Cao Xiu asked twice, and from time to time he suddenly mentioned a certain paragraph, asking Du Wu to repeat.

Finally, Du Wu carefully added: "General Cao, I think that Lei Yuan is not a bluff. The place in Jiaozhou is rainy and wet, and the people of Jiaozhou are more adaptable to fighting in the rain than us. After they attacked the mountain village, they immediately drew up people and were busy expanding the barracks and setting up multiple stoves. I saw it with my own eyes, and it was not Dong Liang who cheated him by falsely. If the general underestimated them, he would probably be unfavorable in the future!"

Cao Xiu nodded slightly and made a gesture to ask Du Wu to retreat.

Du Wu walked to the door, Cao Xiu called him again and said with a smile: "Go and have a good rest. I will send a medical officer to treat you. In addition, I have worked hard and made great contributions to this journey, and the warlords must remember the merits in reading books."

Du Wu bowed deeply with an excited expression on his face, and then stepped back. With his identity, it was not difficult to be listed in the Warlords' Book of Records, and then he was promoted several levels. Hearing Cao Xiu say this, several entourages around him showed envious expressions.

When Du Wu left, Wang Mocai frowned and said, "Du Chun's troops on Paishan are also veterans who have been through the battlefield for a long time. They are not incompetent. There must be a reason for the village to be lost so easily."

The main vein of Lumen Mountain moves east-west and north-south. The core veins of Lumen Mountain, Suling Mountain, Shizi Mountain, Xianglu Mountain, Bawang Mountain, etc. are roughly a semi-ring shape, and Paoshan is at the southeast opening of this semi-ring. This place has fallen into the hands of the Jiaozhou Army, if the rest of the mountain guards want to be mobilized, unless they go around the outside of Lumen Mountain, they will all go down to the nose of the Jiaozhou Army.

Therefore, Cao's army led more than a thousand troops to station here in advance, and also built large-scale construction and set up permanent and solid camps, which cannot be said to be taken seriously.

Among the Cao army generals stationed in Lumen Mountain, Wang Mo had the highest status and had the responsibility to supervise the rest of the troops. Previously, he wrote to ask about the situation in Lumen Mountain, and he reported that he was able to defend and could be called the Tangchi in Jincheng. However, after a heavy rain, the gateway to the southeast of Lumen Mountain was taken down by the enemy, which made him both shocked and embarrassed.

"Nonsense, a village will be thrown away if you say it. How could it be for no reason?"

Cao Xiu scolded with a cold face, sighed for a while, and then said, "Lei Yuan is... very deceitful."

Wang Mo was a senior surrendered general. Facing the relatives of the Cao family of Xiahou, he had already adjusted the stage to perfection. After being scolded by Cao Xiu, he remained calm and asked diligently: "Why did the general say this?"

When Lei Yuan traveled across Runan, he defeated Xiahou Dun's army with only a few thousand people, captured Xiahou Dun and threatened Yingchuan. Cao Gong then led his troops straight to Runan, intending to defeat Lei Yuan's troops first and then attack Jiangling.

Lei Yuan was obviously weak in his troops and went deep into the enemy territory, so he happened to use it as a sacrifice to the flag.

As a result, Cao Xiu fought against Guo Jing, a general of Lei Yuan in Runan, and ended up being Guo Jing's plan, which caused the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to be frustrated and many casualties were killed and injured. Cao Xiu himself almost died under Ding Feng's knife, and Shi Liu and Wu Zhen, who had followed his family for many years, were not in this battle. If Cao Zhang had not led the iron cavalry to attack fiercely and regain the situation, Cao Xiu would have no idea how to face Cao Gong's thunderous wrath.

Then, Mengling, where the military rations stationed in Runan was attacked by Lei Yuan, burning down the savings of 100,000 military farmers for several years, and even almost roasting Xu Chu.

In the end, Cao Gong had no choice but to use Lei Yuan, so he fled back to Jingzhou.

This failure was intertwined between the two defeats of Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren, and it seemed that Cao Gong was not good at going to the army, so few people mentioned it on weekdays. Cao Xiu rarely mentioned it, but he never forgot in his heart that he always regarded Lei Yuan as one of the most terrifying enemies.

