Xiahoudun entered Xuzhou, and the order did not change. There were many soldiers entering the city, and they walked extremely slowly. As he was walking, he heard a cry from the back of the team, and Xiahou frowned, patted his horse and walked back.

I was worried about the troubles, so I went with him to take a look. When he walked up, it turned out that a soldier was so hungry that he broke into a farmer's house and took a piece of roasted sweet potato. At that time, a little food was the life of ordinary people, and the old woman in the house naturally cried and hugged the soldier's leg. But the soldier scolded: "Get out of here, what can you do if you eat a sweet potato?

The woman was still weeping.

"What's going on?" asked Xiahoudun.

The woman rushed to cry and said, "Official, I roasted a piece of sweet potato, I was originally going to give it to my grandson, but he snatched it, my grandson is only three years old, how can I live without food now...... It's been three days, and he hasn't eaten a bite!"

"What about the, don't you have milk to eat?" asked Xiahoudun.

"I'm already dead, and I don't know where I'm going to die when I go out to fight......" the woman said sadly, wiping away tears from her eyes.

Xiahoudun asked the soldier again: "This woman said that you robbed someone else's sweet potato, but is it true?"

"Will ...... General, it's true. I just took a piece of sweet potato, and I just gave it back to her......" Under the pressure of Xiahoudun, the soldiers didn't dare to look into his eyes.

"You've already eaten it, how can you pay it back?"

"The little one will give her my rations back tomorrow. The soldier said.

"Tomorrow, I'm afraid it's too late......" Xiahoudun sneered, only to see him draw his sword with a swipe on the ground. The soldier turned pale and begged for mercy: "The general spares his life......"

But I saw Xiahoudun neatly slash the soldier's stomach with a clean sword, and his intestines flowed all over the ground. The soldier screamed and looked at his chest and abdomen in disbelief.

The woman was also frightened, and fell to her knees trembling.

Xiahoudun said sharply: "The generals will listen to the order! If you dare to violate the military order, rob the property, or rape the woman, no matter what the reason, you will be punished on the spot!"

"Yes!" replied the soldiers.

Xiahoudun said to the woman: "He took a piece of sweet potato from you, and there is a shortage of food in our army, so I will give you a piece of horse meat!" and then instructed the quartermaster to take a piece of horse meat and give it to the woman, and the woman went with a thousand thanks.

I saw that his military orders were like a mountain, and I secretly admired him in my heart.

After entering the Assassin's Mansion, Xiahoudun was born in the army and did not know the affairs of the city, so he asked me to help him settle down. I called the civilian officials in Xuzhou, gave instructions in every detail, and Xiahoudun went to deploy the city defense. In the evening, Xiahoudun summoned the generals and said: "Now that Xuzhou has been pacified, the generals will cook on the third watch, and the fourth watch will set off, and the army will rush to White Horse City without stopping!"

I wondered: "The general has just arrived in Xuzhou, but why is he in such a hurry to go to Baima?"

"To tell you the truth, the deadline for the prime minister to give me to pacify Xuzhou is today. Yuan Shao's army had already attacked Baima, and Liu Yan, the Taishou of Dongjun, couldn't resist, so the prime minister personally went to guard Baima. But he only left 5,000 old and weak soldiers and horses to confront Yuan's army across the river, but he planted more pennants, making Yuan's army think that the main force of our army was here, but in fact it was just a bluff. When I was leaving, the prime minister only left me a sentence with four words: 'Fight quickly and solve quickly'!"

"Shouldn't you be the only one who went all the way to save the white horse?"

Xiahoudun smiled bitterly: "The military horses I brought are the main force of our army, and now the situation in Yanzhou is unstable, Xiliang Ma Teng, Jingzhou Liu Biao and others are ready to move, but they can't help but divide their troops to defend them." If Xuzhou is uncertain, this battle with Yuan Shao will already be lost before it is fought. ”

I was shocked and said, "I think the general is probably only 50,000 soldiers and horses, how to fight against Yuan Shao's 800,000 army?"

Xiahoudun said: "Although our army is only 50,000, but a dignified hot-blooded man, who can't fight ten with one?"

I was touched by his pride and said, "I should help the general." ”

For some reason, I still have a bias towards Cao Cao in my heart. I've known him for a few years, but he has never failed me. But I often feel indebted to him.

