Soon Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses began to be dispatched, first of all, the scouts were dispersed, which was really a 360-degree monitoring of Cao Cao's army, and then the 20,000 army immediately moved forward, and the Chinese army was Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan's soldiers and horses.

On both sides of the side are Zhang Nan's cavalry in response, in order to prevent Cao Cao's old thief from taking advantage of it.

Yuan Shao closely monitored Cao Cao, and Cao Cao would not let go of Yuan Shaona.

Cao Cao's scouts had already fought with Yuan Shao's scouts many times, and after losing a lot of corpses, the dynamics of Yuan Shao's army were also placed in front of Cao Cao.

"Humph!" Cao Cao sneered again and again, "My original good brother, you would be so cautious?" Cao Cao was very unhappy, and he didn't have a chance to get some heads.

But Cao Cao was not discouraged, because what he Cao Cao had a big plan for.

Cao Cao personally mounted his war horse, and took the most elite tiger and leopard cavalry and the divine marching army in his hands to delay the retreat of his main army.

In order not to let Yuan Shao see the reality of the truth, from time to time sent tigers and leopards to ride on the side to feint, Yuan Shao's order was not to engage with the Cao army, so Zhang Nan also obeyed the order, the tiger and leopard cavalry retreated as soon as they came, and if they could not retreat, they would not enter the woods on the side.

In this way, everyone is in a very wonderful balance, Cao Cao can't beat Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao is unwilling to deal with Cao Cao.

It was as if Yuan Shao's army was escorting Cao Cao's army all the way to the edge of the Yellow River.

Seeing that his family's main army had completed the retreat, Cao Cao immediately ordered his main army to camp on the spot, and all kinds of fortifications such as trenches and horses were in full swing.

Xun Yu and others are arranging boats on both sides of the Yellow River in order to be able to send the army across the Yellow River safely.

Gao Gan approached Cao Cao's army camp step by step with his soldiers and horses, but he did not dare to take action against Cao Cao's army, but spread the news he saw in front of him to the rear, and at the same time built a barracks not far from Cao Cao's camp.

Gao Gan's large-scale soldiers and horses did not dare to mobilize, but the small-scale battles were continuous, Yuan Shao did not go to the camp first, but there were still halberders in his hands, as well as the iron cavalry of Bingzhou, although Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry was elite, but it could not take any advantage, the two sides fought in the wilderness on a small scale, and the scale of 100 people was bloody and bloody.

Under Zhang Nan's command, the Euphorbia quickly got the prisoners he wanted from the lone tiger and leopard riders and the seriously injured tiger and leopard riders, even if the tiger and leopard riders were all tough guys, there were also fish that slipped through the net.

Naturally, there is no shortage of interrogation talents in Yuan Shaojun.

"You said that those captives said that Yanzhou was defeated, and Cao Cao's traitors urgently needed to cross the Yellow River and go back to Yanzhou, so they would withdraw their troops?" Xun Cen asked in disbelief.

"Exactly! Those captives don't lie! "One or two people may collude, but so many people are saying that it must be true.

"The lord is not in a hurry when it has reached such a time, it is better to watch it for two more days! Cao Cao's old thief's soldiers and horses will not be able to cross the Yellow River for a while! Xun Cen still asked Yuan Shao to be cautious.

Although Yuan Shao agreed on the surface, he was still irritable in his heart.

Xun Cen asked his subordinates to pay close attention to the number of stoves in Cao Cao's army, and the 40,000 army should generally be about 5,000 stoves and eight people in a pot of rice.

There was no movement on the first and second days, and there was a lot of five thousand stoves, but on the third and fourth days, it changed.

"There are fewer stoves in Cao's camp?" Xun Cen asked the scouts under his hand with a happy face, you must know that Xun Cen is also happy to defeat Cao Cao.

"That's right! Yesterday it was 5,000 stoves, but today it has become 4,000 stoves! ”

"Good, good, good!" Xun Cen couldn't help nodding, and the worries in his heart began to be slowly dispelled, and the reduction of a thousand stoves showed that Cao Cao's army had really withdrawn.

This is not because Xun Cen relaxed his vigilance, but Cao Cao has increased the number of scouts, and he was able to get close to Cao Cao's camp for ten miles before, but now it is difficult to enter even thirty miles, and Yuan Shaojun's scouts are spying towards Cao Cao's army as if they were sent to death.

