[Three Kingdoms] Seven steps into wetness

If there are no obstacles, it is more than enough for the army to travel hundreds of miles a day.However, Ding Cao Zhi advanced by the small road in order to be safe, and it took a whole day for them to reach Dingjun Mountain.

The bloody setting sun.

At the end of January, Hanzhong always carries the lingering cold of winter, and Dingjun Mountain is shaded by lush forests, making it even more gloomy and cold.If you look up and look through the layers of pines and cypress needles, you can still see the clouds rising and disappearing in the sky at this moment, which is very magnificent.

However, at this moment in Dingjun Mountain, no one cares about such a rare beauty.

For Liu Bei, after he planned the place of the decisive battle to Dingjun Mountain, he raised his whole heart.As for today, Guan Yu and Huang Zhong were ordered to attack Cao Ying's reinforcements, and his heart was extremely disturbed.

In the battle with Xia Houyuan at Dingjun Mountain, Liu Bei narrowly won, thus gaining the advantage of the commanding height of Dingjun Mountain.Given time, he is naturally confident that he will wipe out all Xiahouyuan's participating generals. In this way, Hanzhong's defense system will be self-defeating.Even if Cao Cao sits in Hanzhong, they may be able to win in the end.

Just kill Xia Houyuan, just stop the reinforcements this time!

——Victory and defeat are all in one fell swoop!

The only one who can ambush against Cao Cao is Guan Yu.As an accompanying military adviser, Fazheng believes that the most important thing is to stop Cao Jun, so Guan Yu led five thousand troops, and using factors such as ambushes and terrain is enough to stop the opponent; ambush.

If one Guan Yu is not enough to deter Cao Jun, then adding Huang Zhong must be enough!

Liu Bei and Fazheng have calculated everything in Cao Cao's journey to perfection. The only problem is that they didn't consider a problem.

——If the person here is not Cao Cao, is it necessary to mobilize the crowd like this?If the visitors don't go to Magu, what's the point of their arrangement?

At this time, Zhang Fei, as the backing of Liu Jun, guarded Pingyang Pass.Guan Yu and Huang Zhong went to ambush, so there is only Zhao Yun here.

Only Liu Bei, Zhao Yun, and [-] soldiers and horses remained.

Thirty thousand soldiers and horses are not easy to deal with.If there is a trap, it will be even more difficult.

Cao Zhi turned his head and asked Jia Xu: "Sir, do you think there are many traps in Yangtianwa?"

Jia Xu said: "The mountain is rugged and steep, and there is no flat land except the Yangtian depression. Unless Liu Bei wants to create an ending where the two armies confront each other, there must be no traps here."

The moment he saw Cao Zhi, Zhao Yun was really startled.He didn't know how Cao Jun arrived here, and he didn't know how the leading general changed from Cao Cao to a person he didn't know at all, but he quickly came back to his senses and rode back to the camp to inform Liu Bei!

Cao Jun drove for a whole day, and it was the time when he was most hungry.The smoke from Liu Ying's kitchen was curling up, and dinner would probably be ready soon.

Cao Zhi watched Zhao Yun ride his horse back to the camp, turned his head and smiled at the lieutenant beside him and said, "See, if we win this war, we can have dinner."

The lieutenant laughed out loud, he was also hungry.

"--kill!"

Although Cao Zhi led the elite rescuers, there was no rule that he could not organize an attack until he joined Xia Houyuan.And because they were worried about being ambushed and attacked halfway, the troops kept the battle formation configuration as they advanced.Therefore, Cao Zhi completed the integration in a very short period of time and rushed into Yangtianwa.

Of course, Liu Bei was not unprepared. After all, Xia Houyuan was still eyeing him behind him, so there were not many soldiers in Yangtianwa.In the camp, Liu Bei also quickly arranged everything, and the battle formation resisted Cao Jun's charge and stabilized the battle situation.