On the fourth watch, the army marched and rushed to the front line of Baima. Xiahoudun rode with 5,000 tigers and leopards, like a ghost in the night, and took the lead in galloping away. By noon on the second day, they had arrived in the White Horse City, and a large banner with the character Cao was flying in the wind. The first thing I asked after dismounting was, "What about Cao Cao?"

Cao Cao was looking at the military map in the big tent, and the topography map composed of sand dunes was undoubtedly clear at a glance. While he was studying tactics, no one dared to disturb him, except for me. After entering the account, I said softly: "Prime Minister Cao, do you see the old people visiting us?"

Cao Cao looked back in amazement, saw that it was me, and said with great joy: "It turned out to be you tiger!" He came over and punched me, quite happy, and said, "Come and sit!"

He looked at me and said, "You kid is strong again, but it's dark again!"

I also looked at him and said, "Your white hair has come out......"

"It's old!" Cao Cao sighed, "Where did you kid go, and you didn't say to bring me a letter, so I was so worried." ”

My heart is moved, and there are people who are worried about me in this troubled world. Then he said: "Don't rush to talk about me first, this matter is a long story." Let's first talk about the current military situation, shall we? Seeing that you are worried, you must have encountered some difficult things. ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Yes." You know what's going on, right?"

"On the way, I heard some things from General Xiahou, but it was still not specific. ”

"Come with me. Cao Cao took my hand to the sand table and said: "Now Yuan Shao has raised 750,000 troops, known as one million, to attack me in three ways; another Xiliang Ma Teng has raised 750,000 troops to attack in ten ways; Liu Biao in Jingzhou and Sun Ce in Jiangdong are all eyeing me and watching my success or failure." If I win, Yanzhou will have no worries, and if I lose, there will be no place for me in the world. Therefore, a few days ago, I ordered General Zang Ba to lead 20,000 elite troops from Langyu into Qingzhou and occupy Qi, Beihai, Dong'an, and other places, so as to contain Yuan Shao, consolidate the right flank, and prevent Yuan's army from attacking Xudu from the east; Cao Ren and others led the main force to build fortifications in the area of Guandu to block Yuan Shao's attack from the front; I also sent people to pacify Guanzhong and win over Liangzhou to stabilize the flank. ”

I clapped my hands and said, "That's wonderful! In this way, the three route soldiers have entered Yuan Shao's door, and they are fighting each other, so that he will have a headache for a long time." I don't know which way to attack. ”

"Yuan Shao is suspicious, and he is so happy. I filled the White Horse City with my big shackles, and he thought that I was here, so he would not attack the other two ways, but wanted to fight with me here. Cao Cao said, pointing his finger at Guandu.

"Isn't that what you want?"

"Hey! Although the decisive battle of Guandu is the most beneficial to our army, after all, Yuan Shao's army is ten times that of mine, and to be honest, I don't know the bottom of this battle. Cao Cao smiled bitterly.

"Then why did you come to Baima, did you want to fight Yuan Shao in advance?"

"The White Horse is a battleground for the Middle Route Army. Although this place could not be defended after all, the first battle of direct contact with Yuan Shao could only be won and not defeated. If this battle is lost, the morale of our army will plummet, and the battle of Guandu will no longer need to be fought......"

"I see. I said, "Now, what do you have to do?"

"I have a strategist Xun You, who thinks that Yuan Shao has a lot of soldiers, so he suggests that he attack the east and the west, disperse his forces, first lead troops to Yanjin, cross the river in disguise to attack Yuan Shao's rear, so that Yuan Shao divides his troops to the west, and then send light cavalry to quickly attack the Yuan army attacking Baima, and if he is not prepared, he will definitely be able to defeat the Yuan army. ”

"In this case, I will lead this light cavalry to attack Yuan's army, what is it?"

"Of course that's good, with you out of the horse, what else can't be done?" Cao Cao laughed.

"But I don't know who the general of the Yuan army is in the White Horse?"

"Yan Liang! This good knife is your opponent. ”

Suddenly, a sentence came from behind, "I'll accompany you to Zhan Yanliang!"

I turned around suddenly, my expression was complicated, shocked, worried, but more than that, surprised!

Cao Cao was also stunned and asked, "But General Guan?"