Deceiving Xiahou Yuan can be regarded as a psychological tactic.

gave the county order gold, emphasized several times that he would withdraw his troops and leave, and then bribe the slaves, so that he could expose the county order.

The slave was telling the truth, and he had a grudge against the county commander, so he was naturally willing to do such a thing.

As a result, Xiahou Yuan mistakenly thought that the county order was a lie, but in fact, Shen Chen went north to Xudu, so he hastily withdrew his troops.

The plan of killing two birds with one stone not only got rid of the county order that did evil, but also deceived Xiahou Yuanbai to run for a trip, it is estimated that he, a miraculous general, can travel thousands of miles in six days, and he will be tired and half dead.

At the same time, after Shen Chen went out from the east gate, he did follow Rushui to the south.

But instead of going to Dongtang Township or Dingling, he turned around and went south for more than ten miles, and then went all the way to the northeast in the direction of Fenqiu.

Yingshui is a big river, but there are also narrow places, there are bridges to cross the river in Yingyang, Fenqiu, and Linying, Shen Chen actually didn't know which one Xu Du's reinforcements would take, but he chose the nearest one.

Which is the fastest of the upper, middle and lower lines?

Mid lane, of course.

Yingyang is in the north, and if you go to Xudu from Yingyang, you have to walk dozens of miles to the north, and then go east to Yingyin.

Linying is in the south, and if you go to Xudu from Linying, you have to walk dozens of miles to the south, and then go north to Yingyin.

Only Fenqiu is in the middle, and after Fenqiu, you will reach Yingyin, and after Yingyin is Xudu.

So Shen Chen squatted in Fenqiu.

He left Xiangcheng at about nine o'clock in the evening, and Xiahou Yuan arrived at more than ten o'clock, and then immediately set off back to defend Xudu. jújíá?y.?? m

Fenqiu is less than twenty miles away from Xiangcheng.

In terms of distance, when Shen Chen turned south for more than ten miles, Xiahou Yuan was arriving at Fenqiu, and when Shen Chen went to Fenqiu again, Xiahou Yuan arrived at Xiangcheng, and the two sides were perfectly staggered.

Although I don't know when Xu Du will send someone, it doesn't matter to Shen Chen, even if it is an ambush when the enemy comes, it is good.

So in this kind of situation where both sides were estimating the time, but Xun Yu misestimated Shen Chen's marching speed, Xiahou Yuan and Shen Chen had a just right misunderstanding.

Shen Chen didn't know if Xiahou Yuan came, and he didn't know when he would come, after all, the official road was there, and if it wasn't a cavalry, you couldn't judge by whether the horse manure was fresh or not.

And Xiahou Yuan thought that Shen Chen was going to attack Xu Du from Linying, so he was so frightened that he hurried back, so that in this misunderstanding between the two sides, they collided head-on.

"General."

At the end of the night, that is, at one o'clock in the middle of the night, Shen Tao hurriedly reported to Shen Chen: "They are here!" It is from the direction of Xiangcheng. ”

"Oh?"

Shen Chen was quite surprised and said, "I didn't expect their speed to be so fast, it seems that not long after we walked on the front foot, they arrived in Xiangcheng." ”

Shen Tao asked, "What should I do?" ”

"Prepare for battle."

Shen Chen pulled out the ring-head knife on his waist, usually he wears a sword, but the ring-head knife is better than a sword on the battlefield.

"Prepare for battle."

"Prepare for battle."

"Prepare for battle."

More than a dozen heralds began whispering orders to the soldiers lying in ambush on both sides of the road.

These soldiers will also communicate to each other, and under the command of the officers and soldiers, they will find their own attack positions.

Fenqiu is a township pavilion, located on the south bank of Yingshui, with abundant water and grass and forests all over the place.

Far away in the silence of the night, the dogs of the village smelled the stranger and barked incessantly.

Cao Jun held the torches, and the faces of all the soldiers were full of tiredness, even if they were constantly trained by Xiahou Yuan on weekdays.

But this time the intensity is too high, and even many people have fallen behind, and the front and rear rows are seriously disconnected.

Getting closer and closer to Fenqiu, Xiahou Yuan's lieutenant general persuaded him: "General, the soldiers have been gone for a day, and they are very tired, so let's take a rest." ”

He doesn't get tired on horseback, but the soldiers are foot soldiers, as tired as his grandson.

Moreover, the so-called scouts did not go out to find out the news, because he believed that the enemy was running towards Xudu, and it was impossible to scatter the scouts, so he did not know that there was an ambush ahead.

Looking back, seeing that the soldiers were panting one by one, their hair was scattered, and they had no fighting spirit, Xiahou Yuan also knew that even when they arrived in Xudu, they didn't have much combat effectiveness, so they could only grit their teeth and say: "Okay, give the order to go down, rest by the river, and drink some water first." ”

"The general has an order, go to the river in front to rest."

The herald shouted back.

This moment seemed to free everyone, and almost with the last bit of strength, they ran to the river.

But at this time, suddenly there was a rain of arrows, and a burst of random shots.

"Kill!"

Shocking shouts of killing rang out.

