According to common sense, Ji Miao, the eldest son of Ji Ping, who does not know Yan Liang, should be difficult to gain the trust of General Yan Liang, let alone prompt General Yan Liang to make such a major decision as taking risks into the army, but sometimes things are so coincidental, after the official war with the Cao army, in order to facilitate the contact with the internal annihilation of the Cao army's own dry food, the third prince of Da Yuan once told his confidant Yan Liang about the person who signed the Cao Yi form, and although Ji Ping's father and son did not sign the moral certificate, they also knew that there was the name of Dong Chenghe Wang Zifu on the list, As a result, the two sides were confronted, and General Yan Liang naturally believed Ji Miao's words.

Believing Ji Miao's words, General Yan Liang naturally hoped that Ji Ping's poisoning could be successfully carried out and help him establish immortal miracles, but General Yan Liang soon fell into ecstasy - a large number of scouts and meticulous works came to report one after another, saying that it was a sudden mourning in the Cao camp in Wating, the whole camp hung filial piety, and the white flags were raised at the gate! There was even a capable and meticulous worker who even touched the vicinity of Cao Jun's camp and heard the conversation of Cao Jun's soldiers with his own ears, saying that Cao Boss had been poisoned to death, and that Cao Boss's personal attendants, guards and medical officers had been arrested and were being tortured and arrested to take down the culprit!

After confirming the news again and again, the overjoyed General Yan Liang naturally had the idea of beating the water dog to expand the results of the battle, and naturally gave birth to the idea of robbing the camp overnight, as a result, when General Yan Liang personally led 10,000 elite soldiers to attack the Cao army camp at night, he also fell into the trap laid by General Cao Liang more naturally - General Yan Liang's team had just entered the Cao camp, the war drums were beating, and the Cao army ambushed the troops from all directions, killing them from the east, west, south and north at the same time, Yan Liang's army was in a hurry and there was a big chaos, and then a big defeat, The Cao army's team, which was waiting for work, was rushed to pieces, and they couldn't care about each other.

At this time, Cao Boss's bad luck finally came to an end, in the melee, Yan Liang led dozens of horsemen to break through in a hurry, just bumped into the team led by Dian Wei, the first fierce general of the Cao army, and saw Yan Liang running in front of him almost crazy, blood-red eyes lifted the double halberd and pounced on Yan Liang, Yan Liang raised his knife to face the battle, but he was flustered in his heart and couldn't stand Dian Wei's strange power comparable to Xu Chu, barely supported more than a dozen rounds and sold a flaw, turned the horse and didn't dare to continue to entangle with Dian Wei. But unfortunately, General Yan Liang didn't know that in addition to his martial arts skills and amazing strength, he also had another special skill - flying halberd!

"Where is Piff?!"

In the midst of the loud cheers, Dian Wei handed over the iron halberd in his right hand to his left hand, and pulled out a small halberd inserted in his back with his backhand, and a halberd flew towards Yan Liang, hitting Yan Liang's vest, and the tip of the halberd pierced through his heart, and the poor General Yan Liang also screamed and turned over and fell off his horse, fatally becoming the first general of the Yuan army to die in the Cao Yuan War!

Yan Liang died, the Yuan Shaojun team that was already in a state of collapse naturally had no chance, 10,000 elite soldiers were annihilated by the well-prepared Cao army ambush more than seventy percent, the rest either surrendered or fled to another country, only a very few people fled back to the White Horse Camp to report the news, the generals of Yuan Shaojun who stayed in the camp were shocked, and could only hurriedly lift the siege and flee to the ferry to cross the river and retreat, Cao Boss carried forward the style and beat the water dog in hot pursuit, and the Cao army Liu Yanbu, who had been besieged for a long time, also went out of the city to attack, and jointly attacked Yuan Shaojun, Yuan Shao's army, which had no leader, was defeated again, and was killed all over the field by Cao's army, with blood flowing and flags, and countless horses, grain, grass and baggage were lost, and less than 6,000 of the 30,000 troops who crossed the Yellow River alive were evacuated, and the rest were either killed or captured by Cao's army.

