Chapter 362: Breakthrough
In the county office of Chaoge City, a middle-aged man and a young man were sitting in their seats at this moment, chatting and laughing. The middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a heroic appearance is none other than Cao Ren, the guard of Chaoge, and as for the young man, he is Guo Jia, the leader of the ghost pawns.
At this moment, on the table between the two, there was a huge map, Guo Jia pointed to the map with one hand, and said something to Cao Ren, Cao Ren nodded frequently after listening to Guo Jia's words.
Cao Ren was born as a military general, and he had some arrogance on his body, and he originally looked down on the commander of this ghost, but through these days of getting along, Cao Ren admired Guo Jiana's five-body throw, for no other reason, Guo Jia's resourcefulness can be said to have blocked Cao Xing to death, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it with wisdom, so I asked such a person why he was not respected by others.
"Hehe, General Cao and Cao Xuan have been fighting for so long, and I can be considered to have roughly figured out Cao Xing's path, the Qin army's attack is indeed very powerful, but then again, most of the reason why their battle is so powerful is due to their siege weapons, and I also ask General Cao to follow the method I told you, train the soldiers overnight, so that they know how to turn attack into defense, so as to prevent Cao Xing's siege weapons!"
Cao Ren nodded approvingly, although he didn't dare to say how much of a role Guo Jia could play in the method he had figured out in such a short period of time, and it was better to have a method than no method, the shortest one was the tallest, Guo Jia's series of methods to defend the city did cause great oppression to the siege equipment of the Qin army, at least it would not make them invincible.
"What Commander Guo said is reasonable, with you here, I believe that the Qin army will not be able to move an inch, and even my little song can't get in, let alone a surprise attack on Yanzhou, as long as Yanzhou is not damaged, the lord can rest assured that Lu Bu will be in front of him! In this way, wonderful! ”
"Hehe, General Cao said that he laughed, although I have a little trickery, most of them still have to rely on General Cao to control well, so I can make this song ready-made!"
As soon as they heard this, Cao Ren and Guo Jia glanced at each other, and they both laughed, anyway, the two of them stayed in this Chaoge City, Guo Jia tried his best to conspire anyway, and constantly harassed the Qin army, and Cao Ren was a clever move to defend the city, which could make Chaoge County not easy to be breached, and the two of them were like a mountain, blocking in front of the Qin army.
Even if Cao Xing really desperately broke through Chaoge City, I believe he will definitely pay a painful price.
But just when Cao Ren felt that it was foolproof, a spy suddenly came to report in a hurry.
"General, Chen Hu, the general of the Qin army, led 20,000 troops to attack the city!"
Hearing the spies' report, Cao Ren and Guo Jia both frowned inadvertently, and even Guo Jia looked at the spy and asked again, are you sure you can see the leader of the army clearly Chen Hu? The spy also nodded affirmatively, because Chen Hu personally charged into battle, and he did not see a general with a higher level than Chen Hu on the battlefield, in fact, in the Qin State, there was only Cao Xing who was a general with a higher level than Chen Hu.
Cao Ren and Guo Jia glanced at each other, both felt a little strange, Cao Ren just felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say where it was, while Guo Jia pondered for a moment and shook his head.
"He Cao Xuan personally pressed the formation, took so many siege equipment and didn't fight the song, now Cao Xuan is good, as if he saw it, not only did he not come in person, but he actually let Chen Hu come alone, did he let Chen Hu lead the troops to send him to death!"
Although Guo Jia's question is very realistic, but now that he is on the battlefield, the situation is changing rapidly, how can he think so much, Cao Ren didn't say anything, and immediately took the soldiers to arrange the defense task, and Guo Jia also took his ghost pawn to the city to assist the city guards to defend against Chen Hu's attack.
This time, Chen Hu directly took his Xuanhua big axe, sat on a tall horse, stood in the rear and commanded the soldiers in front, constantly attacking, under the command of Chen Hu, the soldiers in front could also be said to be fighting very crazy.
The catapult machine crossbows were all used, and in just two hours, the corpses of countless soldiers were piled up on both the tower and the bottom of the city.
