Chapter 370: Destroying the withering and decaying
"Lord, there is an abnormality in the Cao army camp!" In the middle of the night, Dian Wei's voice sounded outside the tent.
Chen Mo didn't fall asleep, he calculated that if Cao Cao wanted to leave, he could only take advantage of tonight, so this night, he sent almost all the scouts to closely monitor the movements of the Cao army, and at this moment the first news finally came back, Chen Mo, who was kneeling behind the handsome case, raised his head and said: "Order the generals of all armies to attack, stop Cao Jun for me!" ”
"Whoa!"
Chen Mo stood up, stretched his muscles, took the cloak handed by the guards and draped it on his shoulders, tonight is destined to be a sleepless night, Chen Mo walked out of the camp with the guards, looking at the dark night, Chen Mo suddenly felt a little melancholy, after the Central Plains was pacified, how many people in the world knew him?
"Woo~"
The melodious sound of the horn echoed in the four fields, this is the horn sound of Chen Mo's army, under Chen Mo's command, a cadre of generals began to take their own soldiers and horses out of the camp, as for how to send troops, it has been made clear during the day, what this battle is to do is not Cao Cao, but to continue to kill the living forces of the Cao army and capture the city.
As for the broken soldiers left by Cao Cao, they may be able to block some, but on this plain, there is no place to pass through, or the strategy is to let Cao Cao block the conquest of the Guanzhong army, and next, it is the battle of the city, although it is more difficult, but now the general trend has reached Chen Mo's side, not all cities will continue to resist desperately, it is estimated that many cities will surrender directly, and as long as there is no problem on Chen Mo's side, the war will be more and more smooth, at this time, Cao Cao has the ability to reach the sky, and it is difficult to reverse the decline.
But I don't know, how will Brother Meng De respond?
Chen Mo looked at the dark night, and the troops held torches high and left the camp, like fire dragons rushing into the night, but the night was dispersed and the silence of the night was broken, but his heart was extremely peaceful.
At this time of the battle, as the coach, what he has to do is to make fewer mistakes or no mistakes, although he can't think of any chance for Cao Cao to turn the tables, but the world is unpredictable, what Chen Mo has to do is to try to avoid mistakes.
"Knock knock~"
The rumbling war drums sounded from Cao's camp, Chen Mo, who was standing on the gate, frowned and looked in the direction of Cao's camp, the two sides were only two arrows apart, and the drums sounded on the opposite side, representing that Cao Cao also chose to go out at this time.
Do you want to counterattack?
Chen Mo stood on the gate, looking at the direction of Cao Jun's camp, the night limited people's vision, Chen Mo couldn't see the changes in Cao's army clearly, if Cao Cao calculated his own movements, did the opposite, and chose to concentrate his forces to attack the camp at this time, it was indeed an opportunity to turn the tables.
Chen Mo was a little surprised, frowning and looking at the Cao army camp in the distance, Han Qiong's flying horse came to Chen Mo, and he didn't care about getting off the horse, and said loudly: "Lord, the Cao army has sent troops, do you want to gather all the troops and horses first to fight a decisive battle with the Cao army?" ”
"Not necessarily!" After pondering for a while, Chen Mo shook his head, the moment he found that the idea of collecting troops to resist the enemy flashed, his luck did not change much, this is Cao Cao bluffing, although this judgment may not be accurate, but Chen Mo is confident, even if Cao Cao really does this, he can hold this big camp, and if the troops out of the camp do not find the main force of Cao's army, they just return to encircle the enemy, it is also a big victory!
At that moment, Chen Mo looked down at Han Qiong and said, "Inform all the ministries to enter the army according to the original plan, there are naturally people stationed here, no need to worry!" ”
"Whoa!" Han Qiong agreed, beat the horse and returned to the army, and continued to command the soldiers and horses to attack.
On the other side, Le Jin took the men and horses out of the camp, but saw that Chen Mo's troops did not return to the camp as he expected, so he couldn't help but be anxious, and he didn't care about attacking Chen Mo's camp, but ordered all the troops to start frantically intercepting Chen Mo's troops.
Looking at this scene, Chen Mo was also completely sure that Cao Cao had begun to withdraw his troops, and immediately shouted: "Dian Wei!" ”
"The last general!" Dian Wei said loudly.
"Leave all the units in the herald camp to attack and take the enemy camp directly!" Chen Mo shouted.
"Whoa!"
The next moment, the three armies in Chen Mo's camp came out together and went straight to the direction of Cao's camp.
At this time, Chen Mo suddenly led a large army to join the battlefield, making the already chaotic battlefield even more chaotic, and Lejin no longer had the energy to intercept other troops.
The night provided great protection for Cao's army, although Chen Mo's army fought fiercely, but in the melee, even Chen Mo's eyesight could not see the entire battle situation, so the battlefield was basically fought by various generals, and Chen Mo's commanding ability was not fully exerted in this night battle.
The fight has lasted from the third watch to sunrise, the forces on both sides are a little exhausted, when Le Jin saw that the sky had begun to brighten, he knew that he would continue to fight with Chen Mo, not only could he not break it off for Cao Cao, but he was afraid that he would have to explain here, and ignited the camp at the moment, and went east with the remaining men and horses, chasing Chen Mo all the way to fight, and when he encountered more people and horses, he attacked and disturbed it, and when he encountered less, he pounced on it like a hungry wolf to eliminate it.
