The crackling fire was lit up, and the carefully crafted well railings, under the licking of the fire, the thick smoke floating up could be seen dozens of miles. Behind the well railings, thousands of residents of Baima City were crying, and the elderly and young were guarding Cao's army, turning back and fleeing to the south in three steps.

The prosperity of the people is suffering! The death of the people is suffering! This is a vivid reflection of the situation.

However, Cao Cao had no choice. After all, it was not necessarily lucky to keep them in the White Horse. He was immediately forced to be strong for the people and was tiring for the Hebei camp by Yuan Shaozheng, who had crossed the river. It was better to take them away. Perhaps they would have a day to return home.

Following the three armies of Cao Cao were also more than 12,000 soldiers. In this early strategic showdown, Xu Du's Central Plains Group made a very outstanding decision. Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan brothers and Guo Jia were feinted attacks, crossing Mengjin to the north, making a detour to Yuan Shao's back and threatening the back of the Hebei army, attracting Yuan Shao, who was originally heading towards the white horse, to temporarily change his mind. More than 100,000 troops marched westward and planned to face Cao Cao. As a result, General Cao played a sound like west and attacked the east. Ten thousand cavalry ran east, defeating the Wen Chou vanguard army in one fell swoop, and also killing the Hebei general Wen Chou here.

This is particularly damaging to the decisive battle between the two armed groups!

However, Yuan Shao just beat up his chest, with more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 110,000, or even more. He returned the army to Baima again, and Cao Cao had to retreat. Ten thousand enemies were 110,000, and he really would not sprinkle beans into soldiers. He also abandoned Mengjin and Baima two ferries and gave up Dongjun.

No tricks, this is their hard power!

Moreover, the Cao army had just burned the well railings of the oars and trucks, and the other end, Yuan Shao's 110,000 army began the magnificent Dadu River. The engineers carried the wooden boats they carried and slid into the stable river. Then they laid wooden boards on it and stringed them together with ropes. With a jingling sound, a floating bridge had already begun to take shape in just over a dozen minutes.

In person, he turned around and looked at the Hebei cavalry who had already led his horse across the river and shouted excitedly. Cao Cao sighed, put away his telescope, kicked the horse's belly a few times, and followed the team.

Seeing that he looked like this, Wang Hou's mood became heavier. It seemed that in "The New Three Kingdoms", Cao Cao used four tricks in one breath and easily defeated Yuan Shao's army of up to 700,000. After all, it was a magical drama! This battle was not as easy as expected!

The troops were sent to the north for more than twenty days. After arriving in the north, at the end of the cold November, more than 36,000 Cao's main force returned to Guandu, located in Jishui.

In fact, relying on the advantage of cavalry and natural danger of the Yellow River, Cao and Yuan Army can actually be entangled for more than ten days. After all, no matter how large the army is, it cannot exert its combat effectiveness across the river. If you cross a small part, I will eat a small part of you, which can give Yuan Shao a headache for a long time. However, Cao Cao still decisively abandoned the natural danger of the Yellow River and the Dongjun, because the sacrifice brought by such entanglement is not necessary at all!

More than 40 miles north of Puyang is the rich Jizhou! For this battle, it is said that Yuan Shao prepared 2 million stones of grain. From the more than 40 miles of plain in Hua County, Yuan Shao could obtain a steady stream of food and reinforcements. However, on the other hand, although the Yanzhou area is his jurisdiction, after the chaos in Lu Bu, there was not much population left in the entire Dongjun, and there was no strong city to store grain. In order to prevent Yuan Shao, Wang Hou had most of the grain harvested and transported to Zhongmu, south of the Jishui River. Cao Cao wanted to confront Yuan Shao across the Yellow River, so he had to pay the price of more than 200 miles of grain.

Moreover, there are two sections of the Yellow River in Dongjun, Mengjin and Baima. Although the water on the other side of Puyang is deep, it is relatively stable. The large ship can send people slowly and can also send 10,000 or 20,000 people to cross it. At that time, the back will be blocked, and Yuan Shao, who is opposite, will force the Yellow River to cross the decisive battle with him, and then he will collapse directly.

This is a typical strategy of space exchange strategic advantage. Cao Cao gave up Dongjun and asked Yuan Shao to lead a large army to cross the natural danger of the Yellow River and dragged the battlefield to Guandu. Wang Hou prepared the Cao army to enjoy the food on the spot, while Yuan Shao had to undertake more than 240 miles of grain. Moreover, although the Ji River was not as spacious and turbulent as the mainstream of the Yellow River, there were few flaws. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, there were only Guandu, a gentle ferry crossing, and General Cao could concentrate his efforts to fight Yuan Shao in a decisive battle.

And not to mention, I was still a little surprised when I came back. The last time Wang Hou came back, Guandu was bare. This time, the army returned, Xiahou Dun, who was cutting the way forward, suddenly stopped in shock, picked up the telescope that was also imitated by the prime minister, and just shot his one-eye. After looking around for a few seconds, he waved the flag quickly.

