Xu Shu and Lu Su rode horses to Wei Yan's side and admonished together: "Since there is news from Xiangyang that Cao Cao is allied with Liu Biao, and now only Liu Biao's Jingzhou army is besieging Yiyang New Town, then Cao Cao's men and horses must ambush our army somewhere in front, and please pay attention to the lord." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I also know that Cao Cao must be ambushing ahead," Wei Yan said with a wry smile, "It's just that there are several valleys along the way ahead, and I don't know where he will ambush." ”

In fact, he had already searched for Cao Cao's location through the seed artifact elf Kongkong, and found that Cao Cao was in a valley more than eighty miles ahead, and Cao Cao himself was there, presumably the main force of Cao's army was there.

Prior to this, Wei Yan had used anti-encirclement tactics to deal with the Jingzhou army led by Liu Hu, Liu's cousin.

He first used the [Search] function of the seed artifact to search for Liu Hu's location, surrounded the Jingzhou army, set fire to the mountain, beheaded Deng Ji and others, captured Liu Hu alive, and used Liu Hu to capture and kill the heads of seventeen families.

The problem is that this strategy against Cao Cao may not work.

Cao Cao is good at using soldiers, if he ambushes the enemy, he will definitely be surrounded by people!

If you don't use a counter-encirclement strategy, then how to deal with Cao Cao.

Wei Yan couldn't think of a countermeasure, so he saw how Xu Shu and Lu Su solved this problem.

Lu Su is good at strategy, not very good at tactics, and he can't think of countermeasures for a while.

Xu Shu thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "After several battles with Cao's army, Cao Cao already knows the strength of our army, if he wants to ambush our army's 40,000 elite soldiers, he will definitely do his best, and at the same time leave men and horses in the rear to defend Lu Bu, Xu Du is bound to be empty." ”

Guan Hai was stunned for a moment and asked, "The intention of the military advisor is to surround Wei to save Zhao?" But it was Liu Biao's Jingzhou army that besieged Yiyang New Town, and it was impossible for our army to withdraw because of our attack on Xudu. ”

Xu Shu couldn't help laughing: "Yuan Fang (Guan Haizi) has made some progress in studying the military book these days, but unfortunately it is not flexible enough, since we don't know where Cao Jun is ambushed, then we simply don't guess where he is, just go to attack Xudu, so that they have to withdraw their troops to help Xudu, and then we will set up an ambush on the road of their return to Xudu, this is the tactics of the lord to encircle and send reinforcements before." ”

Lu Su shook his head and said: "The lord has used wisdom before, Cao Cao must take precautions, and this plan may not work." ”

Wei Yan was about to talk about a clever plan just now, but when he heard Lu Su say this, he suddenly realized that the impression he left on Cao Cao was probably that he was cunning and wise, and how could Cao Cao, who was suspicious by nature, fall for the trick?

Lu Su said: "Cao Cao once used an ambush against the Yellow Turban Army, how can he not prevent the lord from ambushing him, I am afraid that this plan will be easily seen by Cao Cao, it seems that this strategy must be adjusted." ”

Wei Yan smiled: "Then how to adjust the meaning of Zijing?" ”

Lu Su shook his head and said modestly: "Although the subordinates are strategic, they are not good at being quick and wise, so it is better for Xu Junshi to plan." ”

Xu Shu thought for a moment, pointed to the grass sand table in front of him and said: "Lord, that Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, should be able to expect that we will ambush the army, we might as well plan and send a good general to guard the dangerous road of Songshan with thousands of men and horses, and put on a posture of no ambush, Cao Cao must think that your tactic is to break through Xu Du first, and then break most of his men, so that he will inevitably use all his power to attack our camp on the dangerous road of Songshan, once the camp is breached, Cao Cao will inevitably take advantage of the victory to pursue, and then will inevitably enter our ambush circle." ”

Wei Yan said with a smile: "Although Cao Cao is good at using soldiers, he still can't understand what it means to not seek the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and to destroy the enemy's living forces as the main tactical goal. ”

Xu Shu smiled and arched his hand: "The lord is wise, as long as he can ambush and annihilate Cao Cao's army, Xu Du will definitely not be able to survive for a long time, but if Xu Du is broken first and Cao Cao's army still exists, he will still be able to fight back to Xu Du sooner or later, or annihilation of his living forces is the main target of attack." ”

He added a few more details, and together with Wei Yan and Lu Su, he planned a strategy to deal with Cao Cao.

