Chapter Seventy-Five: Raid
Cao Cao decided to set up camp, and the tiger and leopard cavalry divided many knights and began to give orders, first of all, as the vanguard of Liu Bei's army, moved, and their three thousand soldiers set up a phalanx in front to prevent an enemy from attacking from the front. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition, Cao Ren and Cao Hong each took 5,000 sergeants to go around to the side of the minfu to guard the minfu camp, Li Dian and Le Jin took 10,000 sergeants to the rear of the team, one to protect the baggage, and the other to prevent the minfu who camped when the other party raided mutiniously and escaped, and the ten thousand sergeants were led by Lu Qian, Shi Lian, and pressed the formation in the rear of Liu Bei's army. Except for a few who still act as spies, most of the tiger and leopard riders roam around the periphery, while the tiger guards remain in place.
After a lot of training in the art of war and having seen marching and fighting, Cao Pi knew what it meant when the enemy scout appeared in his army for about thirty miles, which meant that within a day, the other party would launch a surprise attack at any time.
Now that the people and the army are mixed together, the effect of the surprise attack can be maximized, which is why Cao Cao immediately set up camp when he found the traces of the other party's scouts.
Although there are 60,000 people, but to 100,000 people camped is also a big project, the area is also very wide, Cao soldiers are divided into several ways to take their positions after almost no end in the east and west, north and south do not see the tail, from Cao Pi's position, can only see the people working in full swing.
It didn't take long for Cao Chun to report with a solemn face: "Sikong, a few of the tiger and leopard riders I sent arrived at the hour but did not return. ”
Cao Cao's face became solemn when he heard this, and he asked, "Which one is the spy?" ”
"It's my personal guard, and what hasn't returned is a few cavalry patrolling Liu Xuande's twenty miles ahead."
When Cao Pi followed the march, he already knew that Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry patrolled the surrounding area with certain rules, and his personal guards were responsible for patrolling the enemy within a radius of 20 miles, and he had to come back every half an hour to report the military situation to Cao Chun. The tiger and leopard cavalry is Cao Cao's most elite troops, and the military regulations are also the most stringent, but the quality of this army is also very high.
There is only one reason to kill the patrolling cavalry, that is, the opponent wants to surprise the attack, and according to the direction of the patrol of the killed knight, the opponent's large army should be directly ahead.
Cao Cao heard Cao Chun say this, and immediately said: "Ordered Lu and Shi to step forward and join forces with Liu Xuande, and ordered Zixiao and Zilian to step forward in a hundred steps to line up and distance themselves from the camping people. Zihe, Er led the tiger and leopard to ride around the rear of Zixiao, Zhong Kang, such as leading a tun tiger guard to take Wu'er and the three gentlemen to the rear to meet with Mancheng, and the rest of the tiger guards lined up with me in the rear! ”
After Cao Chun finished speaking, the tiger and leopard riders behind him scattered out, giving orders to all the armies, and then a tiger guard holding a tiger guard embroidered with the word "Cao" waved the flagpole a few times, except for the fifty tiger guards, the rest of the tiger guards followed Cao Cao in the direction of Cao Hong on the side.
Xu Chu led the sergeants to embrace Cao Pi, Xun Yu, Xun You and Guo Jia to the rear.
Although it is the current war, but the three strategists do not have any fear on their faces, obviously although they will not kill the enemy on horseback, but they are also people who have been in battle for a long time, and they will not be intimidated because of this, as for Cao Pi, this is his third expedition, and he is also an old driver, so he is naturally not afraid at all.
On the way back to the rear army, Cao Pi also touched the quiver on his waist and the Yan hanging on the side of the horse. I was still wondering if I could engage the other party this time.
But the three people who were traveling with Cao Pi and Cao Pi were chatting about other things.
"This Lu Fengxian is clever, our army is now in Xuzhou, and if we lose the support of the fortified city in the rear, we will lead our troops to attack, and the timing is just right." Xun Yu said.
"Wen Ruo has forgotten that Lu Fengxian still has Chen Gong to advise him." Guo Jia, whose face was pale, spoke.
"Chen Gongtai is really powerful, during the Yanzhou Rebellion, if it wasn't for the soldiers' lives, I am afraid that his plan has succeeded, and now the Yanzhou pastor should be Lu Fengxian." Xun Yu said slowly.
"Chen Gong is just a decisive fight, if this battle cannot defeat our army, Lu Bu can be expected to be defeated." Guo Jia said lightly.
"Exactly, now our army is not on a stable foothold, if we don't come to the raid, wait for our army camp to settle down, move forward slowly, the enemy will have no chance to raid, this Lu Bu Xuzhou boundary is the Yellow River Huaishui tributaries Yi, Shu, Si Zhushui downstream rivers vertical and horizontal, lakes and marshes are dense, if there is a way to dig the river and break the embankment, Xuzhou can almost be said to have no strong city to defend, if you do not send troops to attack, it is really the turtle in the urn." Xun You also spoke.
"Having said that, if this battle can be won, the other party will also be dying, and it is inevitable that there will be a vicious battle." Xun Yu sighed and said.
"Wen Ruo is always so kind." Guo Jia said with a smile.
At this time, Xu Chu had already led the four of them through the place where the people were to meet with Li Dian in the rear, Li Dian was the general responsible for preventing the people from escaping, and in front of him, there were still 10,000 soldiers who were full of favor and forbidden to supervise their camp. At this time, the movement of the army has attracted the attention of some people, but under the reprimand of the sergeants under the command of Man Zhong and Yu Ban, these people are still camping and have not moved.
Li Dian obviously had received the order from the cavalry before, and without saying any nonsense, he accepted the four of them, and at the same time asked Xu Chu to leave twenty tiger guards to protect their safety, Xu Chu naturally agreed, and then said to the four people: "Childe and the three gentlemen will wait for a while, and take me to pick you up after the enemy is broken with Sikong." After speaking, he took thirty tiger guards and ran in the direction of Cao Cao.
The place where Cao Jun Minfu stood was very special, it happened to be a forest, and now the trees in this forest have been cut down by the people to make the railing of the stockade and the support of the camp tent. This place is still a large construction site, and the fierce soldiers outside are simply two worlds, which can be seen from the strict organization of Cao's army.
After a while, there was a faint shout of killing to Cao Pi's ears, you must know that there are all kinds of people shouting in front of Cao Pi who are shouting trumpets to work, and the shouting of killing can reach his ears, it can be seen that the scale of the battle must be not small, Li Dian obviously heard it, he immediately said to a few sergeants around him: "The marquis of each army ordered him to Qutun, let the archers in the team bend their bows and arrows, if they see more than 50 people fleeing, shoot them." The sergeants immediately dispersed and ran away.
Obviously, each sergeant is only responsible for informing a specific military marquis, the military marquis is in charge of the ten tuns, for a song, he gets the order and then notifies the tun chief, the tun chief then notifies the chief, and the chief notifies the captain, so that the whole army can operate, which is why the army is in chaos when the main general dies, the herald is generally around the main general, the main general is dead, and the herald does not know what order to give, and the military marquis below does not know how to command his subordinates, so he can only fight separately, and that army will naturally end soon.
What a great invention of a radio or something! Cao Pi felt emotion again in his heart.