"It's so rampant."

In the early morning of September 13, there was a lot of excitement outside Cao's military camp.

Cao Hong watched from a distance that Shen Chenjun over there was just using a simple fence to enclose the outside, and did not dig a trench, and he was immediately furious.

Because he found that Shen Chen didn't seem to take him seriously at all, and actually didn't build fortifications at all.

On the other hand, he was like a great enemy, and the soldiers were as tired as dogs in the whole battalion, digging trenches and towers, and no one rested except the soldiers who were on guard.

It seemed that he had lost in momentum, which made Cao Hong angry, and said to the left and right: "Order, let Xiahou Cun lead 5,000 men and horses, and charge the enemy camp for me." ”

"General, no."

Zhao Yan, the Taishou of Runan beside Cao Hong, hurriedly dissuaded: "There are only two possibilities for Shen Chen's actions, one is that the general will not dare to attack, and the other is to set up an ambush. With Shen Chen's wisdom, he will definitely not be defenseless, and he is afraid of ambushes. ”

"General!"

Xiao General Xiahou Cun stepped forward and said: "This scholar's words, don't you hear that "the water is coming to cover the earth, and the soldiers are coming?" "Our army can win by waiting for work, how can it only defend and not attack."

"Hmm."

Cao Hong thought so, nodded and said, "Good, you can fight." ”

"Yui."

Xiahou Cun immediately led his troops into battle.

Zhao Yan still wanted to persuade, but Cao Hong was angry that Shen Chen underestimated him, so he didn't listen to persuasion. So Zhao Yan thought about it and asked Xiahou Cun to test the truth and reality, so he stopped persuading.

It was early in the morning, and the two sides had only arrived yesterday, and each other had only set up camp and had not yet built any fortifications.

It's just that Cao Hong's side is already busy, but there is no movement in the camp on Shen Chen's side, and Cao Hong also wants to know what Shen Chen is going to do, so he sends Xiahou Cun to take a look.

Xiahou Cun led 5,000 soldiers and horses, slowly approaching the Shen Chen military camp, the gate of the camp was closed, and after a while, the gate of the village was opened, and Gan Ning rushed out first, shouting: "Bajun Gan Xingba is here, who dares to come up to fight." ”

"Kill!"

Seeing that the other party's soldiers had not completely come out of the walled gate, Xiahou Cun did not hesitate to give the order to attack.

He was not worried that the enemy would suddenly shoot arrows from the fence.

Because if the fence wants to stop the enemy, it must be built very high, often more than one zhang.

And if you want to shoot an arrow behind a one-zhang high fence, you must at least make a body to reach out, and you must be five feet tall just by standing on the ground, which is three meters and a half.

Of course, it is impossible for a person to be three and a half meters long.

Therefore, the well-fortified camps at that time generally built a five- or six-foot wooden platform behind the fence, which was topped by a pillar, and people stood on the wooden platform and shot arrows.

Of course, you can use a ladder, but the ladder can only allow one person to go up, and there are thousands of archers in large-scale legion warfare, and thousands of ladders are built at the same time, which is even more impossible, even if you carry armor, you can't bring so much.

Therefore, Xiahou Cun just felt that Shen Chen had only arrived at Taiting yesterday, and it was impossible to build so many fortifications, so he boldly ordered the charge.

However, what he never expected was that almost as soon as Cao Jun rushed to a place less than fifty meters away from the camp, countless heads suddenly appeared behind the fence, and a round of bows and arrows shot at Cao Jun with a crackling head and face, and in an instant, Cao Jun turned on his back, killing and wounding hundreds of nearly a thousand people.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

"Ahh

"Run!"

Cao's army was caught off guard and retreated one after another.

Gan Ning gathered more than a thousand soldiers at this time, and when he saw the enemy's defeat, he immediately shouted: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

Thousands of soldiers rushed away, slashing and slashing in Cao's army, and the situation was in chaos.

Seeing this situation in the distance, Cao Hong hurriedly ordered his generals Niu Jin and Liu He to lead the troops to the rescue.