So Cao Xiu understood very well that there were many powerful generals under the command of Lei Yuan in Lujiang. If this person rushed to Lumen Mountain with all his strength, his companions stationed in the mountain fortress would definitely not be able to resist.

So after hearing that the Jiaozhou army headed north in large numbers, he immediately led his army to provide reinforcements in a hurry.

Cao Gong used the layout of the stone generator as the first level of planning, forcing the Jiaozhou army to take the initiative to attack and attack Lumen Mountain. Then Cao Xiu had to do his best to complete the second level of planning, and he had to entangle the Jiaozhou army in the surrounding depressions!

The problem is that as soon as he reached the northernmost end of Lumen Mountain, he lost the key pass at the southernmost end of Lumen Mountain!

Lujiang Lei Yuan is worthy of being a famous general. No matter which war this person is in, he always seems to be step by step at first, but in fact he is ready for a rapid rush. Once he finds an opportunity, he will never be afraid of driving and fighting bravely... As the art of war says, it is hard to know as dark as the shadows, and as thunder as thunder!

Thirty thousand people? Paishan?

The Jiaozhou Army was coming so fast? So fierce? The power it used was so huge?

Once Lei Yuan is allowed to gain a foothold around Lumen Mountain and station troops in continuous highlands... Then, after Cao Gong broke into the dike and released the water, who will flood? Do they flood the tigers, rabbits, deer and sheep living in the jungle? Or the fish, shrimps, crabs and turtles in the Han River?

In any case, Cao Xiu had to drive Lei Yuan's troops down from Paishan!

But another question is, there are really 30,000 people in Paishan under Lei Yuan’s army?

In Cao Xiu's impression, Lei Yuanji is good at training troops, and his soldiers are well-trained. His subordinates are centered on the clan tribe, and their tenacity and fighting spirit are the best in the world. If he gathered 30,000 people around Paishan, it would be a weight weighing thousands of pounds on the mountain, and it would be like a six-foot sword lying across the south of Lumen Mountain. How could he easily beat it?

Cao Xiu thought for a long time, but he didn't feel that time was passing quickly. At this time, the soldiers of the central army had already settled on Bawang Mountain, and the team cooked the food and delivered it. Cao Xiu ate two bites without knowing the taste and said to the secretary: "Write a military newspaper to Nanyang, and then we said that after we arrived at Lumen Mountain, we found that there were enemy troops in the southeast. The specific movements are still to be explored."

"yes."

Cao Xiu asked again: "Have the scouts towards Paishan sent out?"

A side general said respectfully: "Towards Paiyamamoto and in front of the mountain, three teams of capable men were dispatched in batches. But..."

"Just what?"

"But, after the heavy rain, the mountain roads collapsed and there was a lot of mud at the foot of the mountain, so the soldiers would turn back a little later."

Cao Xiu nodded: "Send additional personnel to send. Tell the scouts that our soldiers on Paishan had fled, and the Jiaozhou army had not yet established a stable foothold and could not set up a net of heaven and earth. The only one who wanted to escape back would not be Du Wu. Let them search carefully."

"Affect the order."

That will be arranged by yourself.

Cao Xiu put down his job, stood up and walked twice: "Maybe, the Jiaozhou army is setting up a suspicion array? How could there be such a fast way to operate tens of thousands of troops? Maybe, he just attacked Paoshan with a small number of elite troops. Because he was afraid that our army would launch a strong counterattack, he bluffed and pretended to be gathering together to scare us?"

He said this, but he was really unsure and shook his head again.

After this heavy rain, it was impossible to march around Lumen Mountain easily within two or three days. Especially the cavalry, they could not pass through such muddy roads.

Cao Xiu estimated that by morning tomorrow, he could use at most two or three thousand infantrymen, and then move along the narrow highland of the ridge of Lumen Mountain, and walk around from the Tuling slope on the west side of Lumen Mountain to the west of Paishan to launch an attack. However, if the main force of the Jiaozhou Army was in Paishan, this soldier would be no different from killing him.
Chapter completed!