Cao Ren on the top of the city tower was there and scolded bad luck, this Cao Xing is not crazy today, launching such a fierce attack, does Cao Xuan really think that he Cao Ren will be afraid because of this?
However, since the Qin army is menacing, then Cao Ren's first task is to not lose morale, if he, the main general, shows such a timidity, the morale of the Wei army will be seriously hit, so Cao Ren didn't think much about it, directly left all his thoughts behind, and concentrated on meeting the Qin army, and Guo Jia was the same.
It wasn't until another half an hour later that a spy suddenly ran behind Cao Ren, who was commanding hard at that time, and had no time to take care of it, and when Cao Ren finally breathed a sigh of relief, he heard clearly what the spy was saying to him.
"General, my subordinates just found out that a unit of the Qin army rode a fast horse and ran through Chaoge City!"
"What!" When he heard this, Cao Ren's whole body woke up like a dream, and he was so involved just now that he didn't pay attention to such a big military situation.
He directly handed over his command on the battlefield to the hands of the deputy general, and then hurriedly found Guo Jia, Guo Jia didn't say anything after listening, he and Cao Ren went to the other direction of Chaoge City under the leadership of the herald, and the whole spy pointed directly to the plain below, and said to the two of them.
"General, there were soldiers here just now who saw it clearly, there were about more than 2,000 horses, and they secretly ran away from here while you were not being beaten!"
When they heard the news, whether it was Guo Jia or Cao Ren, their expressions immediately became solemn, and they finally knew Cao Xing's intentions.
On the front of Chaoge City, Chen Hu led people to fight to the death in front, Guo Jia and Cao Ren were engrossed in it, and they all focused on Chen Hu's body. As a result, Cao Xuan took advantage of this gap and quietly slipped away from the other end of Chaoge City, which probably means like this.
Cao Xing sneaked away, so there must be something wrong with this.
"You don't have to think about the direction Cao Xuan is going to, it must be Xuzhou, but he threw the army here, just with two or three thousand soldiers and horses, even if he rushed to Xuzhou, what was the use!" This is Guo Jia's first thought, after all, he knows that Xuzhou belongs to the front line, and the battle situation there is still a little tragic, Cao Cao and Lu Bu combined have almost 100,000 troops, fighting and dying there, Cao Xing will take a 2,000 soldiers and horses to go, could it be that he still wants to reverse the situation?
But in any case, Cao Xing's move must have his business, and Guo Jia also smelled a hint of danger from it, so he immediately discussed with Cao Ren, and asked Cao Ren to continue to garrison here with soldiers and horses to prevent Chen Hu, Wei Yan and others from counterattacking, and he, Guo Jia, took the ghost pawn to kill in the direction of Xuzhou, and he must rush to Xuzhou before Cao Xing.
Guo Jia's idea is very pertinent, but Cao Ren is still a little worried about Guo Jia's safety, so before leaving, he deliberately transferred 5,000 soldiers and horses and assigned them to Guo Jia's hands, so that Guo Jia could act carefully.
Guo Jia nodded to Cao Ren, and then took his five thousand soldiers and horses, as well as ghost soldiers, and hurriedly left Chaoge City and headed east.
However, when he was halfway down, Guo Jia leaned down and looked at the horseshoe prints on the ground, but he had a new idea, he waved his hand, and directly ordered the five thousand soldiers under his command not to be busy walking to the east, since they are here, then play a little fun.
Cao Xing's previous carpet search tactics benefited Guo Jia a lot, in this case, Guo Jia just retaliated with a tooth for a tooth, he asked everyone to dismount, the infantry turned into cavalry, and he collected it inch by inch, he didn't believe that Cao Xing ran so fast.
Guo Jia also used a carpet search, not to mention, in just two days under his search, it really worked, and in another wilderness, Guo Jia and others found horses abandoned by Cao Xing.
Immediately, a soldier came to report to Guo Jia: "Lord Commander, it is estimated that Cao Xing and they also know that we will chase them after Cao Xing, and the others will not escape, so Cao Xing can only abandon his horse and flee!" ”
The soldier's statement seemed to have a little truth, Guo Jia also thought so, and nodded, but at this moment, a shining light suddenly burst out in Guo Jia's mind, it seemed to think of something?
