Chapter 438: The First Shift
"All out?!" Listening to Guo Jia's words, even Cao Cao, who has always been messy, couldn't help but be surprised.
It is true that Lu Bu will not come to attack their camp, but that is just a thought, after all, people's hearts are unpredictable, and it is impossible to make a positive judgment in advance. Moreover, although Cao Cao was full of confidence, he said that if Lu Bu dared to attack his empty camp, then he would take the opportunity to attack Puyang City.
But since Lu Bu came to attack the camp, it means that there is indeed an ambush in Puyang City, in that case, it is difficult to say whether it can win or not, even if it can be won, it is likely to evolve into the situation in Xizhai that day, and it has an advantage, but it is just a delay in ending the battle. So when Lu Bu finishes the camp and then counterattacks back to Puyang, how can Cao Cao resist? Before you can control the city gate, isn't it someone who makes dumplings?!
That's why Cao Cao was surprised, is Guo Jia going to play an empty city plan? This is no ordinary adventure. Once the time comes when the time comes, if you really fall into an ambush and can't defeat Puyang, and the camp is destroyed by Lu Bu, then Cao's army will have nowhere to go back, and there will be nowhere to defend in situ. Think about it, if in this case, Lu Bu has been chasing behind him, he can't rest, he can't resist, he can only keep fleeing. Not to mention being annihilated by the whole army, Cao Cao and the others can only flee back to Juancheng.
"Wouldn't it be too risky? There shouldn't be such a need to fight against the water. Cao Cao couldn't help but say.
"If you don't take this risk, you're really taking the risk!" Guo Jia replied directly, "Besides, this can't be considered a lot of risk. If Lu Bu really left. If all this is not a conspiracy, then it is impossible for someone to attack our camp. And if all this is really Lu Bu's conspiracy. In any case, Lu Bu must at least prevent the possibility of Puyang taking the opportunity to be captured by us. So Lu Bu won't be too far away from Puyang. It will attack our response outside. In this way, there will be no accidents in Puyang City, and this is also the best way to annihilate our living forces. For Lu Bu, field warfare is always like attacking a village. β
"What do you think of Bonghyo?" Cao Cao asked.
"Don't send people to stay, increase the original three armies into four armies. The previous arrangement remained unchanged, with one army entering the city and two armies responding outside. And then an extra army, at the same time. Take the opportunity to attack Xizhai! Guo Jia proposed, "Now there are fewer people in Xizhai than before, and there are no decent generals, so it is easy to attack." In the event of an ambush inside the city, it is almost certain that the two forces we received to the south would be attacked by LΓΌ Bu's army outside. So, at this time, it's really unwise to break through that way. The people in the city broke through directly towards the west gate, because of the existence of the west village. Puyang City's defense is estimated to be the weakest. After leaving the city, if there is any accident, it will be temporarily guarded by the west wall. If there are no accidents, then the two armies will converge. Go around from the west to the south, attack the enemy from behind, and rescue the other two armies. Guo Jia said in detail.
"Makes sense." Cao Cao nodded. Suddenly smiled, "Haha." Feng Xiao, after you said so. I feel so relieved! β
Obviously, Cao Cao is not an existence that is not afraid of death, but there are some things that Cao Cao has to face. Now that he has listened to Guo Jia's advice and can reduce the risk as much as possible, Cao Cao will naturally be overjoyed.
Guo Jia shook his head and smiled bitterly,
"The battle situation is changeable, and I can't say what accidents will happen when the time comes."
In the next few days, Cao Cao went to the city at noon every day to call for war, and the people who responded to the battle were either Gao Shun or Hou Cheng and others, and they never saw Lu Bu and Zhang Liao and others, of course, whether it was a plan or not, whether it was true or not, it was impossible for Lu Bu to show up at this time.
On this day, the routine noon call for war, Cao Cao looked around the flags erected on the city wall, and suddenly saw a white flag with the word "righteousness" in the west corner, Cao Cao's eyes suddenly lit up, this is the code that Cao Cao and Tian agreed on, indicating that Tian has found the right opportunity, tonight, can help Cao Cao open the city gate!
Cao Cao sent generals to fight as usual, and Dian Wei successively repelled Hou Cheng and Gao Shun, and then retreated to the city on the opposite side, closed the city gate tightly, and couldn't come out no matter how much he shouted, so the two sides ended the attack painlessly.
After Cao Cao returned to the camp, he immediately began to prepare.
That night, at the time of the first shift, the moonlight was not on.
I could only hear the sound of shells blowing on the city gate, and the shouting was sudden, and for a while, the torches on the gate were scattered, and I saw that someone was taking the gate in the city. Sure enough, the gates were opened and the drawbridge was lowered. Cao Cao rushed in first, followed by Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, Le Jin, and Dian Wei, four fierce generals, all of whom were strong in force, in order to protect Cao Cao's safety. Xiahoudun led the army on the left, and Cao Hong led the army on the right, staying outside as a response.
However, when entering the city, Li Dian couldn't help but say to Cao Cao,
"My lord, wait outside the city for a while, and let me go into the city first to see the situation."
As a result, Cao Cao shouted directly,
"If I don't go in person, who will be willing to move forward?!"
After speaking, lead the troops straight in. Chen Gong really saw Cao Cao's character thoroughly!
And at the same time, on the other side,
Guo Jia almost cried again.
Attacking Xizhai is Guo Jia's own task, after all, now that he doesn't even have to defend the camp, Guo Jia can't continue to stay in the camp. And the persimmon picks the soft pinch, in Guo Jia's opinion, Cao Cao and his party who entered the city directly are the most dangerous, and Xiahoudun and Cao Hong, who are the answers, will face the attack of Lu Bu's army outside, and they are not safe. Only attacking Xizhai is the easiest, easiest, and safest.
Moreover, this time Cao Cao is most likely in the middle of the plan, so Guo Jia, who picked up Cao Cao on the Xicheng side, will then go to the south with Cao Cao to rescue Xiahoudun and Cao Hong, which can be said to be the line with the greatest credit.
The difficulty is the smallest, the danger is the lowest, and the credit is the greatest, how can Guo Jia not take the initiative to fight for such a good thing! But now, Guo Jia has found out that he was wrong. Big mistake, miscalculation in the most critical place!
The fact that Guo Jia is now directly confronted by the main force of Lu Bu's side already speaks for itself!
Although they met halfway, Guo Jia has not yet arrived in Xizhai, but at this time, when they met in this direction, it was obvious that Lu Bu's army outside had been hidden in Xizhai before!
This is what Guo Jia ignored before, so many people, maybe they can hide in some unknown valley forest or something. But after so many days, you can't be far away, if you want not to be discovered, you have to think about daily life problems, it's not a task that only needs to be ambushed for more than ten hours!
Then, if you hide people in the Xizhai where there are already people, the spies on Cao Cao's side can't enter the Xizhai, and it is impossible to easily notice the problem without deliberately observing. In this way, Lu Bu's army is simply carrying out "blatant" hiding! (To be continued......)