Xu Shu squatted beside the fire in the tent. This form of ground fire chamber was actually transmitted from outside the border. He should have used cow dung as fuel, but this one did not. It was also easy to use charcoal.

Zhao Yun sat on the stool, holding a wooden stick with a meat strip in his hand. Zhao Yun's barbecue skills are as good as Fang Zhiwen's, and his level is still very high. Although it is not as casual and free and easy creativity as Fang Zhiwen, barbecue is also very delicious.

Xu Shu moved his nose, looked at the greasy barbecue, and couldn't help swallowing secretly, a little hungry!

"Yuanzhi, did you think of a solution? Are we just wandering around outside the city?"

Zhao Yun was actually a little anxious. If Xiahou Yuan really couldn't defend himself, Zhao Yun would not dare to easily cross Bo'an and attack northward. There were very few villages and towns around Bo'an. Even if Zhao Yun was emptied, it would be only three to five thousand residents. In Zhao Yun's opinion, this gain was too little.

Xu Shu shook his head with a smile, looking confident.

"No hurry. Anyway, let's wash away the villages and towns around Bo'an first. It is impossible for Xiahou Yuan to hide in Bo'an City to watch the fun. We are cavalry."

Zhao Yun blinked his eyes and thought for a long time in confusion, but he didn't expect any necessary connection between the cavalry and the inducement of Xiahou Yuan out of the city.

"Yuanzhi, don't keep it a secret, make it clear!"

Xu Shu rubbed his hands, rubbed his hot face again, and raised his head and smiled, "This is very simple. As long as we hit the place where Xiahou Yuan had to come out, Xiahou Yuan would come out naturally, right?"

Zhao Yun thought for a while: "Yes, if there is such a place, but if we cross Bo'an and advance northward, the retreat will be cut off by Xiahou Yuan. Although it can support the war with war for a while, it will not be a slightest bit of benefit. It will only cause some damage to Cao Cao. And I believe that when the war comes, the people in these villages and towns have already fled into the city? Look, the village we are in now is a place with no people."

"Yes, if they are stronger than clearing the world, it is meaningless if we continue to go north. We can only put our troops in an unfavorable environment, so we cannot go north."

"Since I can't go north, I really can't think of any place that can force Xiahou Yuan to come out... Wait. You're not talking about Lu'an, right?"

Zhao Yun looked at Xu Shu with shiny eyes, and Xu Shu nodded with a smile.

This time, Zhao Yun and Xu Shu only brought 12,000 cavalry to attack, and some of them were players' cavalry, but not many, because there were not many retail investors with cavalry. The most cavalry were large guilds, and during this operation, they were all concentrated on Zhang Zhiyuan's middle lane.

Therefore, Zhao Yun had only a total of less than 20,000 cavalry along the way, while Huang Zu was in charge of Lishan. On the one hand, he provided logistical support to Zhao Yun, and on the other hand, he transported the people captured by Zhao Yun to Shu County in batches, and then boarded the boat on the Yikou River, and was sent to Jiangxia and Youzhou.

Therefore, Zhao Yun's military strength is pure cavalry. Although the combat power of pure cavalry in this complex terrain cannot be fully utilized, the strategic attribute of cavalry moving at a fast speed and strong motor power can still play a great role. For example, if Cao Cao and Zhang Zhiyuan were fighting and Zhao Yun suddenly fell from the sky, what would it be for Cao Cao?

This is what Xu Shu said about Xiahou Yuan's reason for having to attack. If Xiahou Yuan put Zhao Yun to Lu'an, Tian Ji's horse racing game played by Xi Zhicai would be bankrupt.

Zhao Yun thought excitedly, and said hesitantly: "What if he still doesn't come out? Cao Cao can also adopt the same strategy. Be cautious in Lu'an and not come out. Even if we join Zhang Zhiyuan together, we may not be able to conquer Lu'an for a while, right?"

Xu Shu pointed to Zhao Yun's barbecue: "It's about to turn over, it's about to burn."

Zhao Yun quickly adjusted the barbecue in his hand in a direction. A drop of grease dripped onto the charcoal fire, making a wavy sound, and a white smoke blew, and the fragrance blew into his nose.

Xu Shu sniffed enjoyably and then said, "You can tell their plans by looking at Cao Cao's arrangement. Among our three attacking troops, Sun Jian is the strongest and strongest, and they are considered top-sized; Zhang Yuanzhi has the most troops, Yiren has the strongest personality, but their combat power is the most variable, so they can only be considered bottom-sized. Let's barely be considered middle-sized. Let's look at Cao Cao's arrangement. Cao Cao himself is the upper-sized, facing the lower-sized, and Xiahou Dun is considered middle-sized, facing our upper-sized, and our middle-sized, facing Xiahou Yuan, facing Xiahou Yuan, and Xi Zhicai and Cao Cao are playing Tian Ji's horse racing!"

Zhao Yun nodded vigorously. After saying this, Cao Cao's arrangement was indeed like this. Then it can be inferred that Cao Cao's purpose of doing this was to win this battle, and he was even willing to pay the price of Xiahou Yuan, the lower squad. Therefore, if he really fought from Bo'an to Lu'an, it would lead to the complete failure of Cao Cao's tactical deployment and became a stalemate. It was obviously not the situation Cao Cao was willing to see.

