"The Taoist thieves divided their troops, as I expected, they divided their troops as our army expected."

"The plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain cannot be successful, but it cannot be hidden from the pottery thieves. I am destined to be seen through by the pottery thieves from the beginning. I am very clear about this. Mr. Wen Ruo later warned me that the pottery thieves could not be trapped! Our military used the plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain, which would only give the pottery thieves the chance to use the plan."

"I am not afraid of the pottery thief who is in the plan. Everything is expected by Mr. Wen Ruo and I. It doesn't matter if the pottery thief does not reveal flaws. I am amazing and don't give the pottery thief a chance to fight me in the wild. But as long as the pottery thief reveals a little bit of flaws, I can immediately use the plan and defeat the pottery thief! I have confidence in this, and Mr. Wen Ruo is also sure!"

"There is only one thing that Mr. Wenruo and I didn't expect in advance, that is, the pottery thieves would divide his combat team into two, stay in the camp with 20,000 left, and 20,000 went west to stop our impossible reinforcements! Mr. Wenruo and I had calculated everything before, but we didn't calculate that the pottery thieves would divide the troops like this!"

"The pottery thieves were not trapped. In order to make the yin* pottery thieves fall into the trap, I ordered the defenders of Ye County to abandon the city and return to Xiangcheng. I also asked the Ye County team to divide a team to guard the remote mountain roads in the southwest of Xiangcheng, and to lay more flags to serve as suspicious soldiers to deceive the scouts of the pottery thieves who were unfamiliar with the situation in the southwest of Xuchang."

"The Tao thief even saved the scouts and reconnaissance, and directly divided the troops. This is enough to prove that the Tao thief had long understood that I was luring the tiger away from the mountain. In order to lure our army out of the city to fight the decisive battle earlier, the Tao thief simply spared the scouts and directly divided the troops."

"The pottery thieves are luring our army out of the city, but the pottery thieves are even provoking! They are despising and inciting our army! They mocked our army's remaining strength, and they can't even compete with half of his strength!"

"Tao Thief is telling me that he no longer takes me seriously, so he gives me a chance to fight him fairly. He only uses half of his strength to face my last strength head-on! If I don't seize this last chance, I will never have a chance to defeat him in the future! Honor and disgrace, life and death, standing and kneeling, living, is already in my mind, Cao!"

After lyrically introducing the current situation, he also analyzed the vicious psychology of Deputy Director Tao. Boss Cao was silent for a moment, adjusted his tone and emotion, and then said to the important civil and military officials of Cao's army in front of him: "My husband, speak up, do you think, should I, Cao and you, seize this opportunity and fight to the death with the team of Tao thieves who were divided into two main forces?"

"Fight!" Almost all the Cao army generals roared, "The Tao thief despises our army so much, fight to the death with him, and let the Tao thief taste our power!"

"Prime Minister, where has the Tao thief's division of troops been reached?" Cheng Yu was concerned about another important question, "Is it possible to quickly return to the battlefield in Xuchang?"

"This morning, the team of the pottery thieves crossed the river in Yingyin, forty miles away from Xuchang, and then continued to move westward. Until now, Shenshi, there has not been any news that the pottery thieves divided their troops to turn back." Boss Cao replied briefly.

"So, our army does not have to worry about the pottery thieves being divided back to the battlefield before tomorrow morning." Cheng Yu lowered his head and calculated the distance, then raised his head and said hesitantly: "Prime Minister, Yu believes that he can consider burning the boat. The pottery thieves have 20,000 troops separated by 50,000 troops. The remaining 30,000 troops must not only protect the Yanling granary, but also stay in the main camp. The maximum number of troops that can be used is only 20,000. Our army has cities to defend, and can dispatch about 30,000 troops to attack, and the troops have an advantage."

"War is not a simple addition and subtraction of troops." Xun You opposed: "Even if our army can dispatch 30,000 troops, our army has many wounded people and the team composition is complex. The combat effectiveness of the first and second-tier teams is uneven, so it may not be able to form an overwhelming advantage over the 20,000 main forces of the pottery thieves."

"Although Mr. Gongda makes sense, Mr. Gongda may have forgotten one thing: our army is fighting with a mourning army." Cheng Yu retorted: "The Tao thieves took advantage of the danger and took advantage of the opportunity to rob the enemy after winning the battle with Yuan Shao. Our soldiers were already full of righteous indignation. As long as they knew the principle of life and death in each army and battalion, it would not be difficult to boost our morale to a high state. If the morale is high, the army will be cheered up, and the army will be cheered up, which will be enough to make up for the impact of injuries."

