Zhao Feng pondered for a moment: "Do you know the approximate strength of Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan?" ”

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Judging by the scale, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan both led an army of about 25,000!" ”

After Zhao Feng listened, he groaned.

Cao Cao originally attacked Lü Bu's army this time, which was about 120,000, and then Chen Deng led more than 20,000 Guangling County troops to take refuge, with a total strength of about 150,000.

With the addition of Zhang Yan's 20,000 troops, the total strength is about 170,000.

After defeating Lü Bu, the loss of troops is expected to be between 30,000 and 50,000, and perhaps the loss of troops is even greater.

After all, Zhang Yan's army of 20,000 is currently more than 10,000 people, but I don't know how many are left, so it is not easy to judge the loss of troops on Cao Cao's side.

Therefore, Cao Cao's current strength should be about 130,000 troops based on the intermediate loss of 40,000 troops, including more than 10,000 troops after deducting Zhang Yan's army, and there are also about 120,000 troops.

Cao Cao had more than 100,000 troops in hand, and compared with Zhao Feng's army of less than 100,000, he should not just send Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan to deploy a defensive line to resist Zhao Feng's southward advance.

Zhao Feng had already led an army of more than 70,000 to the south, and now Hua Xiong, Zhang He, and Wen Chou are about to lead a large army to join Zhao Feng, and the two armies should add up to about 90,000, which can be claimed to be less than 100,000, or 150,000 troops!

If there are more, it will seem fake, and Cao Cao will not believe it.

After all, Cao Cao still knows more about Zhao Feng's situation.

Now Zhao Feng has sent a five-way army to attack Cao Cao's five counties, and Cao Cao knows the army in those places.

Therefore, the total strength of Zhao Feng leading the army southward, Cao Cao will also know a rough idea.

Zhao Feng pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Go back and tell Hua Xiong, let him send more sentry cavalry to the vicinity of Xiapi to find out the specific news of Cao Cao." ”

"You must know where Cao Cao's army is now!"

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "No! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

Wait for the sentry to ride away.

Zhao Feng looked at Xiong Da: "Xiong Da, you quickly send someone to contact the underground intelligence organization in Xuzhou to see if you can know the general movement of Cao Cao's army." ”

Xiong Da bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "No! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

Time passed slowly, and six days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past six days, Gumu, Dongwu, Zhuxian, Suga, Haiqu, and Langya counties have successively chosen to surrender.

Basically, as soon as Huang Zhong and Wei Yan led the troops to arrive, the local county commander conspired with some county soldiers to kill the guards sent by Cao Cao to garrison, and then directly chose to surrender.

In this regard, Zhao Feng was not too surprised, after all, a similar atmosphere had been formed in Langya County, and as soon as the army arrived, the local county commander would choose to surrender to whom.

And Zhao Feng's army also captured several county towns in Langya County, which lasted less than two days and less than an hour, and took the target county seat.

Under this kind of results, the rest of the commanders and generals who defended the city and county naturally knew that Zhao Feng's army was not easy to provoke, and even more difficult to provoke than Cao Cao's army!

If you can surrender Cao Cao, why can't you surrender Zhao Feng?

this day.

A guard ran into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qiqi, the grain transport officer wants his subordinates to come and report!" ”

"The grain has been escorted, and when we arrived at the gate of the camp, the grain transport officer asked the lord, which camp the grain was transported to?"

Zhao Feng smiled: "The grain has finally arrived!" ”

"If I don't come, I'll run out of food here!"

At the beginning, Zhao Feng asked Huang Zhong and Wei Yan to leave with ten days of food respectively.

And Zhao Feng's total grain is so much in total, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan take a little more, and Zhao Feng will leave less food to supply the army.

Now that Yang has not been opened, the grain from Zhang He and Huaxiong is not convenient to transport over.

Of course, there was really an unexpected heavy snowfall, which delayed the advance of the grain team, and Zhao Feng could also raise the grain that was originally returned to the Zhuxu County family, Haoqiang, and the people by Huaxiong and Zhang He.

It's just that at a critical time, Zhao Feng doesn't want to do this.

It is better to capture Yangdu and open up the road with Huaxiong and Zhanghe.

Because Zhao Feng originally called for half a month's worth of grain from Hua Xiong, Zhang He, and Wen Chou.

And from Zhuxu County, ten days of food were raised, plus Zhuxu County's original reserves of enough food for three days for the army, that is, thirteen days.

The extra two days of food can be used as an emergency in Zhuxu County.

Zhao Feng pondered for a long time: "Let the grain transport officer transport all the grain to Dong'an City." ”

The guard bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "No! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

Zhao Feng arranged this way also because Yangdu was about to be taken, and Kaiyang, the governing office, had been besieged for several days, that is, Qiu and Zhangguo, and had not yet used troops.

As long as these counties are won, the entire Langya County will be taken by Zhao Feng.

Therefore, it is completely possible to hoard grain in Dong'an County.

The guards have just come out of the big tent of the Chinese army.

Zhao Feng looked at Xiong Da: "Xiong Da, you take the tiger camp and go to help the grain transport officer, and store all the grain in Anton's granary." ”

Xiong Da bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "No! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

Two hours later.

Xiong Da returned to the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Enlighten the lord!" ”

"The Xuzhou underground intelligence organization sent a message saying that a few days ago, I saw the movement of Cao Cao's army, and it was suspected that he was going to Pengcheng Guolu County."

After Zhao Feng heard this, he groaned.

If this news is true, it means that Cao Cao has insight into Zhao Feng's intentions and does not want to stay in Xuzhou and be dragged by Zhao Feng, so he directly led his troops back to help.

Coupled with the deployment of Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, Zhao Feng felt that the possibility of Cao Cao retreating was very big!

Because after leaving Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan, it is equivalent to using an army of about 50,000 to contain Zhao Feng's army of less than 100,000.

Once Zhao Feng returns with his own soldiers and recruits, or goes to reinforce the battlefield of Sili, Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan can lead an army of about 50,000 to recover Langya County and Taishan County.

With the tens of thousands of troops of Huaxiong, Wenchou, and Zhang He, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold Taishan County and Langya County.

After all, Zhao Feng has just occupied these two counties, and he has no foundation.

And Cao Cao could lead an army of 70,000 or 80,000 to go back to reinforce the war in the Sili area.

As for Taishan County, now that it has been lost, Cao Cao naturally has no need to go to the rescue.

70,000 or 80,000 troops to deal with the war in the four counties, at least each county can send about 20,000 troops to resist.

Even, Cao Cao can lead an army of 70,000 or 80,000 to rescue the temporarily more critical battlefield!

For example, Henan Yin!

As long as Henan Yin guarantees, it is equivalent to keeping the gateway to Xudu!