Cao Cao led a large army and set up an ambush on Wei Yan's way back to Yiyang New Town.

After waiting for many days, Wei Yan's army did not come, and I heard a report from the front, saying that Wei Yan would camp fifty miles ahead, saying that his old disease had recurred, and he needed to be recuperated for a few days before he could march.

Cao Cao was puzzled: "Now that Yiyang New City is being besieged by Liu Biao's 60,000 troops, it is in danger, and he still has the leisure to raise it?" ”

Two days later, the scouts in front suddenly reported: "Lord, Wei Yan's camp is empty, and they marched to Xudu overnight two days ago, leaving only a few cavalry, bravado......

"Not good!" Cao Cao never dreamed that Wei Yan would not care about the safety of Yiyang New City at all, and would brazenly turn to attack Xu Du.

In order to be able to ambush Wei Yan smoothly this time, he has brought most of the men and horses to the front, leaving less than 10,000 horses in the rear, 10,000 horses to deal with Lu Bu, Xu Du only has 5,000 men and horses, and the other thousands of men and horses are guarded everywhere, Wei Yan's 40,000 horses are all elite soldiers, and they are good at attacking cities and pulling out villages, in case Wei Yan breaks through Xu Du and captures the Son of Heaven, then the strategy of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes" that he painstakingly managed will fall short!

Cao Cao asked Guo Jiadao, who was in charge of the school office: "If I want to help Xu Du quickly, how should I march?" ”

Guo Jia is skinny, coughing, and has been drinking too much these days, and he is a little sick again.

He coughed a few times and said: "From here to the north, is Songshan, from the mountain road, you can reach Xudu in five days, but Songshan is majestic, lush vegetation, I am afraid that Wei Yan will have an ambush, and here to the east and west, the road is flat, but to bypass Songshan, it takes four or five more days, where to march, I hope the lord will break quickly!" ”

Cao Cao spread out the map, looked at it carefully, and asked Guo Jia, "How is Wei Yan's movements?" ”

Guo Jiadao: "Wei Yan led 35,000 men and horses to besiege Xudu, and sent another general Xu Huang to lead 5,000 men and horses to guard Songshan Dazhai. ”

Cao Cao was shocked: "Wei Yan really sent Xu Huang to lead 5,000 men and horses to guard Songshan?" ”

Guo Jia said: "It's true, Xu Huang's camp is stationed at the front end of the Songshan Mountain Road. ”

Cao Cao exclaimed: "That Xu Huang is a fierce general under Wei Yan, he has led thousands of men and horses to take my grain road repeatedly, Wei Yan sent this person to guard the main road of Songshan, we are afraid that we will not be able to pass through Songshan, so we can only take a detour." ”

Xiahou Yuan was very angry under the tent and said: "Lord, Xu Huang only has 5,000 men and horses, how can he defeat our 50,000 army, now Xu Du is in danger, why should we be willing to go far, the last general is willing to lead 10,000 horses to break Xu Huang and clear the way for the lord!" ”

Xun You also persuaded: "My lord, my subordinates should want to take down Xu Du first, cut off the foundation of our army, and make our army a rootless Ping, and the morale will plummet, and then he will lead the victorious soldiers and fight to the death with our army." Wei Yan arranged it like this, if we make a detour and delay the time, once the capital is lost, the morale of our army will inevitably plummet. ”

Cao Cao looked at Guo Jia again: "Fengxiao, what do you think?" ”