After another two days, there were only less than 3,000 stoves in Cao Cao's camp, which means that Cao Cao withdrew nearly half of his soldiers and horses from Hebei.

"How can you give up such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, pass on my military order and send troops immediately!" Yuan Shao was about to jump up as soon as he slapped the table.

"Slow!" Xun Cen stood up again, "Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, don't be impatient, although Cao Cao's old thief has reduced the stove, but we can't be completely sure whether Cao Cao has withdrawn his army, the lord might as well wait for another day, so that Cao Cao's plan can be fully confirmed!" ”

"Wait!" Yuan Shao is almost enough.

"My lord. Our army now only has 100,000 troops and nearly half of them are in the hands of Yuan Shanggongzi, I have already sent someone to contact the third prince, even if our army wins the battle now, Cao Cao may not be able to occupy Yanzhou immediately, but may be cheaper General Yuan Yao! Xun Cen said to Yuan Shao with a look of me thinking about you. It's better to wait for the soldiers and horses of the third prince to have news and the army will attack together, so that Wenwen can take Yanzhou! ”

Once Cao Cao is eliminated, then the enemy in front of Yuan Shaojun is Huainan Yuan Yao, don't look at Yuan Shao's good nephew shouting very cordially now, once Cao Cao is destroyed, then Yuan Shao and Yuan Yao will only have to fight each other.

"Yes!" If Xun Cen still used Cao Cao's trickery to persuade Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao would definitely be unable to ignore it, but if Yuan Yao came to speak, it would be much easier.

"Hmph, don't be cheap, Yuan Yao'er!" As soon as Yuan Shao said this, Xun Cen knew that Yuan Shao still listened to his opinion, and Xun Cen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing that his courtiers cared so much about him, Yuan Shao would not be stingy in praising Xun Cen is fierce praise, so that Guo Tu and the others on the side looked at Xun Cen's complexion.

Xun Cen continued to pay close attention to the news sent back by his scouts.

After all, Yuan Shao couldn't help but chase Cao Cao all the way to the edge of the Yellow River.

After Cao Cao learned the news, he immediately laughed three times, his brother Yuan Benchu really had an appetite for him Cao Cao, Cao Cao couldn't wait for the enemies of the world to be like Yuan Shao, where to find this kind of stupid and cute enemy.

"Pass the order, let Gao Ranyu ban Xiahou Chun, Xiahou Yuan and others do everything according to the plan!" Cao Cao shouted to the guards under his hands.

"Evil Zhongkang, the two of you will cooperate with my personal guard battalion, and charge together in the battle tomorrow, and break through Yuan Shaojun's camp for me!" Cao Cao said to Xu Chu and Dian Wei.

"The last general commands!"

"Come on, tell them to make a fire on the third watch and cook on the fifth watch, all the stoves don't have to be hidden and tucked, all of them will be laid out for me to show Yuan Shao!" Cao Cao continued to his subordinates.

"Ahhh Xu Chu on the side didn't understand, "Lord, you just fooled Yuan Shaojun, and now take out the stove, will this be too hasty!" ”

"Haha~!" Cao Cao laughed, "Zhongkang, Zhongkang, if there is only Yuan Shao on the other side, I naturally don't need to do this, but there is still a Xun Cen next to Yuan Shao!" The soldiers are not tired of deceit, but the same trick is used too much, and it will also make people suspicious! Cao Cao could see that Xun Cen on the other side looked cautious, if he Cao Cao didn't have a stove, I was afraid that Xun Cen would be scared and didn't dare to do it.

Xu Chu nodded as if he didn't understand.

Cao Cao doesn't need Xu Chu to understand, Xu Chu Dianwei is two charging in his Cao Cao's mind, and it is enough to be able to protect him Cao Cao.

As the saying goes, the smarter people think, the more they think, and the simpler the method, the more they can fool smart people.

Cao Cao's matter of letting his soldiers and horses restore the stove still fooled Xun Cen after all.

On the second day, Yuan Shaojun's scouts informed Xun Cen that when the stove in Cao Cao's camp was restored to 5,000 stoves, Xun Cen was stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed.

Xun Cen is very tired, he is really tired, the Hebei Army is not without strategists, there are many people who are stronger than him Xun Cen, Guo Tu and others are no worse than him Xun Cen, but it is a pity that these individuals have put their minds on fighting for power.

So he, Xun Cen, was resisting the entire Cao Cao strategist group alone.

