Chapter 170 Chapter 26 Tu Shu Divides Han Sui (6)

Liang Xing was frightened and angry, he slapped his horse and wielded his sword, and rushed to kill Xu Huang. Zhu Ling looked at him kindly, stretched his arms and stretched his bow, and shot an arrow, which hit Liang Xing's left shoulder.Liang Xing had no intention of fighting again, so he turned his horse's head around, Ma Dai, Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie have made great achievements this time, so they are not willing to give up. They all use their unique skills to kill Zhang Liao as soon as possible; and Zhang Liao, who is riding alone and escorting Cao Cao in front of him, how can he be at a disadvantage and go all out? I tried my best.This was an easy kill, and Cao Cao was dazzled and overwhelmed by it; beside Cao Cao, Zhang Liao's subordinates and Lieutenant Ding Fei, who were standing with swords, were even more stunned, and even forgot to applaud.

Over there, Xu Chu and Ma Chao were also killed in the dark.In this confrontation, both of them were quite wary, therefore, some subtle and indescribable tricks and plunder were infiltrated into the open and close straight slash and slash, making the kill even more inextricable.Before they knew it, the two had fought for more than three hundred bouts, and they couldn't tell who was superior. Up and down the river, there was a melee between Ma Chao's elite soldiers and Xu Chu's personal guards; the fierce battle on the bank of the Yellow River was even less impressive than the turbulence of the rapids in the Yellow River.

Cao Cao watched the battle with his sword, relaxed and happy, he had already forgotten the danger he was in, and only hoped that the battle would go on forever. However, Ding Fei came back to his senses at this time.He thought, if the fight continues like this, there will be a lot of people on the other side, which will be disadvantageous to us after all.But my lord only cares about watching the battle, if Zhang Liao and Xu Chu try their best, and the enemy troops cover up and kill them in large numbers, wouldn't we all be drowned in the Yellow River? Thinking of this, I broke out in a cold sweat.

Suddenly, seeing the supplies, cattle and horses waiting to be crossed by the river, he got excited and came up with a plan.So he hurriedly fell down in Cao Cao's ear and said it. Cao Cao was just seeing the refreshment, when he heard Ding Fei's words, he felt ashamed.He got up quickly and ran to the river.Ding Fei defended each other with his sword, and when Cao Cao boarded a boat, he ordered the guards to disperse the cattle and horses, and discard their belongings.When Ma Chao's soldiers saw them, they all abandoned Cao Bing and turned around to fight for cattle and horses.Ma Chao was fighting with Xu Chu, and when he heard the noise in the army, he knew that Cao Cao was going to cross the Yellow River, so he abandoned Xu Chu, eager to restrain the soldiers.

Although Xu Chu and Ma Chao met each other, he was concerned about Cao Cao's life and was happy to return to his horse when he saw that Ma Chao had changed his mind.Seeing Zhang Liao alone, he was still full of supernatural power, fighting fiercely with Ma Dai and other three generals, and cut off Ma Tie with a knife from behind.Ma Dai and Ma Xiu ran away in shock and wanted to join Ma Chao.So Xu Chu and Zhang Liao ordered Ding Fei to supervise the guards, boarded the boat one after another, and rowed hard.The remaining ships were chiseled before departure. Seeing that the soldiers were all vying for cattle and horses, Ma Chao became wild and stabbed more than 20 soldiers to death one after another with his gun.All the soldiers were shocked when they saw it.At this time, Ma Dai and Ma Xiu went over and said that Ma Tie, the third brother, had been broken. Ma Chao cried three times, and galloped to the river. He saw Cao Cao and Xu Chu in the same boat, Zhang Liao and Ding Fei in the same boat, and countless others. The boat carrying the guards is heading to the opposite bank.

Ma Chao was furious and ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows at Cao Cao in a boat.In an instant, a rain of arrows poured down on Cao Cao's boat, and the soldiers of the pro-guard army fell into the boat one after another.Ma Chao also drew the bow himself, and the arrow hit Cao Cao's right arm.Another arrow hit the man who was steering the boat.So the boat lost its direction and turned erratically in the river.Xu Chu was furious, and with great power, he clamped the tiller with his legs, pushed the boat with one hand, and raised the saddle with the other to protect Cao Cao.Seeing Cao Cao's danger and Xu Chu's bravery, the rest of the boats shouted loudly.On the shore, even Ma Chao couldn't help being heartbroken when he saw him, and murmured: "Xu Chu's thief is indeed a tiger idiot!"

