Xiao County.
At night, the county hall is brightly lit, and Cao Ying's civil and military forces are all gathered here.
Retreating back to Xiao County, Cao Cao was anxious to break the pottery merchant and seize Xuzhou, without a moment of rest, he summoned the civil and military ministers to discuss the strategy of breaking the enemy overnight.
Cao Ren was the first to say: "Our army has 40,000 people, and the most available soldiers of the potters are only 20,000. ” Cao Ren advocated frontal rolling, and he was in line with Le Jin and other fierce generals who were known for their offense, and all the generals joined one after another.
"If you want to attack head-on, why bother with Gu at the beginning, just enter the army from Xiaopei, you can't mess up because of a defeat."
Cao Cao shook his head and vetoed.
The generals who were generous enough to call the generals quickly fell silent and calmed down.
This time, Guo Jiasheng used the strategy of attacking the west in the east, in order to avoid the main force of the pottery merchants, attack Pengcheng, and take Xuzhou at the smallest cost.
"Our real enemy is Yuan Shao, and we must not kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred for the sake of a potter."
Strategist Cheng Yu cut the railway.
Since the defeat in the previous war, Guo Jia's old illness has relapsed, and he is recuperating from himself, and he did not participate in today's military discussion, so Cheng Yu's words have more right to speak.
Cao Cao nodded slightly, Cheng Yu's words were exactly what he wanted.
The blood of the generals was forcefully suppressed, and everyone's thoughts were rolling, but there was nothing to be done.
Cao Cao turned his gaze to Cheng Yu again and sought advice from him.
Although Cheng Yu's wisdom is inferior to Guo Jia, he is also a top strategist in the world, and when he competed with Lu Bu for Yanzhou, Cheng Yu also repeatedly offered strange plans, and Cao Cao still trusted him very much.
Cheng Yu has always been calm, and he is not in a hurry to make a plan, but strokes his short beard lightly, his eyes sweeping around the map, and he is thoughtful.
Guo Jia's defeat indirectly made Cheng Yu realize the difficulty of the potter, and at this time, he naturally did not dare to despise this powerful opponent, so as not to repeat the mistake of Guo Jia's failure.
After thinking for a long time, Cheng Yu's calm eyes swept up a bit of a smile.
Cao Cao knew that his supreme strategist already had a strange plan, so he couldn't wait to ask: "Zhongde, do you have a strange plan?"
Cheng Yu took a light breath, stood up and walked to the screen, pointed to the huge map hanging, and slowly gestured: "The first line of Bishui is mountainous, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, since the potters have discovered our intentions and gathered heavy troops in this area, then we will lose the effect of the surprise attack. ” Everyone's expressions moved, and their eyes swept to the map in unison.
Cao Cao pondered for a long time, nodded and said: "Zhongde is right, since the surprise attack is not successful, if we still attack the front line of Bishui, it is in the hands of the potters, why not take the Surabaya Avenue, in order to give full play to our advantage of having more soldiers." ” Cheng Yu nodded in agreement, and then said: "If you want to attack Pengcheng in Surabaya, you must first capture Liuxian County north of Pengcheng.
Why didn't Sikong let Liu Bei send troops from Xiaopei to attack Liuxian by surprise, and at the same time Sikong left thousands of soldiers and horses, bluffing in Xiao County, but secretly led the main force to Xiaopei, followed by Liu Bei and rushed to Liuxian, when the time came, he could kill the pottery merchant by surprise, and the army drove south to Pengcheng. ” Cheng Yu finally revealed his plan, to put it bluntly, it was another trick to repair the plank road and secretly cross Chen Cang.
Cao Cao likes to use strange things the most, Cheng Yu's plan is deeply in line with his mind, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately patted the case and said: "Okay, according to Zhongde's plan, immediately send someone to give Liu Xuande an order, and order him to do his best to take Xiaopei's army, take the county for Gu, and open up the route to Pengcheng." ” The order was handed down, and Cao Cao ordered Yu Ban to lead an army of 3,000 and continue to be stationed in Xiao County.
Cao Cao raised an army of 40,000 troops, and under the cover of night, he went north and went straight to Xiaopei.
Forty miles east of Xiao County, the Tao army camp.
After the pottery merchant saw through Cao Cao's conspiracy and rescued Fan Xu, after he retreated from Cao Cao, in order to prevent Cao Cao from coming to his senses, he led the army to pursue in a big way, and retreated forty miles overnight, and set up camp in danger.
Although five or six hundred men were lost in this battle, the precious cavalry did not suffer heavy losses and was barely acceptable.
However, the losses of the Cao army were at least 17,800 people, and the first battle was thwarted by the pottery merchants, which greatly boosted the morale of the Tao army and depressed the fighting spirit of the Cao army.
On the day of the camp, Lian Po Li Guang and other generals led the follow-up soldiers and horses to meet them, and the number of soldiers in the camp reached 17,000.
