Chapter 257: The Great War Begins (2)
"Order the three armies to be divided into five battalions, each battalion has 500 soldiers, and you personally select five military horses as generals and set up camp." Guo Jia paused for a moment, and then said: "Since it is the five battalions, the formation of the five elements will be deployed." ”
"The last general commands." Dian Wei turned around and gave the order.
Although Guo Jia only had 2,500 soldiers under his command, there were quite a few young generals, after all, the Cao army suffered heavy losses after several major battles, but those who lost too much were still soldiers, so the 2,500 Cao army naturally had more military horses.
As for encampment, it is naturally necessary to set up a formation, which is also a test of the basic ability of a general to lead the troops, the terrain, the dangers, how to defend it, how to resist the enemy, if the enemy robs the camp from the east, how the soldiers under his command support the ambush, if the enemy robs the camp from the west, how the soldiers under his command support the ambush must be taken into account.
However, for Guo Jia, the deployment of the village is extremely simple, at a glance, you can know where the surrounding terrain is critical, and the arrangement of troops is as simple as handy.
Despite this, Guo Jia still didn't dare to be careless, turned around and stepped down, turned over on his horse, led the guards around him to believe in the horses, and wandered around the camp.
When Guo Jia arrived at the gate of the camp in the east of the village, he happened to see more than ten cavalry horses of Sun Ce's army coming to explore the camp, although they were hundreds of steps away, Guo Jia recognized at a glance that the enemy cavalry was led by Sun Ce.
Guo Jia did not order troops to pursue, not only because of the superior bravery of Sun Ce and others, but also because of the scarcity of Cao's own iron cavalry.
There are few soldiers, and it is useless to chase them, not to mention that they can't beat them if they catch up, it's completely like delivering food, and Guo Jia doesn't have a long-range attack artifact like a catapult in his hand, so naturally there is no way to take Sun Ce's more than ten horses.
Sun Ce, as if he had seen through Guo Jia's thoughts, only led more than ten horsemen to drive forward, and did not stop until two hundred steps outside Cao's military camp.
The enemy cavalry jumped up, and all the soldiers of the Cao army were slightly startled and curious, and they were all lined up next to the fence and looked around.
Sun Ce looked up, smiled loudly, the laughter was not loud, only the generals around him could hear it, but his face was so sunny, because he saw Guo Jia.
Or maybe when he saw Guo Jia, Guo Jia also saw him, and Guo Jia also smiled faintly.
"You're really tired, Guo Fengxiao." Sun Ce said a word in his heart, like emotion, and like laughter, two hundred steps away, it was dusk, although he couldn't see Guo Jia's specific expression clearly, but Sun Ce's eyesight could naturally see a rough idea, at least, Guo Jia's figure seemed even thinner.
As the sun sets, the afterglow is sprinkled on the snow and reflects a faint red glow, riding a thin horse, a haggard young man, who looks particularly lonely and haggard under the reflection of the sunset.
"Like a hero in the twilight ......" This is Sun Ce's evaluation of Guo Jia in his heart, referring to this situation? Still is...... After this battle?
Sun Ce's expectation was good, Guo Jia was indeed too tired, as if he had faced the pressure of the whole world on his own, within a few days, he only had a good night's rest, but just in the early morning, he immediately led troops to the battle, and the repeated battles and strategies not only dragged down Guo Jia's body, but also damaged Guo Jia's mind.
Although Sun Ce didn't see Guo Jia's facial expression clearly, he could see from Guo Jia's figure and demeanor that Guo Jia was at the end of his crossbow at this moment.
"The young are more frivolous, the wise are more conceited, and the young wise are frivolous and conceited." Guo Jia saw Sun Ce acting like this, and knew that Sun Ce would come to rob the camp tonight, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Although Sun Ce is a heroic man and has a strategy, but in the face of the current battle situation, why is Guo Jia afraid? What he was even more afraid of was that Sun Ce didn't dare to come to rob the camp.
