Cao Chizheng and Bailiyan agreed in advance to use the Qi army as a bait to lure out the ambush forces of the barbarian army and divide the strength of the barbarian army's decisive cavalry.

At that time, the pine forest was vacated, and Baili took the opportunity to Yan to lead the army into the grove to cut trees, build earth barriers, and slow down the retreat of the barbarian army to the south and southwest to Xiaochi, providing tactical space for Cao Chi to pursue and kill the barbarian army.

Su Fangyi said at this time:

"After Ji Yao led the Qi army to break away from the Xian army, Wei Xian must have encountered a strong enemy and suffered heavy losses, and he was no longer able to continue to go to the grove to set up an ambush, so he could only seek a way out. If you go east, retreat with the wounded, you will inevitably be chased by the barbarian army at a slow speed, and the only way to do it is to go the opposite way and enter behind the barbarian army is the safest. ”

"If he is behind the barbarian army, he should definitely meet Peng Yi."

"It should be. However, I am worried that the situation may not be so optimistic. ”

"What do you mean?" Cao Chi was busy asking.

"Last night, a sentry found that a group of men and horses of the barbarian army left the camp in the second half of the night and went straight to the northwest, calculating the distance, Peng Yi was still two days and one hundred and seventy miles away from the enemy in front of our army last night, and three days at the latest, two hundred and sixty or seventy miles.

If the barbarian army did not know the strategy of our army, its scouts would definitely not be able to be placed two hundred miles away from the camp, unless they found the traces of the Xian army and went to kill them. In this way, the Xian army may be more vicious than lucky. ”

Su Fangyi's voice did not fall, and the royal guest outside the account came to report:

"Report to the marshal, just now the sentry found that there was a cavalry in the barbarian camp faintly heading northwest."

"Shhh...... Another one! Cao Chi was suspicious and hurriedly asked, "How many people are there?" ”

"It's really dark and I can't see clearly, but it should be the same as the number of barbarians who came out of the camp in the second half of last night."

Yuke said in detail, and Su Fangyi interrupted with a solemn expression:

"Oh no, the barbarian army must have built a blockade in the northwest and blocked Peng Yi's way."

Cao Chizheng asked suspiciously:

"How can Mr. Su see it?"

"If Peng Yi defeated the barbarian army last night to pursue the Xian army, it is reasonable to say that he went to reinforce tonight, if Peng Yi defeated the barbarian army last night to pursue and annihilate the cavalry of the Xian army, the barbarian army categorically did not dare to send only the same soldiers and horses as last night. In the next suspicion, the barbarian army had already built a Tusai in advance dozens of miles to the northwest, and tens of thousands of Chen soldiers blocked Peng Yi's southward journey after merging with his cavalry.

Most of the soldiers and horses led by General Peng Yi here were all from the civilian army on horseback, and they were not good at riding and fighting, and once they encountered the elite cavalry of the barbarian army, they would be hit hard. However, if General Peng Yi formed a formation with an infantry army and confronted the barbarian cavalry, the barbarian cavalry might not take advantage.

Our army understands this, and the barbarian army also knows that they will definitely send infantry troops to build a fortress with the cavalry to prevent Peng Yi from coming to converge. ”

"Since the barbarian army built a soil blockade in advance to block Peng Yi's southward movement, the northward movement of the Xian army will inevitably be also blocked, what is the need for the barbarian army to increase its troops last night, and tens of thousands of horses can't stop the Xian army? If Peng Yi's early arrival last night was blocked, he should have gone all out to reinforce last night, instead of reinforcing the troops in two days, wouldn't it be contrary to common sense. ”

"This ...... Peng Yi is afraid that no matter how fast he is, it will not be possible to arrive at Tusai at dusk yesterday, unless he ......" Su Fangyi paused, and then said: "Unless the Xian army defeats the barbarian Tusai defenders and forces the barbarian army to rush to the aid in the starry night." To reinforce the barbarian army tonight, General Peng Yi must have arrived with his troops, and only in this way can it be explained. ”

"The Xian army rushed all the way to kill, and in the end it was able to defeat tens of thousands of barbarian brigades, wouldn't Wei Xian be the god of war ......?"

Cao Chi was laughing at himself, and Su Fangyi took over and said:

"Perhaps this is not impossible, judging from the previous rumors, Wei Xian's use of soldiers has always been deviant and contrary to common sense. The Black Turban Army has both wisdom and bravery, and it is still on an equal footing, or even slightly inferior to it. Although the barbarian army was well-equipped, its wisdom and strategy were far inferior to Wei Xian.

The marshal knew that Wei Xian helped Zhao Xun defend Yin Yangcheng that year, and only 10,000 miscellaneous troops blocked more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Han He for a month, and the Jin army suffered tens of thousands of casualties. Today's Wei Xian is not what it used to be, he has elite soldiers and strong generals, Wen Taowu is no longer Wei Xian ten years ago, and the Black Turban Army has been fighting for several years and can be undefeated, and it is difficult to match it among the nations.

If you can use the elite tour of the Xian army to fight with the barbarian army, it is not impossible to defeat the tens of thousands of barbarian troops. ”

"This ......" Cao Chizheng was noncommittal.

"Imperial Marshal, the current situation is extremely favorable to our army, and it is imperative that we make every effort to deal with General Peng Yi to break through the barbarian army."

"How can Mr. Su conclude that the situation is extremely favorable to our army?"

"If Wei Xian defeats the barbarian Tusai defenders, he will definitely not sit idly by, but continue to break through to the north. If we can join up with General Peng Yi, my brother will probably take advantage of the strength of the Xian army and go to besiege the enemy in Tusai. In this way, the barbarian army must be worried that the main force of the Xian army will be killed, and they will be afraid in their hearts, and they may be taken advantage of by my brother under the two ends of the rat's head. ”

Cao Chi was pacing back and forth with his short beard for two steps, nodded and affirmed what Su Fangyi said:

"What Mr. Su means, drag!"

"Exactly. Our army has not fought for two days, and now it has suffered heavy casualties, if Peng Yi's army cannot move south, our army will continue to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the barbarian cavalry, and it will be invincible. If you can drag the main force of the barbarian cavalry head-on, so that Peng Yi's army can defeat the barbarian army first, the main force of the barbarian cavalry will be under the back, and the only way to retreat to the outside of Xiaochi City. As long as Xiaochi is not lost, the barbarian army will undoubtedly retreat. ”

"It has been more than 20 days since my army rushed to the aid of Tiannan City, what if Xiaochi is lost first!" Cao Chi is preparing for the worst.

"Our army is forced under the city, a decisive battle is inevitable, and a forced decisive battle will surely defeat our army. Therefore, if our army wants to retreat with its whole body, it can only give up Xiaochi and wait for reinforcements from the Central Plains. ”

"No way!" Cao Chizheng categorically vetoed the concession of Xiaochi: "If Xiaochi is lost, our army will not be able to defend Xutu and Mingzhou, and Xutu will be broken." Xu Tu is lost, Tiannan and Duhui are attacked by the enemy, and the battle line will collapse completely. Xiaochi must not be lost, and it is categorically not feasible to delay. ”

"Then the marshal is going to attack in a hurry!"

"A hasty attack can't hold back the main force of the barbarian army. Ben Shuai would rather fight to the point of being a soldier than let Xiaochi fall into the hands of the barbarian army. ”

Cao Chi had already expected that the barbarian army might take advantage of the inconvenience of the coalition forces in winter to cross the defense line and besiege Xiaochi and Kangzhi, so he had already taken precautions this summer.

However, unexpectedly, the arrival of the barbarian army was far greater than expected, which made Xiaochi, which was supposed to support at least two months, difficult to parry until the arrival of reinforcements, and it may be lost in advance, and the Soviet side's strategy of delaying and encroaching on it cannot be implemented. Instead, he could only attack and defend, break through the defense line at any cost and rush to the aid of Xiaochi, forcing the barbarian army to attack the city and return south.

In the middle of the night, 80,000 people dug a trench three miles long, one and a half zhang wide, and more than one person high two hundred and fifty steps north of the earthen plug, and all the soil was covered on the ground on the north side of the trench and piled up soil bags, and the ground on both sides of the trench was watered and frozen to prevent the barbarians from filling the trench.