"Suspend the march! Stay defense!"

"Prime Minister! There is something ahead!!!"

Dragging Changyin'er, this guy ran back with his horse's butt.

He was so whispering that he really scared Cao Cao and Wang Hou who accompanied Cao Cao back, and ran back quickly with his personal guards. He picked up the telescope and watched, but Wang Hou couldn't help but shake his head speechlessly.

A layer of fine lead-gray foam covered it like foam on beer, and some areas are still being processed! The civil servants recruited in Yanzhou, like the engineering teams of later generations, transported bricks to the construction site one by one, and the blue-gray Han bricks were lined up in three rows, with a layer of cement applied to the middle like cream, and then patted the wall, and then the next piece, an arc-shaped chest wall wrapped around the middle for several miles.

In addition to the Wang Family Engineering Team, Wang Yuan, Wang Chuangzi and Wang Ni, who had been contracted in Puyang for half a year, Wang Hou could not find a second company in the entire Han Empire for the time being! Putting down the telescope, Wang Hou smiled relaxedly.

"Don't be nervous. Before joining forces with General Zhang Liao, Qiling and his engineering team were allowed to build fortifications in Guandu to prevent Yuan's cavalry from hijacking the foyer at the ferry. She should have built it with her men!"

"Qi Ling?"

"Uh... it's Lu Ji!"

In front of his father-in-law, he mentioned the mistress. Even if the mistress was admired by his father-in-law himself, Wang Hou still felt guilty. Sure enough, listening to Lu Ji, Cao Cao's old face couldn't help but become a little weird. Fortunately, Cao Cao did not fight the general before the battle, but just twisted his beard and hummed in disappointment.

"It's repaired so quickly! Not bad!"

"I am the general of the prime minister and the order is safe in front of you, and continue to march!"

Afraid of causing misunderstandings, Wang Hou in the front simply sent Wang Congge to take his letter back to Guandu camp first, while Cao Cao simply did not return to the central army, and directly followed Xiahou Dun, the former army, and even accelerated his pace. When the telescope saw that the two miles were coming in a blink of an eye, the officers Liu Ye, the servant who stayed in Guandu camp, and Wu Zhi, the prefect of Chenliu, lined up to greet him. In the crowd, Lu Ji, who was left by Cao Hongjie, was also in the crowd. Seeing Cao Cao appearing at the gate of the camp, they hurriedly bent down and bowed.

"Meet the Prime Minister!"

Seeing Wang Hou return, Lu Ji's pupils, a sense of excitement and ecstasy appeared in the pupils of Gujing Wubo for the first time, and even took a quick step forward without any composure. Then he woke up from the sound of worship and bowed down. Wang Hou, who was riding a horse and following Cao Cao, couldn't help but be surprised. However, seeing his own girl, especially his capable girl, he hurriedly responded with a smile. His smile once again changed Lu Ji's little face slightly, and two beautiful red clouds appeared on her pink cheeks.

However, Cao Cao did not pay attention to the back and forth of his son-in-law and mistress. He even ignored the salutes of his commanders and focused on the newly built wall. From a distance, it was a long arc-shaped chest wall. But when he was close, he saw that there was another world. These chest walls were more than one, but three! And they were not connected together. A gap of about four meters was left for every ten meters of wall. The center of the second wall was exactly corresponding to the center gap of the first wall, and the third wall corresponded to the gap of the second wall.

The complex wall structure made Cao Cao confused, but as an old army, after thinking about it for a while, his pupils lit up again.

"Very good! Please get up!"

Liu Ye and his wife couldn't help but smile on their faces, but before Cao Cao finished his struggle, he turned over and dismounted and walked to the gatehouse specially built by the official road. Cao Cao suddenly exhaled and punched his hard on the wall covered with grayish white cement like foam.

With a bang, Wang Hou obviously saw that the old father-in-law Cao's face twitched slightly, and his beard was trembling violently. He forced himself to maintain his image as a wise ruler, and then he shook his hand without any pain.

However, Mr. Cao's competitive spirit was aroused again. Suddenly, he took a step back. As Wang Hou grinned in pain, he drew out his Yitian Sword with a buzzing sound and slashed the wall with a fierce sword. With a bang, the cement was cut out of the Taoist seal, but the sword edge of the Yitian Sword also burped out some small gaps.

"good!"

He didn't feel sorry at all. Anyway, Wang Hou could shoot a second sword and put the sword back into the sheath. Cao Cao shouted again with great excitement, then turned around and held the sword to shout.

"Tell me the general of the prime minister and the army enters the camp!"

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Three walls were built in twenty-two days, with a total length of more than forty miles. For the late Han Dynasty, it was already a miracle of engineering, so don’t expect any exquisite buildings inside the wall. Fortunately, before leaving, Cao’s army also built some wooden sheds and the like. After going north for a few battles, they would not sleep in the open space when they came back.

