"flat!"

Ma Yue punched the table hard and said sternly: "Fu Xie, Hu Chi'er obeys the order!"

"The last one will be here!"

Hu Chier and Fu Xie came out and stood in the tent with their heads raised.

Ma Yue drew an arrow and threw it at Fu Xie, saying quickly: "Fu Xie is the main general and Hu Chier is the deputy general. He leads 5,000 cavalry, claiming to be 30,000. He will advance along the road to Xiangyang with great fanfare! Remember, you are only allowed to advance 30 miles a day, and go back to the north to reach 50 miles north of Xiangyang and retreat north, and withdraw to Wuguan without any mistakes!"

"Get orders!"

Fu Xie reached out to take the command arrow and held his fists to agree.

Ma Yue drew another command arrow and said quickly: "Li Meng, Wang Fang obeys the order!"

Li Meng, Wang Fang flashed out of the line and shouted: "The last one is here."

"Lead two thousand cavalrymen, one man and three horses, Qiao Zhuang became a Jingzhou soldiers across the Han River overnight and walked southward, then circled around Jingshan, and attacked Jiangling by land!" Ma Yue waved his hand and said sternly, "Whether the attack on Jiangling can be successful will directly affect the life and death of our army. The two generals must be careful!"

Li Meng and Wang Fang said quickly: "Please rest assured, lord, I will be sure that I will not be humiliated!"

"Jutu, Li Su!"

"The last one will be there."

"Each leader of the cavalry, followed the general to attack Xiling Port, and seize Jingzhou naval ships!"

"Get orders!"

Ma Yue waved his hand and finally shouted: "Go away!"

The generals responded to the promise and took their own orders and left.

Nanyang.

Bailongtan, Wancheng, Cao Cao's central army tent.

Seeing that the fourth year of Jian'an (191) was about to pass, the new year was coming, and the land of Nanyang became colder day by day, but for a detailed return, the direction of Yiyang was still silent. Half a month ago, Xiliang cavalry, a scale of thousands of cavalry, was occasionally robbed south, but now even these small groups of cavalry have disappeared.

Cao Cao, who had always been calm, couldn't help but feel anxious. If the butcher Ma really planned to attack the side of the back, then there would have been some movement! Did Feng Xiao miscalculated that the butcher Ma had no intention of attacking the side of the back? Or if his judgment was wrong, the butcher Ma did not plan to take the Wancheng road.

On the last day of the fourth year of Jian'an, Emperor Xian of Han, Cao Cao finally waited for news that shocked him!

Guo Fengxiao did not miscalculate, and Ma Butcher Ma did send troops. However, Cao Cao's judgment was indeed wrong. Ma Butcher's army did not follow the Wancheng route, but just followed the Wuguan that Cao Cao thought was the most impossible!

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" Cao Cao shouted in disbelief, "How could the butcher Ma go to Wuguan?"

"Lord, this is already a fact of iron." Cheng Yu said in a voice, "Li urged the people to surrender, Liu Biao, Chen Ji, and Xu Gong have been defeated back to Xiangyang! Now the butcher Ma has gathered another 30,000 troops and is rushing to Xiangyang along the road. Liu Biao has urgently ordered the prefects of Jiangxia, Jiangling, Changsha, Lingling and Wuling to raise troops to rescue."

"So, the butcher Ma really left Wuguan Road?" Cao Cao's narrow eyes suddenly opened, and an inexplicable stinging look disappeared, and he said in a narrow voice, "I am a butcher Ma. I always act unexpectedly, and I really deserve the name of a fox as a deceitful fox. Hehe, it's interesting."

Cheng Yu nodded slightly, his eyes showing relief. This is what he admires most. No matter how much hardships and setbacks he suffers, Cao Cao will not feel discouraged. If he wants to achieve something big in this chaotic era, he must have the spirit of perseverance and repeated defeats.

"Lord, it seems that the plan to ambush Ma butcher in Wancheng has completely failed." Cheng Yu said, "Now our army has two choices. One is to leave Yiyang in the north, echoing the middle coalition of the highway master's east and west, and attack Luoyang on both sides. The advantage of doing this is to put more pressure on Luoyang and force the Liangzhou army to retreat to Hulao. The disadvantage is that it is too risky. In desperation, Jia Dushi is likely to retreat completely, guard Hulao Pass with elite soldiers and generals, and then gather a large army to strangle our army with all their might; the other is to leave Jingzhou in the name of the fake emperor to help Liu Biao eliminate the Ma rebel army. However, Liu Biao is cautious and suspicious, and is likely to refuse the lord to send troops."

"No." Cao Cao shook his head slightly and said, "There is a third option!"

"Huh?" Cheng Yu said in a singular voice, "The third option?"

Cao Cao's little eyes flashed in his darkness and said to Cheng Yu: "Zhongde, if you were the butcher of horses, what would you do next after the troops were out of Wuguan to successfully defeat the South Road coalition?"

Cheng Yu thought for a moment and said, "The butcher Ma is all under his command, and the water network in Jingzhou is not conducive to cavalry operations. If you continue to attack Xiangyang and Jiangling after attacking Nanxiang, you can be said to have destroyed yourself! If I were a butcher Ma, I would have launched a large-scale attack on Xiangyang just a feint. The real intention was to cross the Danshui, Yushui went east, and advance into Runan County from the junction of Nanyang County and Jiangxia County. In this way, it would not only stir up trouble in the heart of the Central Plains, but also threaten the food route of the 300,000 troops of the central coalition forces from the side and back, which was vicious!"

