After successfully persuading Han to surrender and disposing of the traitor Wen Ji, Zhuge Liang continued to lead the army to pursue Cao Cao's defeated army in Suiyang, the place of Liang Guozhi, and strive to maximize the results of the battle.
After successively dispatching generals such as Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Zhang Xun, Ma Dai, and Zhu Huan, the Han army's military general reserves are still abundant.
Zhuge Liang personally lived with Jiang Wei, Nan Jiyun, Zhang Wei, and Wen Qin, Han Shizhong, Zhang Fei, and Liang Hongyu on the right, Xu Da, Huang Zhong, and Wang Ping on the left, with a total strength of more than 200,000 people and horses on the three roads.
Cao Cao's scouts monitored the movements of the Han army like a marquee, and reported the news to Cao Cao at any time, trying to avoid being bitten by the tail of the Han army.
Just when Cao Cao arrived twenty miles outside Suiyang City, Cao Zhang, Pang De, and Le Jin, the three generals who defended the city, led 40,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to respond, and knelt on the ground together, giving salutes and paying respects.
"Father, if the child follows General Xiahou to Xuchang, maybe he won't die."
Cao Zhang, who is eight feet five inches tall, looked angry, regretting that he missed the battle of Xuchang.
Although Cao Cao was very pleased with Cao Zhang's burly figure and outstanding martial arts, he didn't think that he was stronger than Xia Luqi and Ruan Weng Zhong, and even these two died on the battlefield, even if there was one more Cao Zhang, what could change it "Ziwen, your martial arts have made my father very pleased, but you must know that there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people.
In the Han army, Xue Li, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and so on are all powerful generals who take the head of the general among thousands of troops, and if they encounter it in the future, they must not be underestimated."
Cao Cao stretched out his hand and patted Cao Zhang's sturdy shoulder, with a loving expression, "Your brother has been captured, and the second brother has passed away for many years, and now only you and Zijian are left under my knees, so you must not take risks easily." ” Although Cao Zhang didn't buy Xue Rengui and Guan Yunchang's accounts, after all, both of them relied on the reputation accumulated by their great military exploits, and it was difficult to escape the suspicion of being untrustworthy if they said too much, so they could only give up their promises at the moment: "The child must obey the teachings of his father" Although Cao Zhang said this in his mouth, he secretly swore in his heart: "Xue Li, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, you have memorized it for me, and it is best not to let this king bump into me on the battlefield in the future."
Without waiting for Cao Cao to enter the city, there was a scout Pegasus sent by Cao Ren to report: "Your Majesty, the Han army is in a hurry to catch up under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, and it has now passed through Yan County, and there are still about fifty miles away from Suiyang, General Cao Zixiao hopes that Your Majesty can speed up the march and get rid of the pursuit of the Han army as soon as possible." ” Cao Cao glanced at Suiyang immediately, and sighed reluctantly: "Alas, I just lost Qiaojun, and now I want to lose Suiyang."
After successive defeats and loss of land, the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains will no longer belong to my Great Wei from now on."
After listening to Cao Cao's words, Le Jin, Wen Ping, Le Yang and others standing next to them were all solemnly moved and empathized with Cao Cao's words.
The feeling of losing consecutive battles is indeed depressing, and the chest feels like a thousand heavy burdens.
However, the young Cao Zhang showed the momentum of a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers, and said with his hands on his waist: "Father and emperor should not be too sad, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and when our army regroups and makes a comeback, it is still unknown who will kill the deer."
Listening to Cao Zhang's arrogant words, Cao Cao felt very pleased, and reached out again to pat Cao Zhang's shoulder: "What a yellow beard, he really deserves to be my son of Cao Mengde" Having said that, 200,000 pursuers are imminent, and Cao Cao's father and son cannot be allowed to be heroes here.
Cao Cao immediately turned over his horse and ordered to abandon Suiyang and march north to Jiyang and Changyuan: "Empty all the grain and grass materials in Suiyang City, and the whole army quickly retreated to the north."
With Cao Cao's order, seventy or eighty thousand people acted together, but after more than an hour's effort, they loaded all the grain, grass, weapons, and armor in Suiyang County into the carriage, and then abandoned the city and walked along the post road to the north.
Cao Jun traveled all the way to the north, stopping and stopping, and spent about two days traveling nearly 300 miles, and after passing the county seat of Jiyang, the road gradually became rugged.
But I saw that the mountains on both sides were majestic, the strange rocks were craggy, the north wind was blowing, and the dead branches and leaves all over the mountains made a bleak wind sound, as if there were thousands of troops and horses hidden.
Cao Cao rode his horse under the support of Le Jin, Cao Zhang, Sima Sui Tho and others, looked up at both sides of the mountain, was shocked, and reminded loudly: "This terrain is afraid of ambushes, it is better to be careful, set fire to the mountain for me, and make sure that it is not too late to pass after everything is lost." ” After Cao Cao's order, Wen Ping, Le Yang, Pang De and other three generals who opened the road in front immediately arranged for the crossbowmen to set fire to the mountain, and fired arrows at the mountain with burning rockets.
"Retreat, retreat, retreat down the mountain" After Wei Yan received Zhuge Liang's flying pigeon message, he and Gao Gao led 30,000 horses to leave Dingtao, and found an ambush in Jiyang County, trying to give Cao Cao a head-on blow.
Fortunately, the mountains on both sides of the road are mostly rocky, and the land on the mountains is barren, arid and lacking in water, so the vegetation is scarce, and the mountains are not very tall, but more like hills.
Because of this, Cao Cao dared to order the mountain to be set on fire, just to test whether there were ambushes hiding on the mountain.
Otherwise, if the mountains are full of trees, once the fire is raging, I am afraid that it will not give up if it does not burn for three days and two nights, and then the Wei army will be unable to fly with wings, so it can only obediently wait for the Han army to catch up from behind and encircle and annihilate.
Seeing that the nearly 10,000 Han troops led by Wei Yan were forced to flee in panic by the fire, many people were careless and rolled down the hillside, and even the banner with the word "Wei" was burned, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing: "I want to set up an ambush in front of my Cao Mengde, you Wei Yan is too tender."
"Shoot the Arrow" Seeing the panicked retreat of the Han army from the hillside, Le Yang and Wen Ping led more than 10,000 archers to follow the chaotic arrows, shooting down countless arrows at one time, and the arrows rolled down the hillside one after another.
After losing more than 2,000 people, Wei Yancai led the burned, panicked ambush soldiers to retreat down the hillside and fled north in panic.
I didn't expect to steal chickens instead of eating a handful of rice, since the ambush was not successful, it is better to retreat quickly, otherwise the Wei soldiers far exceeded their own side, and I am afraid that they will suffer a big loss.
"Where is Wei Yan going?"
Le Yang and Wen Ping led the Wei army through the valley and chased after them, trying to export their evil anger with this Han army that was not self-sufficient, and really regarded Cao Wei's main army as a soft persimmon that could be pinched casually t1706231537: