Deputy Director Tao, who became a monk halfway, is indeed not good at battle battles, but there is a thing called talent in this world, and he sent Zhao Yun's cavalry team to attack the back of Cao Jun's crane wing formation, because Deputy Director Tao knew that most of the elite of Cao Jun had gone north, and the remaining elite soldiers were arranged by Cao Boss to maneuver on both wings, and the last bit of elite, Deputy Director Tao was definitely arranged by Cao Boss in the forefront of the Chinese army's large array, used to prevent the surprise attack of the Xuzhou army, even if there were some soldiers behind the Chinese army, the number was definitely not much, Therefore, Deputy Director Tao sent Zhao Yun's team to raid the back of the Cao army by feeling, and the persimmon picked the soft pinch, first took the second-line auxiliary soldiers of the Cao army, or achieved a partial victory to boost morale, or forced Boss Cao to make adjustments to the chaotic position.

Of course, what Deputy Director Tao, who doesn't know is that his tactics of following his feelings have a prominent name in history in both the East and the West. In the East, this tactic is called the woodpecker tactic, and a little devil named Shingen Takeda is the best at using this trick. In the West, this hand is called the hammer anvil tactic, and the famous Western generals who are good at using this despicable tactic are named Alexander and Hannibal.

Then again, no matter how good the tactics are, the poor implementation is also on paper, so although Boss Cao was aware of Deputy Director Tao's despicable purpose, he was also worried that Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao's troops in the rear army would not be able to block the impact of the Xuzhou cavalry, but after Cao Boss hesitated again and again, he still decided to respond to all changes with the same and let the rear army carry the Xuzhou cavalry alone, because Boss Cao knew the situation of the Xuzhou cavalry team very well, and knew that the composition of the Xuzhou cavalry was complex, the soldiers of the Gongsun Zan army from Qingzhou and Youzhou, and even the Huainan soldiers and the Xiliang soldiers, although they all have experience in riding and cavalry warfare, but they have only been reorganized for three months, and it is doubtful whether they have formed a whole, so Boss Cao has to gamble anyway to see if the rear army's own infantry team can resist the impact of the Xuzhou cavalry.

If it can, then not only will Cao Jun's Chinese army have no worries, but after proving that the Xuzhou cavalry is not as strong and terrible as imagined, Cao Boss's Zhang He team on the right wing can also be liberated, and he can rest assured and boldly attack the Xu Huang cavalry team of the Xuzhou Army on the opposite side!

The fierce battle on the right flank of the Xuzhou army continued, and the Danyang soldiers who were hated by the brother troops at this moment finally proved that they have been pampered and pampered by Deputy Director Tao, and it is not entirely the reason why they are fellow villagers with Deputy Director Tao. Killed all over the body covered in blood and still roared, even if he was seriously injured and fell, he had to hold the enemy to give his companions a chance to kill the enemy, the knife slashed and stabbed with the tip of the knife, the spear was broken and smashed with the handle of the gun, the axe was taken off and the enemy was rolled on the ground, and the throat was bitten by the knee with a stone with a fist, many Cao soldiers were bitten through their throats alive and died, both sides were brave and abnormal, and both sides were killed and wounded.

What made Deputy Director Tao and the Xuzhou army ecstatic, and what also made Cao Boss and Cao Jun frightened was that under the crazy impact of the Danyang hooligan soldiers, the elite team of the Cao army led by Li Dian showed signs of being unable to support it, not only was they killed by the Danyang soldiers and slowly retreated, but even deserted. Seeing this scene, Boss Cao couldn't help but ask left and right: "Who is the surname of the Xuzhou thief general who is in charge of the Danyang soldiers for the Tao thief?" ”

"The surname is Wei Mingyan, Wenchang, Nanyang people." Cheng Yu, who is as good at gathering intelligence as Liu Ye, replied: "I heard that he was originally a Jingzhou general, only in charge of an army of 100 people, and after the pottery thief captured Huang Zu's son Huang Shot on the battlefield, he used the yellow shot to replace him from the Jingzhou army, and immediately entrusted him with the important task of captain, specifically let this Wei Yan take charge of the Danyang soldiers for the pottery thief." ”

"Dog pottery thief, he is very accurate in looking at people, and he can also do business."

