Zhang Xi, the commander of the Luoyang Defense Line, and the three generals under his command got together and discussed Wu Yi's plan, and finally formulated a plan that everyone was satisfied with.

Most of the strategies were implemented according to Wu Yi's plan.

Wu Yi personally used the bait and made a posture that he was invincible to Cao's army and had to abandon the camp and retreat.

Wu Ban and Chen Shi on both sides of Wu Yi's camp, the two should not retreat at the first time, but continue to stay in place to resist for a period of time, and when the enemy is about to surround the two camps, they will give up the defense of the camp, take the initiative to retreat, and set up another camp to continue to hold on.

This would give Cao's army the illusion that they relied on their own ability to break through three camps in a row, forcing Liu Bei's defense line to retreat across the board. Even Zhang He, in the face of such a situation, I am afraid that he may not be able to sit still.

At this time, it was necessary for Wu Yi to take the initiative to attack, attack the Cao army, and put on a posture of wanting to recapture the camp, but after attacking for a period of time, he made an unfavorable attack and had to retreat backwards, attracting the Cao army into the preset ambush circle step by step.

The purpose of this is to deepen Cao Hong's impression that Liu Beijun's follow-up is weak and the counterattack is hopeless, and under the dominance of this impression, Cao Hong will probably not care too much even if he suspects that there is an ambush.

In this way, even if Zhang He really saw through everything and advised Cao Hong, Cao Hong might not listen to the advice.

Of course, even at this time, Cao Hong was still calm and willing to follow Zhang He's advice, and Zhang Xi also had backup means.

When necessary, Zhang Xi will personally lead the troops to recapture the defense line, but the attack is unfavorable and has to retreat, and use his identity as the commander of the Lüyang defense line to attract Cao Hong to pursue.

If even this move couldn't attract Cao Hong to pursue, then Zhang Xi could only give up the front circle of defense lines, re-establish the defense line in the rear, and continue to hold on to resist.

It's just that in this way, it may make the next defense quite disadvantageous because of the loss of advantageous geographical advantages, but at least there will be no large-scale losses.

After Zhang Xi formulated the whole strategy, Wu Yi and the others were somewhat speechless. His own coach is really worthy of his reputation, and he is too cautious.

Anyway, the three of them thought about it from their own perspective, and felt that they should probably be fooled in the second step of the whole plan, and it was impossible to use the opportunity to lure the enemy in the third and fourth steps.

My own manager, really, thinks too much.

It turns out that Zhang Xi does think too much, because Cao Hong is not as smart as Zhang Xi thinks, and Zhang He is not as serious and responsible as Zhang Xi thinks.

The whole plan to lure the enemy into the depths had just begun, and Cao Hong couldn't wait to issue an order to pursue the whole army the moment he saw Cao Jun break through Wu Yi's camp.

In Cao Hong's view, this is a great opportunity to break through the face.

After such a long confrontation, Cao Hong's patience was almost at the limit.

At this time, Zhang He finally fulfilled his responsibilities as a deputy general and reminded Cao Hong.

"The general should not be careless, beware of the enemy ambush!"

"Humph! You are so cowardly, how can you use soldiers?! ”

Gotcha, when I didn't say it.

Zhang He said in his heart, I reminded me anyway, if you don't listen, it's your problem, it has nothing to do with me, I don't have to take responsibility for it.

Zhang He is not a subordinate like Li Dian, and his character is not as serious and responsible as Li Dian, and if he doesn't mess up the first time, he can be regarded as worthy of his conscience After reminding him once, don't expect him to remind him a second time.

Therefore, Cao Hong did not even send troops to besiege Chen Shi and Wu Ban's camps, and directly led his troops to chase in the direction of Wu Yi's defeat and retreat.

Wu Ban and Chen Shi are a little stupid, is this product so simple?!

But no matter what, since you're so simple, it's too sorry for your IQ if you don't kill you.

Wu Ban and Chen Shi did not choose to retreat at all, but after Cao Hong pursued deeply, they directly sent troops from both flanks, cutting off the follow-up troops of Cao Hong's pursuit, and making that Cao Hong a lone army to go deeper.

But Cao Hong didn't notice it yet, chased Wu Yi all the way, and directly crashed into the ambush circle. Zhang Xi was a little dumbfounded.

I knew that this product had this IQ, and I shouldn't have thought so much about it in the first place. If you take five or six thousand people, you dare to break into the ambush circle of 20,000 troops, isn't this looking for death?

immediately ordered the ambush to be exhausted, and at the same time let Wu Yi turn around and fight back and surround Cao Hong.

It wasn't until this time that Cao Hong found himself under siege and was shocked.

But Cao Hong is Cao Hong after all.

Cao Hong's level is not good, that is also the conclusion of comparison with a group of first-line celebrities. Among the second- and third-tier generals, Cao Hong's ability is still not too bad.

Although he can't be the commander and the use of troops is too simple and rude, Cao Hong, as a general, still has the ability to charge into battle.

