Chapter Forty-Eight: Retreat

Huo Yi can be regarded as having a clear view of the situation in Hanzhong at the moment, Liu Bei, who is content with the status quo, does not plan to fight this battle inch by inch, in fact, the entire Shuzhong is also very expensive, and in some places there are even several rebellions of Qianshou, looting the military rations sent to Hanzhong.

Cao Cao, who lamented the chicken ribs in Hanzhong, did not move forward, and he didn't know whether to fight or not. It was Huo Yi who turned his attention to the scouts who trained his own family, and the rear army could not move easily, and Huo Yi did not want to inadvertently provoke the two major forces to fight. But at this moment, both friend and foe are looking for Xiahou Yuan's people.

At this moment, between the confrontation between the two counties in Hanzhong, a large number of scouts were taking action, and Huo Yi realized that this was an extremely valuable opportunity to train his subordinates to specialize in spying on military intelligence. It was he who released hundreds of scouts in the camp and used a team of ten people to hunt down the Cao army scouts who were operating in Hanzhong.

Sima Yi was very depressed, and he keenly felt that the information he was responsible for was a strange difficulty. Not to mention that Cao Jun has been in Hanzhong for nearly a month, and he only found out the news that Baozhong had fallen and someone had escaped from the praise, but at this moment, he even found that the scouts under his command had disappeared from the Cheng system.

Sima Yi knew the importance of scouts for an elite division because he had been strengthening the training of scouts and meticulous work since he assumed the responsibility of recruiting subordinates under Cao Cao and specialized in reporting to the investigation and military intelligence staff. But he never thought that the scouts under Liu Bei were so sharp, and the scouts he had trained hard to train were actually killed in large numbers, but he couldn't help but be depressed.

In fact, since Cao Cao entered Hanzhong, he was very dissatisfied with Sima Yi's actions, and Cao Jun immediately walked in the night road since he entered Hanzhong, stretching out his hand and not seeing his five fingers. Even the minimum information has to be analyzed and guessed through some clues, and Cao Cao, who is accustomed to grasping the overall situation, can't help but be angry.

Sima Yi couldn't say that he had never encountered such a situation since he was in charge of this intelligence work, and now. The scouts didn't even dare to go out of the camp, as if outside the camp of the Cao army in the middle of the water, there were devouring beasts. Countless strange rumors circulated among the scouts of the Cao Army. Even if he received the general's order and went out of the camp, Cao Jun's scouts were dozens of people, and they didn't dare to be alone.

Cao Cao was a little depressed, the battle of Hanzhong was fought to such a point, but it was also very poor. thought that with the ability of the three generals in Hanzhong and 30,000 elites, it would be enough to reject Liu Bei in Yangping Guannan. Dingjun Shandong. I never thought that in just ten months, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the whereabouts of the three generals of Hanzhong were unknown.

Xiahou Yuan has been following his clan generals since he started his own incident. He has made many meritorious achievements, and he is one of his most valued and trusted generals. Although Xu Huang and Zhang He were promoted to the generals. It has always been loyal to oneself. Xu Huang has the ability of Zhou Yafu, and Zhang He is even more agile and good at fighting, able to attack and defend.

The three of them are their own flesh and blood, and Cao Cao is unacceptable if they give up one of them, and there is no news about the three generals at this moment. Cao Cao is not depressed and anxious.

However, there is little food in Guanzhong, and if the army stays in Hanzhong for more than one day, there will be a little more danger, and he cannot ignore this overall situation. Cao Cao walked out of the tent along the big tent, looking at the sunset in the west, his heart was very hesitant, but he instinctively saw his figure in the sunset, could it be that he was really old, that is, he even had to think about such a thing, and it was difficult to make a decision?

"Report! Guanzhong urgent! A guard handed over a silk note.

Cao Cao was in a trance, and when he saw the silk "Wugong County Captain", he couldn't help frowning. The little county lieutenant actually ignored etiquette and went to the book? When he opened it, Cao Cao's eyes lit up, but when he looked closely, his face became gloomy again.

Turned his head and said: "Convene the generals and all the generals to discuss the big tent!" ”

Liu Bei is still doubting, although Cao Jun has little food, but if he really fights Cao Jun here, he is still afraid of losing this time, and finally he has his current family business, and he is tired of the journey of death. Confronting Cao Jun here, Cao Jun will eventually retreat because of the lack of food, and whether he has captured Hanzhong is the best strategy to slowly plot Xiliang and Guanzhong in the future.

Fa Zheng even said: "Our army has already sat firmly in the land of Hanzhong, and Cao's army will retreat when its food is exhausted." Our army only needs to show Cao Thief that our army is determined to keep Hanzhong! In this way, if Cao Jun wants to fight with our army, he must also weigh one or two. After all, the army led by Cao Cao is all the troops and horses in Guanzhong, and if it is defeated for a while, it will not only be as simple as Hanzhong. ”

Pang Tong said loudly: "What Xiaozhi said is right, our army can divide troops all the way to the side along the Baoshui side, go north, pretend to cut off the retreat of Cao's army, and send an additional brigade of light divisions to intercept its grain route." Cao Jun is bound to be anxious, and retreat is inevitable! ”

Liu Bei nodded, and made up his mind to make arrangements according to Pang Tong's words. This time, there was nothing to do with Huo Yihoujun. Along the Baoshui to the north is the headquarters led by Huang Zhong, the grain road is intercepted, it is the cavalry army under the command of Zhao Yun, I think that with Zhao Yun and Xu Sheng's ability, Cao Jun's grain road is afraid to be critical.

Just as Liu Bei was waiting for Liu Bei to deploy everything in the tent and force Cao Cao back, Ye Zhi said loudly outside the tent: "My lord, General Huo's scout battalion general Ye Zhi has something important to see!" ”

Liu Bei was arranging people, but he was extremely unhappy when he was interrupted, but in the end, it was Huo Yi's person, Huo Yi made great contributions to this battle, and he couldn't sweep Huo Yi's face, so he had to say: "Come in and say!" ”

As soon as Ye Ji entered the tent door, he knelt on one knee and said loudly: "The scouts under the command of the last general have found that Cao Jun has retreated!" The stakes are very high, and the general is at the main office, so the last general will ignore everything else and go straight to the main office to report. ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard this, so he didn't have to go through a lot of trouble to arrange everything and force Cao Cao back: "Oh? How can you be sure that Cao Jun is retreating? ”

Ye Zhi said: "After sunset, although the Cao army camp is silent, but there are good listeners under the command of the last general, I have heard that the Cao army camp was very noisy, there is the sound of weapons and armor colliding, and after two hours, the camp is very quiet, only the drum beating!" When the scout approached, he found that the heavily guarded Cao army had no reaction, but when he got closer, he found that the soldiers who were keeping vigil were all straw men, and the drum beat was tied to the sheep in front of the drum. The camp was empty, but the campfire was bright! ”

Liu Bei nodded when he heard this: "In this case, order all armies to go out to pursue with cavalry, don't fall in love with war, just keep intimidating!" ”

"Whoa!" All the generals in the tent agreed.

Huo Yi chuckled even more, this is what he was waiting for, Prime Minister Cao Cheng, if you think that you can leave Hanzhong unscathed, you will also regard me too much as there is no one in Shu, come if you want, leave if you want! (To be continued......)