Li Ru was taken aback by his thoughts and Nan Ye's boldness, and at the same time, he was also excited in his heart. If Li Ru's inference is correct, it means that there are more than twice as many soldiers and horses outside the city as in the city, indicating that Li Ru has every chance to lead his troops out of the city to capture Nanye.

Li Ru, who has studied Nanye deeply, understands that Nanye's status in the hearts of the Jiaozhou army is definitely higher than Cao Pi's status in the Wei army, because Nanye is not only a political leader but also an irreplaceable spiritual leader, just like Zhang Lu in Hanzhong. Nan Ye's prestige makes him able to improve the morale of the Jiaozhou army as long as he appears on the battlefield, on the contrary, as long as he can capture or kill Nan Ye, the Jiaozhou army will be demoralized and defeated. Even if he can't hunt and kill Nan Ye, just to break the myth of Nan Ye's invincibility, Li Ru can be famous and even leave a name in history.

The temptation to defeat Nan Ye did not make Li Ru lose his rationality, because he was well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Jiaozhou army. If his judgment is wrong, the soldiers and horses outside the city are not 50,000 but 100,000, then the Cao army in the city is not Nanye's opponent even if he does his best. At this time, what Li Ru needed most was intelligence.

When Cao Zhang, Xia Houde and other generals heard Li Ru say that they were going out of the city to attack the camp, they were all stunned. Cao Zhang dared to take a hundred soldiers and horses to rob the Wu army camp, his courage could not be said to be small, but he felt that his courage was still small compared to Li Ru's.

Xiahou Shang asked Li Ru in disbelief: "Wen Xiansheng, the three people outside the city are difficult to match all the way, and we will rob three large camps at the same time, and there are only 5,000 people and horses, so it is really difficult to win." In my opinion, it is better to work together to rob a camp. ”

Xiahoude also agreed: "What the virtuous brother said is good, you might as well go and rob the Wu army camp." His Royal Highness can break the camp with a hundred horses, and if there are 15,000 men and horses, it may not be difficult to capture Sun Quan. ”

Li Ru said: "Generals, don't worry. Sun Quan and Liu Bei were most likely not in the camp at this time, and I sent the four people out of the city not to ask for victory, but to explore the reality of the camp under the city. The generals don't have to storm the camp, just walk around the camp and watch the virtual and real movements in the camp. ”

When everyone heard that this was all the more, they all nodded in agreement. Li Ru ordered Xiahoude, Niu Jin, and Cao Zhang to lead 5,000 men and horses to rob the three camps. Deng Yi led 5,000 troops to the north, leaving only Xiahou to defend the city.

Deng Yi asked: "The three generals have all gone to rob the camp, what does it mean for me to go north?" ”

Li Ru said: "If you don't go back in the north, there will be ambushes, but I don't know how many." General Deng first explored whether there were camps in the north, and second, to find out the number of ambush soldiers. ”

Deng Yi asked again: "If the ambush soldiers do not come out and there is no camp, what should I do?" ”

Li Ru said: "In this way, there are not many ambush soldiers, and they can't resist the army." General Deng didn't have to go far, he only needed to go to the boundary and then return to the city. It's just that don't forget to send a few people at the boundary to listen to the news of Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Bingzhou. If he encountered an ambush, General Deng could return to the city and did not have to fight to the death. ”

Only then did the four generals who were sent out of the city understand that Li Ru did not want to rob the camp at all, but to send 20,000 soldiers from the four gates to do a good job. Even if Nan Ye had 300,000 troops under the city, it would be impossible to capture all 20,000 people.

That night, the four gates of Xuchang City were opened, and the four roads and horses each team of 5,000 people and horses totaled 20,000, pouring from the city gate to all sides. Nan Ye has secret sentinels at all city gates, and the boulders all over the outside of Xuchang City are the best cover, and these secret sentinels will report back to the people arranged by Nan Ye in all directions as soon as possible.

Deng Yi can be regarded as the most relaxed person tonight, he led the soldiers and horses out of the city, forward, arrived at the boundary pass, sent out a fine work, and returned to the city. It's so simple, and the short answer makes Deng Yi unbelievable. There were no ambushes and no camps, and there was nothing else except the stone bullets of the catapult outside the north gate of Xuchang, and these boulders were still thrown from the city, just to prevent the three families from attacking the city from the north.

Gao Shun led the trapped camp to ambush Deng Yi in the dense forest outside the north gate and watched Deng Yi's every move, but there was no fluctuation in his eyes, as if Deng Yi had not passed in front of him tonight.

Zhou Cang was beside Gao Shun, and he didn't say a word like Gao Shun, because he knew that the forbearance of the camp was not because he was afraid of the five thousand men, but because they had more important tasks. Originally, this task Nan Ye wanted Dian Wei to cooperate with Gao Shun, but Zhou Cang volunteered to take it, because he knew that Dian Wei was not worried about the safety of Nan Ye's national teacher, and the task undertaken by Nan Ye was not safer than Gao Shun at all.

Xia Houde, Niu Jin, and Cao Zhangke were not as lucky as Deng Yi. Cao Zhang, because he successfully robbed the Wu army camp, was stationed in the west of the city, and tonight's task was to rob the Wu army camp. For Cao Zhang, who traveled all over the Wu army camp with a hundred personal followers, 5,000 soldiers was too much, not to mention that this was just a small task to explore the truth and reality.

Cao Zhang had no intention of letting the soldiers hide their whereabouts at all, nor did he order Cao soldiers to line up. The distance of one or two arrows is that it is not much point to hide, as long as the sentry of the Wu army is not sleeping, Cao Bing will soon be able to find out that Cao Bing is out of the city, what Cao Zhang has to do is to take advantage of the panic when Wu Jun is awakened to complete his task. As for the procession, it is even more impossible, the boulders outside the city can disrupt and scatter the neat procession, and become disorderly. Cao Zhang's order was very simple, that is, Du Bo led the team, each group of 100 people, rushed into the Wu army camp through the rocks, and beat it if it could be beaten, and ran away if it couldn't be beaten, as long as the layout of the camp was remembered.

