“…… If they are allowed to return to the city, the soldiers and horses of Yecheng will be on a par with our army, and if they hold the city, our army will have little hope of victory. ”

Guo Jia's words made Cao Cao and everyone nod yes, and Xun You picked up on the side and said: "Feng Xiao's words are very much in line with my wishes. If the soldiers and horses in Yecheng City are combined with Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses, they will not be much worse than our army in terms of strength alone. If the two sides respond to each other, it will not be difficult for Yuan Shang to lead the troops back to the city, and it is redundant to set up this camp. At most, it can only be a surprise attack at night after a short rest, and the lord should prepare early. ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Then according to the two of you, how can you do it?" ”

Guo Jia said: "Yuan Shang set up this camp just to confuse the public, to echo the momentum of Yecheng, and also to lead the lord to lead the troops to rob the village and divide his own situation." It's a clever plan, but he shouldn't rely on the dirt mountain. I expected that he would lead the brigade back to the trail, and wanted to return to the city from the trail. The lord should quickly send General Miaocai to lead the army to the trail to ambush, and he will rob and kill halfway. ”

Cao Cao nodded and ordered: "Miaocai, go quickly!" ”

Xia Houyuan received the general's order and hurriedly rushed out of the tent. Time is very tight, and only Xia Houyuan, who is good at blitzkrieg and rush warfare, can catch up.

Guo Jia pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "Lord, Jia has a plan, if the plan is successful, the city of Yecheng will be broken tonight, and Yuan Shang should also be the head here." ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed and asked Guo Jia to say quickly.

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At night, Yuan Shang led the army on the path back to Yecheng. Suddenly, the partial general next to him said: "General, Tan Ma Lai, the camp on the road of our army is in flames, and it should be Cao thief who has entered the village." ”

Yuan Shang sneered: "Burn!" Let him burn! I left only a thousand men in the village to bluff, so that he would rob the village, so that I could take the opportunity to return to the city through the pathway. ”

The partial general said: "The general is clever, the villain admires!" ”

Yuan Shang said quite smugly: "Cao thief really thinks that I can't use soldiers? XX, if I hadn't been exhausted after driving for so many days. I can directly kill the Cao thief camp, and the soldiers and horses in the city can also go out of the city to help me, and I will definitely be able to kill the Cao thief! It's a pity! The soldiers have no will to fight! When we enter the city, let's take a rest first, and then we will try our best to break Cao. ”

The general nodded yes, but he didn't know that Yuan Shang had another plan in his heart. In fact, there is nothing wrong with really storming Cao Cao's camp, where will Yuan Shang care if the soldiers are tired or not? What he wants to do is to return to Yecheng as soon as possible, and then rely on Yecheng to hold on to the fortified city to reduce the loss of troops as much as possible.

Because Yuan Shang still has a Yuan Tan to fight behind him, and if he fights hard with Cao Cao, Yuan Shang knows that he will definitely not be able to please these people. In addition, he also found out that Cao Cao had not attacked the city with all his strength in the last half month, and it seemed that he would not carry out a strong attack with too much loss. Or maybe they just want to lure him back and flatten him.

"Phew! Be a fool? You don't want to fight siege warfare, but instead fight a field war with me, I won't pick you up this bargain! ”

Thinking of this, Yuan Shang raised his horsewhip and ordered: "Pass my general's order, and the whole army will speed up the march!" The rear team divided 3,000 men and horses, prepared more bows and crossbows, and chose a secret place to ambush in case the thieves pursued our army! ”

The men and horses of the brigade accelerated their march in the night, and seeing that it was less than fifty miles away from Yecheng, Yuan Shang thought that he had a plan. He sneered incessantly on the horse.

Suddenly, the golden drums on both sides of the trail were beating, and Xia Houyuan personally led three thousand cavalry to clash out and cut off Yuan Tan's rear team. This was accompanied by a rain of rockets and a raging wave of shouts and killings.

"Kill!! Don't let Yuan Shang go! ”

"The lord has an order, and the one who captures Yuan Shang alive eats thousands of households. The first winner will be rewarded with a thousand taels! ”

Yuan Shang, who was still full of self-satisfaction just now, changed his face at this moment, he didn't know how many Cao troops there were in the dark night, and he knew that his soldiers were already exhausted, and they had no combat effectiveness at all. There will definitely be no good fruit to eat. Hurriedly ordered: "Fight and go!" This is not far from Yecheng, and the front team can rush to the edge of the city with me and rush into the city! ”

In a scuffle, swords, light and fire shadows were intertwined in one place. Someone falls almost every second. Yuan Shang led the guards to rush towards the gate of Yecheng City, Xia Houyuan's cavalry chased for a while, maybe there were fewer people and horses, and they retreated when they were only a few miles away from Yecheng. And the Yecheng guards heard that the path outside the city was on fire, and they had already rushed over and watched from afar on the city gate.

When Yuan Shang arrived at the gate of Yecheng, there were only more than a thousand horsemen around him, and when he saw that Xia Houyuan behind him had retreated, he hurried to the city gate and shouted: "I am the general Yuan Shang, and the city sergeant quickly opened the door to take me into the city!" ”

On the fire, he saw that it was indeed Yuan Shang, and hurriedly ordered someone to open the city gate to take Yuan Shang into the city. Not most of the infantry behind gradually followed, but Yuan Shanghe did not dare to open the city gate, for fear that Cao's army would mix in, but shouted on the city gate tower to ask these soldiers to line up outside the city to meet the enemy. The Yuan army outside the city dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, so they had to rearrange the military formation under the leadership of the general, and looked nervously at the path that was still a fire.

