Sun Ce sent troops, on the third day after Ye Zhao crossed the river to capture Puyang, Sun Ce sent the general Pan Zhang from Dantu to occupy the Tanglin Pavilion, and then with Huang Gai as the general, he sent troops from Wuxi to cross the river and attack Hailing.

Previously, Sun Ce sent troops to Xuzhou several times, but was blocked by Chen Deng, but this time, Chen Deng did not stop again, but chose to retreat, surrendered Guangling to Sun Ce, and led the army to retreat to Huaiyin and Haixi for fortification.

It's not that Chen Deng is unwilling to fight, but now in his hands, there are not many troops to resist Sun Ce's attack, plus the loss of Tanglin Pavilion, if you don't go, it is the trend of three bread sandwiches, Sun Ce this time, but dispatched 20,000 troops, and then there is an endless stream of Jiangdong children across the river, although Chen Deng has generals, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, Tanglin Pavilion is lost, Guangling has no danger to defend.

A few times before Sun Ce attacked, Chen Deng also used a plan to scare away Sun Ce with Cao Cao's reinforcements, but this time, Cao Cao was driven to Jizhou by Ye Zhao, everyone knew that Cao Cao could not send reinforcements at this time, so the previous strategy was no longer effective, and this time Sun Ce was different from the previous several temptations, it was serious, in the face of the combination of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, Chen Deng really didn't have the confidence to defend Guangling, so he could only retreat to the second, as long as he guarded Haixi and Huaiyin, and waited for Cao Cao to free up his hands and then work together to deal with Sun Ce.

It's just that with Cao Cao's current situation, even the Chen family's father and son don't have much confidence at the moment.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Jizhou, Muye, Ye Zhao led the army and Zhao Yun to join in Muye, this time, Ye Zhao readjusted the Cao army that surrendered and selected the grassroots generals, and let the surrendered army be responsible for the transportation of grain and grass, freeing up a lot of troops for Ye Zhao, plus Zhao Yun and Ding Li led the army to converge, Ye Zhao's soldiers and horses reached 60,000, and Cao Cao's side, even if the defense troops of Jizhou and Youzhou were urgently mobilized, the total was only 130,000.

It sounds like a lot, even more than before, but before Cao Cao led the main force of the Cao army, following Cao Cao's elite division in the southern and northern wars, and this time the 130,000 Jizhou army was mostly the surrendered army left by Yuan Shao at the beginning.

In the Muye camp, Zhang He and Gao Ran stepped in, bowed to Cao Cao and said: "Lord, General Guo Yuan has an urgent report, in the area of Yanmen, Xu Rong and Guan Yu led the army to kill, our army is losing and retreating, please send troops to help as soon as possible!" ”

Gao Ran was originally Yuan Shao's general, and later Yuan Shao fell, Gao Ran also surrendered to Cao Cao, and Zhang He is more legendary, after losing to Liu Bei in the river, it was originally possible to take back a city, but Yan Hao was overjoyed, went out of the city to fight, and the result was naturally defeated, Zhang He was also captured alive after Liu Bei invaded the Bohai Sea, and refused to surrender, so he was imprisoned, until Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei, only to see the light of day, seeing Yuan Shao's defeat, he naturally put himself under Cao Cao, and now the two are responsible for the military affairs of Jizhou and Youzhou.

"Where are the soldiers and horses that can be dispatched now?" When Cao Cao heard this, he smiled bitterly, the 130,000 army is the only army that he can handle now, Ye Zhao is pressing step by step, he has no ability to save the siege of Youzhou.

But Guo Yuan can't help it, once Guo Yuan can't resist it, the entire Youzhou and Jizhou land will fall under Guan Yu and Xu Rong's troops, and at that time, Cao Cao will not think about a decisive battle with Ye Zhao, but to bring his troops back to the Central Plains as much as possible.