[-] against [-], the outcome is hard to tell for a while.In terms of soldiers and horses, Cao's army is more sophisticated, and the morale of the army is also high at this time; and Liu Bei heard that the leader of the army is not Cao Cao, and thinking about Huang Zhongguan Yu who doesn't know what the current situation is, he is even more surprised and uncertain, and inevitably hesitates.

The sun has set, the new moon and the stars have not yet risen, and the sky is full of silence.

The fire in the Yangtian depression soared into the sky.

Perhaps it was because of Liu Bei's hesitation, Liu Jun used the flowing water formation as the main defense to resist Cao Jun's attack, and then waited for an opportunity to push back.Cao Zhi ordered the Shenshe Battalion to raise their bows and shoot in volley, and charged with cavalry as a cone formation.

After a long time, the flowing water burst!

Fighting to the sky, Cao Zhi did not hide behind, but led the army into the enemy camp.

He should feel very tired to kill the enemy with such a mechanical swing of the sword.But he could no longer feel any fatigue, only excitement.Of course he was also injured, sweat, the blood of countless enemies, and even his own blood mixed together, making him drenched all over.But he didn't care, or rather, he simply didn't have time to take care of it at this time.

The surrounding soldiers looked at him with more and more fiery reverence.

A general who can only give orders to tell others to charge, and a general who leads others to charge, bring completely different feelings to the army.At least for now, under the leadership of Cao Zhi, all the soldiers became more and more courageous, and more and more enemies were forced to retreat.

When Liu Bei saw it, his heart sank.

Cao Jun's troops are excellent, which is superior to them.When they arrived, the sun was setting on the west mountain, and with the cover of the mountains and forests, it was the time when Liu Jun was most relaxed, so he was caught off guard and the counterattack was very reluctant.He originally wanted to rely on the circular formation to consume the enemy's strength and force Cao Jun to be impetuous, but he didn't expect the enemy general to break through his large formation calmly and calmly!

Liu Bei quickly ordered to adjust the formation and change the crane wing formation.Instead of blindly defending, he stormed the general of Cao Jun, forcing Cao Zhi to retreat again and again.

Seeing this, Liu Bei's uneasiness did not disappear, but became more and more serious.Before Cao Jun changed his formation to deal with it, he saw the forest on the side suddenly burst into flames.

That is the way for Huang Zhong and Guan Yu to return!

Liu Bei took a deep breath.

He has thought of a possibility.

——Xia Houyuan led the remaining less than [-] soldiers and horses, and joined the battle!The first thing he did when he rushed in was to burn down the forest where Huang Zhong and Guan Yu came back, just like they set fire to Zou Ma Valley in the afternoon, so as to delay the rescue time!

Xia Houyuan didn't stop, but instead led the army straight to Yangtianwa.Perhaps it was because of the chaos at the front that the morale of the army in the rear was unstable, not to mention that Xia Houyuan easily broke through the rear defense line and rushed straight into the rear without any strong generals to stop him!

Compared with the reinforcements led by Cao Zhi, Xia Houyuan was more invincible.What's more, Liu Bei's mind was already in confusion at this time, and Xia Houyuan beheaded several people as soon as he made contact.

Liu Bei immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.

At this moment Cao Jun had the upper hand, the lieutenant wanted to encourage Cao Zhi to pursue the victory, but Jia Xu said, "Don't pursue."

Cao Zhi reined in his horse: "Oh?"

Jia Xu said: "Forgive me for speaking bluntly. The fourth son led an army for the first time, and he was definitely not Liu Bei and Zhao Yun's opponent. Although Liu Bei withdrew, the morale of the army depended on it. Liu Bei's withdrawal was probably due to the fire in the forest just now, and he wanted to protect Guan Yu and Huang Zhong. We have to retreat. If the fourth prince pursues him, he will definitely meet Zhao Yun, the general who has lost the empress. Although our army is strong, but the mountain road in the forest is narrow and we cannot do our best, the fourth prince will definitely be defeated. At that time, if Liu Bei and Guan Yu and Huang Zhong reconcile..."

Jia Xu's words have come to this point, so he will not continue.But what he meant was obvious enough for anyone to understand.