With enough soldiers and horses, coupled with the dangerous terrain in this area, the potter was confident enough that even if Cao Cao attacked with an army of 40,000, he would be able to block it.
In the Chinese military tent, the potter met with Chen Ping and told the danger of this ambush battle.
Everyone was emotional, but Chen Ping took a sip of wine and sighed with a smile: "It's also thanks to the lord's ability to adapt to the situation, and he came up with a plan to use the multi-tree battle flag to move the suspicious soldiers, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." ” This Chen Ping has also learned to pat on the back.
The potter was useful in his heart, but he knew very well that Cao Cao was not injured, and the victory in this battle was not enough to force Cao Cao back, and the real tough battle was still to come.
If you really want to force Cao Cao back, I'm afraid you have to have Chen Ping, a top strategist, come up with a foolproof strategy.
With a roll of his eyes, the potter smiled and said: "Anyway, this victory is always worth celebrating, come on, bring me the jars of Gan's good wine I brought, the big guy is so lively." ” As soon as Chen Ping heard the good wine of the Gan family, his eyes suddenly lit up like a greedy cat.
After a while, when the wine was served, the potter set up a small banquet in the tent and celebrated with the generals.
The happiest is undoubtedly Chen Ping, others still have to eat a few mouthfuls of meat, but he doesn't stop for a moment, for fear that others will drink a few more sips, rob him, and drink like crazy, and drink half of it alone.
Seeing that Chen Ping was almost drunk, the potter coughed a few times dryly, and said with a smile: "I said drunkard Chen, you have also drunk this wine, and you have drunk the most, and you should almost have an idea, so that I can completely force back Cao Cao, a strong enemy." ” Chen Ping was stunned, and couldn't help but secretly complain, only then did he understand that these potters of good wine were not drunk for nothing, they were specially set for him.
The mouth of cannibalism is short, and Chen Ping has no choice, so he has to scratch his head and smile bitterly: "Cao Cao is not an easy lord to deal with, lord, you have to let me think about it." ” "Don't rush, think slowly."
It will be the potter's turn to relax, lean unhurriedly, and taste the good wine.
He showed that although he was relaxed, his eyes were always moving around the map, and he was also analyzing the current situation, and when his thoughts were rolling, Chen Ping's bitter gourd face suddenly appeared a little sly.
"Old drunkard, do you have a plan?"
the potter's eyes lit up.
Chen Ping took a sip of wine and said with a sly smile: "With such a turn in my mind, I did come up with a plan, even if we can't force Cao Cao back, at least we can take the initiative." ” These jars of good wine, sure enough, there are no meat buns to smash the dog "That's not going to be a long time to say."
The potter urged excitedly.
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Chen Ping carried the wine gourd, walked to the map leisurely, and gestured: "Cao Cao gathered tens of thousands of people to set up an ambush in the east of Xiao County, it can be seen that his main force should be in the area of Xiao County, and Xiaopei City in the north only has Liu Bei's thousands of soldiers and horses, and the troops are relatively weak, isn't this our opportunity." ” The potter followed Chen Ping's point, his eyes moved towards Xiao Pei, and a little excitement gradually appeared in his eagle eyes.
"Drunkard, do you want me to pretend to confront Cao Cao here on the surface, but secretly lead the main force to the north, take advantage of Liu Bei's unpreparedness, and take Xiao Pei in one fell swoop?"
Tao Shang was resourceful and weak, and he could understand it at one point, and he heard the meaning of Chen Ping's words.
"My lord is smart."
Chen Ping lost no time in patting again.
The generals on the left and right also understood what Chen Ping meant, but Lian Po worried: "Although this plan is wonderful, what if the lord leads the main force to leave, and Cao Cao takes the opportunity to advance eastward along the river and directly threaten Pengcheng."
Chen Ping smiled, "Although Xiao County is close to Pengcheng, there are many mountains and dangerous places, although Cao Cao has many soldiers, it is useless, we only need thousands of soldiers and horses, refuse to be dangerous, even if Cao Cao has 100,000 male soldiers, he will not want to threaten Pengcheng." ” The potter nodded again and again, and his young face was already murderous.
Cao Cao, you played a trick with me, and almost wiped out thousands of my elite soldiers, then okay, I'll also play a trick for you, and directly end your Xiaopei, but threaten your Yanzhou, see how you deal with it.
Without any further hesitation, the potter immediately jumped up and said happily: "Just use the drunkard's strategy, Wen Xiang led 3,000 soldiers and horses to guard the camp, and I personally led 14,000 main forces to return to the north, directly take Xiaopei, and kill Liu Bei by surprise." ” At that moment, the potters immediately issued a military order, and the generals took the order and left one after another.
The next day, when the sky was not bright, the potter had already taken advantage of the cover of night to lead the main force to evacuate the camp and quietly go north. isjgy: