In other words, when the time came to the last day of September, after nearly half a year of war, especially after the defeat in Xuzhou, the high-level generality within the Central Plains Coalition Army, which was still a little angry, had already had a certain consciousness of breaking the kettle. Because at this point, if you don't gamble on all your awareness, you can only sit and wait!

Sun Ce led the Seventh Army to attack Yecheng is such a product.

In fact, in this operation, Cao Cao was angry with Xun Yu and Liu Bei behind him, and did not directly explain the specific battle plan, but at this time, this resolute attitude was undoubtedly supported by the latter two...... Otherwise, the action may not be possible.

However, attitude is attitude, determination is decision, and the problem is that even some people who have the consciousness to die will still fall into despair - for example, when they come to the north of Wuchaoze and see the empty Huang Gai here.

In all fairness, Huang Gongfu's strategy of deception is actually extremely ingenious, because his real strategic purpose this time is not to pursue the annihilation of the enemy, let alone to gain Gongsun Xun's trust, so there is no need to worry about whether Gongsun Xun sees through him and surrenders...... His purpose was to gain Gongsun Xun's attention, so as to give the Central Plains coalition army a real killing move, that is, Huang Gai did not know, but at this time, Sun Ce's Seventh Army, which had already arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River, tried to buy time and cover up the plan.

I have to use a very anachronistic and atmospheric analogy, Huang Gongfu came out to sell it at all, for the sake of new attention...... It's better for Gongsun Xun to really believe him, maybe he can still cause some damage, but if he doesn't believe it, it would be better to throw his 180 catties on the battlefield and buy an opportunity for the main force and the surprise attack troops.

However, the problem now is that Gongsun Xun actually deceived him to Wuchao Zebei in turn, and then ignored him!

Huang Gongfu is really not afraid of death, in fact, he had the heart to die before he came, but what made him desperate was that he gambled everything and was ready to sacrifice everything, but at the last moment he lost his value...... Or, at this moment, this general of the Sun family, who is not afraid of death, is actually terrified for a while, he is extremely afraid now, and when he arrives at the real battlefield, is it too late to even join the war?

Wuchaoze is in the northeast of Guandu, at this time the water is shallow, that is, a swamp with a muddy land about a radius of fifteen or sixteen miles, it is not big, it is not small, but the water passes through the center of Ze, a point of north and south, you need to pay attention to it...... So at the beginning, the strategy agreed between Huang Gai and Cao Cao was still very reasonable, Huang Gai led 3,000 troops to surrender and arrived at the grain transportation channel north of Wuchaoze first, Cao Cao led 30,000 main forces to stop at the southeast corner of Wuchaoze across a river, while Cao Ren led troops to stick to the camp, and at the same time secretly gathered soldiers and horses on the easternmost side of the Guandu battlefield to respond.

If Gongsun Xun trusted Huang Gai and succeeded in defrauding him, and at the same time was deceived by Huang Gai to the south, then Cao Cao immediately went north and came to the south bank of Jishui to see if he could attack halfway through, and try to cooperate with Huang Gai to achieve a small victory;

If the deception is successful, Gongsun Xun is cautious with his troops, and is only willing to wait in the predetermined ambush field in the north of Wuchaoze, then Cao Cao will not see the troops after arriving at Jishui, and he will immediately retreat, and Huang Gai will live and die, success or failure is in the sky, let him do it;

As for if the deception fails, Gongsun Xun can't trust Huang Gai when he comes up, so needless to say, Huang Gongfu will simply beat the drum and march to repay the kindness of Sun's father and son with a suicide attack, and Cao Cao will retreat decisively across a black nest!

In this scenario, the northeast corner of Wuchaoze, where Gongsun Xun and Huang Gai are located, is scheduled to be about forty miles away from the front line of Guandu, that is, Cao Ren. Cao Cao was in between, about fifteen miles from Huang Gai and the imaginary main force of Gongsun Xun, but in the middle there was a large river that seriously delayed the cavalry's advance, and it was twenty-five miles from Cao Ren...... This is a safe distance, and it is completely possible to get the support of Cao Ren who crossed the ditch on the eastern border of the Guandu battlefield in front of the camp before the cavalry of the Gongsun army crossed the river to catch up, gather the army, and then slowly return to the camp.

But the problem now is that Gongsun Xun and his main force did not appear north of Jishui at all...... Instead, he went directly out of the camp to the east and appeared south of Jishui!