"No!" Cao Cao shook his head and said, "The horse butcher always acts unexpectedly, and it is absolutely impossible to reason! Zhongde thought that Jiangling was going south to Xiangyang, but the horse butcher would not think so! What others could not do, but the horse butcher often could do it. Since Nanyang raised troops, has the surprise brought us by the horse butcher? "

Cheng Yu whispered: "Master, is it that Ma Butcher really going south to attack Xiangyang?"

"No, a frontal attack has never been the style of Ma Butcher!" Cao Cao said, "So the large-scale attack on Xiangyang can only be a cover. The purpose is nothing more than to confuse Liu Biao's audio-visuality. If Cao expected it, Ma Butcher's real purpose must be to go south to attack a certain port along the river, or even directly attack Jiangling."

"Then what?"

"Then collect a large number of ships, recruit or simply hijack a large number of boatmen, and before the Jingzhou navy reacted, he went down the waterway and took Jiangdong straight!" Cao Cao said this, reached out and patted heavily on the map, and said in a deep voice, "Here! The horse butcher's iron cavalry will return to the shore here."

"Yang...Yangzhou Guangling County!?"

"Yes, it's Guangling County, Yangzhou! The horse butcher will definitely go ashore here!" Cao Cao said in a deep voice, "From Guangling County, the horse butcher's cavalry can drive northward and take Xu, Yang's hinterland, and Liangzhou's iron cavalry will pass by. Xu Yang's land will inevitably be devastated, the city will be destroyed, and the food and grass stored in the granaries of prefectures and counties along the way will be looted and burned. In this way, all Xu and the princes of Yang will have to retreat to protect themselves, and the coalition will be defeated without fighting!"

"I understand." Cheng Yu's eyes became extremely deep, and he said to Cao Cao, "Yu knows what to do."

Cao Cao groaned, his eyes showed murderous intent, and said in a narrow voice: "Twenty thousand soldiers were waiting in Wancheng for more than a month, but in the end they could not get rid of the butcher Ma, but this time... the butcher Ma will definitely die!"

Cheng Yu also smiled grimly and said, "If the butcher horse can escape from heaven this time, it will be really God's will!"

Xingyang, Liangzhou Army Camp.

Xu Chu broke into the central army tent with sweat, and without saying that he had snatched the kettle on the case, and then wiped his mouth and said to Jia Xu: "Military advisor, it's really his grandmother's evil. Why can the coalition forces stop us on the road that must be passed every time our cavalry is out?"

Jia Xu was blinded and was thinking at the desk, but he seemed to turn a deaf ear to Xu Chu's words.

"Military advisor!" Xu Chu reached out and shook his hand in front of Jia Xu, asking, "Are you listening?"

"I heard it." Jia Xu slowly stood up and asked calmly, "Is the Major General back?"

Xu Chu said: "The major general went to Hulao to detain food and grass, but has not returned yet."

Jia Xu knocked his forehead lightly with his hand, and then sighed for a while: "It seems... I've been touched by Guo Jia's words. I'm careless."

Xu Chu said in confusion: "Military advisor, what do you mean?"

Jia Xu said: "Every attack by the coalition forces seems casual, but in fact it has a unique meaning. Look at the few cities they took back at any cost, most of which were distributed on the main traffic roads from Xingyang to Yingchuan and Chenliu. As soon as the cavalry on our side left the city, the coalition forces quickly spread the movements of our army to the Changshe coalition camp by means of beacon fire. Therefore, the coalition forces can control cavalry with infantry and block the necessary path of our army first."

Xu Chu said oh, nodded and said, "Oh, so that's the case."

Jia Xu sighed: "Guo Jia is clearly an iron wall encirclement tactic, trying to force our army into Hulao Pass step by step with his strong military advantage."

Xu Chu said: "How should our army crack it?"

"Now the iron wall siege has been established and cannot be cracked!" Jia Xu said, "If you forcefully crack it, it will be more than worth the loss."

Xu Chu said: "Then...then let it go?"

Jia Xu said: "How about General Zhongkang stay?"

Xu Chu said: "Since it is a bad thing for these cities, then is it enough to take it back?"

Jia Xu said: "Our army is all cavalry and lacks siege equipment. It is not easy to retake these cities."

Xu Chu said: "Although our army does not have siege equipment, it has the lord's surprise attack technique!"

"Although the lord's surprise attack technique is wonderful, it can be either one or two but not three. If you use it too much, it will not work."

Jia Xu said this and deliberately or unintentionally glanced at Xu Chu's left shoulder. Xu Chu subconsciously touched his left shoulder, and a hint of embarrassing smile appeared on his face.

Ma Yue's surprise attack was actually to let Xu Chu use a meteor hammer to break the cable of the suspension bridge, then use iron armor to hit the city car and open the city gate, and then use the Western Liang Iron Cavalry to seize the city. At the beginning, the coalition forces were caught off guard and lost the city one after another. Even Xingyang was captured by the Liangzhou army.

However, the good times did not last long, and the coalition forces soon thought of a way to counterattack.

Once when Xu Chu was attacking the city, when Xu Chu tried to reuse the same trick, Xiahou Yuan shot at the close range with a four-stone strong bow. He shot Xu Chu through heavy armor with one arrow. Fortunately, the arrow was a little higher, so Xu Chu escaped by chance! After this battle, Jia Xu strictly forbidden to use this surprise attack strategy.

Changshe, coalition camp.

"It's done." Guo Jia gently hit the clan and said to Yuan Shu, "General of the Cavalry, the iron wall siege has been completed, and the Liangzhou army is incapable of doing anything. He will inevitably retreat into Hulao Pass in the near future."

Yuan Shu was happy and jealous, with a complex look on his face and said embarrassedly: "I am a filial piety... I am a genius."

Guo Jia smiled and said, "It is hard to be a good person to be a general, so why dare to be a general so praise?"
Chapter completed!