Xiahoudun was helpless, so he had to divide the front team of cavalry into four thousand again, under the attack of the three cavalry, Xu Huang had to flee away, but Xu Huang still refused to go far, still unrelentingly pestering Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun's expression was also very helpless, and with the passage of time became more and more dignified.

Xu Huang used 2,000 cavalry to pull away his 134 cavalry, not counting this unequal physical exertion, Xiahoudun was more worried about Xu Huang's other two troops, if these two troops also rushed to the battlefield, would he still have cavalry to chase and drive them?

"Order, form a formation on the spot, and build a temporary retaining wall1

"No1

"The cavalry is back on the defend! Walk around the array 1

Xiahoudun's order was very timely, not long after the infantry formation was formed, the figure of Youzhou cavalry had appeared on the periphery of the battlefield, and the arrival of these two new forces suddenly increased the pressure on Xiahoudun's cavalry, which was 6,000 against 20,000, Xiahoudun's cavalry still occupied a numerical advantage, but did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

Xu Huang's three cavalry galloped around the large array like butterflies, and Xiahoudun's cavalry pursued one army, and the flanks and rear would definitely be harassed by another cavalry, and if they were divided into troops to pursue, they could be besieged by the enemy at any time.

As a result, Xiahoudun's cavalry could only defend hard around the infantry formation, and did not let Xu Huang's cavalry let go of the infantry, and the two sides were almost in a state of stalemate.

It's not that Xiahoudun feels that he can't beat Xu Huang, but he is worried that there is a case, his task is very heavy, Xu Huang is defeated, the Youzhou army is at most withdrawn first, stopped for a while, and then comes out again, if he is defeated, he may lose Mengyin at any time, then it will be troublesome.

This kind of uneconomical thing. Xiahoudun would not do it even if he was despised by Xu Huang.

Although Xu Huang has no problem with Xiahoudun who is defending now, but Xiahoudun's purpose of going out of the city has not been achieved, and Xu Huang has two other battalions, which will arrive here tomorrow, and when the time comes, Xiahoudun will either retreat to Mengyin City with his tail between his legs and abandon the fortress in the distance outside the city. Either fight Xu Huang and defeat Xu Huang, but this idea is obviously not a good idea.

Seeing that Xu Huang refused to leave, Xiahoudun immediately ordered to approach the nearby fortress, and then set up camp relying on the fortress. At the same time, he ordered the distant fortress to immediately evacuate to Mengyin.

It's just that these evacuated troops were raided by Xu Huang's troops after dark, and Xiahoudun didn't understand why Xu Huang's information was so accurate and timely.

The night's retreat was a nightmare, and Xiahoudun didn't know the specific situation, he only knew the outside of his camp. Xu Huang's cavalry didn't seem to stay away, but kept wandering around, and by the time he received the attack on the various evacuated troops, it was already too late, at this time, Xiahoudun didn't dare to go out to rescue in the dark, and could only watch the enemy eat his evacuated troops one by one.

Six or seven forts, nearly 20,000 soldiers. Almost all the army was wiped out overnight, and the number of people who fled back to Mengyin City was only a few hundred, Xiahoudun had to admit his defeat, led the army back to Mengyin City, and shrunk the outer fortresses, only retaining ten fortresses within a radius of twenty miles as peripheral defense.

"Zhicai, take a look1

Xi Zhicai's body has improved a lot after this period of recuperation. Although there were many things about the Son of Heaven moving to Qian County, Cao Cao resolutely did not let Xi Zhicai participate and let him rest for more than a month.

"General Xiahou's idea was wrong at the beginning, the tactics of fortress warfare against cavalry need cavalry support. How can you fight the cavalry if you are completely locked up in the fortress. ”

"Yes! Why is it so difficult to close the gap in cavalry? Cao Cao said distressedly.

"My lord, this is unavoidable, after all, they have grasslands, and we don't."

"Speaking of which, the price of war horses now! Now it seems that Fang Zhiwen's purpose of sweeping outside the plug is not pure! At this moment, there is only one horse left in the resources of the war horse, and Gongsun Chan has a little bit in his hand, and the other war horses are all ponies in the Central Plains, and they are not worth fighting at all1

"Well, cavalry warfare is not very good, but cavalry does not decide everything, lord 1

Cao Cao nodded, the cavalry can't decide everything, but the cavalry can decide a lot of things, of course, Cao Cao will not give in because of this, the cavalry can't do it, then work hard to build infantry, the proportion of heavy infantry in Cao's army has become higher and higher, although the heavy infantry may not be able to defeat the cavalry, but at least it can not be easily defeated by the cavalry, which is enough.

"That being said, it will take time for our heavy infantry to be able to deal with the Youzhou cavalry, and during this time, we are too passive1

"My lord, sometimes the struggle doesn't have to be on the battlefield! Maybe we should consider making trouble for Fang Zhiwen later, Youzhou is so big, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be a poorly defended place. ”

Cao Cao's eyes lit up suddenly, the corners of his mouth slowly curled, and he stroked his beard and narrowed his eyes.