After finding that he was surrounded, Cao Hong immediately gathered his soldiers, turned around, and rushed to kill the road when he came and went, trying to break out of the encirclement.

Zhang Xi soon discovered Cao Hong's intentions, and immediately commanded his soldiers to block Cao Hong's retreat, and at the same time hurriedly sent someone to send an order to Wu Ban and Chen Shi's two generals, so that the two of them hurriedly rushed over from the rear and completely closed the door for Cao Hong's breakthrough.

Once Chen Shi and Wu Ban were really allowed to arrive and lead the soldiers to close the gate of the encirclement, then it would be impossible for Cao Hong to break out of this encirclement.

In fact, Cao Hong is also most worried about this now, so he took the lead and desperately rushed to kill, just to fight his way out of the encirclement before the back road was completely blocked.

It doesn't matter how many casualties he brought, he must not be trapped in the encirclement, otherwise the entire Cao army in the direction of Luoyang will collapse because of the leaderless dragons.

Cao Hong is now desperate, really desperate, desperately trying to kill the enemy to break through and seek a glimmer of life.

But Cao Hong is not the Cao Hong of twenty years ago after all, the Cao Hong who was able to fight his way out of the encirclement after giving Cao Cao a war horse to escape for his life has slowly disappeared with these years of pampering.

Cao Hong fought hard for a long time, but in the end he was caught up by Wu Yi from behind, dragging his pace forward and in front of him, Cao Hong could even see the banners of Chen Shi and Wu Ban.

By this time, Cao Hong was a little desperate.

But at this time, God gave Cao Hong hope again - Zhang He led the troops and killed from behind Chen Shi and Wu Ban, and took advantage of the fact that the two armies were not completely encircled, and forced them out through a passage.

Seeing this, Cao Hong ignited the hope of survival, and suddenly burst out with the last combat effectiveness, leading his guards to fight again, desperately approaching Zhang He's department.

After the two armies were combined, Zhang He once again personally led the troops to break through the siege and took Cao Hong out of the encirclement.

Zhang Xi was quite helpless about this.

That's how plans can't keep up with change.

Because Cao Hong was too easy to be fooled, Chen Shi and Wu Ban did not retreat first as planned, but sent troops in advance to cut off the connection between Cao Hong and the rear army.

Originally, this approach was not wrong, after all, cutting off Cao Hong's back road as soon as possible could make the soldiers led by Cao Hong completely become a lone army, and it would be easier to be surrounded and killed.

But the two sent troops in advance to cut off the back road, but Zhang He, who stayed in the rear army, also discovered the problem in advance, and found that Cao Hong was lured deep by Zhang Xi and others, so he quickly gathered his troops and sent troops to rescue.

Again, Chen Shi and Wu Ban did not retreat a distance, which also led to the fact that the encirclement network against Cao Hong was a bit large, and it took a certain amount of time to tighten the entire encirclement network, and this time also created an opportunity for Zhang He to send troops to rescue.

Finally, and most importantly, Zhang He was too fierce, he only took 3,000 people to kill through the encirclement network defense line composed of Chen Shi and Wu Ban, and after entering the encirclement, he ruthlessly abandoned most of the besieged Cao army, and only took Cao Hong to break through, and the others didn't care.

In this way, Zhang Xi couldn't send someone to pursue him.

Once pursued, there will be loopholes in the entire encirclement network, so it is possible for the Cao army caught in the encirclement to break out, Zhang Xi must choose, whether to pursue Cao Hong, or completely leave the six or seven thousand Cao troops brought by Cao Hong.

Zhang Xi thought about it for a while and decided to choose the latter.

A Cao Hong is not to be worried, and the pursuit may not be able to stay.

But if these six or seven thousand Cao troops retreat, the two sides will fight in the future, and I don't know how much of the battle damage will be caused to our own troops.

Therefore, Zhang Xi ordered to continue to close the encirclement, while besieging and killing these Cao troops, and on the other hand, sending people to persuade them to surrender. Cao Hong left you and ran away, even if you have any concerns, it's not as important as your own life, right?!

After some persuasion, about five or six thousand Cao troops chose to surrender, and most of the ones who refused to surrender were officers within the Cao army.

For example, their wives and children.

According to Wei law, after a soldier died in battle or surrendered, his wife, children, and property would be redistributed to other soldiers. What property do ordinary soldiers have?!

As for the wives and children, the wives and children of the ordinary soldiers, as long as they can survive in this world, they will not blame them for any choice they make, after all, they are all for living.

Therefore, the soldiers can choose to surrender, after all, everyone is here to survive, but these officers, if they can return to Wei alive, still do not want to surrender.

Officers have some social status, and they certainly don't want to see their property owned by others, and their wives and children remarried to others. But where there is hope of breaking through, they still want to go back.

These officers had the will to resist, and it took a little time for Liu Beijun, and in the end, there was no hope of breaking through, and these officers either died in battle, and those who did not die in battle had no choice but to surrender.

It's not anyone's fault, it's not Liu Beijun's fault, it's not Cao Wei's law, it's purely the fault of this world.

(End of chapter)