After hearing Cao Cao's words.
The various dukes burst into laughter and began to tease him.
"Meng De, your soldiers are strong. We believe that you can hold on for a while!”
"Since you guys are capable of launching a surprise attack on Tiger Cage Pass, it shouldn't be a problem for you to guard it for another two days!”
"Meng De, tell your subordinates to wait a little longer. Don't worry, we will definitely coordinate with them.”
"Haha, it won't be long before Lu Bu's army runs out of food. The morale of the army will fall into chaos and collapse without fighting.”
As the Alliance Leader, Yuan Shao no longer trusted Cao Cao. How could he listen to Cao Cao's words?
As for the other vassals, they had also been tricked by Cao Cao and Zhao Ming several times. Now that they saw Lu Bu attacking the Cao army at Tiger Cage Pass, they felt extremely good. How could they do something stupid like attacking Lu Bu's army?
In the eyes of the various dukes, Lu Bu's army was different from yesterday. They were like trapped beasts.
Whoever dared to provoke it, it would get angry.
Thus, who would be willing to pay such a huge price to attack Lu Bu's army?
As a result, all the vassals felt that they had seen through Cao Cao's 'conspiracy'!
After being ridiculed, Cao Cao could only helplessly return to his 1,500-man army.
At this moment, Zhao Ming was giving some instructions to a small school in front of Gao Shun.
"My lord, you're back?"
"I'm not wrong, are I? Those dukes are all like shrewd people, how could they send troops?”
"They are best at adding icing on the cake and adding insult to injury!”
"But they never do things like sending charcoal in the snow!”
Zhao Ming couldn't help but laugh when he saw Cao Cao's dejected look.
Cao Cao could only sigh.
"This brat is not worth scheming with!"
"Ziyang, what should we do?"
"We can't just sit back and watch Cao Ren and the others!”
"Don't worry, they'll be fine!" Zhao Ming smiled.”
After saying that, Zhao Ming looked at the worried Gao Shun beside him. Everyone knew that he was worried about his childhood friend Lu Bu's safety.
Although Gao Shun had already expressed his loyalty to Cao Cao on the surface.
However, Zhao Ming did not receive any system notifications.
Clearly, Gao Shun did not sincerely surrender to Cao Cao.
Since that was the case, Zhao Ming got Gao Shun to write a letter to persuade Lu Bu to break out of the encirclement and handed it to a small school to send to Lu Bu.
The content of this letter was to help Lu Bu analyze the current situation.
Although the various dukes would not attack Lu Bu now, they could surround him without fighting. As long as Lu Bu could not take down Tiger Cage Pass in a short period of time, the remaining 17 routes would definitely win without a fight when their rations were cut off. Lu Bu would only be defeated!
Zhao Ming had even said that if Lu Bu insisted on continuing to attack Tiger Cage Pass, Zhao Ming would personally take action and kill a bloody path through Lu Bu's 140,000-strong army. He would personally reinforce and defend Tiger Cage Pass, completely cutting off Lu Bu's army's chances of survival.
Of course, Zhao Ming also gave Lu Bu a way out."
In other words, Lu Bu could lead his army to break out of the alliance.
With Lu Bu's 100,000 cavalry and 40,000 Western Liang infantry, the chances of breaking out of the encirclement were indeed higher than taking back Tiger Cage Pass!
After all, who could guarantee that the other seventeen dukes would really watch the battle?
It had to be said that Zhao Ming had already gone further and further on the road of scamming the various dukes of the Dong Alliance!
In addition, after Gao Shun finished writing this letter and had the colonel secretly run towards Lu Bu's army, his gaze towards Zhao Ming gradually softened from its previous coldness.
Thus, when Zhao Ming told Cao Cao about his plan to drive the tiger to swallow the wolf.
Cao Cao's eyes lit up and he laughed,""Ziyang is indeed worthy of being my wife!”
Just like that, Cao Cao, Zhao Ming, and Gao Shun led their troops to camp on a small hill and observed the situation.
As expected, not long after.
Lu Bu's army suddenly stopped attacking Tiger Cage Pass and turned to prepare to break out.
As for the 17 dukes, they all panicked when they saw the movement of Lu Bu's army. They all secretly sent their subordinates to secretly recall their troops back to the alliance army camp.
Unfortunately, Lu Bu's 50,000 Bingzhou Iron Cavalry and 80,000 Western Liang Iron Cavalry or Western Liang Army were terrifyingly fast!
They quickly formed an assault formation and launched the first wave of attacks at the alliance army at the fastest speed!
Before long, a fierce battle broke out in front of Tiger Cage Pass.
No matter how much the various dukes did not want to fight, because of the nearly 200,000 troops blocking the way, the two sides still ended up fighting, and it was the kind of life and death battle.
The clamor of battle was deafening.
As for Cao Cao, Zhao Ming, Gao Shun and the others, they led 1500 soldiers and were calmly drinking on the slope.
The skinny Ten Thousand Miles Cloud Dragon Stallion was carrying a pair of golden hammers as it gnawed at the grass on the slope. When Lu Bu's troops saw this, none of them dared to break out of the encirclement from the slope, and they all took a detour.
Just like that, after a day of bloody battles.
Lu Bu finally broke out of the encirclement as he wished.
However, the original 140,000 troops under his command had lost nearly 10,000 people at Tiger Cage Pass, and another 50,000 people when they broke out of the encirclement. In the end, 80,000 cavalry escaped!
And these eighty thousand cavalry, after crossing the mountains and mountains, crossing the Yellow River, and after an extremely difficult detour, they lost thirty thousand men along the way, leaving only fifty thousand cavalry.
Some people might ask why the alliance army didn't bypass Tiger Cage Pass and directly attack Luoyang.
The reason was simple. The 200,000 strong alliance army needed a stable base to supply food and soldiers.
If they went around Tiger Cage Pass, they would have to cross mountains and suffer a huge loss in transporting food and soldiers. Moreover, they would have to worry about being attacked by others, which would cause the morale of the army to be unstable. It could be said that the gains did not make up for the losses.
Now that Lu Bu was in a hurry to escape, they didn't care about the rear. They just needed to return to Luoyang.
On the slope.
However, when Gao Shun saw Lu Bu leading 80,000 cavalry to break out of the encirclement and flee, he felt a weight lift off his shoulders.
Now, Zhao Ming's words could be considered to have been fulfilled.
"Thank you, Military Advisor, for helping me!"
"From now on, this general will be loyal to my lord!”
Suddenly, Gao Shun solemnly bowed to Cao Cao and Zhao Ming, expressing his loyalty!
Cao Cao was startled, but he naturally understood something. He quickly helped Gao Shun up and said with a smile,"We're family now. There's no need to be so polite in the future!”
Beside Zhao Ming's ear.
The familiar mechanical voice finally rang out!
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