On October 14 of the ninth year of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's army Yongzhou legion soldiers were in Jiyin, less than 60 miles away from Cao Cao's army to enter Dongjun, the throat of Qingzhou, on the same day, Dong Zhuo's army Jizhou legion crossed the Yellow River, and the soldiers pointed to the white horse, cooperating with the military action of the Yongzhou army from the north. Cao Cao did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly convened all the strategists to discuss.

"King, the enemy is outnumbered, the enemy has more food and I have less, and there is a huge disparity between strength and weakness." Cheng Yu offered advice: "The terrain of Baima is high and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Hao Bodao (PS: Hao Zhao, the cattle man who defended the city with 3,000 soldiers to block Zhuge Liang's 200,000 army for more than a month) is good at defending the city, and our army can ignore Baima for the time being." But the terrain near Dongjun is flat, it is the terrain that Dong Zhuo's iron cavalry is best at, our army must not hold on, it needs to be surprising to win, the king can send a strange army, take Dong Zhuo far to gain a foothold, rob Dong Zhuo's Yongzhou army main camp tonight, frustrate Dong Zhuo's spirit, and our army will make a plan to break it again. ”

Cao Cao nodded, he also knew that a head-on encounter with Dong Zhuojun was tantamount to an egg hitting a stone, so he ordered Xiahou Dun and Zhang He to lead three thousand cavalry, prepare more firewood, grass, sulfur and other fire-causing things, and prepare to rob Dong Zhuo's army camp overnight, Guo Jia added: "King, Dong Zhuo is cunning, Jia Xu is insidious, although it is from afar, it will definitely strengthen the night defense, the king can send one more army to respond, if our front army fails, we can quickly rescue, if the front army succeeds, we can come forward to help, expand the results." Guo Jia's words hit Cao Cao's heart, and he immediately agreed, sending Xu Zhen to lead the last 3,000 cavalry of Cao Cao's army to respond from behind.

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On Dong Zhuojun's side, as Guo Jia expected, as soon as Dong Zhuojun's army set up camp, Jia Xu found Kang Peng and offered advice to Kang Peng: "King, although our army has the superior strength, it is tired from afar, with Cao Cao's cunning and Guo Jia's resourcefulness, we will definitely not let go of this weakness of our army, and there will be an enemy to rob the camp tonight." ”

Kang Peng was right when he thought about it, in the history of the Cold War, the weak defeated the strong and the less won the more, except for Bai Qi and Chen Qingzhi, the two war geniuses and madmen who were successful in the frontal attack, everyone else had to play conspiracy and tricks, especially Cao Cao and Guo Jia, who were experts in playing conspiracy. Kang Peng asked, "What should I do?" How should our army be arranged? ”

"Our army's camp is more than fifty miles away from Dongjun, and if Cao Cao wants to rob our army's camp, he has to use cavalry with fast marching speed." Jia Xu analyzed: "When Zhuge Liang's thief used a new type of horse trap in Yecheng to deal with our cavalry, it was very effective, our army could draw a scoop according to the gourd, dig a trap in front of the camp gate, and then lay an ambush on both sides of the camp, when the enemy robbed the village and charged, it will be trapped in the horse pit, and our army will kill from both sides, at least Cao Cao's cavalry will be reduced by half." Kang Peng was overjoyed, and immediately sent the generals to make arrangements.

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At the same time, the Jizhou legion of Dong Zhuo's army, which successfully crossed the Yellow River, has surrounded the White Horse City, and there are only 3,000 Cao Cao's troops in the White Horse City guarded by Hao Zhao, and there will definitely be no reinforcements, but Dong Zhuo's Jizhou army has 100,000 people, Dong Chong, who is not usually in charge of things, sees that the army is bullying the small to fight more and less, and it is rare to be interested, and he wants to personally lead the army to break through the white horse before sunset, and give a generous gift to the eldest brother who is about to join the division, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Pang De and other Dong Zhuojun generals did not put the little white horse in their eyes, One by one, they were gearing up to take three thousand Cao Cao to practice alone.

