However, it was said that Xu Chu saw Cao Cao in distress, and the boat was spinning in the water, so he couldn't help shouting, rose up with might, shook the rudder between his legs, supported the boat with one hand, and raised the saddle with the other hand to protect Cao Cao and protect Cao Cao from crossing the river slowly. ←，

At this time, there was a captain Ding Fei on the top of the South Mountain, seeing that Ma Chao was chasing very quickly, fearing that Cao Cao's life would be hurt, so he drove the cattle, sheep and horses in the village out, only to see the mountains all over the field, all cattle and horses, and the Xiliang soldiers saw it. They all turned around to fight for cattle and horses, and had no intention of chasing, so Cao Cao had to retreat.

When Cao Cao arrived at the Fengling Ferry, he ordered the raft to be scuttled, and then calmly laughed and said, "I am trapped by thieves today!" ”

When the generals heard that Cao Cao was fleeing in the river and rushed to help, they saw that Cao Cao had landed on the shore, and Xu Chu was heavily armored and the arrows were embedded in the armor, and they couldn't help but be in awe of this tiger general.

The reason why Cao Cao was able to escape for his life this time was completely due to Xu Chu's courage to save him, and he ordered Xu Chu to be rewarded. Later, he listened to Xu Chu's advice, rewarded Ding Fei again, and moved to the rank of military captain.

Although Ding Fei was rewarded, he didn't see any smugness, but said worriedly: "Although our army crosses the river, the thief army must also have a strategy to cross the river, I don't know if the king has a countermeasure?" ”

Cao Cao smiled: "I'm ready." ”

Then he ordered the generals to follow the river to build the Yongdao, temporarily for the foot of the wall, if the enemy comes, Chen soldiers outside the Yongdao. The flag is set up in the void, thinking that it is a suspicious soldier; More along the river digging trenches, empty soil shelters, Hanoi with soldiers to lure it.

But said that Ma Chao returned to see Cheng Gongying, Hao Zhao and others, and said that Cheng Gongying and Hao Zhao both congratulated Ma Chao on today's battle situation, but Ma Chao said with a smile: "If it weren't for the second public plan, the enemy army would fight against the water, and our army might suffer defeat. It's just hateful that Xu Chu is brave and invincible. Otherwise, Cao Cao would have been captured alive today. ”

Hao Zhao said with a smile: "Cao Cao is a big traitor, and he is also a fierce general of the Chu world, how can he be caught so lightly?" However, the general has shown his might in the past few days, twice put Cao Cao in danger, and even made Cao Cao wolf bèi's beard and robe. It's enough to be famous all over the world, hehe, it's ridiculous that Cao Cao actually learned from that famous man and forced himself to be calm, if he was really captured because of this, it would definitely become the biggest joke in the world, even if it was compared to Song Zhuang Gong back then, it was not inferior. It is precisely because the last general expected that Cao Cao would be able to escape. That's why he secretly ordered the sergeant to rob the enemy's cattle and sheep, hehe, the enemy gave it to us for nothing, if we don't want it, wouldn't we know what to do? ”

Ma Chao listened to Hao Zhao's praise, and hurriedly said humbly: "This is all due to the leadership of the lord and the clever plan of the second duke, which made our army have such a great victory." It's just that Ben will come out on top. ”

Although he was humble, Ma Chao's face couldn't hide a smug look.

A few more people gossiped and then turned the conversation to the next step.

Ma Chao first asked: "Gongying, Bodao, I don't know what we should do next?" ”

But Cheng Gongying could hear Cheng Gongying say: "Since Cao Cao has successfully crossed the river to the north bank, he will definitely find a way to cross Pubanjin and go to the west of the river to attack our back road, but since the lord has made arrangements." We don't have to worry about it, hehe, this time Cao Cao was self-righteous, and he didn't expect that Liu Bei had already been defeated, so he wouldn't have thought that General Zhou had already led his army to Linjin to garrison. Moreover, he despised the general, and the famous strategists under his command did not bring one, which was clearly a self-defeating way, according to the opinion of the last general, we might as well stick to the camp on the south bank of the river, wait for Cao Cao's defeat, and lead the army to take Hongnong, so that we are just an obstacle to Hangu Pass from Luoyang, even if we can't take Luoyang, it will definitely cause psychological obstacles to Cao Cao. ”

Ma Chao nodded, and just as he wanted to speak, he heard the sergeant's report that the lord Liu Qi had sent a messenger Ma Jian to come.

Ma Chao and others hurriedly welcomed into the camp, and a few people were polite, and then they saw Ma Tan's expression was solemn, and he said loudly: "The lord has an order, ordering the general to lead the army to cross the river and feint to attack Cao Cao's camp, the purpose is to prevent Cao Cao from setting up a village here, once Cao Cao really formed a camp, he led the army back to Tongguan, and after the defeat of Cao's army, he led the army to capture Hongnong. ”

Ma Chao saw that Cheng Gongying's prediction was so similar to Liu Qi's strategy, so he couldn't help but attach more importance to Cheng Gongying, and hurriedly bowed down to receive the order, so he decided to lead more than 10,000 troops to cross the Yellow River the next day and feint to attack Fenglingdu.

Ma Chao's army of more than 10,000 crossed the river mightily, and he told him the news of Cao Cao.

Cao Cao saw that Ma Chao really led the army to attack, and he was not flustered in his heart, and immediately ordered the generals to lure him on both sides of the road in accordance with the established strategy.

Ma Chao first led more than 1,000 soldiers, the conflict came, only felt that the feet were soft, Ma Chao and hundreds of soldiers under his command all fell in the pit, fortunately Cao Jun prepared in a hurry, the pit was full of sand, and there were no sharp blades and antlers, otherwise this would definitely be a heavy death.

