Cao Gong is good at planning, especially with many staff officers to formulate a battle plan together, absolutely not leaky, but, in the plan, almost every detail will not be counted, after all, any accident on the battlefield can happen, as if there is a rush, the frontal resistance has been in place, but in the end because the troops who outflanked the rear road arrived an hour late and fell short, and were escaped by the Montenegrin army.

Because of this incident, Lejin was severely punished, although he also had his own objective reasons, that is, in their map, there was no river, but because of this river, the troops needed to wade, so they delayed the trip, and finally escaped by the Montenegrin army, although Lejin was also very innocent, but he did not rush to the predetermined place at the agreed time and must accept the punishment, the military order is like a mountain, under the circumstances at the time, let alone a turbulent river, even if it is a sea of swords and fire, you have to find a way to customer service difficulties, Anyway, Cao Cao's order to him was to arrive at the predetermined place at what time, and when he arrived, he would complete the task, and no matter how many excuses he had, he would not be able to recover the losses that allowed the enemy to escape.

Although Yan Mingjun Ji Lejin was punished, but Cao Cao and a group of advisers also reviewed, in the planning, they did not consider these objective factors, if one day encountered not lakes and rivers but the Black Mountain Army and other unexpected situations, it is not impossible, although the probability is not large, but also let Cao Cao from now on when making plans will not be clear in the calculation of every quarter of an hour and every quarter of an hour, but leave a lot of room to operate, but also because of this change, That's why we have today's fruits, and it can be said that today's success is all the seeds planted before.

Cao Ren was satisfied with this result, now what he needs to do is to buy more time, fortunately, Cao Gong led all the cavalry, although it may be impossible for Xiahou's main force to come at the first time, but Cao Gong will definitely be able to come soon, as long as they arrive in time, Cao Ren is confident that with their current strength, it will be enough to defeat Zhang Xun.

The madness of the Shouchun Army made Cao Ren feel great pressure, but they would never be captured, especially under the leadership of Cao Ren, they also began to launch a crazy counterattack against it, it can be said that it was their crazy attack at any cost that completely aroused Cao Jun's will to fight.

"Bang bang bang!"

Cao Ren was killing frantically in front of the formation, every time the beast horn point gold shot was a fatal blow, in an instant, one person was stabbed by him in the center of the nest, and then turned, another Shouchun army was directly picked up by him, and flew directly towards the Shouchun army formation, blood splashed, as if it was raining blood.

Cao Ren just warmed up, moving his muscles and bones, but he also knew that if he continued to kill like this, he would not be able to hold out for too long, it should not be said that his current army of more than 10,000 people would not be able to hold out for too long, and under the attack of the Shouchun army wave after wave, how long could they last?

Cao Ren's eyes were covered with a layer of frost, and he had to make some changes, but in the current situation, there were not too many choices to make, but he could change the formation to make the troops hold on longer, if he had enough time, then he could let his troops master a variety of formations, especially the Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation that he had been thinking about, but there was too little time for his troops to quickly master, all the only options available at present were the circle formation of the Ten Ancient Formations, which was the Ring Defense Array, He has an absolute advantage over defense, but if he changes to a defensive circular formation, then he has enough time to ensure that he can drag Cao Cao to come.

But the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array in his mind is different, if the troops can be mastered, maybe they are all likely to achieve the final victory, the role of the formation for the soldiers to pray is unparalleled, especially the elite foot soldiers like Cao Jun, but sometimes, this is a pity, he once had enough training time, but when he had time, he never studied the laws of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, although he also consulted a lot of masters, but without exception failed to give him any feasible advice, This matter has been delayed, and now he has straightened out the doorway of the Eight Golden Lock Formation through the rotation of the circle array on the battlefield, but he can't use it because the troops have not mastered this formation, which is definitely a pity for him, so he has no other better way than to continue to use the circle formation now, but if it is possible, next time he will definitely let the troops master it and make the opponent tremble.

