The war between Chen and Cao is now a tentative stage, the armies of the two sides are fighting on the land that has been completely reduced to a battlefield, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses will bypass Chen Mo's camp from time to time, infiltrate to Xingyang, Guanxian and other places in the rear, and want to find Chen Mo's place to store grain, but Yu Sheng has done too many tricks on the boundary of more than 100 miles, and the deployment of troops is also quite cautious, so that it is difficult for Cao's army to distinguish where the grain and grass are.

Chen Mo also tried his best to find out where Cao Jun's grain was stored, but this time, he couldn't go around the back to find it in person, maybe if Chen Mo went into battle in person, he would be able to find Cao Jun's place to store grain, but in that case, Chen Mo was likely to fall into the encirclement of Cao Jun, and it was impossible for Chen Mo to exchange his life for a victory in a war.

Chen Mo divided the 30,000 soldiers and horses into six teams, always put on a feint posture, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts and cavalry to reconnoiter from all sides, and skirmishes between scouts and cavalry occurred almost every day and every hour.

Cao Cao ordered Li Dian's troops to attack in the direction of Guancheng, intending to capture Guancheng, occupy a stronghold to deter Chen Mo's back road, and cut off Chen Mo's grain road at any time.

And in the process of testing each other, Chen Mo ordered Pang De to lead his troops to detour to Junyi, wanting to touch the layout of Cao Cao's rear, and Cao Hong encountered halfway, Pang De advanced steadily, in this battle, defeated Cao Hong's troops, the defeated soldiers fled in all directions, Pang De wanted to pursue, but was surrounded by Xiahou Yuan and Le Jin, Cao Cao wanted to take the opportunity to swallow Pang De's troops and horses.

Chen Mo planned the plan, and ordered the troops to take the opportunity to attack Xiahou Yuan's department, wanting to defeat Xiahou Yuan's department, and at the same time ordered Zhang He to lead his troops to ambush Cao's reinforcements outside Cao's camp.

In the next two months, the entire Guandu radius of fifty miles seemed to have turned into a battlefield, Chen Mo and Cao Cao each used strange tricks, trying to lure out the main force of the other party, the entire Guandu battlefield, Chen Cao's two armies felt that they seemed to be enemy troops in all directions, each of them seemed to be the main force, and the battle became more and more intense, but it seemed that it was not the main force anywhere.

The number of troops put into the battlefield on both sides has exceeded 100,000, this chaotic battle situation lasted for two whole months, whether Chen Mo or Cao Cao reached this time, they could no longer control the number of casualties on their side, the war of 10,000 people took place no less than 100 times in two months, and the small-scale battles were countless, and the number of casualties also made the two of them a little unbearable, and they had to withdraw their troops.

At this time, it is spring back to the earth, and the warbler flies and the grass grows, but the war between the two sides seems to be on the right track at this time, the two armies are fighting, and the wreckage that has not had time to be cleaned up is spread all over the camp of the two armies for dozens of miles, and it is really normal to see the bones on the road.

In Xingyang, a large number of wounded soldiers were sent back, and the sound of moans and screams continued to tear people's eardrums.

Yu Sheng and Xu Shu shuttled through the wounded barracks.

"The battle on the front lines seems to be getting more and more intense." Xu Shu looked at this scene, he didn't expect that this battle with Cao Jun would be so difficult, such a large number of wounded soldiers had never appeared in previous wars, this was only a serious injury, it was hard to imagine how tragic the war on the front line would be.

"Cao Jun is different from previous opponents, the same is experienced in a hundred battles, well-trained, this battle, the lord has said, there is no certainty of victory, once defeated, the city east of Chenggao will have to be abandoned." Yu Sheng sighed, this war related to the direction of the whole world can be imagined.

He has been attacked several times here, if it weren't for Yu Sheng being cautious, I'm afraid Xingyang might be killed by Cao Cao, and Chen Mo also launched a surprise attack on several cities behind Cao Cao, trying to find the other party's place to store grain, but the final result was not satisfactory, and Cao Cao didn't know, Chen Mo had mobilized new soldiers from the rear once, and if he wanted to come to Cao Cao's side, I am afraid that he would also mobilize new soldiers from the rear.

In this war, the two sides have probably invested more than 100,000 troops so far, and Chen Mo is still recruiting new soldiers in the rear, this war is like a meat grinder, devouring the lives of the soldiers.

"Report~" A soldier rushed over and saluted the two of them.

"What?" Yu Sheng looked at the visitor.

"The Lord has an urgent order!" The soldier handed a roll of bamboo slips to Yu Shengdao.

Yu Sheng hurriedly took it, looked at it carefully, turned his head to look at Xu Shu, handed the bamboo slip to Xu Shu and said, "Mr. Master Gong Tune is going to Guandu." ”

When Xu Shu heard this, after taking the bamboo slip and looking at it, he nodded and said, "Without further ado, I'll get up here." ”

"I'll send a guard to my husband, it's not a smooth road!" Yu Sheng said.

"There is labor." Xu Shu did not refuse, Cao Jun will now infiltrate small forces from time to time, rob grain, destroy bridges, and it is quite difficult, although he has some martial arts, but now Xu Shu is no longer the ranger of the year, and he is no longer interested in fighting bravely, and he still puts his own safety first.

"Now that the lord has also transferred Mr. to the front line, I'm afraid that Mr. will preside over the soldiers and horses all the way, be careful!" Yu Sheng instructed that Chen Mo transferred Xu Shu to the front line at this time, I am afraid that he also feels that there are not enough manpower, and Xu Shu is afraid that he will go to the battlefield.

"The general can rest assured, after following the lord for all these years, he can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles." Xu Shu smiled and nodded, said goodbye to Yu Sheng at the moment, and rushed straight to Guandu with the two hundred elites sent to him by Yu Sheng.

Xingyang is one hundred and thirty miles away from Guandu, and it takes two or three days to rush with all your might, so it is not good to delay.

Along the way, traces of battle can be seen from time to time along the way, the fight between the Guanzhong soldiers and the Cao army is happening everywhere, although the battlefield is in Guandu, but now it is already centered on Guandu, radiating to both sides, this is east of Chenggao, there is no safe place.

Xu Shu traveled all the way, and rushed to Guancheng on the same day, but outside the city, he saw two teams of men and horses fighting.

"Silence!" Xu Shu took the accompanying military marquis and signaled to stop the flag, while silently paying attention to the two sides of the fight.

There are not many people on both sides, one is the Guanzhong army, the number is only three hundred, the other is the Cao army, there are seven or eight hundred people, the two teams are fighting together outside the city, although the Guanzhong army is brave, but the Cao army is not far behind, and the other party also occupies the advantage of numbers, seeing that this force has to be scattered.

"Sir, would you like to help?" The military marquis looked at Xu Shu, his task was to escort Xu Shu to the Guandu camp safely, although he couldn't bear to see his family being strangled by the other party, but the task was important, and he had to ask Xu Shu's opinion on this matter.

"You have some branches broken and dragged back and forth over there." After Xu Shu looked at it for a while, he nodded, and ordered: "The others will listen to my orders for a while, don't come forward to fight, just keep shouting, beating gongs and drums, and at the same time show the flag of our army." ”

"Whoa!" The marquis agreed, and immediately ordered someone to go and break the branches, and kept dragging them back and forth in the distance, and after a while, he saw smoke and dust billowing out, as if there was really a large army rushing towards this side.

At the same time, under Xu Shu's order, the rest of the people began to make a big noise, beating gongs and drums, and the banner representing Chen Mo kept shaking, instantly shocking the two teams that were fighting in the distance.

When the Guanzhong army saw the banner here, they were overjoyed, and the leading general shouted: "Soldiers, the reinforcements have arrived, kill them with me!" ”

The morale of the Guanzhong generals was shocked, on the other side, the Cao army was deep behind the enemy after all, I don't know the depth, the face of the leader changed when he saw this, and he couldn't care about continuing to chase and kill, and immediately chose to withdraw the army, after the two sides chased and fled for a long time, those Guanzhong generals gave up and came to Xu Shu's side with the remnants, only to find that there were any reinforcements, but a team of two hundred people, and he was shocked into a cold sweat in an instant, but fortunately he did not keep chasing.

"I'm Xu Shu, whose subordinate are you?" Xu Shu revealed his identity and looked at the visitor.

"Mr. Hui, the last general is a lieutenant under General Zhang He, this time he was ordered to escort grain and grass, and he encountered the enemy army coming to rob the grain, so he had to lead his troops to lead away the pursuers, and he had to kill them all the way here, and thank you Mr. for your help." The general knew Xu Shu and bowed and said.

"How's the battle going on the front?" Xu Shu asked the other party to join forces with him, and went with him to join the team escorting grain and grass, while asking.

"I can't tell." The captain shook his head: "We are fighting every day, but who wins and who loses, the last general is not clear." ”

The large battlefield of 100,000 people has a range of dozens of miles, and what he can see as a captain is part of the battlefield that he can participate in, as for the overall situation, let alone him, I'm afraid Zhang He can't get a glimpse of the whole picture.

Xu Shu nodded, this sentence is also a temptation, now in this situation, the ghost knows if the other party will be pretended by Cao Jun.

The two sides joined forces, and there were a lot more people and horses, and then they converged with the grain team, and encountered several sneak attacks by Cao Jun along the way, which were easily resolved by Xu Shu, or frightened back, or defeated, but such frequent attacks made Xu Shu vigilant.

"Could it be that our army's food channel is already known to Cao Jun?" Xu Shu recruited the captain, frowned and said, this is Chen Mo's rear, how can there be so many Cao troops, and they can always find their location.

"I don't know about this general, but in recent times, the grain team has indeed been ambushed often." The lieutenant shook his head.

"Does the lord know about this?" Xu Shu asked suddenly.

"Should know." The captain nodded: "Recently, there have been a lot more people escorting the food team. ”

But the grain route has not changed......

Xu Shu frowned and came to a grain truck, and suddenly raised his sword to cut a grain bag.

"Whoa~"

However, after the grain fell, what flowed out of the grain bag were all small stones, and behind Xu Shu, the captain looked at this scene in amazement.