The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 275
The governor of Chang'an County is Zhong Yao, who was born in the Zhong family of Yingchuan. He is currently the Sili Xiaowei, supervising the troops in Guanzhong and guarding Chang'an.Zhong Yao was also a great calligrapher who promoted the development of regular script and had a profound influence on calligraphy of later generations. Later generations honored him as the "originator of regular script" and called him "King Zhong" together with the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi.

Zhong Yao had a son named Zhong Hui, who was the one who split up with Deng Ai to destroy Shu in the original book.

Han Sui and Ma Chao led an army of 20 to attack. Zhong Yao ordered people to fly to report to Cao Cao, and at the same time led troops out of the city to meet the enemy, setting up a formation in the wilderness.

The vanguard of the Xiliang Army was Ma Dai, who came all over the mountains and plains with [-] soldiers and horses.

Zhong Yao went out to ask Ma Dai why he rebelled, but Ma Dai didn't bother to answer, your prime minister, old thief Cao, killed my uncle and two younger brothers, almost killed me, and asked me why I rebelled?

With a precious sword, Ma Dai stepped forward to take Zhong Yao straight after applauding his horse.After a round of fighting with Ma Dai, Zhong Yao knew that he was no match, so he immediately turned his head and ran away. After all, it is impossible for everyone to be like Wudang Zhang Cuishan, who can write well, have high martial arts skills, and can use writing as martial arts.

Ma Dai chased after him with a knife, Zhong Yao's army was defeated, but Zhong Yao ran back to Chang'an City and quickly arranged for people to guard the city.

After Ma Chao and Han Sui led the army to arrive, they surrounded Chang'an and attacked.

Chang'an City was the capital of the Western Han Dynasty. The city walls were very strong and the moat was deep. The Xiliang Army besieged the city for ten days, but failed to take it down.

Pang De offered advice to Ma Chao: "The water in Chang'an City is too alkaline to eat, and there is not enough firewood in the city for fire. Now that we have been besieged for ten days, the soldiers and civilians in the city must be starving. It is better to withdraw the troops for the time being. As long as this is the case, Chang'an City will be at your fingertips."

Ma Chao was overjoyed and said happily, "This is a great plan!"

Therefore, after discussing with Han Sui, Ma Chao and Han Sui ordered all the ministries to withdraw their troops, and Ma Chao himself cut off the rear.

When Zhong Yao boarded the city wall the next day and looked out, he was surprised to find that the Xiliang army had retreated. He was afraid that Ma Chao had some conspiracy, so he sent people out of the city to inquire, only to find that the Xiliang army had gone far, so he was relieved .

The people in Chang'an City went out to chop wood and fetch water. The city gates were wide open and no one came in or out.

On the fifth day, the soldiers on guard outside rushed to report that the Xiliang army was coming again. The soldiers and civilians hid in the city one after another, but Zhong Yao still stayed behind closed doors as before.

The guard guarding the west gate of Chang'an is Zhong Yao's younger brother Zhong Jin. At three o'clock that night, a fire suddenly caught fire inside the city gate. When Zhong Jin hurriedly brought people to put out the fire, a man suddenly turned out from the edge of the city, holding a knife. He galloped his horse and shouted loudly: "Pang De is here!"

Unprepared, Zhong Jin was cut off by Pang De's horse. He also killed the soldiers guarding the gate, knocked down the gate, and let Ma Chao and Han Sui's army enter the city.

As soon as Zhong Yao heard that Xiliang's army had entered the city, he had no choice but to abandon the city and flee through the east gate to Tongguan. He also sent someone to report the news of Chang'an's fall to Cao Cao quickly.

Cao Cao was shocked when he heard that Chang'an was lost. Chang'an was an important place in Guanzhong. It was the capital of the Western Han Dynasty and the political center of Guanzhong. It was of great significance to the imperial court.

After Ma Chao occupied Chang'an, he could gradually occupy Yongzhou and Sili, and he had a large army of food and grass supply.Once Ma Chao and Han Sui gain a firm foothold in Guanzhong, Jizhou will be in danger.