Boss Cao nodded slightly, agreeing with Cheng Yu's view. In fact, Boss Cao has been guiding the emotions of the Cao army. When the Xuzhou army was aggressively and madly hunting and killing Cao army scouts, Boss Cao repeatedly refused the requests from his generals to fight. The purpose was to make the soldiers of the army feel a sense of aggrievance, turn these humiliations into anger, and ferment in the hearts of the Cao army soldiers. When the anger accumulates to a certain extent, Boss Cao suddenly ordered the battle, and these angers would naturally erupt like a roaring volcano, double the combat effectiveness of the Cao army soldiers.

"Since that's the case... it depends entirely on the Prime Minister's ruling." Xun You hesitated for a moment, chose to give in, bowed to the boss Cao and said, "You just want to remind the Prime Minister at the end that if you are going to fight to the death, you will win, and all the problems will be solved, and if you lose, you will be defeated, our army will have no hope of turning back, at least there will be no hope of turning back on the battlefield in Xuchang. If the Prime Minister insists on defending the city, our army may not have a turning back after a long period of time."

"What else can our army turn around?" Boss Cao, who was full of enemies, smiled bitterly.

"Yes! The Prime Minister has two more opportunities!"

The person who said something amazing was Xu Shu, a strategist. After Xiahou Yuan returned to Xuchang, he selflessly confessed to Boss Cao that Changyi's defeat was all his carelessness of underestimating the enemy, and insisting on fighting had nothing to do with anyone. Boss Cao, who always believed that Xu Shu was the main person responsible for Changyi's defeat, was embarrassed to shelter his relatives, and indeed appreciated Xu Shu's talent, so he pardoned Xu Shu for prison and gave Xu Shu a charge of assisting Xiahou Yuan with ineffectiveness. He demoted him. Only then did Xu Shu have the opportunity to speak and make suggestions in front of Boss Cao again.

Perhaps after a prison disaster and learning from the lesson, Xu Shu no longer tempted the boss Cao to send troops to fight Deputy Director Tao at any time, but bowed to the boss Cao and said, "Prime Minister, as long as our army persists, there will be two possible turning points. One is Liu Bei and Liu Bei's hatred for Tao Ying traitors, which is far above the hatred for the prime minister. Moreover, the coalition forces of Liu Bei and Liu Biao are approaching Xuchang. As long as our army can persist until the Second Liu coalition arrives at the Xuchang battlefield, we can win the opportunity to form an alliance with the Second Liu coalition to defeat Tao."

"The second is Yuan Shao." Xu Shu continued to say calmly: "Maybe the Prime Minister will find it ridiculous. How could Yuan Shao be our turnaround? But the Prime Minister may not know that when the Tao thief was in Xuzhou, he once said this sentence: he was not afraid of a god-like opponent causing trouble, but feared that a stupid pig-like teammate dragging him down. Shu felt that although this sentence was vulgar, it was very reasonable. Yuan Shao undoubtedly was such a pig teammate. Yuan Shao's army did not retreat and could make a comeback. As long as our army could persevere until that day, it would not be difficult to find a flaw in Yuan Shao and then defeat the uncoordinated Yuan Tao coalition."

Boss Cao was silent, Guo Jiaze stood up and coughed and said, "Prime Minister, Mr. Yuan Zhi's words make sense. Prime Minister might as well think twice. Although these two turning points are slim, they are not hopeless."

In front of everyone, Boss Cao didn't say a word. After waiting for a long time, Boss Cao slowly stood up and said slowly: "Mr. Yuanzhi, it does make sense, but..."

Speaking of this, Boss Cao suddenly raised his voice and roared: "But, my life is up to me, I can't help it! Passively defending to fight for these two pitiful hopes and put victory on outsiders. This is not my Cao Cao's style! I have decided, concentrate my last strength and fight to the death with the pottery thief! Victory is victory, defeat is defeat, and even if I die on the battlefield, I will die standing on my feet!"

"I wish to serve the Prime Minister!" Cao Jun and Wenwu present knelt down together and shouted neatly, "We swear to follow the Prime Minister to the death and fight against Tao Yingzi!"

Xu Shu, who was advised to stay on the verge of change, lowered his head and sneered in his heart, "Sure enough, I'm crazy. If you don't say that, you traitor may still make up your mind for a while."