This made Xun Cen cautious, and now Xun Cen was relieved, because all kinds of signs showed that Cao Cao was indeed withdrawing his troops.

"What does this mean? Cao Cao did not withdraw his troops? Why are there more stoves? Yuan Shao didn't understand.

"My lord, this is the treacherous and cunning of Cao Cao's old thief!" Xun Cen explained to Yuan Shao over there. "He must have found out that our army had moved forward, for fear that our army would send troops, so that the soldiers and horses under his command could restore the stove again, but he didn't know that our army had been observing all along, and now it is impossible to deceive our army by increasing the stove!"

"The lord can send troops!" Even Xun Cen couldn't help it, it was too tempting, the current Lao Cao was like a beauty with open arms, Xun Cen couldn't help but go up and take advantage of it even if he was from the bay.

"In the past dozens of days, although our army is fighting against Cao Cao's Yanzhou army, but the big battlefield is not much of a scout battle, and Cao Cao's old thief under tens of thousands of soldiers must have not eaten much grain and grass, originally he could still send grain and grass supplies from Yanzhou, and now Shanyang County and Juye County have been breached, he Cao Cao basically has no supplies, unless he Cao Cao wants to die, otherwise he can only withdraw back to Yanzhou!" Xun Cen treated Cao Cao as an ordinary person, but he didn't know that Cao Cao was really ruthless.

"Why can't Mr. Xun Cen put Cao Cao's old thief back to Yanzhou and Yuan Yao'er to die?"

"Put, of course, Cao Cao has crossed the river with a lot of main soldiers and horses, these are enough to give Huainan Yuan Yao a headache, and what our army needs is to eliminate the soldiers and horses left by the Cao thief in front of them, which can boost morale and play the prestige of my Hebei army, these two? The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Divine Marching Army are really a big problem for our army, and it is better to remove them than to keep them! Xun Cen didn't want to completely destroy Cao Cao's soldiers and horses in Hebei, but if he didn't move at all, then it was inevitable that Yuan Yao would have opinions, if Yuan Yao was angry or Cao Cao sent an envoy to Huainan to have a cold mouth, it would be difficult to eliminate Cao Cao.

"Mr. Xun Cen, do you want to stop slowing down?" Even Xun Cen, who has always been a moderate faction, persuaded Yuan Shao to send troops, but Yuan Shao was a little cowardly.

"Don't miss the main plane!" Xun Cen accentuated his tone.

"That's right, father's opportunity!" Yuan Tan on the side knew all of Cao Cao's plans, and he couldn't help but feel funny when he saw Xun Cen jumping up and down here, no matter how capable you are now, you can only fall for Cao Cao.

Guo Tu looked at Yuan Shao deeply, and then at Yuan Tan, he couldn't help sighing in his heart, even a character like Xun Cen had to be played with by Cao Cao in applause? Inevitably, Guo Tu was even more jealous of Cao Cao.

"Good!" Seeing that all the soldiers and horses under his hands were talking like this, Yuan Shao also let go, "Pass my military order, the whole army will leave the camp, and I will personally sit in the Chinese army to break through the Cao camp!" ”

With a wave of Yuan Shao's hand, Hebei's war machine began to rotate rapidly.

Soon the soldiers and horses of the Hebei Yuan Shaojun army, which was nearly 100,000 troops, came out of their respective camps one after another, and the men of Hebei were tall and sturdy people, and Yuan Shao was a person who liked face engineering very much, so the military formation of the Hebei army standing up was absolutely beautiful.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses lined up on both sides of the Yellow River, which is called a grandeur.

Yuan Shao himself went into battle himself, with a thousand-mile sweat and blood horse on his crotch, bright golden armor on his body, the banner on the side said General Yuan, and on the other side it was written Fengtian to rebel.

Yuan Shao's side Yuan Tan and Yuan Dagongzi are on the left, Xun Cen on the right, and Guo Tu and others are the next step, and they are full of talents.

Cao Cao knew in the camp that Yuan Shao was personally in charge of the Chinese army, and he immediately slapped his thigh and jumped up excitedly, "It's good, it's good!" Spread my military order, quickly get up my army in the middle and line up with me, I want to meet my childhood friends there for a while! ”

"Knock knock!" The drums of war were beating in the wind, and Cao Cao's 20,000 Chinese troops quickly set up a formation, but Cao Cao's 20,000 Chinese troops were a little shivering in front of Yuan Shao's hundreds of thousands of troops, but if you look closely at the military generals and ministers around Cao Cao, you will find that they are no less than Yuan Shao's army.

