According to Guo Huai's operational deployment to lure the enemy into depth, Le Qi led his troops across the Yellow River in Wei Yan and completed the assembly of troops, he did not entangle with Wei Yan's headquarters in Huaxian County, but preserved his strength and retreated directly to Chaoge City and joined Xiahou Xuan.

Huaxian County is about forty miles away from Chaoge, so it only took two days for Le Qi to complete all the withdrawal plans.

And Wei Yan, after occupying Huaxian, did march towards Chaoge City.

It's not that Wei Yan is hot-headed and temporarily changed his battle plan. After all, it had been made clear to Wei Yan in advance that in this Northern Expedition, Chao Ge could not be captured too quickly.

However, as the main general of the front line, Wei Yan certainly has the right and ability to respond to the situation. Wei Yan still felt that Huaxian County had been occupied, and if he didn't fight Chaoge, it would be somewhat unreasonable.

Even if you want to go east, you must buy yourself enough time to go to Jixian County for support.

According to Wei Yan's consideration, if he immediately turned around and marched east after capturing Huaxian, he could indeed quickly attack Ji County, but Chaoge was too close to Huaxian, I am afraid that Wei Yan would leave Huaxian in the morning, and the Wei army in Chaoge in the afternoon would learn the information and immediately send fast horses to Jixian and even Liyang to warn.

Therefore, Wei Yan felt that it was better to lead the troops to Chaoge first, make a posture of attacking Chaoge, force Chaoge's Wei army to ask for help from Liyang, and then make another false shot and quickly withdraw the army to the east. In this way, even if Chaoge's Wei army found out that the situation was wrong, the two letters before and after the war situation were completely opposite should be able to make Guo Huai hesitate and delay himself a little time.

In this way, Wei Yan took his 50,000 soldiers and horses to the city of Chaoge.

And the two of them, Le Qi and Xiahou Xuan in Chaoge City, almost discussed it slightly, and immediately made their own reactions.

Le Qi immediately sent a fast horse envoy to Liyang, informing Wei Yan that he had already sent troops to Chaoge, hoping that Guo Huai would quickly send reinforcements in accordance with the pre-war deployment.

And Xiahou Xuan also immediately sent a fast horse to report to Cao Shuang in Yecheng, so that Cao Shuang could deal with it in advance.

Neither of them felt that there was anything wrong with Wei Yan's attack on Chaoge.

It's not that these two people don't have brains. First, the name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Wei Yan, as the second person in the military on the Ji Han side, is also a famous general in the world, and he came to attack Chaoge with an army of 50,000, and they couldn't ignore it.

On the other hand, the geographical location of Chaoge is very important, it can be said that it is the outer defense circle on the west side of Yecheng, and it is impossible for the Shu thieves to go on a northern expedition, and it is impossible not to fight this place.

Therefore, neither of them felt that there was anything wrong with Wei Yan's attack on Chaoge.

But then, something was wrong.

When Wei Yan led the troops to arrive at the city of Chaoge and set up the village, he did not move and did not move.

First, he did not take the initiative to challenge, and second, he did not order his soldiers to go out of the city to cut down trees and build siege equipment. If it weren't for the faint sight of smoke rising from the Shu thief camp and human figures flickering on the upper floor of Chaoge City, both of them wondered if there was an empty camp outside the city.

But the problem is that for two consecutive days, Wei Yan didn't move at all, which made Le Qi and Xiahou Xuan, who were guarding the city, a little uneasy.

What the hell is Wei Yan going to do?!

At this time, Le Qi and Xiahou Xuan had some disagreements on how to deal with Wei Yan's strange behavior.

Le Qi thinks that their original duty is to guard Chaoge, no matter what kind of conspiracy Wei Yan is playing outside the city, since he doesn't choose to attack the city, then let's not move. Anyway, it's not Da Wei who is in a hurry.

But Xiahou Xuan didn't think so.

Xiahou Xuan believed that Wei Yan's use of troops in this way must be deceitful.

Although I am not sure what conspiracy he is having, since his behavior is so strange, it is necessary to lead the troops out of the city to check the truth and reality, so that he can better guard Chaoge.

The difference between the two is actually related to the resumes of Xiahou Xuan and Le Qi themselves.

Xiahou Xuan is the eldest son of Xiahou Shang, and he is only twenty-eight years old this year.

Because of his background and family background, Xiahou Xuan basically grew up in Yecheng, and although he has been in politics gradually since he was twenty years old, he has led troops out of the town for the first time.

Therefore, he actually did not understand the cruelty of war, and his understanding of military strategy came more from books.

Coupled with Xiahou Xuan's own growth environment, it also had a great impact on him.

Xiahou Xuan, in fact, can be said to be the founder of the Wei and Jin Dynasty celebrities, although he also has the ability to do practical things, but he also likes empty talk, therefore, the children of the family who befriended him are also more people who advocate empty talk.

