Chapter 661: Xingyang
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About a day after the battle between Yang Tian and Dong Zhuo ended, Cao Cao finally came to this section of the official road, and seeing that there was a mess everywhere, he knew that he had missed a grand occasion and had lost an opportunity to experience the combat effectiveness of the White Cloud City fleet.
Cao Cao was also very depressed, there were too many traps encountered along the way, which was simply impossible to prevent, and it also dragged down his marching speed. Fortunately, Cao Cao also knew that Dong Zhuo had a large number of people in his team, and generally speaking, he was sure that he would catch up with the other party, so he was not in a hurry at all, and he did not put his soldiers in danger because he was in a hurry to catch up with Dong Zhuo.
In fact, Cao Cao got the news shortly after Dong Zhuo was attacked, although this news was not detailed, but it also showed that the attacker was on the side of Baiyun City.
Cao Cao had always thought that Dong Zhuo should be the one who set a trap on the road, but judging from the current situation, it seems that Sunshine cannot rule out suspicion. If you have such a fleet in your hands, you will inevitably try to grab greater benefits for yourself, and you don't want others to share it with you. This will inevitably lead to some means to delay the march of the other pursuers behind.
But this was only Cao Cao's speculation, and he did not have the slightest evidence to prove it, so he had to hide these thoughts in his heart.
Although Cao Cao couldn't ask Yang Tian anything about this matter, he didn't have no reaction, at least the army marched much faster. He had also stopped letting the generals with the Detective Technique look at the traps, and instead began to destroy them by triggering them. It's just that it's not people who are used to trigger traps, but the pets of those aliens who follow Cao Cao, and they are all low-level pets that don't have much value, which is undoubtedly the best choice for cannon fodder.
With the implementation of Cao Cao's strategy, the speed of the march suddenly increased a lot.
After Jia Xu discovered this situation, he immediately stopped laying traps on the official road. Because those Inhumans want to capture a low-level pet that doesn't have any strength. There is almost no difficulty, and even if you die, you won't feel the slightest distress. But if these people want to set a trap, they still need to spend a lot of materials, which is a loss-making business, and Jia Xu naturally will not continue.
Jia Xu soon returned to the ship with the few adventurous professionals and the Iron Eagle Warriors, and continued to march west with the army.
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These days, the trapped soldiers who stayed on the ship have greatly increased their identification with Baiyun City through the indoctrination conversations of the ship's crew. Some have even secretly decided that even if the sun lets them go when the time comes. They also want to join the territory of White Cloud City as a civilian. As the saying goes, it is better to be a peaceful dog, not to be chaotic and leave people, this is indeed a universal truth, no one wants to live a precarious life.
For the changes in the consciousness of these trapped soldiers, Yang Tian can see it in his eyes. Although these people didn't say these words for a while, don't forget that Yang Tian has a magic skill like "Soul Sealing Technique", as long as he looks at it, he can see the general idea of the other party.
There were only a few people who had such thoughts, and the others had just let go of their hostility towards Yang Tian and Baiyun City. But even so, Yang Tian was much more relieved of them, after the battle with Dong Zhuo was over. He also sent this part of the soldiers to the valley, and also sent Gao Shun over. The reason he gave Gao Shun was that the personnel there were mixed and difficult to manage. He was assigned because he liked his abilities. In fact, Yang Tian's real purpose was to let those trapped soldiers imperceptibly influence Gao Shun and indirectly enhance his loyalty.
After arranging these things, Yang Tian continued to lead the army to follow behind Dong Zhuo's army. Now Yang Tian also didn't let the fleet hide his whereabouts, he believed. After Dong Zhuo suffered a loss, he would inevitably make people keep an eye on his fleet, and these spies could be on the shore or in the air. For these spies, Yang Tian was also powerless. Since you can't hide it, let's move forward blatantly!
After Jia Xu returned, he informed Yang Tian of the situation on his side. When he learned that he could no longer use traps to stop the marching speed of Cao Cao's army, he didn't pay attention to it, because not far ahead, Xingyang City was located. Based on Yang Tian's knowledge of history, he guessed that Xu Rong might be on the stage, and he proved his ability to the world by defeating Cao Cao.
At this time, he just needs to stand by and watch, and even beat the side drum from the side to see if he can achieve his ulterior purpose.
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Just when Yang Tian was still talking about Xu Rong, Dong Zhuo had already come to Xingyang City, which was the first city Dong Zhuo arrived at after leaving Luoyang.
Li Ru is also very aware of the current plight of Dong Zhuo's forces, Xingyang City is not next to the Yellow River, so the threat of sunlight can also be ignored for the time being. But Cao Cao's army was a huge threat to his side, and this was a problem that needed to be solved urgently.