"The command of the entire army to hurry up and rest and prepare to go out of the city to fight!" Boss Cao shouted again: "The command of all departments and songs will be sent to select all the soldiers who charge and fight. The wounded stayed to defend the city, and all the soldiers who could go to the battlefield will leave the city and fight to the death with the pottery thieves!"

The generals of Cao's army sang their promise again, and Cao Boss continued to shout: "Xun Yu, Cheng Yu, you two organize the people in the city to make meals at the fifth hour of Yin, and have meals at the third hour of Yin, so that the soldiers can eat and drink enough. At the beginning of Mao, the entire army left the city and rushed to the enemy camp in Xuzhou to fight to the death with the pottery thieves! Remember, the time for making meals and dining should not be missed! Those who delay will be killed immediately!"

"No." Xun Yu and Cheng Yu agreed together first, and then asked in surprise: "Prime Minister, I will make meals at the Yin hour and go to the battle at the beginning of Mao hour. Isn't the Prime Minister planning to launch a night attack?"

"The Taoist thieves divided their troops to lure me into a decisive battle. They must be prepared at night. It is difficult to rob the camp as if they are ascending to the sky, so don't take risks!" Cao waved his hand and said loudly: "As for the first time of Mao, it is because the Taoist thieves team made meals at Mao, and had meals at Chen! Our army set off for the first time of Mao, and within half an hour, the troops could be in front of the Xuzhou thieves camp. Even if the Xuzhou thieves detect the early warning, they will definitely not have time to make fire and make meals. Distribute the food to the soldiers. I want the Taoist thieves team to fight this decisive battle with me on an empty stomach!"

"The Prime Minister's clever plan is unattainable!" Cao Jun clasped his fists and praised him, and he felt very sad. Once upon a time, the invincible Cao army also needed to consider the details of the enemy's meal time, and to spend a lot of effort to seize the opportunity of filling the stomach and empty stomach?

"Everything goes down and prepare." Boss Cao slowed down and ordered: "Let the soldiers rest with peace of mind and prepare for the decisive battle that determines the life and death of our army."

Cao's military and civil servants sang their promise again, but Boss Cao added in his heart, "It is also the decisive battle that determines the situation of the Central Plains. Yuan Shao has been crippled. No matter who can win this decisive battle, I and the Taoist thieves will become the overlord of the Central Plains."

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Resolutely decided to lead the last team out of the city to fight to the death with Deputy Director Tao. Although Boss Cao was under great pressure, in order to reduce casualties in the siege and avoid long night dreams, he resolutely divided his troops and used half of his strength to lure Cao's army out of the city to fight to the decisive battle. The pressure that Deputy Director Tao was under was actually less than there. At the same time, Deputy Director Tao also had to face an unfavorable situation, that is, when the decisive battle was decided by Boss Cao. Deputy Director Tao could only passively face the battle. Whether he could judge the time of the decisive battle of the Cao army has become a big problem facing Deputy Director Tao.

Someone may ask, isn’t Deputy Director Tao a traitor of Cao’s army who brings his own dry food in Xuchang City? I want to find out that the time of Cao’s army going to fight is not easy? Deputy Director Tao does have such a traitor who brings his own dry food, but unfortunately, because Cao’s army is guarding the city and keeps the four gates of Xuchang closely and does not allow any people to enter and exit, so even if Sima Lang knows all the plans and time of sending troops, he cannot send the news out of Xuchang City. Deputy Director Tao and Xuzhou’s decision-making level can only rely on experience and various clues to judge the time of Cao’s army going to fight. If the judgment is correct, he will seize the initiative in turn, but if the judgment is wrong, he will completely fall into a passive position.

Fortunately, although Cao's army was hiding in Xuchang City to prepare for war, some clues still revealed signs of Cao's army coming to war. In the evening, some abnormal signs of Cao's army were sent to Deputy Director Tao by Xuzhou scouts. Before the normal rotation time was reached, the Cao's army suddenly rotated the defenders, and the flags changed a lot. Volunteer militia without military uniforms began to climb up to the city wall to assist in defending the city. At the same time, noisy sounds were vaguely heard inside the north gate of Xuchang. It seemed that there were troops gathering, but no Cao's army had left the city. All these clues made the decision-making level of the Xuzhou army understand that the decisive battle was coming!

