Xu Chu failed to catch up with Liu Bei after all, so he had to return to the camp to return to Cao Cao.

Although Cao Cao was angry, he wanted to know how Liu Bei and Yuan colluded together, but now that Liu Bei had run away, Cao Cao couldn't think about it, so he could only put this matter aside for the time being.

After all, the top priority now is to solve Yuan No.

After being stationed in Zhaoling for two days, Cao Hong led 30,000 elite soldiers from Guanzhong to converge.

At this point, all the 150,000 troops scheduled to conquer Runan entered the designated position.

The 150,000 army was divided into three routes, Xiahoudun led 50,000 people to attack and advance from the city father to Gushi, this road with Xun You as the military division, Cao Ren led 50,000 people from Danxian to attack in the direction of Ruyin, this road with Guo Jia as the military division, and the third road was led by Cao Cao himself, advancing from Zhaoling to Pingyu.

The three-way army marched hand in hand, and the ultimate goal was to encircle Yuan Fu's army in Pingyu City.

Cao Cao's strategy of relying on his absolute superiority in troops was undoubtedly extremely correct.

Dispatching an army of 150,000 seems to be a huge amount of money, but in fact, few people know that this is the most resource-saving, because with the absolute superiority of the army, you can defeat Yuan's army in the shortest possible time, and the certainty of victory is also big enough, so after calculation, the consumption of money and food is actually not large.

On the other hand, if the troops are continuously conscripted one by one, the final cost of money and food is not necessarily less, and the certainty of victory is much smaller.

However, Sun Tzu once said that soldiers, tricks, and wars will never be diverted by anyone's will.

After penetrating deep into the hinterland of Runan, the three-way Cao army immediately discovered an unusual feature: it could not find the enemy!

At this moment, Cao Cao's army is marching mightily on the wide and flat official road, which is a bullet stone road built during the period of Qin Shi Huang, and the pebbles the size of a human head are covered with rut marks, which show all the time that the world is still enjoying the political legacy left by Qin Shi Huang.

Chinese literati always like to describe Qin Shi Huang as the only tyrant in the ages, but as everyone knows, Qin Shi Huang's contribution to Chinese civilization is also the most huge, the book is the same track as the literary car, unified weights and measures, built a post road system extending in all directions, with Qin Shi Huang's merits, it is not an exaggeration to call it an emperor through the ages!

It is precisely because of Qin Shi Huang that the unification of the land of China has become the norm, and how many less military disasters have the common people suffered?

"Reporting the ......" suddenly galloped from the front on a fast horse, and the horse's hooves struck the bullet stone road, making a rapid and crisp sound, which attracted the attention of Cao's soldiers at once.

Under the gaze of Cao Jun's soldiers and soldiers, Cao Jun's sentry rode like a lightning bolt in front of Cao Cao's chariot.

Cao Cao, who was in the car with his eyes closed and pretending to sleep, immediately leaned forward, lifted the curtain of the car, and just as the sentry horse also rushed to the front of the car, he immediately turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Lord, General Cao Xiu has led the army to arrive outside Shangcai City. ”

Shangcai, less than 100 miles away from Taipingyu in Runan County, is already the hinterland of Runan.

Cao Cao asked anxiously, "Have you ever found Yuan Jun?" ”

"Nope." The sentry shook his head and said, "Shangcai is also an empty city, and not even a single Yuan army has been found!" ”

Cao Cao frowned, waved his hand and said, "I know, go back and tell Cao Xiu that the forward battalion is temporarily stationed outside the city, don't enter the city first, and wait for the arrival of the army." ”

"Whoa." The sentry said yes, turned over and walked away.

Cao Cao ordered Zhang Quan to invite Jia Xu and Cheng Yu to come.

Cao Cao leaned on the cushions, looked at Jia Xu and Cheng Yu who were riding horses outside through the window of the car with the curtains raised, and asked, "Wenhe, Zhongde, what kind of medicine do you say Yuan sells in the gourd?" ”

Jia Xu looked at Cheng Yu with his eyes, but Cheng Yu shook his head and said: "I can't guess, I can't guess it, I followed the lord to fight on the battlefield during the Zhongping period, and I can be regarded as seeing a lot of heroes and heroes, and I have experienced a lot of battles, but a style of play like Yuan Nuo is really the first time in his life, it is not a war, it is either an offense or a defense, how can there be a person like Yuan Nuo, who neither attacks nor defends, but opens the door to let the other party drive straight in?" ”

After Cheng Yu finished speaking, Jia Xu continued: "I also feel the same way in Xia, but Yuan Nozhi's use of soldiers makes Zai faintly feel a little familiar, I don't know if Cao Gong and Mr. Zhongde can feel that Yuan Nozhi's use of soldiers is a little similar to Han Xin, the immortal of the soldiers?" ”

Cao Cao was surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Why did Wen He say this?" ”

Cheng Yu frowned and said, "Brother Wen He is afraid that he thinks too highly of Yuan, right?" ”

