Chapter 2875 Cage Tactics, Hunting Cao Ren


    Chapter 2872: Cage Tactics, Hunting Cao Ren


    Bai Qi still didn''t know Kong Xuan enough after all. He didn''t know that Kong Xuan could recover from his injuries quickly, so in his opinion, Kong Xuan''s behavior of pursuing Cao Cao with injuries was somewhat inflated and irrational.


    After all, Kong Xuan is a foreign aid invited by Bai Qi and one of the top combat forces of the Qin Dynasty. If he had any accidents due to his injury, Bai Qi would not be able to explain to Ying Hao.


    Therefore, after Bai Qi learned the news, he immediately sent Fu Youde to lead 3,000 cavalrymen to respond in order to prevent Kong Xuan from having an accident.


    "Each one does not make people worry-free, and it always disrupts my plan."


    Bai Qi sighed helplessly. In his original plan, he would soon start the follow-up plan after occupying Dingtao.


    Dingtao is the only way for Chenliu to retreat eastward. Dingtao occupied by the Qin army was equivalent to completely cutting off the retreat of Chenliu''s 100,000 Cao''s army, but it does not mean that Chenliu''s Cao''s army has no room for movement.


    Therefore, Bai Qi will next implement a cage encirclement tactic on Cao''s army to completely trap Cao Ren''s 100,000 troops.


    When 10% of the cage is used to be wiped out or forced to surrender, it depends on the mood of Daqin.


    Bai Qi was originally planning to wait for Wei Rui''s 1,000 cavalry to return, and Fu Youde''s 3,000 cavalry to gather these 4,000 cavalry together to use it, but in order to prevent Kong Xuan from having an accident, he had to send Fu Youde to bring 3,000 cavalry to support, which would naturally have an impact on his follow-up plan.


    Of course, the impact is not large. Cao Ren is already a cage bird, so what other storms can it cause? As long as Bai Qi slightly revised the plan, it would basically not have any impact.


    After Fu Youde received the order and left, Bai Qi turned his eyes down, standing behind Liu Tichun with a restrained young general, Zhang Nai.


    Even Bai Qi was extremely surprised when he learned that there were still people living in the remnants trapped in the city.


    The city gate was completely closed, the army was dispersed and had no intention of fighting, but the enemy in the city had a large number of elite soldiers and generals. In this case of death without death, it is impossible for anyone to survive.


    But what is outrageous is that not only people survived, but the number of people survived was more than 100. The biggest role among them was Zhang Nai.


    If he hadn''t called on the army to engage in street fighting and commanded the alive to fight guerrilla warfare, it would have been impossible for anyone to survive.


    While this made Bai Qi interested in him, he was also very curious about how Zhang Nai escaped the siege of powerful generals such as Yin Shou, Dan Tai Yu, and Xiahou Yuan while Cao Cao entered the city.


    After some inquiry, Bai Qi learned the original appearance of the matter. While surprised by this tenacious desire to survive, he couldn''t help but sigh that the other party''s luck was really good.


    "Zhang Nai, Zhang Nai..."


    Faced with Bai Qi''s shout, Zhang Nai seemed to have not heard it, and it was not until Liu Tichun reminded that he reacted from his distracted state.


    Zhang Nai was originally considered a middle-level member, and his level was even lower after surrender. Logically speaking, he was not qualified to attend the Qin general-level meeting, but Bai Qi specially called him to attend, which made him nervous and a little confused, so he did not hear Bai Qi''s shouting.


    After Zhang Nai reacted, he quickly stood up and responded loudly, "I''m here."


    "Zhang Nai, if you hadn''t commanded properly, the soldiers who failed to withdraw from the city would probably have been wiped out. Now transfer you into our governor''s guard to serve as the military sergeant." Bai Qi said lightly, directly upgrading Zhang Nai''s military rank to one level.


    Zhang Nai was shocked when he heard this. It was a pleasure to be promoted to another level, but the real surprise was that he was transferred to Bai Qi''s guard. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hold on.


    Seeing that Zhang Nai was stunned again, Liu Tichun slapped him on the back of the head and reminded him: "Silly boy, why don''t you thank the general for help."


    "Oh, oh, General Xie."


    Zhang Nai thanked him happily, which means that the Qin Dynasty did not rise to worship his adoptive father, otherwise he would really want to recognize his father on the spot.


    Looking at Zhang Nai, Liu Tichun''s eyes showed a hint of envy. After all, being able to follow Bai Qi, the war **** of Qin, is a chance that many people can''t ask for, but this kid can get it so easily. It really responds to the saying that if you survive a great disaster, you will have good fortune.


    Although Liu Tichun was envious, he would not be jealous of Zhang Nai. After all, after Ma Shouying died, his contribution to him was counted on himself. In addition, he had already promised to express his merits to Ding Tao, Bai Qi had already agreed to report to Liu Tichun as the prefect of Dongjun.