Moreover, the supplies were stored here, and Cao's army, who was stationed in the military camp, also conveniently obtained supplies such as horse materials. The cavalry finally breathed easily, and couldn't wait to pull the Aima to drink the horses by the Jishui River, and then fed the forage mixed with wheat bran. The other infantry brothers were baking coal stoves piled up around bricks and baking steamed buns comfortably.

On the other side, Wang Hou rushed to the back baggage camp. Before he could tell his goodbye to his wife Lu Ji, Mr. Cao's personal bodyguard leader rushed over again.

"Encourt! Prime Minister invites you and Mrs. Lu to see him!"

When he asked Lu Ji to go together, Wang Hou couldn't help but feel a little shocked. This wife's father-in-law was not just because she thought Qi Ling was capable, and she regretted her. She wanted to take her back!

According to the trend of the late Han Dynasty, it was really not accurate. He thought with a worry. In front of Xu Chu, Wang Hou suddenly reached out and grabbed Lu Ji's little hand.

However, this action made Lu Ji's little face clearly show a look of surprise. The next second, it was blown continuously by the north wind. The little face, which was already a little rough, flushed like blood, and it drooped its little head deeply.

However, her little hand was still pulled in Wang Hou's hand, without any intention of pulling it out, and even pulled it tighter.

Cao Cao's central army was still the large tent decorated with bronze pillars. At this time, Wang Houhua was fully carried out. The coal stove burned outside to make the hollow brick boards of dozens of square meters on the ground warm. It was no different from being comfortable here and in the Prime Minister Xudu's Mansion. However, it was comfortable to stay. Cao Cao shared the joys and sorrows with his soldiers on the food. He was also a roasted steamed bun, and a plate of pickles wrapped around his stomach.

By then, Liu Ye and Wu Zhi would just come out. Seeing that the couple were holding hands and spreading dog food everywhere, they bowed respectfully to Wang Hou.

"The emperor has met the envoy!"

"Shizhong Liu, Wu Fujun is polite!"

Everyone had a lot of things to do. After saying hello, they said goodbye and went straight to their own affairs. Wang Hou didn't care about it. He still took Lu Ji's little hand into the central army tent. Until he saw Cao Cao, he let go of Lu Ji, who was blushing and almost fever, knelt down, and bowed respectfully.

"My subordinate Wang Hou, pay homage to the prime minister's father!"

This Cao Cao was gnawing on the baked steamed bun! Suddenly, he watched him pulling Lu Ji's little hand, and the old man's face was obviously stunned, but it quickly became weird and slapped the table in anger.

"Get up! Liu Ye and Wu Zhi came to report to build a wall for our army. It was all the contributions of my adopted daughter, Lu Qiling, to command and plan with her! My daughter has made merits! Specially granted the position of Dongquan Pavilion Lord! Reward 100 pieces of cloth! Go down!"

"Daughter thanks Xiang Father for his grace!"

After following Wang Hou's dignified beside him, Lu Ji then stepped out of the central army with a very ladylike step. However, as she retreated, the rich blush still appeared on her cheeks and added a look of shame.

It's almost a year since she married Wang Hou. For the first time, she felt so belonging.

However, Wang Hou was a little embarrassed here. Cao Cao just took the word "My Girl" very seriously. He told him specifically that I was not interested in your little one! He was thinking too much about his feelings, and he knelt on the ground. Wang Hou scratched the back of his head sadly and smiled silly. Cao Chang snorted coldly when he looked at this look, but he didn't settle the score with him, but his tone changed and he changed the topic and went elsewhere.

"Liu Ye reported that the defense walls outside the camp were all the credit of your boy! The drawings you left behind were led by the construction by the little girl Lu Ji! These three walls can at least meet the army of 20,000! Cement! Stirrups! Return cannons! I really doubt that in Shouchun that day, the soldiers really cut down your boy's head. God has changed your head to achieve your great cause!"

"Forehead……"

Not to mention, although his mind was not lost, what Mr. Cao guessed was so great that Wang Hou's face froze and his back suddenly sweated coldly. Fortunately, the old man just sighed and immediately focused on the war in front of him.

"Old Yuan's husband's family has a great career, and he has been a little heavier than the children of our aristocratic families since he was a child! This time he has a huge army of 110,000! What a huge formation!"

"But there are many people and the supplies and rations are also heavy. In addition, his heavy big guys will cross the Yellow River and attack Guandu, which will take at least half a month. Our army will travel lightly and snatch him out for at least ten days! In these ten days, what do you think our army is most urgent and needs to do!"

"Prime Minister, what is the following minister's opinion! The first priority is to build the septic tank on the side of Jishui!"

"Forehead……"

Seeing Wang Hou's face full of solemn face and gestured confidently, he really thought he was going to take out some big killer. As a result, the three words "septic tank" made Mr. Cao stunned for a minute. Then he became angry and several blue veins burst out from his forehead. He smashed the baked buns out in anger, and hit Wang Hou's forehead. Then he waved his sleeves again and roared in anger.
Chapter completed!