"That's not right!" Guo Jia clenched his fists, the expression on his face began to become a little unnatural, he hurriedly looked at the soldiers around him and said loudly: "Don't be stunned here, go find Cao Xuan for me, you must find him!" ”
Guo Jia's surprise startled the soldiers around him, but looking at Guo Jia's nervous look, they knew that there was probably something wrong this time, so they hurried to find it according to Guo Jia's words.
Guo Jia re-launched a carpet search, which made Guo Jia a little puzzled, he felt that his method was not wrong, and he searched and played in this large area, but the more he moved forward, the more he found a key problem, that is, the footprints of Cao Xing and others in front of him gradually disappeared.
A cool breeze blew Guo Jia was still standing on the top of a mountain, he felt that he could only look far away if he stood tall, and his eyes could be more ambitious, but at this moment, he looked at this endless plain, and he couldn't figure it out if he couldn't figure it out, could it be that Cao Xing would not be able to fly, he had already flown away from this Yanzhou area and arrived in Xuzhou.
No matter how Guo Jia looked, he couldn't find Cao Xing again, but with Guo Jia's sense of smell for many years, he keenly felt that Cao Xing hadn't left here yet, and he originally wanted to get along with Cao Xing in this place, but an urgent report from Xuzhou interrupted Guo Jia's thoughts, and finally Guo Jia looked at the endless plain, sneered, and then rushed directly to Xuzhou with his people.
While Guo Jia was hurrying, he sent his ghost pawns to inquire about the news, and in the end, the news from Xuzhou was that Cao Xing's troops were not found. After getting this information, Guo Jia was also relieved, worked overtime overnight, and finally arrived in Xuzhou in ten days.
When Guo Jia dared to go to Xuzhou, Cao Cao immediately led a group of people to come out to greet him.
Guo Jia was naturally very happy and showed a smile, but Cao Cao was the only one who responded to Guo Jia, most of Cao Cao's strategists looked at Guo Jia, not only did not express their welcome, but also had some disdain on their faces, and Guo Jia didn't mind this situation.
In the end, Guo Jia followed Cao Cao to his camp, and when Guo Jia arrived here, Cao Cao began to tell him about the situation here, anyway, the general situation is.
Although Lu Bu has the title of the general of the tiger and wolf, but the magic power of many years has made Lu Bu full of wind and frost, in other words, today's Lu Bu may no longer have the mind to dominate the world, he has changed from a mound tiger to a sick cat.
He fought with Cao Cao many times, and his division was unfavorable. Now Lu Bu, some of them are like sick cats cowering in the lower cortex, and they no longer dare to come out to fight.
Cao Cao wanted to take Xiapi in one go, but what Cao Cao didn't expect was that Xiapi was also a strong city, and behind the high walls of the city, there was plenty of food in the city.
Anyway, Lu Bu relied on the thick city wall of Xiapi to defend against Cao Cao's attacks again and again.
Cao Cao's fight is several months, so it seems that it will not be long, but Cao Cao's pressure is also very great, Yuan Shao in the north has the opportunity, watching him Cao Cao become bigger, but now the war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Du has just ended, Yuan Shao is recuperating, but he is also recuperating, ready to stab him in the back of Cao Cao, and then Cao Cao will really be difficult to care, so Cao Cao must end this war in the shortest possible time.
But the uncomfortable place is also here, Ren Cao Cao's fierce generals are like tigers, and the ministers are like clouds, but no one can hold the city of Picheng?
However, Guo Jia laughed out loud after carefully looking at the map of Xiapi City.
"Lord, if you want to conquer a small Xiapi, why do you have to be so difficult!"
The surrounding strategists all sneered disdainfully when they heard Guo Jia's unbridled words. They all accused Guo Jia there, what big things did this guy say there, so many of them had no way to win Pi, Guo Jia wanted to comment on three or two sentences and then beat Piche, wouldn't that be ridiculous and generous?
However, Guo Jiawenyan only said two words: "Flooding!" ”
After listening to Guo Jia's strategy, many strategists were silent, but after a while, some people still raised objections, it was not unthought of the strategy of flooding, but Lu Bu was in the city, how could he watch you lead the water to Xiapi City, so Guo Jia's plan was too whimsical.