Guo Jia left the sentence "harm others and himself" and left. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the five tiger guard battalion sergeants under the mountain post are still guarding the post, and Cao Pi is still standing on the post.

At this time, the people on the other hills had stopped yelling, and Cao Ren commanded the soldiers under the city to scream and cheer. There was mockery and banter in the cries.

But the head of the city was silent. They can't do anything now. Cao Jun was still 400 paces away from the city. Even the most powerful bow has a range of 200 paces. In addition, shooting down from the top of the city, with the bonus of wind speed and height, it is impossible to exceed the range of 300 steps. So they shoot arrows in vain.

Not to mention that he was going to open the city gate and Cao Jun to the death, in the face of Cao Jun who poured out, Zhang Xiu definitely had no ability to win, and when he went out of the city, he just left a bunch of corpses.

Cao Pi knew that they could only wait, waiting for Liu Biao's reinforcements to arrive. Cao Cao didn't need to be besieging the city, and Zhang Xiu would also pursue him at the right time. Don't worry about infamy, because these are outsiders who colluded with the generals of the Xiliang Army, and it is not a pity to die. Don't be afraid that your soldiers will be cold. The 1,000 dead people had been filled with the lives of nearly 2,000 enemy family members by Cao Jun. Moreover, their families will inevitably be treated well.

That's how direct and justified war, shamelessness and cruelty can be. With a light sigh, Cao Pi got off the hill and returned to his tent under the escort of the Wu Commander surnamed Ren. It was night, Cao Pi couldn't sleep at night, and the tragic scenes of killing appeared repeatedly in his mind. He kept convincing himself: this is the price of war, this is the price of winning. As Guo Jia said: Troubled times are not ruthless, and harm others and oneself. He believed that as long as he kept hypnotizing himself like this, one day, he would get inner peace.

At that time, when he needed to make such a decision, he Cao Pi would not hesitate for half a minute.

After a day of killing, the two opposing armies inside and outside the city began to be peaceful, with no night attacks, no strong attacks, no insults, no encirclement and interception. But Cao Pi knew that the blood feud between the two sides was accumulating more and more in peace.

Cao Cao set up camp outside the city like this, and the time passed day by day, and the soldiers of the Cao army had no task other than the necessary drills, while Cao Pi ate and slept every day, slept and ate, and spent a little time exercising, and as time went on, the adverse reaction of witnessing the killing in the city had gradually disappeared, which made Cao Pi both happy and a little frustrated. He was glad that he had finally digested the maddening discomfort, and was confident that he would never lose his temper again when he encountered such a scene in the future. The frustration was because the moment he came out of his discomfort made him realize that he was such a cold-blooded person.

Maybe people are cold-blooded. Cao Pi said to himself.

On the first day of May of the third year of Jian'an, a stall that had been cruising on the border between Nanyang County and Xiangyang County came to report: In the southernmost part of Nanyang County, there was an army. Obviously, Liu Biao is here.

On the day he received the news, Cao Cao ordered the army to march. 30,000 Cao troops lined up to stand under the city, waiting for the people to pack up their things, and left in the direction of Yingchuan County, and after the people went on the road, 20,000 Cao troops rushed to the front of the people, and 10,000 Cao troops and 2,000 Tiger Guard Battalion sergeants walked behind the people to prevent Zhang Xiu from sneaking up.

Cao Pi and Cao Cao walked in the huddle of the Tiger Guard Camp. Guo Jia was also on the side of the two, and he was the only military advisor who came out with the army in this battle. In these days under the city, Cao Cao and Cao Pi did not communicate much, only occasionally took the chess game of the local wealthy clan and Cao Pi to play a few games of chess, although Cao Cao is common, or his father, but Cao Pi did not have the meaning of releasing water, most of the time Cao Cao was killed, but sometimes, a careless, will also be Cao Cao to win a game or two, Cao Pi found that as long as he made more than three mistakes, he would not win Cao Cao again. This shows that Cao Cao's chess strength is not enough to make Cao Pi into the eagle, but he can catch any unreasonable flaw of Cao Pi.

Such an opponent is terrible, he is like a snake, you need to be on guard at all times, as long as there is a little flaw, he will take advantage of it, and as long as there are a few more flaws, you are already dead.

For the killing under the city that day, Cao Cao did not discuss anything with Cao Pi too much, but told Cao Pi a lot of his experience in reading military books.

On the third day after leaving the city, when Cao Pi was marching, he heard the sound of dense horses' hooves, looked out, and found that the long-lost tiger and leopard riders were cruising outside the large army, they were all in a team of five, and from the number of Cao Pi saw, it was inferred that the number of cruising tigers and leopards should be less than a thousand, that is to say, there were still tigers and leopards that did not show up, and the main general of the tiger and leopard riders did not show up.

At this time, a tiger and leopard rode a horse to Cao Cao's side to report the military situation: Zhang Xiu led the infantry to follow ten miles behind the army.

Cao Cao just nodded when he heard this, and didn't say anything else. After the captain returned to the team, Cao Cao smiled at Guo Jia and said, "This embroidery is also calm, and it is actually ten miles away." If you want to return to the army to raid him, I'm afraid it won't work. ”

Guo Jia smiled: "Liu Jingsheng will inevitably pass a letter to him, telling him that he will camp in Anzhong, cut off my way back, and it is expected that we will have to find a dangerous place to camp when we have no way out, at that time, as long as Zhang Xiu sends troops to attack, ten miles away, it is not far, our army will inevitably be difficult to camp under its attack, plus Liu Jingsheng led the troops to attack, we are tired from marching, and we are broken and fight with them, that is a defeat." Now that we are still far away from Liu Jingsheng, if Zhang Xiuruo gets closer, it will not be a self-defeating death. ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Since that's the case, it can't be as they want!" The tiger and leopard who were cruising on the side at random shouted: "Command the three armies, and camp in front of the water." After receiving the order, the tiger and leopard rode on horseback and gave the order.

At this time, there are at least thirty miles away from Anzhong, and if you don't bring baggage, the infantry can walk fifty miles a day, and if you have baggage, then it is a distance of thirty miles. Camping in this place, even if Liu Biao led his troops to rush over, it would be impossible to fight Cao Jun in a decisive battle under fatigue, not to mention that the news is blocked now, and the news of Cao Jun's camp will have to be reported by the other party's scouts, and there is no way to get here within a day.

So camping here, Zhang Xiu could only stare dryly. However, Cao Pi knew that he was afraid that somewhere here, he had already reached the scope of the ancient tomb of Anzhonghou, otherwise Cao Cao would not have chosen this position, and he would still camp in the water.

Although it is convenient to take water when camping in the water, it is a big taboo under the premise of attacking before and after, the number of the combined forces of Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu will inevitably exceed that of the Cao army, and the camp is at the water's edge, which is a position where there is no way to retreat, not to mention that the Cao army still has tigers and leopards to ride, and camping by the water is undoubtedly limiting the flexibility of tigers and leopards. So Cao Pi guessed in his heart that one of the entrances to this ancient tomb was probably at the water's edge.