Chapter 46 Chapter 6 The Warlords of the Rising Storm Restart the War (5)

At this time, Wang Gong, the prefect of Dongjun who also belonged to the Conquering Rebel Alliance, sent someone to ask for help from Cao Cao who was stationed in Hanoi. It turned out that the members of the Yellow Turban Party who belonged to Jizhou originally used the black flag of Taoism as a mark to station themselves in Heishan, Hebei, after the collapse of the Zhang Jiao brothers, known as the "Black Mountain Party". The leaders of the Montenegrin party members are Yu Du, Bai Rao, Sui Gu, etc., with a total of more than 100,000 party members, all of whom are composed of ordinary people who oppose the corrupt court and bureaucracy.The morale of the Montenegrin party members was very high, and their combat effectiveness was quite strong. After they captured Weijun in Yanzhou in one go, they threatened the neighboring Dongjun.

Dongjun land straddled the north and south banks of the Yellow River, and the Black Mountain Party's troops were divided into two groups to harass them.The prefect Wang Gong was exhausted and unable to stop the two forces, so he came to Cao Cao who was stationed in Hanoi, the neighboring county in the north, for help. At this time, Wang Gong was guarding Puyang, the county town on the south bank of the Yellow River, and was besieged by Bai Rao from the Montenegrin Party. The situation was extremely critical. Puyang City is bordered by the Yellow River in the north and Xingou River in the east.And Bai Rao was besieged from the southwest of the city.Cao Cao found out the situation and sent Xiahou Dun to bypass Xingou and cross the river from the southeast to attack Bai Rao's army.Bai Raojun suddenly found an army coming to attack, so he turned around to fight with all his strength.When Cao Cao took advantage of Bai Rao's inattention, he personally led his troops across the Yellow River from north to south, and assaulted from the rear with cavalry troops.

As a result, Bai Rao was attacked by several parties. In addition, although the Montenegrin party members have high morale, they lack long-term training after all, so the organization is inevitably loose.For ordinary offensive battles, they are invincible, because they all have the spirit of seeing death as home, but for this kind of flanking and surprise attack battles, they cannot cope, and thus they are defeated.Bai Rao led the retreat, but the two sides were water and the two sides were soldiers.The Montenegrin party members in Bairao had no choice but to fight desperately, fighting bravely, showing fearless spirit.But in the end they were no match for the well-trained officers and soldiers, and almost the entire army was wiped out.

Cao Cao rescued Wang Gong, Wang Gong was very grateful and admired Cao Cao's use of troops. In view of Wang Gong's incompetence, Yuan Shao made a favor and recommended Cao Cao as the prefect of Dongjun.Cao Cao expressed his gratitude, but he did not stay in Dongjun, but moved the county to Dongwuyang on the north bank of the Yellow River, in order to connect with the geographical relationship he had operated in Hanoi for a long time.This indeed shows Cao Cao's superiority. Here, Cao Cao had his own "territory" for the first time.With land, there will be a source of food and grass supplies, and there will be no more sufferings of depending on others.

However, although the Montenegrin Party members led by Bai Rao were completely disintegrated, the entire Montenegrin Party members did not lose their spirits because of this.In the third year of Chuping, that is, in the spring of 192 AD, after more than half a year of recuperation, under the leadership of Yu Du, the Montenegrin party members attacked again, preparing to retaliate against Cao Cao.This time, the target of the Montenegrin party's attack was Dongwuyang, Cao Cao's new county.Apparently, after careful analysis, Yu Du believed that Dongwuyang was not as strong as Dongjun city as a county city.

Cao Cao got the information that the Montenegrin party members were going to attack Xinwuyang, so he immediately made arrangements.He ordered Cao Ren and others to plan the defense of the city, while he personally led the main force to station at Dunqiu, two hundred miles southwest of Xinwuyang.At this time, it happened to be about two hundred miles due east from Heishan, the base camp of the Montenegrin Party members.In other words, from Dunqiu to the northeast to Dongwuyang, and to the west to Montenegro, the distance is almost equal. Cao Cao's deployment is obviously intentional.Facing the large number of Montenegro party members, Cao Cao took advantage of the opponent's lack of training and decided to use wisdom instead of manpower.

