Bai Xiaowen actually felt a little guilty in his heart.
Cao Cao, a famous fraud expert, what is his true strategic intention?
Is it Anyang or Wei County?
Regardless of Anyang or Wei County, the ultimate goal must be Yedu.
Anyang is the gateway to the south and Wei County is the gateway to the east. Neither one can be lost.
As a defensive side, although in specific city defense battles, it has the defensive advantage of relying on the city wall, in terms of grand strategy, it is easy to be led by the enemy.
Bai Xiaowen pretended to think about it for a moment and decided to cheat:
"Everyone, please wait a moment while I enter the inner hall to meditate for a moment."
Tian Feng, Dong Zhao and others were all stunned. Only three "confidant generals", Li Shuyi, Cecilia and Han Xu, followed Bai Xiaowen into the inner hall.
After entering the inner hall, Bai Xiaowen directly hung up the mountain and river geography map, entered a state of inner vision, and injected spiritual power.
At the same time, imagine the images of Cao Cao, Xiahou Dun, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and other senior generals of Cao's army.
On the geographical map of mountains and rivers, red dots appeared one after another.
After watching the first few, Bai Xiaowen was already convinced.
These red dots, like a meeting, were crowded together in the Cao Jun camp in front of Anyang City.
The so-called support for Cao Xiong is simply a lie!
"It seems that Cao Cao's main attack target is Anyang City." Cecilia said.
Li Shuyi said: "Has Cao Xiong been given up? He only has three thousand men. After capturing Fanyang, it is estimated that there will be less than three thousand. If he attacks Wei County again, will the food and grass be able to keep up?"
Bai Xiaowen said: "Cao Xiong has indeed been abandoned. From this, it is as I expected...Cao Cao has discovered that Cao Xiong is suspicious."
"With Cao Cao's IQ, he can indeed guess that Cao Xiong was the one who poisoned Cao Pi and others. However, in Cao Cao's eyes, Cao Xiong is his biological son after all. He can really use Cao Xiong as bait and ignore him.
Ignore it? This is too cruel." Li Shuyi said.
Bai Xiaowen shook his head: "I estimate that Cao Cao has even seen that Cao Xiong is not the Cao Xiong before, but has been replaced by someone else."
The three teammates all nodded, thinking it was very possible.
Bai Xiaowen waved his hand and said: "In any case, we will analyze and respond based on the strategic point of Cao Cao's main attack on Anyang.
"First of all, Cao Cao pretended to release rumors of supporting Cao Xiong and attacking Wei County. He wanted us to be fooled and divide his troops to rescue Wei County.
"Secondly, if we want to mobilize troops, we will definitely use the troops from Dazhai, Zhang He and Gao Lan in the west of the city.
"So, Cao Cao's goal is already clear."
Cecilia said: "He wants to attack the camp in the west of the city."
"That's right, as long as the stronghold in the west of the city is pulled out, Cao Cao's army can surround Anyang City on all sides! Cut off the connection between Anyang and Yedu," Bai Xiaowen said, "With Cao Cao's usual idea of using troops to win by surprise, robbing the stronghold at night is the best option.
Possible ways to play.”
Cecilia's mind was spinning quickly: "Can we do the opposite? When Cao Cao sneaks into our camp in the west of the city, send troops to attack Cao Cao's camp."
Bai Xiaowen shook his head and said: "A similar situation has happened once in Guandu. Cao Cao is resourceful and must be prepared internally when he goes out. There must be strong generals left in the camp to guard it. Once we cannot attack and the western Dazhai is lost, we will be defeated by Cao's army.
Besieging the city, this is unacceptable."
Li Shuyi said with a smile: "I know how to fight. I have seen in novels that when the enemy is coming to rob the camp, the general will use an ambush strategy, which can often defeat the enemy."
Bai Xiaowen laughed and said: "Shuyi is right, it's pretty much what I thought. However, I still have a backup plan. This time, Cao Cao's plan was discovered by me using the mountain and river geography map. It was a great opportunity to determine the outcome. Ambush.
The plan is just a trick and cannot harm Cao Cao; I will take this opportunity to completely interrupt Cao Cao's dragon vein!"
