Cao Cao's county guard in Yingchuan County was Su Zhe, and the general responsible for guarding it was Xiao Hui.
These two people are characters in the film and television summoning cards. One person's prototype comes from Zhang Liang, while the other person's prototype is Han Xin.
Of course, these two people cannot reach the level of Zhang Liang and Han Xin. The prototypes are these two people, but that does not mean that they have the abilities of these two people.
In fact, these two people have not even entered the god level. However, if these two great men can be used as prototypes, even if they have not entered the god level, they cannot be too far apart. They are all at the same level among peerless people. Quite high, one's intelligence reached 99 points, while the other's commander reached 99 points.
Yingchuan County is just behind Runan County. These two have been paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. Tian Dan and Sun Bin mainly spent their energy on deceiving Cao Ren. Compared with the two behind them, they did not spend as much money. strength.
After careful investigation again and again, the two men finally discovered some flaws, but by this time it was too late. Cao Ren had already begun a decisive battle with Tian Dan, and the two of them had no time to stop Cao Ren. The only thing left to do was to respond to Cao Ren's troops.
It was precisely because these two men set up an ambush on Cao Ren's retreat to Yingchuan that Zhao Sheng, who was pursuing all the way, was defeated, and even returned in defeat. Here, he lost a total of 10,000 soldiers. horse.
"It's really a centipede insect, dead but not stiff. There is such a person under Cao Mengde?" Tian Dandang's expression was full of surprise when he saw Zhao Sheng returning from the defeat.
Although Xiao Hui and Su Zhe were not completely unknown people under Cao Cao, they were definitely not at the forefront, far behind the first-rate reputations of Tian Ji and Cao Ren.
But judging from this ambush battle, Tian Dan was even more afraid of these two people than Tian Ji and Cao Ren.
Zhao Sheng is also a top-ranked talent among the Zhao Kuangyin clan, but this time he was defeated so miserably.
Zhao Sheng is not an ignorant person, and it is impossible to deceive him with an ordinary ambush. Regardless of the time or location of the ambush, Xiao Hui and Su Zhe could not find any obvious flaws in Zhao Sheng's speculations, even when Tian Dan reviewed them.
Even if the first generals Tian Ji and Cao Ren are strong, they are not terrible. After all, these are the most active generals among Cao Cao's forces. Generals like Tian Dan have done a lot of research on them, and they can almost speculate on their military tactics.
However, Xiao Hui and Su Zhe's activities in Cao Cao's forces were limited, and Tian Dan's understanding of these two people was mostly unknown. The more unknown, the more uncertainties there are.
After thinking of this, Tian Dan sent Bi Zaiyu, Zhong Shiheng, and Zhe Keshi to divide into three vanguards to attack Yingchuan County.
But what made Tian Dan even more surprised was that among the three vanguards, except for Bi Zaiyu who escaped unscathed, the remaining two were more or less bruised. Moreover, this was under the condition that Xiao Hui's main force was not moved and he only attacked with a weak force.
After all, Tian Dan's main force also did not take action and only sent out three vanguard troops. If Xiao Hui dispatched his main force in the face of the three-way vanguard army, Tian Dan would probably be able to take advantage of it.
Xiao Feng wanted to use all his strength to completely capture these three vanguard armies, not just defeat them. However, the actual situation does not allow him to do this. If there are not enough soldiers, what can he do?
However, although the three-way vanguard army suffered a setback, its losses were not significant. Tian Dan's purpose of sending these three vanguard troops was more to test the capabilities of Xiao Hui and Su Zhe, and to see what kind of person the other party was like based on their fighting style! Before sending troops, Tian Dan and Sun Bin had already made arrangements. Even if they were defeated, there was still a way to survive. Therefore, although Xiao Hui won consecutively, he did not cause effective damage to Zhao Kuangyin's forces.
Tian Dan wanted to test these two people, but when this result fell into Cao Cao's eyes, it was enough to boost the military morale of Cao Cao's forces.
At this time, Xiao Hui won several great victories in succession, which had a great impact on the morale of the army.
In fact, for this reason, Cao Cao quickly promoted Xiao Hui to the position of Governor of Yingchuan. Xiao Hui took charge of the war in Yuzhou, which made Xiao Hui's status in the Cao Group jump several levels in one go.
Even if Cao Cao trusted Cao Ren again, at this critical moment of life and death, Lao Cao would still be more sober.
Cao Ren's performance since the war started will always disappoint Cao Cao. In comparison, this was definitely an unexpected surprise for Xiao Hui.
Of course, Lao Cao's character could not be changed just like this. Although Xiao Hui was established as the governor of Yingchuan, Cao Ren was demoted from the former governor of Yuzhou to the deputy governor of Yingchuan on the grounds of defeat. To put it bluntly, Cao Ren still has to be the one to check and balance Xiao Hui.
However, this kind of thing is completely normal. When Li Jing was conquering Shu, Lao Li stepped forward to check and balance. As a monarch, this is how he treats his clan, let alone generals with foreign surnames.
However, no matter how powerful Xiao Hui and Su Zhe were, they still received help from defeated generals like Cao Ren. However, Cao Ren lost most of Yuzhou's troops in that battle.
No matter how good a general is, if he has no soldiers, it will be just nonsense in the end!
What's more, Tian Dan and Sun Bin have not really taken action yet. The previous three-way vanguard army was just a test. If they repelled the three-way vanguard army, does it mean that Tian Dan and Sun Bin were repelled?
Next, when Tian Dan and Sun Bin took action again, that was when Cao Jun's real test came.
Not only the situation in Yuzhou, but also in Yanzhou, where he and Zhao Kuangyin are facing each other, he himself is not optimistic.
The government was in chaos, and there was not enough food and grass on hand. Lao Cao had nothing to do with his energy!
For this reason, Cao Cao even voluntarily abandoned the entire Chen County and violently confiscated every grain and grass in Chen County. However, he threw all the people who had lost all their food and grass to Zhao Kuangyin along with Chen County. In this way, Cao Cao not only gave himself a chance to fight, but also threw Zhao Kuangyin into a big prison.
However, this approach is only a drop in the bucket. It can relieve temporary emergencies, but it is far from enough to fundamentally solve the problem. After all, Lao Cao was already very distressed when he lost a county. He couldn't continue to solve the problem by losing his territory, right?
Therefore, when he could no longer protect himself by relying solely on himself, the only way Cao Cao could think of was to seek help from external forces.
(End of chapter)
