao Cao and Guo Jia's prior planning, so that they were shocked by the pottery merchants for a while, and lost their calm, so they mistakenly fell into the pottery merchants' strategy and ordered the withdrawal of troops.

At this time, they calmed down, and naturally realized that they had fallen for the potter's tricks.

If the potters really led the main force to attack, how could they not take advantage of the victory to cover up the killing, and how could they sit back and watch them retreat.

Moreover, their series of layouts have disrupted the potter's soldiers and horses, and the potters must have come lightly with elite soldiers in order to save Fan Xu, so how could they bring the main force over.

There are so many suspicions, Cao Cao only needs to send scouts to reconnoitre, and the truth will naturally be revealed.

Cao Cao was very angry, and he felt unpleasant about being humiliated.

You must know that he Cao Cao believes that he uses soldiers like a god, and he is best at surprise soldiers and tricks, but he doesn't want to be tricked by potters and tricks now.

This is a blatant slap in the face to him.

And the generals of Cao Ren, who learned the truth, were also disgraced one by one, their fighting spirit was low, and everyone sighed and regretted.

At this time, Cao Cao, who had been silent and annoyed, suddenly changed his face and laughed loudly.

Cao Ren and the others were all stunned, and looked at Cao Cao blankly, thinking that they were being played by the potters, and a well-planned plan failed, how could Cao Cao still be in the mood to laugh.

Under a pair of blank eyes, Cao Cao's face was reborn with pride, and he sneered: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, what's the big deal, besides, we are not defeated today, at most it is just a draw, you are all heroes in the world, are you still afraid of the potter?"

Hearing Cao Cao's confident words, the generals were gradually encouraged, their fighting spirit was rekindled, and their low mood was swept away.

"What Sikong said is that when Lu Bu attacked Yanzhou, we were almost forced into a desperate situation, and in the end we all turned defeat into victory, and now it is only a small defeat, and it has not broken our muscles and bones, and the potter has not taken much advantage, what reason do we have to be discouraged, as long as we work together and obey the dispatch of the si, sooner or later we will break that thief."

As the first general of the Cao family, Cao Ren also stood up in time to boost the morale of the whole army.

The morale of the generals was quickly boosted, and in a blink of an eye, they were as high as fire, and they all shouted generously for war, declaring that they would destroy the potters in order to avenge the shame of today.

For a while, the rumbling shouts of killing rose to the sky, and the fighting intent of hunting like fire burned again among the Cao army.

A relieved smile quietly appeared at the corner of Cao Cao's mouth, and he gave the order to continue to march towards Xiao County and wait for the next day to fight again.

Tens of thousands of Cao troops marched again, with a vengeful anger in their hearts, and retreated all the way to Xiao County.

"Potter, today Lone is really seeing your strength, from today on, Lone is going to get serious......" Cao Cao looked back to the east, his scorched face burned with a trace of coldness.