Cao Cao deserves to be a well-known master of the art of war. In the late Han Dynasty, more than ten years of war and chaos were tempered, and the military books and war strategies that Cao Cao had learned were thoroughly integrated into Cao Cao's art of leading soldiers. An important operational principle in the brilliant art of war is to take them by surprise and attack them unprepared.

Previously, Zhang Madness used a considerable number of troops to show off his might in the border area of Yanzhou and Xuzhou. With Cao Cao's military vision, how can he not see that this is a tactic to exhaust soldiers?

However, Zhang Qiang's plan is to use a yang scheme, and what he fights for is the national strength of both sides. Cao Cao's strength is not as good as others, and he can only deal with it passively helplessly.

In order to deal with the attack and harassment of Jizhou, two-thirds of the troops of the entire Yanzhou were mobilized by Cao Cao. If not, if the wild manipulation turns out to come true, and a large army is suddenly dispatched to fight, then Cao Cao will not even have a place to cry.

However, just after Liu Chong and Sun Ce's reinforcements arrived one after another, Cao Cao's troops suddenly became abundant. Now that the security of Yanzhou's foundation has been guaranteed, Cao Cao, who is unwilling to be suppressed by insolence all the time, immediately planned to give insolence a counterattack.

Anyway, the insolent department currently responsible for suppressing Yanzhou will be Yu Poison. This guy's ability, how could Cao Cao not know. If he can't even deal with poison, Cao Cao won't have to fight back against the arrogant idea.

Sun Ce is a young man, passionate and advocating offense; Since Liu Pet started his army in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, although he has a good number of troops in his hands, due to the restrictions of the prince's identity, he really hasn't fought any big battles with other princes, and he is panicked. Cao Cao's proposal is obviously exactly what the two of them want.

Everyone had the heart to fight, and the three parties quickly agreed to select 3,000 elite soldiers and 500 elite cavalry to form a 10,000-person assault army, with Cao Cao as the main general and Liu Chong and Sun Ce as the deputy generals. A large-scale surprise counterattack was launched against the arrogant troops set up in the border area between Yanzhou and Jizhou to deter the south.

In this way, there was the scene that appeared earlier in Yuancheng.

If you want to count it, you deserve it. He was near the border between Yanzhou and Jizhou, and flaunted his military might for several months. Psychologically, it is inevitable that it will become a little arrogant. Moreover, Cao Cao once defeated him in Yanzhou and fled, and now that Yu Yao has the opportunity to gain the upper hand, he naturally wants to double down on Cao Cao, so as to get back some psychological satisfaction for himself. In addition, Cao Cao, who has been very cooperative for several months, has not been able to shrink back and achieve a plan to be arrogant. Under the combination of various reasons, the phenomenon of lax military discipline and lax vigilance in the drug station has become a proper meaning.

Therefore. When Cao Cao, who had been shrinking, suddenly united with the other two fierce generals in the world to launch a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Yu Poison, Yu Poison was defeated at once. One didn't react, and Yu Poison lost his life in the hands of the "strong crossbowmen" under Liu Chong. Even his lieutenant general, the survivor of the "Sixteen Young Eagles", was also stabbed to death by Sun Ce and turned into a dead eagle.

As for the county seat of Yuancheng. Due to the presence of Yu Poison guarding the vicinity, Yuancheng's vigilance was also extremely lax. There were not many soldiers in the city. Therefore, Cao Cao's plan to seize the city will progress as smoothly as Liu Chong and Sun Jian's attack on Yu Poison.

After winning the first battle, Cao Cao, Liu Chong, and Sun Ce entered Yuancheng to temporarily rest and discuss the next battle plan.

All three were enterprising individuals and found the current war situation to be extremely favorable. There is no intention of retracting from it. Due to the collapse of the Yu Poison Division, the Zhang Madman Army had no troops strong enough to stop the coalition army in the surrounding counties. And the news of Yu Yao's defeat will not reach the arrogant ears so quickly. There are at least ten days left before the insolence reacts. This allows the coalition to expand its gains in the vicinity.

However, whether the next step was to go north to Guantao or east to Wei County, but there was a certain disagreement between the three of them.

Guantao has a large population and developed economy, which is a prosperous place in Wei County. However, this place is close to the arrogant hinterland giant deer, and if you are not careful, you will be besieged by arrogant heavy soldiers. Although Wei County is closer to Yanzhou, which is conducive to the retreat of the army, its status is not high, and even if it is captured, it will not be much touched by the arrogance.

After some arguments, Chen Wang Liu Chong and Sun Ce joined forces to persuade Cao Cao, who wanted to be more cautious. Their 10,000-strong army is elite, even if they are besieged by the Jizhou army, as long as they grasp the opportunity, it will not be difficult to withdraw to Yanzhou. Moreover, if we conquer Guantao, we can effectively deal a blow to the arrogance of arrogance and encourage the momentum of the "anti-Zhang alliance", so that some people will not be afraid of the enemy like tigers and have no confidence at all in the face of the arrogant army.

The plan has been decided, and the three of them each commanded the troops and horses of their headquarters and decisively went north. It's not just Guantao, if there is a chance, the coalition forces even want to kill in Julu County and stir up the arrogant heart.

The war is progressing very smoothly. The resistance of the Jizhou army was almost none. At the end of July, Guantao fell into the hands of the coalition forces.

Cao Cao stood at the head of the city of Guantao, and he always had a feeling of unreality in his heart.

This Tao City, it's too easy to fall, right?

