The defenders of the Wuchao granary were unaware of Cao's attack, and they didn't find out until Cao's army touched the camp.

The emergency whistle blew, and the soldiers of each battalion quickly put on their sleeves and went into battle, but the Cao army was too numerous, and it was a sudden attack, and the defenders scattered after a short resistance.

Cao Cao, who was killed in the rear battle, saw that there were only more than 100 enemy corpses in the Wuchao camp, and he felt bad, so he immediately ordered all units to light a fire and quickly retreat.

The ground trembled, as if thousands of horses were galloping in.

Cao Cao knew that Zhang Liao's reinforcements were coming, and the soldiers originally planned to carry a bag of grain alone, but now it was too late.

Cao Cao immediately made a decision and ordered: "Quickly ignite the fire and withdraw quickly!" ”

The soldiers of the Cao army lit flints and lights fires everywhere in Zhang Liao's Wuchao "granary".

There was not much time, and the entire Wuchao camp was in flames, and Cao Cao's soldiers and horses began to retreat.

The sound of thousands of galloping horses was already very clear, and Cao Cao saw countless horses running in all directions by the light of the fire, but there was not a single soldier in sight.

Cao Cao secretly shouted that it was not good, so many war horses rushed over and would definitely scatter the team, and before he could gather the team, he saw the explosion of the Wuchao camp and the smoke of gunpowder.

The deafening explosion startled the war horses and the soldiers of the Cao army.

The explosion was like a bead, and the gunpowder in all directions was ignited, and no matter which direction Cao Jun rushed, the bombed people were turned on their backs.

Only then did Cao Cao understand why Zhang Liao dared to ignore the guards of the granary, it turned out that he had laid a killing move!

At this moment, it is too late to say anything, Cao Cao can only escape, coupled with the impact of countless war horses, Cao's army is in chaos, and there are countless casualties.

Most of the soldiers were set off with fireworks, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and corpses were everywhere.

In the battle of Guandu in history, Cao Cao's sneak attack on Wuchao to burn grain was successful, and defeated Yuan Shao in one fell swoop, and this time, Cao Cao was a big fool.

Zhang Liao knew that Cao's army was short of food, and he must fight a quick battle, and the most effective way was to burn Zhang Liao's grain and grass, so that Zhang Liao had to withdraw his army.

This style of play is very important, Zhang Liao reported the strategic plan of Guandu to Jiang Sheng in advance, Jiang Sheng expressed his approval, and carried out an "upgrade", changing Zhang Liao's tactics of laying down a pocket formation and then encircling and killing the army, but planted a large amount of gunpowder around the inside and outside of the Wuchao camp, and concentrated the old and weak war horses in Zhang Liao's army, and won the victory without a single soldier.

Jiang Sheng's modification, Zhang Liao is convinced, it is too ruthless!

Zhang Liao crossed the river to intercept and kill Xiahoudun, it was only after the full layout before leaving, Zhang Liao claimed to be 100,000 troops, in fact, only 50,000 troops came to Guandu, and the others were distributed in the counties of the Luoyang Captain's Department, after Zhang Liao led the army to cross the river, there were less than 10,000 people left in the Guandu battalion, but they were all bluffing.

Cao Cao was dizzy by the bombing, and finally managed to identify the road under the protection of his own soldiers, and retreated south in a hurry. Subsequently, Cao Ren and other generals also escaped by luck.

When he returned to the camp of Chen Liu, Cao Cao was unclothed, his face was blackened with smoke and fire, and he was as embarrassed as he wanted.

After collecting the soldiers and horses, it was found that when they went, there were 30,000 people, and when they came back, 612 people, almost all of them were wiped out.

Cao Jun looked at each other up and down, but he didn't expect this to be the end.

The low morale soon spread, and Cao Cao was so angry that he suffered a headache and had to stay in bed to recuperate.

The military doctor was helpless, Cao Cao's subordinates were anxious, and at this time of life and death, Cao Cao's illness made everyone have no master.

