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The retreat of the people of Mount Tai is still in an orderly manner. According to time, Zhang Bao's vanguard troops may have entered the grassland, and his last group of military families should have landed at Qinghekou. Now a large number of people are all ordinary Yellow Turban people. They will be scattered across Youzhou, mainly in Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Youbeiping.

Xu Shu's military deployment was basically completed. Qian Zhao and Xu Huang's cavalry began to familiarize themselves with the terrain on this front of nearly a thousand miles north and south, and conduct combat readiness patrols.

The combat readiness patrol was carried out in battalions. According to the military system of Youzhou, there were two thousand cavalry in one battalion and four teams of scouts, a total of two thousand two hundred people, and four battalions formed one army. Xu Huang's troops had two left and right armies, plus his own personal guard camp, two thousand cavalry in a scout camp and a staff guard. Together, Xu Huang's army had a total of more than two thousand people.

Xu Huang himself would not stay in Xintai City honestly. According to military regulations, half of the troops needed to be reserves during combat patrols. Therefore, there were a total of five battalions operating outside, including Xu Huang's own personal guard camp. As for the scout camp, they acted alone, and had been dispersed and penetrated towards Taishan County and Lu County, while Donghai County was the territory that was led.

Xu Huang's goal today is near Mengyin City. Mengyin is the city closest to Xintai, and it is also Xu Huang's most important defense direction. In terms of military terms, the strategic points are the same for both sides. Xu Huang stares at Mengyin, and Cao Cao also attaches great importance to Mengyin. Xiahou Dun's command and heavy troops are placed in Mengyin City.

According to Cao Cao's instructions, the main goal of Xiahou Dun's army was to defend, not only defending the Youzhou army in the east, but also defending the Yan Liang army in the north, which was also under great pressure.

However, Xiahou Dun was not very worried about Yan Liang in the north. After all, Yan Liang had to face the pressure from Chengyang and Rencheng direction Ju Shu, as well as the problem of Han Sui in Dongping County. These were threats that Yan Liang could not ignore, so Yan Liang's chance of daring to go south was very small, so Xiahou Dun naturally focused his defense on the Youzhou army.

Xiahou Dun was very cautious about the Youzhou Army, because in the record of the battle with the Youzhou Army, the best time was to fight a draw. Most of the time, the Youzhou Army had the upper hand. Although the Youzhou Army in Xintai City where he faced him was the reorganized Yellow Turban Army, the latest news shows that a cavalry had entered Xintai City. Although this cavalry general named Xu Huang was unknown, it was definitely not easy to fight with him if he could form an independent army.

Xintai City is more than 200 miles away from Mengyin. In such a large space, Xiahou Dun must not ignore it. He only hid in Mengyin City to passively defend. Therefore, Xiahou Dun took advantage of Xu Shu in Mount Tai to retreat the people and deploy his troops and tried to build some fortresses to the east.

This is absolutely not allowed by Xu Shu. Xu Huang is now coming to these fortresses. The size of the fortress is impossible, and there are many strange people in it. Xu Huang received the order to eliminate all the strange people in the Cao army camp that were active outside, as well as all the Cao army. If possible, destroy the Cao army's fortress and block the Cao army in Mengyin City.

Xu Huang confirmed the wèizhi of his other cavalry battalions, and then swept over from north to south twenty miles away from Mengyin City, destroying all the Yi Ren and Cao army troops that he could see. This action was basically challenging Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Dun also understood Xu Huang's meaning.

Either you come out of the city and compete for control outside the city, or I will completely occupy the activity space outside the city, and use the method of continuously increasing your cost of maintaining the fortress, and trap your fortresses about forty miles away from Mengyin.

Xu Huang's action was very bold. The fortress built by Xiahou Dun was not just a few on the periphery, but a bunch of them. Sometimes Xu Huang basically passed by the Cao army's fortress, and even chased the Yi Ren troops under the fortress. However, Xu Huang never attacked the Cao army's fortress.

"General, Xu Huang's troops were resting near Jiuxi Village, 30 miles east of Mengyin. The number of troops was indeed about 2,000. In addition, about 80 miles northeast, there were also about 2,000 cavalry active, and there seemed to be signs of going south. There was about 2,000 cavalry in the southeast direction, which was twenty miles away from Kulin Village and was moving northward. It might also attack Kulin Village. No enemy troops were found in other aspects."

Xiahou Dun marked the latest status of the troops just now on the map, and then connected the directions of the activities of these troops with lines and extended in the current direction. These troops will arrive at the Qingshishan Fortress in the east. Could it be that Xu Huang is preparing to gather troops to pull out the fortress.

The terrain of Qingshishan Fortress is still good and its defense ability against cavalry is also good. However, on the other hand, Qingshishan Fortress is too easy to be surrounded by cavalry dynamics. If it falls into a state of no logistics, Qingshishan Fortress can last for about ten days at most.

Xu Huang is forcing himself to go to rescue. If he doesn't go to rescue, Qingshishan will definitely be out of protection.

