Cao Cao ordered Cao Zhang and Shi Jianjiao to go south to find a dangerous place to set up an ambush, and the other soldiers and horses gradually retreated, killing Ben Hanoi County in the starry night, and Cao Ren attacked Xu Da's corps.
Now Cao Cao has reached the end of his rope, retreating to the north will inevitably escape the fate of destruction, only by taking the initiative to attack the Han army, and strive to defeat or even completely annihilate one of the Han troops, can there be hope of survival.
In this situation, Cao Cao could only make a desperate bet and march to Hanoi at the risk of being surrounded and annihilated by the Han army, even if he was cut off from the back road.
Under the command of Han Xin, the Cao Wei coalition forces besieging Zhexian retreated like a receding sea, and the deafening killing sound gradually subsided, leaving only mountains of corpses around the city walls.
"The Wei army actually took the initiative to retreat" Xu Huangce immediately went up to the city wall, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, but saw the fire dragons all over the mountains and fields gradually moving away, "pass my order and prepare to pursue" Chen Ping, who was following him, hurriedly stopped: "Cao's army retreats without chaos, there must be ambushes, if you pursue, you will definitely be ambushed, and you can't go out lightly." ” Xu Huang groaned slightly, and agreed to Chen Ping's suggestion: "Master Chen, why do you think Cao Jun suddenly retreated from this trip and where he wants to go?"
Chen Ping twisted his beard and said: "Tang Wei has already lost more than 15,000 people under the city of Zhexian, and if he continues to attack, the losses will become more and more heavy, and the other corps of our army will soon surround him, Cao Cao can only give up the siege."
Since Cao Wei is heading southeast, there is a chance that he will besiege Xu Tiande's army. ” "What the military advisor said is extremely true, Cao Cao's strategy is to concentrate forces locally to defeat our army all the way with superior forces, and he mostly saw that there was no hope of taking Zhexian, so he turned around and went south to besiege Xu Da.
Cao Ren has 80,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, plus the Tang and Wei coalition army led by Cao Cao himself, the strength far exceeds Xu Da, we must reinforce as soon as possible" Xu Huang's eyes were like torches, and he made a decision immediately.
Chen Ping agreed: "What General Gongming said is extremely true, but Cao Cao retreats without chaos, there must be ambushes, we can't follow the pursuit, we can first enter Yewang County to the east, and then turn to the south." ” Xu Huang advised Chen Ping to follow the advice, and ordered Zhang Liao and Xu Ning to lead 20,000 horses to guard Zhexian County, beware of Cao Bin attacking from the direction of Huguan, and he and Chen Ping led more than 90,000 soldiers to leave Zhexian County in the starry night and march to the Eastern Dynasty.
"Oh no, General Xingba" Just as Xu Huang was about to lead the army out of the city, the doctor came to report urgently, and said helplessly, "He passed away due to injury" "It's really heart-wrenching that General Xingba was martyred?"
Xu Huang couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, looking up to the sky and sighing, his colleagues who were still alive and well half a day ago left this world in a blink of an eye, his best friend passed away, and the good general said goodbye, how could it not make people sad Xu Huang immediately took Chen Ping, Zhang Liao, Cheng Yanjin and other generals to the county yaling hall to bid farewell to Gan Ning, only to see this battle-hardened warrior with a sallow face, calm and peaceful, lying motionless on the bed, the corners of his mouth seemed to have a faint smile, as if he had seen the peaceful and prosperous era when the Han Dynasty dominated the world.
Facing Gan Ning's remains, all the generals wept, Xu Huang shed tears on his clothes, and said gloomily: "If you talk about the ministers of the dragon, there are few people in this world who are earlier than Gan Xingba, I didn't expect that after General Qin Shubao, Xingba also left this world, how can it not make people sigh and sad."
Chen Ping shook his head and sighed, and at this moment he actually wanted to go to the Zhen sisters: "Poor Zhen sisters" There are five Zhen sisters, the eldest Zhen Jiang was the first to marry Zhou Bi, the son of Zhou Cheng, the minister of Hejian State, but died under Cao Pi's sword that night, and the eldest sister Zhen Jiang was widowed.