Even though his words were blunt and harsh, Cao Zhi was not unhappy on his face.After thinking for a while, he understood Jia Xu's meaning: "So, sir, you think that our army should adjust its direction and turn to deal with Guan Yu and Huang Zhong?"

Jia Xu nodded: "If I guess correctly, as long as the Fourth Young Master and General Xiahou arrange properly, they want to intercept Guan Yu and Huang Zhong."

Cao Zhi's eyes lighted up.

When the prey turns back and kills the hunter... Heh, it's really interesting.

Between ambush and being ambushed, sometimes there is probably only a mountain peak.

Guan Yu and Huang Zhong already thought that Cao Cao and his party must have bypassed them and went straight to the camp when the moon was rising, so they quickly led their troops back to help.In a hurry, he chose the shortest path.But the nearest avenue has also been burned and closed like a horse valley, as if responding to them-since you want to fight an ambush, then fight it!

At this time, however, the situation has reversed.

Half a day ago, they ambushed Cao Cao's troops in a favorable place. Even if [-] were against [-], with two strong generals, Huang Zhong and Guan Yu, they were very confident of success.Half a day later, Cao Cao's [-] soldiers had joined Xia Houyuan's [-] troops. Even if the terrain restricted Cao's army, there would be no chance of winning.

They already have the heart of defeat.Not only that, both Guan Yu and Huang Zhong felt that they might not be able to keep their old life.

This is probably the most taboo thing in war.The two looked at each other, and they both saw the disappointment from each other, and then cheered up.

Liu Bei is still waiting for them. Since there is no battle, why fail!

There are a total of three paths leading from one mountain to another, and Cao Jun may or may not lay an ambush on each path.Because if they disperse their forces, they are very likely to break through the siege of Cao Jun and join Liu Bei.

There are three roads in total, but it is impossible for Huang Zhong and Guan Yu to travel separately.If Cao's army divides up and intercepts, it is very likely that there will be no gains other than losing troops and generals.Therefore, both Cao Zhi and Xia Houyuan believed that they should be stationed all the way.

Cao Zhi lacked experience and didn't know enough about Guan Yu and Huang Zhong, so he couldn't guess which way they would go.So I asked Jia Xu and Xia Houyuan.The two agreed very much, and it was the most flat one recently.

This is the path they should take, but Cao Cao is suspicious by nature, so this path is the safest.Therefore, once Guan Yu looks at it from Cao Cao's point of view, he will definitely take this path.

This road is flat, but not wide, and it is impossible to arrange any battle formations.Once the two sides meet, the two sides can only fight head-on, hard against hard.

Meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!

Everyone in the world knows that Guan Yu is fierce, and it is difficult for one man to be the master.Although Huang Zhong is brave, he is old, so Cao Zhi thought he should start the ambush.

Xia Houyuan stared at Cao Zhi coldly for a long time, seeing Cao Zhi doing his part and staring at him calmly for a long time, he bowed and took his orders and left.

He didn't seem to care who the leader was, but silently acknowledged Cao Zhi's position.

The new moon was dark, and the night was eerily quiet.

Except for the sound of crushing dead leaves under the feet and the sound of thousands of people marching, there was no other sound in the entire mountain forest.

In order to prevent Cao Jun from judging their position from the place where the fire was bright and extinguished, almost only a dozen torches were lit by the whole army.Guan Yu was at the forefront, while Huang Zhong was in the rear.Both of them had an ominous premonition in their hearts.

At this time, there was a sudden rain of arrows shooting from all directions, and in an instant, countless people in Liu Jun were shot and fell down.After this wave of sneak attacks, Liu Jun died and injured nearly a thousand.And Guan Yu and Huang Zhong are worthy of being veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they quickly dispatched troops to stabilize the morale of the army and block the rain of arrows.

After a while, the flames burst into the sky.

The crowd poured out and surrounded them in an instant, separating Huang Zhong and Guan Yu.On one side, Xia Houyuan personally fought against Huang Zhong, and on the other side, hundreds of people surrounded Guan Yu!

