Chapter Forty-Nine: Plotting a Night Attack

Huo Yi led a group of guards and cavalry under Li He out of the north gate of Baozhong, and had his own scout battalion to guide and chase and kill Cao's army. With the guidance and reconnaissance of these Jingying scouts under his command, there is no need to be afraid of what kind of ambush tricks Cao **, a man in troubled times. It seems that Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and other generals are also helped by the scout battalion under Huo Yi to guide the pursuit of the tail.

Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng and other generals are all very stable, after all, the lord Liu Bei's request is only to intimidate, not to kill. And they didn't know how powerful these scouts under Huo Yi's command were. chased all the way, but only followed the same trend, and did not dare to get too close.

Huo Yi is a quick temper, Cao Jun's retreat must be a slow retreat, there must be troops behind the palace, and there are also troops acting as escorts, cruising the whole army left and right to protect the flank. And most of the people who often act as these horns are also cavalry, and the tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Zhang and Cao Zhen are the ten **. Covering the evacuation of the infantry of the brigade, it is bound to move extremely slowly, and the cavalry of his brigade can correspond as much as possible, and cut off a piece of Cao ** meat in front of this heroic division in the world.

Huo Yi was extremely annoyed that the cavalry commander under his command was injured in the first round of the fight, and he fought a big defeat, although the cavalry under his command did not damage much, but this was a great blow to Huo Yi. He just wants to see what kind of bird this so-called male soldier in the world is!

Riding horses all the way to pursue, and looking for opportunities to raise horses, Cao's army ambushed several times in the aisle, but also under the scout's reconnaissance. Most of the ambush troops behind the palace were copied by Huo Yi or defeated head-on. For the first time, Huo Yi's concept of leading troops has been verified on the battlefield, and being able to get accurate information first-hand is equivalent to grasping the pulse of the battlefield. Relying on the memories inherited by Huo Yi from his previous life, these scouts have extremely efficient ways of contacting each other.

And the reason why Huo Yi went on such an unscrupulous rampage and killed the ambushed Cao Jun and abandoned his armor was to rely on the trump card in his hand. Huo Yi's horse army is really sharp, perhaps the riding combined attack formation is not enough compared to the tiger and leopard riding, but the sharpness of its horse harness is above the tiger and leopard riding, and the stirrup and the high bridge saddle are indeed the qualitative disguise of the cavalry.

Huo Yi's men and horses chased and killed frantically all the way, and finally caught up with the rear of the Cao army in the evening of the third ri, Huo Yi was not in a hurry to rush to kill, he wanted to figure out the reality of the rear of the Cao army, and the opportunity was always only left to those who were prepared, but they could not blindly rush to seize the opportunity, after all, there were only more than 4,000 cavalry under their command, and the rear of the other party was no less than 20,000 people from the size of the camp, and often when the first army retreated, most of the troops left in the last were Jing Rui's division, because he must be able to ensure the safe evacuation of the brigade.

Huo Yi was waiting for Ye Jiong's scouts to report the reality of this department.

At night, the silver moon hung high, but Huo Yi remembered that this was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the wind of moon worship in the Han Dynasty was not flourishing, but Huo Yi, who came from later generations, was in a lonely mood at the moment. Perhaps from the moment he crossed over, he was the loneliest person in the world, although there was nothing worth caring about in the afterlife. But Huo Yi still couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"General!" A mysterious voice sounded behind Huo Yi.

turned his head, but saw a short but extremely agile man standing in front of him, Huo Yi recognized him, these days, it was this man who was sending Ye Zhi's news back, calling Zheng An.

"How?" Huo Yi asked.

"It has been found out that the rear of the enemy army is Cao Zhang, Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang, the three generals, the tiger and leopard cavalry and 10,000 Cao army Jing Rui foot soldiers are behind the rear hall, and Cao ***'s army is forty miles away from here!" The man's voice was cold and flat, as if he looked down on everything, and all kinds of affairs were ordinary in front of him.

Huo Yi nodded: "How about the enemy army?" ”

"The scouts and rangers on the periphery have all been cleared by General Ye, and no one has noticed it yet, but the enemy army is very well guarded, and I am afraid that it can only be tough!" Zheng An said calmly.

Huo Yi nodded, this Zheng An acted extremely steadily, even in the face of himself, he was more than calm, and he could still give his own judgment, which was a material that could be made.

"Go back and inform Youming, bypass the rear of the Cao army, change the route and go straight to the middle army of the Cao army, and raid overnight!" Huo Yisen said.

"Whoa!" Zheng An took the order and left.

This is not that Huo Yi is afraid of the rear of Cao's army, or the tiger and leopard cavalry, the enemy army is the army of the queen of the palace, and the commanders and generals are all extremely stable and tough famous generals, if he rashly attacks at night, he will inevitably suffer huge losses, and it is more likely that he will be defeated and die here.

Huo Yi is not a reckless person, he keenly feels that the Cao army not far from here must be unprepared because the rear army has nothing to do, since he is a cavalry army, forty miles away can be reached in the middle of the night, then he can gallop the army to attack.

The 4,000 cavalry troops mobilized immediately at the moment when Huo Yi gave the order, and they knew that this night might be the night when the Jingnan Huo family rode the world, and they steadily and calmly sorted out the harness and equipment to ensure that everything was in the best condition before the battle.

Under the bright moon, a team of red torrents emerged in the dense forest, with people and horses, bypassing the Cao army behind a mountain and going straight to the Cao army's army from the trail.

Every time Huo Yi's scouts arrived at a place, after being stationed, they would immediately be dispatched out to draw a topographic map of this place, and for several months in Nanzheng and Baozhong, Huo Yi's scouts had already completed the survey of the terrain in this area, and a complete topographic map of the Baoshui area was lying in Huo Yi's backpack at this moment. This trail was also inadvertently learned by the scouts from a hunter account when they were surveying. And at this moment, this small road, which can be used by four people in parallel, has become a convenient way for Huo Yi to attack Cao Jun.

In the middle of the night, Cao ** finally lay down, at the moment of receiving the letter from Guanzhong, he didn't know how to evaluate his mood, the three generals in Hanzhong were killed and one was injured, and his own family general Xiahou Yuan survived, but 30,000 Hanzhong Jing Rui was only left with Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He's personal two thousand horses. It is not without heavy losses.

But after carefully reading the 10,000-word letter, Cao ** secretly rejoiced that if it weren't for the clever change, I am afraid that these two generals would also fall outside Baozhong City.

At this moment, Cao ** is still thinking, maybe when he attacked Hanzhong at that time, he really should have listened to the advice of Sima Yi and Liu Ye, went south in one fell swoop, and captured Shuzhong, I'm afraid there is no situation today, right? It's just that I thought too much at that time, just after the defeat of Chibi, the depression in the north, and the shortage of the source of disease. If he wants to take Shuzhong strongly, he will inevitably provoke Sun Liu's reunite, and he will no longer be able to withstand such a blow. (To be continued......)