Zhang He led 10,000 Guanzhong cavalry to hide on the side of the mountain thirty miles away from Nanyang, and Cao's army repaired on the spot.

A scout who was escorted by Bao Ying, the captain of the leading army, reported: "General, I was ordered to hunt and kill the thief scouts, and when I came back, I attacked and shot twenty-three people, and captured seventeen people alive. ”

Zhang He nodded to the Han army scouts and said, "I ask you to answer honestly, your life is naturally safe, and the general will also give you a reward." How do you scouts and report back, how many are there, when will they return to camp, and when will they go back? ”

Bao Ying drew his sword and shouted: "Say it quickly, if you don't tell the truth, I'll kill you!" ”

The scout Shi Chang hurriedly said: "We were ordered to investigate the situation in the vicinity of Nanyang, every two people in a team, a total of ten teams of 100 people, do not return to the camp on weekdays, it is a beacon tower ten miles north of Nanyang to report, rest and alternate are there!" ”

Zhang He said unexpectedly: "Beacon Tower, how many places are there?" ”

The scout chief replied: "Three, I know only three, each place is stationed a hundred people, and the news we have found out is to report to the military master of the beacon tower, and it is up to them to decide whether to report it to the higher authorities!" ”

Zhang He said: "How many soldiers and horses are there in the siege, and how many camps are there?" ”

Scout Shi Chang said: "Nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses, with more than ten camps!" ”

Zhang He squinted his eyes and said, "Are you sure that you, a scout, can know these things in detail?" ”

The scout chief hurriedly said: "The number of camps has been counted, the number of soldiers and horses has arrived, forty or fifty thousand people, but that was about a month ago, and I haven't returned to the camp since I was sent here, so it's not clear whether it has been transferred or not!" ”

Zhang He felt a little strange in his heart, he couldn't say it specifically, he didn't think much about it, after all, Zhang He didn't expect to be able to extract the reality of the Han army from the mouth of a small scout.

Zhang He pretended to be satisfied and said: "Very good, since you leaked such information to our army, naturally you can't go back to the thief army, and the thief army department will only give you a long time."

Tonight, you will take us to uproot the beacon tower, after the matter is completed, the general will promote you to be a military commander, a hundred times stronger than the original, Captain Bao, give him fifty taels of gold, this is a reward, you must cherish the opportunity to make meritorious service now! The Han army scouts were overjoyed and hurriedly agreed.

Zhang He waved his hand, and the scout withdrew. Bao Ying asked: "General, what the thief army scouts say can't be fully believed, why don't you secretly send fine scouts to pretend to be people to get close to the thief army beacon?" ”

Zhang He frowned and said: "No, the thief army has besieged the city for nearly a month, and the surrounding situation has long been understood. Winning with troops is to attack them unprepared, and we must not delay, but must fight a quick battle. ”

Bao Ying said: "What the general said is very true, I am worried that it is easy to suffer losses if I attack blindly without knowing the truth and reality, and General Xiahou in the city does not know that we are coming, so he cannot immediately send troops to cooperate with the bandit army, but he can't do his best, and if the siege of the thief army is really as many as forty or fifty thousand, it will be quite troublesome."

Nanyang City is fifty miles so vast, the thief army only sent a hundred scouts, it can be seen that it has long been relaxed, we have tried it, it is best to find a way to get close to Nanyang City to pass the news, and it is good to cooperate with the thief army inside and outside! ”

Zhang He said: "You can't underestimate the thief army, the establishment of the beacon shows that the thief army still attaches importance to prevention." Now in a hurry to contact General Xiahou, it is easy to do bad things, and if you want to be surprised, sometimes you have to hide it from your own people first. As soon as it gets dark, first pull out the beacon, everything goes well, and then march the army! ”

As soon as it was dark that day, Zhang He ordered Bao Ying to sneak forward with a thousand soldiers and horses to cut off the paths between the beacon towers, so as not to leak the news.

More than 30 elites of the Cao army wore Han army armor and followed the Han army scout Shi Chang to approach the beacon tower. The defenders of the beacon tower knew the scout Shi Chang and couldn't help but say, "Why did you come back so late today!" ”

The scout chief pretended to smile and said: "Alas, I tripped over a branch and fell and didn't get up for half a day, thanks to the brothers who came to me and picked me up!" ”

The Han army guards were not suspicious and said: "You haven't come back, Jun Sima still thinks something has happened, hurry up and ......!" As he spoke, Cao Jun, who was scouting Shi Chang, bullied himself and killed the Han army defenders.

Then the Cao army quickly entered the beacon tower, and more than 100 Han troops were scattered on the three-layer beacon tower, and the Cao army used the Han army's clothing and armor as a cover to quickly clean up the Han army layer by layer.

After the deed, Zhang He led his soldiers and horses to come, nodded to the scout chief, and said, "Well done!" ”

Scout Shi Chang glanced behind him at Cao Jun, who was staring at him with a sharp blade in his hand from the beginning to the end, and squeezed out a smile in embarrassment. He knew that if he made any changes, this Cao Jun would kill him first.

When Cao's army attacked, even if the warning beacon tower was destroyed, he would only die quietly, and he continued to persuade his scout Shi Chang to fall deeper and deeper.

Cao Jun escorted the captured Han army Sima, Zhang He surrendered, Jun Sima pretended to surrender, and when Zhang He ordered to loosen the restraints, Jun Sima took advantage of Cao Jun's inattention and rushed to the beacon tower, and the left and right Cao Jun drew their knives and slashed together, and the Han army Sima Deng died.

Zhang He sighed: "The thief will choose you to guard the beacon tower, but it's a pity that you neglected to take precautions, and after all, it will be a big deal!" Ordered the burial of Jun Sima, and looked at the other captured Han army captives, Zhang He was afraid that something bad would happen, so he did not surrender and was imprisoned.

