"General Gan, the Cao army is indeed here!”A scout flew to Gan Ning and reported.
"Has the Cao army caught up? Remember what I told you before, all of you better act like it!”Gan Ning whispered to the soldiers around him.
"Understood!" The surrounding soldiers replied in unison.
Gan Ning's 1,000 soldiers weren't the 5,000 elite soldiers that Liu Jue had given him. After all, they were just pretending to ambush him.
A moment later, Gan Ning heard a flurry of footsteps and saw thousands of soldiers charging up the hill.
Gan Ning stood up and called out,"If the Cao army comes, kill them all!”
With this order, the archers who had been lying in ambush immediately drew their bows and began to attack the Cao army.
Although he was feigning an attack, Gan Ning wasn't going to show any mercy. A rain of arrows rained down on the Cao soldiers, knocking them to the ground.
"Shieldbearers, raise your shields to defend and push forward!”Cao Hong roared, and the shieldbearers immediately formed a formation. The lethality of the arrows began to weaken.
The slope wasn't very high or steep, so Cao Hong and his soldiers quickly approached Gan Ning's ambush with their shields.
Gan Ning saw that the time had come and ordered the archers to retreat. He drew his steel blade and roared,"The Cao army is here. Kill them all!"
"Kill them!" The soldiers also roared, drew their ring-headed sabers, and pounced on the Cao army.
"Charge with me, don't let a single enemy escape.”Cao Hong immediately noticed Gan Ning. He picked up his spear and led a group of soldiers toward him.
"Thief Cao, take this!" Gan Ning wasn't a pushover either. He led a group of men into a melee with Cao Hong.
Gan Ning's side had the upper hand, but he still remembered his goal. Pretending to be outmatched, he shouted,"Cao Cao's army is powerful. Retreat first!”
When the soldiers heard the order, they immediately began to retreat to the back of the hill. The archers from before shot arrows to cover them.
There was a dense forest behind the hill. Gan Ning and the others quickly disappeared into it.
Cao Hong caught up at this time. Seeing this dense forest, he was worried that there was an ambush inside, so he immediately ordered the soldiers not to pursue.
"The soldiers of the Jing state are so weak that they can't even withstand a single blow!”Cao Hong spat and cursed.
"General, what should we do now?”The general asked.
Cao Hong pondered for a moment and said,"Who cares if there's an ambush? Let's set a fire first and burn this forest."”
"Here!" The general responded and ordered his men to start setting the fire.
Soon, the fire began to spread in the forest, and Cao Hong led his soldiers back to the army.
"How was it?" Cao Ren asked when he saw Cao Hong return. How many soldiers are there on the hill?"
Cao Hong snorted coldly." It's only about a thousand. I led my soldiers to charge forward. The enemy was quickly defeated and fled into the forest behind the hill.”
Cao Ren shook his head and said," It's probably a trick to lure the enemy. If you chase after them, you'll most likely fall into their ambush."”
"The Jiangnan soldiers are weak. Even if there are ambushes from all sides, what do I have to fear?" Cao Hong said disdainfully. Moreover, you want me, Cao Hong, to fall for such a trivial trick? Aren't you underestimating me too much? I've already ordered my men to set fire to that forest!”
Cao Ren didn't take it to heart and ordered the army to continue advancing.
On the other side, Gan Ning looked at the forest and said,"That General Cao is indeed quite capable. It's fine if he didn't chase after us, but he actually set fire to us.”
"If we had really set up an ambush in this forest, I'm afraid we would have already suffered."”
Gan Ning sneered."How many brothers did we lose this time?”
"About seventy," the marquis replied.”
"Let's go," Gan Ning sighed."We'll report to the young general."”
The sky quickly darkened. At this time, Cao Ren's army had already arrived at Que Wei Slope. Cao Ren ordered his soldiers to set up camp here.
In the tent, Jiang Ji said to Cao Ren,""During the day, the enemy failed to lure the enemy. At night, they will most likely come to rob the camp. General, you have to let the soldiers be more vigilant!”
Cao Ren nodded and said," I'll get people to be on guard. If the other party dares to come, we must make sure he doesn't return!"”
Cao Hong laughed loudly and said," Liu Jue is really laughable. He only knows how to play these tricks. He's most likely at his wit's end. That Zhou Yu lost to him because he was careless.”
A hint of contempt flashed in Jiang Ji's eyes as he smiled.""I heard that Liu Jue is very fond of this child, but letting him be the commander this time is really not a wise choice.”
Cao Ren nodded and said," You're right, Military Advisor. Liu Biao is so foolish to entrust the safety of a province to an 18-year-old kid."”
"When we reach Xinye tomorrow, I want to see what tricks that Liu Jue kid will play.”Cao Hong said disdainfully.
Soon, it was midnight, and the temperature had dropped to below zero.
In the darkness, Wei Yan was leading a thousand soldiers toward the Cao Army's camp. Although they couldn't see their surroundings clearly, their goal was clear. They just had to head toward the Cao Army's camp.
As Jiang Ji had expected, Liu Jue sent Wei Yan to attack at night.
However, Cao Ren and the others would never have thought that, and Pang Tong had already expected that they would be prepared tonight, but they still called Wei Yan to attack.
This was a clash of schemes between the two sides. The key to victory and defeat might be here!
Earlier, the scouts had already found out the location of Cao Cao's camp.
Wei Yan had been in Xinye for a few days, so he was very familiar with the terrain of the Magpie Tail Slope. Thus, he arrived near the Cao Army camp smoothly.
"It would be best if we can successfully rob the camp later! Unfortunately, the young general told me that the other party is most likely on guard. It seems that we have to act according to the plan.”Wei Yan thought to himself as he lay on the ground.
Liu Jue didn't tell Wei Yan what his purpose was, but Wei Yan could guess, so he didn't hesitate to carry out this mission.
"Listen up! If we are discovered, retreat immediately. Understand?”Wei Yan turned around and said to the soldiers beside him.
"Understood!" The soldiers answered in a low voice.
Wei Yan was relieved. He looked at Cao Cao's camp. There was a faint light coming from inside, and he could see soldiers patrolling.
However, there weren't many of them, and it seemed that they were not well-guarded.
"If we didn't let our guard down, then it's just as Young General said, there's an ambush in Cao Cao's camp.”Wei Yan sneered. Although he knew there was a trap, he still had to step on it.
The purpose of doing this was to show the enemy that we were weak and make the Cao army think that we did not dare to fight them head-on and could only play these tricks.
"When the Cao army starts to underestimate them, it will be the end of the Cao army when they reach Xinye tomorrow!”Wei Yan's eyes were cold as he slowly pulled out his saber.
The saber was the Night Metal Saber, and it also carried a chill.
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