In the Yongzhou Legion, only Dong Chong's staff Tian Feng was sober-minded, and he advised Dong Chong: "Second general, although the enemy is outnumbered, but the white horse guard general Hao Zhao is a famous general who guards the city, and Cao Cao dares to hand over the north gate of Dongjun to Hao Zhao and does not send reinforcements, which is the biggest proof." Our army must not attack by force, otherwise it will surely suffer heavy casualties and will be in vain, and it must be broken by calculation. ”

Tian Feng's words were well-intentioned, but Dong Chong, who was confused by a series of victories, replied arrogantly: "Mr. Wen Hao doesn't have to worry, how much wind and waves can be stirred up in a small town that lacks soldiers and major generals?" Mr. Wen Hao is seated in the camp, and I will find you some beautiful girls in White Horse City in the evening. After speaking, Dong Chong took Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other generals, and rushed out of the camp with murderous spirits, leaving Tian Feng alone in the camp with a wry smile.

In a short time, Dong Chong gathered an army of 50,000, brought a large number of siege equipment, and followed the appearance of his eldest brother to set up a formation outside the White Horse City, attacking the White Horse from all sides.

In the war drums shook the sky, 50,000 Dong Zhuojun frantically poured a pillar of incense on the White Horse City, the foot bow of the special feather arrows and the big stones thrown out by the catapult, so that the defenders of the city did not dare to raise their heads at all, and threw more than 400 flames at the four city gates, blowing up the wooden city gate wrapped in iron sheets, but after the smoke dissipated, Dong Zhuojun couldn't help but be a little discouraged, Hao Zhao, who had already been familiar with Dong Zhuojun's means of bombing the city, had asked the soldiers to seal the four city gates with big stones, and Dong Zhuojun still couldn't enter the city through the city gate.

"On the cloud ladder and the platform, kill all the enemies in the city." Dong Chong roared viciously, the order was handed down, and the complacent Dong Zhuojun shouted and rushed up from all directions, in Dong Zhuojun's opinion, after the ravages of the foot bow and catapults, it is estimated that there are not many defenders left in the city, and Dong Zhuojun and everyone are sure that they will be able to take White Horse City after the first round of attacks. But what Dong Zhuojun didn't expect was ......

"Drop the rocket!" Following a calm shout on the White Horse City, countless Cao Cao soldiers suddenly appeared on the White Horse City, a large number of rockets soaked in fire oil were shot out of the city, and accurately nailed to Dong Zhuojun's gimbal, the wooden gimbals ignited a sky-high fire in an instant, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers on the gimbals were caught off guard, many soldiers were either killed by rockets, or burned to death by the fire, and the lightest was to climb down the gimbals with rolling belts and fall half to death.

Dong Chong, who was observing the battlefield with a telescope in the back, jumped up from his seat in surprise and asked repeatedly, "Why are there so many enemies?" Are our troops useless with their bows and catapults? No one could answer Dong Chong's question, only to see the arrows flying like locusts on the White Horse City, the rolling stones and falling trees were dense like raindrops, Dong Zhuojun under the city was caught off guard, and he was in a disadvantageous position from the bottom up to attack from the bottom, and the casualties were quite heavy, and he soon fled back in disgrace, and the first wave of attacks was declared a failure.

"Stretch your bow with your feet, use a catapult again, and I won't be able to shoot them to death!" Dong Chong was so angry that he jumped like thunder, and ordered repeatedly, thousands of foot bows and hundreds of catapults lined up again, pouring arrow rain and stone rain on the city outside the range of White Horse City, and shot out more than 50,000 expensive foot bow special feather arrows, smashing out tens of thousands of catties of boulders to go to the city, Dong Chong saw with a telescope that there was no longer half a figure in the city, so he ordered the foot bow and catapult to stop the attack, so that the army could attack the city again.

"Kill!" Dong Zhuojun's thousands of cloud echelons poured up from all directions, but when Dong Zhuojun's army entered the range of the defenders of White Horse City again, a large number of defenders appeared from there in the city, and it was a bow and arrow, rolling stones, falling wood, ash bottles and gold juice, which beat Dong Zhuojun, who was attacking on his back, to ashes, and fled again, and the second wave of attacks was useless.