Zhang He continued his march to uproot the second and third beacon towers. Zhang He thought that what he was doing was secretive, but unexpectedly, all this was noticed by the Han army on a high mountain three miles away from the Han army's beacon tower.

One person whispered to Ling Zhao, who was the leader: "Captain, the beacon tower seems to have been attacked, what should we do?" ”

Ling Zhao, the son of Ling Bao, said: "Don't do anything, we have an agreement with the general that we will report a letter once every half an hour, and if no one reports it, it will be attacked by the enemy!" Hide them all! ”

How could Zhang Jaw think that this Han army was the real vigilant soldiers, and the so-called scouts and beacons were just a disguise.

In order to ensure concealment, and in order to ensure that the cavalry would save their horsepower in the next assault on the Han army, Zhang He ordered that the horses should not gallop, and everyone led the horses to march, and it took two hours for the three beacon towers to be pulled out.

Ling Bao waited anxiously in the account at the east village under Nanyang City, and rushed Guo Hua to the big tent, and Ling Bao asked: "Did the people who monitored the beacon tower come back to deliver the letter?" ”

Guo Hua shook his head and said: "General, only someone from the beacon tower eight miles away came to deliver the letter, and they said that the other two beacon towers did not send people, and it will take an hour to see this."

The man who came to deliver the letter said that they were ordered not to move lightly, and asked the general if he could send someone to contact the people of the beacon tower to find out if something had happened, so as not to cause an accident! ”

Ling Bao said: "I prefer to deal with it according to the attack of Cao Jun, no one reports for any reason, it is always good to be careful." Things have changed, General Guo, you go and inform the detailed work who came to deliver the letter not to go back, so as not to be captured by Cao Jun and notice something. ”

Guo Hua asked: "The general, according to the past, our army will send a group of scouts out before resting, do you want to send scouts out again tonight!" ”

Ling Bao said: "Yes, it must be sent, but it must be sent less!" ”

Guo Hua hesitated: "General, since the situation is not right, sending scouts out can't help but find out anything, but it is easy to let them die, this!" ”

Ling Bao said coldly: "Sending scouts can make Cao Jun think that our army will rest at ease with such an arrangement, Cao Jun doesn't know when he will be able to kill, Cao Jun needs time to deal with them, we can arrange them calmly!" ”

Like convincing Guo Hua, but also trying to convince himself, Ling Bao said: "How can there be immortals in the past wars!" Guo Hua agreed dullly.

Ling Bao got up and said: "General Guo, you personally go to Zhao Rongdu's camp and tell him, 'There is a change tonight, act according to the plan!'" Guo Hua agreed.

Ling Bao took out the bag from his arms, this is exactly what Pang Tong wrote, Ling Bao secretly said to himself: "Pang Tong is really good, far away in Xinye can guess how the Cao army marches, three beacon towers plus scouts everywhere, with four hundred people to lure the Cao army, it is really a chilling decision, success or failure is tonight!" ”

Ling Bud came out of the tent to gather the guards, and a cold wind rushed in, and Ling Bud rushed to the biting cold. Ling Bud did not delay any longer, and secretly ordered the soldiers to prepare and sprinkle water in the villages.

Guo Hua rushed to see Beizhai to see Zhao Rong and said the words of Ling Bao, and Zhao Rong immediately said: "I understand what to do!" "Immediately gather troops and horses to act.

Zhang He uprooted all the beacons, and Bao Ying lived up to his trust and captured all the scouts who shot the approaching Han army.

What Bao Ying didn't know was that one of the Han soldiers he killed was the messenger sent by the Han army from the second beacon tower hideout, and the second beacon tower was not attacked, but Bao Ying had already gone around to sneak to the front to seal the paths, and happened to kill the messenger, which gave the Han army more time to prepare.

All the cavalry of the Cao army got on the horse, and Zhang He pointed to the Han army camp in the distance and said to Bao Ying: "Tonight, you and I will each lead a team, I will attack the Han army Zhuzhai in the east, and you will attack the Zhuzhai in the north, and the flank will raid."

When I attacked Dongzhai, I was surrounded by half of the city and attacked from the south, east and west, and drove the Han army to the north.

Correspondingly, you attack the north village to expose the west side, and besiege the south, north, and east sides. Most of the soldiers and horses besieging Jingxiang were mainly engaged in water battles and foot battles, and there were not many cavalry.

It is necessary to give full play to the strong impact and oppressive force of the cavalry, rush into the wall, and set fire on all sides, and make noise and disturbance.

Kill the enemy in the second, the first in the thief, drive the defeated army to abandon the village and flee, wrapped in the village in terror and go, why the north village left in the west, the east village left in the north, in order to drive away the two defeated troops, the thief army was suddenly attacked, in the time of not knowing the first want to go to the other battalion and the army to deploy together.

We took advantage of this to make the two defeated armies rush each other, and the thief army could not be assembled, and was defeated at the time, and finally the army was defeated like a mountain, and we drove our troops to chase and intercept them, which was enough to win a complete victory.

Remember, the thieves must escape through the openings we have reserved, and if they break through in other directions, they must be blocked and pressed back! ”

Bao Ying responded: "Don't worry, the general understands in the next, if you fail, you will see you in the next!" ”

Zhang He said with a smile: "You have been fighting with me for a long time, I am naturally relieved!" ”

Bao Ying asked hesitantly: "General, General Xiahou of Nanyang City is ......!" ”

Zhang He said: "In the war, I will send my personal guards to inform me with my general seal and General Xiahou Yuan's order, and General Xiahou will cooperate with our actions!" ”

After speaking, Zhang Hequan said: "You immediately set off to the north, and after half an hour, you will start to attack together, and prepare for the big battle tonight!" ”