The camps of the two sides were two miles away, and when the two of them arrived, Cao's army had already been defeated.

The scene of an unorganized rout of thousands of people is extremely chaotic, and once people are in chaos and run around like headless flies, they don't care what lies ahead.

Therefore, Niu Jin, Liu He and the others did not dare to intercept the rout army head-on, so they could only outflank them left and right, wanting to surround and kill the Gan Ning army.

However, Gan Ning beheaded the enemy general Xiahou Cun in the middle of the chaotic army, and was fighting vigorously, when he suddenly heard the sound of Mingjin in the rear, and hurriedly retreated.

Compared with Cao's army, which was shot with a bow and arrow and was defeated after the death of the main general, Gan Ning's more than 1,000 people were much more organized.

Not only did they cooperate with each other in groups of five people as they usually trained, and they continued to kill the enemy under the leadership of the commander and the commander, but they also kept an eye on the orders in the rear.

Almost as soon as they heard the sound of Mingjin coming from the rear, all the Shen Chenjun instinctively stopped their pursuit and began to retreat backwards.

Soon both sides broke away from the battle, and Shen Chen's army retreated into the camp like a tide, leaving only more than a thousand Cao army corpses in place.

When Niu Jin and Liu He came over, Shen Chenjun had already retreated more than 20 steps, about thirty or forty meters away, and rescued a lonely man, so he had to order to collect the rout, shouting to stop and so on, and coaxing for two quarters of an hour before returning to the camp in a huff.

"Ho ho

Seeing the victory in the first battle, Shen Chen's army was full of momentum, and the archers who came out shouted one after another.

As soon as they shouted, the soldiers who carried them below knew of the victory, and they became excited and shouted loudly.

For a while, many people below were emotional, and they did not hold the archers above steady, so that many soldiers fell.

It turned out that the method adopted by Shen Chen was not to build wooden platforms and ladders, but to simply use human ladders.

The three men set up an archer, and as soon as the enemy arrived, he immediately lifted the archer out, and half of his body came out of the fence to shoot.

This tactic obviously made Cao Jun completely unexpected.

Because this is the routine of our army in later generations, with the cooperation of three people, even a wall of four or five meters high can be climbed, let alone a fence that is only two meters three meters high.

As a result, Cao Jun thought that it was impossible to help in the camp, so he easily killed outside the camp gate, but was defeated by a bow and arrow.

In the distance, Cao Hong saw that Xiahou Cun was beheaded by Gan Ning, and only more than 3,000 of the 5,000 soldiers sent out fled back in embarrassment.

This guy is in his fifties, and his temper is actually much better in history, far less impulsive than when he was younger.

But the resourcefulness is far inferior to Cao Ren.

For example, in the same twenty-third year of Jian'an, in the battle between Liu Bei and Cao Cao, Cao Cao sent Cao Hong as the main general to attack Wulan, and Cao Xiu joined the army with Cao Xiu as the cavalry captain.

However, Cao Cao said to Cao Xiu in private, your name is to join the army, but you are actually the chief general of the army.

After Cao Hong learned of this, he no longer cared about military affairs, handed over military affairs to Cao Xiu, and also obeyed Cao Xiu's command, broke Wu Lan, beheaded his general Ren Kui, and forced Zhang Feima Chao to retreat.

From here, it can be seen that Cao Hong's late period was not the kind of strong character.

But he was more obedient and less resourceful, so Cao Cao asked Zhao Yan to be here, not to let Zhao Yan help watch him.

Seeing the defeat of the army at this moment, Zhao Yan took the opportunity to persuade him: "General, Shen Chen is scheming, and if he doesn't build fortifications, he will ambush us, and this will have already broken Xiahou Cun." ”

"What then?"

Cao Hong said unhappily: "Are we just looking at it like this?" They all called. ”

"General, don't panic, Shen Chen is also alone this time, and is surrounded by our north, south and east, we can besiege them, and then send light cavalry straight to Yexian County to cut off their grain routes."