By the way, letting the volunteer militia who were not wearing military uniforms come to the city to help the war was a bad idea that Xun You, the master of the tactical craftsman of Cao's army, gave Boss Cao. It was intentional, and the purpose was...

"The Cao thief must come to rob the camp tonight!" Liu Ye, who is good at intelligence analysis, fell into Xun You's treacherous plan and expressed his wrong opinion in front of Deputy Director Tao: "From the abnormal mobilization of Cao's troops, Cao thief has discovered that our army divided the troops last night, and must have noticed that our army's main force has been divided into two. In order to seize this last chance to turn defeat into victory, Cao thief must come to sneak attack our army camp tonight! Our army should be prepared immediately to deal with the Cao thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief will sneak into our camp tonight! Our army should be prepared immediately to deal with the Cao thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's th

He was in a statement and agreed with Liu Ye's judgment. Deputy Director Tao also felt that the decisive battle was likely to be tonight - after all, Boss Cao was too good at sneak attacks at the camp. In addition to Deputy Director Tao, who was cunning as a fox, there was no unlucky neighbor who had not been attacked by Boss Cao like this. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao also began to suspect that Boss Cao used his old tricks again and was preparing to do this for himself.

"Not necessarily." Fortunately, Deputy Director Tao also had a reliable counselor, Jia Lao Poison, and asked: "Lord, have you noticed something strange? Our army attacked Cao's scouts so fiercely, so we could go straight to Xuchang City to reconnaissance. Cao's thief was preparing to attack the camp, so why did he arrange so many volunteer militias in military uniforms to go up to the wall to assist in the battle? Didn't the lord think that Cao Mengde was deliberately making our army notice that he was going to attack the camp at night?!"

Deputy Director Tao, who was cunning and suspicious, was stunned and began to feel suspicious. Liu Ye said in confusion: "Although Mr. Wenhe's words are reasonable, Cao's thief has not many warable soldiers. If he did not arrange for volunteers to come to the city to help the battle, how could his combat team take turns to rest and prepare to fight?"

"Then why didn't Cao Mengde let the civilians change into military uniforms?" Jia Lao said with a smile: "Xuchang is already Cao Mengde's last granary and logistics warehouse. Can't even take out thousands of military uniforms? It's really unreasonable that Cao Mengde, who is famous for his treacherous opponent in front of his lord, made such a mistake."

Liu Ye was speechless and said in surprise: "If Cao's thief does not come to rob the camp, then he is ready to launch a decisive battle with our army?"

"I can't judge." Jia Lao Poison shook his head and said, "Maybe it's now, maybe it's tomorrow morning or morning, or even..."

Speaking of this, Lao Jia hesitated for a moment and said, "I even want to come to the camp to rob the camp. Cao Mengde is resourceful, and if it is weak, it is solid, and if it is weak, it is weak. In this regard, he is not as good as our lord."

Deputy Director Tao frowned, because Deputy Director Tao did not dare to rule out that boss Cao's move. Liu Ye couldn't help but say in embarrassment: "This is difficult. It's impossible to judge the time of the Cao thief team's battle. Our army can't prepare for war all night, right? The soldiers didn't have a good rest, and Cao thief chose to fight tomorrow morning. Our army's combat effectiveness must be affected somehow."

"To keep changing with all changes." Yi Yi spoke in a deep voice: "There are about 24,000 people in the main camp of our army, including the Gentlemen Army. The lord can make such arrangements and continue to order the scouts to monitor the four gates of Xuchang. When they found that the Cao thieves had left the city to gather, they immediately ignited the fireworks to call the police. The Gentlemen Army, with the strongest motor power, were not allowed to rest tonight and prepare for war at all times. When they found that our army's scouts called the police, the Gentlemen Army immediately took the lead in attacking, restraining the Cao army's troops so that they could not approach our army's camp immediately. Three thousand infantry soldiers came out of the camp to form a formation to gain time for the main army to attack. In this way, regardless of whether the Cao army came to attack, the main force of our army's combat can obtain response and rest time."

Jia Lao Poison and Liu Ye nodded together to praise him. Deputy Director Tao also made a decision: "That's it. I will personally lead the army to watch tonight to protect the main team to rest with peace of mind!"