Zhang He and Gao Ran did not speak, as the guards of Youzhou and Jizhou, the two were very clear about the current situation, they came, just to tell Cao Cao the current situation, as for how to decide, it depends on Cao Cao.

"Lord~" This side has not yet decided, but he saw Cao Ren coming in in a hurry, saw Zhang He and Gao Ran, nodded at the two, and then looked at Cao Cao and said: "That Black Mountain Zhang Yan voted for Ye Zhao, and now he has sent troops to attack Yecheng!" ”

Cao Cao suddenly felt that something in his head was beating violently a few times, when Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shao before, Zhang Yan was recruited by Cao Cao to surrender, and the soldiers were named the general of Pingbei, but the situation in the world was chaotic at that time, after Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei, he and Ye Zhao were tied for the position of overlord in the north, and the two sides were bounded by Taihang Mountain, and Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army was hidden in this Taihang Mountain, so although Zhang Yan received the post of general of Pingbei, he was not loyal to Cao Cao, but continued to garrison Montenegro, and at the same time had contacts with Ye Zhao and Cao Cao.

This time, Zhang Yan sent troops to Yecheng, obviously making up his mind to defect to Ye Zhao, but Zhang Yan's defection made the already poor Cao Cao even worse.

Ye Cheng is Cao Cao's place of food, once Yecheng is lost, the 130,000 army will immediately become a bubble, Cao Cao knows, Ye Zhao is forcing him to retreat, Ye Zhao at this moment is already winning, obviously does not want to retreat with Cao Cao, the Montenegrin army attacks at will, it can be said that the enemy will be saved, if Cao Cao insists on a decisive battle with Ye Zhao, then the back road will inevitably be broken, but at this moment, if the army returns to attack the Montenegrin army, I am afraid that Ye Zhao will immediately put away the free battle card and send troops to pursue!

"Zhang He!" Cao Cao took a deep breath and looked at Zhang He, although the situation was not going well, Cao Cao was obviously not the kind of person who was at a loss when he encountered setbacks.

"The last general!" Zhang He took a step forward and bowed.

"I can only give you 5,000 soldiers and horses, you must ensure that Yecheng is not lost, and the grain route is smooth, it is possible?" Cao Cao looked at Zhang He and said in a deep voice.

Five thousand soldiers and horses are all that Cao Cao can give Zhang He now, 130,000 troops, although the strength is superior, but the combat power is really not comparable to Ye Zhao, at this time, being able to divide five thousand soldiers and horses is already Cao Cao's limit, Yecheng cannot afford to lose, but Ye Zhao must also fight.

"Whoa!" Zhang He saluted solemnly and took the order to leave.

Xun You's expression on the side moved, and he looked at Cao Cao and said, "Lord, why don't you plan it?" ”

"Gongda is saying......" Cao Cao's expression moved, looked at Xun Yu and said: "Pretend to return to the army and lure Ye Zhao to send troops?" ”

"Not bad!" Xun You nodded and said: "Ye Zhao avoids without fighting, he must be waiting for this fighter, our army pretends to return to Yecheng, Ye Zhao will send troops to pursue, our army can set up an ambush to ambush, if we can take this opportunity to defeat Ye Zhao, we can still turn the tide of the war!" ”

"That's a brilliant plan!" When Cao Cao heard this, he nodded in agreement, Ye Zhao obviously couldn't sit back and watch himself leave like this, and now Zhang Yan attacked Yecheng, although it was a crisis, but it was not an opportunity to lead Ye Zhao to send troops? If Ye Zhao can be defeated here, he will be able to reconnect He/North with the Central Plains.

At that moment, Cao Cao ordered the army to pull out the camp and make the appearance of withdrawing the army, and at the same time ordered Xiahou Tang and Xiahou Yuan to lead the army to ambush, while Cao Hong led the army to make a broken posture.

After all, the opponent is Ye Zhao, if he can't be realistic, how can he deceive Ye Zhao?