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A scout pulled a long cavity, ran into the big tent in a panic, and as soon as he entered the big tent, he knelt on the ground with a "poof", and hugged his fist towards Cao Cao in front of him: "Enlighten the lord, Hanoi urgent!" ”

After speaking, the scout took out a secret report from his bosom, held it in his hand, raised it above his head, and presented it to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao put together the two texts he had just finished, threw them on the table, and immediately stepped forward, took the secret report from the scout's hand, opened it, and hurriedly read it, his brows furrowed tightly, like a big "Chuan" word!

"Quickly pass Guo Jia and Xun You to the big tent!" Cao Cao immediately raised his head and said to Dian Wei, who had been standing by his side.

Dian Wei "snorted", strode out of the big tent, and ordered the two personal soldiers at the door to call Guo Jia and Xun You to come.

Not long after, Guo Jia, Xun You and Dian Wei entered the big tent together and paid homage to Cao Cao together: "See the lord!" ”

"Excuse me!" Cao Cao took the secret report, handed it directly to Dian Wei, and said, "This is a secret report from Xiahoudun, you two take a look at it first, and after reading it, immediately come up with a countermeasure!" ”

Guo Jia and Xun You saw that Cao Cao's face was gloomy, and the tone was not very good, and they knew that this secret report was not a good thing, so after opening it, they hurriedly read it, and then the brows of the two of them were tightly wrinkled.

The secret report was sent by Xiahoudun, and the letter said that Tai Shici led the army down the river by water, and sent people to the Kei Pass to lure the enemy, and the guard Cao Xiu lightened the enemy. Lead the army into battle. Surrounded by Tai Shi Ci's army. and was beheaded by Tai Shi Ci. The more than 7,000 soldiers under Cao Xiu all surrendered to Tai Shici, and are now led by Hao Zhao.

In addition, Tai Shi Ci was even more lightning fast, even Keshu City, and his troops came to Huaixian County, the county town of Hanoi County, and fought with Xiahou Dun alone.

Xiahoudun led a large army out of the city to meet the enemy, leaving only a few in the city. Unbeknownst to him, the Hanoi guards coveted the rebellion, gathered the families of the big clans in the city, killed the defenders, closed the city gates, refused Xiahoudun to enter the city, and shot Xiahoudun's army with bows and arrows.

At that time, Xiahoudun was at war with Tai Shi Ci, and due to Wei Qi's counterattack, the army's morale was in turmoil, and the whole army fell into a situation of being attacked by the enemy, and Tai Shi Ci saw the opportunity. Launch an attack and join forces with Wei Qi. Attack Xiahoudun together.

Xiahoudun saw that the situation was not good, so he had to temporarily retreat to Wude County, who knew that Tai Shi Ci took advantage of the victory to pursue, plus the county commander of Wude County led the soldiers and civilians in the city to rebel against Xia Hou Dan, and Tai Shi Ci once again joined forces inside and outside, but Xiahou Tang suffered some losses, demoralized, and had to continue to retreat.

Xiahoudun then transferred to Xiuwu County, killed the county commander and the county lieutenant, as well as the county officials, and then occupied the county seat of Xiuwu and used it to defend Tai Shici.

Tai Shi Ci pursued relentlessly and arrived in Xiuwu County a quarter of an hour later than Xiahoudun, but because Xiahoudun had already occupied the city and he did not bring siege equipment, he could only temporarily stationed outside the city and confront Xiahoudun.

But who knows, Tai Shi Ci's reputation in Hanoi County is very high, and the people in the city learned that Tai Shi Ci led the army to kill, and they spontaneously organized to attack the soldiers of the Cao army guarding the city gate, where would the exhausted Cao army expect this kind of thing to happen, and as a result, the city gate was opened by the people, and Tai Shi Ci took the opportunity to lead the army into the city.

