The moon and stars are scarce, and the pine waves are bursting.

Cao's soldiers were divided into six routes, each soldier carrying a bundle of firewood under his arm, and under the cover of night, he attacked Wuchao in a hurry.

After Cao Cao learned from Xu You's mouth that Yuan Shao's granary was set up in Wuchao, he keenly realized that this was probably his best chance to defeat Yuan Shao, as long as he burned the grain and grass in Wuchao, Yuan Shao's military spirit would inevitably be weakened, and then he could defeat Yuan's army in one go.

Therefore, Cao Cao only left Cao Ren, Li Dian, Lu Qian and other generals, plus Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Xun You and other strategists, led 30,000 soldiers to guard the camp, and the other generals almost poured out of the nest, and the troops marched to Wuchao in six ways, vowing to burn the granary of the Yuan army.

On the first road, Xu Huang led 6,000 people to Huanghuagang; On the second road, Xiahoudun led 6,000 people to go to Chishui Beach; The third road Lejin led 6,000 people to go to Qingsnake Ridge, and the fourth road Li Tong led 6,000 people to go to Yanwei Gorge.

The fifth road Cao Chun and Cao Xiu led 5,000 tigers and leopards to ride along Guanyi Avenue, of course, this team was not a real tiger and leopard ride, but a heavy armored horse with the banner of tiger and leopard riding; The real tiger and leopard riders were mostly guarding Cao Cao's side.

The last route was personally commanded by Cao Cao, Xu Chu led a thousand heavy armor to open the way in front, his son Cao Zhang led the ace division of the Cao army, and two thousand real tiger and leopard cavalry guards were around Cao Cao, followed by five thousand foot soldiers holding firewood, and made a detour to seal the hill and attack the black nest.

With such a large-scale use of troops by the Cao army, according to normal reasoning, it is difficult to hide from the scouts of the Yuan army; However, due to the fact that during the day, Yuan Shao ordered all the camps to be pulled out and redeployed, which caused the scouts to enter a state of confusion, and they couldn't figure out which direction they should monitor for a while. took the opportunity to be lazy and relax the nerves that had been tense for a long time, thus creating an opportunity for Cao Jun to attack the black nest at night.

Yuan Shao and his advisers thought that Cao Cao was likely to focus on attacking the Black Nest, but they didn't expect Cao Cao to come so quickly, Xu You only went to Cao Ying in the morning to defect, and Cao Cao raided the Black Nest in the evening.

The soldiers are fast and fast, and Cao Cao is well versed in the way of using soldiers, which may be where he wins Yuan Shao.

The night was hazy, and the bleak moonlight shone on the muddy water of the Yellow River, sparkling and sparkling.

"Quick. Hurry up and make your way to the Black Nest! ”

Yuan Mai crossed the river by boat. The first one set foot on the land on the south bank of the Yellow River, dressed in armor, with a long sword hanging from his waist, standing on a horse. Loudly urging the team to march towards the black nest with all their might.

On the left and right sides of Yuan Buy. I wish justice to carry a double knife. Zhou Cang carried a machete and guarded him tightly, not leaving an inch in case of accidents.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan. Yuan Mai had secretly dispatched Xu Sheng to lead 3,000 sailors south along the Yellow River a few days in advance, and joined his own team near Wuchao to prepare for the Battle of Wuchao.

The 8,000 soldiers and horses were able to cross the river quickly, entirely because of the help of Xu Shengshui's division, 30 ships shuttled back and forth on the Yellow River, each of which could carry 200 people, and it took less than two to transport the 8,000 elite soldiers on the north bank to the south bank of the Yellow River.

From the north bank of the Yellow River came not only soldiers, but also more than a thousand carriages. This was all prepared secretly by Yuan Mai in advance, and he had to ask what the carriage was doing when it was transported, of course, to grab grain from Wuchao.

It took less than an hour for 8,000 elites and more than 1,000 carriages to cross the Yellow River.

Seeing that the army had finished arraying, Yuan Mai patted Xu Sheng's shoulder and said loudly: "Wen Xiang, you lead your troops to guard the shore, not leaving an inch, I will lead the team to Wuchao, send people to the shore of the saved grain and grass, and then you will transport it to the north shore!" ”

"It doesn't hurt to make you go, the position by the river is guarded by Xu Sheng, and it is foolproof!"

Xu Sheng held a bronze horse lance, bowed to Yuan Mai, and accepted it. The big banner of the word "Xu" blown by the river wind, the sound of hunting, as if showing the determination of the 3,000 sailors to defend the position to the death.

"March, Black Nest!"

Yuan Mai waved the sword in his hand, and the sword pointed at the black nest.

"Follow me!"

The young Guo Huai experienced such a big battle for the first time, and he couldn't help but boil his blood, with a black-maned horse under his crotch and a single-edged halberd in his hand, leading the way first, followed by two thousand light cavalry.

Yuan Mai was in the center of the procession under the escort of Zhu Gongdao and Zhou Cang, six thousand foot soldiers, and a thousand carriages walked on the road leading to Wuchao, like a wriggling black snake in the light of the moon.

