Chapter 347: A plan within a plan
That night, Su Zheliu Xu Huang led 5,000 elite soldiers to defend Puyang, and he led 25,000 soldiers and horses to the south under the starry night, heading straight to Chen Liucheng.
The importance of Yanzhou lies in Xuxian, Chenliu and Puyang, and Chenliucheng is located in the middle of the three points.
Zhang Liao surrendered the previous time, and after Su Zhe captured Chen Liu, he did not leave a heavy army to guard it, and the defenders in the city were only more than 1,500 people.
Su Zhe saw through Cao Cao's trick, but he used bargaining as a cover, but secretly led a large army from Zhencheng to make a surprise attack on Chen Liucheng from the south.
Once Chen Liucheng was attacked, Su Zhe and his main army would be cut off from Puyang City in the north, and once the grain and grass were cut off, they would definitely collapse within half a month.
And now, Su Zhe is going to lead the army to kill Chen Liu before Cao's army, and give Cao Cao a head-on blow.
In this battle, as long as Cao Cao can be beaten and his vitality is greatly damaged, Cao Cao will have to retreat to Qingzhou, and the counties of Yandong will all be won without a fight.
The army went crazy all the way, marching more than 100 miles in a row.
Two days later, in the early morning, Su Zhe received an urgent report from a messenger from Jiyang City in the southeast, saying that he had found Cao Jun passing by outside the city, and the dust and fog covered the sky, and the momentum was huge.
Hearing this news, Su Zhe breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiyang City is about seventy miles away from his current location, and longitudinally, the distance from Chen Liucheng is almost the same.
That is to say, he has caught up with the marching speed of Cao's army, and all he has to do now is to lead his army to the southeast and go to Cao's army's marching route to intercept and kill the enemy by surprise.
"Lord, after this battle, the entire Yanzhou will be ours." Veteran Huang Zhong's face was hard to suppress his excitement.
Su Zhe sneered: "I was still pointing to a bloody battle with Cao Cao, but I didn't expect him to take the initiative to give me a big victory, so it would be so easy for me to win." ”
As soon as the word "easy" came out, Su Zhe suddenly sensed that something was wrong.
That enemy is Cao Cao.
He is the real protagonist of this Three Kingdoms era, resourceful, using soldiers like gods, treacherous, and his strategists are like rain, and fierce generals are like clouds.
How could such a strong enemy, who originally had a protagonist template, make it so easy for him to win?
Suddenly, Su Zhe had a hunch that he and Pang Tong's judgment of Cao Cao was likely to be wrong.
Against an opponent like Cao Cao, one misjudgment will result in fatal!
Su Zhe felt a chill in his heart, and before he could think about it, he hurriedly activated his brain waves and connected to the super quantum meteorological satellite above his head again.
"System, give me an immediate infrared scan of the area south of Jiyang City to search for large-scale sources of thermal radiation on the move."
"Ding-dong...... The quantum meteorological satellite is activated, the input coordinate range is completed, and the quantum wave is started to be launched and the scanning is launched. ”
After a few moments, the scan ends.
"Ding-dong...... Twenty miles southwest of Jiyang, the quantum meteorological satellite discovered a large-scale moving thermal radiation source. ”
"Give me an immediate count of the number of radiation sources."
"Ding-dong...... According to the thermal imaging map, there are 3,274 radiation sources. ”
3,000 soldiers and horses, that Cao army, there are only 3,000 men and horses?
Su Zhe's heart was shocked, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong, there must be fraud in this.
He remembered that the messenger from Jiyang reported that the enemy had lifted a dust fog covering the sky when marching, and the number of soldiers and horses had to be at least more than 20,000 people.
However, the real results of the meteorological satellite scans were only 3,000 people, and the difference is too great.
Moreover, what is the use of Cao Cao sending 3,000 men and horses to Chenliu, there are 1,500 men and horses stationed there, and with 3,000 soldiers and horses alone, even if he is elite, he will not want to attack Chenliu.
It was obviously an impossible sneak attack, why did Cao Cao do such useless work?
"Could it be ......" Su Zhe's eyes flashed, and he suddenly realized something.
He hurriedly reined in his horse and shouted: "The whole army stops advancing, turns back to the north on the spot, and follows me to save Puyang City." ”
The marching army quickly stopped, and fell into a crowded state of each other.
The veteran Huang Zhong looked surprised and puzzled: "Didn't the lord say that Cao Cao was going to attack my Chen Liucheng, why did he rush half the way, and he had to go back to save Puyang City?" ”
Su Zhe said in a deep voice: "We fell for Cao Cao's plan, he deliberately showed flaws, making us think that he wanted to sneak attack Chen Liu, lure me to lead the main force to leave Puyang, his real purpose is to take advantage of my absence, Puyang is empty, with a large army to break through Puyang City, from beginning to end, Puyang is his real goal!" ”
Huang Zhong's body was shocked, his expression was shocked, and he couldn't turn around for a while, and he couldn't figure out why Su Zhe suddenly came to such a conclusion.
Su Zhe didn't have time to explain more to him, and immediately rode his horse and galloped north.
The 25,000 equally suspicious Soviet soldiers had to turn around, follow their lord, and rush back to Puyang City.
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Hundreds of miles away, Puyang City.
The sound of killing shook the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.
In the direction outside Puyang City, 30,000 Cao troops set up camp on all sides, and Puyang City has been surrounded by water.
On the front line of the east gate of Puyang, tens of thousands of Cao troops are launching a fierce attack on Puyang City wave after wave like a tide.
Countless cloud ladders were raised by tall trees, and the Cao army on the city climbed densely like ants, and the arrows above their heads rained like shuttles, intertwined into a network of light, covering the sky.
The enemy's offensive was extremely fierce, and Puyang City looked crumbling.
At the head of the city, Xu Huang, who was covered in blood, was commanding 5,000 Soviet soldiers, fighting desperately and bloodily to resist the onslaught of Cao's army.
Along the front line of the city, countless corpses lay horizontally, and nearly 1,000 Soviet sergeants were killed and wounded.
Pang Tong, who was hiding in the city tower, was looking through the window, silently watching the fierce battle outside, the hard battle of her own army, and the madness of the enemy army, she saw it clearly.
"It's really a brilliant plan, even Ziming and I have been deceived, this kind of ghost scheme, it doesn't look like Xun Yu's style, who will be giving Cao Cao advice......"
Pang Tong's thoughts were flying, and he secretly guessed in his heart, but his eyebrows became deeper and deeper.
Outside the city.
Cao Cao was standing on his horse, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, admiring this overwhelming siege with great interest.
In his opinion, the strength of the Soviet army in Puyang was only 5,000, and he launched a surprise attack with six times the army.
"Fengxiao, you really live up to the name of the ghost fox, and even the dragon and phoenix joined forces, and you were played in the palm of your hand." Cao Cao was amazed, looked at Guo Jia beside him with a smile with extreme appreciation.
Guo Jia only cared about pouring wine on his head, as if he didn't care about the fierce siege battle in front of him, looking lazy and uninhibited.
His casualness, in Cao Cao's view, represents absolute confidence in his own resourcefulness, which makes Cao Cao like it more and more.
Cao Cao's eyes looked at the stormy Puyang City again, and sneered: "Su Zhe, when you were deceived to Chen Liu, Puyang City had already been captured by me, you probably never dreamed, I have a ghost fox to help, Yanzhou you worked hard to build is destined to make a wedding dress for me Cao Cao, hehe~~"