Early in the morning, Tai Shici got up.

Tai Shi Ci came to his mount "Qiang Crossbow" with a bundle of hay, put the hay down first, then stroked the mane of the strong crossbow, sighed and said: "Strong crossbow, strong crossbow, I know that you have suffered this time recently, but there is no way, when you survive this most difficult time, I will definitely treat you well." ”

"A strong crossbow? Why was it given such a name? Yuan No's voice suddenly came from behind him.

Tai Shici hurriedly turned around and bowed to Yuan No: "Son." ”

Yuan Wei waved his hand, and then asked, "Why did you name it a strong crossbow?" ”

"Because he ran fast, like an arrow from a strong crossbow, I named him a strong crossbow." Tai Shi Ci said while gently stroking the neck of the strong crossbow, and the strong crossbow seemed to understand that Tai Shi Ci was praising it, so he leaned the horse's head over and gently arched Tai Shi Ci's cheek with his nose.

Yuan Wei said: "I have seen the way you rode it when you charged, it is indeed galloping, and it deserves this name." ”

"But it won't last long." Tai Shi Ci suddenly sighed and said gloomily, "Childe, not only can the strong crossbow not last too long, but all the war horses in the Xiao Cavalry Battalion can't last too long, and today there are six more war horses that have lost their hooves, if there are a few more long-distance rapid marches, I really don't know how many war horses will be left in the Xiao Cavalry Battalion?" ”

After finishing speaking, Tai Shici gently bent the left front hoof of the strong crossbow again.

Waiting for Yuan to come over, Tai Shici pointed to the left front hoof of the strong crossbow and said, "Childe, look, the horsefoot of the strong crossbow is almost smoothed." ”

Yuan looked at it and found that the horse's palm of the strong crossbow had indeed been worn out very badly, and the two flanges that should have been upturned down had almost been smoothed out. This will not only seriously affect the grip of the crossbow when running. Once the horseshoe falls off. There is a risk that the cuticle of the strong crossbow will be severely worn out.

Once the stratum corneum is severely worn away, the damage will be irreparable.

This means that the life of a horse has come to an end.

"I really don't know how long the crossbow will last, maybe tomorrow it will fall."

When he said this, Tai Shici's heart was full of regret, and stumbling on the hoof meant the end of life for the war horse.

War horses are the life of cavalry. It is difficult for a person who has never been a cavalryman to understand the relationship between a cavalryman and a war horse, which is a partnership that transcends species.

Yuan Fu patted Tai Shici on the shoulder and said, "Ziyi, I will try to find a market town, and then find a group of blacksmiths to repair the horseshoe of the war horses of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion." ”

As soon as the words fell, Liu Ye suddenly ran over in a hurry and said, "Childe, Ding Feng is back!" ”

"Ah Bong is back?!" Yuan turned around and left when he heard this, and after taking two steps, he paused and turned back. said to Tai Shici, "Ziyi, you will also come to discuss it." ”

At that moment, the three of them hurriedly returned to Yuan No's account.

I saw Yuan Wei come in. Ding Feng, who was drinking water, hurriedly put down the crockpot, clenched his fists and said, "Childe." ”

"No need to be polite." Yuan Hao hurriedly stopped Ding Feng, and asked nervously, "Is there any change in the Cao army of Zhuyi?" ”

"Nope." Ding Feng shook his head and said, "The villain followed the instructions of the son, and dived into the Suishui River from the upstream ten miles away, and then swam to Zhuyi, hiding in the reeds and observing from a distance. ”

Yuan Wei and Liu Ye glanced at each other and asked, "How can you see it?" ”

Ding Feng said: "There was a peddler who tried to cross the river from the east bank of Suishui, but he was still a few hundred steps away from Cao Jun's water village, and he was warned by Cao Jun's sentry. ”

"Childe, the situation is obvious." Liu Ye said, "There is no ambush in Zhuyi!" ”

The situation that Ding Feng said was completely consistent with Yuan Fu's inference, and he immediately said: "Order, the whole army will immediately withdraw from the camp!" ”

After finishing speaking, Yuan Wei instructed Tai Shici again: "Ziyi, this time I have to bother you to be the striker of the cavalry battalion." ”

"No." Tai Shi Ci waved his hand, turned around and walked out.

Yuan Nor took Liu Ye out of the account in a hurry, Zhou Cang had already brought Yuan Nuo's mount, Yuan Nor stepped on the stirrup and turned over on the horse, and then only took a few steps forward, but Yuan Nor suddenly reined in the reins of the horse.

