The water finally boiled, and what made Cao's army happier than having hot food was that Cao Cao followed Xun You's advice and ordered the army to rest for an hour after eating before continuing the march.

Of course, the necessary scouts and sentries are indispensable. Seeing that almost all Cao Jun in front of him fell into a deep sleep with almost one breath, Cao Cao couldn't close his eyes.

Xun You next to him naturally knew what Cao Cao was thinking, and couldn't help but persuade: "Don't worry about Ming Gong, Guo Fengxiao's wisdom is rare in the world, Xu Chu's tiger strength is endless, these two people have their own strengths, and they will definitely be able to survive in the chaos." ”

said so in his mouth, but Xun You was also a little worried in his heart. Although Guo Fengxiao is clever and fickle, he has always been a weak scholar who is powerless. Although Xu Chu is unparalleled, he has no wisdom to change. It is said that Shouchun City is still under martial law, and the entire Huainan is in a state of famine, so it is really a question whether the two of them can escape with their whole body.

Cao Cao heard Xun You's words, but shook his head slightly: "If it weren't as I expected, the tiger idiot was abducted by Guo Jia that night. Xu Chu is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and the situation was critical that night, and he was bound to fight to the death. But until the end, no one had seen where Xu Chu had made a move. In this way, there are only two inferences - first, Xu Chu has defected to the enemy; Second, Xu Chu was abducted by Fengxiao and escaped. ”

"I still believe in the latter compared to the former." Xun You, who pondered for a moment, suddenly smiled and said: "These two people are one writer and one martial artist, and they complement each other, so there must be no danger." ”

Cao Cao nodded, but his deep brows still did not stretch: "Gongda, what do you think of Zhang Xiu now?" ”

"Compared with worrying about Fengxiao and the tiger idiot, in fact, I am more worried about Zhang Xiu now!" Cao Cao expressed his deepest concerns at the moment.

Xun You pondered for a moment, then considered the language and said: "Knowing people and knowing people is not my forte, but since Ming Gong asked, then I will talk about my opinion on Zhang Xiu from the perspective of military strategy." ”

"In the first battle of the Battle of Qiyang, this person sent the generals and subordinates of the main force, and when he fought the generals, he even pressed all the generals regardless of whether the rear army had a capable general to defend it. It can be seen from this move that Zhang Xiu is by no means a person who is familiar with the way of war. ”

So after that, Ming Gong used a series of weaknesses of Zhang Xiu, and finally defeated the main force of the Huainan army. And the more arrogant and ambitious people are, the more depressed they will be when they suffer setbacks and difficulties. After the defeat of Qiyang, Zhang Xiuyi did not gather 70,000 troops from the two counties of Guangling and Lujiang, and second, he did not actively fortify the walls and clear the wilderness. This is not the quality of a good soldier! ”

"Including this mutiny, in my opinion, it is even more unreasonable. Zhang Xiu did not make any preparations in advance, and did not even act at the best opportunity to behead the lord, but in the end, he suddenly rebelled under the pretext that the lord had done something indecent, and in the end he actually succeeded, which made me very puzzled recently. ”

Even, I felt that Zhang Xiu's success was just a fluke. It is completely better than the first to win people, and in terms of using soldiers and tactics, he Zhang Wenjin is definitely not as good as Ming Gong's toes. It's like last night, Ming Gong, you have already spread the news of your return to the camp, even Yuan Shu's generation will have doubts about Ming Gong's deception, but Zhang Xiu, a stunned boy, dared to attack our army's camp. It's just a person who doesn't understand the way of war and is arrogant! ”

When Xun You said the previous words, Cao Cao nodded deeply. Wait until Xun You says the last two sentences. Cao Cao flashed some fragments of memory in his mind, and his face changed in an instant.

"Zhang Xiu's ability to use troops is indeed inferior to mine, especially in the attack on our army's camp last night, this person is even more reckless in stealing chickens and dogs. However, about a series of things that have happened since Zhang Xiu's fall, I seem to have discovered something else. These things seem to be there or not, natural and man-made. Even each of them is inextricably related to Zhang Xiu, but none of them are directly related to Zhang Xiu. If my current conjecture about Zhang Xiu is correct, I'm afraid ......"

"I'm afraid of what?" Xun You, who was the chief military staff officer of Cao Jun, was not very good at seeking people, so he didn't understand Cao Cao's meaning for a while.

"I'm afraid ......"

Before Cao Cao could finish saying this, Cao Jun was already heard a noisy sound, and Cao Cao's old face instantly became ugly.

Xun You also realized at this moment that Cao Cao's "I'm afraid" would not be a good thing, so he hurriedly looked at what was happening in the rear army.

A Cao army rushed to Cao Cao's place on a fast horse, and the knight rolled off his horse and gasped: "Tell Sikong, our rear army has been defeated, and the attacker is Zhang Xiujun's cavalry!" ”

This knight was none other than Li Dian, one of Cao Cao's rear army commanders.

"It's too late to think of it!"

……

An army of more than 70,000 people naturally could not all march together. The lightly armed troops often march in the front, and the main forces, such as the Qingzhou Bing Group, have always been in the position of the middle army, while the rear army is often a heavily armed unit with limited mobility.

