In the tent of Cao's military camp, Cao Cao told Ma Xiaoquan about his achievements in high spirits.

Ma Xiaoquan kept nodding his head without saying a word, and when Cao Cao finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan said: "Xiao Cao, are you sure you can take Tao Qian?" ”

Cao Cao patted his chest and vouched: "Tancheng has been exposed to us, and Tao Qian's life will not be long." ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and didn't make a statement.

Cao Cao had a problem, Ma Xiaoquan didn't believe it at first, after all, it was recorded in the history books, but since he met Cao Cao in person, Ma Xiaoquan was sure that Cao Cao did have this problem.

Cao Cao's problem is that he likes to get carried away.

Attacking Tao Qian, Cao Cao made this mistake.

After pulling out ten cities in Xuzhou in a row, Cao Cao thought that Xuzhou was already close at hand, so Cao Cao did not send much troops to garrison the places he captured.

Tao Qian, on the other hand, seized on Cao Cao's complacency and sent troops back to help those lost cities.

Sure enough, Tao Qian's return has achieved substantial results, and within 2 days, no less than 4 cities have been recaptured

"What should I do?" Cao Jun's camp tent, after Cao Cao got the bad news, he was anxious.

Ma Xiaoquan secretly operated the data device in his body, and after checking it, he muttered: "Why don't you let Cao Ren go to fight Tao Qian's reinforcements?" ”

Cao Cao paused for a moment and looked at Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan lied: "Although Ben Xian said that he would not participate in your world disputes, but Xiao Cao, Ben Xian is not willing to send you to death as a friend, just right, then Cao Ren has nothing to do now, it is better to send it out." ”

Ma Xiaoquan's reasons are very appropriate and sufficient, indeed, Cao Ren is really fine at present.

After the large army converged, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to manage the wounded, which was easier than the others.

"Then do it according to the will of Lord Shangxian!" Cao Cao slapped the desk and ordered, "Pass my order and order Cao Ren to lead a cavalry to attack Tao Qian's reinforcements!" ”

The herald arched his hand: "Obey!" ”

Watching the herald come out of the camp, Ma Xiaoquan almost laughed out loud.

When he checked the information just now, Ma Xiaoquan knew that the person who drove Tao Qian's reinforcements away was Cao Ren, so for Cao Cao's anxiety, Ma Xiaoquan just followed history

Cao Ren was really powerful, leading a cavalry to be invincible, Tao Qian originally had an advantageous battle situation, but due to Cao Ren's sudden intervention, it became a decline. As a last resort, Tao Qian's reinforcements withdrew to Kaiyang, thinking that it was defending.

Cao Ren is not in love with war, Kaiyang is relatively high, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus he is a cavalry, so Cao Ren decisively gave up the plan to attack Kaiyang.

In Tancheng, Tao Qian sent a secret envoy to Qingzhou to ask for help from Shi Tian Kai, because he offended Kong Rong because of the debt last time, this time Tao Qian promised that as long as Tian Kai helped, there would be heavy thanks afterwards, and it would not be bad.

Tian Kai was honest, he heard that there was money, food, soldiers and girls, so he agreed, and at the same time, Tian Kai also called his friend, Liu Bei, the prime minister of the plains, to rescue Tao Qian

Cao Ren's achievements had been reported to Cao Cao by Tanma, and Cao Cao was amazed when he heard it.