"In fact, the biggest contributor to the victory in this battle is the pottery thief." When Cao Jun Wenwu congratulated Cao Boss on his victory, Cao Boss, who was humble and clear, said the truth, "If it weren't for the timely warning of the pottery thief, this battle would definitely be a fiasco for our army and a great victory for Yuan's army." It can be seen that if I and the pottery thief can work together to fight against Yuan Shao, then Yuan Shao will die, and I and the pottery thief will win! ”

Cao Lao Da and Deputy Director Tao's double cheap wall is indeed invincible in the world, if it was changed to the usual, Deputy Director Tao sent a letter to reprimand Yuan Sangong for privately summoning Cao Jun to seek peace messengers, trying to go up to the house to pump ladders to put the Xuzhou army in danger, and the grumpy Yuan Sangong had long since denied Deputy Director Tao as a bad son-in-law. But after receiving the news of Yan Liang's death and the defeat of the former army, and then receiving a letter from his unworthy son-in-law, Da Yuan Sangong didn't dare to attack casually no matter how angry he was in his stomach, and he could only prepare to send troops to avenge Yan Liang, while writing back to his son-in-law to explain the reason, and said that he actually wanted to eliminate a military disaster for his son-in-law when he met with Cao Jun's envoy to seek peace, and when negotiating with Cao Jun's envoy, he would ask Cao Jun not to retaliate against his son-in-law, so as to appease his unfilial son-in-law.

In addition, the third prince of the Great Yuan had to ask his son-in-law to take Dingtao and Changyi as soon as possible, effectively contain the main force of the southern line of the Cao army, cover the southern crossing of the Yellow River by the Jizhou army, and then wait for the opportunity to join forces in Yanzhou to break the boss Cao. And when the trial and Feng Ji proposed to appropriately reward the war horse of Deputy Director Tao and encourage the Xuzhou army to work hard as cannon fodder, the third prince of Da Yuan hesitated and hesitated for a long time before saying: "Let's wait for him to take Changyi and Dingtao, I said that when Ying'er takes Dingtao and Changyi, I will reward him with a thousand war horses, I can't be untrustworthy." ”

The day after sending the letter back to his son-in-law, the third duke of the great Yuan left Yuan Shang and Feng Ji and others to guard the rear of Yecheng, and personally led the main army of Jizhou to the south, and the scale of the great Yuan Sangong this time did reach an astonishing 300,000 troops, from Qingyou and Hebei four states rushed to Yecheng to listen to the team stretched for more than 50 miles, the forwards led by Wen Chou have crossed the Qing River, but the rear team has not left the city of Yecheng, the banner is like a forest, the sword and gun are like a sea, 'the edict against the thief, The slogan of 'swear to destroy the Cao thief' was earth-shattering and amazing.

After receiving the news, Boss Cao did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly transferred back the reserve Xiahoudun team that was originally used to prevent accidents on the southern front, and replaced the Liu Yan team, which was destined to be useless, to guard Juancheng, Fanxian and other secondary cities, and also completely exposed the empty Yanzhou hinterland in front of the Xuzhou army, and scraped together more than 60,000 troops to falsely claim 70,000, and moved the people of Baima to Zhongmu west of Guandu, and took the initiative to abandon the strategic place of Baima, and retreated to Yanjin, which is relatively close to the general pass of Guandu, so that it is convenient to retreat to Guandu at any time.

Cao Boss is also helpless to do this, the Yellow River is not as wide as the Yangtze River and difficult to cross, there are ferries everywhere in the thousands of miles of the river, and the division of troops is impossible to prevent, not only is it difficult to prevent Yuan's army from going south, but also makes his already disadvantaged forces more dispersed, it is better to concentrate his forces to hold the Guandu General Pass, so as to concentrate his forces on a decisive battle with Yuan Shaojun. However, for the fact that Boss Cao did not immediately withdraw to Guandu, Xun You and Cheng Yu and other strategists had a lot of complaints, and persuaded one after another: "Prime Minister, the main force of our army should withdraw directly to Guandu, Yanjin is not a place to defend for a long time, if Yuan Shao does not cross the river in Yanjin, but crosses the river in Baima, then our army is not only useless in Yanjin, but also in danger of being pursued by Yuan Shao's cavalry when retreating to Guandu." ”

