Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 699 Too underestimated the warriors in the army
In fact, after Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang led their troops to Hulao Pass, they did not intend to completely rely on Hulao Pass to defend.

They took the initiative to build a military camp on the east side of the mountain where Hulao Pass is located, and they were actually preparing to launch an offensive and defensive battle with Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's coalition forces outside Hulao Pass.

Zhu Wei's army has a lot of offensive and defensive equipment, even if it is guarding the camp, it also has a strong defensive advantage, so it can kill the attacking enemy more than guarding a Hulao Pass.

Therefore, in this battle of Hulao Pass, Zhuge Liang proposed a military strategy of defense and counterattack, with the military purpose of killing and injuring the enemy soldiers as much as possible. You don't have to be a turtle, you just get beaten and don't fight back.

Therefore, when the allied forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao arrived in front of Hulao Pass, they also saw a Zhuwei army camp that had already been fully prepared, relying on the mountain where Hulao Pass was located.

Although Cao Cao had already learned about the situation of Zhu Wei's army at Hulao Pass from the scouts before, he still wanted to see the situation of Zhu Wei's army with his own eyes as soon as possible.

Therefore, after Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's allied forces came to Hulao Pass, Cao Cao left some soldiers and horses to search for a place three miles outside Hulao Pass to build a camp, while himself, together with Yuan Shaojun's Wen Chou and Jushou, went directly to the direction of Zhu Wei's army camp.

At the forefront of the army formation composed of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's coalition forces, Cao Cao led his generals Xia Houdun and Xu Chu, and Wen Chou and Ju Shou, who represented Yuan Shao's side, rode horses respectively, and marched at the front of the intersection of the two armies.

Behind them are [-] Cao Jun infantry and [-] Yuan Jun cavalry, forming two wings of the army on the left and right.

The Yuan army brought by Wen Chou this time is basically cavalry, and most of them are Wuheng cavalry recruited by Yuan Shao in Youzhou. Now there are two foreign forces in Youzhou, Wuheng and Xianbei, but the Wuheng people are relatively close to the Han people, so After Yuan Shao became the lord of the north, he recruited a large number of Wuheng people to form his cavalry unit.

But Yuan Shao asked Wen Chou to lead cavalry to join Cao Cao's army to form a coalition army to attack Zhu Wei, and he also had a careful thought.

Since Wen Chou led the cavalry, he would naturally only use his cavalry expertise to participate in field battles with Zhu Wei's army. It was impossible for the cavalry to become infantry to participate in the siege battle.

Therefore, what Yuan Shao meant was that Cao Cao's army should be responsible for all sieges and key battles. This is really a bit of a bully.

Cao Cao is noncommittal about this for the time being, and Cao Cao is not a person who is willing to suffer. It's just that he hasn't fought against Zhu Wei's army yet, so he is naturally not good at using his tactics. It's just that when they led the troops to the front of Zhu Wei's army camp, they looked at it. Seeing Zhu Wei's army camp, he was slightly surprised.

Although Zhu Wei's army camp was still mainly built of wood, facing Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's allied forces, a trench was dug out with a width of three or four steps and a depth of four or five steps. There is a suspension bridge in the direction of the gate of the camp, which can be laid down on the trench, allowing Zhu Wei's army to go out to fight.

The bottom of the ditch is full of barbs on wooden pillars. Once they fall into it, they may not survive for long. Therefore, if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's coalition forces want to attack this camp, it is a bit like attacking a city. These trenches must be filled first.

However, it is naturally impossible for the army in Zhu Weijun's stronghold to watch Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses fill up the trenches. They will definitely use various methods to counterattack at that time, and they will surely kill many Cao soldiers and Yuan soldiers in the process.

At the same time, at the gate of Zhuwei camp, you can see a banner with a picture of Xiongba hanging high on it, indicating that the one guarding the camp here is the Xiongba camp, the first battalion of the Zhuwei army, and then there is also a flag with the word "Pang" erected, indicating this The chief general in the army village is Pang Yan, the number one general under Zhu Wei's tent.

Seeing Pang Yan's general flag, Cao Cao frowned slightly. It was this Pang Yan who killed Xiahouyuan and Xiahouba back then, so there was a blood feud between the Cao clan and Pang Yan.

