Yin Kui left behind his armor and headed for the plain with the remnants of his army, while Cao Pi ordered to camp and continue his march tomorrow. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info evening, Cao Pi called Cao Xiu and Gao Ran into the big tent of the Chinese army, and said to the two: "Yuan Shang sent troops to attack Yuan Tan, and the troops must be limited, the road from Yecheng to the plain is not far, it is not close, and it is not close to the road, and it is necessary to march lightly to chase all the way, otherwise it will not be able to keep up at all, Yuan Shang is now able to ambush me, naturally near the plain, I guess his baggage and most of the army are still on the way to the plain, General Gao is familiar with the terrain of the north, so General Gao leads the way, and the Wenlie brother takes five hundred tigers and leopards to ride, In addition, there are still 2,000 elite soldiers in Qiangdoutun under Wang Shuang's command with enough food for three days, and they will march rapidly to the places where Yecheng and the plains must pass, and they will definitely be able to intercept Yuan Shang's rear army. ”

Gao Ran said when he heard this: "Zhi Jinwu is a great good, Yuan Shang is brave and brave, and he will inevitably advance if he wins, not to mention that now Yuan Jun already knows that Zhi Jinwu is stationed in the north of the river, and Zhi Jinwu has never led the army alone, and the garrison has not moved after Liyang, so he is naturally despised by Yuan Shang, and he sent this ambush to think that he can defeat Zhi Jinwu, and the meaning of contempt is obvious." It is very likely that the army and baggage will march slowly in the rear, and the final general will be familiar with the terrain, and if so, he will definitely be able to intercept Yuan Shang's rear army. ”

Cao Xiu asked: "Zhi Jinwu wants to go back to Yin Kui today to send a message to Yuan Shang, just to make him feel that Zhi Jinwu will have a big battle with him near the plain, so as to urge the rear army to speed up the march, and then relax his vigilance during the march?" ”

Cao Pi said with a smile: "If his rear army marches like this, the plan of interception will be successful, and we will also suffer heavy losses." Shouldn't a boy like me, who has never been in a war, be arrogant and invite to fight? ”

Gao Ran and Cao Xiu sighed in unison. Cao Pi was a human being in two lifetimes, and by this year he was actually almost fifty years old, and he didn't know how to do this psychological tactics, so he would be a man in vain.

Then the three of them discussed for a while, Cao Xiu's tiger and leopard cavalry all followed him away, not a problem, but Gao Ran is the infantry commander, he must place the rest of the team if he wants to go, Cao Pi asked Gao Ran to gather his subordinates, and told them that Gao Shun will lead after Gao Ran leaves, although Cao Pi is not optimistic about Gao Shun's ability to command the army, but he just wants Gao Shun to ensure that the army is in shape and not to be attacked, so he is not worried that this elite soldier commander who has only commanded less than 1,000 people will not be able to deal with it.

After the discussion, Gao Ran and Cao Xiu left the big tent, and in the middle of the night, the tiger and leopard cavalry, Qiang Doutun and two thousand elite soldiers quietly left the camp and disappeared into the darkness.

The next day, Cao Pi continued to march slowly, while cautiously scouting the Quartet to prevent himself from being raided. Without Cao Xiu's tiger and leopard cavalry, the efficiency of reconnaissance will naturally plummet, but on the premise of slowing down the speed of the march, it will naturally not matter if the efficiency drops.

After three days in a row, Cao's army walked less than 200 miles, and the speed of this march was very slow, you must know that if the infantry marched in a hurry, they could walk at least 300 miles in three days, even if they were carrying a heavy load. The fastest in Cao's army was Xiahou Yuan's army, because there were a small number of tigers and leopards in his army, and the mixed infantry and cavalry troops walked 500 miles in three days without pressure at all, and there was still nearly half of the straight-line distance from Py County.

There was no ambush on the way, Gao Ran and Cao Xiu had no news, Cao Pi was still walking slowly, there were three days later, less than a hundred miles away from Py County, Cao Pi found obvious traces of camping, the trees near here have been cut down, the village is no one, and the land that should be planted with wheat in the spring is not taken care of, there is only one possibility in this situation, the people here are either conscripted as people or driven away.

Don't ask, you know, these traces are caused by Yuan Shang, as Yuan Tan stationed in Pingyuan County, there is no need to cut down trees, the plain is a place rich in willow, white elm, poplar, national acacia, black locust, stinky tree, pine, cypress, sycamore and other tall trees, this kind of trees are too wasteful to sit on firewood, ordinary people are collecting branches to make firewood, instead of cutting them down directly, which is equivalent to cutting off their firewood next year, and there is only one reason to cut down trees directly, that is, to camp, and to set up a defensive camp, That's what it means to fight a long game.

Now that the trees have been cut down, Cao Pi naturally can't set up a camp that can fight a protracted war, so he simply set up a camp directly in a place with his back against the mountains, leaving the wooden carts that transport the baggage on the periphery, followed by the military tent, and the innermost part is the people's camp, looking like he is waiting for the rabbit, and he has no intention of going to the plain city to fight to the death with Yuan Shang.

At this position, if Yuan Shang's stall didn't find Cao Pi, it would be absolutely impossible, but Yuan Shang didn't choose to move lightly, because he came out to find Cao Pi now It was an opportunity to fight with Yuan Tan who was trapped in the plain.

Cao Pi also sent an agile spy to investigate Yuan Shang's situation, and the spy reported the same as he expected, Yuan Shang was under the Pingyuan County Administration, with a number of about 10,000, all of them were Zajia sergeants, only a small number of people, who should have been temporarily recruited from nearby, not a well-trained old man like Cao Jun.

After concluding that Yuan Shang was pursuing lightly, Cao Pi was not in a hurry to fight with him, but waited for the news of Gao Ran and Cao Xiu with peace of mind.

On the third day of the camp, Cao Xiu returned to the camp with the tiger and leopard riders first, and Cao Pi personally came out to greet him, and found that the five hundred tiger and leopard riders were actually missing more than 100 people, which shows the tragedy of this volley battle. After Cao Pi called Cao Zhen to settle the wounded and sick and treat the sergeants, he immediately welcomed Cao Xiu into the tent.

Cao Xiu sighed after drinking a large bowl of water served by the sergeant: "Yuan Shanghou's army has 20,000 people, 10,000 sergeants, including 1,000 Karasuma cavalry, the general of the army is Yan Jing and Yuan Shao named the Karasuma man who led the king, Khan Luwei, this Yan Jing is a big clan in the north, familiar with the art of war, and has a good strategy for governing the army. The tiger and leopard riders are afraid that the casualties will be more serious. ”

"What are the casualties of the infantry and Qiang Doutun?"

"More than half of General Gao's 2,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, and there were only five people left in Qiang Doutun, everyone hung colors, and only Wang Shuang was unharmed, as for Yuan Shang's army, the Karasuma cavalry was killed and wounded in nine layers, and 10,000 soldiers scattered and fled, and all the baggage was burned by us." Cao Xiu replied.

"Then Yuan Shang will inevitably retreat." Cao Pi breathed a sigh of relief, after all, he still won, although the cost was a bit big, but Yuan Shang now didn't even have the capital to defend Yecheng, what he should do now was to return to Liyang immediately after Gao Lanhui and wait for Cao Cao to bring grain and grass, and then join forces with Cao Cao to attack Yecheng.

At the same time, Cao Pi remembered the little talkative Wang Shuang, this guy is really amazing, he didn't hang the lottery.