Although Cao Cao was angry and hateful, he could not change the fact that the army was defeated.
"Lord, we made a mistake in calculation, the defeat of the army is a foregone conclusion, while the 10,000 fresh troops in our hands are still undefeated, retreat as soon as possible."
Guo Jia sighed and persuaded.
Cao Cao secretly clenched his fists, his brows furrowed deeply, and he was unwilling.
Several cavalry defeated troops came in embarrassment, reporting that Cao Ren had been defeated, and even Niu Jin was beheaded by the pottery merchant himself.
Even Niu Jin was killed by the potter That kid, when did he have the force to kill Niu Jin In an instant, Cao Cao's originally shocked expression changed again, and endless anger rushed to his face like flames.
"Kill the lonely pure brother first, and now kill the lonely general, the pottery thief and the pottery thief" Cao Cao gritted his teeth a few times, and his eyes were bloodshot, almost bursting out.
At this moment, Cao Cao was furious, and he really wanted to personally send the last 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight to the death with the pottery merchants.
When he looked up, his own army was defeated like a mountain, throwing away his armor and escaping in pieces in front of his eyes, and the fighting spirit had long since collapsed.
The army of potters, however, was in high spirits, like tigers in the mountains, and pounced on the frightened sheep that had fled.
Although Cao Cao was extremely angry, he knew in his heart that even if he sent 10,000 soldiers and horses at hand, he was afraid that he would be crushed by his own rout before he could fight with the Tao army.
"Niu Jin fell for the trick of the pottery thief, so that Sikong made a wrong judgment, he is not a pity to die, Sikong, you must act calmly, please withdraw the troops, if you don't withdraw, we will be finished."
Cheng Yu shouted in a deep voice.
Cao Cao's body was shocked, the anger in his eyes subsided slightly, and he took a few long deep breaths of cold air before he calmed down the burning flames.
The defeat is decided, and there is no chance of turning defeat into victory.
If you evacuate in time, you can still save a lot of soldiers and horses, clean up the defeated soldiers, and fight again with the potters.
In an instant, Cao Cao weighed the pros and cons.
Resentful for a long time, Cao Cao let out a long sigh, "That's it, let's retreat the whole army." ” Cao Cao did not hesitate any longer, turned his horse around, and withdrew to the west under the protection of Xu Chu and Dian Wei, as well as the pro-army.
Before leaving, Cao Cao also glared at Liu Bei and Guan Yu fiercely, with a complaining look.
Liu Bei and Guan Yu, two brothers, glanced at each other, and the two of them looked embarrassed.
"This Cao thief, the eldest brother risked his reputation to ambush the potter for him, and he dared to blame the eldest brother, I really wanted to kill him" Zhang Fei roared indignantly.
Liu Bei glared at Zhang Fei anxiously, and said in a low voice: "Yide, Hugh has to talk nonsense and get into trouble." ” Zhang Fei had to close his mouth, but his face was unhappy.
"Big brother, my arrow really hit the back of the pottery thief's heart, who would have thought that that kid's life is so big, it turned out" Guan Yu was dazed and embarrassed, feeling that he couldn't help Liu Bei.
In Liu Bei's eyes, a trace of resentment quietly passed, followed by a generous smile, patted Guan Yu's shoulder and said comfortingly: "Yun Chang don't blame himself, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, maybe that pottery thief should not be killed, now is not the time to ask for his life." ” Guan Yu's ashamed expression was slightly retracted, but he sighed again: "Cao Cao's defeat this time, I'm afraid that the dissatisfaction with us will be even heavier, and the foolish brother is only afraid that after this battle, it will be more difficult for the eldest brother to gain a foothold in Cao Cao." ” Liu Bei glanced around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to them, Fang sighed in a low voice: "Brother Wei didn't expect that the kid of the pottery thief, in just a few years, would be so strong that he would defeat Cao Cao to such an extent, according to the situation of the purpose, even if Cao Cao finally defeated and defeated the little thief, he would inevitably lose his strength and could no longer fight with Yuan Benchu, and even, when Yuan Benchu unified Hebei, he might not be able to destroy the pottery thief." ” "What does the big brother mean" Guan Yu comprehended seven or eight points.
Liu Bei looked to the north and said meaningfully: "We defected to Cao Cao because we wanted to borrow his hand to help the Han family, it seems that now the Han family is about to be destroyed in his hands, for the sake of the great cause, it is time for us to find another way." ” With that, Liu Bei turned around and retreated with Cao Cao's defeated army.
Guan Zhang and the others glanced at each other, and also followed Liu Bei closely.
As soon as Cao Cao left, Cao Cao lost his fighting spirit and collapsed.
At dawn, the battle finally ended.
The hustle and bustle of the battlefield finally fell silent, leaving only the unfinished smoke of gunpowder.
A bloody potter, with a horizontal sword, stood proudly in the sea of corpses and blood, and the golden glow of the morning light sprinkled on him, as if dyed a golden battle suit for him, majestic and domineering, like a killing god.
Looking around, within a few miles of the camp, there were already corpses all over the field, and the blood stained the fertile field.
At his feet, everywhere was the broken battle flag of the word "Cao", which was ruthlessly trampled.
The blood-stained banner of "Tao" is still erected over the battlefield, flying in the wind, indicating who is the winner of this battle.
"Tick system scan, the host won the night raid counterattack, and gained a charm value of 3, and the host now has a charm value of 62."
Finally won The potter let out a long breath, and a smile of relief appeared on his blood-stained face.
It was a key win in no conclusion.
Before this battle, Cao Cao had at least 50,000 soldiers and horses at his disposal, and Cao Cao's territory was vast, the reserve army was sufficient, and his war mobilization ability was far superior to him.
And the number of troops at his disposal is only 30,000.
With the land of Xuzhou and Huainan alone, it is difficult to feed 30,000 mouths, and the grain levy on the people under his command has exceeded the limit.
If it weren't for his "tax" attributes, such a heavy grain burden would have provoked a popular uprising.
After this crucial battle, Cao Cao's main army suffered heavy losses, and the loss of soldiers and horses was at least about 20,000, and it could not be replenished in time in a short time.
Counting the battle losses, Cao's army had 14,000 dead and wounded, and the remaining more than 6,000 soldiers and horses all surrendered on the ground.
The First World War lost nearly half of the soldiers and horses, which can be described as the most painful defeat in Cao Cao's life, and the losses were really heavy.
The potter was not carried away by this victory, he knew his purpose, not only to win a big victory, but also to take the Central Plains in one fell swoop.
After this great victory, the potter did not even waste time to drink saliva, and immediately raised a victorious army of 30,000, followed Cao Cao, and chased and fought all the way.
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Cao Cao was defeated all the way, the soldiers and horses could not be contained, and he did not even have time to enter the important town of Dingtao, so he directly abandoned it and continued to gallop westward along Jishui.
The pottery merchants did not fight bloodily and captured Dingtao, which was an important town on land and water in the Central Plains.
The soldiers pursued repeatedly, and their physical strength had reached the limit, and the pottery was not in a hurry to pursue, but ordered the army to rest on the spot, and at the same time divided the troops and horses to capture the counties to which Jiyin County belonged, and collected grain and grass on the spot, so as to achieve the war as much as possible.
After his army rested in Dingtao for three days, the potters raised their troops again and marched along Jishan in the direction of Fengqiu City.
According to the strategy drawn up for him by Chen Ping, the first step of this western expedition was to capture Fengqiu City and cut Cao Cao's territory in half from west to east.
As long as Fengqiu City is taken, the East County and Taishan County in the north will be equivalent to severing the connection with Cao Cao, and most of Yanzhou can go down without a fight.
After taking the richest counties in Yanzhou, the balance of strength between the two sides will be qualitatively reversed, and at that time, the potters can carry the superior forces and wave their troops from north to south to the south, directly take Xudu, and completely defeat Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was resourceful, and although he was defeated, he still maintained a calm head, and he couldn't see the potter's scheme.
He quickly retreated to Fengqiu City, stopped retreating, and while cleaning up the defeated troops and strengthening the city defenses, he sent people to Xu Du to Xun Yu, ordering him to send additional troops and horses to the front line to hold Fengqiu City.
Ten days later, Cao Cao gathered nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses on the front line of Fengqiu City, forming a momentum of perseverance.
Cao Cao had just arrived in Fengqiu City, and when his butt had not yet sat firmly, the potter led a large army to kill him, and went down to the southeast of Fengqiu City, forming an offensive momentum.
The strength of the two sides was equal, the pottery merchant first won a big victory, with a morale advantage, and Cao Cao was backed by a strong city, with a geographical advantage, and the strength of the two sides can be described as evenly matched.
The pottery merchant knew that he could not take Fengqiu City by means of a strong attack, so at Chen Ping's suggestion, he launched a new attack method.
Looting grain routes.
The day after the camp, the potters sent cavalry troops to bypass Cao Cao's defense line and penetrate deep into the front line of Yingchuan, constantly attacking Cao Cao's grain route.
Whether the supply of grain is smooth or not directly determines the morale of the enemy, and the potters believe that as long as Cao Cao's grain route can be cut off, there is no need for him to attack, and Fengqiu City will go down without a fight.
However, it turns out that Cao Cao is Cao Cao in the end, and he was not so easily defeated.
After the grain road was robbed twice, Cao Cao soon played with him and controlled his people.
Anti-grain robbery.
Nearly 4,000 cavalry were also sent by Cao Cao and penetrated deep into the area controlled by the potters, and began to frantically loot and kill grain and grass.
The number of cavalry of the potters totaled 2,000, which was half that of Cao Cao, and there were no generals under his command who were really proficient in cavalry combat.
As for Cao Cao, there were originally not so many cavalry, but Zhang Xiu's surrender doubled the number of his cavalry.
Previously, Cao Cao didn't trust Zhang Xiu very much, but when it came to this point of life and death, he naturally couldn't care a lot, so he had to use Zhang Xiu and use Zhang Xiu's Xiliang cavalry to raid the grain of the pottery merchants for him.
The potter's grain and grass reserves are not as rich as Cao Cao's, so if they continue to rob each other, there is no doubt that he will be the first to collapse.
Half a month later, calculating the loss and harvest, after half a month of moving grain, the light cavalry of the potters destroyed nearly 100,000 grains and grass of Cao Cao, and the harvest was quite rich.
But unfortunately, his grain and grass were robbed by Cao Cao's cavalry, nearly 200,000 Hu, and the loss was still more than half of Cao Cao's.
The loss of grain and grass soon affected the morale of the army, and the high morale that the potters had easily built up through the previous big victory was gradually beginning to fall.
Faced with this situation, the potter and his advisers could not think of any solution for a while.
It's day, it's night.
The lanterns were already hanging high, but the potter could not sleep, and was pacing in the tent, thinking of a way to solve the dilemma.
At this moment, the soldiers outside came to report, saying that Diao Chan asked to see him.
"What is she doing at such a late hour?"
the potter had a thought, and was not in the mood to see her.
The pro-soldier said: "My lord, that lady Diao Chan said that she has a way to help the lord solve the problem of the robbery of the grain road. ”isjgy: