Chapter 996: Defeat Yuan Tan!
Cao Cao is finally about to play the last hole card in his hand, in fact, Cao Cao, who has an extremely contemptuous mentality of Yuan Tan, but in terms of tactics, he has never despised any abnormal battles.
At the moment when Xiahou Yuan rescued Cao Chun, Cao Cao saw that under the drive of Yuan Tan's unrelenting fight, the Yuan family's army actually showed extremely strong combat effectiveness in this battle. During the time when the tiger cavalry was entangled with the Yuan family's elite cavalry, Cao Cao's 10,000 battle cavalry had been dispersed after a round of charge. The subsequent Yuan family infantry regiment, approaching step by step, had already rushed into the infantry formation of the Cao army. If there is a few more moments, Yuan Jun will be pressed down, then Cao Cao's carefully laid out arrogant army situation may be faked and realized!
This happened because Cao Cao did not expect that his prestige had already dealt a great blow to Yuan Jun's arrogance as soon as he appeared. Moreover, Yuan Tan's blind advance actually led to a great morale boost for the entire Yuan army. As a result, the battlefield will get out of control several times - however, at this point, Cao Cao has learned enough, and it is time to end this battle.
In particular, this kind of study and summary will also make Cao Cao have the intention to show his intention to use soldiers like a god in front of all the strategists, which is very likely to come to naught. Even, it may even pay the price of taking the life of the clan love general!
On the battlefield, Cao Cao was the most sophisticated and uncontrollable machine. He is most likely to absorb any experience and lessons, and at the same time, he also knows to put the stop loss above the most important trade-offs.
This is Cao Cao on the battlefield.
But in fact, very few people can understand Cao Cao's mentality and practice. Especially when he gave the order to retreat at this time, it made almost everyone around him change their faces. You must know that when the two armies are engaged in endless battles, the most taboo thing is to retreat, and when there are not many troops, it is good to say that once the total number of troops invested by both sides on the battlefield reaches 100,000, it will be difficult to maintain effective command over the various armies and units while retreating.
General Xiahoudun gritted his teeth and stepped forward to persuade: "My lord, think twice, at this time, the enemy and our two armies have been strangled together, and suddenly order a retreat is likely to lead to the rout of the whole army!" ”
Le Jin also said: "Yes, lord, you can't retreat!" ”
"It doesn't matter." Cao Cao waved his hand and repeated lightly: "Order, Daxu retreats." Although he is not the ancient Han Xin, he will not lose this decisive battle. ”
Xiahou Yuan and Cao Chun, who were anxious about the battle, saw that the army had turned around and were slowly retreating. They were all angry and killed another enemy general, and retreated while fighting: Yes, Cao Cao's voice of gold was not the meaning of the whole army's quick push, but the retreat of the side battle!
"Haha, Cao Thief finally can't resist it!" Yuan Tan, who was in a state of panic, was at a time when he was at a loss for a plan, when he saw that the Cao army began to retreat, he could not hide his excitement, and shouted to everyone, "Daxu has issued an order, and all armies will step up their attacks and defeat the Cao army in one fell swoop!" ”
And at this time, Wang Xiu, who was in the rear army, couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he saw the dynamics of the two armies: Although the Cao army was retreating, the Cao army did not collapse because of this! Defeat and chase is victory, but a sudden retreat between such entanglements must have a plan!
Wang Xiu faintly felt that Cao Cao should finally be impatient at this time, he was angry, took out his true fighting mentality, and was weaving Cao Jun into a bow full of elasticity with his high command skills.
Wang Xiu quickly ordered the commander around him to spread this advice to Yuan Tan's ears, but at the same time, Wang Xiu also knew that doing so was just doing his best and obeying the destiny of heaven. Strategists and people are the first realm, and Wang Xiu has long been familiar with Yuan Tan's violent nature, so after he finished speaking, instead of continuing to advance under the protection of the army, he retreated.
