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Yuan Shao's secret weapon is very mysterious. Not to mention Cao Cao, even the generals on Yuan Shao's side cannot guess. This is in line with the essence of the warrior's devilish way.

The killer move that Yuan Shao relied on was currently trekking in the mountains north of Wan County. Speaking of which, there was originally a road leading to Jingzhou. This road was first opened by Guan Yu and later expanded several times. However, because this road had to pass through Xionger Mountain, Funiu Mountain, the continuous mountains and steep roads, the road became an extremely dangerous road.

In addition, the northern end of this road, Liang County, Yin, Henan, has now been abandoned, and this road is abandoned. However, in case of precautions, Cao Cao still summoned a troops stationed by Zhang Xun at the southern end of the road to prevent Sima Fang's possible sneak attack.

However, this time, it was not Sima Fang who coveted this wasteland, but Yuan Shao. It was not even Yuan Shao's main force, but Yi Ren! Yes, it was the iron army that had gradually been forgotten!

It was natural for the Iron Army to accept Yuan Shao's invitation to go south to participate in the war. Now the north is full of Fang Zhiwen's territory. Even if the Tie Army is awesome, it would not dare to openly start a war with Fang Zhiwen. There was originally Gongsun Zan in the west, but now Gongsun Zan has withdrawn from Hanoi County very simply, making the Iron Army confused!

The Iron Army is not a guild that simply farms. On the contrary, the Iron Army is a guild that started with combat. Although the members now advocate building a city, it does not mean that they have transformed into a farming faction. Therefore, long-term inaction is obviously very unfavorable to the development of the guild.

Yuan Shao sent someone to secretly come to fight each other, and Song Hufeng immediately agreed. This time the Iron Army sent the most elite heavy-armored dragon cavalry to fight. Through the mail-office transportation method, the Iron Army arrived in Yangdi, Jiaxian and other places in batches, and then sneaked into the hilly and mountainous areas in the form of missions, quietly gathering towards the scheduled gathering place.

When Yuan Shao set up a formation at the hem of Dingling City and was preparing to attack Dingling City, the Iron Army troops had gathered in a place called Yaoshan northwest of Nanzhao. This was the west side of the mountain road from Liang County to Nanzhao. No one could have imagined that a strong army belonging to Yuan Shao would appear in this position, and in general, this was not the best place to attack Nanzhao. Because this place is nearly a hundred miles away from Nanzhao, it is still a mountain road.

However, it is precisely because of this that the scouts in Nanzhao City never come here to investigate, and they will never come even more at night. This is why the Iron Army chose this place as the starting point.

"How is it? Are you ready?"

"Okay, head, all teams have been assembled. All items and utensils for marching at night have been checked. The forward can set off!"

"The scout's location?"

"Twenty miles south, and the spy from Nanzhao just wrote a letter to confirm that the scouts in Nanzhao's city had returned to the ten miles of the city as they were used to!"

"Where is the checkpoint?"

"Nothing exception!"

“Is there any player troops activity?”

"This is inevitable. As long as the scouts drive it away or annihilate it without revealing their flaws."

"Hope. This battle is the battle of our Iron Army being reborn from the ashes, so we can't mess it up!"

"Don't worry. Everyone knows the importance of it. Since the guild split, everyone has been holding their breath. The steel lion fought a beautiful battle at the airport in Shuzhong, but it was just a small fight. Let them see who's the right choice!"

"Haha, what's right or wrong about this? It's just that the ideas are different, but we can't underestimate us. I thought Iron Jun's teeth were really gone!"

"Not!"

"Okay, let's go!"

The iron army, which was organized and carefully planned, was prepared to attack without any preparation. They marked the direction of their advance with people on the rugged roads in the mountains with signal lights. Taking advantage of the rapid maneuvering of the dragon cavalry, they rushed more than 100 miles of mountain roads in the middle of the night, appeared outside Nanzhao City in the early morning, and then launched a fierce attack on Nanzhao City, which was unprepared.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Song Hufeng started a wave of movement. The dragon cavalry rode their war horses and rushed to the city. At the risk of being attacked by the defenders on the city, they gathered and formed formations under the city walls. Then they quickly set up a ladder. Under the leadership of Song Hufeng and Dian Wei, the heavy infantry of the Iron Army rushed to the top of Nanzhao City.

Although the Cao army, who was unprepared, was still attacked by the Iron Army in one fell swoop. Then the Iron Army opened the city gate and fully utilized the flexibility of the players. They used a team of cavalry to attack back and forth on the streets in the city to block the enemy's gathering support, and soon occupied half of the city.

Zhang Xun was panicked, but he did not dare to withdraw, for fear of being punished by Cao Cao, so he could only lead the remaining troops to fight in the streets in the city. Unfortunately, street fighting is a tactic that is quite skillful, especially in grassroots command and information transmission. Without long-term training, street fighting is actually difficult to fight well.

In this regard, the gap between Zhang Xun and the Iron Army was huge. Cao's army, who were fighting each other and some players who were fighting in a panic, were soon pushed to the point of being better than the Iron Army's well-trained tactical team.

Zhang Xun finally squeezed out of Nanzhao City for the Iron Army. Seeing that the situation of the war was irreversible, Zhang Xun had to lead hundreds of remaining troops to flee to Zhi County.

