Xiahou Dun's brows frowned tightly. What made him so uneasy!?

Xiahou Dun turned his head and looked around, and finally landed in front of the enemy's figure that was vaguely shaking in the torch. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and cold sweat came out from behind, and he immediately understood why he was uneasy.

From Xiahou Dun's perspective, in the distance, was Xu Huang's troops. They were wearing torches and moving on both sides of the straight road ahead, extending to the left and right sides to observe. They could see their scouts wandering around from time to time. When they looked at themselves, they seemed to know when their scouts had not been released to both sides.

If this result was Xu Huang's initial purpose, then Xu Huang was to hide the ambush he was about to hide on both sides of the road?!

Where did the ambush come from? There is only one answer, Yi Ren!

"Come!"

"Bang bang..."

What answered Xiahou Dun was the dull sound that suddenly came from both sides.

"No, be careful of the enemy's throwing stone attacks, accelerate, form shield formation, and form shield formation!"

"Bang bang!"

Xiahou Dun's order increased the speed of the cavalry, but the shield formation was difficult to form. When running at high speed, it was impossible to form a shield formation unless it was the elite among the elite.

The cavalry just accelerated the horse and subconsciously raised the shield and blocked it on their heads. They could only pray in their hearts that the huge rock should not fall on their heads.

But when they raised the shield, a trembling sound of a shaking bowstring sound suddenly sounded from the side. Then the flying heavy crossbow arrows swept away Xiahou Dun's cavalry. What surprised Xiahou Dun was that the opponent's attack intensity was very amazing. It caused serious damage to Xiahou Dun's troops. Xiahou Dun subconsciously thought, was it not Xu Huang's troops in front of him, but the pretended by Yi Ren?

“Accelerate, accelerate!”

Xiahou Dun's eyes were about to break. At this time, the only way was to rush forward, rush out of the trap in front of him, and break down the cavalry in front.

Boom! Hugh! Dangdang...

"Xilulu!~"

The loud noise of the huge rock falling down, the sound of gravel falling like hail hitting the shield and armor, the muffled sound of being hit, and the neighing of war horses. Xiahou Dun's cavalry had just experienced a sweep of arrow rain, and was flooded by the rain of stones falling from the sky.

In the darkness, Xiahou Dun didn't know how his troops suffered, but when he looked up, there were many soldiers around him. On the ground, countless injured war horses were rolling, and the soldiers' bodies were like scarecrows without weight. They were knocked and kicked over by war horses and trampled into mud. This scene was really terrible.

"There are spikes on the ground, be careful to avoid the road!"

The "Xu Huang" cavalry running in front of him were covered with sharp stinging horse nails on the road, and they swept away at one glance. A cold star was dotted, watching the scalp numb, many war horses were not enough to close, and had been slashed to the ground, struggling and neighing, and more cavalry were bypassed to both sides. At this moment, the formation suddenly dispersed.

"Form a formation, form a formation!" Xiahou Dun roared wildly.

As his hoarse voice came, the arrows as dense as locusts, lost the formation bonus, and the damage effect of the arrows became even more amazing. Pieces of cavalry were shot down from the back of the horses. The dense rain seemed like a sharp machete, chopping Xiahou Dun's cavalry down in the waist.

"No! Impossible, Impossible! Form a formation and follow me!"

Xiahou Dun was crazy. He led his own guards and then formed a formation and rushed towards the direction where the arrow rain flew, and rushed towards the dense arrow rain. He wanted to know where Xu Huang got these crossbow soldiers!

"boom!"

Xiahou Dun took the lead in the battle and was the first to climb into the trap on the ground. At some point, a deep and wide trench was dug up at a distance of more than 100 steps on one side of the road. Xiahou Dun's war horse stepped on the air, and Xiahou Dun's body sank down, screaming in his heart that something was wrong. Xiahou Dun supported the horse's back with force, jumped up from the horse's back, and fell to the other side of the trench.

‘Swoosh...’

‘Dangdang…’

"drink!"

Xiahou Dun roared, and his spear swung in the air, like a huge wheel of light, sweeping the arrows that were shooting at him one after another, and his body soared into the air. Xiahou Dun saw a scene that surprised him. On the other side of the trench, there were five elements heavy crossbow cavalry. They were shooting heavily in an orderly manner, creating a dense rain of arrows. In the distance behind them, there was the catapult position, and the sound of banging shooting was constantly coming.

Sure enough, Xu Huang used the trick of replacing the pillars. There were only a small number of regular cavalry in front of him, and the others were probably pretended to be Yi Ren. He was stupid and only looked at the torch, but he didn't know that Xu Huang used the torch to deceive him.

Xiahou Dun, who had crossed the trench, turned his head and looked back. The soldiers were not capable of crossing the wide trench. They either couldn't stop and fell into the trench, or were shot by the rain of arrows flying over his head and fell on the edge of the trench, or they held their shields and wandered around the trench, but refused to leave.

Xiahou Dun felt a sense of depression in his chest and felt so painful that he was so depressed that he roared, took out his spare horse, turned over, blocked the rain of arrows and rushed towards the enemy position not far away.