No matter how fast the army moves, it can't really be faster than the news spreads. When the combined forces of Cao, Liu and Sun arrived at Guantao City, Guantao City already had a day to prepare.

The tripartite alliance originally thought that if they wanted to take Guantao City, they would need to go through a hard battle. As a result, the tripartite coalition forces actually found that the defense forces of Guantao City were seriously insufficient, and almost all of them were temporarily mobilized people. Although the city defense of Guantao is well built, there is no reliable guardian, in the face of Liu Chong's thousands of strong crossbows, in the face of Cao Cao's tiger and wolf generals, in the face of the sharp and aggressive Sun Ce, Guantao City is almost a drum!

Even if there were no additional reinforcements, as long as the local county soldiers in Guantao City were still there, Guantao's defense would not be so sparse. However, the information that the three coalition commanders learned from the prisoners of war was that half a month ago, the main force of the local county soldiers was actually transferred away by a military order from their superiors?

Hearing this strange news, Liu Pet and Sun Ce just sighed that their luck was good. But the suspicious Cao Cao always felt that there was a big conspiracy here. Although Cao Cao couldn't guess what the content of the other party's conspiracy was, he always felt very uneasy with such feelings in his heart.

So, in the following strategic plan discussion, when Sun Ce proposed to continue to try to attack Ping'en County and threaten Julu County, Cao Cao stubbornly and resolutely opposed it. Cao Cao, who was deeply disturbed, forcefully announced that he would not participate in the operation to continue the offensive. This surprise attack was able to achieve the current results, which is already a blessing to the heavens. Next, it's time to think about a safe retreat.

At this meeting, Liu Chong supported Cao Cao's proposal. Although this King Chen has an aggressive temperament on the surface, he is always a little timid in doing things. Otherwise, he would not have raised troops not long after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, and until now he has not really grabbed territory with other princes to strengthen himself. The status of the prince helped Liu Chong to gain a foothold in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, but it also made him timid in his actions, always fearing that he would be seen as a usurper who coveted the throne.

The two-to-one resolution could not make Sun Ce back down. In fact, Sun Ce was noncommittal to Cao Cao and Liu Chong's statement, and as soon as he returned to his camp, he sent his troops north. When Sun Ce's generals asked him where his next march would be, Sun Ce replied decisively:

"Giant deer!"

Of course, Sun Ce didn't really want to fight Julu County. After capturing Ping'en City on the edge of Julu in one go, he only stayed in the city for one night, and the next day he burned down the county treasury, and led his troops to turn around and return to Guantao City to join Cao Cao and Liu Chong.

In the entire process of marching into the army, Sun Ce took only four days, and he traveled more than 100 miles back and forth, which can be described as the speed of using troops. And Cao Cao and Liu Chong were not good at leaving Sun Ce in Jizhou when the enemy situation was not yet clear. Therefore, when Sun Ce led the army back, Cao Cao and Liu Chong still did not evacuate Guantao.

Sun Ce was not affected by the opinions of Cao Cao and Liu Chong, and easily conquered Ping'en City, which was originally very proud. However, when he saw Cao Cao and Liu Pet who came to greet him, Cao Cao handed him a piece of information with a dark face, but it was like a basin of cold water, pouring Sun Ce's pride into his heart.

"At the beginning of July, Zang Ba trapped Langya Kingdom!"

Langya is an important town in Xuzhou, and the Minister of State Xiao Jian has excellent ability, and will firmly control the essence of Juxian County, and has always been under the control of the state Mu Lu Bu. Lu Bu repeatedly wanted to send troops to attack Langya, but he was persuaded by the powerful people in Xuzhou. And Lu Bu did not have the certainty of forcibly conquering Ju County, and with the persuasion of others, he stepped down the slope.

However, since Zhang Qiquan took Qingzhou, because Langya State and Qingzhou are directly bordered, under the military threat from the north, Xiao Jian, the minister of Langya, in order to protect himself, has taken the initiative to offer a lot of gold beads, grain and grass, and ordnance to Xuzhou Mu Lu Bu, expressing his willingness to obey Lu Bu's command.

It stands to reason that with Lu Bu's support at any time, Xiao Jian himself directly controls tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and he is also a small overlord on the rampant side, how could he be suddenly taken down by Zang Ba, who has limited troops?

"And whatever!"

Sun Ce's surprise was not over. Cao Cao casually handed over another piece of information. The news given by this intelligence made Sun Ce almost scream.

"The main force of 100,000 insolence went south to Xuzhou and Lu Bu was in a hurry!"

"100,000 main forces! When did Zhang Thief use so many soldiers? ”

After being surprised, Sun Ce asked suspiciously.

"Don't you think it's too easy to conquer Pavilion Tao and Ping En? Because Zhang Wei transferred the county soldiers of Jizhou to Qingzhou to attack Xuzhou! ”

Chen Wang Liu Pet opened his mouth and answered Sun Ce's doubts.

"With Lu Xuzhou here, Xuzhou is not easy to overcome. If Zhang Yi wanted to seize the opportunity of the fall of Langya, capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop, and use 100,000 troops, which was barely enough. This bureaucracy relied on the waste of poison in the front, thinking that the rear was not worried, so he boldly mobilized the Jizhou defenders. Our army is just taking advantage of his gap! ”

Now, Cao Cao finally understands where his past uneasiness came from. Although he led his troops to attack Jizhou and took advantage of the Jizhou army, his face was not proud at all. (To be continued......)