Boss Cao cursed a swear word, and then sent a fast horse to give an order to Li Dian's team, ordering Li Dian to withstand the impact of the Danyang hooligan soldiers, and when the Danyang soldiers' momentum was exhausted and their morale declined, they immediately launched a counterattack to defeat the Danyang soldiers. Then Boss Cao no longer paid attention to the flank battlefield, and quickly climbed to the top of the flag formation, condescendingly observing the battle situation of the rear army.

At this time, the powerful Xuzhou cavalry had already detoured back to the rear of Cao's army, and the rear army of Cao's army, which had received the order, was also racing against time to adjust the queue, and very cleverly used the hills and woods to cover the flanks, and lined up ten horizontal teams of 500 people each to form a buffer, preparing to deal with the impact of the Xuzhou cavalry. What worried Boss Cao was that Zhao Yun's team really lined up four neat dense horizontal formations, each team of about six hundred people, ready to launch the cavalry wall charge that Cao Boss had seen, so that Cao Boss had to secretly pray that Zhao Yun's cavalry team was not as elite as the Junzi Army, and could not effectively exert the maximum power of the wall charge.

After another moment, the prepared Xuzhou cavalry began to charge, the heavy cavalry in the first row pedaled rope and set the stirrup, raised the gun arm in the right hand, leaned forward slightly to make the tip of the gun pointed downward, and began to slowly step forward in the slogan, like a boulder rolling down from the mountain, the speed became faster and faster, from slow to running, and then into galloping, and then advanced at a terrible speed, the momentum was amazing, like a horse wall and a human wall, and rushed towards the rear of the Cao army furiously.

"Raise your gun!"

Zhu Linglu Zhao's second general's order was issued very quickly, and the response strategy adopted was also very effective, but the Cao army team that faced such a terrible charge for the first time reacted differently, and the elite of the Cao army in the third and fourth rows raised their spears in unison, and the tips of the guns went straight forward, but the rest of the ordinary Cao soldiers were frightened, especially the cannon fodder soldiers in the first and second rows, all of them were as white as earth, and finally raised their spears to the front, and waited for the Xuzhou cavalry to rush forward with trembling hands and feet.

"Kill ——!" In the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, the first row of Xuzhou heavy cavalry finally hit the first row of the Cao army's horizontal team, and the front of the battle suddenly sounded an earth-shattering sound of neat shouting and killing, one after another Xuzhou soldiers were stabbed off the war horse, and more Cao soldiers were pierced by the Xuzhou cavalry's spears, screaming and retreating to the rear with the spears, and slammed into the second row of their own soldiers' spears, countless people were knocked down by the war horses, and countless soldiers were trampled by the hooves of the war horses. Almost instantly, it was completely collapsed by the Xuzhou heavy cavalry.

When it came to the third row, the Xuzhou heavy cavalry, which had been offset by cannon fodder, finally encountered stubborn resistance, and more heavy cavalry were stabbed off the horse by the elite of the Cao army, but there were still more Cao soldiers who were stabbed over by the condescending Xuzhou heavy cavalry, and after hitting three rows of Cao heavy cavalry in a row, the Xuzhou heavy cavalry quickly threw down the wooden spear that had been broken or pierced into the enemy's body, pulled out the saber and brandished the axe to fight with the enemy in a bloody battle.

Seeing that the layer-by-layer horizontal team tactics arranged by Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao finally blocked the charging momentum of the Xuzhou cavalry, and did not expose the weaknesses of the elite of the rear army, Boss Cao breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to praise Zhu Ling and others for using their brains, but Boss Cao's triangular eyes suddenly widened again, because at this time, the Xuzhou cavalry of the second team also rushed to the front of Zhu Ling's formation, and the spear in his hand also spewed out flames more than a zhang long! Boss Cao couldn't help but exclaim again: "Flying muskets? Why did the pottery thief cavalry use flying muskets in the second team? ”

When thinking about it again, Cao Boss quickly understood Deputy Director Tao's vicious intentions, since the first team of Xuzhou cavalry is a well-equipped heavy cavalry - a lot of armor is still equipment snatched from Cao Laoda's tiger and leopard cavalry, so when forcibly attacking the infantry formation, there is no need to use flying muskets, as long as the impact and defense of the heavy cavalry are exerted, and after the impact of the heavy cavalry is offset by the human wall, and then let the second team of light cavalry use flying muskets to cover, which can have the effect of burning the Cao soldiers facing the Xuzhou cavalry, the most effective cover heavy cavalry to kill the enemy, the Xuzhou heavy cavalry with their backs to the flying muskets is almost unaffected, and they can rest assured that they can take the opportunity to kill the enemy.