Faced with the doubts of his lackeys, Cao Lao laughed and was silent, but Guo Jia coughed and explained: "What the prime minister hopes is that Yuan Shao divides his troops to cross the river, Yanjin is located in the upper reaches of Baima, if Yuan Shao's main force crosses the river to Baima, then our army suddenly crosses the river in Yanjin, and Yuan Shao's grain road is in danger of being attacked by our army, so Yuan Shao must choose to enter Yanjin, and Yuan Shao's previous preparation for crossing the river is mostly in Baima, and the preparation for crossing the river in Yanjin is insufficient, and if the preparation is insufficient, he can only divide his troops to cross the river, once Yuan Shao divides his troops, Won't our army have another chance to take advantage of the opportunity to win? ”

Speaking of this, Guo Jia coughed again and added, and said with a smile: "Yanjin is far away from Baima, is it very far away?" ”

"I see, the prime minister is really smart." Cheng Yu and Xun You suddenly realized, and then Cheng Yu said worriedly: "Prime Minister, if Yuan Shao does not divide his troops and white horses, but chooses to divide his troops to cross the river at other ferries, or Yuan Shao simply refuses to divide his troops and chooses to confront our army in Yanjin, and transfers boats and boats from Baima to prepare to cross the river in Yanjin....... ”

Boss Cao smiled bitterly, and said after a while: "Let's take one step at a time, if it really doesn't work, I will quickly withdraw the army and return to Guandu to defend it, fortunately, the Yellow River is not so easy to cross, and Yuan Shao wants to pursue our army on the whole line, and it is not said that it can be done." ”

Boss Cao's luck is recognized as better than that of Yuan Sangong, and this time is no exception, when receiving the news that Boss Cao gave up the white horse and retreated to Yanjin with all his might, the big Yuan Sangong was proud that the enemy fled without a fight, and it was inevitable that he felt a little depressed like eating a fly - because in this way, it was easy for Yuan Shaojun's main force to cross the river in Baima, but Yuan Shaojun's grain route was exposed to Cao Boss's knife. Therefore, the third prince of Da Yuan could only listen to the bad idea of Guo Tu, the staff officer of the army, and ordered Wen Chou to lead the forward 30,000 people to cross the river in Baima, and he personally led the main force to change the route of the army, and rushed to Yanjin, where the river crossing was seriously insufficient, to confront Cao's army, preparing to take the important place of Baima to stabilize the footsteps, and then try to cross the river with the whole army.

"My lord, you must not do this." Inheriting Tian Feng's mantle, he jumped out in frustration and dissuaded: "Although the Cao thief abandoned the white horse and retreated to Yanjin, Yanjin is only fifty miles away from the white horse, and the light cavalry can be reached in an instant, and the foot soldiers can also arrive in half a day. ”

Speaking of this, he didn't care that the face of the Great Yuan Sangong had been stretched longer than a donkey, and he said eloquently: "Now the plan is to station the whole army in Yanjin and confront the Cao thief across the river, and then either dispatch and collect the ferry, or build the ferry on the spot, and prepare to cross the river, until the grain shortage is serious and the Cao thief runs out of grain and grass, or when Tao Ying breaks through Changyi and Dingtao, and the Cao thief is forced to retreat, our army will calmly cross the river to pursue and win a big victory!" ”

"Shut up!" Da Yuan Sangong couldn't bear to shout, "I personally led an army of 300,000 to attack Cao, and the sky and the earth changed color!" High morale, positive and fast battle! It seems that you are so slow in the spirit of the army, and if you delay it for a month, until the morale is exhausted and the morale of the army is shaken, that is a major event! ”