Cao Cao bowed his hand to Ma Xiaoquan and said: "Lord Shangxian is clever, Zixiao is really good." ”

Ma Xiaoquan smiled and didn't speak, but said in his heart: No way, that's how history goes, although now this credit is credited to my Ma Xiaoquan's head, hehe

Seeing that Lord Shangxian did not speak, Cao Cao drew his sword, walked out of the camp, and shouted to all the soldiers: "The whole army listens to my orders, is ready to attack Tancheng!" ”

Cao Cao gave an order, and all the soldiers got up one after another, drew their swords and guns, and shouted: "Swear to kill Tao Qian, swear to kill the traitor!" ”

The troops were lined up by Cao Cao into a cone formation for siege, in front of the formation, guarded by the giant shield soldiers, in order to defend the arrows shot down from the city, after the giant shield soldiers, there were three formations of Pu Dao soldiers, in the middle of the Pu Dao soldiers, there were three siege chariots and rushing cars, flanks and rear wings, Cao Cao arranged light cavalry and archers to defend, and Cao Cao himself, and the immortal Lord Ma Xiaoquan sat on a chariot together, one commanded, one watched the battle.

After arranging a qiē, Cao Cao roared and attacked, and Cao's army rushed to Tancheng like a tide.

The fortification of Tancheng is no less than that of Kaiyang, and even better than that of Kaiyang, Cao Cao forgot an eternal truth when he got carried away, that is, "attacking the city is the next policy".

The inside of Tancheng City is higher than the outside of the city, and there are hills, according to the records in the data device, Ma Xiaoquan knows, this is called "Xiongcheng".

Cao Cao had also considered the difficulty of besieging the city, but with victory in sight, Cao Cao didn't care about it so much.

Ma Xiaoquan didn't make it clear, after all, this Tancheng was in history, Cao Cao couldn't capture it, and afterwards, Cao Cao suffered another defeat, and finally was forced to withdraw because of the lack of food and grass

The huge shield soldiers of the Cao army withstood the pressure of the archers in the city and shot, and the three groups of Pu Dao soldiers in the back row quickly pounced, and after the sky car approached, the Pu Dao soldiers quickly climbed up, striving to go up to the city wall and fight at close range with Tao Qian's army.

Although Tancheng is relatively small, it is not inferior to Dacheng in terms of the composition of the city. Cao Jun Pu Daobing had just climbed half the distance with the help of the sky car, and was shot by the archers who were ambushed behind the female wall on Tancheng.

The first wave of attacks was easily defused by Tao Qianjun.

Cao Cao immediately changed his tactics, with archers against archers, an order, ten thousand arrows under the city were fired, shooting to the city, but helpless status gap, the arrows shot up, the effective lethality was greatly reduced, Cao Cao gave another order, and the Pu Dao soldiers used the bow and arrow cover of friendly troops, and rushed to Tancheng along the sky car without fear of death.

Cao Cao's tactical change has achieved certain results, but Tancheng is a Xiongcheng, if it is so easy to capture, it will not be called Xiongcheng.

The archers of Tao Qian's army retreated from the female wall, retreated to a higher hill, and shot arrows wildly at the walls of Tancheng.

At the city gate, the rushing car has begun to hit rhythmically, and I only listen to the slogan of "one~~two~~" constantly sounding.

Finally, with a "boom", the city gate was slammed open, and Cao Cao was about to laugh, but after he saw the next scene, he was silent.

Originally, there were three gates in Tancheng, in addition to the city wall and the city gate, there was also a layer of hanging gates.

The hanging door was made of Tao Qian's military stainless steel, and the car hit the hanging door, not only could not be broken, but the tip of the car was bald.

Cao Cao did not give up, and shouted loudly "Attack and attack", at this time, his men reported that there were heavy casualties in the front.

Cao Cao gritted his teeth, thought about it for a while, and finally decided to postpone the siege.

After the retreat of the Cao army, Tao Qian's army repaired the damaged city walls and gates in time, and the wounded could be saved, and the Tao Qianjun who could not be saved could not be cared for.

The next day, Cao Cao again ordered the siege of the city.

This time, Cao Cao learned to be smart, and before attacking the city, Cao Cao stalked Ma Xiaoquan to give an idea.

Although Ma Xiaoquan said that he would not participate in the disputes in the world, he also felt that he had to help him when he saw Cao Cao attacking the city, of course, it was only a moderate help, as for the final result, Ma Xiaoquan knew that Cao Cao would still lose.