Therefore, although he also recognizes that they are famous generals in the world, Zhang Xi and Wei Yan, they have no direct concept of how powerful they are and how old and spicy they are.

And Leqi is different.

Le Qi is the eldest son of Le Lin, a standard martial arts son.

Le Jin died early, Le Jin received limited education in the art of war and strategy, and Le Jin himself is not the kind of general who is good at strategy, he is better at leading the troops to charge the battle. This led to the fact that in addition to martial arts, Le Qi was not proficient in strategy.

But there is also a good thing about it, that is, Le Qi never thinks that he is a general who is good at winning with strategy, and he will choose a more conservative approach - he will do what the boss says.

Although in this way, the shortcoming aspect has become Leqi's shortcoming, but at least there is no need to worry about greater losses due to coping errors.

Therefore, the disagreement between the two is essentially a disagreement between obeying military orders and responding to the situation.

But this disagreement is actually easy to solve.

First of all, there is actually no direct subordinate relationship between Le Qi and Xiahou Xuan, the two of them were ordered separately to join forces in Chaoge City.

Secondly, if you have to dig deeper, according to the unspoken rules of Cao Wei's officialdom, when fighting outside, in the absence of a clear appointment of the commander, the generals with foreign surnames must obey the command of the clan generals.

Obviously, as a general of the clan, Xiahou Xuan, if he really wants to command Le Qi to fight, it is not impossible to say.

What's more, Xiahou Xuan proposed that he lead the 10,000 Chaoge defenders under his command to take the initiative to go out of the city to test, and Le Qi led the Wei army that withdrew from Huaxian to Chaoge to be responsible for guarding Chaoge, and at the same time be prepared to respond, just in case, even if they have to be held accountable after the war, and each other's responsibilities are clear, there is no question of who drags down whom.

Le Qi pondered for a moment and thought. This can be done.

After all, the problem that Le Qi is most worried about is actually the issue of rights and responsibilities, and now that Xiahou Xuan has taken the initiative to clarify this, then Le Qi will have no worries.

In this way, on the third day of Wei Yanbing's arrival in Song City, Xiahou Xuan led 10,000 soldiers under his command to take the initiative to go out of the city and launched an attack on the Han army camp outside the field.

And then bar. The only 1,000 soldiers left in the Han army's camp abandoned the village and left at the first time when the Wei army launched an attack.

Xiahou Xuan realized that he seemed to have been fooled.

Wei Yan's real goal is not to go to Song City, but other places, although I don't know where it is, but if Wei Yan's main force is withdrawn like this and I don't know where to go, it will also have a great impact on the defense of the entire southern Hebei.

But fortunately, Xiahou Xuan immediately realized that Wei Yan had just established the village the day before yesterday, and it was definitely impossible to withdraw on the same day, which would greatly affect the morale of the army.

Therefore, if the Shu thieves want to withdraw their troops, they should only have one day yesterday, and they have already gone out of the city early this morning to test and discovered the empty village of the Shu thieves.

Therefore, if Wei Yan had retreated last night or early this morning, he would definitely not be able to go far, and this is an opportunity.

Wei Yan was in a hurry to withdraw his troops and leave Chaoge, once he withdrew, he would definitely not have much preparation, if he could catch up in time, he would follow and kill for a while. Even if you can't get a big victory, you can at least frustrate the spirit of the Shu thief.

Thinking of this, Xiahou Xuan raised his head and observed the direction in which the 1,000 Han troops had fled, and while sending people to the city to inform Le Qi, he ordered the whole army to follow and pursue this Han army.

After this Han army was left behind, it finally failed and retreated, and it was bound to converge with the main force, as long as it caught up with their defense line, it was not worried that it would not be able to catch up with the main force of the Shu thieves.

Xiahou Xuan happily chased after him, and then. was beaten back with a dirty face.

Just kidding, with Xiahou Xuan's battlefield experience, how could it be that Wei Yan, the opponent of a famous battlefield general, had chosen to withdraw his troops with a bluff, how could Wei Yan not have arrangements for the back road.

Wei Yan arranged for the rear army to set up an ambush on the withdrawal route early, if there was a Wei army chasing after him, he would fall directly into the ambush circle, and if there was no Wei army chasing after him, it would only be a waste of half a day.

As a result, Xiahou Xuan jumped straight inside.

If it weren't for Xiahou Xuan's notification to Le Qi in Chaoge City before leaving, Le Qi felt that Xiahou Xuan's pursuit was too hasty, so he hurriedly led the troops to respond, and Xiahou Xuan really couldn't say if he could withdraw.

But this time, the two juniors were confused. Xiahou Xuan, who was still ambitious, is now honest, obediently huddled in Chaoge City and didn't come out.

(End of chapter)