Chapter 132 8. The last cold dish

After settling the troubles caused by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao hurried to Hanzhong to eat Zhang Lu's last cold dish. Cao Cao personally marched with Xia Houdun and Xu Chu.Zhang Lu's younger brother, Zhang Wei, went out to Zhang Lu's side. Zhang Wei was very smart, and he chose to fight Cao Cao at Yangping Pass.The terrain here is dangerous. On both sides of the pass, there are more than ten kilometers of the Great Wall, connecting the mountains together. Inside the Great Wall, Zhang Wei's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are stationed. When Cao Cao reached the foot of the mountain, he looked up and fainted. This pass is a bit difficult.This is at the foot of the mountain, launching an upward attack to the top of the mountain. The mountain above is high and densely forested, filled with smoke and haze. It seems that there is something terrible in the distance, and it is making horrible gasps that you cannot hear, which makes people feel creepy.

In such a strange place, the cavalry is useless, so the infantry can only climb up the mountain with spears.At the beginning, many soldiers were together, but when they walked around in the forest, all the soldiers found that they were alone, screamed in horror, dropped their spears and rolled down the hillside. Cao Cao murmured a little in his heart, this battle seems to be really difficult to fight.After attacking for three consecutive days, all of which came to nothing, Cao Cao was finally discouraged: Forget it, can't I admit defeat? "Wei Jin Shi Yu" said that when Cao Cao attacked Zhang Lu, he couldn't make a name for himself in three days, so he announced his withdrawal in frustration.When he was far away, he looked back at the top of Yangping Pass, and saw a few figures on the top of the mountain, waving desperately to him: "Boss, come back quickly, come back quickly, we won..."

"What the hell? You won now? Did you make a mistake?" Cao Cao was puzzled, and then came back to ask: "What's going on, what's going on?" What happened was like this.Cao Cao was attacking at the foot of the mountain, so uncomfortable that he wanted to cry, but Zhang Wei led his troops on the top of the mountain, trembling with fear.While trembling, suddenly there was a troop of elk, huge and mighty, thousands of them, with huge horns growing on their heads, jumping rocks and running wildly on the hillside. The leading elk king didn't know what he was thinking, and ran Zhang Wei's camp rushed over, only to hear thumping, thumping, groaning, and thousands of elk rushed into the camp, picking up the soldiers guarding the gate and flying all over the sky.

Many soldiers were picked up by the huge horns of the elk and flew into the air, fell down and fell half dead, crying in pain.While crying, Cao Cao at the foot of the mountain suddenly got nervous and announced his retreat, so Cao Jun who was attacking the mountain hurried down the mountain, but the mountain was high and dense, and everyone didn't know the way. In Zhang Wei's camp, it turned out that Cao Jun screamed in fright, Zhang Wei's soldiers screamed desperately, and both sides were scared to death. It so happened that at this time, there was a mid-level junior officer in Cao Jun's camp, named Gao Zuo, who was in charge of playing forward.But since climbing the mountain, he led the soldiers to circle left and right in the forest, and the number of soldiers behind him decreased as he circled around, all of them lost their way in the virgin forest.At that time, Gao Zuo was in a hurry, and he said in his heart that it would not work, this would not work, I managed to climb the mountain once, and then went back to become a bare commander, so what, I will beat the drum first, and then blow the huge ox horn, hurry up Call my men over.

So Gao Zuo beat drums and trumpets on the top of the mountain to summon his lost subordinates. When the drum horn sounded, it happened that the lost Cao army entered Zhang Wei's camp by mistake, and was so frightened that he screamed with Zhang Wei's soldiers.Zhang Wei's soldiers were scared out of their wits at first, but when they heard the sound of drums and horns approaching, they raised their hands and surrendered without hesitation. Stop fighting, this battle is too nervous, if the fight continues, everyone will go crazy. Cao Cao won so confusedly.In just three days, Hanzhong was captured. This was Cao Cao's fastest and most successful battle.But how to write the summary of this battle made Cao Cao very sad.

Zhang Wei surrendered, and Zhang Lu faced a painful choice.What Zhang Lu faced at that time was to surrender immediately, not too late, because there was an unwritten rule on the battlefield that if you surrender without a fight, you can save your life.After the war, the probability of survival is only 50%. If you are captured after a fierce battle, you are basically killed.Therefore, if Zhang Lu surrendered, it would be a way to protect himself.Another method is to resolutely refuse to surrender and flee to Daba Mountain to start guerrilla warfare.But this guerrilla warfare is just a gesture, the purpose is to ask Cao Cao to open the bargaining chip first.

Just as he couldn't make up his mind, suddenly there was the sound of horseshoes, and Cao Cao's envoy came, "Zhang Lu, is Zhang Lu there? Mr. Cao asked you to report to the prisoner-of-war camp immediately, hurry up." After Zhang Lu heard this, he rolled his eyes and told his subordinates: "Seal all the government buildings, and I will take my wife and children and go to the prisoner-of-war camp." Zhang Lu led his family to surrender.Cao Cao was elated, so he asked Zhang Lu: "Old Zhang, does your daughter have a husband?" Zhang Lu: "Not yet."

Cao Cao patted his thigh: "It happens that I have a son named Cao Pengzu, and I don't have a wife yet, so let me marry your daughter." Zhang Lu was overjoyed, he made the right choice in this surrender. Then Cao Cao walked out of the military tent, looked at the majestic Daba Mountain in Wei'e, and said: "I want to contribute an idiom to future generations: Delong Wangshu!" Yishan flew by the side of the big river, leaped up to the verdant four hundred circles, and ordered Xia Houyuan and Zhang Yun to cross the Daba Mountain with me and go straight to Shu, wipe out Liu Bei's bandit gang, and liberate the suffering Xichuan people.