Ma Xiaoquan laughed, clapped his hands and said, "Xiao Cao, look at the top and bottom of Tancheng, in addition to the female wall for archers to ambush and shoot, are there several gates?" ”

Cao Cao was a little puzzled and looked at Tancheng.

Ma Xiaoquan continued: "Since ancient times, attacking the city must first attack the city, and you were too anxious to fight yesterday. ”

Cao Cao suddenly realized and ordered to attack the city first.

The defense of Guancheng is much weaker than the main city, Cao Cao used the method of flying arrows to take three Guancheng in one fell swoop, and then, using Guancheng as a springboard, the moat bridge that originally crossed the moat was simply modified, and built a wooden bridge parallel to the main city.

The Pak sword soldiers stepped on the wooden bridge and attacked the main city wall in one fell swoop.

Tao Qian ordered the archers to retreat to the hills, still using yesterday's terrain tactics.

Tao Qian, who took advantage of the terrain, once again beat Cao Cao back, but this time, Tao Qian no longer sent troops to repair the city walls.

"Haha"

In Cao's camp tent, although he was defeated again this time, the number of casualties was much less than Cao Cao imagined.

Cao Cao stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Ma Xiaoquan and said: "Lord Shangxian is too powerful, I don't know if Lord Shangxian can do it."

Cao Cao was just about to set Ma Xiaoquan again, but Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "Xiao Cao, don't ask Ben Xian again, Ben Xian said, you have disputes in the world, Ben Xian does not participate, if you ask too much, your yang shou will be broken." This immortal is immortal, and Xiao Cao, you must not want to die early, right? ”

After some intimidation, Cao Cao was dumbfounded.

In desperation, Cao Cao had no choice but to shut up and stop talking

On the side of Tao Qianjun, the messenger sent out to ask for help reported that Tian Kai, the assassin of Qingzhou, had led his troops to arrive, and it was said that there was also a person named Liu Bei who came at the same time.

Tao Qian was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly greeted Tian Kai and Liu Bei, and sent Liu Bei with 4,000 Danyang soldiers to cooperate with his dispatch.

In January of the first year of Emperor Xingping of the Han Dynasty (194 AD), Tao Qian led an army to counterattack Wuyuan County in the southwest of Tancheng.

In terms of Tancheng, although Tao Qian gave up the stubborn defense, but there were many hills in Tancheng, and Cao Cao attacked several times in a row, but he couldn't capture it, so he unwillingly gave up the plan to attack Tancheng and went to Surabaya instead.

After passing Surabaya, Cao Cao was extremely angry, and immediately ordered the slaughter of the whole city after breaking the three counties of Nanbu, Juling, and Xiaqiu. Although the generals of the Cao army had persuaded Cao Cao in advance, Cao Cao, who was angry, listened to it, and saw that Lord Shangxian had been silent, Cao Cao thought that Lord Shangxian had also acquiesced in his approach, so he took the lead in hacking a local nobleman to death.

When he didn't join the "Extreme Soldiers" in the underground world, Ma Xiaoquan once belonged to a special forces brigade in the underground world, and he had seen too much about killing people and setting fires, although he didn't quite accept Cao Cao's slaughter of the city to vent his anger, but history is like this, Ma Xiaoquan knows that this cannot be changed.

In February of the first year of Xingping, Cao Cao ordered the army to withdraw due to the lack of military rations

On the way to retreat, Cao Cao picked up a handful of Xuzhou's soil and sighed unwillingly.

"Lord Shangxian" Cao Cao looked at Ma Xiaoquan with red eyes.

Ma Xiaoquan looked into the distance motionlessly, and suddenly said: "Xiao Cao, you go back first, I feel that there is something I am looking for here."

Cao Cao nodded: "Then do you want me to arrange a few people for Lord Shangxian?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "No, it's enough for me to take my own subordinates to open a bow." ”