Xiahoudun had no choice but to lead the army to escape again and retreat to Huojia. But halfway through, he was attacked by an ambush led by Jia Kui, Taishou of Hedong, and Tai Shici chased after him, Xiahou was attacked by the enemy on his back, fought hard to get out of the encirclement, and laid out a suspicious plan, let 500 soldiers go to Ji County, but he fled to the Yellow River with more than 2,000 remnants.

As a result, Tai Shi Ci really hit the plan, and Xiahou was able to get rid of Tai Shi Ci, and after coming to the Yellow River, he immediately sent someone to inform Cao Cao on the south bank of the Yellow River and ask for support.

Cao Cao has been standing still since he arrived in Henan, originally thinking that there were 20,000 troops of Xiahoudun and Cao Xiu in the rear, and he did not massacre the city, and the people did not commit any crimes, thinking that this would stabilize the rear. Who knows, he still can't escape the torture of fate.

After Guo Jia and Xun You read this secret report, they both felt that the situation was serious, so they said to Cao Cao in unison: "Lord Qi, Hanoi is the retreat of our army, and Xiahoudun is the general of our army, so he has to be saved." Tai Shi Ci is too rampant in Hanoi, and if the lord does not go out on an expedition in person and cut off this scourge, he will inevitably have endless troubles. ”

Cao Cao asked, "What about Henan?" ”

Xun You said: "Zhang Yan is at war with Yuan Shao, and the main forces of the two sides will face off, and it will be difficult to distinguish the winner for a while, and both sides have no time to take care of our army." As for the Henan side, our army has been standing still, and the enemy has few soldiers, so it is inevitable that they will not dare to move, so it is better for our army to temporarily retreat 30 miles tomorrow, leaving the general to garrison, and bluffing, so that the enemy may not be able to discover the mystery. The lord can choose elite soldiers and strong generals, secretly cross the Yellow River, go to Hanoi, and completely defeat Tai Shici, so that as long as the rear is stable, our army can rest easy on the front line. ”

Guo Jia hurriedly arched his hand and said, "My subordinates also have the same opinion. ”

Cao Cao thought for a moment, and also felt that Tai Shi Ci was quite harmful in Hanoi, and Hanoi was his own retreat, Tai Shi Ci was rampant in Hanoi, and defeated Cao Xiu and Xiahou Dun in a row, which was undoubtedly cutting off his back road.

So, Cao Cao made a quick decision, leaving Xun You, Xiahou Yuan and 20,000 soldiers and horses to continue to stay here, while he led Guo Jia, Cao Zhen, Guo Huai and other generals, as well as 20,000 troops, to Hanoi.

Cao Cao secretly led his army out of the camp that day, crossed the Yellow River with his army at dusk, and arrived at the border of the river.

Xiahoudun, who was waiting in this section of the river early in the morning, saw Cao Cao personally leading the army to arrive, and immediately rode his horse, and when he arrived in front of Cao Cao, he restrained the horse, immediately jumped off the horse, knelt in front of Cao Cao's eyes, beat his chest and said: "Lord, the last general did not guard Hanoi well, please punish the lord!" ”

Cao Cao waved his hand at Xiahoudun, his face was expressionless, and he didn't mean to blame at all, just said slowly: "Let's make meritorious service for our crimes!" ”

"Thank you for not killing!" After hearing this, Xiahoudun immediately thanked him.

At this time, Cao Cao is the time to employ people, Xiahoudun is not only a general in the army, but also his confidant, if he is in the past, he may punish Xiahoudun, but at this stage, let him wear the guilt and make meritorious service, the most haode punishment.

Cao Cao and Xiahoudun joined forces, and asked Xiahoudun about the situation again, and learned that Tai Shici had never been to the river once, but had only sent a small group of scouts once, and there was no news after that.

Xiahou had few soldiers and did not dare to send people to wander around, so they all stayed on the banks of the Yellow River, twisted into a rope, and ate and slept with the soldiers.

Cao Cao received very little news, so he sent 500 elite scouts to fan out news in all directions, while he and the army were stationed on the banks of the Yellow River, waiting for news.