Fifty miles south of Wuchao is the main battlefield of Guandu, where there is also an undercurrent, and the Sixth Route Cao Army is quietly advancing towards the Wuchao camp.

Yanwei Gorge is a narrow valley, hidden between the mountains, and the road is rugged, but it is the closest road from Guandu to Wuchao, at least a dozen miles closer than the other passages. Because the narrowest valley mouth resembles a swallowtail, it is named.

In the hazy moonlight, Li Tong urged his troops to rush forward, bent on grabbing the first skill of burning the black nest, and he had already arrived at Yanwei Gorge after an hour and a half.

As long as you cross this canyon, the road ahead will gradually open up, and it is only ten miles away from Wuchaoze, and Wuchao is within reach.

"Full speed ahead, after the swallowtail gorge, you will reach the black nest!" Li Tong carried a spear in his hand, mixed in the army, and loudly urged the troops to advance.

More than 1,000 people in the vanguard successively drilled into the narrow Yanwei Gorge, and at this moment an accident happened, the drums on both sides of the mountain sounded, and five or six thousand volts emerged from the hidden jungle. It was the Wang Shuang Corps that was ambushed here, and it had been waiting for a long time.

Cao's army was caught off guard, and the army was in chaos for a while.

Coupled with the narrowness of the valley, unable to counterattack, and unable to use the force, Li Tong saw that he had lost more than a thousand soldiers, and he still could not pass through the canyon, so he could only retreat hatefully, preparing to take a detour to the Green Snake Ridge, and march towards Wuchao after Lejin.

Cao Gong has an order, not to burn the Wuchao granary tonight, and vow not to collect troops. In any case, all the men and horses must be killed outside the camp of the Black Nest and join forces, even if they fight to the last man, they cannot retreat lightly.

"Go down the hill and attack Cao Ying!"

After the ambush soldiers killed Li Tong, Wang Shuang waved his troops to march towards Cao's army camp according to Yuan Mai's previous instructions.

Yuan Mai had already calculated in advance that when Cao Cao sent troops to attack Wuchao, even if he did not come out of the nest, the troops in the camp would inevitably not be there; Therefore, Wang Shuang prepared rockets and flammable materials in advance. After waiting to kill and retreat all the way to Cao's army, then march towards Cao Cao's camp, and you don't have to attack the camp, just shoot a rocket at Cao's camp!

Anyway, when the time comes, Zhang He and Gao Ran will send troops to attack Cao Ying, and contain the defense force of Cao Jun, and the "White Feather Cavalry" under Wang Shuang's command can just exert the power of cavalry and shooting, and shoot around Cao Jun's camp in a circle, and there will be a harvest!

Although I don't know where Cao Jun's grain and grass are hidden, a burst of rockets is fired. It will inevitably cause a fire in Cao Jun's camp. Whether or not Cao Cao's grain and grass can be burned has to be left to fate!

Chishuitan is separated from Yanwei Gorge for about fifteen miles, and is formed by the overflowing water of Wuchaoze, because the water is red and black. Hence the name.

In the hazy moonlight. A team of Cao soldiers and horses. People are silent, holding firewood in their arms, and waving the banner of "Xiahou". Marching in the direction of the Black Nest.

With a trumpet, a team of men and horses were killed in the oblique stab, and the general was the leader, and the horizontal knife immediately blocked Cao Bing's way, and it was Zhang Liao who ambushed the soldiers here.

"Where are the thieves? Yanmen Zhang Wenyuan has been waiting here for a long time! ”

"Shhh...... How could Zhang Liao's men and horses be here? ”

Looking at the brightly armored team behind Zhang Liao, Xiahoudun couldn't help but gasp.

I saw two thousand heavily armored tiger horses lined up, the mounts were majestic, the armor was distinct, and the weapons in the hands of the soldiers shimmered in the moonlight, which was terrifying.

There are three thousand foot soldiers behind the tiger horse, which are also orderly and distinct; Divided into three columns lined up; The first column was a thousand archers, the second was a thousand pikemen, and the third column was a thousand sword and shield soldiers, all with grim expressions and high morale.

The area around Chishuitan is a vast gravel plain, and although the area is not large, it is completely enough for two thousand heavy armored horsemen to launch a charge. In the mountainous territory of Henan, such terrain could not be better for cavalry!

This is also the place where Zhang Liao carefully chose the ambush after surveying for many days, in order to give full play to the power of the cavalry.

From Guandu to Wuchao, there are at least six or seven roads to go, Zhang Liao judged that Cao Jun would definitely march in separate ways, so he has been waiting for the rabbit at Chishui Beach, and after waiting for a few days, he really waited for Xiahoudun, the one-eyed wolf!

"It's not good, if you meet the cavalry of the Yuan family, you can't be defeated, retreat quickly!"

Xiahoudun's voice was a little low, a little hoarse, and a little unwilling.

But the battle-hardened one-eyed general also understood that encountering heavy armored cavalry in such an open place, fighting with foot pawns is completely like using a flock of sheep to resist hungry wolves, and blocking tigers with fat pigs, which is no different from throwing himself into a dead end!

