Chapter 276: A plan within a plan

At dawn the next day, when the sky was about to dawn, Dian Wei was holding a pair of halberds and leaning on the bluestone in the cave and sleeping soundly, when he was suddenly woken up, a pair of eyes broke open, and the fierce light was overflowing.

"What are you staring at? Get up. Chen Mo kicked him and went to wake up the others.

Dian Wei touched his head, and when he saw that it was Chen Mo, the fierce light in his eyes dispersed a lot, and he rolled against the bluestone, until Chen Mo called him again, and then reluctantly got up.

"Lord, where is this going?" Dragging the halberd listlessly behind Chen Mo, Dian Wei yawned and asked.

"Liyang." Chen Mo asked the generals to gather the soldiers.

Dian Wei looked around, and then he realized that they were no longer in the city.

"Lord, Liyang is heavily guarded by Cao's army, and we have no siege equipment, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break through!" A lieutenant boldly suggested.

This person's name is Guo Meng, one of the generals in Jizhou, in fact, he is not a general, he surrendered with the army, he was just a general, Chen Mo saw that his life was much higher than ordinary people, so he was promoted to captain, and it was also the most convenient one among the five schools that followed Chen Mo this time.

"Do you remember yesterday's strategy to lure the enemy?" Chen Mo saw that he asked more, but he was not angry, these Jizhou troops were not attached, so he would try his best to avoid letting these people fight tough battles.

"The lord wants to lure the Liyang army out with yesterday's method?" Guo Meng's eyes lit up.

"Well, they're out, we're in." Chen Mo nodded: "Liyang and Baima, there must be a place where Cao Jun stores grain, and if he burns his grain and grass, Cao Jun will not be able to support it for too long." ”

"It's just that with the lure of beacon fire and wolf smoke, it is impossible for all the defenders of Liyang to be lured out." Guo Meng frowned.

"The lord will fight as much as he says, why is there so much nonsense?" Dian Wei slapped Guo Meng a little impatiently, almost slapping people away.

"Dian Wei! Do not do anything to the robe for no reason. Chen Mo kicked Dian Wei, stretched out his hand to help the captain and said: "I was about to talk to you about this, pick a group of people, put on Cao Jun's clothes and armor, wrap your arms in white cloth, and after Cao Jun is led out of the city, I will defeat it here, and you will pretend to be a defeated army and return to the city, take the opportunity to seize the city gate, Dian Wei will lead the main force and then kill in one fell swoop!" ”

"Me?" Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo in amazement, it was no problem to command hundreds of personal guards to fight, but these thousands of men and horses were handed over to him to command, and Dian Wei asked himself if he could do it.

"Do you want me to go?" Chen Mo asked rhetorically.

"The last general commands!" Dian Wei looked bitter, and immediately bowed down to receive the order.

"After you enter the city, the soldiers and horses have their own five commanders, they know what to do, and you have only one task, to lead a small number of elites to defeat all the men and horses who resist." Chen Mo nodded and instructed.

Charging into battle is something that Chen Mo will not do easily now, even if he can, not because he is afraid of death, but because he is now in the fate of the three armies, not just the commander of these five thousand soldiers and horses, he can't make any mistakes, people are in different positions, and things to do are different.

If he could exchange the city for his life, he believed that Cao Cao would definitely be willing to exchange ten or even hundreds of cities for his life.

"You wait and hide around, and when the Cao army arrives, we will wait for the army to come out and destroy it, and then Guo Meng you lead the foot soldiers to pretend to be defeated to Liyang, and immediately seize the city gate after opening the city gate, Dian Wei you lead the soldiers and horses to follow up, let go of some distance, just wait for Guo Meng to release a signal, and immediately wave the army straight forward and attack Liyang." Chen Mo looked at the generals and said in a deep voice.

Liyang, where the atmosphere is lucky, if nothing else, it is not a place to store grain, or there are important people in Cao Jun, in short, as long as Liyang is broken, it will definitely bring heavy damage to Cao Jun, and it is best if it is grain and grass.

"Whoa!" Dian Wei and the others agreed, and led the army to leave, one of the teams changed into Cao Jun's clothes, and the other four teams were led by Dian Wei and quietly touched Liyang.

Chen Mo waited in place for half an hour, ordered someone to collect the burning things, and then set off wolf smoke.

Liyang, is indeed where Cao Cao is located, in order to protect the grain road, Cao Cao not only left 5,000 soldiers and horses here, but also left the general Cao Peng as a guard.

Cao Peng is a member of Cao Cao's clan, although he is not as powerful as Cao Hong and Cao Ren, but he is brave in battle, and he also knows the art of war.

The wolf smoke in the distance aroused Cao Jun's vigilance, and he soon reported that Cao Peng knew.

"General, it's the wolf smoke of our army." A Cao general looked at Cao Peng and bowed.

"See." Cao Peng personally came to the top of the enemy tower to watch, frowned, and said: "Does our army have soldiers and horses outside the city in the past two days?" ”

"Not yet." The general shook his head.

"Could it be the direction of the white horse? But how can there be enemy troops here? Cao Peng thought for a while, and said to the deputy general beside him: "You immediately lead five hundred soldiers and horses to investigate, if the enemy army is small, then annihilate it, if the enemy army is large, just find out the approximate number of the enemy, and report immediately." ”

This Liyang and Baima area is the rear of Cao's army, and there are 10,000 troops in the garrison, and there are enemies here, which is a little strange, even if Wuyi sends troops from Yanjin, he should not be close to here.