Finally, the bows and arrows were too weak to catch Cao Jun's boats, so Cao Cao landed with his arrows in his hands, while Xu Chu was wearing heavy armor, and the arrows were all embedded in the armor.Here Le Jin and Jia Xu caught Cao Cao and urgently ordered the imperial physician accompanying the army to treat the arrow wound.Fortunately, the boat was far away from the shore at that time. Although Ma Chao was strong, his injuries were light. He applied gold sore medicine, and he estimated that he would be fine within a few days. Cao Cao and this just took a breath, laughed and said: "I was almost killed by a small thief today, thanks to all the generals who fought hard to save me, otherwise I will die!"

Although the battle was too flustered and Cao Cao was almost killed, the army had already occupied favorable terrain, and the overall battle situation was still in Cao Cao's favor. Soon, Cao Cao ordered Xu Huang and Zhu Ling to cooperate with their own army to attack Tongguan; Cao Ren and Zhong Yao in the north and southeast of Tongguan also attacked Feng Yuan, Cheng Yi, Li Kan, Zhang Heng and Hou Qian.At the same time, Xia Houyuan, who had been confronting Han Sui and Yang Qiu outside Tongguan, was ordered to attack the city.In this way, the front can be fully expanded. Seeing that this was the case, Ma Chao hurriedly contacted Han Sui, thinking that Tongguan's advantage had been lost, and that Hedong would definitely not be able to hold on, so it was better to give up on his own initiative, concentrate all his troops, and retreat to Weinan.At this time, Han Sui was already annoyed by Ma Chao's arbitrariness, but he had no choice but to agree to it because of the current situation.Therefore, he sent a flying horse to tell Feng Yuan and others, and together with Yang Qiu, Cheng Yin and other generals, they hoped to flee to Weinan.

Therefore, Cao Cao's army entered Tongguan without losing a single soldier. It was late autumn on 162, and the weather turned cold.Cao Cao called civil and military officials in Tongguan to discuss the next action plan. As usual, it was Cao Cao who spoke first: "Before I launched an army to march west, I thought it would not be too difficult to take over Guanzhong. Only after the recent battle did I realize how difficult it is. When I crossed the Yellow River north, I deliberately cut off the rear, I also know that it is difficult to cover Ma Chao's eyes and ears during the army's trip. At that time, he deliberately showed the loopholes in our army's defenses on the northward advance, so as to arouse Ma Chao's heart of underestimating the enemy. However, he almost made a fake show and was almost captured by him. Go. When the generals use similar tactics in the future, they should use me as a pioneer and don't make the same mistakes.

"Now Ma Chao has retreated to Weinan and set up defenses at the confluence of the Weishui River and the Yellow River to strictly prevent our army from crossing the Weishui River. This time, I feel that Weinan is both a 'contentious area' and an 'important area'. To win it, there must be many Difficulties. All generals, please speak out and offer suggestions, so that our army can take advantage of the victory and go deep and collect Guanzhong." Cao Ren was the first to come forward and said: "The Wei River is swift, and Ma Chao is defending it. Up and down the river, a total of more than a dozen defensive areas have been identified, waiting for our army to attack Pubanjin last time. It may be difficult to find an opportunity. If Our army chooses a certain defense area that is weak, and concentrates on crossing. After the rest of the defense area is informed, it will run to rescue. It is not advisable to use our small force to deal with the enemy army. However, if our army also divides according to its defense area If we attack, the enemy's troops will form their own battalions and cannot help each other; if our army attacks by force, we will succeed in five out of ten places, and if we succeed in one place, the army will then be able to file past, so why not go deep into the enemy's territory?"

After hearing Cao Ren's words, all the generals praised him as good.After a while, Le entered and exited the ranks again, and said: "General Cao's plan to disperse the enemy's superior forces and not allow them to join forces is endless. On this basis, I suggest that our army adopt a feigned attack during the day and a real attack at night. Ma Chao’s heart is deceived by this deception. If the attack is not enough, he will use the false appearance of a false attack at night and a real attack during the day. It is true and false, false and true, so as to make him slack off. I estimate that within three days, he will be able to cross the Weishui River !" Cao Cao was overjoyed, and asked who could offer advice.The generals believed that such a strategy was very thorough and planned to immediately arrange an offensive.So Cao Ren, Zhong Yao, Xia Houyuan, Xu Huang, Zhu Ling, Le Jin, Zhang Liao, Ding Fei, Xu Chu, Yu Jin and other generals all took orders and left, waiting to cross the Wei River tomorrow.