What's more, in order to burn the black nest, all the soldiers traveled lightly, just carrying weapons and a little dry food, and unloading all the antlers, horses and other equipment in the camp, in order to carry an extra bundle of firewood.

At this moment, in the face of this heavily armed heavy cavalry, Cao Jun is simply a lamb to be slaughtered and a fat pig sent to the door; There is no way but to turn around and run!

In fact, without waiting for Xiahoudun to order, these battle-hardened Cao soldiers were already stunned, and everyone smelled the breath of death!

Encountering heavy cavalry in this kind of terrain means that death is not more than a stone's throw away; I saw that not far from the opposite side, the neatly arrayed war horses were covered in black armor, and a white breath came out of their nostrils, as if they were summoned from hell!

"Run!"

I don't know which guy who didn't have a seed was the first to shout, and Cao Jun began to stir, and they all turned around and fled south.

The defeat was like a mountain, and Xiahoudun knew that he was powerless to restrain him, so he turned his horse and retreated in the direction of Guandu under the support of his cronies and retinue.

"Tiger Rider, Pursuit!"

Zhang Liao made a big knife move in his hand, clamped his legs on the "green lion", took the lead, swept towards the defeated Cao army's formation, the horse's hooves were everywhere, and several heads were immediately cut off......

With Zhang Liao's order, two thousand tiger and heavy armored horsemen chased after them like a tide, stepping on the hard gravel under their feet, and a slaughter began......

The screams came and went, the sound of people shouting and neighing horses was endless, and Cao Jun was slashed and killed in a pool of blood by the tiger horsemen, and even those who were not dead were immediately trampled into meat by the swept iron horses; Those who were lucky enough to escape didn't survive, and the footmen who followed behind would make up for it and send them away happily!

In the chase battle for half an hour, more than 4,000 corpses were lying on the edge of the Chishui Beach, and the blood stained the beach red, turning the red into vermilion, and the hard gravel was also stained with blood and broken corpses.

How can a two-legged person outrun a four-legged war horse, not to mention that Cao Bing has been driving for dozens of miles, and he is already in extreme exhaustion, the more he runs, the slower he gets, and the tiger rider behind him follows like a shadow, and it seems to have become a total annihilation!

"Drop the firewood in your hand and light a fire to stop the pursuers!"

In despair, Xiahoudun suddenly came to his senses, turned his horse, ordered the soldiers to set fire, and continued to race with the Yuan cavalry like this, only to be wiped out.

With Xiahoudun's order, the stunned soldiers came to their senses, and the firewood in the arms of some of the frightened soldiers had not been thrown away, and they were quickly piled up on the road, lit with fire, and in a moment there was a wall of fire burning.

The chasing tiger was blocked from riding a war horse and could not pass through the wall of fire, so Cao Bing took the opportunity to escape and gradually went away.

Seeing that the chasing soldiers were getting farther away, Xiahoudun collected the remnants of the soldiers, and there were only more than 1,000 people left, so he couldn't help but roar and curse, and he was unwilling to lead the troops back towards the camp. Although Cao Cao said that all men and horses must march to Wuchao no matter what, if they encounter Zhang Liao's cavalry again, it is estimated that the whole army will be wiped out, so Xiahoudun chose to retreat.

"Don't chase it, march to the black nest quickly!"

After Zhang Liao defeated Xiahoudun, he did not pursue, and waved his troops to retreat to Wuchao, preparing to support Yuan Mai's army who crossed the river from the north of the Yellow River and defended the Wuchao granary.

The wind blew, and there was silence in the camp of Wuchao, unaware of the fighting outside.

On Guanyi Avenue, there was finally a road of Cao soldiers approaching the Wuchao granary.

Six soldiers and horses, the first to arrive at the Wuchao granary was Cao Chun and Cao Xiu led the "tiger and leopard horse", along the post road, along the way did not even meet a patrol team, unimpeded to the Wuchao camp, more than a mile away, Yuan Jun spies only found the enemy.

"Charge, set fire, burn granaries!"

Cao Chun, Cao Xiu's uncle and nephew each led 2,500 cavalry to launch a fierce attack on Yuan's camp, and when they forced to the front of the fence, they lit the firewood they carried and threw it into the camp, and many camp tents were ignited by bonfires.

"What, Cao Jun robbed the camp?"

The main general Chun Yuqiong woke up from his sleep, and before the alcohol had subsided, he put on his armor in a panic and ordered Su You to put out the fire while guarding the camp; He brought Han Juzi, Wei Yuanjin, Zhao Rui and other generals, and led 20,000 horses out of the camp to intercept the cavalry of Cao's army, so as to avoid being rushed into the camp by them and causing greater losses.

In the heavy land of Wuchao, 450,000 stone grain and more than 200,000 stone forage were hoarded, and if they were burned by Cao Jun, Yuan Jun would usher in a catastrophic defeat. Chun Yuqiong knows that she can't afford this responsibility! (To be continued......)