The situation is also as Cao Boss expected, when the flying musket burned in front of him, the elite of the Cao army who was carrying the Xuzhou heavy cavalry was able to take care of the east and not the west, either by the condescending Xuzhou heavy cavalry hacked to death, or by the flame of more than a zhang long burned in the door, and then was hacked to death by the Xuzhou heavy cavalry, and was Cao Boss and Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao placed high hopes on more than 1,000 elite teams were also quickly reimbursed, and the Xuzhou cavalry was so defeated that they could not be defeated, and they all fled backwards with screams, and the Xuzhou cavalry marched all the way and continued to rush to the fifth team of Cao army soldiers.

Originally, the Cao army still had a chance to block the impact of the Xuzhou cavalry - if the six Cao army horizontal teams behind could still hold on, but the momentum of the Xuzhou cavalry had destroyed the confidence of these Cao soldiers, plus the Cao soldiers who fled from the first four rows also affected the integrity of the queue, so the ordinary Cao soldiers in the back were also soon tragic, and they were burned by the flying muskets and cried wolves, and they were also cut to flesh and blood by the Xuzhou heavy cavalry, and the rest of the Cao soldiers scrambled to turn around and flee, which affected the integrity of the sixth team's queue. Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao and other generals were in a hurry, hurriedly stepped forward to restrain the team, and ordered the soldiers to stick to their posts and continue to withstand the impact of the Xuzhou cavalry, but they never had much effect.

To the surprise of Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao, at this time, the rear of the Xuzhou cavalry suddenly sounded the sound of gold, and the Xuzhou cavalry, which had just dispersed the five Cao army infantry horizontal teams, quickly withdrew from the battlefield, but before Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao could figure out the reason for the sudden retreat of the Xuzhou cavalry, they immediately saw the Xuzhou cavalry of the third and fourth teams rushing in line - it was obvious that Zhao Yun, who was familiar with cavalry combat, was unwilling to let the cavalry fight in close quarters, so he withdrew the first and second teams that had lost the momentum of the charge. Change the third and fourth teams to exert the power of the charge, and let the first and second teams withdraw to the rear and regroup the whole team.

Seeing such a situation, not to mention that Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao, who were ordered to defend the rear army, were pale, and the rest of the Cao army's horizontal team were frightened, even Cao Boss, who was watching the battle in the Chinese army, was also a little desperate, and Guo Jia and Cheng Yu, who accompanied Cao Boss to watch the battle, said quickly: "Prime Minister, I'm afraid our rear army won't be able to support it for long, and I ask the Prime Minister to transfer troops back to defense as soon as possible." ”

Boss Cao was noncommittal, and turned around to look at the main force of Xuzhou in front of him, and saw that the main force of the Chinese army in Xuzhou had always stood still, obviously waiting for the fighter to appear. When looking at the two wings again, the Zhang He infantry array on the right wing had been stared at by Xu Huang's cavalry, and they did not dare to move, while the left wing was still fighting fiercely, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser. To compete with the pottery thief patience, my elite total strength exceeds the pottery thief by a lot, even if this battle can't be won, consuming more pottery thief elite soldiers is also a victory! ”

The young and vigorous Deputy Director Tao is indeed inferior to Boss Cao in terms of patience, seeing that Boss Cao let the rear army be attacked and did not make adjustments, Deputy Director Tao wanted to strike first, so he asked Jia Lao Poison: "Mr. Wenhe, in your opinion, can our army launch a frontal attack on Cao Thief's Chinese army?" ”

"No!" Jia Lao Poison categorically vetoed, and said: "Cao Mengde has always ignored the rear army, obviously because he is worried that the mobilization of the elite reinforcements of the front army will expose flaws, and he attaches great importance to frontal defense, and our army will suffer a big loss if it forcibly attacks. ”

After that, Jia Lao, who is also experienced, quickly suggested: "The lord doesn't need to be anxious, judging from the current battle situation, Cao Mengde's last elite should have been exhausted here, and there must not be many elite soldiers left in the big camp, the lord can send a fast horse back to Xiaopei, so that the surname Cao led an army of 3,000 to bypass the battlefield and rush to the Cao army camp to attack the Cao camp, without really attacking, so that Cao Mengde can panic when he hears the news." Then he sent 800 infantry, let them use the banner of General Gao Shun and the trapped camp, and rushed to the right flank battlefield to reinforce General Wei Yan, so as to confuse Cao Mengde's mind and force Cao's army to attack our army. ”

Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed when he heard the news, and hurriedly acted according to the plan, first sent a fast horse to order the Cao surname six miles to the south to send troops, and arranged for an ordinary general to lead 800 ordinary Xuzhou soldiers to come to the trapping camp in pieces, exchange the most elite trapping camp soldiers, gradually replace the position of the trapping camp soldiers, and take over the banner of Gao Shun and the trapping camp. It wasn't until all this was arranged, and it was estimated that the scouts of the Cao army should send the news of Cao's troops to Boss Cao, that Deputy Director Tao ordered the fake camp to go out and march to the right flank to reinforce Wei Yan's team there.

Seeing that the Xuzhou army finally moved, when Boss Cao urgently ordered the scouts to reconnoiter the situation of the Xuzhou army, the news of the team surnamed Cao's sneak attack on the Cao army camp was also sent to Boss Cao. Hearing the news, Boss Cao's face changed at first, and then he snorted: "Bluff, thousands of infantry want to break through my camp, dreaming!" Tao Ying thief, you will die if you use less tricks?! ”

"Report ————!" Before the words fell, another Cao Jun sentry horse rushed to Boss Cao, knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said: "Prime Minister, there are only more than 800 people sent by the pottery thieves to reinforce the flanks, under the banner of high characters and the banner of trapping the camp!" ”

"Trapped?!" Boss Cao's face changed again, and when he hurriedly looked up at the flank battlefield, he just heard cheers in the Danyang soldiers' ranks, and it was obvious that the Danyang soldiers also found the first elite of their own army's infantry to help, and cheers broke out under the high morale.

Gritting his teeth heavily, Boss Cao turned back to look at the rear army, but saw that the horizontal team arranged by Zhu Ling and Lu Zhao had already been scattered by the Xuzhou cavalry, and at present, only more than 1,000 Cao troops had temporarily arranged a small phalanx, which was struggling to resist the impact of the Xuzhou cavalry from all directions, not only could it be crushed at any time, but the Xuzhou cavalry was also very likely to throw down this phalanx and directly attack the back of the army.

"It's just a gamble." After gritting his teeth, Boss Cao called Dian Wei and ordered: "I will lead all the strategists to move to the right wing of Zhang He's army, and the remaining 5,000 troops of the Chinese army will be handed over to you, and the front of the pottery thief Chinese army will be attacked!" Tell the soldiers of the whole army that whoever can obtain the head of the pottery thief is the lord of Xuzhou! ”

Dian Wei hugged his fists and sang a promise, Cao Boss led a cadre of strategists and guards to quickly move to the right wing of Zhang He's team, Dian Wei took over the command of the Chinese army, and began to preach the heavy reward offered by Cao Boss to boost morale, the Chinese army's Cao army team was really demoralized, when the war drums beat again, the last 5,000 Chinese troops also howled and rushed up, betting on the last bit of victory hope of the Cao army, rushing to the Xuzhou Chinese army that still has 10,000 people!

War is not addition, not a large number of troops will be able to win, hundreds of elites can easily defeat tens of thousands of rabble, 60,000 Cao troops can defeat 300,000 Yuan troops, Cao Boss's Chinese army still maintains 2,000 elite battles, but it is facing the Xuzhou rookie army that has even fallen into the camp and has been transferred eastward, so not only the 5,000 Cao army led by Dian Wei is full of confidence in victory, but Cao Boss, who made this risky decision, also firmly believes that his gamble will be the same as that of Guandu, and he will win a big victory again!

When Boss Cao was about to join Zhang He's team, Boss Cao, who was in a higher position, looked back at the battlefield on the left flank of his own army, but to Boss Cao's surprise, after the world-famous trap camp joined the battlefield, Li Dian's team did not immediately show defeat, and it seemed that it could still hold on. In a blink of an eye, Boss Cao, who used the soldiers, suddenly turned pale, "It's over!" I may have fallen for the trick again! ”

It was found that it may be too late, the Chinese army led by Dian Wei has rushed to within 100 steps of the Xuzhou Chinese army, after a trumpet sound, the long shield in front of the Xuzhou army was suddenly put down together, revealing the wind feather army and countless Xuzhou crossbowmen who had been lurking behind the shield wall for a long time, the stormy crossbow arrows, feather arrows and Xuzhou's famous wind feather arrows, also suddenly attacked the Dian Wei team like a dense dark cloud, countless Cao soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and more Cao soldiers continued to charge forward, desperately narrowing the distance with the Xuzhou army, However, what greeted them was a continuous rain of arrows fired by the third stage of the Feng Yu Army, and more Cao soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the corpses and wounded soldiers stumbled, and the charging momentum of the Cao army's team suddenly slowed down.