In this case, Cao Cao could no longer lead an army to attack Fancheng. He wanted to take Chang'an back quickly, because Chang'an was much more important than Fancheng.

Cao Cao called Cao Hong and Xu Huang over and ordered: "You two lead [-] troops and horses and set off quickly to guard Tongguan for Zhong Yao. If the pass is lost within ten days, we will kill them all. After ten days, we will follow you two It has nothing to do with people, I will lead the army and arrive later.”

After Cao Cao arranged for Cao Hong, he felt that Jiangdong's affairs could not be ignored. Anyway, it was not a real fight, but just to frighten Zhang Wu, restrain Jingzhou's troops, and let Jiangdong relax.

So Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to lead an army of [-] men to pretend to attack Fancheng.

When Cao Hong and Xu Huang came to Tongguan, they did not go out to fight at first. Later, Ma Chao cursed three generations of Cao Cao's ancestors at the pass.Cao Hong and Cao Cao are cousins, and Cao Cao's ancestors are Cao Hong's ancestors. How can Cao Hong not be angry?
But every time Cao Hong wanted to go out to find Ma Chao desperately, Xu Huang held him back desperately. On the ninth day, when Xu Huang closed the grain counting cart, Cao Hong led his troops to kill him.

When Xu Huang knew about it, he quickly led his troops out of the pass to respond, but was ambushed by Ma Chao. Cao's army was defeated, and Cao Hong and Xu Huang had to abandon the pass and flee.

When Cao Cao saw that Cao Hong had lost Tongguan, he was furious and wanted to kill Cao Hong, but thanks to the pleas of the generals, he was spared.Cao Cao led his army to fight Ma Chao himself.

When Ma Chao saw Cao Cao, he was extremely jealous, and the hatred of killing his father was unshakable, not to mention that two younger brothers also died in Cao Cao's hands, so Ma Chao shot straight at Cao Cao.

Cao Cao went out to fight Yu Jin behind his back, fought eight or nine rounds, and was defeated by Yu Jin; Zhang Xi went out to fight again, and was also defeated after twenty rounds; Li Tong went out to meet him, but was stabbed to death by Ma Chao after a few rounds.

Ma Chao moved his gun back, and the Xiliang army charged forward, and Cao's army was defeated.

Cao Cao was chased and killed by Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Pang De and others in the rebellious army, so he had to cut his beard and robe and leave.

But Zhang Wu said that since he captured the two counties of Yuzhang and Luling, he led his army to surround Chaisang, and he was not in a hurry to attack the city, but built a catapult.Because he knew that the Jingzhou army was not good at attacking the city, and there were still many Jiangdong soldiers in Chaisang City. If they forcibly attacked the city, they would suffer heavy losses.

But it’s not a solution to be surrounded like this all the time, because the [-] to [-] troops of the Jingzhou Army have to consume a lot of food and grass every day. As an important military town in Jiangdong, Chaisang must have stored a lot of food in it, enough for Jiangdong soldiers to eat. Two months.

Although there were wars in ancient times and the city was besieged for several years, but now there is Cao Cao in the north, Zhang Wu is also a little worried that if something happens to Ma Chao's revenge and Cao Cao cannot be restrained, then Cao Cao will definitely lead his army south.

Therefore, while besieging Chaisang, Zhang Wu sent many spies to inquire about the war in the north.

Nearly a month after the siege, a spy reported to Zhang Wu the specific situation between Cao Cao and Ma Chao.When Zhang Wu learned that the coalition forces of Ma Chao and Han Sui had broken through Chang'an and occupied Tongguan again, he finally felt relieved. It seemed that Ma Chao was still very powerful. He caused Cao Cao a lot of trouble and bought me time.

And Zhang Wu didn't care about Xiahou Dun's [-] soldiers at all. Fancheng was defended by Xu Shu and Huo Jun, and there were [-] soldiers. Five thousand defenders can support Fancheng at any time.

(End of this chapter)