However, Pang Yan's strength seemed to be no less than that of Lu Bu, the Marquis of Wen. Cao Cao couldn't help but wonder who under his command could fight Pang Yan.

Thinking of this, Cao Cao turned his head and glanced at Xiahou Dun and Xu Chu who came with him. Although the one-eyed Xiahou Dun was brave, his martial arts were better than Xia Houyuan's, but in Cao Cao's view, Xiahou Dun would be afraid if he faced Pang Yan. Still worse.

As for Xu Chu's bravery, Cao Cao was also reluctant to let Xu Chu go to fight Pang Yan. This Xu Chu is his personal guard commander and his personal bodyguard.

Therefore, Cao Cao's eyes flickered slightly, and suddenly he cupped his hands to Wen Chou, "General Wen, it seems that Pang Yan, the number one fierce general in the Zhu Wei Army who is known as the Black God, is guarding Hulao Pass this time." Hey, this man is extremely brave, alas, I'm afraid that there is no one in our army who can fight against us, so we won't be able to make a challenge in front of the formation!"

"Hmph, what kind of Heisha god, but I haven't met my hero from the north! At that time, I will try to see if this Pang Yan is really that invincible!"

Wen Chou can be regarded as the number one brave general in Yuan Shao's army. Hearing Cao Cao's words at this time, he was naturally dissatisfied. Looking at Zhu Wei's camp, he couldn't help saying it proudly.

"I'm afraid that Pang Yan won't do such a reckless thing!"

But Ju Shou on the side seemed to have guessed some of Cao Cao's thoughts, and deliberately interrupted Wen Chou's words. Then Ju Shou looked at Xu Chu who was like a black iron tower next to Cao Cao, and said with a smile, "Mr. Cao, Mr. Cao is here. I am afraid that I have underestimated the warriors in the army. In my opinion, General Xu Chu is also an extraordinary and brave general. If Pang Yan really comes out to fight, there is no need for General Wen to take action. General Xu Chu will also do it. Can kill that Pang Yan!"

"Mr. Ju, I don't know what strategy can be used to break through this stronghold this time. It seems that Pang Yan is really arrogant and wants to fight with our two armies outside the Hulao Pass. It seems that Zhu Wei is still a little bit disappointed. Not our allied forces! It’s a pity that General Yuan didn’t come in person this time, if General Yuan came, Zhu Wei wouldn’t dare to despise our allied forces!”

Cao Cao didn't take up the topic of Ju Shou. He just didn't want Xu Chu and Pang Yan to fight hard, so he deliberately encouraged Wen Chou to fight Pang Yan. Unfortunately, Ju Shou was still here. It seemed that he wanted to make Yuan Shao's army and Zhu Weizhi's army fight hard. Fighting is still a bit difficult to implement.

So Cao Cao could only change the topic to how to attack Zhu Weijun's stronghold. Of course, Cao Cao also euphemistically expressed his dissatisfaction with Yuan Shao for not bringing his troops here.

To be honest, Yuan Shao only sent two troops, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, over here this time, and Cao Cao secretly scolded Yuan Shao for stealing tricks.

In particular, Yuan Shao sent Yan Liang to Mengjin Pass on the Yellow River, and asked Wen Chou to bring cavalry to join Cao Jun. Cao Cao could naturally see through the careful thinking behind this.

In addition to Wen Chou who came here to meet the occasion, Yan Liang also came to show his attitude. Who knows whether Yan Liang on Mengjin's side will make an effort to cross the river and attack Mengjin Pass.

It can be said that although Yuan Shao sent [-] troops this time, he actually put Yan Liang's [-] troops on Mengjin's side to show off. As for Wen Chou's [-] cavalry, it was impossible to use them in the attack on Hulao Pass. , so Yuan Shao basically made up his mind to sit back and watch Zhu Wei and Cao Cao go shopping.

However, Cao Cao also wanted Yuan Shao and Zhu Wei to have a bloody battle. He certainly didn't want to become a snipe and a clam fighting each other, and let Yuan Shao become a fisherman...

　Alas, it took a lot of saving manuscripts during the Chinese New Year, and when I met Calvin again, I had a headache, a headache!

　　
　
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