"What?"

Xiahou Yuan looked in shock at the surrounding wilderness, countless figures appeared in the fields, forests, ravines, and ridges.

In fact, it is not easy to fight a war when it is too dark, in history, Cao Cao personally conquered Zhang Lu, and was beaten to the head in Yangping Pass, but when the three watches withdrew in the middle of the night, he got lost and accidentally ran into the enemy's camp, and inexplicably broke through Yangping Pass.

It can be seen that there are too many unexpected factors in the dark night, including when Shen Chen ambushed, the soldiers did not raise torches, and it was easy to go up and cut indiscriminately, so his soldiers were all spread out in small teams.

First, there was the first roar, and then the soldiers shot arrows at Cao Jun, who was carrying torches on the official road. After shooting the bow and arrows he had brought with him, he lit a torch for illumination, which delayed a lot of time.

And Xiahou Yuan was suddenly attacked, and the entire army was directly in a state of collapse, and the soldiers ran around like headless flies, and the entire battlefield was in chaos.

"General, let's go!"

An adjutant general slapped Xiahou Yuan's horse desperately.

This is no longer the time when individual force can turn the tide, their 5,000 men and horses are all exhausted and have no strength, and the enemy is waiting for work, and they have no backhand power at all.

Xiahou Yuan naturally understood this, although he really wanted the soldiers to fight back, but it was useless, so he could only grit his teeth and say: "Withdraw!" ”

"Withdraw!"

The shouts of Cao's army evacuating shook the entire wilderness, and the soldiers of Cao's army, who had no desire to fight, scattered like birds and beasts.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Shen Chen personally went into battle, led the guards to kill only a small group of Cao Jun, and the battle was basically over.

The soldiers of the Yellow Gate Pavilion relied on shouting and clothing to distinguish friend from foe, and in an instant, Cao's army was running around, in the grassland, in the fields, in the forests, and by the river, they could not catch them.

After more than twenty minutes in a mess, with a whistle, the soldiers of the Yellow Gate Pavilion began to assemble.

Wait until a large number of torches gather.

Shen Chen immediately asked Deng Zhaodao, the leader of the team: "Did you ask the prisoners, where did this Cao army come from, and who are the generals?" ”

"General Hui, it was Xu Du who came, and the general was Xiahou Yuan, and he ran away."

"How many people have we captured."

"About six or seven hundred."

"How many people have you killed?"

"About two or three hundred."

"Are there any important people who don't?"

"Capture one of Xiahou Yuan's lieutenants, named Zhu Zhong."

"That's enough, take a few prisoners, and the rest strip off their clothes, and go back as soon as they're gone."

Shen Chen gave an order, stripped Cao Jun's clothes, and went to the direction of Xiangcheng.

The reason why he chose to take advantage of Xiahou Yuan's exhaustion was to use the captives to eat Liu Dai and Wang Zhong.

In fact, this is a very time-wasting act, because it is difficult to fight a war of annihilation in the era of cold weapons, not to mention that it is still dark.

In the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao annihilated 80,000 Yuan troops, and Yuan Shao fled back with only 800 cavalry, because the Yuan army had no food and grass and chose to surrender all, but was ordered to be killed by Cao Cao.

It was already midnight, and even if he was ambushed on the road and attacked while Xiahou Yuan's army was very tired, it would at most break up his troops.

In the absence of dawn, hiding in the fields, woods, and grass, Shen Chen did not have so much time to search for the scattered Cao army.

More importantly, he must now immediately go back to cooperate with Gan Ning to annihilate Liu Dai and Wang Zhong's troops, and only by clearing out all these Cao troops at the Nanyang Gate can he occupy Kunyang and other places in Yexian County in the future and seize the initiative to attack Cao Cao.

To a certain extent, the importance of these places in Yexian and Kunyang to Nanyang is equivalent to the importance of Hanzhong to Bashu.

If Shen Chen didn't hurry up and go south now, but wasted time on Xiahou Yuan, it was very likely that Liu Dai and Wang Zhong would unite their troops and hold on to a city.

Once they are allowed to hold on for two more days, and wait for the reinforcements from Xudu and Runan to arrive, then they will occupy Ye County at most, and the two county towns at the exit of Nanyang will not be able to get it, and they will still be clamped by Kunyang and Wuyang.

Therefore, in order to achieve the strategic goal of seizing the entire Nanyang gateway in his own hands and facilitating the attack on Cao Cao at any time in the future, Shen Chen could only reluctantly give up the idea of annihilating the Cao army, and after capturing a part of the Cao army, he immediately chose to rush to Kunyang.

At the same time, Liu Dai of Kunyang and Wang Zhong of Wuyang are facing a choice.

Cao Hong's army was defeated, although he was not killed, but suffered heavy losses, 5,000 men and horses in the rebellious army were scattered, and the rest either fled to the deep mountains and old forests, or were killed and captured, and less than 1,000 people escaped with him.

ran all the way to Kunyang, and when it was night, more than 1,000 scattered remnants returned to the two cities of Kunyang and Wuyang, and only more than 2,000 people were left of 5,000 people.

