In the first battle of the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao was defeated and inevitably suffered a heavy defeat in the face of Yuan Shao's absolute strength.

In this battle, Cao's army lost a total of nearly 20,000 troops, and the losses were not huge.

Now Cao Cao has only 50,000 troops on hand, and even if Xuchang is asked to send reinforcements, it will take some time for the reinforcements to arrive. At this moment, Cao Cao could only lead the army to defend the camp, and arrange to resist horses and dig deep trenches to resist the attack of Yuan's army.

Although the Yuan army won a while ago, it was not that it did not pay any price, and the number of dead in the battle was more than 10,000, which is not small. However, there were already more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Yuan's march, and in the face of such a huge base, the casualties of more than 10,000 people did not have much impact on it at all.

Yuan Shao originally wanted to launch a general offensive and eradicate Cao's army in one fell swoop. However, it was getting late, and the soldiers had been tired after fighting during the day. Seeing this, Yuan Shao postponed the attack and set up camp twenty miles away from Cao's military camp, facing Cao's army from a distance.

The atmosphere in Cao's camp was very serious, and he was defeated for a while during the day, and it was a fiasco, and no one would be in a good mood at this time.

In the main tent, Cao Cao had a gloomy face, and his face was extremely uncertain.

Early tomorrow morning, Yuan Shao is estimated to launch a fierce attack, how can he resist it at that time?

A series of troublesome things need to be solved by yourself, and the situation is very bad.

Not to mention tomorrow morning, even tonight can't have a moment of relaxation, in case Yuan Shao takes advantage of the night to attack and he relaxes a little, then he really doesn't even know how he died.

As for going to rob Yuan Shao's camp at night, Cao Cao didn't have such an idea, but the feasibility was too low.

Although Yuan Shao is relatively mediocre, he is by no means a stupid person, and it is impossible for the camp where more than 100,000 troops are stationed without vigilance, and the possibility of success in robbing the camp is close to zero.

Day will eventually come, and even if you don't want to face it, you can't escape the battle.

After guarding all night, Yuan Shao finally did not take advantage of the night to attack, which also made Cao Cao breathe a sigh of relief. Even if you have been prepared for it, with such a huge number gap, if you really fight at night, it will be very disadvantageous to you.

Of course, the current situation is not easy.

Judging from the results, Yuan Shao was a big victory yesterday, but Yuan Shao was not very happy. His own military strength was two and a half times that of Cao Cao, but in the end it only caused one to two casualties, especially in the final stage, his army of more than 100,000 people could not even leave hundreds of cavalry, so that Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who had been exhausted for a long time, finally escaped together, which made Yuan Shao, who had a good face, quite unhappy.

Cao Cao was ready to fight to the death, but to his surprise, Yuan Shao did not launch a general attack of the whole army at the beginning.

An army array of about 1,000 people came out of Yuan Shao's army and slowly approached the Cao army camp.

What is he Yuan Shao going to do? Cao Cao depressedly pondered the reason for the scene in front of him.

"Cao Mengde, I heard that there is an elite army under my command, and it is said that it is trapped. Today, there are 1,000 lone halberds, and you dare to fight with the lone army with that trapped army! ”

Hearing Yuan Shao's shout, Cao Cao laughed. Fighting arrays? Then Yuan Shao's mind is confused again? The act of fighting the formation, he can ask for it but can't get it, and now Yuan Shao takes the initiative to propose, how can he not be reasonable.

At the moment, he is at an absolute disadvantage, and if he wins the battle at the beginning, he may be able to win a better situation for his army in the subsequent battles.

As for Yuan Shao's absolute advantage, he wants to fight with Cao Cao, and Cao Cao can guess a few points, just to save face. Although Yuan Shao won a big victory yesterday, he was not satisfied with the process, for fear that others would say that he could defeat Cao Cao only by quantity, and that the quality of the army was far inferior to that of the other party.

Yuan Shao could not tolerate the emergence of this kind of assertion, and he wanted to prove to the world that when it came to the number of troops, he was far superior to Cao Cao, but when it came to the quality of the army, he was much better than Cao Cao.

Therefore, Yuan Shao would ask Cao Cao to fight the formation before launching an attack at this time, first defeat Cao Cao through the dignified array, and then the army pressed on and defeated him in one fell swoop.

Cao Cao had confidence in Gao Shun's trapping camp, and even according to Yuan Shao's wishes, let Gao Shun lead a thousand to meet the attack.

Gao Shun immediately received the order and led a thousand trapped sergeants to attack.

On the opposite side was Zhang He, one of the four court pillars of Hebei, and the 1,000 halberds he commanded.

Euphorbia, a strong soldier in Hebei, was formerly a first-born soldier and was under the command of General Ju Yi.

Ju Yi is a master of commanding the army, and the first dead soldier under his command made great contributions in the process of Yuan Shao's early siege of the city, in the battle of the boundary bridge, Ju Yi used the first to die with the crossbow array, and broke the cavalry with steps, and defeated the elite cavalry of Gongsun Zhan, and became famous all over the world. However, although Ju Yi is superb, his personality is also extremely arrogant, and even in front of Yuan Shao himself, Ju Yi often appears with a proud posture, not giving his lord any good looks. With Yuan Shaozhi's character, no matter how well Ju Yi commands the troops, he will never be able to tolerate the other party. Ju Yi was so arrogant that Yuan Shao finally found a reason to behead him, and at the same time handed over the first dead soldier to Zhang He.

In terms of military training, Zhang He is even higher than Juyi, and the first dead soldier has reached a higher level of combat power under Zhang He's training. Since the weapon used by the first deceased was a halberd, it was renamed the Euphorbia.

The name of the euphorbia is quite loud in the north, and it even has the effect of making children stop crying. But in the Central Plains, the Euphorbia was not so famous, although Gao Shun and Cao Cao had also heard of such an army, but it was not clear what its strength was.

There were originally 3,000 Euphorbia, but now Zhang He only drew the most powerful 1,000 people from them to fight against Cao Jun.

At this time, Zhang He sat on his horse, carefully observing the thousand-man team in front of him, and couldn't help but secretly speak.

At least judging from the appearance of the army, he has never seen a force as outstanding as the trapped camp in front of him, and even his own halberd warriors are not comparable.

It seems that the name of "the strongest soldier in the Central Plains" obtained by the trapped camp over the years is not in vain.

It's just that Zhang He is also full of confidence in his euphorbia, although the military appearance is a little different, but if it really fights, Zhang He doesn't think that his euphorbia will have the upper hand.

"Just let me see, who is the strongest soldier in the world between your trapping camp and my halberd!" Zhang He's heart was full of spirit.

Zhang He was looking at the trapped camp, and Gao Shun was also looking at the halberd in front of him. At this moment, Gao Shun's heart was also quite shocked, traveling to the end of the Han Dynasty for many years, his eyesight to observe the army has long been good, at a glance, he can naturally see that the strength of the thousand-person team in front of him is absolutely extraordinary.

The 1,000 halberds in front of him are likely to be the strongest opponents that the trapped camp has encountered since it formed an army.

Prior to this, the trapped camp had also fought with Chen Zhi's Bai Wei soldiers and Lu Bu's Flying Bear Army, and those troops were also rare elites in the world, but Gao Shun's intuition told him that the Euphorbia in front of him was more difficult than the Bai Wei soldiers and the Flying Bear Army.

Although Cao Cao thought that as long as he came out on top, he would be able to relieve the pressure for the rest of the battle. But Gao Shun instinctively felt that although the scale of the battle between the trap camp and the two thousand people of the Euphorbia was not large, I was afraid that it would also be a vicious battle.