Or to put it bluntly, at noon, Cao Cao had just led 30,000 main forces to stop at the southeast corner of Wuchaoze, ready to wait for Huang Gai's message, and before he could breathe for a quarter of an hour, the smoke and dust rose from the west, and the ground trembled for a while, as if there were countless cavalry, all coming here!

To put it bluntly, Gongsun Xun didn't know whether to believe Huang Gai or not, and he didn't want to guess what other mysteries were behind this battle, and he was already determined to end this protracted war, and he also didn't want to fight on the battlefield predetermined by others, let alone engage in battlefield speculation with the so-called historical knowledge - so, according to the military advice of Jia Xu and Xun You, regardless of whether Huang Gai surrendered by fraud and whether Cao Cao planned against him, he suddenly led the main cavalry to attack directly from the south of Wuchaoze, in order to cut off the retreat of the main force of Cao's army, this is the real ' Foolproof'!

Due to the difficulty of replenishing the Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Xianbei cavalry for a while, after that battle, only about 35,000 cavalry remained in the Yan army camp, but at this time, they poured out of the nest after breakfast, easily crossed the ditch that had partially dried up, and came to the dense forest area on the east bank of the ditch to ambush. After the Cao army came to the battlefield, the cavalry of the Yan army, which had discovered the military situation, once again went out with all their troops and rushed to the east along the south bank of Wuchaoze. As soon as the tens of thousands of cavalry crossed the wooded shelter area east of the ditch and came to the plain, they saw the large array of Cao's army stationed on the bank of the river from a distance.

There is no shelter on the plain, the cavalry of the Yan army is overwhelming, and a large number of people are coming, Cao Mengde naturally sees it clearly, but he is three points shocked and three points angry, and then there are three points of joy - the surprise is naturally that the Yan army is surprising, and it is actually here to marry; Naturally, the angry Yan army was obviously not superior in the number of troops, but it relied on the sharpness of the cavalry not to put its most elite 30,000 foot soldiers in its eyes, but rushed directly; As for the joy, it is naturally because Gongsun Xun has made such a strange strategy, it seems that the whole army of cavalry may be here, and then from a strategic point of view, he has involved reinforcements for Sun Ce, or the general strategy of making suspicious soldiers, which can be regarded as completed at a certain level.

On the plain, infantry against cavalry, it is certain to go, but it must be strategic. And to be honest, Cao Mengde is still very confident that he will leave this time.

This is because the 30,000 foot soldiers who attacked this time were all the elite of the Southern Army, with a large number of armor soldiers, famous generals and warriors filling the whole army, and the organization was extremely high; Moreover, after that bloody battle, the Southern Army, which completely lost a large number of formed cavalry, was also prepared to deal with the cavalry of the Yan Army, with large shields, spears, bows and crossbows, and this 30,000 troops were all equipment for cavalry.

With such preparations, it may not be impossible to fight and retreat, and successfully cover and retreat alternately.

And when it is a little back more than ten miles and close to the Guandu camp, when it gets dark, the artillery with wheels will cover through the gutter, plus the hedgehog nest on the Guandu battlefield, it is easy to say!

Before that, though, be sure to hold on to your formation!

In fact, although these ideas are complicated, they have already been deduced in Cao Mengde's heart, and at this time, as soon as the thought arises, his people immediately made a decision and ordered the eight battalions of the whole army to form a formation to protect themselves, but they also asked to maintain order as a whole and protect each other.

Which eight battalions?

Liu Bei's general Zhou Tai led 3,000 Danyang soldiers;

Wen hired 5,000 Jiangxia soldiers;

Li Tong led 5,000 Runan soldiers;

Chen Wu led 3,000 Lujiang Xuanjia;

Xu Sheng cited 3,000 Jiujiang Sujia;

In the end, Cao Cao's town of 11,000 people, divided into three, his people led 3,000 pei, Liang Jiashi and the remaining 2,000 cavalry of the whole army in the center, and the two deputy generals Du Xi and Mao Jie, each led 3,000 soldiers to the two wings to divide the camp!

Eight battalion soldiers, Li Tong and Wen Ping in the east, Cao Cao and the two deputy generals in the center, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, Xu Sheng three generals in the west, all of them are typical infantry sticking to the phalanx, but it seems a little hollow, it is the shield soldiers outside, the crossbowmen are attached in the center, and then the eight battalions are arranged together into a large phalanx similar to the nine-square grid, facing the Yan cavalry.

However, it is worth mentioning that the three generals of Huainan who bore the brunt of the tacit understanding, before Cao Cao's military order was issued, Chen Wu and Xu Sheng took the initiative to move forward slightly on both sides, while Zhou Tai retreated slightly in the middle, and the three generals worked together to set up a concave posture more than 100 steps deep.

