After the rooster crowed, the sky was still dark and unbright, in a dilapidated house in Zhongmu County, Cao Cao stood in the courtyard for a long time, looking at the southeast direction, Cao Hong and Xiahoudun who had been found overnight stood behind him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Brother." Cao Hong saw that Cao Cao stood still and put his robe on him.

"Hehehe......" Cao Cao let out a strange laugh from his mouth, and after a long time, he sighed: "Defeated!" Unexpectedly, the army of sour jujube was defeated so urgently, so urgently! An army of 70,000 will be defeated overnight, and it will be defeated overnight! That's an army of 70,000, and it would be so desperately defeated! Meng Zhuo, Gongshan, Gongye, Gongwei, isn't that? ”

Cao Hong and Xiahoudun looked at Cao Cao's gaffe, and they had nothing to say, they still couldn't believe that the 70,000 army of the sour jujube princes was defeated overnight, and their more than 20,000 soldiers fought hard in Xingyang all day!

After a long time, another rooster crow came, Cao Cao came back to his senses, collected his emotions, looked at Cao Hong and Xiahoudun behind him, shook his head and sighed: "Zhang Wenyuan, what a deceit, we are all deceived by Zhang Wenyuan." ”

"Why did the eldest brother say this?" Cao Hong couldn't help but ask.

Cao Cao sighed: "Cheng Gao has few soldiers, Xu Rong has not dared to advance eastward for several months, we will fight hard with him in Xingyang for a day, he will inevitably lose a lot, and the sour jujube has an army of 70,000, how can he raid the sour jujube at this time?" Therefore, the plan to raid the sour jujube must come from Zhang Wenyuan. ”

Xiahoudun frowned and said: "Brother, yesterday's battle was all fierce and fierce, although Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses were well equipped, the younger brother did not notice what was so powerful about his battle. ”

Cao Cao shook his head and said: "Zhang Wenyuan can attack more with less in Hanoi, and defeat the original and public festivals, how can he be underestimated?" On the battlefield yesterday, he must not have done his best, first release Yuncheng, and then let us wait, which is quite powerful. ”

"Since Zhang Wenyuan released us and others, most of them are not with Dong Zhuo, why did he attack the sour jujube again?" Cao Hong was puzzled by this, and was even more puzzled that Cao Cao could guess that Zhang Liao was attacking sour jujubes.

"It's all Kong Gongxu's fault!" Cao Cao shook his head and didn't say anything.

Cao Cao guessed that the target of Zhang Liao's raid on sour jujube was Tang Ji, but Tang Ji's matter in sour jujube was inadvertently leaked to Zhang Liao.

He immediately changed the subject: "This defeat, Zixu was killed, and 5,000 soldiers and horses were lost, so we need to recruit troops again." ”

Cao Hong said: "I can go to Danyang, Danyang Taishou Zhou Taiming is familiar with the younger brother, and I can go to him to help recruit soldiers." ”

"Danyang Mountain is dangerous, the people are fruitful, good martial arts, noble strength, and the land of elite soldiers, so we will pack up as soon as possible and go to Danyang."

Cao Cao agreed with Cao Hong's suggestion, and sighed: "The world is in turmoil, but in two years, I have recruited troops three times, I still remember that in April last year, the first emperor was still there, the general and Jian Shuo contended, and I went to Yan and Xu to recruit soldiers, and there was another person from Luoyang, whose surname was Liu Mingbei Xuande, who studied under Lu Shangshu, quite eloquent, and the real man was also a master, and his followers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were more courageous, but unfortunately they were separated in the middle of the ......"

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Yingchuan County is one of the eight counties of Yuzhou, named after the Yingshui that traverses the territory, and is located in Yangzhai County, which was once the capital of the Xia Dynasty, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, extending in all directions, with a population of nearly 1.5 million, exceeding the entire Henan Yin including Luoyang.

It extends in all directions, easy to prosper, but it is also a place of four wars, and Yingchuan is even more dangerous.

Yangcheng in the northwest is close to Songshan, and Xuanyuan Pass, one of the eight passes of Luoyang, leads directly to Luoyang, but the pass defense is on the side of Luoyang, controlled by Dong Zhuo, and is in a passive defensive situation for Yingchuan.

The two counties of Yangzhai and Changshe in the north have Yinmi County in Henan Province, which leads directly to Xingyang, and Mi County is small and solid, which can play a certain defensive role.

The rest of the directions are flat, and there is also the Sujube garrison in the northeast, Yuan Shu's Luyang garrison in the south, and there is no big enemy in the east.

After the Kwantung princes raised troops, there were two princes in Yingchuan, one was the Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling, who had participated in the Sour Jujube Alliance, stationed between Yang Zhai and Changshe in the north of Yingchuan and Mi County in Yin, Henan, especially with the help of the small and solid terrain of Mi County, to prevent the enemy from the direction of Xingyang to attack.

On the other hand, Yingchuan guarded Li Min, who started his troops a little later and did not participate in the oath, and stationed his troops in Yangcheng in the northwest corner of Yingchuan, facing Xuanyuan Pass, and confronted Dong Zhuobing across the deep stream of Songshan Mountain.