The battle location Cao Cao set was Neihuang, a hundred miles northwest of Dunqiu.Coincidentally, Neihuang is about 200 miles away from Dongwuyang and Heishan.Cao Cao secretly used the mobilization of troops to plan a trap that the Montenegrin party members could never have imagined.Cao Cao was complacent, and he concluded that the Montenegrin party would never see through his plan. Cao Cao seemed to have already calculated that the Montenegrin party members who set out from Montenegro would not march fast due to the lack of long-term and rigorous training. Even cavalry would take two days to reach Dongwuyang.However, it only takes one day for the cavalry to go from Dunqiu to Montenegro, and it takes less than half a day to go straight from Dunqiu to Neihuang.According to Cao Cao's layout, Cao's army arrived at the predetermined battlefield much faster than the Montenegrin party.

Therefore, Cao Cao first deliberately divided Dunqiu's light cavalry into several batches, so that the Montenegrin party members could not see that this was Cao Cao's main force, and thought it was just a patrol force.Therefore, tens of thousands of Montenegro party members came out in a mighty force, intending to flatten Dongwuyang. Cao Cao divided the Dunqiu garrison into two after the Montenegro party members dispatched troops for more than a day: one part Arriving in Neihuang to set up a field battle, some of them used the strategy of "surrounding Wei and saving Zhao" to attack Heishan, the stronghold of the Montenegrin party members.

Cao Ren and others who were stationed in Dongwuyang adopted a strategy of standing still. Although the Montenegrin party surrounded the city with a large army, they still could not besieged.When Yu Du and other leaders were thinking hard about how to break through the city, they suddenly received an urgent military message saying that the Heishan base camp was suddenly besieged by Cao Jun, and the situation was very critical. Yu Du and the others were shocked, completely confused about what was going on.In any case, the base camp is the most important place, so it was ordered to abandon Dongwuyang and return to Montenegro.

Yu Du led the Montenegrin party members to rush back to Montenegro from Dongwuyang. Due to the urgent situation, the Montenegrin party members ran out of breath.In the middle of the line, a group of people rushed out. Yu Du saw that it was Cao Jun again.However, there were not many people, so Yu Du decided to wipe them out.Originally, Yu Duzheng was angry and hated Cao Jun deeply. Then he thought that if the harassing troops were not wiped out, his return to the army would not be smooth.So Yu Du stopped advancing and turned back to deal with this team seriously. It turned out that this was Cao Jun who had been waiting in Neihuang for a long time, waiting for the Montenegrin party members to stop them on the way back to the defense. However, as soon as they came into contact with the Montenegrin party members, they withdrew north to Neihuang again.Relying on the large number of Montenegrin party members, Yu Du followed closely and entered Neihuang.

At this time, Cao Jun, who was attacking Montenegro, also assembled towards Neihuang, and the defenders of Dongwuyang also rushed towards Neihuang under the leadership of Cao Ren.In this way, the poisonous Montenegrin party members will inevitably be surrounded. Although the Montenegrin party members have an advantage in numbers, they have been exhausted from running long distances for days without stopping.However, Cao Jun made short-range maneuvers, rushed quickly, and soon entered the main battlefield.Waiting for the battle of the Montenegrin party members at leisure, what's more ingenious is that although the number of Cao's army is small, they surround the Montenegrin party members from three sides at the same time, creating an illusion that the leaders of the Montenegrin party members can't figure out how many Cao troops have. I only felt that Cao Jun rushed in from all directions.First of all, there is a bit of emptiness psychologically.Therefore, when the battle started, the morale of the Montenegrin party members was greatly reduced, and they were defeated.But Cao Jun took advantage of the momentum to attack fiercely, the Montenegrin party members fled in all directions, and several leaders also ran separately.Cao Jun will never relax, and he will not stop until he has driven the Montenegrin party members out of sight.