Chapter 849: Li Dao dies
Cao Ang is making a plan, and he is responsible for solving Zhang Xiu and Li Dao all the way.
Cao Cao naturally couldn't leave them alone, but Yuan Shao's threat was really more serious, and Cao Cao had to devote his main resources to fighting Yuan Shao.
Therefore, Cao Ang wanted to use 50,000 soldiers and horses to block the two.
The task given by Cao Cao is to block the two of them.
But Cao Ang didn't do this, his aim was to eliminate the two people.
It's not so easy to eliminate Zhang Xiu and Li Dao, the two are also people who have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, so it's not so easy to deal with.
Cao Ang has been hiding and has deployed his main forces more than three hundred miles away, so Zhang Xiu and they have not received any news.
Cao Jun has been retreating, fighting and retreating, and the losses are not small.
At this time, Cao Ang saw Zhang Xiu, and they seemed to hesitate and didn't dare to advance.
Luring the enemy into the hinterland comes at a cost.
Just kept retreating, and the enemy kept chasing and killing.
Therefore, Cao Ang sent 20,000 troops, without more than half of the casualties, and was not allowed to retreat.
The generals who came out with Cao Ang this time were Xiahoudun and Le Jin.
Cao Ang asked Lejin to bring 20,000 people up.
Lejin did not rush directly to fight, but ambushed Zhang Xiu and others.
Lejin succeeded in ambushing, but the troops were too small, and he fought for nearly an hour, leaving about 10,000 men and horses, and "retreating in a panic".
In the eyes of Zhang Xiu and others, they retreated in a panic.
Zhang Xiu was overjoyed, he always thought that Cao Jun was hiding and wanted to sneak attack them, but he didn't expect to arrange it, so he led people to chase after him.
Le Jin had already prepared, and fled into the forest by copying the path, but Zhang Xiu was afraid of the ambush and did not dare to pursue.
"General Li, this Cao army is weak, and our army should be attacking and catching them off guard." Zhang Xiu proposed.
"Haha, yes, that's exactly how it should be." Li Dao said.
No matter how Li Dao looks at this Cao army, it doesn't look like a lure to the enemy.
Their 20,000 troops were desperate, and in the end, under the leadership of Le Jin, they killed more than 17,000 Zhang and Li coalition troops, which was completely desperate with them.
If they have more troops, and then ambush themselves, I am afraid that they will be severely damaged.
Cao Ang did not have many soldiers and horses, and he actually used the lives of 10,000 soldiers to lure the enemy, and the Tuken was very large.
Cao Ang's plan is naturally very big, in fact, Cao Ang's arrangement is far more than that, he has already started to prepare when he came out of Xuchang, and then he has been waiting until Zhang Xiu and them attack.
Zhang Xiu judged that Cao's army was extremely weak, so they went deep and ignored it.
In Wancheng, he felt that it was so dangerous, so he warned again and again, but Zhang Xiu had lost his mind a little and ignored Jia Xu's warning.
The two continued to go deeper, Jia Xu's warning still had some effect, and Zhang Xiu was very careful along the way.
Zhang Xiu sent a large number of scouts to carefully investigate, but no ambushes were found along the way, and there were no large enemy forces.
However, the resistance of Cao's army became stronger and stronger, and there were fierce battles in each city.
Although a county town only resisted them for less than two hours, the attack also made Zhang Xiu lose more than 2,000 soldiers and horses.
In the end, most of Cao's army was surrounded by the conflict.
However, this made Zhang Xiu even more excited.
"Cao's army is short of soldiers and horses, otherwise the county town just now can at least block our attack for two days." Zhang Xiu said.
Li Wei also agreed that if Cao's army had enough troops, it would not take too many, as long as there were 350,000 troops, they might not be able to fight for half a month.
At this time, Zhang Xiu and the others had gone deeper than two hundred miles, and except for the previous ambush, there was no large Cao army along the way.
Zhang Xiu is still more cautious, but he still keeps moving forward.
No matter how cautious Zhang Xiu was, the result was the same, Cao Ang had no ambush at all, and the army was still more than a hundred miles away from them.
More than two hundred miles, which is not too far, Zhang Xiu doesn't care too much.
Zhang Xiu continued to advance fifty miles, still without much resistance.
After receiving the news, Cao Ang said: "We will continue to retreat for a hundred miles, if they still dare to chase after us, we will launch a plan, if they dare not come, then there is no threat." ”
Cao Ang and the others continued to retreat, directly retreating for a hundred miles.
Zhang Xiu was introduced into the hinterland step by step.
Although they marched forty or fifty miles in one day, after three days, they approached Cao's army.
Cao's army retreated all the way to Yingchuan, and then held the city in Yingchuan.
Yingchuan, which is already Cao Cao's rear, is the core area.
Zhang Xiu and Li Dao were very excited.
"This Cao Cao is bluffing on the surface, and he is already extremely weak, and when we capture a large area of Yanzhou, Cao's army will be wiped out." Zhang Xiu said.
Li Dao is also looking forward to finally being able to get out of Luoyang.
In Luoyang, he was very aggrieved and had nowhere to let him develop.
Now, he finally has a chance.
The two rested for a short night, and then began to attack Yingchuan Castle.
At the head of the city, Cao Ang, Xiahoudun, and Le Jin were defending, and there were tens of thousands of troops, which could completely block them.
Cao Ang looked at the 130,000 enemy troops below at the top of the city, his eyes were extremely sharp.
"Eldest prince, the information has been sent out last night, as long as we hold it for a few days, this Li Dao and Zhang Xiu are probably going to perish." Lejin said.
Zhang Xiu and they began to attack, and hundreds of thousands of troops stormed for two days.
Two days later, Zhang Xiu was a little confused.
"Cao Jun should be panicked, and he doesn't have much determination to resist, right?"
Zhang Xiu originally thought that Cao Jun should be extremely weak and did not have much will to resist, after all, they were flanked by the front and back, which was very dangerous.
But now the Cao army's resistance is still very strong, and after two days of onslaught, there is no progress, and the Cao army still resists strongly.
Although there was a discrepancy with his own judgment, Zhang Xiu still continued to attack.
It wasn't until five days after the attack that Zhang Xiu and Li Dao suddenly received a shocking message.
On the same day, when they were still attacking, a group of thousands of soldiers and horses who fled in panic from the direction of Luoyang found Li Dao.
"General, general, no." The Luoyang guard found Li Dao and yelled badly.
When Li Dao saw him, his heart was shocked, and his head couldn't think.
"General, general, Luoyang was occupied by Guo Yan's sneak attack."
"Boom~"
Li Dao slammed his head and fainted, and then fell from his horse, hit his head on the ground, and fell to his death.
Everyone was stunned, Li Dao actually fell down and died under the Yingchuan City.
It's all changing so fast.
Li Dao was a prince at this time, and he fell to his death like this.
It didn't take long for Luoyang's army to begin to stir up.
"Don't panic, don't panic, now it's all under my command."
"Don't mess up, otherwise there will be no mercy."
"Stop, follow me to Wancheng."
Zhang Xiu shouted to control Li Dao's army.
But Li Dao's army did not listen to him.
Zhang Xiu then raised the butcher's knife and killed some people.
The city is still under siege, and there is chaos below.