——Cao Cao is not there.

The two sides had only fought for a moment before Guan Yu and Huang Zhong came to this conclusion in their hearts.This army has more tricks than bravery, and it is definitely not Cao Cao's marching style.

Coming to this conclusion, the fight between the two became more and more fierce!Because no matter who the other person who comes to the rescue is, as long as it is not Cao Cao, they have hope.

A steady stream of people appeared from the forest to surround Guan Yu and Huang Zhong, so they were not worried about their escape in a short time.Soon he was among the forwards, his eyes were as fierce as a tiger's.He let out a roar like a trapped animal from the depths of his throat, and Cao Bing in front suddenly trembled, and his chest had been pierced by a knife!Guan Yu drew his sword, blood splashed all over his face, only those eyes, which were as cold as ice, became more and more attractive!He rushed forward violently, killing those who couldn't dodge in an instant!

Just like Shura!

The soldiers felt terrified!In the meantime, Guan Yu beheaded several people in a deceitful manner, focusing on attacking the weakest defense of the south.

This is a war of attrition, and Cao Zhi knows it very well.He ordered the soldiers to fill the hole created by Guan Yu's fight, and then turned his gaze to Xia Houyuan.

The night was dim, and even with the lights on, it was difficult for the soldiers to distinguish clearly in a trance, fearing they might accidentally injure Xia Houyuan.Therefore, the other battlefield is almost a one-on-one battle between Xia Houyuan and Huang Zhong.

Xia Houyuan had been slightly injured before, and now he is temporarily at a disadvantage.In the long run, there is no possibility of winning.

Cao Zhi took a few glances, then drew his bow and string.

He did not participate in the melee, because Xia Houyuan didn't need him, and he was not sure of victory against Shangguan Yu.Now that Xia Houyuan is about to lose, he can no longer stand on the sidelines.

The strange thing is that at this moment he is very calm, his hands did not tremble at all.

When he was young, his riding and shooting skills were very poor, not as good as fencing at all.Even if he practiced day after day, he still couldn't become the veteran Huang Zhong.But in the end it was still useful, at least, this arrow did not fail.

With an indomitable momentum, the sharp arrow passed through the gap in the crowd and hit Huang Zhong's calf.The trend was so fierce that Huang Zhong staggered and rushed forward.Supporting the ground with a spear, he can stabilize his figure.Xia Houyuan naturally seized the opportunity and slashed down with his knife, Huang Zhong hastily dodged.

The second arrow pierced the wind towards Huang Zhong's vest!Huang Zhong was prepared, he rolled sideways to escape the arrow.After the roll, the third arrow arrives again!

Cao Zhi seemed to have figured out the direction of his dodge, Huang Zhong never dodged this arrow, and hit the right arm of the horizontal spear, making him almost unable to hold the long spear in his hand.

He decisively held the gun in his left hand and pierced through the soldiers surrounded in front.But at this time Xia Houyuan was behind him, the long knife fell, blood was everywhere.

The blood was so bloody that it dyed the whole moonlit night red.

Liu Jun is still doing the final battle of the trapped beast.It's a pity that more and more people fought alone, and more and more people died under the sword of Cao Jun. In the end, except for Guan Yu's small unit, Liu Jun was almost wiped out.

The campaign started with a sneak attack and ended with Huang Zhong's death and Guan Yu's serious injury and escaped into the jungle.Cao Fang's army killed and injured more than 5000 people, while Liu's [-] troops were completely wiped out.

Cao Zhi immediately ordered the whole army to repair, and wait until tomorrow to pursue the victory.

The new moon has no light, and the stars in the sky are scattered.

Cao Zhi looked up and stared for a while, quietly feeling the excitement of beheading Huang Zhong and severely injuring Guan Yu, and suddenly laughed lightly.

He didn't understand why there were always monarchs and generals in history who ignored the wishes of the people all over the world to pray for peace, and became obsessed with war and killing and looting.

Now he understands.

——Because the taste of victory is really fascinating.