Cao Cao claimed that he would send out troops on the 24th, but in fact, he had already mobilized his troops on a large scale since August 3rd.
On the 4th, Xiahou Dun led his troops to garrison in Changyuan first. Following Cao Cao's instructions, he led his troops into the city with great fanfare that day, and announced that large armies would come from the west for reinforcements. After the announcement was completed, he led one of his troops to sneak out of the city at night, and then
Entering the city the next day, repeating this cycle, pretending that a large army is coming from the east.
The Black Mountain Army had spies buried in Changyuan. They witnessed Xiahou Dun entering the city that day, and then heard the announcement. The spies were extremely frightened at first, and immediately sent a letter to Puyang to report the situation. But after two days, the spies gradually saw something fishy. Xiahou Dun
Every day when he went to meet the army outside the city, the general who led the reinforcements seemed to be alone. The general was eight feet tall, with a waist as wide as a tiger and shoulders as broad as a bear. He wore a suit of vermilion armor and rode a pure black horse. He was very tall.
Conspicuous.
On the fourth day, the spies concluded that it was a fraud and sent a message to the defenders of Puyang. At this time, the commander-in-chief of Puyang was Yang Feng. During the late emperor's reign, he was appointed as the captain of the Black Mountain School. He was second only to Zhang in the army.
Yan's famous general. After he received the news, he did not take advantage of it. Instead, he first asked his subordinates: "Have you harvested all the autumn grain?"
When he learned that the grain collection had been completed, he felt relieved and said with a smile: "The enemy is trying to deceive the enemy first, and it seems that he wants to bully the big with his small things! But the autumn grain has been harvested, no matter what his intentions are, I will sit still like a mountain. It's better.
In this way, we will first pretend to have fallen into the trap and gather the people in the city. When they attack, we will strike later and we will definitely catch them by surprise and defeat the rebel army!" Upon hearing this, the subordinates all shouted for a clever plan.
Unexpectedly, after the news that the Black Mountain Army had strengthened its walls and cleared the country, Cao Cao was not angry but happy. He smiled at Cao Ren and said: "There are still smart people in the rebel army. If he can't see through it, my subsequent plans will be useless."
On the night of the 20th, Cao Ren marched from Jiyang first. After waiting for three days, Cao Cao led his cavalry to break camp from Chenliu, also setting off on a dark night.
The autumn wind was intoxicating and the bright moon was shining. The sound of the cavalry's hooves was like waves, making ripples in the silence of the night. Cao Jun's two horses took turns to ride at a speed comparable to the wind. During the eight hundred miles between Chenliu and Puyang, they
Half of the journey took one night. After a short supply at Changyuan, Cao Cao's army crossed the Pu River and arrived at a pine forest on the 25th, which was only thirty miles south of Puyang City.
Cao Cao led his army to hide in the mountains and forests, and waited for another two hours before Cao Renjun's envoy arrived. Cao Cao asked the envoy: "Where is Zixiao? Has he been discovered along the way?" The envoy replied: "Duke Zhaoming ordered,
Our army went out day and night, and detoured from Lihu to this point, which was about ten miles away. There were no common people along the way, and the few who were discovered were all killed by us."
Cao Cao smiled when he heard this and told the envoy: "You pass the order for me. When Zixiao arrives, send a scout ten miles to the north to look at the river. If you see fire, come to help immediately!"
After that, he turned around and summoned his generals, and then revealed the destination of his trip. It turned out that he planned to use these 5,000 cavalry troops to attack the camp five miles north of Puyang. This was where Zhang Rao had set up last year.
Yes, there are iron chains that block the river in the camp, which is where the Black Mountain Army has to rescue. Once the Black Mountain Army leaves the city to rescue, Cao Cao will lead his army to attack him face to face, waiting for Cao Ren to arrive, and then attacking from both sides.
With this plan, the war would end tomorrow morning. So Cao Cao's army rested there and had a good sleep. They didn't wake up until the moon rose, and Cao Ren's army also arrived. As the action was imminent, Cao Cao's army took the weapons with them
I ate too much dry food, leaving only one meal of dry food and a full water bag, and then set off at night, traveling lightly.
The moon was particularly bright that night, and the road outside the jungle was also particularly smooth. Cao Cao set off at dawn and traveled quickly. Even though he made a big circle around Puyang and took an extra forty miles of detours, he was still in two places.
We arrived at the river within hours. There was a village by the river that had not moved into the city, with a population of no more than a hundred people. In order to prevent the news from leaking, Cao Cao locked it up and drove it into a house, then pushed the wall and killed it.
The riverbank to the east of the village has little undulations, and the valleys in between are mostly flat, forming flat dams of different sizes. It seems that due to the salt land, no grass grows on the high areas of the riverbank, but except for a few villages, the flat areas are mostly covered with flying yellow sand.
Smoke and dust. It can be seen that the river here has not been dredged for many years.
Cao Cao's army rested temporarily in this village and sent a scout to explore westward along the river to see how far away it was from the camp. While the scouts were away, the weather suddenly cooled down. Although there was no wind, there was moisture floating in the air.
, the hair and clothes of Cao Jun's soldiers became cold and wet. For fear of being exposed, they did not dare to light a fire to keep warm. Everyone shivered and huddled together, or hugged their horses to keep warm. Cao Cao comforted them and said: "I crossed the chasm on a snowy night last year.
Back then, it was many times colder than it is now. Now it’s just a little bit of air-conditioning, so what does it mean?”
When the scouts returned, it was already late at night and fog had begun to form. The fog was like an endless veil, covering the hillsides, riverbanks, sand dunes, farm buildings and roads. The scouts reported to Cao Cao that about ten miles to the east was the camp of the rebel army.