Cao Cao was shocked when he received Zhang Xun's urgent report. He didn't expect that Yuan Shao would have this killing move. This was really unexpected. A huge loophole suddenly appeared in the deployment in the northern part of Nanyang County.

The Iron Army was unreasonable and after a little rest, they immediately chased Zhixian County. There were not many defenders in Zhixian County. Although they resisted a little under Zhang Xun's command, they soon fell. Then the Iron Army's spearhead turned and attacked eastward to Luyang. Qiao Rui, who was stationed in Luyang, was attacked by Pan Feng and the Iron Army, and Luyang could not be defended.

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Cao Cao, who was in Dingling, was in a bad mood. Unexpectedly, he was full of confidence and wanted to make Yuan Shao beat him up in Dingling, but he was disguised as Yuan Shao. This guy Yuan Shao really should not be underestimated.

"Lord, the plan for the present is to strictly guard Ye County and Wan County, and then plan to counterattack. In addition, if Qiao Rui from Luyang can evacuate, he will evacuate as soon as possible. If not, then he will stay and wait for assistance, just..."

Cao Cao knew that the rescue troops were afraid that they would be ambushed by the enemy, whether from Ye County to Luyang or from Zhi County to Luyang. The roads were not so easy to walk. The complex terrain was likely to be ambushed by the enemy, not to mention that the Iron Army had strong mobility. In this complex terrain, the risk was indeed very high when fighting a mobile war with the Iron Army.

Cao Cao nodded to show his understanding and frowned and thought. The situation in front of him was not very good. But it was not bad and could not be accepted. The fall of Luyang would indeed cause a hole in the defense line, but as long as Ye County and Wan County were blocked, the situation could still be maintained. If Ye County and Wan County were to be defended, it would be necessary to draw troops, or even draw troops from Dingling, which made Cao Cao feel a little embarrassed.

When Xi Zhicai saw Cao Cao hesitating, he asked, "What is the lord worried about?"

Cao Cao exclaimed and said, "Dingling! If troops were drawn from Dingling to counterattack Luyang, the situation in Dingling might be unfavorable. If he did not fight back and let Tiejun and Zhang He make arrangements calmly, they would definitely suppress Yexian and Wanxian in turn, and this..."

"Lord, why not let Ji Ling, who is stationed in Ye County, go north to meet the enemy?"

"Will Ji Ling go north, then Ye County be relatively empty? What if the iron army attacks Ye County again..."

Li Jin's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but interrupt Cao Cao excitedly and said, "Lord, this plan is feasible. Even if General Ji Ling leaves Ye County and goes north, Ye County will not be unattended. The reason why Nanzhao was quickly captured was because the enemy was unexpected. The battlefield situation is now clear. Even if the Iron Army attacks Ye County, it is impossible to go down in one go. As long as the Iron Army is not strong in attack, it may be surrounded by us. Therefore, the Iron Army will not dare to take the risk of going south to attack Ye County. He must first defeat General Ji Ling who goes north!"

Cao Cao was interrupted by Li Jin and was not angry. He thought about Li Jin's explanation carefully, and looked at Xi Zhicai and said, "Zhicai, what if the iron army attacked Wan County?"

"Then let him attack. How could a city like Wan County be captured by an iron army with 20,000 people. If there is any mistake, the generals who defended the city should be pulled down and killed!"

Cao Cao raised his eyebrows slightly and nodded: "It is true. This strategy is feasible. I plan to order the Jiling army to go north to fight the enemy. It is necessary to defeat the iron army to rescue Qiaorui in Luyang, and to make Qiaorui's troops stand firm and wait for the aid. It is said that Jiling reinforcements will arrive soon. In addition, we will issue tasks to Yiren to explore and clear the enemy infiltration troops in the north of Nanyang County. If the enemy goes south and west, the enemy will attack the enemy's logistics channels and rewards will be rewarded!"

"No!" Yan Xiang responded, writing quickly on the scroll on the table, quickly writing the order.

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The Iron Army, who was rushing to Luyang, received the news that Ji Ling set out from Ye County to head north. Unexpectedly, Cao's army's reaction was so fast and so determined.

"Head, should we go east to Luyang or south to face Ji Ling?"

Song Hufeng looked at the map, calculated quickly, shook his head and sighed: "Cao Cao is really quick to react. When ordinary people suffer sudden attacks and are broken by the enemy, they will adopt relatively conservative strategies. Only after a little stability will they decide to advance and retreat. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao sent troops to rescue Luyang without hesitation!"

"Uh, shouldn't you save me when I see you? Hutou, don't worry about what Cao Cao thought, will you beat Ji Ling now?"

"We must fight, and we must fight. If we don't defeat Ji Ling, we can't attack Luyang with confidence."

"Can't we divide our troops to restrain Ji Ling, or simply bypass Ji Ling to attack the relatively empty Ye County?"

"By bypassing the cleverness... that would definitely be a death sentence. Cao Cao wished us to do this! As for the division of troops, this is a good way. The question is, can we use less force to restrain Ji Ling's 30,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry? What are you good ideas?"

"This...why would you ask the military advisor?"

"Where is the military advisor? Why is it missing?"

"Brother, are you looking for me?"

A crisp sound rang out on a big tree not far away. Everyone looked up and saw a beautiful girl sitting on the branch gnawing on a fruit. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!