What Cao Cao lacks is money, but there is no shortage of talents.

"The traitor Yuan Shao, in vain you is the son of the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes, but you don't want to report the Han family to be a traitor in this Hebei, before I was ordered by the Han Emperor to crusade against you, but I never thought that you made that shrinking turtle, and now watching Wang Shi leave, you are bold again, ready to come up and die?" Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shaodao over there mockingly.

"Ahem!" Yuan Shao has indeed been exempt from war for a long time, but this can't be weak on the surface and scared crazy, "Cao Cao Cao Mengde, your name is Han Chen, but you are actually a Han thief, you coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, our dynasty has abolished the prime minister for a long time, the person who was called the prime minister before was the traitor Dong Zhuo, and today you Cao Mengde is also the prime minister, this is really a traitor's heart, and it appears under Lang Lang Qiankun!" As for the reason why you attacked me before Hebei and didn't fight, I was not afraid of you, but actually to drag you down, how about Cao Mengde, can your Yanzhou be safe? Counting the hour, my good nephew should have hit you outside the city! Haha

Cao Cao was silent, and Cao Cao's army on the side was also in a commotion, because Cao Cao had also released the news before, that is, Yuan Yao Xiao'er took advantage of him, Cao Cao was unprepared, and took Shanyang County and Juye County.

Now that Yanzhou is in turmoil, these Yanzhou troops have long been out of Hebei, and they can't wait to fly across the Yellow River and run home.

Seeing that Cao Cao had nothing to refute Yuan Shao, he was even more overjoyed, he thought that he had hit Cao Cao's lameness.

"Generals, who will take down this Cao Cao traitor for me!" Yuan Shao thought that he had won the game, and immediately ordered the generals under his command to come forward and capture Cao Cao.

In this matter, Cao Cao's army was demoralized, and it was time to send troops.

"Lord, the last general is willing to go, Cao Cao's old thief will die!" Saying that, a middle-aged military general rushed out, and this person was Zhang Nan.

"Haha, hahaha, haha!" Seeing that Cao Cao's army was fluctuating, and Yuan Shao's victory was in his hands, no one in Cao's army dared to fight, but he never thought that Cao Cao suddenly laughed.

Subconsciously, Yuan Shao asked, "What are you laughing at!" ”

"Not good!" Xun Cen was shocked in his heart, if the lord Yuan Shao directly covered the army just now, he would definitely be in an invincible position, but now it is not good.

"Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao, I thought you were a smart person, but I never thought you were so confused!" Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao sarcastically.

"Hmph, it's hard to die!"

"Yuan Benchu, where did you see that my Yanzhou has been attacked by Yuan Yao'er, and I can't wait to go back to Yanzhou?" Cao Cao continued to ask.

Before Yuan Shao could answer, Cao Cao over there replied instead of Yuan Shao, "Is it from my army to reduce the stove or from the stove I increased yesterday?" Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao over there with a smile and said.

"What?" Yuan Shao was shocked.

"Yuan Benchu, I have known you for so many years, can there be anyone in this world who knows you better than me? You are not as good as me for the civil minister, you are not as good as me for the governor, and you are not as good as me for the military generals to march and fight! The only thing you can get your hands on is the name of the fourth world and the third duke! Do you think your scouts will be able to break through my defenses and observe the state of my camp? Do you think I'm stupid to set up the camp under the hillside behind this backwater? I'm telling you, all this is to pull you, a shrunken turtle, out of your sturdy turtle shell, and the main force of my Yanzhou army is all here, in order to destroy you in a battle! Cao Cao's voice was sonorous and powerful, and every word smashed into Yuan Shao's heart like a hammer.

"How is that possible?" Yuan Shao's face changed suddenly, he was very embarrassed, even Xun Cen was a little flustered in his heart.

"Nothing is impossible, Yuan Benchu, Yuan Benchu, just because you still want to delay with me? Will I not know about the filthy relationship between you and Yuan Yao'er? One south and one north attacking my Yanzhou, it is really a good calculation and calculation, but it's a pity that your nephew Yuan Yao is not angry! ”

"Hmph, Cao Cao, old thief, you don't want to bluff, I have a letter sent by General Yuan Yao here, on which it is clearly written that you have been defeated in Shanyang County and Juye County, Cao Ren is not nowhere to be found, Cheng Yu also fled back to Xudu in a panic, and Li Xin was even killed in battle!" Xun Cen took out the letter and questioned Cao Cao over there.