"Shoot me again, smash again!" Dong Chongzheng, who was smoking, was howling, but a gentle voice came from next to him, "Second general, slow down." Dong Chong looked back and saw that Tian Feng was already standing behind him at some point. If Yuan Shao was stopped by Tian Feng when he failed at this moment, he would definitely scold Tian Feng like thunder and drive him away. But Dong Chong, who knew that he was incompetent, clapped his hands and laughed, "Mr. Wen Hao, it's good for you to come, give me an idea, the defenders on the White Horse City are too strange, our foot bows and catapults seem useless to them." ”

Tian Feng remained silent, secretly sighed in his heart about the huge treatment between the past and the present, took the telescope from Dong Chong's hand, carefully observed the passage between the city and the city, and squatted on the ground again, grabbed a handful of soil from the ground and took a closer look. Dong Chong was inexplicable, "Mr. Wen Hao, what do you think this loess is doing?" Tian Feng waved his hand to stop Dong Chong's inquiry, and said to the two Dong Chong's own soldiers who were holding iron guns: "Annoying two sergeants, you use the tail of the gun to smash this loess for me to see." The two Dong Chong soldiers were also confused, but they still acted according to the law, and when they smashed more than a dozen times, Tian Feng clapped his hands and said, "Okay, stop." ”

"Second General, I already know the secret that the enemy is not afraid of our army's foot bow and catapult." Tian Feng smiled, Dong Chong laughed, and hurriedly asked why, Tian Feng explained: "Baima is located between the two tributaries of the Yellow River, the soil is the accumulation of alluvial sediment of the Yellow River, the soil is fine and strong, can withstand the impact of heavy objects, and is most suitable for digging tunnels. Hao Zhao is good at defending the city, long-term defense of the white horse and our army confrontation, must have carefully studied the siege tactics of our army, from which to find out a way to deal with our army's defense tactics, digging a large number of tunnels in the city, when our army catapult and foot bow attack, the defenders retreated into the tunnel to hide, when our army attacked the city normally, the defenders came out of the tunnel, went to the city to defend. ”

"I see, I thought it was some kind of hexism on the part of the enemy, so our catapults and foot bows were useless to them." Dong Chong suddenly realized, and frowned again: "These enemies are like mice, so what should we do?" ”

"In the way of others, give back to others." Tian Feng has a good chest, "The soil here is suitable for digging tunnels, and our army can also dig tunnels to enter, and within three days, White Horse City will be broken." "Dong Chong's greatest advantage in tactical command is that he is self-aware, can be as good as a stream, and without saying a word, he immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army and organized people to dig tunnels overnight.

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At the second watch of the night, when the local rats of the Jizhou Legion were digging tunnels, Dong Zhuo's Yongzhou Legion camp ushered in a group of special guests, Xiahou Dun and Zhang He brought 3,000 cavalry according to Cao Cao's order, preparing to attack Dong Zhuo's Yongzhou Legion camp at night to frustrate Dong Zhuo's army's spirit. When there were still ten miles away from the destination, Zhang He suddenly asked the army to stop moving, and said to Xiahou Dun: "General Yuanrang, and march slowly, tonight's night attack, I always have a bad premonition, with Dong Zhuo's treachery, will we succeed calmly?" ”

"What? Now you are greedy for life and afraid of death? Xiahou Dun was furious, and he pressed the knife on his waist and glared at Zhang He Dao.

"General Yuan Rang misunderstood, Zhang He is definitely not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death." Zhang He hurriedly waved his hand to explain, and then pointed to the troops and said: "General Yuan Rang, I think so, our three thousand war horses here plus General Zhong Kang who received us have three thousand war horses, which is already the last war horse in the hands of the king, if we fail to rob the camp, there will be no cavalry in the hands of the king, we have to act cautiously and leave some combat power for the king." ”

"Makes sense." Xiahou Dun's face slowed down, the Cao Cao army at the end of the road is now extremely precious in materials, especially if these precious war horses are lost, Cao Cao's army will never have a chance to replenish them. Xiahou Dun asked, "Then what should I do?" ”

"Everyone dismounts and walks on foot." Zhang He said decisively: "Leave a small number of troops to guard the war horses, if our army is lost, under the cover of General Zhongkang, we can calmly return here to pick up the horses and evacuate, no matter how we win or lose this trip, these precious war horses will not be lost." ”

"Dismount, dismount." Xiahou Dun immediately ordered, although the cavalry of Cao Cao's army was only angry, they could only follow the order, Xiahou Dun's eyes were full of tears, Cao Cao's army was too difficult, and even the war horse did not dare to use it easily.

