Chapter 1015: Escape
Huangfu Chaobo secretly thought: If they continue like this, even if Cao Cao and Tuberose occupy Qingzhou, they will be in a terrible mess. There are no soldiers, no craftsmen, and more than half of the population. If they continue like this, it is estimated that They still have to fill it with money and food for a few years before Qingzhou can stabilize again. It is really a drain on the bottom of the cauldron.
As expected, they are neither poisonous nor husbands. These three people have been together for a long time, and the honest Lu Su has become a lot more sinister. However, Huangfu Chaobo is very happy. This is in line with his own taste.
Just as he was thinking about it, Pang Tong came over and said, "My lord, we have already discussed it."
With that said, Pang Tong handed the migration strategy written in his hand to Huangfu Chaobo. After taking it, he read it carefully and said, "Okay, let's make arrangements according to this."
After speaking, he turned around and handed the strategy into Shi'a's hands and said: "Send it to Qingzhou and Longhua and ask them to execute it as soon as possible."
Shi A bowed and promised, then turned around and walked out of the prefect's mansion. This matter was too important. He had to rush to Chenliu in person and send it out with a carrier pigeon. And now that Dingtao had been captured, he was going to send Chenliu's carrier pigeon and The Shadow Guards all brought Ding Tao, so that the information could be delivered more quickly.
After watching Shi A leave, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the three military advisors and asked, "How will the next war be arranged?"
Lu Su suddenly stepped forward and said: "My lord, there is something I must inform General Huang Zhong."
"Well, what's the matter?"
"For the underground matter, Dingtao City will be visited. Ren Jun will lead his troops to escape. He will definitely tell Cao Cao about it. Therefore, Cao Cao will definitely try to spread the matter to Qiao County. In this way, General Huang Zhong wants to capture it quickly. Qiao County’s idea will be difficult to realize, which will have an impact on our army’s subsequent battle situation.”
Upon hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo realized that it was indeed the case. If Cao Hong knew about the Dizi Army, he would definitely be on guard. For Huang Zhong's army, there would definitely be greater losses. Of course, in addition to these two cities, it is estimated that it will be impossible for the Eastern Expedition Army to attack the city so easily.
Huangfu Chaobo nodded, and sent another soldier to chase Shi A quickly, asking him to send a pigeon message to Huang Zhong, and sent cavalry to strengthen patrols, making sure to intercept Cao Cao's messenger.
While several people were discussing the arrangements for the follow-up troops and war, Hu Yandu and the two leading captains of the Huben cavalry came in. The two of them led 10,000 cavalry to pursue Ren Jun's defeated troops, and ended up in the south of Jishui. Thirty miles away, they encountered Cao Cao's reinforcements. Fortunately, although the opponent had ten thousand tiger and leopard cavalry, they only drove their ten thousand cavalry far away. After Ren Jun and his defeated troops arrived, they could no longer Send troops again.
After their pursuit, although Ren Jun and others were not captured in the end, the Shuji army that escaped from the city suffered heavy losses. When Cao Cao rescued Ren Jun and others, there were only 30,000 troops in Dingtao City. There are less than 3,000 left, so it is really impossible to save one out of ten.
Cao Cao had just led his army less than ten miles away when he suddenly found smoke and dust billowing in front of him, as if a large group of troops were approaching. He quickly ordered his army to line up on the spot and wait for news from the front. Soon the scouts came with news that Dingtao's defeated troops were in front of them, and behind them were nearly 10,000 Eastern Army cavalry.
All the generals in Cao Cao's army were stunned. Fortunately, Cao Cao, who had been in battle for a long time, reacted immediately and immediately ordered: "All the tiger and leopard cavalry are dispatched to respond to the defeat of Dingtao army. The remaining infantry are waiting in formation to prevent conquests." The Eastern Army’s cavalry charged into battle.”
Soon, ten thousand tiger and leopard cavalry, led by the general Cao Zhen, left the main formation and headed north in the direction where the Dingtao army was defeated.
At this time, Ren Jun led the defeated troops and had been running for more than an hour. He was already exhausted. However, he knew that Cao Cao's army should be in front, so he kept motivating the soldiers to run towards the south, while thousands of the Eastern Army were The cavalry was now close to catching up with them. Along the way, exhausted soldiers continued to fall to the ground and died. Some soldiers could not run anymore, so they simply knelt down beside the official road and surrendered. Fortunately, the cavalry of the Eastern Expedition Army did not do more killing. Just a few cavalrymen coming out from the large group of cavalry,
Driving them back slowly.
In fact, as early as last night when discussing military affairs, Huangfu Chaobo made it clear to the Ranger Cavalry and Huben Cavalry that their task was to capture as many of these Cao Cao troops as possible, and once they captured the prisoners, they would send them back to Dingtao as soon as possible, because Cao Cao's army had already When they reach the south of Dingtao, they are likely to encounter Cao Cao's army.
Because the cavalry only set out after dawn, most of the cavalry was already ten miles south of Jishui when they caught up with the defeated troops. At this time, there was also a large plume of smoke and dust farther south. Huyan knew that there was a lot of smoke ahead. Reinforcements from Cao Cao's army were definitely coming, so he ordered the cavalry to start controlling the speed. However, nearly three thousand soldiers and horses fled behind the cavalry of Cao Cao's army who was responding to them.
As for the 10,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, Huyandu did not fight with them. After the two sides faced off for a while, Huyandu led nearly 10,000 cavalry from the Eastern Army back. After joining the cavalry that had driven away the prisoners before, the army returned to Dingtao. Inside the city.
At the central position of Cao Cao's army, Ren Jun stumbled to Cao Cao with the support of several soldiers. As soon as he saw Cao Cao, Ren Jun cried and knelt on the ground: "My lord, I am an incompetent official. I have lost my Dingtao." , please punish me, my lord!”
Cao Cao was furious and said: "The battle report last night didn't show any signs of the city being broken. Why was Dingtao City defeated by the Eastern Expedition Army in less than one night?"
Ren Jun also knew that he was indeed defeated somewhat humiliatingly, so he told Cao Cao everything about the battle that had started yesterday, and then told Cao Cao his own inference. After listening to Ren Jun's story, Cao Cao found that even if he defended the city himself, he would probably follow Huangfu Chaobo's path, mainly digging tunnels to enter the city to attack. Although he had seen it in military books, they had fought for more than ten years, but this kind of war had never happened.
Although Cao's army entered the city from the tunnel in the Battle of Puyang, it was a tunnel that had existed for decades or even hundreds of years, so no one thought that a tunnel several miles long could be opened in a few days during the war to attack the city.
The main reason is that in the game, the Digging Army is a special type of soldier, and ordinary soldiers can't do this job at all, so few princes will use this trick. In fact, what Cao Cao didn't know was that there was one person in Yuan Shao's army who could do this. Xu You had a special skill of digging the ground, and he could also form a Digging Army. There were also Yang Hong under Zhang Lu and Xiang Lang under Liu Biao, who all had this skill.