Chapter 68 Chapter 8 Expansion of the Territory: Tu Xuzhou's Backyard Fire Fights Puyang (12)

Cao Cao first sent Cao Ren to attack Xue Lan and Li Feng's troops stationed in Juye, while he himself led the main force to lie in ambush on the way, and sent a large number of spies to collect information about Lu Bu's army. Due to the large number of spies, all of Lu Bu's actions were under Cao Cao's control. The spies reported that the army led by Lu Bu was rapidly approaching Juye. The spies came again to report that Lu Bu's troops were about a day away from the main force led by Chen Gong due to their quick action. Cao Cao believed that the time had come, and the opportunity should not be missed, so he should seize it immediately.He decided to use the attack method of lightning combat to deal a severe blow to Lu Bu's troops.Before Chen Gong's main force arrived, the battle was quickly ended.

According to Lu Bu and Chen Gong's earlier analysis, Cao's army should attack Xue Lan and Li Feng's troops in Juye at this time. Therefore, Lu Bu only went to Juye with all his heart and was not prepared for battle.While Lu Bu's army was advancing, there was a commotion suddenly, and a large number of Cao's troops suddenly rushed out from his left and right sides, attacking him. Troops marching fast are most afraid of being attacked by surprise.In less than half an hour, Lu Bu's troops were smashed to pieces.Many soldiers were killed by Cao Jun before they had time to set up their fighting style.For a time, I don't know how many people suffered heavy casualties, and as for the rats running away, there were countless.

Seeing that the army led by Cao Cao himself, Lu Bu was also shocked.He had obviously fallen into a very dangerous situation, his troops were completely disintegrated; the main force of Chen Gong must be tens of miles away.Fortunately, he has a red rabbit horse, and it is still possible to escape for his life.He has always been irresponsible, so he didn't care about the life and death of Li Feng and Xue Lan at all. When Cao Cao saw Lu Bu running away, he didn't chase after him, but just smiled.Then he quickly led the troops to Juye and joined the battle of Juye.The arrival of Cao Cao greatly increased the momentum of Cao Ren's attacking troops.

Poor Xue Lan and Li Feng, it was already very difficult to deal with Cao Ren's attack. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao copied from Liang Bian again.Although the two tried their best to resist, they did not escape the fate of annihilation. After Cao Cao assisted Cao Hong in capturing Juye, he did not relax his vigilance.He said: "Lü Bu's defeated army will join up with the main force of the Chen Palace. Once reorganization is completed, they will come to attack Juye. Therefore, there is still a fierce battle in Juye. We must redeploy to meet the powerful enemy." Cao Cao fully deployed his troops in Juye, and decided to fight to the death with the coalition forces of Lu Bu and Zhang Miao.

Cao Cao reckoned that this was a decisive battle, if not done well, the two sides would face off for quite a long time.Now, he has learned the lesson of lack of food.Therefore, he ordered all the troops to disperse to prepare food as soon as possible, and only led more than 1,000 logistics troops by himself to stay in Juye to build defense projects. However, after Chen Gong joined Lv Bu's defeated army, he believed that abandoning Xue Lan and Li Feng's army would not help stabilize the army's morale, and second, damage Lv Bu's image as a leader. Attack Juye again. However, Cao Cao never expected that Lu Bu's army would come so quickly. With the few logistics troops he led, they could not even hold their positions, let alone a battle.What should we do? At this moment, Cao Cao couldn't help regretting that he hadn't thought carefully about the problem, and was too presumptuous, so that no matter how urgent he was, he couldn't call the troops back in time...

In a hurry, Cao Cao had an idea and suddenly remembered the "empty city plan".At this time, it can only be so.To adopt this strategy, you must be bold, cautious, and stay calm in front of the battle.Therefore, Cao Cao ordered that all the battle flags be put away, and women guard the camp.And he led less than a thousand logistics troops, neatly arranged outside the camp. When Chen Gong and Lu Bu approached Juye, they heard about Cao Cao's strange deployment and were very puzzled, so they rode their horses to the front of the formation to watch. Chen Gong stared at the horse for a long time, and indeed thought of the words "Empty City Strategies".However, there are two points that are very doubtful. First, where is Cao Cao's main force? As far as he knows, Cao Cao has no other battlefields right now.The second is that there is a large field to the west of Cao Cao's camp, and a large forest to the south.The big field was originally a place for cavalry, but the forest happened to be a place for Tibetan soldiers.

Therefore, Chen Gong did not dare to draw conclusions lightly, and it was already late at this time, and he arrived at the battlefield in an emergency, unable to conduct further investigations, so he ordered the troops to station at a position more than ten miles south of Cao Ying, and waited until tomorrow morning. make plans.