Because there were no war horses, Cao Cao's army arrived at the destination nearly an hour later than expected, and even the Xu Yang troops who came to meet it were already almost there, and Xiahou Dun and Zhang He's troops arrived outside Dong Zhuojun's camp, and there was silence in Dong Zhuo's army camp at this moment, only a few patrols' torches flashed in the camp, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun's troops quietly moved away from the antlers and horses outside the camp, and secretly opened the gate of the village, and the camp was still quiet, and the enemy was not found at all.

"Rush!" Xiahou Dun took the lead in beating the horse and rushed into Dong Zhuojun's camp, Zhang He followed closely, in Cao Cao's army, only the two of them rode war horses, the result was there, the two of their war horses just rushed into Dong Zhuojun's camp, and the war horse stepped into the horse trap invented by Zhuge Liang, and the horse's leg bone was broken by its own momentum, and the two fell heavily to the ground.

"Retreat! Hit the trick! The first thing Zhang He did when he got up was to yell and order the soldiers to retreat, Dong Zhuojun's cavalry did not know how much more than Cao Cao's army, and he dug so many horse traps at the gate of the camp, clearly dealing with the cavalry of Cao Cao's army who came to rob the camp. Xiahou Dun was secretly glad that he didn't bring a war horse, and at the same time shouted, "Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw!" ”

"Boom!" A cannon sounded, Li Dao on the left and Guo Yan on the right on both sides of Dong Zhuojun's camp committed suicide with an army, and Dong Zhuo's army also killed an army in the rear camp, but Cao Cao's military police felt that it was fast, and they were already retreating backwards, and discarded thatch, firewood, sulfur and other fire-causing things on the road to block the pursuing army, Dong Zhuojun's ambush did not have much effect. Kang Peng and Jia Xu saw each other in the back camp, and they couldn't help but marvel, secretly admiring the change of Cao Cao's leading generals.

Xiahou Dun and Zhang He's troops fled not far, Xu Yang had come to respond, Kang Peng was worried that Cao Cao's army would still have an ambush in the night battle, and he was afraid that he would lose too much of the precious Xiliang Iron Cavalry, so that Cao Cao's army could escape calmly, and the first contact battle between the two armies was a draw. After Zhang He returned to the city, he was vigorously verbally rewarded by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao's army is now short of supplies, and Cao Cao has no rewards to get his hands on.

Although there was a draw with Dong Zhuojun, Cao Cao was still worried, the gap between the strength of the two armies was there, Cao Cao's army lacked soldiers and food, Dong Zhuojun was consumed, and Cao Cao's army could be consumed to death, Cao Cao's army could no longer think of a way to defeat Dong Zhuojun, but it was really benevolent. He tiptoed in the courtyard for half the night, and it was not until dawn that Cao Cao, who was covered with dew, went back to his room to rest under the persuasion of others.

When passing through the study, Cao Cao suddenly found that Guo Jia was still pondering the map in the study, looking at the lone lamp next to Guo Jia, obviously Guo Jia also had not slept all night, Cao Cao was curious, quietly tiptoed behind Guo Jia, and was about to speak, Guo Jia suddenly pounded the map and yelled frantically: "Okay!" Sure! ”

Cao Cao was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Guo Jiadao: "Fengxiao, what's wrong with you?" What works? ”

"King, I have a way." Guo Jia grabbed Cao Cao's shoulders. Desperately shaking and laughing: "I have a way, this time I will definitely let Dong Zhuo's army of 200,000 be wiped out, so that Dong Zhuo will have no return!" ”

"What's the trick of Feng Xiao? Come on. Cao Cao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked.

"Wang, do you remember the second anti-Dong alliance you formed?" Guo Jia said excitedly: "At that time, what did we fail for? ”