"Kill!"

"Haha, I will fulfill your wish! Kill the general!"

Xu Huang said, a general dumped his skills, which was definitely bullying. He had a military formation composed of tens of thousands of soldiers behind him, and Xiahou Dun was alone. The effect of this general's skills was beyond words.

The main general died in battle, and Xiahou Dun's cavalry was ambushed by Xu Huang on all sides. With the cooperation of the cavalry and Yiren on the periphery, almost no one escaped. The real army was destroyed, and the rest surrendered.

As for how Xu Huang's tricks are played, it is actually related to Xu Huang's skills. Xu Huang's general skills have a skill of "shifting shapes and changing shadows", which is enough to switch the positions of the two troops on the battlefield. As long as you use them a few more times, the cavalry that was originally in front of Xiahou Dun will become an alien army.

These Yiren troops completely deceived Xiahou Dun with empty war horses and tricks like holding two torches by one person. As for Yiren who had accepted the task early on digging deep trenches and laying long-range positions on both sides, it was Yiren troops outside Lanling City.

Xiahou Dun worked hard to use the ability of Yiren to lure Xu Huang to engage in a night battle. Xu Huang in turn used Yiren's ability to dig a big hole for Xiahou Dun to jump. The most important thing was that Xu Huang knocked out Xiahou Dun's scout as soon as he came up, and then repeatedly suppressed Xiahou Dun's scout, which finally made Xiahou Dun blind and deaf, and was then led into the trap.

Xiahou Dun's unexpected defeat had a huge impact on the battlefield of Donghai County. The next day, Xu Huang led his strangers to capture Lanling and plundered Lanling. After Xu Huang led his troops to approach Tancheng, which was very meaningful to capture Tancheng in one fell swoop.

Cao Cao was shocked by Xin and immediately ordered Xu Chu to retreat. On the one hand, he consolidated Tancheng's defense and on the other hand, he strengthened the troops in Linyi to prevent Ren Jun from being attacked by Murong Fu and Xu Huang from being attacked from the front and back.

At the same time, Yan Xing's cavalry was urgently transferred to Xia Pi as a battlefield reserve.

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Cao Cao was in a bad mood in Qiao County Prime Minister's Mansion. The maids and guards who served him were careful, for fear of touching Cao Cao's bad head. The study was quiet, but there were heavy troops, led by Cao Ang and Cao Xiu.

In the study was Cao Cao's confidant Xi Zhicai and Cheng Yu. They had been discussing in it for a long time. The lunch time had come. The maids sent food on the order of their wife, but hesitated not to go in.

Cao Ang took the food box and went up to knock on the door with two of Cao Xiu alone.

"Who?"

"Father, it's me. It's already lunch time. My father and the two adults will invite you to have a meal first."

"Send it in..."

Cao Cao looked at Cao Ang holding enough food and nodded with satisfaction: "Zhicai, Zhongde, let's have a meal together!"

"Thank you lord!"

The two of them said all morning and were filled with water. They were so hungry that they simply agreed.

Cao Ang secretly looked at the expressions of his father and the two important officials and found that their expressions did not seem to be as serious as they imagined. Cao Ang, who was familiar with his father, even found that his father always had a smile on his eyes. How could this be the emotion that should be caused by continuous setbacks on the battlefield?

Cao Ang was confused, but he didn't dare to ask. He put down his things and withdrew with Cao Xiu with a lot of doubts.

Cao Cao kept watching Cao Ang and Cao Xiu retreat before he picked up the bowl in front of him and started eating. While squeezing the rice, he said: "It seems that the preparations should be done are almost done. I will make a public statement of alliance with Yuan Shao tomorrow. In addition, Zhongde, you must seize it. This matter is linked together, and you must not miss the opportunity."

"Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates are all ready. As soon as the time comes, they will immediately follow the plan. They will definitely be able to successfully build up several guilds and completely split the Yiren."

"We have paid so much for these damn Japanese people. This time we must chop up all their claws. The right way is to pay the money in the future."

"What the lord said is very true."

Xi Zhicai didn't eat much. After eating a few bites, she put down the dishes and rinsed her mouth and washed her hands. She poured herself a cup of hot tea. Xi Zhicai said with regret: "It's a pity that Yuan Rang's defeat has reduced Gongsun Zan and Sima Fang's chances of taking action a lot!"

"Don't count on this, Zhicai, it's too difficult to instigate a real anti-party alliance! Everyone has their own ideas, no one is a fool. Let's take Yanzhou first. Then our army will occupy the Central Plains. As long as we have time to rest, our strength will not be slightly worse than Fang Zhiwen. It will not be too late to find a way to fight Fang Zhiwen."

Cheng Yu's words were very confident. Xi Zhicai glanced at Cao Cao and swallowed the words he said. Yanzhou is still in Yuan Shao's hands. Now he said this is meaningless. The most urgent thing is to stabilize the war in Xuzhou, take the opportunity to solve the internal problems, force out Yuan Shao's real purpose, and then end the war in the east and attack the north with all his might. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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