The frustrated professor wanted to persuade him again regardless of life or death, but the third prince of Da Yuan waved his hand angrily, preventing the frustrated professor from continuing to advise, and then shouted: "Ordered Wen Chou to quickly march to the White Horse to cross the river, cross the river and seize the ferry of the White Horse City, and do not fight with the Cao thief at will!" Then ordered Chun Yuqiong to be the second team, Han Meng to be the third team, each led an army of 15,000, and rushed to Baima to cross the river in turn, and the main force was at a wrestle, and attacked the Cao thief! ”

When Wen Choujun rushed to Baima and began to cross the river, the soldiers of the Cao army lurking on the south bank immediately lit the wolf smoke, and a wolf smoke rose every five miles, and the enemy situation was sent to Cao Boss in less than ten minutes. And Boss Cao immediately personally led 5,000 light horsemen to the White Horse to meet the battle - most of these war horses were brought by Boss Cao's good friend Zhong Xuan from the Chang'an area, and it only took less than two hours to rush to the White Horse Ferry, and he killed Yuan Shaojun by surprise.

It is well known that an army is the most vulnerable when crossing a river: not only is the army at the opposite end of the river bank unable to take care of each other, but the soldiers are also most vulnerable psychologically. And the old slippery head Cao Boss also firmly grasped this precious opportunity, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wen Chou army to cross the river just halfway through, and taking advantage of the opportunity of the Wen Chou army to panic in front of the self-army of the divine soldiers, the extremely decisive lead the army into the enemy group - Cao Boss's force is not under the young and strong Deputy Director Tao, Xiahou Yuan and Dian Wei The two generals also led the army to attack with their lives, and directly inserted into the Yuan Shaojun team like crazy, and the panicked and chaotic Yuan Shaojun on the south bank also suddenly collapsed, or trampled on each other and scattered. Or they scrambled to get on the boat and fled to the south bank, killing and drowning countless people, and almost all the more than 10,000 soldiers who crossed the Yellow River were wiped out.

By the way, it may be because of the churning of the wings of the demon moth of Deputy Director Tao, General Wen Chou's luck this time is much better than in history, seeing that the situation is not good, he escaped on a ferry in time, and personally cut down countless own soldiers who tried to grab the ferry, avoiding the bad luck of the ferry being crushed by his own defeated soldiers, and was extremely lucky to escape the Yellow River to save his life, which also made Cao Laoda's surprise attack fail to achieve full success.

After once again achieving the victory of the surprise attack on the White Horse Ferry, which greatly boosted morale and established confidence in victory, Cao Boss, who was more slippery than a fox, also immediately chose to accept it when he saw it, and took advantage of the opportunity that Yuan Shao's military boat was not yet fully prepared, and immediately withdrew his troops to Guandu.

Of course, it's not all bad news for the Great Yuan Sangong, at least on the second day of Cao Laoda's withdrawal, Deputy Director Tao, the filial son-in-law of the Great Yuan Sangong, sent a messenger to sneak through the hinterland of Yanzhou, and sent a new report to the Great Yuan Sangong - after more than a month of hard fighting, the Xuzhou army finally broke through Changyi City, the first important town on the southern line of Yanzhou, and forced the Cao army to lead the remnants of the defeated army to retreat to the small city of Chengshi to close the city and defend it, killing more than 20,000 enemies during the siege, and killing many generals of the Cao army! - Of course, because Cao Jun blocked the way, the head could not be delivered.

"Okay, good, Ying'er is really angry, really angry!" After reading the letter of the filial son-in-law, the great Yuan Sangong, who had not laughed since the defeat of Wenchou, was finally able to laugh, applauded and laughed: "In this way, as long as Ying'er takes Dingtao again and annihilates the remnants of Cao Chun of the Cheng clan, the two armies of Ji and Xu can join forces to defeat the Cao thief!" Quickly reply to Ying'er, and tell him to take down the Dingtao troops and go north as soon as possible, and fight with my division in Guandu and Cao Thief! ”

"No." Chen Lin, the secretary of the third prince of the Great Yuan, agreed, and hurriedly put pen to paper, and the judge next to him, who was more inclined to Deputy Director Tao, said cautiously: "My lord, Tao Envoy Jun is still urging the war horses in the letter, saying that it is very inconvenient to transport food and troops because of the shortage of war horses in his army, and I hope that the lord will lend him three thousand war horses as soon as possible, I don't know how the lord will reply?" ”