My family sent a cry for help, and I can't really ignore it.

"Well, I'll go now." The lieutenant general agreed, and immediately ordered all the men and horses to rush straight to the wolf smoke origin.

In the silent valley, General Cao led five hundred men and horses to the outside of the valley, looked at the valley in front of him, and became vigilant, and did not enter the valley immediately, but sent people to enter the valley first to investigate.

"Trouble!" When Chen Mo saw this scene, he knew that it was difficult to lure these people into the valley to ambush and kill, so he immediately ordered someone to shoot the scout, and sent someone to recruit Dian Wei and Guo Meng.

"Lord!" Dian Wei and Guo Meng found Chen Mo and bowed.

"The plan has changed, this Cao army is too alert, you immediately pretend to break through the rout, join up with the Cao army, be alert, I will let Dian Wei pursue later." Chen Mo said to the two.

Cao Jun's alertness should also be calculated, careless.

"Whoa!" The two agreed, and Guo Meng immediately led a group of men and horses to rush out of the mountains and forests on both sides, all they were wearing were armor taken off the corpses, plus they slept in the mountains and fields for half a night at night, no matter their mental state or clothing, it was just right to pretend to be defeated soldiers.

At the mouth of the valley, the general of the Cao army saw that his scouts had not come back for a long time, and he was hesitating, but when he heard the movement, he hurriedly shouted: "Array to meet the enemy!" ”

The five hundred Cao troops quickly formed a formation, and the general stood on his horse, looking into the valley, and saw an embarrassed army of his own soldiers and horses galloping towards this side, and crashed into this side like a headless fly.

"Stop it all, otherwise Hugh blame will be ruthless!" Cao Jiang stood on horseback, his eyes furious, and his loud voice echoed through the valley.

"Stop, stop!" Guo Meng slowed down, looked at the team on the opposite side, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and crawled to make his face dusty, ran to thirty steps in front of the opponent's formation, and said hoarsely: "The last general is Guo Meng, the military marquis stationed on the white horse, I don't know which general is ahead?" ”

"Marquis?" General Cao looked at the armor on Guo Meng's body, it was indeed the armor of the military marquis, and frowned: "This general is Zhou Ren, a captain under General Cao Peng, why are you here?" ”

"General Hui, last night I found someone outside the city to light a beacon fire, and was ordered to go out of the city to rescue, who knew that the calculation of the thieves in Guanzhong, the captain Guo Sheng was killed, in the chaos, we were also defeated, and were pursued by the enemy to this point!" Guo jeopardized and said.

Guo Sheng is not a name he casually made, he is really a white horse guard, and he learned it from those surrendered troops last night.

Hearing Guo Sheng's name, Cao Jiang obviously relaxed his vigilance a lot, frowned and said: "Guo Sheng died in battle, wouldn't that white horse be ......?"

Guo Meng's face turned miserable, and he hugged his fists and said: "I want to report this matter to Liyang, I don't know when there is an additional Guanzhong army nearby, and I haven't found out to the scouts." ”

General Cao nodded when he heard this, and was about to ask something more, but he heard a burst of shouting and killing sounds in the valley, followed by a large group of Guanzhong troops from the valley, and went straight to this side.

However, looking at the messy formation behind him, Cao Jiang was a little speechless, this team of men and horses seemed to be fierce, but in fact there was no order at all, if it wasn't for the lack of soldiers and horses in his hands, he was confident that he would defeat the other party.

This thing can't be pretended, which is also the reason why Chen Mo asked Dian Wei to lead the troops, others can't pretend to be like this, but Dian Wei goes into battle, he doesn't need to pretend at all, no matter how hard he tries, he can't make an elite appearance.

"Come, general, please run with us, although this army is not elite, but the leader of the general is quite vicious, General Guo Sheng was careless, he took the head in the chaotic army, resulting in the defeat of our army." Guo Meng said anxiously.

General Cao nodded, looked at the clumsy command of the enemy general, and sneered, there was such a pustule in the Guanzhong army.

"Listen to my orders and follow me back to the city!" The Cao general turned the horse's head, turned around and left with the people and horses, Dian Wei pointed around angrily and roared: "Give me faster, are you blind?" The thief army is right in front of you, chase me! ”

The loud voice reverberated in the valley, and General Cao smiled disdainfully, if he gave himself two thousand soldiers and horses, he would be able to completely defeat this group of men and horses, but it was a pity.

The two sides chased and fled, and soon arrived outside Liyang City.

On Liyang City, Cao Peng saw that there were many more soldiers and horses he had sent, as well as the chasing soldiers in the rear, frowned, and was about to ask, but saw Cao General flying out of the horse, and shouted to the city: "General, please give the last general a force of men and horses, you will be able to defeat this rabble!" ”

was chased by a group of rabble all the way, and he had already held his breath in his chest, and when he saw Liyang City, he didn't enter the city, but just asked Cao Peng for troops.

Seeing that it was his own general, Cao Peng was a little relieved, frowned and looked at the Guanzhong army in the distance, nodded, and immediately sent a thousand soldiers and horses to the other party, so that the other party could fight back.

"General, this ......" Guo Meng looked at General Cao with some embarrassment, obviously not wanting to fight.

"Wait here and see how I defeat the enemy!" General Cao looked at the soldiers and horses pouring out of the open city gate, laughed, turned the horse's head, and said loudly: "Soldiers, kill the enemy with me!" ”