Especially in the absence of any carriages and horses, in fact, the gap between the front, the middle and rear armies is very large. The rear army under the command of Lejin Li Dian was at least five miles away from the tail of the Chinese army in Cao Cao's town.

If the rear army is attacked in normal times, the Chinese army or even the front army can send troops and horses to rescue them in time. But before the alarm of the attack on the rear army was received, the news of the collapse of the rear army had already arrived, how could it not be shocking how fierce the attackers were.

This directly convinced Cao Cao that his guess a minute ago was correct, and Zhang Xiu was indeed a master of using surprising results!

The thing had no intention of surrendering, and he had made it happen in the extreme unlikelihood. It's ridiculous that he is wise, but he has been confused for a whole month and a half. I made a shocking mistake, that is, I have been using ordinary soldiers and my own normal thinking to consider the defection of the general, but I didn't expect that Zhang Xiu had already understood a truth: if you want to do the impossible, you must let the soldiers who happened under impossible circumstances at this time reverse.

If you guessed correctly, last night's defeat was just Zhang Xiu's preparation for today's tail-end pursuit!

Knowing that the attack would be defeated, but just to be able to disperse his troops to the preset location after the defeat, he resolutely accepted the defeat. Then, let Cao Jun double it back today!

I have to secretly praise Zhang Xiu in his heart, all the actions of this person after the Battle of Qiyang seem to be unintentional and casual, but everything is secretly poisoned! Even after tearing his face, he fooled himself.

I think Zhang Xiu is only a few years old today, that is, in his early thirties, and he is only a few years older than his eldest son Cao Ang. But he has grown so fast, his mind is so calm and cautious, and he is so resolute and resolute, compared to his thirty years old, he is really much more brilliant!

On the one hand, he urgently gathered his troops, and on the other hand, Cao Cao finally learned from Le Jin's mouth about the process of the defeat of the rear army.

also relied on himself not to see through Zhang Xiu's routine in advance, and in the process of rapid marching, he only gave the rear army some more old and weak remnants, and some incomplete units were all assigned to the rear army. This became an important internal reason why Cao Jun could not organize resistance in time after Zhang Xiujun's pursuit.

On the other hand, Zhang Xiujun did appear too suddenly, and the way of attack was too shocking to Cao Jun. For example, when the cavalry of Zhang Xiujun, who was disrupted and scattered and fled to this side last night, they actually gave up riding and storming the camp when they attacked, and actually took the war horse whose tail was ignited as the lead and disrupted the rest place of the Cao army's rear camp. Then, those cavalry of Zhang Xiu's army suddenly killed from both sides in the form of foot combat, went into battle lightly, and took advantage of the chaos of the Cao army to plunder and kill the Cao army.

It is worth commenting that the combat effectiveness of ordinary cavalry foot combat is greatly reduced, but for some reason, the cavalry of Zhang Xiujun's infantry is extremely good at foot combat and chaotic warfare. Le Jin and Li Dian, the commanders of the Cao Army, were taken care of by Zhang Xiu, who personally went out from the beginning, as well as generals Zhang Liao, Hu Cheer, Zhou Cang, Li Feng and others.

Cao Cao knew that Li Dianle was good at fighting, but he also knew that Zhang Liao, the number one general of the original Lu Bu, was not the first of the eight strong generals. Zhang Xiu doesn't need to say much, not to mention his yin tricks and those moves that he has never seen before, just the hundred birds towards the phoenix spear are enough to make Lejin Li Dian drink a pot, not to mention that the first shot of Yuan Shu in the past swept Li Feng and Hu Che'er, whose endurance strength is different from ordinary people. Cao Cao can still understand if he loses.

As for the types of troops that Zhang Xiujun participated in, Cao Cao also thought of it. It must have been the lightly armed Qianghu cavalry who escaped the fastest last night. In addition, if Zhang Xiu had let the Qianghu swords and axes take the lead in the ambush during the battle last night, the combat effectiveness of Zhang Xiu's army in foot combat would have reached a terrifying level in this melee they created.

……

Cao Cao, who had prepared the Chinese army, led his army to the battlefield of the rear army, and according to the account of the Cao soldiers who kept fleeing from the battlefield, Zhang Xiujun still gathered his war horses at the battlefield and collected the heavy armor of the captured rear army of the Cao army.

Although he suffered a sudden defeat, but Zhang Xiujun, who had killed four or five thousand cavalry and two or three thousand Qiang Hu foot soldiers, Cao Cao thought that his tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Chinese army were still enough to deal with it.

A hilly undulating forest and a densely grassed road, Xun You, who has already had a little aftertaste of Zhang Xiu's military path, is still pondering this embroidery strategy.

It wasn't until an inconspicuous black color and a trace of imperceptible peculiar smell entered Xun You's sight and nostrils that Xun You finally exclaimed: "Ming Gong, we have fallen into the scheme again, there is an ambush here!" ”

Xun You's shout was shocking, and the tens of thousands of ambushers in the grass and woods obviously hesitated for a moment, and then they all came out in a strange scream.

On the way ahead, it seemed that Zhang Xiu had discarded the captured armor and led the cavalry troops to rush towards him.

Tens of thousands of Cao troops, under the order of Cao Cao, who was like a frightened bird, left a behind-the-palace foot guard in a semi-surrounded state, and most of the rest of the army and horses fled away from a distance.

Zhang Xiu'er, there are endless strange soldiers!

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