So, why is Cao Cao unwilling to turn the war into a stalemate? You should know that if you persist for a long time, it will be unfavorable to Sun Jian and others who fought in the guest army. After all, Sun Jian’s butt has not been wiped clean yet, and maybe the backyard will catch a fire by accident. From this perspective, time should be beneficial to Cao Cao!

"The north, Zilong, the north is what Cao Cao is most worried about. If Cao Cao's heavy troops were dragged to the south by us, Qiao County in the north might be attacked by Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, and even Lu Bu would come to take advantage of the situation. Therefore, Cao Cao could not confront us in the south for a long time. He wanted to fight and decide quickly. This was exposed from the formation of troops. Therefore, Xiahou Yuan could never put us in Lu'an. As long as we were marching towards Lu'an, Xiahou Yuan would definitely come out of the turtle shell. At that time, Zilong would only defeat him, no, it would be best if he could kill him."

"Kill? Why kill?"

"Two reasons, one is to see if Cao Cao's Heroic Spirit Hall has been built. The other, after killing, Xiahou Yuan cannot appear on the battlefield for at least half a month, so on the Western Front, it has become a place where we do whatever we want. After Bo'an lost Xiahou Yuan, I think we can take it down. There are almost 30,000 to 40,000 people in Bo'an City now!"

Zhao Yun knew that Bo'an's population of 300 million is a considerable amount of wealth. With this population of 3000 million and 400 million, the price of the Jingxiang clan's dispatch of troops this time has returned.

"Kill... If my troops are more sure of it here, otherwise it would be not easy if Xiahou Yuan was cautious enough."

Last time Taishi Ci came to Xiangyang, there were only two thousand soldiers. This time Zhao Yun brought 12,000 people, which was pretty good. After all, Fang Zhiwen was also worried that the situation around Jingxiang would change. Zhao Yun's headquarters would be given to Yue Xi's leadership. While cooperating with Li Yuanzhi in Qingzhou, he was receiving supplements from the new recruits. After returning the headquarters to Zhao Yun in the future, Yue Xi would not have all the new recruits left.

Xu Shu thought for a while and said, "If we lack military strength, we should make up for it. Since we can grasp Xiahou Yuan's weaknesses, we will have the opportunity to choose the battlefield and the timing. As long as we make good use of these factors, we should be able to make up for the problem of insufficient troops."

Zhao Yun nodded with a smile: "This is the same. Actually, I am mainly worried about accidents. If Xiahou Yuan can fight me, I still have the confidence to kill Xiahou Yuan."

"That's fine. Then we will try our best to drive Xiahou Yuan to you! Okay, okay, you can eat it!"

"Haha, it will take a while!"

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Xiahou Yuan is very confused now. As soon as Xiahou Yuan arrived in Bo'an, he ordered the walls to be strengthened and cleared the fields. However, Zhao Yun arrived very quickly. The far-reaching villages and towns were captured by Zhao Yun before they could move back to Bo'an City.

However, these people were arrested, and Xiahou Yuan was just a little distressed. Xiahou Yuan was still very satisfied with Zhao Yun wandering outside the city, not daring to attack the city or cross Bo'an to head north, and was quite content with his choice of tolerance.

But tonight, news came from Yiren that Zhao Yun had completely cleaned up the surrounding areas of Bo'an. Because Bo'an was difficult to get off and could not go north over Bo'an, Zhao Yun did not want to drink the northwest wind in the field outside the city, so he was ready to turn east. On the one hand, he could meet with Zhang Zhiyuan to solve his logistics shortcomings, and on the other hand, he could also work together to attack Lu'an. As long as Lu'an is taken down, Xiahou Yuan of Bo'an will collapse without fighting.

Xiahou Yuan was not sure whether the news was true or false, but he would rather trust the existence of such a thing than not. If Zhao Yun really ran to Lu'an, the strategy of Tian Ji's horse racing set by the lord would be completely invalid, and what he did in Bo'an was even more a joke. At that time, he wanted to fight with Zhao Yun, but the arrow was not shot. Zhao Yun ran to besiege the lord, so what he, a general, had the face to meet the lord.

But what if Zhao Yun deliberately made this news and lured him out of the city? Moreover, this possibility is still very high. Otherwise, how could this news reach his ears so quickly? However, even though he knew that this was Zhao Yun's plan, Xiahou Yuan could not ignore it.

The entangled Xiahou Yuan couldn't help but be glad. Fortunately, Zhao Yun launched the campaign a little earlier, and he still had time to ask his lord.

The letter had been sent out. Xiahou Yuan walked back and forth in the bedroom all night with restlessness, and his clothes and armor were not changed, as if he was ready to attack at any time.

It was not until midnight that Cao Cao's reply arrived. Cao Cao's reply was the same as Xiahou Yuan thought. Even if Zhao Yun's strategy to lure the enemy, Xiahou Yuan must attack and must entangle Zhao Yun. Even if he is defeated or even lost, he cannot let Zhao Yun appear in Lu'an. At least, he cannot appear in Lu'an within three or five days. As long as these three or five days pass, Cao Cao will achieve a decisive victory in Lu'an, then everything will be easy.

Xiahou Yuan pinched Cao Cao's reply, feeling both excited and nervous, and he was even more sleepy. He simply stopped sleeping and went outside to practice martial arts and guns.
Chapter completed!