The cavalry of the Yan army galloped over, led by Tian Yu and his subordinates, and Tian Guorang was young and vigorous, and after the battle a few months ago, he couldn't help but look down on the field strength of the infantry of the southern army...... Therefore, although his people guessed the plot of the Cao army at a glance, they still ordered the cavalry not to slow down and trample forward, as if they felt that the other party was in a hurry to set up a formation, and the army was inevitably unstable, and it was attacked in a hurry, and the army was panicked.

However, the three formations in front of him, that is, the troops of Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, and Xu Sheng, are the three most relied on and most elite troops by Liu Bei, not only are they fully armored, but also most of them are old pawns.

Tian Yu led his troops to move forward bravely, and had already crossed the Chen and Xu formations on the left and right sides in parallel, and rushed to more than 100 steps in front of Zhou Taijun's formation, but found that the other party was still not moving, and he was also shocked...... It must be known that the cavalry's charge to the heavy infantry is more of a threat, and the real step forward to trample on hand-to-hand combat is to find the right angle to charge around the back, or simply take advantage of the opponent's formation to scatter and insert the slaughter, directly facing the heavy infantry equipped with spears and shields, which is tantamount to suicide...... As a cavalry general, how could Tian Guorang not understand these truths?

As a result, his people were shocked, but they could only turn in front of Zhou Tai, and his three thousand cavalry had to be divided into two, sliding to both sides like the flowing water of stones, but they infiltrated into the Cao army's array.

And at this moment, on the command platform in the middle of the military formation, Jiujiang Zhou Youping, who had always been silent, suddenly gave an order, but there was only one word:

"Shoot!"

When the guards on his side heard this, they immediately shook the banner, and in an instant, not only the Danyang military array under Zhou Tai, but also the Huainan Shangjia on the left and right sides also launched their arrows!

Arrows rise like locusts, and then fall like rain!

Countless adventurous Yan cavalry were in the gap of the Cao army's large array, and they were suddenly thrown from two sides, and they were also hit by arrows and fell to the ground one after another, with heavy casualties!

In fact, as the armored knights from Yexia, the combat skills and armor of these knights are not mentioned, and the probability of them being hit by an arrow is not large, even if someone is hit by an arrow, it is very difficult to cause fatal injuries on the spot.

But the problem is that the horses under their crotch are too big to cover up...... As for the iron horse armor, Gongsun Xun is not nothing, he also tried the so-called 'Iron Floating Tu' in his mother's mouth, but even with the economic strength of Hebei Kyushu, only 500 pairs were made, and this battle was not brought at all, but was thrown under Ye...... As for the ordinary Yan Army knights, even if they are officers, if they sit down on the war horse and are outstanding, they will at most give the horse head a horse-faced armor, and it may also be leather.

Therefore, back to the present, this battle is really in response to the sentence - shoot people first and shoot horses!

In the state of Cao Jun's arrows, it was not the arrows themselves that caused a large number of casualties to the Yan army, but the trampling of their own cavalry and war horses.

Tian Yu didn't have time to be angry and regretful, because after the first wave of arrow rain fell, the war horse under his crotch neighed, and he was directly hit by the arrow, and he threw Tian Guo into the passage between the Cao army's large arrays. And Tian Yu, out of the instinct of a knight in the Northland, struggled to get up almost immediately, trying to turn over and jump on an empty horse, but he felt that his left leg was unconscious, and he couldn't exert force at all, but fell to the ground again, which was also terrifying!

Fortunately, there were still dozens of henchmen and guards on his side, and when they saw this, they almost stopped their horses at the cost of their lives, and took advantage of a round of arrow rain to help their generals on a war horse.

And Tian Yu took advantage of the horse, looked around, and saw that there were no less than 100 dead and wounded in the passage on his side, and his heart couldn't help but become more and more shocked, and immediately ignored it, and shouted and ordered:

"Hurry up from both sides! Hurry up! ”

After saying that, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately leaned over and hugged the horse's neck, took his own guards, and protected his banner and struggled to escape to the side.

At this time, the gap between the battalions of the Southern Army became apparent.

Among them, Liu Bei's core elite, that is, the Danyang soldiers and Huainan Shangjia, saw that they were both restrained and did not let go of the fighters, and the Zhou Tai department in the center only sent forward spearmen to move forward, but those Yan army knights and wounded who landed without horses did not waste precious arrows to come up with another round of salvos that were destined to be under-killed; On both sides, Xu Sheng and Chen Wu did not hesitate, and when the Yan army knights escaped from the rear of their formation, they sent another round of salvo to the east, causing a lot of casualties again.