Seeing that Yuan stopped reining in the horse, Liu Ye followed the reining horse and asked, "Son, what's wrong." ”

Yuan Wei shook his head, didn't speak, just slowly raised his right hand and said, "Wait, wait first." ”

Gan Ning, Liang Gang, and Zhou Cangzhu looked at each other, not knowing what was wrong with Yuan No.

Yuan Wei squinted his eyes, looked at the Jiaoyang gradually rising in the eastern sky, and said leisurely: "Ziyang, do you think there is such a possibility?" Could it be that the commander of the Cao army in Zhuyi has already seen through my intentions, he knows that we are just bluffing, and then he will plan to do nothing, just waiting for us to die? ”

Liu Ye was dumbfounded, Cao Jun saw through the intention?

Childe, what are you going to make trouble about? One will be suspicious of this, and the other will be suspicious of that, so if you do this, you simply don't have to do anything, and you can wait to be killed.

The generals of Gan Ning and Liang Gang were also relatively speechless.

Well, I'm at a loss by Childe now.

It is said that Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, and I think Gongzi is more suspicious than Cao Cao.

Yuan Wei asked Liu Ye again: "Ziyang, do you think this is possible?" ”

"This ......," Liu Ye frowned and said, "It's not impossible, but ......"

Yuan Wei hurriedly said: "But there will be no more than five people under Cao Cao's command who can have this strategy!" ”

After speaking, Yuan Wei turned around and asked, "Ah Feng?" ”

Ding Fengce immediately stepped forward and asked loudly, "What does the son command?" ”

Yuan Wei asked: "Have you ever seen clearly, what banner does the Cao army of Zhuyi play?" ”

"Cao Ziqi?" Ding Feng said uncertainly, "It seems that it should be Cao Ziqi." ”

"Cao Ziqi?" Yuan Wei said, "Cao Cao should still be in Runan, not so fast to Peijun, not Cao Cao, then it is most likely Cao Ren, although Cao Ren is also a character, but to say that he can see through the intentions of this son, but to promote him, Cao Ren's battle is still good, but the strategy can only be regarded as average." ”

Liu Ye also said: "Cao Ren is the clan general under Cao Cao, second only to Xiahoudun, and he is familiar with military books, and he is not as reckless as Xiahoudun, he is indeed a difficult opponent, but if he can see through the son's scheming, I don't believe it, unless there are capable people under Cao Ren's account." ”

At this time, Ding Feng suddenly said again: "Childe, I seem to have seen a scribe, because he was too far away, he couldn't see it very clearly, but it was mostly a Confucian student, and he was wearing a very gorgeous brocade robe. ”

"Scribe? Brocade robe? "Yuan Wei's heart sank when he heard this, Sister Ni, it won't be Guo Jia, right?

Ding Feng nodded and said, "Well, that Confucian is indeed wearing a gorgeous brocade robe, which is very eye-catching. ”

Liu Ye frowned and said: "Son, I heard that Cao Cao's henchman Guo Jia is happy to be in a gorgeous suit, this person should be Guo Jia, right?" If Guo Jia really arrived in Zhuyi, he really had to be careful. ”

Yuan Wei waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Whether this person is Guo Jia or someone else, we all need to be cautious. ”

After speaking, Yuan Wei turned around and shouted: "Tell Ziyi, don't go to Zhuyi, the whole army will continue to move forward and go to Xuchang!" ”

Yuan Fu's military order was soon passed down, and the various infantry battalions and Xiao cavalry battalions opened one after another, continued to the west along the official road, and went to Chen County in a mighty manner.

(Dividing Line)

Zhuyi, Cao Jun Water Village.

Cao Ren is pacing back and forth, he is not as calm as Guo Jia, he has reached this juncture, Guo Jia can still sleep peacefully, but Cao Ren can't sleep anyway.

Every few times, Cao Ren would walk outside the line and look out to see if any sentry had returned.

It was almost noon, when Cao Ren came to Xingyuan for the ninth time, the sound of horses' hooves finally came from outside the camp, and when he looked closely, he saw a fast horse rushing into the camp like a gallop.

Soon, the dusty sentry came to Cao Ren, followed by Cao Chun.

"General." The sentry rode a few steps, knelt down on one knee in front of Cao Ren, and said with a breath, "General Yu, the Yuan army took a short rest at Shili Pavilion in Dan County, and then pulled out the camp and went west, and it was a rapid march!" ”

"What did you say?" Cao Ren was startled when he heard this, and said in a lost voice, "Yuan Jun is still going west." ”

Cao Chun also lost his voice and said: "No, brother, this is not right, this is different from what the military advisor said." ”

"Hurry, hurry, hurry, go and call the military advisor." Cao Ren said, "Go and wake up the military advisor." ”