"Of course chase! Why not chase? ”

Cao Wenzhao laughed fiercely and said coldly: "Today, Lao Tzu will not let go of any of these traitors, and he will kill them all!" ”

He said in a deep voice, "Aren't they divided into two ways? Let's also divide the soldiers into two routes, you bring 1,005, I take the rest, and the pro-soldiers follow me. Let's get around the town and catch up with them! I'll kill all the thieves on my side first, and you just need to pester them. When I kill all the thieves here, I will take the troops to your side. ”

Cao Bianjiao beside him hesitated a little, pointed to the front, and said, "My lord, there won't be any traps, right?" ”

"What traps can there be?"

Cao Wenzhao pointed to the town in front of him, and said with a big grin: "If there is a trap, do you think the town in front can still be like this?" If a trap were to be laid here, it would not be possible to knock down the town in front of it. If this place is really a trap laid by the thieves, then this town is not what we see at this moment. ”

When Cao Bianjiao heard this, he also nodded, feeling that what he said was indeed very reasonable, so he pressed down the trace of uneasiness in his heart.

Cao Wenzhao seems to be rude and reckless, but in fact he is a meticulous person. If he was just a simple martial artist, he would not have won successive battles in the past few years and made such a great reputation.

You must know that a few years ago, Cao Wenzhao, who was still in Liaodong, was just a guerrilla position, but now Cao Wenzhao is already a dignified chief military officer.

However, what Cao Wenzhao didn't know was that in fact, this trap was arranged by Li Zicheng according to his character. Li Zicheng knew that he was actually quite cautious, so he deliberately did not take down Hutou Town, but let Hutou Town continue to maintain its original appearance, in order to make Cao Wenzhao think that there were no traps here, and strengthen his determination to continue the pursuit.

And the reason why the army that was pursued by Cao Wenzhao in front of them would go around the town in two ways on both sides of Hutou Town was also a plan that had been set before, the purpose was to let Cao Wenzhao divide his troops.

In fact, as early as a few days ago, Li Zicheng had already defeated Zhenning County, but he left this Hutou Town alone. He ordered people to block the surrounding area for several miles, and all the people of Hutou Town were not allowed to go out, and he also ordered people to enter the town, and ordered them to do what they should do, and continue to maintain the status quo, and not to make any changes.

In order to let Cao Wenzhao take the bait, he also took great pains.

And as he wished, Cao Wenzhao was indeed about to take the bait.

Cao Wenzhao gave an order and divided the institute into two teams. His subordinates said that there were 3,000 cavalry, but in fact, there were more than that, and the total number could almost reach about 3,4500. Among them, 1,500 people were assigned to Cao Bianjiao's command, and the remaining 2,000 people were led by him personally. Among the 2,000 people, naturally including his own soldiers, Cao Wenzhao also ordered a few personal soldiers to go to Hutou Town, ready to call open the town gate, let the squires in the town and other people in charge, organize the people to prepare hot dishes, hot meals, hot water, and wait for him to return triumphantly with the army, he will rest and reorganize here.

This continuous chasing also made him exhausted.

A few of his own soldiers took the order and galloped towards the town.

And Cao Wenzhao immediately ordered the soldiers to set off.

The army split into two groups, and the rolling iron streams rounded the town and continued to chase forward.

To the east of Hutou Town, about a mile or two away, is a continuous hill. This hill is not high, that is, more than ten or twenty zhang or so. Because there are many rivers in this area, there is no shortage of water, so the trees on the mountain are quite dense. If it were another place, the bark, leaves, grass and roots on the mountain would have been eaten up by the displaced people long ago. However, the previous county order of Zhenning County was quite strong, arranging manpower to organize the township brave, sending people to be stuck at various intersections, and not allowing the displaced people to enter. Before Zhenning County was completely destroyed this year, there were not many displaced people here, so the trees here were still quite well preserved.

Standing on the top of this small hill, the westernmost of the hills, you can clearly see what is happening in the town. However, due to the dense forest growing on the top of the hill, if you hide in the dense forest, because of the dense forest, you can't see the movement here at all on the side of Hutou Town, and you can only see a forest.

And at this moment, at the top of this small hill, in the dense forest, there were several people standing under the trees, looking in the direction of the town.

One of them is the general Li Zicheng.

His eyes were red and he looked haggard, and it was clear that he hadn't slept well in the past few days. But his spirit was extremely excited, and his eyes seemed to be burning with flames.

He sneered: "Cao Wenzhao, this guy is a conceited hero in vain, isn't he also hooked?" ”

Everyone next to him complimented in unison: "It's your master, you have a wise strategy." ”

Li Zicheng was not modest, he smiled, and his expression was very proud. He is indeed very proud of his arrangement this time, after all, he is as deep and scheming as he is, and he is such a huge hand, mobilizing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and setting up a situation across hundreds of miles, how many people can do it in this world?

"Herald!"

Li Zicheng said in a deep voice: "Order all departments, now kill Lao Tzu." Don't worry about anything, just kill it in the direction of Toutou Town. Tell them that as long as any of them encounter Cao Wenzhao's subordinates who intend to break through, they will not seek to kill the enemy, but only to entangle them. As long as they are entangled for a moment, other armies will be able to arrive and completely kill Cao Wenzhao and the others! Tell everyone that Lao Tzu should not be taken prisoner today, and Cao Wenzhao should be killed to avenge the blood of our army! ”

"Yes!"

The generals shouted in unison, and their expressions were full of excitement.

Cao Wenzhao has been fighting with them for many years, and he doesn't know how many of their brothers he has killed, and his hands are covered with blood, and there is a deep blood feud between the two. Cao Wenzhao is about to be killed today to take revenge, how can they not be excited?

The heralds under Li Zicheng's command rode fast horses and quickly conveyed the order, and in about a quarter of an hour, the order was passed to all the generals who were ambushed around Hutou Town.

As a result, all the troops of the intrusive army that were ambushed around Hutou Town moved, and one by one soldiers and horses came out of the hidden place and marched in the direction of Hutou Town. At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will find that with Hutou Town as the center of the circle, within 20 miles around Hutou Town, there are full of thirty or forty cavalry, like sharp arrow clusters, fiercely stabbing in the direction of Hutou Town.

The size of each of these cavalry was around four or five hundred. Relying on one of them alone, of course, it would not be able to defeat Cao Wenzhao's troops, but it could entangle them for a long time. It is conceivable that once Cao Wenzhao is entangled by one of them, then the other cavalry will surround them like wolves hunting on the grassland and gnaw them to the core.

At this time, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao had already led their troops to bypass Hutou Town.

However, because of the fact that there was such a town in the middle, they went around on both sides, and now the distance between the two teams was about two hundred feet. Just in front of them, Cao Wenzhao saw the thief cavalry that they had been chasing for several days. But what surprised him was that these thief cavalry did not flee in two ways at this time, but they actually gathered together again, waiting not far in front of them!

I don't know if it's intentional or unintentional, the position they are in is actually the position between the two officers and soldiers after Cao Wenzhao divided the troops. In other words, they were like a stone, dividing the team of Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.

Cao Bianjiao doesn't look at his young age and fierce fighting, but he is an extremely thoughtful person, when he saw this situation, he suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly looked around.

But Cao Wenzhao was carried away by the blood, he laughed out loud, and said with a cruel smile: "You dog thieves, are you waiting here for your grandfather to kill?" ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand heavily and said loudly: "Sons, kill with me!" ”