Xiahou Dun punched the map hard. The cavalry of Youzhou Army was so annoying. This kind of fortress war was originally the best way to deal with cavalry, but the harassment war of Youzhou cavalry caused the cost of fortress war to rise sharply. When the outermost fortress was cut off, he had to drive away these cavalry. However, when his large army retreated, these cavalry would come back. Not to mention the troubles of back and forth, if he was raided or harassed and attacked by his troops on the way, there would always be losses back and forth, which made Xiahou Dun's maintenance cost even higher.

Later military experts debated for thousands of years, and finally found that the only way to fight cavalry was the cavalry. Otherwise, you could only ignore the cavalry and directly destroy the enemy's nest. Otherwise, it would be difficult to solve the threat of cavalry by any means.

"Order the cavalry to prepare for attack, and the heavy infantry and crossbowmen gather."

"promise!"

"General, Cao's army has left the city!"

Xu Huang's deputy general, Ye Hong, was transferred from Li Yuanzhi's troops. It was precisely in order to strengthen Xu Huang's mountain combat capabilities that this young general has a good potential.

"Oh, finally out. Quantity and composition?"

Xu Huang rubbed his hands excitedly and asked.

"There are more than 20,000 cavalrymen and 20,000 infantrymen, who are advancing eastward, probably heading towards Bluestone Mountain."

"Toward Qingshi Mountain? He guessed our plan so he deserved to be a general!"

"It seems yes, but he has such a big fanfare, maybe he has other ideas!"

"You mean. They will withdraw the outer fortresses and only retain some of the closer ones?"

"Well, according to the calculations of the General Staff, the most suitable way for Xiahou Dun is to maintain a fort within 20 miles, which is the lowest cost."

"You can also rely on these fortresses to lure our army into attacks and then find an opportunity to annihilate our army, right?"

"Yes. If within twenty miles, they can form an obstruction of battlefield reconnaissance, which is very unfavorable for us, but they don't seem to understand that our scouts are equipped with dragonflies, haha."

"Who would have thought of this? And even if you know it, it is difficult to defend, so it is not easy to block the battlefield, but if you have high-level military advisors cooperate, it may be possible."

"Maybe, this needs to be discussed next. I don't know what Xiahou Dun thinks!"

"Let's go up and let the Fourth and Sixth Battalions approach me, ready to entangle Xiahou Dun and see what his cavalry is like!"

"Following this army structure, I'm afraid he won't fight cavalry with us."

Xu Huang's eyes flashed and he smiled and said, "If he doesn't hit, I will hit."

"General, the enemy is here. It is Xu Huang's two thousand cavalry. Will he use cavalry to surround him?"

"Encircling? He ran away as soon as you go out. A small number may not be able to beat him. The large number will consume the physical strength of the cavalry. Moreover, our goal is not to annihilate the enemy, but to bring back the troops from the periphery, so as not to cause trouble."

"promise!"

"Order the infantry to maintain the formation, and let the cavalry go to the front and back sides. If the enemy does not get close, it is ignored!"

"promise!"

Xu Huang maintained his horse speed and slowly approached Cao's army from the side. Xu Huang, who was a horse thief, had a very good way to deal with this kind of defense, not to mention that the Youzhou cavalry itself has a range advantage.

"Prepare to carry out a dragonfly attack in a while, the target is the crossbow soldiers in the formation. If the cavalry in the front of the enemy team turn around, we will make a sharp turn and leave and will not fight in love!"

"promise!"

"The heavy crossbow is winding, accelerate, and attack!"

"Kill!"

Xu Huang's troops ran rumblingly. Although there were only two thousand, their momentum was astonishing.

Xu Huang cunningly followed the direction of Xiahou Dun's troops to throw heavy crossbow arrows from the side and backwards to Xiahou Dun's team. It was very uncomfortable to use shield defense at this angle. You must stop and turn to defend. However, when they turned around and raised the big shield, Xu Huang's troops had reached the parallel wèizhi. The subsequent crossbow arrow advantage shot from the side. The shield soldiers who did not rotate in time would definitely be unlucky. The crossbow soldiers who were covered by their big shields would also be unlucky.

Xiahou Dun's front cavalry indeed chased after him, but Xu Huang easily turned and slipped away. The cavalry chased him for a while, but did not dare to chase him far away. Seeing that he could not catch up, he had to retreat.

Xiahou Dun calculated at one point that he had nearly 100 casualties in one round of attacks, but the opponent had only two thousand cavalrymen, and shot nearly 100 people in one round of attacks. This shows that the opponent's level is also level seven, and Xiahou Dun's expression became even more serious.

"Order the cavalry in the rear team to attack and drive the enemy beyond the attack distance, and do not pursue far away."

"promise!"

With Xiahou Dun's order, more than 10,000 cavalry in the rear team were divided into two teams and chased towards Xu Huang. Xu Huang fled slowly and kept shooting back. Although the effect was not very good, it was more or less harmful. Xiahou Dun's cavalry chased after him and suddenly found that he followed Xu Huang's butt to the left side of his infantry again, and this position obviously allowed Xu Huang to attack the infantry again!

Xiahou Dun was also speechless. In terms of cavalry speed and tactics, the cavalry on his side were obviously at a disadvantage. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!