At this time, it was dawn, the sky was just dawning, and a group of soldiers and horses passed through the territory of Yingchuan, about 4,000 people, still dressed in the clothes of Cao Bao's defeated army.

This force is naturally Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses, he came from the direction of sour jujube in the northeast of Yingchuan, directly bypassed the Mi County guarded by Kong Ling's soldiers and horses, and easily entered Yingchuan.

This is Zhang Liao's second time to Yingchuan, the first time he took the road from Xingyang to Mi County, and then retreated after sending Tang Wan into Mi County, but he didn't expect Kong Ling to bring Tang Wan to Sour Zao, so that he raided Sour Zao, rescued Tang Wan, and then came to Yingchuan.

Since his soldiers and horses were all dressed as the Kwantung princes, and the banners of Cao, Bao, and Kong were also hung, and there was no looting along the way, it did not cause much alarm.

In fact, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the first year of Zhongping, Yingchuan and Runan are the hardest hit areas, there are hundreds of thousands of rebel troops such as Bocai and Zhang Mancheng, and the imperial court is Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and other generals led 40,000 elite soldiers to conscript, the two sides launched a big war in Changshe and Yangzhai, before and after half a year, Yingchuan suffered great pain, and to this day there are tens of thousands of Yellow Turban thieves such as He Yi, Liu Pi, Huang Shao, He Man and so on entrenched in the Ruying area.

After Kong Ling and Li Min raised their troops, they also recruited troops everywhere, because the people of Yingchuan were very accustomed to the movement of the army, and in their opinion, as long as they did not loot on a large scale, most of them were soldiers and horses on their own side.

Even so, Zhang Liao was not careless, he did not stay on the way, and still adopted the tactics of lightning raids, first with soldiers and horses to enter Changshe County with lightning speed, and then personally with two hundred brakes and tigers, pretending to be sour jujube soldiers and horses, with Kong Ling's order to enter the county, falsely spread Kong Ling's order to urgently transfer the large and small generals of the defenders in the north of the city into the city, and captured all of them in one fell swoop, and used the orders of these generals to transfer the two thousand defenders of the Changshe out of the camp, all of them were captured, but more than an hour, they quickly took control of the Changshe.

After taking control of Changshe, Zhang Liao left Zhang He's halberd battalion and Liangtun sharpshooter battalion, and then relied on the speed of the cavalry, when the news of Changshe's destruction had not yet spread, he concocted it according to law to defraud Yang Zhai.

After all, Yingchuan's soldiers and horses were too vigilant, Zhang Liao quickly controlled Yang Zhai with Kong Ling's order, and also captured Yang Zhai's generals and three thousand guards, and sent Tang Wan into Yang Zhai, he left Gao Shun and the Liangtun Marksman Battalion, and then kept taking his personal guards, Xiao Cai, Tigers and Brakes straight to Mi County to save his younger brother Zhang Jian.

Kong Ling stationed 5,000 soldiers and horses in Mi County, but Zhang Liao had Kong Ling's order, he left the Xiao cavalry camp outside the city, and he took the guard battalion and the tiger battalion into Mi County, first captured a cadre of generals, and then rescued the trapped Zhang Jian and a group of guards, but the guards of Mi County were still vigilant and found an abnormality.

Zhang Liao immediately made a decision, ordered the brake warriors to kill all the captured generals, shocked the enemy soldiers, and then led the tiger battalion by Dian Wei to rush to the city gate, open the city gate from the inside, and the cavalry battalion that had been prepared outside the city rushed in, fought for more than an hour, killed more than 1,000 enemies, captured 3,000, and controlled Mi County again.

Since then, Zhang Liao has been deceitful one after another, relying on more than 4,000 elites, breaking through three counties in a row, and beheading or capturing Kong Ling's 10,000 soldiers and horses, all of which have been solved.

The rest is Li Min's thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in Yangcheng in the northwest of Yingchuan, but the soldiers and horses there are too concentrated, and it is not easy to raid, and Zhang Liao is now insufficient and difficult to attack.

Moreover, it was Dong Zhuoai's soldiers and horses who confronted Li Min in the Xuanyuan Pass of Luoyang, and he was not interested in fighting to the death to support the enemy.

The main purpose of his attack on Yangzhai, Changshe and Mixian was not to destroy the enemy, nor to capture Yingchuan, the place of the four battles in Yingchuan, it was useless to seize it, there was Yuan Shu in the south, and the princes of the east and the east could fight back at any time, and Dong Zhuo would not rest assured that he would stay in Yingchuan.

Therefore, his purpose is to save his younger brother Zhang Jian, and second, to send his wife Tang Wan home to visit his mother safely, as for the more than 8,000 captives, they are all incidental gains.

Therefore, after Zhang Liao captured Mi County, he returned to Yangzhai with Zhang Jian and a group of prisoners, and the Tang family was in Yangzhai City. (To be continued.) )