Xiahou Dun had no choice but to divide the front cavalry out again. Under the attack of three cavalry, Xu Huang had to escape far away, but Xu Huang still refused to go away and still pestered Xiahou Dun. Xiahou Dun's expression was also helpless, and as time passed, he became more and more serious.

Xu Huang used two thousand cavalry to pull away his 13,400 cavalry. Not counting the unequal physical exhaustion, Xiahou Dun was even more worried about Xu Huang's other two troops. If these two troops also arrived on the battlefield, would he have cavalry to chase and drive them away?

"Transfer orders, form formations on the spot, and build temporary shield walls!"

"promise!"

"Cavals return to defense! Walk around the formation!"

Xiahou Dun's order was very timely. Not long after the infantry formation was formed, the figures of Youzhou cavalry had already appeared outside the battlefield. These two new forces reached the magnitude ww.  . The pressure on Xiahou Dun's cavalry increased greatly. At this time, 6,000 to 20,000, Xiahou Dun's cavalry still had a numerical advantage, but he did not dare to take the initiative?br />

Xu Huang's three cavalry galloped around the formation like butterflies. Xiahou Dun's cavalry chased towards one unit, and would definitely be harassed by another cavalry. If they were divided to pursue, they might be besieged by the enemy at any time.

Therefore, Xiahou Dun's cavalry could only defend around the infantry formation and prevent Xu Huang's cavalry from letting go of attacking the infantry. Both sides were almost in a stalemate. Xiahou Dun completely ignored Xu Huang's single-handed shouting and ridicule.

This is not because Xiahou Dun felt that he could not beat Xu Huang, but because he was worried that if there was a heavy task on his body, he would be very heavy. If Xu Huang was defeated, the Youzhou army would retreat first and calm down for a while. Then he would come out again. If he was defeated, he might lose Mengyin at any time, which would be troublesome.

Xiahou Dun would not do such an unprofitable thing even if Xu Huang despised him to death.

Although Xu Huang was guarding Xiahou Dun, who was now defending the city, had no choice but to achieve his goal of leaving the city, and Xu Huang had two other battalions. He would arrive here tomorrow. At that time, Xiahou Dun would either retreat back to Mengyin City with his tail between his legs. He would give up the fortress far outside the city, or fight with Xu Huang and defeat Xu Huang, but this idea was obviously not a good idea.

Xiahou Dun was not a person who was dragging his feet. Seeing that Xu Huang refused to leave, Xiahou Dun immediately ordered to approach the nearby fortress, and then set up a camp with the fortress. At the same time, he ordered the far fortress to evacuate to Mengyin immediately.

However, these evacuated troops were raided by Xu Huang's troops after dark. Xiahou Dun had no idea why Xu Huang's intelligence was so accurate and timely. After thinking about it, he had to think that it was a bad thing for strangers.

The retreat that night was like a nightmare. Xiahou Dun didn't know the specific situation. He only knew that Xu Huang's cavalry did not seem to be far away from outside his camp. Instead, he kept wandering around. When he received the attacks of various evacuated troops, it was already too late. At this time, Xiahou Dun did not dare to go out for rescue in a dark and dark way, and could only watch the enemy eat up his evacuated troops one by one.

Six or seven fortresses, nearly 20,000 soldiers, were almost completely destroyed overnight. Only hundreds of people fled back to Mengyin City. Xiahou Dun had to admit his failure and led his army back to Mengyin City. The outer fortresses was reduced, and only ten fortresses within a range of twenty miles were retained as the outer defense.

"Zhicai, take a look!"

Xi Zhicai's body has improved a lot after this period of recuperation. Although the emperor moved to Qiao County, Cao Cao resolutely refused to let Xi Zhicai participate, so he let him rest well for more than a month.

"General Xiahou's idea was wrong at the beginning. The tactics of cavalry against fortress war require cavalry support. If they are completely locked in the fortress, how can they attack cavalry?"

"Yes! Why is the gap in cavalry so difficult to narrow down?" Cao Cao said distressedly.

"Lord, this is inevitable. After all, they have grasslands, but we don't."

"When it comes to this, the price of war horses is now! It seems that Fang Zhiwen's purpose of sweeping outside the border is not simple! Now, the resources of war horses are only one horse left, and Gongsun Zan is a little bit in his hands. The other war horses are all small horses from the Central Plains, and they are simply unbearable to fight!"

"Well, cavalry fighting is not good, but cavalry cannot decide everything, lord!"

Cao Cao nodded. Cavalry cannot decide everything, but cavalry can determine many things. Of course, Cao Cao will not give in because of this. If the cavalry is not good, then work hard to build infantry. The proportion of heavy infantry in Cao's army has become increasingly high. Although heavy infantry may not be able to defeat cavalry, at least it can not be easily defeated by cavalry, which is enough.

"With that being said, it will take time to wait until our heavy infantry is enough to deal with Youzhou cavalry, but we are too passive during this period!"

"Lord, sometimes the struggle may not be carried out on the battlefield! Perhaps we should consider making trouble for Fang Zhiwen later. Youzhou is so big, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be some areas with poor defense."

Cao Cao's eyes lit up suddenly, the corners of his mouth slowly raised, and he squinted his eyes while stroking his beard.

"Jiang means using Yi Ren?"

"Yes! We don't have to pay anything to use Yi Ren to make trouble for Fang Zhiwen. I guess those people are happy to do this."

"Miscellaneous! A clever plan! However, Fang Zhiwen has a strong control over Yiren. Although I don't know how he did it, Yiren's rebellion seems to have never been successful in Youzhou, and it is still in a city managed by Yiren."

"That's because of Yi Ren's mobility monitoring. My subordinates only heard about this from Yi Ren not long ago!"

"Inhuman?"

"Yes, my subordinates were bored when they were recuperating, and my lord didn't let his subordinates get in touch with military affairs. My subordinates went to Yiren's teahouse to pass the time, so I heard a lot of things."

"You really don't know how to cherish your body!"

"Don't worry, lord, isn't this getting better?"

"Don't do this in the future. Zhicai is my right-hand man."

Xi Zhicai smiled in emotion and bowed, "I'm so worried about my lord."

"Please pay attention in the future and tell me what happened to the flow monitoring you just mentioned?"

"It is to evaluate the changes in the number of Yiren in a city. Through this, you can roughly determine whether a large number of Yiren have poured into the city, so as to carry out necessary alerts. This method can basically effectively prevent Yiren's rebellion."

"What if the aliens were originally entrenched in this city?"

"It's hard for those aliens to work together. If such a thing happens, it's impossible to keep it secret."

Cao Cao was a little disappointed: "In this way, it would not be easy to mess with Fang Zhiwen!"

"Haha, there is no easy thing in the world! Lord, although this is not simple, it may not be impossible. As long as we look for cities with huge traffic, we can cover up the increase in the number of aliens and accumulate for a period of time. We can maintain a sufficient number of aliens in this city."

"Sites with large traffic are all big cities. The defense of big cities"

“There is one place that is the most suitable, and that is Lianyun Island.”

"Lianyun Island?"

"Yes, Lianyun Island! Recently, Lianyun Island is transporting the Yellow Turban people in Mount Tai. Lianyun Island is a large number of people. Lianyun Island is originally a large commercial port and is also responsible for the heavy responsibility of transporting materials to Yingzhou. The flow of Yiren in this place is so scary, but the troops stationed in this city are in the fortress of the land bridge outside the city."

Cao Cao's eyes widened. Isn't this the best place to start? Moreover, even if Yundao is in chaos, the fulcrum in the south of Qingzhou will collapse, the strategic deployment of the entire Qingzhou will be affected, and even the war in Yingzhou will be affected. What's even better is that this matter has nothing to do with Cao Cao, but the benefits fall on Cao Cao.

"Okay, great! Zhicai deserves to be the right-hand man of my official, and this matter must be done as soon as possible."

"Lord, this matter must be extremely secretive. It is better to leave it to Zhongde to handle it. It is best for others not to participate. What we can provide is only some limited convenience."

"The most important thing is the idea. Without this idea, nothing can be done, haha."

Cheng Yu's office is very bright, and the window is sunny, but the atmosphere inside looks gloomy and weird. Cheng Yu looked at the person sitting opposite him. No matter how he looked, it was no different from the stranger, and even the accent of his speech was the same. However, from his eyes, Cheng Yu could see his deep contempt and hatred. Such dangerous foreign races could definitely not trust, but they still had to use it.

"Mr. Wu, do I not understand what I said? We try our best to provide convenience to you, including concealing identity, real famous posts, etc. We can't do anything else. Moreover, do you think it's a good thing to expose that we are partners?"

"Mr. Cheng, this exposure is certainly not a good thing. Just relying on our Yiren alone, the effect that can be achieved may be much worse."

"Mr. Wu, do you think that destroying a Lianyun Island can cause Youzhou to be seriously damaged? This is just a small beginning, to attack and weaken Youzhou's expansion to the south, and our army will also strengthen its offensive in the direction of Qingzhou. The purpose of disrupting Lianyun Island is to disrupt Youzhou's layout in Qingzhou, and even disrupt Youzhou's strategy in Yingzhou. Isn't this enough?"

"Mr. Cheng said very well, but we still hope that your army can appropriately increase pressure in Kaiyang or wish it. If possible, can we issue a task to let Yiren attack Lianyun Island?"

"The latter is definitely not possible. Once this order is issued, it represents the attitude of the court, which is equivalent to a public turn against Youzhou. Then Youzhou will immediately join forces with Liu Bei. At that time, what Yuan Shao, Han Sui, Sun Ce and others will do is imagined. Is this the result you need?"

"Then, at least it should be feasible to put pressure in the direction of the open sun."

"Yes, this one can be there!"

“What about other aspects?”

"No more, and afterwards we will definitely condemn these turbulent aliens, and even properly issue some wanted ones. This is the case. Whether you can do it and what extent you want it depends on you!"

"I understand this! Let me think twice."

"Please give me a gift!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!