Le Jin risked his life to drag Chen Mo, the crazy attacker appeared in all the enemies in his sight, but it was not a completely brainless rampage, the other party used such a hob meat style of play, Rao is Chen Mo had a little headache, and what he was most afraid of was this kind of enemy who did not want to die and had brains.
"Lord, this Lejin is too arrogant!" Chen Mo all the way from Zhongmu to Yongqiu, most of the cities along the way have been captured, when he arrived at Yongqiu, he met Cui Geng who was repairing here, and looked at Chen Mo with a distressed face, Cui Geng's department had 6,000 people, and he had encountered Lejin once before, and he was defeated by Lejin and had to retreat to repair, and he was meeting Chen Mo who led the army to come.
"How many people are there under Lejin?" On the side, Dian Wei didn't understand, Le Jin fought for two days, there shouldn't be many people under his hands, right?
"Less than four thousand." When Cui Geng heard this, his face turned pale, and the 6,000 people were defeated by more than 3,000 people, which made him feel a little embarrassed.
At the beginning of Le Jin, Cao Cao left him 20,000 people, along the way, the dead died, and some secretly surrendered, and now there are less than 4,000 people still attacking everywhere, but this kind of high-intensity combat should not last long, and now it should be the end of the strong crossbow, at that time Cui Geng also thought so, so he did not hesitate to choose to meet the enemy, but was almost beheaded by Le Jin in the army, and the army was also defeated by Le Jin.
"Outlaws." Chen Mo sighed when he heard this, he was really desperate, and he was invincible.
"Where is Cao Cao's main force now?" After sighing, Chen Mo asked.
"Cao Cao used a suspicious tactic, in addition to Lejin, there are at least three teams that pretend to be Cao Cao's main force to attract our army's pursuers." Cui Geng said bitterly, in the past two days, it seems that there has been news of Cao Jun from all sides, which makes it difficult for them to judge where Cao Cao is.
"Yongqiu is less than two hundred miles away from Suiyang, and at this moment, Cao Cao is probably close to Suiyang." Xu Shu on the side smiled, but he didn't expect Cao Cao to escape back to Suiyang in the end.
"So what?" Speaking of Suiyang, Dian Wei grinned and said: "Suiyang is in danger on all sides, and as soon as my army arrives, Suiyang will be broken." ”
Other places Dian Wei may not know, but in the area of Chen Liu and Liang Guo, when Dian Wei was a ranger in the early years, he was mixed in this area, but he knows a lot about the terrain here, and Suiyang is really not easy to defend.
"I can't see it, you know that." Hearing this, Chen Mo glanced at Dian Wei with a smile.
"Hey, I've been following the lord for a long time, where it's easy to fight and what is not easy to fight, Lao Dian also knows." Dian Wei laughed.
"So, I'm afraid Cao Cao won't stay in Suiyang for long!" Chen Mo nodded, Suiyang is easy to attack and difficult to defend, Dian Wei knows it, Cao Cao will not know? In the past, Suiyang was chosen because this was the hinterland of the Cao army, so there was no need to worry, but now it is different, after the defeat of Guandu, the Cao army has no ability to compete with Chen Mo head-on, and if you continue to stick to Suiyang at this time, you will be looking for death.
"What the lord said is good, Suiyang cannot be defended for a long time, I think that Cao Cao will use Suiyang to block our army, and at the same time take this opportunity to move the center of gravity to the east." Xun You nodded.
"Where does Gongda think Cao Cao will retreat?" Chen Mo asked.
"The land of the Central Plains, a horse and a flat river, there is no place to defend, now that the Cao army is defeated, it is no longer able to compete with our army, and it will choose the place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack as a barrier, east of Suiyang, there are not many places that Cao Cao can choose, although Xuzhou has mountains and rivers around Xiaoguan to defend, but most places are still plains, and our army can choose the land of Jianghuai to attack, it is not advisable, I think that Cao Cao will retreat to Qingzhou, with the Taishan Mountains as a basis for holding, and then connect Jiangdong to resist our army!" Xun Yu bowed.
"Qingzhou!" Chen Mo nodded, if he were Cao Cao, he would also choose this place, not only because Cao Cao still has a large number of soldiers and horses fighting with Wuyi in the plains, but more importantly, Qingzhou is mountainous, in addition to Mount Tai, there are Yanggu, Yuan Mountain, etc., with the terrain, it can indeed block Chen Mo.
But it won't last long.
After a long time, Chen Mo looked up at everyone with a smile: "Then let go of Qingzhou first, and do our best to include all the places occupied by Cao's army outside of Qingzhou into our army's pocket!" ”
As for why he didn't occupy Qingzhou before Cao Cao retreated to Qingzhou, it was because Qingzhou not only had Cao's army all the way there, as far as Chen Mo knew, in the area of Mount Tai, Cao Cao had a lot of garrisons, and Chen Mo now had his troops scattered to attack the city, even if he had the intention to attack Qingzhou at this time, changing his strategy might not be able to capture it, but it might allow Sun Ce to take the opportunity to cross the river and have more Jianghuai and even Runan, it is better to take advantage of Cao Cao's retreat during this time, and first take what he can get now in his hands, as for Cao Cao, there is only Qingzhou left, There is no dangerous terrain like the Yangtze River or Shushan, Chen Mo believes that after he completely eats the land of Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Xuzhou, and forms a situation of entrapment in Qingzhou, it will not be difficult to fight Cao Cao.