Although Guo Jia was jealous of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu in his heart, he was only afraid of their strength after taking over Jiangdong in the future, not at this moment.
The two just looked at each other quietly, and neither spoke, perhaps because they had nothing to say, or perhaps both sides knew in their hearts that it was in vain to use a plan to attack the heart, and as for the morale of the enemy, there was no need for this.
Sun Ce raised his gun and pointed at Guo Jia's camp, and smiled at the generals beside him: "The enemy army has laid out the five elements outside this array, but it hides a killing machine, and the nine palace maze is secretly set up in the camp, disturbing our sight, so that we can't get a glimpse of the whole picture." ”
Talking and laughing, he regarded Guo Jia's thousands of soldiers as nothing, and laughed loudly about the subtlety of Cao Jun's formation a hundred steps away from Cao Ying.
"Lord, Cao's army is overwhelming, and this formation is set up to defend it, if our army attacks fiercely, I am afraid that it will not be able to be restrained." Cheng Pu's face seemed to be lost, he looked at Cao Ying from afar, and said lightly.
Cheng Pu and Huang Gai and others are the generals under Sun Jian, although they are not proficient in the battle formation, but they also have some understanding of the formation, everyone knows that the Five Elements Array is a defensive formation, which is extremely difficult to break, not to mention the hidden mysteries in the Cao military camp, as Sun Ce said, Guo Jia laid a nine-palace maze in the camp again, and all the generals of Sun Ce's army can't see the virtual and real mysteries in the Cao military camp, so how can they talk about breaking the enemy?
"How could it be that the only way to break the enemy was to rob the camp?" Sun Ce smiled, turned his head and glanced at Guo Jia again, smiled slightly, turned around and rode away, as for what he said, it was meaningful, which made Cheng Pu Huang Gai puzzled.
"Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Lu Bu, Tao Qian, and this Sun Ce Zhou Yu, all around are tigers and wolves, if our army wants to rise from the Central Plains, it will be a hundred times more difficult." When Guo Jia saw Sun Ce leaving, he sighed lightly, thought in his heart, turned around and rode his horse into the barracks, not knowing where to go.
Maybe Guo Jia ignored a hero, Liu Bei, or maybe in the early Han Dynasty, Liu Bei didn't pose much of a threat in Guo Jia's eyes.
Guo Jia hid in the camp, but the heralds in Cao's army were running around, which shows that Guo Jia gave a lot of marshal orders, from the military Sima to the centurion, they also received the marshal orders issued by Guo Jia personally.
In the Cao military camp, it was noisy and chaotic, and the officers and men of various armies and departments wandered in all directions, wandering around the military camp, or taking materials to start fires, or taking wood to set up villages, taking water to make food, and exploring countless Cao troops running away.
After a while, the sky was already dark, and there were so many torches in Cao's camp, like stars, from the trajectory of the torches, it was clear that there was still some chaos in Cao's camp, but Sun Ce knew that the chaos was just an illusion of Cao's army, and he also knew that Guo Jia would never use such a flawed trick to lure him to attack.
Although Sun Ce rode away before, he did not go far, but led nearly 500 soldiers under his command to gather together, and Sun Ce immediately observed the movements of Cao's army on a hillside.
Sun Ce suddenly smiled faintly and said softly to himself: "As Sun Mou expected, Guo Fengxiao, your flaws are here!" ”
Sun Ce raised his gun and pointed at Cao Ying, and ordered loudly: "The soldiers are divided into five armies, one route is Cheng Pu as the general, leading 100 troops, one route is Huang Gai as the general, leading 100 troops, one route is Han Dang as the general, leading 100 troops, and one route is Zu Mao as the general, leading 100 troops. ”
"The rest ......" Sun Ce pulled the reins and rode the horse, suddenly turned around and smiled, and said: "The rest are all going with Sun Mou, and Guo Fengxiao is captured!" ”