Deer City.

Dou Jiande shook his head after seeing that Cao Bao still planned to send troops to make a roundabout.

"After today, haven't you seen the gap with the Qin army? Even if you can really quietly send an elite cavalry around the back of the Qin army, it will be enough to defeat Luo Cheng? Don't forget that Luo Cheng is not a lone army, his 50,000 people are just one of the five routes of soldiers and horses, with Zhao Gui's army to the north and Feng Xiaoci's army to the south. ”

The detour is a detour, there are fewer detours, and it can't escape Luo Cheng's eyes, as soon as it is discovered, this detour may become a lone army and be surrounded and annihilated.

But if you go far away, although you can avoid being discovered as much as possible, you may be discovered by the soldiers and horses of Luo Cheng, one in the south and one in the north, and you may be blocked and encircled and annihilated.

Cao Bao's eyes were red, "Do you want to surrender?" I am unwilling, and neither are the brothers, today's territory, everything now, is all fought down by the brothers with a knife and a shot, including your throne. Now that you have surrendered without a fight, are you right, brothers? ”

Dou Jiande sighed.

"Bao, I know you have ambitions, but sometimes, ambitions exceed your ability, and they are burdens. If you want to fight, you want to fight, I don't want to persuade anything, I just want to remind you, your strategy of outflanking is not good, instead of outflanking, you might as well lead the army to retreat, and lure Luo Cheng to lead the army to pursue, if you can lure Luo Cheng to go deep alone, there will be some opportunities. ”

Cao Bao's eyes lit up.

If you send troops to make a detour, you will enter Luo Cheng's territory, whether it is through Boling County or Zhao County, which is the control area of the Qin army.

But if you retreat, lure the enemy deeper, retreat to the east, and lure Luo Cheng to Hejian County or Qinghe County, it will be fought in the heart of the Xia army.

The geography is more familiar, and the supply is more convenient.

Take retreat as advance, lure the enemy deep, and wait for the opportunity to move.

Although Luo Cheng has a five-way army, but the five-way soldiers and horses are far away, it is impossible to act in unison, there will always be times when the news lags, there will always be flaws, and that time is their opportunity.

Cao Bao had to admit that his brother-in-law Dou Jiande was indeed more discerning than him.

"Your Majesty, now is the time for my Great Xia's survival, and I ask Your Majesty to preside over it personally."

Dou Jiande looked at Cao Bao, in fact, when his brother Wang Fubao was killed, he was completely disheartened, and he no longer had the heart to fight for hegemony.

But now looking at Cao Bao and them with 200,000 Xia army soldiers hitting stones with eggs, they are extremely distressed.

"Bao, you can't win, the current situation is not the time of the Eastern and Western Wei, let alone the time of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty, if you insist on fighting, it will not lead to any results except for the death of countless brothers."

"But I'm not reconciled." Cao Bao shouted.

"That's all I have to say." Dou Jiande closed his eyes.

Cao Bao asked him with red eyes, "Are you going to watch us fail like this?" ”

"I can't stop you, and you don't expect me to be with you again, when you kill Fu Bao, we will no longer be brothers." Dou Jiande said.

Cao Bao gritted his teeth and pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword.

Dou Jiande chuckled, "If you want to kill me, then do it, it's just that you won't end up with anything good after all." ”

Gritting his teeth, Cao Bao finally just threw his sleeves and left.

At this time, although I really want to kill this weak emperor, but it is not the time, and the banner of the emperor is still needed now, otherwise the Xia army may collapse before fighting.

Returning to his tent, Cao Bao summoned the generals and said a new plan to lure the enemy deeper, but did not say that it was the emperor's idea.

He took Dou Jiande's meaning as his own and told the generals, and everyone finally expressed their support.

On the third day of the first month of September, Cao Bao led the army to retreat from Lucheng, but Cao Bao did not lead the army to the north to retreat to Hejian, but to the south, planning to withdraw to Wu'an and Weijun through Xindu and Qinghe, intending to withdraw to Yecheng, hoping to take advantage of the dangers of the mountains and rivers of Yecheng, relying on Taihang, Zhangshui and other dangers, to avoid being attacked on all sides. At the same time, it can also avoid several Qin troops attacking towards the river.

The detectives from all walks of life kept sending the news to the emperor's case.

Luo Cheng and the generals summarized information, studied and analyzed, and finally guessed the movements of the Xia army.

"Wei County is indeed more dangerous than Hejian, there is Taihang to rely on, but Hejian has been surrounded by me on three sides. Wei County now has Wu'an in the north, Ji County in the south, and Wuyang Qinghe Xindu in the east, all of which are still in the hands of the Xia army. ”

"Your Majesty, if you let the Xia army retreat into Yecheng, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to encircle and annihilate them immediately."

The location of Yecheng is very dangerous, if the 200,000 Qin army shrinks its defense, with the danger of mountains and rivers, it is indeed able to resist stubbornly for a while.

However, Luo Cheng opposed the pursuit and interception, after all, the Xia army still had 200,000, even if it was put together, it was a large combat force.

The more times like this, the more reluctant Luo Cheng was to push too hard, and the injured beast was always the most ferocious.

"Let Zhao Gui lead the army into Hejian and recover Hejian County, let Feng Xiaoci lead his troops south to attack Wu'an County, and take Wu'an County before the main force of the Xia army arrives. Let Shixin lead his troops to land in Bohai County and recover the coastal Bohai County. Let Cunxiao send troops to recover Pingyuan County, and then go south to Qinghe County. ”

Luo Cheng pointed to the map.

"As for us, let's not care about the main force of the Xia army running south, let's recover Xindu County first."

If Xia Jun wants to abandon the capital Leshou and escape, then let him escape.

If they want to go to Yecheng, then let him go, take this opportunity to first sweep and recover the counties of Hejian, Xindu, Wu'an, Bohai and Pingyuan, if the Xia army wants to defend, it will inevitably have to divide the troops, and then they can still be broken individually.

If they continue to hold together, then they will recover the surrounding counties one by one, and finally the five-way army will surround him in Wei County, and the battle will be completed.

In short, Luo Cheng is not in a hurry, does not pursue immediately, let alone intercepts, and fights steadily.

He now occupies the overall initiative, and it is not him who is in a hurry.

"Strategically, we have to despise the enemy, but tactically, we have to pay attention to the enemy."

Cao Bao led his army to retreat south, but as he walked, he found that Luo Cheng had not followed.

He was sent out all the way, and the news of the return made him extremely distressed.

Luo Cheng did follow up, but he followed very slowly, and did not concentrate on the pursuit, on the contrary, Luo Cheng chased half-heartedly, and has been busy recovering the cities they abandoned.

"Feng Xiaoci went south from Xiangguo County, and has entered Wu'an County, breaking Wu'an and Linwei City in a row, and the soldiers are extremely strong."

"Luo Cunxiao has led the army to attack the plain county, and he has also broken several cities in a row, and no one can stop him."

Hearing these news, Cao Bao panicked.

"We must speed up the southward movement, otherwise Wei County and Qinghe County will not be guaranteed."

In order to be able to stabilize the morale of the army, Cao Bao simply announced the relocation of the capital to Yecheng.

Faced with the precarious Hejian and other counties, Cao Bao no longer dared to divide his troops to defend them, so he had to pin his hopes on guarding the counties north of the Yellow River in Taihang Shandong.

Late at night.

Cao Bao came to see Dou Jiande.

"You said that you lured the enemy deep and waited for an opportunity to attack, but now Luo Cheng is not going deep alone, on the contrary, he is taking the opportunity to snatch the Wu'an Bohai Counties of the Hejian Plain."

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