"Zhicai said to use the alien?"

"That's right! Using a stranger to make trouble for Fang Zhiwen, we don't have to pay anything, presumably those people are happy to do it. ”

"Wonderful! Coup! However, Fang Zhiwen's control over the Inhumans is very strong, although the official doesn't know how he did it, but the rebellion of the Inhumans seems to have never succeeded in Youzhou, and it is still in the city managed by the Inhumans. ”

"That's because of the Inhuman Movement Monitoring, which my subordinates heard about from the Inhumans not long ago.1

"Inhuman?"

"Yes, when my subordinates were recuperating, I was bored, and the lord didn't let my subordinates get in touch with military affairs, so my subordinates went to Yiren's teahouse to pass the time, so I heard a lot of things."

"You really don't know how to take care of your body1

"Don't worry, lord, isn't this already getting better?"

"Don't do this in the future, Zhicai is the right hand man of this official."

Xi Zhicai smiled and arched his hand: "Let the lord be worried." ”

"Let's pay attention in the future, tell me what you just said about mobile monitoring?"

"It is to evaluate the change in the number of Inhumans in a city, and through this, you can roughly determine whether there is a large number of Inhumans pouring into the city, so as to carry out the necessary precautions, this means. Basically, it is effective in preventing the rebellion of the Inhumans. ”

"What if the Inhumans were already entrenched in this city?"

"It's hard for those aliens to work together, and if there is such a thing, there is no way to keep it secret."

Cao Cao was slightly disappointed: "In this way, it is not easy to give Fang Zhiwen chaos1."

"Hehe, there is nothing easy in the world! My lord, although this is not easy, it is not necessarily impossible. As long as we look for cities with a lot of people, we can cover up the increase in the number of Inhumans, and then accumulate for a while, and we can keep a sufficient number of Inhumans in this city. ”

"Where there is a lot of traffic, it is a big city, and the defense of a big city"

"There is one place that is most suitable, and that is Lianyun Island."

"Lianyun Island?"

"Yes. Lianyun Island! Recently, Lianyun Island is transporting the Yellow Turban people of Mount Tai, the number is huge, Lianyun Island is originally a large commercial port, and it is also responsible for transporting materials to Yingzhou, this place has a large flow of people and is scary, and the troops stationed in this city are in the fortress of the land bridge outside the city. ”

Cao Cao's eyes widened, this. Isn't it the best place to start, and as soon as Lianyun Island is in chaos, the fulcrum in the south of Qingzhou will collapse, and the strategic deployment of the entire Qingzhou will be affected, and even the war in Yingzhou will be affected, and even better, this matter has nothing to do with Cao Cao, but the benefits fall on Cao Cao.

"Good. Great! Zhicai is worthy of being the right-hand man of this official, and this thing must be done as soon as possible. ”

"Lord, this matter must be extremely secretive, or leave it to Zhongde to handle it, it is better for others not to get involved, what we can provide is just some limited convenience."

"The most important thing is the idea. Without this idea, nothing can be done, haha."

Cheng Yu's office is bright, and the sun is shining outside the window. However, the atmosphere in the room is gloomy and weird, Cheng Yu looked at the person sitting opposite, no matter how you look at it, it is no different from a stranger, and even the accent of speaking is the same, but from his eyes, Cheng Yu can see his deep contempt and hatred, this kind of dangerous foreigner must not be trusted, however, it is still necessary to use it.

"Mr. Wu, didn't I say it clearly enough? We try our best to provide convenience to you, including disguised identities, real name posts, etc., we can't do anything else, and besides, do you think it's a good thing to expose us as partners? ”

"Mr. Cheng, of course it's not a good thing for this to be exposed, but if you rely on us alone, the effect that can be achieved may be much worse."

"Mr. Wu, do you think that destroying a Lianyun Island will make Youzhou suffer a lot of vitality, this is just a small beginning, it is to attack and weaken the pace of Youzhou's expansion to the south, and our army will also strengthen the offensive in the direction of Qingzhou in the future. Isn't it enough to disrupt Lianyun Island, the purpose is to disrupt Youzhou's layout in Qingzhou, and even disrupt Youzhou's strategy in Yingzhou? ”

"What Mr. Cheng said is extremely true, but we still hope that your army can appropriately increase the pressure in the direction of Kaiyang or Zhuqi, and if possible, can you issue a mission to let the Inhumans let go and attack Lianyun Island."

"The latter is definitely not good, as soon as this order is issued, it represents the attitude of the imperial court, which is equivalent to openly turning the face with Youzhou, and then Youzhou will immediately unite with Liu Bei, when Yuan Shao, Han Sui, Sun Ce and others will do it, is this the result you need?"

"Then, at least it should be feasible to put pressure in the direction of Kaiyang."

"Yes, this can have 1

"What about the rest?"

"No, moreover, we will definitely condemn these unrested aliens afterwards, and even issue some wanted notices appropriately, and that's the way it is, whether it can be done or not, and to what extent you want to do it, depends on you1

"I get it! Let me think again. ”

"Please 1 to be continued...