In contrast, Mao Jie, Du Raid 2nd Battalion, who were also facing the fighters, fired one too early and the other too late, and did not form a tacit understanding with Xu Sheng and Chen Wu in front of them.

However, from another aspect, Tian Yu will not be grateful for the unfavorable cooperation between the two, his subordinate knights suffered heavy casualties, and their people barely escaped with one life, and one leg was broken, and they were already full of regret and shame...... As soon as he escaped from a safe distance, he gritted his teeth and called his guards to come and find him sticks and ropes, while fixing the injured leg itself, and on the other hand, having people tie him firmly to his horse, as a sign of his determination to fight to the end.

At this time, the rest of the main cavalry of the Yan army also came to the front, and when they saw Tian Yu's tragic situation, they naturally did not take any more risks, but they each spread out to the two wings, surrounding the large array of the Cao army, in order to observe and look for fighters.

However, even so, there were small units of troops who were eager to make a difference, and then they came back in disarray...... It wasn't until a moment later that the white horse on the west side of the battlefield was like a cloud, protecting a white horse flag that attracted 60,000 or 70,000 people from the north and south armies to gallop together.

Gongsun Xun came to the front of the formation, and looked at Cao Jun's hollow and hollow array from a distance, and he was also shocked for a while, so he almost instinctively turned back to look at Xun You, who was the most outstanding in military strategy.

Xun Gongda, who has always been silent, looked at it seriously for a while, and couldn't help sighing, and it was rare to say more: "Although Liu Xuande, who understands cavalry, is indispensable to help the staff officers, but Cao Mengde can put on this kind of big formation against the cavalry after he was defeated, which shows that he is a genius in the world in terms of military strategy!" ”

Gongsun Xun bowed slightly, but looked at the crossbowmen and shield hairmen who were clearly inside and outside the enemy formation, squinting his eyes slightly, thoughtfully.

And at this moment, the injured Tian Yu finally arrived, but his face was flushed, and he directly bowed his head and pleaded guilty on the horse:

"The loss of the minister's division is damaged, and the morale of the enemy army is only to be said, I would like to ask His Royal Highness to deal with the crime of recklessness after the war, so that the minister has the opportunity to fight to the death in this battle to repay the country!"

"That's a good point." Gongsun Xun came back to his senses, his face was as usual, and he didn't seem to care at all. "All merits and demerits have to wait for this battle to talk about, beheading you at this time will only boost Cao Cao's morale, first try his best in the war, and then turn on other ...... Tell me how you broke this leg? ”

Tian Yu became more and more ashamed, but he still described in detail the detailed process of his rash advance and damage in front of the generals and many Chinese army staff and righteous congregation, and Gongsun Xun was also extremely detailed, and even asked Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, Chen Wu, Mao Jie, and Du Xian the order and effect of the five battalions.

And after a general understanding, Gongsun Xun was still thoughtful, and he was not in a hurry to attack for a while. And when the person looked back at the woods that covered the gutter and the Guandu camp not far from the road, he suddenly whispered something to Xun You, and immediately called Wang Xiang to step forward, and immediately asked the other party to write a military order that sounded extremely ordinary to the surrounding generals. After reading it a little, he rarely added a stroke in person, so he asked Jiang Gan to personally send it back to the camp, and then he had to immediately arrange tactics and organize an attack.

But at this moment, a horse in the Cao army's large array in front of him suddenly galloped out from Cao Cao's banner, and when he arrived in front of the formation, he abandoned his spear and his sword on the ground, and then continued to move forward...... caused the generals of the Yan army to look at each other.

Gongsun Xun instinctively looked at a military advisor with the army this time, but it was Jia Wenhe.

And Jia Xu also immediately understood:

"It should be to see if the horsemen on His Highness's side have the meaning of Qiqi!"

Gongsun Xun smiled dumbly, and wanted to refuse, but his heart moved slightly for a while, but he directly promised to the messenger who had come to him under the supervision of the Yan army knights: "Tell your lord, you are not allowed to bring a bow and crossbow, a hundred steps away from each other in front of the battle, just meet and answer from afar, and you don't have to hand over the horse to reminisce about the old days." ”

Before the messenger could speak, he immediately bowed his head back and returned to his great array.

