Chapter 1155: Into the Trap!【2】

About three miles from Zhang Rao's stockade.

Cao Ren and Cao Hong led three thousand troops, watching Zhang Rao's stockade from afar.

From the moment Cao Cao entered the stockade, Cao Ren had been watching without blinking.

The large saber in his hand was gripped tight and then loosened, loosened and then gripped tight.

Among the three thousand troops behind him, exactly one thousand were cavalry.

The remaining two thousand were infantry.

Yanzhou did not produce warhorses, and this place was nowhere near Youzhou, Liangzhou, or Bingzhou, which did.

An excellent warhorse could sell for ten to twenty thousand coins in Yanzhou.

Ten horses would be a million coins.

One thousand excellent warhorses would be over a hundred million coins.

Although Cao Cao had some family wealth, it was not enough to buy so many warhorses.

The reason Cao Cao was able to gain a foothold in Yanzhou so quickly and clear out the nearby Huang Jin remnants was precisely because of these one thousand cavalry.

These one thousand warhorses were all sent to Cao Cao by Duan Yu from Liangzhou.

Just as Cao Ren was watching Zhang Rao's stockade in the distance, he suddenly discovered something wrong.

A team of Huang Jin soldiers dressed in earthy-yellow robes poured out from the stockade and began to move the deer-antler barricades placed on both sides of the gate.

Deer-antler barricades were used to defend against cavalry charges at the gate.

They were wooden trapezoidal structures, with crossed wooden stakes as thick as an adult's arm on both sides, sharpened into spikes.

If a warhorse hit them, it would likely be pierced through the chest.

Cao Ren didn't think much of it when he first saw the Yellow Turbans moving the barricades.

But it wasn't until he saw those Huang Jin soldiers blocking the gate with rows of barricades and then quickly running back into the stockade and closing the gate that Cao Ren realized something was wrong.

"No, why did they close the gate!" Cao Ren shouted, pointing at Zhang Rao's stockade in the distance.

Cao Hong beside him was also startled.

Why close the gate?

Their elder brother Cao Cao was still inside.

"Not good, they are faking a surrender; Big Brother is in danger!"

"Quick, go save Big Brother!"

After a loud shout, Cao Ren held his large saber and struck the hindquarters of his warhorse.

The horse, feeling the pain, rushed out like a flying arrow.

"You rebels, how dare you!"

Cao Ren roared toward the distance while charging forward, but the distance was too great, and his voice couldn't carry through.

However, Cao Hong beside him and the army behind followed Cao Ren's pace, thundering toward the gate.

Perhaps knowing that Cao Ren would lead troops to attack.

After closing the gate, Zhang Rao's stockade had Huang Jin soldiers who were already prepared quickly gather from all sides of the camp and block the rear of the gate.

Besides Zhang Rao's stockade, the gates of the neighboring stockades were also closed one after another.

The stockades on the left and right, including Zhang Rao's, were all built against the mountain, with Mengshan at their back, and fences built from trees cut from Mengshan in front and on both sides, making them easy to defend and hard to attack.

Cao Hong, riding on his horse and charging toward the gate, looked around, hoping to find a place to break into the camp quickly.

But after looking around, he couldn't find any place to break in.

"Shout, shout loudly!" Cao Ren shouted urgently to those around him.

He hoped to use this method to let Cao Cao, who was trapped in the camp, realize it in advance.

However, just as Cao Ren's voice fell.

Cao Ren was terrified when he saw a large number of hidden Huang Jin soldiers suddenly appear on the hillside behind Zhang Rao's stockade.

It was clear that Zhang Rao had an ambush prepared.

To make the stockade appear to have few troops and lower their guard, he had specifically hidden the ambush in the back mountain.

At this moment, Cao Ren was burning with anxiety.

Inside the main military tent of the stockade.

Cao Cao was sitting beside Zhang Rao, exchanging cups.

Suddenly, the movement of his hand raising the cup froze, and his gaze looked toward the direction outside the tent.

Bursts of noisy sounds came from outside. ===== CHAPTER 1157 =====