Chapter 730: Meng Gang Goes to Battle

Meng Gang handed Huangfu Chaobo's letter to Tao Qian, and then said: "My lord, please rest assured, Mr. Tao. Although only our army is coming, there will be tens of thousands of other troops coming together with the army of Governor Chen Liu and Zhang Zhang to attack Cao Cao." Territory, two strategies were carried out in parallel to force Cao's army to retreat. "

Tao Qian and the people in Xuzhou were overjoyed and thought that General Huangfu's plan was feasible. After the two sides discussed the military situation, Meng Gang and others left the city and returned to their camp.

Before leaving, Tao Qian specifically stopped Tuberose and encouraged him. At the same time, he hinted that he wanted to recommend Tuberose to the court as the prefect. This news made Tuberose extremely happy, and he was secretly proud of having a top-notch person. A counselor is different, he can consider everything for himself.

This time, Tuberose originally thought of leading three to five thousand soldiers to attend the scene, but Xi Zhicai strongly opposed it. After carefully analyzing the gains and losses for Tuberose, he persuaded Tuberose to use all his elites, almost Coming in force. Sure enough, when Tao Qian saw his situation, he had already started to draw the cake.

However, Tuberose also knows that it is not that simple to eat this cake, and it depends on her subsequent performance.

On December 8, the first snow stopped in all states in the Central Plains. As the snow stopped, the war started again. At the foot of Tan County City, after discussing with the generals, Cao Cao decided to retreat in the near future. However, even if he retreated, Cao Cao still decided to eat the 30,000 reinforcements under the city.

As the loud trumpets sounded in Cao Jun's camp, the whole world suddenly boiled. As the camp door opened, groups of soldiers lined up from the camp and slowly approached towards the city wall.

The movement of Cao Jun's camp outside the city alerted the defenders inside the city and the reinforcement camp in the north of the city. After a while, Tao Qian, who received the news, led everyone in Xuzhou to climb the city wall. Seeing Lord Zhou Mu's personal greeting, General Cao Bao rushed up to greet him and said, "I have met my lord!"

"General Cao, excuse me. Is Cao Cao ready to attack the city?" Tao Qian waved his hand;

Although Cao Bao was jokingly called a "bastard" in history, since he was a son of a noble family and held the position of Captain of Xuzhou, Qi Shi really had nothing to do with his talent and learning, but there was a certain gap between him and those famous historical generals.

He had already seen what was going on in Cao's camp. When he saw Tao Qian's question, he quickly bowed and replied: "My lord, Cao's thieves are going to attack the city, but I have 30,000 reinforcements outside the city, so this attack The city seems to have some room left.”

As he spoke, Cao Bao pointed towards Cao Cao's army outside the city, and everyone looked in the direction of his finger. Sure enough, although Cao Cao's army was preparing to attack the city, he had left nearly 30,000 troops to defend the north of the city as reinforcements, and only 50,000 troops for the frontal attack.

Tao Qian also fought all his life, but he was old. Although he couldn't wield a sword or a gun, he still had good vision. He also saw what Cao Cao's army meant, and was immediately overjoyed. It was different to have 30,000 soldiers who dared to fight outside. Unfortunately, although the people in Xuzhou were rich and well-armed, there were no generals who dared to fight. Otherwise, how could Cao's thieves be allowed to run so rampant? , it seems that this alien tuberose should indeed be reused.

Seeing that the war was about to begin, everyone quickly asked Tao Qian to come down from the city wall to prevent accidental damage from bows and arrows.

After Tao Qian left the city wall, less than a quarter of an hour later, the city of Tan County, which had been quiet for two days, once again heard loud killing cries. This time, not only Cao Bao's generals, but also Xuzhou's soldiers were much braver than before. Everyone knows that there are 30,000 elite reinforcements outside the city to support them, so the war was extremely exciting from the beginning.

When the battle began at the top of the city, three miles northwest of the city wall, the armies outside the city also began to confront each other. Cao Cao's army was led by Xiahou Dun, with Le Jin and Lu Qian as deputy generals. The generals who attacked the city were Cao Ren and Jia Kui. Cao Cao's idea was to use the siege to draw out 30,000 reinforcements, and then use the opportunity to destroy them in the wild.

Sure enough, just as the generals in Cao's camp expected, as soon as the battle on the city wall began, reinforcements from outside the city came out of the camp and pushed towards Xiahou Dun's army. Unfortunately, only 20,000 of the 30,000 troops came out, and there were still 10,000 troops. Defend the camp. However, the generals were not worried. Their own 30,000 troops were fighting against the opponent's 20,000 troops.

What's more, there is Kong Rong's Northern Navy inside, so they won't worry about Xiahou Dun's army.

The 30,000-strong army in the north of the city came out to fight the first school of Meng Gang and the first school of the Northern Navy, plus the elites of the two schools of Tuberose, while the other two schools of the Northern Navy stayed behind in the camp.

Long before leaving the camp, Ye Laixiang asked Meng Gang to second Guan Hai there and handed over a school of soldiers and horses to him. Long before sending out troops, Ye Laixiang told Yue Xi and Guan Hai that after the battle, they would just kill the generals directly without taking into account the casualties of the soldiers. This style of play was most popular among the two warriors, and they happily accepted the order.

The reason for this is that Ye LaiXiang has two purposes. One is to train troops. After the battle in Beihai, Ye LaiXiang has realized that although his troops are elite, they are still not as good as those of Huangfu Chaobo and Dynasty Hegemony. There is a small gap, so Ye Laixiang wants to train thousands of elite soldiers from these 10,000 soldiers, truly elite soldiers who have experienced great battles.

The second is to show Tao Qian. Even if there are still three to five thousand of these ten thousand soldiers, if he can be exchanged for the position of governor of a county, it will not be a loss for Tuberose, even if Tao Qian does not appoint him as governor by then. , but these soldiers and horses will also make up for him, Xi Zhicai told Ye Laixiang with great certainty, so he dared to gamble with his 10,000 elites.

When the battle outside the city started, it was as intense as the city wall. In fact, the 10,000 soldiers of Ye Lai Xiang were not weak. Although they did not reach the level of the imperial guards above the ninth level, they were much stronger than the ordinary seventh-level advanced soldiers, and basically reached about level 40.

Yue Xi and Guan Hai were both fierce generals. With the permission of Ye Lai Xiang, they each led a school of soldiers and directly rushed into the troops of Le Jin and Lu Qian. Although they each led 10,000 troops, they were both commanding generals. Facing the fierce attack of the two fierce generals like a storm, the two barely blocked it, but it was quite embarrassing.

Xiahou Dun, who led 10,000 troops in the back, quickly saw the clues, but when he raised his troops to prepare for support, the 10,000 troops of Meng Gang and Zong Yu on both sides also attacked immediately. A school of imperial guards plus a school of advanced soldiers suppressed Xiahou Dun's 10,000 ordinary soldiers.

Cao Cao soon discovered the situation of Xiahou Dun's 30,000 troops. Cao Cao was shocked and ordered Cao Chali's 5,000 Tiger Guards and Cao Xiu's 10,000 Qingzhou soldiers to provide support.

After finally rescuing Xiahou Dun's army, Cao Cao was furious when he counted the troops. In less than an hour, Xiahou Dun's 30,000 troops had lost nearly 10,000, while the 20,000 troops on the other side had only lost 10,000.