Xu Huang's army had already stayed outside the Black Bear Valley for two hours.

Seeing that the sky is getting dark, if you don't leave, you will not have time to cross the ten-mile-long Black Bear Valley before dark.

Today, we can only camp outside this valley mouth.

Even if it was confirmed that there were no ambushes on the peaks on both sides of the Black Bear Valley, Xu Huang would not let the army set up camp in the valley.

This is the lord giving the enemy a chance.

Even if Cao Cao didn't ambush here.

But when he learned that Xu Huang had set up camp in the valley, he would immediately lead a large army to attack the camp at night.

Cao Cao would never let go of such an opportunity.

To camp in such a valley is to tell people that they should come and attack me.

Just send a team to climb to the top of the hill from the other end, attack with falling rocky bolts, and block the exits at both ends.

All the people in the valley will die, and it will be difficult for them to fly.

"Just rush over, Cao Cao is the one who is there." Zhang Wangdao.

Zhang Wang didn't think as much as Xu Huang.

The last time Maple Leaf Forest was not ambushed, Zhang Wang thought that Cao Cao would not be ambushed this time.

The 5,000 people who were lost must have blended into the ranks of the people again.

It was to disrupt their judgment and make Xu Huang hesitate to achieve the purpose of delaying time.

That's what Zhang Wang's mind is thinking.

Maple Leaf Forest had already been fooled once, and he didn't want to be tricked by Cao Cao again.

They thought there was an ambush in the Wind Night Forest, but so far, they have not encountered a single ambush.

Xu Huang silently calculated the time in his heart.

Even if he wasted half a day here today, he would still be able to catch up with Cao Cao's men before Cao Cao arrived in Yanzhou.

So even if Zhang Wang persuaded him to rush directly across the valley, Xu Huang still didn't agree.

Cao Cao's use of soldiers, between fiction and reality, makes it difficult to guess.

In true and false, when you think Cao Cao is fake, he is real.

When you think he's real, he's fake.

When Lü Bu was fighting Cao Cao in Yanzhou, he was not completely defenseless.

On several occasions, Lu Bu could have defeated Cao Cao, but because he had been ambushed by Cao Cao before, he was worried that there would be another ambush, so he did not dare to step forward, but missed the opportunity.

When Lü Bu learned that Cao Cao's troops had not been transferred back, thinking that there was no ambush, Lü Bu rushed over with a large army.

But a few days later, Cao Cao had already collected his soldiers and horses, and had already arranged an ambush to wait for Lu Bu.

Lu Bu is always one step slower in obtaining information.

He either didn't hesitate or just waited a few more days.

The results may not be the same.

Of course, even if Lu Bu didn't have Cao Cao's ambush, Cao Cao would have another way.

Xu Huang didn't want to follow in Lu Bu's footsteps.

According to what he learned about Cao Cao from various places.

Xu Huang believes that Cao Cao did not set up an ambush in the Maple Leaf Forest for the first time, and now there is at least a fifty percent chance that he will ambush in the Black Bear Valley.

So he still can't be careless. On the contrary, it is more cautious than when you are in the maple forest.

The maple leaf forest was ambushed, and Xu Huang and they could still run.

But if you encounter an ambush in Black Bear Valley, you really can't run.

Of the 50,000 people, only two or three thousand may survive.

With such a big risk, Xu Huang didn't need to take it.

If 100,000 people were recovered, the lives of 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers would be exchanged, and Xu Huang would only choose to give up these 100,000 people and ensure that the soldiers in his hands would not die.

The value of 100,000 ordinary people is less than 50,000 elite soldiers.

Xu Huang can only select 10,000 people from these 100,000 people to become soldiers at most, and if these 10,000 people want to become elite soldiers, they need at least one year of training and dozens of battles.

Even if the other 90,000 people can still reclaim the fields, the 50,000 elite soldiers in Xu Huang's hands can also reclaim the fields when there is no war.

The peaks on both sides are not easy to walk.

Even if you climb up from the other side with a slower slope, it will take a long time.

But Xu Huang has already decided to camp outside this valley today.

Anyway, even if Cao Cao is allowed to do this day, he will still be able to catch up with Cao Cao later, and there is no need to take risks.

While it's safer to take a detour, it takes longer to take a detour.

On the peaks on either side of the valley, hundreds of scouts still found nothing.

Cao Cao's soldiers and horses were not seen.

There were no stones piled up on the peaks either.

After all, Cao Cao had to rush back to Yanzhou in a hurry.

It's a great place to ambush, but you'll need to prepare a lot of rocks to get the most out of it.

Xu Huang chased after him, and Cao Cao didn't have so much time to prepare.

Unless Cao Cao thought of it a month ago, he began to prepare.

It takes a lot of time and manpower to collect a large number of rocks and carry them to the top of the mountain.

Although Cao Cao used his troops like a god, this retreat path was also chosen by him when he was preparing to retreat, through discussions with Xun Youcheng Yu and others.

This route, how many miles to walk every day, and how long it will take, Cao Cao has already planned.

Ring by link, whenever you need to catch up with him, you will encounter an ambush point.

Whether or not to ambush Xu Huang at these ambush points, Cao Cao has never been sure.

But after I really arrived, I started to think about it.

He will make a specific choice based on Xu Huang's distance at that time, as well as the speed of the march, as well as Xu Huang's mental analysis.

Black Bear Valley is indeed a better ambush spot than the Maple Leaf Forest.

But Cao Cao didn't have that much time to prepare.

At the same time, because of Xu Huang's caution and the speed of Xu Huang's march, Cao Cao guessed that he would not directly rush into the Black Bear Valley.

So Cao Cao still didn't arrange for people to ambush in the Black Bear Valley.

Xu Huang wasted nearly a day's time.

The distance that was originally ten miles was stretched to more than thirty miles.

When Xu Huang first started, he didn't care much.

It's only thirty miles.

In a day and a half, he was able to catch up with Cao Cao again.

But when he saw the news that Tanma reported back, Xu Huang was not calm.

Cao Cao changed the direction of the march again.

Spreading out the map, Xu Huang's gaze fell on a small corner of the map.

There is another dangerous place, called the Snake Road.

The road is rough and narrow, and it can only accommodate five people at most.

Both sides are covered with shrubs and weeds, making it impassable.

In this kind of terrain, Xu Huang could not give full play to his numerical advantage.

As long as Cao Cao sent a thousand people to guard here, he could block Xu Huang for at least a day.

After the snake road passes, it is green water, although the width is only two or three zhang, but the depth is also three zhang.

There is no ferry, dozens of miles before and after, only a wooden bridge is connected.

As long as Cao Cao crossed the green water and destroyed the wooden bridge, he would be able to stop Xu Huang's pursuit.

Xu Huang wanted to continue the pursuit, and he had to make a detour of at least fifty miles.

By the time Xu Huang went around, Cao Cao had already returned to Yanzhou.

At this moment, Xu Huang really saw Cao Cao's marching route.

It's just that he's in the Maple Leaf Forest and Black Bear Valley, and he's wasted too much time.

(End of chapter)