In the sound of the majestic horn, the offensive of the Yuan army was even more fierce, and the Cao army fought and retreated, although it was chaotic but not as good as the rout, and time was quietly passing in the fierce battle between the two armies.
"Dead open!" Yuan Tan roared, the big sword halberd in his hand struggled to pick up, and the Cao army soldiers who were blocking in front of him were suddenly provoked into the air, and screamed and tumbled and fell more than a dozen steps away, and the nearby Cao army soldiers were all shocked, but none of them retreated half a step, and soon two more soldiers rushed forward bravely and blocked the gap again.
Yuan Tan finally stopped moving forward and gasped violently on his horse!
From noon to now, Yuan Tan has been fighting for nearly half a day, he can't remember how long he has broken forward, let alone how many Cao Jun he has killed, but the Cao Jun in front of him is still so many that he can't count, Cao Cao's big pole is not far ahead, as if it is within reach, but it can't be touched!
Cao Cao only has an army of 30,000!
Yuan Tan couldn't believe it, after fighting fiercely for so long, why did his 100,000 army not swallow the 30,000 army in one bite!
He was not reconciled!
Therefore, even though he had changed to a war horse and was already wheezing, he was unwilling to look at the Cao Jun Formation, which was getting smaller and smaller but never far away! Therefore, he exhausted his physical strength, and he has been looking for Cao Jun's back, and he wants to fight Cao Jun's battle!
However, at this time, Cao Cao looked at the Yuan Jun formation behind him, which had gradually been pulled apart, and the corners of his mouth finally showed a smile. After he saw that Yuan Tan's left army and rear army had been left behind, and the middle army and the right army were gradually unable to keep up with Yuan Tan's front army, he stared at the battlefield, but said to Xi Zhicai beside him: "Zhicai, you don't know, a year ago, I used the Ma family military system to train the Qingzhou army. Today, we are finally seeing results. The secondary herald ordered that the army could advance and retreat so freely, attacking and defending in an orderly manner! ”
"Ming Gong is humble and open-minded, sensitive and studious, and a genius in the real world. Although Ma Mengqi was able to create a military skill that made hundreds of thousands of troops like a brawl, the lord was able to show the enemy weakness and lure the enemy to fight on this basis. At this time, Xi Zhicai probably understood Cao Cao's tricks, and praised him.
"It seems that Zhicai already knows about a certain plan." Cao Cao laughed, shook his right hand slightly, and said after giving another order: "Then let such a boring battle end!" Daxu sent an order, all armies and departments stopped retreating, turned back to attack on the spot, and then raised fire in the rear formation, and ordered Cao Hong and Han Hao to lead their troops to attack and intercept Yuan Tan's army, making it difficult for them to take care of each other. ”
Dozens of orders to ride away, Cao Cao's general orders spread throughout the whole army, and the various units of Cao's army, which were fighting and retreating, immediately changed their rear teams to the front team, and turned back to counterattack, and the various departments and songs that had been defeated by the Yuan army were also regrouped in the rear under the reprimand of the general, regrouped, and immediately put into the final counterattack.
At the same time, two eye-catching wolf smoke had also risen from the rear of Yuan Jun. In an instant, the wasteland on the north and south sides of the wasteland rose with overwhelming shouts.
In less than a moment, hundreds of thousands of Cao army's foot soldiers had emerged from the horizon and rushed towards the waist of Yuan's army formation from the north and south.
Ambush soldiers, Cao Cao actually put such a big game of chess, after failing to kill himself, there is a back move! So, so...... It's so desperate.
"No!" Yuan Tan, who realized his final fate, held the big knife in his hand and roared wildly in the formation, but then, this cry was completely annihilated by the subsequent miserable howl........
The defeat was like a mountain, and Cao Cao's martial name rose again in the battle of Nanwuyang, Taishan County. Moreover, after this battle, the confrontation between Yuan Shao's army and Cao Cao on the Eastern Front completely changed from offensive to defensive, and he was no longer able to compete with Cao Cao.