At this moment, Tai Shi Ci and Jia Kui, Wei Qi and others all gathered together, and yesterday failed to capture Xiahou Dun, according to Jia Kui's speculation, Xiahou Dun is likely to have informed Cao Cao of the news of Tai Shi Ci's sweep in Hanoi, and Jia Kui concluded that Cao Cao would inevitably lead a large army to cross the river to Hanoi for the purpose of eliminating Tai Shi Ci. What's more, he will join forces with the Montenegrin Army to deal with Tai Shici.

In short, Tai Shici's situation is very dangerous.

So, Tai Shici asked Jia Kui and Wei for advice, and Jia Kui said that Cao Cao had a strong army and was very good at using troops, so he should avoid his edge.

Jia Kui suggested that Tai Shi Ci lead the army to transfer and let Tai Shi Ci go to Henan. After all, the south of the Yellow River is the real main battlefield, and it can also coordinate with its own reinforcements to give full play to the maximum strength of the army. Staying in Hanoi can only sit back and wait for death.

Tai Shici felt that Jia Kui's suggestion was very desirable, and led his army to Heyang overnight, and asked Wei Qi to lead the whole family to transfer with him, while Jia Kui led his subordinates to Jiguan to block Cao Cao's idea of going to Hedong. And stick to the Kei Pass, and wait for the news of the army's counteroffensive here in the Kei Pass.

Wei Qi was reluctant to leave, fearing that the people of Hanoi would be slaughtered by Cao Cao, and Jia Kui told Wei Qi that Cao Cao would not kill innocents indiscriminately, and once he killed innocents, it would provoke a popular uprising, and then Hanoi would never become Cao Cao's territory.

Wei Qi was suspicious, so he reluctantly led his family to move to Heyang with Tai Shici.

Just when Cao Cao crossed the Yellow River north, Tai Shici and Wei Qi had already led a large army to Heyang.

Garrisoned in Heyang was Hao Zhao, as well as more than 7,000 Cao army soldiers, who were taken to Henan by Tai Shici.

Tai Shi Ci and others crossed the river by boat from Heyang, and after crossing the river for more than an hour, the army finally arrived at Mengjindu, and at this time, Cao Hong, who was stationed in Henan City, did not know about Tai Shi Ci's arrival.

Tai Shici immediately made a decision, led all the cavalry in the army, disguised as Cao Jun soldiers, and approached the city of Henan with lightning speed.

Cao Jun was defenseless, thinking that the reinforcements had arrived, so he opened the city gate and let him in, but was defeated by Tai Shi Ci, and Tai Shi Ci's reinforcements also arrived one after another, Cao Hong saw that the situation was not good, so he gave up Henan City, retreated all the way to the east, and joined forces with Xiahou Yuan and Xun Yu near the Tiger Pass.

Cao Cao arrived in Hanoi and found that Tai Shici was missing, while Jia Kui led his army to occupy Kei Pass, cutting off the road to Hedong.

So, Cao Cao guessed that Tai Shici was very likely to have arrived in Henan, so Cao Hong would be in danger. So he left 10,000 soldiers and horses to Xiahoudun, and sent someone to the party, let Cheng Yu come to be the Hanoi Taishou, and to Xiahoudun as a military advisor, he took 10,000 troops, and Guo Jia quickly crossed the Yellow River south, and when he arrived at the barracks, he saw Cao Hong leading the defeated army from the west, and when he asked what was going on, he knew that he had been attacked by Tai Shici. However, fortunately, Cao Hong's soldiers and horses did not suffer many losses.

Tai Shi Ci and Cao Cao went around in circles, which made Cao Cao look at Tai Shi Ci with admiration.

Now that the 40,000 army is gathered in one place, all under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao, Cao Cao continues to wait here to wait for the news of the battle between Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan's army, but he teaches his soldiers to secretly build siege equipment. (To be continued......)