And sure enough, after a while, Cao Mengde personally led dozens of horsemen out of the formation, and when he came to Zhou Tai's formation, a safe distance of only twenty or thirty paces was set, and Zhou Tai also specially opened a gap to take care of it, and Gongsun Xun shook his head for a while, and personally led dozens of horsemen forward...... The two sides were more than a hundred paces apart, barely on the edge of the range of ordinary arrows, far away from each other.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that the two old friends have seen each other in person since Meng Jin's farewell that day...... People are wrong, old enmities and new enmities, and the two of them didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Mengde."

Just when Cao Cao was counting the banners of those famous cavalry generals of the Yan Army, Gongsun Xun suddenly spoke, but he was a little speechless. "Did you come up with this big array for the cavalry yourself? Or did Xuande think for you? ”

"Naturally, I came up with it myself." Cao Cao saw that the famous cavalry generals of the Yan Army were basically all there, coupled with the information that Xu Rong's banner appeared in Yuyuan Pass before, he was also determined, so he directly chuckled and spoke. "How? Will Wen Qi's cavalry be able to break through this formation?! ”

"If you can break it, you'll know later." Under the noon sun, Gongsun Xun Lema was relaxed. "However, if you really came up with it alone, it is really as Gongda sighed just now, your talent in military affairs is enough to be called a genius in the world!"

Cao Cao squinted slightly, but did not answer.

"However, I'm also really curious, how did you have the courage to come out and fight me to the death?" Gongsun Xun continued to ask casually. "What if you are a genius in the world, have you ever beaten me half a lifetime? If I really end up with an unbearable end, how can you bear it for me? ”

"Wen Qi!" Cao Cao sat on his horse, sighed, and then responded loudly from afar. "What you say is ridiculous, when will people like you and me lose their ambitions because of the difference between strength and weakness and personal relationships? Dong Zhuo was so strong that day, wasn't the two of us the first to declare war? I still remember that after you killed Dong Zhuo, you scolded Fang Zhuo in front of Weiyang Palace and pointed out the country, when Zhu Gongwei questioned you, what did you actually say that you have been thinking about that day since you were studying in Shufa......"

"This is what I mean from the truth!" Gongsun Xun interrupted the other party with a laugh.

"Then I have a sincere word!" Cao Cao struggled to shout back. "You must listen today!"

Gongsun Xun was curious for a while.

"This battle!" Cao Mengde straightened up on his horse and said as loudly as he could. "From the day I learned that you Tuntian Yandi and roughly understood your wolf ambitions, I, Cao Mengde, thought about it, no more, no less, and I have waited for twelve years! Today next year, for the sake of your relationship with me, I will personally write a memorial to you to comfort your soul! ”

The white-horse knights around him and the generals behind him were furious, but Gongsun Xun raised his head and laughed, and after laughing, he raised his voice and said: "Mengde! You want to kill me, but I have always been reluctant to kill you from the bottom of my heart, I really cherish your talent, cherish you and my old friends, so that I regard you as a comrade who reformed the old system and established a new deal! Sometimes, I don't think about it, you will be my prime minister, Xuande will be my left minister, and we will create a prosperous era together......"

Cao Cao was slightly stunned.

"But you and I are both people who compete for power in the world, and when it comes to this, who can tolerate whom?" Gongsun Xun continued to sigh. "So Mende, you're really embarrassing me. Because if you die, my Gongsun Xun will be heartbroken......" Gongsun Xun said this, and couldn't help but look at the sky for a slight pause, without waiting for the other party to speak, but the lord of the world's twenty-one suddenly said solemnly. "But if you don't die for a day, you won't be safe for a day!"

After that, Gongsun Xun stopped talking nonsense, directly pulled out the knife from the sheath, raised it high, turned around and galloped backwards.

Behind him, in front of him, thousands of white-horse knights and generals and leading officers of various departments saw this, and they all drew their swords against each other, shouting more than victory, and immediately, almost the whole army of the Yan army shouted in unison, and the sound shook the enemy's formation!

Cao Cao looked at the other party's back and stood silent for a moment, but only a moment later, he immediately pulled out the green sword in his waist, and while reining in his horse and returning to the battle, he shouted long live.

————I'm the dividing line that calls myself long live————

“…… By the end of September, Taizu set up an ambush in Wuchaoze with tens of thousands of cavalry, and exhausted the foot soldiers, suddenly stood in formation, spears and shields outside, bows and crossbows inside, eight battalions were divided, hollow sets, and Ye Xia Jingcai could not move forward an inch. When Taizu came to the front of the battle, he looked at the army formation and sighed: "This is really a genius in the world!" Therefore, if he does not die, he will not be alone! —The Book of New Swallows. Volume XXVII. The second of the family

PS: This time it's timed......