"This ......." Da Yuan Sangong hesitated again, and then said with a smile: "Tell Ying'er that there will definitely be war horses, but don't worry, after he meets me, I will have my own war horse reward." Now even if I give him a war horse, he won't be able to get it, and it will definitely be too late to transfer the war horse from Taishan County. ”

Hearing Da Yuan Sangong's reply, not only was he more inclined to Deputy Director Tao's trial and sighed helplessly, but even he couldn't help it, and reminded: "Lord, morale can be boosted, Tao Yuanjun is very hard to send troops this time, if he doesn't encourage him in time, he has repeatedly dampened the spirit of Tao's army, if Tao Ying refuses to enter the army because of this, then our army will have to fight alone." ”

Da Yuan Sangong's face was gloomy, and he snorted: "He dares!" If he dares to disobey orders, I will destroy the thief first, and then kill him!" ”

……………… Da Yuan Sangong really underestimated the courage of his son-in-law, because Deputy Director Tao had actually stopped marching at this moment and no longer exerted pressure on the southern front of the Cao Army, and when the Xuzhou messenger who actually held the Cao Army's pass token brought Da Yuan Sangong's reply to Changyi quickly, Deputy Director Tao, the negative of the twenty-four filial piety, was even more furious, and scolded: "The old iron rooster, not a single hair, only 3,000 war horses are reluctant to give, and you still want me to give you your life?" Dream! It seems that if you don't give this old iron rooster a little color, you won't know that Lord Ma has three eyes! ”

"What is the lord going to do with it?" Jia Lao Poison asked.

"Send another letter to the old iron rooster." Deputy Director Tao said hatefully: "Let's just say that our army suffered heavy casualties during the attack on Changyi City, and it is no longer able to attack Dingtao Jiancheng, so I want the old iron rooster to divide troops to reinforce me and assist me in attacking Dingtao!" Otherwise, with the strength of our army alone, there is no way to take Dingtao. ”

"Although the lord's plan is wonderful, it seems that the strength is not enough." Jia Lao Poison said gloomily: "Yuan Shao's soldiers are five times larger than Cao Ying, if Cao Ying misses a little, it will be a catastrophe, but now the plan should be for our army to properly share some pressure for Cao Ying, so as to ensure that there is no danger." ”

"How?" Deputy Director Tao muttered: "Make the covenant with the Cao thief public? Then our army will not only not have the moral advantage, but if it wants to ride the wall and watch the wind, it will not have a chance. ”

"Of course, the secret alliance between our army and Cao Jun cannot be made public, but it can give Yuan Shao a little warning." Jia Lao Poison smiled and said: "Xu suggests, the lord may wish to add a paragraph to the letter, saying that the Son of Heaven sent an envoy to our army's camp, claiming that the blood edict in Yuan Shao's hand is a false edict, asking our army to stop fighting with Cao's army, and then send troops to fight against Yuan Shao - and then the lord can ask Yuan Shao to send an envoy to the south with the blood edict in the letter, and prove the authenticity of the edict in person." ”

"Wonderful! In this way, the old iron rooster can't guard against our army without dividing his troops. Deputy Director Tao applauded, and said with a smile: "Just do it again, let my army messenger bring Cao Jun's pass order to the old iron rooster to see, let the old iron rooster know that the Cao thief is already unscrupulous in order to win over our army to join forces with him against the old iron rooster." ”

"If Yuan Shao is furious, our army can also justifiably turn the spearhead and attack Qingzhou with confidence." Liu Ye added with a cruel smile.

"Attack Qingzhou?" Deputy Director Tao, who had long coveted the six counties and two countries of Qingzhou, smiled, nodded first, then shook his head, and said with a very shy smile: "Wait a minute, the current situation is unclear, let's take a look at the situation about the attack on Qingzhou, anyway, Zang Ba and Sun Guan have long been ready, and they can take action at any time, and they can't delay time." ”

(To be continued)