Chapter 483: Cao Jun's Strategy

Yuan Shao attacked Pingyuan County, Li Yang was too far away from the whip, so he could only rely on Guo Jia and them, and when they couldn't hold on at most, they sent the Zhenguan army to support.

In response to Yuan Shao's attack, Pingyuan County was prepared very early, but at the beginning they attacked a little too fiercely, causing Guo Jia and them to react a little too late, but now it has gradually stabilized, and it is impossible for Yuan Shao to break through for a while.

Taishan County and Pengcheng are unprepared, and if they can't respond in time, the consequences will be very serious.

Time is urgent, now that the decision has been made, Li Yang did not delay in the slightest, and the next day he led Zhao Yun, Luda and the selected cavalry to Dongjun.

When Li Yang led the army to leave, Zhang Liang and Bai Qi did not delay, leaving part of the troops to defend Shouchun, and then began to march north.

Even in order not to make Cao Caojun suspicious, Zhang Liang also deliberately found Li Yang's stand-in, pretending to be Li Yang, Luda, Zhao Yun and others.

Zhang Liang's guess was right, as soon as the army entered Peijun, Cao's army, which had already been ambushed, surrounded Peijun.

In fact, in order to be able to block the return of Li Yang's army, Cao Cao even personally commanded this besieging army.

Cao Cao stared at Pei Juncheng in front of him, and his eyes gradually condensed.

He hated Li Yang, but he didn't dare to underestimate Li Yang, he had dealt with Li Yang before, so he naturally knew how powerful Li Yang or the Qingzhou army was.

He knew that with himself, he might not be Li Yang's opponent, and he knew that if Li Yang was allowed to continue to develop, he would become the target of his attack sooner or later, and would he be able to stop him at that time?

Obviously, he didn't have an accurate answer, and it was even more impossible for him to put his hopes on uncertain factors, so when Yuan Shao sent someone to invite him to attack Li Yang together, he didn't hesitate too much, and directly agreed.

Originally, he planned to wait until Li Yang was in a stalemate in Shouchun, to capture Peijun and Pengcheng with lightning speed, cut off the back road of Li Yang's army, and then block the back road of Li Yang's army, so that this army would become a lone army, and he would definitely be able to slaughter it at that time.

But to his surprise, Li Yang actually captured Shouchun City when he secretly mobilized the army.

Cao Cao didn't need to think about it to know that the supply of grain and grass in Shouchun City must be abundant, so it would be even more difficult to trap this army.

So he listened to Xi Zhicai's strategy, quickly went south, captured Peijun, and then emptied all the grain and grass in the city, and led the army to evacuate Peicheng.

In order to realize this plan, Cao Cao even sacrificed the lives of a large number of soldiers to break through the city of Peijun as quickly as possible.

This time, Cao Cao brought 800,000 troops, which was not much compared to the millions of troops he attacked in other directions, and even compared to the million of Li Yang's army, it was insufficient.

However, his purpose this time was not to exterminate Li Yang's army, but to trap this part of Li Yang's army firmly in Peijun City, and wait until the other armies pulled out their hands, and when the time came, they would deal with a million troops, and they would not be able to capture them.

After the water in the siege of Peijun was blocked, Cao Cao did not idle, and began to collect wood from the surrounding areas to make siege equipment.

He heard about Li Yang's attack on Shouchun City, although he didn't know what the legendary powerful 'artifact' was in Li Yang's army.

But Cao Caojun still has powerful craftsmen, such as this weapon he ordered people to make.

The 'Thunderbolt' was one of the things that Cao Cao was most proud of, and even he thought in his heart that his Thunderbolt was certainly not weaker than the crimson catapult in Li Yang's army.

He decided to learn Li Yang's tactics of attacking Shouchun, not directly attacking the city, but constantly bombing in a panic with catapults.

This was not only because of the lack of his own troops, but also because Cao Cao was not in a hurry, after all, his purpose was to prevent the pair of troops from going north.

His idea was also approved by Xi Zhicai, although Xi Zhicai felt that the implementation of the plan was a little too smooth.

After the 800,000 troops were stationed, the group of craftsmen brought by Cao Cao began to make thunderbolts in an orderly manner.

Although these thunderbolts were Cao Cao's improved siege equipment, they were also catapults, so compared to the Red Refining Dragon Battle, which had to be made of special materials, this kind of thunderbolt was more time-saving and labor-saving to make on the spot during the siege.

In just half a month, Cao Cao's army made a sufficient number of thunderbolts, which made Cao Cao quite happy.

Next, Cao Cao followed Li Yang's example, and arranged 5 thunderbolts at each of the four gates of Peijun City, and after the thunderbolts were placed, they began to bomb non-stop.

Listening to the constant roar of the boulder falling to the ground, and the constantly bombarded Peijun city wall in front of him, the smile on Cao Cao's face became more and more vigorous.

But Xi Zhicai, who had been following Cao Cao's side, frowned, and he looked at Peijun, who was constantly bombarded and was still unusually quiet, but his heart seemed uneasy.

This kind of silence has lasted since their army besieged Pei County, and even if it is constantly bombarded by so many thunderbolts, Li Yangjun in the city still does not move, as if he is appointed.

He had seen Li Yang's generals with his own eyes, and with his ability, he could naturally see that Zhang Liang was extraordinary, and Xi Zhicai would never think that with the ability of Li Yang's subordinates, they would be beaten so obediently.

Although it was far away, Xi Zhi saw Li Yang's figure and his subordinates entering Peijun together, which is absolutely not wrong.

Even he deliberately ordered his guards to pretend to be peasants, and deliberately counted when Li Yangjun entered the city, not only did Li Yang and his subordinates make no mistake, but the number of Li Yangjun who entered Peijun City was absolutely not wrong.

So what's wrong? Xi Zhicai was puzzled, and finally decided that no matter what, it was absolutely right to bombard him with a thunderbolt, not to mention, he had already arranged a plan to deal with special events.

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Just when Cao Cao ordered the thunderbolt to continue to bombard the city of Peijun, a cavalry team of about 30,000 people set off the loess and rushed towards Dongjun.

Even in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Yang deliberately took a long detour, of course, for them who were all cavalry, there was no trouble.

However, the gallop of 30,000 cavalry could not hide their deeds at all, so when Li Yang and the others had not yet reached the boundary of Dongjun, Xun Yu in Dongjun City learned the news.

Soon after Xun Yu got the news, he had already guessed the purpose of Li Yang's cavalry, and he also made corresponding countermeasures, he ordered someone to inform Cao Cao urgently, and at the same time, he strictly ordered all the troops outside to retreat to the nearest city.

The cavalry is not good at attacking the city, and the other party is not stupid enough to think that he will use 30,000 iron cavalry to break through Dongjun, but Xun Yu is very aware of the power of Li Yangjun's cavalry, and he understands the purpose of these 30,000 iron cavalry here, so he made this decision.

The only problem now is the problem of transporting grain and grass.

However, before Cao Cao's army set off, Xi Zhicai had discussed this issue with him, and they had already come up with a countermeasure to the possible cavalry harassment strategy of Li Yang's army.

The grain and grass of the entire Yanzhou were divided into many parts by them, and they were placed in Dongjun, Shanyang and other cities.

Normally, these cities will transport grain and grass to the front line at the same time, and once the enemy is found around the city, the transportation of grain and grass will be stopped.

Even if the enemy is not discovered in time and the grain and grass are looted, the grain and grass from other cities will still be transported to the front line, and when the time comes, the front line will definitely not worry about the grain and grass.

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