Cao Cao did not have many soldiers left behind in the area of Kunyang and Wuyang in Ye County, only about eight or nine thousand.

At that time, his main focus was on Guandu, and Liu Biao was restrained by Zhang Xian, so he thought that eight or nine thousand people should be enough to defend the Nanyang Gate.

What's more, there are also Li Tong and others who are full of favors in Runan.

This led to the successful implementation of Shen Chensheng's strategy of attacking the east and west, and at this time, the combined soldiers of Kunyang and Wuyang were less than 6,000 people, and they had to defend two cities.

After Gan Ning's victory, while occupying Ye County, he continued to lead his troops north, sending 2,000 people to watch Wuyang, and he was outside Kunyang City.

After a day of fighting, not only Cao Hongjun was very tired, but Gan Ningjun was also tired.

After all, they didn't have much rest last night, and they fought from midnight to noon, so after they chased to Kunyang, they retreated more than ten miles, set up camp, and seized the time to rest.

Seeing Gan Ning camping outside Kunyang, Liu Dai also suggested to Cao Hong that he could raid it, but Cao Hong thought that there were only three or four thousand men and horses in the city, while Gan Ning had six or seven thousand.

And Shen Chen, who was used as a bait to confuse them, did not know his whereabouts yet, and it was very likely that he would ambush them outside the city and wait for them to attack, so he couldn't act rashly, and he would wait for the reinforcements to arrive.

So the two sides were at peace.

It wasn't until the third day of the day after the fall of Yexian County, at the end of sunrise in the morning, at the beginning of the eclipse time, that is, at six or seven o'clock in the morning, that things changed.

In the early morning, a group of scouts suddenly appeared in the northeast, and it turned out that the messengers sent by Xun Yu had arrived.

At that time, Xun Yu made a three-handed arrangement, one was to let Xiahou Yuan go to Xiangcheng, the other was to let Li Dian guard Xu Du, and the last hand was to send a message to Cao Hong and them, so that they could return to defense.

Because Xu Du's judgment at that time was that the enemy's main force was to bypass Yexian, Kunyang and other places and go directly to Xiangcheng, so in order to avoid the battlefield and prevent being caught by Shen Chenjun's scouts around Xiangcheng, the scouts chose the southern route from Linying to Dingying to Kunyang.

Although it took a little detour, but with the fact that there were two cities along the way to supply and change horses, the scout only took about 12 hours for the 140-kilometer detour from Xudu to Kunyang, an average of 12 kilometers per hour.

Because of the letter of Xu Duyin, the scouts were put into the city, and at this moment, Liu Dai, the general of Kunyang, and Cao Hong, who had withdrawn from Ye County, were in the city, and when they heard the news, they hurriedly rushed over.

"Xu Du was also deceived over there."

Hearing the news from Xu Du brought by the scout, Cao Hong frowned and said: "Shen Chen's guy didn't want to attack Xu Du at all, his main force has always been in Ye County, but he led the division to Xiangcheng to trick us out of the city." ”

Liu Dai said: "Then what to do now, Xu Du ordered us to go back to Xiangcheng." ”

"Don't go."

Cao Hong shook his head: "Where the enemy's soldiers and horses are, we should be there, Gan Ning's army is outside the city, this is something that everyone knows, Shen Chen on the side of Xiangcheng only has three thousand men and horses, I believe that Brother Miaocai should be able to deal with it." ”

"Then how do you reply to Xu Du?"

Liu Dai asked again.

Cao Hong thought about it, and said to the scout who came to report: "You have been galloping all night, you are very tired, hand over the seal letter to me, I will send someone back to Xu Du to tell Xun Lingjun that Xiangcheng is just deceiving our partial division, please General Xiahou after repelling that army, immediately come to the aid of Kunyang." ”

"Yui."

The scouts were given orders and rested in the city, and they also ran for a day and a night, and although they did not change horses and men in the cities along the way, they were also very tired.

At that moment, Cao Hong sent a new scout to take the seal letter back according to what he had just said.

By noon, things had changed again.

On the official road north of Kunyang, a group of Cao troops suddenly appeared, numbering about a thousand.

The leader Cao Hong knew that it was Zhu Zhong, Xiahou Yuan's deputy general.

He came to the city and told Cao Hong that Xiahou Yuan galloped to Xiangcheng in the starry night, and found that there were only three thousand enemies in Xiangcheng, and Shen Chen's army in the city was very tired, and the people in the city secretly opened the city gate, and he broke Shen Chen's army, and after learning that Shen Chen's real intention was to break the Wuyang of Kunyang in Ye County, he only took a short rest and immediately came to help.

At present, their thousand people are the vanguard, and Xiahou Yuan's main force is still more than ten miles away, so please Cao Hong open the city gate and let them go in to rest.

This information is the right one for Cao Hong's current information.

That is to say, Shen Chen's main force is not in Xiangcheng, but in the camp in the south of the city, there are only 3,000 people in Xiangcheng, and from the night before yesterday to last night, he will definitely be very tired, and it is normal for Xiahou Yuan to attack them.

So he didn't think about it, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened and let the thousand Cao troops in.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.