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Cao Cao and Xiahou came quickly, although Xiahou's infantry could not keep up with the speed of the cavalry, but in order to arrive as soon as possible and be able to rush to Cao Ren's aid in time, Xiahou chose to temporarily hand over the troops to Xiahou Yuan, and he took his own soldiers to come with Cao Cao first.

All the way fast, the line is galloping.

Cao Cao's troops are all selected from the army to be good at riding and shooting, and Xiahou's personal guards are not to mention, all of them are good at one top, galloping all the way, eating, drinking, and Lasa are all on the horse as much as possible, such a situation, even Xiahou himself is sighing, where is this cavalry in the Central Plains, it is simply the Qiang people in the west of Donghu in the north, if such a cavalry can be retained and incorporated into the tiger and leopard cavalry, it will be terrible.

But Cao Cao also knew in his heart that although such a situation could greatly improve their combat effectiveness, although it was a good suggestion to gather all the war horses, the feasibility was too small, should the generals change to walking, and the scouts should not listen to the news?

This is not manipulable at all, of course, if he has the ability, he will definitely increase the investment of cavalry, from this time he really tasted the sweetness of the cavalry, including the tiger and leopard cavalry to Hanoi and now this series of long-distance runs, if there is no temporary intention for him, this battle cannot have the current result, it is very likely that Zhang Xun arrived safely in Xiao County without any way, but they finally succeeded in dragging Zhang Xun's pace, and this is thanks to Xiahou but at the same time, if there is no temporary cavalry, There will definitely not be such a big gain.

It seems that the formation of the cavalry is really imminent, although there are already tiger and leopard cavalry, but the number of this tiger and leopard cavalry is too small, it is impossible to really play any role in large-scale operations, his plan, of course, there is no financial resources to implement it now, but if it is possible one day, he will form a cavalry of at least tens of thousands of people, even if it cannot be compared with Liu Lan's tiger and leopard cavalry, but it must be on par with Yuan Shao.

Such an idea made Cao Cao a little excited, but more of a pity, it is actually easy to form a powerful cavalry force, they now have the right candidates, but the key is the lack of war horses, or the lack of horse farms to breed war horses, and the state, Youzhou and even Liangzhou, one of the three major horse farms, he does not need to worry about this, and now they have the only way to obtain war horses, only to buy, want to get such a huge amount of war horses, not to mention the huge spending, more importantly, even if there is a huge amount of money, But they can't really buy such a huge war horse, no one sells it, this is war materials, who would sell it easily.

Liu Lan, who controls Liaodong, will not sell it to him, nor will Yuan Shao, who controls Bingzhou and Youzhou, and although Ma Teng of Xiliang is willing, what he needs is a lot of grain and grass, and if it is just gold, silver, jewelry and five baht money, then everything is easy, but if it is grain, then Cao Cao is really a little powerless.

So he could only give up such an idea for the time being, and then he focused on dealing with Zhang Xun, there is no point in thinking too much about the affairs of the war horse, since it can't be changed, then think about changing the others first, and when there are conditions, it's not too late to form it, although it will be very difficult, or even far away, but there is no way, the reality is such a reality.

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At the head of Lujiang City, Liu Xun and Ji Ling climbed the city tower one after another, today's unexpected Xuzhou Army did not start attacking the city early in the morning, and even made him feel that the Xuzhou Army had given up the plan to continue attacking the city, if this is the case, it would be great, but whether it is to attack again after an hour, or to give up the attack completely, at least at this moment, when the two of them climbed the city tower again, the mood was extremely relaxed, and he had not had such a mentality for a long time.

But when they walked up to the city tower, they saw that their eyes were full of tired soldiers, and the two of them were silent, because of the daily attack of the Xuzhou army, the spirit of the soldiers was in a high degree of tension, and in that state, including the situation of the two of them was actually the same, so it was difficult to find the abnormality of the soldiers, and now once they relaxed, it was different, the two of them could see more, and their eyes were not in the Xuzhou army.

Their minds have become extremely heavy, in order to defend Lujiang City these days, they have worked hard, although they take turns to fight, but each team of soldiers has to defend at least two or three rounds, such a high-intensity battle is really unbearable, and few people can bear it.