Zhao Yan thought for a while and said, "What's more, even if he doesn't have a defense outside, he will build fortifications and arrange ambushes inside." However, it is often said that there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, so we first confront him, and after he relaxes or cuts off his grain route, he will inevitably be defeated by soldiers and horses, and then send troops to break it. ”

"Good."

Cao Hong thought so, so he ordered: "Continue to build fortifications and stick to the barracks." ”

At the moment, Cao Hong overhauled the fortifications.

The position occupied by Shen Chen is the exit of Nanyang into Henan, but this is not a mountain path, only a few people are allowed to walk side by side, but a wide official road, which is more than ten miles away from the north and south, and it is impossible to block it.

So in the next few days, Cao Hongdu sent light cavalry to cruise the road between Yexian and Taiting, trying to catch Shen Chen's grain transportation team.

However, Shen Chen's army carried grain and grass for several months this time, and Ye County did not send anyone to transport grain at this time, so even if Cao Hong wanted to cut off the grain road, he was basically lonely.

That is, his cavalry and the Huangmen soldiers, who were called the elite of the world by Liu Bei, were sent out to attack Runan County, otherwise Shen Chen would send the Huangmen soldiers to cooperate with the cavalry as a grain protection team, and Cao Hong would kill as many as he could, and he would not worry about running out of food at all.

And after Shen Chen killed Cao Hong, he didn't build any fortifications.

Because he won't stay here for long at all, once the news of Chen Du's attack comes over, Cao Hong will inevitably be in chaos and send troops and horses to Chen Liu's reinforcements.

When the time comes, Shen Chen will take the initiative to attack, so why spend so much effort digging a useless defensive camp?

Therefore, in the next time, in addition to the soldiers who are used for vigilance, patrol, and rotation on duty, Shen Chen ordered half of the soldiers of the whole army to train in the camp in the morning, rest well in the afternoon, maintain their physical strength, and prepare for the big battle afterward.

Over there, Cao Hong saw that there had been no movement in the morning in the past few days, so he also calmed down and continued to build fortifications.

But three days later, on September 16, he got the news that Langling was surrounded by nearly 10,000 people, although the two sides did not start a war, but the guard general Zhai Yuan only had 3,000 men and horses, and he felt that he could not resist, so he hurriedly sent people to ask for help.

Cao Hong's 100,000 troops naturally did not gather together, but scattered in the surrounding cities.

Among them, the main defense points are in the areas of Dingling, Kunyang, Wuyang, and Yunxian, which are the front line of Cao's defense, with a total strength of 780,000 people.

The defensive forces in the areas of Langling, Yang'an, Beiyichun, and Ancheng in the Dabie Mountains in the rear were slightly weak, with only 10,000 or 20,000 people stationed, and the strength of each city was basically about 3,000 or 4,000.

The reason for this defense is that those places are the area closest to the Dabie Mountains in Runan, far away from the hinterland of Henan, and there are several large rivers in the middle, such as Huaishui, Rushui, Lishui, Yingshui, etc., even if Langling is broken, it will not threaten Chenliu in a short time.

Therefore, even if these places are besieged by Shen Chen's army, as long as they can resist for a few days, Cao Hong can immediately send people to rescue, and even take advantage of Shen Chen's main army to attack these remote places, attack Nanyang and take Wancheng.

Therefore, since it is far away from the center, it is of course impossible for the main force to divide its troops. Both sides were sent partial divisions, one sent a partial division to defend, and the other sent a partial division to attack. The king is against the king, the general is against the commander, and the soldier is yes to the soldier.

Cao Hong learned that Langling was attacked, although he was not afraid, but the main force was dragged on the front line of Nanyang, in case Langling and other places were breached, and the hinterland was unguarded, the 10,000 partial divisions of the people could also stir up the wind in the rear.

So he sent his subordinates to lead Dong Chao to rescue 5,000 people.

Then on September 21, Cao Hong heard the news that caused him to suffer cardiopulmonary arrest.

Two days ago, on September 19, the imperial physician Ling Yoshimoto, Shaofu Geng Ji, Si Zhi Wei Huang and others launched a rebellion, killed Wan Qian, and were attacking the palace gate.