Time passed little by little, and the successor Yuan Jun also leaned over little by little, but Cao Bing didn't see any of them. Yuan Shang and the judge were suspicious, and ordered someone to pull a few soldiers who finally returned with hanging baskets and asked carefully, only then did they know that Xia Houyuan did not have many people, so he just robbed and set fire, but did not dare to pursue.

Yuan Shang breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "In this case, open the city gate and let the soldiers outside the city enter the city!" ”

As soon as the judge's eyes rolled, he opened his mouth to persuade: "The lord can't!" Cao Thief was very good at using soldiers, and since he had expected that the lord would not take the road and return to the city from the path, he set up an ambush between the roads. It definitely won't be just these a few thousand people. As far as I expected, there must be ambushes outside the city, and when we open the city and let the soldiers enter the city, we will kill the generals, so as to take the opportunity to seize the door. ”

Yuan Shang remembered the robbery just now, and said with palpitations: "What should I do?" The soldiers outside the city are my last capital. ”

The judge said: "If the Cao thief raids at night, it is the most difficult to prevent. In my opinion, it is only necessary to let the soldiers outside the city stand by, so that the Cao thieves have no chance. Waiting until dawn, Cao Bing was also tired, and the lord let the soldiers outside the city slowly retreat into the city. ”

"It's up to you!"

The order was loudly passed down from the city gate, and the soldiers and soldiers outside the city could only beat their spirits, staring at every direction and not daring to relax.

On a well fence about a few miles from the city gate, Cao Cao and Guo Jia stood side by side. Cao Cao leaned on the railing a little comfortably and closed his eyes to recuperate, and asked, "Fengxiao, when will you give the order to attack?" ”

Guo Jiazheng was holding the telescope that Lu Ren had been "confiscated" by Cao Cao to look at the state of Yuan Jun outside the city, and when he heard Cao Cao's question, he didn't put down the mirror and responded directly: "It's still early, it's best to see the situation in half an hour." ”

Cao Cao simply sat down on the well railing: "Oh, then Fengxiao, you are a little tired, take a nap to recharge your energy for a while." ”

Guo Jia said: "Lord, you'd better not covet this nap for a while, it's difficult to have energy again as soon as you fall asleep at this hour." ”

Cao Cao smiled: "Okay, well, it is good to close your eyes alone and cultivate a god." Bonghyo, what can you talk to Gu about? ”

Guo Jia took back the binoculars, then stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes and said, "The lord is prosperous, and Jia should obey his fate...... Well, this telescope is really easy to use, and it can be seen from miles away. But I don't know where the lord got this treasure? ”

Cao Cao said: "Fengxiao, you are knowingly asking, this thing is not borrowed by you to play with it once or twice, will you not know who made it?" It was made by your best friend Lu Yihao, and I got it from Yihao very early. In the past few years, Lone has also ordered people to imitate it in the same way, but he doesn't know the essentials, and the three crystal chips in the mirror can't be polished well. ”

Guo Jia sighed lightly: "There are so many stinky boys. ”

Cao Cao said: "Yes, it's a pity that he is now in Yizhou, and the scrolls left behind back then have been destroyed, otherwise Lone might have been able to obtain the method of making this telescope from the classics he wrote...... Bonghyo, do you have your gourd with you? Give Lone two sips to relieve his fatigue. ”

Guo Jia handed the gourd to Cao Cao, and after Cao Cao opened the lid, he first smelled the aroma of the wine vigorously before taking a sip, and the person was slightly stunned: "Good wine!" Wine!! It's just that this wine doesn't seem to be given to you alone, right? It has a bit of the taste of the wine sold in the Qingguo wine shop. Fengxiao, where did you get this wine? ”

Guo Jia shook his head: "That kid Yihao has purchased some properties in the Xiangyang area, including a newly built winery. These wines were brought by me by the way when I asked Xizuo to return to Xudu. By the way, this wine is a little different from the ones he made at the beginning, and it is called the Treasure Three Whips Wine. It is said to be made by soaking several herbs such as wolfberry and angelica, and then soaking it in bullwhip, deer whip and tiger whip for more than a year. This wine nourishes yin and yang, relaxes tendons and activates the ......"

Cao Cao interrupted Guo Jia's words and said, "Bullwhip? Deer whip? Tiger whip? ”

Guo Jia tilted his head and smiled, and whispered into Cao Cao's ear to explain. Cao Cao squirted out the wine he had just poured into his mouth on the spot, and coughed for a while before saying, "He can figure it out!" It's really aphrodisiac enough to use this stuff in wine! Oh yes! Lu Yihao has a stunning beauty by his side, and he should make up for it under his indulgence. Hahaha......"

Guo Jia also laughed a few times, but his expression immediately dimmed, and he sighed lightly: "How lively would it be if that kid was here now?" ”

Cao Cao also suppressed his laughter when he heard this, and after being silent for a moment, he said: "Lone didn't expect that just for a Wan'er, after Lone secretly let Yuan Shang go, he would be so decisive." In fact, with his ability, are you still afraid that Lone will be reluctant to give him a beautiful woman? If he could wait until now with peace of mind, would Yuan Shang's head still be able to fly? ”

Guo Jia sighed secretly in his heart. When Lu Ren learned the truth about Wan'er's death, Guo Jia had always buried it deep in his heart and didn't say it, because he couldn't say it or dared to say it.

But at this time, Cao Cao laughed again: "He's in Jingzhou? After Gu settles the north, Jingzhou will definitely go, and maybe Gu will be able to catch him back at that time. Even if he can hide in Yizhou, after sweeping the world alone, will he not be able to take a small Yizhou? At that time, look where he is still hiding! (To be continued.) )

PS: Yesterday Nanchang suddenly changed the sky, the twenties suddenly fell to only a few degrees, the bottle was dressed in a summer dress, and then ...... Got a cold. Today's update is late, forgive me!

If nothing else, there are normal two shifts around three o'clock.