Later, the ancestral tomb of the Zhen family smoked, and the sisters Zhen Jiang and Zhen Tuo were stained with Zhen Mi's light, and were promised to Qin Qiong and Gan Ning by Liu Wei respectively, but because Wu Ruyi did the wrong sedan chair and married the wrong husband, she changed her husband.
And now that the husbands of the two are going to Huangquan together, they can't help but be surprised and emotional, Chen Ping even thinks in his heart that the Zhen sisters have the fate of Kefu.
"This kind of thing would rather be credible than not, I must take the time to repair a letter to Cunxiao, Chengdu and even His Majesty as soon as possible, reminding them to be careful and not to capsize in the gutter and stumble."
Compared with the indignant generals, Chen Ping was much calmer, bowing his head and thinking to himself in his heart.
Seeing that the generals' emotions were a little depressed, Xu Huang raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and loudly encouraged the generals: "Generals, generals will inevitably die in battle, and the generals should be proud of the horse leather shroud."
We will inherit Xingba's legacy, fight bravely to kill the enemy, and strive to annihilate Cao Wei before the cold winter comes, so as to comfort Xingba's spirit in the sky."
"Swear to kill the thief and avenge Xingba" The generals were enthusiastic and responded to Xu Huang with their fists.
Xu Huang patted Zhang Liao's shoulder and advised: "Gongming, Xingba's body will be handed over to you, take care of it, and send someone to send it back to Jiangdong to hand it over to the imperial court for a thick burial."
Zhang Liao's face was sad, his voice was choked, and he only agreed with his chin: "Hmm" Xu Huang waved his hand, led Chen Ping, Cheng Yanjin and others to stride out of the mourning hall, turned over their horses, and went out of the city from the east gate of Zhexian County to the direction of Yewang in the east.
In the early hours of the morning, the sound of horses' hooves outside Zhexian County was loud, Che Liji and Yue Ji led 70,000 Qiang soldiers in front, Cao Bin, Man Chong, Wang Ling led 30,000 Wei troops to kill from the direction of Huguan, and the dust of the trampling was flying, covering the sky and the sun, and approaching the city of Zhexian County.
Xu Ning was shocked when he saw this, and stomped his feet and said: "I didn't expect Cao Wei to have Qiang cavalry to help, I knew that I should have let my father leave tens of thousands of soldiers to guard the city."
Now that the enemy army is nearly 100,000, what should I do?"
Zhang Liao was not afraid, picked up his knife and got on the horse, and said loudly: "Qiang cavalry from afar, the soldiers have no will to fight, they will have no fighting spirit, nine times out of ten they are hired, and the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, even if there are millions, why are they afraid of the virtuous nephew to defend the city, see if you go out of the city first and kill him by surprise" Zhang Liao left Xu Ning to defend the city, personally selected eight hundred elites to open the north gate of Zhexian County and cover them out, and rushed up against the Qiang cavalry like a gallop, like a cheetah attacking a flock of sheep.
"What will come" The vanguard marshal of the Qiang army, led by Yue Ji, was about to ask questions, when Zhang Liao rushed into the formation, raised his sword and fell, cut off a head, and rolled on the ground.
Eight hundred Han horsemen each bravely, everyone scrambled to be the first, taking advantage of the Qiang people's soul to scatter and gain a foothold when the foothold was not stable, the Qiang riders who killed directly turned over on their horses, and the casualties were not counted.
A burst of rushing down, 800 Han cavalry array cut more than 4,000 Qiang cavalry, the side only lost more than 10 cavalry, lest fall into a heavy siege, Zhang Liao whistled, led the troops to retreat to Zhexian, closed the city gate, pulled up the suspension bridge, according to the city to defend the death.
Hearing that Yue Ji was beheaded by the Han generals, Cheriji was so frightened that he ordered to withdraw on the spot.
Prior to this, Cao Bin had received Cao Cao's order to spare Zhexian County and march to Zhexian County, the administrative office of Hanoi County, and besiege Xu Da with Cao Ren, striving to completely annihilate the Han army with superior forces.
At that moment, Cao Bin and Che Liji led their troops to spare Zhe County and went to the southeast of Benhuai County. t1706231537: