Chapter 265

"Report!"

"Mr. Linzhi, General Hua Xiong!"

"Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan are leading their troops to rush toward this side, and they are now less than twenty li away from Sishui Pass."

Under Sishui Pass

Several scouts rushed into the pass and brought this news to Gu Yi and Hua Xiong.

"Only Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan?"

"It looks like this group of guys has split their forces again!"

A smile flashed in Gu Yi's eyes.

Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan were highly likely just putting on a posture of wanting to attack in order to contain the troops within Sishui Pass.

This showed that most of the Guandong warlords thought Zhang Liao was an obscure nobody.

They wanted to take this opportunity to conquer Hulao Pass in one fell swoop.

"Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Kong Rong, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Zhang Yang."

"Since these six people are determined to go and bump into Wenyuan, then it wouldn't hurt to let them suffer a bit."

Gu Yi had high confidence in Zhang Liao.

Although the six warlords attacking Hulao Pass were also not easy to deal with.

But relying on their numerical advantage, they would definitely underestimate Zhang Liao.

And Zhang Liao was least afraid of being underestimated!

Have you not seen the matter of Zhang Eight-Hundred and Sun Shiwan?

Historically, Sun Shiwan relied on the 100,000 troops under his command and felt that Hefei was within his grasp!

But what was the result?

Eight hundred tiger warriors stepped across the river, and the 100,000 Wu soldiers returned in fear!

Before the result of this battle came out, no one had guessed that it would end in such a conclusion!

Including Cao Cao himself, who ordered Zhang Liao to garrison Hefei, had once made plans to let Zhang Liao, Li Dian, and Yue Jin retreat to Runan to guard Xudu.

Although there were still 7,000 garrison troops in Hefei City.

But that was a full 100,000-strong army of Sun Quan!

The numerical gap of several times caused Zhang Liao, Li Dian, Yue Jin, and others to fall into extreme disadvantage.

But it was in such adversity.

Zhang Liao dared to lead eight hundred warriors to launch a surprise attack on Sun Quan's main camp!

The 100,000 Jiangdong troops were defeated and returned under Sun Quan's leadership!

Besides the Battle of Xiaoyaojin.

When Cao Cao campaigned against the Wuhuan, he encountered a surprise attack by Ta Dun near White Wolf Mountain.

At that time, Cao Cao's main force only had over 10,000 people left due to the dispersal of the march.

But relying on just these ten thousand people, Zhang Liao actually proposed the plan of "reverse surprise attack on Ta Dun"!

The confident Ta Dun encountered an unexpected blow and was beheaded on the spot.

Tens of thousands of Wuhuan iron cavalry were also annihilated by the Cao army!

Therefore.

One must never underestimate Zhang Liao in adversity.

The more adversity he was in, the higher the probability of him turning the tables!

At this moment, Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan were stationed outside Sishui Pass.

This clearly showed that they were worried that Gu Yi would lead the Sishui Pass garrison to support Zhang Liao.

But what they didn't expect was.

Gu Yi didn't even have the intention to support Zhang Liao at all!

Relying on the garrison within Hulao Pass, plus the solid Hulao Pass, Zhang Liao was sufficient to deal with the remaining six Guandong warlords.

However.

Since these two, Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan, wanted to act as a feint under this Sishui Pass.

Gu Yi might as well take this opportunity to tease them.

Twenty li east of Sishui Pass

In the marching camp of Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan

Cao Cao and Gongsun Zan were standing shoulder to shoulder at this moment.

Looking at Sishui Pass not far away.

Gongsun Zan sighed slightly and said:

"Meng De, if you and I were to fight Gu Yi, I'm afraid we wouldn't necessarily be able to gain the upper hand."

Cao Cao deeply agreed with what Gongsun Zan said.

Sishui Pass possessed 60,000 elite troops of the Dong Zhuo army.

While Cao Cao brought a total of 50,000 troops this time.

Gongsun Zan had 30,000.

Don't look at how the two sides added up to 80,000 people.

But of these 80,000, only half could be called veteran soldiers.

The rest were mostly new recruits, and some hadn't even seen blood.

Moreover.

The White Horse Yi Cong that Gongsun Zan was proud of under his command was completely lost in the Battle of Jieqiao two years ago.

Nowadays, it had not yet recovered its vitality.

Comparing the strength of the two sides, the winning rate was really not high.

"Brother Bo Gui, do not worry."

"Our purpose this time is just to act as a feint."

"It is not necessarily required to fight Gu Yi to the death."

Cao Cao said with a smile.