The dense crossbow arrows continued, and the Cao soldiers who had lost the advantage of charging their usual surnames adjusted their tactics, while covering the vital points with shields, they quickly approached the Feng Yu army, the Feng Yu army shot and retreated, and the other crossbowmen quickly retreated into the two wings, and the phalanx of the Xuzhou Chinese army quickly turned into a glaive array, Dian Wei noticed that something was wrong and roared again and ordered the charge, but the Feng Yu army, which was less than thirty steps away from the Cao army, suddenly dodged to both sides, and Gao Shun, who was lurking behind the Feng Yu army, led the trap camp to shout and kill, and went straight into the Cao army's ranks, The Xu Chu team behind him was exposed, and the Xuzhou army on both sides also quickly surrounded the left and right, killing the two wings of the Cao army.

A new round of bloody battles unfolded in the Xuzhou Zhongjun formation, and the Cao army has a deep hatred of the trapped camp each with a knife and a gun, forming a small combat team, in the chaos of the army left and right to kill, containing a large number of Cao army elite, the two wings of the Xuzhou soldiers slashed the ordinary Cao soldiers, little by little to clamp the Dian Wei team, Dian Wei was defeated by Xu Chu in the formation, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while.

At this time, Zhao Yun picked Zhu Ling, Tian Xiang also hacked Lu Zhao to death in the chaotic army, and the cavalry team led by Zhao Yun finally broke through the rear army of the Cao army, and began to return to the Chinese army in a straight line. The slogan of surrender and not killing sounded in the Xuzhou contingent in due course, which further shook the heart of Cao Ying's army and weakened the morale of Cao's army.

Seeing such a scene, although there was still Zhang He's reserve in his hand, Boss Cao still fell into deep despair, shook his head helplessly and said: "I underestimated the enemy, not only underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou thief army, failed to win a hundred battles, but also seriously underestimated the annihilation of Tao Thief and Jia Xu. ”

Cao Boss's strategists were speechless, and finally truly realized the terrible pairing of the sinister poisonous snake Deputy Director Tao and the cunning fox Jia Lao Poison - in this battle, the Cao army command was led by the Taojia combination from the time of the invasion of Xuzhou, but no one could slightly understand the true intention and purpose of the Taojia combination.

"Don't worry, lord." Cheng Yu said cautiously: "Although our army may be defeated in this battle, the main force of our army can return to Xiaopei in two days, and as long as our army relies on the camp to hold these two days, it may not have a chance to turn defeat into victory." ”

"Don't expect the main force to come back quickly." Boss Cao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "So far, I won't lie to you, it is true that I gave Xiahou Yuan that handwritten warrant, not to ask him to immediately lead the army back to help, but to order him to retreat slowly, so don't say two days, two days plus two days, Xiahou Yuan may not be able to return to Xiaopei in time." ”

"Why?" Cheng Yu and Xu Shu's eyes widened.

"Army of Hypocrites!" Guo Jia was the first to come to his senses, coughed and said: "The prime minister is worried about the villain army of the pottery thief, the maneuvering speed of the villain army is too terrible, no matter how quickly General Xiahou Yuan returns to the division, it will never be possible to shake off the pursuit of the villain army, and will give the villain army more opportunities to kill our soldiers in the rapid march, and even be exhausted by the villain army biting his tail, which gives the pottery thief a chance to return to the main force to hit our army hard." ”

Cheng Yu and Xu Shu had nothing to say, but Boss Cao sighed: "It's my carelessness to underestimate the enemy, Mingjin should withdraw his troops, and it will be as much as he can withdraw." I have always thought that in the Xuzhou thief army, in addition to the villain army that does not dare to fight a tough battle, it can steal chickens and touch dogs, that is, hundreds of camps can barely get it, but I was wrong. ”

(To be continued)