Chapter 163: Cao Cao returned with a feather
Even so, his more than 2,000 cavalry has been completely depleted! On the Jingzhou army, there were no casualties!
When Xiahoudun heard that Mingjin had withdrawn his troops, he also knew that the situation was not right, and immediately ordered a retreat. It's a pity that the second wave of cavalry still pressed up and was locked up in the formation!
"My lord, there seems to be something powerful about the enemy formation!" Xiahoudun saw Cao Cao's first sentence.
"It's not just something amazing! King Rong Guisun has already thought of a wonderful way to break my cavalry, and with this exquisite battle formation, he can't think of any good way for the time being!
Originally, I thought of wheel warfare, the first cavalry was tired and tired, and the second wave went up, and so on, it could replace those heavy weapons, and now those heavy spears, prisoners of war and war hammers are all lost in the enemy formation! So now we don't even have a weapon!
Although we currently have a large number of troops, we cannot act recklessly and bury the lives of our soldiers in vain, so we have to withdraw to the camp for the time being and discuss how to deal with it! ”
"No!"
The generals agreed and slowly returned to the camp with Cao Cao. On the Jingzhou army, Hu Rui did not chase after him, and ordered scouts to keep an eye on the enemy's movements at any time.
When Cao Cao and the others returned to the camp, everyone's mood was not high, after all, after deciding to storm the Jinghan camp, the first battle turned out to be such a bad result.
Cao Cao rubbed his hands and said: "The old man has never been so frustrated in his life!" When he arrived at the camp, he was first assassinated by King Fufeng, then General Hu returned in a disastrous defeat, and now he has returned again! Why is that? ”
All the generals bowed their heads and were silent, only Xiahou said: "So and so on, it is all the role of Wang Zhirong, if there is no such person in the Jingzhou army, my Great Jin would have already swept Jingzhou!" ”
"Not bad!" Cao Cao wanted to swing his sword, but unfortunately his body did not allow it, and the stuffiness in his chest could only be vented with a sigh, and said: "If this person is not removed, the Great Jin is in danger!" What do you have to say? ”
"It's better to assassinate, the Jingzhou battalion is stationed outside the city, although the camp has recently strengthened the camp guards and captured several assassins sent by our army, but they always have a time when they are secret, we can think about it in the assassination strategy......" Cao Cao has a general who is specifically responsible for assassinating Wang Zhirong, strictly speaking, he is the leader of Cao Cao's personal soldiers, and Cao Cao arranged for him to be responsible for the assassination. It's a pity that it always fails.
"The old man has thought about it carefully, everything is a big operation planned by Wang Zherong, and the purpose of that inexplicable attack on the camp is not to attack the camp at all, but to take advantage of the chaos to leave the assassins to hide in my camp!
And it successfully diverted our attention, we didn't think of this kind of big operation at all, leaving hundreds of corpses behind, just to leave a few assassins to hide! They did it quite successfully, where the assassin was hiding, the old man still hadn't figured it out, and he was assassinated like this!
Kill Wang Zhirong at all costs! Even if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, it's worth it!
Now, the old man thinks that the assassination of Wang Zhirong can be borrowed from his strategy, and he can use his way to treat his people, send troops to attack the camp once, and leave our assassins by the way, only in this way can it be possible to send the assassins into the enemy camp! Cao Cao tapped lightly on the map and slowly said his plan!
"Lord, a certain person personally led the troops to attack the camp! It will live up to the expectations of the lord! Xiahoudun volunteered.
"Good! General Hu has the demeanor of a famous general, knows the severity, and can grasp the opportunity, this matter is none other than you! Cao Cao pinched his beard and said, "Liu Hei, this time you can do it yourself!" ”
Liu Hei is the leader of Cao Cao's personal soldiers, that is, the leader in charge of the assassination, and he is the entourage who has been following Cao Cao, and now Cao Cao has finally thrown him out!
Liu Hei knew that after attacking the camp, he left himself to assassinate Wang Zhirong, which must be ten deaths, but Cao Cao said this matter, and there was no change, so he nodded, hugged his fists and said: "No!" ”
Hu Rui won a great victory, the morale of the Jingzhou army soared, and the cavalry that was originally the most feared rushed into battle was now resolved in this way, and this battle cleanly annihilated 2,000 enemies, and there were almost no casualties on their side!
"The storm is coming!" Wang Zhirong smiled and said to Sun Shangxiang, "Their next target is me." ”
"I think the most likely thing they're going to do next is to raid the camp at night. After all, our iron wall array is always there anytime and anywhere! They can choose to attack the camp, or just bypass our Iron Wall Formation!" Sun Shangxiang is worthy of being a female man who is familiar with military books and does not let women shave her eyebrows, and she immediately saw the key to the matter.
Indeed, the biggest disadvantage of this iron wall array is that it is cumbersome and inconvenient to move, plus in Jingzhou, the ground is always wet, always muddy and dry.
And Cao Cao's cavalry is very mobile, saying that if he wants to get rid of you, he can get rid of you from a distance, and then find a gap to go south, if you go to chase and beat people, it will definitely be a loss.
"It's okay, it's just a stopgap measure at the moment, and our best strategy is to go. It has been decided a long time ago...... We are weak, and what we are doing now is like the tail that explodes before many weak animals run away, or like a fart released by a weasel, but it just makes the enemy stunned, and then we slip away!"
Wang Zhirong's analogy made Sun Shangxiang laugh, although this analogy had already been said before.
"Call Juri to me!"
After a while, Hu Rui came.
"Your Highness, what do you command? He was afraid that the enemy would attack the camp tonight, so he ordered all his soldiers to be ready for battle, and if they dared to come, they would not return. ”
"It doesn't have to be like this! It doesn't have to be this way! Come here, come here, I'll show you a way......"
However, after waiting all night, the legendary raid camp did not appear.
Early the next morning, a scout came to report that Zhuge Liang failed to hold Guigu Mountain, and was broken by the 40,000 foot soldiers of Cao Junwangdu, and had already moved south...... In addition, Cao Cao's battalion led 30,000 cavalry in Yu Ban, bypassing Zhang Fei's main force, and also rushed to Xiangyang!
"Well done!" The king is glorious.
"The goal of destroying Jingzhou is you, not the army, after people come, as long as they take Xiangyang, they will soon be attacked by the north and south, and the strength of Guigu Mountain will be eliminated, you are gone, everything in Jingzhou will return to its former and fall into Cao Cao's pocket! At that time, our armies everywhere will be destroyed without a fight......" Sun Shangxiang analyzed.
"Does that mean the consequences are severe?"
"It's serious!"
"Hahahaha, no, not to...... These northerners have never been to the south, and if they really dare to set foot in the south, then I have a way to use the power of the natural flood to make them perish!"
"Master's ability is unfathomable, since you say so, then the disciple is relieved!"
"Call Hu Rui to ......"