Chapter 419 Eight Golden Locks

One hundred and twenty miles north of Xiapi City, Gefeng Mountain.

Twenty thousand Danyang elite soldiers marched all the way under the banner of Cao Zi, and they rushed back to Xiapi within two days. Cao Bao's marching speed was only a little slower than Xia Houyuan's.

After Cao Bao saw Tao Qian's messenger, he was taken aback. You must know that his family members and property are all around Xiapi City, and the family members of many soldiers in the army are in Xiapi. What if Xiapi is lost? So Cao Bao led 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers and accelerated all the way.

"General, we're only one hundred and twenty miles away from Xiapi City, why don't we take a rest?" Captain Cao Dan panted.

"Yes." Cao Bao nodded, "There are a large number of Cao troops outside Xiapi City. If our army arrives with exhausted troops, I'm afraid it will be taken advantage of by the enemy."

After all, Cao Bao ordered: "The whole army listens to the order, and rests for a quarter of an hour, eats some dry food and drinks some water, and continues marching later."

After hearing Cao Bao's order, the 20,000 Danyang soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and slowly rested.

But in less than a quarter of an hour, smoke and dust suddenly rose from the north, and the 20,000 Danyang soldiers suddenly became alert, and they gathered automatically without Cao Bao's order, and they had already vaguely formed a formation.

I saw a galloping army horse galloping from the north, and the word "Cao" was also printed on the general flag, but the enemy's general flag was blue, while Cao Bao's general flag was light green.

"Cao Zi? Could it be that Cao Cao personally led the troops here?" Cao Bao pondered, riding his horse up to a small mound, and looked down from a high position: "Only 8,000 people? It seems that Cao Cao did not personally lead the army, hehe, today Let these Qingzhou thieves know how powerful my Danyang soldiers are!"

"The whole army obeys orders! Form a geese formation, let these Qingzhou thieves know how powerful my Danyang soldiers are!"

Cao Bao snarled, although the 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers were very loose just now, but they were ordered to do so. After hearing Cao Bao's order, they changed formation very quickly. The flying geese formation is the most commonly used to attack the enemy.

The 20,000 elite soldiers from Danyang were aggressive, and the formation of flying geese was like a huge pair of scissors. The left and right wings stretched out like sharp blades, trying to smash Cao Jun in front of him in one fell swoop.

The leader of the eight thousand Cao army is none other than Cao Ren, the general of the Cao Cao clan. He is in his early thirties, with a thick mustache on his lips, which makes him look quite stable.

Among the generals of Cao Cao's family, Xia Houyuan marched quickly and was good at running for thousands of miles. Xiahou Dun was majestic and subdued, and often took the lead alone. Cao Hong was impatient, although brave but narrow-minded, while Cao Ren was the complete opposite and was good at fighting hard. When Qingzhou was pacified, facing the frenzied counterattack of the Yellow Turban Bandits in Qingzhou, it was Cao Ren who led 5,000 troops and horses to resist the siege of the Yellow Turban Bandits from all sides.

Therefore, Cao Cao deliberately sent Cao Ren to lead an army alone, hoping to rely on Cao Ren's stability to hold back the Danyang soldiers.

"Form a circle, resist the enemy's attack, retreat slowly, and don't let the enemy approach!"

Cao Ren analyzed the situation at a glance, the number of enemy troops was large and Cao Jun's soldiers were few, Cao Bao obviously wanted to rely on the large number of people, and directly led the Danyang Army to besiege and wipe out 8,000 Cao Jun.

In any case, the enemy must not be surrounded on all sides!

Only 8,000 Cao troops formed a circular formation on the spot. The two wings of the Danyang soldiers had just come up to fight.

Cao Ren failed Cao Bao's wish and led 8,000 Cao troops to fight and retreat. Although Danyang had a large number of elite soldiers, he could only fight the 8,000 Cao troops head-on.

"Hmph, Cao Dan! You led five thousand Danyang soldiers to detour and go straight into the enemy's rear." Seeing the unfavorable situation of the battle, Cao Bao said with a gloomy expression.

"promise!"

Cao Dan took the order to go, and out of the 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers, he dispatched 5,000 men.

"Follow me." After Cao Dan led five thousand Danyang soldiers out of the geese formation, they turned around and forward, while Cao Bao ordered the whole army to attack. After all, Cao Ren had few soldiers, so he was temporarily held back.

"Defeat Cao Jun and kill Cao Ren!"

In a short while, Cao Dan managed to reach Cao Ren's side and shouted excitedly.

"Kill Cao Ren!"

The five thousand Danyang soldiers roared in unison, like a tiger descending a mountain, and at the speed of the patrol, they pierced Cao Renjun's flank like a sharp sword from the side.

"I didn't expect the Danyang soldiers to be so difficult to deal with. No wonder old Tao Qian has guarded Xuzhou for so many years." Cao Ren sighed, but he couldn't see the regret of failure at all.

"Array, eight golden locks!"

There were several flag bearers around Cao Ren, who immediately waved the flag proficiently, and rehearsed a set of complicated flags in a short while, which made Danyang's soldiers confused.

However, after the eight thousand Cao troops saw the banners played by the bannermen around Cao Ren, they began to change formations under the command of the army Sima, Tunchang, Shichang and others. The circular formation changed slightly and became a sharp-edged formation. .

Cao Bao was taken aback for a moment: "What kind of mystery is Cao Ren playing on?"

It can only be seen that eight thousand Cao's troops are vaguely arranged into eight gates, and if they rush into one of the gates casually, they will be able to smash their troops into pieces.

"Hmph!" Cao Bao snorted coldly, pointing his sword at Cao Renjun's side: "The whole army will enter from now on, don't pay attention to the enemy!"

20,000 Danyang soldiers obeyed the order and killed in the direction Cao Bao pointed.

Cao Ren showed a smile on his face: "Great, it's 'Jing'!"

The art of war pays attention to the formation, and the formation of the army has its own effect. The formation of sharp arrows and long snakes is very sharp, which is conducive to breaking through the enemy's formation; , Even generals who are proficient in the art of war can be put out and used randomly.

The more cumbersome formations are the fish-scale formation and the Xuanxiang formation. Cao Ren's eight-door golden lock formation was transformed from the Xuanxiang formation.

Only 20,000 Danyang elite soldiers rushed towards the Jingmen, and the Cao army in the eight-door golden lock formation immediately began to change.

"Huh? It's kind of weird!"

Cao Bao frowned, and hastily ordered the Danyang soldiers to retreat, but at this time the Danyang soldiers had already killed or injured hundreds of people.

Cao Bao stroked his beard and asked in confusion, "What kind of muddled formation is this, and how can we get into it?"

Cao Bao thought hard, separated several small troops, and constantly tried to attack one of the eight gates, trying to find out which one was the real life gate of the enemy.

However, Cao Ren already understood the principle of changing formations, and the army kept changing formations.