Subsequently, under Li Ru's construction, Dong Zhuo handed over this important task to Xu Rong, the Taishou of Xingyang, and at the same time asked Li Xuan and Lu Bu to assist. It's not that Dong Zhuo doesn't reuse Lu Bu, it's that he wants to keep Lu Bu by his side to protect himself, if he lets Lu Bu organize this blocking battle, how can he have time to stay by his side?
On the other hand, although Dong Zhuo was repairing in Xingyang City, considering that the ordinary people were walking too slowly, Dong Zhuo ordered a part of the army to escort these ordinary people and the baggage carts to continue to march westward, and wait until the remaining troops and the troops in Xingyang City solved Cao Cao's army, and then they could catch up. At the same time, Dong Zhuo was transferred away by the Inhuman forces, Dong Zhuo also knew that if he said that the Inhuman forces stayed here, I am afraid that all the arrangements of his army would not be able to hide from Cao Cao, so why talk about ambushes?
After a simple arrangement, Dong Zhuo handed over the matter to Li Ru and let him take full responsibility for the matter. At this time, Xu Rong asked Li Rujian yì, intercepted Cao Cao's army by himself, Guo Yan led a group of men and horses to ambush on a hillside on the southeast side of Xingyang City, and after he fought with Cao Cao's army, Guo Yan led the army to rush out from the side, killing Cao Jun by surprise. As for Lü Bu, Xu Rong also participated in this battle, and was ambushed in the direction of Cao Cao's retreat. The purpose is to let Dong Zhuo's army win in one fell swoop, otherwise, when Cao Cao saw that the situation was not good, he led the army to escape, so wouldn't this arrangement be in vain.
After talking about his deployment, Xu Rong also mentioned the reason for such an arrangement. In fact, in terms of the strength of both sides, Cao Cao's army was already weaker than Dong Zhuo's army, the reason why Cao Cao dared to lead the army alone was naturally because Dong Zhuo did not dare to turn around and chase him, you must know that behind him, there are nearly seven million troops led by Xuanyuan Jian, although the strength of these armies is inferior to Cao Cao, but after the two are combined, Dong Zhuo will definitely have a headache. Cao Cao's idea was to stick to Dong Zhuo's army like kraft candy, constantly devouring the opponent's living force, and even waiting for an opportunity to rescue the Son of Heaven.
Li Ru agreed very much with Xu Rong's construction, as long as Cao Cao's back road could be cut off, then Cao Cao would not be far from defeat. Immediately, Li Ru ordered Xu Rong and Guo Yan to go out first to rectify the soldiers and horses, and ambush the army first. In Lü Bu, he was not very good at this marching formation, and his subordinates could complete it, as long as he could arrive when the time came for the official battle.
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Maybe the system deliberately wanted to fulfill Xu Rong, or maybe this was a setback that Cao Cao was bound to experience, and the words that were passed between the players did not fall into Cao Cao's ears, and he had no idea about Dong Zhuo's arrangement. When he learned that Dong Zhuo's army was still continuing to march west, Cao Cao rushed towards Xingyang City without any suspicions.
In Cao Cao's opinion, as long as Dong Zhuo's army left Xingyang City, how could Xingyang City's original army of less than one million people make his opponent? As soon as he takes Xingyang, he can also let himself have such a stronghold.
Therefore, Cao Cao fell into the ambush circle set by Li Ru in this way, of course, he still didn't know about it.
After Cao Cao came to Xingyang City, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the siege of the city, in his team, the siege equipment was brought a lot, after all, before the attack on the Tiger Pass, each prince brought enough siege equipment.
The war broke out in an instant, and the strength of the army under Xu Rong's command was indeed much worse than that of Cao's army, but under Xu Rong's command, these troops tightly attracted Cao Cao's army to the siege war, and there was no time to care about anything else.
According to the previous arrangement, when the fierce battle between the two sides was in full swing, Li Xun led two million troops to rush out from the side and plunge straight into Cao Cao's army.
When Cao Cao saw this scene, he immediately knew that he had been fooled, but now that the army was still attacking the city, it was not that it could be withdrawn. Cao Cao immediately assigned an army to intercept Li Xuan's troops, and ordered the army to withdraw urgently.
It's just that Cao Cao's wishful thinking did not start, and the hillside where Li urged the ambush was not very far from the battlefield where the two sides were fighting, and it took almost only a few minutes for his army to rush in front of Cao's army, and at this time, the intercepting army ordered by Cao Cao had not yet been in place. After all, this is a battlefield of millions of people, and it is basically impossible to get everyone on the battlefield to be at your fingertips. Either formation adjustment, it will take longer.
"Stop that army! We can't let the other side scuttle through our formation! Cao Cao shouted angrily.
At this moment, Li Xun led the army to rush into the Cao army, and the two sides fought to the death with each other, and a large number of soldiers rushed to death at the moment of the battle! Even some of Cao's army had already gone to see the king of Yama before they could figure out how this army came to be. (To be continued)