Jia Xu waved his hand and said: "It's not that Yuan No's ability to use troops can be compared with the soldier immortal Han Xin, but I just think that Yuan No's strategy at this time is a little similar to Han Xin's arrangement before the Battle of Jingcheng, that's all." ”

"The Battle of Jingcheng?" Cheng Yu said, "A fight against the water? ”

Cao Cao said: "If Yuan Wei is really following Han Xin's example, intending to lure me deep, and then fight back when facing a desperate situation, it is exactly what I want, my 150,000 army goes deep into Runan, and it costs money and food every day and even huge, what I am most afraid of is that Yuan Fu hides and does not fight with me, if he can do his best to fight with me, it will be very good." ”

Jia Xu said leisurely: "However, the water of Han Xin's backwater array is Jingshui, but I don't know if Yuan is backing the water of the array, which river is it?" But I think it will definitely not be Rushui Yishui, let alone Yingshui. ”

Cao Cao's face suddenly changed when he heard this, although Jia Xu didn't say it explicitly, but how smart Cao Cao was, how could he not hear it?

Jia Xu clearly said that Han Xin's Jing water in the back water array can be seen, but Yuan Wei can't see the water in the back water array! Jia Xu even said that if you want to defeat Yuan No, you must find this invisible water, and then force Yuan No to fight with it! However, where will this invisible water of Yuan Wei be?

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Fanyang Pavilion, Jilong Mountain.

Jilong Mountain was originally Liao Hua's lair, but at this time it became Yuan Fu's line.

At this time, Yuan No's eight captains, together with Huang Shao and He Yi and He Man's brothers' Yellow Turban thieves, had already divided into ten roads and scattered, and at this time, only Liao Hua's department remained by Yuan No's side, of course, Tai Shici's Xiao Cavalry Battalion and Gan Ning's Squadron Battalion would never stay away from Yuan No's side.

At this time, Yuan Wei was drinking with Liu Ye, Yang Hong, Gan Ning, Taishi Ci, and Liao Hua in the Juyi Hall of the cottage.

Just after the sentinel cavalry returned, the Cao army on the west road, that is, the army led by Cao Cao himself, its vanguard had already entered the outside of Shangcai City, less than a hundred miles away from Runan County, and the Cao army on the north road and the Cao army on the east road were not far from Pingyu.

Liu Ye always had doubts about Yuan Fu's strategy to meet the enemy, because there had never been such a tactic in the military books of the past and present.

Saving land and losing people, people and land, saving people and losing land, people and land, this proposal is very reasonable, Liu Ye also deeply agreed, but there are doubts about whether Yuan will give up the city and transfer all the troops into the mountains, Liu Ye really can't say well, what will be the result of Yuan No's such a method of meeting the enemy?

"Ziyang, are you worried again?" Seeing that Liu Ye frowned and didn't speak, Yuan Wei raised his bottle and persuaded, "I'm not worried, what do you have to worry about?" Come, let's talk about this bottle of wine first, don't say it, the wine made by Yuan Jian is really good. ”

As soon as Yuan Wei boasted, Liao Hua immediately came to his senses, and said hesitantly: "Childe, you may not know that the ancestors of the last general are actually winemakers, but in recent decades, the world has not been peaceful, first the disaster of the party, and then the Taiping Road incident, the world is in chaos, and our Liao family's wine shop really can't be maintained, so we have to enter the Taiping Road." ”

"Yes, it turns out that your Liao family makes wine." Yuan Wei glanced at the cloudy so-called fine wine in the wine bottle, in fact, this is just a simple fermented rice wine, not so much wine, but rather a drink.

At that moment, Yuan Wei said: "I know a wine-making technique, called soju, the wine that is burned out is the real wine, the entrance is sweet and spicy, like fire, and the color is clear, like a sweet spring, it is not an exaggeration to say that the elixir jade liquid, if you drink it, you will definitely sigh that this life is worthwhile." ”

"Oh, is there such a wine in the world?" Liao Hua was fascinated when he heard this, and said, "Is the son willing to show this law?" ”

"How's that going to work?" Yuan Wei smiled, "This is the secret of my Yuan's liquor business, how can it be easily revealed?" ”

"But it's a pity." Liao Hua regretted when he heard this.

Yang Hong next to him rolled his eyes when he heard this, Sister Ni, when did the Yuan family become a wine shop? In this way, if the Yuan family really opened a wine shop, then wouldn't I, Yang Hong, become a wine shop buddy?

Seeing Yuan Wei talking about wine in Liaohua, Liu Ye just shook his head and smiled bitterly, Gongzi really didn't take Cao Cao seriously.

Liu Ye naturally did not know that Yuan did not regard Cao Cao as the same thing, but had great confidence in guerrilla tactics, although the current era is very different from the period of the workers' and peasants' revolution, but it is essentially the same, during the period of the workers' and peasants' revolution, * and the Red Army relied on the poor masses in the base areas, while Yuan relied on it

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