Imperial Power Of Han Dynasty

One hundred and twenty miles north of Xiapi city, Gefeng Mountain.

Twenty thousand Danyang elite soldiers marched all the way under the banner of Cao, and they rushed back to Xiapi within two days. Cao Leopard's marching speed was only slightly slower than Xia Hou Yuan.

After Cao Bao saw Tao Qian's messenger, he was taken aback. He had to know that his family and property were all around Xiapi City, and many of the family members of the soldiers in the army were in Xiapi. Therefore, Cao Bao led 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers and accelerated all the way.

"General, we will be in Xiapi City in one hundred and twenty miles away, shall we rest?" Du Wei Cao Dan panted.

"Yeah." Cao Leopard nodded: "There are a large number of Cao troops outside Xiapi City. If our troops arrive with a tired division, I'm afraid they will take advantage of the enemy."

After that, Cao Bao ordered: "The whole army obeys the order, rests for two quarters of an hour, eats some dry food and drinks some water, and then continues to march."

After hearing Cao Bao's order, the 20,000 Danyang soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and slowly rested.

In less than a quarter of an hour, smoke and dust suddenly rose from the north, and the 20,000 Danyang soldiers immediately became vigilant, and they gathered automatically without Cao Bao's order, and had vaguely formed a battlefield.

I saw a horse galloping from the north, the general flag was also marked with the word "Cao", but the enemy general's flag was blue, while Cao Bao's general's flag was light green.

"Character Cao? Is it possible that Cao Cao personally led the troops to come?" Cao Bao thought, riding a horse on a small mound and watching from a high position: "But there are only 8,000 people? It seems that Cao Cao is not leading the army by himself, hum, today Let this gang of Qingzhou thief know how powerful my Danyang soldiers are!"

"The whole army obeys the order! Set up a geese formation, let these Qingzhou thieves know how powerful my Danyang soldiers are!"

Cao Bao screamed. Although the 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers had just been scattered, they were ordered and prohibited. After hearing Cao Bao’s order, they changed very quickly. The 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers stretched out a formation on the left and right, just like the two wings of a wild goose. Used to clamp the most commonly used geese to attack the enemy.

Twenty thousand Danyang elite soldiers were aggressive, forming a flying geese formation like a huge pair of scissors, and the left and right wings stretched out like sharp blades, trying to crush the Cao Jun in front of them.

The leader of the Eight Thousand Cao Army is no one else. It is Cao Ren, a general of the Cao Cao clan. He is in his early thirties and has a thick horoscope on his mouth, which looks quite stable.

Among the generals of Cao Cao's clan, Xia Houyuan marched quickly and was good at attacking thousands of miles. Xiahoudun was dignified and often stood on his own. Cao Hong was impatient, although brave but narrow-minded, while Cao Ren was the opposite, good at fighting hard. When pacifying Qingzhou, facing the crazy counterattack of the Yellow Turban thief, it was Cao Ren who led five thousand troops to resist the siege of the Yellow Turban thief from all sides.

Therefore, Cao Cao specially dispatched Cao Ren to lead the army, hoping to rely on Cao Ren's steadiness to hold down Danyang soldiers.

"Form a circle, resist the enemy's attack, retreat slowly, and don't let the enemy come near!"

Cao Ren analyzed the situation at a glance. There were a lot of enemy troops but Cao Jun had few soldiers. Cao Bao obviously wanted to rely on the large number of people and directly led the Danyang army to besiege and wipe out the eight thousand Cao army.

In any case, the enemy must not be surrounded by all sides!

Only eight thousand Cao troops formed a round formation on the spot. The two wings of the Danyang soldiers had just come up to fight, and the Cao army immediately shot long and close combat. Cao Bao ordered 20,000 Danyang soldiers to march around, wanting to attack the Cao army.

Cao Ren failed Cao Bao's wish. He led eight thousand Cao troops and retreated. Although Danyang had a large number of elite soldiers, they could only fight head-on with eight thousand Cao troops, while Cao Jun was rotated back and forth with little effect.

"Huh, Cao Dan! Ru led the five thousand Danyang soldiers to round the side and penetrate straight into the enemy's rear army." Cao Bao said with a gloomy expression when the situation was unfavorable.

"promise!"

Cao Dan took the order and drew 5,000 from among the 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers.

"Come with XX." After Cao Dan led five thousand Danyang soldiers out of the wild geese formation, they circled forward on the side, while Cao Bao ordered the whole army to attack. After all, Cao Ren was short of soldiers and was held back for a while.

"Destroy Cao Jun and punish Cao Ren!"

In a moment, Cao Dan successfully reached Cao Ren's side and shouted excitedly.

"Kill Cao Ren!"

The five thousand Danyang soldiers roared together, like a tiger descending the mountain, and from the side like a sharp sword straight into the wing of Cao Renjun from the side as fast as a patrol.

"Unexpectedly, Danyang soldiers are so difficult to deal with. No wonder old Tao Qian has been guarding Xuzhou for so many years." Cao Ren sighed, but there was no regret for failure.

"Arrangement, eight golden locks!"

Several flag-bearers around Cao Ren waved the flags skillfully, and in a moment they rehearsed a complex set of flags. The Danyang soldiers were at a loss.

But after the eight thousand Cao Jun saw the banners played by the flag-bearers around Cao Ren, they began to change their formation under the command of the army Sima, the army chief, Shi Chang and others. The round formation changed a little, and it became a sharp formation. .

Cao Bao was taken aback: "What is the mystery Cao Ren plays?"

I saw that the eight thousand Cao troops were vaguely arranged into eight portals, and they rushed in from one portal, I was afraid that they would be able to rush through them.

"Humph!" Cao Leopard snorted coldly, and pointed the knife at Cao Renjun's side: "The whole army has entered from now on, ignore the enemy!"

Twenty thousand Danyang soldiers obeyed the order and killed in the direction Cao Bao pointed out.

Cao Ren smiled: "It's great, it's the'shock' door!"

The art of war pays attention to the formation, and the formation of the army has its own effects. The front and the snake formation are sharp, which is conducive to breaking through the enemy formation; the square and round formations have strong defenses, and the geese formation is easy to attack the enemy. These are relatively simple formations. , Even the generals with rough art of war can be displayed and applied randomly.

The more cumbersome formations are the fish scale formation and the Xuanxiang formation. Cao Ren's eight-door golden lock formation has changed from the Xuanxiang formation, which conforms to the principles of warfare and has endless changes.

Only two thousand Danyang elite soldiers were rushing towards the Jingmen, and the Cao Jun in the Eight Gate Golden Lock Array immediately began to change constantly. The Danyang soldiers who attacked Cao Jun not only suffered a lot of casualties, but also couldn't attack anyway.

"Huh? Kind of weird!"

Cao Bao frowned and hurriedly ordered the Danyang soldiers to retreat. At this time, hundreds of Danyang soldiers had been killed and injured.

Cao Bao touched his chin and beard, wondering: "What kind of silly formation is this, and how should I get into it?"

Cao Bao thought hard, separated several small units, and constantly tried to attack one of the eight gates, trying to find out which one was the real life gate of the enemy.

However, Cao Ren has already understood the principle of change formation, and the army is constantly changing formations.