The next day after Cao Zhanghe and the three of them discussed, he took his 5,000 soldiers and 21,000 people out of Yangxian County, went to Qinshui, and immediately set up a pontoon bridge on the edge of Qinshui, and entered Qinshui and the mountains and forests leading to Huguan County overnight. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the next five days, the three scouts returned to the mountains and forests, and one of the scouts who investigated Gaoping brought back the news that a large number of armor soldiers had infested the county.

Gao Ping was between Gaodu and his eldest son, and after determining where Gao Gantun's soldiers were, Cao Zhang immediately ordered the people to change into military armor, and the sergeant put on the clothes of the people, as for the weapons, they were still held by the sergeants wearing the clothes of the people, after all, there was no way to fight without weapons, and the people who disguised themselves as sergeants wore armor and were mixed with 16,000 people, and camped at the far end when they went out of the mountains and forests.

After everything was arranged, Wang Ling left a month's military rations for Cao Zhang and his sergeants, which were all easy-to-carry dried meat and Hu cakes, and at the same time took out anointing oil and torches from the baggage and gave each of the 5,000 sergeants a bag of anointing oil and a torch, and each of them was equipped with a fire knife and flint, and he took the disguised 5,000 minfu and 16,000 minfu from the mountains and forests to Huguan, and made peace with Zhang Yan.

Cao Zhang, after watching Wang Ling's army disappear from sight in the mountains and forests, immediately said to Xiahou Heng: "We disappeared in the mountains, Gao Gan must have thought that we were going to Huguan, now what we have to do is to hide here, and at the same time send scouts to monitor Gaoping's movements, and set up spies on several necessary roads from Gaoping to Jizhou to monitor Gao Gan's possible marching routes." ”

Xiahou Heng promised to send spies immediately, and Cao Zhang ordered the sergeants to hide in the mountains and forests, and they were not allowed to make a fire for breakfast, because the dried meat and Hu cakes did not need to make a fire, because the sergeants were wearing the linen clothes of the people, which were more ventilated, and the spring was cool, and it was not easy to grow back sores and other things, so it was not a big problem to hide for a few days.

Cao Zhangchai estimated that it would not be long before Gao Gan would not be able to sit still, leaving Gaoping and heading for Jizhou, when he would inevitably rush with all his might, and would not think that there would be someone behind him, so his camp would inevitably be unprepared, and that would be a good time for them to attack.

Sure enough, eight days later, the scouts who went to Gaoping returned to the mountains and informed Cao Zhang, Gao Gan had raised troops to leave Gaoping, Cao Zhang immediately summoned Chen to Xiahou Heng and said to the two: "It seems that Yanyun has arrived under Huguan, and Gao Gan must have received a message that I was ready to storm Huguan, so he raised his troops and went to Jizhou, ready to assist Yuan Shao in attacking my father's army."

Xiahou Heng said: "In this case, our army can wait until the scouts come back and immediately pursue Gao Gan, we have few people, and there are not many people who are armored, the speed of the march will inevitably force Gao Gan to be fast, and Gao Gan will definitely be able to catch up with Gao Gan within five days, and the last general will send scouts to monitor several routes to Jizhou, each road has two people to monitor, and at the same time order them to see one of the Gao Gan troops to follow all the way, and leave a secret mark, and the other person will go back to the mountains to report the news." ”

Cao Zhang heard the words and said: "In this way, there will be scouts back within two days, let's pack up first, carry dry food, as long as the scouts come to report, we will leave immediately." ”

Chen Zhi and Xiahou agreed and went to prepare, the scouts came faster than Cao Zhang expected, eight hours later another scout returned to the mountains, and told Cao Zhang that Gao Gan was going in the direction of Lingchuan County, Lingchuan to the east through a hundred miles of Hanoi County territory can enter Jizhou Wei County, among which there is also a county town called Lin Ji in Hanoi, after guessing the march route of Gao Gan, Cao Zhang said to Xiahou Heng and Chen Zhi: "Gao Gan went to Lingchuan to quickly reach Jizhou, echoing Yuan Shaojia my father, which has to pass through Hanoi County, It's just that the place I passed was in the Taihang Mountains, and there was a county town called Lin Xi, and I guess Gao Gan wanted to take down the county town and grab military funds to replenish it before he drove to Cangting, because Lin Xi was a small county, and he couldn't stop Gao Gan's army at all. ”

Xiahou Heng said: "Lin Shu is in the northernmost part of Hanoi, but I am afraid that there are squires in the county who secretly support Yuan Shao. ”

Cao Chang said: "In this case, we have to break him up before Gao Gan answers to Lin Wei, if there are 20,000 elite soldiers, there are 60,000 people, and if there are many people, there will be chaos, as long as we can cause chaos among the people, Gao Gan's army will definitely be self-defeating, pass my general order, each person bring enough military rations for seven days, immediately set off out of the mountain, march along the border between Shangdang and Hanoi, Boquan, and then send scouts to investigate the secret marks left by our spies, and report back to the marching route of Gao Gan, now we should be three days behind them, so every three days we will send a spy to investigate the secret marks, In this way, we will not delay the whereabouts of Gao Gan for more than a day. ”

Xiahou Heng agreed: "No! After saying that, he left in a hurry.

Chen Zhi was also ordered to mobilize the sergeants and set off.

