In the Xuanyuan Pass, a Qin army was stationed only a few miles away from the pass.

Standing outside the barracks, Wei Yan looked into the distance, his brows tightly locked.

The scout sent back the news that the Xuanyuan Pass, which was supposed to be attacked by them from behind, had planted the battle flag of the Qin army this morning, and the Qin army led by Lu Bu had already broken through the Xuanyuan Pass.

"General!" Looking at the direction of Xuanyuan Pass, Wei Yanzheng didn't know whether to advance or retreat, Yan Liang walked over from behind, came to his side, hugged his fists and said to him: "Then Lu Bu is not righteous, this place should have been attacked by us, but he took it first!" ”

"Taking Xuanyuan Pass is His Highness's intention!" Frowning, Wei Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, as if talking to himself, as if he was saying to Yan Liang: "But in this way, if our army wants to go to Xudu, I'm afraid it will not be easy!" ”

Yan Liang is a fierce general, but he can lead the army to fight, but the usual method is to fight hard, and he doesn't know any strategy at all.

Hearing Wei Yan's words, Yan Liang looked stunned, looked at Wei Yan, and blinked a few times.

Wei Yan didn't give Yan Liang any explanation, he knew very well that even if he did, Yan Liang wouldn't be able to understand it for a while.

The Qin army, which was originally carrying the attack on Xuanyuan Pass, arrived near Xuanyuan Pass, and on the battlefield of Guandu, a team of only 3,000 people, riding horses, was marching quickly towards the territory of Great Qin.

The three thousand men on horseback were all dressed in the deep clothes of ordinary people, but each of them was armed with a sharp spear and a round shield.

This is a Cao army disguised as a horse thief, and the leaders of this Cao army are Cao Cao's generals Cao Hong and Cao Ren.

Cao Hong and Cao Ren had fought against the Qin army on the Shouchun battlefield, and the two of them were also very familiar with the Qin army, and sending them to Qin was also a decision made by Cao Cao after careful consideration.

Leading 3,000 soldiers disguised as horse thieves to the border of Daqin, Cao Hong restrained his horse and asked Cao Ren: "The two of us go to Daqin, if one side is surrounded by the Qin army, will the other side go to the rescue, or will it withdraw immediately?" ”

"Cao Gong didn't say it explicitly!" Looking ahead, Cao Ren's brows tightened, and he said to Cao Hong: "If the two of us agree, if the Qin army is too numerous to help, it is convenient for the other to leave immediately." If the number of Qin troops is not large, and the siege can be lifted, then they will rush to help immediately, how about it? ”

Nodding, Cao Hong cupped his fists and arched at Cao Ren and said, "That's it, farewell!" ”

hugged his fist and gave Cao Hong a salute back, Cao Ren also said goodbye, and the two of them each led a team, one south and one north, into the realm of Daqin.

Two or three days later, in Luoyang City, the palace of King Qin.

Liu Biantie blushed, sitting in the front hall, his brows tightly twisted, and a pair of eyes couldn't stop wandering back and forth on the faces of everyone in the hall.

"There are villages in the east of the river that have been attacked by horse thieves, do you have any opinions?" Looking around at the people in the hall, Liu Wei asked them coldly.

"Your Highness!" As soon as Liu Bian's words fell, Pang Tong, who had already guessed in his heart, stood up, strode to the middle of the front hall, and said to Liu Bian: "Hedong has always been well governed, and I have never heard of a horse thief. His Majesty thought that these horse thieves must be Cao Jun pretending! ”

Leaning forward slightly, Liu Wei's eyes narrowed, and he asked Pang Tong: "According to Shiyuan, should this king mobilize troops and horses to clear it, or ......?"

"Mobilizing the army to clear it is exactly Cao Cao's plan!" Liu Wei stopped talking only halfway through his words, Pang Tong clenched his fists and bowed to him and said: "Cao Cao sent men and horses to sneak into Hedong, in order to attack the village, make His Highness uneasy, and transfer the army back from the front!" ”

"With the defenders east of the river, I'm afraid they won't be able to clear it!" After Pang Tong's words, Chen Gong on the side frowned, groaned for a while before standing up, and said to Liu Wei with a fist: "It is said that the number of horse thieves is not large, and they often attack the village, and they don't dare to kill too many people, but they just burn the grain and grass in the village, and evacuate immediately!" His Royal Highness did not give the following order, collect the grain and grass in the villages from all over the country in one place, and allocate it by the army, if the horse thief really wants to mess with my Great Qin, he can be attacked in one fell swoop! ”

His eyes narrowed slightly, and Liu Wei did not immediately agree to Chen Gong's plan.

If the horse thief was really Cao Jun's pretense, and transferred the grain and grass from various villages to one place, it could indeed serve the purpose of luring Cao Jun.

But Cao Jun is not a fool, knowing that the Qin army has the purpose of luring them into being deceived, and he also stormed the grain and grass gathering place, this kind of thing, even Liu Wei, is categorically impossible to do.

In case the Cao army adopted a strategy that the Qin army had not figured out for a while, the concentration of grain and grass would be conducive to the burning of the Cao army.

Tightly frowning, after a long time, Liu Wei finally spoke: "Order Gao Shun, Yu Linwei immediately enter Hedong to exterminate the horse thieves, as for Wei Yan and Zhang Liao's department, step up to advance to Xu Du!" ”

"No!" When Liu Wei's voice fell, everyone in the hall stood up one after another, hugged their fists and bowed, and responded.