Even so, Ma Chao's hundreds of soldiers were surrounded by Cao Jun on both sides, and they were suddenly encircled.

At the same time, other soldiers were also surrounded by Cao's army by taking advantage of the geographical advantage into several sections, or were forced to be unable to land in Hanoi, or fell into a heavy siege and could not escape.

The soldiers under the command of Ma Chao are all Xiliang cavalry, the best at horse warfare, but they are a little uncomfortable with foot combat, plus the number is less than the other party, and now they have fallen into Cao Cao's tricks, and they fell into the encirclement of the enemy army as soon as they came up, but these soldiers did not have the slightest panic, relying on their bravery and confidence in defeating Cao's army in the first few days, barely supporting.

However, Ma Chao's entourage trapped in the pit was a little flustered, they suddenly fell into the pit, surrounded by Cao Jun's soldiers, and some of the soldiers were holding bows and crossbows, ready to shoot into the pit.

Ma Chao was not in a hurry, he ordered the soldiers to unfold their shields and do a good job of defense, but he held the shield in one hand and used the spear as a support in the other, jumped into the pit, stood on the flat ground, and shook off the spear, like a dragon going to sea, killing more than a dozen people immediately, and killing a gap in the enemy's encirclement.

Cao Jun nearby saw Ma Chao jumping out of the dirt pit, the spear in his hand was like the sickle of death harvesting human lives, all of his faces were like earth, and he didn't dare to provoke this fierce general Xu Chu, the first fierce general in the face army, who was a little jealous and famous, shouted one after another, and fled in all directions.

Seeing that Cao Jun was scattering and fleeing, Ma Chao shook his head and no longer pursued, but took the hundreds of soldiers in the pit out of the pit.

After gathering these hundreds of soldiers, Ma Chao reorganized his soldiers and horses, lined up in formation, and relied on his courage to rescue other besieged soldiers, and the Cao soldiers on the road saw that Ma Chao was brave and difficult to defeat, plus although they were prepared, they were also defense-oriented, because many soldiers in the battalion had quietly moved to Pusaka, and many of the banners in the village were actually bluffing, so they did not dare to block excessively, so Ma Chao rescued a lot of soldiers, and then calmly retreated.

And Ma Chao saw that Cao Cao's defense was very strict, although he expected that the banner in the camp would be deceitful, but with these men under his command, it was tantamount to a pipe dream to break the enemy without being able to take advantage of the cavalry.

What's more, he only made a feint this time, and he didn't need to go all out at all, so he didn't love to fight, so he personally ordered the army to slowly cross the river.

However, it was said that Cao Cao saw that the reason why Ma Chao dared to cross the river to attack was mainly to deceive himself that he had not set up a camp, and his army was going north to Puban, so it was necessary to set up a camp here to prevent Ma Chao from leading the army to cross the river and cut off his own back road, so he decided to order the establishment of the village the next day.

But I didn't expect that the sand was soft, and it would fall when it was built, and the soldiers under Cao Cao's command were busy for most of the day, and they didn't see the camp erected, so they couldn't help but feel anxious.

When Cao Cao had nothing to do, he heard that Zhao Yanjian yì ordered the soldiers to carry water and splash the soil, only to see the wind penetrating the bones, and the next day the sand and soil were frozen and built into a camp.

When Ma Chao heard that Cao Cao had built a camp, he no longer launched an attack, and according to Liu Qi's instructions, he led the army back to Tongguan to wait for the next order.

However, it was said that Xu Huang was ordered to cross Pubanjin, and then quietly went down to the village here, and when the camp was built, he never saw the enemy attack, and he knew that there was no capable person in Ma Chao's camp, and that Cheng Gongying and Hao Zhao were just like that.

Xu Huang was so determined that he secretly sent someone to send a message, asking Cao Cao, the king of Wei, to lead his army across the river and jointly attack Ma Chao's rear Linjin.

Cao Cao also happened to repel Ma Chao and set up a camp, expecting that although Ma Chao was brave, it was difficult to break through the camp of Fenglingdu, so he ordered Cao Ren to lead an army of 10,000 to stay and garrison, but he led the rest of the army to Puban, and then ordered Cao Hong, who had already prepared a boat, to lead the army across the river.

But no one expected that at this moment, a large army quietly set off from the royal city of Linjin in the night, and came to a place covered with grass and trees.

It turned out that this was a tunnel entrance, and I saw that the young general Ling Tong led dozens of people to drill into the hole first, and then hundreds of people followed, quietly advancing along the tunnel.

After a long time, Ling Tong waved his hand to stop the advance of the follow-up team, ordered the army in front to extinguish the torches, lightly opened the floating soil where one was located, looked out cautiously, and found that the place where it was actually the enemy's grain and grass storehouse, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and secretly thought: "General Zhou guessed right, the enemy army really built a grain and grass storehouse here." ”

It turned out that this tunnel had been dug before Xu Huang crossed the river, and the commander of the army, Zhou Yu, judged according to the topography and the law of Cao's army's village, that this must be the place where the enemy army would build a grain and grass warehouse in the future.

Ling Tong clapped his palms, and then walked out of the cave first and came to the grain and grass storehouse. The soldiers behind followed him out, and they all came to the grain and grass storehouse.

The grain and grass warehouse was built quite large, although a lot of grain and grass were piled up here, but after the hundreds of them entered, it still seemed very spacious. It seems that Xu Huang built the camp once and for all, and regarded this place as a solid base for attacking Guanzhong, so it was all built according to the scale of more than 100,000 military camps.

"Hehe, it's a pity that such an imposing camp is about to be burned today, and I don't know how much effort Xu Huang has put in?" (To be continued......)