, there are three barracks, and there are three camps, each with about a thousand people. Perhaps because of the strong walls and clear fields, these camps are quite vigilant, and there are still people patrolling back and forth at night, seemingly divided into two groups to rest.
After learning the news, Cao Cao immediately ordered the entire army to go into battle. After the order was given, the soldiers became strong and got up to pack their armor and weapons. However, some fell asleep in the cold fog and suddenly woke up when they heard the beatings of their companions. On their side
They moved their legs and feet, gathered in one place, and finally took action.
In order not to make any noise, the soldiers walked with branches in their arms, and the war horses tied their mouths with cloth straps to prevent the horses from neighing suddenly. When Cao's army moved slowly along the river beach, the soldiers led their horses on foot to save their horsepower.
At the same time, it also prevents the sound of horse hooves from alerting the enemy. These are the tactics Cao Cao learned from Duan Xuan.
I walked cautiously like this for almost an hour, and slowly reached the front of the first camp. The sky in the east had changed faintly, but the morning fog was getting thicker. The firelight in the camp in the fog was like a piece of light red paper.
Swaying in the breeze, after taking a few steps forward, Cao's troops smelled a hazy fragrance, which was the smell of cooking smoke. It seemed that the Montenegrin troops had already gotten up to simmer the fire to cook.
At this time, Cao Cao felt relieved, and it seemed that the first step of the war was already a sure thing. Before leaving, he had divided the entire cavalry into three teams. The first team went to the camp first, and when encountering the enemy, they charged forward as much as possible.
The enemy troops formed to resist are dispersed. After rushing out of the enemy camp, they must turn back and enter the formation again from the side. The second team follows the first team and follows up to kill the lone enemy soldiers. Enter the camp
After that, several small teams should be divided to kill the enemy everywhere, so that the enemy will feel that they are surrounded by enemies on all sides, lose their fighting spirit and flee everywhere. The third team will detour behind to intercept and kill the fleeing sergeants, especially the enemy generals on horseback.
Cao Cao personally led the first team in the formation. The first team was all the elites of this trip. Not only were the horses better, but the leaders were also warriors carefully selected by Cao Cao. They galloped into the fog and rushed to the Iron Rope Camp in an instant.
Coincidentally, it was the time for the guards to change shifts, and the defense at the entrance of the camp was not tight. The sergeants of the Montenegrin Army suddenly saw the cavalry rushing in from the fog. They thought it was soldiers from heaven descending from the earth. They were all frightened and fled in all directions. <
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Cao Cao's army broke into the enemy's camp, like tigers rushing into a herd of sheep. When they encountered the enemy, they chased and drove them away, preventing them from forming a formation to protect themselves. The Montenegrin Army's camp was suddenly attacked, and they were basically unprepared. The sergeants were frightened and rushed to avoid Cao's army, so that Cao's cavalry quickly
The ground penetrated the iron chain camp.
Then they turned left, the fog was very heavy, but with the noise, Cao Cao quickly found the right position and entered the formation again. But this time, they encountered antlers, which are pointed fences, and had to dismount and rush to the fence.
Pull them out with bare hands. Fortunately, the Montenegrin military was stunned by the first wave of attack, and then was attacked by the second wave. There was no regard for lateral safety, and there were no guards around the fence. Otherwise, if there were hundreds of people
If an archer shoots randomly through the fence, it will also cause great damage to Cao's army.
At this time, the second cavalry led by Cao Ang was moving in. Different from the situation encountered by the first cavalry, the leaders of the camp, after experiencing the initial panic, had begun to gather part of their strength to prepare to meet the invading enemy.
.It is a pity that in the dark night, the fog is filled, and only the sound of killing can be heard, but the number of enemies cannot be seen. Since we don’t know where the enemies come from, we cannot organize a formation to assemble to defend them.
Cao Cao's army had a clear goal and a numerical advantage. As long as it found resistance from the Black Mountain Army, it concentrated several times its strength to surround and fight hard. After Cao Cao led his troops to fight back horizontally, the two groups of troops rolled back and forth in the formation, blocking the enemy and killing them.
.There was a thick fog all around, and the collapsed Montenegrin army quickly fled in all directions in order to save their lives.
They were ambushed by the third team of cavalry. In the dim morning light, the figures of Le Jin and others were like flowing pen and ink, floating back and forth on the paper. The screams soon ended. Le Jin also broke through the fog,
He walked up to Cao Cao and told him to return to his life. But beside Cao Cao, Dian Wei's ax was dripping with blood, and white steam was rising from the blade.
This assault was carried out perfectly, and not a single Montenegrin soldier escaped from the camp.
Cao Cao searched for a moment in the camp, and soon found an iron pile in the center of the camp, with an inch-wide iron rope attached to it, extending from the mist to the other side of the river.
Cao Cao touched the iron rope with his hand, stained by dew and rust. He frowned, looked west at the invisible Puyang City, and ordered everyone in a cold voice: "Pry it open for me!"
However, the iron chains were thick and the iron stakes were buried tightly, making it difficult to dig them open and break them in a hurry. At this time, Dian Wei stepped forward and asked everyone to leave. He was seen holding a three-foot giant axe, steadying his horse, and then found the rustiest part of the iron chain.
The most powerful part is to raise the giant ax above your head, let out a loud roar, the fire flashes, the iron rope breaks with the sound, and slams into the river, causing a huge uproar.
When everyone was marveling at Dian Wei's magical power, Cao Cao got on his horse and told everyone: "Light the camp on fire and go to the second camp!"