The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 80
"Where is this place, so dangerous?" Cao Cao looked at the high mountain beside him and asked everyone where the Chinese army was.

"My lord, this is Linzi Mountain, which is the only place to pass when entering Linzi from the west." Cheng Yu, who has studied Qingzhou, looked at Gaoshan and frowned and replied.

"Hahaha." Cao Cao laughed loudly after hearing this.

"My lord, why are you laughing?" Cheng Yu looked at Cao Cao puzzled.

"You always say how powerful Chen Ziming is, but I can't hear or hear him. If he pretends to retreat and ambush his troops here, I will be defeated here!" Cao Cao said to the people around him in a nonchalant manner.

"What!?" Cheng Yu's face changed drastically after hearing this.

"No, my lord, pass this place quickly!" Xi Zhicai also hurriedly shouted.

Cao Cao's crow's mouth began to work. As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud shout on the mountainside, and the Liu character flag fluttered in the wind.

"kill!!"

"boom!!"

Feathered arrows, pounding stones, and rolling logs swarmed towards Cao Cao's army.

"Cao Cao's son, it's the strategy of our military adviser!" A loud roar suddenly came from the mountain.

"Retreat, withdraw quickly!" Cao Cao hurriedly ordered to retreat.

"Kill!" There was a shout of kill from the front team.

"Report! My lord, there is an army ahead, and the banner says Guan! It is Guan Yu's army!" General Cao Hong flew to report.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!" Cao Cao was shocked when he heard that Liu Bei's army was actually ambushing here, and he had seen Guan Yu's fierceness before Hulao Pass.

Finally, under the cover of many generals, Cao Cao and many advisers escaped from Linzi Mountain.

"Hahaha..." Cao Cao looked around and laughed again.

"My lord, the army is in ambush now, so why are you laughing?" Cao Hong, who was still in good spirits, asked Cao Cao suspiciously. In his opinion, Cao Cao should lose his temper now.

"I said that Chen Ziming doesn't understand military affairs. Now, our army is in disarray and morale is low. If I ambush here, what should I do, hahaha." Cao Cao complacently expressed his opinion to the generals and advisers around him.

"kill!!!"

"Hugh leave Cao Cao!"

Cao Cao's crow's mouth worked again, and another large army came from a distance, with dust flying, countless banners, and an unknown number of troops.

"Quick retreat!"

Cao Hong was the first to react, and ran away when Cao Cao's horse came. Cao Cao's army, which had already been ambushed once, ran away with their heads buried, and no one dared to stop it.

Cao Cao's army fled all the way back to Guang County where Cao Ren was stationed before stopping.

Cao Cao, who had escaped for a day and a night, was exhausted. After ordering to strengthen the defense, he went to rest.

People who practice martial arts like Cao Cao are like this, not to mention those weak scribes, everyone has gone to sleep.

On the second day, Cao Cao raised his account to discuss matters and count his troops.

"My lord, 11 of the [-] troops have returned, and some soldiers and horses have returned one after another this morning."

This counting surprised everyone, not because the loss was too great, but because it was too small. Cao Cao and others, who had been prepared in their hearts, couldn't react for a while.

"Not good, we have fallen for it!"

Cheng Yu was the first to jump up.

"It's definitely not Liu Bei's army in Linzi Mountain, it's actually Linzi's garrison!" Cheng Yu said immediately.

"Chen Gongtai!!!" Cao Cao is also a well-known military strategist, how could he not know what happened now.If Liu Bei's army was ambushing in Linzi Mountain, how could he have lost so few troops, and he would be lucky to come back alive.

"Come here, rectify the soldiers and horses, and send the army to Linzi City!"

Cao Cao wanted to kill Chen Gong very much now, and even used a fake ambush to frighten him into fleeing. After this battle, Cao Cao's name will definitely be famous all over the world, but it is not very pleasant.

"My lord, we've spent four days going and coming here today. We've got our troops in order today, and we can send them out tomorrow. It will take two days to reach the city of Linzi."

"If Liu Bei leads his troops back at this time, the army will be in danger." Cheng Yu thought that Cao Cao's army had lost the best time to attack Linzi, but Cao Cao gave up his plan to send troops to attack Linzi again.

"Le'an and Jinan together have more than [-] troops, and Liu Bei's troops are only over [-]. How can we return to the army at this time? We should have time."

Xun You, a counselor of Cao Cao, thought that it was impossible for Liu Bei to deal with the enemy troops in Le'an and Jinan so quickly. You must know that there are many soldiers and horses in the two places, and there is also Lu Bu's terrifying army, which is not so easy to deal with.

"My lord, give me an army of [-]. I will go and fetch Linzi, and bring the head of the Chen Palace to meet." General Xia Houyuan immediately asked for orders to fight.

Cao Cao began to think about it. Although his head is prone to heat sometimes, he is very careful in matters of military and state affairs, and he values ​​the opinions of everyone.

Besides, he knew about Cheng Yu's talent, and it was not impossible, maybe Liu Bei was already on his way back to Linzi.

Suddenly, Cao Cao looked up at Xi Zhicai who was sitting silently with his hands down.

"My lord." Xi Zhicai felt someone looking at him, and when he looked up, it turned out to be Cao Cao.

"Zhicai, did you seem to be thinking just now?" Cao Cao asked Xi Zhicai who hadn't participated in the discussion just now.

Xi Zhicai didn't reply immediately, but stood up and walked to a map, which was a general map of Yanzhou and Qingzhou, which was far behind the one drawn by Chen Ziming.

"My lord, what I was thinking just now was Chen Ziming. If I am in Liu Bei's army, how can I solve the danger of Linzi?" Xi Zhicai said while gesturing on the map.

"Jinan, Dongping Mausoleum, Linzi, Guangxian, Xi'an... Taishan, Boxian?!"

"Bo County!"

Finally, Xi Zhicai looked at Boxian and screamed.

"My lord, it's not good, Chen Ziming might send troops to attack Bo County!"

Finally, Xi Zhi discovered that the distance from Jinan Dongping Mausoleum to Bo County was very short, and it was possible to attack Bo County and destroy Cao Cao's food and grass before Cao Cao's army took Linzi.

"what!?"

Everyone present was taken aback. Everyone in Bo County knew that this was where Cao Cao's army stored all their food and grass. If there was a problem there, Cao Cao's army would be in danger of running out of food.

"My lord, return to the army immediately!"

Xi Zhicai hurriedly said to Cao Cao.

"Military division, can Xu Rong's army go to Bo County for reinforcements, and our army will attack Linzi?"

Cao Cao didn't order to return to the army immediately, but thought about it. This is Cao Cao. He can listen to everyone's words, but he has his own thinking and ideas.

"My lord, are you sure you can take Linzi within a day?" Xi Zhicai didn't believe what Cao Cao said before. Judging from the ambush in Linzi Mountain, although there are not many Linzi defenders, they will not be too few.

"This... is difficult!" Cao Cao knew that Linzi was defended by wise people like Chen Gong, and it was not something that could be won in a day or two.

(End of this chapter)