Interrupting Cao Cao's dragon vein is just a symbolic statement. It is similar to slaying the dragon in Go. It is a move that determines victory or defeat.
After a while, Bai Xiaowen returned to the senior military conference room. He did not explain the process of using the mountain and river geographical map, but only issued general orders one after another and made secret troop deployment arrangements.
Although Tian Feng, Dong Zhao and other counselors were a little confused, they still trusted Bai Xiaowen's ability to use troops.
Bai Xiaowen's ability has been tested in actual combat, unlike Yuan Shao.
Nothing happened that night, but Bai Xiaowen was a little surprised.
During the day of the next day, another urgent report came from Wei County. There was a huge smoke billowing from several roads behind Cao Xiong's army formation.
There are many banners such as "Fubo General Xiahou Dun", "Backbone General Zhang Liao", "Partial General Xu Huang", etc., and I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are. The morale of Cao's army in Wei County is very high.
Bai Xiaowen's subordinates were civil and military, and many people asked for battle to support Wei County, but Bai Xiaowen refused. Dong Zhao's suggestion to take the opportunity to attack Cao's camp before Anyang was also rejected by Bai Xiaowen.
Tian Feng did not persuade him.
Someone advised Tian Feng that the matter was of great importance and must be remonstrated.
Tian Feng stroked his beard and said with a smile: "My lord, I have a lot of success in my mind, and my thoughts are exactly the same as mine. Why do you need to give me advice?"
Bai Xiaowen gave Tian Feng a thumbs up in his heart. Tian Feng must have understood Bai Xiaowen's thinking based on Bai Xiaowen's troop deployment last night.
Moreover, Cao Cao's "performance" was a little too much.
I wish I could beat gongs and drums to tell everyone that Cao Cao’s main force is going to attack Wei County! You go to the rescue quickly!
Soldiers are deceitful, using what is imaginary to be true, and what is true is imaginary.
This move is somewhat useful against an indecisive master like Yuan Shao; but for a counselor of Tian Feng's level, it is a flaw; now using it to deal with the cheating Bai Xiaowen is a recipe for death!
Bai Xiaowen made fine adjustments to last night's deployment and strictly ordered all troops to abide by the general's orders and not slack off.
…
At the fourth watch, the night is dark.
From Cao Jun's camp, a vanguard army quietly appeared and went to the west Dazhai of Anyang City at night to rob the camp!
This vanguard army is led by a general who is more than eight feet tall, has a majestic appearance, and is holding a long horse-killing sword. He is Cao Cao's favorite general Xu Chu. Behind him are the soldiers with high titles, horses bound in hooves, and do not make any sound.
Move forward quietly.
Other troops of Cao's army appeared one after another from behind and followed them from a distance.
Cao Cao was suspicious. Even though he had made so many preparations and used his own son (in the eyes of others) as a bait, he still would not throw all his troops into the robbery camp.
Xu Chu, who was prone to death, led three thousand soldiers and horses as a vanguard to explore the situation.
If the enemy is really unprepared and the camp is empty, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, who are following behind, will storm in and completely level the camp under the leadership of Cao Cao.
In fact, Cao Cao wanted to pull out the camp on the first day when he came to Anyang City. However, if he mainly attacked the camp, it would be difficult to capture it immediately. He would also have to withstand the baptism of arrows from the defenders at the top of Anyang City. The damage would be too great and it would not be necessary.
Good deal.
Therefore, Cao Cao resisted the desire to attack Dazhai and sent troops to attack Anyang City for two days without even looking at Dazhai in the west of the city.
What is the purpose? It is to make the enemy unprepared and let the enemy mobilize the soldiers in the stronghold to save Wei County!
Not long after, Cao Cao saw that Xu Chu was approaching Dazhai in the west of the city, but Yuan Jun had not yet responded.
A shrill scream was shouted.
Xu Chu hacked to death the sentry in front of the village gate, and then with a greeting, three thousand soldiers and horses rushed into the village!
"Succeeded! Yuan Xi is young and has no plans, so he fell into my trap!" Cao Cao jumped three feet high and ordered hurriedly, "Generals, listen to the order! Enter the stronghold and kill all the enemy soldiers.