    Liu Tichun received a reward far higher than his own merits, so naturally he would not be jealous of Zhang Nai. Of course, the most important thing is to get on the line of the Qin Dynasty, and he will no longer have to worry about being in danger in the future. In addition to their own contributions, Bai Qi wanted to win over the Yellow Turban, one of the five major factions of Cao Wei through these two people, so as to further divide and disintegrate the interior of Cao Wei.


    Other generals of the Yellow Turban Group, such as Wang Junke, Niu Jinxing, were highly rewarded after learning that Liu Tichun surrendered. Even the younger generation Zhang Nai was valued by Bai Qi, and he would definitely make plans for his future.


    Cao Wei was defeated repeatedly, and the main force on the Western Front had been completely lost, and the last 100,000 troops were already on the plate. If the internal situation was unstable at this time, perhaps the Qin army would not need to be overwhelmed, and Cao Wei would be in chaos.


    As soon as he thought of this, Bai Qi became a little anxious. After all, compared to leading his army to conquer the Wei Kingdom, he wanted to see Cao Cao''s expression when his relatives were betrayed.


    Early the next morning, Wei Rui led a thousand cavalry to Dingtao, and Bai Qi immediately began to implement the cage tactic.


    At the same time, the news of Dingtao''s loss and Cao Cao''s flying pigeon letter were also transmitted to Chenliu almost at the same time.


    When he learned that Cao Cao failed to rescue Dingtao and had to abandon the city and retreat eastward, Cao Ren and Cao Hong both closed their eyes in pain, because this meant that they were abandoned.


    "Brother Ren, what should I do now?"


    Cao Hong asked with a confused look on his face. He had actually been prepared to fight for Cao Cao until his death, but when this day was really coming, he found that he seemed unwilling to die just like this.


    A trace of determination flashed in Cao Ren''s eyes and he said in a deep voice: "As the military advisor said."


    In fact, there is only one choice in front of Cao Ren:


    First, we will fight against the Qin army and try our best to cause greater losses to the Qin army.


    As for this second one, it is to block the news, defend Chenliu until the last moment, and try to get more preparation time for Cao Cao on the Eastern Front, as well as the new army and the Magic Sect rebels who are still training.


    Cao Ren chose the latter, but the reason was no different. Now Cao''s army has strong enemies on both sides of the east and south, and the result of a head-on battle is definitely to be attacked on three sides.


    In contrast, the latter was cut off due to the loss of Dingtao. Although Chenliu was already an isolated city, the loss was only a matter of time, but the strategy left by Fan Li before leaving may delay this time for a longer time.


    "Military advisor, have you expected this day long?" Cao Ren couldn''t help but murmur.


    Cao Wei now needs time, not only to enhance the combat effectiveness of the new army, but more importantly, to be prepared to deal with the complete loss of the Western Front and the loss of the main army.


    At the same time, Yingchuan County, Xuchang City


    After receiving the news that Bai Qi had successfully occupied Dingtao, Ying Hao was naturally overjoyed and immediately ordered Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, who had defeated Yanling, Weishi and Fugou, to lead 20,000 infantry and cavalry in the headquarters to attack the three cities of Guanxian, Yongqiu and Xiangyi, and further compress the space for Chenliu and Cao Ren''s activity.


    At the same time, Ma Chao and Xu Chu were ordered to lead a thousand light cavalry, pretending to be five thousand cavalry, and went to pursue Cao Wei who had escaped from Xuchang, and also led his army back to Xuchang.


    After Ma Chao and Xu Chu chased into Chen County, they soon encountered the Song army who came to pick up Cao Wei. The 17,000 infantry and cavalry army led by Arthur, who was responsible for restraining the 30,000 Song Dynasty to support Cao Wei''s army, was unable to come to support in time because of Zhao She''s plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. Ma Chao and Xu Chu were isolated and unable to support him, so they had no choice but to withdraw back to Xuchang.


    Of course, all this was done by Ying Hao. Chen Gong''s lurking was not over yet. In order to allow Cao Wei to escape reasonably, he deliberately asked Ma Chao, Xu Chu and Arthur to cooperate with Chen Gong to perform this escape drama.


    As soon as Ma Chao and Xu Chucai returned, Ying Hao ordered the two of them to lead an army of 20,000 to go north to meet with Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, cooperate with Zhang Liao and Bai Qi to hunt Cao Ren.


    As for Ying Hao himself, the protagonist must have made the final appearance, and he still has nothing to do in Xuchang. When he appears in Chenliu, it will definitely be the war will be completely over.


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    Guandu, Qin army camp


    Zhang Liao, who was about to be unable to hold back, received the news that Bai Qi had captured Dingtao, and immediately led all his troops to advance eastward, but the target was not Chenliu, but the two strong cities of Sourzao and Fengqiu. The purpose was self-evident, and it was to cut off Cao Ren''s wings.


    In this way, as Dingtao was occupied by the Qin army, Bai Qi, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, three armies, with nearly 200,000 troops, all joined the ranks of hunting Cao Ren.


    (This chapter ends)