Liu Xun and Ji Ling walked to the soldiers' side, affirmed their efforts in the past few days, and promised that today to improve the big guys, there is wine and meat, which can be regarded as a reward, of course, the reward will not be stingy, this is just a little bit of their heart for the Son of Heaven for the time being, and then the reward from the Son of Heaven will also be rewarded.

Both of them understand that at this time, no one dares to reward soldiers with their own identity, what is this, buying the hearts of the army, often whoever does this kind of thing will be unlucky, but both of them are very smart, and it is different to give rewards in the name of Yuan Shu, the son of heaven, Yuan Shu knows, not only will not punish them, but will also reward.

The spirit of the soldiers finally lifted up, Liu Xun said with a smile: "As long as you persevere, when the Xuzhou army is repulsed, the reward will be indispensable to you, but we still have to continue to fight fiercely with the Xuzhou army, so tonight's wine will not be full, and no one will have a jar." ”

"Thank you, Taishou Liu, General Ji."

Liu Xun said a few words briefly, Ji Ling took over the conversation, and said: "Everyone should have fun tonight's reward, and everyone should also insist on the battle after tomorrow, because what we are guarding behind us is not only the city of Lujiang, but the entire Shouchun and our own home, if we lose Lujiang, then Shouchun will fall into the hands of Liu Lan, do you think that Liu Lan may let your family go when the time comes?" ”

"Yes, what the general said is right, we must drag the Xuzhou army, for the sake of the Taishou general and the son of heaven, only in this way can we keep Shouchun and return home."

"Actually, I just got a news recently, a big good news has not had a chance to tell you, take advantage of today I will tell my brothers, Yuan Shao of Jizhou has promised to send troops, and General Zhang Xun is converging with him, after his two armies are assembled, that is, when we counterattack, they will easily defeat Cao Cao, and then they will come to the rescue of us, so as long as we hold Lujiang, then at most a month, we will be able to defeat the Xuzhou army in front of us."

Liu Xun and Ji Ling walked to the soldiers' side, affirmed their efforts in the past few days, and promised that today to improve the big guys, there is wine and meat, which can be regarded as a reward, of course, the reward will not be stingy, this is just a little bit of their heart for the Son of Heaven for the time being, and then the reward from the Son of Heaven will also be rewarded.

Both of them understand that at this time, no one dares to reward soldiers with their own identity, what is this, buying the hearts of the army, often whoever does this kind of thing will be unlucky, but both of them are very smart, and it is different to give rewards in the name of Yuan Shu, the son of heaven, Yuan Shu knows, not only will not punish them, but will also reward.

The spirit of the soldiers finally lifted up, Liu Xun said with a smile: "As long as you persevere, when the Xuzhou army is repulsed, the reward will be indispensable to you, but we still have to continue to fight fiercely with the Xuzhou army, so tonight's wine will not be full, and no one will have a jar." ”

"Thank you, Taishou Liu, General Ji."

Liu Xun said a few words briefly, Ji Ling took over the conversation, and said: "Everyone should have fun tonight's reward, and everyone should also insist on the battle after tomorrow, because what we are guarding behind us is not only the city of Lujiang, but the entire Shouchun and our own home, if we lose Lujiang, then Shouchun will fall into the hands of Liu Lan, do you think that Liu Lan may let your family go when the time comes?" ”

"Yes, what the general said is right, we must drag the Xuzhou army, for the sake of the Taishou general and the son of heaven, only in this way can we keep Shouchun and return home."

"Actually, I just got a news recently, a big good news has not had a chance to tell you, take advantage of today I will tell my brothers, Yuan Shao of Jizhou has promised to send troops, and General Zhang Xun is converging with him, after his two armies are assembled, that is, when we counterattack, they will easily defeat Cao Cao, and then they will come to the rescue of us, so as long as we hold Lujiang, then at most a month, we will be able to defeat the Xuzhou army in front of us."