Liu Wei's order was quickly conveyed, and Yu Linwei, who was stationed in Luoyang City, left the city under the leadership of Gao Shun and advanced straight to the east of the river.

Wei Yan and Zhang Liao, who had already joined forces at Xuanyuan Pass, gathered together and marched in the direction of Xudu after receiving Liu Wei's order.

On a hill that is only a dozen miles away from Xuanyuan Pass, Sun Guan, who was broken through by Lu Bu earlier and fled by wolves, stood on the hillside and looked at the direction of Xuanyuan Pass.

A cavalry of the Qin army appeared in his field of vision.

The number of that Qin army is not very large, but more than a thousand people, as long as Sun Guan orders the Qingzhou army ambushed on the hillside to attack, this Qin army will definitely be wiped out.

But Sun Guan didn't do that, he was waiting, waiting for the Qin army to come, and another ambush.

Just as Sun was looking at the Qin army under the hillside in the distance, a Qingzhou soldier quickly ran to his side, clasped his fists and bowed to him and said, "General Qiyu, Xun You's military division is here!" ”

Leading the army alone to intercept the Qin army, Sun Guan did not have much confidence in being able to successfully intercept the Qin army, and when he heard that Xun You was coming, he was suddenly happy in his heart, and hurriedly said to the soldier: "Quickly lead General Ben to meet the military division!" ”

The soldier answered, stood sideways, followed Sun Guan's side, showed him the way, and went to the place where Xun You went up the mountain.

During the battle of Xia Cai, Xun You had been to Cao Hong's army and helped Cao Hong capture Xia Cai, and now he has come to Songshan, which made Sun Guan, who was gloomy, immediately full of fighting spirit.

The Qingzhou Army, the combat power is not as good as the Qin Army, Sun Guan was born in the Yellow Turban earlier, among the generals of the Cao Army, although he is very valued by Cao Cao, he is ashamed of other generals.

It is precisely because of this that Sun Guan did not have much contact with the other generals of the Cao army, and only led the Qingzhou army to fight a decent battle for Cao Cao, so that those Cao army generals who were not used to the Qingzhou army knew that the Qingzhou army was not as unbearable as they saw.

Under the guidance of the soldiers, Sun Guan soon reached another hillside.

Xun You, who was escorted by a team of guards, was already up the hill at this time.

As soon as he saw Xun You, Sun Guan's pace under his feet sped up a lot, and he ran to Xun You with a happy face, hugged his fists and bowed to Xun You and said: "The last general doesn't know that the military division is coming, and he is not far away, and he looks at the military division!" ”

Clenching his fists with both hands, he arched towards Sun Guan, Xun You said with a smile: "Gong Cao knew that the general intercepted the Qin army, and the pressure was quite high, so he specially ordered a certain person to come to assist the general!" ”

"Once the military division is here, the army should be handed over to the commander of the military division!" Sun Guan did not put down the fists he picked up, and said to Xun You very respectfully: "The last general is willing to be a pawn in front of the military division, but whatever the military division points to, he will do it!" ”

"The general's words are serious!" Sun Guan said very sincerely, but how could Xun Yu take away his military power, smiled and waved his hand and said: "The general is only in charge of commanding the troops, and he is here to help, how can he take the lead?" ”

Xun You refused to take over the military power, and Sun Guan could not forcibly hand over the military power to him, so he had to change the topic, pointed down the mountain, and said to Xun You: "The Qin army sent cavalry, thinking that it was to explore the terrain ......"

"What are the general's plans?" Before Sun Guan finished speaking, Xun You had already asked him.

Stunned by Xun You's question, Sun Guan hesitated for a moment and said, "The last general plans to let them go......"

"Why did the general decide to let them go?" Once again, before Sun Guan finished speaking, Xun You interrupted him again.

Blinking his eyes twice, Sun Guan said, "Could it be that the military advisor plans to exterminate them?" ”

"The general lost Xuanyuan Pass earlier, and the morale of the soldiers is declining, and there is a battle to win, so why not fight?" Smiling slightly, Xun You raised his hand and pointed at the cavalry of the Qin army who were rushing towards the ambush of the Qingzhou army in the distance, and said to Sun Guan: "The general can destroy it!" ”

Stunned for a moment, Sun Guan still hadn't understood Xun You's plan, and Xun You continued: "Once this cavalry is ambushed, the Qin army will definitely go out and launch a fierce attack on our army. The general can choose 10,000 soldiers and horses to take the opportunity to go to Xuanyuan Pass! ”

"More Xuanyuan Pass!" As soon as Xun You's words were finished, Sun Guan's face was suddenly full of joy, and he hugged his fists and bowed to Xun You and said: "The military advisor is really a god, in this way, our army can form a two-sided attack on the Qin army!" ”

Nodding with a smile, Xun You didn't answer Sun Guan's words, but just turned his face to look at the cavalry of the Qin army that was rushing towards the Qingzhou army station.

"Someone! Pass the order down and ambush this Qin cavalry! Having already understood Xun You's strategy, Sun Guan had no other scruples, turned his head and shouted behind him.

One of Sun Guan's personal soldiers heard his shout, responded with fists, turned around and ran to the main force of the Qingzhou Army hiding on the hillside.

The hibernation slopes of the Qingzhou army are full of dense jungles.

The soldiers received Sun Guan's order, and under the cover of the jungle, they marched down the hillside one after another.

When the archers reached a position where they could shoot arrows down the hillside, they found a suitable place to hide, and pulled arrows from their waists and put them on the bowstrings, but their eyes were cast on the Qin cavalry who were galloping towards them.