On the other hand, Jiang Sheng's side was warmly celebrating, Jiang Sheng lived in Puyang, and convened officials at all levels in Dongjun and officers above the general level to hold a brief wartime meeting, with the goal of liberating the entire territory of Yanzhou within two months and completely bringing Yanzhou under its jurisdiction.

After the meeting, Zhang Liao withdrew to Guandu and cleaned up the battlefield, while Jiang Sheng stayed in Puyang to celebrate with everyone.

Cao Cao now wants to cry without tears, Yanzhou is occupied by Jiang Sheng more than half of the territory, only the three counties of Chenliu, Jiyin, and Shanyang are left, and they are all disaster areas.

Cao Cao thought secretly: It seems that the heavens are the best for me Cao Cao! Yanzhou's current state can't last a few days at all.

Not only Cao Cao sees it this way, but his subordinate Wen Wu also knows it.

Cao Cao is Cao Cao after all, he said to the ministers: "Jiang Sheng's army has many generals, menacing, our army has been defeated again and again, lost the city and lost the land, the loss of troops and generals, Yanzhou has another catastrophe, continuing to resist will only cause greater casualties, it is better to fall!" ”

After speaking, he glanced at Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu understood, and came out to dissuade: "Lord, don't have such discouraged words!" Although Jiang Sheng is powerful, the main force of our army is still there, as long as the whole army is united, we still have a lot of chances to win! ”

Seeing Cheng Yu's statement, all the ministers and strategists naturally understood the joints here, so they discouraged Cao Cao from "surrendering", those generals knew that the soldiers under their command had the intention of surrendering, seeing Cheng Yu's statement, knowing that although Cao Cao said to surrender, he was unwilling to surrender in his heart, and he just did this to find a justifiable reason for his intention to continue to resist.

Now that they understood the master's intentions, everyone hurriedly "opposed" Cao Cao's surrender, and when they reached the same opinion, Cao Cao began to dispatch troops.

The subordinates took the order and left, and before they could go out, the messenger from the front rushed in: "Report - no, General Lejin is defeated and surrounded!" ”

Cao Cao asked urgently: "Where?" ”

The messenger said: "Juyang! ”

Juyang is a big city in the north of Jiyin County, in the south of Puyang, not far away.

Cao Cao muttered: Jiang Sheng has just entered Puyang for a few days, and he is obviously celebrating and resting, which army is this siege of Juyang?

Fortunately, Jiyin County is between Shanyang and Chenliu, and there are reinforcements on the left and right.

The news of the siege of Jiyin County also spread to Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong of Shanyang County.

Cao Hong's army had already run out of food, and after Le Jin responded to his withdrawal to Jiyin County, Cao Hong went all the way south, and Le Jinjun stationed troops in Juyang in order to prevent Jiang Sheng from pursuing.

The Liang State in the north of Yuzhou was less affected by the disaster and had a certain amount of grain stock, and Cao Hong entered the Liang State after a simple replenishment in Jiyin County.

Jiang Sheng's Dian Wei army fought with Liu Bei's Zang Ba in Yuzhou's county, and did not effectively defend the Liang State in northern Henan.

Zang Ba was originally stationed in Xiaopei, taking advantage of the opportunity that Jiang Sheng and Cao Cao in the north had no time to take care of Xiaopei, he personally led the main army to attack Qian County, and Dian Wei led the army to resist.

Cao Hong saw the opportunity and divided 20,000 troops to take Xiaopei, and Cao Hong's results finally boosted Cao Cao's morale.

It was the First Army and the Sixth Army under Jiang Sheng who besieged Juyang, 60,000 against 20,000 Cao Army, it was not a big problem, but the Cao Army was defending in a big city, and it was not easy for Jiang Sheng to eat Juyang.

Jiang Sheng was deeply influenced by the military thinking of Mao's "grandfather" in later generations, and "encircling points to send reinforcements" undoubtedly came in handy again.