After repairing in the middle of the night, on the second day, he continued to dig a trench two hundred and fifty paces away from the west side of Tusai, and when the army led by the barbarian general Dean arrived, the west and north sides of Tusai were completely unrecognizable.

"Jabanes, what the hell is going on, you're watching the northerners dig a trench right under your nose!"

Dean reproached, but Jabanis pointed to the coalition forces in the distance and complained:

"They have 200,000 pikemen, I can't let His Majesty's soldiers go to death, understand?"

"What about our bows, the fifteen thousand strong archers of Kiros!"

"More than 7,000 people were killed by those damned northerners in two days, and the enemy we face has strong crossbows, and we can't guarantee that we can destroy their strong crossbowmen in a short time."

"Oh, what the hell!" Dean complained, "What are you going to do! ”

"The northerners are extremely stubborn in their resistance to the death in Xiaochi, and the legion commander wants us to stay here for five days."

"Five days!" Dean was shocked: "They will be able to dig a longer trench on the west side this morning, and in the afternoon they will form a formation and press on us on the south side, and then continue to dig trenches on the south side, and they will not have to wait until tomorrow at all, they will trap the infantry of Kilos in the earthen plug, by then, it will be too late, we should attack them now!" ”

"Are you blind, are the spearmen of the northerners stones, and they will pierce our armor with their spears."

"Those are just weak bronze, we have 20,000 gold-armored heavy horsemen, they are not our opponents, you should have crushed them at any cost yesterday! Keep waiting, we'll be very reactive. ”

"Alright then," Jabanis reluctantly agreed, "I need your light cavalry to tear a hole out of their formation and cover my heavy cavalry." ”

"We also need Kiros' infantry and strong archers to break their infantry cover while they are still digging in the ground."

The two agreed on a proposal to quickly deploy troops to counterattack the coalition forces.

At this time, Peng Yi and Su Fangxin stood on the high platform temporarily erected last night, and were looking at the barbarian army Tusai with the binoculars of the Xian army, and Peng Yi praised endlessly:

"It's really wonderful, and you can see everything in the plug. No wonder the Xian army can be so brave, and now it seems that the power of this thing is not inferior to half of the strong army. ”

"But if there is no master general wisdom and bravery, soldiers use their lives, excellent combat weapons, and mediocre soldiers will not be able to win the battlefield with this thing."

"What the Soviet military division said is reasonable. You see, the barbarian army seems to have action, and most of them want to take the initiative to seek battle. ”

"Hehe, at this time, the Xianjun army's tactics can be said to be at the right time. General Peng, you might as well fight with it and first frustrate the spirit of the barbarian army. ”

"Well, the Soviet division will give the order."

Following the example of the Xian army's tactics, Su Fangxin ordered people to secretly go to dig more than 600 crypts 500 steps west of Tusai last night, and let people get into them and cover them with copper shields to cover the snow and camouflage, and preset to pull the horse rope, just waiting for the barbarian army to come to seek battle today, even if the barbarian army does not come to seek battle, it is also prepared.

Two quarters of an hour later, the barbarian army marched out of the fortress, and 40,000 light and heavy cavalry lined up outside the fortress, divided into left, center, and right, and pressed towards the allied army that was digging a trench two hundred and fifty paces away on the west side.

At a short time, the banner of the coalition army was waved, and the 80,000 infantry troops who were digging the trench regained their weapons and quickly retreated to the west of the trench 300 steps to line up for battle, and 100,000 covered the infantry army and launched a formation to defend on the spot.

"Jabanis, see, they have concentrated too many infantry on the front line, they don't have time to retreat, the trenches they dug themselves cut off their own way to cover the retreat of the infantry army, see, they are going to be finished!"

"Don't be too happy, their trenches are less than half dug enough for the infantry to climb over, there must be intrigues."

"Then we'll make a detour from both sides and cut off their retreat!"

"Well, I'll cut off their retreat from the southwest in a roundabout way, and you will lead your own cavalry and Kiros's infantry to attack their front and flanks from the west and north."

"Don't worry, I'll let them taste the punishment of the Moon God!"

The two set up a tactic and quickly led their troops to pounce on the coalition forces to cover the infantry.