After Cao Zhang left the mountains and forests with his army, he immediately marched along the border between Shangdang and Hanoi, and Xiahou Heng also sent scouts to follow the secret marks left by the scouts of the Gao Gan army, and sure enough, after three days, there were scouts who reported that Gao Gan's army had just left Lingchuan a day ago, and at this time Cao Zhang's army was only sixty miles away from Lingchuan, according to the marching route and speed of the two armies, I am afraid that it is now very close.

Cao Zhang looked at the sky, it was already dusk at this time, so he summoned Xiahou Heng and said: "Don't send out today's scouts to explore the route, directly send twenty spies to search forward, I guess that Gao Gan will definitely camp within a radius of 100 miles, we will have a full meal here, sleep a little, and prepare to attack the camp tonight." ”

After Xiahou Heng agreed, he immediately sent spies, and Chen Dao arranged for the sergeants to rest.

When he was young, a scout reported that Gao Gan had set up camp in the Taihang Mountains sixty miles away, in a place where the mountains and rivers were surveyed, and the company camped for twenty miles.

After Cao Zhang heard the news, he immediately called Chen Zhi and Xiahou Heng and said to them: "Wake up the sergeant, the rank of person, and tie the mouths of the horses of the three of us, wrap the horses' hooves, and then go to the camp of the high cadres, twenty miles outside the camp, our soldiers are divided into three roads, Boquan takes a thousand people to enter from the left end, Shu Zhi takes two thousand people to enter from the right end, I enter from the middle, don't do anything after entering the camp and set fire all the way, the two of you will kill from the left and right ends to the middle and I round, I will set fire to the conflict before and after the middle, After the three of us turned, we immediately formed a force to kill the camp, and we didn't want to get entangled with Gao Gan. ”

Xiahou Heng promised Chen Zhi: "No! ”

In the middle of the night, the moon was dark and the wind was high, Cao Zhang took five thousand soldiers to enter here silently, seventy miles is only three hours for soldiers who are not wearing armor, so it is close to dawn when he arrives at Gao Gan's military camp twenty miles away, the dawn of spring is dark, and the torches in Gao Gan's camp are sporadically lit, obviously he didn't think that there would be enemies here, so he didn't even light enough torches for vigilance.

Cao Zhang ordered the troops to divide into three roads at this time, Cao Zhang held a snake spear, rode a horse to the front, and came to a place one mile away from the Gaogan camp, Cao Zhang ordered the whole army to ignite, and at the same time run at full speed, and he rode his horse to the front.

Two thousand torches were lit in an instant, and Cao Zhang could feel the scorching fire behind him, while his sergeant was still biting the branches, still silent, and at the same time, the bright light of the fire also illuminated the Gaogan camp a mile away.

Because it is a temporary camp, Gao Gan did not set up fences and guard towers, which was also expected by Cao Zhang, no one would set up fences and guard towers when marching, because if this is the case, even if there are many people, they will be tired, not to mention that at this moment, Gao Gan did not know that there would be enemies following all the way here.

So at this time, the camp was within Cao Zhang's sight, and he only saw a few night patrol soldiers who were asleep on the edge of the camp tent, and a mile away was very short for Dawan Liangju, Cao Zhang was already a hundred meters ahead of his sergeant at this time, only to hear him shout: "Kill!" "At the same time rushed into the battalion.

The snake spear made of iron birch slashed the throat of a startled sergeant with great lightness, and the blood stained the crooked spear head, which looked particularly strange under the reflection of the fire...

At this time, two thousand sergeants also rushed into the camp and began to set fire in an orderly manner.

Obviously, Gao Gan wanted his sergeant to recharge during this march, and actually asked the sergeant to take off his armor, so these people could not escape the doom of being burned to death when they got out.

The screams resounded throughout the camp, and at this moment, Sergeant Cao Jun still did not make a sound.

Cao Zhang was wearing a bright light armor at this time, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark night and firelight of dawn, and at this time Cao Zhang raised his spear and shouted: "Brothers, spit out the things in your mouths, kill me as much as I want, roar as much as I want, and scare the thief's guts!" “

"Phew!"

"Boom!"

The soldiers protruded the trunks of their mouths and began to shout kill, with the experience of burning the black nest, Cao Zhang was familiar with this, after poking to death a few Yuan Jun who were on fire, Cao Zhang led the sergeants to the depths of the barracks to kill, at this time the camp of the high cadres had fallen into chaos, no one thought of putting on the armor and picking up the weapons to resist, looking at the skyrocketing fire and the wolf-like sergeants, they all chose to escape.

In the era of cold weapons, it was a very dangerous thing to have no leading generals, and sentinels to warn, and lack of psychological preparation to be attacked by the camp, which meant that the more garrisons in the camp, the more chaotic it would be, and the number of people who trampled on each other and died was far more than those killed by the enemy, which was why Cao Zhang dared to use 5,000 soldiers to raid the camp of 80,000 people.

At this time, Cao Zhang killed all the way, and had come to the depths of the inner camp, still did not encounter stubborn resistance, and the Chinese army's tent was also empty, and the senior cadres had disappeared, obviously he had left when he saw that the momentum was wrong, and he was attacked in the middle of the night, and he didn't know the number of opponents, or in the case that the sergeant was unprepared, he didn't run or waited for death.

Seeing that there was no one in the tent, Cao Zhang shouted a few times and asked the sergeants to burn the other party's military rations, and he himself led a group of sergeants to start fighting in the middle camp, so that the chaos of the enemy army spread like a plague, this day was April 19, when it was dark at dawn, Cao Chang completed the task assigned to him by Cao Cao. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )