Chapter 151: Burning Cao Ying
This battle is a game between Wang Chong and Guo Jia, both of whom have set a series of plans on this, but Wang Chong, as the attacker, has always taken the initiative, after all, Guo Jia, as the defender, must first predict Wang Chong's general plan before arranging the strategy, otherwise how to prescribe the right medicine?
Wang Chong's first move was very simple, that is, let Wei Yan go to attack the camp head-on, if the other party did not fortify, then lead the troops to rush and kill for a while, and then set a few fires to burn their camp, otherwise, then quickly retreat, using himself as bait, leading the Cao army to the ambush site of Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici, and encircling and annihilating this Cao army.
It is not very likely that Cao Cao will go to the night attack without guarding against Jinfan, in this case, it only depends on how big Cao Cao's appetite is, if he just wants to expel Jinfan, then after Wei Yan retreats, he will never send someone to chase him, and if he dares to pursue in this dark night, it means that he may have another ambush in the future.
Therefore, Wang Chong reminded Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici very early on, asking them to beware of Cao Jun's backhand, and not to evacuate in a hurry in the face of Cao Jun's rush, because they only need to hold on to their own side The plan succeeds, and then, the situation is very likely to reverse, so as to reap a hearty victory.
That's right! In fact, Wang Chong's real purpose was not in front of Cao Ying's camp from beginning to end, whether it was Wei Yan's frontal attack on the camp or Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici's field ambush, it was just to attract the attention of Cao Cao and Guo Jia.
This is a very risky gamble, once the gamble is lost, not only may you lose thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and even Wang Chong's own life may be taken into it, but if the bet wins, it will be enough to make Cao Jun hurt his muscles and bones, and his vitality will be greatly damaged.
Wang Chong has never lacked the spirit of adventure, so he insisted on doing so despite everyone's opposition, and it was obvious that he succeeded......
Guo Jia's resourcefulness is indeed outstanding, he has calculated almost everything, and even set up a second ambush line in the camp to wait for Wang Chong's self-defeat, but no matter how smart a person is, he always has his own blind spots, and Wang Chong's action this time is to use Guo Jia's blind spots, ah no, this should be said to be the common blind spot in the thinking of most northerners.
Waterway!
That's right, northerners are not good at water, so when they are thinking, they will always subconsciously ignore this problem, Wang Chongshui is amazing, he can lurk in the water for ten minutes without ventilation, which is obviously far beyond the understanding of northerners.
Wang Chong selected more than 200 soldiers with excellent water quality in the army, and swam silently to the upper reaches of the water in the night, Cao Cao and Guo Jia never dreamed that they had obviously occupied all the mountain roads, but Wang Chong could still sneak around behind them.
In the face of Wang Chong's attack around the rear, the soldiers of the Cao army, who were all focused on the front camp, seemed to be a little unprepared, Wang Chong quickly found the granary of the Cao army, and burned the grain and grass with a fire, and even the veteran Cai Yang, who was in charge of the guard, was killed by Wang Chong with a shot.
When Cao Cao led the army to come to the rescue, Wang Chong had already led the crowd to dive back to Huangshui and returned downstream with the water.
The raging flames shone on Cao Cao's gloomy face, looking so hideous, at this time, Cao Jun's soldiers were already spontaneously organizing firefighting, but Cao Cao knew very well in his heart that in this hot and dry season, once the fire spreads, how can it be extinguished by manpower? It's a pity that he is not the son of God, and God will not suddenly rain to help him escape this fate.
Fortunately, Cao Cao's psychological endurance was not bad, and he did not mess up because of this, so he immediately ordered Xu Chu to lead 5,000 soldiers to the front line to support, after all, if the grain and grass are gone, there will be no more, but his soldiers will never allow any more damage.
However, Cao Cao obviously underestimated the generals under his command, or Zhang Liao.
If it was an ordinary general who encountered this situation, he would definitely be shocked, and then without saying a word, he would lead the army back to rescue Cao Cao, such as Xiahoudun, Cao Hong and Cao Chun, fortunately, there was also a Zhang Liao who was calm enough and took the initiative to lead the 5,000 troops under his command to stay behind, otherwise Jinfan only needed to follow and kill, and they could easily be killed.
"Damn it!" Wei Yan was extremely annoyed, just now seeing that Xiahou was about to be unable to support his attack, but who would have thought that Zhang Liao would suddenly get rid of Tai Shici at this time and save him from his hands.
At the same time, as Xiahoudun and other Cao generals led the army back in a hurry, Jinfan, who wanted to cover up the situation, was also sniped by Zhang Liaojun's tough sniping, I have to say that Cao's sergeants are indeed elite, even in the case of changes in the base camp, they can still maintain such cohesion, which is really breathtaking.
A big victory that should have been captured, but in the end it was disturbed by Zhang Liao, whether it was Wei Yan, Tai Shici or Zhang Xiu, their faces were not very good-looking, so they vented their anger in their hearts on Zhang Liao, and the three of them attacked Zhang Liao together, only ten moves, Zhang Liao in the panic parry was stabbed in the shoulder by Zhang Xiu with a shot, and picked off the war horse.
"General!!
Dozens of Cao soldiers rushed up and entangled Wei Yan and the others without fear of death, and actually rescued Zhang Liao from under their noses.
Wei Yan and the three of them were furious and led the army to chase after them, where could the soldiers of Cao, who had lost their backbone, resist? The team was crushed in an instant.
Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici continued to command the army to expand the results of the battle, while Wei Yan still stared at Zhang Liao, as if he didn't kill Zhang Liao today, he would always chase after him like this.
Hundreds of die-hard guards under Zhang Liao's command continued to pounce on Wei Yan to block Wei Yan's footsteps, but they were all killed by Wei Yan's army, and as the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, the guards beside Zhang Liao were also dead and only twenty or thirty people remained.
Tonight's Wei Yange worked hard, he desperately wanted to capture or kill a Cao Jun general to wash away the shame of the defeat of the day, but God played a big joke with him, when he was about to solve Xiahou Xuan, Zhang Liao appeared, and now he saw that Zhang Liao was about to be arrested again, who would have thought that there would be another Xu Chu.
"Kill !!"
The five thousand Cao soldiers under the leadership of Xu Chu brazenly blocked Jinfan's charge, and Wei Yan, who was entangled by Xu Chu, could only watch Zhang Liao, who was originally close at hand, run farther and farther.
"Ah!!h Wei Yan roared unwillingly, the whole person was almost crazy, and the tide of attacks attacked Xu Chu wave after wave, but he had been fighting for a long time, and he was about to be exhausted, where would he be Xu Chu's opponent?
The two fought less than twenty times, and Wei Yan fell into a disadvantage, and Tai Shici, who was not far away, hurriedly brought a gun to help, which finally relieved Wei Yan's considerable pressure.
Xu Chu saw that he had no chance to take Wei Yan again, so he didn't entangle, so he pulled out his horse and left.
Zhang Xiu, who was on the rise of killing, instinctively wanted to pursue, but was stopped by the relatively calm Tai Shici: "General, poor Kou Mo chase!" ”