Five thousand Cao soldiers are fifty hundred-man teams, plus Cao Pi and his personal team, fifty-one hundred-man teams quickly crossed the rocky area. What appeared in front of them at this moment was a series of thunderbolts fixed to the ground, which did not look much different from those in the city, and even more rudimentary, only larger.

If it had been placed a few days ago, Cao Jun would not hesitate to burn the siege weapons in front of him to ashes, but at this time they already knew that these thunderbolts were no threat to the tall city walls, and they were not the first target of tonight, so they all bypassed the thunderbolts and went to the Wu army camp.

Cao Zhang's actions were very smooth, and even a little too smooth. In addition to the fluttering flags and brilliant lights in the Wu army camp, there was not a single soldier. Cao Zhang didn't think that he was a trick, because even if he was discovered by the Wu army as soon as he left the city gate, it would be impossible for the Wu army to withdraw from the camp in such a short time. Since this is the case, there is only one explanation, Wu Jun has left a long time ago, which is completely consistent with Li Ru's expectations.

The empty camp made Cao Zhang admire Li Ru even more, and he picked up the torch burning in the Chinese military tent and threw it casually, and the Chinese military tent burned. Although there was nothing of value here except for a tent, it still gave Cao Zhang a burst of pleasure when he lit Sun Quan's tent with his own hands.

Cao Zhang's pleasure didn't last long, and a shout of killing came from the back of the camp, which made Cao Zhang frown. Obviously, this is not an empty camp, there are soldiers stationed in the camp, but the number of soldiers is very small, living in a camp of less than 100,000 people, and the tents in the back camp are enough, which is also the reason why Cao Zhang failed to see people in the front camp and the Chinese army. However, this was not enough to surprise Cao Zhang, and it was also expected by Li Ru that there were still a small number of men and horses in the third battalion to operate the thunderbolt car. Now Cao Zhang only wants to know who stays here, the Jiaozhou army or the Eastern Wu soldiers.

Soon Cao Zhang got the answer, and Zhang Baiqi, riding a white horse, appeared in Cao Zhang's sight, and there were a hundred ghost pawns behind him. At this time, the ghost pawns were not dressed as skeleton soldiers, but as headless horsemen, and the horses under their crotches did not know whether the black horse was painted with white dye or the white horse was painted with black dye, in short, they were all painted like skeleton war horses. Behind these ghostly pawns, there are thousands of galloping horses, all of which are Jiaozhou cavalry.

Cao Zhang had long heard of Nan Ye's ability to pretend to be a ghost, and he was not afraid of Zhang Baiqi and the ghost pawns, and a strong battle intent erupted in his eyes. Cao Zhang's relatives were afraid in their hearts, but they didn't dare to go if Cao Zhang didn't leave, and their will overcame their fear, so that they could stay where they were. However, the ordinary soldiers of the Cao army do not have such strong willpower, not to mention that the ghost soldiers are all like evil ghosts, even the 10,000 cavalry is not something that 5,000 soldiers can deal with, not to mention that they also have a military order: "If you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will run." ”

Cao Bing, who were scattered all over Sun Quan's camp, shouted in unison, and then turned around and ran. Although Cao Zhang was not afraid of Zhang Baiqi, he was not stupid enough to fight with tens of thousands of cavalry, and he also turned his horse and retreated, anyway, his purpose of listening to the truth had been accomplished.

Cao Zhang wants to run, where does Zhang Bai ride? The Jiaozhou cavalry is not a cavalry of Eastern Wu without good horses, and their war horses do not have a bad horse. Soon the cavalry led by Zhang Baiqi caught up with Cao's army and began a massacre.

There are not many horsemen in Xuchang City, and most of Cao Zhang's 5,000 soldiers are foot soldiers, how can a two-legged one run over four legs? Facing the cavalry behind him, Cao Zhang couldn't avoid the casualties of the soldiers at all, so he could only shout loudly: "Disperse!" Run into the stone henge. ”

Even if Cao Zhang didn't say anything, Cao Bing was desperately running back, and the boulder thickets outside the city could not only hinder the siege equipment, but the uneven ground could also make the cavalry lose their speed advantage. However, for Cao Bing, the short distance between the Wu army camp and the boulder bush has become a moat, and countless Cao soldiers have fallen on the way to escape, and there are very few Cao soldiers who can run to the boulder bush, and even fewer who return to the city are pitiful.

A scene in the camp of Dongwu in the west of Xuchang City also appeared in Liu Bei's camp in the east of the city, the difference is that Niu Jin met Dian Wei. Although Dian Wei led only the ordinary Jiaozhou army, even the most ordinary Jiaozhou army was more than twice as powerful as the Cao army, not to mention that it was still 10,000 against 5,000.

The Jiaozhou army led by Dian Wei did not have the speed advantage of the cavalry, so it did not choose to pursue, but surrounded on all sides after Niu Jin led the troops into the camp. The reason why it was able to be arranged in advance was not only because there was a secret whistle report, but also because Nan Ye and Guo Jia had long expected that Li Ru would not always be trapped by the plan of the false soldiers, and there would always be a day when he would go out of the city to investigate.

Niu Jin's martial arts are not as good as Cao Zhang, how can he not be afraid when he meets Dian Wei? Naturally, he also fled. The Cao soldiers behind him could not escape the fate of being slashed and killed by Dian Wei's double halberd, and ten out of ten in a big battle went to ninety percent.