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That night, it was very quiet. The moon was dark and the stars were sparse. The five fingers were not seen on the ground. The night wind was biting cold and made people fall into an ice cave. The whole world seemed to be immersed in the tranquility before the war. Deputy Director Tao led three thousand Xuzhou infantry and the gentleman army to wear armor and horses without untied their saddles. They sat around the campfire and whispered, preparing for war at all times. However, Xuchang did not see any movement at all, leaving more than 4,000 Xuzhou soldiers waiting for a night. The fifth update was about to pass, and Deputy Director Tao, who had been in high spirits for a night, could not resist the invasion of the Sandman, leaned against Tao Ji and fell asleep in a daze.

Almost as Deputy Director Tao fell asleep, there was also movement in Xuchang City. In order to prevent the Xuzhou scouts outside the city from noticed the movement, the grassroots generals almost whispered to wake up the soldiers under their command one by one. The Cao army soldiers rubbed their eyes and stood up, stood up under the illumination of a few torches, and went to the kitchen to get breakfast. At the same time, in order to give the soldiers sufficient physical strength to fight, Boss Cao spent a lot of money this time to let the soldiers eat and drink. All the Cao army soldiers had oil and meat in their bowls, and the hot food was fragrant, which made the Cao army soldiers have a big appetite and everyone had happy smiles on their faces.

This time, Boss Cao was preparing to send 30,000 troops. However, after counting the first afternoon, Boss Cao was shocked to find that he had already raised less than 30,000 troops to fight. Due to the high-intensity combat and the lack of drugs, many Cao's wounded soldiers not only did not recover their combat effectiveness, but also worsened due to insufficient hemostatic and anti-inflammatory drugs, and the minor injuries turned into serious injuries. The severely injured people who had hoped to recover would lose their combat effectiveness forever.

For this reason, Boss Cao also got angry with Ren Jun, the brother-in-law in charge of logistics, and once planned to re-operate Ren Jun. Ren Jun did not shirk responsibility. He just knelt in front of Boss Cao and cried loudly, "Prime Minister, General Mo doesn't want to let the soldiers do this, but Yuan Shao's thief army retreated, and the team of Tao thieves immediately rushed to the city of Xuchang. The medicine could not be replenished, so General Mo could only watch the wounds of these loyal and brave soldiers deteriorated, and they were completely powerless."

"Prime Minister, you may not know." Xun Yu said with tears in his eyes: "General Ren Xian, the only son of General Ren, was shot in his right arm when he was fighting Yuan Shao, and his wound was inflamed and pus. General Ren gave all the medicine to other soldiers, but General Ren Xian's right arm could not be saved..."

Before Xun Yu could finish his words, Cao had already knelt down at Ren Jun and hugged Ren Jun and cried bitterly. The wounded soldiers of Cao's army were all crying and laughing. They knelt down and asked for orders to go to the battle, vowing to fight to the death with the Xuzhou army. Finally, Cao also relaxed the choice of the wounded at the suggestion of the generals under his command, and pieced together about 28,000 troops to go out of the city to fight to the death with the most despicable demon, the most shameless hypocrite, the most sinister poisonous snake, and the most vicious jackal - the Tao Ying traitor in Xuzhou, and fought to the death with the most despicable demon, the most shameless hypocrite, the most sinister poisonous snake, and the most vicious wolf - the Tao Ying traitor in Xuzhou!

At the beginning of the Mao hour, as the gong suddenly sounded, the fire was rising, and the three gates of the east and west north of Xuchang suddenly opened at the same time. More than 28,000 Cao's army teams were rushing out with torches, ignoring the astonishing eyes of the Xuzhou scouts in the distance and the fireworks signals sent out hurriedly, and rushed to the open area outside the north gate of Xuchang. People competed for sprinting and horses and hooves, and almost flew to the predetermined position to form a military. The big flag of the Han prime minister, Cao, fluttered in the wind under the night sky, and the Cao army soldiers with old armor and gauze wrapped in their bodies were full of energy and as strict as a forest.

Among the swords and guns, Lao Da Cao yelled loudly on the war horse, "Soldiers, I won't say much. This is our life-and-death battle. Life-and-death honor and disgrace are already here! Hold our swords and guns tightly, hold our flags high, and fight against the shameless traitor Tao Ying'er! Don't break the pottery camp, and don't stop the troops!"

"I will not withdraw my troops until I break the Tao camp!" More than 20,000 Cao's soldiers roared in unison and penetrated into the sky.

"Set out!" Lao Cao pointed northward and was the first to rush towards the direction of Xuzhou camp. More than 20,000 Cao's soldiers lined up to follow. The slogans of not breaking the Tao camp and not quitting the troops echoed endlessly, shocking the earth.
Chapter completed!