"Haha, haha, Mr. Xuncen, is there several words in the second line and the third sentence of your letter that are reversed?"

"What?" Yuan Shao took out the letter and read it widely, and sure enough, in the second line and the third sentence, it should have been written that our army annihilated Cao Ren's army of 8,000 and captured 3,000 of countless ordnance in the battle with Jiuli Mountain, but it did say that I and the army destroyed the army in Jiushan, Cao Ren Qianba, and captured countless armament troops!

"Mr. Xun Cen, don't you know that the reversal of the word order of my big Chinese characters does not affect reading at all?" Cao Cao sneered at Yuan Shao over there.

Suddenly, Cao Cao's face turned hideous, "You are still delusional that Yuan Yao Xiao'er marched into my Yanzhou from Huainan in the south to break my Yanzhou defense line to support your northern front, but you don't know that this is simply a fool's dream, your Yuan Yao's nephew not only failed to break through my Shanyang County and Juye County, but he also "

Cao Cao frantically took a wooden box from the guards on the side, lifted the cloth on it, opened the box, and took out a round thing from the box, isn't this a good human head?

grabbed the round thing of the brother and wrung it out, rode the war horse and roared loudly towards the place where Yuan Shao could see clearly, "Yuan Benchu, take a good look, who is this!" ”

"What?" Cao Cao was less than a hundred steps away from Yuan Shao, and he couldn't see it carefully, but some of the general ones were still higher.

Yuan Shao listened to Cao Cao's crazy tone and his smug expression while looking at the round thing over there, Yuan Shao hadn't seen Yuan Yao for a long time, but vaguely, Yuan Shao felt that he was very imaginary with his brother Yuan Shu.

"Mo no, Mo no!" Yuan Shao didn't dare to guess, the army is impermanent, it can happen on the battlefield, Yuan Yao may win before, and Yuan Yao may lose in a mess after Yuan Yao may win.

Xun Cen is still in doubt, even if it is true, Xun Cen will not let him come true, and will fool him over, because this is too big a blow to morale.

But I really can't stand it, there are pig teammates, "Brother Yuan Yaoxian!" "I heard only a miserable cry, and it was simply sad to hear it, and the listener was heartbroken.

"The eldest son?!" Xun Cen is about to crush his teeth, what is called a pig teammate, this is called a pig teammate.

Yuan Tan's eldest prince completely confirmed that the head was Yuan Yao's with such a voice, how can he quibble?

"Yuan Benchu, I didn't expect it, you and Yuan Yao'er wanted to subvert the sky, but all of a sudden, it was a bad curse! This Yuan Yao Xiaoer was ambushed by my general Cao Ren in Jiuli Mountain, and all the Yu Lin Wei under his command died, and he Yuan Yao Xiaoer also died in the chaos of arrows and was beheaded by my brother Cao Ren! I have known this good news for a long time, and the reason why I have been keeping it secret is to attract you Yuan Shao Yuan from the turtle shell in Hebei at the beginning, but I didn't expect to be fooled haha! “

"Yuan Benchu came to take over the head of your Yuan family's children, and I want him to die in this life as the fourth and third duke of the Yuan family!" Cao Cao yelled with hideous eyes.

Cao Cao's whole plan is to rely on this dummy head and Yuan Dagongzi to play a play, and play a play in which Yuan Yao'er has died in Yanzhou when he attacked Yanzhou, so that he can improve his morale, which can also hit the morale of Yuan Shao's army.

The Yanzhou army is extremely combative, but the Hebei army is pulling face.

Have they even lost the southern front, and can they really withstand the northern front?

The morale of Cao Cao's army was magnificent, and there were countless voices of war, but among Yuan Shao's army, the morale was low, and they all turned their heads as if they were thinking about how to escape immediately.

"It's time!" Cao Cao saw that his strategy had reached its peak, and then it was exhausted, relying on the current morale peak to enter Yuan Shao's army, so that Yuan Shao's army had no chance to react and breathe, so that Yuan Shao was defeated in shock.

"Pass my military order, the whole army" Cao Cao saw that he was about to give the order for a general attack, and he was about to defeat Yuan Shao's Hebei army again, and he was about to break the deadlock in Yanzhou, but what he didn't expect was that a louder voice than Cao Cao rang out.

"Cao Cao, old thief, you don't have a son to PY!"